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Pair of Kerosene Lamps with Birds in Chinese Style
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of French antique kerosene lamps. The bronze paunch is decorated with birds on branches and flowers in Chinese style. What makes these lamps stun...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Chinese Export Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Napoleon III Gilt Bronze Clock in Rocaille Style
Located in Paris, FR
Small gilt bronze clock in Rocaille style, richly decorated with foliages, shells and foliated scrolls. The white enameled dial, with Roman numerals for hours and Arabic for minutes,...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Rococo Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Empire Bronze Three Branched Candelabras
By Percier & Fontaine
Located in Paris, FR
Impressive pair of gilt and sculpted bronze candelabras with three branches. The stem of each candelabrum is a patinated bronze form of the winged goddess, Victory, who holds a gilt bronze torch in each of her hands. Her head is topped with a gilt bronze vase that transforms into the candelabra branches, which is embellished with griffins and rosettes. At the top of each candelabrum is a peacock standing on a globe, symbolizing the sun and immortality. Victory is standing on a cruciform-shaped base, which has a winged cupid on two sides and a caduceus on the other two sides. The intertwined snakes of the caduceus are a symbol of the Greek god Hermes (or the Roman god Mercury) and is a symbol of peace, eloquence and negotiation. Empire period. Perfect condition.
Our model is inspired by the projects of Charles Percier and Franc¸ois-Leonard Fontaine, famous architects of the Emperor. Their most important work, entitled Recueil de decorations inte´rieurs (Collection of interior decorations), was published in France at the, end of the 19th century. The winged Victories, caduceus and griffins are some of the motifs present in this piece that demonstrate the adoption of Percier and Fontaine’s decorative...
Category
Antique 1810s Empire Candelabras
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Shell-Shaped, White Porcelain Inkwell
Located in Paris, FR
White porcelain inkwell in the form of a shell, highlighted with gold and resting on a square base. The top features two round, glass inkwells and two pen holes. Light wear to the gi...
Category
Antique 1820s French Inkwells
Materials
Gold
Charles X Cut-Crystal and Ormolu Jewelry Box
Located in Paris, FR
Exquisite oval-shaped cut-crystal antique jewelry box. The crystal is chiseled into twisted patterns, and the mounts are of gilt bronze, which is decorated with small flowers, pearls...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Charles X Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
19th Century Biscuit Statuette Young Woman with Flowers
Located in Paris, FR
19th century biscuit porcelain figurine featuring a young woman holding a bunch of flowers in her skirt. This figurine is representative of ...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Neoclassical Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Three Chrome-Plated Metal Candlesticks by BMF
By Bmf Nagel, Fritz Nagel
Located in Paris, FR
Three chrome-plated metal candlesticks produced by BMF (Bayerische Metallwarenfabrik) in Germany in the 1970s. As Nagel candleholders, BMF candlesticks can be used individually or as...
Category
Vintage 1970s German Mid-Century Modern Candlesticks
Materials
Metal
French Bronze and Siena Marble Antique Inkwell
Located in Paris, FR
19th century inkstand with three jars crafted of patinated bronze, serving as inkwells. They are decorated with acanthus leaf and small flowers....
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis Philippe Inkwells
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze
Enamel Coffer with Mythological Scenes Signed Klein in Paris, 19th Century
By A. Klein
Located in Paris, FR
Small, rectangular, enamel coffer decorated with mythological scenes that are framed with spiraling lines of ormolu and attached with flowers at the corners. The Rape of Proserpina by the god Pluto adorns the lid. The front and back of the box are decorated with images of Diana being woken by her nymphs and the Rape of Europa. The sides have images of Mercury educating Cupid and a bath scene...
