Aurelien Gendras Furniture

RARE RENAISSANCE CAQUETOIRES FROM THE FONTAINEBLEAU SCHOOL WITH A PERSPECTIVE MOTIF THAT COULD FORM A PAIR ORIGIN : FRANCE, VAL DE LOIRE or ILE DE FRANCE PERIOD : 16th CENTURY Heig...

IMPORTANT WOOD SCULPTURE REPRESENTING SAINT BARBARA ORIGIN : NORTHERN FRANCE OR FLANDERS PERIOD : 16th CENTURY Height: 103 cm Length: 40 cm Depth: 30 cm Oak wood Good condition Saint Barbara was the daughter of Dioscorus who imprisonned her in a tower to prevent her from being corrupted by Christianity. Despite this, she was taught and baptisted by a local priest. According to legend, she proved her faith by carving a third window into the tower, symbolic of the Trinity. Once her father learned this, he threatened her with his sword. She managed to escape and hide, not before being revealed by a sheperd. She was thrown in jail and tortured, refusing to denounce her faith. Her father forced her up to the mountain’s summit and decapitated her, afterwhich God struck him down by lightning. Saint Barbara`s following was popularized in the Occident in the 13th century because of the Golden Legend...

RENAISSANCE CHAYÈRE WITH PERSPECTIVE MOTIF ORIGIN: FRANCE, LYON ÉPOQUE: FIRST HALF OF THE XVI CENTURY Height: 166cm Width: 74cm Depth: 47cm Walnut wood From: Château de Quintin’...

HALF-MOON STOUP ORIGIN: VENICE, ITALY PERIOD: 13th Century Height: 33 cm Width: 82 cm Depth: 55 cm Nembro marble This hemispherical stoup is powerfully carved with a mascaron w...

CELTIC GRANITE CARVED BUST OF A FEMALE FIGURE ORIGIN: FRANCE PERIOD: CELTE Height: 46 cm Length: 28 cm Depth: 16 cm Made of granite The body shapes of this figure are scarce...

IMPORTANT CABINET WITH TWO BODY IN BLACKENED WOOD CARVED AND ENGRAVED ORIGIN: FRANCE PERIOD: 17TH CENTURY Height: 188 cm Width: 135 cm Depth: 53.5 cm Blackened wood and veneer: rosewood, ebony, pear, mahogany Framed in oak wood A real ceremonial piece of furniture, this two-part cabinet opens with two historiated panels and two drawers in the upper part and two leaves and two belt drawers in the lower part. Richly worked, it offers both inside and outside a floral decoration, finely engraved which contrasts with the importance given to geometric lines. This duality, typical of this type of cabinet, confirms its dating and its origin. In addition, the gilded metal locks and fittings enhance the sumptuous trait of this piece of furniture and also contribute to its ornamentation. Furniture of predilection for “enclosing the most precious things” (Furetière, Dictionnaire, 1690) the appearance of cabinets in the 16th century accompanied the development of wunderkammern, these cabinets of curiosities enriched both by the vogue for the antique and by distant expeditions which bring back with them natural wonders and rare testimonies of distant civilisations. The curious, combining fortune and culture, brings together antique medals, rare plants, fossils, or oriental ornaments. This meeting of pieces which embodies much more than their material reality, a subjective evocation of all the riches of the earth and all the knowledge of men, acts in the eyes of its owner like a microcosm of which he is the master and which he enjoys according to his will. This is how the first cabinets were designed to be transportable, often wooden structures calling for riches only those they housed for a collector who refused to part with them, even temporarily. In the 17th century, the cabinet gained in technical complexity and luxurious materials until it could no longer be moved itself and became a prized and expensive collector’s item...

IMPORTANT WARDROBE OF THE HANSEAN REPUBLICS ORIGIN : NORTHERN GERMANY PERIOD : LATE 16th – EARLY 17th CENTURY Height : 222 cm Width : 198 cm Depth : 78 cm Lacquered and gilded oak...

IMPORTANT ITALIAN RENAISSANCE GARDENER ORIGIN: NORTHERN ITALY PERIOD: 16th CENTURY Height: 52 cm Length: 130 cm Depth: 53 cm Verona marble Taking the form of an antique sarcopha...

