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A Fine Napoléon III Sèvres Style Porcelain-Inset Onyx Table
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Napoléon III Gilt-Bronze Mounted and Sèvres Style Porcelain-Inset Onyx Guéridon.
The circular top inset with a large circular porcelain plaque painted with Madame de Pompado...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Gueridon
Materials
Onyx, Ormolu
A Baroque Style Sculptural Carved Wood Cradle
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Baroque Style Sculptural Carved Wood Cradle.
The oval shaped shell with scrolled finial surmounted by a putto in flight. The front underside with a climbing putto. The shell held...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Planters, Cachepots and...
Materials
Wood
A Fine Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque of a Reclining Lady
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A KPM Berlin Plaque with a Reclining Lady Reading Amidst a Rocky Wooded Landscape.
German, Circa 1880.
Dimensions of Plaque:
Height: 29 cm 11 inches
...
Category
Antique 19th Century German Neoclassical Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
A Fine Louis XV Style Giltwood and Oil on Panel Three-Panelled Screen
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Louis XV Style Giltwood and Oil on Panel Three-Panelled Screen, Painted By Juderías Caballero (Spanish, 1867-1951).
Signed 'J. Caballero. Paris'.
The giltwood frame enclosi...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Glass, Giltwood
A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Blue Enamel Cartel Clock and Barometer
By Maison Mottheau et Fils
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Blue Enamel Cartel Clock and Barometer, By Maison Mottheau & Fils., Paris.
This exceptional cartel clock and aneroid barometer exhibit the finest p...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Wall Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
A Fine Sèvres-Style Porcelain and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Ebonised Centre Table
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Sèvres-Style Porcelain and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Ebonised Centre Table
The top inset with a turquoise ground central plaque of Francis I (1494-1547) at the Battle of Pavia, sig...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Center Tables
Materials
Ormolu
'La Nature se dévoilant devant la Science' by Louis-Ernest Barrias
By Louis Ernest Barrias
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
'La Nature se dévoilant devant la Science', A Large and Rare Gilt and Silvered Bronze and Marble Figure entitled ('Nature unveiling itself before science') By Louis-Ernest Barrias (...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Belle Époque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
A Pair Of White Marble Portrait Roundels of 'Morning' and 'Evening'
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair Of White Marble Portrait Roundels Of Female Portraits Representing 'Morning' and 'Evening', By Madison Colby (American, 1842-1871).
White statuary marble.
'Morning' signed ’...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
'Le Jardin d'Armide' - A Rare Wallpaper Panel by Desfossé
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
'Le Jardin d'Armide' (‘The Garden of Armida’)
A Rare Wallpaper Panel Designed By Édouard Muller (1823 - 1876) and Manufactured By Jules Desfossé.
Woodblock hand printed and polychr...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Belle Époque Wallpaper
Materials
Canvas, Paper
A Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Marquetry Commode, By Paul Sormani
By Paul Sormani
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Marquetry Commode, By Paul Sormani, Paris.
The finely proportioned bombé-shaped commode is veneered with floral marquetry in precious timb...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
A Magnificent Rococo Style Commode After Johann Melchoir Kambli
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Magnificent Rococo Style Gilt-Bronze, Bois Satiné and Mahogany Commode.
By Rosel, Brussels, After The Celebrated Model By Johann Melchoir Kambli.
Of curvaceous bombé form surmoun...
Category
Antique 19th Century Belgian Rococo Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
A Large William IV Yew Wood Centre Table
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Large William IV 'Antiquarian' Yew Wood Centre Table.
The impressive centre table is of large proportions. The circular top is veneered in radiating segments with ebony and boxwo...
Category
Antique 19th Century English William IV Center Tables
Materials
Yew
A Pair of Empire Style Bergères in the Manner of Jacob-Desmalter
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Pair of Mahogany And Gilt-Bronze Bergères in the Manner of Jacob-Desmalter. The Bergères each having armrests headed by finely cast caryatid herms.
French, Circa 1880.
