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Pair of Green Breccia and Carrara Marble Pedestals
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Green Breccia and carrara Marble Pedestals
Each has a square top with stepped pediment of fine white carrara marble. The column of unusual green breccia marble stands at...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Neoclassical Pedestals and Columns
Materials
Breccia Marble, Carrara Marble
Pair of Gilt-Bronze and Rouge Griotte Marble Vases and Covers
By Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Gilt-Bronze And Rouge Griotte Marble Vases and Covers. By Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris.
Designed in the Neo-Grec style these elegant vases stand atop Rouge Griotte marb...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Neoclassical Revival Vases
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
Pair of 'Japonsime' Blue Porcelain Vases Mounted as Lamps
By Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair Of 'Japonsime' Gilt-Bronze-Mounted Powder-Blue Porcelain Vases, Mounted As Lamps. By Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris.
Each with a square shaped body. The sides decorated with ...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Japonisme Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Napoleon III Giltwood Overmantel Mirror
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Napoleon III Giltwood and Gilt-Gesso Overmantel Mirror. France, Circa 1860
This fine and large overmantle mirror is designed in the Louis ...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Materials
Gesso, Giltwood
Napoleon III Carved Giltwood Armchair
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Napoleon III Carved Giltwood Armchair In The Manner of Michel-Victor Cruchet.
This fine fauteuil is richly carved with foliage, shells and 'C'-Scrolls and is upholstered 'a chasis' with floral Beauvais tapestry.
The generous proportions, ornamentation and the modified Louis XV style of this grand fauteuil is in the manner of Michel Victor Cruchet who supplied related chairs to the Duke of Nemours for the Pavillon de Marsan in 1842.
French, circa 1850.
Michel-Victor Cruchet
Michel-Victor Cruchet (1815-1899), was a celebrated sculptor, carver and ornamentalist. Working with the cabinet-makers Ringuet-Leprince, Thuiller and Maigret he was a supplier of the Garde-meuble providing many pieces of furniture to the households of both King Louis-Philippe and Emperor Napoleon III.
Important commissions included audience seating for the Duke of Nemours at the Pavillon de Marsan, in a neo-Louis XV style; Gothic furniture for the Tuileries Palace for Princess...
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Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Armchairs
Materials
Tapestry, Giltwood
Rococo Style Giltwood and Painted Trumeau Mirror
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Tall giltwood trumeau mirror with figural uprights.
This impressive and tall trumeau mirror has a shaped scrolling cresting above a painted panel depicting a nymph holding...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Rococo Revival Trumeau Mirrors
Materials
Gesso, Giltwood
Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Gueridon
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Gueridon.
This charming occasional table is of an especially useful Size. It has a white marble top with a brass gallery pierced wit...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Gueridon
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Four-Light Candelabrum
By Pierre Gouthiere
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Large and Impressive Louis XVI Style gilt-bronze four-light candelabrum, After the Model Attributed to Pierre Gouthière.
Finely cast and gilded with a central stem issuing three...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Candelabras
Materials
Bronze
Gilt-Bronze Marquetry Inlaid Gueridon, Attributed to Emmanuel Zwiener
By Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A gilt-bronze Marquetry Inlaid Gueridon, attributed to Emmanuel Zwiener.
This large gueridon or occasional table has a beautiful quarter veneered top which is inlaid with flower s...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Gueridon
Materials
Ormolu
Rare Centre Table with a Campan Rubané Marble Top by François Linke
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An important and rare gilt-bronze, mahogany and Bois Satiné centre table, with campan rubané marble top. By François Linke.
Linke index number 1103.
The g...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Belle Époque Center Tables
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of Louis XVI Style Fleur De Pêcher Marble Vases, Mounted as Lamps
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A pair of Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted fleur de pêcher marble vases, now mounted as lamps.
