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Pirouett model Desk Lamp, designed by J. Chavanis, France, Circa 1940
By Jean Chavanis, Pirouette
Located in PARIS, FR
Chromed brass desk lamp. Composed of a faceted shaft resting on a circular base, it has the particularity of having a tilting and adjustable arm, ending in a shade with sandblasted glass windows.
Pirouett Lamp :
The Pirouett lamp is a range of luminaires designed by Jean Chavanis in 1929, described as a portable electric lamp with a light that can be directed in all directions and an adjustable lamp...
Category
Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Japanese Style Bronze Planter by L'Escalier de Cristal, France, Circa 1890
By L'Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed H.P for Henri Pannier.
Lovely hexagonal shaped planter in patinated bronze with gold highlights. Adorned on three sides with a dragon framed by a rhombus frieze on an openwor...
Category
Antique 1890s French Japonisme Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Bronze
Oval Giltwood Mirror Attributed to L. Frullini, Italy, circa 1890
By Luigi Frullini
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed on the back with a stencil « F. Quentin & C, Firenze »
Exceptional oval mirror in delicately carved and gilded wood. The frame, underlined in its center by a frieze of ovals and a beaded frieze, is adorned with a luxuriant country decor in which are intermingled various flowers and fruits, vines, garden attributes ; but also farm animals represented in a very realistic way.
Luigi Frullini...
Category
Antique 1890s Italian Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Baccarat Crystal and Gilded Bronze Chandelier, France, circa 1890
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
A very important thirty-five lights crystal and gilded bronze chandelier. The centered stem is made up of baluster-and-bowl-shaped cut-crystal pieces, all of very high-standard quali...
Category
Antique 1890s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Pair of Exceptional Carrara Marble Winged Sphinges by F.-E. Piat, France, 1873
By Frédéric - Eugène Piat 1
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed E. Piat and dated 1873
Exposed under the n°3097 at the Salon of 1874
Each of these sphinges, sculpted in white Carrara marble, stands on a serpentine base made of a large s...
Category
Antique 1870s French Animal Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
Important Pair of Gilded Bronze Oriental Style Chandeliers, France, Circa 1910
Located in PARIS, FR
Important pair of Oriental style chandeliers in gilded and patinated bronze suspended by six articulated chains reunited by an elegant roof light. Circular in shape, they have a seri...
Category
Early 20th Century French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV-inspired Writing Table Stamped H. Nelson, France, circa 1880
By Henri Nelson
Located in PARIS, FR
Stamped H. Nelson
Charming Louis XV-inspired scalloped-shaped writing table in kingwood veneer and decorated with a fine gilded and chiseled bronze mount. The tray, surrounded by a ...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Porphyry, Bronze
Four Baccarat Crystal Vases, by H. Vian ; H.Dasson & Baccarat, France, C. 1880
By Henry Dasson, Baccarat, Henri Vian
Located in PARIS, FR
A very fine and rare set of four baluster-shaped covered vases made of faceted ovoid cut Baccarat crystal and adorned with a bronze mount of exceptional quality and kept with its ori...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XVI Jars
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Louis XVI Period Carrara Marble Console, France, circa 1780
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare neo-classical Louis XVI period console sculpted in white Carrara marble. The rectangular lintel, surmounted with a molded top, is supported by four detached fluted columns with ...
Category
Antique 1780s French Louis XVI Console Tables
Materials
Carrara Marble
Neo-Gothic Chandelier with Lions, France, circa 1860
By Eugène Emmanuel Viollet Le Duc
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful neo-gothic chandelier in patinated bronze with gold highlights and water green opaline glass. The central shaft, decorated with cartridges in imitation of coats of arms, is...
Category
Antique 1860s French Gothic Revival Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Napoleon IIIrd Period Lantern with Stars, France, circa 1870
Located in PARIS, FR
Elegant Napoleon III period lantern in patinated bronze with gold highlights and crystal. The central shaft, in the shape of a globe engraved with stars, is surrounded by three bands...
Category
Antique 1870s French Napoleon III Lanterns
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
"Egg" Rocking Chair by the Societa Anonima Antonio Volpe, Italy, Circa 1922
By Antonio Volpe
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare “Egg” rocking chair in curved and stained wood, with caned seat and back. The wide oval-shaped armrests, giving their name to the model, and allowing gentle swinging, are stabil...
Category
Vintage 1920s Italian Modern Rocking Chairs
Materials
Rattan, Wood
Set of 10 Casala and Alexander Begge chairs
By Alexander Begge, Casala
Located in PARIS, FR
Set of 10 Casala chairs
Signed: Casala model 2004/2005
Germany
Resign, skai
Height: 80 cm; Width: 45cm; Depth: 43 cm
Rare set of 10 Casala chairs designed in the 1970s by Alexand...
