Collection of Evelyn Annenberg Hall, 640 Park Ave Christie's, NY, 2006, 1st Ed

Master Drawings the Oppé Collection. 5 December 2006, Christie's London. 1st Ed softcover auction catalog. NPT Books, a division of Trent Antiques, has a large collection of used a...

Christie's: May 23, 1994 Mere Hall, Knutsford Cheshire. Sold on behalf of the Executors of the late Mrs. Helen Langford-Brooke. Christie’s presents the two-day sale of A Palladian Villa by Michael S. Smith taking place 23-24 April. Encompassing over 450 lots, the sale will include contemporary art, English furniture, Old Master paintings, Chinese works of art...

The Jingguantang Collection Part III fine and important Chinese ceramics and Works of Art, Christie’s; New York September 18, 1997. First edition s...

Christie's Francis Bacon / FRANCIS BACON SEATED FIGURE 1960. Christies, NY. 1st Edition Paperback. The work, entitled Seated Figure (Red Cardinal), is a fantastic representation of B...

Christie's London, Nureyev Part I and II. Pair of Christies 1st ed catalogs, London: Christie's, 1995. Volume I hardcover with dust jacket Volume II softcover. With old master and 19th century paintings, drawings, prints, books, sculpture, furniture, textiles, ballet costumes...

Christie's: 22 Juin 2005-Collection d'un Grand Amateur Européen. First Edition softcover 175 pp., with 3 fold outs, 177 lots all photographed in color and fully described, with resul...

French parquetry commode with ormolu and marble top.

This is an impressive and rare antique French Régence wood and ormolu mounted commode, circa 1720 in date. The stunning breche violette marble t...

This exquisite gilt bronze-mounted pedestal clock is the creation of the famed French clockmaker Paul Garnier (1801-1861). Garnier worked in Paris during the first half of the 19th C...

Commode after the original model from Jean Henri Riesener in transition style. Lightly modified model after an original by Jean Henri Riesener (1734-1806). Black ebonized rectangular...

Blue sevres style porcelain lamp with a wooden base. Gilt bronze fittings, porcelain. Pink orchids painted in bands around the middle. Blue painted wooden base. An exceptional 19th c...

Rare pair of four-branch gilt bronze and jeweled cobalt blue ground Sèvres style porcelain candelabras Date: 19th Century Origin: French Dimension: 23 in x 10 1/2 in.

A Pair of late 19th century French bronze and Griotte Uni marble ewers After Claude-Michel Clodion Each with fluted spreading neck fronted with a grotesque mask and a pair of entwined serpent handles, above the tapering body cast in high relief with satyrs, bacchante and putti with acanthus-cast lower section , on a square base. Claude Michael Clodion, [1738-1814], was the son-in-law of sculptor Augustin Pajou; he trained in Paris in the workshops of Lambert Sigisbert Adam, his maternal uncle and Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, the most successful sculptor of the time. After winning the Prix de Rome, he moved to Italy, sharing a studio with Jean-Antoine Houdon and studying antique, Renaissance, and Baroque sculpture. In 1771 Clodion returned to Paris, where he continued to produce mostly in terracotta. He also worked with his brothers in other media, decorating objects...

A magnificent and impressive sized 240 year old Louis XVI period (c.1774–1793) hand carved and painted gilt wood signed French wall thermometer and barometer. Having a hand decorated enamel dial signed "Carcano" for distinguished scientific instrument inventor Antonio Carcano (c.1755-1820) and Joseph, most likely for celebrated Parisian ébéniste Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain (c.1719 - 1791) Originating in Paris, France during the second half of the 18th century, exquisitely hand-crafted and of very fine quality, richly detailed, polychrome decorated and ornamented in sophisticated Neoclassical taste. Having an ornately carved lobbed urn with pineapple shaped finial topping a contoured and rounded solid giltwood case creating a most elegant shaped and stylized elongated banjo silhouette, garnished with a single garland openwork swag carving, over brilliant water gilded carved running ornamentation trim framing a beautifully aged and heavily distressed pale green painted finish. Muted, light and airy pale green paint color, cream, with subtle parcel gilt bronze-tone and decadent water gilt bright gold-tone raised panels and acanthus fiolate. Featuring a handblown glass thermometer retaining remnants of the original hand-painted paper label inscribed with atmospheric condition details. Over an early mercury barometer with original hand painted dial and metal hands, protected behind convex glass face. An exceedingly rare and important work, but what truly sets this fabulous example apart, is that the wooden planked verso is fitted with an open channel that retains the original mechanical components, including a pair of liquid metal mercury filled glass tubes, vacuum mechanism, long column blown glass tube, stringing, and more. It does not appear to be currently working, the string/rope deteriorating with age, etc.. but having the original parts is an exceptionally rare occurrence and highly unusual, as workings were commonly damaged and lost centuries ago. The dial is signed: "Josef" "Carcano" "Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis" (the artisans workshop was located on this street in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. Historically, this street was an extremely weathy upper-class area, occupied by the finest jewellers and textile merchants) "Fripiere Au Phenix" History: Antoine Carcano (c. 1755-1820) An early maker of barometers, thermometers, and an inventor of various scientific instruments. Of Italian descent, he became famous in Paris, first at 37 rue de la Roquette and then at Place Dauphine. He supplied barometers and other scientific instruments to the Ecole Militaire in 1786; the following year he supplied a tube barometer to British optical instruments manufacturer Peter Dollond (1731-1821). During the Empire his clientele included Sir Benjamin Thompson...

A spectacular French mid-19th century, circa 1855, Louis XVI st. tulipwood parquetry and ormolu mounted, Model 2 Concert Grand Piano, signed Ple...

Antique French piano stool hand carved and hand painted in light green and orange. Very stable piece with its original upholstery that may be ad...

First edition, published by Christie's and Flammarion, 2009. The subtitle of this catalogue, ‘The Sale of the Century’, is no overstatement. This extensive tome presents the cultura...

Royal Doulton Figures 1st Ed. 1st Printing, Hardcover Book 1978. Royal Doulton Figures Produced at Berslem c1890 - 1978 Desmond Eyles & Richard Dennis. Published by Royal Doulton T...

Catalog of a Christie’s London sale held on Wednesday, May 10, 2000 dispersing an important collection of French 20th century decorative arts, featuring...

A group of three auction catalogues from the Christie's New York 'Interiors' sales. The Interior sale catalogues are noted for their in-depth writings and beautiful full-color pho...

Three of the Dundas Masterpieces are pictured and described in this Auction Catalog by Christie's, sale on July 3rd, 1997. Sir Lawrence Dundas Scions of t...

An exhibition catalogue produced by Christie's New York in 2013 for an exhibition of works by Ettore Sottsass which were in a private collection owned by Fernando Pivano and his wife...