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Stained glass window from a chapel with Saint Anne as central figure

19th century Neo-Gothic style stained glass window from a chapel in Bordeaux signed Mauméjean. Featuring three hieratic standing figures placed on pedestals each in a separate stained glass panel. The central figure is a female Saint dressed in green and antique pink standing with her hands joined together in prayer. On her left stands a man with a long white beard in a bright red robe, with his arms crossed as he gazes at the future (a patriarch?). On her right stands a younger bearded man in a maroon dress holding a burning staff (Moses?). Above are three rosettes, two side by side with pairs of flying angel faces with colourful wings, and at the top another rosette with a single green winged angel. The colours of the stained glass are strikingly bright, the features have been painted with attention to detail. Unfortunately we were unable to salvage the stone frame. This stained glass window is one of three – see items # 1027 and 1028.

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Antique stone well from the 18th century

This very beautiful stone well was made during the 18th century in the tourainoise region. Height of 173cm, it is topped with a saddleback roof supported by four columns. The roof is crowned with a vase made out of the same stone. Originally a wooden hand crank system, serving to pull up the water, with the help of a chain.

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Modern fireback with Chinese-style decoration illustrating "The Great Mogul"

20th century cast iron fireback illustrating "The Great Mogul". The chinoiserie is a caracteristic of the Louis XV Rocaille style. A lot of chinoiserie was designed by Boucher, adapted also to furniture, objets d'art, materials, and porcelain. A very similar fireback is in the Musée of Orleans. CHINOISERIE, decorative work produced under the influence of Chinese art, applied particularly to the more fanciful and extravagant manifestations. Intimations of Eastern art reached Europe in the Middle Ages in the porcelains brought by returning travelers. Eastern trade was maintained during the intervening centuries, and the East India trading companies of the 17th and 18th cent. imported Chinese lacquers and porcelains. Dutch ceramics quickly showed the influence of Chinese blue-and-white porcelains. In the middle of the 18th cent. the enthusiasm for Chinese objects affected practically every decorative art applied to interiors, furniture, tapestries, and bibelots and supplied artisans with fanciful motifs of scenery, human figures, pagodas, intricate lattices, and exotic birds and flowers. In France the Louis XV style gave especial opportunities to chinoiserie, as it blended well with the established rococo . Whole rooms, such as those at Chantilly, were painted with compositions in chinoiserie, and Watteau and other artists brought consummate craftsmanship to the style.

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Small Louis XVI fireplace in Bleu Fleuri marble

This small Louis XVI style mantel was carved in Bleu Fleuri marble in the late 19th century. The straight entablature is panelled and has square motifs in the corners. It is supported by rudented fluted jambs.

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Fireback dated 1828 representing a scene from the tale "L'Ermite ou Frère Luce" by La Fontaine

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Louis XVI style trumeau

This 19th century trumeau is decorated in the Louis XVI style. The edge of the mirror is adorned with a frieze of oves while the top is carved with a frieze of interlacing.

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Small Napoleon III-style trumeau

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"Lion's paw" model fireplace, in Carrara marble

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Louis XV style fireplace with three shells in Médou breccia