Created in the style of apprentice furniture or pieces used to demonstrate skills, it testifies to great craftsmanship.
The front, composed of two drawers, is decorated with painted motifs imitating objects: necklaces, ribbons, keys, and fabrics appear to be suspended or placed on the piece with striking realism.
Pair of scones with a central mirror and an arm of light in carved and lacquered wood with rocaille decoration of volutes, shells and foliage.
XVIII century
Venice, Italy
Pair of dog-shaped lamps in polychrome porcelain and gilded bronze, in the Meissen style, with new green silk lampshades lined with green silk and Houlès trimmings.
750 yellow gold cross set with twelve garnets.
18th-century carved and silvered wooden mirror, decorated with intertwining foliage, leaves, and flowers. This mirror is quite exceptional due to its size and silver color.
18th-century six-light “lace” chandelier, composed of a turned and gilded wooden structure and a set of blown glass beads and pendants. This type and name literally refer to the structure of this chandelier, which consists of a “lacing” of iron wires onto which glass beads are threaded, creating a mesh that was highly prized for its diffusion of light.
Pair of 17th-century theater drapes in carved polychrome wood, depicting an elegant knotted drape adorned with large golden tassels. The skillful carving of the pleated fabric and the richness of the original polychromy give these pieces a particularly theatrical character. Very beautiful preserved antique patina.
18th-century console decorated with “arte povera” elements representing garlands of flowers and vases filled with bouquets, on which rests a large green marble slab with attractive curves. The whole piece is supported by four deer legs decorated with gold leaf borders.
Yellow gold pendant cross entirely paved with round and cushion-cut antique diamonds mounted in prong settings. The central diamond is the largest of the eleven. The whole is surrounded by a black enamel border.
This type of cross, known as a Badine, Badino, or butterfly cross, has a distinctive removable lower section, which literally refers to the word that defines it: badino, in Provençal, means free-moving or fluttering. The lower section has a beautifully openwork loop on which three rosettes are arranged.