Pair of Large Scale French Zinc Dishes

A charming set of Kashmiri brass and paper mache bowls. All hand painted with leaves and birds. Large bowl: Diameter - 24 cm Height - 8.5 cm Small bowls x 6: Diameter - 11.5 cm Hei...

A large scale, hand painted and glazed, blue and white Ceramic Charger. This piece would look great hung on a wall or as a table centre piece. We can also quote for a stand to be mad...

Large scale, square centre footstool. Plump, feather filled squab attached to solid base. Freshly upholstered in Kit Kemp Design fabric. The Beech wood frame made by hand in the uk r...

A lovely Centre Footstool, traditionally upholstered and buttoned in Zoffany Pompadour woven fabric. Sitting on antique mahgony legs and original 19th century brass castors. Height ...

A charming pair of trinket dishes in delicate Limoges porcelain, beautifully painted with a spray of wild roses, butterflies and a blue tit, and edged in gilt around their rims. Know...

Pair of wonderfully charming antique oval shaped pewter dishes with scalloped rim. A nice pair for display, to hold small trinkets, or to adorn a table or shelf. IMPORTANT NOTE: The...

Beautiful pair of polychrome “cloisonné” enamel display dishes attributed to A. Giroux, decorated with birds flying over rushes and flowers on a sky blue background, bordered with a stylized foliate motif frieze. Finely mounted with gilded bronze ornaments such bamboos, masks and scrolls. Alphonse Giroux and company, famous curiosity and luxury goods shop was situated at No. 7 rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré and in business from the time of the Consulate until the end of the Second Empire. The company was founded by Francois-Simon-Alphonse and continued in 1838 by his two sons, Alphonse-Gustave (1810-1886) and André (1801-1879). The father became a close associate of the royal family and specialized in the manufacture of refined items for gifts, winning a silver medal at the in 1834. Kings Louis XVIII and then Charles X were both supplied with gifts for “The Children of France” by Giroux. Making progressively small furniture, they were mentionned for the first time in 1837 in the class “cabinet...

Pair of resin dishes in glazed terracotta. In the South West of France, the country named Landes was a poor country having very few natural resources, the inhabitants lived on meager harvests whose land was manured by their flocks of sheep. The Landais also exploited the resin of the maritime pine: it was collected at the foot of the tree using a very artisanal technique which offered low yields: tapping with “crot” (from the Gascon cròt: hole). To harvest the resin, ancient resin workers dug a hole at the foot of the pine, generally between the roots, which they lined with moss. The resin obtained, if it had not crystallized on the care before arriving at the base of the pine, was full of impurities: twigs, sand, insects, and it contained very little turpentine. A first progress was to put dishes at the bottom of these holes which made it possible to collect the resin with fewer impurities, In 1844, the resin pot...