Ref.11312
Japanese style low cabinet decorated with birds and mother-of-pearl butterflies

Far Eastern-inspired low cabinet , with openwork and engraved decorative motifs, enhanced with gilded bronze openworked plaques. It opens with two flaps trimmed with mother-of-pearl panels decorated with birds and butterflies, with asymmetrical open shelves in the right and upper parts. Mother-of-pearl inlays from Tonkin are quite common in so-called "japanese" style furniture and are witnesses of a practice very common in the 19th century: the re-use. These inlaid panels were made in the Far East to adorn furniture. Imported in France, these panels were used by Parisian cabinetmakers at the turn of the century to decorate their own creations. The asymmetry of this piece of furniture is one of the hallmarks of chinese and japanese furniture in the late 19th century. This piece of Far Eastern inspiration is thus quite representative of the period known as "Japonisme", which expands in Europe in the second half of the 19th century, especially under the impulse of the World's Fairs .

Ref.13638
Large vase with a bronze mount and dragons

This important enamelled ceramic Chinese vase with a patinated bronze mount has an enamelled decor on our vase was made in brown, red and green shades. Applied with friezes, we can recognize the influence of the Islam and Chinese arts through the succession of geometrical and flowery motifs. The patinated bronze foot and neck also depict an open work decor of which the drawn motif take their inspiration from the same sources. Finally, two small dragons, typical of the Chinese folklore, come to lighten up the mount by their presence.