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Napoleon III period display case, completely lacquered with Japanese decoration, in very good condition, normal wear on the gilding of the lacquer It has a glass shelf in the display area but it can accommodate several Signed on a copper plaque inside the door: G.DURAND PARIS
Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène DURAND is a French cabinetmaker born in Paris on July 30, 1839, who began practicing in 1870, 12 rue de la Cerisaie, then 23 rue Beautreillis from 1878, finally 62 rue Saint-Antoine around 1900, in the former Hôtel de Sully. It was at this time that he took the company name DURAND ET FILS. He participated in the Universal Exhibition of 1889, during which he won a silver medal. Picard writes “M. DURAND, as skillful as he is modest, exhibits for the first time first-rate furniture, of which he is both the designer and the executioner; he walks on the path traced by masters such as BEURDELEY and DASSON. »
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