Category
Early 2000s German Chairs
Materials
Resin
Pair of Bronze Torchères by E.Colin after a Model by A.Carrier, France, c. 1900
By Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, Colin, Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
Inscribed A. Carrier
and Anc. Mon Colin éditeur – fondeur, Paris
Measures: Torchère height 193 cm (75.9 in.), base height 29 cm (11.4 in.), diameter base 40 cm (15.7 in.).
2 torchères + 2 bases
Exceptional pair of "Night" and "Day" female torchère-holders, made in dark patinated bronze. Each dressed with antique style drapes, and holding up a gilt-bronze five light-arms candelabra. Day, bareheaded and with braided hair ; Night, the head covered by her coat and holding poppy flowers and fruits symbolizing sleep. Standing on a molded pedestal.
These female torchère-holders repeat a common theme created by Carrier-Belleuse, what model for one of the two shapes was presented for the first time at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867. It was then used on a big clock made in collaboration with G. Viot company. The bronze figure holds a large pendulum instead of a candelabrum.
(reproduced and commented in 1851-1900 Le arti decorative alle grandi Esposizioni Universalli, D. Alcouffe, Idea Libri, p° 78, n° 256.)
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887), nick-named the “Clodion of the 19th century”, was a very prolific sculptor, treating his decorative objects and his portraits with equal naturalistic rigor, full of charm and life. He entered the Paris Fine-Arts school in 1840, where he studied sculpture under David d’Angers. From the early 1860s, he won success with his sculptures presented at the French Artists Salon and particularly during the 1867 Salon, where he was awarded a “médaille d’honneur” and the “Légion d’honneur” for his Messiah. The “new” Paris redesigned by the Baron Haussmann during Napoleon IIIrd’s reign, commissioned many of Carriere-Belleuse’s masterpieces: at the Louvre palace with the high-relief “L’Abondance” on the Flore Pavilion (1865), or the sumptuous decoration made for the most famous Parisian palace on the Champs-Elysées Avenue, owned by the Marchioness of Païva. But it is especially with the torchères-statues of the large staircase of the Paris Opera house (1873), recently built by Charles Garnier, that Carrier-Belleuse meets a huge success with the Parisian public. In the catalogue of the 1878 Universal Exhibition an art critic praised Carrier-Belleuse and added: “Even the English come from London to ask him to work for them”. His busts, nudes, group compositions as well as his candelabras, vases and clocks, all chased remarkably, had a considerable success during the Second Empire.
Emile Colin, a renowned founder installed since 1843, No. 29 Sévigné Street in Paris, cast as soon as 1855 for the most well-know masters of France sculpture, such A.E. Carrier-Belleuse (Le Zouave), J. Pradier (Les Trois Grâces, Vénus consolant l’Amour) or J.B. Carpeaux since 1875 (L’Enfant au cor), as well as the famous Parisian silversmith Christofle. Colin used to stamp his bronzes of the mention “Emile Colin & Cie” from 1882 until 1898. That mark became later “M. Colin & Cie” from 1898 until 1906, then “Ancienne Maison Colin...
Category
Early 20th Century French More Lighting
Materials
Bronze
Ottoman Style Chandelier by F. Barbedienne, France, circa 1880
By Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed F. Barbedienne
Rare Ottoman style gilded bronze chandelier composed of an openwork crown, from which ten arms of light emerge, holding six transparent glasses decorated with ...
Category
Antique 1880s French Islamic Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
"Geniuses of the Arts" Gilded Bronze and Marble Clock Set by G. Fabre, c. 1900
By G. Fabre, Samuel Marti
Located in PARIS, FR
Dial signed G. Fabre, 4 rue des Filles du Calvaire, Paris
Clockwork signed Samuel Marti – Médaille d’Or 1900
A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and statuary Carrare marble clock set, consisting of a clock and a pair candelabra...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of Aesthetic Movement Armchairs Attributed to G.Viardot, France, Circa 1880
By Gabriel Viardot
Located in PARIS, FR
These armchairs made of tinted wood are to be linked to another pair of armchairs executed by Gabriel Viardot, and now exhibited at the Decorative Arts Museum in Paris (Inv. 2006.105...
Category
Antique 1880s French Aesthetic Movement Armchairs
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Important Louis XVI Style Dining Room Set by Mercier Frères, France, Circa 1900
By Mercier Freres
Located in PARIS, FR
Elegant Louis XVI style dining room set, composed of:
– A beautiful and large table whose tray and transom are belted with a finely chiseled gilded bronze frieze, resting on four brass fluted feet.
Measures: Height 75 cm (29.5 in.), width 128 cm (50.4 in.), length 150 cm (59 in.) + 4 extensions each 50 x 128 cm (19.7 x 50.4 in.) = Total length 350 cm (137,8 in.)
