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Paneled room and rare parquet flooring from the 18th century

Complete paneled room in pine wood from the study of a town house in Bordeaux, including a door, a double door and a hidden door, a window with French inside shutters, all with their original locks. It also includes a very rare walnut parquet flooring, featuring stars of David. The fireplace was hidden behind one of the panels. The décor is Regence style , a style that transitions from the symmetry of the Louis XIV style to the birth of the Rococo of Louis XV. Under the paint there are traces of gilding.

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Oak wood paneled room with satyres heads and drapery patterns, 19th century

Antique 19th century paneled room made out of carved oak. The satyr heads carved decoration is very fine and of quality. The paneled room is composed as follows: - a large basket-handle arch - a large fireplace frame - a large mirror - carved panels with napkin folds and drapery patterns with triple arcades. These panels are 2.96 meters in height (116'' 1/2) to about 4 linear meters (157'' 1/2). See the pictures for more precise dimensions.

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Antique Louis XIV style "Bollection" fireplace in algerian Breche Sanguine

Antique Louis XIV style fireplace made out in a rare marble called " Breche Sanguine" which is found in Kristel in Algeria. The important molding is called "Bollection" and is typical of the Louis XIV style.

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Antique Louis XIV style "Bollection" fireplace mantel in Sarrancolin Ilhet marble with its original marble floor

This Louis XIV style fireplace was built in the 19th century. This is a sophisticated model, with its curved mantel, embossed spandrels, and scrolls on each side of the jamb. Its Sarrancolin Ilhet marble has a very beautiful hue highlighted by the original marble floor in marble Blue Turquin . The contrast of the bluish gray, starred with white veins, with the orange marbles, create a remarkable effect. The design of the floor is also very original.

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Antique set of eight industrial boiler room doors

This antique set of eight industrial boiler room doors was made in France a the end of the 19th century. Hinges, handles and wheels are made of cast iron.

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Paul SOYER, Bronze, Gilded Bronze and Enameled Clock, circa 1860

This mantel clock is made in bronze and highly decorated with enamels painted in “grisaille”. Two patinas of bronze bring life and color to the frame, which - as was regularly the case for mid 19th century mantel clocks - is built like a miniature architectural Renaissance structure. The body has a square base, with columns on every corner that rise to composite order capitals, with a mixture of styles that is characteristic of 19th century art. The columns are linked together by gilded bronze round arches populated by Chimaera, mythological creatures. Above, the gilded bronzes are adorned with dark bronze ram heads, a motif borrowed from Antiquity and very popular in the 19th century, especially for furniture and decorative bronze pieces. Enamel is everywhere, painted in grisaille and enhanced with gold, displaying a lush decor of foliage, grotesques and curlicue. Below the clock face, two tapered putti flank a vase brimming with fruit. The sides are adorned with full length portraits of a gentleman and a lady. The man is dressed in the style of the characters in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, painted in 1642. The lady plays a mandolin, which was imported to France from Italy in the 15th century. The Musée d’Orsay in Paris has recently acquired from Paul Soyer’s descendants an almost identical mantel clock to the one presented here. (OAO 1787) According to museum sources, this clock was presented at the World’s Fair in Philadelphia in 1876. Born in the Seine-et-Marne region, Paul Soyer began his carreer as a chisel artist, in Paris, in the 1850’s. He progressively learned the art of enameling and opened his own studio in 1861, rue Mauconseil between the Halles and Bonne-Nouvelle neighborhoods. He collaborated with well know artists like Claudius Popelin, Charles Duron and Gustace Baugrand. Working with the latter, he was awarded a bronze medal at the World’s fair in 1867. He then opened a larger workshop Rue Saint Sauveur and specialized in different enamel techniques with a preference for painted enamels. His very varied production, went from small pieces for jewellery, enameled objects for goldsmiths, plates for cabinet makers, to large portraits. A follower of Popelin, he remained faithful to the art of the late Renaissance, with a preference for a polychrome enamel technique, which associated grisaille and gold camaïeu. He participated in all the French and Foreign World’s Fairs, to the Union Centrale de Beaux-Arts appliqués à l’Industrie exhibits. Often rewarded, particularly with a gold medal in 1878, he was considered beyond competition and member of the jury in 1889, when he received the Légion d’Honneur.

