Château Mike Bailey

A bronze figure representing Demosthenes (384-322 BC), a Greek statesman and orator. The sculpture is based on a Roman copy of an original Greek statue. The chocolate-brown patina of...

A French fire-gilt clock depicting a seated female figure - Urania, I presume, judging from the iconography. Empire Era, 1800-1815. The gilding sh...

Lucius Verus was Co-Emperor with Marcus Aurelius during the first nine years of Marcus’ reign. A handsome guy, his image became popular during and after his imperial days. This bust ...

Signed “Kley,” after Louis Kley, a French sculptor (1833-1911). Stamped with the circular “Collas” stamp indicating that the reduction of this cast from the original was performed ac...

Houdin’s expressive yet classically poised bust of the 17th-century French playwright, originally in marble, has been finely cast and worked by the the Parisian bronze foundry Barbed...

After the Hellenistic original, apparently by the sculptor Boethus, a marble variant of which can be found in the Louvre. This sculpture, along with the Dying Gaul and the Scythian K...

A small, svelte French portico clock from the Directory Era, 1795-99. In the "Retour d’Egypte” style that became quite the hot thing following Napoleon’s - ahem! - incursion into Egy...

These chunky chenets make no bones about their Romantic lineage and exhibit all of the passion you’d expect from artisans working in the period 1830 to 1848. Here, a nice yin-and-yan...

A mantel clock from the French “Restauration” era of 1815-1830 in fire-gilt bronze. The dial is enamelled white and the hours are depicted with Roman numerals. The figure represents ...

A pair of candlesticks in chiselled fire-gilt bronze from the French Empire or early Restauration Era. The pair, exemplifying the neoclassical iconography so popular in the Napoleoni...

A bronze figure of The Dancing Faun with Cymbals, dark brown patination. It is made after the model by Massimiliano Soldani (Italian, 1656-1740), on oval base, signed Duchemin, after...

An exquisite pair of gilt-bronze and black-patina sconces - appliqués - from the French Restauration Era. The pair revels in the acanthus-leaf iconography of classicism to an almost ...

A pensive figure, evocative to the many depictions of Sappho produced during the Romantic Era, of a seated woman by the French sculptor Eugène Louis Lequesne (1815-1887). She and her...

A pair of bronze Medici vases from the Charles X period, circa 1830. The bases are in the yellow Siena marble so popular in early-to-mid-century France. The blackish-green-patinated ...

This couple of sculptures was made by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, a French artist and one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, who lived in the 19th c...

A 19th-century patinated bronze figure of the Berlin Adorante, or Praying Boy. The piece is a reduction of the Hellenistic-era original, currently in t...

A mahogany/dark-chocolate-patinated bronze from one of the finest foundries of 19th-century, Siot-Decauville. The sculptor James Pradier (1790-1852), who commenced his career with wo...

A French patinated bronze figure of Diana di Gabii, late 19th century.

This piece is unique in my collection. Antique bronze cassolettes and vases and urns and other “garnitures” come in pairs and are generally meant to flank a clock on the mantle. If y...

A French patinated and fire-gilt clock depicting a woman in prayer, Restauration Era, 1815-1830. The dial is silvered-bronze. The silk-thread mechanism is in good working condition w...

A French Sienna marble and patinated-bronze portico clock, Restauration Era, 1815-1830. The silk-thread mechanism is in good working condition with key and pendulum.

A French patinated and fire-gilt clock depicting a standing figure in the neo-Egyptian style, Empire Era, 1800-15. The silk-thread mechanism is in good working condition with key and...

This clocks serves as an exquisite example of the blend of patinated bronze with fire-gilding popular in period 1815-30 among French artisans. The subject, the Roman poet Virgil, who...

A French fire-gilt clock depicting a standing pair of figures in “troubadour” attire, Restauration Era, 1815-1830. The silk-thread mechanism is in good working condition with key and...

This imposing clock brings to the table - or, rather, mantle - the full suite of iconography for a subject that must’ve come as a welcome relief to the French after the trauma of th...

