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Beautiful antique Empire style fireplace in Sea Green marble with bronze ornaments

This beautiful antique Empire style fireplace was made out of Vert de Mer marble towards the end of the 19th century. Two detached colums make up the jambs of this antique fireplace. The entablature is decorated with the following gilded bronze ornaments: women's heads set in medallions, foliage, and rosettes.

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Antique Louis XV period fireplace in Grey Sainte Anne marble, 18th century

Antique Louis XV style fireplace made out of Grey Sainte Anne marble during the 18th century. Curved lines adorned with carved shells.

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An antique Empire fireplace made out of black marble, witrh bronze ornaments and detached columns

Beautiful antique Empire period fireplace made in the early 19th century in a black marble. The columns of Doric order support an important frieze that is adorned with gilt bronze ornaments: Greek theater mask, Pegasus, palmettes and rosettes. The detached columns are relatively rare and are characteristic of Empire style fireplaces.

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17th century fireback with the wedding coat of arms of René du Matz and Gilonne de la Marzelière

Cast iron fireback from the 17th century, marked RG. The decoration shows the wedding coat of arms of René du Matz, Lord of Mesnil-Barré, Marquis du Brossay and Gilonne de la Marzelière, daughter of the Baron de Bonnefontaine and Marquis de la Marzelière, married in 1636

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Pair of antique Louis XV style gilt bronze andirons with characters in costume

This beautiful pair of Louis XV style chenets was made of gilt bronze in the 19th century. It represents a couple of gallant characters in 18th century costume.

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Mathurin Moreau for the Val d’Osne foundry, The Flower Fairy, late 19th century

This cast-iron sculpture was created by Mathurin Moreau for the Val d'Osne foundry, with which he collaborated, at the end of the 19th century. It depicts a winged young girl being led by a cherub. The composition of the sculpture is complex: the woman is seated in the form of an Amazon; her naked body forms a circular arc, her arm raised above her intertwining with long garlands of flowers. These link her to the cherub, who seems to be dragging the fairy through them, setting the whole composition in motion. The sculptor paid great attention to detail: the simple headband on the woman's head, the modest drape over her thigh and falling over the base, and the cherub's hair pulled back by the wind give the composition its liveliness. The sculpture's imposing pedestal is in harmony with it. It is divided into several compartments, the inside of which is decorated with floral motifs and various symbolic objects: two recorders forming an aulos (ancient wind instrument) accompanied by small birds, embodying harmonious music; a panpipes associated with grapes evoking the world of Dionysus; a sheaf of wheat and tools symbolising agriculture; a theatrical mask and a fool's hat with a tambourine and a curtain representing the performing arts. The sculpture of the Flower Fairy is shown in the catalogue of the Val d'Osne foundry (on plate 583), as is its pedestal, independently (on plate 570 bis). The combination of the two works was therefore the result of a desire on the part of the patron, who imposed his own taste on the commission. The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston owns a copy of the Flower Fairy identical to our own. Mathurin Moreau also created another Flower Fairy, a statuette. This one is a young woman in a dancing posture, whose nudity is emphasised rather than concealed by a wet drape around her body. This very delicate figurine echoes the larger but no less elegant bronze sculpture.

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Louis XIV style mantel with acroterion in Rouge du Nord marble

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GEORGES MOREAU DE TOURS – The Painter and His Muse, signed grisaille painting

This signed grisaille by Georges Moreau de Tours depicts an allegorical scene featuring a contemplative artist seated at his table, approached by an ethereal muse. On the reverse, a stamp from Maison Merlin – Paul Denis Successeur – indicates the use of fine Parisian artist materials from the late 19th century.