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FRENCH FURNITURE AND DECORATIVE ARTS LOTS 41 – 137
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*41 A Continental Carved Wood Fragment of a Crucifix
POSSIBLY FRENCH, 16TH CENTURY Height 9 3/8 x width 3 1/4 inches. Property Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of The San Diego Museum of Art
Exhibited: Poland, Reginald H. The Bulletin of San Diego Museum of Art, (San Diego Museum of Art, 1931), pp. 3-4 $200-$300
*42 A French or Spanish Carved Wood Figure of a King
16TH CENTURY Height 12 x width 3 3/4 inches. Property Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of The San Diego Museum of Art
Exhibited: Poland, Reginald H. The Bulletin of San Diego Museum of Art, (San Diego Museum of Art, 1931), pp. 3-4 $300-$500
*43 A French or Spanish Carved Wood Figural Group Depicting Saint Anne and the Infant Mary
17TH/18TH CENTURY Height 8 1/2 x width 4 inches. Property Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of The San Diego Museum of Art
Exhibited: Poland, Reginald H. The Bulletin of San Diego Museum of Art, (San Diego Museum of Art, 1931), pp. 3-4 $300-$500
*44 A French or Italian Carved Walnut Side Table
LIKELY 16TH/17TH CENTURY Height 25 1/2 x width 28 1/4 x depth 23 3/4 inches. Property Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of The San Diego Museum of Art $500-$700
FRENCH FURNITURE AND DECORATIVE ARTS
LOTS 41-137
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CIRCA 1775-1825 Height 25 1/4 x width 18 1/4 x depth 9 1/2 inches. Property Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of The San Diego Museum of Art $600-$800
46 A French Provincial Carved Walnut Armoire
18TH CENTURY Height 102 1/2 x width 65 1/2 x depth 28 inches. $1,000-$2,000
47 A French Provincial Carved Oak Sideboard
18TH CENTURY Height 41 1/2 x width 85 x depth 19 inches. $2,000-$4,000 48 A French Walnut Wine Tasting or Tilt-Top Table
CIRCA 1840 Height 28 1/2 x width 83 x depth 48 inches.
Provenance: Robert Herring, San Francisco $800-$1,200
49 A Régence Gilt Bronze Mounted Parquetry Marble-Top Commode en Tombeau
CIRCA 1730 Height 35 x width 58 x depth 26 inches. Property of a Private Collector, Oak Brook, Illinois $2,000-$4,000 50 A Régence Giltwood Bergère Attributed to Jean-Étienne Saint Georges (French, 1723-1790)
CIRCA 1745 Height 37 3/4 x width 29 x depth 27 inches.
Provenance: Christie’s, New York, June 5-6, 2002, Lot 72 An Important Private Collection Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, April 16, 2019, Lot 8 $3,000-$5,000
19TH CENTURY Height 43 inches. Property from the Estate of a Midwest Collector, Milwaukee, Wisconsin $1,000-$2,000
18TH CENTURY Height 37 x width 24 3/4 x depth 22 1/2 inches.
