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buffet de chasseA buffet table with a marble top which was typically used to prepare game. The term literally means “hunting table.”
Antiques From Our GalleryDisplaying up to 20 items per page | Item No. 1147 Pair of exceptional Louis XVI period fauteuils
In solid carved mahogany with giltwood accents, the front aprons inspired by the designs of Georges Jacob, the armrests adorned with mufles de lion (lion masks) in the manner of Jacob Frères (Georges Jacob's sons), and having unusual tapered and sprial-fluted back sabre legs.
Late 18th century.
36½" high by 23½" wide |
| Item No. 1202 French, Louis XV period, bureau de pente
In palissandre de Rio (Brazilian rosewood) with bronze d'ore mounts, the whole resting upon cabriole legs terminating in bronze sabot feet. Slant front opens to reveal a leather writing surface and five drawers. Circa 1750.
Attributed to Jean Lapie.
Provenance: Sold Sotheby's, NY, November 11, 2000, Lot 171
39½" wide by 38" high by 17½" deep |
| Item No. 1175 Set of twelve French, Neoclassical style dining chairs
Painted and parcel gilded. Richly sculpted in a guilloché pattern resting upon tapered and fluted legs. 19th century.
A similar example is currently on display at Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
37" high by 20" wide by 18½" deep |
| Item No. 1174 Exceptional, French, Art Nouveau period bureau plat
In solid, carved walnut; with five conforming drawers; have writing surface inset with decorative, gilt-embossed leather blotter, each side with tirets (additional pull out writing surfaces), the whole delicately sculpted with flowers and other vegetation and resting upon four slightly cabriole legs. Circa: 1890, L'ecole de Nancy.
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| Item No. 1169 Pair of French, Louis XIV period torcheres
In solid carved natural wood. The upper elements vigorously carved with acanthus leaves, the central columns, triangular in form, pierced and adorned with male masks, the whole resting on a tripod base having sculpted leaves, volutes and lambrequins. Circa 1670.
Provenance: - Sale in Versailles, Palais des Congres, Commissaire-Priseur Jean-Paul Chapelle, March 3, 1968-acquired by Georges Hereil, Paris.
- 1981: The estate of Georges Hereil, by descent to GG.
66" high |
| Item No. 979 Fine, Louis XV style tric-trac table
In solid, carved walnut having cabriole legs ending in pied de biche (deer feet) and reversable top, one side (shown) with marquetry inlaid board for checkers, the other in green felt suitable for card playing. Removing the top reveals an inset, marquetry-inlaid backgammon board. The whole delicately carved. Late 18th or early 19th century from Nimes, France.
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| Item No. 1128 Pair of French, Louis XV style canapés
In solid, carved giltwood. One of the period (mid-18th century), the other later (19th century). Each having six legs elegantly carved with shells, acanthus leaves, and pomegranates.
Created for le Château de Dampierre, a castle in Dampierre-en-Yvelines, in the Vallée de Chevreuse, France.
45" wide by 35" high |
| Item No. 1123 Louis XV period console
In solid, carved beechwood with original rouge de Languedoc marble top. Mid-18th century.
55" wide by 24" deep by 33¾" high |
| Item No. 1108 Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period, polychrome-painted wood sarcophagus panel
Brightly painted in ochre, red and black with Nut in profile to the right, wearing a tightly-fitting dress, broad collar and bracelets, a fillet across her forehead with a frontal lotus flower, sun disc above her head, lotus buds and flowers sprouting on either side of her feet and a bunch before her torso.
As a divinity responsible for renewing the sun each day by swallowing the setting sun, Ra, each evening and giving birth to him by her womb in the morning, Nut was regarded as suitable imagery for the underside of the lid of sarcophagi, as this associated the deceased with re-enacting the journey of the Ra between heaven and earth. For further, see I. Shaw and P. Nicholson, British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, London, 1995, pp.207-208.
Circa 332-30 B.C. Provenance:
- Private collection, San Francisco.
- Anonymous sale; Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, 29 October 2007, lot 1390.
- with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York (Art of the Ancient World, 2009, no.188).
Published:
- M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, p.49, fig.34.
Exhibited:
- Mougins, Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, June 2011-2018.
- Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, France, acquired from the above.
43¾" high |
| Item No. 838 Italian, Rococo period, walnut console
With wooden top painted to resemble marble and legs terminating in pied de sabots. From Naples. Mid-18th century.
60" wide by 35" high by 26½" deep |
| Item No. 950 Italian, Regence Period, gilt and polychrome-painted six-panel screen
Inspired by the designs of Claude III Audran, "La Serie des Douze Mois" (The Twelve Month Series"). The frames vigorously carved in silvered wood; the panels 18th century the painting refreshed in the 19th century; each decorated in green grotesque style on gold background depicting zodiac signs and mythological gods.
109" high by 168" wide |
| Item No. 1078 French Régence giltwood table with nero antico marble top
The shaped rectangular top above diaper-carved frieze centered by a shell-form cartouche, the four diaper-carved legs with shell-carved knees terminating in hoof feet and united by X-form stretcher. From L'ile de France, circa 1725.
31½" high by 44" wide by 23" deep |
| Item No. 922 Pair of very fine Neoclassical period fauteuils of large dimension
In solid, carved giltwood. Circa 1780. Stamped "P H Poire JME" (Philippe Poirié, who was named Maître Ébéniste in 1765).
Poirié produced seating in the Louis XV and Louis XVI styles. While his Louis XV items were considered ordinary, his Louis XVI production was considered brilliant. His works are displayed in the Musee du Louvre, Musee de Beauvais, and Musee de Cognac-Jay.
40" high by 27½" wide by 22½" deep |
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