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Click here to subscribeA Classic Revival satinwood and strung bijouterie cabinet, late 19th century, upon four tapering strung legs united by slender stretchers with vase platform, 40.5cm wide 40.5cm deep 75.5cm high CONDITION REPORT: 5cm splice of beading missing. Interior beading supporting glass top is split in one section and loose.
A George III inlaid mahogany bookcase/display cabinet, the arcaded cornice inlaid with stylised square flower heads, over four astragal glazed doors, the astragals satinwood crossbanded and strung, the base centred by a pair of arched panelled doors, within a pair of astragal glazed doors, below a frieze of inlaid husks and scrolls, the central doors below inlaid 'spandrels' and flanked by inlaid flowers, the sides with strung decoration, on bracket feet, 185cm wide 51cm deep 238cm high CONDITION REPORT: One glass panel broken. Astragal bars damaged although pieces appear to be present. Two panes cracked. Usual minor wear. 184.5cm wide 51cm deep 239cm high Splits to one side. Small pieces of veneer replaced. Please see additional images (available upon request).
An Edwardian inlaid satinwood table display cabinet, the heart-shaped top on three cabriole legs and curved stretchers, 51cm long 45cm wide 76cm high CONDITION REPORT: Repair to top of one leg. Some slight fading to polish. 1 leg broken off and glued back. (break near top) Stretcher broken and repaired. Splits on top (repaired).
An Edwardian ladies crossbanded satinwood bonheur-du-jour, with brass gallery over a breakfront mirrored display cabinet, this above a pull out cylinder writing surface, enclosing three small drawers, over a long drawer on square tapering legs and lower shelf 75.5cm wide 50.5cm deep 136.5cm high CONDITION REPORT: Some slight fading to polish. Minor scratches and abrasions. Damage to side of top - veneer split. Mahogany is very faded. Please view additional image.
A Regency mahogany collector's cabinet, attributed to William Trotter of Edinburgh, the moulded cornice over two arched glazed doors within moulded pilasters, the base with two panelled doors with moulded pilaster sides opening to reveal an arrangement of twenty-one drawers with brass handles, raised on lion paw feet, 130cm wide 78cm deep 251cm high CONDITION REPORT: Three drawer handles replaced. One missing.
A Victorian pollard oak cabinet, by Lamb of Manchester with ebonised mouldings and flowerheads, set with three Wedgwood black basalt classical plaques, the central glazed door flanked by a pair of panelled doors, with line inlay, divided by stylised shell capped pilasters, stamped with the maker's name on a door top, 192cm wide 38cm deep 153cm high CONDITION REPORT: Small veneer chips around plinth. Piece of ebonised moulding missing. Good condition. Some scuffs, scratches, veneer losses on plinth (mirror). Loss of one of the beads on mouldings.
A Victorian burr walnut davenport, with inlaid crossbanding and stringing, the rising stationery cabinet with fold out shelf, over a side cupboard with four drawers, 58cm wide 33cm deep 168cm high CONDITION REPORT: Split to fret decoration to rising stationery section. Some light knocks and scuffs. Some light raising to veneer on top but no obvious major faults. Small area to fretwork repair in the rise/fall compartment. Both keys work, but not original, restored and cleaned condition. Some veneer chips to edges. Front moulding with dent - please view additional images.
A 'Rudd's Table or Reflecting Dressing Table', late 18th century, having three frieze drawers, the central drawer having an open box, lidded compartments and a sliding tray, flanked by a pair of pull-out drawers which swivel, fitted with open and box compartments and with two hinged mirrors, 105cm wide 70cm deep 79cm high 'Rudd's Table or Reflecting Dressing Table' was popularised by its appearance in Hepplewhite's 'The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterers' Guide', where Hepplewhite makes handsome acknowledgement to the original inventor: 'Rudd's Table or Reflecting Dressing Table possesses every convenience which can be wanted or mechanism or ingenuity supply'. The maker who most improved this design was Thomas Shearer. Ralph Fastnedge, in his book 'Shearer Furniture Designs', suggests the table was named after the personable, but notorious, Mrs Rudd. Margaret Caroline Rudd was a prominent 18th century forger, described as a despicable character, who left men trailing in her wake. One such gentleman was Valentine Rudd, who had the misfortune of marrying her. After moving to London, the couple split up and Margaret moved out of their home. However, as they were still married, Mrs Rudd simply went about living her life while putting it all on the bill of her estranged husband, resulting eventually in Valentine being put into debtor's prison. Margaret then became attached to identical twin brothers - Daniel and Robert Perreau. Although Daniel was a gambler, his brother was happily married and a successful businessman. All of this was blown apart by Mrs Rudd, who dragged both brothers into her world of forgery and crime. All three stood before the Old Bailey in 1775 on forgery charges, the Perreau brothers being found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. Mrs Rudd, however, used her charm to obtain a not guilty verdict and was released. She died in relative obscurity in 1779. CONDITION REPORT: Veneer replacement to frieze. Minor veneer loss.
