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Pair of walnut and gilt stucco alcoves, Louis-Philippe style, with Allegory of Renown

This pair of Restoration style alcoves date back to the Louis-Philippe era at the beginning of the 19th century. These are elements of a paneled room , real elements of architecture allowing to redesign the space. In a beautiful hue of walnut, these alcoves are composed of four panels separated by Corinthian pilasters with gilded capitals. The vault is delimited by a fine molding, and underlined by the wooden edges joining at the top. The ark is highlighted by a row of gilt stucco flowers, surmounted by Allegories of Fame in flight, bringing crowns.

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Ferdinand BARBEDIENNE (1810 – 1892) (Attrib.) Pair of cloisonne enameled Chinese lamps

This rare pair of lamps have been made with Chinese cloisonne enameled vases, and bronze mounted around 1880 in France. The finesse of the cloisonne enamel offers a rich decoration around the body of each lamp. Various scenes with animals are occuring in spaces delimited by stylized foliage. The lamp on the right side is decorated with pheasants and on the second lamp with cranes. On the reverse of each lamp, bouquets of various flowers, butterflies and birds are depicted. The colors used are extremely varied and vivid on a blue background.The decoration in gilded bronze is attributed to Ferdinand Barbedienne, a famous Parisian bronzier. The bases of each lamp are formed by four finely chiseled elephant heads, resting on their trunks. The lamps are sold with their original globes ornamented with gilded dragon decoration (Baccarat).These lamps reflect the Chinese vogue that occured in the late 19th century. Asian elements, especially chinese, were reused in European furniture and works of art. Thoses objects were made for the sumptuous interiors.

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Display cabinet inspired by the Far East

Japanese style display cabinet, made in the 19th century, carved with openwork motifs in Chinese scrolls and surmounted by a large dragon carved in the round. In its lower part, two drawers with grips featuring a bronze turtle and a frog and two solid doors, engraved and decorated with panels decorated with birds and flowers in mother-of-pearl inlays. In its upper part, a display case and two asymmetrical shelves. Ornaments (chimera head, dragon) in gilded bronze.

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Beautiful Louis XVI style paneled room with architectural decoration inspired by the antique, late twentieth century

This Louis XVI style paneled room was made at the end of the 20th century. It is composed of an architectural stucco and staff decoration on wood panels inspired by the antique. Rhythmed with pilasters with Corinthian capitals, this woodwork presents two antique arches facing each other, framing mirrors and whose ornamental friezes are enhanced with gold. On either side of these arches, the frames with egg friezes of the rectangular mirrors are also decorated with gold. The background painting as well as that of the pilasters imitates marble in pastel blue and orange tones. The staff alcoves are surmounted by panels inhabited by foliage.

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Gabriel Viardot (attributed to), Japanese table with bones birds marquetery, circa 1870-1880

This japanese table, made of tainted sycamore in the last decades of the 19th century, is attributed to the Parisian furniture maker Gabriel Viardot (1830-1906), specialized in the creation of Chinese and Japanese inspired furntiure. It's during the 1867 World Fair where he discovered the Japanese Art, the Gabriel Viardot decided to devote himself to “Chinese-Japanese style furniture”. It’s with this production that he was awarded a silver medal at the World's Fair of 1878. His furniture was produced thanks to lacquered and carved panels sent directly from China or Japan and decorated with mother of pearl inlays from Tonkin. He enlivened his furniture with bronze decorations, of which he made all the designs by hand. In 1885, he participated in the World Exhibition of Antwerp where he obtained a gold medal. At this time, the shop employed 90 – 100 workers, sculptors or cabinetmakers, a lot of who were educated directly by Gabriel Viardot. Following this exhibition, Gabriel Viardot was promoted to the rank of Knight in the Legion of Honor (December 29 1885). In 1889, he was at the World Exhibition that took place in Paris and awarded a gold medal. He obtained the same award at the World's Fair of 1900. The furniture maker is making here, a very beautiful table of which the shape and the decors are inspired by the Far East esthetic. The slab with enrolled edges is adorned on its central part with an important inlaid decoration of bones depicting birds on cherry tree branches. It rests on a very worked foot receiving a carved and open work decor as bronze pieces with high quality carving, typical of the furniture maker's work. The feet with sharp claws sculpted in the wood support on their middle an open work strut.

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TIFFANY Studios, Mosque Lamp in "favrile" glass, early 20th century

This mosque lamp was created by the Tiffany Studios at the beginning of the 20th century. Its design was conceived by Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1905. Louis Comfort Tiffany was the son of Charles Tiffany, the founder of Tiffany and Co., a renowned New York jewelry and silverware company. Initially a painter and interior decorator, he later became interested in the art of glass. In 1893, he founded his first glass factory under his name. He notably invented “favrile glass”, a term derived from the English “fabrile” (“belonging to an artist or their art”) to mimic the iridescent effect of antique glass, achieving a lustrous and shimmering appearance by adding metallic salts to the molten glass. The base, body, and cover of the lamp are three distinct, separable parts of the piece. The octagonal ebony base holds the lamp's foot of the same shape, topped by a spherical cap, with a matching cover above it. While the base glass is matte, the upper part is decorated with lustrous green and mauve petal-shaped motifs. When lit, the lamp emits a warm glow. This creation falls within the Art Nouveau movement, in which Tiffany excelled, particularly at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Its shape resembles a mushroom, and the plant motifs in its decoration reflect the object’s natural inspiration. It also reveals Tiffany’s fascination with all kinds of lighting, from the antique oil lamps of Pompeii to the Near Eastern inspiration of this mosque lamp from the artist’s travels. Several other lamps were made following this model. One of them, similar to ours, is listed in the book Louis C. Tiffany. The Garden Museum Collection by Alastair Duncan (p. 317), as being present in this museum’s collection.