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Large 18th Century Red Chalk Drawing of Ruins after Hubert Robert
By Hubert Robert
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The Tomb of Caecilia Metella, Rome.
Red chalk on paper.
Provenance: H. Shickman Gallery, New York (D1311). Label verso where given to Hubert Robert.
This sumptuous drawing is a ...
Category
Antique 1760s French Neoclassical Drawings
Materials
Paper
Drawing of Children Playing, Circle of Francois Boucher
By François Boucher
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Drawing of children playing besides a basin of water. Framed in a Louis XVI giltwood frame. Typical of the style and subjects of Francois Boucher.
Chalk and pencil on paper.
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Rococo Drawings
Materials
Paper
Large Pair of Louis XV Ormolu Five-Light Wall Lights in the Style of Caffieri
By Jacques Caffieri
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each sconce of asymmetrical rocaille design with foliate-cast backplate issuing five foliate S and C- scrolling candle arms mounted throughout with stylized leaf-tip motifs. Drilled ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Ormolu-Mounted Tulipwood and Bois de Bout Commode Stamped Chevallier
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The serpentine molded ‘rouge royal’ marble above two long bombé-shaped drawers ‘sans traverse’ inlaid with bronzes and floral sprays, the sides decorated similarly, on splayed legs, ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Commodes and Chests of Drawers
English Umbrella Stand
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The modern umbrella stand decorated with 19th century folio leather bindings. With a label at the bottom showing the provenance as Kenneth Neame, Mayfair...
Category
20th Century English Umbrella Stands
Materials
Leather
Set of Four Directoire Mahogany Armchairs by Jacob Freres
By Jacob Freres Rue Meslée
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each upholstered backrest with backscrolled top rail above an upholstered seat flanked by arm rests, raised on ring-turned legs; each stamped JACOB FRERES / RUE MESLEE on back rail, three with old inked inscription M Julien...
Category
Antique 1790s French Directoire Armchairs
Materials
Mahogany
Louis XVI Neoclassical Giltwood Console
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The Louis XVI console with a serpentine shaped Brèche d'Alep marble top above a conforming frieze carved with leaf tips and hung with laurel swag garlands centered by a rosette medal...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Console Tables
Materials
Beech
George III Mahogany Games Table
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The rectangular hinged top with a rosette-carved edge, on a blind fretwork frieze and pierced brackets, raised on molded square legs.
Category
Antique 1760s English Chinese Chippendale Game Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Art Deco Gilt and Patinated Bronze, Four-Light Chandelier
Located in Kittery Point, ME
In the style of Andre Arbus, hung with gilt and patinated bronze links, the central urn cast with two gilt masks and handles, with four candle arms.
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Mahogany Secretaire Stamped Sotto
Located in Kittery Point, ME
With a canted white marble rectangular top with a three-quarter pierced gallery above a frieze drawer, the fall-front with gilt-tooled black leather writing surface enclosing a fitte...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Secretaires
Materials
Mahogany
Louis XVI Mahogany Jardiniere 'Planter', Attributed to Canabas
By Joseph Canabas
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The rectangular moulded surround with a zinc liner with a pierced ormolu gallery, above a panelled frieze with a fluted edge, with later handles to the side, raised on turned tapering legs ending in ormolu caps and castors.
Joseph Gengenbach, known as Canabas, maître in 1766. This elegant jardinière...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Planters and Jardinieres
Materials
Bronze
Large Directoire Mahogany Jardinière by Jacob Freres
By Jacob Frères
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Of rectangular shape, with a tôle liner and bronze gallery and raised on an integral plinth with wooden roulettes, stamped to one side on the interior JACOB FRERES RUE MESLEE. Jacob...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century European Directoire Planters and Jardinieres
Materials
Mahogany
Set of Four Empire Ormolu Three-Light Wall Sconces, Attributed to Ravrio
By André-Antoine Ravrio
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each backplate topped with a mask of Athena surmounted by an owl and ending in a stylized bellflower and anthemion, issuing three leaf-wrapped scrolling arms. Electrified.
