Bolster - Bronze And Onyx - France - 19th Century

Bronze pedestal table, painted and varnished top with geometric patterns on tripod strut base decorated with a pine cone, ending in lion paws. Decorated with removable rings. Signed ...

"Architect's Sketch - Framed - France - 19th Century " Old architect's sketch, representing the drawings of a monument. Enhanced with watercolor and signed. France, Circa 1900

Important mirror in gilded wood, decorated on the top with a bouquet of flowers France 19th century

Art Nouveau bronze sculpture, polychrome, representing a woman dressed in a green dress decorated with a jewel, the head is topped with a floral crown. Signed on the back: J Caussé* ...

Cassolette in gilded and chiseled bronze. This pair of Louis XVI style pot vases or urns is made of a square bronze base polished with agate. This base carries a fluted pedestal. The...

"Bronze Sculpture - Ancient Woman - Barbedienne / Colas - France - 19th" Bronze sculpture, representing a woman in the ancient, Polymnia* Barber smelter, mechanical reduction by the...

A tall gueridon with a green/ grey mottled marble top, with gilt-bronze mounts of flower heads with stylized foliage, on four tapering legs with a middle stretcher, terminating in li...

Wooden and bronze pedestal table, late 19th century Wooden and bronze pedestal table in the form of a display case, From the end of the 19th cent...

Superb 19th Century French Gueridon

Very fine 19th century French gilt bronze and marble gueridon with gilt bronze eagles heads and pawed feet.

19th century, French bronze planter or Gueridon Measures: cm W 56 x maximum diameter 51 x H 90. H on the floor of the wide 81 cm This refined planter was made in France towards the end of the nineteenth century in the style of «Retour d'Egypte». It consists of a tripod structure in finely chiselled gilded bronze and lacquered in tones. Each leg originates with scroll decorations and phytomorphic elements with golden details, supported by a sphinx with hairstyle, tail and golden wings. This sits on a curvilinear and wavy element decorated with golden ramage and a man’s head with a long beard of classic taste. The legs end with an injured foot and rest on a tripartite base that connects them. In the middle of each leg there is a bronze junction with curls and volutes that converges towards the others in the center, where a vertical element contributes to the momentum and gracefulness of the whole. The basin of the planter is in lacquered tin, with gold edges and reserves. The rising part of the tub has some holes that allow the breathability of the space. This tripod is inspired, with variations, to a famous model of the brothers Luigi and Antonio Manfredini, active in Milan at the beginning of the nineteenth century, financed by the viceroy of Italy Eugenio de Beauharnais, adopted son of Napoleon Bonaparte, for the opening of the real manufacture of Eugenia. The Retour d'Egypte style was widely echoed in France and Europe and originated from General Bonaparte’s military campaign in Egypt in 1799. The fashion of the Egyptians had already in Italy found a previous interpreter in the engraver Giovan Battista Piranesi, but the vast diffusion that also had in the furniture the Egyptian ornament...

French Napoleon III Guéridon Table (19th Century) 3,230 This charming French guéridon table from the Napoleon III period exudes sophistication. The classic kidney shape and rich comb...