The body of each vase is of ovoid shape with a fluted gilt-bronze collar and dom...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Table Lamps
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Napoleon III Gilt Bronze and Porcelain Three Piece Clock Garniture
By Raingo Frères
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Napoleon III gilt bronze and porcelain three piece clock garniture by Raingo Freres. The circular gilt and 'jewel' decorated porcelain dial of the clock with Roman numerals an...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
‘The Monkey Rider’, Paul Joseph Raymond Gayrard
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
‘The Monkey Rider’ – Paul Joseph Raymond Gayrard (1807 - 1855).
Signed to the base ‘Paul Gayrard’ and dated 1846.
A rare patinated bronze group of a monkey in the guise of a Jockey riding a racehorse, startled by a barking dog at his feet.
French, Dated 1846.
The mid-nineteenth century saw a surge of interest in animalier bronzes with whimsical and anthropomorphic subjects becoming particularly fashionable. In a similar vain to Christophe Fratin’s humanised depiction's of Bears posed as lamp lighters, dentists and reading books, Gayrard created his famous Monkey bronzes. He was awarded a First Class Medal at the 1846 Salon for his humorous group ‘The Monkey Steeplechase’, which can be related to subject of the present sculpture, ‘Monkey Rider’.
With the publication of Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species in 1859’ the popularity of anthropomorphically conceived subjects began to decline. As such these sculptures were only created during a very brief window of time and are consequently very rare.
PAul Joseph Ryamond Gayrard
Paul Joseph Raymond Gayrard (1807 – 1855) born in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
He studied at an early age under his father the sculptor and engraver Raymond Gayrard, before becoming a student of François Rude and later David d'Angers.
He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1827 and continued to submit works throughout his lifetime winning a Second Class Medal in 1834 and a First Class Medal in 1846 and 1848. His last recorded exhibit was in 1855.
He executed many busts of notables of the day which proved popular with the haute bourgeois, but it was his talent for animalier that confirmed his reputation as a sculptor of considerable talent. His known bronze animal models date from the years 1846 until 1848 with his powerful plaster of a 'Harness Horse...
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Pedestals
By Pierre Gouthiere
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Alabastro Fiorito Antico Pedestal Columns.
The pedestals are of classical form with finely figured Alabastro Foiorito columns and gilt...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
Materials
Alabaster, Bronze
Antoine Louis Barye, Bronze Model of 'Elephant De Senegal'
By Ferdinand Barbedienne, Antoine-Louis Barye
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1795-1875).
‘Éléphant du Sénégal’ (‘Senegalese Elephant’).
Patinated bronze.
Cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris, from the model by Antoine-Louis B...
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Antique 19th Century French Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Bureau Plat by François Linke
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XV Style gilt-bronze mounted bureau plat by François Linke.
The rectangular top inset with a green leather writing surface with gilt-tooled border, within a gilt-bronze su...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Bibliotheque, Attributed to François Linke
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted bibliotheque, attributed to François Linke.
This bookcase is lavishly mounted with ormolu, notably the busts of soldiers to the angles which are known as 'têtes des guerriers antiques'. The doors are quarter veneered with a diamond pattern in precious timber and enclose three adjustable shelves.
French, Circa 1890
This impressive bookcase reprises the work of the celebrated Ancien Régime...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Bookcases
Materials
Bronze
Rare and Unusual Victorian Gilt-Bronze and Marquetry Metamorphic Table
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A rare and unusual Victorian gilt-bronze and marquetry metamorphic table.
The serpentine shaped top with beautiful marquetry in precious woods depicting a flower-filled basket att...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Victorian Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Materials
Wood
Biedermeier Satin Birch and Ebonised Centre Table
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Biedermeier Satin birch and ebonised centre table.
This handsome centre table has a circular top of beautifully figured birch. It rests on s...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Center Tables
Materials
Birch
Rare Belle Epoque Gilt-Bronze Mounted Vitrine Pedestal
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A rare Belle Epoque gilt-bronze mounted vitrine pedestal
By François Linke, Paris.
