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Beautiful Pair of Transition Style Armchairs "A Chassis", France, Circa 1880
By Michel Gourdin
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of Transition style armchairs "à la Reine" and "à châssis", in carved and gilded wood and decorated with a flowery lampas by the Maison Tassin...
Category
Antique 1880s French Armchairs
Materials
Giltwood
"Faun and Bacchus" Bronze Candelabras After Clodion, France, Circa 1880
By Claude Michel Clodion
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of candelabras after a model by Clodion, representing a young Faun and a young Bacchus in patinated bronze, each holding three light-arms in chiseled and gilded bronze with vine...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XVI More Lighting
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
Large Imari Porcelain Planter, France, Circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Japanese porcelain and French gilded bronze mount.
Important Imari Porcelain planter with a polychrome and golden decoration of cranes, carp and lion, on a blue vermiculated backgro...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XV Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Bronze
"The Source" Gilt bronze Clock attr. to L. Messagé & F.Linke, France, circa 1890
By François Linke
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming clock in the shape of a Rocaille-inspired cartel in chiseled and gilded bronze. Scalloped marine-inspired decor representing a trophy with oars, dolphins, reeds and flowers ...
Category
Antique 1890s French Rococo Revival Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Iron and Colored Glass Oriental Chandelier, Circa 1900
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare Moroccan chandelier in patinated and gilded openwork iron with eighteen lights,
composed of a baluster shaft ending in a hexagonal crown surrounded by a gallery and decorated wi...
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Antique Early 1900s Moroccan Islamic Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass
Paris Porcelain Pair of Vases "The Flowering", France, Circa 1880
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of white porcelain vases richly decorated with beautiful polychrome floral compositions and butterflies enhanced with gold on a blue background, framed by golden porce...
Category
Antique 1880s French Napoleon III Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Neo-Egyptian Marble Clock Attributed to G. Servant, France, Circa 1870
By Georges Emile Henri Servant
Located in PARIS, FR
Black and red marble pyramid shaped Egyptian style clock attributed to G. Servant, surmounted by a patinated bronze figure representing the Egyptian goddess Isis sitting on her throne. Wearing the Hathor hairdress (the solar disc surrounded by the sacred cow horns), she holds in her right hand the Ouadj, the goddesses scepter surmounted by a canopy of papyrus, symbolizing health and eternal youth and in her left hand, the cross of life Ankh, symbol of rebirth and eternity.
That Egyptian style in fashion since Napoleon the First and his military campaigns in Egypt around 1799 was rediscovered in France in the 1830's and above all in the 1860's. Some renowned French artists, such the sculptors and bronze-casters Guillaume Denière (1815-1903), Emile Hébert (1828-1893) et Georges Servant (1828-1890), presented at the 1867 and 1878 Paris Universal Exhibitions, an a-part section dedicated to their Egyptian style production. Their shows drew then considerable attention from the public and the wealthy collectors. During the 1867 Universal Exhibition, one could admire the Stand realized by the French silversmith-jeweller Gustave Baugrand (1826-1870), where his works executed in most Fine materials took inspiration from the Egyptian Antiques, exhibited then in the Louvre museum.
Georges Emile Henri Servant (1828-c.1890), who took over his father in 1855 at their foundry, rue Vieille-du-Temple, in Paris, specialized in the production of neo-Egyptian style clocks, very popular in France since 1860’s, and also the making of Greek style decorative objects. He drew considerable attention to the high quality of his bronzes at the 1855 Paris Universal Exhibition and then at the 1862 London Exhibition. At this time Servant exported up to 40% of his production, principally to the United States, where for instance, his clocks were sold with great success by Louis Tiffany Inc. or Hamann & Roche of New York. But his success came really at the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition, where he was awarded a gold medal for his neo-Greek and Egyptian works (Les Merveilles...
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Antique 1870s French Egyptian Revival Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
"Chinese" Giltwood Clock After a Design by Thomas Johnson, England, circa 1860
By Thomas Johnson, London 1
Located in PARIS, FR
Important giltwood clock with a mirror background of Rococo inspiration with a rich sinuous and asymmetrical decoration representing a Chinese couple ab...
Category
Antique 1860s English Chinese Chippendale Mantel Clocks
Materials
Giltwood
'African Venus' Bronze Sculpture by C. Marnyhac, France, Circa 1878
By Maison Marnyhac 1
Located in PARIS, FR
An exceptional life-size two patina bronze figure, representing a young African woman taming a snake, dressed with a feathered loincloth and a long drape in her hair, and wearing Afr...
Category
Antique 1870s French Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
“Scultura” Coffee Table attr. to D. Hicks, England, circa 1970
By David Hicks
Located in PARIS, FR
Square-shaped coffee table with transparent glass top, resting on a pyramid-shaped base with six rows of chrome-plated steel bars.
