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Set of Three Caryatid Planters Attributed to G. Servant, France, Circa 1880
By Georges Emile Henri Servant
Located in PARIS, FR
Measures : Tallest caryatid : Height 225 cm (88.6 in.) ; width 65 cm (25.6 in.) ; depth : 40 cm (15,7 in.)
Two smaller caryatids : Height 183 cm (72 in.) ; width 55 cm (21.6 in.) ; depth : 21 cm (8,3 in.)
An outstanding set of three monumental black marble and bronze caryatid planters in the Greek style attributed to G. Servant. All three are caryatid terms on pedestal: the tallest one is shaped as a Grecian woman with her antique drapery and gilt bronze ornaments, such as belt, necklace, headband and garlands, surmounted by an Ionic capital supporting a large planter adorned with foliage pattern and a vase in patinated and gilt bronze. Two smaller planters complete the set, using the same ornamental patterns: the Grecian head...
Category
Antique 1880s French Greek Revival Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$168,149 Sale Price / set
41% Off
G. Denière, "Cupids" Bowl, France, circa 1870
By Guillaume Denière
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful oval-shaped bowl with flared edges, in engraved crystal with floral interlacing decoration. It is enclosed in an elegant openwork frame in chiseled and gilded bronze with e...
Category
Antique 1860s French Napoleon III Decorative Bowls
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Neo-Greek Bronze Bust by E. Cornu and G. Viot
Cie, France, Circa 1867
By Eugène Cornu
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed Machauld et Eug. Cornu – G. Viot et Cie Fondeurs
Bust of a Greek goddess, made entirely of silvered bronze and gilded bronze. The tiara and collar necklace ornating the bust are finely decorated with stylized floral motifs of polychrome champlevé enamel. It rests on a molded base and square plinth made in red griotte marble.
The sculptor Eugène Cornu (1827-1899), installed in Paris at N.29 rue Popincourt, after having worked as a designer and then director for the renowned company Tahan, worked closely with the « Compagnie des Marbres Onyx...
Category
Antique 1860s French Greek Revival Busts
Materials
Griotte Marble, Enamel, Bronze
Maison Millet, Pair of Cassolettes, France, circa 1870
By Maison Millet
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of Louis XVI-inspired curved shape cassolettes with godrons, in green granite and chiseled and gilded bronze, in the Rocaille style, attributed to Maison Millet. The lid is topp...
Category
Antique 1860s French Napoleon III Vases
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Maison Millet, Pair of “ Tritons” Candelabras, France, Circa 1870
By Maison Millet, Pierre Gouthiere
Located in PARIS, FR
Height : 78 cm (30,7 in.) ; Base : 14,5 x 14,5 cm (5,7 in. x 5,7 in.)
Beautiful pair of Louis XVI style amphora-shaped vases in gilded bronze and "canon de fusil" patinated bronze a...
Category
Antique 1870s French Napoleon III Candelabras
Materials
Bronze
L
Escalier de Cristal, Oriental Clock, France, circa 1890
By L
Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare Chinese style clock in the shape of a covered pot, in porcelain painted in imitation of Chinese cloisonné enamel and decorated with a two-patina bronze mount. The dome-shaped co...
Category
Antique 1880s French Chinoiserie Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
G. Denière, "Pendule à cage", France, circa 1860
By Guillaume Denière, Henri Picard
Located in PARIS, FR
Large and rare Louis XVI style cage clock in chiseled and gilded bronze, rectangular in shape, highlighted with friezes of water leaves and pearls, with glass panels decorated with t...
Category
Antique 1860s French Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
$46,241 / item
Table Lamp with Integrated Flower Holder
Located in PARIS, FR
A rare and elegant piece from the 1960s, this table lamp combines soft, ambient lighting with a sculptural presence. Crafted from opaline glass and chromed metal, its organic silhoue...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Planters, Cachepots and Jard...