Signed 'F. Linke / Paris'.
Reverse of the bronze mounts...
Category
Early 20th Century French Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
Fine Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Wall-Appliques
By Emmanuel-Alfred Beurdeley
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Pair of Louis XVI Style gilt and patinated bronze four-light wall-appliques
By Emmanuel-Alfred (dit Alfred II) Beurdeley, Paris.
Each modelled with a bare-breaded classical robed figure flanked by two pairs of scrolling branches. The figure standing on a bracket against vine-wrapped thyrsus with foliate trails below.
Stamped to the reverse ‘BY’
France, Circa 1880.
Provenance:
Collection Pierre...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Six-Light Chandelier 'Aux Termes'
By Emmanuel-Alfred Beurdeley
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze six-light chandelier 'aux Termes'
Attributed to Emmanuel-Alfred (dit Alfred II) Beurdeley, Paris.
Modelled with three caryatid term figures holding spiral branches issuing candle nozzles. The whole executed in exceptionally finely cast gilt-bronze with beautiful matte and burnished gilding. The bowl in blue-painted tole.
The prototype for this chandelier dates to the end of the eighteenth century, is attributed to the bronzier François Rémond and is in the Nissim de Camondo museum in Paris (Inv. CAM 146). Another, dated to circa 1785, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1972.242).
This example is attributed to the celebrated ébéniste and bronzier Maison Beurdeley, owing to the fine quality of the gilt-bronze and in relation to a drawing for the model which is held in the Beurdeley archives in the library of the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris.
France, Circa 1880.
Provenance:
Collection Pierre...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Pair of George III Polychrome-Decorated Satinwood Console Tables
By George Seddon
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A pair of George III Polychrome-decorated satinwood console tables.
In the manner of Seddon, Sons and Shackleton.
Each with a rectangular top with rounded front corners and paint...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English George III Console Tables
Materials
Satinwood
Pair of Charles X Gilt-Bronze Mounted Cut Crystal Glass Vases
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A pair of Charles X gilt-bronze mounted cut crystal glass vases.
Each of ovoid form with ribbed sides, mounted with foliate-scroll handles, on a square leaf-tip base with paw feet...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Charles X Vases
Materials
Bronze
Impressive Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze and Cut-Crystal and Moulded-Glass Fifte
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An impressive Louis XV style gilt-bronze and cut-crystal and moulded-glass fifteen-light chandelier.
The corona with branches and three concealed bulbs. The cage frame issuing fifteen branches supporting baluster glass...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
'Les Quatre Eléments' by Pierre Victor Galland
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
Pierre-Victor GALLAND (1822-1892)
‘Les Quatre Eléments’
Four, oil on canvas.
France, Circa 1873.
Each painting depicting one of the cardinal elements personified as a female figure in the presence of its most evident attribute. Painted with strong light and colour.
Earth panel depicts one of the four elements in a compelling fashion with an ascendent female figure robed in flowing drapery with foot and arm extended reaching skyward: each with attendant putti below.
Earth is shown swathed in robes of greens and white, with a fanciful foliate headdress of lush leaves and bullrushes.
Air leaps effortlessly into the sky draped in blush pink and holding a slender fruiting bough.
Fire ascends dramatically into the sky holding forth a flaming torch and draped in bright burnished orange and grey, her image seemingly lit from a fire kindled below by an ignipotent putto.
Water suitably draped in billowing azure blue with a translucent undergarment, holds aloft a bubble representing water is portrayed with shimmering translucent wings, an attendant winged putto pulling at her hem.
Under the Second Empire, Haussmann’s transformation of Paris went hand in hand with the construction of luxurious mansions for the new haute bourgeois. Gallards extensive work for wealthy patrons such as Lionel de Rothschild and Edouard André, led him to become one of Paris’s most admired and sought-after decorative artists. His fame quickly spread and led him to carry out projects outside the capital for, among others, Baron von Derwies in Nice, Prince Narischkine in Saint Petersburg and William Vanderbilt in the United States.
