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Place of Origin: French
Group of 18 Assorted Leather or Marbled Bound Books, 19th Century
Located in Savannah, GA
Group of 18 Assorted Leather or Marbled Bound Books, 19th Century. Books are in different languages and sizes
Category
19th Century Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Wall Plaque Sculpture Medallion Woman Figure Signed B. Feinberg, Late 19th C
Located in Labrit, Landes
Terracotta woman figure medallion, wall plaque
Signed by Bernanowitch Hirsch Feinberg, Russian artist with an international carrier between
Good condition with good patina due to ...
Category
Late 19th Century Napoleon III Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Terracotta
19th Century, Compass and Sundial Together
Located in Miami, FL
19th century, compass and sundial together.
Category
Late 19th Century Baroque Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Antique French 19th Century Jewelry Box Flap Door Miniature Wood Cabinet
Located in Firenze, IT
This beautiful French late 19th century chest of drawers in black ebonized wood and cherrywood reproduces with perfect proportions in scale a miniature cabinet with three drawers and an upper flap door that opens to reveal a white marble top and an oval mirror inside, nice hand carved band on top with geometrical pattern and molded base.
The black lacquered wood creates a wonderful contrast with the beautiful honey-colored wood grain. Despite its convenient size, extremely detailed, this chest of drawers is equipped with a white Carrara marble top and a small mirror that make it even more special and useful.
The model of a piece of furniture was originally created by cabinet makers to show their skills to the customer and to present the sample of the furniture which would then have been produced on a larger scale. These commode miniatures, along with other specimens, were displayed in the craftsman's workshop to serve as examples to aid the potential client in making a selection. Some also think that these little chests were used as doll and puppets...
Category
Late 19th Century Empire Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Carrara Marble, Metal
Art Nouvau walking stick, knob with flowers by Henri-Victor Miault, France 1900.
By Henri-Victor Miault
Located in Milan, IT
Art Nouveau walking stick: gilded silver knob in the shape of a milord depicting flowers in relief with cabochon opal stones and diamont-cut yellow sapphires. Ebony wood shaft. Metal...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Opal, Metal, Silver
Grand Tour Model of the Eiffel Tower, Now as a Lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Grand Tour model of the Eiffel Tower, now as a lamp, newly wired. The architectural model stands 30" high, 33" high to the top of the socket.
Category
Early 20th Century Grand Tour French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wrought Iron
19th Century French Hand Carved and Hand Painted Sedan Chair in Louis XV Style
Located in Sofia, BG
19th Century French sedan chair made of hand carved gilded wood hand painted with music trophy, wedding rings at the back and lots of flowers all ar...
Category
Early 19th Century Louis XV Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
19th Century French Empire Miniature Commode
Located in Winter Park, FL
A fine early 19th century French Empire miniature sample commode with four dovetailed drawers. Made of burl of walnut veneer with oak and pine as secondary woods. Working locks with ...
Category
Early 19th Century Empire Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Gertrude Stein, Operas and Plays, Inscribed by Alice Toklas, Plain Edition 1932
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: STEIN, Gertrude.
Title: Operas and Plays.
Publisher: Paris: 27 Rue de Fleurus, 1932.
PLAIN EDITION INSCRIBED BY ALICE TOKLAS. 1 vol., limited to 500 copies, inscrib...
Category
1930s Vintage French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
French 19th Century Bronze Wall Thermometer Attrib. to François Linke
By François Linke
Located in North Miami, FL
Original 19th Century wall mounted thermometer measuring in centigrade in the Louis XVI style. All bronze and very elegant thermometer attributed to François Linke. All weather m...
Category
Early 20th Century Louis XVI French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Sterling Bookmark with Letter R
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A beautiful Sterling Silver bookmark with the letter "R".
The piece easily slides onto a book and is a lovely addition to any desk or work station, or bedside.
We love its simplici...
Category
20th Century Victorian French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver
Cartier Vintage Black Sunglasses with Box, 1990 Silver Logo
By Cartier
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Cartier classic black sunglasses with silver CC logo.
