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Watercolor Portrait of a Fashionable Woman Wearing a Turban by Henry Edridge, A.R.A. (London 1769–1821) signed and dated 'H. Edridge / 1818' (lower left) pencil and watercolor heightened with white, on paper Executed in 1818, this highly finished drawing stands as a prime example of Henry Edridge's late, celebrated portrait style. It perfectly captures the sartorial elegance of the late British Regency period. By the turn of the nineteenth century, Edridge had established a highly lucrative London practice. He was patronized heavily by the royal family and prominent members of high society. His distinctive technique combined meticulously detailed graphite work in the face with broad, fluid watercolor washes to delineate drapery and background textures. A wealthy, unidentified gentlewoman is seated upon a classical, heavily carved Regency chaise...

Watercolor Portrait by John Downman (British, 1750-1824) Portrait of Miss Bulteel of Devon Depicted in profile with a pink headdress Watercolor and chalk on paper, signed John Downma...

Drawing by JOHN DOWNMAN, A.R.A. (1750–1824) Portrait of a Young British Gentleman said to be William Henry Prise of Bedale, half-length, in a blue coat, white waistcoat and cravat, i...

LOUIS XVI PAINTED BERGÈRE, Attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené, Last Quarter of the 18th Century The rectangular upholstered back à la reine within an exquisitely molded, guilloc...

AN IMPORTANT LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT COMMODE ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, LATE 18TH CENTURY, CIRCA 1780 The original molded and contoured grey marble top...

Pair of Louis XVI Ormolu Cassolettes Candlesticks, late 18th Century, the reversible dome shaped lids with berried finials on one side and candle nozzles on the other, the ovoid bodi...

Louis XVI Ormolu Mantel Clock raised on an associated malachite base, of monumental scale, masterpiece of French Neoclassical decorative art from the late 18th Century, the dial and ...

This pair of signed Gyokusan Japanese Satsuma vases showcases a striking black and gold aesthetic, crafted from earthenware pottery. Each vase features hand-painted gold gilt decoration and is adorned with an elegant bamboo motif. The gold paint is applied with fine detail to create texture and depth in the bamboo stalks and leaves. Gyokuzan refers to a prominent master artist associated with high-quality Meiji-period Satsuma ware. Gyokuzan was a pivotal figure in Satsuma pottery, known for sophisticated designs during the Meiji period (1868–1912). While traditional Satsuma often uses an ivory crackled glaze, "black and gold" variants are highly prized for their dramatic contrast. The signature on each Satsuma vase may be that of Shibayama, followed by the character for "painted by". It is a recognized artist signature found on high-quality Satsuma ware from the Meiji period (1868–1912). The use of gold lacquer-like gilding on a deep black background is a hallmark of "Black Satsuma...

Directoire Brass-Mounted Mahogany Commode, Late 18th Century, the rectangular grey-veined white marble galleried top, above three short drawers and where two further long drawers use...

Drawing by the renowned artist Charles Fichot (1817-1903) titled 'Le Palais de Saint Cloud Apres l’Incendie' and dated March 8, 1871. Pencil on paper Signed lower right and dated 187...

A period Louis XVI Ormolu Cartel Clock, also known alternatively as 'Cartel d'Alcove' or 'œil de bœuf Cartel d’Alcove' or bull's eye, the circular dial headed by a cockerel, within a...

A young Bacchus cast in bronze, the Roman god of wine, half kneels half sits on a rock while holding grapes in one hand raised above his head and a cup in the other, his head tilted ...

Watercolor by Alexis Nicolas Perignon (1726-1782) "Roman View" The work of art depicts a ruined aqueduct next to a farmhouse with washerwomen. pen and grey ink, watercolor, bodycolo...

Pair of silver-plated four-light candelabra, likely French or Russian Empire style from the 19th Century, exhibiting characteristics associated with the Neoclassical period. The top ...

An Empire patinated marbelized and gilded columnar tole lamp, the column-shaped stem ending in a gilded Corinthian capital topped by a tole shade raised on a square plinth base. The ...

An Italian Bronze Figure of the Dancing Faun After the Antique depicted standing ‘in contrapposto’ and raised on a Louis XVI style ormolu mounted porphyry and red marble base. The D...