Biography :
David Nightingale Hicks (1929-1998) be...
Category
Vintage 1970s English Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel
Exceptional Crystal and Bronze Chandelier, L-A Marquis, France, C. 1860
By Maison Marquis
Located in PARIS, FR
This very important 96-lights chandelier made entirely in chiseled and gilded bronze in the Renaissance style, is composed at the lower part of six large sets of ten light-arms, adorned with Bacchus masks, scalloped acanthuses, pearls and “cuir découpé” motifs (“cut leather”), and at the upper part of six sets of six light-arms. The light-arms set is designed around an architectured central shaft, made of foliate balusters, surrounded by three female tritons, each bearing a basket of exotic fruits. The whole finishing at the top with scrolls alternating with garlands of fruits. The whole is richly adorned with numerous cut and faceted crystal pendants.
Provenance : Casino – Campione d’Italia
*Two identical chandeliers have been made by Louis-Auguste Marquis for the Galerie de la Paix du 37 quai d’Orsay, Hôtel du Ministre des Affaires Étrangères (see attached).
Louis-Auguste Marquis (1811-1885) teamed up in 1839 with another bronze-caster named Gilbert Honoré Chaumont (1790-1868), already specialized in lightings. They were awarded at the Exhibition of Industrial Products a bronze medal with their Renaissance style candelabra, a clock and a large chandelier with branches...
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Antique 1860s French Napoleon III Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Pair of Ginger Jars with Phoenixes, China, 19th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Large pair of baluster-shaped ginger jars in polychrome porcelain from the Famille Rose.
With rich rotating decoration, it is adorned on the body with a pair of phoenixes, symbolizin...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain "Dove" Planter by L'Escalier de Cristal, France, circa 1880
By L'Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Inscribed HA et Cie and numbered 403
Signed in red Escalier de Cristal Paris
Beautiful planter in gilded and painted porcelain. The rounded belly with a platinum background is decor...
Category
Antique 1880s French Napoleon III Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
Antique-Inspired Console and its Mirror, Italy, 19th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare set including a console and a mirror in blackened, gilded and painted wood of antique inspiration.
The console, topped with molded Italian Portor marble, is decorated with three portraits in bronze medallions alternating with two painted friezes...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Greek Revival Console Tables
Materials
Marble, Brass, Bronze
Vase with Cranes by the Villeroy&Boch Manufacture, Mettlach Germany, Circa 1900
By Villeroy & Boch
Located in PARIS, FR
Model n° 1567
Beautiful Japanese inspired baluster-shaped vase in tinted stoneware. The rich polychrome rotating decoration illustrates cranes in the moonlight, near a lake lined wi...
Category
Antique Early 1900s German Japonisme Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Japanese Style Bronze Planter by L'Escalier de Cristal, France, Circa 1890
By L'Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed H.P for Henri Pannier.
Lovely hexagonal shaped planter in patinated bronze with gold highlights. Adorned on three sides with a dragon framed by a rhombus frieze on an openwor...
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Antique 1890s French Japonisme Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Bronze
Oval Giltwood Mirror Attributed to L. Frullini, Italy, circa 1890
By Luigi Frullini
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed on the back with a stencil « F. Quentin & C, Firenze »
Exceptional oval mirror in delicately carved and gilded wood. The frame, underlined in its center by a frieze of ovals and a beaded frieze, is adorned with a luxuriant country decor in which are intermingled various flowers and fruits, vines, garden attributes ; but also farm animals represented in a very realistic way.
Luigi Frullini...
Category
Antique 1890s Italian Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Baccarat Crystal and Gilded Bronze Chandelier, France, circa 1890
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
A very important thirty-five lights crystal and gilded bronze chandelier. The centered stem is made up of baluster-and-bowl-shaped cut-crystal pieces, all of very high-standard quality. Adorned with an elegant gilt bronze mount forming the light-arms, alternating bouquets of six and one, all decorated with climbing ivy...
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Antique 1890s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Important Pair of Gilded Bronze Oriental Style Chandeliers, France, Circa 1910
Located in PARIS, FR
Important pair of Oriental style chandeliers in gilded and patinated bronze suspended by six articulated chains reunited by an elegant roof light. Circular ...