A Dutch marquetry and walnut bombé corner cabinet, 19th century in two parts, the gabled and moulded pediment centred by an acanthus-leaf keyblock above conforming doors enclosing three shaped shelves, the lower section with two conforming doors enclosing a shaped shelf, with a plinth base on shaped bracket feet, inlaid throughout with scrolling foliage and flowering urns 0 1 223cm high, 131cm wide, 72cm deep
A French kingwood and amboyna gilt-metal mounted cabinet the top section with a gabled pediment above two bevelled glass doors and sides enclosing a shelf, with a mirrored backboard below, the lower section with a rectangular marble top above two frieze drawers and two doors enclosing a shelf, on turned feet 0 1 207cm high, 156cm wide, 54cm deep
ROBERT LEFÈVRE (BAYEUX 1755- PARIS1830) atelier de « Portrait de l’Empereur Napoléon 1er» Huile sur toile. Marques au pochoir sur le châssis. 27 x 19. 5 cm. Beau cadre doré. 4 000/4 500 € Le tableau que nous présentons pourrait être une projet pour le grand tableau définitif réalisé par l`artiste. Biographie : Robert Lefèvre est né à Bayeux le 18 avril 1756. Dès sa plus tendre enfance il se livre au dessin et à la peinture n’ayant « d’autre maître et d’autre guide que la nature ». Son père l’envoie à Caen comme apprenti auprès du procureur. Mais il continue de dessiner. À 22 ans il monte à Paris et devient l’élève du peintre académique Jean-Baptiste Regnault. Pourquoi ne s’est-il pas à son tour consacré à la peinture historique ? Mystère. Un document parle de « circonstances particulières ». Lefèvre se borne donc à peindre des portraits mais veut le faire en grand format. Aucune tête couronnée française ne lui résiste. Il fait le portrait de l’empereur Napoléon des impératrices Joséphine et Marie-Louise puis de Louis XVIII et de Charles X. Ces tableaux lui assurent gloire et richesse. Il obtient le titre de premier peintre du cabinet du Roi et reçoit la Légion d’honneur. QUATRE ANS APRES SA MORT EN 1830 UN CRITIQUE D’ART ECRIT QUE : « QUAND SES PORTRAITS AURONT PERDU POUR NOS DESCENDANTS LE MERITE DE LA RESSEMBLANCE ILS N’EN SERONT PAS MOINS PRECIEUX ENCORE PAR LEUR ETONNANTE IMITATION DE LA NATURE PAR CE GRACIEUX COLORIS ET CE DESSIN PUR ET SAVANT ».
SERVICE DE LA MAISON DE L’EMPEREUR NAPOLEON IER ATTRIBUE A BIENNAIS Paire de réchauds à plat à eau chaude. Ronds à deux anses rabattables en laiton doré. Diam : 24 3 cm. Ht : 5 cm. Ceintures gravées «Aux Grandes Armes Impériales » du Premier Empire relevé par un double filet en relief. A.B.E. Epoque Premier Empire. 2 500/3 000€ Œuvre en rapport : « Modèles de chauffe plats à eau chaude d’après Biennais ». Musée des Arts décoratifs Cabinet des dessins Paris. Un des modèles présentés présente une grande ressemblance avec l’objet présenté.
