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An exceptional and rare Milanese late 19 Century Renaissance Revival ebony framed bed profusely inlaid and encrusted with scrolling arabesques of entwined scrolled foliage, honeysuck...

A small 19 Century French patinated bronze bust of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte wearing his trademark bicorn hat and his favorite uniform of Colonel of Chasseurs Cheval de la Garde. ...

A classic French Empire period day bed made out of solid flamed mahogany raised on block feet and straight edge identical head and foot boards decorated with gilt bronze busts of...

Never in the 35+ years that we’ve been in business have we ever had anything like these rare matched chests. From Paris, this incredible pair of early 19th Century (C.1800) are in ex...

A fully restored and working Swiss cylinder music box enclosed in a box of polished fruitwood featuring a central floral inlaid medallion on the hinged lid which opens up to reveal ...

A small single hanging ceiling light fixture featuring a gilt bronze "Flying Putto" holding a gilt bronze and frosted glass flower shaded light .

An exceptional and extremely rare set of a combination of silver and vermeil (gilded silver) flatware designed and crafted in St Petersburg Russia by Andrei Stepanovich Bragin d...

A pair of original oil paintings on canvas depicting a handsome young aristocratic couple of the Directoire, early Empire period. They are each pictured from the waist up, she holdin...

A walnut, burr-walnut and inlaid Dutch longcase clock by W.V Dadelbeek, Utrecht. The case of typical form, trunk door with feather banding, bombe ...

A truly magnificent mahogany George II style bookcase fitted writing desk and a chest of drawers. The upper section having numerous folio/file drawers and compartments, a leather lin...

A fairly large 19th century French bronze statue of the Milo of Croton on a stepped marble base after the original marble statue by sculptor Edme Dumont (1...

A life-Size pair of finely cast 19th century Italian terracotta eagles standing on an oval terracotta base, each facing the other with their wings par...

A Napoleon III marquetry side table. The top galleried section with a drawer and the two bottom shelves having overall inlaid exotic wood inlay ...

A mahogany cheval mirror and jewellery cabinet, once belonging to Leitizia Bonaparte, Napoleon's mother. The veneered semi circular topped mirror framed by columns topped with gilt bronze cassolettes and single arm candle holders. The bottom section is fronted by two doors which open to reveal nine shallow leather cartonniers and six jewellery drawers; the whole carcass richly decorated with gilt bronze friezes and various classical motives. Similar gilded bronze mounts are found on various pieces of furniture in the collection of the Louvre Paris. This rare museum worthy piece of furniture came from the Chateau Du Pont Sur Seine. The piece is not stamped but the quality of the mahogany and the amount of finely chiseled and burnished gilt bronze mounts, plus the presence of the cartonnier and jewellery drawers almost certainly point to a royal provenance and which almost certainly came from the workshop of Georges Jacob. The Chateau De Pont Sur Seine was originally built in 1632 and hosted such important historical figures as Catherine de Medicis and Cardinal Richelieu. In the late 17C it was acquired by the Duc de Saxony, one of Louis XVI’s uncles whose family maintained ownership until 1792 until the start of the French Revolution when they had to vacate to escape the guillotine. While it suffered damage by the revolutionairies it was still very habitable and in 1805, Napoleon purchased the chateau for his mother Madame Letizia Bonaparte where she resided until Napoleon’s fall from grace in 1814. Madame Mere...

A very fine Grand Tour bronze study of the famous Venus de Milo with excellent rich brown patina and good hand finished surface detail. The casting is unusual in that it does not pretend to hide the many imperfections on the original. It is signed on the base with "Reduction Mechanique Ronald Collas, and for the foundry F.Barbidienne Fondeur. Foundry stamp on the base Considered by any to be the most beautiful Hellenistic statue to survive fro antiquity, the Venus of Milos...

The frame of this oval table is veneered in various exotic woods, kingwood, amaranth, tulipwood. There is one drawer below a galleried brocaatel marble top. The table sits on four ta...

A mid-19th century American richly finished armoire in bird’s-eye maple of neoclassic architectural shape and proportions; the cabinet is in three sections framed by ionic pilasters,...

A large and beautiful three quarter length portrait of a partly seated lady her hat over one arm holding a bouquet of flowers, the other arm held upward holding a branch of a tree. This original oil on canvas by the British artist Laurence Koe, (1863-1913), is signed on the lower right and dated 1905. Lawrence E. Koe was a portrait painter and sculptor. He is listed as living in Brighton when he first exhibited at The Royal Academy in 1891, but by 1894 he had moved to London where he appears to have settled for the remainder of his life. Koe exhibited widely; over twenty times at The Royal Academy, but also at the R.O.I, The Royal Society of Artists in Birmingham and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Most of his exhibited works were portraits, and among his sitters were the wives of fellow artists Harold Speed RP (1872-1957) and Harold Piffard (fl. 1895-1899). In 1896 Koe exhibited “Venus and Tännhauser” at the Royal Academy, now in the permanent collection in the Brighton Museum and Art and he showed a painting of Sappho two years later. He clearly shows the influence of other artists working at the same time, notably Singer Sargent, Arthur Hacker RA (1858-1919) and Herbert James Draper...

