Set of 9 Medici vases with terracotta handles decorated with antique bas-reliefs representing a squatting woman milking a goat and a love seller.
Sold in pairs
South of France
20th century
Surprising head in painted raw wood, probably a hat fad.
France
1920s
Large lacquered wooden tray decorated with a motif inspired by Chinoiserie.
Napoleon III period, 19th century
France
Umbrella dog, black forest work.
19th century
Switzerland
Made using the traditional filigree technique typical of 17th-century Spanish craftsmanship the medallion features meticulous work of intertwined silver threads creating complex and detailed openwork designs.
Miniature pendant- double-sided painted fixed under glass representing the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph, yellow gold frame decorated with spiral patterns in enamelled polychromy.
Spain
17th century
“Mother and daughter”, oval miniature painted in gouache on ivory in an oval hoop to hang in gilded bronze.
Around 1780
Painted apple grey wooden rocking horse, original mane, sulphide eyes, original tacks, “Rambler Liverpool” label.
Liverpool, England
late 19th century.
“Pure Greek beauty, supple and dignified (…) who gazes with calm indifference at the crowds who gaze at him speechless.”
At the end of the Middle Ages pottery villages around the town of Vindefontaine were born. They set up a large potter’s house, and made butter pots, pitchers, inkwells, vases, but above all potty sandstone fountains with brown enamel decorated with kaolin.
XVIII century,
West Normandy,
France.