Provenance: The Estate of William Nicholas Roos, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, December 5, 2010, Lot 50 $2,000-$4,000
53 A Set of Six Louis XV Carved and Painted Fauteuils
18TH CENTURY AND LATER Height 37 x width 26 x depth 19 1/2 inches. $2,000-$4,000
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54 A Louis XV Style Painted and Parcel Gilt Carved Vitrine Cabinet
19TH CENTURY Height 58 1/2 x width 28 x depth 20 inches. $1,000-$2,000
19TH CENTURY Height 66 1/4 x width 68 x depth 17 1/2 inches. Property from Christa’s Ltd., Chicago, Illinois $1,000-$2,000
56 A Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Kingwood Reniform Bureau Plat
19TH CENTURY Height 29 1/2 x width 47 1/4 x depth 24 inches. $2,000-$4,000
57 A Louis XV Style Gilt Metal Mounted Kingwood Marble-Top Bombé Commode
20TH CENTURY Height 33 1/2 x width 49 x depth 21 inches. Property from the Estate of a Midwest Collector, Milwaukee, Wisconsin $1,000-$2,000
19TH CENTURY WITH LATER TOP Height 37 x width 72 x depth 22 inches. $2,000-$4,000
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60 A Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Rosewood Three-Piece Salon Suite
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY Height of sofa 37 x width 58 x depth 27 1/2 inches. Height of each chair 33 1/2 x width 25 1/2 x depth 25 inches. $3,000-$5,000
61 A Louis XV Style Giltwood Bergère à Oreilles
19TH CENTURY Height 44 x width 24 1/2 x depth 22 1/2 inches. $800-$1,200
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LATE 19TH CENTURY Height 31 x diameter of top 51 inches. Property from the Estate of a Midwest Collector, Milwaukee, Wisconsin $1,500-$2,500
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62 A Louis XV Style Giltwood Sofa
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY Height 32 1/2 x width 85 x depth 29 inches. Property from the Estate of a Midwest Collector, Milwaukee, Wisconsin $1,000-$1,500 63 A Pair of Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Tôle Nine-Light Candelabra
MOUNTS BY HENRI PICARD, LATE 19TH CENTURY Height 46 1/2 inches. $15,000-$20,000
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64 A Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Clock Garniture
19TH CENTURY Height of mantel clock 28 1/4 x width 19 1/2 x depth 8 1/4 inches. $3,000-$5,000
65 A Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze and Frosted Glass Nine-Light Ceiling Fixture
19TH CENTURY AND LATER Height 38 x diameter 36 inches. $1,000-$2,000
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY Height 20 1/2 x width 10 1/2 inches. $800-$1,200
67 A Louis XVI Gilt Bronze Mounted Tulipwood Commode with an Unassociated Marble Top
18TH CENTURY Height 34 x width 31 x depth 19 inches. $1,000-$2,000
68 A Louis XVI Walnut and Fruitwood Marquetry Metamorphic Secretary Desk
LATE 18TH CENTURY Height 35 x width 48 3/4 x depth 23 7/8 inches. $800-$1,200
69 A Louis XVI Style Gilt Metal Mounted Walnut and Marquetry Extension Dining Table
19TH CENTURY Height 30 x length 80 3/4 (fully extended) x depth 47 inches. $1,000-$2,000
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70 A Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Kingwood and Marquetry Cabinet by François Linke (1855-1946)
PARIS, LATE 19TH CENTURY Height 70 x width 38 1/2 x depth 18 1/4 inches.
Literature: Payne, Christopher. François Linke, 1855-1946: The Belle Époque of French Furniture (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2003), pp. 195196, pl. 211-213.
Note: Compare to a Louis XIV model by André-Charles Boulle in the Musée du Louvre, Paris $20,000-$25,000
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19TH CENTURY Height of sofa 39 x width 89 x depth 25 inches. Height of each chair 40 x width 24 1/2 x depth 21 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of a Midwest Collector, Milwaukee, Wisconsin $5,000-$7,000
72 A Louis XVI Style Giltwood Three-Piece Parlor Suite by François Linke (1855-1946)
LATE 19TH CENTURY Height of settee 36 x width 44 x depth 19 1/2 inches. Height of each chair 36 x width 24 1/2 x depth 18 inches. $2,000-$3,000 73 A Pair of Louis XVI Giltwood Fauteuils
19TH CENTURY Height 40 1/2 x width 27 1/2 x depth 26 inches. $3,000-$5,000
19TH CENTURY Height 38 1/2 x width 15 1/2 inches. $1,500-$2,500
75 A Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Six-Light Figural Candelabra
19TH CENTURY Height 24 1/4 inches. $1,000-$2,000 76 A Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Marble Urns
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY Height 19 1/4 inches. $1,000-$2,000
77 A Pair of French Carved Marble Busts of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
LATE 19TH CENTURY Height of taller example 27 x width 16 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of a Midwest Collector, Milwaukee, Wisconsin $1,500-$2,500
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78 Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié (French, 1795-1875) Gloria Victis bronze signed A. Mercié, with F. Barbedienne, Fondeur foundry mark and further inscribed Au de Raymond Béal/ Souvenir M.D. Height 36 1/2 inches. $8,000-$12,000
*79 Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1796-1825) Les Graces bronze signed Barye Height of bronze 7 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Joan Conway Crancer, St. Louis, Missouri
Provenance: Fabius Frères Antiquaires, Paris, December 20, 1985 (with invoice) $3,000-$5,000
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80 After Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay (French, 1804-1865) Le berceau primitif: Ève et ses deux enfants, 1846 bronze inscribed A. Debay and dated, with F. Barbedienne Fondeur foundry mark and Réduction Mécanique A. Collas seal Height 23 x width 7 1/8 x depth 8 3/4 inches.
