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Napoléon III Gilt Bronze and Cut-Glass Thirty-Six Light Chandelier, circa 1870
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A large and impressive Napoléon III gilt bronze and cut-glass thirty-six light chandelier.
French, circa 1870.
This fine chandelier has a gilt bronze frame issuing scrolling f...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Patinated Bronze and Sienna Marble Fireplace of Palatial Proportions, circa 1850
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A highly important patinated bronze and Sienna marble fireplace of palatial proportions with finely cast bronze panels and classical figures depicting 'Printemps' and 'Automne'.
French, circa 1850.
This magnificent Fireplace...
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Louis XV Style Twelve-Light Rock Crystal and Gilt-Bronze Chandelier, circa 1850
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An Important Louis XV style twelve-light rock crystal and gilt-bronze chandelier.
French, circa 1850.
An important Louis XV style twelve-light rock crystal and gilt-bronze chandelier, surmounted by a floral corona, issuing six scrolling branches, each terminating with three circular drip pans and nozzles, decorated all over with drops, grapes, apples and baluster shaped shades.
The etymology of the word "crystal" has its origins in the Ancient Greek word for ice ‘krystallos’. Rock crystal which is always cool to the touch they considered to be ice permanently frozen by the Gods. For thousands of years Rock crystal has been prized for its beauty and remarkable ability to refract light. When cut and polished, the inherent striations and inclusions of the crystal create a refracted light richer in luminosity than that of manmade crystal or glass. These properties have made it highly desirable throughout history; its scarcity ensuring its use was limited to all but the most luxurious of decorative items.
Rock crystal is in reality a natural quartz, pure monocrystals of siliceous oxide. A material of exceptional hardness with indices of light refraction close to that of a diamond, quartz has been mined and worked since antiquity. In the Middle Ages, this rare material was used almost exclusively on religious objects. A prohibitively expensive material, Cristal de roche was first mined in France in small quantities in the 17th century and its rarity forced artisans to innovate.
The imitation of crystal began in Venice in the 15th century - the art of the glassmaker being to recreate the limpidity and luminosity of rock crystal. To do this, the glassmakers invented a 'crystal' made in reality of glass combined with a mixture of potassium, silicon, manganese and lead oxide heated to between 1200 and 1500 degrees. This crystal imitated rock crystal, although it displays a metallic colouring. This crystal de roche should not be confused with what is now called crystal. The latter was a development of 18th century Bohemia and, subsequently France with the Manufacture Royale de cristaux.
Rock crystal first appears as small beads on candelabras and chandeliers - not yet called lustres - in the 17th century. At the beginning of the 18th century the discovery of new seams in Central Europe allowed the mining of larger blocks of crystal, which could in turn be worked into pyramids, drops and stars. The highest value was historically based, like diamonds, on two things - the weight and the clarity or limpidity of the crystal. The clearer the better, hence the phrase d'une très belle eau when referring to crystal.
Perhaps the earliest recorded-reference in France is in 1697, when Louis XIV offered twelve grand 'lustres' in 'cristal de roche' to the King of Siam. Louis XV also possessed a chandelier with twelve branches in his chambre a coucher at Versailles which had been delivered by Delaroue and Slodtz. This was commented on by the duc de Luynes: 'on a mis dans la chambre du roi, un chandelier en cristal de roche d...
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Napoleon III Gilt-Bronze Mounted Empire Style Mahogany Pedestal Desk, circa 1870
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Napoleon III gilt bronze mounted Empire style mahogany pedestal desk.
French, circa 1870.
This imposing Empire style pedestal desk is mounted with fine gilt bronze Egypt...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Rare Gilt-Bronze Mounted Marquetry Pedestal Desk by François Linke, circa 1900
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A rare gilt bronze mounted marquetry pedestal desk by François Linke.
French, circa 1900.
Linke Index Number 711.
Linke title ‘Bureau LXV à 8 pieds’.
Stamped to the insi...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Table Vitrine by François Linke, circa 1900
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Table Vitrine by François Linke.
