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A French First Empire period mahogany veneer console an
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Pre 1837 VR item# 1090957 (stock# 1276)
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A beautiful French early 19th century Empire mahogany veneer console, consisting of two straight legs in the back and two swirl shap legs in the front, ending with gilded bronze claw feet. This console has a drawer, and is topped with a gray-veined white marble and ornate with beautifully carved ormolu mounts.
Circa :1810
Dim: W: 53,1 in - D: 17,7in - H: 37in.
Dim: L:135cm, P:45cm, H:94cm.
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Old Paris porcelain pedestal enameled with polychrome f
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Pre 1910 item# 1069431 (stock# 1251)
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An old Paris white porcelain pedestal resting on a tripod base, enameled with multicolored flowers and foliage. It has a monogram and the inscription "made in France, for the Antique Domine, Miami Beach". This is probably an order by an American client in the early twentieth century.
Circa :1910
Dim: W: 15,4 in - D: 15,4in - H: 20,9in.
Dim: L:39cm, P:39cm, H:53cm.
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Pair of ormolu candlesticks ornate with putti after the
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Pre 1900 item# 1046503 (stock# 1225)
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Pair of candlesticks in gilt bronze finely chiseled and decorated with two putti holding the barrel decorated with ripples and intertwined. The circular base is flanked by four feet in foliage. The rich ornamentation of these torches gives them a rococo style which is a continental art movement of the eighteenth century, which was widely copied and amplified in the era of Napoleon III. This pair was designed after a model by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (1695-1750).
Napoléon III Period, Circa: 1860.
Dim: W: 5,1 in - D: 5,1in - H: 8,3in.
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French early 19th century Charles X liquor set in cut c
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Pre 1837 VR item# 1046270 (stock# 1222)
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A Charles X liquor set with three diamond cut crystal bottles and their caps and seven small cut crystal glasses. The plateau is covered by a mirror ringed with an ormolu bronze frame holding on three legs representing the faces of angels and their wings. In the central part a carved and finely chiseled stem is framed by three circular rings, richly decorated with flowers. It should be noted that some glasses are not the original ones. The development of the French crystal comes from the 19th century. It was produced in abundance, thanks to the advances in chemistry and machinery. Even though it spreads abundantly and generously, it kept on being a luxury.In the 19th century the production of French crystal is in the hands of four crystal glassworks:The Royal Glassware of St. Louis, founded in 1767 at Muntzthal, was the first one to discover, by sending observers in England, the secrets of the crystal. Since then, St. Louis specialized itself in the luxury glassware and held an interest for the opal crystal.The name of Baccarat crystal represents the production of three factories. The first one, Voneche was founded in 1778 near Liège, and was bought in 1802 by Aimé-Gabriel d'Artigues, nephew of the director of St. Louis. When the treaties of 1815 took away Voneche of the French territory, Artigues bought the St. Anne glassware near Baccarat. Then in 1822 the Baccarat crystal glassware absorbed Trelon in the north which produced at that time only window glass. The man who gave rise to the Baccarat crystals was a scholar, a glass technician, as well as a very good administrator: J-B Toussaint. Until his death in 1858, he gave a hard life to the competition in France and abroad.Among those competitors, the factory at Le Creusot benefited of the government support in order to find the secret of the colored crystals from England. The factory at Le Creusot, also called Montcenis was a resurgence of the Queen manufacture funded in Sèvres in 1783 by Lambert and Boyer. Following a mismanagement of the factory, the government decided in 1785 the transfer of the factory at Le Creusot. Despite some successes including the yellow and turquoise opal crystal, le Creusot fell into financial difficulties and in 1832. Baccarat and St. Louis came together, bought the factory and switch off the ovens.Two other factories were founded under the Restauration: Choisy-le-Roi in 1821 and Bercy in 1827. In 1832, a commercial agreement between Baccarat and St. Louis was extended to the manufactures of Choisy-le-Roi and Bercy, which had shown their qualities thanks to an excellent production.
Circa :1820
Dim: W: 13 in - D: 13in - H: 13in.
Dim: L:33cm, P:33cm, H:33cm.
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Pair of neo gothic ormolu candlesticks
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Pre 1900 item# 1038754 (stock# 1199)
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A very nice pair of finely chiseled ormolu candlesticks, with a base ornate with three winged animals. The stem is adorn with niches in the Gothic taste hosting armored medieval characters. In France, the troubadour style gradually assumes some importance. These are the writings of Chateaubriand who first raise the taste for medieval times. Since 1805, the Empress Josephine had installed at Malmaison a gothic gallery but interest in the Middle Ages touch at that time a minority. After the Restoration and the instigation of the Duchess of Berry, the troubadour style acquires a wide audience especially among the royalists.
Louis-Philippe Period, Circa: 1840.
Dim: W: 3,9 in - D: 3,9in - H: 11in.
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Baccarat crystal set with gilded bronze mounts
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Pre 1900 item# 1037497 (stock# 1194)
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A Baccarat crystal set comprised of an oval dish and two horns shaped vases (H: 35cm). The crystal is nicely twisted with a nice gilded bronze mount.The development of the French crystal comes from the 19th century. It was produced in abundance, thanks to the advances in chemistry and machinery. Even though it spreads abundantly and generously, it kept on being a luxury.
In the 19th century the production of French crystal is in the hands of four crystal glassworks:
The Royal Glassware of St. Louis, founded in 1767 at Muntzthal, was the first one to discover, by sending observers in England, the secrets of the crystal. Since then, St. Louis specialized itself in the luxury glassware and held an interest for the opal crystal.
The name of Baccarat crystal represents the production of three factories. The first one, Voneche was founded in 1778 near Liège, and was bought in 1802 by Aimé-Gabriel d'Artigues, nephew of the director of St. Louis. When the treaties of 1815 took away Voneche of the French territory, Artigues bought the St. Anne glassware near Baccarat. Then in 1822 the Baccarat crystal glassware absorbed Trelon in the north which produced at that time only window glass. The man who gave rise to the Baccarat crystals was a scholar, a glass technician, as well as a very good administrator: J-B Toussaint. Until his death in 1858, he gave a hard life to the competition in France and abroad.
Among those competitors, the factory at Le Creusot benefited of the government support in order to find the secret of the colored crystals from England. The factory at Le Creusot, also called Montcenis was a resurgence of the Queen manufacture funded in Sèvres in 1783 by Lambert and Boyer. Following a mismanagement of the factory, the government decided in 1785 the transfer of the factory at Le Creusot. Despite some successes including the yellow and turquoise opal crystal, le Creusot fell into financial difficulties and in 1832. Baccarat and St. Louis came together, bought the factory and switch off the ovens.
Two other factories were founded under the Restauration: Choisy-le-Roi in 1821 and Bercy in 1827. In 1832, a commercial agreement between Baccarat and St. Louis was extended to the manufactures of Choisy-le-Roi and Bercy, which had shown their qualities thanks to an excellent production.
Napoléon III Period, Circa: 1880.
Dim: W: 16,5 in - D: 9,4in - H: 13,4in.
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