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Gabriel VIARDOT (1830 – 1906), Chinese stool

In stained beech wood and gilded bronze. With a shape made up of curves and counter-curves, this stool is strongly influenced by Far-Eastern works, particularly Chinese or Japanese furniture. Consisting of three shelves brought together with the four feet, this little piece has a completely original profile, with a narrowing in the upper part. The upper shelf is the smallest.  The middle is decorated with latticed panels, just like the lower table. The feet are trimmed with gilded bronze ornaments, also influenced by Japanese bronzes. The completely wooden parts are engraved with scrolls, like the center of the middle shelf whose engraving adopts a scalloped profile. The shapes of this stool, as well as the latticed wood and the bronze decorations are to be compared with a cabinet conserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum of London (W.17:1, 2-1971), signed by Gabriel Viardot and dated in 1888. The bronze of this stool can also be compared with those of a showcase for this cabinetmaker, preserved in the Musee d’Orsay (OAO 1652).

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Pierre-Ferdinand DUVINAGE (1823-1876) - Pedestal table with Japanese decoration of "cloisonné" marquetry

Louis XVI style pedestal table made around 1850 by Pierre-Ferdinand Duvinage. This is a fairly classic style furniture in the drawing and cabinetmaking work, except for the table top which is really original. Indeed, this one has an original decoration of Japanese style marquetry, partitioned by brass wires. Unlike other better-known works by Duvinage, the background is not made out of ivory but wood. A pheasant is sitting on a leafy branch. A fan and a small aquatic scene with fishes made out of mother-of-pearl complete the decor. The great originality of this piece is double. First, the mix of styles with a very traditional furniture in its form and decor, except for the table top. This one shows a Japanese iconography. This is a characteristic work of Duvinage especially in the use of a "cloisonné" marquetry. The second originality of this work lies in the very corpus of the artist, since it is a rare example of production on a wood background, not ivory, as it is usually the case with Duvinage.

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Julien-Nicolas RIVART (1802-1867) - Small bedside table decorated with wisteria in porcelain marquetry

This elegant bedside table is adorned of flowers inlays, which great naturalism illustrates the technical mastery of Julien-Nicolas Rivart, inventor of porcelain marquetry, for which he registered a patent in 1849. Wisterias are thus blooming in fresh colors on the surface of the wood, enhancing the preciosity of this work.

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Taxil DOAT for the SÈVRES Manufacture, Oxblood Red Glazed Porcelain Jardinière, 1907

This large jardiniere in glazed red porcelain was created by Taxile Doat in 1907 in his workshop in Sèvres. A talented ceramist, Taxile Doat worked for the Sèvres manufactory between 1877 and 1905, while maintaining a personal workshop in Paris, and later in Sèvres. He taught ceramics in the United States between 1909 and 1915. Influenced by East Asian arts, he presents here a vase with a very refined form and decor. Its shape and color echo Asian pieces such as an 18th-century Chinese jardiniere. The ceramist adopted this form while making it his own, adding cabochons of green and blue glazed ceramic that define the character of the piece. The work is signed, dated, and located under the base. A porcelain vase with very similar decoration, which was part of the collection of the gallerist Oscar Graf, a specialist in the artist, also demonstrates Doat's fascination with traditional Chinese porcelain, whose forms he repeatedly reinterpreted.