André-Antoine Ravrio (1759-1814) was a French sculptor in bronze and was made a master founder in 1777 setting up in business 1790. Although Ravrio enjoyed success during Louis XVI’s reign, he achieved far greater fame under Napoleon. He took part in the first Exposition de l’Industrie, Paris, 1803 and then won a silver medal there in 1806. The same year he supplied a number of bronze furnishings for the Empress Joséphine’s apartments in the Tuileries and in 1810 was appointed as the Emperor’s chief bronzier. In this capicity he supplied some of the finest Empire bronze pieces, girandoles, candelabras and lamps as well as ornate furniture...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Giltwood Barometer
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The white painted dial signed Cappy A Paris, 1773 within a laurel wreath carved case on a delicately carved flower entwined ribbon backplate ending in a tassel.
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Decorative Art
Materials
Giltwood
Drawing, 18th Century French School, the Sedan Chair
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Two men with a cab or the Sedan chair, in the style of Touzé.
Bears collector's stamp (possibly the eye-form mark of Nathaniel Hone) and inscribed indi...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Drawings
Empire Ormolu and Patinated Bronze Figural Clock
Located in Kittery Point, ME
In the form of a putto with a wheel barrow carrying a keg mounted with a clock face topped by a crane, on a rectangular chased plinth ending in bun feet.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Italian Empire Silver and Silver Gilt Inkstand
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Of oval shape, with a cupid holding a bow and arrow riding aloft a gilt dolphin forming a lid over a compartment, flanked by ink and sand pots on masked plinths cast with Medusa masks and mounted to a lion's-paw footed oval galleried tray...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Italian Empire Inkwells
Materials
Silver
Regency Rosewood and Brass Side Table
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The rectangular top with rounded corners above ring-turned dual standard end supports and brass stems in between‚ ending in splayed legs‚ joined by two ring-turned stretchers.
Category
Antique 19th Century English Regency Side Tables
Materials
Brass
Regency Rosewood Writing Table
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The shaped rectangular top fitted with hinged side compartment‚ above a reeded frieze drawing and a leather inset slide‚ raised on turned columnar suppo...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Swedish Neoclassical Giltwood Cartel
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The Arabic numeral dial signed A.M. Blomberg, Stockholm, the case elaborately carved with opposing cornucopias, birds and branches, raised on a bracket decorated with shells and acan...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Swedish Neoclassical Wall Clocks
Materials
Giltwood
Empire Gilt and Patinated Bronze Clock
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Modelled as a potted flower, the pot decorated with gilt bronze classical figures. With an 18th century English movement.
Category
Antique 19th Century Austrian Empire Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Rare George II Chinoiserie Lacquered Metamorphic Triple Flap Games Table
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The triple-fold shaped hinged and eared top opening to a green baize-lined playing surface with money wells and candlestands first and a decorated writing surface second, the writing surface revealing a pop-up compartment with ratcheted book support...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier British George II Game Tables
Materials
Wood
Louis XVI Gilt and Patinated Bronze Bust of Ajax
Located in Kittery Point, ME
After the antique, his helmet decorated with centaurs and panthers. In Homer’s Illiad, he is described as a hero of colossal frame who was trained by the...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Busts
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Mahogany Secrétaire en Cabinet by Jean-Francois Leleu
By Jean-François Leleu
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The later breccia marble top over two paneled doors opening to reveal shelves, above a drawer over a fall front with an interior fitted with drawers and compartments, and two further...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Cabinets
Pair of Consulat Ebony-Inlaid Birchwood Armchairs Stamped Jacob Frères
By Jacob Freres Rue Meslée
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The curved pierced back with a palmette-inlaid shaped splat terminating in dolphin supports raised on an upholstered seat, on front carved joined hairy animal legs (pieds de bîches) and hoof feet and back sabre legs; stamped: JACOB FRERES RUE MESLEE under the front rail. For a similar dolphin support, see Madeleine Jarry and Pierre Devinois, Le Siège Français, pp. 267 and 271 illustration 264 for an armchair at the Musée Marmottan stamped G. Jacob and executed in 1792.