French, circa 1900.
Linke Index Number 131.
The lockplate signed 'F.Linke', the mounts variousl...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Style Marquetry Games Table, circa 1870
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XV style Marquetry games table.
French, circa 1870.
A Louis XV style Marquetry games table, the shaped rectangular top, with gilt bound edge, inlaid with delicate folia...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Game Tables
Materials
Wood
Louis XVI Style Mahogany Low Table with a Grey Marble Top, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI Style gilt bronze mounted mahogany low table with a grey marble top.
French, circa 1890.
This table has a rectangular grey marble top above a frieze with a central ...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Style Low Table by Lysberg and Hansen of Copenhagen, circa 1910
By Lysberg, Hansen & Therp
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XV style low table by Lysberg and Hansen of Copenhagen.
Danish, circa 1910.
The Copenhagen firm of Lysberg & Hansen and later Lysberg,...
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Early 20th Century Danish Louis XV Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Louis XVI Style Cut-Glass Ten-Light Tent and Bag Chandelier, circa 1900
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and cut-glass ten-light tent and bag chandelier.
French, circa 1900.
This impressive chandelier has a gilt-bronze crown cast with anthemions...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
George IV Centre Table Attributed to Thomas & George Seddon, circa 1830
By Thomas & George Seddon
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Very Fine George IV Parcel-Gilt Amboyna Centre Table Attributed to Thomas & George Seddon.
English, Circa 1830.
The table is of finely figured Amboyna with a circular tilt-top above a triform column with parcel-gilt scrolled supports. It is raised on a conforming plinth base with foliate carved feet and concealed castors.
George Seddon was the eighth child of John Seddon of Blakelea, Lancashire. His father apprenticed him to George Clemaphon of Cripplegate to learn cabinet making. He became a master cabinet maker. (He was Master of the Joiner’s Company in 1795).
In the early 1750s he was sufficiently successful to acquire London House, Aldersgate Street. It consisted of extensive workshops, where furniture was made, and showrooms to display the finished products. London House had formerly been a palace of the Bishops of London. The panelled state-rooms were ideal for the display of fashionable furniture; and the chapel and library made convenient workshops. When Seddon married, he converted the garden house and infirmary into the family home. Seddon was the biggest furniture maker of his time. His furniture store covered a two acre site in Aldersgate Street.
His workshop there was described by London visitor Sophie v. La Roche in 1786:
"We drove first to Mr. Seddon's, a cabinet-maker,...He employs four hundred apprentices on any work connected with the making of household furniture—joiners, carvers, gilders...
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Antique Early 19th Century English George IV Center Tables
Materials
Wood
Fine Gilt-Bronze Louis XIV Style Eight-Light Chandelier, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine gilt-bronze Louis XIV style eight-light chandelier.
A fine gilt-bronze Louis XIV style eight-light chandelier with acanthus cast candle arms. Each arm is depicted with a gr...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XIV Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Unusual Green Serpentine Marble Pedestals, circa 1880
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A pair of unusual green serpentine marble pedestals, carved with entwined dolphins.
Italian, circa 1880.
This unusual pair of serpentine marble...
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Antique Late 19th Century Italian Pedestals and Columns
Materials
Marble
Pair of Louis XVI Style Mahogany Pedestals, Attributed to Sormani, circa 1870
By Sormani
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A very fine pair of Louis XVI Style gilt bronze mounted mahogany pedestals, attributed to Sormani.
French, circa 1870.
The pedestals are of tapering form with finely chiselled...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Commode after the Model by Jean-Henri Riesener, circa 1880
By Jean-Henri Riesener
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted mahogany commode, with a blue turquin marble top after the model by Jean-Henri Riesener.
French, circa 1880.
The gilt bronze mounts s...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Empire Style Parcel Gilt Overmantel Mirror by ‘Alix A Paris’, circa 1880
By Georges-François Alix
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An Empire style mahogany and Parcel gilt overmantel Mirror by ‘Alix A Paris’.
French, circa 1880.