– A dresser /console with curved shape on the sides, opening with a drawer in belt and resting on four brass fluted columns ending by four toupie feet joined by a tablet with an openwork gallery. The whole is topped with a Breche marble.
Measures: Height 96 cm (37.8 in.), length 139 cm (54.7 in.), depth 46 cm (18.1 in.)
– A sideboard opening with three leaves underlined with pearls and adorned with a beautiful ornementation of oval, egg-and-dart friezes, and ribbons. Framed by upright ribbed columns on the angles and resting on four toupie feet, the whole is topped with a Breche marble.
Measures: Height 102 cm (40.1 in.), length 161.5 cm (63.6 in.), depth 59 cm (23.2 in.)
– A set of ten chairs with sabre back feet, adorned with chiselled and gilded bronze.
Measures: Height 87 cm (34.2 in.), width 48 cm (18.9 in.), depth 41 cm (16.1 in.)
Claude Mercier (born in 1803) installed in Paris, 15 rue Beautreillis in 1828, then moved to 100 rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, where the firm has been maintained until present days. As soon as 1856, the company became Mercier Père et fils then, in 1863 Mercier fils aîné, and finally in 1867, Mercier Frères, still current name. Mercier was in 1855 supplier of the royal Court of Spain. His house quickly became welknown and participated from 1844 in all art exhibitions. At the French Industry Products Exhibition held in Paris in 1844, he was awarded an “mention honorable” for his carved rosewood furniture...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Louis XVI Dining Room Sets
Materials
Marble, Bronze
“Spiral” Lamp by Ingo Maurer for Design M, Germany, circa 1966
By Design M, Ingo Maurer
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful “Spiral” model lamp typical of the 1960s attributed to the designer Ingo Maurer for Design M, chrome metal base and white opaline glass globe.
Biography :
Born in 1932 in ...
Category
Vintage 1960s German Table Lamps
Materials
Steel, Chrome
Table Lamp by Selenova, Italy, Circa 1970
By Selenova
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb table lamp composed of a blown Murano glass globe and a chromed metal base, from the 1970s, and produced by “Selenova”.
It is made up of 4 bulbs, green, red, yellow and white ...
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Chrome
Neo-Greek Opaque Crystal Chandelier Attributed to Baccarat, France, Circa 1890
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming six-light chandelier attributed to Baccarat in clear and opaque cut crystal decorated with Greek friezes in orange tones. The central shaft, formed of inverted cones and cup...
Category
Antique 1890s French Greek Revival Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal
Japanese Style Tray Attributed to L.-C. Sevin & F. Barbedienne, France, c. 1860
By Ferdinand Barbedienne, Louis-Constant Sevin
Located in PARIS, FR
Rich landscape in cloisonné enamel on blue and brown background imitating Aventurine stone, attributed to L.C. Sevin and F. Barbedienne. The decor represents a river surrounded by wi...
Category
Antique 1860s French Japonisme Centerpieces
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Pair of "Indian Slave" Torcheres by Toussaint & Barbedienne, France, circa 1850
By François-Christophe-Armand Toussaint, Ferdinand Barbedienne, Achille Collas
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed Ad Toussaint 1850 and F. Barbedienne Fondeur
Stamped Achille Collas Réduction Mécanique
Torcheres – height : 148 cm (58 1/4 in.) ; width : 34 cm (13 1/3 in.)
Pedestals – ...
Category
Antique 1850s French Napoleon III More Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Pair of Armchairs Attributed to H.A. Fourdinois, France, c1870
Located in PARIS, FR
Important pair of armchairs attributed to H.A. Fourdinois, with a flat back in “chapeau de gendarme” centered with a carved and foliated cartouche, joining padded scroll armrests car...
Category
Antique 1870s French Renaissance Armchairs
Materials
Wood
Centerpiece "The Naiad", attributed to G. Denière, France, circa 1870
By Guillaume Denière
Located in PARIS, FR
Exceptional centerpiece in silvered and gilded bronze, composed of a naiad riding a dolphin, supporting a chiseled shell decorated with reeds, adorned with the head of a river god on its bow and on which a winged love blows in a conch. The whole rests on a pedestal decorated with dolphin heads and cut-out leathers, ending with a porphyry base with molded steps.
Historical and artistic context
Centers and naves of tables are attested in France from the Middle Ages in order to present spices and other condiments brought from distant lands around the Mediterranean or from the trade of the Silk Roads. The importance of their presence on prestigious tables will be confirmed throughout the decorative arts, evolving during the 19th century in centerpieces, becoming a central element of decoration.