Historical DocumentsThe Marchand Archive, 1896-98A very rare selection of fourteen letters and three photographs from the Marchand expedition archive detailing life during this period, all written in French. The Marchand Mission was an expedition undertaken by French emissary Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863-1934). With a force of twelve Europeans and 150 men, he was sent out by the French Government to help counter British expansionism in northeastern Africa. Starting from Libreville (in present-day Gabon) in 1897, the expedition spent 14 arduous months crossing largely uncharted regions of north central Africa. They finally reached the fort of Fashoda on the upper Nile on July 10, 1898 and hoisted the French flag. On September 18, a flotilla of British gunboats led by Horatio Kitchener arrived at Fashoda; Kitchener had just defeated Mahdi forces at The Battle of Omdurman, and was in the process of reconquering the Sudan in the name of the Egyptian Khedive. The confrontation of the French and British was cordial but both sides insisted on their right to Fashoda. News of the encounter was relayed to Paris and London and each side accused the other of expansionism and aggression. A stalemate (the Fashoda Incident) continued until November 3 when French Foreign Minister Théophile Delcassé, fearing the possibility of war, withdrew Marchand and his troops and ceded the Sudan to the British. This selection of the letters are from different members of the expedition between 1896 and 1898. The letters are written by Jean Marchand 1897 (3 Oct.), 1898 (27 Nov.); Joseph Germain 1896 (2 July) and (21 Aug.); Charles Mangin 1897 (6 Oct.) from The Rapids and with signed studio photograph; Albert Baratier 1897 (31 Aug.); Jules Emily 1897 (8 July); Alfred Dye 1898 (5 Nov.) the transcript follows; Ernest Venail 1898 (15 Feb.) from The Rapids, and (29 Aug.) with studio portrait signed May 1900; Liotard 1897 (21 Jan.).A fascinating and highly desirable group with a lots of background and research information about this remarkable expedition, completed against all odds and a magnificent credit to the detrmination and resourcefulness of these pioneering soldiers. Photo The translation of two letters. "Bahr-el-Ghazal, 30km downstream from the confluence of the Arab Aboard the Faidherbe, 5th November 1898 My dear Largeau! My poor Largeau! What a stand-up we gave you at la mecha, what an annoying stand up. But I think of your worries, of your possible lack of supplies and am sending you a whaleboat with all my wood cutters - which breaks my heart as you can imagine! The Faidherbe has been stopped for six days in the sedd, I am going back to Fachoda, where I must be on the 10th of November, to take orders from the commanding officer Marchand at Khartoum, if need be. In two words I explain you the phantasmagorical dramatic turn of events which completely changed on the high Nile, during our painful journey to Fort Desain. We had left at the time the imminent arrival of another [friend Denriche] to Fachoda. [Tired]! It was not [Denriches] but indeed sirdar Kitchener, with 2.000 men, of which a battalion of highlanders, five big gunboats having on board up to 10 canons. Omderman was taken on September 2nd after a bloody and stupid battle which [Denriches] came to deliver in the plain, instead of staying behind the formidable fortifications of Omderman. My letter, moved, of October 13th to Doctor [ Cureau] that [ Fassinet] must have brought you, as well as my open note of today, to the same, had to teach you what takes place in Ghazal. Judge my bewilderment when I collect, 13 oct, an Egyptian detached flag on Khadija, then the next day a second in Bahr-el-Arab, with papers saying that these detached flags were raised for the officers of the Abon-Klea, one at Mecha, the other one on the lake Ambady!!!! Then I find Sedd in the channel of papyri, 800m of suites and I cross it only at the price of superhuman efforts of my 17 men. 18 [Chilonk] told me that there are two Turkish boats on the Nile, which wait for me to break [(sic)] the boat of the French people! New emotion…. But your good cannon is fixed at the front of the Faidherbe, protected by kegs and sheet steels; the boiler is hardened, I may let come … On the 18th´s evening I find a big Anglo-Egyptian camp in the confluence of Sobat, where these softened of Abyssinian could have been able to settle down 10 times more easily than us at Fachoda! This camp fires two cannon shots at me as a warning; but I take off silently. (It was to give me an order of Kitchener forbidding the war troops and ammunitions transportation on the Nile, as Marchand taught me later. Finally, the 19th at Fachoda, having crossed, peacefully, an Anglo-Eg. Gunboat upstream. There is so much news: the army announced by [Chillonk] was other one than a flying column organized by the sirdar Kitchener, after the fall of Omderman, 2 sept. The Caliph was able to run away, with 130 partisans, in the mountains of [Dar Nouba]. A Few days after the taking of Khartoum, arrive from the top Mahdiste vapour with quantity of wounded persons on board; Anglo-Egyptians seize it and find the hull riddled with bullets which appear to be French. Aoh! Mahdistes prisoners say that they all almost died there, under the fire of the whites of