Stamped 'ALIX A PARIS'.
The mirror has an arched bevelled plate within a moulded and ribbon-tied, berried laurel surround, it is surmounted by a military trophy cresting.
'Georges-François Alix...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Empire Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mir...
Materials
Wood
Empire Clock in the Form of a Classical Urn, by Maison Lepautre, circa 1825
By Pierre-Basile Lepaute
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A gilt bronze Empire clock in the form of a classical urn, by Maison Lepautre.
French, circa 1825.
The dial signed 'Lepaute a Paris'.
The clock has an ornate cast bezel with a 3-inch porcelain dial with Roman numerals and Breguet style hands. The twin train eight-day movement with outside count wheel striking on a bell and silk thread suspension.
This elegant Empire style clock has a gilt bronze case in the form of a classical urn with swan neck handles and a winged cherub to the neck. The circular pedestal base is raised on a footed stepped square plinth.
The Lepaute family were the premier French clockmakers of their day. Their significance lies in their contribution to the clock making industry which had hitherto come under the trade of locksmiths. The family held the brevet Horlogers du Roi.
Jean-André Lepaute (1720–1789) arrived in Paris at an early age and in 1740 founded the family business. A skilled artist and mechanic, he quickly gained an excellent reputation. He was received as maître by the clockmakers guild in 1759, was granted royal lodgings from the king in The Luxembourg Palace, and was entrusted with the construction of the majority of the great public clocks of Paris. He executed, amongst others, those in The Luxembourg Palace, the Jardin des Plantes, the Château de Bellevue and the Château des Ternes. His clock at Paris’s École Militaire still works today. Three editions of his Traité d’Horlogerie were published in Paris in 1755, 1760 and 1767. A small volume, Description de Plusieurs Ouvrages d’Horlogerie appeared in 1764. Jean-André’s wife, Nicole-Reine Etable de la Brière (1723-1788), was a highly esteemed mathematician and astronomer. Her passion for science lent itself to Lepaute’s work and she played an active role in the scientific and mathematical aspects of the clock making.
Jean-André’s younger brother Jean-Baptiste Lepaute (1727-1802) joined him in Paris in 1747 and immediately started working for the family business. He was received as maître in 1776 and was known for the clocks he constructed for the Paris Hôtel de Ville (1780), destroyed in a fire of 1871, and for the Hôtel des Invalides (1784). Jean-Baptiste took over the workshop when Jean-André retired in 1775.
After Jean-Baptiste’s death in 1802, the firm was taken over by his nephew Pierre-Basil Lepaute (1750-1843) where he was duly joined by his own nephew Jean-Joseph (1768-1846) and son Pierre-Michel (1785-1849). By 1816, Pierre-Michel Lepaute was in charge of the business. His masterpieces include the astronomical clock in Paris’s Bureau...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Enamel Plaque Depicting Napoleon Crossing the Alps, by Camille Fauré, circa 1930
By Camille Fauré
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An enamel plaque depicting Napoleon crossing the Alps, by Camille Fauré, Limoges.
French, circa 1930.
Signed 'FAURÉ, Limoges France. N...
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Early 20th Century French Napoleon III Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Pair of Louis XVI Style Mahogany Vitrines by François Linke, circa 1890
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An impressive pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted mahogany vitrines by François Linke.
French, circa 1890.
Signed to the reverse of the bronze mounts ‘LINKE’.
Each ...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Bronze
Silver Plated Roast Beef Trolley, circa 1910
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A silver plated roast beef trolley.
American, circa 1910.
The roll top lid opening to reveal a warming tray fitted with a removable carving bo...
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Early 20th Century American Platters and Serveware
Materials
Silver Plate
Louis XVI Style Pietre Dure Mounted Ebonised Writing Table, circa 1870
By Edwards & Roberts
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI Style gilt bronze and Pietre Dure mounted ebonised writing table, retailed by Edwards & Roberts.
French, circa 1870.
The drawer edge stamped 'Edwards & Roberts'.
