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Baccarat, Pair of Crystal Candelabras, France, circa 1870
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of Baccarat cut crystal candelabras with ten lights. The central baluster-shaped shaft illuminates with two superimposed rows of six and three light arms with twisted ...
Category
Antique 1860s French Napoleon III Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal
V. Paillard & Baccarat, Pair of Wall-lights, France, circa 1870
By Cristalleries De Baccarat, Victor Paillard
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed VOR PAILLARD A PARIS
Beautiful pair of Second Empire period wall lights with eight lights in chiseled and gilded bronze decorated with acanthus and rosettes, topped with a mu...
Category
Antique 1860s French Napoleon III Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Baccarat Manufacture, Set of Four Crystal Wall-Lights, France, circa 1950
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful set of four four-light cut crystal wall-lights. From a central cup emerges the shaft consisting of a dagger surmounted by an inverted cup topped with a faceted sphere endin...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Neo-Gothic Chandelier, France, circa 1870
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful neo-gothic chandelier with six lights, in patinated bronze with gilded highlights. The hexagonal architectural shaft is pierced with quadrilobed crosspieces, inspired by th...
Category
Antique 1870s French Gothic Revival Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
A. Delafontaine & H. Cahieux Neo-Greek «Cupid» Chandelier, France, circa 1850
By Auguste Delafontaine, Henry Cahieux
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful neo-Greek chandelier designed by H. Cahieux, in patinated bronze with golden highlights with sixteen lights. The central shaft, composed of a basin decorated with palmette...
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Antique 1850s French Greek Revival Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Pair of torcheres “Night” & “Day” model by Carrier-Belleuse & E.Colin, 19th C
By E. Colin & Cie 1, Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Located in PARIS, FR
Total height : 257 cm (101,2 in.) ; Base height : 52 cm (20,5 in.) ; Base width : 48×48 cm (18,9×18,9 in.)
Exceptional pair of female torcheres, made in dark patinated bronze with g...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Floor Lamps
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of "Rocaille" Wall-Lights by H. Vian, France, circa 1890
By Henri Vian
Located in PARIS, FR
Height with lights : 42 cm (16,5 in.)
Charming pair of Rocaille-inspired two-light wall-lights in chiseled, gilded and openwork bronze.
With a scalloped shape, they are decorated wi...
Category
Antique 1890s French Louis XV Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Bronze
Bouillotte Lamp, France, circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming Louis XV-inspired bouillotte lamp in chiseled and gilded bronze with two light-arms decorated with foliage, topped with an elegant oval-shaped lampshade in beige pleated sil...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XV Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
"Dolphin" Chandelier attr. to Maison Baguès, France, circa 1900
By Maison Baguès
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare Louis XVI-inspired chandelier in crystal and chiseled and gilded bronze with six lights. It is composed of a lit covered basin in gadrooned cut crystal, covered on its base with...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Paris Porcelaine Chandelier with Flowers, France, circa 1890
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming painted porcelain chandelier with a blue background, in the shape of a basin with a flared and openwork border decorated with foliage on a platinum background alternating wi...
Category
Antique 1890s French Napoleon III Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Neo-Greek Floor Lamps Att. to Lacarrière, Delatour & Cie, France, C 1860
By Lacarrière, Delatour and Co.
Located in PARIS, FR
Measures : Height without globe: 188,5 cm (74,2 in.) ; Base : 45 x 45 cm (17,7 x 17,7 in.)
Pedestal height : 136 cm (53,5 in.)
Lamp height : 52 cm (20,4 in.)
Beautiful pair of neo-G...
Category
Antique 1860s French Greek Revival Floor Lamps
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
Pair of Neo-Greek Bronze Floor Lamps by F. Barbedienne, France, circa 1860
By Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in PARIS, FR
Height without/with lampshade : 168/185 cm (66,1 / 72,8 in.) ; Base : 43 x 43 cm (16,9 x 16,9 in.)