Materials
Chrome
A-E Beurdeley, « The Coronation of Science » Clock, France, circa 1880
By Emmanuel-Alfred Beurdeley
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed on the dial A. Beurdeley Paris
Mechanism signed J LEFEBVRE FILS PARIS
Rare Louis XVI style clock in mercury-gilded and patinated chiseled bronze and white marble. In the form of an arched pediment, it is decorated with four Cupids, two carrying a garland of flowers highlighting the dial, and two others symbolizing the coronation of Science. The molded base in white marble, with a double recess, is decorated with a ribboned torus, a frieze of ribboned oak leaves and interlacing, and rests on six flattened ball feet.
Related work :
In 1774, the bronze-caster Robert Osmond (1711-1789) designed a first model known as “architectural drawing” illustrating The Coronation of Science. Also called The Children of France, it is decorated with a putti crowning a young girl drawing with a compass and delivered to Versailles by Lépine, clockmaker to the King since 1762, for the apartment of Madame Royale in the Princes’ Wing, on December 28, 1778. (see photo attached)
This clock is described in the inventory of Versailles clocks...
Category
Antique 1870s French Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Maison Marnyhac, "African Venus" , Planter France, Circa 1870
By Maison Marnyhac 1
Located in PARIS, FR
Exceptional planter by Maison Marnyhac in chiseled and gilded bronze and Algerian onyx representing a young African woman kneeling, carrying an oval bowl decorated with foliage. She is dressed with a loincloth, wearing an egret and adorned with many jewels. It rests on a square base decorated with gilded bronze.
A model of a similar African Venus...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Planters, Cachepots and Jardini...
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
Royal Dux Bohemia, Art Nouveau Centerpiece, Bohemia, circa 1900
By Royal Dux Bohemia
Located in PARIS, FR
Bearing the mark Royal Dux and numbered 1252
Large enamelled porcelain centerpiece with golden highlights, representing a nymph sitting on a shell like a ship sailing on the waves, ...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Czech Art Nouveau Decorative Bowls
Materials
Porcelain
Louchet Frères, Pair of Orientalist Candlesticks, France, circa 1890
By Paul Louchet, Charles Louchet
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming pair of orientalist candlesticks in Algerian ribboned onyx and gilded bronze, with a barrel in the shape of a molded column. The binet, the central ring and the square base ...
Category
Antique 1890s French Other Candlesticks
Materials
Onyx, Bronze, Enamel
$1,441 Sale Price / set
25% Off
Porcelain Bowl, Compagnie des Indes, France (mount) - China, 18th/19th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
China 18th Century (bowl) – France 19th Century (mount)
Beautiful enameled porcelain bowl in the pink-purple tones characteristic of the “Famille Rose” with polychrome decoration o...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Chinese Export Decorative Bowls
Materials
Bronze
Impressive Pair of Vases with Covers Attributed to Samson
Cie, France, c. 1890
By Samson
Cie
Located in PARIS, FR
Bearing the mark AR interlaced
A pair of large Chinese style white porcelain baluster shaped vases and covers attributed to Samson & Cie. Each finely painted with polychrome 18th c...
Category
Antique 1890s French Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of « Rams » Perfume Burners attr. to Maison Millet, France, Circa 1870
By Maison Millet
Located in PARIS, FR
Diameter base : 16 cm
Provenance : Michahelles Collection, Hamburg
Beautiful pair of Louis XVI style perfume burners in fluorite with elegant chiseled and gilded bronze mount. The l...
Category
Antique 1870s French Napoleon III Vases
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Pair of "Clair de lune" Vases attr. to Baccarat
E.Rousseau, France, circa 1880
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of blue-tinted crystal “rouleau” vases decorated with Japanese-style enameled decoration representing a gilded full moon reflecting a tree with flowering branches, sur...
Category
Antique 1880s French Japonisme Vases
Materials
Crystal, Bronze, Enamel
The « Nymphs » Bowl by A-E Carrier-Belleuse and H. Journet
Cie, France, c 1878
By H. Journet
Cie, Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed Carrier et H Journet et Cie, 24 bd des Italiens, Sté des Onyx and numbered 2326
Diameter Base : 44 cm (17,3 in.) ; Diameter bowl : 49 cm (19,3 in)
Important and rare circular...