73.1 pendant by Bocci. Dimensions: D 11.6 x H 300 cm. Materials: brushed nickel round canopy Weight: 2.7 kg White canopy also available. Due to the handcrafted nature of the 73 ...

A mid 19 century French Gilt Bronze Gothic style mantel clock and garniture which the French call " A la Cathedrale". The three pieces are of finely chased and gilded bronze; the cl...

A figure of a standing young lady finely carved in white alabaster. She is shown dressed in an almost ‘flapper’ style skirt as she leans with her elbows against an ochre mottled rectangular alabaster column on a further stepped base. Her eyes are almost closed as if she is dreaming. The lower rectangular column supports a fluted round column which holds a hollowed white alabaster bowl...

A palatial scale Louis XVI style salon set comprising four arm chairs and a matching sofa. The deeply carved frames are finished in gold leaf and upholstered in antique turquoise Ita...

A rare, unique and dramatic pair of Rococo style marble topped giltwood triangular shaped consoles and complimentary slightly elliptical giltwood mirrors. The four pieces are believed to be northern Italian most likely from the Venetian region. The design and carving of the superstructure presented with bunches of grapes, vine leaves, branches and twigs. A winged dragon is shown swirling around and down the central leg of each console. The three legs are joined with a lower stretcher are all presented as vine tree trunks from which germinate more grape leaves and branches. They both have shaped red/grey mottled marble tops. The consoles show more signs of early to mid-18th century Rococo chinoiserie influence. The mirrors were likely made slightly later in the 19th century but in the same Italian region, and appear to have a more Japanese influence in their design especially the hawk/eagle leaning over the top of the mirror. The giltwood frames of the mirrors are completely covered with gilded branches and leaves. On the left side of each mirror is a 'fantastical' dragon-bird, his huge wings spread out and his long tail clinging around the lower branches. He looks up into the eyes of the top hawk/eagle who appears ready to attack the dragon-bird. The whole is a real virtuoso display of carving and whimsical Rococo design. Chippendale in England and his contemporaries were some of the first cabinet makers to design furniture in the Rococo style, the term taken from the French 'Rocaille' (rockwork), as in fantasy constructions such as grottoes. The style originated in France early in the 18th century when there was a reaction against the weighty classicism of the Baroque style. The consequent taste was for something lighter representing an escape from the stifling, self-conscious grandeurs of the Louis XIV period. As pioneered by designers such as Jean Berain and Pierre Lepautre...

A fine Italian mid-18th century figured-walnut bombe three drawer commode; the commode is inlaid on all visible sides including the top in attractive olive wood and walnut, and it si...

A very finely cast late 19 century Grand Tour bronze replica of the renowned statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni on horseback set on a verde antico marble base after the life sized bronze statue by the Renaissance sculptor Andrea Del Verrocchio...

14s Surface light by Bocci Dimensions: D5.5 x H5.5 cm Materials: Plate Weight: 1 kg Other materials and dimensions can be ordered. All our lamps can be wired according to each...

The translucent alabaster planes of the median shapes are intersected by a fluted brass form, referencing traditional Middle Easter Jewellery while push...

The Louis XVI style dessert table is made of mahogany, the top section richly decorated with gilded bronze Vitruvian scrolls and other decorative mounts, all of Dasson or Linke quali...

A small period Louis XV carved and gilded beechwood console table, the palm entwined roccaille cabriole legs joined by a similarly carved stretcher crowned with carved swagged urn. ...

A monumental cast bronze and frosted glass porte cochere lantern; (a porte cochere is a roofed structure extending from the entrance of a buildin...

A classically inspired French Empire marble topped mahogany bedside table which the french call sono. fThe round column shaped table has a black marble top with a recently applied ge...

A highly decorative French empire style lamp likely made in the early 20thC. The polished brass column was likely the stem of a candelabra which was later embellished with an eagle ...

A centrally pivoted cheval mirror with gilded bronze mounts; the arched beveled mirror framed in mahogany with gilded bronze rosettes; the mirror...

21.3 Pendant by Bocci Dimensions: D15.2 x H300 cm Materials:brushed nickel,round canopy. Weight: 1.8 kg Also available in different dimensions. All our lamps can be wired acco...

The Composition series includes a floor lamp consists of sculptural, elementary forms stacked to create a simple, balanced composition. The Floor Composition is formed of two cylindr...

A large late 19 Century Qing Era Chinese Nanking Porcelain Vase in famille verte crackle glaze decorated with intricate warrior and landscape scenes The vase would have been exported to France from Nanking China...

