A late 19th century, French, champlevé & ormolu mounted Algerian onyx tazza. The large shallow bowl with outer champlevé band, the turned bulbous support with stepped ormolu & champlevé collars and a plinth base standing on bracket feet.
Height 9 1/2″ (24cm)
Top Width 11 1/2″ (29cm)
Depth 5 1/2″ (14cm)
French
Circa 1880
A fine & unusual pair of French gilt bronze & champlevé candlesticks of oriental inspiration. The standing figures above elaborately shaped bases with toupie feet and flanked by twin candle sconces. Regilded.
Height 6 1/2” (16.5cm)
Width 8 3/4” (22.2cm)
Depth 3 5/8” (9.2cm)
French
Circa 1880
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 anthemions. Regilded. Sympathetically converted to electricity. Rewired & PAT tested.
Height to bayonet 13 3/4” (35cm)
Candlestick height 9 7/8” (25cm)
Base diameter 4 3/4” (12cm)
French
Circa 1870
A late 19th century, French, champlevé and onyx table lamp. Formed as a champlevé mounted corinthian column with gilt capital, retaining the original cranberry glass reservoir and fitments above a stepped square plinth base. Sympathetically converted to electricity. Rewired and PAT tested. Regilded.
Height 28” (71cm)
Width 6” (15cm)
Depth 6” (15cm)
French
Circa 1880
Elkington & Co
A lovely pair of early Victorian ormolu and parcel silvered swan candlesticks after a 1834 design by William Bateman II for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. The leafy acanthus nozzles with floral drip pans on corresponding narrow foliate stems flanked by three seated swans, on shaped tripartite bases decorated with various seashells. Retaining the original gilt & silver finishes, with superb chasing details. Hallmarks ‘Elkington & Co’ date code letter ‘O’, 1853.
Height 6 3/4″ (17cm)
Width 5 1/2″ (14cm)
Depth 5″ (12.7cm)
English
Circa 1853
A set of four Charles X ormolu candlesticks. The reeded and fluted tapering stems supporting a single sconce, standing on a circular leaf cast base.
Height 9 1/2” (24cm)
Diameter 4 1/4” (10.7cm)
French
Circa 1830
A pair of Charles X ormolu candlesticks. The reeded and fluted tapering stems supporting a single sconce, standing on a circular leaf cast base.
Height 9 1/2” (24cm)
Diameter 4 1/4” (10.7cm)
French
Circa 1830
An early 20th century carved giltwood Italian wall mirror in the 18th century Rococo style. The arched mirror plate inset a carved frame with elaborate ‘C’ scrolls and carved acanthus surmount.
Height 74” (188cm)
Width 43 1/4” (110cm)
Italian
Circa 1920
A mid 19th century continental bronze figure after Michelangelo of Moses. Depicted seated with tablets under his right arm, the finely cast and chased bronze with dark brown patination.
The Moses (c. 1513–1515) is a sculpture by the Italian high renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. Commissioned in 1505 by Pope Julius II for his tomb, it depicts the Biblical figure Moses with horns on his head, based on a description in the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible used at that time. Michelangelo’s Moses was unequalled by any modern or ancient work. Seated in a serious attitude, he rests with one arm on the tablets, and with the other he holds his long beard, the hairs, so difficult to render in sculpture.
Height 11 3/4” (30cm)
Width 4 3/8” (11cm)
Depth 4 3/4” (12cm)
Continental
Circa 1860
A small mahogany longcase clock by Waring & Gillow Ltd, Liverpool. The weight driven eight day movement striking the hours on a bell, the engraved brass dial with roman numerals & subsidiary seconds dial with cast spandrels at the corners. The mahogany case with square hood and dentil moulded cornice above a glazed door flanked by reeded columns with gilt bronze capitals. The main case with shaped rectangular door flanked by carved ropes & reeded quadrant columns on a stepped plinth with ogee bracket feet.
The case & movement stamped ‘Waring & Gillow L’Pool’ & with label to reverse.
Height 60″ (152.5cm)
Width 13 1/2″ (34.3cm)
Depth9 5/8″ (24.5cm)
English
Circa 1930
Jean Baptiste Delettrez
Retailed By Pidduck Manchester
A fine Napoleon III, French, gilt bronze and blue celeste ground Sèvres style mantel clock. The porcelain dial painted with a putto surrounded with roman numerals. The finely cast and chased case surmounted with a porcelain oval portrait of an eighteenth century lady, above an arched top hung with gilt bronze floral swags. The bowed sides with porcelain panels painted with musical trophies, the front with further panels painted with flowers, amour and portraits, within gilt cartouches. The case retaining its original matt and burnished gilding with silver highlights to the leaves.
