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.
Attributed to William Bullock
A pair of early 19th century, George IV, patinated bronze candelabra. The three branches, hung with chains, issuing from a central sconce with flame finial, above a reeded stem on a concave-side canted triangular base, with reeded angles, each side mounted with masks, on scrolled and palmette paw feet. Original patination.
Height 23 3/4” (60.5cm)
Width 7 3/4” (19.5cm)
Depth 6 3/4” (17cm)
English
Circa 1825
François Linke 1855-1946
A delightful kingwood & ormolu mounted heart shaped table vitrine. The bevelled glazed top with marquetry border, opening to reveal the original velvet lined interior. The shaped sides each with fruitwood foliate marquetry on a satiné ground, the three slender cabriole legs mounted with acanthus cast knees and sabots. Numbered ‘III’ to the underside of hinge and lock. See page 56 ‘Francois Linke, 1855-1946, The Belle Epoque of French Furniture’.
Height 28 3/4″ (73cm)
Width 13 3/4″ (35cm)
Depth 14 3/4″ (37.5cm)
French
Circa 1889
François Linke 1855-1946
Index number 7
A fine rosewood & ormolu mounted table vitrine. The glazed top with ormolu trim, opening to reveal the original velvet lined interior. The shaped sides each with cube parquetry panels, centred to the front and rear with a shell mount stamped ‘Linke 1763’, the four slender cabriole legs mounted with acanthus cast knees and sabots. Retaining the original gilding to the finely cast and chased mounts. Lockplate with original key, lock stamped ‘CT Linke Serrurerie Paris 7’.
Height 28 3/4″ (73cm)
Width 22″ (56cm)
Depth 13″ (33cm)
French
Circa 1900
ANDRAU & BLANC TOULOUSE
A fine French Empire revival mahogany, ormolu mounted marble topped console table from the last quarter of the 19th century. Of rectangular form, veneered in quilted mahogany (Amarillo), the slim frieze above tapering columns to the front topped with ormolu caryatids, a bevelled mirror plate to the rear panel, with a platform base standing on hairy paw feet. The original thick marble top with a moulded edge. The reverse stencilled ‘ATELIERS ANDRAU & BLANC TOULOUSE’ 3454.
Height 33 1/2” (85cm)
Width 47 3/4” (121.5cm)
Depth 19 1/4” (49cm)
French
Circa 1880
A late 19th Italian Serpentine marble column. The square top with canted front corners rotating on a turned fluted column with lappet carved base and turned socle with octagonal stepped plinth base. Nibbles to edges commensurate with age.
Height 41″ (104cm)
Top Width 12 1/2″ (32cm)
To Depth 13 1/2″ (34cm)
Italian
Circa 1880
A George III Demi lune mahogany & tulipwood crossbanded tea table. The top opening to a polished interior above a deep frieze, standing on four tapering moulded legs, the rear two hinged to support the top.
Height 29” (74cm)
Width 36” (91.5cm)
Depth 17 3/4” (45cm)
English
Circa 1780
RESERVED
An Empire Revival Austrian ormolu mounted bronze patinated four light table lamp. In the Empire style, the four candle arms with central wired stem, issuing from a tapering column with berried leaf spiral decoration. The cylinder base with ormolu swags and a square plinth base and squat feet. The back stamped ‘Made in Austria’. Original patination. Rewired.
Height 23 3/4″ (60.5cm)
Width 4 1/2″ (11.5cm)
Depth 4 1/2″ (11.5cm)
Austrian
Circa 1910
The Mckinley tariff came into act in the US in 1890, requiring imported goods to be stamped with the country of origin.
Joseph D’Aste, Italian (active 1905-1935)
A pair of gilt bronze & ivory figures of a Dutch boy and girl dressed in traditional costumes, standing with their hands in pockets. Both supported by turned onyx socles, signed ‘D’Aste to each base. Numbered ’54’ to the boys clog.
Born in Naples he worked as a portrait and figure sculptor in the early part of the 20th century.
Height 9 ¼” (23.5cm)
Width 3 ½” (8.9cm)
Depth 3 ½” (8.9cm)
French
Circa 1910
A pair of mid 19th century Continental ‘Grand Tour’ carved alabaster Lions after the celebrated models sculpted by Antonio Canova for the tomb of Pope Clement XIII in 1792. Both in recumbent pose, now supported by later marble plinths. Minor nicks as to be expected.
Lion Height 3 1/4″ (8.3cm)
Lion Width 6″ (15.2cm)
Lion Depth 2″ (5.1cm)
Continental
Circa 1850
A Georgian steel and brass fender in the Neoclassical style. The polished frame with a brass top moulding and open fret cut panels, the ends with turned brass finials.
