French Collectibles and Curiosities

Elegant French alliance ring in white gold with nine diamonds. Size 54.  

Wrought iron cross

Thin sheet of partially glazed stamped porcelain with the motif of a female figure embodying the Aries sign. Rare item from a limited series created by the artist in 1973 around the...

Rare 20th French metal coat of arms wall light from the 1950s. Five candle holder. A war helmet in the center. Different war weapons. Arrows on the top.

This highly eclectic piece takes influences from baroque to gothic to empire styles, sporting oriental reminiscences. This small cabinet is a product of a time when Europe started to...

19th century solid wood coffee table. Above it has a glass back In the centre it has a brass pot for flowers. Measures: 50 cm high and 110 c...

Half object, half jewel, this sculptural bangle in sandblasted resin bears the handwritten signature of the artist. Measurements (cm) : triangle's sides 9.8 depth 2 wrist (int. di...

Methacrylate plate fixed by a rubber link on a black acrylic bracelet, matt exterior and glossy interior, locked by an altugas rod wearing the Artist's brand. Both the facade and th...

Half object, half jewel this Sculptural bangle is composed of two parts ; a sand blasted resin triangle and an acrylic bracelet allowing the cuff to be closed. Both parts bear the ha...

Half object, half jewel this sculptural bangle is composed of two parts ; a sand blasted resin triangle and an acrylic bracelet allowing the cuff to be closed. Both parts bear the ha...

Half object, half jewel this sculptural bangle is composed of two parts ; a sand blasted resin rectangle and an acrylic bracelet allowing the cuff to be closed. The bangle bears the ...

Half object, half jewel this sculptural bangle bears the handwritten and engraved signature of the artist. Measurements (cm) : triangle's sides 9.7, 14 in its largest part, 1.4 d. w...

Half object, half jewel this Sculptural bangle is composed of two parts ; a sand blasted resin triangle and an acrylic bracelet allowing the cuff to be closed. Both parts bear the ha...

Methacrylate plate fixed by a rubber link on a black acrylic bracelet, matt exterior and glossy interior, locked by an altugas rod wearing the Artist's brand. Both the facade and th...

Sinke & van Tongeren exhibited this extremely rare Auzoux Gorilla by carefully taking apart the model and creating an exploded view of this historically important piece. When viewed from a particular angle all pieces come together to form the original shape. It was part of the exhibition called ‘TIER’ at MOA in The Netherlands The story of a remarkable 19th century anatomical model created just four years after Darwin unleashed a political storm with his theories on human evolution. The publication of Charles Darwin’s controversial On the Origin of Species in 1859 caused debates to rage about human evolution, debates which witnessed the politicisation of a creature whose existence had only recently been confirmed by modern science. On one side of the argument was the Darwinian camp; on the other were those opposed to Darwin’s theory, such as Richard Owen, the famed Director of the Natural History Museum and a man who, interestingly, coined the word ‘dinosaur’. Tales of the creature in question had endured for centuries, but up until 1847 it remained a myth, an unknown. This all changed thanks to the missionary Thomas Savage and the anatomist Jeffries Wyman who wrote a paper for the journal of the Boston Society of Natural History in which they described a new species: Troglodytes gorilla. (Later, in 1929, Harvard zoologist Harold Coolidge would apply the synonym Gorilla gorilla...