Classic, timeless, sophisticated piece to add to your wardrobe
Authentic, vintage, rare, Cartier Paris France Black Ja...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Resin
19th Century French Marquetry Miniature Sample Commode
Located in Winter Park, FL
An early 19th century French marquetry commode de maitrise, or miniature sample commode. Made veneer of mahogany with pine and beech as a secondary w...
Category
19th Century Louis XV Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Beech, Mahogany, Pine
Group of 26 Assorted Leather or Marbled Bound Books, 19th Century
Located in Savannah, GA
Group of 25 Assorted Leather or Marbled Bound Books, 19th Century. Books are in various languages and sizes
Category
19th Century Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
Roger Capron, Zodiac Charm Taurus, Vallauris 1973
By Roger Capron
Located in St Ouen, FR
Thin sheet of partially glazed stamped porcelain with the motif of a female figure embodying the Taurus sign.
Rare item from a limited series created by the artist in 1973 around th...
Category
1970s Other Vintage French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Porcelain
Paris Blues
Located in London, GB
Original French painting gouache on art board used to create the French film poster for the 1961 American drama Paris Blues. The film was directed by Marti...
Category
1960s Vintage French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paint
Vintage 1970 Backgammon & Chess Rare Etienne Aigner Black Soft Leather Set
By Etienne Aigner
Located in Vis, NL
Vintage 1970 backgammon & chess rare Etienne Aigner black and burgundy handmade soft leather complete set a rare find since they were just a few made guaranteeing the maximum level o...
Category
1970s Arts and Crafts Vintage French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather
Godard Armand "Woman Sitting with Doves" Art Deco Sculpture black marble
By Armand Godard
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
"Jeune femme aux colombes" "young woman with doves" By Armand Godard.
Beautiful sculpture with beautiful patina Art Deco period representing a woman sitting feeding birds on oval terrace in black marble.
Very fine work.
Signed.
France,
circa 1930
Armand Godard made many chryselephantine statuettes in bronze and ivory in the Art Deco style, especially for the foundry Edmond Etling. In the 1920s and 1930s, he exhibited in Paris in the salons of the Society of French Artists. During the 1937 Universal Exhibition in Paris, he showed a monumental statue 4.5 meters high and a patinated plaster sculpture.
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Marble
Titanium Boeing Fin
Located in Paris, FR
Fin titanium Boeing all in titanium
in polished finish. This CFM56 fin is
made for Boeing 737.
Riveted on transparent plexiglass base,
base dimensions: L 19 x D 13 x H 1.5cm.
Fi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plexiglass
Wonderful Turn of the Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Six-Leg Grand Erard Piano
By Sébastien Érard
Located in Long Island City, NY
A wonderful turn of the century gilt bronze mounted Louis XVI style six-leg Grand Erard piano
Beautiful satinwood veneer, bronze mounts, standing on six legs centered by a stretcher.
The movement stamped with Erard serial number 93712 and patent stamps, the interior of the case further stamped F. TURBEC/A LEMOINE, and M. BECKER.
Erard is the oldest and most prestigious French piano manufacturer. The firm was founded by Sebastian Erard...
Category
Early 1900s Belle Époque Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
French Sculptured Gilt Bronze Box by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A gilt bronze box or podier by French Jeweler Line Vautrin, in the pattern of "Moise ou la traversee du desert" coric 1940s-1950s.
A rare mode in the box, the top surface of the cover illustrates the biblical story of Moses crossing the desert out of Egypt...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Colored wall map of the WORLD
By Chambon
Located in ZWIJNDRECHT, NL
“Mappe Monde, contenant les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre”
CHAMBON, Gobert-Denis (France, 17.. - 1781)
Paris, Longchamps et Janvier, 1754
Size H. 115 x W. 145 cm.
Gobert-Denis Chambon made copper engraving after the work of Guillaume De L’Isle, published in 1754 by Jean Janvier and S.G. Longschamps.