This Fine ebonised writing table has a three-quarter galleried superstructure with cavetto moulding above three cupboards, each with a panel door inset with Fine pietre dure panels of vases issuing flowers. The lower part of the table has a pullout / pull-out writing slide with a dark blue leather writing surface, above a long drawer centred by a tablet mounted with a foliate pietre dure panel. The table is raised on tapering square section legs united by an 'X'-frame stretcher centred by a gilt bronze vase.
The beautiful Florentine pietre dure panels are inlaid in high relief with shaded agates marble, and semi-precious stones. The combination of Fine gilt bronze mounts on an ebonised ground enriched with Fine pietre dure inlay indicates the work of one of the best Parisian ébénistes of the period.
Edwards & Roberts, was one of the principal London companies working in the nineteenth century in the taste of the late Eighteenth Century. They started business in 1845 and by 1854 were trading as 'Edwards & Roberts, 21 Wardour Street, Antique and Modern Cabinet Makers and Importers of Ancient Furniture'.
Wardour Street became an important furniture retailing area in the second half of the 19th century. Contemporary documents note '... a fine and complete library...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Agate, Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI Style Three-Light Wall-Appliques after Jean Hauré, circa 1890
By Jean Hauré, Etienne Forestier
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze three-light wall-appliques after a Design by Jean Hauré for the Château de St. Cloud.
French, circa 1890.
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Putto Figure Emblematic of Architecture, after Clodion, circa 1890
By Claude Michel Clodion
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine patinated bronze Putto figure emblematic of architecture, after Claude Michel Clodion.
French, circa 1890.
Standing at 55 cm (22 inches) tal...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Palais Royal Gilt Bronze and Mother of Pearl Toilet Mirror, circa 1850
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Palais Royal gilt bronze and mother of pearl toilet mirror.
French, circa 1850.
A Palais Royal gilt bronze and mother of pearl toilet mirror, of Second Empire design with arc...
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Table Mirrors
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Carved Giltwood and Composition Marginal Mirror, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A very fine Louis XVI style carved giltwood and composition marginal mirror.
French, circa 1890.
This fine mirror has a gadrooned, beaded and e...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted and Porcelain Set Table, circa 1870
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Petite Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted and Sèvres style porcelain set table.
French, circa 1870.
This elegant table has a shaped rectangular top with gilt-bronze encadre...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Side Tables
Materials
Bronze
Fine Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain Inkwell, circa 1890
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XV Style gilt bronze and Sèvres style Porcelain inkwell.
French, circa 1890.
This elegant and sophisticated inkwell is of sarcophagus form with finely painted por...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Inkwells
Materials
Bronze
Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and Ebony Three-Light Desk Stand, circa 1820
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze and ebony three-light desk stand.
French, circa 1820.
This elegant desk stand has an ebonized rectangular base with drawer, supporting a re-...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Candelabras
Materials
Bronze
Fine Companion Pair of Russian Gilt Bronze-Mounted Armchairs, circa 1870
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine companion pair of Russian gilt bronze-mounted armchairs.
Russian, circa 1870.
The frame of each chair with exceptional gilt bronze mounts. The padded backs, seats, side...
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Antique Late 19th Century Russian Armchairs
Materials
Bronze
Large George III Style Cut-Glass Twenty-Light Chandelier, circa 1910
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A large and impressive George III style cut-glass twenty-light chandelier.
English, circa 1910.
The shaped, diapered cut, glass bowl issuing spiral rods suspending faceted dro...
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Early 20th Century English George III Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Cut Glass
Fine Regency Period Gilt-Bronze and Cut-Crystal Frame Chandelier, circa 1830
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Regency period gilt bronze and cut-crystal frame chandelier.
English, circa 1830.
This fine chandelier has a foliate corona hung with lancet-shaped drops above strings ...
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Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Monumental Giltwood Torchères after Jacques Gondoin, circa 1870
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An important pair of monumental thirty-one light giltwood torchères after the model by Jacques Gondoin for the Hall of Mirrors At the Palace of Versail...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Floor Lamps
Materials
Giltwood
Louis XVI Style Plum-Pudding Mahogany Bas d’Armoire, circa 1880
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted plum-pudding mahogany Bas d’Armoire.