Literature
Pierre-Victor Galland, Un Tiepolo français au XIXe siècle. Published in 2006, Somogy, Piscine-musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent, Musée départemental de l'Oise (Paris, Roubaix, Beauvais). ISBN 978-2-7572-0027-8. (in French)
Materials
Oil on Canvas
Provenance
Acquired in France with four other panels (The Four Seasons), at the end of the 19th century by Herman Ossian Armour (1837-1901), businessman, and founder of the Armour Meat Company and American humanist. He brought them back to his USA residence at Fifth Avenue, New York
Bequeathed to Mary Armour...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Marquetry Cylinder Bureau
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted marquetry cylinder bureau.
Stamped to the reverse of the bronze mounts 'PB'.
The top of Sarrancolin marble above a tambour with a central mount depicting Minerva. The marquetry depicting allegories of Geography and Astronomy. The interior has a green-leather covered pull out writing slide below an arrangement of drawers and cubby-holes. The back and sides intricately inlaid with marquetry of military and Maritime trophies. The sides with pullout leather-lined slides. The kneehole with a frieze drawer and three short drawers to the sides.
France, Circa 1880.
This desk is inspired by the bureau de roi, begun by Jean-François Oeben and completed by Jean-Henri Riesener for Louis XV in 1769 (now at Versailles) featuring similar marquetry panels, as well as a bureau à cylindre, also by Riesener, formerly thought to have been made for King Stanislas of Poland, but now identified as being supplied to the comte d'Orsay (now in the Wallace Collection). The present lot is however most similar in form to a secrétaire à cylindre...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
Empire Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Marquetry Buffet Cabinet, by François Linke
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An Empire style gilt-bronze mounted marquetry buffet cabinet, by François Linke, Paris.
This handsome buffet or side cabinet has its original Swedish green marble top. The veneers are of the finest figured acajou flammé. The frieze is fitted with a long drawer with citronnier and ebonised marquetry panel depicting a Etruscan chariot...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Buffets
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Louis XVI Style Giltwood and Sèvres-Style Porcelain Mounted Salon Chairs
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Louis XVI Style Giltwood and Sèvres-Style Porcelain Mounted Salon or Bedroom Chairs
These charming chairs are delicately carved and adorned with attributes of love. The to...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Chairs
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
A Rare Belle Epoque Parquetry Inlaid Centre Table, By François Linke
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Rare Belle Epoque Gilt-Bronze Mounted Parquetry Inlaid Centre Table, By François Linke. The Mounts Designed by Léon Messagé.
Signed 'F. Linke'.
This opulent centre table has a beautifully patterned onyx top inset within a gilt-bronze moulded surround signed 'F. Linke'. The curved frieze centred to each side by a shell shaped mount. The front fitted with a central drawer. The apron mounted with swept acanthus and trailing hibiscus. The corners with female busts with ribbon-tied bodices. On cabriole legs.
France, Circa 1900.
Linke, François
François Linke (1855 - 1946) was the most important Parisian cabinet...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Center Tables
Materials
Wood
Pair of Louis XVI Style Giltwood and Tapestry Fauteuils
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Louis XVI Style giltwood and tapestry fauteuils.
The tapestry 18th century and attributed to the Beauvais Manufactory. The frames are finely carved with guilloche bandin...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Armchairs
Materials
Tapestry, Giltwood
Three 'Art Nouveau' Sculptural Centrepieces by François-Raoul Larche
By François-Raoul Larche
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
François-Raoul Larche (French, 1860 - 1912).
Three 'Art Nouveau' Gilt-Bronze Sculptural Centrepieces.
Comprising a large pair of centrepieces and a ...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Bowls
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI Style Candlesticks by Beurdeley
By Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and polished steel candlesticks
By Emmanuel-Alfred (dit Alfred II) Beurdeley.