A huge wall map of the world in two hemispheres printed on two sheets, depicting the Eastern and Western hemispheres supported by two male figures, decorated at the bottom right and left with two celestial hemispheres (boreal and southern) and at the bottom in the middle with an armillary sphere, in addition.
This map is most notable for its depiction of the Sea of Japan labeled "Mer de Corée" and of "Mer de L'Ouest" or Sea of the West - a great sea, easily the size of the Mediterranean, to flow from the then-known Strait of Juan de Fuca...
Category
Mid-18th Century French Provincial Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Paper
LES PASTORALES, woodcuts by J.- B. Vettiner
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful copy of the DELUXE EDITION of a classic collection of pastoral poems and elegies by the Sicilian poet Theocritus (c. 300 B.C. – c. 260 B.C.), known for his epic and pasto...
Category
Early 20th Century French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Wood, Paper
19th C. French Miniature Buffet
Located in Winter Park, FL
A late 19th c. French miniature doll furniture buffet made of walnut with rosewood trim and oak as a secondary wood. Two small dovetailed drawers above cabinet doors opening to an in...
Category
19th Century Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Oak, Rosewood, Walnut
Compass with Pocket Sundial, with Case, Bronze, Butterfield, Michael '1635-1724'
Located in Madrid, ES
Compass with pocket sundial, with case. Bronze. BUTTERFIELD, Michael (1635-1724). Paris, circa 1700.
Pocket sundial made of engraved metal, with a gno...
Category
Early 18th Century Neoclassical Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Bronze, Other
A cigar or cigarette box silver-plated metal and exotic wood France 1970
By Maria Pergay
Located in SOTTEVILLE-LÈS-ROUEN, FR
An elegant cigar or cigarette box from the 70s, made of silver-plated metal and featuring an interior of exotic wood. Crafted with exceptional skill, this vintage piece combines soph...
Category
1970s Hollywood Regency Vintage French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
French Hand-Crafted and Painted Ceramic Trinket or Jewelry Box
Located in Miami, FL
A beautiful hand-crafted ceramic lidded trinket or jewelry box.
Mid-20th century, French.
Used as decorative item, this piece would enhance any shelf or tabletop.
Measures: 6 1/8...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic
Two Limoges Enamel Paintings Including Portrait of Henry VIII
By Hans Holbein
Located in London, GB
These exquisite portrait plaques were made in the French town of Limoges, which is renowned for the fine quality of its enamel wares. The panels have been painted with oval, half-length portraits of British Tudor monarchs...
Category
19th Century Renaissance Revival Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Enamel
Masonic Ceremonial Hand-Painted Plate Signed Moustiers
By Meret a Moustiers
Located in Miami, FL
Hand-painted Masonic ceremonial plate signed Bondil a Moustiers.
Perfect condition.
Measures: 8 1/4" diam. x 1" H
Category
20th Century French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Porcelain
French 19th Century Rococo Style Miniature Painted Cabinet with Arching Top
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Rococo style miniature painted cabinet from the 19th century, with arching top, open shelves and two doors. Created in France during the 19th century, this miniature cabinet will make for a great decorative addition to any child's room! Featuring an arching cornice sitting above open shelves, the cabinet showcases two petite doors in its lower section. Painted in blue accented with gilt highlights, this miniature 19th century French Rococo style cabinet...
Category
19th Century Rococo Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Gold Ceramic Thermometer by Mithé Espelte
By Mithé Espelt
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Beautiful wall thermometer in ceramic by Mithé Espelt. Abstract decors with gold glaze and pockets of molten glass
Marie Thérèse Espelt, aka. Mithé Espelt (1923-2020)
Born in...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic
Art Deco Chrome and Metal Ashtray Stand Round Base 1930s France, Two Available
Located in Miami, FL
We offer two of Art Deco ashtray stands on heavy round base in chrome and metal.
Due to age and use they show wear and dents, but both are func...
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Chrome
1926 Ulysses
By James Joyce
Located in Bath, GB
An attractively rebound eighth printing of James Joyce's modernist masterpiece, 'Ulysses'.
First published by Shakespeare & Company in 1922, this is the May 1926 eighth printing of ...