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Early 20th Century French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV-inspired Writing Table Stamped H. Nelson, France, circa 1880
By Henri Nelson
Located in PARIS, FR
Stamped H. Nelson
Charming Louis XV-inspired scalloped-shaped writing table in kingwood veneer and decorated with a fine gilded and chiseled bronze mount. The tray, surrounded by a ...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Porphyry, Bronze
Four Baccarat Crystal Vases, by H. Vian ; H.Dasson & Baccarat, France, C. 1880
By Henri Vian, Baccarat, Henry Dasson
Located in PARIS, FR
A very fine and rare set of four baluster-shaped covered vases made of faceted ovoid cut Baccarat crystal and adorned with a bronze mount of exceptional quality and kept with its ori...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XVI Jars
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Louis XVI Period Carrara Marble Console, France, circa 1780
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare neo-classical Louis XVI period console sculpted in white Carrara marble. The rectangular lintel, surmounted with a molded top, is supported by four detached fluted columns with ...
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Antique 1780s French Louis XVI Console Tables
Materials
Carrara Marble
Neo-Gothic Chandelier with Lions, France, circa 1860
By Eugène Emmanuel Viollet Le Duc
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful neo-gothic chandelier in patinated bronze with gold highlights and water green opaline glass. The central shaft, decorated with cartridges in imitation of coats of arms, is...
Category
Antique 1860s French Gothic Revival Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
"Egg" Rocking Chair by the Societa Anonima Antonio Volpe, Italy, Circa 1922
By Antonio Volpe
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare “Egg” rocking chair in curved and stained wood, with caned seat and back. The wide oval-shaped armrests, giving their name to the model, and allowing gentle swinging, are stabil...
Category
Vintage 1920s Italian Modern Rocking Chairs
Materials
Rattan, Wood
Ottoman Style Chandelier by F. Barbedienne, France, circa 1880
By Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed F. Barbedienne
Rare Ottoman style gilded bronze chandelier composed of an openwork crown, from which ten arms of light emerge, holding six transparent glasses decorated with ...
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Antique 1880s French Islamic Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
"Geniuses of the Arts" Gilded Bronze and Marble Clock Set by G. Fabre, c. 1900
By Samuel Marti, G. Fabre
Located in PARIS, FR
Dial signed G. Fabre, 4 rue des Filles du Calvaire, Paris
Clockwork signed Samuel Marti – Médaille d’Or 1900
A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and statuary Carrare marble clock set, consisting of a clock and a pair candelabra...
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Antique Early 1900s French Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of Aesthetic Movement Armchairs Attributed to G.Viardot, France, Circa 1880
By Gabriel Viardot
Located in PARIS, FR
These armchairs made of tinted wood are to be linked to another pair of armchairs executed by Gabriel Viardot, and now exhibited at the Decorative Arts Museum in Paris (Inv. 2006.105.1.2). They present a similar asymmetric design and an equal carving quality including the winding dragon on the back. (see picture attached)
Gabriel Viardot career began as a wood carver and he produced small furniture, sculpturally carved with naturalistic motifs and animals. In the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris, his finely sculpted objects were well received. However, with the increasing importation of similarly produced Swiss and German articles, he found less opportunity for these and decided to innovate. G. Viardot succeeded to his father’s business in 1861 installed rue Rambuteau in Paris, circa 1870 he turned to the idea of producing “Meubles genre Chinois et Japonais”. The taste in Europe for exotic furniture...
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Antique 1880s French Aesthetic Movement Armchairs
Materials
Fabric, Wood
“Spiral” Lamp by Ingo Maurer for Design M, Germany, circa 1966
By Design M, Ingo Maurer
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful “Spiral” model lamp typical of the 1960s attributed to the designer Ingo Maurer for Design M, chrome metal base and white opaline glass globe.
Biography :
Born in 1932 in ...
Category
Vintage 1960s German Table Lamps
Materials
Steel, Chrome
Table Lamp by Selenova, Italy, Circa 1970
By Selenova
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb table lamp composed of a blown Murano glass globe and a chromed metal base, from the 1970s, and produced by “Selenova”.
It is made up of 4 bulbs, green, red, yellow and white ...
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Chrome
Neo-Greek Opaque Crystal Chandelier Attributed to Baccarat, France, Circa 1890
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming six-light chandelier attributed to Baccarat in clear and opaque cut crystal decorated with Greek friezes in orange tones. The central shaft, formed of inverted cones and cup...
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Antique 1890s French Greek Revival Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal
Japanese Style Tray Attributed to L.-C. Sevin & F. Barbedienne, France, c. 1860
By Louis-Constant Sevin, Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in PARIS, FR
Rich landscape in cloisonné enamel on blue and brown background imitating Aventurine stone, attributed to L.C. Sevin and F. Barbedienne. The decor represents a river surrounded by wi...
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Antique 1860s French Japonisme Centerpieces
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Pair of Torcheres by Toussaint & Barbedienne, France, circa 1850
By Achille Collas, François-Christophe-Armand Toussaint, Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed Ad Toussaint 1850 and F. Barbedienne Fondeur
Stamped Achille Collas Réduction Mécanique
Torcheres – height : 148 cm (58 1/4 in.) ; width : 34 cm (13 1/3 in.)
