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Item No. 1201

French, Baroque Period embroidered needlework panel

Probably depicting Saint Cyr, within a Regence style giltwood frame. Late 17th or early 18th century.

Provenance: Collection de la Tour d'Argent, Paris.

40" high by 37" wide

Item No. 1194

Exceptional, French, Louis XVI period Bergere

In solid, carved giltwood vigorously carved in neoclassical motifs (guilloches, acanthus leaves); the backrest having two fluted and detached columns; the whole resting upon spiral, fluted legs.

Circa 1780, Paris.

Stamped: Louis Charles Carpentier

37" high by 27½" wide by 25" deep

Item No. 1193

French, Regence period tabouret

In solid, carved giltwood with pied de biche ("deer feet"). Covered with 18th centry tapestry. Circa 1725.

Provenance: Gallery Perrin (Paris)

9¾" high by 22½" wide by 19¼" deep

Item No. 1175

Set of twelve French, Neoclassical style dining chairs

Painted and parcel gilded. Richly sculpted in a guilloché pattern resting upon tapered and fluted legs. 19th century.

A similar example is currently on display at Muse´e des Arts De´coratifs in Paris.

37" high by 20" wide by 18½" deep

Item No. 1169

Pair of French, Louis XIV period torcheres

In solid carved natural wood. The upper elements vigorously carved with acanthus leaves, the central columns, triangular in form, pierced and adorned with male masks, the whole resting on a tripod base having sculpted leaves, volutes and lambrequins. Circa 1670.

Provenance:

Sale in Versailles, Palais des Congres, Commissaire-Priseur Jean-Paul Chapelle, March 3, 1968-acquired by Georges Hereil, Paris.
1981: The estate of Georges Hereil, by descent to GG.

66" high

Item No. 1153

French, Neoclassical style lamp

In gilt bronze and patinated bronze with a winged putto (cherub) holding two candelabra above a square plinth base elaborately cast in bronze d'ore.

Attributed to Henri Picard, who was established in Paris, 6 rue Jarente from 1831 to 1839 and then 10 rue de la Perle from 1840 to 1864. Picard worked on Emperor Napoleon III’s apartments at the Louvre Palace.

Second half of the 19th century.

23" high by 13" diameter

Item No. 1150

Pair of French, Louis XV period fauteuils

In solid, carved and patinated beechwood. Circa 1752.

Stamped: MICHEL GOURDIN

Michel Gourdin was recognized as a master ébéniste in 1752. Other works by Gourdin are represented in The Met, the Louvre, the Bouvier Collection in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris; the Wallace Collection, London; Windsor Castle; and the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York.

36½" high by 25" wide

Item No. 1122

Pair of large, Baroque (Louis XIV) style torcheres

In solid, carved giltwood. Of balluster form decorated with stylized acanthus leaves and grotesques (male figured masks). Inscribed "LA MARECHALERIE (...)/Avenue (...) PARIS FRANCE" 19th century.

56¼" high by 18½" diameter

Item No. 1093

French, Louis XV period cartel d'alcove

Mercury-gilded of Rocaille form. Paris, circa 1750.

24" tall by 16" wide

Item No. 1087

French, Louis XIV period marquetry commode of small dimensions

In rosewood having three drawers and original Brèche de Médicis marble. From Paris, France. Late 17th century.

32¼" high by 34¼" wide by 20¾" deep

Item No. 984

Fine, French, Louis XV style tric-trac table

One side of reversible top having a chess board, the other a green, felt card surface, the whole resting on cabriole legs. The interior with ebony and ivory inlaid backgammon board. In rosewood with gilt bronze mounts. Paris, circa 1880.

42" wide by 27¾" high by 24" deep

Item No. 980

Very fine, French, Regence period commode

From Paris. Circa 1735. Stamped "L. DELAITRE" (Louis Delaitre, master 1738).

Item No. 862

Set of six fine, French, Regence style, carved giltwood fauteuils

Each with foliate carved, channelled frame and carved, giltwood entertrotoise (stretchers). Legs terminating in pied de sabots. Each chair applied with a paper label to the underside:

CALIFORNIA PALACE FOR THE LEGION OF HONOR, 21, LINCOLN PARK, SAN FRANCISCO/1958.54/armchair, wood carved, gesso and gilt; upholstered in silk and wool petit-point embroidery/France, style of about 1710/Lent by the W.H. Crocker Estate and with a stencilled label GUERDE/doreur encadreur/45 rue de Bourgogne 45/Paris/meubles batiment a cadres dor/aes Noir met imitation d'…./eatt/aemiation et oxidisation de 10r.

One of six matching chairs shown. 19th century.

Provenance: W.H. Crocker - Accessioned by the California Palace for the Legion of Honor in 1958

Item No. 398

Renaissance style extending game table ("table a jeu")

In solid walnut with casters and multiple inlaid playing surfaces for backgammon, checkers, chess, and a roulette wheel. 19th century from Paris.

31" wide by 26" deep by 30½" high, (93" wide when fully extended)

Item No. 598

Rare, French, Neoclassical, extension dining table

In solid Cuban mahogany, a wood that has been completely deforested. With tapered, fluted legs terminating in casters. Extends with original mechanism to twenty-three feet, seating for thirty people. Late 18th century from Ile de France (region of Paris).

29" high by 53" round with drop leaves up; extends up to 23' (276" wide)