Category
1920s Vintage French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Collection of 20 Books, Les 24 heures du Mans, Annual Edition.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Collection of 20 books, Les 24 heures du Mans, annual edition.
Collection of 20 books on the 24 hours of Le Mans motor race, Les 24 heures du Mans, annual edition.
Each: H:2cm, W: 3...
Category
20th Century Modern French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
19th Century French Empire Miniature Commode
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th century French Empire miniature commode. A well executed miniature chest made of walnut and veneer of walnut with two large drawers below a smaller top drawer and with solid walnut columns. Inscription written in ink on the back of each of the large drawers: Don D...
Category
Early 19th Century Empire Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Walnut
Anatomical model for class: a heart, France 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
Anatomical model for class, depicting an animal’s heart, made out of painted papier mache. Ebonized wooden base, square shape. France circa 1890.
Category
Late 19th Century Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Jewel walking stick, signed Sophie Sander-Noske, France 1900-1910.
By Sophie Sander-Noske
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: jeweled cane, L-shaped knob with gold filigree and precious stones: pearls, opals, rubies, tourmalines. Ebony wood shaft. Metal ferrule. Signed Sophie Sander-Noske (18...
Category
Early 20th Century French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Opal, Tourmaline, Gold, Silver
Set of Antique Bound Books Dating from the 19th Century, France
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Set of old religious books dating from the 19th century. From an old protestant library near Le Havre in France. These books are called "Commentaries". These beautiful books are perf...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Limoges enamel plaque depicting the Last Judgment, France, mid-16th century
Located in Gorssel, GE
A rectangular enamel plaque depicting the triumphant Christ above purgatory and trumpet-blowing angels (the Last Judgment), based on Albrecht Dürer’s works ‘Small Passion series from 1511’, France mid-sixteenth century.
Dimensions: 10.5 x 9.5 cm.
Incl. frame 15.5 x 14.2 cm.
Provenance: Dutch private collection
Similar plaque: catalogue The Wyvern Collection, Medieval and Renaissance Enamels...
Category
16th Century Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper, Enamel
The Spiritual in Art Abstract Painting 1890-1985 Book
Located in North Hollywood, CA
The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985 Art Book.
Judi Freeman, Carel Blotkamp
Abbeville Press, 1987 - Art - 435 pages. Paperback.
Traces the use of geometric signs by the Nabis and other French artists and relates this to the development of abstraction. The author describes some of the sources of ideas about the symbolism of geometric signs, in particular the writings of Helena P. Blavatsky, and traces the impact of these on the Nabis, possibly through the stimulus of Gauguin whose paintings from his Brittany period encouraged a mystical conception of art in which sacred geometry figured as one component. By demonstrating the huge impact of mysticism and the occult on 20th-century artists from Gauguin to Pollack, Mondrian to O'Keefe, this work effectively refutes the popular fallacy that modernism is concerned solely with line, form, and color. He goes on to discuss in detail the paintings of Paul Serusier, Paul Ranson...
Category
20th Century Modern French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Rare 18th century Micromosaic Plate
Located in Paris, FR
Rare micromosaic plaque depicting an idyllic Roman landscape. The main subject of this micromosaic is the representation of buildings surrounded by cypresses and trees. Two figures i...
Category
Late 18th Century Greco Roman Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Cut Glass
Choker Talosel necklace (Model called Reine de Saba) by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Uccle, BE
Choker Talosel necklace with inlaid mirror decorations (Model called Reine de Saba) by Line Vautrin.
Light beige Talosel necklace inlaid with mirrors in shades of pink.
Named by the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Mirror, Talosel
DIOR Women's Runway Show Lookbook Collection Autumn Winter 2013-2014
By Christian Dior
Located in North Hollywood, CA
DIOR Women's Runway Show Lookbook Cruise Collection 2013-2014.
DIOR: Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2013-2014.
In French and English text.
Hardcover small book.
Book is in good conditio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neoclassical French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Set of 4 Antique Bilboquets, France
Located in Schellebelle, BE
Beautiful set of four antique Bilboquets from France,around 1920,
cup-and-bowl children toys in turned Beechwood, dark tinted,
pretty patina,
a set full of charm and authenticity
...