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Revival Bergere Chairs
Materials
Ormolu
A Set of Four Mahogany And Gilt-Bronze Second Empire Style Salon Chairs in the M
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Set of Four Mahogany And Gilt-Bronze Second Empire Salon Chairs in the Manner of Jacob-Desmalter.
French, Circa 1880.
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Revival Side Chairs
Materials
Ormolu
A Fine Mahogany And Gilt-Bronze Second Empire Canapé
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Mahogany And Gilt-Bronze Second Empire Canapé in the Manner of Jacob-Desmalter, having armrests headed by finely cast caryatid herms.
French, Circa 1880.
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Revival Canapes
Materials
Ormolu
A Pair of Louis Philippe Period Gilt-Bronze, Mahogany and Lapis Guéridons
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Fine and Unusual Louis Philippe Period Gilt-Bronze, Mahogany and Lapis Lazuli Guéridons or Jardinière Stands.
Each with circular Lapis Lazil top with guilloche cast frieze...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis Philippe Pedestals and Columns
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Ormolu
Pair of Large Brass and Leather Button-Upholstered Club Fenders
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Pair of Large Brass and Leather Button-Upholstered Club Fenders.
English, Circa 1900.
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Materials
Brass
A Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Four-Light Chandelier
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Four-Light Chandelier.
The chandelier has a gilt-bronze acanthus cast corona above a patinated orb, with writhen suspensions rods suspen...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Mahogany Double Bed by Fernand Kohl
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Double Bed.
Stamped 'KOHL' to reverse of bronze mount to top left hand corner of the back board for the Parisian ébéniste Ferna...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Beds and Bed Frames
Materials
Ormolu
Pair 'Neo-Grec' Torchère Stands, Attributed to Barbedienne
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Rare 'Neo-Grec' Gilt and Patinated Bronze Torchère Stands, Attributed to Ferdinand Barbedienne.
Each torchere has an inset marble top with suspended chains, raised on a fl...
Category
Antique 19th Century Candle Stands
Materials
Bronze
A Large Gilt-Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain Three-Piece Clock Garniture
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Large Gilt-Bronze and Sèvres Style Cobalt Blue Ground Porcelain Three-Piece Clock Garniture.
Comprising a mantle clock and a pair of vases and covers. The mantel clock modelled w...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Louis XVI Style Sèvres Porcelain Vase Mounted As A Lamp
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Sèvres Style Cobalt-Blue Ground Porcelain Vase, Fitted as a Lamp.
Fronted by an oval portrait depicting a Rococo Style couple at the music lesson. ...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Six-Light Chandelier ‘aux Termes
By Alfred Emmanuel Louis 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 spi...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Ormolu
Large Louis XV Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze and Marble Figural Candelabra
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A pair of Large Louis XV Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze and Marble Figural Candelabra.
Each modelled with naturalistically cast rocaille and laurel leaf candle branches above cher...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Candelabras
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
A Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze and Marble Clock Garniture
By Jollet & Cie
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze and Marble Clock Garniture, Comprising a 'Pendule à Cercles Tournants' Modelled with the Three Graces and a Pair of Cherub Four-Light Cand...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair Of Louis XVI Style Three-Light Vase Candelabra
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair Of Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze And Royal Blue Sèvres-Style Porcelain Three-Light Vase Candelabra.
Each baluster-form vase applied with a fruiting swag, flanked by twin entwin...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Table Lamps
Materials
Ormolu
A Napoléon III Gilt-Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain-Mounted Bonheur Du Jour
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Rare and Important Napoléon III Gilt-Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain-Mounted Mahogany and Lemon Wood Bonheur Du Jour, Attributed to Édouard Kreisser,
This magnificent bonheur d...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Cabinets
Materials
Ormolu
A Biedermeier Satin Birch Occasional Table
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Biedermeier Satin Birch Occasional Table.
The canted rectangular top above a frieze drawer and sides with lion mask handles, on swept legs joined by an 'X'-shaped stretcher.
Aust...
