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Versailles completes the refurbishment of Marie-Antoinette’s bedroom
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- 1. Jean-Henri Riesener (1734-1806)
Night table, 1783
Oak frame, mahogany and mahogany veneer, chased and gilded bronzes, white marble - 96 x 49.6 x 33.5 cm
Versailles, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
Photo: Christophe Fouin - See the image in its page
24/1/24 - Acquisition - Versailles, Musée national du château - While some rooms in the former residences of French sovereigns are doomed to remain empty due to the certain disappearance of the objects that originally furnished them, or the impossibility of refurnishing them with equivalent pieces, others are fortunately spared this curse. This is how we recall the two fine preemptions made at Sotheby’s last May by emissaries dispatched by the Château de Versailles at the time of the dispersal…
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