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Material: Ormolu
Sèvres Blue Porcelain Urn on Gilt Bronze Plinth
Located in London, GB
This beautiful urn (or vase) was crafted in 1875 by the famous Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. The urn exhibits the fine detailing and gilding that Sèvres Porcelain was renowned for in the 18th and 19th century. The inside of the urn is signed, ‘S.73’, ‘DECORE A SEVRES/ RF/ 75’.
The conical porcelain urn has been painted a speckled royal blue colour and decorated with parcel gilt, navy floral motifs. The body is ornamented around its base with stylised leaf forms, and its centre features a large painting of a flower. Navy porcelain...
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1870s French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
$9,331 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century French Louis XVI Marble & Gilt Bronze Portico Clock C. Bertrand
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A monumental 18th Century Portico clock signed by Charles Bertrand. It is of the classical style of Louis XVI, made of white marble mounted with ormolu decoration. The movement is he...
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
French 19th c. Louis XIV St. Bronze, Ormolu, & Boulle Statue Of King Louis XIV
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome and most impressive French 19th century Louis XIV st. patinated Bronze, Ormolu, and Boulle statue of King Louis XIV. This wonderful statue is modeled after the statue of Louis XIV in the middle of the Place des Victoires, Paris. The statue is raised on a rectangular stepped Boulle pedestal with its Brass inlays atop a Tortoiseshell background within an ebony frame. This wonderfully detailed pedestal is also decorated with an upped and lower Ormolu Coeur-de-Rai band that serves as the plinth and capital. Atop the Boulle designed pedestal is a patinated Bronze rearing horse...
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19th Century French Louis XIV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
French 19th Century Napoleon III Period Cabinet
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and extremely high quality French 19th century Napoleon III period ebony, exotic wood, ormolu, brass and white Carrara marble cabinet. The cabinet is raised by handsome bl...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Carrara Marble, Brass, Ormolu
Pair of Vienna Style Porcelain Gilt and Cobalt-Blue Ground Vases
Located in New York, NY
A fine pair of Vienna style porcelain gilt and cobalt-blue ground vases with covers, late 19th century. Each painted with a continuous mythological view, raised on three paw feet abo...
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Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Napoleon III Style Boulle Commode with Tortoiseshell Marquetry, Ormolu Detailing
By André-Charles Boulle, Nicolas Sageot
Located in Madrid, ES
An opulent 19th century French Napoleon III (nephew of Bonaparte I) style commode, with Boulle style red-orange tortoiseshell and brass marquetry, ormolu detailing and marble top. Th...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Antique Neoclassical Style Three-Piece Gilt Bronze Clock Set
Located in London, GB
Antique neoclassical style three-piece gilt bronze clock set
French, late 19th century
Measures: Clock: Height 57cm, width 74cm, depth 23cm.
Candelabra: Height 83cm, width 27cm, d...
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Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
$26,347 Sale Price / set
20% Off
French 1870 Pair of Empire Candle Holders Lamps Ormolu with Gray Dotted Granite
Located in Miami, FL
French empire pair of candle holders lamps.
Exceptional pair of antique candleholders, created in Paris France during the imperial period of Napoleon III, circa 1870. They was designed with French empire neoclassical patterns, masterfully crafted with parts made up in gilt bronze ormolu and patinated bronze. Mounted in fluted columns pedestals carved from gray dotted Granite, with polished finish. Embellished with garlands and putties mounted in a four square and stepped bases.
Weight: Combined of 12 Pounds (5.45 Kilos).
Measurements: 15 Height by 4.50 Length by 5.15 Width Inches, (38 x 11.43 x 13.08 Cm).