Beautiful pair of neo-Greek floor lamps in bronze with double patina, composed of cylindrical lamps, decorated on the body with a rotating frieze representing women dressed in the Antique style weaving and spinning, surmounted by lampshades with cut sides in red pleated silk with golden braid.
They are placed on pedestals from which hang thin chains attached to the slender shaft decorated with stylized leaves and flowers, resting on a tripod base decorated with large palmettes and ending in lion’s paws.
The stylistic repertoire used here, composed in particular of palmettes, masks, and nymphs, evokes Greek Antiquity, as does the reuse of forms of furniture and objects such as tripods and antique vases.
The rediscovery in the 18th century of the archaeological remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum allowed artists of all disciplines to draw inspiration from Antiquity while reinterpreting it.
This trend did not fade and, in the 19th century, many personalities fitted out their interiors with neo-Greek furniture, as was the case for the Maison Pompéienne built in 1856 by the architect Alfred Normand (1822-1909) for Prince Napoleon, or Empress Eugénie who bought from the Maison Barbedienne pedestals inspired by antique tripods.
Related work :
Pedestal model presented by Maison Barbedienne at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1855. On this occasion, Empress Eugénie bought it for her bathroom in the Château de Saint-Cloud. This model pleased the Empress so much that she ordered two other pairs in 1858 for her boudoir in the palaces of Compiègne and Fontainebleau. (see photo attached)
Photo showing a floor lamp similar to ours in Empress Eugénie’s bedroom in the Château de Compiègne (Oise), in Architecture intérieure et Décoration en France des...
Category
Antique 1860s French Greek Revival Floor Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Pair of "Japonisme" Chandeliers by E. Soleau, France, Circa 1900
By Eugene Soleau
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed SOLEAU and E. SOLEAU PARIS
Beautiful pair of Japanese chandeliers in patinated bronze, gilded and silvered with five lights.
They are composed of three stylized fans, lined w...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Japonisme Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Exceptional Baccarat Chandelier and Its Ten Wall-Lights, France, Circa 1870
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance : Private palace, Italy.
Chandelier- Height : 255 cm (100,4 in) ; diam. : 170 cm (66,9 in).
Wall-lights - Height : 102 cm (40,1 in.) ; width : 58 cm (22,8 in.) ; depth...
Category
Antique 1870s French Napoleon III Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal
Baccarat Crystal Chandelier, France, circa 1890
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful cut crystal chandelier with fifteen lights. The central shaft, decorated with cups from which pendants flow, has two rows of five and ten light-arms with shaped and twisted...
Category
Antique 1890s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal
Neo-Gothic Bronze Chandelier, France, circa 1860
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare neo-gothic six-lights chandelier in patinated bronze with golden highlights. The hexagonal architectural shaft, like gothic arches, is centered by a red tinted crowned verrine, ...
Category
Antique 1860s French Gothic Revival Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Gilded bronze Chandelier with Eagle Heads attr. to H. Vian, France, circa 1890
By Henri Vian
Located in PARIS, FR
Important Louis XVI-inspired chandelier in gilded bronze with 18 lights. The baluster-shaped central shaft in blue enameled bronze is surmounted by a fluted rod in gilded bronze surr...
Category
Antique 1890s French Louis XVI Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
"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
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...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Moroccan Islamic Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass
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...
Category
Antique 1860s French Napoleon III Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Baccarat Crystal and Gilded Bronze Chandelier, France, circa 1870
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 1870s 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 ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
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
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 ...
Category
Antique 1880s French Islamic Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
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
Pair of Torcheres by Toussaint & Barbedienne, France, circa 1850
By Achille Collas, Ferdinand Barbedienne, François-Christophe-Armand Toussaint
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...
Category
Antique 1850s French Napoleon III More Lighting
Materials
Crystal, 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...
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Antique 1880s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
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...
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Antique 1870s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Pair of Jardinieres-Candelabras by Boin-Taburet, France, Circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed Boin-Taburet à Paris and numbered 34369 and 34370
Lovely pair of Louis XVI style planters with three light arms. Each jardiniere, with their liners in form of a basket based on a three leafy feet and a lobed base. The inner liners are removable.
