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A fine quality French Belle Epoque gilt bronze six-light round chandelier with foliate and scroll decoration, featuring beaded glass sleeves, a ring of solid round prisms around a ce...

An Exceptional Pair of Late 19th Century Napoleon III Gilt Bronze and Enamel Ten Light Candelabra Attributed to Maison Beurdeley The ten candle foliate designed branches with leaf drip pans, centered with an enamel vase and a gilt band with cherubs at play, topped with three bronze drapes and garlands of flowers. The triangle bases decorated with female masks and trailing floral motifs on plinth bases. After the 18th century model by Pierre Gouthière. This fine pair of candelabra are based on the model by Pierre Gouthière now conserved in the Petit-Trianon at Versailles. According to Pierre Verlet, the model corresponds to a large pair of candelabra with ten branches, drapery, foliage and fruit, richly carved and gilded in bronze, originally supplied by the marchand-mercier, Freres Darnault, for the Salon du Jeu de Mesdames at the Château de Bellevue. Pierre Gouthière (1732 - 1813) was the most celebrated bronze gilder in France during the eighteenth century, the title of ‘Gilder to the King’ being given to him by Louis XV. He perfected the most expensive type of gilding of this period, dorure au mat, which involved the use of lavish amounts of gold to create a rich, deep matte finish. As well as working for the King he created items for the Comte d'Artois, the Marquis de Marigny, and the duc d'Aumont. The collection of the duc d'Aumont was sold at auction in Paris in 1782 and many objects mounted by Gouthière were bought by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. His works, unsurpassed in creativity and execution, can now be found in the Wallace Collection and the Louvre. Beurdeley, Louis-Auguste and Emmanuel-Alfred (1808-1882 and 1847-1919). The firm exhibited and won awards at all of the major international exhibitions during the second half of the nineteenth century. The quality and skill employed in production was of exceptional quality; their ormolu mounts with mercurial gilding and hand chasing were often difficult to distinguish from late eighteenth-century examples, and were considered the finest in Paris. The firm was pioneered by Jean Beurdeley (1772-1853), later managed by his son Louis-Auguste-Alfred, and finally imparted to his son Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis in 1875. The firm was established at 32 and 34, rue Louis-Le-Grand, and also owned the pavillion de Hanovre, where it was based while Alfred-Emmanuel-Louis added two additional workshops at 20 and 24, rue Dautancourt by 1875. The Beurdeley workshops closed in 1896, although still partially active until 1898 and the stock was sold over a number of auctions conducted by the Galerie Georges Petit of Paris. Two auction catalogues of the collection were published in 1895 and sales were held between March 6-8 and May 27-28. Among Beurdeley's most prestigious clients were Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie, the duc D'aumale, Richard Wallace, the Duc and Princess d'Hamilton, Tsarine Alexandra Féodorovna, The Rothschild and Vanderbilt dynasties and the Metropolitan Club...

This elegant French gilt bronze table lamp signed Moreau depicts Erato, the Greek goddess of music, dance and song. She is represented holding a lyre while her left arm is leaning upon an open book that rests upon a fluted column. Trailing ivy extends down the upper portion of the column. She carries the lyre in her right hand which hangs down to her right hip. There is a serene and pensive expression on her face as she looks down and to her left. She stands on an indented and canted, lacquered black base with a gilt metal wreath...

Great pair of fine quality 19th century French bronze cassoullettes mounted as lamps and recently rewired. Original finials now used on the harps of the lamps. Could easily be return...

A pair of late 19th century gilt bronze three-light sconces Rococo style sconces with the backplate and arms decorated with flowers and foliage...

Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze and Japanese Satsuma Porcelain Floor Lamp The round lamp with painted scenes of men, women and children in landscape scenes and at leisure...

An interesting late 19th century gilt bronze and crystal fifteen-light basket chandelier. Bronze rope and bow designs along the body and arms, crystal beaded body and basket, nine perimeter and six-tiered interior lights. If you are looking for a chandelier, a lantern or sets of sconces, Charles...

A fantastic late 19th century gilt bronze thirty-six-light chandelier. This palatial chandelier with a central floral stem, above three putti c...

A nice late 19th century gilt bronze twelve-light chandelier. A long narrow body with "C" scrolled floral arms, centered urn with an acorn and three bows at the crown. Twelve peri...

A late 19th century gilt bronze five-light chandelier Heavy bronze casted, decorated with beautiful female nymphs. Each arm ending wi...

Lamp 19th Century Gilt bronze Metal Shade Neoclassical France . A French Bouillotte lamp made in gilt bronze and a painted metal shade. 3 electrified candle arms.

A great quality and palatial late 19th century gilt bronze and baccarat crystal twenty-one light chandelier. Multi-faceted and shaped crystal, beaded swags and drop crystal, cut crystal upper central column. Spiraled bronze...