Category
Antique 1870s French Decorative Bowls
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
Pair of Serpentine Cassolettes attr. to H. Dasson, France, circa 1880
By Henry Dasson
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of Louis XVI-inspired baluster-shaped serpentine cassolettes, with an elegant chiseled and gilded bronze mount. The lid, resting on an openwork gilded bronze frieze, i...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XVI Urns
Materials
Serpentine, Bronze
Pair of Paris Porcelain Vases, France, circa 1880
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
Lovely pair of amphora vases in Paris porcelain, with polychrome rotating decoration of lilacs, roses, clematis, fuchsias and other natural flowers, on a white background. The foot a...
Category
Antique 1870s French Napoleon III Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Crystal Vases Attributed to Baccarat, France, Circa 1920
By Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of baluster shaped vases attributed to Baccarat, made in fine cut-crystal, all-over decorated with star and diamond motifs. Mounted at the mouth with a large sterling silver ring...
Category
Vintage 1920s French Vases
Materials
Crystal, Silver
$3,134 Sale Price / set
55% Off
Important Pair of "Breche sanguine" Ewers by Maison Millet, France, Circa 1880
By Maison Millet
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of Louis XV style ewers in « Brèche sanguine » marble and gilded bronze. Rich Rocaille decoration with asymmetrical foliage motifs, resting on an elegant openwork scal...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XV Vases
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Ormolu Clock "with a Swing", France, circa 1820
Located in PARIS, FR
Very fine floral and decorated Restauration period ormolu clock, figuring two baluster columns joint together by a floral arch, and topped by a crown of roses. Roman numbers indicate...
Category
Antique 1820s French Restauration Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Pair of "Holy Family" CandleHolders attr. to P.Poussielgue-Rusand, France, c1880
By Poussielgue-Rusand
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare pair of gilded and silvered bronze candle holders with engraved shafts decorated with rings embellished with colored cabochons in imitation of semi-precious stones. The religious character of these candles is recalled by the presence of angels in medallions in the center of the shaft, and by the presence of members of the Holy Family in a mandorla on each side of the tripod foot.
A rich bestiary of fantastic animals inspired by the Middle Ages adorns the whole.
The abundance of details transforms these candle holders from simple utilitarian objects during a religious celebration into a decorative artwork.
Biography :
Placide Poussielgue-Rusand (1824-1889) is a Parisian goldsmith and bronze maker known above all for his liturgical objects (chalices, ciboriums, patens, monstrances, etc.) and church bronzes...
Category
Antique 1880s French Medieval Candelabras
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
$7,494 Sale Price / set
20% Off
"Pagoda" Clock attr. to L
Escalier de Cristal, France, circa 1885
By L
Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful Japonisme clock in openwork patinated bronze with gold and silver highlights in the shape of a pagoda, at the corners presenting stylized dragons above uprights imitating b...
Category
Antique 1880s French Japonisme Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
"Minerva" Crystal Bowl attr. to Baccarat, France, circa 1890
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming oval-shaped engraved crystal bowl with scalloped edges and decorated with a Greek frieze centered with a profile portrait of Minerva in a medallion. It rests on a gilded bro...
Category
Antique 1890s French Greek Revival Decorative Bowls
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
"Dragon Turtle" Bowl attr. to Baccarat
F. Barbedienne, France, circa 1890
By Cristalleries De Baccarat, Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful square-shaped bowl in engraved crystal decorated with bamboo and birds.
It rests on a gilded bronze dragon turtle, a legendary Chinese creature with the body of a dragon an...
Category
Antique 1880s French Japonisme Decorative Bowls
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Pair of Cloisonné Vases Attributed to A. Giroux, France, Circa 1860
By Alphonse Giroux et Cie
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of cloisonné enamel square vases attributed to A. Giroux, with flared neck decorated on the belly with flowering lambrequins with oriental patterns on a blue and golden geometric. The mount in patinated and gilded bronze is composed of an openwork frieze on the neck, side grips with Fô dog heads forming the handles, the whole resting on four feet in the shape of elephant heads.
Alphonse Giroux and Company, famous curiosity and luxury goods shop was situated in Paris, at No. 7 rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré and in business from the time of the Consulate until the end of the Second Empire. The company was founded by Francois-Simon-Alphonse and continued in 1838 by his two sons, Alphonse-Gustave (1810-1886) and André (1801-1879). The father became a close associate of the royal family and specialized in the manufacture of refined items for gifts. Kings Louis XVIII and then Charles X were both supplied with gifts for « The Children of France » by Giroux. Making progressively small furniture, they were mentionned for the first time in 1837 in the class « cabinet...
