Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Samson Porcelain Vase in Chinese Style.

A fine pair of French ormolu-mounted marble vases. Made c.1906-11. Each stamped with Jollet & Cie. foundry cachet. Beautifully designed and high quality. Would make a very nice pair of lamps if electrified. Le Maison Colin was a very prestigious foundry founded in Paris in 1843 and it was located at 29 rue Sévigné. Renown for their high quality castings, it exhibited in various World’s Fairs including the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris were it was awarded gold medal. The Maison worked with several of the top Parisian bronziers of the era including, amongst many others, Frédérick Eugène Piat (French, 1827-1903), Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824-1887), Eugène Marioton (French, 1854-1925), René Rozet...

Pair of unusual Louis XVI sculptured white marble candlesticks with gilt bronze mounts, 18th century. Italian or French.

An attractive pair of granite urns mounted with gilt bronze decorations. The urns are electrified and mounted as lamps. The bronzes are of good quality as well as the granite urns.  

A small masterpiece. A carved bottle vial with lid carved of grey/brown jade and with decorations of ropes made of silver.

A pair of Regency gilt and patinated bronze candlesticks now mounted as lamps on circular Siena marble bases, early 19th century. Unusual model. The Regency era of British history officially spanned the years 1811-1820, though the term is commonly applied to the longer period between c.1795 and 1837. King George III succumbed to mental illness in late 1810 and, by the Regency Act 1811, his eldest son George, Prince of Wales, was appointed prince regent...

A fine and large Japanese vase in a fantastic shape. The painting goes over the vases side up on the lid so the lid has a specific place of wow to ...

A monumental and quite important pair of antique French Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted Chinese export porcelain vases. This exceptional pair of Louis XVI style porcelain vases are be...

A Pair of Large Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Rouge Griotte Vases and Covers. Designed in the Neoclassical Style with intwined serpent handles above ram’s masks joined by aca...

Pair French 19th century bronze-mounted Sevres style porcelain urns in the Louis XV/XVI style with finely painted cartouches depicting courting lovers and floral bouquets.

Pair of very large and fine quality French 19 century Bronze mounted Sevres style hand painted Porcelain Vases with Covers. The paintings signed: "Lucot de Seifert".

A Pair of Large Gilt-Bronze Mounted Chinese Celadon-Ground and Slip Decorated Porcelain Vases. These vases of Chinese celadon porcelain from the late Quing Dynasty are slip-decorated with willow trees and prunus flowers. The finely sculpted gilt-bronze handles are modelled as winged merman term figures running on berried scrolled clasps to a rocaille raised foot. These superb vases are in the tradition for mounting Chinese porcelain with gilt-bronze accoutrements made by ciseleur-doreurs such as Pierre Gouthière for the marchand-merciers, namely Dominique Daguerre and Simon-Philippe Poirier. The practice continued into the nineteenth century when Prince Regent, later George IV (1762-1830), sent Chinese porcelain vases from the Royal...

A very fine and impressive pair of French 19th century Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted blue-glazed enamel over bronze vases with allegorical masks, rings and wreaths. The porcelain is...