Category
1920s Vintage French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Beech
Antique Classic Ballet Female Dancer Sculpture, French, 1930s
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Silvered bronze sculpture of a women dancing. Lovely lady. It has a alabaster tray or plate that can be use for jewelry, personal cards or keys. Made in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
L'ABCdaire de la calligraphie arabe (ABCDAIRES) (French Edition) Paperback Book
Located in North Hollywood, CA
L'ABCdaire de la calligraphie arabe (ABCDAIRES) (French Edition) Paperback – May 16, 2002
French Edition by Massoudy Hassan (Author)
The basics of Arabic calligraphy paperback - may 21, 2002
by Hassan Massoudy...
Category
20th Century Moorish French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Louis XVI Serinette in the Form of a Miniature Commode by Richard, Paris, 1775
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A very rare Louis XVI period serinette or bird organ in the form of a transitional style gilt bronze mounted and marquetry inlaid miniature commode in the manner of gilbert, by Robert Richard, Paris.
With a label for ' RICHARD - maitre facteur d’orgues et mécanicien / Rue de richelieu à la bibliothèque Du Roy / Paris 1775'.
This rare Serinette or Bird Organ has a wooden cylinder barrel mounted by twelve pins and linked to twelve sound pipes. A crank attached to the front panel controls the bellows that activates the mechanism.
The exceptional marquetry inlaid case is in the form of a gilt bronze mounted transitional style miniature commode. The top of the commode is inlaid with a landscape scene with buildings, opening to an interior with an allegory of Love Conquering All, represented by two doves perching on a bow and quiver. The front of the commode depicts two obelisks centred by a Fine musical trophy and each side is inlaid with panels depicting the Medici Vase. The back of the commode is decorated with floral marquetry.
A closely related Serinette dating from circa 1770, also in the form of a miniature commode, with the marquetry case stamped by the master marqueteur Leonard Boudin, is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
The term serinette is derived from serine, French for finch. The instrument worked like a small barrel organ with a barbed cylinder, wind box and lead pipes and produced a high, thin sound in imitation of birds. Other versions included a merline, which copied blackbirds and a turlutaine, which copied curlews. Used to teach caged birds to sing tunes, different barrels could be inserted to train different birds. It first appeared in France circa 1730 and became a popular drawing-room toy for fashionable women. An interesting painting commissioned in 1751 for Louis XV by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and now in the collection of the Louvre, depicts a refined lady seated in her salon playing a bird organ to encourage her bird to sing.
Robert Richard
Robert Richard was a Parisian organ and harpsichord maker and the mécanicien du roi to Louis XV and Louis XVI and was based in the Bibliothèque du Roi in rue de Richelieu.
Initially working alongside the Cliquot family who acted as 'facteur d'orgue du Roi', he is recorded as building an organ for the church of Notre-Dame de Quebec, in Montreal in 1753 (destroyed in 1759) and as the inventor of a mechanical concert shown in an engraving by d'Eisen in 1769.
Canon Jean Marie De La Corne described Robert Richard as : ''Le plus habile ouvrier de paris, fameux mechanitien et Homme de probité''.
French, Dated 1775.
Literature:
Pierre Kjellberg, The French Furniture of the 17th century, The Editions of the Amateur, 2008
Count Francois de Salverte, Cabinetmakers of the 18th century, Editions of Art and History, 1934
Raymond Russell, Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of Musical Instruments, Volume I - Keyboard Instruments,(London, 1968; p. 69.)
Elizabeth Miller...
Category
Mid-18th Century Louis XVI Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
19th Century Country French Beech Wood and Rush Prayer Chair from Normandy
Located in Dallas, TX
Place this elegant antique prayer chair in a bedroom for your daily devotions. Created in Normandy, France circa 1880, the Prie-Dieu ( Pray God ), stands on curved legs joined by a d...