Literature: Lami, Stanislas. Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle. Paris, 1916, pp. 132-134 “The Great Exhibition and its Results,” vol. XIX, The Illustrated London News, October 11, 1851, p. 465, no. 523
Catalogue Note: Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay was primarily recognized as a painter during his lifetime, with less than twenty documented sculptures in his body of work. His relatively meager output of sculpture was met with great acclaim, however, with the fountains in the Place de la Concorde and the façade of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris among his illustrious commissions. Le berceau primitif made its debut at the Paris Salon of 1845, and depicted Eve cradling her infant sons Cain and Abel. This idealized and intimate moment of maternal affection and domestic tranquility captured in carved marble stood in poignant contrast to the ultimately violent and tragic fate of the two brothers. This contradiction was explicitly rendered in bas-relief along the base of the sculpture, an ominous portent of patricide and original sin. Following its debut at the Salon of 1845, the sculpture was further exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London and the Exposition Universelle of 1855 in Paris. [1] The Illustrated London News covered the Great Exhibition of 1851, and its review of Debay’s “Eve,” as they designated it, is worth rehearsing in full: “We have already, in our concluding article on sculpture, favourably noticed the very masterly group of Eve, with the infant Cain and Abel in her lap, exhibited in the Gobelins room, by M. Debay. The idea is poetical and picturesque, and is ably carried out. The First Mother appears to be lost in a reverie as to the future destinies of her offspring, the principal incidents of which are foreshadowed to the spectator in the bas-relief sculptures on the pedestal. All things considered, we should be inclined to pronounce this to be one of the finest works of sculpture in the Exhibition. Some people have given it the fanciful title of the “First Cradle,” but as that does not do justice to the poetic mystery involved in the conception, we prefer the simpler title by which we have denoted it.”[2] According to Stanislas Lami, the French sculptor and art historian, the sculpture was ultimately purchased by Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, First Prince of Donato, and was sold at auction, along with the rest of the Demidov collection, in Florence at the Villa San Donato, the family palace, in 1870 for 13,500 francs.[3] The present whereabouts of the original sculpture are unknown.
[1] “Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay (French, 18041865).” Dahesh Museum of Art. http://www. daheshmuseum.org/portfolio/auguste-hyacinthedebaythe-first-cradle-eve-and-her-two-children/#. XzWbz-hKjIV [2] “The Great Exhibition and its Results,” vol. XIX, The Illustrated London News, October 11, 1851, p. 465, no. 523 [3] Lami, Stanislas. Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-neuvième siècle. Paris, 1916, p. 133 $5,000-$7,000
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82 81 Jean-Jacques Feuchère (French, 1807-1852) Amazone Domptant un Cheval bronze signed Feuchère 1843 Height of bronze 17 1/4 x width 19 inches. $1,000-$2,000
82 Pierre-Jules Mêne (French, 1810-1879) Hound bronze signed P.J. Mêne Height 6 1/2 x length 15 1/2 x depth 5 inches.
Provenance: The Estate of Joseph Vignos Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, November 6, 2011, Lot 222 $800-$1,200
83 After Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824-1887) Entre deux amours bronze inscribed A. Carrier Height 28 x width 12 1/2 x depth 9 3/8 inches.
