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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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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.