Pedestals – heig...
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Antique 1850s French Napoleon III More Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Pair of Armchairs Attributed to H.A. Fourdinois, France, c1870
Located in PARIS, FR
Important pair of armchairs attributed to H.A. Fourdinois, with a flat back in “chapeau de gendarme” centered with a carved and foliated cartouche, joining padded scroll armrests car...
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Antique 1870s French Renaissance Armchairs
Materials
Wood
Centerpiece "The Naiad", attributed to G. Denière, France, circa 1870
By Guillaume Denière
Located in PARIS, FR
Exceptional centerpiece in silvered and gilded bronze, composed of a naiad riding a dolphin, supporting a chiseled shell decorated with reeds, adorned with the head of a river god on its bow and on which a winged love blows in a conch. The whole rests on a pedestal decorated with dolphin heads and cut-out leathers, ending with a porphyry base with molded steps.
Historical and artistic context
Centers and naves of tables are attested in France from the Middle Ages in order to present spices and other condiments brought from distant lands around the Mediterranean or from the trade of the Silk Roads. The importance of their presence on prestigious tables will be confirmed throughout the decorative arts, evolving during the 19th century in centerpieces, becoming a central element of decoration.
Here we find a true virtuosity in the composition and representation of the human figure which is reminiscent of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance. Indeed, the fluidity of the lines of the naiad can be compared to the nymph of Fontainebleau by Benvenuto Cellini preserved at the Louvre museum and dated 1545, while the naturalist representation of the marine setting refers to the work of Wenzel Jamnitzer...
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Antique 1870s French Renaissance Revival Centerpieces
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Charming enamel and gilded Bronze Ewer by F. Barbedienne, France, circa 1870
By Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed F. Barbedienne & Cie
Height : 31,5 cm (12,4 in.) ; Width : 12 cm (4,7 in.) ; Depth : 10,5 cm (4,1 in.)
Charming baluster-shaped ewer in gilded bronze decorated with red and blue polychrome cloisonné enamel. Two beaded handles connect the body to the slender neck, ending in a flared pouring spout, and it rests on a circular piedouche. The whole is decorated with abundant engraved decoration of foliage interlacing.
Barbedienne and the Cloisonné enamel :
Ferdinand Barbedienne continuously innovated and he revived the use of enamel on art works during the second half of the 19th century. The Sèvres Manufacture enamel workshop had ever tried it in 1854-1855, but Barbedienne was the one who succeeded to join enamel to an industrial decorative objects production. From 1858 “At Mr Barbedienne’s, enamels in copper ornaments have got their former prestige back” (Les bronzes de la Maison Barbedienne, C. Simon, in L’Art du XIXe siècle, 1858, n°21, p. 252). The Barbedienne Company had now an enamel workshop where objects ornamented with oriental style or medieval style enamels were made. Four years after, Barbedienne’s cloisonné...
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Antique 1880s French Napoleon III Vases
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Paintings "Courtly Love" and "Inconstant Love", French School, Late 19th Century
By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in PARIS, FR
Measurements with frames: Height 135 cm (53 in.), width 94 cm (37 in.)
Magnificent pair of important paintings on the theme of “Fêtes galantes” and so dedicated to the art of sedu...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Neo-Greek Cigar Cellarette, C.G. Diehl, E. Frémiet & J. Brandely, Circa 1867
By Emmanuel Fremiet, Jean Brandely, Charles-Guillaume Diehl
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare cigar humidor made in wood, with a front flap, discovering five sliding cane trays. Beautiful bronze and silver electroplated brass ornaments, such as the central niche decorated with a winged creature, surmounted on top of the cabinet with a feline. Resting on four tall legs joined by a stretcher decorated with a silvered pierced bronze incense burner.
The central relief of that cellarette for cigars, with that fantasy creature, is directly inspired from the one designed by J. Brandely for the front door of the Merovingian Cabinet made by Diehl in 1867, and now preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Inv. 1989.197).
Arriving in Paris in about 1840 Charles-Guillaume Diehl (1811-1885) founded his cabinet making and decoration firm at 19 rue Michel-le-Comte in 1885. His workshops produced elegant little pieces of furniture in rosewood and thuja and novelties with bronze and porcelain embellishments (see « Les ébénistes du XIXème siècle »,D. Ledoux-Lebard, Ed. de l’amateur, 1982, p.164). It was his luxury boxes, however (liqueur cellarettes, cigar cabinets, games boxes, cashmere cases, jewelry cases) which assured Diehl’s renown (see « l’Art en France sous le Second Empire », Exposition Grand-Palais, Paris, 1979, p.133). Already rewarded with a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 in Paris, he exhibited a jardinière with china columns and a liqueur cabinet at the Industrial Arts Exhibition in 1861.