The two French goldsmiths George Boin and his son-in-law Emile Taburet created around 1875 in Paris the company Boin-Taburet. They made many silver pieces inspired by the beautiful services of the eighteenth century. At the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878, Georges Boin presented a “service de toilette” inspired by the work of François-Thomas Germain (1726-1791), and then at the Universal Exhibition of 1889, several epergnes, including one of them executed after drawings by the famous artist Juste-Aurèle Meissonier (1695-1750), as well as tea sets of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI styles. Boin-Taburet firm also exhibited a tureen and platter after Pierre Germain...
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Antique 1880s French Louis XVI Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Fine Pair of Chandelier, France, 1950
Located in PARIS, FR
Elegant pair of brass and glass chandeliers whose shafts are formed by the extensions of six light arms joined together in ringed columns.
The light arms, with their curved lines und...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass
Beautiful Ottoman Style Chandelier Attributed to F. Barbedienne, France, c. 1870
By Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful oriental style six-light arms chandelier attributed to F. Barbedienne, made in patinated and gilded bronze. With a very Fine decoration of arabesques, cords and valances im...
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Antique 1870s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Orientalist Chandelier, France, Circa 1870
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare chandelier in gilded and patinated bronze with eighteen lights, finely decorated with stylized oriental motifs in polychrome red and blue cold enamel. Surmounted by an elegant c...
Category
Antique 1870s French Aesthetic Movement Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Lantern, attributed to Maison Millet, France, Circa 1890
By Maison Millet
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful lantern in double patina bronze and crystal. The central shaft is engraved with a Greek frieze centered on a star. The whole is suspended from a openwork crown decorated wi...
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Antique 1890s French Napoleon III Lanterns
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Fine Art Deco Chandelier, Atelier Petitot, France, Circa 1930
By Atelier Petitot
Located in PARIS, FR
Fine octogonal shaped Art Deco chandelier with eight nickel-plated bronze lights, the whole attractively decorated with glass rods and frosted glass panels.
Biography :
Ateliers Pet...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
“Young Girl at the Fountain” Terracotta Lamp, France, Circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Numbered on its backside 359/576
Large sculpture made in patinated terracotta, with a servant girl filling her jug at the fountain, which is decorated in the lower part of a lion’...
Category
Antique 1880s French Table Lamps
Materials
Terracotta
"Mazarin" Gilt Bronze Chandelier, France, circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful chiseled and gilded bronze chandelier with eight square section light-arms, attached to the shaft by female heads and adorned with acanthus leaves and ending with delicatel...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XIV Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Oriental Style Crystal and Gilded Bronze Chandelier, France, circa 1900
Located in PARIS, FR
Elegant Oriental style chandelier in pink tinted crystal and gilded bronze with six light arms, composed of an illuminating shaft formed by two superimposed cylinders, all decorated ...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
"Rocaille" Bronze Chandelier by E. Colin & Cie , France, circa 1890
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful Louis XV inspired chandelier in chiseled and gilded bronze with nine sconces. It consists of a baluster shaft decorated with a patinated bronze sph...
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Antique 1890s French Louis XV Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Oriental Style Polychrome Bronze Chandelier, France, circa 1870
Located in PARIS, FR
Oriental style twelve arms chandelier with very fine geometric motifs of polychrome cold enamel on bronze. Suspended by three chains, it is centered by an ornamentation of tracery and stylized diamond-shapes. Twelve sconces and their assorted basins light the set, ending with a richly decorated enamelled...
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Antique 1870s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Orientalist Chandelier Att. to E. Cornu and G. Viot & Cie, France, circa 1870
By Eugène Cornu
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare and important orientalist chandelier with 24 lights, in Algerian onyx, chiseled and gilded bronze and cloisonné enamel. It consists of a sh...