Stamped 'BY' for Beurdeley.
Each modelled as a bacchic putto standing on a tambourine holding atop his head a basket of fruit concealing a candle nozzle. The circular spreading base of polished steel above a band of beads and stiff-leaf foot.
Provenance:
Collection Pierre...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Candlesticks
Materials
Bronze, Steel
Late Victorian Satinwood Crib. After a Design by Thomas Sheraton
By Thomas Sheraton
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A late Victorian polychrome-decorated satinwood crib. After a Design by Thomas Sheraton.
Made from precious satinwood decorated with polychrome painted fl...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Beds and Bed Frames
Materials
Satinwood
Large Pair of Neo-Grec Gilt and Patinated Bronze Amphora Vases
By Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A rare and large pair of neo-grec gilt and patinated bronze amphora vases.
Designed by Ferdinand Levillain and cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne.
Signed ‘F. Levillain’ and ‘F. Barbedienne’.
These spectacular floor-standing Neo-Grec vases...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Neoclassical Vases
Materials
Bronze
Napoleon III Gilt-Bronze Mounted Ebonised Pedestal
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Napoleon III gilt-bronze mounted Ebonised pedestal.
The circular top above a guilloche band and a cylindrical body set with floral garlands, rai...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Pedestals and Columns
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Gilt-Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Vases and Covers
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Pair of Gilt-Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Vases and Covers.
The painted reserves signed 'G. Poitevin.'.
This fine pair of pair of vase...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Vases
Materials
Ormolu
Fine Florentine Carved Giltwood Mirror
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Florentine Carved Giltwood Mirror.
This impressive carved giltwood mirror has a waisted cartouche shaped bevelled plate, within a conforming...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Rococo Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Belle Epoque Gilt and Patinated Bronze Twenty-One Light Chandelier
By Maison Millet
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An impressive Belle Epoque gilt and patinated bronze twenty-one light chandelier. Attributed to Maison Millet, Paris.
This spectacular chandelier is modelled with a sinuous gilt-bronze scrollwork frame. The corona is cast with acanthus leaves and shells issuing four pierced rocaille supports and a central baluster stem connecting intertwined branches with seated putti herm busts...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Belle Époque Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
A Napoleon III Parquetry Pedestal Desk By Guillaume Grohé
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An Important Napoleon III Gilt-Bronze Mounted Parquetry Pedestal Desk, By Guillaume Grohé. France, Circa 1860.
Stamped to the top edge of one door 'GROHE FRERES...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Wall Clock and Matching Barometer with Sèvres Plaques
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A very fine gilt-bronze wall clock and matching barometer with Sèvres Plaques.
The dial of the clock signed ‘JULIEN LEROY A PARIS’, the barometer dial signed ‘PASSEMANT AU LOUVRE’.
The eight day strike Wall Clock and its matching Barometer, both have a terminal in the form of a pineapple drop with acanthus leaf scroll detail. Above this is a Sèvres panel of a cherub in a garden, rising to a white enamelled dial with Arabic and Roman numerals flanked by cascading relief moulded fruit from a further Sèvres panel of a cherub in flight below a ribbon tied pediment.
This companion clock and barometer are fine nineteenth century examples of a pair originally supplied to Madame du Barry in 1769 by the marchand mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier. They were then described as ‘Un Baromètre & Thermomètre, de Passement, montés très richement en bronze dorés d’or moulu et ornés de trois plaques de porcelaine de france à Enfants en miniature cy 10561I.’ It is interesting to note that the original design was made to allow either of three porcelain plaques, depicting putti with astrolabes. Eighteenth century models are now in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
French, Circa 1880.
Literature:
De Bellaigue, G. The James A. de Rothschild Collection...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Wall Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Napoleon III Decanter Set Attributed to Baccarat
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Gilt-Bronze and Cut-Glass Pagoda Form Cave à Liqueur, Attributed to Baccarat.
