19th Century Pair of Blue Enameled Faience Roosters Ormolu-Mounted Candelabras

French 19th century pair of candelsticks In ormolu, very finely chiseled and decorated with knotted garlands, branches of leafy flowers, spokes of hearts, leaves of water, pearls...

Pair of polychromed hand painted porcelain with Japonisme floral decoration Ormolu-mounted with open-worked base and rim Louis XVI Style circa 1880.

An ormolu-mounted celadon enameled faience pair of vases in the manner of Théodore Deck (1823-1891) Bottle form, molded in the Chinese Archaic taste with scrolling lotus, the neck wi...

Theodore Deck ( 1823-1891). A pair of gilt-bronze mounted theodore deck faience celadon-ground vases, mounted as lamps. Each decorated in the Chinese taste, with flower-head medallions within foliate scrollwork. Very fine Ormolu mounts quality and original gilding in great condition, the pierced bases with beast-mask monopodia feet. Impressed THD Monogram mark The oil-lamp Fitments Signed Gagneau Circa 1875 With Its original glass globes (chips and crack) and tubes fitted for electricity 12 ½ in. (31.8 cm.) high, the ceramic vases only Theodore Deck (1823-1891) is a French ceramist born in Guebwiller in Alsace. He is passionate about chemistry and the physical sciences. In 1841, he joined the master stove maker Hügelin father as an apprentice in Strasbourg. In two years, he learned of the methods inherited from the 16th century, such as the encrustation of colored pastes in the style of Saint-Porchaire. This apprenticeship did not prevent him from spending his free time drawing or modeling clay in the studio of sculptor André Friederich. Escaping military service, he made a tour of Germany as is the tradition with fellow Alsatian stove-makers. The quality of his work allows him to obtain important orders in Austria for the castles of the provinces and the imperial palaces, in particular for the palace of Schönbrunn. He continues his journey in Hungary to Pest, to Prague, then, going north through Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin and Hamburg. On the strength of his apprenticeship, he arrived in Paris in 1847. Recommended by Hügelin, he went to the stove factory of the Bavarian potter Vogt, located rue de la Roquette. The Revolution of 1848 interrupts production and Deck decides to return to his hometown. His family then advised him to set up a small terracotta workshop: he made a few busts, statuettes, vases, lamps and copies of famous antiques there. Aware that this situation would not allow him to provide for himself properly, he returned to Paris in 1851 where he was employed by the widow Dumas, daughter of the earthenware maker Vogt for whom he had worked. Hired as a foreman, he supplied the drawings and models to the workers, while working the land himself. The following year, he made the decision to settle not far from his former employer at 20, rue de la Fontaine-au-Roi, probably using his ovens. His brother, Xavier Deck, joins him. It was officially in 1858 that the Deck brothers created their business and settled in Paris at 46, boulevard Saint-Jacques. Initially, the brothers only carry out coatings for stoves. But the business is going so well that barely a year after their installation, they want to diversify their production and engage in ceramics for the cladding of buildings as well as in shaped parts. Deck is interested in politics. In 1870, he opted for French nationality and was elected deputy mayor in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. In 1861, at the Salon des arts et industries de Paris, which was held on the Champs-Élysées, Théodore Deck exhibited his works for the first time: these were pieces with an inlay decoration called “Henri II” and others. pieces covered with turquoise blue enamel or decoration in the style of Iznik ceramics.If he wins a silver medal, reviews are mixed, however. The following year, on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition of 1862 in London, he won over English customers. He surprised by presenting, like the previous year, his Alhambra Vase...

Théodore Deck (1823-1891) Pair of Enamelled Faience Vases Ormolu-Mounted in Lamps Bodies treated in the Iznik style with blue enamelled decoration on a white background of Kufic writ...

“Love” A French Ormolu-Mounted, White-ground Sèvres Style Porcelain Three-Piece Clock Garniture The clock with a hand-painted polychrome porcelain plaque decorated with a woman on cl...

Pair of 19th century French ormolu-mounted marble candelabra.

A fine pair of French 19th century marble and ormolu mounted figural urn three-light table lamp candelabra. The ovoid white marble body surmounted with a pair of mermaids holding han...

Pair of 19th Century French Ormolu Candelabras. Gorgeous.

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