Provenance: Beaux Arts Gallery, Chicago, January 13, 1996 $1,000-$2,000
84 A Directoire Brass Telescopic Guéridon with an Inset Marble Top
CIRCA 1800 Height 22 x diameter of top 10 1/2 inches. Property from a Private Collector, Winnetka, Illinois
Provenance: Mallett & Son Antiques Ltd., London, July 27, 1984 (with copy of invoice) $1,000-$2,000
19TH CENTURY Height 31 1/2 x width 32 1/2 x depth 16 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Dorothy Manewal Stephens, St. Louis, Missouri $800-$1,200
*86 An Empire Style Painted and Parcel Gilt Walnut Console Table
19TH CENTURY Height 33 1/2 x width 24 3/4 x depth 14 1/4 inches. Property from the Estate of Dorothy Manewal Stephens, St. Louis, Missouri $1,000-$2,000
19TH CENTURY Height 36 x width 51 x depth 23 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Joseph E. Suiter, Columbus, Ohio $1,000-$2,000
LATE 19TH CENTURY Height 37 3/4 x width 50 x depth 24 1/2 inches. $800-$1,200
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91 89 An Empire Gilt Bronze Figural Mantel Clock
19TH CENTURY Height 15 1/ x width 11 1/2 x depth 4 inches. $1,000-$1,500
90 An Empire Gilt Bronze Pendule d’Officier
19TH CENTURY Height 8 3/4 x width 5 5/8 inches. $1,000-$2,000
91 A Pair of Empire Gilt and Patinated Bronze Four-Light Candelabra
19TH CENTURY Height 14 1/2 inches. $600-$800
92 A Pair of Empire Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Urns
FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY Height 13 x width 5 5/8 inches. $3,000-$5,000
93 An Empire Style Gilt Bronze and Tôle Bouillotte Lamp
20TH CENTURY Height 30 inches. $1,000-$2,000
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94 After Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French, 1824-1887) L’amour se confie à l’amitié bronze inscribed A. Carrier Height 28 1/2 x width 15 3/4 inches.
Provenance: Beaux Arts Gallery, Chicago, October 4, 1992 $1,000-$2,000 95 Pierre Marius Montagne (French, 1828-1879) Mercure au repos, 1867 bronze signed Marius Montagne and dated Height 30 1/2 inches. $800-$1,200 96 After Paul Dubois (French, 1829-1905) La charité bronze inscribed P. Dubois and with F. Barbedienne, Fondeur foundry mark Height 25 x width 9 1/4 inches. $1,000-$2,000
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97 After Paul Dubois (French, 1829-1905) Le courage militaire bronze inscribed P. Dubois and A. Mr. J. Meline Député/ L’industrie Française/ 1882, with F. Barbedienne Fondeur Paris foundry mark and Réduction Mécanique/ A. Collas/ Breveté seal Height 33 1/2 inches. $1,500-$2,500
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98 After Henri-Michel Antoine Chapu (French, 1833-1891) Joan of Arc at Domrémy bronze inscribed H. Chapu and with an F. Barbedienne, Fondeur foundry mark and Réduction Mécanique/ A. Collas/ Breveté seal Height 22 x width 15 inches. $800-$1,200
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99 Auguste-Joseph Carrier (French, 1837-1908) A Maenad and Two Cherubs bronze inscribed A. Carrier Scpteur Height 27 inches. $1,000-$1,500
*100 Aimé-Jules Dalou (French, 1838-1902) Jean Leclaire bronze with marble base signed Dalou and with Thiebaut Frères Fondeurs Paris foundry mark Height of bronze figural group 14 1/4 inches. Property from the Estate of Joan Conway Crancer, St. Louis, Missouri $1,000-$2,000
101 After Jules-Félix Coutan (French, 1848-1939)
Late 19th/Early 20th Century La Paix armée bronze, raised on an associated white marble pedestal unsigned Height of bronze figure 33 1/2 inches. $700-$900
102 Jean Verschneider (French, 1872-1943) Lion et son dompteur bronze signed Jean Verschneider, inscribed EL 11/1721 and with a Verschneider/ F. Goldscheider foundry mark Height 30 1/2 inches. $600-$800
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103 Vincent-Désiré Faure de Broussé (French, 1876-1908) Pandora and Mercury bronze signed Faure de Broussé Height of bronze 30 inches. $1,500-$2,500 104 A French Gilt and Patinated Bronze and Marble Mantel Clock
AFTER JEAN-LÉON GRÉGOIRE (FRENCH, 1840-1890), LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY Height overall 28 1/2 x width 20 1/8 x depth 9 3/4 inches. $2,000-$4,000
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105 A French Wool Tapestry
18TH/19TH CENTURY 6 feet 9 inches x 4 feet 5 inches. $2,500-$3,500