Category
Antique 1870s French Napoleon III Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Onyx, Bronze, Enamel
Pair of "Bamboo" Stands attr. to H. Cahieux & F. Barbedienne France, circa 1855
By Henry Cahieux and Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in PARIS, FR
A similar model presented at the 1855 Paris Universal Exhibition
Total height : 154 cm (60 5/8 in.) ; Width : 33 x 33 cm (13 x 13 in.)
Cup : height 17 cm (6 ¾ in.)
Beautiful pair of bronze stands also named Bamboo candelabra. Each rests on three claw feet adorned with lion heads and separated with palms. A bamboo shaped shaft arises from this tripod and is topped with three buds supporting a circular red griotte marble top on which stands a cup in the Ancient style decorated with ivy.
The sobriety of the decoration enhances the quality of the bronze cast and the patina shades. The small chains falling from the top animates this work of a sleek design.
The model :
The design of these stands, inspired from Ancient tripods, is a well-known model in Ferdinand Barbedienne’s production as it was reused many times by the bronze-caster. Designed by the head-decorator Henri Cahieux, this model was edited by the Barbedienne Company as soon as 1855, named Ancient candelabra lamp-holder h. 1m35 and was sold 440 francs. From 1875, these stands were commercialised under the name Bamboo candelabra, tripod, lamp-holder and were offered in three heights : 1m90, 1m70 and 1m35. This model of stand could then be found in all catalogues of the Barbedienne Company.
This pair of candelabras allows us to see how F. Barbedienne offered during decades a range of furniture from the designs of his decorator. This type of stand could be seen in different interior decorations of the Second Empire
A model similar to ours was presented by the Barbedienne Company at the 1855 Universal Exhibition. For this occasion Empress Eugénie bought it for her toilet at Saint-Cloud Castle. A watercolor by Fortuné de Fournier made in 1860 shows them, set on both sides of a cheval mirror made by the Fourdinois Company. (see photo attached)
This model pleased the Empress so much that she ordered two other pairs in 1858 for her boudoirs at Compiègne and Fontainebleau Palaces.
Otherwise similar stands took place in the Pompeiian house built in 1856 by the architect Alfred Normand (1822-1909) for Prince Napoléon. Several pictures and engravings of this house show us these candelabras used...
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Antique 1850s French Greek Revival Floor Lamps
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
"Cage" Crystal and Bronze Chandelier attr. to Maison Baguès, France, circa 1880
By Maison Baguès
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming Louis XVI style « cage » shaped chandelier in gilded bronze and cut crystal, with four lights. Many cut crystal pendants, daggers, prisms and flowers adorned the whole, connected with garlands of pearls. An indirect lighting...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XVI Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Chandelier "aux Têtes de Bélier" attr. to H. Vian, France, Circa 1890
By Henri Vian
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming Louis XVI style chandelier in gilded bronze, clear and amber cut crystal with six lights.
The central shaft, formed by a succession of balusters in cut and faceted crystal, ...
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Antique 1890s French Louis XVI Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Pair of Bronze Lamps, China, Circa 1890
Located in PARIS, FR
Height with lampshade : 73 cm (28,7 in.) ; Diameter lampshade : 44,5 cm (17,5 in.) ;
Diameter base : 22 cm (8,6 in.)
Beautiful pair of patinated and gilded bronze China vases mounte...
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Antique 1890s Chinese Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Japonisme Lamp Att. to E. Lièvre , Japan-France, Circa 1880
By Edouard Lievre, Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in PARIS, FR
Height with lampshade : 133 cm (52,3 in.) / without lampshade : 125 cm (49,2 in.) ;
Lampshade - Height 74 cm (29,1 in.) ; Diameter : 86 cm (33,8 in.)
Important Japanese style gourd-shaped lamp, made with a polychrome Kutani porcelain vase decorated with lake scene and flowers in cartouches, in the middle of flying waders on a red background. It is covered with its original beige pleated silk lampshade, embroided with flowers and waders. It rests on an « old gold » patinated bronze base with stylized openwork decoration, topped with a Fô dog on each foot.