Here we find a true virtuosity in the composition and representation of the human figure which is reminiscent of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance. Indeed, the fluidity of the lines of the naiad can be compared to the nymph of Fontainebleau by Benvenuto Cellini preserved at the Louvre museum and dated 1545, while the naturalist representation of the marine setting refers to the work of Wenzel Jamnitzer...
Category
Antique 1870s French Renaissance Revival Centerpieces
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Charming enamel and gilded Bronze Ewer by F. Barbedienne, France, circa 1870
By Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed F. Barbedienne & Cie
Height : 31,5 cm (12,4 in.) ; Width : 12 cm (4,7 in.) ; Depth : 10,5 cm (4,1 in.)
Charming baluster-shaped ewer in gilded bronze decorated with red and blue polychrome cloisonné enamel. Two beaded handles connect the body to the slender neck, ending in a flared pouring spout, and it rests on a circular piedouche. The whole is decorated with abundant engraved decoration of foliage interlacing.
Barbedienne and the Cloisonné enamel :
Ferdinand Barbedienne continuously innovated and he revived the use of enamel on art works during the second half of the 19th century. The Sèvres Manufacture enamel workshop had ever tried it in 1854-1855, but Barbedienne was the one who succeeded to join enamel to an industrial decorative objects production. From 1858 “At Mr Barbedienne’s, enamels in copper ornaments have got their former prestige back” (Les bronzes de la Maison Barbedienne, C. Simon, in L’Art du XIXe siècle, 1858, n°21, p. 252). The Barbedienne Company had now an enamel workshop where objects ornamented with oriental style or medieval style enamels were made. Four years after, Barbedienne’s cloisonné...
Category
Antique 1880s French Napoleon III Vases
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Paintings "Courtly Love" and "Inconstant Love", French School, Late 19th Century
By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in PARIS, FR
Measurements with frames: Height 135 cm (53 in.), width 94 cm (37 in.)
Magnificent pair of important paintings on the theme of “Fêtes galantes” and so dedicated to the art of sedu...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Beautiful Buffet by Maison Roméo, France, circa 1980
By Maison Romeo
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful lacquered wood buffet with lapis blue decoration simulating tortoiseshell in geometric frames composed of a double fillet, one imitating ivory and the other brass, all on a...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Buffets
Materials
Bronze
Crystal and Bronze "Palm"Chandelier attr. to Maison Baguès, France, circa 1890
By Maison Baguès
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful chandelier in patinated bronze with gold highlights and cut crystal. The central shaft, topped with a ribbon and ending with a seed, is adorned with reeds and presents in t...
Category
Antique 1890s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Neo-Greek Cigar Cellarette, C.G. Diehl, E. Frémiet & J. Brandely, Circa 1867
By Jean Brandely, Charles-Guillaume Diehl, Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare cigar humidor made in wood, with a front flap, discovering five sliding cane trays. Beautiful bronze and silver electroplated brass ornaments, such as the central niche decorated with a winged creature, surmounted on top of the cabinet with a feline. Resting on four tall legs joined by a stretcher decorated with a silvered pierced bronze incense burner.
The central relief of that cellarette for cigars, with that fantasy creature, is directly inspired from the one designed by J. Brandely for the front door of the Merovingian Cabinet made by Diehl in 1867, and now preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Inv. 1989.197).
Arriving in Paris in about 1840 Charles-Guillaume Diehl (1811-1885) founded his cabinet making and decoration firm at 19 rue Michel-le-Comte in 1885. His workshops produced elegant little pieces of furniture in rosewood and thuja and novelties with bronze and porcelain embellishments (see « Les ébénistes du XIXème siècle »,D. Ledoux-Lebard, Ed. de l’amateur, 1982, p.164). It was his luxury boxes, however (liqueur cellarettes, cigar cabinets, games boxes, cashmere cases, jewelry cases) which assured Diehl’s renown (see « l’Art en France sous le Second Empire », Exposition Grand-Palais, Paris, 1979, p.133). Already rewarded with a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 in Paris, he exhibited a jardinière with china columns and a liqueur cabinet at the Industrial Arts Exhibition in 1861.
In collaboration with the designer Jean Brandely (active between 1867 and 1873), Diehl renovated his decorative repertory and created astonishing pieces of furniture in the Grecian style which had a dazzling success at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867, where his cabinets also won a silver medal. Certain motifs were so typical of Diehl’s work that they received extensive commentary by the art critic J. Mesnard in his book « Les Merveilles de l’Exposition Universal de 1867 » (vol. II, pp. 133 & 149). He writes of a table of which « the pendant bearing hooks and the fan shaped radiating motif which ornaments the entablature are engraved with love » (p. 133) and a jewelry case where « The head in fine Grecian style makes up the essential part of the fine gilt bronze ornementation » (p. 149).