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"Niobe", alabaster statue after an original greek statue

Daughter of the king of Lydia, Tantalus, Niobe is reputed to have brought many children into the world, the Niobids. Vanityous, she dared to mock the goddess Leto, who had given birth to only two children, Apollo and Artemis. The revenge was terrible for the latter were charged by their mother to kill the Niobids. It is said that one of the girls, saved by her mother, escaped the massacre, but she retained a deadly pallor: it is this scene which is represented here in this alabaster sculpture of extreme whiteness.

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Antique Louis XVI style fireplace made out of marble with flutes

This beautiful antique Louis XVI style fireplace was made out of red marble during the 19th century. The frieze, slightly curved, is decorated with rudent flutings. The jambs, placed with cut sides, are feet-consoles with windings. Very beautiful decorative qualities of this veined red marble for this fireplace. This fireplace is sold with its original cast iron insert but without the original marble floor. This one could be made to order (please ask for marble availability).

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An antique large trumeau with garlands of flowers

This antique Louis XVI style trumeau was made out of stucco during the 19th century. Faithful to the 18th century taste, the upper part is decorated with garlands of flowers. The mirror is framed by a thin beaded border and a frieze of ova.

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Porcelain and gilded bronze clock set with griffin

Clock set consisting of five pieces, a clock and two pairs of cassolettes, made in gilded bronze and porcelain in the 19th century. Two winged griffins adorn the upper part of the clock, while the protomes of griffins are found on the handles of the cassolettes. The syncretism of various stylistic influences is characteristic of the Napoleon III style.

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Earthenware dish with bird decoration, mounted in bronze

A faience dish, decorated with a bird, on a background of yellow lacustrine landscape, the rim enhanced by a gilded bronze frame.

Ref.11850
Beautiful cement doghouse in Rocaille style

Beautiful doghouse with half-timbered decoration and "rocaille" style, a rustic art very popular at the end of the 19th century. This doghouse was built in reinforced cement, imitating tree branches. André TEXIER Plate, mason in Normandy (France).

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Pair of antique Louis XV style gilt bronze andirons with characters in costume

This beautiful pair of Louis XV style chenets was made of gilt bronze in the 19th century. It represents a couple of gallant characters in 18th century costume.

Ref.12986
Set of around 8 m² of terracotta floor tiles in square shape

Antique terracotta floor tiles of around 8 m² in a square shape, from the 19th century. The sides are 7" 1/2 to 7" 11/16 for 1" to 1"3/16 thick.

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Louis XVI style trumeau with ribbon, late 19th century

This Louis XVI large trumeau painted in ecru was made in the late 19th century. It is adorned with a beautiful knoted ribbon and friezes of pears, ovum and ribbon.

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Set of around 17 m² of terracotta floor tiles in square shape

Antique terracotta floor tiles of around 17 m² in a square shape, from the 19th century. The sides are 8" 7/8 for 9/16" to 11/16" thick.

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Fireback with the coat of arms of a house de Rogres Champignelles's representative, 18th century

This square cast iron fireback from the 18th century is adorned with the coat of arms of a house de Rogres Champignelles's representative, probably one of the fourteen sons of Charles de Rogres, baron of Champignelles and of Marie de Saucière-Tenance, married on the 21st July 1643 and of which seven were knight of Malta. The coat of arms are surmounteed by a Marquis crwon and hold by two mermaids. A similar fireback is illustrated in Philippe Palasi's book "Plaques de cheminée héraldiques" and conserved in the Musée du Berry in Bourges.

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Series of Ionic pilasters in sculpted and painted wood

This series of 14 sculpted wood pilasters is a work coming from a paneled room date from the 19th century. The fluted pilasters are adorned with asparagus heads and Ionic capitales with laurel leaves, daisy and ovum frieze. The fluted pilaster are adorned with aspargus heads and Ionic capitales with laurel leaves, daisy and ovum frieze. We join other elements from the same paneled room.

