Agate Cup with Jewelled and Enamelled Gold and Silver-Gilt Mounts by Morel

This exquisite, three-piece garniture will make a wonderful addition to a mantelpiece, niche or table, where its fine design and craftsmanship can be properly enjoyed. The garnitur...

Viennese silver-gilt, agate, and opal-encrusted tazza Austrian, Late 19th Century Height 9cm, width 8cm, depth 6cm This superb tazza combines a silver-gilt base with a fluted agate ...

This exquisite centrepiece bowl was created in the late 19th century in an 18th century Rococo style popularised by the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. The centrepiece is composed o...

The large central circular form cloisonne enamel jardinière decorated with vari colored plum flowers and butterflies on a blue ground, with a pierced ormolu rim featuring a pineapple motif resting on a finely cast ormolu base with four legs in the form of winged Foo lions. The ormolu French, the enamel Chinese. This impressive jardinie`re is very much in the manner of objects in enamel produced by Ferdinand Barbedienne in Paris in the last quarter of the 19th century which proved universally popular. Often these pieces were designed by Edouard Lievre (d. 1886) in the Oriental taste. Ferdinand Barbedienne was a famous French metal worker and manufacturer. He presided over one of the most renowned and prolific foundries of Belle Époque Paris. His atelier created sculptures, clocks and bronze mounts of the highest quality, and his works were shown at numerous international exhibitions of the period, where he was rewarded with many medals. Among them the Grande Me´daille d'Honneur, in Paris in 1855 is particularly noteworthy. In 1838 he associated with the engineer Achille Collas (1795-1859) who had just invented a process to reproduce statues at a smaller scale. Together they founded in 1839 the company "Collas et Barbedienne" to reproduce casts of both contemporary artists and Greek and Roman antiquities. While working with Collas, Barbedienne actively pursued contracts with many sculptors of Paris contracting with David D'Angers, Jean-Baptiste Clesinger, and even producing some casts for Antoine Louis Barye as well as others. From 1860 to the years 1890, Barbedienne, eager to research new processes, experimented new techniques in champleve´ and cloisonne´-enamels, to compete with Japanese importations, very fashionable then. When Collas died in 1859, the business was left to Barbedienne as sole owner. The company who had over 300 employees was prosperous as well in the field of reproductions as in its department specialized in the casting of monumental bronzes. In 1865, he was appointed President of the Reunion of Bronze Makers until 1885. After the 1870 war...

A fine and large 19th century French gilt bronze mounted centerpiece with a Imari porcelain decorated bowl. Fine quality.

French Sevres bronze and porcelain vase, Cloisonne 19th century Antique blue sevres porcelain masseter with intricate design on the base and neck, hand ...

French porcelain, Sevres, and bronze planter from the 19th century Sevres porcelain planter in an off-white tone with bronze base, handles and details. Hand painted with the artist's...

Basin-shaped cup in Canton porcelain. Decor of four large cartouches framing Chinese style every day life scenes on a white background filled with roses and other vegetal scrolls. La...