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Fireplace in Griotte Red marble and Onyx marble.

Very typical Napoleon III style fireplace, excellent quality of griotte marble. Algerian Onyx overlays placed above and on the jambs, carved in a diamond shape.

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Modern fireback with Chinese-style decoration illustrating "The Great Mogul"

20th century cast iron fireback illustrating "The Great Mogul". The chinoiserie is a caracteristic of the Louis XV Rocaille style. A lot of chinoiserie was designed by Boucher, adapted also to furniture, objets d'art, materials, and porcelain. A very similar fireback is in the Musée of Orleans. CHINOISERIE, decorative work produced under the influence of Chinese art, applied particularly to the more fanciful and extravagant manifestations. Intimations of Eastern art reached Europe in the Middle Ages in the porcelains brought by returning travelers. Eastern trade was maintained during the intervening centuries, and the East India trading companies of the 17th and 18th cent. imported Chinese lacquers and porcelains. Dutch ceramics quickly showed the influence of Chinese blue-and-white porcelains. In the middle of the 18th cent. the enthusiasm for Chinese objects affected practically every decorative art applied to interiors, furniture, tapestries, and bibelots and supplied artisans with fanciful motifs of scenery, human figures, pagodas, intricate lattices, and exotic birds and flowers. In France the Louis XV style gave especial opportunities to chinoiserie, as it blended well with the established rococo . Whole rooms, such as those at Chantilly, were painted with compositions in chinoiserie, and Watteau and other artists brought consummate craftsmanship to the style.

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Antique parquet flooring Soubise in oak

Old Soubise oak parquet flooring from the end of the 19th century. About a hundred panels, for a surface area of about 85 m2.

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Antique Regency style trumeau with an openwork pediment adorned with a large shell

Antique painted Regency style trumeau, pediment adorned with a beautiful openwork shell.

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Antique fireback with lion and deer from the 17th century

Large cast iron fireback from the 17th century decorated with a coat of arms framed by a lion and a deer standing on their paws.

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Fireback with a very rich decoration of the Old Testament

This squared fireback was made in cast iron on the late 19th century. It depicts a very rich decoration composed of angels and sphinxes on each corner and up and down some mascarons, in a scrolls decoration framing a scene from the Old Testament on the center on which we can see characters dressed with drapery walking in the same direction.

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Marble table with dolphin legs

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Louis XVI style molded trumeau

This Louis XVI style trumeau follows the shape of a simple rectangular moulded frame. While a more imposing moulding adorns the frame on the outside, a small decorative frieze makes the transition between the frame and the inside.

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Louis XVI mantel in Carrara marble

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Small Regence period mantel in Sarrancolin Ilhet marble

This Regency period fireplace is carved in Sarrancolin Ilhet, a marble quarried near the village of Ilhet in the Hautes-Pyrénées. Sarrancolin Ilhet is a variety of Sarrancolin marble with predominantly grayish-brown colors. On this fireplace, there is no distinct separation between the band and the legs, but rather a continuity of surface and motifs. This continuity is reflected in the moldings: a curved molding defines the lower contour of the fireplace and a straight molding determines the surface of the fireplace, in which two triangles are placed. Both the inner molding and the mantelpiece are curved, a feature often found in the Regency style. The fireplace’s symmetry also reinforces its harmony.

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Louis XV style fireplace, Pompadour model, in blue flowered marble

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Louis XV style fireplace, Pompadour model, in Spanish Brocatelle marble

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Pair of gilt bronze andirons, Restoration style, early 19th century

Pair of finely chiseled gilt bronze andirons, characteristic of the French Restoration style, circa 1820–1830. Each andiron features a cylindrical shaft topped with a stylized flame, set on an openwork base richly decorated with vegetal scrolls, beaded garlands, and a central female mask in low relief. The shafts are engraved with a royal crown above an oval medallion framed by laurel branches, containing three fleurs-de-lys — a symbolic reference to the restored Bourbon monarchy. The iconography clearly places the pieces in the Restoration period (1814–1830). The precision of the chiseling and the well-preserved gilding highlight the exceptional craftsmanship. Both ornamental and functional, these andirons would have adorned the fireplaces of aristocratic or affluent bourgeois interiors in the early 19th century.

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Louis XV style fireplace in Carrara marble