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Set of around 8 m² of terracotta floor tiles in square shape

Antique terracotta floor tiles of around 8 m² in a square shape, from the 19th century. The sides are 10" 13/16 for 1" to 3/16" to 1"3/16 thick.

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Approx 15m² of modern oak parquet flooring with a cross motif

This surface of about 15m² of oak parquet flooring is a modern work with a cross motif. The set is composed of 86 panels of which the sides are 17" 1/8, 8 half panels, and 11 panels with some missing parts and some falls.

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Louis XVI style trumeau with a curved top and a ribbon

This Louis XVI style trumeau was made of wood and stucco painted in white. The mirror with a curved top is framed by a ribbon frieze knotted on the top.

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Ernest LEVEILLE - Exceptional cracked glass vase with polychrome and gilt insert decor on a gilt bronze mount, circa1890

This exceptional cracked glass vase mounted in gilt bronze is a typical work of the late 1890’s production of Eugène Rousseau (1827 -1890) and Ernest-Baptiste Léveillé (1841-1913). Eugène Rousseau (1827 - 1890) merchant editor of porcelain and crystals established since 1855 on the 43 rue de la Coquillière à Paris, was a pioneer by going further that everybody else in the renewal of the glass art. Indeed, at the end of his life he starts to study the glasses coloration and obtains unexpected decorations by superposing colored and shady layers inspired bu the old Venetian techniques from the 16th century and practiced by the Chinese people during the 18th century. In 1884, he’s the first to exhibit cracked glass during the Exposition de l’Union centrale des arts décoratifs. Thus, he creates glasses with the aspect of gemstones. The following year in 1885, he gives his stock to his old student Ernest-Baptiste Léveillé, then also merchant editor of porcelains and crystals who had opened on the 74 boulevard Haussmann in Paris in 1869 la Maison Léveillé. Renamed « Maison Rousseau-Léveillé réunies », the production keeps the developed technical characteristics until the death of the master in 1890. The models then become more bold and the decors follow the trend of the curved line. Named again « Maison E. Léveillé », the store is moved nine years later on the 140 Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris. In 1902, Ernest Léveillé merges with the maison Toy, also a crystals and porcelains stores, under the name « Maisons Toy et Léveillé réunies ». The establishment is then located on the 10 rue de la Paix. He participates to many Parisian Salons between 1892 and 1897 and also to the World’s Fairs of 1889 and 1900 in which he wins the gold medal. Our slender shape vase takes all the characteristics of the technique developed by Eugène Rousseau then exploited by Ernest Léveillé. Indeed, the cracked glass is decorated with an inclusion decoration of red, blue and gold powder, forming beautiful marbled mottled effects. Louis Vauxcelles speaks in these words about these characteristic on his book Histoire de l’art français de la Révolution à nos jours, published betweent 1922 and 1925 : « Without overloading the crystal with gold motifs as many others, without daubing it randomly with bright colors, without trying to assign a role for which it is not made for, or making it look like marble, porcelain, lacquer, bronze, he has for ambition to only create effects that are conform to its nature and to let it be enough by itself, and giving elements of its own decoration. Under the localized action of the oxides, he succeeds to mottle it and braids a net of blazing cracks thanks to a projection of cold water between two fires. Léveillé had the art of the unexpected projections, vigorous reliefs and capricious details. » Our vase also shows an impressive Napoleon III style gilt bronze mount with a remarkable quality of carving. The circular base rests on four feet, it is adorned with a round roses frieze and a torus of coiling acanthus leaves surmounted by flutes. A beautiful decor composed of small flowers bouquets and intertwined acanthus leaves comes to lightened up the lower part of the vase. The neck is encircled by a splendid knotted cord in gilt bronze falling on each side. This mount seems to have been made by the sculptor and bronze maker Paul Louchet (1854-1936) old student of Jules Lefebvre and Henri Harpignies. He signs by the mark « Louchet Fondeur Paris » a certain number of his Art Nouveau creations that he makes in his workshop located on the 3, rue Auber in Paris and that he exhibits in the Parisian Salons. The attribution of our mount to the work of this bronze maker was made thanks to a comparison with a similar mount on another vase signed by the artist.