Category
Antique 1860s French Vases
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Large Imari Porcelain Planter, France, Circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Japanese porcelain and French gilded bronze mount.
Important Imari Porcelain planter with a polychrome and golden decoration of cranes, carp and lion, on a blue vermiculated backgro...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XV Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Bronze
"The Source" Gilt bronze Clock attr. to L. Messagé
F.Linke, France, circa 1890
By François Linke
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming clock in the shape of a Rocaille-inspired cartel in chiseled and gilded bronze. Scalloped marine-inspired decor representing a trophy with oars, dolphins, reeds and flowers ...
Category
Antique 1890s French Rococo Revival Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Paris Porcelain Pair of Vases "The Flowering", France, Circa 1880
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of white porcelain vases richly decorated with beautiful polychrome floral compositions and butterflies enhanced with gold on a blue background, framed by golden porce...
Category
Antique 1880s French Napoleon III Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Neo-Egyptian Marble Clock Attributed to G. Servant, France, Circa 1870
By Georges Emile Henri Servant
Located in PARIS, FR
Black and red marble pyramid shaped Egyptian style clock attributed to G. Servant, surmounted by a patinated bronze figure representing the Egyptian goddess Isis sitting on her throne. Wearing the Hathor hairdress (the solar disc surrounded by the sacred cow horns), she holds in her right hand the Ouadj, the goddesses scepter surmounted by a canopy of papyrus, symbolizing health and eternal youth and in her left hand, the cross of life Ankh, symbol of rebirth and eternity.
That Egyptian style in fashion since Napoleon the First and his military campaigns in Egypt around 1799 was rediscovered in France in the 1830's and above all in the 1860's. Some renowned French artists, such the sculptors and bronze-casters Guillaume Denière (1815-1903), Emile Hébert (1828-1893) et Georges Servant (1828-1890), presented at the 1867 and 1878 Paris Universal Exhibitions, an a-part section dedicated to their Egyptian style production. Their shows drew then considerable attention from the public and the wealthy collectors. During the 1867 Universal Exhibition, one could admire the Stand realized by the French silversmith-jeweller Gustave Baugrand (1826-1870), where his works executed in most Fine materials took inspiration from the Egyptian Antiques, exhibited then in the Louvre museum.
Georges Emile Henri Servant (1828-c.1890), who took over his father in 1855 at their foundry, rue Vieille-du-Temple, in Paris, specialized in the production of neo-Egyptian style clocks, very popular in France since 1860’s, and also the making of Greek style decorative objects. He drew considerable attention to the high quality of his bronzes at the 1855 Paris Universal Exhibition and then at the 1862 London Exhibition. At this time Servant exported up to 40% of his production, principally to the United States, where for instance, his clocks were sold with great success by Louis Tiffany Inc. or Hamann & Roche of New York. But his success came really at the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition, where he was awarded a gold medal for his neo-Greek and Egyptian works (Les Merveilles...
Category
Antique 1870s French Egyptian Revival Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
African Venus
Bronze Sculpture by C. Marnyhac, France, Circa 1878
By Maison Marnyhac 1
Located in PARIS, FR
An exceptional life-size two patina bronze figure, representing a young African woman taming a snake, dressed with a feathered loincloth and a long drape in her hair, and wearing Afr...
Category
Antique 1870s French Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Ginger Jars with Phoenixes, China, 19th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Large pair of baluster-shaped ginger jars in polychrome porcelain from the Famille Rose.
With rich rotating decoration, it is adorned on the body with a pair of phoenixes, symbolizin...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Jars
Materials
Porcelain
Porcelain "Dove" Planter by L
Escalier de Cristal, France, circa 1880
By L
Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Inscribed HA et Cie and numbered 403
Signed in red Escalier de Cristal Paris
Beautiful planter in gilded and painted porcelain. The rounded belly with a platinum background is decor...