Provenance: Millicent Rogers
her son, Arturo Peralta Ramos II
Jacob Frères was the stamp used by brothers Georges II (1768-1803) and Francois-Honore Jacob (1770-1841) from 1796 to 1803. They were sons of Georges Jacob (1739-1814), arguably the best-known chair maker who worked for aristocracy and royalty during the reign of Louis XVI.
The Jacob Frères firm's most famous client was Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. She would have most likely seen the work of their father during the revolution in a progressive aristocrat's house. She used them to decorate various Imperial residences, such as the Tuileries palace, and remained a loyal customer, using them almost exclusively, until her death. When Georges II (the elder brother) died in 1803, Georges came out of retirement to help the remaining son, Francois-Honoré (who changed his named to Jacob Desmalter) from a new partnership called Jacob Desmalter Et Cie. (stamped Jacob D. R. Meslée, on two lines), which continued to be an influential supplier for the Imperial period and is credited with helping to define the Empire style as it is known today.
Millicent Rogers, born Mary Millicent Abigail Rogers, was a Standard Oil heiress, but she wasn’t a poor little rich girl...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Armchairs
Rare Regency Lacquered Writing Table
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The Japanese lacquered box hinged to open to an adjustable fabric-inset writing surface, inset in a Stand with twin supports in the Chinese taste. This exceptional desk is very much ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Lacquer
Louis XVI Mahogany Bedside Table
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The square veined white marble-top and brass gallery above a tambour door and a side drawer, the turned tapering legs terminating in brass caps.
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Tables
Pair of Regency Gilt Bronze Figural Candelabra
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each Greek style classically draped male figure raising a three-light oil lamp shaped top on a square stepped plinth.
Category
Antique 19th Century English Regency Candle Holders
Materials
Bronze
Pair of George III Carved Mahogany Dining Urns
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each urn with a cone finial, the collar carved with interlaces and a tapered fluted body on a spreading socle. Formerly with spigots.
Provenance: Ginsburg & Levy, Inc., New York Bos...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English George III Urns
Materials
Mahogany
Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Eight-Light Chandelier
Located in Kittery Point, ME
With a corona cast with swags of flowers, above a spirally fluted central stem supporting eight scrolled candle-arms cast with acanthus leaves. Electrified.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Large George III Brass and Fruitwood-Inlaid and Mahogany Storage Box
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The rectangular hinged top with canted corners inlaid with a Turkish landscape design with an inside lift top and a lower drawer the interior fitted with a removable tray and mahogan...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English George III Decorative Boxes
Louis XVI Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Commode
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The original mottled white marble shaped top above three drawers flanked by stop-fluted columnar angles, raised on circular tapering stop-fluted legs ending in gilt-bronze sabots.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble
Watercolor by William Leighton Leitch
By William Leighton Leitch
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Watercolor by William Leighton Leitch (British, 1804-1883), Cally, Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway,
with estate stamp (lower right).
W...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Watercolor
Pair of Italian Neoclassical Giltwood Brackets
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each demilune shaped marbleized top above a conforming frieze decorated with a stylized leaf above a marbleized shelf.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Wall Brackets
Materials
Wood
Louis XVI Ormolu Cartel Clock
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The circular glazed white enamel dial with Roman and Arabic chapters, set within a pierced case with ribbon-tied fruiting laurel trails, each side with a ram’s mask capped pilaster, ...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Wall Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI Gilt Bronze Two-Light Wall Lights
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each with a foliate-cast tapering fluted and backplate decorated with swags and surmounted by a swagged flaming classical urn, issuing foliate scrolled branches with gadrooned nozzle...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Bronze
George II Giltwood Mirror
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The swan's neck pediment terminating in flower heads and foliate scrolls centering a cartouche, above the beveled rectangular mirror plate within a frame carved at the corners with f...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Georgian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace M...