In collaboration with the designer Jean Brandely (active between 1867 and 1873), Diehl renovated his decorative repertory and created astonishing pieces of furniture in the Grecian style which had a dazzling success at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867, where his cabinets also won a silver medal. Certain motifs were so typical of Diehl’s work that they received extensive commentary by the art critic J. Mesnard in his book « Les Merveilles de l’Exposition Universal de 1867 » (vol. II, pp. 133 & 149). He writes of a table of which « the pendant bearing hooks and the fan shaped radiating motif which ornaments the entablature are engraved with love » (p. 133) and a jewelry case where « The head in fine Grecian style makes up the essential part of the fine gilt bronze ornementation » (p. 149).
For this Universal Exhibition of 1867, Diehl also formed a partnership with two famous sculptors : Emile Guillemin (1841-1907) who carved the relief for a mahogany sideboard with galvanic gilt bronzes (Orsay Museum, Paris, Inv. O.A.O. 992) and Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-1910) who executed the low relief for a cedar medal cabinet...
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Antique 1860s French Greek Revival Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Neo-Renaissance Cabinet by P. Sormani and attr. to E. Lièvre, France, Circa 1870
By Paul Sormani, Edouard Lievre
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed twice on the lock P. SORMANI 10 rue Charlot Paris
Rare neo-Renaissance cabinet in carved wood and Portor marble, adorned with chiseled and gilded bronze.
The upper, part, surmounted by a frieze of posts and marble cabochons, consists of a central door decorated with a carved panel representing the birth of Venus, framed by two pairs of ringed and fluted columns with Corinthians capitals in gilded bronze revealing two doors with secret opening. Two drawers with lion’s head shaped handles and a central drawer decorated with tracery in gilded bronze complete the upper part of this cabinet.
In the lower part, two drawers on the belt with diamond...
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Antique 1870s French Renaissance Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Leila and the Giaour Gilded Bronze Clock, France, Circa 1830
Located in PARIS, FR
Dial signed Polti Frères
Measures: With base or glass: Height 61 cm (24 in.), width 51,5 cm (20.3 in.), depth 23.5 cm (9,2 in.)
Without base: Height 52 cm (20,5 in.), width 42 cm (16.5 in.), depth 12.5 cm (4.9 in.)
Important philhellenic clock in burnished and amati gilded bronze, finely chiseled, representing on the terrace a couple elegantly dressed in "the turkish style", and richly decorated with foliage, scrolls and flowers. The feet, decorated with water leaves, rest on an oval wooden base covered with a globe.
The theme of the clock comes from The Giaour, a fragment of a Turkish Tale, an English poem by Lord Byron published in may 1813 which tells the thwarted love of a Venetian, the Giaour – term by which the Turks designate infidels and especially Christians – and of Leila, a slave belonging to Hassan’s seraglio, military leader of a Turkish province. The betrayal of Leila discovered, she will be thrown into the sea and her lover will avenge her by killing Hassan, then taking refuge in a monastery.
Symbol of prestige and modernity, the decorative clocks are a reflection of the taste of the era of a wealthy bourgeoisie and may be the subject of diplomatic gifts or between individuals.
Beyond the purely decorative aspect of such objects, watchmaking in the 19th century is part of a subtle mix of political, historical and literary references.
This philhellenic movement converning the West finds a particular echo in France, one of the countries with the United Kingdom and Russia having suported the Greeks during their war of independance (1821-1830) to free oneself from the grip of the Ottoman Empire. Many clocks...
Category
Antique 1830s French Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Neo-Greek Floor Lamps Attributed to G. Servant, France, Circa 1870
By Georges Emile Henri Servant
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare pair of Greek style floor lamps made in patinated bronze attributed to G. Servant, each surmounted of a frosted glass globe engraved of stars and a Greek motif frieze. The body of the vase, decorated with Greek style patterns such as palmets, Greek motif frieze and water leaves, stands on a shaft decorated with deer heads. Fine chains are connected to a delicate butterfly. The set is based on tripod legs with lion claw feet alternating large palmets.
Height : 183 cm (72 in.) ; 213 cm (83 3/4 in.) with glass shades ; Diameter : 43 cm (19 2/3in.)
Georges Emile Henri Servant (1828-c.1890), who took over his father in 1855 at their foundry, rue Vieille-du-Temple, in Paris, specialized in the production of neo-Egyptian style clocks, very popular in France since 1860’s, and also the making of Greek style decorative objects. He drew considerable attention to the high quality of his bronzes at the 1855 Paris Universal Exhibition and then at the 1862 London Exhibition. At this time Servant exported up to 40% of his production, principally to the United States, where for instance, his clocks were sold with great success by Louis Tiffany Inc. or Hamann & Roche of New York. But his success came really at the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition, where he was awarded a gold medal for his neo-Greek and Egyptian works (Les Merveilles...