For this Universal Exhibition of 1867, Diehl also formed a partnership with two famous sculptors : Emile Guillemin (1841-1907) who carved the relief for a mahogany sideboard with galvanic gilt bronzes (Orsay Museum, Paris, Inv. O.A.O. 992) and Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-1910) who executed the low relief for a cedar medal cabinet...
Category
Antique 1860s French Greek Revival Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Neo-Renaissance Cabinet by P. Sormani and attr. to E. Lièvre, France, Circa 1870
By Edouard Lievre, Paul Sormani
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed twice on the lock P. SORMANI 10 rue Charlot Paris
Rare neo-Renaissance cabinet in carved wood and Portor marble, adorned with chiseled and gilded bronze.
The upper, part, surmounted by a frieze of posts and marble cabochons, consists of a central door decorated with a carved panel representing the birth of Venus, framed by two pairs of ringed and fluted columns with Corinthians capitals in gilded bronze revealing two doors with secret opening. Two drawers with lion’s head shaped handles and a central drawer decorated with tracery in gilded bronze complete the upper part of this cabinet.
In the lower part, two drawers on the belt with diamond...
Category
Antique 1870s French Renaissance Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Leila and the Giaour Gilded Bronze Clock, France, Circa 1830
Located in PARIS, FR
Dial signed Polti Frères
Measures: With base or glass: Height 61 cm (24 in.), width 51,5 cm (20.3 in.), depth 23.5 cm (9,2 in.)
Without base: Height 52 cm (20,5 in.), width 42 cm (16.5 in.), depth 12.5 cm (4.9 in.)
Important philhellenic clock in burnished and amati gilded bronze, finely chiseled, representing on the terrace a couple elegantly dressed in "the turkish style", and richly decorated with foliage, scrolls and flowers. The feet, decorated with water leaves, rest on an oval wooden base covered with a globe.
The theme of the clock comes from The Giaour, a fragment of a Turkish Tale, an English poem by Lord Byron published in may 1813 which tells the thwarted love of a Venetian, the Giaour – term by which the Turks designate infidels and especially Christians – and of Leila, a slave belonging to Hassan’s seraglio, military leader of a Turkish province. The betrayal of Leila discovered, she will be thrown into the sea and her lover will avenge her by killing Hassan, then taking refuge in a monastery.
Symbol of prestige and modernity, the decorative clocks are a reflection of the taste of the era of a wealthy bourgeoisie and may be the subject of diplomatic gifts or between individuals.
Beyond the purely decorative aspect of such objects, watchmaking in the 19th century is part of a subtle mix of political, historical and literary references.
This philhellenic movement converning the West finds a particular echo in France, one of the countries with the United Kingdom and Russia having suported the Greeks during their war of independance (1821-1830) to free oneself from the grip of the Ottoman Empire. Many clocks...
Category
Antique 1830s French Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Neo-Greek Floor Lamps Attributed to G. Servant, France, Circa 1870
By Georges Emile Henri Servant
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare pair of Greek style floor lamps made in patinated bronze attributed to G. Servant, each surmounted of a frosted glass globe engraved of stars and a Greek motif frieze. The body of the vase, decorated with Greek style patterns such as palmets, Greek motif frieze and water leaves, stands on a shaft decorated with deer heads. Fine chains are connected to a delicate butterfly. The set is based on tripod legs with lion claw feet alternating large palmets.
Height : 183 cm (72 in.) ; 213 cm (83 3/4 in.) with glass shades ; Diameter : 43 cm (19 2/3in.)
Georges Emile Henri Servant (1828-c.1890), who took over his father in 1855 at their foundry, rue Vieille-du-Temple, in Paris, specialized in the production of neo-Egyptian style clocks, very popular in France since 1860’s, and also the making of Greek style decorative objects. He drew considerable attention to the high quality of his bronzes at the 1855 Paris Universal Exhibition and then at the 1862 London Exhibition. At this time Servant exported up to 40% of his production, principally to the United States, where for instance, his clocks were sold with great success by Louis Tiffany Inc. or Hamann & Roche of New York. But his success came really at the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition, where he was awarded a gold medal for his neo-Greek and Egyptian works (Les Merveilles...
Category
Antique 1860s French Greek Revival Floor Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Painting "Music Lesson" by Giuseppe Ghedina, Italy, circa 1860
By Giuseppe Ghedina
Located in PARIS, FR
Important painting representing a music lesson, composed of a group of three elegantly dressed ladies, listening to a musician playing the lute and accompanied on vocals by a man hold a musical score in hand.
The artist’s genre scenes are distinguished by the softness of the eyes, the romanticism of the attitudes and the harmony of the tones used.