Category
Late 19th Century Country Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Rush, Beech
Villa Decor: Decidedly French and Italian Style Hardcover by Betty Lou Phillips
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Villa Decor: Decidedly French and Italian style hardcover book, October 1, 2002 by Betty Lou Phillips (Author), Dan Piassick (Photographer).
Villa Decor, Betty Lou Phillips discusses...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Provincial French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Luxury Vintage Stirrup Table Clock Maquet Paris, Nice 8 Jours, France, 1940s
By Hermès, Maquet
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Luxury vintage stirrup desk / table clock Maquet Paris - Nice 8 Jours, France, 1940s
Clock with Equestrian / Polo / Racing horse Motifs in the style of Hermes (exactly the same model but with hermes marks...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Vintage "View of the Center of Paris Taken from the Air" Lithograph Map
Located in San Diego, CA
A very stylish "View of the Center of Paris Taken from the Air" lithograph map published by the Paris Ministry of Tourism, circa early 1950s. The piece measures 27" x 43" and shows...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
20th Century French Vintage Dark Red Wooden Truck Model, Table Décor
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A dark red model truck of an antique French lorry with opening doors and removable back part, in good condition. Hand crafted in wood and hand painted. Min...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood, Paint
Early 20th Century French Laboratory Scale
Located in High Point, NC
Made in early 20th Century France, this mechanical wonder was crafted with an eye for aesthetics, the richly polished wood and meticulously crafted mechanism elevate this piece with ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Provincial French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Life-Size Wicker Sculpture of Harley Davidson Motorcycle
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions: 30" W x 71" L x 41" H
This extraordinary sculpture is a life-size replica of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, intricately handcrafted from natural wicker. The attention to ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Rattan
French Art Bronze Bracelet by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rare cuff bracelet in gilded and silvered bronze by Parisian art jewller Line Vautrin (1913-1997). The playful piece is called "Le gendarme et le voleur"...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Antique Frame French Book Journal Display/Painting 13th-19th Century
Located in Doha, QA
This rare and remarkable piece begins with a backdrop composed of beautifully, handwritten love letters from the 1800s. There are three scrolls made up of additional love letters, sealed with red wax from the 19th century scattered around two antique books. The open book on the left, was written during the time of the 30 Year War, 1618-1648 in France, when the Treaty of Westphalia changed the map of Europe. During this period, the church attempted to begin marriage registrations and within this written relic, there are numerous marriage entries with names and dates. The book is bound by animal hide from the 12th-13th century and when it is unfolded, it becomes a giant piece of parchment filled with faded ink handwriting in mysterious Old French. The closed book on the right is from Louis XIII - XVI era and is bound in antique animal hide parchment from the 12th-13th century. When the animal hide is unfurled, the inside is adorned in faded handwritten ink in peculiar Old French. Inside the journal is elegante handwriting in ink but it is difficult to identify the cryptic content. This journal was possibly written by an unknown noble figure or bishop. Settled below the journals, is an antique, intricate silver feather ink...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Gothic Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold, Silver
19th Century French Bronze Sculpture Of Viking With Battle Axe
Located in Norwood, NJ
Unique, one of a kind, French 19th century patinated bronze sculpture using multiple materials. Main figure of Viking holding a battle axe. Bronze mounted h...
Category
Late 19th Century Beaux Arts Antique French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
Rare Antique Boar’s Head Silver Repousse Cigar Cutter
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Rare Antique Boar’s Head Silver Repousse Cigar Cutter. I believe this to be a French small hallmark on the underside of the neck cutter is a harder metal....
Category
Early 20th Century French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
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Publishing house Assouline and writer Julie Belcove have teamed up to trace the history of the genre, from Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Yayoi Kusama to Mickalene Thomas and Jeff Koons.
The Sparkling Legacy of Tiffany & Co. Explained, One Jewel at a Time
A gorgeous new book celebrates — and memorializes — the iconic jeweler’s rich heritage.
What Makes a Gem-Encrusted Chess Set Worth $4 Million?
The world’s most opulent chess set, weighing in at 513 carats, is literally fit for a king and queen.