19th Century Franklin Paper, Brass and Cast Iron Terrestrial Globe Published by Merriam Moore & Co., Troy, New York, circa 1850s Our table globe rests on a tripod rococo style ...

Drawing, wash and ink on paper. River Landscape with a couple and a dog in the foreground and windmills and farmers in the background, in the manner of Nicolaes Wicart. Set in a 19th...

Each child seated on an oval tasseled and draped plinth in the shape of a stool, one reading a book, the other thinking, symbolizing knowledge and philosophy.

Japanese 17th century school "Tale of Genji Scene" painting on paper, mounted to board. Nicely framed and boxed. Professor Melissa McCormick at Harvard b...

Each porcelain pot delicately decorated with flowers and raised on an exquisitely chased tripod base headed by lion heads. These Chantilly porcelain pots were embellished in Paris wi...

A Louis XVI Ormolu Figural Cartel Clock, the circular white enamel dial signed "Baudoin A Paris" within a cartouche-shaped case surmounted by an urn and ...

The Louis XVI Giltwood Mirror in the ‘goût grec’ taste, of rectangular shape surmounted by an urn in a circle and hung with a ribbon-tied pendant foliate swag partially wrapping each...

Rare Late Louis XV Giltwood Mirror 'A La Grecque' The divided rectangular plate surmounted by a trophy cresting shaped as an urn flanked by flowering vases on each side and hung with...

Pair of Roman Rococo Giltwood Mirrors (Girandoles), each shaped plate within a cartouche-shaped frame surmounted by a pierced fan-shaped cresting carved with bunches of grapes, flowe...

A Directoire Mahogany Bergère Attributed to Georges Jacob, its curved back and padded armrests with finely carved baluster-shaped supports raised on turned front legs and sabre back legs. With a spurious Jacob stamp to back rail. The term "Directoire" refers to a historical period following the French Revolution (1789) and preceding the First Empire when Napoleon reigned, but also to a style of furniture and decoration covering a longer period from 1789 to 1804. It is characterized by the production of furniture with simplified forms and ornaments, inspired by antique decorations. The profound social and political upheavals that marked this period had a direct impact on the production of Directoire furniture. The stripping down of furniture pieces, which had begun in the 1780s under the influence of Greek art, was accentuated during this period. The abolition of guilds by the revolutionaries also forced manufacturers in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine to simplify shapes and materials. Elegant and graceful, the furniture is generally small-scale. They retain the Louis XVI structure. The Directoire style adopts clean shapes, straight lines, simple curves, flat surfaces and right angles. Lines accentuate geometric shapes inspired by Antiquity. A typical trait is the pronounced rolled-over back, similar to a scroll illustrated in our bergere, evocative of the klismos chair. Only the more luxurious pieces of furniture use mahogany, an exotic and expensive wood. Despite his humble origins, Georges Jacob rose to become one of the most renowned menuisiers of his day. Unlike many artisans who joined their fathers or brothers in the middle-class family trade of furniture making, Jacob was from a peasant family and moved to Paris at sixteen to begin his career. He apprenticed in a joinery workshop and eventually became a master in 1765. He developed a reputation for producing inventive designs for chairs, beds, and screens carved with such motifs as twisted ribbons, guilloches, beading, and fluting. Jacob's reputation grew quickly, eventually spreading outside France; the future King George IV of England, Gustavus III of Sweden, and several German princes...

Late 17th Century Large Dutch Delft Faience Blue and White Chinoiserie Baluster Vase Mounted as a Lamp and newly electrified. Of octagonal shape, decorated with oriental figures in a landscape. The dimensions indicated herein include the lampshade. The vase only with its base and cover is approximately 12in. high by 8in. diameter. The arrival in Western Europe of the first shiploads of Chinese porcelain, lacquerware, ivory and silk in the 17th century stimulated interest in China, or Cathay, as it was then called. Europeans soon began copying the Chinese artworks and decorative objects. These decorative arts inspired by China, which enjoyed their heyday in the late 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, are known as chinoiserie. Soon after the introduction of expensive Chinese...

