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Jules Félix Coutan (1848-1939)
Thiébaut Frères Fondeur Paris
‘Union Travail Paix’
A fine quality bronze winged allegory of Peace. Standing on a domed square base, titled to the sides, a cornucopia overflowing beneath her feet, the winged figure holding a long sword in her right hand. Rich dark brown patination.

Height 10” (25.5cm)

Width 4 1/2” (11.5cm)

Base 2 1/8” (5.3cm) square

Paris

Circa 1900

A French Empire style ormolu cassolette. The pinatum finial inverting to a candle sconce, above a body held aloft by busts of Psyche, with a circular base cast with guilloche & anthemion bands.

Height 8” (20.3cm)

Diameter 3 1/2” (9cm)

French

Circa 1870

Published by Boydell
Engraved by I. P. Simon
Painted by H Fuseli R.A
‘SHAKSPEARE. Midsummer Nights Dream Act IV Scene I.’
Large engraving, stipple & etching, inset original moulded gilt frame.

Height 23” (58.5cm)

Width 28” (71cm)

English

Circa 1800

Racault et Cie 76 Rue du Faubourg St Antoine
Maison Krieger
A fine quality Napoleon III marquetry inlaid, ormolu mounted purple heart secrétaire semanier. The shaped top above a single frieze drawer, with a fall front secrétaire disguised as three drawers below, and a further four drawers under. The concave sides with outset corner pilasters, standing on a plinth base with moulded feet.

Height 53 1/2” (136cm)

Depth 17” (43cm)

Width 31” (79cm)

French

Dated 1860

Retailed by Cowtan & Sons 309 Oxford Street London

A late 19th century, French, mahogany & ormolu mounted bijouterie table. The rectangular glazed top opening to a relined interior with four glazed sides, supported by four turned tapering fluted legs, ending in cast sabots. The mounts retaining their original gilding.

Height 30” (76.5cm)

Width 33 1/4” (84.5cm)

Depth 17 3/4” (45cm)

French

Circa 1880

An impressive pair of 19th century, French, ormolu & marble ten light candelabra in the Louis XVI style. The scrolling candle arms issuing from a central removable vase stem, the triform base with floral swags standing on a moulded marble plinth base mounted with roundels and eagle headed acanthus panels. The sconces drilled for electricity.

Height 33” (84cm)

Top width 16” (41cm)

Base width 11” (28cm)

French

Circa 1870

A pair of Charles X, French, bronze & Sienna marble candlesticks. The single palmette cast sconce with reeded drip pan above a turned tapering marble column standing on triform acanthus cast base with hairy paw feet and shaped marble platform.

Height 12 1/2” (31 .5cm)

Width 4 3/4” (12cm)

Depth 4 1/2” (11.5cm)

French

Circa 1830

An impressive pair of ‘Grand Tour’ Continental patinated bronze & parcel gilded Medici vases standing on stepped Belgium marble plinth bases. The finely cast vases with bands of classical figures, flanked by loop handles rising from satyr masks, and standing on fluted spreading socles. The marble bases mounted with Medusa masks and supported by cast bronze feet. Retaining the wonderful parcel gilding and brown patination.

Height 18 1/4” (46.5cm)

Width 8 1/2” (21.5cm)

Depth 7 3/4” (19.5cm)

Continental

Circa 1870

A late 19th century, French, kingwood and ormolu mounted table display cabinet. Of unusual shape, the glazed top opening to a relined blue velvet interior with a mirror to the back and glazed sides & front, standing on four tapering square section legs ending in substantial ormolu sabots. Mounts regilded. Labelled to interior E. Mougin.

Height 31 1/2” (80cm)

Depth 18” (46cm)

Width 32” (81.5cm)

French

Circa 1870

Mellier & Co

A late 19th century, French, ormolu mounted parquetry inlaid desk after Jean-Henri Reisner by Mellier & co. In the Louis XVI style, the raised superstructure topped with marble & a pierced gallery, above pigeon holes flanked by small drawers. The base with a replaced leather writing surface, above three frieze drawers and standing on four square tapering legs, ending in ormolu sabots. Pencil inscription to the interior ‘Manufactured 1885’.

