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Late 1800s

12.5 "tall 24" wide 2.5" deep, mounted on an ebonized wood base

Venus at Her Bath

After a model (1757) by Christophe Gabriel Allegrain (French,1710 - 1795)

Executed by Maison Susse Foundry after 1839

Bronze, 16" tall x 5" x5", stamped "Susse. fre. Edt."

Known for their fine casting and patinas the Susse Foundry produced both antique bronzes and bronzes by contremporary 19th Century artists.

*Please note: This is an original antique bronze, not a modern re-strike, and is so guaranteed.

Exceptional Pair of Italian Bronze and Ormolu Candlesticks with nicely detailed foliate decoration and with good patina and fine castings. Having a removable ormolu drip pan above a bronze candle cup and supported by a turned and foliate decorated column with a tripartite scrolling ormolu base and mounted on a tripartite bronze plinth. These would have been brought home as a souvenir by someone who had made the Grand Tour. Italy, circa 1870. 5" x 5" x 13"tall

Rare Large Pair of Antique Wall Appliques, carved and gilt wood in the form of flowers in baskets.

French or Italian, 18th/19th Century

30"tall x 23"wide x 2''deep

Carved Wooden Top Hat

(Early 20th C., some scratches

12.25” x 10” x 6.75” tall

Antique Carved Oak Statue of a Monk holding a book and seated on a curved bench. Probably American, circa 1880.

9" x 9" x 14" tall

Young Boy (perhaps a Putto) with a Branch and a Rattle

By Aguste Moreau (French, 1834-1917)

Base: 10" x 7"
Height: 23"

*Please note: This is an original antique bronze, not a modern re-strike, and is so guaranteed.

Auguste Moreau was born in Paris in 1834, the youngest son of sculptor and painter Jean-Baptiste Moreau. He studied with his father and also under Aimé Millet, Augustin Drumont and Jean Thomas. Each of the three Moreau brothers - Hippolyte, Marthurin and Au...

Fine Pair of Grand Tour Bronze and Ormolu Candlesticks in the Empire style with fluted baluster shaped shafts , with acanthus decoration on gilt-bronze sections and paw feet raised atop tripartite bases. These would have been brought home as a souvenir by someone who had made the Grand Tour. France or Italy, circa 1870.

h: 11 in.

Exceptional Naturalistic Bronze Covered Compote, urn form with extremely fine decoration of bugs, leaves and flowers. Probably French, mid 19th Century.

Height 10"

Antique Cast Bronze Inkwell, circular with a hinged, domed lid and inscription around top rim. Probably Indian, 18th/19th Century

Diameter: 4.75”
Height: 3.75”

Maurice Boval (French, 1863–1916)

Art Noveau Bronze of a Young Beauty

Signed, 14.25" high, 11" wide, 7"deep

Maurice Bouval was a French sculptor of the Art Nouveau period who was born in Toulouse, France in 1863. From 1880 to the first World War, he created a large number of bronze statues or objects including chandeliers, candelabras or table lamps. His main works are Ophelia, Femme assise, Jeune femme, Le Sommeil, Femme aux pavots, Le Secret et la Pensiveand and the statue ...

Le Renommee (Fame and Glory)

A Winged Athena Nike Bronze

By Paul Jean Gasq, (1860-1944)

Height: 35.5 (the gilt garland wreath is a later addition)

Paul Gasq was born in Dijon, where he initially attended the École des Beaux-Arts.  Later he studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.  He won the first Prize of Rome in 1890 and held a scholarship at the Villa Medici from 1891 to 1894.  He was a member of the Academy of Fine Arts and remained the...

Exceptional pair of antique French Gilt Bronze Fireplace Chenet in the form of Dionysian children seated on a plinth and eating grapes, and with foliate and cyma curved decoration. 18th/19th Century. Each Approx.: 12.5" x 12.5" x 5.5 deep

Antique Carved Wooden Angel, holding a crown and a septer.

Probably English, 18th Century

15.75"tall, Oak

Set of Four Hammered and Silvered Bronze Arts and Crafts Candlesticks, Early 20th Century, Unmarked. 13" high.

Antique bronze Paperweight in the form of a of a crushed fedora hat, Continental, late 19th century.

Length: 6.125”
Height: 2.25”

Gilt Bronze of Caillope,

by Henry Etienne Dumaige(1830-1888)

6.5" x 6" x 18.5" tall

Born in Paris in 1830, Dumaige studied sculpture under Féuchère and Dumont. He exhibited his sculptures depicting groups, statues, and busts at the Salon from 1862-1877. . He sculpted a large number of busts, groups and statuettes in marble, plaster and bronze, including statuettes of Desmoulins and Rabelais. He died at St-Gilles-Croix-de-Vié in 1888.


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Cartouche-shaped black marble plaque inset with oval micromosaic panels depicting Roman archaeological scenes (clockwise from upper left): the Coliseum, the Temple of Hercules, the Roman Forum and the Pantheon. Those four panels surround the Doves of Pliny, an image often used in micromosaics, which comes from a Roman floor mosaic at Hadrian’s villa in Tivoli and is believed to be a copy of a lost ancient Greek mosaic at Pergamon described by Pliny the elder.

Such items were ...