Late 17th Century Dutch Delft Faience Blue and White Chinoiserie Baluster Vase Mounted as a Lamp and newly electrified. Decorated in imitation of a Chinese Ming vase with a sage, rocks and vegetation, mounted on a wood base. The dimensions noted include the lampshade and electrical fittings. The vase as mounted in wood is approximately 10in. high and 6in. diameter. The arrival in Western Europe of the first shiploads of Chinese porcelain, lacquerware, ivory and silk in the 17th century stimulated interest in China, or Cathay, as it was then called. Europeans soon began copying the Chinese artworks and decorative objects. These decorative arts inspired by China, which enjoyed their heyday in the late 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, are known as chinoiserie. Soon after the introduction of expensive Chinese...

Each ebony tondo carved with Roman military scenes in low relief, set in gilt Florentine style frames. Formerly part of the front doors of a cabinet. With an old label at the back of the frame, Ernest Samson, Paris. 13 1/4in. diameter sight (the dimensions otherwise indicated include the frame). These beautifully carved panels would have been part of the doors of a cabinet made to impress in a grand room in an aristocratic or royal setting. They reflect the changing taste in the first half of the 17th century for large sumptuous pieces for grand galleries and grand state apartments in royal and courtly interiors. It was not until the 17th century that France began to import exotic timbers from the Far East and South America and ebony was one of the first of these woods to be employed in cabinet-making. However, due to its rarity and cost it was almost exclusively used for veneering. French cabinetmakers who worked with ebony became known as menuisiers en ébène and later ébénistes. The carved and engraved ornament and ripple mouldings reflect the light on the glossy ebony surface. The subject-matter of these bas-relief carvings was inspired by prints with religious, mythological or literary subjects and naturalistic engraved motifs. According to Alcouffe 'These cabinets represent the synthesis of foreign (especially German) influences and traditions expressed in French Renaissance furniture...

Drawing of a revolutionary battlefield attributed to Hippolyte Bellange, representing the End of the Siege of Lille by the Duke Albert of Saxe on the 8th of October 1792 (the French storm out of the city) according to manuscript legend. Ink and wash on paper. Joseph-Louis-Hippolyte Bellange (1800-1866) studied with Gros. He first made his name at the Paris Salon as a battle painter. He was known for his exquisitely detailed paintings of military revolutionary and Napoleonic scenes. He celebrated French glory. He enjoyed considerable popular and official success. He was Keeper of the Rouen Museum from 1835 to 1852. His work can be found in major art institutions. Our drawing can be compared to a watercolor in the British Royal Collection Trust...

Neoclassical capriccio view of majestic Roman ruins with small figures engaged in daily activities in the background. Pencil, ink and wash on paper. Set in a Louis XVI style giltwood...

Pair of landscape drawings, one showing a country outing with mountains and ruins in the background, the other showing characters in an imaginary setting of ruins. Ink and wash on pa...

The waisted sides surmounted by a brass urn finial, above a rectangular base raised on bracket feet, decorated with braided border and depictions of floral swags, garland, and hunt t...

European red Squirrels Inscribed indistinctly and dated 40 (lr) Black and red chalk on paper.

Inside of Church situated as St John’s Chester, Chancel (lower right). At lower left, "Painted by Aylesfod". Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford, was a known watercolorist specializ...

St Clair, Isles of Wight (as situated at back of drawing). James Bourne was a known landscape artist specialized in watercolors who exposed his works at the Royal Academy in the earl...

Boat Scene, Sorrento, pencil. Provenance (label at back of Drawing), William Drummond St. James's, London.

Western Wild Birds, each monogrammed ES lower left. Watercolor on Paper.  

Drawings, one representing San Geremia on the Grand Canal, the other La Salute on the Grand Canal. Both drawings are in a style evocative of Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) specialist o...

A Pair of Neoclassical Landscape Drawings, A Hillside Pass with Travelers, and a Pastoral Landscape with Figures by Classical Ruins, French School, Late 18th Century One signed 'Wau...

One drawing depicting a girl, the other one a young boy. Ink and watercolor over black chalk on paper. Sir Thomas Lawrence was the leading British portrait painter of the early 19t...

