Louis XIV period carved wood fireplace mantel with humanized moon decoration

Beautiful crescent planter forming a centerpiece in Desvres faience decorated with lambrequins, bouquets of flowers and resting on four horned feet. Model number 688 and handwritten ...

Rare and beautiful pair of etchings on BFK Rives watermarked vellum paper, signed, titled, and published by the Société Française des Amis des Arts around 1920. "On the Terrace" and "Nude" engraved by Jean Emile Buland (1857-1938), winner of the 1st Grand Prix de Rome in 1880 after paintings by Antoine Calbet (1860-1944) Perfect condition of the etching and the plate "On the Terrace" Perfect condition of the etching with slight fading on the edges of the plate "Nude" Dimensions: "On the Terrace" etching: Plate: 465 x 307 mm - Engraving: 262 x 165 mm - Engraving plate: 310 x 210 cm "Nude" etching: Plate: 464 mm x 332 mm - Engraving: 270 x 217 mm - Engraving plate: 333 x 255 mm Engraved signatures by Em. Buland below the engravings (+ handwritten countersignature in pencil by Emile Buland below the engraving "On the Terrace"). Engraved signatures by A. Calbet in the plates, lower left & Blank stamp signature of the Société Française des Amis des Arts below the plate, lower left. Jean-Emile Buland was born in Paris in 1857 into a family of artists. His father, Jean-Marie Buland (1825-1895), was an engraver and his brother, Jean-Eugène (1852-1926), was a painter. Jean-Emile Buland studied under the painter Alexandre Cabanel and the engraver Louis-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont. He won the 1st Grand Prix de Rome for engraving in 1880. He received a silver medal at the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition and a first-class medal at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1901. Antoine Calbet, born August 16, 1860 in Engayrac (Lot-et-Garonne) and died August 21, 1942 in Paris, was a French painter, watercolorist, draftsman, engraver, and illustrator. Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier by Édouard-Antoine Marsal (1845-1929), where he learned drawing, this draftsman and illustrator, a painter of nudes and romantic scenes, was sought after during his lifetime. He was then admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889). He was a member of the Fine Arts admissions jury from 1913 to 1930. He began exhibiting in 1880 and became a member of the Society of French Artists. He was a friend of French President Armand Fallières. He received several medals at the Salon des Artistes Français and a silver medal at the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition for his work on a panel for the pavilion of the Ministry of Colonies. The French Society of Friends of the Arts was founded in 1885 at the Palais de l'Industrie for the development of the arts, supported by numerous distinguished subscribers: Messrs. Gaston Doumergue (President of the French Republic), Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Count Greffulhe, the brothers Alfred, Jules and Léon Bernheim, Louis Boucheron, Edgar Brandt, Emile Buland, Paul Chabas, Viscount Guy de Dampierre, Colonel Francis E. Drake, André Fallières, Louis Lévy, Paul Louchet, Maurice Moisset, Louis Montagné...

Very nice warm colored antique French Louis XIV from the 18th century. The monumental trumeau mantel came from a modest Chateau in the middle of France, during the end of the 19th...

An English Jacobean period fire surround, salvaged from a property in Norfolk. Largely untouched, original condition. Of oak construction, with applied...