Pair of Louis XVI Style Ormolu Candlesticks
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each with a fluted nozzle and pearled drip-pan, a fluted tapering column hung with garlands and a circular fluted spreading base cast with a ribbon-twist band.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
George I Giltwood Mirror
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The shaped rectangular mirror plate within a carved and molded border, the voluted apron centered with a shell and scrolls on each side, the cresting with eagle heads flanking styliz...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century English George I Wall Mirrors
Materials
Wood
Regency Brass Inlaid Rosewood Metamorphic Bench
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The rectangular padded seat covered in brown leather, opening to reveal a set of library steps, over a solid inlaid seat-rail and ring-turned tapering legs ending in castors.
18in. high, 34 1/2in. wide and 16 1/2in. deep. Opened, 36in. high and 49in. wide.
Rooms organized during the Regency period as libraries often had floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. The upper shelves were difficult to reach, so movable library stairs were invaluable. Further, libraries were one of the most important rooms in a stately house, symbol of its owner's wealth, culture and status. As a consequence, designers, architects and cabinet or chair makers devoted much attention to its architecture and decoration. Hence, the emrgence of innovative ideas such as our bench.
Enter the Regency era metamorphic library chair/bench (chairs are more common than benches)!
The tables, chairs and stools containing library steps were patented in Great Britain by Robert Campbell in 1774 but this innovative chair-based design did not become immediately popular. Once the Regency was established, a neo-classical interpretation of Campbell’s Metamorphic Library Chair concept started to become popular in London. Any early attributions rely heavily on two contemporary sketches...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Benches
Materials
Brass
Pair of Regence Ormolu Two-Light Sconces
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each with foliate voluted backplate centered by a Zephyr’s mask, issuing a pair of asymmetric scrolling foliate-cast candle arms, with strap work-cast drip-pans, drilled for electric...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century French Louis XV Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Bronze
Portrait of an Old Man, Attributed to Carl Van Loo
By Charles-André van Loo
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Red chalk on paper.
This portrait evokes the work of Carl Van Loo (1705-1765). In particular, see in “La Cène” (Last Meal), Arras, Musée des Beaux-Arts, the...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Drawings
Pair of Directoire Cream-Painted Slipper Chairs
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each with a rectangular carved panelled top rail above a pierced vertical splat and an upholstered seat, raised on front tapering circular legs and saber back legs.
The exquisite qu...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Directoire Chairs
Materials
Silk, Wood
Pair of Italian Patinated Bronze Putti on Gilt Bronze-Mounted Porphyry Bases
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The 17th century putti raised on gilt bronze-mounted neoclassical porphyry bases from the late 18th century.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Italian Sculptures
Materials
Porphyry, Ormolu, Bronze
Rare Regency Memento Mori Box
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Decorated with four skulls to top with titles of a Witch, King, Beauty and Beggar to each Skull underneath. Lidded.
Category
Antique 19th Century English Regency Decorative Boxes
Pair of Regency Giltwood Mirrors
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each oval beveled mirror plate within a rope-twist frame, with an apron ending in a bracket, decorated overall with rosettes, foliage, leaf tips and fluting.
Category
Antique 19th Century British Regency Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Materials
Wood, Glass
Louis XIV Fruitwood Casket, Attributed to César Bagard (1620-1707)
By Cesar Bagard
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Finely carved overall with arabesques, birds and scrolls, the top centered by a cartouche.
César Bagard was born in Nancy in 1620. Most of the work known to have been carved by him ...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Renaissance Boxes
Louis XIV Fruitwood Casket, Attributed to César Bagard
By Cesar Bagard
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Carved overall with arabesques and scrolls, the lid centering a crowned armorial.