French Empire
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (1808-1873) was Emperor of France from 1852 to 1870 under the name of Napoleon III. In a way, the artistic codes of the Napoleon III style, also called Second Empire style, were presented at the Exhibition of 1844, during the reign of Louis-Philippe d'Orléans. The second Empire style, also known as the Napoleon III style, is a highly eclectic style of architecture and decorative arts, which uses elements of many different historical styles, and also made innovative use of modern materials, such as iron frameworks and glass skylights. It flourished during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III in France (1852–1870) and had an important influence on architecture and decoration in the rest of Europe and North America. Major examples of the style include the Opéra Garnier (1862–1871) in Paris by Charles Garnier, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Church of Saint Augustine (1860–1871), and the Philadelphia City Hall (1871–1901). The architectural style was closely connected with Haussmann's renovation of Paris carried out during the Second Empire; the new buildings, such as the Opéra, were intended as the focal points of the new boulevards.
Comfort was the first priority of Second Empire furniture...
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1870s French Empire Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Granite, Bronze, Ormolu
$2,649 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Italian 19th Century Neoclassical St. Bronze, Ormolu, and Marble Side Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and extremely decorative Italian 19th century Neo-Classical st. patinated bronze, ormolu, and Alabastro Fiorito side table. The unique table is raised by a square patinate...
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19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
French 18th Century Louis XVI Period Mahogany, Ormolu and Marble Dessert Console
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning French 18th century Louis XVI period Mahogany, ormolu, and marble dessert console. The beautiful two tiered free standing console is raised by elegant circular tapered flu...
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Stone, Marble, Ormolu
French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu, Mirror and Crystal centerpiece
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant and most decorative French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu, Mirror and Crystal centerpiece. This attractive scallop shaped centerpiece is presented on a beautiful bevele...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
French 19th century Belle Epoque Period Ormolu and Porcelain Vanity Mirror
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most unique and monumentally scaled French 19th century Belle Epoque Period Louis XV st. Ormolu and Sévres porcelain vanity mirror. This stunning electrified vanity mirror is rais...
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19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Ormolu Mantel Clock, Belgium, circa 1810-1820
Located in Belmont, MA
Empire ormolu mantel clock, Belgium, circa 1810, Signed "J.B. Romaet a Gand". Decorated with a shepherd scene. Strikes the hour and half hour on a bell. With enamel clock face and si...
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1810s Belgian Empire Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Monumental 19th century French Sevres Porcelain Covered Urn - 66" tall (167 cm)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A palace size antique French ormolu-mounted Sevres Porcelain covered Urn. This magnificent vase painted on a white porcelain body centered with a Bouguereau style painting of female beauties encompassed by Cupids in a mythical garden setting with swans and a gazebo on one side, and a flying cupid observing a winged cherub holding a dove on the reverse.
Signed: CH. Fuchs
Marked with blue interlaced L's mark
circa 1890
Dimensions
Height 66" (167 cm)
Width 24" (61 cm)
Depth 18" (45 cm)
The mark Ch Fuchs stands for the renowned painter Charles Fuchs...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Antique French Limoges Ormolu Hand-Mirror, Signed Joseph Meissonnier 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful antique French Limoges panelled ormolu hand-mirror, signed by the artist Joseph Meissonnier, Circa 1890.
The circular frame has a pierced scrolling foliated b...
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1890s French Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Antique parcel gilt and painted porcelain charger plate by Royal Vienna
Located in London, GB
Antique parcel gilt and painted porcelain charger plate by Royal Vienna
Austrian, late 19th Century
Frame: Diameter 53.5, depth 3.5
Plaque: Diameter 49cm, depth 2.5cm
This beautiful charger plate was crafted by the famous Royal Vienna Porcelain Manufactory. Royal Vienna was founded in 1718, making it one of the first factories to produce porcelain goods in Europe. Antique Royal Vienna items are today held in important art collections, including the Uffizi in Florence, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Collection in New York. This charger is marked with the blue beehive-shaped shield of the Royal Vienna factory.
The charger features a central painting, depicting the abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary was forced to renounce the Scottish throne...
