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Beautiful antique Neo-Renaissance style walnut carved table with lions and mythical animals

This impressive carved walnut table is from the end of the 19th century and belongs to the Neo-Renaissance style. The whole structure beneath the table and around the table surface are fully carved. The frieze around the table is made of long, leafy spirals, and there is a lion's head in each corner. There are four winged mythical creatures with a lion's head and body, a ram's horn, and a woman's breasts. The table is decorated with Ancient Greek and Roman-style designs, typically used during the Renaissance, like the heads of Roman soldiers and the vase in the middle of the lower table structure. There are also grotesque heads and many leafy, floral motifs. The 19th century is known as the century of “eclecticism” in decorative arts, during which artistic styles from past centuries were rediscovered and mixed together to create original objects, furnishings, and monuments. Certain styles are particularly historicist, like the Neo-Gothic style, the “neoclassical” style, and the Neo-Renaissance style. The Paris Hotel de Ville (town hall) is a prime example of French Neo-Renaissance architecture. These historicist styles were first developed in architecture, and then in interior design, for furnishings, and art objects. In this way, the Neo-Renaissance style was applied to massive tables like this one, and even to entire dining rooms.

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Pair of Medici vases in composite stone, late 20th century

Pair of Medici vases made around 1980, in composite stone, gadrooned and decorated with crowns of flowers, placed on a stone base.

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Pair of baskets full of fruits and flowers in sculpted stone, end of the 19th century

This remarkable pair of stone sculpture made at the end of the 19th century depicts a braided basket full of flowers and fruits. In vogue under the reign of Louis XIV, those baskets sculpted in stone were used to adorn the walls of the orchards or the pillars of a path. We can find an example of this type of decoration on the wall's pillars built along the Rue du Maréchal Joffre in the King's vegetable garden in Versailles.