© Paul-Etienne Remy / Good Wave Studio Young Moor with a jar or the Water Carrier Bronze enhanced with a cold painted polychrome decoration Austrian school, late…… Read more “Young Moor with a jar or the Water Carrier”
Rooster with motto
© Paul-Etienne Remy / Good Wave Studio Rooster Bronze enhanced with a cold painted polychrome decoration Austrian school, late 19th / early 20th century Workshop of Franz…… Read more “Rooster with motto”
The Innocents market by Faustin Besson
This elegant genre scene depicts a market scene with its stalls and different crafts. The composition is centred around an oyster seller and a couple of young people, maybe clients, whose silky, bright, refined coloured clothes and contrast with the peasant women’s and sellers’. They are the object of all attention as evidenced by the attitudes and looks directed at them.
Self-portrait of Joseph Ducreux
This painting shows a man facing us obliquely. He is wearing a top hat, his hair is styled in rolls and tied with a grey silk ribbon. This self-portrait of painter Joseph Ducreux (1835-1802), also known as “the mocker”, is considered the artist’s most remarkable work. His title matches his beckoning gesture, keen gaze fixed forward, frowning brow, vermilion lips grinning broadly. He is dressed in a ruffled cuffed shirt, a waistcoat hemmed with a red braid and a tawny coat with a high collar and a frill.
Terracotta statuettes after Clodion
Statuettes of young fauns after Clodion Terracotta coated with tempera France, Second Empire period H.: 30 cm, base diameter: 14 cm H. of lampshade: 12 cm, diameter:…… Read more “Terracotta statuettes after Clodion”
Pair of wall lights with five sconces
Pair of wall lights with five sconces Based on a model by André-Charles Boulle Chiselled and gilded bronze France, Napoleon III period, second half of the 19th…… Read more “Pair of wall lights with five sconces”
Musician chair
The seat rests on four strongly arched legs with stylized wild animal claws endings – lion or tiger. These feet are linked by a wide openwork belt. The revolving seat’s height can be adjusted. The medallion-shaped backrest features stylized vine leaves and hanging clusters – also the repetitive motif of the openwork sculptures. The central medallion, formed by two foliated winding arches, is organized in a rigorously symmetrical manner. It seems to be supported by scrolls of acanthus leaves, and it is topped with a vine leaf from which leafy foliage fall down both sides of the backrest.
Suite of three Anglo-Indian chairs
These mobile frame spare chairs match the conversation sofa. This Anglo-Indian work is inspired by the Victorian style of the last quarter of the 19th century.
Each one rests on arched front legs with ram heads and fluttering birds, and on two rear sabre legs. The medallion backrest uses the same rigorous and geometric construction and the same ornamental elements as those of the sofa: a remarkable openwork mesh forming a floral lace in which a myriad of birds evolves. A wide apron at the front links the feet. The medallion backrest has a slight rear projection enabling to grab and move it.
Pair of andirons with winged sphinxes
© Jacques Kuyten Pair of andirons with winged sphinxes and masonic decoration Chiselled bronze credited to Henri Dasson (after a model by Pierre-Philippe Thomire) France, Napoleon III period…… Read more “Pair of andirons with winged sphinxes”
Etruscan-style colonial armchair
This stripped-down chair is characteristic of the so-called Etruscan style which was very popular at the end of the 18th century in Cape Town, South Africa.
On a wide and solid fully pegged frame, a thin H-shaped spacer ensures rigidity. The slightly inclined backrest has projections at the angles and in the centre of the concave upper cross member, and an openwork decoration composed of a fluted and hollowed out pilaster resting on the moulded projection of the lower cross member. Above the pilaster, an elegant, also openwork ring. The front legs are straight and tapered, inlaid with precious woods subtly mixing colours. The rear legs are slanted and the trapezoidal seat is darkened with a broad-stranded cane. The seat rail is smooth while the side ones are lined with simple grooves.
The front legs frames support the armrests which themselves support the slightly projecting arms that match the frame of the backrest at the end of a soft curve.
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