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Main gate with 100 linear feet of railing

Napoleon III iron main gate and fence, for a large proprety. Wrought iron posts decorated with volutes surround the gate. The vertical rods are topped with pikes of different sizes. These gates came from a very large property and were built in Saint Amand Les Eaux (in the North of France) in the second half of the 19th century for the marriage of a brewer's daughter to a Russian aristocrat, a descendant of the Nicolov family.

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A pair of wooden monumental doors.

A pair of wooden monumental doors made during the 19th century.

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Antique gilded trumeau from the Restoration period decorated with shells

Antique Restoration period trumeau, gilded with shell decoration, mercury mirror.

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Antique painted trumeau decorated with an oil on canvas representing a gallant scene

Antique trumeau painted animated in the upper part of an oil on canvas representing a gallant scene.

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Set of 15 m² of terracotta floor tiles in square shape

Antique terracotta floor tiles of 15 m² in a square shape, from the 19th century and different French tilefactories (see the marks on the back). The sides are 8"1/16 to 8"7/16 for 1" to 1"3/16 thick.

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Louis XIV style mantel carved in Breche Sanguine

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Curved Louis XVI style mantel in Arabescato marble decorated with a laurel wreath

This Louis XVI-style fireplace is in Arabescato marble, a white marble veined with gray or black. It is one of the white marbles of Carrara, and its main quarries are located in the Carrara basin in Italy, at Seravezza Lucca. The band of this fireplace is defined by moldings forming a rectangle carved into the marble. At the center of this rectangle are multiple laurel leaves and their fruits, which separate into two asymmetrical parts and meet at their ends outside the frame to form an oval at its center. The inside of the oval is invested with a wavy, knotted ribbon. From this center, two long laurel branches extend along the sides of the band, framed by the rectangle of moldings. The console parts of the leg are adorned with a framed floral motif, formed by acanthus leaves and a central high-relief bud. The top of the leg is curved by the presence of scrolls on the sides of the leg. The face of the leg features superimposed acanthus leaves plunging downwards. The rest of the leg is fluted and ends in a scroll. The central flute is adorned with pearls. This fireplace is characterized by a blend of natural motifs, such as flowers and foliage, with motifs from Antiquity, such as the use of acanthus flowers, laurel crown, and column fluting. This mix is typical of the Louis XVI style, to which we can add the presence of ribbons and pearls, also characteristic of this style.

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Louis XV style Pompadour mantel in Enjugerais marble

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Tony SELMERSHEIM, Art Nouveau Mantelpiece in Green Campan Marble, 1910

This highly original mantelpiece was carved in the Art Nouveau style in1910 by tony Selmersheim, in Campan green marble. The lintel is adorned with a vast curve imitating a pediment, ending at the corners in two curves echoing the shape of the upper part of the jambs. The interior of the mantel is highlighted by slightly mushroom-shaped curves, typical of Art Nouveau. The mantels are recessed at right angles to the inside, and follow two arcs on the outside. The ornamentation on the narrow sides is meticulous, echoing the curves underlining the cut-out jambs and featuring a beautiful “whiplash” line. This 1910 mantel was realized in Campan vert, a green marble with white veins. Green Campan is one of several varieties of Campan marble, including Ribbon Campan marble, Pink Campan and Campan Grand Mélange. It is quarried at the Campan site on the Payolle plateau (hamlet Espiadet) in the upper Adour valley in the Hautes-Pyrénées. In the late 19th and early 21st centuries, the green Campan variety became fashionable for cladding interiors, buildings and other edifices abroad, such as the cathedrals of Westminster, Peterborough and Bristol in the United Kingdom. Joseph Paul Tony Selmersheim (1871-1971) was the designer of this mantel. He was a 20th-century French architect, decorator, furniture designer and cabinetmaker. In 1890, he enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. To complement his courses, he enrolled in Eugène Grasset's classes at the Ecole Guérin and attended the “Atelier des Epinettes”, which trained art workers. In 1895, he founded and chaired the Société des cinq, which in 1895 became the Société des six with Charles Plumet, and finally became L'Art dans tout in 1897. This movement challenged the hierarchies between major and minor arts, the compartmentalization between artistic, craft, and industrial production, and sought to create a “social art”. In August 1903, Plumet and Selmersheim created the Ch. Plumet et Tony Selmersheim company, which produced and sold furniture and decorative items. Tony took over the business alone in 1904 and continued until 1938-39. Throughout his career, Tony Selmersheim took part in numerous Salons. It was at the Salon de l'Automne in 1910 that he exhibited this fireplace carved from his drawings. This fireplace is exhibited as part of a bedroom. It was presented with a slightly curved decorated by painter Charles Guérin, reminiscent of the Art Nouveau style. This style is reflected both in the absence of any clear demarcation between the lintel and the legs (on the contrary, the ornamentation is continuous) and in the plant-inspired lines running through the marble. This fireplace could be appreciated for its “very personal” character, says Amédée Marandet in the “Chronique artistique” section of the L'Aurore newspaper of May 13, 1911. Next to our fireplace, another was exhibited designed by Tony Selmersheim for the dining room, sculpted by Mr. Huve from a model by the sculptor Camille Lefèvre. After the 1910 Salon, these two Tony Selmersheim’s rooms, including our fireplace, were exhibited again at the 1911 Salon des Artistes Décorateurs.

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Large Napoleon III-style gilded trumeau with laurel garland

This large Napoleon III-style gilded overmantel is remarkable for the large garland that spills over the mirror and intertwines in the overmantel. The garland is made of laurel leaves, which are found at the top of the overmantel next to the central motif. The central motif is that of a coat of arms, from which cut leather and ribbons emerge. The overmantel has simple and rectilinear shapes that feature rounded inner corners, contrasting with the outer corners that protrude from the rectangular structure. Throughout the frame of the overmantel, the same motifs are repeated, notably that of the pearls. The use of laurel leaves, reminiscent of Greek Antiquity, and the use of pearls and ribbons are reminiscent of the Louis XVI style, a style used in the Napoleon III style initiated by Empress Eugénie.

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Louis XV style Pompadour mantel in Rouge du Nord marble

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Louis Philippe period gilded trumeau decorated with flowers.

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Napoleon III style fireplace with "water leaves décor" in fine Belgian black

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Louis XVI style fireplace with acroterion in Northern Red marble