Item Number: 0373
This 19th century Imari centerpiece is mounted with French Louis XVI bronze rim, handles and a pedestal base. The bronze is well balanced and heavily detailed, especially at the base. The Imari itself features the classic Imari colors of blue, terra cotta, gold and white, with hand painted details.
Price: $8,500
Item Number: 5349
This large Japanese porcelain centerpiece combines 18th centruy porcelain with 19th century French bronze d'ore. This combination was classic to the period as the French would import the high quality porcelain and later add their own intricate gold leafed bronze elements. In the bronze d’ore here, we see a beautifully beaded rim, curving handles embellished with acanthus leaves, and a pierced base with ball-and-claw feet. The porcelain itself is beautifully detailed with countryside scenes filled with nature. The combination of strong French bronze with delicate 18th century Japanese craftsmanship is strikingly elegant.
Price: $18,000
Item Number: 6142
This extremely fine 19th century Chinese Rose Medallion porcelain covered coupe is mounted with a 19th century bronze d'ore pierced rim, handles and a pierced pedestal base. The bronze d’ore is French and classic Louis XV. It exudes a beautiful impression of nature in its movement. In the 18th and 19th century the French had a strong affinity for export porcelain, and would add extraordinary bronze d’ore handles and bases to export porcelain bowls, to make the piece grander. This is a gorgeous example of the practice, as it combines exquisite porcelain and ornately detailed bronze d’ore.
Price: $18,500
Item Number: 6219
This masterful Chinese Rose Medallion centerpiece is mounted with intricately beautiful French bronze d’oré in the Louis XV style. The French antique piece dates back to the 19th century. In the 18th and 19th century the French had a strong affinity for Chinese porcelain and would add extraordinary bronze handles and bases like those seen here to make the piece grander. The details in the bronze is fantastic; note the dragon heads at the top of the handles, the reticulated top with intricate pattern work, and the animalistic heads resting at the base. The difficulty rests only in which aspect to lend our gaze; the beautifully detailed porcelain, or the pristine gold leafed bronze.
Price: $15,000
French 19th century Napoleon III Cobalt Faience with Burnished Bronze Mounts
Item Number: 6294
This French 19th century Napoleon III faience coupe centerpiece features a beautiful cobalt cover. The footed piece is elaborately draped with burnished bronze garlands and topped with an acorn finial. Finally, the piece is embellished with acanthus leaves, and sports an egg-and-dart design over the scroll edge of the top. The dark cobalt blue provides a beautifully contrasting background for the detailed burnished bronze mounts to shine against.
Price: $15,000