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"The Bath of Diana", antique 19th-century cast iron fireback

This Louis XV style fireback with mythological subject was realized in the 19th century. Goddess of the night and the hunt, Diana asked her father, Jupiter, for eternal virginity, and punishes those who try to seduce her or contemplate her body. Here one sees her quiver on the ground, and she appears crowned with her lunar crescent. A follower stands behind her, for Diana was always surrounded by nymphs, including Callisto, also her lover. A dog on the left emphasizes the loyalty and friendship that unites the two women. The Bath of Diana is an important subject of painting, a moment forbidden to the gaze of mortals, like Actaeon, who for having surprised the goddess was turned into a stag.

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Double door in carved oak decorated with military trophies

Large double door in Napoleon III style, made in the 19th century, in oak carved with military trophies

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Cast iron fireback with a woman bust, 18th century

This beautiful fireback was made in the 18th century Squared shape with a semi circle pediment, this fireback is adorned with a typical Louis XV style decoration composed of acanthus leaves, flowers and shell scrolls, framing a woman bust dressed with a ancient tunique and a flowers crown on her hair.

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Lot of 45m² of antique Versailles parquet flooring, 18th century

Lot of 45m² of antique Versailles parquet flooring from the 18th century with some offcuts. The sides of the panels are varying between 37" to 40" 3/8.

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Pierre-Adrien DALPAYRAT, Woman with Muff

This glazed stoneware sculpture was executed by Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat is an extremely important ceramist, notably due to his mastery of the flamed stoneware technique. He founded his own faience workshop in Bourg-la-Reine and participated in various exhibitions, where his pieces achieved considerable success. The statuette represents a woman walking in the wind; her shoulders covered with a cape, she keeps her hands tucked into a muff for warmth. The suppleness of the modeling of the skirt, as if lifted by a strong wind, demonstrates the artist’s virtuosity. Similarly, the mastery of the glazed stoneware technique is evident in the color and sheen effects of the material. While blue dominates, it is nuanced with deep “oxblood” red, which contributed to the artist’s fame, and green. The work is signed and numbered under the base.

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Taxil DOAT for the SÈVRES Manufacture, Oxblood Red Glazed Porcelain Jardinière, 1907

This large jardiniere in glazed red porcelain was created by Taxile Doat in 1907 in his workshop in Sèvres. A talented ceramist, Taxile Doat worked for the Sèvres manufactory between 1877 and 1905, while maintaining a personal workshop in Paris, and later in Sèvres. He taught ceramics in the United States between 1909 and 1915. Influenced by East Asian arts, he presents here a vase with a very refined form and decor. Its shape and color echo Asian pieces such as an 18th-century Chinese jardiniere. The ceramist adopted this form while making it his own, adding cabochons of green and blue glazed ceramic that define the character of the piece. The work is signed, dated, and located under the base. A porcelain vase with very similar decoration, which was part of the collection of the gallerist Oscar Graf, a specialist in the artist, also demonstrates Doat's fascination with traditional Chinese porcelain, whose forms he repeatedly reinterpreted.