Category
Antique 1880s French Napoleon III Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
Vase with Cranes by the Villeroy&Boch Manufacture, Mettlach Germany, Circa 1900
By Villeroy
Boch
Located in PARIS, FR
Model n° 1567
Beautiful Japanese inspired baluster-shaped vase in tinted stoneware. The rich polychrome rotating decoration illustrates cranes in the moonlight, near a lake lined wi...
Category
Antique Early 1900s German Japonisme Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Japanese Style Bronze Planter by L
Escalier de Cristal, France, Circa 1890
By L
Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed H.P for Henri Pannier.
Lovely hexagonal shaped planter in patinated bronze with gold highlights. Adorned on three sides with a dragon framed by a rhombus frieze on an openwor...
Category
Antique 1890s French Japonisme Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Bronze
"Geniuses of the Arts" Gilded Bronze and Marble Clock Set by G. Fabre, c. 1900
By Samuel Marti, G. Fabre
Located in PARIS, FR
Dial signed G. Fabre, 4 rue des Filles du Calvaire, Paris
Clockwork signed Samuel Marti – Médaille d’Or 1900
A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and statuary Carrare marble clock set, consisting of a clock and a pair candelabra...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Leila and the Giaour Gilded Bronze Clock, France, Circa 1830
Located in PARIS, FR
Dial signed Polti Frères
Measures: With base or glass: Height 61 cm (24 in.), width 51,5 cm (20.3 in.), depth 23.5 cm (9,2 in.)
Without base: Height 52 cm (20,5 in.), width 42 cm (16.5 in.), depth 12.5 cm (4.9 in.)
Important philhellenic clock in burnished and amati gilded bronze, finely chiseled, representing on the terrace a couple elegantly dressed in "the turkish style", and richly decorated with foliage, scrolls and flowers. The feet, decorated with water leaves, rest on an oval wooden base covered with a globe.
The theme of the clock comes from The Giaour, a fragment of a Turkish Tale, an English poem by Lord Byron published in may 1813 which tells the thwarted love of a Venetian, the Giaour – term by which the Turks designate infidels and especially Christians – and of Leila, a slave belonging to Hassan’s seraglio, military leader of a Turkish province. The betrayal of Leila discovered, she will be thrown into the sea and her lover will avenge her by killing Hassan, then taking refuge in a monastery.
Symbol of prestige and modernity, the decorative clocks are a reflection of the taste of the era of a wealthy bourgeoisie and may be the subject of diplomatic gifts or between individuals.
Beyond the purely decorative aspect of such objects, watchmaking in the 19th century is part of a subtle mix of political, historical and literary references.
This philhellenic movement converning the West finds a particular echo in France, one of the countries with the United Kingdom and Russia having suported the Greeks during their war of independance (1821-1830) to free oneself from the grip of the Ottoman Empire. Many clocks...
Category
Antique 1830s French Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
$12,971 Sale Price
55% Off
"Giuditta" by Ezio Ceccarelli, Italy, Circa 1900
By Ezio Ceccarelli
Located in PARIS, FR
Great female statue of Judith in bronze with brown patina and white marble from Carrara. This young woman holds in her hands, stretched over his head, a scimitar in its scabbard, ready to draw it. The weapon is fitted with a hilt decorated by a stylized lion on the top of the sword guard...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Italian Beaux Arts Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
$336,299 Sale Price
20% Off
« The Musician » Japanese style Clock attr. to L
Escalier de Cristal, FR, c.1890
By L
Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Amusing bronze with double patina and porcelain clock in the shape of a covered jar.
This clock, with a dial with Arabic numerals decorated in its center with a seated lute player, i...
Category
Antique 1890s French Japonisme Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Louis XVI style Cassolettes attr. to H. Vian, France, circa 1890
By Henri Vian
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of Louis XVI-inspired baluster-shaped cassolettes in white marble, enriched with an elegant bronze mount with a double patina. The lid is topped with a seed-shaped gri...
Category
Antique 1890s French Louis XVI Jars
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Neo-Greek Inkwell by C.G. Diehl, E. Frémiet and J. Brandely, France, Circa 1867
By Charles-Guillaume Diehl, Jean Brandely, Emmanuel Fremiet
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed Diehl à Paris.