The eight day movement with Brocot escapement, rack striking the hour & half hour on a bell. The movement stamped JBD (No. 28948). The initials JBD on the movement are a monogram of Jean Baptiste Delettrez who is recorded as living in Paris circa 1845 until circa 1885. The case Numbered ‘3’.
Pidduck & Sons – a famous Hanley jewellers, positioned at the bottom of Market Square, Hanley, and by the junction with Fountain Square. Their shop first opened in 1841.
Height 20″ (51cm)
Width 11″ (28cm)
Depth 6″ (15cm)
French
Circa 1870
An unusual pair of late 19th century, French, Louis XV style boulle inlaid tortoiseshell and ormolu mounted candelabra. The rococo scrolling acanthus cast triple sconces with central finial, supported by a baluster shaped column inlaid with cut brass to the front & back, standing on a shaped platform base. Regilded.
Height 14 1/2 (37cm)
Depth 4 3/4” (12cm)
Width 11 1/2” (29cm)
French
Circa 1880
A good pair of George IV bronze & ormolu cassolettes. The domed tops with pinatum finials, inverting to a gilded candle sconce, above a basket weave border with bronze body and three supports headed by rams masks, hung with chains, ending in hoof feet standing on a stepped circular plinth base. The bases weighted. Retaining the original mercuric gilding.
Height 9 1/4” (23.5cm)
Base diameter 3 7/8” (9.8cm)
English
Circa 1820
An impressive pair of late 19th century ormolu mounted white marble ewers after Claude Gallé. Of elongated ovoid form, the marble bodies mounted around the collar and base with stylised palmettes & acanthus leaves, centred around the middle with a scrolling band. The winged maiden handle, terminating in a cherub mask, clasping the ewer rim, the spout with a bearded mask. The whole standing on a spreading socle with square plinth base and paw feet.
Height 23” (58.5cm)
Width 9” (23cm)
Depth 5 1/2” (14cm)
French
Circa 1880
A lovely pair of early Victorian ormolu and parcel silvered swan candlesticks after an 1834 design by William Bateman II for Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. The leafy acanthus nozzles with drip pans on corresponding narrow foliate stems flanked by three seated swans, on shaped tripartite bases raised on lobed bun feet. Retaining the original gilt & silver finishes. Superb chasing to the acanthus leaves.
Height 6 3/4″ (17.2cm)
Width 4 1/8″ (10.5cm)
Depth 4″ (10cm)
English
Circa 1840
A lovely pair of late 19th century ormolu mounted celadon porcelain lamps. Of bottle form, the bayonet fitting above a pierced collar with circular plinth bases. Sympathetically converted from oil lamps to electricity. Rewired and PAT tested. Regilded.
Height 18 7/8” (48cm)
Width 5 7/8” (15cm)
Depth 5 7/8” (15cm)
French
Circa 1900
A pair of French patinated bronze figures in the form of peasants. The figures in 18th century costume, he holding a rabbit, she a basket & bird, both supported on rococo gilt bronze plinths. Dark brown/green patination.
Height 14” (35.5cm)
Width 5 1/2” (14cm)
Depth 5 1/2” (14cm)
French
Circa 1870
An early 20th century, French, ormolu fire screen in the Louis XV style. The acanthus scrolling rococo frame inset with a steel mesh mounted with central ribbon tying a pair of flaming torches with wrythen leafy branches. Regilded.
Height 27” (68.5cm)
Width 25 1/2” (65cm)
Depth 7” (18cm)
French
Circa 1910
A Napoleon III gilt bronze mantel clock in the Louis XVI style. The seated figure of the muse Clio reading from a scroll, supported by a shaped platform base standing on toupie feet. The white enamel dial with roman numerals, above a floral painted porcelain panel to the frieze. The eight day movement with Brocot suspension striking the hour & half hour on a bell through a countwheel. The case retaining the original gilding.
Height 10 ½” (26.7cm)
Width 15 ½” (39.4cm)
Depth 5″ (12.7cm)
Circa 1860
French
Attributed to Paul Sormani
A late 19th century, French, kingwood and marquetry table de toilette after the model by Jean-François Oeben held in the V&A collection. The shaped top with central floral marquetry panel with parquetry border sliding back above a frieze drawer fitted with easel mirror and side compartments lined with silk, supported by four slender cabriole legs ending in gilt bronze sabots.
Height 28 1/2″ (72.5cm)
Width 28 3/4″ (73cm)
Depth 14 1/2″ ( 37cm)
French
Circa 1870
This table can be attributed to Paul Sormani. For an identical table see Lot 124 Christies sale 8023 The opulent Eye-500 Years Decorative Arts Europe 22nd September 2011 engraved to the lock plate ‘SORMANI PARIS 134 Bould Haussman‘