The shaped gilt bronze case finely cast with egg and dart moulding, acanthus fronds and musical tr...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Barware
Materials
Ormolu
‘Le Grand Jockey ‘I by Sidore Jules Bonheur
By Isidore Jules Bonheur
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
Isidore Jules Bonheur (French, 1827-1901)
‘Le Grand Jockey ‘
Signed 'I Bonheur' and with foundry stamp PEYROL EDITEUR'.
Bronze, rich mid-brown pa...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Important Set of Four Large Porphyry Obelisks
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An important set of four large Porphyry Obelisks.
Each obelisk is of square section tapering form with a spiked orb finial and embellished with carved roundels of the twelve Roman Emperors in profile. The main body is raised on ball supports putdown on square sectioned plinth bases.
Each obelisk is carved with three Emperors profile...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Pedestals and Columns
Materials
Porphyry
Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Marquetry Centre Table
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and marquetry centre table.
This impressive centre table is beautifully enriched with cuivre doré mounts. The top has a lozenge pattern parquetry gro...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Center Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Chinoiserie Style Gilt-Bronze and Enamel Figural Clock
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A rare Chinoiserie style gilt-bronze and enamel figural clock.
This elegant and sophisticated clock has a finely chiselled gilt-bronze case with gold and enamel highlights. It dep...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Chinoiserie Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Napoléon III Sèvres Style Clock Garniture
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Napoléon III gilt-bronze and sèvres style cobalt blue ground 'Jewelled' Porcelain Three-Piece Clock Garniture
Comprising a mantel clock and a pair of five-light vase candel...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Art Deco Statuary Marble Figure of Cleopatra
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An Art Deco statuary marble figure of Cleopatra.
The half-lifesize standing figure posed with her right foot raised and looking to dexta, in front of a recumbent sphinx raised on a stepped entablature. On a Siena marble pedestal carved with panelled front.
Italian, Early 20th century.
Intertwining history and legend, the story of Cleopatra (68-30 B.C.) has inspired artists for centuries. The present depiction dates to a period of Egyptomania inspired by Howard Carter...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Empire Revival Two-Tier Buffet
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An impressive Empire Revival gilt-bronze Mounted Mahogany two-tier buffet.
Of superb quality this fine buffet has a rectangular shaped marble top with ...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Revival Sideboards
Materials
Ormolu
Napoleon III Algerian Onyx-Marble Centre Table, by Maison Marnyhac
By Maison Marnyhac 1
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Napoleon III gilt-bronze and onyx centre table, By Maison Marnyhac, Paris.
Signed to the edge of the stretcher 'MAISON MARNYHAC 1. RUE DE LA PAIX PARIS'.
This opulent centre table has a beautifully patterned onyx top inset within stiff-leaf cast gilt-bronze border and guilloche patterned frieze. The legs modelled as female terms with arms crossed and holding atop their heads flower filled baskets. The lower part of the legs are formed as tapering pilasterrs joined by an elaborate loop stretcher with central platform.
France, Circa 1865
This table is exemplary of the finest luxury furniture made during the opulent Second Empire period. The use of Algerian onyx-marble is especially indicative of this period as it was not until the 1840s that the quarries near Constantine in Algeria, then under French rule, which had been abandoned since antiquity, were rediscovered. Alphonse Pallu et Cie presented the stone at the Exhibition of Algerian Products in Paris in 1860 and established the Compagnie des Marbres Onyx...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
Gilt-Bronze Mounted Credence by Edouard Lievre, and Paul Sormani
By Paul Sormani, Edouard Lievre
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Gilt-Bronze Mounted Credence, Designed By Edouard Lievre, Attributed To Paul Sormani,
In the neo-Renaissance style, the spreading pediment with Vitruvian scroll-fitted frieze, c...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Renaissance Cabinets
Materials
Ormolu
A Pair of Louis XVI Style Lacquer Commodes
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Petites Commodes Incorporating Exceptional Eighteenth Century Chinese Lacquer Panels.