CARVED POLYCHROME WOOD DEPICTING SAINT FLORIAN ORIGIN : SWABIA, SOUTHERN GERMANY PERIOD : LATE 15th CENTURY Height : 98 cm Length : 29 cm Depth : 24 cm Polychrome limewood Very fine condition Provenance - Swiss collection STAEHELIN-PARAVICINI - March 1939 - Auction Jacob Hecht -18 April 1929, Berlin - Sammlung Prof Q.A. LEIMHAAS Munich, Helbing - 26 May 1908 (Research by Thierry Fraslin) During the Middle-Age Saint Florian was particularly popular, subject to worship in Austria -Tyrol- Bavaria and Bohemia. Embodying courage and commitment Saint Florian was invoked to protect the soul of the living against sins and to keep the soul of the deads from the purgatory. From the mid-15th century he safeguards from water and fire. The legend has it that when he was young the saint had contained the fire of a burning...

SAINT CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA ORIGIN : SWABIA, ULM REGION PERIOD : ca. 1510-1520 Height : 118 cm Length : 39 cm Depth : 17 cm Limewood...

PAIR OF LARGE FLORENTINE WROUGHT IRON ANDIRONS FROM THE GOTHIC PERIOD ORIGIN: ITALY, FLORENCE PERIOD: GOTHIC PERIOD, 15th CENTURY Height: 9...

TABLE WITH TWISTED LEGS FROM THE LOUIS XIII PERIOD ORIGIN: FRANCE PERIOD: FIRST HALF OF THE 17th CENTURY Height: 77 cm Length: 96 cm Depth: 63 cm Walnut wood This very beautifu...

RARE RENAISSANCE TABLE WITH FIXED TOP ORIGIN: FRANCE PERIOD : SECOND HALF OF THE 16th CENTURY, c. 1560-1580 Height: 87 cm Length: 158 cm Width: 78 cm Walnut wood Good condition...

SMALL TUSCANY TABLE FROM THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD ORIGIN : FLORENCE, ITALY PERIOD : 16th CENTURY Height: 69,4 cm Length: 59,4 cm Depth: 51 cm ...

EXCEPTIONAL CATHEDRAL CHEST ORIGIN: GERMANY PERIOD: 15th CENTURY Height : 77 cm Length : 147 cm Depth : 58 cm Perfect state of preservation This rare Gothic Cathedral Chest with...

Green marble sculpture. Base signed "MARIO C : G" and dated 1997.

RARE RENAISSANCE CABINET WITH FEATHER QUILL AND FENESTRATION DECORATION ORIGIN: FRANCE PERIOD: EARLY 16th CENTURY DIMENSIONS : Height : 178 cm Length : 145 cm Depth : 58 cm Walnu...

Cast and chiseled gilt brass.

Bronze with brown patination. Signed and numbered lower right on the foot “Jacques Tenenhaus 2000 1/8”, “Landowski Fondeur” foundry. Provenance: Artist’s workshop.     

"Female Nude" Bronze sculpture with brown- green patina. Old edition Fonte performed by Alexis Rudier. Signed Hubert Yencesse. Foundry’s mark Alexis R...

Provenance : Jean Gismondi collection, before 1973. This important walnut jewelry chest is outlined with a gilt motif and presents a decor imitating basketry. The lid is topped by...

Important Italian Renaissance Polychrome chest with coat-of-arms Origin: Italy Period: early 16th century Height: 71cm Length: 190cm Depth: ...

Magdalena Reinharez (1925 – 2012) Mustangs Bronze sculpture with blue-green patina Signed « M. Reinharez 1/8 » Numeroted 1/8 Foundry mark : Chapon, Paris Biography Born in Central Europe, Magdalena Reinharez arrives in France at a young age. She takes her painting class with masters such as Fernand Léger and André Lothe...

The Saint depicted here is Saint James the Great. James is the brother of St. John the Evangelist. Nothing is known of his activities after the Ascension...

SMALL RENAISSANCE CABINET ORIGIN: PROVENCE PERIOD: END OF THE 16th CENTURY Height: 175cm Length: 102cm Depth: 50cm Blond walnut This small cabin...

SET OF FOUR HENRI IV CHAIRS ORIGIN: FRANCE PERIOD: 17th CENTURY Height: 88 cm Length: 54 cm Depth: 39 cm

SET OF SIX LOUIS XIV CHAIRS ORIGIN: FRANCE PERIOD: 17th CENTURY Height: 110 cm Length: 45 cm Depth: 45 cm

A ceramic mirror with red glaze decoration by Gerard Hofmann. Perfect original conditions. Signed under the base, circa 1960-1970.   

A ceramic vase with black and white glazes decoration. Signed under the base "Polaris". Perfect original conditions, circa 1960-1970.