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Antique 1860s French Greek Revival Floor Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Rare "Ottoman" Bronze Chandelier, France, Circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Large elongated Ottoman style chandelier with two lights, in bronze with double patina. The shaft is embellished with multi-lobed openwork arc...
Category
Antique 1880s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Neo-Renaissance Dining Room Set Att. to Barbedienne, Meynard & Sevin, circa 1890
By Ferdinand Barbedienne, Louis-Constant Sevin
Located in PARIS, FR
Display sideboard : height : 285 cm (112 in.) ; width : 215 cm (84,6 in) ; depth : 70 cm (27,5 in.)
Table (without extension) : height : 76 cm (29,9 in.) ; width : 170 cm (66,9 in.) ; depth : 120 cm (47,2 in.) / Extensions (x 2) : width : 45 cm (17,7 in.) ; depth : 120 cm (47,2 in.)
Dresser : height : 180 cm (70,8 in.) ; width : 215 cm (84,6 in.) ; Depth : 65 cm (25,6 in.)
Chairs : height : 114 cm (44,8 in.) ; width : 48 cm (18,9 in.) ; depth : 45 cm (17,7 in.)
Woodwork attributed to Maison Meynard (1808-1889), Meynard Fils; ormolu mounting by Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892) from drawing by Louis-Constant Sévin...
Category
Antique 1870s French Renaissance Revival Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of porcelain “swallow” vases , L'Escalier de Cristal, France, 1890
By L'Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of Chinese porcelain vases. On a blue background of stylized clouds, two cartouches display a design of pairs of swallows flying among flowering branches. The reverse ...
Category
Antique 1890s French Aesthetic Movement Vases
Materials
Bronze
Set of 4 Tapestries Signed by Beauvais Manufacture aft. F.Boucher, France, 1770
By Beauvais Royal Manufactory, François Boucher
Located in PARIS, FR
Each panel : Each panel = Height : 206 cm (81,1 in.) ; Width : 56 cm (22 in.) ; Depth : 4 cm (1,5 in.)
Beautiful set of four tapestries representing children’s pastorals, woven by the Beauvais Manufacture on cardboards by F. Boucher, inspired by his serie of paintings delivered around 1751 to the marquise de Pompadour for her Château de Crécy...
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Antique 1770s French Louis XVI Tapestries
Materials
Tapestry, Giltwood
"Giuditta" by Ezio Ceccarelli, Italy, Circa 1900
By Ezio Ceccarelli
Located in PARIS, FR
Great female statue of Judith in bronze with brown patina and white marble from Carrara. This young woman holds in her hands, stretched over his head, a scimitar in its scabbard, ready to draw it. The weapon is fitted with a hilt decorated by a stylized lion on the top of the sword guard...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Italian Beaux Arts Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
"Helix Spiral Swivel" Coffee Table, France, Circa 1980
By Danny Lane
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful vintage low table inspired by the style of Danny Lane, helix spiral stacked glass with removable oval stained glass top. The unique helical spiral design, with neatly stack...
Category
Vintage 1980s French Modern Tables
Materials
Glass
« The Musician » Japanese style Clock attr. to L'Escalier de Cristal, FR, c.1890
By L'Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Amusing bronze with double patina and porcelain clock in the shape of a covered jar.
This clock, with a dial with Arabic numerals decorated in its center with a seated lute player, i...
Category
Antique 1890s French Japonisme Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI style Cassolettes attr. to H. Vian, France, circa 1890
By Henri Vian
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of Louis XVI-inspired baluster-shaped cassolettes in white marble, enriched with an elegant bronze mount with a double patina. The lid is topped with a seed-shaped gri...
Category
Antique 1890s French Louis XVI Jars
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Rare lounge chair, Artelano and Samuel Coriat, France, Circa 1986
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare lounge chair in black leather and black lacquered metal, with tilt adjustment system using a locking screw. This lounge chair designed by Samuel Coriat began in 1986 and benefits from exceptional comfort and design.
Artelano : Founded by Samuel Coriat. Thirty-three years ago, he left Havas to found his own brand and design his first furniture. If he's just starting out, his style is already firmly defined: basic shapes and pure lines served by materials like glass, metal and lacquered wood. This taste for simplicity will subsequently guide his choices. His business is doing well but Samuel Coriat wants to take a step forward: he wants to become a publisher, that is to say, collaborate with designers on projects, from design to sale, including manufacturing. He contacts creators whose work, he thinks, matches what he likes. The first to be called, in 1987, was Pascal Mourgue. He then signed his first collection, “Atlantique”, for Artelano. The collaboration between the two men will continue and give birth to other creations. After the Italians Paolo Deganello, in 1992, and Carlo Bartoli, in 1993, Samuel Coriat worked in 1994 with the Frenchman Olivier Gagnère, for whom he produced the chairs and armchairs which today furnish the Café Marly...