Stamped on the lock ‘Duvivier, Paris, 77 F St Antoine’.
Each commode has a a shaped white marble top above a frieze with two short and one long drawer. Below is a cupboard door with a gilt-bronze framed lacquer panel flanked by two open shelves with gilt-bronze galleries. The commodes are raised on square section tapering legs with gilt-bronze caps.
The commodes incorporate exceptional 18th century lacquer panels. The panels are of wonderful quality and unusual in that they incorporate amongst traditional oriental landscape and Palace scenes, figures in Western costume...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of ‘Japonisme’ Style Porcelain Vases, Mounted as Lamps
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Pair of Gilt-Bronze Mounted ‘Japonisme’ Style Porcelain Vases, Mounted as Lamps.
Each vase is of slender ovoid form with a cream craquelure glaze surmounted by a gilt-bronze lotus and flower head cast finial...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Japonisme Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Oval Bronze Reliefs After Clodion
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An unusual Carved Giltwood mirror, Possibly Scottish.
The arched cresting elaborately decorated with carved and gesso giltwood with a barons coronet ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Scottish Victorian Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
A Worcester (Barr, Flight & Barr) Twenty-Eight Piece Part Dessert Service
By Barr, Flight & Barr Worcester
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Worcester (Barr, Flight & Barr) Porcelain Floral Painted and Gilt Vermicule Ground Part Dessert Service, Painted by William Billingsley.
Impressed and printed marks.
Comprising:
Two tureens and covers, each decorated on both sides.
Two oval dishes, 28 cm. wide.
Twenty-four plates each finely painted with a different floral panel, 21 cm. diameter.
Impressed and printed marks, England, Circa 1810.
Provenance:
J. Rochelle Thomas, London.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.
Laurance S. Rockefeller.
Alberto Pinto.
Literature:
Sandon John, Ewers-Tyne Collection of Worcester Porcelain at the Cheekwood Collection, Nashville, Tennessee, 2007, Item number 77 - a plate from this unique service identified as being the work of Billingsley. Only employed at Barr, Flight & Barr for a short period, initially as a painter and subsequently perfecting their porcelain bodies, Billingsley left in 1813 to set up the Nantgarw China...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Fine William IV Cut-Glass Twelve-Light Chandelier
By Perry & Co
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine William IV cut-glass twelve-light chandelier, firmly attributed to Perry & Co.
This magnificent chandelier relates to examples in the collection at Chatsworth House which were acquired by the 6th Duke of Devonshire for his London residence Devonshire House in the 1840s, notably for the Green Drawing Room and grand Salon. It is likely the firm also supplied a glass handrail, newel post and scrolled wall lights for the fabled ‘crystal staircase’ at the Mansion.
English, Circa 1840.
Perry & Co
William Perry is first recorded in partnership with William Collins at 227 The Strand, London, then from 1803 he joined William Parker, as Parker and Perry...
Category
Antique 19th Century English William IV Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Cut Glass
Louis XVI Style Bronze Fender
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI style bronze fender cast with ignipotent putti.
French, circa 1860.
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Style Wrought Iron and Gilt Console d'Applique with a Marble Top
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XV style wrought iron and gilt console d'Applique with a rouge de Rance marble top.
French, Circa 1890.
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Console Tables
Materials
Marble, Wrought Iron
Fine Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Tureens and Cover
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine pair of Vienna Style Porcelain tureens and covers.
Each cover with finely painted figural mythological scenes of Venus, Cupid and nymphs in the style of Angelica Kaufmann...
Category
Antique 19th Century Austrian Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
George III Period Carrara Marble and Sienna Marble Chimney Piece
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A George III Period carrara marble and sienna marble chimney piece.
This delicately carved a beautifully detailed fireplace has a breakfront shelf with inverted moulded edge. The ...
Category
Antique 18th Century English George III Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Carrara Marble