Category
Antique 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Side Tables
Materials
Birch
A Louis XVI Style Giltwood and Aubusson Tapestry Five-Piece Salon Suite
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI Style Giltwood and Aubusson Tapestry Five-Piece Salon Suite.
This suite of seat furniture comprises four fauteuils or open armchairs of generous proportions and a canapé...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Living Room Sets
Materials
Tapestry, Giltwood
Grand Figural Cartel Clock, After a Design by Gilles-Marie Oppenord
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An Important and Extremely Rare Grand Figural Cartel Clock, After a Design by Gilles-Marie Oppenord.
Of grand proportions and of exceptional quality this rare cartel clock is after...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Wall Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
A Louis XVI Style Oval Three Tier Gueridon
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Louis XVI Style Oval Three Tier Gueridon
After The Model by Simon Phillippe Poirier and Martin Carlin.
This fine and unusual gueridon has three graduating oval shelves surmo...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Serving Tables
Materials
Ormolu
A Rare and Highly Unusual Pair of Gilt-Bronze Twin-Light Wall Appliques
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Rare and Highly Unusual Pair of Gilt-Bronze Twin-Light Wall Appliques.
France, Circa 1870.
Each vigourously modelled in the Louis XV high rococo style as branches of oak leave and acorns suspended from ribbon tied drapes.
Provenance:
Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) the Bronzina Room at Halton House, Buckinghamshire
Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)
Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009)
The Trustees of Exbury House
Literature:
Rothschild Archive, London, Manuscript: 000/174/C/3, Christie, Manson & Woods Probate Valuation of 'The Estate of Alfred C. de Rothschild, Esq. C.V.O. Deceased, Halton House Tring'. 1918. Listed as 'A pair of Louis XV ormolu wall...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Rococo Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Ormolu
A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Polished Steel Pedestal Table
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and polished steel pedestal table.
The circular white marble top with bead cast surround, on athenienne tripod support with central spirally-fluted ste...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Candle Stands
Materials
Marble, Steel, Ormolu
A Louis XVI Style Corner Settee
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany and Aubusson Tapestry Upholstered Corner Settee.
French, Circa 1880.
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Settees
Materials
Ormolu
Patinated Bronze Allegorical Busts of Autumn and Summer By Pierre-Louis Détrier
By Pierre-Louis Detrier 1
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Pair of Patinated Bronze Allegorical Busts of Autumn and Summer By Pierre-Louis Détrier.
Finely modelled and cast, the busts depict young maidens allegorical of Summer and Au...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Busts
Materials
Granite, Bronze, Ormolu
Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Display Cabinet
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Display Cabinet With Wedgwood Porcelain Plaques.
The upper section has a s...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
Louis XVI Style Parquetry, Gilt-Bronze and Lacquer Mounted Petit Secretaire Cabi
By Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Louis XVI Style Parquetry, Gilt-Bronze and Lacquer Mounted Petit Secretaire Cabinet, Attributed to Maison Beurdeley.
Stamped to the reverse of the bronze mounts to the botto...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Secretaires
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
A Pair of Louis XV Style Giltwood Console d'Applique
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Louis XV Style Giltwood Console d'Appliques.
Each console has a serpentine-shaped fleur de pêcher marble top over ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Console Tables
Materials
Marble
A Renaissance Style Faïence Coupe in The manner of Gien
By Gien
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Renaissance Style Faïence Coupe in The manner of Gien.
This impressive faïence coupe is of inverted bell shape with Renaissance style decoration of strapwork, mythical beasts, trophies and armorial...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Renaissance Centerpieces
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Transitional Style Parquetry Commodes, by Paul Sormani
By Paul Sormani
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Pair of Transitional Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Parquetry Commodes, by Paul Sormani, After the Model by Charles Topino.
Stamped beneath the marble top to one commode ‘SORMANI’...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
A Mahogany Grande Commode en Tombeau, after the Model by Cressent
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Mahogany grande commode en tombeau after the model by Charles Cressent, Possibly by Julius Zwiener.