The shaped top on a C-scroll and acanthus support inset with a porcelain plaque with a Chinoiserie decor. From the collection of celebrated interior designer Mario Buatta whose taste for Chinoiserie is well documented. Blue chip socialites, business tycoons such as the Newhouses and the Forbes, as well as pop stars (Mariah Carey...

Of rectangular shape, decorated with gothic cathedral arcades, with two wells and two pen holders, raised on a Siena marble base raised on scrolled feet. Between the twelfth and six...

Of rectangular shape, cast with gothic style arcading, the removable top depicting a fallen knight adjacent to a broken column and opening to two wells. In the early 19th century, ...

Stamped Stumpff and Ohneberg. The shaped, eared breccia marble top above two drawers with satinwood geometrical frieze and three panels inlaid sans traverse with musical trophies, above a shaped apron with a lion-mask mount, flanked by canted corners, the sides inlaid with a vase, on cabriole legs and scroll feet, stamped once 'J.STUMPFF' and 'JME' and once 'M. OHNEBERG'. Jean Chrysostome Stumpff, maître in 1766. Martin Ohneberg...

The rectangular mirror plate surmounted by carved scrolling foliate and urn cresting, the lower rail with leaf-carved lion's paws.

Richard Beavis (British, 1824-1896) Near Arles on the Rhone Initialed and titled lower left. Ink and watercolor on paper/board. With an old attribution to Bonnington. Sight size: 6 x 13 in. The dimension given otherwise includes the frame. Framed in a charming late 19th century frame. Best known for his rural landscapes, the British painter Richard Beavis populated his scenes with picturesque grazing cattle and people hard at work as well illustrated in our watercolor. Provenance: The estate of Sir Edwin A.G. Manton (1909-2005) a driving force in the creation of the American International Group (AIG), a collector of paintings by John Constable...

'Llanberis Lake at the Foot of Mount Snowdon' in Wales. Watercolor on paper, signed and dated "J. Varley 1812" ll, identifying info on verso. sight size: 8 x 19 3/4 in. John Varley is known as an English landscape painter in watercolor and a close friend of William Blake. Varley represents the transition between tinted topographical drawing and the bolder, more fully developed manner of watercolor painting characteristic of the 19th century. As well as being a leading painter, he was the most popular and enthusiastic teacher of his day: his pupils included Cox, De Wint, Linnell, Mulready (his brother-in-law), and Samuel Palmer, and he published various instructional works, including one with Blake. In his early years Varley was influenced stylistically by the work of Thomas Girtin...

Raised on later circular brass-mounted wood bases. Height of base only is 17in. (other dimensions include lampshade).

Venetian Capriccio, after Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793) Unsigned, with a label from Wandenberg Freres (Paris) affixed to the back of the mat.

With later embellishments, the rectangular ratcheted and adjustable raisable top with book stop and lacquered top depicting vessels and plants, the ratchet w...

The carved and pierced fretwork cornice above a pair of paneled doors with blind fretwork framing, the interior fitted for shelves and hanging (with one...

Attributed to Chapuis. The later circular black marble top above a frieze mounted with stylized laurel branches centered by flowerheads, raised on three square tapering legs surmount...

Raised on an olive velvet base. Dimensions include the base. Portraiture is often seen as the quintessential Renaissance art form, and clay was used increasingly during the 15th cen...

The oval base raised on toupie feet, centered with a panel of hunting dogs with hunting trophies on each side, the case supported by a landscaped scenery of water and rocks and surmo...

Of open scrolling outline with beaded scrolls hung with pearl-shaped drops and flower-heads, above a hanging sphere. Electrified.

Of round shape, cast with neoclassical figures. Height of base only is 12in.

Each cast with neoclassical figures, on separate stands, each impressed Bec Boleil, R.D. Ditmar. Electrified. With a Sotheby’s New York provenance. Measures: Height of base only ...

The rectangular cocuswood cross-banded satine top above a central frieze drawer flanked to either side with three further drawers around a recess on foliate-carved cabriole legs with...

Decorated with tracery arches and medieval characters and raised on scrolling legs ending in a tripartite concave base. With glass globes. Electrified.