Francois Morellet Furniture

Original vintage travel advertising poster for Qantas super service at your command! Australia's international airline Qantas Empire Airways Ltd in association with British Overseas Airways Corporation BOAC and Tasman Empire Airways Ltd. Great mid century illustration featuring a smartly dressed smiling lady walking past a line of Qantas cabin crew wearing blue uniform with suitcases bearing luggage labels on the side, a man in a brown suit and hat following her and more passengers disembarking a Qantas Lockheed Constellation plane with an Australian flag...

Tozaburo Ohno (大野藤三郎) A Japanese-style painter known for his refined depictions of koi carp and seasonal flowers. Born in 1917 in Osaka (though some sources cite Kyoto), he studied ...

A plaster sculpture by André Vauthier-Galle (1818–1899). A seated male figure with his hands behind his back. Executed in a very realistic way. The sculpture very much reminds of Auguste Rodins "The Thinker" in its pose. The sculpture has a great patina. The sculpture comes from the workshop of the Swedish painter and sculptor Jonas Åkesson...

François Rude (1784-1855) attributed to "Female Figure". Bronze sculpture, signed. Measures: Sitting on a wooden base. Height: (sculpture) 82 cm. He...

Original print (aquatint and soft varnish) hand signed in pencil by François Xavier Lalanne and untitled "Le Pigeon" ("The Pigeon"), in perfect condition Th...

School of Ogata Korin White Chrysanthemums 18th Century, Edo period. A two-panel Japanese screen. Ink, color, gofun and gold leaf on paper. Dimensions: H. 171 cm x W. 188 cm (67.5” x 74”) On this two-panel Japanese screen we see blooming chrysanthemums, a flower which embodies the essence of autumn in Japan. Here the traditional floral theme has been simplified and stylized. The bright colors and asymmetrical composition against the delicate gold leaf create a luxurious and ornate work of art. Its background, a strikingly patinated grid of gold leaf, denies any sense of place or time and imbues everything with an ethereal glow. The leaves and stems of the plants are nothing more than pools of mottled color and ink without any outline whatsoever. These are typical Rinpa adaptations of traditional ink painting methods; tarashikomi, or diluted washes of color blended while very wet, and mokkotsu, or “bonelessness,” which creates forms without exterior outlines. The relief work of the rounded flower petals has been obtained by the moriage process (a mixture based on ground shells modeled on the surface of the paper). On the lower right of the screen, the siganture “Hokyo Korin Jakumyo” and the “Hoshuku” seal can be read. Korin is Ogata Korin, famed for the Irises (Nezu Museum) and Red and White Plum Blossom (MOA Museum of Art) folding screens, both National Treasures. Korin worked in both Kyoto and Edo in the mid-Edo period. Korin was using the art name “Jakumyo” just after he received the Hokyo level, which was in 1701. This particular screen was published in May of 1961 in the Japanese Sansai Fine Art Magazine*. An in depth article accompanies the photograph of the screen and and a photograph of the signature and seal. This article devotes much of its body to discussing the moriage technique, how it enlivens the chrysanthemum flowers and Korin’s specific skill in using the technique. The article goes on to discuss the most famous works of Korin, utilizing this technique, which were known at the time. Specifically a two-panel screen held in the Honolulu Museum which was discovered in the store-house of Takahashi Soan. A two-panel screen pair which the Nakano family own. A two-panel screen pair with chrysanthemums in moriage in fan designs owned by the Nomura family. Also a small folding screen featuring chrysanthemums held in the Yamato Bunkakan. The article goes on to say that this particular two-fold screen came from the Nijo family. Korin is known to have had a strong connection with the aristocratic Nijo family. The article explains that Korin received a lot of favors from the Nijo family and that this screen would have been gifted to them. Since that time the Honolulu screen has been amended to ‘attributed to Ogata Korin’ and I do not know further details of the other 3 screens. Other Chrysanthemum screens...

Unfolded size: 1700 x 1720 x 18 mm Foldable: 855 x 1720 x 36 mm, 6kg Estimated size after packaging (sandwiched between 9 mm plywood): 8 cm x 92 cm x 180 cm Weight　25KG This paint...

Monumental freestanding bronze sculpture title "three birds in flight" by Curtis Jeré, signed and dated 1976, USA. Three birds in flight on pyramidal base. Top is removable from base...

François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008) Pegasus, 2005 Techniques : etching and soft varnish heightened with coloured pencil , hand signed in pencil by François Xavier Lalanne, in perfe...

This beautiful pyrite sphere from Peru shines with a golden metallic surface and has crystals of different sizes all around it. Some parts of the sphere are open, allowing you to loo...

A pair of screens by Imao Keinen featuring peacocks painted in ink on gold leaf. Lacquered wood frame, brocade border, incised copper hardware. Dimensions: H 175cm x W 352cm Biogr...

A gorgeous four-panel Showa Period Japanese/Asian/Chinese Byobu folding screen depicting five curious snow white cranes under the radiant light of a full moon. The beautiful, subtle...