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Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
A Near Pair of Vitrine Cabinets, by François Linke, Paris
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Near Pair of Belle Epoque Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Vitrine Cabinets, by François Linke, Paris
Each with shaped brêche d’alep marble top. The central doors and flaking glazed p...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Louis XV Period Ormolu and Marble Mounted Commode
Located in London, GB
A Louis XV period ormolu and marble mounted commode.
French, 18th century.
Measures: height 84cm, width 122cm, depth 68cm.
With a veined grey marble top set above two small and ...
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Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
$16,467 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Pair of Louis XV Style Ormolu Mounted Marble Urns and Cover
Located in New York, NY
A fine pair of 19th century Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted Sarrancolin marble urns. Marked BF followed by four digit numbers from the workshop's bronze master models
Maker: Ma...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Antique French Sevres Mantel Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality French 19th century gilded ormolu and pink Sevres porcelain mantel clock. Having monopodia supports, a putti supporti...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French 18th Century Louis XVI Period Console Tables
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and extremely high quality pair of French 18th century Louis XVI period rosewood, tulipwood, ormolu, and Coquillier de Bilbao marble dessert consoles, signed by Jaques-Lau...
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu Mantel Clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A spectacular and unique French early 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu mantel clock, signed by Chapsal a Paris. The clock is raised on finely chased swan supports below a rectangula...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
True Pair Of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Bisque Porcelain Statues
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A lovely and affectionate true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Alabama Rose Marble, Ormolu, white Carrara marble, and Bisque Porcelain statues...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Large French Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze cartel clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large French Louis XV style gilt bronze cartel clock.
After the model by Jacques Caffièri.
The cartouche-shaped case representing sunrise an...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Pair French Louis XVI style side tables, signed F. Linke.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
Fine quality pair of French Louis XVI style side tables, having inset marble tops, gilded ormolu mouldings and mounts, single frieze drawers and raised on elegant cabriole legs.
One ...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XIV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Bureau de Dame, by François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Bureau de Dame, by François Linke.
Signed to the bronze mount ‘F.Linke’.
Linke Index Number 1650.
This very fine and unusual bureau de dame ha...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Gilt Bronze Jewellery Casket & Limoges Miniature 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful antique Napoleon III gilded ormolu and Limoges enamel jewellery casket, Circa 1870 in date.
The hinged lid having a beautiful finely painted miniature Limoges en...
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1870s French Napoleon III Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Sèvres Style Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Three-Piece Clock Set
Located in London, GB
This exquisite clock set is designed in an elegant 18th-Century Rococo manner, in the style of Sèvres porcelain wares. Rococo is characterised by its use of pastel colours, graceful ...
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19th Century French Rococo Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
$8,233 Sale Price / set
20% Off
A Pair of Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Pink Marble Vases, Fitted As Lamps
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Pair of Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Pink Marble Vases, Fitted As Lamps.
Each vase of fleur de Pêcher marble entwined with rich gilt-bronze r...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
19th Century Rococo Style Mantel Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th Century French gilded ormolu Rococo influenced mantel clock, having wonderful scrolling foliate decoration, the clock face having enamel Roman numerals, an e...
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Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Pink marble Lyre shape mantle clock, 19th Century.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality late 19th Century French Pink marble and gilded ormolu mounts, of a sun burst and swags above the Lyre. A white enamel clock face wit...
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Late 19th Century French Empire Revival Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Marble and Ormolu Lidded Urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Vert de Patricia marble and ormolu lidded urns. Each urn is raised by a square base with a fine bottom ormolu fillet and a fi...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
pair of French late 19th century Louis XVI st. Marble and Ormolu urns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A delightful and high quality pair of French late 19th century Louis XVI st. Rouge de France marble and Ormolu lidded urns. Each most decorative urn is raised by an Ormolu trimmed sq...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XV St. Noir Antique Marble Mantel
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive French 19th century Louis XV st. Noir Antique marble mantel. The mantle is raised by elegant jambs with finely mottled bases below elegant recessed designs, cabochons, ...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Antique French Sevres Cobalt Blue Porcelain Jewellery Casket 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a fabulous antique French Sevres ormolu mounted cobalt blue soft paste porcelain jewellery casket, Circa 1870 in date.