Giuseppe Ghedina is born in Cortina d’Ampezzo on March 1st, 1825, he started studying in 1838 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. Pupil of Ludovico...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Rare "Ottoman" Bronze Chandelier, France, Circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Large elongated Ottoman style chandelier with two lights, in bronze with double patina. The shaft is embellished with multi-lobed openwork arc...
Category
Antique 1880s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Neo-Renaissance Dining Room Set Att. to Barbedienne, Meynard & Sevin, circa 1890
By Ferdinand Barbedienne, Louis-Constant Sevin
Located in PARIS, FR
Display sideboard : height : 285 cm (112 in.) ; width : 215 cm (84,6 in) ; depth : 70 cm (27,5 in.)
Table (without extension) : height : 76 cm (29,9 in.) ; width : 170 cm (66,9 in.) ; depth : 120 cm (47,2 in.) / Extensions (x 2) : width : 45 cm (17,7 in.) ; depth : 120 cm (47,2 in.)
Dresser : height : 180 cm (70,8 in.) ; width : 215 cm (84,6 in.) ; Depth : 65 cm (25,6 in.)
Chairs : height : 114 cm (44,8 in.) ; width : 48 cm (18,9 in.) ; depth : 45 cm (17,7 in.)
Woodwork attributed to Maison Meynard (1808-1889), Meynard Fils; ormolu mounting by Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892) from drawing by Louis-Constant Sévin...
Category
Antique 1870s French Renaissance Revival Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of porcelain “swallow” vases , L'Escalier de Cristal, France, 1890
By L'Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of Chinese porcelain vases. On a blue background of stylized clouds, two cartouches display a design of pairs of swallows flying among flowering branches. The reverse ...
Category
Antique 1890s French Aesthetic Movement Vases
Materials
Bronze
Aquarium, Baccarat, France, Circa 1870
By Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare crystal aquarium with a neck decorated with a garland of alternating vine leaves and stylized flowers. The body is engraved with a lakeside landscape of flowers and plants.
The...
Category
Antique 1870s French Japonisme Vases
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Set of 4 Tapestries Signed by Beauvais Manufacture aft. F.Boucher, France, 1770
By Beauvais Royal Manufactory, François Boucher
Located in PARIS, FR
Each panel : Each panel = Height : 206 cm (81,1 in.) ; Width : 56 cm (22 in.) ; Depth : 4 cm (1,5 in.)
Beautiful set of four tapestries representing children’s pastorals, woven by the Beauvais Manufacture on cardboards by F. Boucher, inspired by his serie of paintings delivered around 1751 to the marquise de Pompadour for her Château de Crécy...
Category
Antique 1770s French Louis XVI Tapestries
Materials
Tapestry, Giltwood
"Giuditta" by Ezio Ceccarelli, Italy, Circa 1900
By Ezio Ceccarelli
Located in PARIS, FR
Great female statue of Judith in bronze with brown patina and white marble from Carrara. This young woman holds in her hands, stretched over his head, a scimitar in its scabbard, re...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Italian Beaux Arts Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
"Helix Spiral Swivel" Coffee Table after a model by D. Lane, France, Circa 1980
By Danny Lane
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful vintage low table inspired by the style of Danny Lane, helix spiral stacked glass with removable oval stained glass top. The unique helical spiral design, with neatly stack...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Modern Tables
Materials
Glass
« The Musician » Japanese style Clock attr. to L'Escalier de Cristal, FR, c.1890
By L'Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Amusing bronze with double patina and porcelain clock in the shape of a covered jar.
This clock, with a dial with Arabic numerals decorated in its center with a seated lute player, i...
Category
Antique 1890s French Japonisme Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI style Cassolettes attr. to H. Vian, France, circa 1890
By Henri Vian
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of Louis XVI-inspired baluster-shaped cassolettes in white marble, enriched with an elegant bronze mount with a double patina. The lid is topped with a seed-shaped gri...
Category
Antique 1890s French Louis XVI Jars
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Four "Plia" Chairs, Castelli/Giancarlo Piretti, Italy, Circa 1970
By Giancarlo Piretti, Castelli
Located in PARIS, FR
Set of 4 “Plia” model folding chairs from the 1960s with Viennese canework and chrome tubes.
These iconic Italian chairs were designed by Giancarlo Piretti for Castelli in 1967.
Gia...
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Modern Chairs
Materials
Rattan
Pair of "Wassily" Armchairs, Breuer (designer) Knoll (Manufacturer), Circa 1980
By Knoll, Marcel Breuer
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of “Wassily” model armchairs designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925. These armchairs are in chrome tubes and black leather. Published by Knoll.
Marcel Breuer designed this ...
Category
Vintage 1980s Hungarian Modern Armchairs
Materials
Steel
Rare lounge chair, Artelano and Samuel Coriat, France, Circa 1986
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare lounge chair in black leather and black lacquered metal, with tilt adjustment system using a locking screw. This lounge chair designed by Samuel Coriat began in 1986 and benefits from exceptional comfort and design.
