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Style: Louis XVI
Material: Agate
Pair 19th C. French Dore Bronze Mtd. Agate, Rock Crystal, & Amethyst Candelabra
Located in New York, NY
A magnificent pair of 19th Century Louis XVI Style French dore bronze mounted hand carved agate, rock crystal, and amethyst candelabra. The dore bronze mounts are truly impressive on...
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1870s French Louis XVI Antique Agate Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Rock Crystal, Bronze
French 1790 Antique Snuff Box in 19kt Gold Sterling and Translucent Gray Agate
Located in Miami, FL
French snuffbox from the late 18th century.
Beautiful antique piece, made in France during the late 18th century, circa 1790's. It was carefully carved with impeccable precision, ...
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1790s French Louis XVI Antique Agate Furniture
Materials
Agate, Gold, Silver
Antique English Brass Lamp with Agate, Golden
By Britain's Historical Series
Located in Carballo, ES
Antique Louis XVI style agate lamp bought in an antiques dealer, made of bronze, it looks like a jewel, its light is indirect and ambient. Perfect for creating a warm and cozy atmosp...
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20th Century European Louis XVI Agate Furniture
Materials
Agate, Brass
Large Pair of 19 C. French Ormolu Mounted Carved Agate Vases, Att. to E. Lievre
Located in New York, NY
A very large pair of 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Carved Agate Vases, Attributed to Édouard Lièvre. Each vase is massive with a...
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1860s French Louis XVI Antique Agate Furniture
Materials
Agate, Bronze
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Agate and Ormolu Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A truly stunning pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Agate and ormolu urns. Each is raised on a square ormolu base with laurel wreath and fluted socle with large foliate. The beautiful and impressive richly hued agate body is decorated with wonderful little boy mermaid handles...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Agate Furniture
Materials
Agate, Ormolu
Rare Louis XVI Russian Ormolu Mounted Agate Vase with Dore Bronze Swan Handles
Located in New York, NY
A magnificent Louis XVI Style Russian ormolu-mounted covered agate vase or Urn with finely hand-chiseled and Cast doré Bronze Swan Handles. This marvellous baluster form covered vase...
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1830s Russian Louis XVI Antique Agate Furniture
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Louis XVI Style Pietre Dure Mounted Ebonised Writing Table, circa 1870
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI Style gilt bronze and Pietre Dure mounted ebonised writing table, retailed by Edwards & Roberts.
French, circa 1870.
The drawer edge stamped 'Edwards & Roberts'.
This Fine ebonised writing table has a three-quarter galleried superstructure with cavetto moulding above three cupboards, each with a panel door inset with Fine pietre dure panels of vases issuing flowers. The lower part of the table has a pullout / pull-out writing slide with a dark blue leather writing surface, above a long drawer centred by a tablet mounted with a foliate pietre dure panel. The table is raised on tapering square section legs united by an 'X'-frame stretcher centred by a gilt bronze vase.
The beautiful Florentine pietre dure panels are inlaid in high relief with shaded agates marble, and semi-precious stones. The combination of Fine gilt bronze mounts on an ebonised ground enriched with Fine pietre dure inlay indicates the work of one of the best Parisian ébénistes of the period.
Edwards & Roberts, was one of the principal London companies working in the nineteenth century in the taste of the late Eighteenth Century. They started business in 1845 and by 1854 were trading as 'Edwards & Roberts, 21 Wardour Street, Antique and Modern Cabinet Makers and Importers of Ancient Furniture'.
Wardour Street became an important furniture retailing area in the second half of the 19th century. Contemporary documents note '... a fine and complete library...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Agate Furniture
Materials
Agate, Bronze
Pair of French Louis XVI Period Gilt Bronze and Agate Vases
By Martin Baffert
Located in London, GB
These truly exceptional and rare antique Louis XVI period vases have been sculpted from agate, a precious and highly sought-after stone. The vases are set on square agate bases with gilt bronze laurel wreath socles. The burgundy and claret agate bodies of the vases are mounted with gilt bronze acanthus leaf ornamentation, and twin lion masks joined by draped swags above. The lids of the vases are mounted with gilt bronze, surmounted by pine cone finials.
The vases' design is attributed to the late 18th century, French clockmaker Martin Baffert. Baffert worked with a number of Parisian bronziers including Jean-Nicholas Fremont, Nicolas-Guillaume Jourdan and Francois-Robert Leguel, who assisted in the creation of his designs. This pair of vases is very similar to another pair of vases which Baffert designed, which form part of a clock garniture currently in the Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor. The Rothschild vases...
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1770s French Louis XVI Antique Agate Furniture
Materials
Agate, Bronze, Ormolu
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