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The thought, Henri-Léon GREBER circa 1890
By Henri Greber
Located in PARIS, FR
Large bronze (0.68m) with a medallic patina ‘La pensée’, signed H.GREBER, foundry stamp Thiébaut frères.
A student of Antonin Mercié at the Beaux-Arts, he was part of a dynasty of c...
Category
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Rare pair of portraits, Rose FAVRE circa 1910
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare pair of portraits of Westerners dressed as rich Chinese characters. French School, signed lower right Rose FAVRE, circa 1910-1920. Painted on hardboard panels, appeared in 1898....
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Winged angels, very large pair of paneled panels, Flanders 17th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of very large pieces of woodwork (2.22 meter high) featuring winged angels at the top, surmounted by scrolling motifs and descending garlands of flowers.
Probably once part of a...
Category
Antique 17th Century French Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
The Coupling, Bronze, circa 1950.
Located in PARIS, FR
Large solid bronze sculpture representing a tenderly embracing couple in the process of mating.
Probably executed around 1950, this sculpture has no signature or date.
Black granite...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Portrait of a young girl with a bouquet of roses, V.HUGON, 1896
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of a young girl leaning against a carpeted cabinet, her left hand on a casually placed bouquet of roses.
She is also wearing flowers in her hair.
The gaze is very present, a...
Category
Antique 1890s French Belle Époque Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Large Marble Bust of Diane de Poitiers, 19th century.
Located in PARIS, FR
Large marble bust (Carrara?), height 0.81m, representing Diane of Poitiers.
French school, circa 1880.
The sculptor was inspired by the fountain at the Château d'Anet, now in the Lo...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Busts
Materials
Carrara Marble
Large terracotta Buddha head, Burma, Shan States, late 18th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Large Buddha head in gilt-leaf terracotta with trace of red polychromy.
The Buddha must have been between 2.10m and 2.40m tall (if standing).
Headdressed with fine curls and Usnisha ...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Burmese Other Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Terracotta
Quran Stand In Khatam-kari, Persia, 19th C.
Located in PARIS, FR
Khatam kari is a fine, meticulous marquetry technique whose earliest examples date back to the Safavid period (1501-1730). This technique involves inlaying fine wood, brass or camel ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Persian Napoleon III Antiquities
Materials
Silver
Brass Perfume Burner, Persia 19th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Brass incense burner with openwork decoration of interlacing, scrolls and foliage.
Four registers on the body depict zoomorphic and anthropomorphic patterns.
The base has been re-ass...
Category
Antique 19th Century Metalwork
Materials
Brass
A Papier-Mâché Lacquered Vase , Kashmir, 19th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Lacquered papier -maché vase ,Kashmir,19th c."
A baluster vase with a flared neck, in painted and lacquered papier-mâché, decorated in polychrome and gold with a complex and varied floral design.
Minor damage to the base.
Modern base
The papier-mâché technique was first adopted in Kashmir in the 14th century by Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, a Sufi mystic, who came to Kashmir during the late 14th century along with his followers, many of whom were craftsmen. These craftsmen used hand-made paper pulp from Iran.
Kashmir papier-mâché has been used to manufacture boxes (small and big), bowls, trays, étagères, useful and decorative items, models, birds and animals, vases, lights, corporate gifts...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Lacquer
Materials
Paper
" Falstaff ", oil on canvas, English school, 19th century.
Located in PARIS, FR
A rather comical scene set in an English neo-Gothic mansion representing Sir John Falstaff .
A bearded, rather pudgy man, dressed in 16th century style, is courting a lady of quality...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century British Georgian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Laquered Wood Buddha , Shan States, Burma , Partly 18th C.
Located in PARIS, FR
Seated Buddha in Bhumisparsa mùdra position, or gesture of the earth witnessing Buddha's struggle against Mara
Shan States, northeastern Burma, partially 18th century
Heavily restor...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Burmese Other Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
Pair of interior wooden shutters, France, circa 1830
Located in PARIS, FR
A rare pair of interior wooden shutters (probably fruitwood, or pitchpin?) with hinged jambs.
Probably from the Savoie region, given the openwork motifs at the top.
France, circa 18...
Category
Antique 19th Century French French Provincial Shelves and Wall Cabinets
Materials
Fruitwood
Large oil on canvas, Lilacs and Pansies , FURCY de LAVAULT, circa 1880
By Albert Tibule Furcy de Lavault
Located in PARIS, FR
Large oil on canvas showing a bouquet of lilacs in a vase, and a bouquet of pansies in a basket.
Signed upper left FURCY de LAVAULT.
Thibule Marie FURCY de LAVAULT ( 1847-1915). A st...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Young woman with bouquet of roses , A.BRASCH, 1901
Located in PARIS, FR
Oil on canvas showing a young woman, dressed in 17th century style, is painted on her left profile, holding a bouquet of roses.
Richly dressed and adorned with beautiful jewels, she ...
Category
Early 20th Century German Arts and Crafts Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Mother-of-pearl inlaid octagonal side table, Syria or Egypt, circa 1920
Located in PARIS, FR
Large octagonal side table with mother-of-pearl inlay on the top and on the edges, above the shaped mirhabs and forming the base.