The oil painting on canvas is of a young boy 'hugging' his dog, which lies on the boy's lap. It is very much in the style of the Scottish painter Henry Raeburn. The boy is dressed in...

A Classic romantic movement oil painting on wood panel depicting two lovers. They are dressed in Renaissance almost theatrical garments and they sit intimately close to one another on a bench. The atmospheric background is set in the middle of a wooded park in the early evening hours before dusk. Their faces are almost in shadow as the brilliant orange/red sun sets behind them. The painting is signed F. Heilbuth on the right hand bottom corner of the canvas and is dated ’76 in reference to 1876. It is set in a gold painted wood frame. Biography Ferdinand Heilbuth, (1826-1889), was a German-born French painter. He was born in Hamburg in 1826, and died in Paris in 1889 having become a French citizen in 1876, the same year he painted this work. He is buried in Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. This genre painter whose talent has the characteristics of nobility, liveliness of color and accent in expression, exhibited many times at the Royal Academy in London. His works were also shown in the Grosvenor Gallery...

A tilt-top Chippendale style tea table in mahogany, with pie crust, dish top supported on an acanthus decorated turned pedestal, with a tripod base ending in claw and ball feet. The ...

28sp wall lamp by Bocci Dimensions: Diameter 16.5 x H 11.5 cm Materials: blown glass, electrical components, metal mounting plate Lamping: : 1.5w LED or 20w xenon. Non-dimmable. ...

A handsome bookcase or china cabinet made in France in the last half of the 19th century. The case is in ebonized wood (including the top), and is curved at each side. There are three front doors with...

A very finely cast French Napoleon III bronze garland festooned cassolettes with grotesque mask handles raised on round stepped griotte marble bases. The urn shaped body of t...

An interesting and unique mid century portrait of Abraham Lincoln executed in a a variety of inlaid woods on a wooden board. The origin of the work is not known but the portrait is ...

A fine quality late 18thC Adam period demi-lune console table; the entire table is painted a cream colour, the four shaped and tapered legs decorated with gilded wood fillets; the frieze is fluted all round with large gilded patterae above each leg. The painted top has an outer green banding decorated with garlands of flowers and gilding, the back of the painted top has a neoclassical fresco; depicting a classically draped winged Goddess surrounded by cherubs, flowers and scrolling, in the manner of Angelica Kaufmann...

This classic planter is carved from a single piece of Carrara marble. The wasted shaped pot sits on four large lions paw feet each of which are topped...

A World Heritage landmark, this SUMO-sized publication presents the most precious surviving murals of Tibetan Buddhist culture. For the first time, these astonishing and intricate ma...

French carved mahogany buffet ‘deux corps’. The top features cabinets and four small fitted drawers, while the base has a pair of drawers over c...

A very large Majolica Grand Tour pedestal having dark green glazing; the circular top (detachable) supported by Trapezophorus tripod base after the Roman. original found in Hadrian...

A french Louis XVI style grey marble topped Meuble d'Appui after a model by Mathieu Belfort.The ebonized cabinet is inlaid with brass and has all-over lavish gilded bronze mounts a...

A fine Regency giltwood and composition triple plate overmantel mirror, each mirror being beveled. The frieze is decorated with ebonized balls above alternating acanthus and anthemio...

An early 19th century Russian chandelier having eight candle arms. The design is intended to represent waterfalls. The central stem of the chandelier is in four tiers each hung with ...

A Louis XV Style or Swedish Gustavian classically inspired pine trumeau mirror. The trumeau part of the mirror is adorned by carved armorial plaque featuring war trophies,...

57.7 Pendant by Bocci Dimensions: D 20.3 x H 300 cm Materials: white round canopy. Weight: 11 kg Also available in different dimensions and colours. All our lamps can be wired...

28.1 Pendant by Bocci Dimensions: D 8.8 x H 300 cm Materials: diameter brushed nickel canopy Weight: 1 .1 kg Also Available in different dimensions All our lamps can be wired ...

An unusual French gilt bronze candelabra, now wired as a lamp, combining Louis XVI and late Empire styles. An elegantly draped young lady sits beside her open jewellery box with thre...

An 18th century English George III Gainsborough library chair, the frame in carved mahogany of generous proportions with a serpentine back above shaped set back arms. The legs are sq...

A rare complicated music clock behind a fine oil on canvas painting of the Quai De Brancas In Nantes, France. The painting of the Quai at Brancas on the Ri...

A decorative pair of Louis XV style side chairs, the well carved frames are finished in gold leaf and have recently been upholstered in a turquoise/gilt damask.

An exceptional and rare pair of Napoleon III Belle Epoque Breche marble shield shaped urns with striking intertwined serpent handles The base and top of urns are embellished with ...

Grand scale boulle Cartel clock and matching plinth, the ebonized wood case is embellished all-over with gilded bronze mounts (re-gilt). The medall...