César Bagard was born in Nancy in 1620. Most of the work known to have been carved by him was comp...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Renaissance Boxes
Materials
Metal
Louis XVI Gilt-Tooled Leather Box
Located in Kittery Point, ME
With a domed cover, the interior with red silk lining, the whole with gilt iron mounts and lock box.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Boxes
Materials
Leather
Rare Pair of Empire Gilt Bronze Chenets (Andirons)
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each with an eagle holding a salamander and a torch, raised on a plinth decorated with sphinxes and laurels.
Modeled after Pierre Gouthière, originally made for the great gallery of...
Category
Antique 19th Century French First Empire Andirons
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI Gilt and Patinated Bronze Sphinx Chenets
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each with a recumbent winged sphinx with scrolling foliate arabesques to their back, upon a bow-ended rectangular gadrooned plinth, the frieze with a panel applied with entrelacs, on fluted toupie feet.
Several models of chenets with sphinx exist, dating from the 1780s. An example with winged sphinxes with headresses and with female mask centering the frieze, attributed to either Pierre Gouthière or Pierre-Philippe Thomire, exists in several versions in the Louvre, Versailles and the Cleveland Museum of Art (see H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.I, p.276, fig. 4.11.14.). This model is based on a drawing by the architect François-Joseph Bélanger in the Bibliothèque Nationale, illustrated op. cit., fig. 4.11.13. Another type of sphinx chenet...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Andirons
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Figure of a Standing Mirabeau After François-Marie Suzanne
By Francois-Marie Suzanne
Located in Kittery Point, ME
raised on a bronze-mounted cylindrical marble socle. With a Cleveland Museum of Art label underneath.
A plaster model signed Suzanne and dated 1792 was part of the David-Weill colle...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Rare Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Three-Light Sconces
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Each lyre-shaped backplate topped with ribbon-tied cresting and garlands ending with the mask of a satyr. See "Vergoldete Bronzen" (1986), Vol. I, p.242, Ill. 4.5.10 for a similar m...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Bronze
Empire Gilt and Patinated Bronze Inkstand 'Encrier'
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The rectangular base mounted with a round lidded ink pot with a porcelain container and a sand pot, each raised on winged lion feet, centered by a ...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Inkwells
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Ormolu-Mounted Marquetry Bureau en Pente, attributed to Migeon
By Pierre Migeon
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The hinged fall front opening to reveal a fitted interior with drawers above a slide enclosing a concealed well with two drawers, raised on cabriole legs headed by scrolling chutes r...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century French Rococo Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
George III Mahogany Octagonal Tilt Top Tea Table
Located in Kittery Point, ME
The octagonal top with a spindle gallery and a gadrooned edge, the spiral fluted stem on foliate carved cabriole legs ending in claw-and-ball feet. With yellow crayon numerals along...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English George III Side Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Drawing after Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Self Portrait Laughing, where Quentin de La Tour represents himself bust-length and pointing to the leftdrawing (Autoportrait à la croisée).
Category
Antique 19th Century French Drawings
Materials
Pencil, Paper
Drawing, Flemish School, 18th Century
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Ancient Ruins with Strollers.
Brown wash and graphite.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Dutch Neoclassical Drawings
Materials
Paper
Drawing by Langlace, French School 19th Century
By Langlace
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Moutaineous Landscape with Bridge over a River
Signed lower right by Jean-Baptiste Gabriel Langlace (1786-1864)
Brown wash on paper.
Category
Antique 19th Century French Drawings
Materials
Paper
Rare Regency Brass Inlaid Rosewood Tea Caddy with Secret Drawer
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Of sarcophagus form with geometric brass stringing throughout, with embossed gilt-brass ring handles to the sides, the interior fitted with twin lidded lead-lined caddies separated by a glass mixing bowl, raised on brass paw feet. With a secret drawer.
Category
Antique 19th Century English Regency Boxes
Materials
Brass
