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Stained glass window, painted by Thomas from Valence, 1915

Large and colourful stained glass window from the Thomas Vitraux workshop, founded in 1878, in Valence. The know-how of Thomas was transmitted from father to son and the company is still active today. This Art nouveau influenced work depicts Diana Huntress, with her bow and dogs walking though the forest. It is signed and dated 1915. Using a large variety of color and types of glass work, this painting expresses a lot of strength and vitality.

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Judgement of Paris 16th century fireback

Charming 16th century cast iron fireback , representing the Judgment of Paris. This Renaissance’s essential subject is here represented after Raffaello Sanzio’s version, engraved by Marco Antonio Raimondi, which success had caused a very large amount of artifacts copying its pattern. Like in Raffaello’s version, the young prince is sit under a tree on the left and the three goddesses face him, the last one turning her back. Paris’s profile highlights the muscles of his back and legs, an important element for Raffaello was then the first to paint antiquity nudes for all the Judgment of Paris’s characters. In order to adapt the prolific genius’s painting, the master metalworker gave Minerva a shield and Juno a royal scepter, so that they’d be better recognized. This solution has been adopted for the embossed design of medals in the same period, as those preserved in the Louvre museum. Overhanging the composition in a mandorla, a winged Cupid, holding his bow and quiver, expresses the supremacy of his power. The 16th century puts indeed Eros’s power in the spotlight, particularly through the Neoplatonistic mystique known by Raffaello, as a world-making force. Eros is thus the first of all gods, here making his law : the victory of love upon the other virtues that are wisdom and force. The scene is flanked by bay leaves topped by laurel wreathed heads, maybe poets. On either side of Cupid, a pair of Moorish heads; two scrolled acanthus leaves rise up and join together above the mandorla.

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Small set of parquet flooring Point de Hongrie

Set of 20th century Point de Hongrie parquet flooring. Size of the slats : 20.08 inch by 3.35 inch. The whole for a surface of about 12 m2.

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Directoire style mantel with detached columns in Turquin marble

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Louis XV style fireplace, Pompadour model, in blue flowered marble