Wood and silvered copper inkwell. Central drawer ornamented with an escutcheon and flanked by two small lateral drawers forming two containers, surmounted by a lid representing a nestling. Central niche ornamented with a winged creature. Inkwell flanked by two felines. Toped by a penholder representing a Moorish head resting on an eagle claw.
This exceptional piece was realized thanks to the collaboration of ornemanist J. Brandely, sculptor E. Frémiet and cabinet-maker C.-G. Diehl. The motif of the fantasy creature dear to Diehl, is to be seen on the famous cabinet made by him in 1867 and now exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Inv. 1989.197).
Arriving in Paris in about 1840 Charles-Guillaume Diehl (1811-1885) founded his cabinet making and decoration firm at 19 rue Michel-le-Comte in 1885. His workshops produced elegant little pieces of furniture in rosewood and thuja and novelties with bronze and porcelain embellishments (see “Les ébénistes du XIXème siècle”, D. Ledoux-Lebard, Ed. de l’amateur, 1982, p.164). It was his luxury boxes, however (liqueur cellarettes, cigar cabinets, games boxes, cashmere cases, jewelry cases) which assured Diehl’s renown (see “l’Art en France sous le Second Empire”, Exposition Grand-Palais, Paris, 1979, p.133). Already rewarded with a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1855 in Paris, he exhibited a jardinière with china columns and a liqueur cabinet at the Industrial Arts Exhibition in 1861.
In collaboration with the designer Jean Brandely (active from 1867 until 1873), Diehl renovated his decorative repertory and created astonishing pieces of furniture in the Grecian style which had a dazzling success at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867, where his cabinets also won a silver medal. Certain motifs were so typical of Diehl’s work that they received extensive commentary by the art critic J. Mesnard in his book “Les Merveilles de l’Exposition Universal de 1867” (vol. II, pp. 133 & 149). He writes of a table of which “the pendant bearing hooks and the fan shaped radiating motif which ornaments the entablature are engraved with love” (p. 133) and a jewelry case where “The head in fine Grecian style makes up the essential part of the fine gilt bronze ornamentation” (p. 149).
For this Universal Exhibition Diehl also formed a partnership with two famous sculptors: Emile Guillemin (1841-1907) who carved the relief for a mahogany sideboard with galvanic gilt bronzes (Orsay Museum, Paris, Inv. O.A.O. 992) and Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-1910) who executed the low relief for a cedar medal cabinet...
Category
Antique 1860s French Greek Revival Inkwells
Materials
Copper
Japanese Style Planter Attributed to l
Escalier de Cristal, France, circa 1880
By L
Escalier de Cristal, Edouard Lievre
Located in PARIS, FR
Large planter decorated on the belly with a rotating decoration of polychrome flowers and geometric patterns in cloisonné enamel on a red background. It is inserted in an important p...
Category
Antique 1880s French Japonisme Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Japanese Style Clock attr. to L
Escalier de Cristal, France, Circa 1885
By L
Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Rare Japanese clock in double patina bronze with suspended dial.
The portico and dial, with calligraphic Kanji numerals complemented by hands featuring an undulating dragon, are deco...
Category
Antique 1880s French Japonisme Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Oriental Style Amphora vases, Porcelaine de Paris, France, 1880
By Porcelaine de Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful pair of amphora vases in white and blue porcelain, richly decorated on each side with beautiful polychrome floral compositions framed by handles with openwork motifs of ori...
Category
Antique 1880s French Revival Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Covered Vase with Atlantes, attr. to A. Giroux, France, circa 1880
By Alphonse Giroux et Cie
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful ovoid-shaped covered vase in patinated bronze with golden highlights, with rich rotating decoration in relief. The lid, symbolizing Night, is decorated with a turtle, a moon, a dragon flying among the clouds ; and the belly, symbolizing the Day, is decorated with a rising sun, mountainous landscapes, and cherry tree branches.
The whole, topped with a flamed seed, is supported by three African-type atlantes dressed in a loincloth.
