Adrian Alan

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...

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...

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...

An unusual Carved Giltwood mirror, Possibly Scottish. The arched cresting elaborately decorated with carved and gesso giltwood with a barons coronet ...

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...

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...

A Louis XVI style bronze fender cast with ignipotent putti. French, circa 1860.

A fine Louis XV style wrought iron and gilt console d'Applique with a rouge de Rance marble top. French, Circa 1890.

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...

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 ...

An Impressive Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted secrétaire à Abattant, In The Manner Of André Charles Boulle. This drop-front writing cabinet or secrétaire à abattant is finishe...

A fine neoclassical Revival gilt and patinated bronze Tazza. The circular dish centred by a gilt-bronze roundel of the Greek God Zeus enthroned, flanked by chimerical handles and ...

An Impressive Pair of Napoléon III Gilt-Bronze Figural Torcheres by Goelzer and Poumaroux, Paris. Signed to the plinths ‘A. GOELZER & POUMAROUX, PARIS’. These impressive chas...

A fine pair of Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted mahogany console tables, in the manner of Adam Weisweiler. Each table has a rectangular with fleur de pecher marble top above th...

A Pair of Gilt and Patinated Bronze Figural Five-Light Candelabra Cast by Barbedienne after the Models by Alexandre Falguière and Paul Dubois. Signed ‘FALGUIERE’ and ‘P. DUBOIS’ ...

A fine Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted marquetry inlaid dressing table by Maison Giroux. The underside of the drawer with a stencil mark and paper label for 'Alphonse Giroux &...

A very fine Empire style gilt-bronze mounted mahogany table de Milieu, with a Verde Antico Marble Top, in the Manner of Jacob Desmalter. The rectangular marble top above a frieze...

A pair of petite Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted fluorspar cassolettes. Each cassolette having an ovoid form fluorspar body surmounted by a gilt-bronze stiff-leaf cast neck, ...

A Pair of Sèvres Style Oval Porcelain Dishes Mounted as Appliques. The reverse with spurious Chateau des Tuileries marks and S.37 stamp in blue Sèvres 1844'. Each oval porcel...

A Pair of Louis XV Style Rococo Revival Ormolu Three-Light Candelabra. Finely cast in the Rococo Revival style this fine pair of English candelabra...

An Impressive Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Glass Tent and Bag Eight-Light Chandelier. This fine chandelier has a gilt-bronze acanthus cast corona hung with octagonal flatbacks...

A Pair of Napoleon III Ormolu-Mounted Marquetry side cabinets. Each cabinet having an eared rectangular marble top above a frieze and doors finely inlaid with elaborate foliate ma...

A pair of Empire Period gilt-bronze mounted side chairs. French, Circa 1820.

A large and impressive pair of Empire style gilt-bronze and burr, Amboyna Mirrors, By Maison Krieger. Each mirror is over 328 cm high (129 inches) and ...

A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain Mantel Clock, by Raingo Frères, Paris. The porcelain panels signed by Léonard Abel Schilt. The movement stamped 'Raingo F...

A Pair of Napoleon III Neo-Etruscan Style Gilt-Bronze three-light candelabra by Henri Picard. Stamped to the underside of one foot 'H. PICARD'. Each candelabrum having a finely cast amphora-shaped body with angular supports,oval portrait masks of a maiden, and a baluster stem issuing three candle arms with circular drip trays and sconces embellished with suspended chains, surmounted by playful amorini and raised on tripod bases terminating in hoof feet. French, Circa 1870. Henri Picard The important fondeur and doreur Henri Picard worked in Paris from 1831 to 1884, most notably for the Emperor Napoléon III. He was based in Paris at 6 rue Jarente from 1831 to 1839, before moving to 10 rue de la Perle...

A Fine Louis XVI Style gilt-bronze Gueridon in the manner of Adam Weisweiler. This fine gueridon has a rouge granite circular top above a laurel and ro...

A pair of French gilt-bronze mounted and ebonised meubles d'appui, by Mathieu Béfort dit Béfort Jeune. Each has a vert maurin marble top above a cup...

A pair of gilt and patinated bronze Ewers in the Manner of Clodion, by Maison Giroux. Signed ‘Alph. Giroux Paris’. Each ewer having a tapering ovoid body finely cast with a pa...

A Napoleon III Gilt-Bronze and Hardstone Inset Ebonised Pier cabinet. The bronze mounts stamped to the reverse 'PA'. This impressive side cabinet has fine gilt-bronze mounts set against an ebonised case, further enriched with hardstone panels...

A rare pair of Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted parquetry gueridons. Each table has a pierced gilt-bronze vitruvian scroll gallery with an inset grey marble top above a parquet...

A fine Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and sèvres style porcelain mounted jewellery box. Of rectangular for this charming jewellery box has a hinged lockable lid above silvered column...

A fine Louis XV style gilt-bronze Mounted Marquetry inlaid commode by Gervais Maximilien Eugène Durand. Stamped to the carcass beneath the marble top 'G. DURAND'. This fine co...

