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A. TEBARQUE - Pair of women portraits made out of glazed stoneware

This pair of medallions was made by A. Tebarque around 1880-1890 out of faience enameled in relief. Featuring two female portraits, the painter perfectly mastered the enamels and brushstrokes, and used an abundance of colour. Tebarque also made the women very realistic. On one side, a woman with ashy blonde colour hair; blue eyes, seems to be dressed in a white dress with a lace neckline, whilst a deep dark blue coat is wrapped around her shoulders against the sky blue background of the medallions. On the other side, the second woman, brown, dark eyes, is dressed in the same style, a yellow pastel dress with a lace neckline and a large brown coat. Like a game of colours, Tebarque matched the colours of his characters' eyes with the colours of their adornments. The two women have realistic flowers made out of metallic enamel in their hair. The background of the two medallions, a sky blue colour, is decorated with floral apple tree branches carved in relief.

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CREIL-MONTEREAU Manufacture - Beautiful antique planter with faux cloisonné flowers decor and base made out of gilded bronze and patinated bronze with elephant heads decor

This beautiful planter was made out of enameled faience by the famous Creil-Montereau Manufacture in the Oise Department of France, ca. 1880. The feet shaped like elephant heads and the base imitating the texture of bamboo with gilt bronze show the influence of Oriental art on French artists during the second half of the 19th century. The planter’s body features a magnificent decoration of peonies and fans on a Turquoise-blue background. The painter imitated the cloisonné enamels technique by painting on gold-colored cracks. The factory’s stamp proves the origin of this object and the floral décor resembles the Flora motif that was one of the Creil manufacture’s most successful creations, exhibited at the World’s Fair of 1855 in Paris.

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Théodore DECK (1823-1891) and Joseph Gustave CHERET (1838-1894) - Large vase with decoration of nymphs and cherubs

A Napoleon III style , large, rounded vase with a straight neck and raised decoration of mannerist-inspired naiads and cherubs dancing, encircled by continuous garlands of orange-colored flowers, and flanked by two protruding handles sculpted into heads of grotesques. This enameled ceramic vase features a beautiful mauve varnish that fades into an off-white cream color in the center, as well as barbotine, a creamy mixture of kaolin clay used to ornament pottery, particularly in the late-1800's. Signed “TH. DECK” under the foot and “J. Chéret” on the body, beneath the barbotine figures. Deck and Chéret Collaboration: Théodore Deck and Joseph Chéret worked together several times, particularly to create vases, pot holders, different types of cups, and faience centerpieces. Most of the time, the barbotine figures and ornaments sculpted by Chéret adorn the vase or cup created by Deck. In 1887, they worked together at the manufacture nationale de Sèvres, one of the principal European porcelain factories. Deck was the director of the factory, and Chéret the director of artistic works.

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Manufacture KELLER & GUERIN in Luneville - pair of vases decorated with storks in flight in a lake landscape

Pair of enameled ceramic vases with polychrome decoration of storks in flight in a lacustrine landscape, partly decorated with gilding. Handwritten mark "K.G. Luneville France" and hollow mark "Luneville" under the base. Made in the late 19th century, this beautiful pair of vases bears the mark of the pottery Keller and Guerin in Lunéville. The decoration of storks in flight in a lakeside landscape, punctuated by tree trunks, is reminiscent of Japanese iconography and its taste for animal figurations. The book by Annabelle Héry, "La Faïencerie de Lunéville, 1786-1923, Les Keller & Guérin" (Editions Messene, 1999) publishes on page 110 a cahcepot with a very similar decoration, also with storks.

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A bed inspired by the Far East, decorated with a tuk-tuk

Sycamore bed molded and sculpted in the taste of Gabriel Viardot. Headboard carved with flowers and adorned with panels with mother-of-pearl inlays with flower and foliage motifs. Roof with four uprights, one of which is rolled up by a flowered branch. Carved footboard decorated with flowered branches and adorned with a mother-of-pearl marquetry panel decorated with a Chinese woman in traditional dress carried by a tuk-tuk.

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Cabinet with shelves inspired by the Far East

Cabinet with shelves in the Japanese style, inlaid with ivory, bone and mother-of-pearl, decorated with decorative openwork motifs enhanced with gilded bronze plaques. Opening with three doors, engraved with dragon, samurai, floral motif and three drawers. Many asymmetrical shelves. On the upper part, two carved dragons and a cornice.