19th Century Bronze French Stand Signed Alph. Giroux Paris, 1871

Italian étagère from the first half of the 20th century. Furniture in wood and plaster richly carved, lacquered and painted with beautiful lines and pleasant furnishings. Round étagè...

French writing desk from the late 19th century. Napoleon III furniture, wavy and rounded, carved and veneered in mahogany wood. Finished for the center desk enriched with gilded and ...

Italian corner cabinet from the mid-20th century. Carved, lacquered, gilded and painted wooden cabinet in Louis XVI style, of beautiful lines and pleasant furnishings. Corner cabinet...

Italian planter from the early 20th century. Object composed of a base in wrought and chiseled iron and a basin in sculpted marble of exceptional quality. Furniture of beautiful size...

19th century neoclassic bronze bowl by Barbedienne, France Signed.

A most impressive French 19th century Renaissance style patinated bronze and ormolu side table or Vide Poche tazza. The tazza is raised by handsome patinated bronze hoof feet with or...

A very richly decorated 19th Century renaissance style gilt bronze and marble Tazza by French artist Louis Emile Cana. Top dish decorated with multiple embossed wild life birds and a...

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...