Regency Style Gilt and Faux Porphyry Iron Athenienne Jardinierre Plant Stand

FRENCH LOUIS XVI STYLE GILT-BRONZE, POLISHED BRASS AND MAHOGANY GUERIDON Modeled after the design by Adam Weisweiler 20th century Item # 407UNK10P This gorgeous 20th century interp...

HOLLYWOOD REGENCY BRUSHED STEEL, POLISHED BRASS AND BLACK MARBLE PEDESTAL TABLE In the manner of Maison Jansen circa mid 20th century 38 3/8" H x 16 1/8" marble top diameter An in...

FRENCH LOUIS XV STYLE SIENNA MARBLE GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED MAHOGANY ONE-DRAWER SIDE TABLE Labeled by Haentges Freres, Paris ca. 1910 29 1/8" H x 17 1/4" D x 25 1/4" W An incredibly f...

PAIR OF NEO-POMPEIAN BRASS AND VERDE MARBLE GUERIDONS French or Italian, circa 1910 unmarked Item # 403FQE25W A lovely pair of Neo-Pompeian gueridons from the turn of the century, ...

20th century, Italian 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 Italy, in Naples, towards the Early 20th 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...

An Incredible Russian gilt bronze Gueridon with a granite top, 19th century. The circular black painted top within a turned wood border frieze painted with laurel leaves and pink ri...

A stunning and most impressive French 19th century Renaissance st. ormolu, patinated bronze and Rouge Griotte marble planter/stand. The planter is raise...

Late 19th century French attr. Barbedienne grand tour bronze Tôle Painte so-called "Isis tripod" jardiniere or planter On a trefoil base of gray-black patinated bronze, three slend...