Category
Late 20th Century French Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Metal
Neo-Greek Inkwell by C.G. Diehl, E. Frémiet and J. Brandely, France, Circa 1867
By Charles-Guillaume Diehl, Jean Brandely, Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed Diehl à Paris.
Wood and silvered copper inkwell. Central drawer ornamented with an escutcheon and flanked by two small lateral drawers forming two containers, surmounted by a lid representing a nestling. Central niche ornamented with a winged creature. Inkwell flanked by two felines. Toped by a penholder representing a Moorish head resting on an eagle claw.
This exceptional piece was realized thanks to the collaboration of ornemanist J. Brandely, sculptor E. Frémiet and cabinet-maker C.-G. Diehl. The motif of the fantasy creature dear to Diehl, is to be seen on the famous cabinet made by him in 1867 and now exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Inv. 1989.197).
Arriving in Paris in about 1840 Charles-Guillaume Diehl (1811-1885) founded his cabinet making and decoration firm at 19 rue Michel-le-Comte in 1885. His workshops produced elegant little pieces of furniture in rosewood and thuja and novelties with bronze and porcelain embellishments (see “Les ébénistes du XIXème siècle”, D. Ledoux-Lebard, Ed. de l’amateur, 1982, p.164). It was his luxury boxes, however (liqueur cellarettes, cigar cabinets, games boxes, cashmere cases, jewelry cases) which assured Diehl’s renown (see “l’Art en France sous le Second Empire”, Exposition Grand-Palais, Paris, 1979, p.133). Already rewarded with a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 in Paris, he exhibited a jardinière with china columns and a liqueur cabinet at the Industrial Arts Exhibition in 1861.
In collaboration with the designer Jean Brandely (active from 1867 until 1873), Diehl renovated his decorative repertory and created astonishing pieces of furniture in the Grecian style which had a dazzling success at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867, where his cabinets also won a silver medal. Certain motifs were so typical of Diehl’s work that they received extensive commentary by the art critic J. Mesnard in his book “Les Merveilles de l’Exposition Universal de 1867” (vol. II, pp. 133 & 149). He writes of a table of which “the pendant bearing hooks and the fan shaped radiating motif which ornaments the entablature are engraved with love” (p. 133) and a jewelry case where “The head in fine Grecian style makes up the essential part of the fine gilt bronze ornamentation” (p. 149).
For this Universal Exhibition Diehl also formed a partnership with two famous sculptors: Emile Guillemin (1841-1907) who carved the relief for a mahogany sideboard with galvanic gilt bronzes (Orsay Museum, Paris, Inv. O.A.O. 992) and Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-1910) who executed the low relief for a cedar medal cabinet...
Category
Antique 1860s French Greek Revival Inkwells
Materials
Copper
Renaissance Style Wooden Cabinet Attributed to H.A. Fourdinois, France, 1893
Located in PARIS, FR
A wooden cupboard, elaborately carved throughout, dated "1893" on the crest and attributed to H.A. Fourdinois. The upper section with a pair of cherubs at the center of a balustrade ornamented with two-handled urns, two architectonic doors below, carved with lady and gentleman in niches surrounded by extensive carving with classical motifs. The lower section with two drawers above a standing female caryatid support at each front corner. The all reposing on four gadronned round feet.
The Fourdinois company was founded in 1835 by Alexandre-Georges Fourdinois (1799-1871). The Universal Exhibition held in London in 1851 was undoubtedly their first great artistic and public success. Winning the Great medal for a neo-Renaissance buffet...
Category
Antique 1890s French Renaissance Cabinets
Materials
Wood
Pair of Neo-Renaissance Vitrines, Attributed to H-A Fourdinois, France, c. 1860
Located in PARIS, FR
Fine pair of neo-Renaissance vitrines in richly carved wood, with three glazed sides framed by a relief frieze. Each opening to a drawer decorated with interlacing on the belt, and t...
Category
Antique 1860s French Renaissance Revival Vitrines
Materials
Marble
Pair of "Sèvres" Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Candelabra-Vases, France, Circa 1880
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in PARIS, FR
Large pair of baluster-shaped candelabra vases with seven lights, in gros bleu porcelain and chiselled and gilded bronze. The sconces, adorned with fol...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XVI More Lighting
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Crystal Chandelier "La Nef" Attributed to Baccarat, France, Circa 1870
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
Magnificent vessel shaped chandelier in gilded bronze and engraved crystal attributed to Baccarat, suspended by four articulated chains. A ceiling pendant decorated with prisms and a...