Category
Antique 1860s French Louis XVI Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu, Bronze
Late 19th Century Limoges Enamel Keepsake Box
By Limoges
Located in Paris, FR
Small, rectangular, enamel keepsake box from Limoges. The lid is decorated with a central medallion featuring the profile of an upper-class woman, who was certainly the owner of this...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Renaissance Jewelry Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Restauration Opaline Glass Vases by Jean-Baptiste Desvignes
By Jean-Baptiste Desvignes
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of white opaline glass vases decorated with gilded Gothic arcades and medieval figures playing music or dancing. Each vase rests on a square gilt bronze base embellished with fo...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Restauration Vases
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Blue Porcelain Cup in Sevres Style
By Samson & Cie
Located in Paris, FR
Oval blue porcelain cup with polychromatic decoration composed of a large cartouche with gilt-decorated borders depicting a man and a young woman in a landscape, sitting on the grass...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Late 19th Century Porcelain Perfume Bottle by Samson, Paris
By Samson & Cie
Located in Paris, FR
Late 19th century perfume bottle and opium flacon crafted of porcelain and multicolored enamels, with gilt and chiseled bronze pierced moun...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Bottles
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Art Nouveau Pair of Mounted Lamps with Nymphs
Located in Paris, FR
Late 19th century pair of Art Nouveau vases crafted in metal, gilded and intricately modeled as a nymph with long hair floating in the wind. They were mounted in lamps with antique white silk lampshades...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
19th Century Napoleon III Liquor Cellar in Ebony with Brass Inlay
Located in Paris, FR
Liquor cellar in brass inlaid ebony with crystal glassware. The top of the box is engraved with the initials of the owner. Front and top sides are decorated with golden rinceau, foli...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Barware
Materials
Crystal, Bronze, Brass
Small Opaline Perfume Bottle With Desvignes Decoration
By Jean-Baptiste Desvignes
Located in Paris, FR
White bulle de savon (soap bubble) opaline perfume bottle with its ball-shaped stopper topped with petals. Gilded stripes decorate the neck and...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Restauration Bottles
Materials
Opaline Glass
Late 19th Century Bronze Sculpture The Warrior by Auguste de Wever
By Auguste de Wever
Located in Paris, FR
Large patinated bronze figure of an Antiquity warrior. He is set on a base decorated with battle scenes, marked: Les Chasseurs Éclaireurs de Bruxelles à leur Lt Colonel O. Tahon 1870...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Belgian Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Restauration Large Bronze Candelabra in the Néo-Greek Style
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of candelabra on foot in patinated and gilded bronze with rich decoration of busts and mythical creatures drawn from the medieval bestiary in a neo-Greek taste. The base of each...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Restauration Candelabras
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Elephant with Its Two Baby Elephants by Ulisse Caputo
By Ulisse Caputo
Located in Paris, FR
Bronze statue with dark brown patina featuring an elephant and its two baby elephants. The group rests on a black marble base. This bronze animal sculpture is signed: Caputo Bronze. Art Deco period.
Ulisse Caputo (1872-1948) is a Neapolitan painter who lived in Paris. Student of Domenico Morelli and Gaetano Esposito...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Animal Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Restauration Patinated Bronze Candlesticks
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of small, patinated bronze candlesticks resting on three lion's feet that are embellished with palmettes and acanthus leaves. The tripod base is ringed with a raie-de-coeur moti...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Restauration Candlesticks
Materials
Bronze
Late 19th Century Rocaille Ormolu Mantel Clock with Floral Decoration
Located in Paris, FR
Mantel clock in gilt and sculpted bronze featuring abundant Rocaille motifs such as rinceaux, shells, distressed leaves, and scrollwork. Putti engaged in activities such as reading, ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Late 19th Century Opaline Vase with Oriental Decoration
Located in Paris, FR
Bulb-bottomed vase with long neck decorated with multicolored enamel and gold. It is embellished with arabesques, flowers and latticework patterns in orientalist taste on a marbled Bordeaux background. Remnants of a mark underneath.
