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Spanish rococo style finely carved gold leaf giltwood mirror. A highly decorative finely carved Rococo style mirror with gold leaf finish and beautiful ...

This pair of striking 19th century porcelain vases, though unmarked, were almost certainly produced by Jacob Petit (1797-1868), the French pottery manufacturer well-known for his idi...

Provencal style wardrobe. Walnut wood and root, wrought iron fittings. Century XVIII. Top trim missing. Double-door wardrobe with a drawer in the lower part raised on two legs in ...

Salva cordobesa in silver, 1759-1768. With brands. Córdoba, Spain. Weight: 820 g. Salva in silver Rococo style, with punches of Cordoba and the score Bartolomé Gálvez y Aranda. It has a high, stepped foot, with a circular base, adorned with incised streaks and other simple motifs of a Classic type, announcing the change of language towards Neoclassicism. However, the dish itself is still distinctly Rococo, with a profile of curved mitering that translates into edges in the eaves. Bartolomé Gálvez y Aranda was a silversmith, although he worked as a marker between 1759 and 1772, using for this work the punch that we see here: his surname in capital letters, in very trapezoidal frame and surmounted by a fleur-de-lys in three-lobed projection. To this punch Gálvez y Aranda will add since 1768 the chronological mark, so this salvo would be dated between 1759 and 1768. It is also an especially interesting piece to come from Cordoba, the main center of Spanish silverware of the Rococo period, from whose workshops came religious and profane pieces of high quality, aimed at customers not only local but throughout the Iberian Peninsula, reaching even the Canary Islands and Latin America. The great diffusion of the Cordovan silversmith will take place, in fact, in the last quarter of the 18th century, through the so-called master silversmiths. These characters acted as trade corridors, according to Pérez Grande, visiting the churches and fairs held throughout the country. The activity of these silversmiths was also favored by tax exemptions...

"Children and pigeons." Inspired by models from the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres (France). The shape of the bases brings the works closer to examples related to the Rococo. The ...

Exceptional carved and gilded wooden lamp from the Carlos IV period, with a single ring and 20 lights candlestick; ten vertical and ten windings of foliage. It is sold in its cur...

Naveta. Silver. Possibly Portugal, 18th century. Base with counterweight. With hallmarks. Naveta with oval foot decorated with relief elements and moldings, balustrade foot and body with light boat shape, presenting a hinged lid in the front, a widening in the lower area towards the foot and a decoration distributed throughout the exterior base of rockery motifs and plant elements (the same theme is presented on the foot and base) on a background of chopped luster, with an angel's head on two wings in relief towards the peak, accompanied by plant elements (the which protrude from the edge of the lid). Although the shape of the piece follows in general lines the most usual prototypes in these incense containers used in the liturgy, it is necessary to indicate that it was more frequent to find them more similar to a ship. The naveta's belonging to the influence of Rococo is clear both for the lines of the object and for the decoration to which reference has already been made (pebbles, plant elements with movement, volutes with pronounced curves, contrasts between concave and convex lines ... ), as well as it is possible to find some points in common with Portuguese works (presents an auction with an angel head in relief a silver naveta with a spoon by Leandro Gagliardi made in Rome between 1744 and 1750 that is preserved in the Museum of Sao Roque of Lisbon in Portugal, compare with the silver plated censer that the same master made between 1749 and 1751 for the Chapel of San Juan Bautista of the Church of San Roque in Lisbon). The contrast marks present in the upper part of the naveta (the "capitalized" letters in a rectangular space), although it should also be noted that this work does not follow the most striking typology of navetas related to this center (naveta de 18th century silver from the Church of Alcántara de Maranhao, Brazil; naveta by Sebastiao Bernardes dos Santos, dated 1747 from Sé do Funchal, which is kept in the Museu de Arte Sacra Do Funchal in Madeira Portugal...

Impressive finely carved gold gilt wood Rococo style wall mirror or console mirror. Italy 1930-1940s. This highly decorative wood carved scrolls and leaves decorated frame is covere...

A pair of Spanish carved giltwood mirrors, 18th century time of the reign of Charles III, beautiful naturalists and flowers motifs, gold leaf giltwood, dec...

Although the absence of applications in gilded bronze could indicate that the provenance is not French, it is one of the so-called "Provençal furniture...

