Ref.10466
Antique Louis XV style firescreen in gilt bronze with birds and music instruments decoration

Beautiful antique Louis XV style firescreen made out of gilt bronze during the 19th century. Curved lines with shells and foliages. Decorated with birds and music instruments.

Ref.10746
Gilt bronze 19th-century Romantic clock set with the Four Seasons

This Romantic style garniture set was made in the 19th century. Including a clock and two candelabras, it is a beautiful gilt bronze garniture carved in a meticulous way over its entire surface, in the manner of romantic goldsmith's work. Like many Romantic works, the decoration is inspired by the Renaissance style , with many arabesques and grotesques. The important clock features a dial decorated with interlacings where the hours are painted in enamel. Four young women, allegories of the Four Seasons, were modeled after late medieval and early Renaissance statues, standing on winged chimeras. The arch front is crowned with two cherubs girl and boy, while the pedestal is chiselled of beautiful scrolls. The two candelabras with six branches are also richly carved and adorned with three musician children on their feet. The chiseling of the bronze is very fine and alternates smooth and textured surfaces to bring out the luxuriant ornamentation.

Ref.03127
Large bronze and cristal chandelier with tassels

Crystal chandelier in the tapissier styleFrench, Second EmpireGilded bronze and crystalsThis Napoleon III period chandelier with 12 arms and 18 lights has a gilded bronze structure upon which carved crystal drops, small flowers and pearls hang. The arms form arabesques and are richly adorned with stylized foliage and small flower blossoms. The lights are shaped like candles. Rare rope shaped suspension rods adorned with tassels support the branches, evoking the tapissier style that became very fashionable in the Second Empire. Passementerie was of the highest quality then in France and litterally filled the bourgeois houses.   

Ref.11458
Japanese style crystal engraved vide-poche and gilded bronze frame with elephant heads

Small crystal engraved vide-poche inserted in a gilded bronze mount imitating bamboo and figuring elephant heads. French work of the 19th century.

Ref.11845
17th century fireback with the wedding coat of arms of René du Matz and Gilonne de la Marzelière

Cast iron fireback from the 17th century, marked RG. The decoration shows the wedding coat of arms of René du Matz, Lord of Mesnil-Barré, Marquis du Brossay and Gilonne de la Marzelière, daughter of the Baron de Bonnefontaine and Marquis de la Marzelière, married in 1636

Ref.11981
Antique chandelier in the shape of a flowered basket with eight lights

Antique chandelier made in the 19th century, with eight lights. Frame and basket in gilded bronze. Glass sheets. Porcelain flowers.

Ref.13727
F. Barbedienne (Attr. to) - Planter with a Chinese cloisonne enamel decor mounted in gilt bronze

This very beautiful planter was made in the 1880's very likely by Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810 – 1892) bronze maker and founder of the maison Barbedienne, from a Chinese cloisonne enamel vase of which the well thought work is very delicate. Thus, flowers bouquets of various colors and typical of the Asian flora occupies the decor on a plain blue background marked by friezes on the upper and lower parts. This vase after it was created was mounted in bronze in a French workshop as Barbedienne's one in which the bronze work was quite exceptionnal and original, as it is the case here. The base is formed with three elephant's heads finely carved, resting on their trunks and between wich there are blossom cherry tree branches. These three heads are forming the feet and are surmounted with mounts to which are hanging rings. This work of art is typical of a very trending practice in the late 19th century coming from the huge taste for the Far-East : the re-use of authentic Chinese elements in European objects destined to take place on the most somptuous interiors. The Barbedienne Foundry is a famous 19th century bronze foundry, whose statues and art objects became rapidly very renowned. This bronze studio co-worked with other trades, and put his name to a great variety of works, such as furnishing in particular. Attending every World's Fair of its time, the Barbedienne Foundry was regularly awarded, notably at the World's Fair of 1855 where it was awarded the Great Medal of Honor.

Ref.15540
Lot of approximately 7 m² of linear parquet flooring