19th Century French Napoleon III Round Tripod Boulle Jardinière with Cover

Small table, base and top in circular wood, joined by three gilt bronze feet. Two ancient feet in curved metal moldings, of neoclassical inspiration, contrasting with a contemporary...

Antique Ormolu French Cartel Clock on its stand, Napoleon III Era. This is a good-sized French mantel clock dating from around 1880. It has a waisted case with applied brass decoration and brass and tortoiseshell-style inlaid panels. The white enameled dial has fancy pierced brass hands and a beaded bezel. It is hand-painted with Arab numerals and decorated with garlands of flowers and leaves. The clock has a center window showing the pendulum shaped like a fairy. It drives the movement that seems to strike the hours and halves on a bell. This gorgeous antique cartel clock...

A beautiful Art Deco curved side table, in the style of Andre Sornay. France 1950s. Made of solid wood. It is in good overall condition with normal wear and signs of time; it will b...

Anglo-Indian Mughal Teak Inlaid Round Side Table. A refined and elegant round side table that is hand-carved with bone inlaid and has an elaborate peacock and tree design. With bone ...

French gueridon/side table with bronze Napoleon III Solid mahogany wood with rich brass trim. Four-pass marbled cover plate with brass galler...

An unusual and quirky 19th century 'Bouillotte' table in the Louis XVI style, complete with white veined marble top and edged with a full gallery in pierced brass openwork. The table...

This Napoleon III Guéridon pedestal table, crafted in the 19th century, embodies the elegance and opulence of the era. Featuring a fluted wooden base, a captivating marble top, and...

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...