Historical and artistic context
This work of art combines elements of Japonism and Orientalism, two important movements representative of the taste of the time for exoticism. Indeed, this taste for Chinoiserie was revived at the end of the 19th century following the Franco-English military campaign against the imperial army in China in 1860. Napoleon III’s French troops bring back part of the treasure from the Summer Palace, constituting in 1863 the famous Chinese Museum of Empress Eugénie at the Palace of Fontainebleau. First in painting, the movement quickly spread to decorative arts and furniture.
This craze for the Far East is encouraged in France by the diffusion of Chinese ornamental works renewing the interior decoration of the luxurious Parisian residences of a clientele eager for something new.
It was also under the Second Empire that the Orientalists were propelled to the forefront. Emperor Napoleon III, aristocrats as well as wealthy bourgeois in search of exoticism fill the order books of the most renowned artists. It is then not the predominantly academic style of the Orientalists that counts but above all the exoticism that they show to a fascinated public.
Biography
Alphonse Giroux and Company, famous curiosity and luxury goods shop was situated in Paris, at No. 7 rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré and in business from the time of the Consulate until the end of the Second Empire. The company was founded by Francois-Simon-Alphonse and continued in 1838 by his two sons, Alphonse-Gustave (1810-1886) and André (1801-1879). The father became a close associate of the royal family and specialized in the manufacture of refined items for gifts. Kings Louis XVIII and then Charles X were both supplied with gifts for « The Children of France » by Giroux. Making progressively small furniture, they were mentionned for the first time in 1837 in the class « cabinet...
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Antique 1860s French Napoleon III Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Limoges Enameled "Marquis and Marquise" Vases, France, circa 1900
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming pair of tight neck vases made in Limoges enamel on copper decors of galante scenes characters, the Marquis and Marquise.
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Belle Époque Vases
Materials
Copper, Enamel
$816 Sale Price / set
54% Off
Pair of Vases with Bouquets, Gien Manufacture, France, C1880
By Gien, Theodore Deck
Located in PARIS, FR
A charming pair of polychrome earthenware vases with gold-leaf interleaving, a technique in which Théodore Deck had become a specialist.
These oblong-shaped vases are decorated on e...
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Antique 1880s French Other Vases
Materials
Gold Leaf
Orientalist Style Planter, France, Circa 1870
Located in PARIS, FR
Elegant Orientalist style rectangular planter in patinated and gilded bronze, resting on four lion paws. It is adorned with decorative friezes of water leaves, stylized floral medall...
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Antique 1870s French Neoclassical Revival Planters, Cachepots and Jardin...
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Marble and Bronze Urns on Marble Pedestals, France, Early 20th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Measures: Height : 29 cm (11,4 in.) ; width : 61,5 cm (24,2 in.) ; depth : 55,5 cm (21,8 in.)
Total height : 139 cm (54,7 in.)
Important pair of rare Greek...
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Early 20th Century French Neoclassical Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$74,466 Sale Price / set
29% Off
Pair of "Cloisonne" Enamel Vases, Attr. to l
Escalier de Cristal, France, C.1870
By L
Escalier de Cristal
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of Japanese-style roll-shaped vases, made in “cloisonné” enamel and gilded bronze. The cylindrical body is decorated with polychrom floral branches, flowers and butterflies on a...
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Antique 1870s French Japonisme Vases
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Planter and Decorative Dish Attributed to Samson
Cie, France, Circa 1880
By Samson
Cie
Located in PARIS, FR
Important porcelain planter and decorative dish attributed to Samson
Cie.
They are decorated with golden and red friezes of intertwined lotus, fruits and flower cups, fans and...
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Antique 1880s French Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Porcelain
$10,209 Sale Price / set
48% Off
Important Five Pieces Marble and Gilded Bronze Clock Set, France, Circa 1860
By Henri Picard
Located in PARIS, FR
Marked on the dial Furet
Bon, Hrs du Roy, à Paris
Measures: Clock – Height 98 cm (38 1/2 in.), width 70 cm (27 1/2 in.), depth 25 cm (9 3/4 in.)
Candelabra – Height 116 cm ...
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Antique 1860s French Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
"The Flower Garden" Gilded Bronze Planter, France, 18th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Charming Louis XV period Rocaille planter in chiseled and gilded bronze, scalloped with asymmetrical decoration of acanthus leaves and scrolls, and an openwork shell in its center. A...