Artelano : Founded by Samuel Coriat. Thirty-three years ago, he left Havas to found his own brand and design his first furniture. If he's just starting out, his style is already firmly defined: basic shapes and pure lines served by materials like glass, metal and lacquered wood. This taste for simplicity will subsequently guide his choices. His business is doing well but Samuel Coriat wants to take a step forward: he wants to become a publisher, that is to say, collaborate with designers on projects, from design to sale, including manufacturing. He contacts creators whose work, he thinks, matches what he likes. The first to be called, in 1987, was Pascal Mourgue. He then signed his first collection, “Atlantique”, for Artelano. The collaboration between the two men will continue and give birth to other creations. After the Italians Paolo Deganello, in 1992, and Carlo Bartoli, in 1993, Samuel Coriat worked in 1994 with the Frenchman Olivier Gagnère, for whom he produced the chairs and armchairs which today furnish the Café Marly...
Category
Late 20th Century French Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Metal
"Marshmallow" Sofa, Herman Miller , Italy, Circa 1980
By George Nelson, Herman Miller
Located in PARIS, FR
An icon of post-war design, the Marshmallow sofa represents an optimistic and heroic moment in American history. This unique sofa has a very recognizable design with 18 round, separa...
Category
20th Century Italian Modern Canapes
Materials
Leather
Lovely Ormolu Clock "à la balançoire", France, Circa 1820
Located in PARIS, FR
Floral and decorated neoclassical ormolu clock, figuring two baluster columns joined together by a floral arch, and topped by a crown of rose...
Category
Antique 1820s French Restauration Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Neo-Greek Inkwell by C.G. Diehl, E. Frémiet and J. Brandely, France, Circa 1867
By Emmanuel Fremiet, Charles-Guillaume Diehl, Jean Brandely
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed Diehl à Paris.
Wood and silvered copper inkwell. Central drawer ornamented with an escutcheon and flanked by two small lateral drawers forming two containers, surmounted by a lid representing a nestling. Central niche ornamented with a winged creature. Inkwell flanked by two felines. Toped by a penholder representing a Moorish head resting on an eagle claw.
This exceptional piece was realized thanks to the collaboration of ornemanist J. Brandely, sculptor E. Frémiet and cabinet-maker C.-G. Diehl. The motif of the fantasy creature dear to Diehl, is to be seen on the famous cabinet made by him in 1867 and now exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Inv. 1989.197).
Arriving in Paris in about 1840 Charles-Guillaume Diehl (1811-1885) founded his cabinet making and decoration firm at 19 rue Michel-le-Comte in 1885. His workshops produced elegant little pieces of furniture in rosewood and thuja and novelties with bronze and porcelain embellishments (see “Les ébénistes du XIXème siècle”, D. Ledoux-Lebard, Ed. de l’amateur, 1982, p.164). It was his luxury boxes, however (liqueur cellarettes, cigar cabinets, games boxes, cashmere cases, jewelry cases) which assured Diehl’s renown (see “l’Art en France sous le Second Empire”, Exposition Grand-Palais, Paris, 1979, p.133). Already rewarded with a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 in Paris, he exhibited a jardinière with china columns and a liqueur cabinet at the Industrial Arts Exhibition in 1861.
In collaboration with the designer Jean Brandely (active from 1867 until 1873), Diehl renovated his decorative repertory and created astonishing pieces of furniture in the Grecian style which had a dazzling success at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867, where his cabinets also won a silver medal. Certain motifs were so typical of Diehl’s work that they received extensive commentary by the art critic J. Mesnard in his book “Les Merveilles de l’Exposition Universal de 1867” (vol. II, pp. 133 & 149). He writes of a table of which “the pendant bearing hooks and the fan shaped radiating motif which ornaments the entablature are engraved with love” (p. 133) and a jewelry case where “The head in fine Grecian style makes up the essential part of the fine gilt bronze ornamentation” (p. 149).
For this Universal Exhibition Diehl also formed a partnership with two famous sculptors: Emile Guillemin (1841-1907) who carved the relief for a mahogany sideboard with galvanic gilt bronzes (Orsay Museum, Paris, Inv. O.A.O. 992) and Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-1910) who executed the low relief for a cedar medal cabinet...
Category
Antique 1860s French Greek Revival Inkwells
Materials
Copper
Vitrine Attributed to J.E. Zwiener and L. Messagé, France, Circa 1890
By Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener
Located in PARIS, FR
Elegant vitrine in veneered wood and gilded bronze. Opening with two curved doors with foliated frame in gilded and chiseled bronze, it is composed in the upper part of bevelled glas...