Category
Antique 1870s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Exceptional 8 Pieces Bedroom Set by H.A. Fourdinois, France, Circa 1889
Located in PARIS, FR
An exceptional Louis XVI style bedroom set in carved and veneered wood with brass filets and gilt bronze ornaments. The set consists in a w...
Category
Antique 1880s French Bedroom Sets
Materials
Onyx, Bronze, Brass
Japanese Style Planter Attributed to l'Escalier de Cristal, France, circa 1880
By Edouard Lievre, L'Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Large planter decorated on the belly with a rotating decoration of polychrome flowers and geometric patterns in cloisonné enamel on a red background. It is inserted in an important p...
Category
Antique 1880s French Japonisme Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Large Neo-Greek Vase by F. Levillain & F. Barbedienne, France, circa 1890
By Ferdinand Barbedienne, Ferdinand Levillain
Located in PARIS, FR
After the model presented at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1878
Important neo-Greek vase in the shape of an Amphora, made in two patina bronze. The body is decorated with a rich continuous frieze in bas-relief presenting a procession of characters carrying their offerings to the temple, underlined by a decoration of theatrical masks among olive trees. The 's'-scroll handles decorated with grape vines, resting only on the shoulder of the vase, are supported by a ram’s head. Numerous palmettes and friezes adorn the whole. Resting on a molded marble circular base.
Height without marble base : 116,5 cm
Biography
Ferdinand Levillain (Paris, 1837-1905) studied under the sculptor Jouffroy (1806-1882), before making his debut in 1861 at the French Artists Salon where he continued to exhibit until 1903. At the 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris, he was praised for a Neo-Greek style bronze cup he made for the firm Blot and Drouard. He was not to become really famous, however, until 1871 thanks to his association with the great bronze founder Ferdinand Barbedienne, who began to exhibit Neo-Greek style lamps...
Category
Antique 1890s French Greek Revival Vases
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Oriental Style Shelf, France, Circa 1890
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming Oriental style corner wall shelf in carved wood with moucharabieh decoration and mother-of-pearl pastilles on the edge of the shelf.
Category
Antique 1890s French Shelves and Wall Cabinets
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Pair of Neo-Greek Pedestals, attributed to G.Servant, France, Circa 1880
By Georges Emile Henri Servant
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of patinated and gilded bronze turntable pedestals with for each of them, three paw feet, headed by stylized lion muzzles, ornated with beaded chains and joined by a fine foliate stretcher. The belt is adorned by a banded frieze cast in low-relief representing an ancient scene : “The Battle of the Lapithes and the Centaurs”.
These pedestals can be associated with the "Vases de Bacchus", presented by G. Servant at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, on which the similar ornamentation is applied.
(Reproduced in « Merveilles de l'Exposition Universelle de 1867 », Jules Mesnard, p°167)
Biography :
Georges Emile Henri Servant...
Category
Antique 1880s French Greek Revival Pedestals
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Neo-Pompeian Gueridons Malachite top , by H. Picard, France, c. 1865
By Henri Picard
Located in PARIS, FR
A similar model was exhibited at the 1889 Paris Universal Exhibition.
Rare pair of round table made of patinated and gilded bronze with a top veneered with malachite and circled with bronze mounts adorned with ovum and beads. They stands on three patinated bronze feet with lion heads and paws, linked with gilded bronze X braces.
Related Works:
The feet of these gueridons adopt a sleek design and are adorned with claws and lion heads. Inspired by a well-known model in the Barbedienne Company production and it has been reused many times by his workshop. These gueridons shows how the Barbedienne Company offered a range of furniture from the designs of its decorator Louis-Constant Sévin. He designed this model of gueridon few time after he joined the Barbedienne Company in 1855 and this model can be seen on different interior decorations of the Second Empire.
A tripod gueridon with feet like these ones can be seen on a picture showing the cold room of the Pompeiian house built for Prince Napoleon. (see picture attached, photograph by Laplanche J et Cie, between 1860-1866, Musée Carnavalet, Paris, PH15305). Most of the Ancient style furniture was made by Charles Rossigneux (1818-1908) but this gueridon shows that the Barbedienne Company took also part to this work.
Biography:
Henri Picard was established in Paris, 6 rue Jarente from 1831 to 1839 and then 10 rue de la Perle from 1840 to 1864. He worked on the Emperor Napoleon III’s apartments gilding at the Louvre Palace. His production was in a rich and fine style, like a Japanese style inkwell, or his Pompeian style dining table centerpieces...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Greek Revival Gueridon
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
