An Edwardian brass fender in the Neoclassical style. The polished frame with a moulded top rail above 16 turned brass columns flanking three laurel wreaths with a shaped plinth.
Height 5 1/4″ (13.5cm)
Depth 13 3/8″ (34cm)
Width 51 3/8″ (130.5cm)
Circa 1900
English
A Charles X French bronze bust of Pierre Corneille, standing on a square Sienna marble plinth with ormolu acanthus leaf decorated stepped plinth base.
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th century French dramatists, along with Moliere & Racine.
Height 11 1/2″ (29cm)
Width 3 1/2″ (9cm)
Depth 3 1/2″ (9cm)
French
Circa 1825
Zwiener-Jansen Successeur 1885-1928
After Charles Topino 1742-1803
A late 19th century, French, Transitional tulipwood side table of the finest quality, after a model by Topino. Of oval form, the marquetry inlaid top with pierced gilt metal gallery, above a single oak lined drawer, each frieze inlaid with garlands. The four elongated cabriole legs, headed by finely chased and gilded bearded satyrs, above a narrow leafy inlaid panel and ending in gilt sabots. The lower tier and top inlaid with scrolling carnation flowers. The mask mounts with incised ‘ZJ’ from the master moulds.
Height 28″ (71cm)
Width 17″ (43cm)
Depth 14 1/4″ (36cm)
French
Circa 1900
A fine pair of mid 19th century, French, marble urns mounted in bronze and ormolu. The griotte rouge turned marble urns with flared rims, mounted to each side with a scroll handle, standing on a bronze flared socle with stepped marble plinth bases. The front recessed panel mounted with an intricately cast ormolu frieze, centred by a medusa mask, and supported by ormolu bun feet.
Height 10 5/8″ (27cm)
Width 5 3/4″ (14.6cm)
Depth 5 1/2″ (14cm)
French
Circa 1860
A French bronze figure of Napoleon from the second half of the 19th century. Standing in typical pose, his left hand resting in his waistcoat, sword hanging from belt, raised on a square stepped plinth base. Original brown patination with usual wear.
Height 11” (28cm)
Depth 2 7/8” (7.3cm)
Width 2 7/8” (7.3cm)
French
Circa 1860
A fine late 19th century, French, ormolu mounted cut glass vase in the Empire style. The finely cut body topped with a flared ormolu neck, mounted to either side with swan handles. The stepped socle base with square plinth decorated with wreaths to the corners. Mounts re-gilded. Fine condition.
Height 33cm
Width with handles 12.cm
Square plinth 9cm
French
Circa 1890
A fine pair of Charles X ormolu and patinated bronze candlesticks from the first half of the 19th century. The waterleaf cast drip pans above a bronze acanthus moulded sconce with a reeded tapering column support. The triform base with hipped paw feet resting on a concave sided plinth base.
Height 11 1/4” (28.5cm)
Width 4” (10cm)
Depth 4” (10cm)
French
Circa 1830
‘Diane à la Biche’ /Diana of Versailles
A late 19th century, French, bronze figure of ‘Diane à la Biche’ (Chasseresse). Standing drawing an arrow from her quiver, her left hand restraining a rearing doe. Original dark brown patination.
The Louvre statue is a Roman copy (1st or 2nd century AD) of a lost Greek bronze original attributed to Leochares, 325BC.
Height 10 3/4″ (27.3cm)
Width 6 1/4″ (16cm)
Base 3 1/2″ x 4 1/4 (9cm x 11cm)
French
Circa 1870
A fine pair of late 19th century, French, ormolu mounted onyx table lamps. The well figured Alabastro verde bodies mounted with swags of vine leaves, flanked by bacchic masks with rams horns and a pierced frieze. The acanthus cast flared socle base with a square plinth. Sympathetically converted to electricity. Regilded & rewired. Cast initials to the mounts ‘JT’.
Height 15 1/4″ (38.5cm)
Width 5″ (11.5cm)
Depth 4 1/4″ (10.5cm)
French
Circa 1880
A late 19th century, French, ormolu mounted celadon ground pâte-sur-pâte lamp. The bottle shaped base finely decorated with a spray of flowers to both front and back, standing on a stepped plinth base with acanthus cast scroll feet. Sympathetically converted from an oil lamp and professionally rewired. Regilded. Stamped to the collar ‘M & Sons 179 Piccadilly’. (Miller & Sons Oil Lamp manufacturers)
Height to bayonet 23 3/4” (60.5cm)
Height to neck 14” (36cm)
Base square 6” (15cm)
French
Circa 1880
After Michelangelo (Italian, 1475-1564)
A pair of late 19th century, Italian, Grand Tour style patinated bronze figures of Lorenzo & Giuliano Medici, of small size. Cast after the figures by Michelangelo from the tombs of Lorenzo di Piero, Duke of Urbino and Giuliano di Lorenzo, Duke of Nemours, in the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy. Dark brown patination.
