A set of four Louis XV period chairs In lacquered wood, with molded back and seat, raised on cabriole legs ending with a volute.
Estampille I.BOUCAULT pour Jean Boucault (1705-1786), maître en 1728. Epoque milieu du 18ème siècle.
Dimensions : H33,3 - W20-D20 inches
Two armchairs of this maker belong to the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.
Bouquet de fleurs dan un vase sur un entablement . Attribué à Karel van VOGELAER (Maastricht 1653-1695Rome). Huile sur toile. Dans un cadre en bois sculpté doré. Epoque 17ème siècle, cadre d’époque 18ème siècle.
Dimensions : H37,8 - W28,3 in - Enframed H50,4 - W40,9 inches
Painter mainly active in Italy, where he was recognized for his talents as a flower painter and called "Carlo dei Fiori". His works belong in many museums such as The Borghese Gallery in Rome, the Liechtenstein Gallery in Vienna, the Stockholm Museum, and the Hanover Museum.
Lustre en bronze ciselé doré à six lumières, l’axe orné de feuilles d’acanthe, de têtes de bébés souffleurs, et de masques de satyres grimaçant. L’ensemble est agrémenté de gouttes en cristal de roche.
France, early 18th century
Dimensions : H22,8 -D20,8 in
Socrate, Alcibiade and Aspasie
White marble panel
French school. Epoque second half of 18th century
Dimensions : H20,8 - W31,4 - T4,7 inches
A few little cracks and lacks.
Apollo and Daphne, sculpture in bronze with brown patina. Resting on a rectangular base in white marble and Egyptian porphyry, underlined by bronze friezes.
Dimensions : Sculpture : H15,5 - W8,7 -D6,3 in - With the base : H25 - W10,4 - D8,7 in
Francesco RIGHETTI was the pupill of the famous Roman bronzier Luigi VALLADIER (1726-1785). He received the patronage of Catherine II of Russia, Popes Pius VI and Pius VII, and took over from his master Valladier as the director of the Vatican foundries from 1805. The quality of his work earned him commissions from the greatest collectors of his time including Camille Borghese and Pauline Bonaparte, sister of the First Consul. In 1805 he took over from his master Valladier as director of the Vatican foundries, assisted by his son Luigi.
From 1794 Francesco Righetti listed in a catalog all the works he produced with their detailed selling prices, which included Apollo and Daphne.
A Louis XV style ten-light chandelier in gilded and chiseled bronze, headed with a corona, the curved candlearms issuing drip-pans and bobeches with foliate scrolls in a rocaille style ; ornamented with pearls and drops. The ball final changed.
Epoque late 19th century
Dimensions : H47,3 in - D30,3 in. Fitted for electricity.
Exceptional tripod pedestal table
Les plateaux de forme circulaire en placage de bois satiné, cintrés d’une galerie en bronze ciselé doré ajouré, le plateau supérieur à décor de fleurs dans des cartouches entrelacés ; sur trois pieds incurvés surmontés d’une tête de bélier, et terminés par des sabots de cervidés, reliés entre eux par une entretoise de forme triangulaire agrémentée d’un bouquet central.
Le tout est d’une qualité de réalisation remarquable, tant dans l’assemblage des éléments, que dans la finesse de la ciselure.
Provenance : Probably Russian
Epoque : first quarter of 19th century
Dimensions : H : 31 - Diam : 22,8 inches
Two horses in polychrom sculpted wood, Bai brun and Alezan.
Italy, epoque 18th century
Dimensions : Bai brun : H 58 – L 57 cm et Alezan : H 58 – L 60 cm.
Old restorations
Statue équestre de Louis XIV. Sculpture en bronze à patine brune figurant Louis XIV à cheval, sur un socle mouluré en bois noirci.
Epoque late 18th - early 19th century
Dimensions : H : 17 - W : 17,3 in - Base : L : 24 - D : 9,8 inches
Une sculpture d’un même modèle est conservée dans les collections du château de Parentignat.
Borghese Gladiator. Bronze with brown-green patina, on a plinth in Verde Antico marble, and a rectangular base in white Carrara marble and gray granite, ornamented by bronze friezes.
Dimensions : the bronze : H : 11 - W : 11,4 - D : 10,2 inches - Entiere : H : 18,5 - W : 10,6 - D : 6,3 inches
Provenance: Probably acquired in Roma by Cardinal Antonio Despuig Dameto (1745-1813), then by descent in the collections of the Counts of Montenegro, Raixa; then collection of Juan Truyols Rovira (1973-2006), in his property of Predio Morelli, Majorca.
Francesco RIGHETTI was the pupill of the famous Roman bronzier Luigi VALLADIER (1726-1785). He received the patronage of Catherine II of Russia, Popes Pius VI and Pius VII, and took over from his master Valladier as the director of the Vatican foundries from 1805. The quality of his work earned him commissions from the greatest collectors of his time including Camille Borghese and Pauline Bonaparte, sister of the First Consul.
Dating from the Hellenistic period, this sculpture was unearthed during excavations carried out in Antium, Italy. It takes its name from the famous collection of Cardinal Borghese, and will be one of the works subsequently acquired by Napoleon 1st, and kept in the Louvre museum. (INV No. MR 224). Like many sculptures from Ancient Greece, this Gladiator will be used by the great bronziers at the end of the 18th century to decorate the collections of scholars performing their Grand Tour, and it appears in Righetti's catalog from 1794.
Biblio : A.Pasquier « Le gladiateur Borghèse ou la gloire d’un soldat inconnu », d’après l’Antique, cat. expo musée du Louvre, Paris, 2000, pp 276-277.