A French fire-gilt clock depicting a standing figure, Restauration Era, 1815-1830. The silk-thread mechanism is in good working condition with key and pendulum.

A mantle clock of very good quality from the French Restoration period c 1820. The neoclassical character represents the shepherd Paris, with requisite stick and hat, admiring a but...

A French patinated and fire-gilt clock in the form of a vase, Empire Era, 1800-1815. The silk-thread mechanism is in good working condition with key and pendulum.

A French patinated and fire-gilt clock depicting Hermes/Mercury, Restauration Era, 1815-30. The dial is silvered-bronze. The silk-thread mechanism is in unverified condition.

A French fire-gilt bronze clock depicting a boy and his dog, Louis Philippe Era, 1830-48. The silk-thread mechanism is in good working condition with key and pendulum.

A French fire-gilt bronze clock with marble base depicting a Japanese woman, Louis XVI or Empire Era, 1790-1815. The silk-thread mechanis...

A fine French fire-gilt bronze clock depicting a Greek warrior, Restauration Era, 1815-30. The silk-thread mechanism is in good working condition with key and pendulum.

A gorgeous fire-gilt bronze clock depicting Madame de Staël seated in a classical landscape holding a lyre, and, at her feet, a fragment of a column. F...

An ink drawing after Poussin. Dated 1819 on bottom right. The frame and glass color are original.

Drawing of a French woman, signed and dated “1817.” The woman wears a “troubadour” ensemble that could reflect either her *région d'origine* or point to the Romantic, new-medieval vo...

A very rare oil-on-copper portrait of a French officer from Louis Philippe period of 1830-48. Paintings on copper sheeting are typically found only among the genre of small devotiona...

French oil-on-canvas portrait of boy. Dating from the Louis Philippe Era of 1830-45, this charming portrait is done in a naive manner that evokes American portraiture from the same p...

An oil-on-canvas full-scale portrait of a standing man in costume typical of the Baroque era of c. 1720, France. Purchased from a dealer in Geneva, Switzerland. The canvas is in good...

A French oil-on-canvas portrait of a woman from the Louis Philippe period of 1830-48. Her ensemble and hairstyle place her to the mid-1830s. The canvas is in good unlined condition (...

Bourbon Restoration portrait of French man. Dating from c. 1825, this handsome oil on canvas painting depicts a *homme bourgeois* displaying all the earmarks of the of the less-milit...

French oil on canvas portrait of a man c. 1800. The bourgeois gent depicted here displays the cliched hand-in-waistcoat mannerism of the 18th and early 19th century. He’s wearing wha...

Oil-on-canvas portrait of an elegant woman from the Louis Philippe Era (1830-48). The canvas and original frame are in excellent condition.

French oil on panel painting of a woman. Composed on a wooden panel, this c. 1815 oil depicts a woman displaying the exaggerated, theatrical mannerisms of the Neoclassical style that...

A charming oil-on-canvas of a man from the reign of Louis XVIII (1815-24). On the reverse, the following inscription can be found: "Erra, Pinxit” (“Painted by Erra”) and date of Marc...

A marine tableau, oil on wood board, by the French Romantic painter Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-1870). The signature “Poitevin” appears in the lower right: our painter seems to have gon...

Neoclassicism saturates this droll portrait of a French girl c. 1800: the high-waisted dress, the antique hairstyle "a la Titus” complemented with m...

A charming French 18th-century oil-on-canvas portrait of a pharmacist named Petrus Chevallier. Signed “Davila” verso, where it also dated “20 - 09 - 1753" and the title “Petrus Cheva...

The term “Biedermeier” was first wielded as mildly disparaging designation for the bourgeois domesticity, so idealized by German society in the post-Napoleonic era prior to the 1848 ...

A copy of the 1636 painting “River Ford” by the French proto-plein-air painter Claude Lorrain (1600-1682). This suivier, or follower, has faithfully reproduced the original but revis...