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A Handsome Pair of 19th Century Louis XVI Gilt-bronze Andirons with guilloche and lambrequin motifs, acorn finials and tapering fluted legs headed with rosettes

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France 192 M00051
A Handsome Pair of 19th Century Louis XVI Gilt-bronze Andirons with guilloche and lambrequin motifs, acorn finials and tapering fluted legs headed with rosettes

France 192 M00051
A 19th Century English Coromandel Letterbox, the dome-top with a porcelain putto decorated insert

France 192 M00051
An 18th Century Polychromed Dutch Armada Iron Trunk, retaining original hardware and embellished with well-patinated original painted panels of rural Dutch life, sailing vessels, paysage and other floral and foliate motifs, and with the interior lid painted with a scene of the Dutch armada galleons at sea

France 192 M00051
A 19th Century French Tole Hatbox

France 192 M00051
A Fine 18th Century Italian Louis XV Walnut Three Drawer Commode, with a simple apron and the whole raised on short cabriole legs

France 192 M00051
A Handsome Pair of 18th Century Italian Lombardy Arbalette Walnut and Parquetry Bedside Commodini, each with shaped tops and three drawers, the whole raised on flattened bun feet

France 192 M00051
A Pair of Superb 18th Century Italian Arbalette Burl Walnut Commodes in the English Taste, each with its original yellow Siena marble top, hardware and three functioning and graduating drawers, accented by chevron crossbanding, ebonized beading and a shaped apron, with the whole resting on cabriole legs and ball and claw feet

France 192 M00051
A Pair of Modern C. Mariani Custom Art Deco-Style Mahogany Bedside Tables covered in goatskin parchment with the seams creating a criss-cross pattern, each with two drawers, additional shelf space, and an expanding slide for additional surface space

France 192 M00051
A Pair of 19th Century French Glass Vitrines with brass mouldings and engraved:”Maison Marquet, E. Alphonse & L. Haour, 21, Place Bellecour, Lyon”, with four moveable glass shelves and raised on a pedestal base

France 192 M00051
An 18th Century Walnut French Régence Transitional to Louis XV Three-Drawer Commode, with elaborate bale handles, the apron carved with floral and foliate motifs, and the whole atop short prototypical cabriole legs

France 192 M00051
An 18th Century Louis XVI Olivewood and Walnut Chest of Drawers, with three wide drawers, the whole raised on turned and shaped neoclassical feet

France 192 M00051
A Fine 18th Century English Oak Trunk, retaining original hardware

France 192 M00051
A 17th Century Tuscan Walnut Commodino, the moulded rectangular hinged top above a faux drawer (opening for storage), above two drawers with turned rounded knobs and heart shaped keyholes, the whole raised on lion’s paw feet and retaining its original hardware

France 192 M00051
An Extraordinary and Rare Pair of 18th Century Milanese Commodes, in the Maggiolini manner, in exquisite condition including the original locks and key, with marquetry scenes of an ancient villa covering the three drawers and the sides inlaid with a parquetry egg and dart pattern surrounding circular fan motifs

France 192 M00051
An 18th Century Russian Mahogany Secretaire accented with brass appliqués and surmounted by a broken pediment atop doors opening to reveal three shelves, with a shaped slant front fitted with drawers and cubbies, above an expanding slide with leather writing surface, all all above three wide drawers, the whole raised on bracket feet

France 192 M00051
An 18th Century English Mahogany Linen Press crested with denticulated moulding above two large doors and two long lower drawers, the whole raised on shaped bracket feet

France 192 M00051
A 17th Century Tuscan Walnut Commodino, with hand cut burl veneers, four drawers with original hardware and raised on dramatic animal paw feet

France 192 M00051
A Late 18th Century Louis XVI Italian Commodino (Bedside Table), with porphyry and marble veneered top trimmed in a white marble, and the whole inlaid with intricate marquetry of exotic woods

France 192 M00051
A Late Renaissance Italian Giltwood Marriage Cassone with magnificent alto relievo carved figures of Roman battles and victories

France 192 M00051
An Early 18th Century Baroque Florentine Geometric Carved Walnut Credenza with two wide drawers flanking a narrow one, all above two doors opening to storage space and raised on simple block legs

France 192 M00051
An 18th Century Florentine Three-Drawer Polychrome and Faux Marble Commode, its original finish still intact, and with two large drawers beneath a single smaller one with the whole raised on short cabriole legs

France 192 M00051
The Magnificent Early 16th Century Medici Credenza from the Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, the oldest hospital in Florence, founded by Italian merchant banker Folco di Ricovero Portinari, in 1288 (he was the father of Dante’s famous muse Beatrice Portinari), and starting in 1420 became a beneficiary of the patronage of Cosimo di Medici (and would continue to be patronized by his son Pietro and his grandson Lorenzo the Great di Medici for more than 40 years it was improved and expanded under the patronage of Cosimo di Medici through the Medici Bank’s representative, Tommaso Portinari, the great grandson of the hospital founder. Duke Cosimo I (1517-74) was a great patron of the Renaissance, spending huge sums of money on both architecture and art.

France 192 M00051
An 18th Century Baroque Tuscan Walnut Credenza with two large lower cabinets below three pullout drawers, the whole decorated with fielded panels with later period-appropriate brass hardware, and raised on shaped bracket feet

France 192 M00051
An 18th Century Northern Italian Walnut Credenza, from Reggio Emilia, a town located in the Emilia Romagna area of Italy, with three upper drawers above three cabinet doors, carved with shaped and fielded panels and with high relief trailing husks cascading down the two front corners

France 192 M00051
A French Transitional Régence-Louis XV Rosewood Parquetry Commode with a Rouge Royale Marble top, two large drawers below two smaller ones, all fitted with ormolu brass pulls and escutcheons, and with conforming ormolu mounts at the apron and on the feet

France 192 M00051
An Extraordinary Early 18th Century Genovese Four-Drawer Walnut Commode, the top shaped with coved corners above three large drawers and one shallow drawer at the bottom, accented with an intricately carved apron and all raised on lion paw feet

France 192 M00051
An 18th Century French Mahogany and Bronze Doré Bookcase of neoclassical form with three sections each with four shelves

France 192 M00051
A Magnificent Pair of 18th Century Polychrome Serpentine Credenzas, each with two doors

France 192 M00051
A 17th Century Italian Walnut Credenza, with two drawers and two doors flanked by pilasters and raised on bracket feet

France 192 M00051
An 18th Century French Louis XV Red Chinoiserie Three-Drawer Commode

France 192 M00051
A Sophisticated 18th Century Sicilian Rosewood Parquetry Commode with ormolu chutes and mounts, arbalette form, and Siena marble top

France 192 M00051
An 18th Century Portuguese Rosewood Arbalette Commode with unusual silver escutcheons and handles on three drawers, the interiors of which are also rosewood, the whole raised on short cabriole feet