French Late 19th Century Napoleon III Style Bronze Planter Table

Hand-carved wood table with porcelain plaque and gold finish depicting a small group in a garden accompanied with a lamb. Made in France, circa 19...

19th century French, King Louis XVI style wood jardinière. Hand painted porcelain plaque with five ormolu mounts, in the manner of Henry Dasson.

French Inlaid Boulle style jardiniere table converted into a vanity table. Beautiful brass gallery and inlaid all around the piece, accompanied with gilt brass putti mounts and a fem...

Majestic wood side or occasional table made in France in the Late 19th Century, consisting of a beautiful purple breccia marble top with a unique figure ...

20th century, Italian bronze planter or Gueridon Measures: cm W 56 x maximum diameter 51 x H 90. H on the floor of the wide 81 cm This refined planter was made in Italy, in Naples, towards the Early 20th Century in the style of «Retour d'Egypte». It consists of a tripod structure in finely chiselled gilded bronze and lacquered in tones. Each leg originates with scroll decorations and phytomorphic elements with golden details, supported by a sphinx with hairstyle, tail and golden wings. This sits on a curvilinear and wavy element decorated with golden ramage and a man’s head with a long beard of classic taste. The legs end with an injured foot and rest on a tripartite base that connects them. In the middle of each leg there is a bronze junction with curls and volutes that converges towards the others in the center, where a vertical element contributes to the momentum and gracefulness of the whole. The basin of the planter is in lacquered tin, with gold edges and reserves. The rising part of the tub has some holes that allow the breathability of the space. This tripod is inspired, with variations, to a famous model of the brothers Luigi and Antonio Manfredini, active in Milan at the beginning of the nineteenth century, financed by the viceroy of Italy Eugenio de Beauharnais, adopted son of Napoleon Bonaparte, for the opening of the real manufacture of Eugenia. The Retour d'Egypte style was widely echoed in France and Europe and originated from General Bonaparte’s military campaign in Egypt in 1799. The fashion of the Egyptians had already in Italy found a previous interpreter in the engraver Giovan Battista Piranesi, but the vast diffusion that also had in the furniture the Egyptian ornament...

This exceptional French black lacquer planter or jardiniere table from the Napoleon III period features intricate bronze detailing and inset borders of inlaid bronze. A lid with bron...

A late 19th century Napoleon III Brass Marquetry Boulle Inlay and Ebonized Wood Planter Table. Exceptional craftsmanship. Beautifully decorated. Measures 25" in width, 15" in depth a...

A Fine French Empire Revival Style Late 19th/Early 20th Century Mahogany and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Planter or Jardiniere. This elegant circular planter features a mahogany structure ad...