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Antique Bronze Animalier Bronze Dog by Louis Riche

Louis Riché (1877-1949)
‘Jollet & Cie Paris Anche Mon Colin’ Foundry
An early 20th century sand cast bronze animalier of a German Shepherd dog by Louis Riché. The finely detailed figure lying down on a naturalistic base with rich green/brown/golden patina. Cast by the Jollet & Cie foundry.
In 1906 The Maison Colin4585 changed it’s name to Jollet & Cie, however it also kept it’s original name adding the wording “Ancienne Maison Collin” on all their castings until 1911.
Height 6 1/4” (16cm)

Width 10 1/4” (26cm)

Depth 3 1/8” (8cm)

French

Circa 1910

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Antique 19th Century Bronze Figure of Moses

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

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Antique Regency Bronze & Ormolu Cassolettes

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

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Antique French Bronze & Ormolu Chenets

A fine pair of mid 19th century French Chenets of Louis XVI inspiration. The seated figures of children warming themselves by the heat of flaming braziers, the shaped plinths with entwined leafy panels, the children sitting upon swagged material flanked by tassels, standing on toupie feet. Regilded.

Height 30″ (76cm)

Width 22″ (56cm)

Depth 14″ (35.5cm)

French

Circa 1860

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Pair of 19th Century Bronze & Ormolu Lamps

An impressive pair of 19th century patinated bronze and ormolu mounted table lamps. The original shade carrier above an openwork collar issuing from three figures of classical maidens depicting the sciences and arts, a stepped triform plinth below hung with garlands on flowers standing on a ‘Vert Maurin’ marble plinth.
Sympathetically converted from oil lamps to electricity. Rewired.

Height 25 1/2″ (65cm) to bayonet

Width 9″ (23cm)

Depth 8″ (20cm)

Continental

Circa 1860

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Antique ‘Grand Tour’ Bronze Mars & Minerva

A Pair of Continental, probably French, patinated bronze & parcel gilt figures of Mars & Minerva from the 19th century. Minerva seated with spear in right hand, shield in left, a rams fleece at her feet and an owl resting upon her head. The seated figure of Mars looking to sinister, wearing a plumed helmet, resting his right hand on a sword with an oval shield his feet. Both with stepped Belgian black marble pedestals with fluted columns to each corner. Lovely original condition. Small flake to front of Mars base.

Height 12 1/2” (31.5cm)

Width 4 3/4” (12cm)

Depth 4” (10cm)

Continental

Circa 1870

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Antique French Ormolu & Bronze Candlesticks

A pair of French ormolu & bronze candlesticks from the first half of the 19th century. The sconces with removable drip pans above a bronzed reeded column headed with a basket of fruit, the bases with water leaf decoration above a circular domed base cast with acanthus leaves. Regilded.

Height 11 1/2” (29cm)

Base diameter 5 1/4” (13.5cm)

French

Circa 1830

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Antique French Clock Louis XVI Style after Robert Osmond

Henri Picard (FL. 1831-1884) Mercier Ainé (1863-1867) Raingo Frere Paris

A fine & impressive French gilt & patinated bronze clock in the Louis XVI style after the 18th century form by Robert Osmond. The bronze vase-shaped case in the ‘goût Grec’ manner, flanked by satyr masks with entwined horns, the front and sides hung with swags of garrya, the flared socle on a stepped white marble base. The enamel dial signed ‘Raingo Fres A Paris’, with twin barrel movement with silk suspension and countwheel strike to bell, the backplate numbered ‘1619’. Stamped ‘H.Picard’ and stencilled ‘Mercier Ainé’.

Height 21″ (53.5cm)

Depth 7″ (17.5cm)

Width 10 1/2″ (26.5cm)

Circa 1865

French

1856 the company became Mercier Père et fils, in 1863 Mercier fils aîné, and finally in 1867, Mercier Frères.

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William IV Bronze Ormolu Table Lamp

An impressive William IV bronze and ormolu mounted Oil lamp now covered to electricity. The original green glass reservoir, finely gilded with foliage, above a reeded column with acanthus mounts, standing on a stepped square plinth base and paw feet. Professionally rewired and regilded.

Overall height 35 1/2” (90cm)

Width 7 1/2” (19cm)

Depth 7 1/2” (19cm)

English

Circa 1835

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Antique Pompeii Grand Tour Bronze Cups & Covers on Marble Bases

A pair of ‘Grand Tour’ Continental Belgium black marble and patinated bronze cups and covers. The twin handled ‘Scyphus’ cups cast with naturalistic trailing ivy leaves and berries, with similarly cast lids, above a stepped marble plinth base mounted with a classical relief frieze, leaf & berry mouldings and standing on paw feet to the front.
After the Pompeii silver cup from the mid 1st century AD, held in the Museum of Naples, believed to be associated with the god of wine, Bacchus.

Height 16” (40.5cm)

Width 7 7/8” (20cm)

Depth 5 7/8” (15cm)

Continental

Circa 1870

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A Pair of French Empire Ormolu & Bronze Candlesticks

A fine pair of early 19th century, French Empire, bronze and ormolu candlesticks. The gilt drip pans inset a flared sconce with cast band of flowers with a reeded body  and supported by bases finely cast and chased with floral and waterleaf decoration. Retaining the original mercury gilding and dark patination.

Height 8 1/4“ (21cm)

Width 4” (10cm)

Depth 4” (10cm)

French

Circa 1820

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Augustus of Prima Porta Grand Tour Bronze

PIETRO CHIAPPARELLI (ITALIAN, FL. SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY)

Augustus of Prima Porta

A 19th century Italian bronze figure of Augustus Caesar. The figure is modelled after the Antique discovered in 1863 in Prima Porta, Rome. Signed to the plinth base ‘Po CHIAPPARELLI Fe ROMA’

Augustus was the adopted son of Julius Caesar. He became emperor in 27 BC. This statue represents the Emperor in armour, with a cupid on his right side sitting on a dolphin. On his breastplate is represented the historical scene of the restitution of an emblem lost by Crassus in 54 BC, at the Battle of Carrhae. This emblem was subsequently placed in the temple of Mars the Avenger in the Forum of Augustus.

Height 17 1/2” (44.5cm)

Width 9” (23cm)

Diameter at base 6” (15.2cm)

Italian

Circa 1870

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After The Antique Medici & Borghese Bronze Vases Grand Tour Style

A Continental pair of patinated bronze & parcel gilt models of the Borghese & Medici vases, after the antique. The deep frieze cast with mythological bas-relief figures. Twin fluted loop handles rise from satyrs heads to the sides, above acanthus leaf bases and fluted spreading base with square plinth.

Height 9 1/4“ (23.5cm)

Base square 3 3/4“ (9.5cm)

Top diameter 6 3/4”(17cm)

Probably Italian

Circa 1870

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Antique Regency William Bullock Bronze Lamp

William Bullock & Henry Greene

A fine Regency bronze lamp attributed to William Bullock, probably cast by Henry Greene. The reeded and acanthus cast stem with spreading triform base, each side centred by a mask, standing on scroll claw feet. Now fitted for electricity. PAT tested.

Height 21″ (53.5cm)

Width 8″ (20cm)

Depth 8″ (20cm)

English

Circa 1820