Height 6 1/4” (16cm)
Width 3” (7.5cm)
Depth 3” (7.5cm)
Italian
Circa 1870
A delightful small bronze & ormolu ink standish in a naturalistic rural style from the first half of the 19th century. The animalier figure of a grazing ewe with her lamb suckling, standing on a rectangular plinth cast with naturalistic plants and grasses, inset with the original pounce sifter, tray, inkwell and cover. The base with a waterleaf cast ormolu band on plinth base. Retaining the original ormolu & bronze patinations.
Height 3 3/8” (8.7cm)
Width 5 1/2″ (14cm)
Depth 3 9/16” (9cm)
English
Circa 1825
A fine pair of 19th century, French, gilt bronze candlesticks in the form of young satyrs. The sconces modelled as a woven basket overflowing with fruit and flowers, held aloft by a standing young horned satyr, looking down with his hands on his fat belly. The square stepped plinth base with acanthus leaf and berried border. Retaining the original mercury wash gilding. The base undersides with cast ’H’. Very minor wear to gilding.
Height 7 3/4″ (19.7cm)
Width 3″ (7.2cm)
Depth 3” (7.2cm)
French
Circa 1880
A handsome George IV ormolu & bronze patinated desk stand. The original twin cut glass square ink bottles, flanking a removable taper stick, standing on an ormolu base with embossed band of grape & vine leaves, the sides with scroll handles and base with finely cast ball feet. Regilded. Excellent condition.
Reserved.
Height 5” (12.5cm)
Width 13 1/2” (34.5cm)
Depth 7 1/2” (18cm)
English
Circa 1825
Claude Galle,(1759-1815).
Pair Of Egyptian Candlesticks from The Empire Period, ‘Retour d’Egypte’.
Fine pair of Empire period candlesticks, in patinated and gilded bronze. The central tapering column crowned by three heads of Egyptian women wearing the ‘nemes’ supporting the sconce decorated with palmettes.
The circular base with three pairs of feet to the priestesses, above a a band of stylized palmettes.
Height 8 5/8″ (22cm)
Base Diameter 3 7/8″ (9.8cm)
French
Circa 1805
An identical pair were in the bedroom of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint-Cloud (ref: 1807 inventory). Then from 1837 to 1861 at the Grand Trianon.
In 1886 the pair returned from Versailles to the Garde-Meuble (inventory number GML 4927 001).
This pair of candlesticks is illustrated and described in “L’heure, le feu, la lumière”, the bronzes of the Mobilier National de Marie-France Dupuy-Baylet, on page 146.
A late George III mahogany breakfast/centre table of the finest quality and condition. The rectangular tilt-top veneered with extremely fine and rich mottled roe book matched mahogany, above an inverted tapered column with panelled sides, standing on a platform base issuing four moulded swept legs ending in brass caps and castors. The whole enriched with fine ebony lines.
Height 29″ (74cm)
Depth 38 5/8″ (98cm)
Width 54″ (137cm)
Circa 1815
English
A fine pair of French, Charles X, ‘Romantic period’ bronze & ormolu candelabra. The classically dressed bronze figures holding aloft a three branch candelabra standing on stepped plinths with hexagonal bases. Retaining the original mercury gilding. Usual signs of wear commensurate with age. Both with cast ‘DUB’ to each mount. Both numbered to each part ‘7’ & ‘8’ respectively.
Height 17” (43cm)
Width 7” (17.5cm)
Depth 4” (10cm)
French
Circa 1825
Barbedienne Fondeur
‘TIREUR D’EPINE’
‘Spinario’
A late 19th century, French, bronze figure of a seated boy removing a thorn from the sole of his foot. Rich chocolate brown patination. ‘Reduction mechanique’ seal to base, inscribed ‘Barbedienne Fondeur”.
Also known as ‘Fedelino’ or ‘Boy with Thorn’, the original Greco-Roman Hellenistic bronze sculpture is in the Palazzo die Conservatori, Rome. There is also a Roman marble version in the Medici collection, Florence.
Height 9 3/8” (24cm)
Width 7 1/4” (18.3cm)
Depth 3 7/8” (9.7cm)
Paris
Circa 1890
Produced in three sizes by Barbedienne, this is the second largest size.
A pair of Victorian Derbyshire Pietra Dura inlaid paper weights. Of oval form the Sienna marble bases with an oval cartouche of finely inlaid hard stones depicting floral sprays, inset an ormolu frame. Minor nibbles to marble edges.
Height 6 1/8″ (15.5cm)
Width 4 3/4″ (12cm)
Depth 5/8″ (1.5cm)
English
Circa 1880
A fine mid 19th century Italian Grand Tour bronze model of the ‘Capitoline Wolf’. The finely cast and chased she-wolf with the twin figures of Romulus & Remus suckling beneath.
Height 3 1/2″ (8.9cm)
Width 5 1/2″ (14cm)
Depth 2 1/2″ (6.3cm)
Italian
Circa 1840
La Lupa Capitolina “the Capitoline Wolf”. Traditional scholarship says the wolf-figure is Etruscan, 5th century BC. The figures of Romulus and Remus were added in the 15th century AD by Antonio Pollaiuolo. Recent studies suggest that the she-wolf may be a medieval sculpture dating from the 13th century AD. The work’s attribution attests to the enduring nature of the myth.