Category
Antique 1890s French Louis XV Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Renaissance Style Wooden Cabinet Attributed to H.A. Fourdinois, France, 1893
Located in PARIS, FR
A wooden cupboard, elaborately carved throughout, dated "1893" on the crest and attributed to H.A. Fourdinois. The upper section with a pair of cherubs at the center of a balustrade ornamented with two-handled urns, two architectonic doors below, carved with lady and gentleman in niches surrounded by extensive carving with classical motifs. The lower section with two drawers above a standing female caryatid support at each front corner. The all reposing on four gadronned round feet.
The Fourdinois company was founded in 1835 by Alexandre-Georges Fourdinois (1799-1871). The Universal Exhibition held in London in 1851 was undoubtedly their first great artistic and public success. Winning the Great medal for a neo-Renaissance buffet...
Category
Antique 1890s French Renaissance Cabinets
Materials
Wood
Pair of Neo-Renaissance Vitrines, Attributed to H-A Fourdinois, France, c. 1860
Located in PARIS, FR
Fine pair of neo-Renaissance vitrines in richly carved wood, with three glazed sides framed by a relief frieze. Each opening to a drawer decorated with interlacing on the belt, and t...
Category
Antique 1860s French Renaissance Revival Vitrines
Materials
Marble
Elegant Painting "The Musicians" by A. A. Lesrel, French School, 1912
By Adolphe Alexandrew Lesrel
Located in PARIS, FR
Oil on panel signed A.A. Lesrel and dated 1912, representing three musicians and a singer in a luxurious seventeenth century Flemish interior.
Adolphe-Alexandre Lesrel (1839-1929)...
Category
Vintage 1910s French Louis XIV Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pair of "Sèvres" Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Candelabra-Vases, France, Circa 1880
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in PARIS, FR
Large pair of baluster-shaped candelabra vases with seven lights, in gros bleu porcelain and chiselled and gilded bronze. The sconces, adorned with fol...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XVI More Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Beautiful Set of Four Transition Style Armchairs "A Chassis", France, Circa 1880
By Michel Gourdin
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful set of four Transition style armchairs "à la Reine" and "à châssis", in carved and gilded wood and decorated with a flowery lampas by the Maison Ta...
Category
Antique 1880s French Armchairs
Materials
Giltwood
Crystal Chandelier "La Nef" Attributed to Baccarat, France, Circa 1870
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
Magnificent vessel shaped chandelier in gilded bronze and engraved crystal attributed to Baccarat, suspended by four articulated chains. A ceiling pendant decorated with prisms and a...
Category
Antique 1870s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Exceptional 8 Pieces Bedroom Set by H.A. Fourdinois, France, Circa 1889
Located in PARIS, FR
An exceptional Louis XVI style bedroom set in carved and veneered wood with brass filets and gilt bronze ornaments. The set consists in a w...
Category
Antique 1880s French Bedroom Sets
Materials
Onyx, Bronze, Brass
Japanese Style Planter Attributed to l'Escalier de Cristal, France, circa 1880
By Edouard Lievre, L'Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Large planter decorated on the belly with a rotating decoration of polychrome flowers and geometric patterns in cloisonné enamel on a red background. It is inserted in an important p...
Category
Antique 1880s French Japonisme Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Large Neo-Greek Vase by F. Levillain & F. Barbedienne, France, circa 1890
By Ferdinand Barbedienne, Ferdinand Levillain
Located in PARIS, FR
Important neo-Greek vase in the shape of an Amphora, made in two patina bronze. The body is decorated with a rich continuous frieze in bas-relief presenting a procession of characters carrying their offerings to the temple, underlined by a decoration of theatrical masks among olive trees. The 's'-scroll handles decorated with grape vines, resting only on the shoulder of the vase, are supported by a ram’s head. Numerous palmettes and friezes adorn the whole. Resting on a molded marble circular base.
Biography
Ferdinand Levillain (Paris, 1837-1905) studied under the sculptor Jouffroy (1806-1882), before making his debut in 1861 at the French Artists Salon where he continued to exhibit until 1903. At the 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris, he was praised for a Neo-Greek style bronze cup he made for the firm Blot and Drouard. He was not to become really famous, however, until 1871 thanks to his association with the great bronze founder Ferdinand Barbedienne, who began to exhibit Neo-Greek style lamps...
Category
Antique 1890s French Greek Revival Vases
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Harlequin by R. de Saint Marceaux, Cast by F. Barbedienne, France, Circa 1880
By F. Barbedienne Foundry, René de Saint-Marceaux
Located in PARIS, FR
Signature of René Saint-Marceaux and dated 1879
Signed F. Barbedienne Fondeur Paris
A. Collas Mechanical Reduction Stamps
Reduced Size: 3/5
Elegant statue of a standing Harlequin, ...
Category
Antique 1880s French Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze