France - Furniture

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.

Magnificent Portrait of Prince Eugene of Savoy-Carignan. Superbly executed, the prince, still young, presented slightly sideways and sporting...

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...

Rare set of 6 chairs and 6 armchairs, painted and partial gilt. The underside of each backseat is stamped JACOB FRÈRES RUE MESLEE. This stamp was used between 1796 and 1803. Empir...

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...

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...