A pair of giltwood and Gesso pedestals, in the manner of Robert Adam. Each pedestal having a circular top with a waisted fluted socle, on ram's-mask headed acanthus-carved fluted monopodia, raised on a tiform-plinth with lion's paw feet. This neoclassical design is modelled after the antique Greek tripod...

A large and impressive Baroque style carved giltwood mirror, the rectangular mirror plate beneath a crest composed of a crown and a moon crescented cartouche flanked by stylised beas...

'Cupid & Psyche' - An important parcel-gilt and patinated bronze figure, by François-Raoul Larche. Signed to the base 'Raoul Larche 1891'. This finely cast parcel-gilt bronze figure depicts Cupid and Psyche with Zephyr. François-Raoul Larche (1860-1912), the son of an ornamental sculptor, was a well-known Art Nouveau sculptor...

A fine Swedish Empire style gilt-bronze and cut-crystal tent and basket chandelier. Swedish, Circa 1825.  

A fine pair of Napoléon III gilt and patinated bronze Louis XVI style three-Branch Wall Appliqués, After a Design by Pierre Gouthière. French, Circa 1880.

A large and finely cast neo-grec gilt and patinated bronze jardinière by Ferdinand Barbedienne. Signed 'F. BARBEDIENNE'. This rare Jardinière or ...

A fine Swedish Empire style gilt-bronze and cut-crystal tent and basket chandelier. Swedish, Circa 1825.

A fine Berlin (K.P.M.) porcelain plaque of A Vestal Virgin, after Angelica Kauffman, in a giltwood frame. Impressed sceptre mark, 'KPM', letter 'H', ...

A fine Napoleon III ormolu eight-light chandelier, after the Model by André-Charles Boulle. This well-cast Louis XIV style chandelier is after an important model attributed to And...

'Clementine', A Large Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque After Conrad Kiesel. In a fine pierced giltwood and composition frame. Inscribed 'nach C. Kiesel'...

'Esther' A Fine Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque, After Hering Levanon. In a carved giltwood and composition frame. Signed 'Wagner', impressed sceptre mark, KPM, letter C, numeral 3...

A large and important Louis XVI style carved giltwood clock and barometer set. Each with circular enamel dials, the clock with Roman and Arabic numerals and pierced scrolled hands. The companion barometer with indications for the weather and inscribed 'BAROMÈTRE / SELON TORRICELLI...

A large carved florentine giltwood mirror in the Baroque Revival Style. This impressive mirror has a rectangular bevelled glass plate set within a scrolling acanthus carved frame...

'Erblüth' a large and very fine Berlin (KPM) Porcelain plaque, after Angelo Asti. In a giltwood and composition shadow box frame. Signed 'Weigel', impr...

A large pair of acanthus carved giltwood stands. Each stand has a circular dished top above an acanthus carved base with trailing bell husks a...

A pair of ‘Japonaise’ style silver plated and engraved glass decanters, in the Manner of Christofle. This charming pair of glass decanters are decorated in the 'Japonisme' style p...

A pair of petite Louis XVI Style gilt and patinated bronze chenets. Each modelled as a seated winged putto with outstretched arms raised on a pierced acanthus cast gilt-bronze st...

A fine pair of carved giltwood and gesso mirrors with eagle crestings. Each mirror has a pierced oak leaf and eagle cresting above an arched mirro...

A fine Louis XIV style carved giltwood marginal frame mirror. This finely carved giltwood and gesso mirror has an oval mirror plate within a beaded surround, framed by finely etched marginal mirror plates, within a re-entrant rectangular frame with acanthus and foliate carving. The mirror is surmounted by a pierced acanthus and 'C'- scroll cartouche flanked by recumbent sphinx...

A fine set of four Louis XIV style gilt-bronze wall appliques. Each applique having a backplate cast with palmettes and fronded acanthus and i...

A pair of patinated bronze vases cast after the antique. Each vase is of krater form with elaborate scrolling volute handles with swan heads a...

An unusual gilt-bronze and spiral moulded glass lantern, attributed to François Linke. This striking lantern has a scrolling acanthus cast crown above a central stem and a pierced frame and collar supporting a spirally fluted moulded glass baluster form shade and terminating in an acanthus cast finial. The interior fitted with two lights. French, Circa 1900. François Linke (1855 - 1946) was the most important Parisian cabinet...

A fine Vernis Martin gilt-bronze mounted side cabinet with a marble top, by Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener. Stamped to the carcass beneath the marble top 'E. ZWIENER'. This model of ...

A fine Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and moulded-glass twenty-light chandelier by La Compagnie des Cristalleries de Baccarat. Stamped to the central stem 'Baccarat'. Moulded 'Bacc...

A large and exceptional Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and white marble figural mantel clock, by Grohé Frères, Paris. The dial signed ‘Grohé, A Paris'. ...

A fine pair of neoclassical style gilt and patinated bronze nine-light candelabra by Ferdinand Barbedienne, French, Circa 1870.

A fine Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and cut-glass eight-light chandelier, French, Circa 1900.