French, circa 1880.
The lock stamped ‘DUBOIS FT A PARIS’.
This fine cabinet has a rectangular top...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Wardrobes and Armoires
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Champlevé Enamel and Gilt-Bronze Mantel Clock, circa 1880
By LeRoy
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An exceptional Louis XVI style champlevé enamel and gilt-bronze mantel clock with finely painted neoclassical scenes by Leroy & Fils.
French, circa 1880.
Stamped to the movement ‘LEROY & FILS A PARIS, 823’.
This fine gilt-bronze and champlevé enamel clock has an arched case with outset bulbous columns to the angles, it is surmounted by a drum top with a pierced scroll and ball finial and applied with expressive cherub mounts. The front and sides of the clock are all exceptionally finely painted with neoclassical scenes of figures in an architectural setting and the top and base enriched with fine polychrome champlevé enamel.
The clock has an enamelled chapter ring with Roman numerals interspersed with anthemion devices and a twin barrelled, eight-day movement striking on a bell.
The firm of Leroy et Fils was founded by Bazile Charles Leroy in 1789. He was a clockmaker to the Emperor Napoléon, The Duke of Orleans, The Duke of Bourbon and Princess Pauline. In 1823, he filed a patent for self-winding atmospheric clock operated by weathervane and in 1840 a patent for wind clocks. When Charles Louis died in 1865 his son Louis Leroy...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Louis XVI Style Centre Table Attributed to François Linke, circa 1890
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI style mahogany and marquetry centre table with gilt bronze mounts attributed to François Linke.
French, circa 1890.
This fine marquetry table has a frieze with...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Center Tables
Materials
Bronze
Large Pair of Magenta Ground Vienna Porcelain Exhibition Vases, circa 1900
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An important and extremely large pair of Magenta Ground Vienna Porcelain Exhibition vases.
Austrian, circa 1900.
Each vase with blue underglazed ‘Beehive’ mark to interior of neck.
Each vase is finely painted with classical scenes to the front and allegorical scenes to the back on a rich magenta ground with gilt foliate decoration. The vases are mounted by extraordinary gilt handles headed by winged female masks to the sides and grotesque masks to the shoulders. The spreading necks decorated with Greek key decoration are surmounted by domed covers and the vases are raised on baluster form supports put down on drum bases finely painted with panels stylised arabesque.
The Vienna Porcelain Manufactory was founded in 1718 only eight years after Johann Friedrich Bottger and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus had succeeded in unearthing the secret of Porcelain Manufacture for August the Strong, Elector of Saxony. On May 25, 1718, Emperor Karl VI signed a "special privilege" awarding Claudius Innocentius du Paquier the exclusive right to produce porcelain in the Austrian crown lands. Production being almost exclusively for the imperial household and the court nobility.
During the rococo era, Empress Maria Theresia placed the company under imperial ownership and it was during this period that the manufactory began to produce the famous rococo genre scenes after Watteau. Under the management of Conrad Sorgel von Sorgenthal, the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory achieved an international reputation for its neo-classical style.
After the wars with France brought the manufactory to the brink of ruin, the Vienna Congress at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century gave porcelain from Vienna a renewed upswing. Many important personalities of the time, including Czar Alexander I of Russia...
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Antique Late 19th Century Austrian Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Louis XV Style Marquetry Commode, Possibly by François Linke, circa 1900
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted marquetry commode with marble top, possibly by François Linke.
French, circa 1900.
Stamped 'Mon LEGER' to the back of the commode for the retailer Émile Léger...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Regence Style Gilt Bronze-Mounted Bureau Plat by Zwiener, circa 1890
By Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Regence style gilt bronze-mounted bureau plat by Zwiener.
French, circa 1890.
Stamped to the reverse of the bronze mounts 'JZ'.