Related work : Japanese enamel porcelain...
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Antique 1880s French Japonisme Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
"The Source" Illuminating Sculpture, Italian School, circa 1900
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed on the base Prof. G. Ca...?
Charming illuminating alabaster sculpture representing a young naked woman leaning on rocks, and seated at the edge of a source concealing a lig...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Italian Art Nouveau Table Lamps
Materials
Alabaster, Marble
Charming Porcelain Night Lamp attr. to L'Escalier de Cristal, France, Circa 1880
By L'Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Height : 15 cm (5,9 in.) ; Diam. : 15 cm (5,9 in.) ; Base width : 12 cm (4,7 in.)
Charming hexagonal night light in painted porcelain decorated with flowers, surmounted by an openwork gallery in gilded bronze containing a cut crystal corolla. Bordered by three Greek-shaped handles ending in hooves, it rests on an openwork tripartite base ending in rosebuds.
Biography
“L’Escalier de Cristal”, an old and famous Parisian firm, specialized in glass products and ceramics but also suggested furniture and bronze sculptures. It was led from 1885 to 1923 by Emile Pannier’s sons, who gave the name of Pannier Frères to the society, located at the corner of Scribe street and Auber street, next to the new built Paris Opera house. Their Japanese style creations were among many others much appreciated by the critics and the public. They were awarded many medals at various exhibitions, such as the Gold medal at the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition.
Lots of artists participated in that world success, such as Emile Gallé, who gave to Pannier Frères the exclusive rights of some of his models, or François-Eugène Rousseau, who designed many vases and gave the model of his successful Japanese style dining-set as well. This set was made by the Creil et Montereau Manufacture. In the Japanese style furniture...
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Antique 1880s French Table Lamps
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Oriental Style Chandelier attr. to E. Lachenal, France, circa 1890
By Edmond Lachenal
Located in PARIS, FR
Enameled ceramic chandelier with flared border underlined by a frieze of stylized foliage, decorated on the body with Arabic characters on a light blue background, alternating with t...
Category
Antique 1890s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass, Enamel, Bronze
Elegant Pair of Bronze Torcheres by F. Barbedienne, P. Dubois and A. Falguière
By Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière 1, Paul Dubois, Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in PARIS, FR
MODEL PRESENTED AT THE 1867 PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION
Listed in the Ferdinand Barbedienne’s catalogue as the “Deux femmes debout” (Two standing ladies)
Signed on each one P. Dubois – F. Barbedienne Fondeur and A. Falguière – F. Barbedienne Fondeur
Rare pair of parcel-gilt and patinated bronze figures, representing two women dressed in Antique style costume with jewels, each upholding a seven lights-arm candelabra. Standing on round bronze bases and black marble socles.
Paul Dubois (1827-1905) entered the Paris Beaux-Arts School in 1858. He exhibited at the 1865 Salon the Chanteur Florentin, illustrating Florentine sculpture, observed after his journey in Italy. This work, cast that time in silvered bronze, was exhibited at the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition (now preserved at the Orsay museum). Dubois' success brought him many commissions, both private (Portrait of Duc d'Aumale) and public (Jeanne d'Arc, in Reims). Appointed curator at the Luxembourg museum in 1873, Dubois became also a member of the Institute and finally headmaster at the Beaux-Arts School in 1878.
Alexandre Falguière (1831-1900) studied under Jouffroy at the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts, began his career at the Paris Salon in 1857 and won as soon as 1859 the “Prix de Rome”. Falguière became very quickly successful and was several times awarded medals at the Salon, such in 1868 with his marble sculpture Tarcisius the Christian Boy-Martyr, or at the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition, where he won the first medal in his category. Thanks to that success, he was immediately commissioned by private collectors as well as by the French State, whom asked him in 1878 to realize the Triomphe de la République, placed in 1881 at the summit of the Paris Arch of Triumph...