Exquisite Rococo style pair of small scale carved mirrors with a crest on the top and carved naturalistic details at the frames. These pieces are unusual due to their size, they wear...

This monumental, 18th century Florentine Italian carved giltwood mirror with matching floor-standing cabriole legged planter is a historical showpiece in search of a palatial home se...

Trio of 18th century French Rococo mirrors, with finely carved and gilded wood frames. Design elements including plants and flowers, spouting fish, and the typical Rococo "bean" or "kidney" decorate the ornate frames. All three mirrors are topped with a "Ho-Ho Bird" motif, a version of the Japanese...

Framework. Carved wood, late 17th-early 18th century. Rectangular frame that presents a "base structure" of straight lines, combining moldings of different widths and finishes (inside, a golden band with Fine plant details towards the corners; then a thin red one, and a wider green one, these two the latter imitating marble; outside, another fine gilt molding), enhanced with a series of carvings of vegetal elements in the corners (symmetrical composition), two ovoid elements on the long sides and a highly elaborate cresting with vegetal elements, rockeries, scrolls, flowers and imitation of fabrics (which are joined with those ovoid elements mentioned). The combination of red, green and gold is common in certain types of frames (compare, for example, with the terracotta of Salamanca made around the middle of the 16th century by Juan de Juni, which is kept in the Victoria and Albert Museum). On it, a series of carvings with a lot of movement and depth have been added, showing Baroque influence (reminiscent in certain details of works such as the frame of the Immaculate Conception by Alonso Cano...

Wardrobe with gunsmith. Cherry and oakwood. France, 18th century. Two-door wardrobe with three drawers at the bottom, all these items with key lock, which also has a compartment on ...

With hallmarks. The base tray has a square shape with mixtilinear profiles and rests on legs with vegetal motifs. The four containers present helical gallonized feet, and pearl flow...

Outstanding finely carved palatial Rococo style mirror with gold leaf finish in a very big size. France, 1850. A superb example of gilt Rococo style framework. The frame has a beau...

18th century chest. Carved and gilded wood. 18th century vault with a still Baroque structure, with a wavy profile, with bulges in elevation, but already decorated with Rococo detail...

Armchair in carved walnut wood, gilded and in its color. 18th century, with current upholstery. Armchair with light cabriolet legs secured with H-shaped chambras, curved arms decora...

Silver writing set. With hallmarks. Córdoba, Antonio José de Santa Cruz (Córdoba, 1733 -?) and Juan de Luque and Leiva, Spain, 1773. It shows some fault in some container and adds b...

It requires restoration. Rectangular cornucopia with carved and gilded wooden frame decorated with a series of smooth moldings and with a very elaborate finish on the upper part (ar...

Top in carved, polychrome and gilded wood, 18th century. Painted finish imitating marble decorated with scrolls and vegetal motifs carved and gilded on its front surface. He would be...

Jug with lid and silver handle in its color that has a circular foot decorated and raised with a series of moldings and a band of pearls, from which part a small foot that gives way ...

Pair of "cornucopias" with mirrors, nearly identical (except for details in the leaves of the frames), carved and gilded wood. Inside, the main mirror has moldings that draw curves and straight areas, volutes and other elements. The elaborate decoration of the wall mirrors is based on grotesques in the lower part, from which plant elements emerge that are prolonged, accompanied by hangings, towards the upper part by the sides, with openwork details. Above, the crests have circular spaces, flanked by birds perched with its wings partly extended, and surrounded by elaborate frames that, like the rest of the pieces, have architectural elements (scrolls, smooth oval mirrors), plant elements and shapes that remind Rococo rockery. Clearly, the examples are included within the Rococo, counting, even with the slight asymmetry presented by the decorative motifs of the same and that slight difference between both examples. It is possible to find similarities in the design of these cornucopias with different engravings and works by Matthias Lock...

This type of works were only made for main houses, since their main use was to reflect the light of candles and lamps in these luxurious interiors, also showing the economic power of...

Hornacina formed by a back decorated with molding and a support for a sculpture decorated with a masque and vegetal motifs and topped by a split pediment with a central motif worked ...

Pair of brackets with a curved lower profile and a polygonal section decorated on their fronts with raised pebbles and vegetal motifs and engraved sca...