French born, Charles Mellier moved to England, worked for, and eventually took over the illustrious Aglo-French cabinet makers Monbro and Company, circa 1880. Working from Frith Street and later Margaret Street, he soon became a major force in designing and making furniture, and executing grand decorative schemes. The company furnished the great cross-Atlantic liner Mauretania and exhibited at the 1904 International Exhibition in St Louis.

Height to top 39 1/2” (101cm)

Desk Height 29 1/2” (75cm)

Width 51” (130cm)

Depth 28” (71cm)

French

Dated 1885

A late 19th century bronze figure of ‘Diane De Gabies’ cast by F Barbedienne, after the antique marble in the Louvre. The figure, standing by a tree stump, dressed in a chiton bound by two belts, pinning her cloak with her right hand. Original dark brown patination. Signed to base ‘F. Barbedienne’. Standing on a rectangular Belgian marble plinth.

Barbedienne produced this model in 9 sizes, this being the quarter size model. Catalogued as ‘DIANE DE GABIES rajustant sa chlamyde’, (adjusting her cloak).

Overall height including plinth 18 1/2” (47cm)

Width 6″ (15cm)

Depth 5 1/8“ (13cm)

French

Circa 1880

A late 19th century, French, bronze figure of Napoleon on a marble base. Standing in the traditional pose of arms folded across his chest, looking to dexter, his cape and scrolls draped over a tapering square column to the side.

Height 10 1/2” (26.5cm)

Depth 5 1/8” (13cm)

Width 5 1/8” (13cm)

French

Circa 1890

‘Le Gladiateur’

A ’Grand Tour’ bronze, of small proportions, from the second half of the 19th century depicting ‘The Dying Gaul’, after the antique. The slumped figure with broken sword to his side, on an integral oval base. Original dark brown patination.

Bronze Height 3 1/4″ (8.3cm)

Width 6 1/4″ (15.8cm)

Depth 3″ (7.6cm)

French

Circa 1860

A fine quality Belle Epoque period mahogany & ormolu mounted vitrine of Louis XVI inspiration. The replaced calacatta risotto marble top above a bevelled glazed breakfront cabinet, the central door opening to a glass shelved interior with mirrored back, the frieze mounted with acanthus scrolls and centred with a bacchic mask, supported by six turned fluted legs ending in toupee feet and mounted with garrya husk drops. Mounts regilded.

Height 46 “ (117cm)

Width 43 3/4” (110cm)

Depth 17 1/4” (44cm)

French

Circa 1890

A late 19th century, French, Rosewood and gilt bronze mounted table vitrine. The serpentine shaped top with central bevelled glazed panel, above four serpentine glazed sides, the front opening with a pair of doors to a relined interior with single glass shelf, standing on four cabriole legs ending in gilt sabots. Original gilding to mounts.

Height 34″ (86.5cm)

Width 27 1/2″ (70cm)

Depth 19 1/2″ (49.5cm)

French

circa 1890

A late 19th century, French, patinated bronze, ormolu & marble encrier. The central figure of a bronze roaring Lion flanked by a pair of lidded inkwells standing on a moulded serpentine shaped Italian Portor marble base inset with pen tray and standing on toupie feet.

Height 6 1/4” (16cm)

Width 17 3/4” (45cm)

Depth 8 3/4” (22.2cm)

French

Circa 1880

A fine George IV mahogany and brass inlaid dressing table mirror. The wonderful original mercury silvered plate inset a rectangular frame inlaid with a cut brass & ebony border, the side uprights and stretcher with barley twist columns capped with acanthus and topped by acorn finials, standing on splay legs with carved fronts. The back panelled.

Height 26 1/2” (67.5cm)

Width 25” (63.5cm)

Depth 12” (30.5cm)

English

Circa 1820