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Antique 1860s French More Lighting
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Bronze Putti Torcheres Attributed to v. Paillard, France, Circa 1870
By Victor Paillard
Located in PARIS, FR
A pair of two patina bronze torcheres attributed to V. Paillard. Each modelled as a pair of putti holding aloft a large foliate shaft issuing eleven berried-acanthus scrolled branche...
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Antique 1870s French Napoleon III Floor Lamps
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Bronze
Pair of Neo-Greek Bronze Candelabras Attributed to G.Servant, France, Circa 1870
By Georges Emile Henri Servant
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare pair of Greek style candelabras made in patinated bronze and gilded bronze, attributed to G. Servant. Each with ten light arms topped by a heron shaped extinguisher. Decorated with various Greek style motifs such palmets, pine cones ans water leaves. Standing on a small triangular architecture presenting a theatre mask and reposing on a tripod base formed with lion paw feet.
Georges Emile Henri Servant (circa 1828-1890), 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 Greek Revival Table Lamps
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Bronze
Chandelier Crystal Attributed to the Granja Manufacture, Spain, Circa 1900
By Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja
Located in PARIS, FR
A magnificent cut crystal three-stage chandelier attributed to the Crystal Manufacture of the Granja, underlined by crown of prisms, pearls and mirza. The lower part holds ten light arms finishing by green crystal cups with gold foliate patterns. The chandelier is supported by a central baluster in cut crystal enriched with large green crystal cups highlighted by intern lights.
A similar chandelier is exhibited at the Liria Palace in Madrid, the Duke of Alba’s residence.
La Real Fábrica de Cristales de La Granja was established in 1727 in San Ildefonso under order of the Bourbon king Felipe V of Spain, in order to furbish the royal palace of the Granja in glaces and mirrors. French glass masters came at the royal manufacture in 1746, and then masters from Germany and Bohemia (1750). Like the Buen Retiro royal manufacture of porcelain, the Santa Barbara tapestry manufacture, the Granja royal manufacture of crystal took part in the diffusion of Spanish decorative arts in Europe during the 18th century. The manufacture was closed in 1808, consequently to the Spanish independence war, before being restored in 1815 under the reign of Fernando VII...
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Antique Early 1900s Spanish Chandeliers and Pendants
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Crystal
Pair of Louis XIV Style Silvered Bronze Candelabras, France, Circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of Louis XIV style five-light candelabras. Chiseled and silvered bronze. Ornamented with palmettes, medallions and feminine masks. Central stem with guilloche motifs, resting on...
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Antique 1880s French Louis XIV Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Neo-Greek Wall-Lights Attributed to F. Barbedienne, France, Circa 1880
By Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in PARIS, FR
A pair of neo-Greek wall-light sconces executed in two patina bronze attributed to F. Barbedienne. The central up-turned foliage stem, surmounted by a Greek style vase...
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Antique 1880s French Greek Revival Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Bronze
Rare Aesthetic Movement Wall-Light Attributed to G. Viardot, France, Circa 1880
By Gabriel Viardot
Located in PARIS, FR
A large Japanese style four lights sconce attributed to G. Viardot, in shape of a dragon made in carved tinted wood, holding in its mouth a Japanese blossoming cherry tree branch, fr...
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Antique 1880s French Japonisme Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Wood
Pair of Neo-Greek Vase-Candlesticks Attr. to Barbedienne and Levillain, c. 1880
By Ferdinand Barbedienne, Ferdinand Levillain
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of Greek style amphora shaped candlesticks made of gilded and patinated bronze attributed to F. Levillain and F. Barbedienne. Each flanked with two handles, and decorated with horsemen in relief. Standing on three lion’s feet headed with busts of putti and raised on a red griotte marble base.
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...
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Antique 1880s French Greek Revival Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI Style "Sèvres" Porcelain Candelabra Vases, France, Circa 1880
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in PARIS, FR
A Louis XVI style turquoise porcelain vases with a polychrome decoration in the style of the Manufacture of Sèvres. Each side is adorned with...
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Antique 1880s French Louis XVI More Lighting
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Bronze
