18th Century and Earlier Furniture

Rare pair of large garden vases from the Directoire period (1795-1799), in cast iron, formerly painted green-black. They are in very good condition, ...

Large framed oil on canvas representing Rebecca at the Well: among all the women who came to the well, the young woman in the center of the composition, gives water barely drawn to E...

Arita porcelain dish decorated with wisteria. Rare in this condition, the gilding still very present ! Japan, late 17th - early 18th century.

Pair of wonderful weathered oak head ornaments. They most likely once adorned a piece of furniture France circa 1650 Weathered. Measurements are individual and include the wooden ped...

Lovely small weathered Baroque hand carved mirror, Italy, 18th century. Weathered, small losses and old repairs.

Bust of Saint Barbara School of Troyes, Champagne Circa 1520-1530 Partially polychrome limestone h. 13 in., w. 12.6 in., d. 9.84 in. This remarkable stone sculpture belongs to the traditional Champagne repertoire from the first third of the 16th century. Saint Barbara is one of the most venerated saints in Champagne during the Renaissance. The very small corpus of saints sculpted in the region during the Renaissance only includes Saints Marguerite or Savine, or anonymous saints, and is mainly dominated by numerous Saints Beards. In the guise of a sweet and kind young girl, the Saint has an oval face with a high domed forehead, almond-shaped eyes with modestly lowered eyelids. The long, wavy middle-parted locks of hair flow down either side of her shoulders. A beaded crown sits atop her slightly inclined head. She is dressed in a dress with a square neckline and an open coat covering the shoulders. The tower, symbol of suffering, which serves as an attribute of the young martyr, is in the form of a dovecote tower in cut stone with a conical roof covered with flat tiles, pierced by a dormer window and equipped with a large arched door . As an essential attribute, the integrity of the tower displaying the door at its base indicates that our sculpture, although executed as a bust, could in no way constitute a fragment of a larger statue. The work of a talented anonymous sculptor from the Troyes region, our Saint Barbara with a delicate face and meditative expression reveals all her inner grace and arouses emotion and offer a feeling of benevolence. The essential effects that the artists sought to transmit through their artistic creations, but above all spiritual. Saint Barbara There is no certain historical data on Barbara who probably died a martyr at the beginning of the 4th century. However, its story is located in Turkey during the persecutions of Maximilian. The figure of the saint became legendary following the compilation of the acts of her life in the 7th century and the subsequent publication of “The Golden Legend...

A French gothic iron casket Dimensions: h. 18 cm, l. 23 cm, p. 14cm 15th century France Without key A rare parallelepipedal box with a domed lid, it is d...

Florence, Italie Late 15th century Dimensions: h. 23 cm, w. 45cm, d. 29 cm Walnut with inlays of different types of stained native wood Rare writing box with intricate decoration of...

Very large scale winged angel (1.63 m high), on a sculpted sphere in the round, probably part of an altarpiece? The whole, imposing in size, nevertheless gives an impression of light...

Beautiful and detailed reliquary holder with its original gilding, Italy, circa 1750. Weathered and small losses.

Stone statue decorated with a Lion, undetermined period, the head is removable, height 87 cm. Additional information: Material: Pierre.

This Antique Angel Sculpture Lamp is of French Origin from the 18th century. This Beautiful Cherub was an original church carving, later mounted as a t...

Nice pastel portrait representing a young woman. The pastel is in a good condition with the original frame and glass, France, 18th century. Weathered, frame has some small old repairs.

Magnificent gallery chandelier of style louis XIV with 12 arms of lights in gilded bronze 18 carats. The chandelier is decorated with crystal pendants and cut crystal pieces. We...

This chandelier is the declination of the very famous quiver model of the eighteenth century, probably by Louis François Feuchère. Following the success of the initial model, the qui...

beautiful hand forged iron cross that once stood in the centre of a Spanish village. Spain, circa 1650-1750. Weathered and small losses.

