Posts Tagged ‘Directoire’
Monday, December 28th, 2009
A PAIR OF Louis XVI BRONZE AND GILT-BRONZE CANDELABRA, epoxy resin varnish oil painting each in the form of a standing figure of ? boy holding a spray of lily flowers concealing three nozzles, french medieval furniture standing on a cylindrical drum, antique souther chest of draws with white marble base, [...]
Tags: A CHARLES X GILT-BRONZE, A LOUIS XV, A LOUIS XVI, anthemion, bacchante, BEDS, BRASS-INLAID, CANDELABRA, catalogue, CHAIRS, CHARLES, charles x, CHARLES X GILT-BRONZE, CIRCULAR, claude michel, CLOCK, Collection, CORNER, CYLINDER, Directoire, enamel dial, ewer, frieze drawers, gallery, GEORGE IV, gilt bronze, GLASS, kingwood, Louvre, mahogany, MANTEL, marble base, marble vases, MOUNTED, pigeonholes, Richard Wallace Similar, satinwood, strong box, suspension, TABLE, tambourines, tulipwood, VASES
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Sunday, December 27th, 2009
EMPIRE MAHOGANY MIRROR, OAK BED FRAME, ANGLO-INDIAN TEAK TOILET TABLE, GERMAN MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, BIEDERMEIER MAHOGANY TABLE
AN EMPIRE MAHOGANY MIRROR with a rectangular
plate, the frieze applied in giltwood with classical figures
preparing a sacrifice to the Gods and flanked by swags,
the sides with reeded columns with entwined ribbons
and headed by lozenge and leaf capitals, 7ft. [...]
Tags: ABATTANT, ANGLO-INDIAN, ANOTHER, bed, bed frame, Biedermeier, burr walnut, BURR-WALNUT SIDE, CANDELABRA, capitals, CHIFFONIER, CIRCULAR, classical figure, classical figures, DANISH, DECORATED, Directoire, EBONY ARMCHAIR, Empire, front, German, giltwood, GLASS, grey marble, inlaid, lozenge, mahogany, mahogany table, marquetry, MIRROR, ORMOLU, rectangular plate, ribbons, SECRETAIRE, secretaire a abattant, SEMI-CIRCULAR, sutherland, TABLE, TEAK, TOILET, toilet table, UNUSUAL, Viennese, Walnut, WRITING
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE GLASS VASES - TULIPWOOD-VENEERED TABLE EN CHIFFONIERE - LOUIS xvi PAINTED FAUTEUILS - MAHOGANY BUREAU A CYLINDRE
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE GLASS VASES each with gadrooned rim, 4′ square oak colonial revival 5 decorative legs the baluster bodies mounted with satyr masks hung with vine swags, antique [...]
Tags: 18th century, Anna Thomson, BUREAU, bureau a cylindre, bureau plat, Century, chiffoniere, classical temple, CYLINDRE, DEMI-LUNE COMMODE, Directoire, Empire, ENCOIGNURE, GLASS, glass vase, glass vases, iiin, Jacques-Pierre Letellier, kingwood, LOUIS, Louis XVI, mahogany, marble base, marquetry, monogram, ORMOLU, ORMOLU-MOUNTED, PAINTED, PLAT, TULIPWOOD-VENEERED, veined marble, vine
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Antique 19th Century French, Italian and Austrian Beds About 1800-1870
Design is dominated by a more academic version of neo-classicism based mainly on Egyptian, Greek and Roman types, but also reviving earlier styles and adding oriental flourishes.
Directoire camp bed with castors.
Empire, Biedermeier, Second Empire beds:
French: During Napoleon’s Consular (17991804) and Empire (1804-15), antique mahogany kidney-shaped [...]
Tags: austria germany, Biedermeier, cabriole legs, DECORATION, Denmark, Directoire, domesticated version, french empire, Germany, Gothic, headboard and footboard, pole, rococo, SETTEES, upholsterer
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