This impressive commode has a serpentine green marble top, the bombe front form...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Large Multi-Patinated Bronze Figure of an Arab Warrior by Henri-Honoré Plé
By Henri Honoré Plé
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Large and Important Multi-Patinated Bronze Figure of an Arab Warrior by Henri Honoré Plé.
Signed Henri Plé to the base.
The figure is finely modelled as an Arab warrior, with sw...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Empire Style Mahogany & Gilt-Bronze Bergères, Manner of Jacob-Desmalter
By François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Pair of Mahogany And Gilt-Bronze Bergères in the Manner of Jacob-Desmalter. The Bergères each having armrests headed by finely cast caryatid herms.
French, Circa 1880.
François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter (1770-1841) was Napoléon’s pre-eminent court cabinetmaker. He built up the business of his father, the well-known chairmaker Georges Jacob, into one of the most important and successful furniture workshops in Paris which by 1808 employed 332 workmen producing annually furniture valued at 700,000 francs.
Jacob-Desmalter et Cie produced neoclassical Empire style furniture often working to Percier and Fontaine's designs, such as for Napoléon’s throne...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Bergere Chairs
Materials
Ormolu
Gilt-Bronze Mounted Marquetry Inlaid Bookcase
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Very Large and Impressive Gilt-Bronze Mounted and Marquetry Inlaid Bookcase.
Signed to the lock on the central door ‘Les Fils Chambon’.
This very fine marquetry bookcase has a...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Bookcases
Materials
Ormolu
Rococo Style Gilt-Bronze Hall Lantern
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Large Rococo Style Gilt-Bronze Hall Lantern.
Grand in scale, this palatial lantern is finely cast in gilt-bronze. It is sumptuously modelled with asymmetrical C-scrolls, swept aca...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Rococo Lanterns
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Rouge Griotte Vases
By Pierre Gouthiere
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Large Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Rouge Griotte Vases and Covers.
Designed in the Neoclassical Style with intwined serpent handles above ram’s masks joined by aca...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Vases
Materials
Griotte Marble, Ormolu
Art Nouveau Ash and Marquetry Easel
By Louis Majorelle
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An Art Nouveau Ash and Marquetry Easel.
The shaped cresting with marquetry panel of coloured woods depicting a Lilly flower, above a splayed latticework stand with an adjustable rack and support decorated with marquetry flowers.
This elegant gallery easel is designed in the Art Nouveau Style of the École de Nancy and Louis Majorelle.
France, Circa 1900.
Provenance:
With Harrods Antique Furniture...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Art Nouveau Easels
Materials
Ash
Pair of Bronze Figures by Etienne-Henri Dumaige
By Etienne-Henri Dumaige
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Pair of Bronze Figures Entitled 'Avant le Combat' and 'Apres le Combat', Cast from the models by Etienne-Henri Dumaige (1830 - 1888).
Signed H. Dumaige, with title plaquet...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque Of A Young Woman, In a Giltwood Frame
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Very Fine Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque Of A Young Woman, In a Giltwood Frame.
The plaque has an impressed KPM sceptre mark to the reverse with impressed number 315_255 and a letter H. A paper label for the studio of 'Franz Xavier Thallmaier, Mucnich'.
This fine KPM plaque is superbly painted with a portrait bust of a young woman holding a music scroll and a laurel branch, possibly representing St. Cecilia. The plaque is set in a giltwood frame.
Franz Xaver Thallmaier (1890-1910) established in Munich in 1890 one of the most prominent and successful porcelain painting studios in Germany. He employed a number of talented porcelain painters specialising in portraits and genre scenes after artists such as Joseph Stieler, Wilhelm Kray...
Category
Antique 19th Century German Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
Louis XVI Style Commode, After The Model By Joseph and Guillaume Benneman
By Benneman and Stockel
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Commode, After The Model By Joseph Stöckel and Guillaume Benneman.
