Empire period living room furniture from the Tuileries... Lot 116

Empire period living room furniture from the Tuileries castle, stamped Jacob R. Meslee Composed of a pair of mahogany & ormolu flat-backed armchairs, the armrests adorned with ormolu sphinxes. Covered in yellow velvet. With fire markings (N) crowned TUIL & stencilled inventory numbers: 102, stamped Jacob R. Meslee. A couch is attached en suite. Provenance: By descendants remaining in the collections of Robert Gendebien's family. Previously: Fabri sale " The Jacob Desmalter stamp on rue Meslée was used by François-Honoré-Georges and Georges I Jacob between 1803 and 1813. It was the royal residence in Paris of many sovereigns (Henri IV, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI but also Louis XVIII, Charles X then Louis Philippe), and imperial (Napoleon I then Napoleon III). In the meantime it was also the seat of the First Republic and the Consulate. Its role as the official seat of French power was interrupted by its destruction by arson on 23 May 1871, set by the communards Jules-Henri-Marius Bergeret, Victor Bénot and Étienne Boudin. The ruins of the Tuileries Palace were demolished in 1883, when the presidents of the Third Republic were installed in the Elysée Palace. ( Source wikipedia ). Napoleon I stayed in the Tuileries, which then became the official residence of the Emperor. On the first floor of the south wing, the Emperor occupied the former royal apartments, the layout and names of the rooms remaining unchanged. In 1806, an auditorium, a chapel and a room for meetings of the Conseil d'État were installed in the north wing, while the interior decorations were redesigned by the architects Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine. The ceiling of the official dining room was decorated with allegories, which represented