This fine bureau plat has a shaped leathe...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Régence Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Regence Style Trellis Parquetry Bureau Plat by François Linke, circa 1890
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Magnificent Regence Style gilt bronze Mounted Trellis Parquetry Bureau Plat by François Linke.
French, circa 1890.
Linke Index No. 795.
Signed to the gilt bronze border ‘F....
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Antique Late 19th Century French Régence Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Large Louis XV Style Cut-Glass Thirty-Light Cage Chandelier, circa 1870
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A large and important Louis XV style gilt bronze and cut-crystal thirty-light cage chandelier.
French, circa 1870.
This fine chandelier is of a grand scale at 223 cm high (88 ...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Fine Louis XVI Style Carved Giltwood Mirror, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI style carved giltwood mirror, the cresting carved with a portrait roundel of a young man in profile.
This i...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Louis XV Style Bureau Plat in the Manner of Charles Cressent, circa 1890
By Charles Cressent
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted bureau plat in the manner of Charles Cressent.
French, circa 1890.
With one central frieze drawer and two shaped end drawers, on cabriole ...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Fine and Decorative Gilt-Bronze and Cut-Glass Decanter Set, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine and decorative gilt-bronze and cut-glass decanter set.
French, circa 1890.
This fine and decorative decanter set has a gilt-bronze box with glass panels and an 'up and...
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XIV Crystal Serveware
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI Style Candelabra after François Rémond, circa 1830
By François Rémond
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An important pair of Louis XVI style patinated and gilt-bronze four-light candelabra after the model by François Rémond, now in the Wallace collection, London.
French, circa 1830.
Stamped to one bronze ring ‘RG’.
Each candelabra has a central stem in the form of a torch en flambeau with three scrolling acanthus reeded branches terminating in sphinx heads and palm-leaf candleholders. The arms seemingly tied to the stem piece by knotted gilt-bronze cords ending in tassels. The candelabra are issued from patinated bronze ovoid vases with fluted stems and square section porphyry bases. Each vase is mounted with gilt-bronze female heads and foliate swags and encircled by a putti friezes. The handles of each vase are in the form of patinated bronze satyr’s masks.
This important pair of candelabra are after the model attributed to the ciseleur-doreur François Rémond dated 1782-5 now in the Wallace collection, London. [F.134-5]. Peter Hughes, in his catalogue entry for the Wallace candelabra...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Candelabras
Materials
Bronze
Regence Style Ebonised Bureau Plat by Sormani, circa 1880
By Paul Sormani
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Regence style ebonised and gilt-bronze mounted bureau plat by Sormani.
Paris, circa 1880.
The central drawer bearing a label for ‘VVE P. SORMANI & FILS 10, r. Charlot Pa...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Régence Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Ebonized Gueridon with Sèvres-Style Plaques, circa 1870
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted ebonised gueridon with Sèvres-style porcelain plaques.
French, circa 1870.
Stamped to the reverse o...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Gueridon
Materials
Bronze
Transitional Style Low Side Table, Attributed to Maison Krieger, circa 1880
By Maison Krieger
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An unusual transitional style gilt bronze mounted low side table, attributed to Maison Krieger.
French, circa 1880.
This unusual table has a shaped top centred by an inlaid f...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Commode after a Model by Jean-François Leleu, circa 1870
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Louis XVI Style gilt bronze Mounted Commode after a Model by Jean-François Leleu.
French, circa 1870.
This important commode has a moulded rectangular Brocatelle Violette du Jura marble top above a frieze drawer with a pierced foliate cast panel, above two panelled long drawers quarter-veneered sans travers. The fluted angles of the commode are headed by scrolled acanthus cast clasps and it is raised on turned tapering legs with toupie feet.
The commode is based on the celebrated 18th century model, by Jean-François Leleu (1729-1807), now conserved at the Petit Trianon at Versailles. It was placed there in 1867 following an exhibition organised at the request of Empress Eugénie in memory of Queen Marie-Antoinette. The commode was further exhibited in Paris in the retrospective part of the Exposition de l' Union centrale des arts décoratifs in 1882.
