The banyan, inspired by oriental dressing gowns, was worn for its comfort and casual elegance.
The subject’s richly decorated orange silk scarf and silver-embroidered vest illustrate this fashion well. This style reflects the influence of cultural and commercial exchanges with the Orient, as well as the importance given to appearance and social status in the society of the time.
Large six-leaf screen in painted canvas, panels decorated with a motif inspired by Chinoiserie, as was fashionable in the mid-18th century, reverse decorated with simple trompe l’oeil panels.
Palace chandelier with 12 lights, carved gilded wood central barrel, blown pearls, grape pearls, cut glass pendants.
Late 19th century
Italy
Portrait of a young woman, oil on panel, inscription in Latin «aetatis 19»: at the age of 19, wooden frame patinated in the taste of Dutch frames of the seventeenth century.
Dutch school
Early 19th century in the taste of the 17th century
Pair of lamps in the shape of parrots with floral and plant motifs in polychrome enameled cracked earthenware mounted on chiseled gilded bronze bases, in the style of Meissen, new lampshades in silk lined with powder pink color and Houlès trimmings.
Large oil on canvas depicting two young girls, inscription on the back: “Portrait of Beuzelin ladies” by Madame Bullier, period gilded wooden frame.
Circa 1830
France
Set of six winter garden chairs in beech wood imitation of bamboo, reupholstered in the old style, upholstered in fabrics by Antoinette Poisson whose pattern is a reissue of the 18th century, printed on linen.
Napoleon III period, 19th century
France
Articulated workshop mannequin, life size, french manufacture, metal label placed on the back of the mannequin.
“P. BERVILLE PARIS 25 CHAUSSÉE D’ANTIN.”
Oak wood with rosewood veneer powdered burl walnut table in Transition style from the family of flying furniture which moves quite easily around a room, lined inside with “Antoinette Poisson” wallpaper.
Around 1830
France
Chandelier with 8 lights, gilt bronze structure, pendants and daggers in rock crystal and amethysts.
19th century
France