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Beautiful Louis XV period mantel in grey Sainte Anne marble

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Bourgogne mantel in French grey marble from the 18th century

18th century mantel in grey French marble. The entablature has a central plant motif. The hearth opening is underlined by moldings ending in scrolls. The decorated jambs are curved.

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Triple oak door with beautiful sandblasted glass decoration

Early 20th century oak triple door with beautiful sandblasted glass decoration of the Federal Union of French Veterans' Associations.

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Quadruple sliding door with stained glass windows featuring birds and plants

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Émile BRACQUEMOND, Octave GUILLONNET, Winner's vase, 1924

This vase was created by the painter Octave Guillonnet and the ceramicist Émile Bracquemond for the Sèvres Manufacture on the occasion of the Paris Olympic Games in 1924. Octave Guillonnet (Paris, 1872-Montgeron, 1967) was an Orientalist painter who could also be considered a sports painter: he notably exhibited a monumental “rugby match” at the 1899 salon. He was also a member of the Society of Sport Painters and Sculptors from its foundation in 1922. The career of Émile Bracquemond (Paris, 1889-Clichy, 1970) is less well-known. However, it seems that besides his collaboration with the Sèvres Manufacture, he was particularly recognized for his feline sculptures. The order for commemorative vases to be awarded to the winners of sporting events was placed by the city of Paris in anticipation of the 1924 Olympic Games to promote the production of the Sèvres Manufacture. Although Pierre de Coubertin was opposed to awarding trophies to winners, the project, once launched, was completed for this edition only. Subsequently, the rules were changed, and winners were awarded only medals. The shape of this vase is very simple: the body flares out in an almost straight line from the base to two-thirds of its height before tapering towards the neck. The neck is adorned with a gray band bordered by a gold stripe, decorated with silhouettes of biplanes left in reserve. The body of the vase, with its subtly shaded blue glaze, features four pâte-sur-pâte scenes, each honoring a different sport. In the case of our vase, polo, Basque pelota (the athlete holds a chistera), and gymnastics apparatus are represented. The sports are depicted very precisely, with each discipline represented by a characteristic gesture. The slight relief of these decorations gives them greater depth and liveliness. While the winner’s vases were usually covered with a gold and brown decoration representing laurel branches, ours has a plain blue background that distinguishes it from the others. Not all the disciplines represented on our vase were Olympic sports in 1924. Indeed, Basque pelota was only presented as a demonstration sport at this edition of the competition. Moreover, polo, which was an Olympic sport in 1924, is no longer part of the Games today. There are four models in total for these commemorative vases, each depicting four different sports. The Sports Museum has a copy of each model, providing a complete overview. The sports represented on the other vases are as follows: rugby, rowing, diving, and football; javelin, wrestling, shot put, and boxing; tennis, cycling, sailing, and shooting. This winner’s vase is therefore both a historical and artistic testament to the 1924 Olympic Games, which will resonate on the centenary of this event and the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, particularly within the framework of the edition by the manufacture of trophy vases created by six artists from the Beaux-Arts de Paris, intended to be awarded to the French gold medalists at the Paris 2024 Games.

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Louis XVI style trumeau adorned with a medallion topped with a ribbon

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Louis XIV style mantel with acroterion in Rouge du Nord marble

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Louis XVI style trumeau with rounded top decorated with pearl friezes

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Lot of about 37m² of Arenberg parquet flooring

Batch of antique parquet flooring of approximately 37m² in various wood species: walnut, cherry, chestnut... Composed of 39 Arenberg panels. The sides of the panels measure approximately 104 cm with a thickness of 3.5 cm

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Napoleon III period fireplace with lion's paw feet, in Carrara marble