Posts Tagged ‘Rococo’
Friday, December 25th, 2009
A WALNUT BLACKAMOOR LOW TABLE - A CARVED WALNUT JEWEL BOX - DOOR KNOCKER - GILT-BRONZE CANDELABRA - PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE AND PORCELAIN WALL SCONCES
A WALNUT BLACKAMOOR LOW TABLE
with a pierced top supported by a child lying on his back in a tree, 22+in; 57cm, Italian, mid 19th Century.
A CARVED WALNUT JEWEL BOX, the Hd
with [...]
Tags: AFTER, base, BLACKAMOOR, BOY, CANDELABRA, CARVED, CENTRE, CENTURY, CHALET, CHILD, CLAY BUST, DECANTER, EBONY VENEERED, family, GILT, GILT-BRONZE, grouse, JEWEL BOX, KNOCKER, LETTER, MIRROR, MOROCCAN, MOTHER-OF-PEARL, PAINTED, Rococo, SCONCES, SMALL, STAND, tortoiseshell, TRAY, walnut, WOMAN, WRITING
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Friday, December 25th, 2009
A COMPOSITE MARBLE COLUMN - A PAIR OF BARBEDIENNE GILT-BRONZE CANDLESTiCKS - BURR-CHESTNUT MUSICAL CIGARETTE BOX
A PAIR OF NEO-CLASSICAL REVIVAL URNS,
each of slender ovoid form cast in low relief with an aesthetic arrangement of blossom and insects, black slate socles, 18fin; 47.5cm, 1870’s.
A PATINATED LEAD FIGURE OF A SCOUT,
the young man standing with his arms [...]
Tags: A BURR-CHESTNUT MUSICAL, acanthus, ANOTHER, BARBEDIENNE, BOULLE, bronze vase, BURR-CHESTNUT MUSICAL, candlesticks, celestial globe, CENTURY, cherubs, CHEST, cigarette box, classical revival, corinthian capital, cup of wine, F. Barbedienne, GILT-BRONZE, leaf cast, marble base, plinth, putto, Revival, Rococo, Scroll, Serpentine, SILVERED, stem, terrestrial globe, tortoiseshell, Wooden, WRITING, writing slope
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Saturday, December 19th, 2009
MAHOGANY TOILET MIRROR - MARBLE-TOPPED SERPENTINE MARQUETRY COMMODES - BOW-FRONT CHEST - NORTH COUNTRY WINDSOR ARMCHAIRS - PAINTED D-SHAPED SIDE CABINET
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TOILET MIRROR with rectangular crossbanded frame,
the supports with acorn finials and the base with a pair of drawers, on bracket feet, lft.
11 in. wide (58cm.)
antique lamps
A FINE PAIR OF GEORGE III [...]
Tags: 18th century, adjustable shelves, ARMCHAIR, ARMCHAIRS, BOW-FRONT, brass bands, cabinet, CENTURY, CIRCULAR, circular plate, commode, COMMODES, cylindrical body, decoration, design, Drawers, FLOWER PICTURES, George III, john cobb, Mahogany, MARBLE-TOPPED, MARQUETRY, NORTH, PAINTED, Regency, Rococo, Samuel Dixon, satinwood drawers, Serpentine, TOILET, tulipwood, WINDSOR, WING
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
1700`s American Rococo Sideboards
In America, the Rococo sideboard emerged as a distinctly restrained version of the European style : interiors were hardly as fanciful as their European counterparts, and drawing room walls were ornamented with architectural pediments and rectangular panels rather than gilt cartouches, in a persistence of the Palladian style. Japanning was popular, especially [...]
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
Antique 18th Century Queen Anne Sideboards
18th Century French forms, and the French Rococo ornamental vocabulary, were extremely influential throughout Europe, where sideboards and other pieces in the relaxed Louis XV manner were made well into the century in Spain, Portugal, Italy, North America and elsewhere.
The supple, undulating forms created by Daniel Marot, Jean Berain and [...]
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