The shaped hinged ormolu mounted cover is superbly de...
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1870s Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
A French 19th century Belle Epoque Period marble and Ormolu clock garniture set
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational and high quality French 19th century Belle Epoque Period Louis XVI st. white Carrara marble and Ormolu clock garniture set. This stunning garniture set consists of a cl...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Late 19th Century French Marble Topped Gueridon, in the Manner of Dasson
By Henry Dasson
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th century French Louis XVI style marble topped gueridon, in the manner of Henry Dasson. Having an inset green veined marble top, gilded ormolu moldings an...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Gilt Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain Clock Garniture
Located in London, GB
Gilt bronze and Sèvres style porcelain clock garniture
French, 19th century
Measures: Clock height 46cm, width 29cm, depth 24c...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
$49,471 Sale Price / set
20% Off
19th Century French Empire Mahogany Commode
Located in Southall, GB
A fantastic quality 19th Century Empire mahogany and ormolu commode with marble top. This commode has three functioning, deep drawers with lovely gilded plaques.
Category
19th Century Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
$10,292 Sale Price
40% Off
A Fantastic Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Commode By François Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Fantastic Late 19th/Early 20th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Commode By François Linke
François Linke – Index no. 599
Brèche d’ Alep marble top above one long bronze mounted drawer, the center two drawers bronze mounted with floral wreath and bird, the base mounted with a tambourine and flowing curtains.
Signed F. Linke to the right-hand chute, locked stamped Ct. Linke and the number 599.
Pictured on Page 493 and Daybook Entry on Page 477 in “François Linke 1855-1946 The Belle Epoque of French Furniture” By Christopher Payne.
Designed in 1900, this model commode was conceived en suite with a dressing table, index number 600, and a double bed, number 601. Although clearly started in 1899, a note in the Blue Daybook shows that the ciseleur enriched the chasing on the bronzes much later, in September 1902, and with a fleur de pêcher marble top costing 110 francs. Whereas two of the matching beds and dressing tables were made, Linke made five versions of this commode between 1899 and 1910, with one example made for the compagnie nationale de Buenos-Aires in 1908.
Linke was born in Pankraz in Bohemia and was celebrated by the French as one of the greatest ébénistes of meubles de style at the turn of the century. He began his apprenticeship with a Bohemian master at the age of thirteen. Four years later, he toured Austria, settling and working in Vienna for two years. Linke arrived in Paris in 1875, and by 1881 he had established his own small workshop at 170 rue du Faubourg St. Antoine. Taking 18th century styles as his starting point and adapting earlier styles to contemporary taste, Linke produced fine quality furniture, steadily expanding his business during the next 20 years. He firmly established his reputation after receiving a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900 for his extraordinary Grand Bureau. He continued to use international fairs as a means of exploring new markets, exhibiting at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, the Liege in Belgium and the 1908 Franco-British exhibition in London. Linke’s highly original designs sprang from the Régence and Rococo styles but were imbued with something quite new – Rococo curves were laden with gilt-bronze sculptural mounts in the tradition of A.-C. Boulle (1642-1732) or Charles Cressent (1685-1758). Stylistically, the new designs still adhered to the Rococo; the novelty, however, was Linke’s fusion of the Rococo with the liveliness and the fluidity of the ‘art nouveau’. The Revue called Linke’s creations entierement nouveau, and continued to say that ‘Linke’s stand...
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
$104,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Buffet/Server By François Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Fine Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Buffet/Server By François Linke
François Linke
Surmounted by a long, heavy marble top above three center drawers and tw...
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
French Ormolu and Champlevé Enamel Oval Dressing Table Mirror
Located in New York, NY
A French Ormolu and Champlevé Enamel oval dressing table mirror. The champleve enamel oval dressing table mirror with beautiful intricate detail.