The fascination with the orient and its exotic decoration dominated the 18th-19th centuries. It was China that started the enthusiasm for the costumes and artistic shapes that came from faraway lands. However, as a result of conquests and colonial Expansion, this fascination saw the displacement of its origins. During the 18th century, Chinese and Turkish styles invaded the salons and gardens of royalty as well as affluent esthetes who prided themselves on their taste for The Orient. From then on, baths were Turkish, furniture was lacquered, Persian tapestries...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Islamic Glass
Materials
Opaline Glass
Late 19th Century Bronze Statue, Suzanne by Eugene-Antoine Aizelin
By Eugene-Antoine Aizelin
Located in Paris, FR
Bronze statue in brown patina representing Susanna, sculpted by Eugene-Antoine Aizelin (1821-1902). Susanna at the bath is a story from the apocryphal ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Empire Rare Beverage Dispensers with Monochrome Decoration
Located in Paris, FR
Pair of beverage dispensers in caramel-colored lacquered tin. They are decorated with monochrome village scenes and landscapes dotted with ruins. Th...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Pitchers
Materials
Tin
19th Century Terracotta, Bacchus and Bacchantes Celebrating the Grape Harvest
Located in Paris, FR
Patinated terracotta group featuring Bacchus as a child accompanied by three Bacchantes as they celebrate the harvesting of grapes. The Bacchantes, wearing flowing stolas and grapevi...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Classical Greek Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta, Oak
19th Century Napoleon III Burl Wood Sewing Box
Located in Paris, FR
Varnished, burl wood sewing box, decorated with Greek frieze and brass inlays. The box contains a mirror and sewing utensils made of bone and brass, as...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Bronze Group after the Self-Portrait with Her Daughter
By Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Located in Paris, FR
19th century bronze group with brown patina after the self-portrait with her daughter, Jeanne-Lucie-Louise called Julie, realized by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Early 19th Century Marble Clock Cupid Reading by Ledure and Hémon
By Pierre-Victor Ledure
Located in Paris, FR
Early 19th century Restauration-period green vert-de-mer marble clock with gilt bronze decoration. The clock is topped by a Cupid reading in patinated bronze. The ormolu face marks t...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Restauration Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Napoleon III Gilt Bronze-Mounted Green Ground Porcelain Jardinière
Located in Paris, FR
French 19th century gilt bronze-mounted porcelain jardinière. It is decorated on the exterior with a couple in a landscape on one side and with a bird on a branch on the other side. ...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Porcelain
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Pair of Small Porcelain Satsuma Vases
By Satsuma
Located in Paris, FR
Two porcelain hexagonal Satsuma vases painted in polychrome enamels and gold. The paunch is decorated with intricate Japanese characters in a landscape, the neck and the shoulder wit...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Bronze Figure of Young Psyche by Paul Duboy
By Paul Duboy
Located in Paris, FR
This brown and gold patinated bronze figure was crafted by the French sculptor Paul Duboy. It features a little girl, psyche, standing on a naturalistic base. The bronze sculpture is set upon a round marble plinth...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Empire Pendulum Clock the Spinner, Signed Rossel in Rouen
By Rossel in Rouen
Located in Paris, FR
French Empire pendulum clock finely crafted of gilt bronze, featuring a young spinner wearing a classical dress, seating on the dial near a lyre ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture Femme Aux Colombes by Charles-Alphonse Gumery
Located in Paris, FR
Bronze sculpture with brown patina by Charles-Alphonse Gumery, featuring a smiling young woman with doves. This bronze statuette is signed: Gumery ROME. Charles Gumery most probably ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Napoleon III Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Statue, Flying Gulls by Enrique Molins 'Spanish, 1893-1958'
By Enrique Molins-Balleste
Located in Paris, FR
Art Deco-period bronze statue featuring two flying gulls skimming the crest of a wave. The sculpture is set upon a black marble base. Signed H. Molins for Enrique Molins Balleste...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Marble Figure, Putto with Springs of Wheat
Located in Paris, FR
Large marble figure depicting a young boy sitting on a rock, holding some springs of wheat. Carved in white luminous marble in the late 20th century, this figure is a work of exquisi...
Category
Late 20th Century French Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Viennese Enamel and Gilt Brass Table Clock, Mid-19th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Small table clock in gilt brass richly decorated with openwork scrollwork, acanthus leaves, flowers, and masks in multicolored enamel. The main faces...
Category
Antique 1850s Austrian Renaissance Revival Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Enamel, Brass
Restauration Period Inkstand in Ormolu and Patinated Bronze
Located in Paris, FR
Restauration inkstand composed of a high, gilt bronze base with two inkwells and two penholders, decorated with a frieze of stylized flowers. The rectangular lid is topped by a patin...
Category
Antique 1820s Restauration Inkwells
Materials
Bronze
Early 19th Century Empire Mantel Clock with Cupid in a Chariot
By Marie Prevost
Located in Paris, FR
Exceptional gilt bronze mantel clock with its key depicting a winged Cupid in a chariot. The chariot is pulled by two doves that are resting on a platform adorned with water-leaf. Th...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
