Lot n° 111
Estimation :
9000 - 12000
EUR
SET EVOKING A DINING CAR OF THE SLEEPING... - Lot 111 - Lucien Paris
SET EVOKING A DINING CAR OF THE SLEEPING CAR COMPANY
1929.
Reconstitution from original elements, on a wooden structure. All of the wood strips are original. The lower part is modern,
The modern lower part has a reconstruction of the original metal and wood radiator cover. The window frames a reproduction of a photograph
of Topkapi Point in Constantinople around 1900, at the bottom of which the Orient-Express journey ended.
Electrified.
Totality of the panel: 221 x 188 cm.
- PAIR OF WALL SCONCES
Polished bronze, shaped like an inverted cornucopia, supporting an original frosted glass tulip.
1929.
24 x 22 x 9 cm.
PROVENANCE.
Restaurant car of the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits of the series 3341 to 3360, built in 1928 by EIC Entreprise Industrielle Charentaise
in Aytré (car 3360 was the one of the presidential train; car 3348 is kept at the Cité du Train in Mulhouse).
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Jean-Paul Lepage. Les Voitures restaurants n° 3341 à 3360 de le CWL. An Out-of-Series Destiny. Fontainebleau, Ile de France Impressions Editions, 1984.
Reproduced on p. 22 and on the second board.
Jean des Cars, Jean-Paul Caracalla, Le Train Bleu et les Grands Express de la Riviera. Milan Denoël, 1988, reproduced on p. 77.
- LUGGAGE HOLDER
Polished bronze, rectangular shape, copper fillet set.
Carry on the back the engraved car number: 3346.
15 x 33 x 111 cm.
PROVENANCE.
Restaurant car of the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits of the series 3341 to 3360, built in 1928 by EIC Entreprise Industrielle Charentaise
in Aytré (car 3360 was the one of the presidential train; car 3348 is kept at the Cité du Train in Mulhouse).
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Jean des Cars, Jean-Paul Caracalla, Le Train Bleu et les Grands Express de la Riviera. Milan Denoël, 1988, reproduced on p. 77.
- PAIR OF PLACE CARDS
Polished bronze, circular shape with foliage decoration,
surrounding a seat number in imitation bakelite.
c. 1926.
Diam. 4 cm.
- PAIR OF CALL BELLS
Polished bronze.
c. 1926.
Diam. 3,5 cm.
(without the electrical system).
- PAIR OF HAT HOOKS
Polished bent bronze, the oval plate with pearl decoration.
7 x 9 cm.
c. 1926.
- WINDOW SURROUND
Mahogany and metal.
Including a chromed metal plate indicating
"Do not lean out".
c. 1930.
105 x 110 cm. - RENÉ PROU
TWO DECORATIVE PANELS IN PENDANTS
of a first class sleeper car, in veneered wood, decorated with
with exotic flowers inlaid in an octagonal reserve.
c. 1922 to 1926.
91 x 33 cm.
PROVENANCE.
René Prou, famous decorator of the beginning of the 20th century, decorated
decorated liners, apartments, hotels all over the world as well as
as well as the luxury trains of the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits,
in collaboration with René Lalique, between 1922 and 1926.
The panels of the type that we present were fixed above the bed
on the cabins of the first metal carriages that ran on the Orient-Express
on the Orient-Express, the Train Bleu and all the big luxury express trains of the
of the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits. These cars were inaugurated
in December 1922 on platform n°1 of the Gare de Lyon to reach Nice and the
Nice and the French Riviera. Previously the cars were made of teak wood.
For the occasion, the cars were painted in a blue-night livery with gold
which gave its name to the Train Bleu, formerly Calais-Méditerranée-Express.
The panel we present comes from a type S sleeping car
of the Orient Express, from 1922 to 1926.
- ADVERTISING POSTER HOLDER
Mahogany, rectangular shape, divided into three compartments.
On the back, inscription: 4080 in felt pen (car number).
17 x 153 cm.
PROVENANCE.
Compagnie des Wagons-Lits dining car, series 4080,
originally a 1926 Pullman Flèche d'Or car manufactured by
by The Leeds Forge Co, transformed in the 1930's
into a dining car.
- TABLE
Wood, the rectangular top resting on a central varnished mahogany foot.
It has a polished bronze hinge, and a sliding leather strap system
and a sliding leather strap system that allows it to be raised when cleaning the
of the car. This table, unique in each dining car,
has the particularity of being equipped with a drawer, which allowed
the maître d'hôtel to store his slips and receipts.
It bears the number 3343.
A white damask tablecloth from the Nostalgie Istambul
Orient Express (NIOE).
72 x 66 x 100 cm.
PROVENANCE.
Restaurant car of the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits from the series 3341 to 3360,
built in 1928 by EIC Entreprise Industrielle Charentaise
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