Adrian Alan Decorative Art

A Pair Of ‘Sorrento’ Stained Olive and Fruit Wood Pictures By Michele Grandville (Italian, 1821-1893). Depicting ‘Roman Tarantella Dancers’ and ‘A Pompeian Harp Recital’, each with ...

A KPM Berlin Plaque with a Reclining Lady Reading Amidst a Rocky Wooded Landscape. German, Circa 1880. Dimensions of Plaque: Height: 29 cm 11 inches ...

'Una Gitana' A Large Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque After Angelo Asti (1847-1903), depicting a portrait of a beautiful young woman in profile wearing a red cap. In an oval giltwood f...

A Roman Micromosaic Plaque Depicting a Basket of Flowers. Inscribed verso 'From The Townshend Colln.', 'Poe 200, Florentine Mosaic', 16.5 x 18 cm, the plaque 18.5 x 20 cm, overall...

Pierre-Victor GALLAND (1822-1892) ‘Les Quatre Eléments’ Four, oil on canvas. France, Circa 1873. Each painting depicting one of the cardinal elements personified as a female figure in the presence of its most evident attribute. Painted with strong light and colour. Earth panel depicts one of the four elements in a compelling fashion with an ascendent female figure robed in flowing drapery with foot and arm extended reaching skyward: each with attendant putti below. Earth is shown swathed in robes of greens and white, with a fanciful foliate headdress of lush leaves and bullrushes. Air leaps effortlessly into the sky draped in blush pink and holding a slender fruiting bough. Fire ascends dramatically into the sky holding forth a flaming torch and draped in bright burnished orange and grey, her image seemingly lit from a fire kindled below by an ignipotent putto. Water suitably draped in billowing azure blue with a translucent undergarment, holds aloft a bubble representing water is portrayed with shimmering translucent wings, an attendant winged putto pulling at her hem. Under the Second Empire, Haussmann’s transformation of Paris went hand in hand with the construction of luxurious mansions for the new haute bourgeois. Gallards extensive work for wealthy patrons such as Lionel de Rothschild and Edouard André, led him to become one of Paris’s most admired and sought-after decorative artists. His fame quickly spread and led him to carry out projects outside the capital for, among others, Baron von Derwies in Nice, Prince Narischkine in Saint Petersburg and William Vanderbilt in the United States. Literature Pierre-Victor Galland, Un Tiepolo français au XIXe siècle. Published in 2006, Somogy, Piscine-musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent, Musée départemental de l'Oise (Paris, Roubaix, Beauvais). ISBN 978-2-7572-0027-8. (in French) Materials Oil on Canvas Provenance Acquired in France with four other panels (The Four Seasons), at the end of the 19th century by Herman Ossian Armour (1837-1901), businessman, and founder of the Armour Meat Company and American humanist. He brought them back to his USA residence at Fifth Avenue, New York Bequeathed to Mary Armour...

A fine Berlin (K.P.M.) porcelain plaque of A Vestal Virgin, after Angelica Kauffman, in a giltwood frame. Impressed sceptre mark, 'KPM', letter 'H', ...

'Clementine', A Large Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque After Conrad Kiesel. In a fine pierced giltwood and composition frame. Inscribed 'nach C. Kiesel'...

'Erblüth' a large and very fine Berlin (KPM) Porcelain plaque, after Angelo Asti. In a giltwood and composition shadow box frame. Signed 'Weigel', impr...

A fine KPM porcelain plaque depicting a scene from Shakespeare's Play Othello, after the painting by Carl Ludwig Friedrich Becker, (German, 1820-1900).  Signed ‘R. Wagner’. Impressed mark to the reverse ‘KPM’ (Konigliche Porzellan...

A KPM Porcelain Plaque Depicting The Three Eldest Children of Charles I, After The Painting By Sir Anthony van Dyck. German, Circa 1890. The...

A circular KPM style porcelain plaque depicting a Maiden as a young Bacchante, set in a finely carved Florentine giltwood frame. German, circa 1910. Founded in Berlin in 1750 ...