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19th Century Antique Furniture
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Item No. 894
Fine, Venetian, Rococo style polychrome decorated desk
The cartouche shaped top with tooled peach leather inset over a long center drawer, raised on cabriole legs, overall painted with simians at play all on a parchment ground. 19th century.
64½" wide by 30" deep by 32" high
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Item No. 996
Very fine, French, Regence style mirror
In solid, carved giltwood with original mercury glass. Second half of the 19th century.
Provenance: Formerly part of the furnishings of the Chateau St. Laurent en Isore. Grenoble, France.
La Famille Terray.
82" high by 40" wide
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Item No. 994
Fine, French, Neoclassical style firescreen
In solid, carved giltwood with original inset needlepoint tapestry. First quarter of the 19th century.
Provenance: Formerly part of the furnishings of the Chateau St. Laurent en Isore. Grenoble, France.
La Famille Terray.
42½" tall by 26" wide by 13" deep
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Item No. 937
Very fine French, Neoclassical style, brass-mounted bureau plat
In solid mahogany with flame mahogany veneers, tapered, fluted legs terminating above elegant brass mounts, original hand-tooled leather, five drawers, and tirets (pull-out surfaces) on both sides. Circa 1830.
64" wide (94" wide with both tirets extended) by 31" deep by 30" high
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Item No. 930
Napoleon III wool carpet gros point
In dark red and beige, decorated with garlands of flowers and oval center medaillon. Fabric lined. Circa 1850.
118" long by 90½" wide
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Item No. 862
Set of six fine, French, Regence style, carved giltwood fauteuils
Each with foliate carved, channelled frame and carved, giltwood entertrotoise (stretchers). Legs terminating in pied de sabots. Each chair applied with a paper label to the underside:
CALIFORNIA PALACE FOR THE LEGION OF HONOR, 21, LINCOLN PARK, SAN FRANCISCO/1958.54/armchair, wood carved, gesso and gilt; upholstered in silk and wool petit-point embroidery/France, style of about 1710/Lent by the W.H. Crocker Estate and with a stencilled label GUERDE/doreur encadreur/45 rue de Bourgogne 45/Paris/meubles batiment a cadres dor/aes Noir met imitation d'…./eatt/aemiation et oxidisation de 10r.
One of six matching chairs shown. 19th century.
Provenance: W.H. Crocker - Accessioned by the California Palace for the Legion of Honor in 1958
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Item No. 860
Set of twelve, fine, French Restauration, painted and parcel-gilded chairs
Comprising six armchairs and six side chairs, each with a scrolled, padded back. The armchairs with curved arms terminating in scrolling leafs above leaf-carved scrolling legs and back sabre legs. Circa 1825.
sidechairs: 33" high by 18" wide by 21" deep - armchairs: 37" high by 22" wide by 26" deep
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Item No. 858
Very fine, French, Louis XVI style, brass-mounted, dining table
The oval top with three extensions above an apron raised on six fluted, tapering legs terminating in brass casters. In solid mahogany and mahogany veneers. Early to mid-19th century.
29¼" high by 48½" deep by 38" long (when closed), 110" long (fully extended)
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