Fachoda. So, from September 11th, a paragraph of "Pt journal", tells in France that the Marchand mission put to flight two Mahdistes vapours at Fachoda, on 25th august. Suspect it! "Lord Khartoum ", the sirdar gathers then a warlike device which became important, and sets off the 11th for Fachoda with 2.000 men. He arrives the 19th adding by letter "any whites" who occupy Fachoda, are to let the flag of the [khidiye] float again at the top of the [mondineh]. Marchand refuses saying that he would make kill up to the last one of his men before letting in Anglo-Egyptians to the French post, that he is here in order of the French government, etc. Then Kitchener establishes a camp at 1km north of ours, with 6 guns held up at our citadel. Then he goes to establish a camp similar at the entry of Sobat, on the hillock of the left bank, at 500m of the Nile. He envies the Abon Klea in Ghazal, the sultan in Bahr-el-Ghazal, and returns, with his battalion of highlanders, towards Khartoum, and maybe towards Cairo where he is going to rest on his laurels with his inseparable Wingate. There are two big battles, at first that of [Atbana], then that of Omderman. The English people exult; it adorned that without our presence at Fachoda their gunboats went back up the Nile with English flags, and not Egyptian. At Fachoda, we bombard English of baskets of vegetables of the garden of Landeroin, and we receive in reply cases of Wingate, from which you receive a copy. Relation not too bad. By October 8th arrives an English gunboat with this telegram: " Marchand was named commander (major) on October 1st. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Delcassé, asks for the sending to Cairo of a French officer to have information on what was made on the Nile for the mission ". Germain being on the right bank of the Nile, with Fouque, searching for these untraceable Abyssinians, it is Baratier who straightaway leaves carrying to Cairo Marchand´s reports. A few days after Marchand notices that he forgot to send the treaty signed by Mek, and the other important pieces, he plots to go himself to Cairo, and when I arrive on 19th oct. he tells me to stay at his disposal in case the English people would refuse him the passage on their twice-weekly mail between Fachoda and Khartoum. Thus the Faidherbe stays in Fachoda and cannot come to get you for now. Terrifying news arriving from France: after the elections we have a radical cabinet, president Brisson, Lockroy to the navy, Bourgeois in the public works, Fouillat in colonies, Delcassé in the Foreign Affairs, Cavaignac has the war, etc. But Cavaignac resigned at the end of September, after the suicide of Lieutenant-colonel Henry, and was replaced by […] [zurlinden]. […] all this because of a false [assistant] also resigned, we do not know why, for Lieutenant-colonel Henry. This famous secret room of the Dreyfus, Esterhazy, Zola trials was only a […]. (Conveniently, Zola ran away to Belgium). The ministry is a supporter to revise the Dreyfus trial; this one doubtless returned to France. This affair is absolutely insane, and leads to a colossal upheaval. War council judges were they misled by […]? It is said that Esterhazy is the author of the slip etc. Anyway general chaos, shames on shames in France … In the first days of October we say that Paris had to be occupied militarily by 45.000 men under the orders of Zurlinden. On the other hand, mayhem in China; it adorned that a French-Russian body occupies Beijing. In the middle of this waste, Marchand did well to leave for Cairo, where he will support the French interests on the Nile, and can cry out hard so that we send to us other men, if the government does not want to evacuate. He left on 25th oct. for Khartoum, (by English boat) where from the railroad succeeds now. As a matter of fact the mission made all that she was able to, and, whatever happens, we have nothing to be blamed of. The fight of 25 august is enormous luck, which prevented Kitchener from taking towards us a too cutting attitude. We think of returning by French Abyssinia! At Fachoda we are now 12 days away from Cairo, [at revolution]. On my part I promise you to make all the possible so that we do not leave you out of order in Mecha. I plan to return soon with 40 men, and to make cross the sedd to the Faidherbe. I come down again in deplorable conditions; bled of 6 men and of a whaler since October 13th, I re-bleed of 8 men and the other whaler, which leaves me with the mechanics and the drivers only. But there is big national interest, in the fact that Mecha is occupied at the moment by French troops. At your place, to be more on to be found, by Oubangui otherwise by Fouque, this is what I would write to [Cureau]: "I ask you for [Instanmently] for reasons of health, and to join the Mission Congo-Nil which can receive the order to leave Fachoda for Abyssinia from one week to the next; to be replaced in Mecha by a non-commissioned officer, with 6 to 10 infantrymen. It is all that it is necessary to guard the French flag there, and tell the Anglo-Egyptians of our occupation of Denkas territories. The country is rich, the natives are quiet and very favourable to our establishment in this point; with red pearls and some [mellanda] of iron we get fresh supplies infinitely …" Fort Desain can perfectly remove a