Literature:
Exposition de l' Union centrale des arts décoratifs, (Paris), 1882.
De Champeau & Others. Les arts du bois, pub. Quantin, 1883; p. 80.
P. Arizzoli-Clementel. Versailles Furniture...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of Verde Chassagne Marble Vases and Covers, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A pair of gilt and patinated bronze mounted verde chassagne marble vases and covers.
French, circa 1890.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Vases
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Louis XV Style Table Ambulante Attributed to François Linke, circa 1880
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XV style marble and gilt-bronze mounted table Ambulante attributed to François Linke.
French, circa 1880.
A Louis XV style marble and gilt-bronze mounted table Ambulant...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Side Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Important Napoléon III Gilt-Bronze and Porcelain Clock Garniture, circa 1870
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An important Napoléon III gilt bronze and turquoise porcelain clock garniture.
French, circa 1870.
This very fine clock garniture comprises of a clock and a pair of vase form candelabra.
The finely cast and chiselled gilt bronze case has a jewelled turquoise porcelain face with Roman Numerals above a plaque depicting children in a wooded landscape, flanked by expressive male and female cherub figures, cast in the round, beneath a scrolled pediment with torches en flambeau and surmounted by a turquoise vase and cover.
The pair of candelabra en-suite are in the form of turquoise porcelain vases...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
'L'innocence Tourmentée Par L'amour' A Figural Group by Luca Madrassi circa 1900
By Luca Madrassi
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
'L'innocence Tourmentée Par L'amour' - A fine patinated bronze figural group by Luca Madrassi.
French, circa 1900.
Inscribed 'L.MADRASSI.PARIS'.
With Gervais foundry cachet...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Mahogany Gilt Bronze Centre Table by Paul Sormani, circa 1890
By Jean-Henri Riesener, Paul Sormani
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI style mahogany gilt bronze centre table after The Model by Jean-Henri Riesener by Paul Sormani.
French, circa 1890.
Stamped 'Paul Sormani 10 rue Charlot à Paris'.
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Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Center Tables
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Bronze Figural Candelabra by Charles Cumberworth, circa 1850
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A pair of gilt and patinated bronze figural candelabra by Charles Cumberworth.
French, circa 1850.
Signed 'C. Cumberworth'.
This Fine pa...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Candelabras
Materials
Bronze
Multipatinated Bronze Orientalist Female Bust by Henri Honoré Plé, Dated 1883
By Henri Honoré Plé
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An important multi patinated bronze orientalist female bust by Henri Honoré Plé.
French, dated 1883.
Engraved to the back 'Henri Plé / 1883'.
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Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Busts
Materials
Bronze
Rare Louis XV Style Marquetry Inlaid Bureau de Dame François Linke, circa 1980
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A rare and unusual Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted and marquetry inlaid Bureau de Dame by François Linke.
French, circa 1890.
Signed to the gilt-bronze rim ‘Linke’.
Stampe...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Gilt Bronze-Mounted Mahogany Desk Chair by François Linke, circa 1910
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A gilt bronze-mounted mahogany desk chair by François Linke.
French, circa 1910.
Signed 'F. Linke' to one acanthus clasp.
Linke made six versions of this chair in two sizes...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Chairs
Fine Napoléon III Gilt-Bronze Mounted Porcelain Clock Garniture, circa 1870
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Napoléon III gilt-bronze mounted porcelain clock garniture.
French, circa 1870.
The movement stamped with the 'Japy Frères ' cachet.
This fine porcelain clock set is...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Patinated Bronze and Marble Jardinière after Clodion, circa 1870
By Claude Michel Clodion
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI style patinated bronze and marble jardinière, cast in relief with Bacchanalian Scenes Of Putti at Play, After Clodion.
French, circa 1870.
The body of the jardiniè...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Cut-Crystal Tent and Bag Chandelier with an Enamel Band, circa 1880
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine gilt bronze and cut-crystal tent and bag chandelier with an enamel band.
French, circa 1880.
This fine chandelier is of tent and ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