...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
Antique French Gilt Bronze and Lapis Lazuli Mantel Clock after Falconet
Located in London, GB
French sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet (1716-1791) is the inspiration for this beautiful, sumptuous mantel clock. His clock, crafted in the late 18th Century and now on display at the Louvre Museum, caused such a stir when it was exhibited over 100 years later, at the Great Exhibition in Paris in 1900 that one reviewer claimed that it "attracted so much admiration from the crowds gathered around that the pressure was sufficient at times to endanger its safety."
As well as this famed 'Three Graces...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Ormolu, Bronze
$49,471 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Gilt, Patinated Bronze and Marble Clock Set by Raingo Frères
Located in London, GB
Large gilt, patinated bronze and marble clock set by Raingo Frères
French, Late 19th Century
Clock: height 73cm, width 29cm, depth 28cm
Candelabra: height 66cm, width 30cm, depth ...
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Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
$27,484 Sale Price / set
20% Off
19th Century French Bronze Figure of Napoleon
Located in London, GB
An early 19th Century well-cast bronze statue of Napoleon in full uniform, standing on square socle with applied ormolu laurel leaf wreath, ending o...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
NAPOLEON III Antique 1870 French Desk Tray Set In Gray Marble And Gilt Ormolu
By Napoléon III
Located in Miami, FL
A Napoleon III desk set in marble and ormolu.
This is a beautiful and flamboyant desk tray set created in Paris France during the Napoleon III per...
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1870s French Napoleon III Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Gold, Ormolu
$1,389 Sale Price
30% Off
French 19th Century Patinated Bronze and Ormolu Bust of Marie Antoinette
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful French 19th century patinated bronze and ormolu bust of Marie Antoinette signed by Houdon. The high quality bust is raised by an or...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Napoleon III Period Onyx and Gilt Bronze Clock Set
Located in London, GB
The white onyx and gilt bronze three-piece set consists of a central clock, accompanied by two six-light candelabra. The three items were crafted in the 19th century, during the reig...
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Onyx, Ormolu, Bronze
$49,471 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Early 19th Century Louis XV Style French Jardinière / Plant Stand
Located in Dublin, IE
A very fine early 19th century French Kingwood, ormolu-mounted jardinière, the shaped rectangular removable leather top lifts up to reveal a zinc liner, this leads down to a fine qua...
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Early 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th Century Napoleon III Period Ebony, Brass and Ormolu Boulle Vitrine
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and large scale French 19th century Napoleon III period ebony, brass and ormolu Boulle vitrine. The cabinet is raised by six elegant topie shaped legs with ormolu feet and...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
Antique Ormolu Mounted Mahogany and Chinese Lacquer Commode by Maison Forest
Located in London, GB
Antique ormolu mounted mahogany and Chinese lacquer commode by Maison Forest
French, Late 19th Century
Height 95cm, width 166.5cm, depth 61cm
Crafted in late 19th century France by...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
$49,471 Sale Price
20% Off
Louis XVI Statuary Marble Chimneypiece with Ormolu
Located in London, GB
A small finely carved statuary marble Louis XVI antique chimneypiece with a gently curved bow fronted shelf and frieze adorned with applied ormolu ornamentation in the form of laurel...
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Early 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Statuary Marble, Ormolu
Pair of Display Cabinets in the Louis XVI Style
Located in London, GB
A Pair of Display Cabinets
In the Louis XVI Manner
Constructed from kingwood and bois satiné with ormolu mounts throughout, each cabinet s...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
$89,198 / set
Neoclassical Style French Antique Ormolu and Marble Side Table
By Paul Sormani, Adam Weisweiler
Located in London, GB
This refined and elegant round side table, or gueridon, has a circular top of green veined marble. Running around the edge of the top of the table is a band of tole, which is mounted...
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Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Tôle
$38,477 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Commode in the Louis XV Manner by Maison Rogié
Located in London, GB
A fine commode in the Louis XV manner after a model by Jacques Dubois By Maison Rogié of Paris.