Rich mother-of-pearl inlaid with an eight-pointed st...
Category
Vintage 1920s Egyptian Art Deco Side Tables
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Large Madonna and Child Statue , France 16th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Large Virgin and Child Statue in Majesty, seated, holding Christ in her left hand.
Sixteenth century Mosan(?) work.
Oak wood, hollowed out at the back.
No traces of original gilt no...
Category
Antique 16th Century French Renaissance Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Oak
18th century Mirror in carved wood and silver plated wood
Located in PARIS, FR
Louis XVI Mirror in carved wood and silver gilt wood.
Richly decorated with garlands of flowers and ribbons
Beautiful patina and wear due to the time. Overall original silver gilt.
O...
Category
Antique 1780s French Louis XVI Wall Mirrors
Materials
Wood
Hûkka, Narghile base, Persia or North India, 19th C.
Located in PARIS, FR
Hûkka, hookah base, in black steel with floral decoration in silver inlay.
Persia or North India, 19th c.
The top part is missing.
Category
Antique 1860s Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Silver, Steel
Large vase in pâte de verre, Richard Burghstal, Vers 1925
Located in PARIS, FR
Large vase of Richard BURGSTHAL, French master glassmaker, of his true name Rene BILLA.
From 1912, after meeting Gustave Fayet, he settled in Bièvres and developed his own furnace, u...
Category
Early 20th Century Vases
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
Giltwood and polychrome half-relief representation of Saint Rococo. Spain, 16th
Located in PARIS, FR
Important bas-relief in carved wood with traces of gilt, in an architectural frame with two angels in the corners, representing Saint Rocco.
Considered, among other things, the Patro...
Category
Antique 16th Century Spanish Renaissance Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Small " Egyptomania " wood table planter, France circa 1830
Located in PARIS, FR
Small table planter in wood and tin with enameled decorations of flowers, palm leaves and a sarcophagus mask.
Egyptomania refers to the revival of European interest in ancient Egypt ...
Category
Antique 1830s French Egyptian Revival Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Wood
Chest on stand, Holland 17th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Teak wood chest with rich gilt copper applications of decorative scrolls and foliage, and probably two drooping tulips for the decoration in the center of the work top.
Handles for t...
Category
Antique 1640s Dutch Louis XIII Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Koran inlaid "khatam kari" holder, Persia late 19th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Khatam kari is a fine, meticulous marquetry technique whose earliest examples date back to the Safavid period (1501-1730).
This technique involves inlaying fine wood, brass and camel...
Category
Antique 1880s Shelves and Wall Cabinets
Materials
Brass
Mail pouch in maroquin rouge, 19th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Red leather pouch to carry or deliver the mail with flap, decorated with gilt fleur-de-lys arabesques.
Interior, two pockets, and a smaller one with flap.
A folding gusset allows to ...
Category
Antique 1860s French Napoleon III Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Leather
Art Nouveau Hand Painted Glass Lamp
Located in PARIS, FR
Suspension in glass painted with floral motifs in shimmering colours .
Each section is defined and taken in a spiral movement which gives a dynamic to the whole.
This model could have been the inspiration for Mariano FORTUNY who created the "scudo saraceno...
Category
Antique 1890s Italian Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Art Glass
Christ in Boxwood, France, late 16th-early 17th century".
Located in PARIS, FR
Christ in Boxwood, France, late 16th-early 17th century
Beautiful corpse of Christ with missing arms.
He must have been on the Cross, arms in a horiz...
Category
Antique Early 17th Century French Renaissance Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Boxwood
Marilyn Monroe 1954 Calendar
Located in PARIS, FR
Marilyn Monroe Calendar 1954
Two calendar pages from 1954 with day planners of Marilyn Monroe in nude posing and then dressed in fine lingerie using a special device.
One bears the ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Other Photography
Materials
Paper
Pair Of Paintings On Marble, Rome, 18th C.
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare pair of paintings on black marble ( one more gray ), representing the Adoration of the Child by angels, the other The Virgin, the Child and Saint John the Baptist and the lamb n...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Baroque Paintings
Materials
Marble
Pair of cereriferous angels, Flanders, 17th c.
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of ceraferous angels sculpted in the round in a very lively position (the movement in the hair is remarkable), almost Baroque.
Very fine execution of the plastron armo...
Category
Antique 17th Century Dutch Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Oak
Carved wooden arch with two angel musicians, India, Tamil Nadu, 19th c.
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare carved wooden arch, formerly painted, with two musician angels in a floral decor.
Probably from a Christian shrine in Tamil Nadu, South India.
18th or 19th c.
91x57
In the col...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Indian Antiquities
Materials
Wood
Very large pair of armchairs, Italy, Tuscany, 17th c.
Located in PARIS, FR
Exceptional pair of armchairs, in carved wood, decorated with acanthus leaves and volutes, the armrests ending in lions' heads, the footrests in dolphins' heads.
Traces of "a mecca" ...
