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Oak paneled room from the beginning of the 20th century

Beautiful paneled room made out of oak wood during the 19th century in the Louis XV style. The panels are decorated with curved molded panels. They bear sculpted features of Rococo inspiration and of great diversity. Shells and curlicue foliage fill these panels. Very creative use of motifs used to decorate the pannels.

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Ducel foundry, Important vase with mermaid, second half of the 19th century

This important cast iron decorative vase was made in the second half of the 19th century by the Ducel foundry. The ​c​enter receives a mascarons decoration holding flower crowns, while the handles take the shape of beautiful mermaids. Its ancient caractere reminds many vases we can find in the Château de Versailles garden. The Ducel foundry, created by Jean-Jacques Ducel (1801 – 1877), was specialized in the art cast representing originals from museums. Very appreciated in Paris during the 19th century, the foundry won many awards during the World Fairs of 1851 and 1855. In 1878, the foundry was bought by its competitor the Val d'Osne foundry which had then gathered the catalogue of the Ducel foundry and added the mention « Val d'Osne successeur de ».

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André-Fernand Thesmar, Enameled ceramic gardener

This important gardener bears the monogram of the enameler André-Fernand Thesmar (1843-1912), and was made in the beginning of his enemaler career when he discovers the enamel work and starts his first tries in the 1870's. Andre-Fernand Thesmar first devoted himself to oil painting and was known as a painter of flowers. He was educated in drawing in a factory for printed-fabric in Mulhouse where he had been placed at fourteen years old to learn the trade of a draftsman. His teacher was a painter of flowers: he “drew and dissected the plant with fury, requiring an anatomical analysis of shapes and a meticulous copy of nature.” He left this industrial environment to go to Paris in 1860 and engaged in various activities. It was probably for his talent as a painter that Thesmar was noticed in 1872 by Ferdinand Barbedienne. With Barbedienne, later Thesmar succeeded to the management of the production of enamels. The productions of Thesmar and Barbedienne reflected the interest that they had for the decorative techniques and compositions of Japanese enamel. It was as “co-operator of the Barbedienne company” that Thesmar exhibited at the Exhibition of Decorative Arts in 1874, A cock pheasant from China. At the exposition in 1875, Thesmar exhibited two large enamel compositions on copper. In 1891, Thesmar turned to the decoration of porcelain and introduced himself to Charles Lauth who, since 1879, led the Factory de Sèvres. Its at this time that the collaboration with the Barbedienne company ended. Afterwards, he would be especially known for having invented the “plique à jour” technique, which numerous pieces of are kept in public collections. He creates here a very beautiful gardener with a brown and orange background on which is detaching on slight relief a flower decoration, favorite theme of the artist. He alternates a decor of wide flowers in a light pink shade with strips on a beige background with a motif composed of leaves and flowers scrolls.

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Pair of stone garden vases

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Louis XVI style mantel with half Corinthian columns and pearled frieze in statuary marble

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BACCARAT, Pair of vases with Japanese decoration, circa 1900

Pair of Japanese-style vases made by the Baccarat crystalworks, around 1900. The crystalworks created these baluster-shaped vases in opaline glass resting on a patinated bronze setting. This precious glass is adorned with a natural, highly poetic decoration. Founded under Louis XV, the French crystal manufacturer Baccarat demonstrated its excellence at the Universal Exhibitions throughout the 19th century. The decoration is in keeping with the fashion for Japanese art at the end of the 19th century: against a cloudy gray background spangled with gold, branches of cherry blossom stand out against two birds, probably blue nuthatches and red shrikes, two Asian species. In the background, the full moon is flanked by a circular cartouche painted in imitation of Japanese prints. The bronze frame is also orientalist in style : it echoes the style of the belly of the vase. Baccarat created other vases with similar decoration, which are now in the Corning Museum of Glass.