This extraordinary candelabra, in the shape of a girandole door, in bronze is a reproduction that echoes the work of the famous bronzer Pierre-Pierre Philippe Thomire especially some...

Important and very unique Queen Anne walnut architect's chest with padouk lined drawers with original handles, circa 1710. Exceptional and very fine craftsmanship with a plentitude of details, fully functional and in very good condition. The chest was purchased in the 1970s from De Havilland Antiques, Sloane Street...

Candy box in green varnish and gold frame. The inside of the box is fully lined with tortoiseshell. The removable cover presents a decoration of guilloché patterns in concentric circ...

Grand secretary of Louis XVI period in Cuba mahogany, white marble and gilded bronzes in very good condition rare piece of furniture with as many bronze fittings, intended only for p...

A very fine Louis XV French side table or nightstand with elegant marquetry work, all original unrestored. This sumptuous side table has a distinctively shaped rectangular Brescia m...

This is a rare Dutch marquetry arm chair that has lived a long life and is now ready to show itself off in just that right spot in your home. The satinwood inlay work on this chair i...

A large 18th century Régence carved and sculpted natural wood chaise longue Louis XV period.

Important white marble “Cercles Tournants” mantel clock. Gilt bronze mounts attributed to Pierre Gouthière. Paris, Louis XVI period, circa 1775...

François Viger, reçu maître horloger reçu maître en 1744 Case Attributed to Robert Osmond (1711-1789), reçu maître fondeur en janvier 1746 Im...

Dieudonné Kinable Enamel Dial Attributed to Dubuisson (1731-1815) Exceptional Porcelain Lyre Mantel Clock from the Royal Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory Paris, late Louis XVI period, circa 1785-1790 Height 62 cm; width 26 cm; depth 16 cm The round enamel dial, signed “Kinable”, indicates the hours in Roman numerals, the fifteen-minute intervals in Arabic numerals, the annual calendar and the signs of the Zodiac, by means of four hands, two of which are made of pierced gilt bronze, the two others in blued steel. The magnificent lyre-shaped case is made of “bleu nouveau” Sèvres porcelain and finely chased and gilt bronze. The bezel is made up of a gilt bronze twisted rope; the pendulum is adorned with brilliant-cut paste stones; the body of the lyre is adorned with gilt bronze beading and with laurel leaf and seed motifs, with two rosettes issuing floral and foliate swags. The clock is surmounted by a mask with radiating sunrays. The spreading foot is decorated with beading and twisted rope motifs and a leafy garland. The en-suite decorated oval base is raised upon four flattened ball feet. The Royal Sèvres Porcelain Factory produced the lyre clock model as of 1785. Four colours were offered: turquoise, green, pink and bleu nouveau. These exceptional clocks were made for the connoisseurs of the time. Louis XVI had a similar clock in his Salon des jeux in Versailles; its dial bore the signature of the clockmaker Courieult (this is almost certainly the example illustrated in P. Verlet, Les bronzes dorés français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1999, p. 41). Kinable, however, was the clockmaker who purchased the greatest number of lyre cases from the factory, and he developed the model in the late 18th century. Among the porcelain lyre clocks signed by this brilliant horologer, one example is in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Band I, Munich, 1986, p. 252, fig. 4.6.26). A second such clock is in the Royal British Collection (see C. Jagger, Royal Clocks, The British Monarchy & its Timekeepers 1300-1900, 1983, p. 130, fig. 176). Bibliography: M. Gay and A. Lemaire, “Les pendules lyre”, in Bulletin de l’Association nationale des Collectionneurs et Amateurs d’Horlogerie ancienne, Winter 1993, n° 68, p. 5-40. Dieudonné Kinable (active circa 1785-1810) One of the most important Parisian clockmakers of the late 18th century. His shop was located at n° 131 Palais Royal. He purchased a great number of lyre-type porcelain clock cases...