Category
Antique Early 17th Century Italian Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Giltwood
Iconostasis door depicting the Annunciation, Balkans? 19th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Carved and gilt wood door from an iconostasis representing the Annunciation to Mary by the archangel Gabriel.
The word "iconostasis" comes from the Greek εἰκονοστάσι(-ον) (eikonostás...
Category
Antique 1880s Balkan Napoleon III Religious Items
Materials
Giltwood
Trinity , Polychrome Sculpture , Germany, circa 1550
Located in PARIS, FR
Trinity in carved and polychromed wood, in the round, the back partially hollowed out.
It is represented here as a "Throne of Grace". In this original formula, which probably origina...
Category
Antique 16th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Vestal reviving the sacred fire, French school, 18th century
By Jean Raoux
Located in PARIS, FR
Young Vestal reviving the sacred fire.
Oil on canvas, French school of the 1st half of the 18th c., follower of Jean RAOUX 1677-1734.
In ancient Rome, the Vestals or Vestal Virgins w...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century French Louis XV Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Oil on copper representing the Martyrdom of an unidentified Saint
Located in PARIS, FR
Oil on copper representing the martyrdom of an unidentified saint (the angels passing over the scene) and bringing him the palm and the crown of martyrs, without any specific attribu...
Category
Antique 16th Century European Renaissance Paintings
Materials
Copper
Basket of flowers - Jan Van KESSEL the Younger (1654-1708)
By Jan van Kessel
Located in PARIS, FR
Oil on copper depicting a basket of flowers made up of roses, tulips and irises, with small florets fleshing out the larger buds carefully arranged in the basket.
Jan Van KESSEL the ...
Category
Antique 17th Century Dutch Louis XIV Paintings
Materials
Copper
Portrait of a young aristocrat, France Circa 1850
Located in PARIS, FR
Large oil on canvas portraying a young woman of fine character, undoubtedly an aristocrat, French school circa 1850.
According to family tradition, this is the portrait of Countess H...
Category
Antique 1850s French Napoleon III Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Holy Family", oil on panel, Italy, c. 1500-1520
Located in PARIS, FR
Oil on poplar panel portraying the Holy Family.
Tuscany or Umbria, circa 1500-1520.
The Holy Family is the name given to the family formed by Jesus of Nazareth...
Category
Antique 16th Century Paintings
Materials
Wood
Large giltwood mirror, Italy, 18th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Large mirror in sculpted and gilt wood, decorated with foliage scrolls, acanthus leaves, fluted columns and two large cross-shaped designs on each side. The whole set on claw feet. M...
Category
Antique 1740s Baroque Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Large portrait of a young girl, Henri VOLLET( 1861-1945)
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of a young girl (or boy), painted full-length, left arm resting on a black lacquered armchair.
Signed lower left Henri VOLLET, dated 1888.
Pupil of Fernand Cormon, a painter...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Women figures Dancing - Etienne Henry DUMAIGE (1830-1888)
By Etienne-Henri Dumaige
Located in PARIS, FR
Bacchanal, or two young girls dancing and playing the tambourine, one carrying a wand decorated with flowers.
Bronze with Brown patina signed DUMAIGE
Henry Etienne Dumaige...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Belle Époque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Portrait of a young women - Charles Baptiste SCHREIBER, 1893
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of a young woman ,wearing a bouquet of chrysanthemums in her hair.(Allegory of Spring?)
SCHREIBER Charles Baptiste (1847-1902)
He studied in...
Category
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Seated Bronze Bouddha in Bhumisparsa mùdra, Mandalay, Burma, 19th c.
Located in PARIS, FR
Buddha sitting in Bhumisparsa mùdra (or earth witness mudra )
Buddha calls the goddess of the earth to testify that he has definitively overcome the fears and temptations sent by Mar...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Burmese Other Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bronze
Saint Paul's Cathedral from Southwork bridge - F. LLOYDS, dated 1878
Located in PARIS, FR
large Watercolour, signed lower right F.LLOYDS, dated 1878, representing St Paul's Cathedral seen from the Southwark Bridge, the Millennium Bridge, more in the axis, not yet existin...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century British Arts and Crafts Drawings
Materials
Paper
Pair of large baroque statues , Italy Genova 17th century
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of large statues carved in the round, probably representing cerulean angels (although there is no evidence of wings on the back), or allegories of fortune (in which case we can ...
Category
Antique 17th Century Italian Baroque Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
John J. NAPIER -Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins.
Located in PARIS, FR
John J. NAPIER - English School late 19th century - Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins.
This paintings illustrates the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins or the Parable of ...
Category
Antique 1860s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Very Large Teak Indian Palace Console Table, 19th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Spectacular large Indian Maharaja palace table-console in teakwood, 19th century.
A spectacular palace table, often used as a console in the enormous corridors of the Maharajas' palaces. Very decorative piece perfect for large houses or big outdoor veranda.
Decorated with forged nails and fully carved belts. Palmyform legs.
This table was used for 25 years as a dining room table for 12...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Console Tables
Materials
Teak