Height 4 3/4” (12cm) Height to finial 8” (20.3cm)
Depth 12 1/2 “ (32cm)
Width 40 1/4” (102.2cm)
Circa 1800
English
After Jean-Demosthène Dugourc (1749-1825)
A fine quality late 19th century, French, ormolu candlestick lamp. The gadrooned lion-mask sconce above a stem of floral draped female terms, on acanthus foliate-wrapped circular spreading base with bead border. Fine original gilding. Rewired.
With their triple female caryatid shaft swagged with floral garlands, laurel collar and domed, acanthus-cast plinth, these candlesticks are based on a design attributed to Jean-Demosthène Dugourc (1749-1825) in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
Candlestick height 12 1/2” (31.5cm).
Overall height 17” (43cm)
Width 5 3/8” (13.5cm)
French
Circa 1890
A pair of early 19th century, French, gilt bronze candlesticks. The sconce with palmette leaf body above a tapered column decorated with bands of small sunflowers, the circular base with fish scale & palmette leaf decorated border. Regilded.
Height 9” (23cm)
Diameter at base 4 3/8” (11.2cm)
French
Circa 1830
SOLD
A very fine pair of French, late 19th century, ormolu table lamps in the early Louis XV style. The single sconce above a stem cast with acanthus leaves standing on a spreading stepped base with scroll and shell border. Finely cast and chased with the original matt & burnished gilding. Rewired.
Height 11″ (28cm) Lamp Height 16 3/4” (42.5cm)
Width 6″ (15cm)
Depth 6″ (15cm)
French
Circa 1890
A pair of late 19th century gilt brass candlestick lamps in the Empire style. The single sconce over a central stem cast with florets, issuing from a spreading circular base, with bands of sunflower heads. Regilded. Sympathetically converted to electricity. Rewired.
Height to bayonet 13 3/4” (35cm)
Candlestick height 9 3/4” (24.5cm)
Base diameter 4 3/4” (12cm)
French
Circa 1870
A finely cast and chased mid 19th century, French, Grand Tour bronze bust depicting Athena, Goddess of war. Shown with flowing hair tied at the back, a helmet topped with a wrythen snake, looking straight ahead, the square stepped base cast with a leafy border and supported on a substantial Sienna marble base. Base with nibbles to marble edges.
Height 8 3/4″ (22.2cm)
Width 4″ (10cm)
Depth 4″ (10cm)
French
Circa 1840
A fine pair of bronze, ormolu & marble, mid 19th century French candelabra in the Louis XVI style. The patinated bronze putti seated cross legged on a naturalistic base, each supporting a pair of ormolu candle arms. The circular griotte stepped marble plinth bases with ormolu acanthus and bead cast mounts. Superb original matt & burnished gilding and patination. Discreetly drilled for electricity.
Height 12 3/4” (32.5cm)
Width 6 1/4″ (16cm)
Depth 4 3/8″ (11cm)
French
Circa 1850
Paul Milet (1870-1950) for Sevres
A pair of early 20th century ormolu mounted deep blue/purple Flambé porcelain vases. The flared tops above an ormolu band with tapering ovoid body standing on a flared socle and ormolu base. Marked ‘MP SEVRES’ to the bases.
Height 11 3/4″ (30cm)
Base diameter 4″ (10.2cm)
French
Circa 1910
Paul Milet was the son of the ceramist Félix Optat Milet (1838-1911). After training in the laboratory of the Manufacture de Sèvres, he became a chemist and worked in the factory founded by his father in 1866 at 8, rue Troyon in Sèvres. Paul worked with Félix until his fathers death in 1911, then with his son Henri, a ceramics engineer, who later was appointed director of the factory in 1931, father and son worked in close collaboration.
At the Salon des artistes français, Milet exhibited unique and utilitarian pieces: inkwells, vases, candlesticks. He obtained an honorary diploma at the Fire Arts exhibition in 1897.
At the Universal Exhibition of 1900, he obtained a gold medal for his earthenware “of pleasant shapes, decorated by the most diverse processes, cloisonné enamels, enamels on gold paillon. In all these decorations, Millet used with discernment the rich palette of enamels that he mastered.
Milet also exhibited at the Palais Galliera during the Porcelain Exhibition in 1907, then in 1909 and 1911 at the Exhibition of stoneware, earthenware and terracotta.
He abandoned porcelain production after the First World War.
A fine pair of early 19th century, George III, patinated bronze candlesticks. Each in the form of a kneeling winged maiden in classical dress, arms raised holding a candle sconce in the form of a swagged urn with an entwined serpent, and retaining the original drip pans. The square stepped plinth bases are weighted with cast iron.
Height 7 1/2″ (19cm)
Width 3 1/4″ (8.2cm)
Depth 3 1/4″ (8.2cm)
English
Circa 1810