Constructed in book-matched kingwood veneers, inlaid with floral motifs, and richly decorated with fine ormolu mounts; of bombe serpentine...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Antique French Gilt Bronze and Malachite Clock Set
Located in London, GB
This wonderful clock set was created in France in circa 1870, in the late 19th century. The set, which consists of a mantel clock and pair of candelabra is crafted from gilt bronze (...
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Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Malachite, Ormolu, Bronze
$35,130 Sale Price / set
20% Off
A pair of French 19th century Renaissance st. Marble, Bronze and Ormolu ewers
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A lovely and high quality pair of French 19th century Belle Epoque Period Renaissance st. Marble, patinated Bronze and Ormolu ewers. Each most elegant ewers/urn is raised by a Rouge ...
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19th Century French Renaissance Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
A Louis XVI Style Oval Three Tier Gueridon
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Fine Louis XVI Style Oval Three Tier Gueridon
After The Model by Simon Phillippe Poirier and Martin Carlin.
This fine and unusual gueridon has three graduating oval shelves surmo...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Two Austrian Purple Cut Glass and Gilt Bronze Lamps
Located in London, GB
Two Austrian purple cut glass and gilt bronze lamps
Austrian, Early 20th Century
Height 40cm, width 11cm, depth 11cm
These lamps are truly exceptional antique pieces of Austrian design. They were created in the early 20th century, in the refined Neoclassical style which was in fashion at the time. They are crafted from fine purple amethyst crystal glass and gilt bronze (ormolu).
The stems of the lamps are shaped like classical campagna vases...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Neoclassical Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu, Bronze
$10,429 Sale Price / set
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19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Bureau à Cylindre Possibly by François Linke
By François Linke, Adam Weisweiler
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Superb Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Bureau à Cylindre Possibly François Linke for Maison Krieger
In the manner of Adam Weisweiler, Possibly by François Linke for Maison Krieger
Cajou, platane trellis-parquetry, ébène and buis stringings, the rounded corner marble top above three small drawers, the cylinder front opening to a gilt-tooled leather lined writing slide and five small drawers, the frieze fitted with three drawers, the central drawer, with spring-loaded secret release, is decorated with an ormolu relief plaque which depicts a group of putti at play, the two side drawers with hidden key...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
$44,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Ormolu Clocks, Lamps and Other Furniture and Decorative Objects for Sale
Antique ormolu furniture and decorative objects can be incorporated into a variety of spaces, and while demand for the material and/or technique was at its peak in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries, ormolu is still widely loved by designers and collectors today.
What is ormolu?
Ormolu is a brilliant form of decorative trickery. To the untrained eye, ormolu clocks, jewelry boxes and other ormolu furniture and decor look like they're made of solid gold. But those in the know recognize ormolu — or elaborate bronze gilding — as having been essential to French design in the 18th and 19th centuries as a cornerstone of the neoclassical and Empire styles.
“Most commonly, ormolu refers to a bronze object that has been covered with gold, typically 18 karat or 24 karat,” explains Jamie Sinai, director of the antiques specialist Mayfair Gallery, in London. “For that reason, ormolu is sometimes called gilt bronze or, in French, bronze doré. Strictly speaking, however, the term ormolu also denotes the technique of applying gold to a metal.”
“The word comes from the French or moulu, which translates as ‘ground or powdered gold’ — the form the gold takes before it is applied to a metal surface.”
From the court of King Louis XVI to that of Napoleon I, the French elite snapped up furniture mounted with ormolu, as well as sconces, candelabra and table lamps made from the material. “As the French reputation for supreme art, architecture and furniture developed, the craze for ormolu spread across Europe,” adds Sinai.
Today, antiques collectors and interior designers continue to prize ormolu for its extraordinary craftsmanship and history-infused glamour.
“This wondrous material was highly sought after in France as the ultimate luxury. It magically resembled solid gold and sparkled under candlelight,” says Sinai.
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