Mirror Wood and Repoussé Brass, Louis XIV Style, Period: Second Half 19th

Adorable little writing case in walnut with inlay, Louis XV style.  It has four high, slender and curved legs. Its central body is composed of a drawer pull and three rows of drawers under a top tray with wide borders surrounding the back and sides, thus preventing objects from falling out. The pull-out is covered with green felt. Each drawer opens with small round pull knobs.  The front and sides are covered with diagonal marquetry. Period: 19th century. Dimensions : Height : 69cm x width : 21 x depth : 21cm. The Louis XV style covers a period from 1725 to 1760, a new and precious style, it is also called Rocaille style because the rocaille remains the preferred ornament, it is also called Rococo style or Pompadour style. The distinction is made during this period between the furniture of apparat and the usual furniture, it is also the great time of the cabinetmakers, of the floral or geometrical marquetries, of the taste for the exoticism and of the arrival of a number of small pieces of furniture related to the need for comfort, like the secretaries, the dusters, the bedside tables, etc. Louis XV furniture is a must in the history of decorative arts! It is referred to as "the moment of perfection of French art". Even today, while furniture is essentially based on straight lines and parallelepipedal volumes, the curved Louis...

Lovely little mirror in carved wood, gilded with 24 carat gold leaf, Louis XV period, old mercury ice. Its pediment is openwork with patterns of shells and acanthus leaves, and its s...

Lovely little mirror in carved wood, gilded with 24 carat gold leaf, Louis XV period, old mercury ice. Its pediment is openwork with patterns of shells and acanthus leaves, and its s...

Lovely and small liqueur cellar in blackened wood with inlaid brass threads on four pretty ball-shaped feet, completely restored, in the rules of the art, by the TWS Workshops (Calai...

Lovely candlestick in chiseled bronze and gilded with mercury. Its fluted base rests on three top feet, a very pretty knot decorated with interlacing comes to sublimate a fluted shaft decorated with palmettes surmounted by a sleeve with a garland of finely chiseled interlacing. It is topped with a flame-shaped snuffer cap. Period: 19th century Style: Louis XVI Dimensions: Height: 28.5cm x width: 11cm Did you know that under the court of Louis XIV, the candlestick was also an instrument of power? The famous candlestick was in vermeil and with two sockets (a particularity highlighted by contemporaries, it was not so with the queen and the princes). Every day, at the beginning of the Grand Coucher, after the first prayers, the Grand Chamberlain, the First Gentleman of the Chamber (or in their absence, the First Valet de Chambre...

Delightful rectangular Louis XVI gilded wood mirror with moulded frame enhanced by garlands of pearls.  Mercury glass. A large openwork pediment decorated with acanthus leaves and fl...

Large, gold-patinated wall mirror with stucco decoration in the form of tendrils and shells in the corners and in the middle of the moldings. The mirror glass has two blind spots in ...

A Scottish Arts & Crafts rectangular brass mirror decorated with a hand-hammered celtic weave surrounded by simulated rope borders. Retaining original beveled plate glass. circa 1900.

Antique black forest carving, rare, 19th century, good original condition.

Schweppes brass hotel menu board mirror An attractive piece of history, this charming brass menu board mirror this would have been hung on the wall at th...

Structure in patinated gold liquid metal lacquered wood. Natural mirror. Ø 120 D 3

A French rectangular Tramp Art hand-carved wooden Folk mirror from the early 20th century, with raised diamond motifs, geometric patterns, intersecting corners and brass tacks. Creat...