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Antique Gilded Furniture
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Item No. 1177
French, Regence period mirror-trumeau
In solid, carved giltwood with parcloses having the original giltwood surface and original mercury glass. Circa 1720.
Originally created with a matching pair of consoles murales item 1178 (hanging bracket consoles).
73" tall by 41½" wide
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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
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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. 1141
French, Louis XV period, giltwood canape
With exhuberantly-carved, sepentine frame, quintessential Louis XV motifs including seashells, acanthus leaves, and foliage, having three seats upholstered in floral-patterned, silk damask, the whole resting upon eight cabriole legs.
Mid-18th century, attributed to Louis Cresson.
86" wide
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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
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Item No. 1122
Pair of large, Baroque (Louis XIV) style torcheres
In solid, carved giltwood. Of balluster form decorated with stylized acanthus leaves and grotesques (male figured masks). Inscribed "LA MARECHALERIE (...)/Avenue (...) PARIS FRANCE" 19th century.
56¼" high by 18½" diameter
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