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Antique 1750s French Louis XV Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Bronze
$15,013 Sale Price
24% Off
Aesthetic Movement Jardiniere Attributed to G .Viardot, France, circa 1880
By Gabriel Viardot
Located in PARIS, FR
A large Japanese style boat-shaped jardiniere attributed to G. Viardot, made in carved wood, ornated with panels decorated with Japanese blossoming cherry tree branches and a trophy ...
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Antique 1880s French Aesthetic Movement Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Wood
Impressive Pair of Granite and Gilded Bronze Urns, France, 20th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
A very impressivel A-form pair of granit urns, each of Campana form, the rims cast with acanthus leaves, the bodies applied with foliate scrolls and flowers, with ram mask handles, o...
Category
20th Century French Louis XVI Urns
Materials
Granite, Bronze
$144,128 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Crystal Sugar Bowl, France, Circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Cut and engraved crystal and silvered bronze decor sugar bowl and cover.
Category
Antique 1880s French Decorative Bowls
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
$2,113 Sale Price
20% Off
Neo-Greek Silvered Bronze Bowl Attributed to G. Servant, France, circa 1880
By Georges Emile Henri Servant
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful silvered bronze neo-Greek style bowl in a circular shape, adorned on the body with female masks in the antique style and on the sides with handles in the shape of busts of ...
Category
Antique 1880s French Greek Revival Decorative Bowls
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
Aesthetic Movement Enameled Plate Attributed to Elkington and A. Willms, c. 1875
By W. Albert Willms, Elkington
Co.
Located in PARIS, FR
Important tray made in gilded bronze and “cloisonné” enamel attributed to Elkington and Willms. Ornamented with a centering polychrome enameled peacock plaque, made of very high standard quality, mounted on a gilt-bronze dish, decorated in relief with Japanese Nô theater masks.
The great Birmingham firm of Elkingtons, was largely the creation of George Richards Elkington (1800-1865), who worked from 1824 in Birmingham as a manufacturer of silver-mounted scent bottles. By 1829 the business had expanded sufficiently for a branch to have been established in London. In the late 1830s the Elkingtons began making experiments to apply the principles of electro-metallurgy to gilding and plating with silver and in 1840 the patent was at last taken out. Elkingtons owed their rise to a position amongst the most important silversmiths of the country to their exploitation of this new process and the two of the most famous designers then employed, both of them French, Albert Wilms (1827-1899) and Morel-Ladeuil (1820-1888), who helped to make Elkingtons’ reputation with their elaborate exhibition pieces.
Albert Willms was apprenticed as modeler and engraver to Klagman, Dieterle and Constant in Paris before working for Morel & Co. in London in 1848. On his return to Paris he was employed by the great Parisian silversmiths including Christofle and Froment-Meurice, for whom he designed pieces to be presented at the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris. It was during this period that he joined the firm of Elkington in London as head decorator. Elkington was soon to become one of the first to produce refined pieces in “champlevé” enamel in the Chinese and Japanese styles, which were presented with great success at the London Universal Exhibition in 1862 (see Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition 1862, J.B. Waring, London, 1863, III, pl. 211). Willms’ “champlevé” enamels could not be compared, however, with the delicate “cloisonné” enamels exhibited by Japan at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867. This explains why Elkington adapted the ancient Japanese technique to produce pieces according to European taste and custom. Followings the 1867 Exhibition all the major European artists rivaled in ingenuity for the 1873 Universal Exhibition in Vienna. In London Albert Willms presented his luxurious vases and cups in “cloisonné” enamel for Elkington (see Illustrations of Art Manufacturers in the Precious Metals exhibited by Elkington & Co., Inventors, Patentees and Manufactures of electroplate, 1873), whilst in Paris, Ferdinand Thesmar (1843-1912) produced in the workshops of Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892) a tray decorated with a golden pheasant in “cloisonné” enamel on copper...
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Antique 1870s English Aesthetic Movement Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Materials
Enamel, Bronze
Aesthetic Movement Carriage Clock, France, 19th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
Fine aesthetic movement clock in cloisonné enamel and gilded bronze, decorated with polychromed birds and flowers, and geometric gilded ornaments on a ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Table Clocks and Des...
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