non-commissioned officer with 6 to 10 infantrymen and send them to Mecha! Then I recommend you to begin to come down here in whaler. I ask you [instanmently], on my part, to send back to me immediately, with [ Tahi Duap], the indispensable man of the Faidherbe, […] the men of bane in the absence of whom I worry personally and my [yakoma] wood cutters. They have the current with them to come down, and are not in danger (with 1 month of ration at first). Goodbye, Good luck, and see you soon I hope, your devoted, Signed: A H Dye. You´re on the board, if not already promoted captain". (Alfred Dreyfus was suspected of revealing secrets of the French army to the Germans and this affair was worsened by the fact that he was Jewish. The Dreyfus affair is very important because it divided France into two clans the Dreyfusards and the antiDreyfusards. Esterhazywas in fact the man guilty of this treason. Zola is a French novelist of the time who decided to defend Dreyfus by publishing the book "J´accuse"). Another letter, from Marchand, dated 1898 (10 Nov.):"My dear Largeau, 60 carriers intended for the provisioning of the post of Rapids were yesterday morning sent by fort Honniger. They´re taking 52 loads of flour (approximately 1000kg) and 7 boxes pearls, plus a load bottles wine and skins. The wine is intended for the staff of the post arsenal, skins in the mountains of the [etienne], 7 boxes pearls will be deposited at a store of the post arsenal. So you have 52 carriers loaded with supplies and 8 carriers you will load with supplies from the arsenal poste reserve. The 60 carriers must go to the Rapids with you. Besides I made by sultan [Camboura] the order to gather 40 carriers of villages around the post arsenal, who will be loaded with supplies of the reserve and will join the 60 others. Total 100 carriers of supplies whom you will lead to Rapids. Your personal luggage in addition. [Kuni] understood prescriptions forming desiderata. You will arrange, according to the number of carriers whom you will have and the quantity of supplies that the reserve of the post arsenal can supply. The important would be to be able to lead 100 loads of supplies to the Rapids, because these foods are intended for the occupation of Koutchouk ali. I remind you the prescription concerning Dorouma who will have his carbine if he can supply within 48 hours of your passage in his domain 5 - 600 [satenis] to the Rapids. So approximately 2500 [satenis] gathered in the Rapids with which will be made the occupation of Koutchouk ali. You will follow as I told you, with your 100 carriers and your 29 infantrymen plus the [basniguus] which accompany them, on route [ Kuvyalé] - Kama - Go - Dorouma-Hibbé - Rapids. You will make the topographic report. You will find instructions by arriving at Rapids where you will stay probably only just the time to wait for the supplies from the chief Dorouma. You should just put yourselves by arriving at the disposal of Lieutenant Mangin. I authorize by the same mail staff sergeant of the post arsenal to deliver to you for each of your 29 infantrymen a small piece of materials of colours taken in the more or less damaged bundles of batiste. This piece intended to make a small mosquito net has every man. I shall send orders in time so that the same distribution is made for the infantrymen of the detachment Mangin. The men need to have thread and the needles to sew their mosquito net. I count that you can leave the post arsenal with your convoy in the evening of the 11th to go sleep in Kama, or at the latest the 12th. The sooner the better. Warn the chief Kama who will make warn Go and Dorouma. Each owes you a day of prepared food. This food will be paid to the chief Kama by a voucher of you that he will touch at the post arsenal, to the chief Dorouma by a voucher of you whom he will touch at the post of Rapids. For Go or the intermediate villages (cultures) you will pay directly. I believe that you have pearls. If you do not have any left make a voucher for [Chuikinh] when you leave. You are authorized to say on my behalf to Kama that if I am satisfied by his processes, I shall myself give him a carbine and cartridges as I already have for some of his brothers. Attached is a small schedule with information for the road [Kuvyalé] - Rapids. I wish you, with expensive friendships, good health, safe journey, good success. You will find later orders relative to the exploration of the pond [Wava]. J: Marchand. P.S.: I attached no importance to the word "fortune" that you used on your letter of the 5th. You think me one thousand times more susceptible than I am in reality. The truth is that the monstrous accusation of one of my companions with regard to my actions and to their true motives surprised me in full peace of mind and seriously affected me. I was hundred thousand leagues to plan that the same supposition could be never made on me, and in spite of me my character was a little modified. I feel it . Now I am afraid and consider often obliged to assert the absolute purity of my motives. I recognize that it is stupid but frankly what would you do in my place? I am a little disorientated. It will glide. I am used to taking all the responsibilities."Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
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