Decorated overall with berried s...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Louis XVI Style Beechwood and Aubusson Tapestry Five-Piece Salon Suite
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XVI Style Beechwood and Aubusson Tapestry Five-piece Salon Suite.
Comprising a canapé and four fauteuils, the beechwood frames crisply carved with beading, stylised petals a...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Living Room Sets
Materials
Tapestry, Beech
Pair of Empire Style Carved Giltwood Tub Chairs with Green Velvet Upholstery.
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An Important Pair of Empire Style Carved Giltwood Tub Chairs with Green Velvet Upholstery. The Lion Monopedia side supports feature finely carved detail and a realistic pose.
These...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Armchairs
Materials
Velvet, Giltwood
Pair of Bonheur Du Jours With Lacquer Panels, by Henry Dasson
By Henry Dasson
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Very Rare Pair of Louis XVI Style Exhibition Gilt-Bronze Mounted Bonheur Du Jours With Lacquer Panels, by Henry Dasson.
One cabinet signed 'Henry Dasson / 1880' to the gilt-bron...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
A Pair of Sèvres Porcelain Presentation Vases, Designed by Albert-Ernest Carrier
By Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Sèvres Porcelain Presentation Vases, Designed by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse. France, Dated 1874.
Marked to the base of each vase ‘Doré A Sèvr...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Belle Époque Vases
Materials
Porcelain
A Marquetry and Gilt-Bronze Commode by Emmanuel Zwiener
By Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Very Fine Marble Top Marquetry and Gilt-Bronze Commode by Emmanuel Zwiener.
The keyhole escutcheon stamped with the ‘ZN’ mark from the bronze master model. The back of the bronze...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
A Pair of Néo-Grec Parcel-Gilt Patinated Bronze Vases Mounted as Lamps
By Henry Cahieux and Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Néo-Grec Parcel-Gilt Patinated Bronze Vases Mounted as Lamps, Cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne, from the Model by Henry Cahieux.
Each vase is finely cast with herm-headed handles flanking a slender elongated neck above a tapering body relief-cast with classical figures and anthemion, raised on a square Belgian black marble bases.
Cast signatures 'F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR.' and 'HENRY CAHIEUX'.
This model of vase was exhibited by Barbedienne at the 1855 Paris 'Exposition Universelle' to great acclaim. They were illustrated in the Exhibition Catalogue alongside a classical revival tripod. The pair of vases together with another were described as follows: The two vases (...) selected from many exquisite and beautiful decorative works in bronze from the atelier of Messrs. Barbedienne & Cie, of Paris; they are formed, and ornamented, on the best models of the ancient Greek.
The tall slender shape of the vases with their elongated necks and a flaring mouth, in the form of anamphora with two handles, is derived from ancient Greek Loutrophoroi, which were ceremonial vases...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Neoclassical Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
A Louis XV Style Giltwood Vitrine With Vernis Martin Panels
By Maison Krieger
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
The lock stamped to the reverse 'DUVIVIER PARIS 77 FG-ST ANTOINE'.
This rare vitrine is surmounted by a large and finely carved putto figure holding a torc...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Vitrines
Materials
Giltwood
Pair of Patinated Bronze Egyptian Figures by Emile Louis Picault
By Émile Louis Picault
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Patinated Bronze Figures Of The Egyptian High Priest 'Pastophore' and The Egyptian Scribe 'Hierogrammate' By Emile Louis Picault (French, 1833-1915).
Each signed 'Picau...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Egyptian Revival Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Style Inkwell, Designed by Léon Messagé and Cast By Barbedienne
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Rare Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Inkwell. Designed by Léon Messagé and Cast By The Ferdinand Barbedienne Foundry, Paris.
Designed in the exuberant Rococo style surmounted by a sea...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Rococo Inkwells
Materials
Ormolu
A Fine Louis XVI Style Centre Display Cabinet by Paul Sormani
By Paul Sormani
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Centre Display Cabinet or ‘Vitrine de Milieu’, By Paul Sormani, Paris.
The oval vitrine cabinet...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Vitrines
Materials
Ormolu
