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Table Cabaret En Acajou Sculpté Louis XV

JARDINIERE DIRECTOIRE de forme carrée ornée d’une étoile et une rose des Vents ainsi qu’un écusson avec la lettre « A ». Intérieur en tôle. Ep.Empire. H.26 L.21.

PAIRE D’ENCOIGNURES RÉGENCE en placage de bois de violette à façade bombée. Elles ouvrent par 2 portes encadrées de montants décreusés de cannelures. Triple piètement. Dessus de marb...

Middle game table Regency period in natural wood with a nice patina. It is decorated on the belt with squares and a central medallion with the date 1732. It stands on finely carved c...

Baromètre-thermomètre Louis XVI en bois doré et sculpté à décor d’un vase à l’antique et de guirlandes de laurier. Ep.XVIIIè. H.100 L.43.

Encoignure desserte Louis XVI, estampillé de TOPINO, en acajou et placage d’acajou veiné à encadrement de bronzes. Elle ouvre par 1 tiroir en ceinture qui surmonte 2 étagères à galer...

Petit thermomètre Louis XVI en bois doré et sculpté à décor de nœuds de rubans, guirlandes de fleurs et de laurier. Il est en bois peint. Ep. fin XVIIIè. H.36 L.13.

Oak with marble top Height: 55 inches (86.25 cm) Width: 55 inches (140 cm) Provenance Château de Mareil Le Guyon This commode is available to view at our gallery on Cecil Court. Jean-Pierre Latz Jean-Pierre Latz was one of the handful of truly outstanding cabinetmakers working in Paris in the mid 18th-century. Like several of his peers in the French capital, he was of German origin. His furniture is in a fully developed rococo style, employing boldly sculptural gilt-bronze mounts complementing marquetry motifs of flowers and leafy sprays, in figured tropical veneers like tulipwood, amarante, purpleheart and rosewood, often featuring the distinctive end-grain cuts. He also produced lacquered pieces, most famously the slant-front desk in the collection of Stavros Niarchos...

Although the 18th century, the period of the Enlightenment in France, spawned thinkers who criticized the privileges of the clergy and the truthfulness of certain dogmas, the Roman Catholic faith was very much present in everyday life. Since king Louis XIV had issued the Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685, Protestantism was banned from the country. This Madonna with child illustrates the daily practice of faith. Like many 18th-century Madonna statues...

The Emperor Napoleon Coat of Arms tapestry features the imperial eagle of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). This is a Belgian-made, Jacqu...

French made, jacquard woven with relief stitch. Fully lined with rod pocket for hanging. Cotton and polyester. Navy background shown and also available in beige background. Both back...

All the sun and the joie de vivre of the mediterranean in one large drawing! Dated 1959, the work evokes Brigitte Bardot, the French Riviera and French New Wave Cinema. The artist is Dany Lartigue, son of photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue, Dany was brought up between Paris and Saint Tropez, which was still a fisherman’s village at the time. Although as an artist Dany worked from Montmartre studio, the Cote d’Azur of his childhood remained his spiritual home, and he returned there often. In Saint Tropez, by then fashionable, he would meet his friends Juliette Greco...

Mill by Marcel Haussaire Woodcut French c1900 Good antique condition with signs of age and wear with some foxing in places