Tag: Claude Galle

A few things to pick up that they don’t have at IKEA. Home decor in the French Empire style. Claude Galle, maker (1757-1815).

Pair of gilt-bronze ewers, the handles formed as satyrs and the body decorated with victories, masks of men, foliage and palmettes in applique. Pedestals resting on a quadrangular base. Empire. Gilt-bronze. Attributed to Claude Galle. Image ©  2020 Sotheby’s. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/the-french-touch-hommage-a-alain-et-catherine-bernard/a-pair-of-gilt-bronze-ewers-empire-attributed-to
Pair of “Aux Amours” vases with an elongated baluster form, both with handles formed as two winged putti resting their hands on the circular gadrooned rim of the vase with the handles arising from tapering acanthus leaves supporte on the back of a crouching winged griffin, each seated upon the head of a bearded Bacchic head. Anthemion band around the body of the vase above a fluted base above a spreading circular foot that rests upon a shaped plinth each side of which is mounted with alternate winged putto supporting a scrolled anthemion and a torchère surmounted by a griffin. 1805-1810. French. Attributed to Claude Galle. Image © 2020 RICHARD REDDING ANTIQUES LTD. Fair use license. via https://www.richardreddingantiques.com/artists/51-claude-galle-%28attributed-to%29/works/9997/
Pair of gilt-bronze two-light ormolu wall-lights (candle-holders). Each with an acanthus and palmette backplate issuing a winged harpy holding aloft in each hand a semi-circular foliate-wrapped trumpet-shaped branch supporting vase-shaped candle-holders. ca. 1810. French. Gilt-bronze and patinated bronze. Attributed to Claude Galle. Image © 2020 AnticStore and Galerie Philippe Guegan. Fair use license. via https://www.anticstore.art/79536P

Gilded ladies dancing in air and hoping to get a rest soon. Home decor in the French Empire style. Claude Galle, maker (1757-1815). A bronze caster, he also did gilding. Some his, others after him.

Pair of large ewers. No exact date. Empire in style.
Pair of large ewers. No exact date. Empire in style. Gilt and patinated bronze. Stylized palmette and acanthus leaves mounted around the collar and base, a frieze of dolphins and snakes centered around the body. Scrolled handles with a winged classical maiden clasping the rim. Square Vert de Grèce marble base. Attributed to Galle. Image © Kollenburg Aantiquairs. Fair use license. via https://www.kollenburgantiquairs.com/Works-of-Art/A-pair-of-large-Empire-Ewers-attributed-to-Claude-Galle

Pair of vases. Second half of the 19th century.
Pair of vases. 1850-1900. Gilt and marble. after Claude Galle. Image © 2008-2019 Bukowski Auktioner AB. Fair use license. via https://www.bukowskis.com/en/auctions/617/146-a-pair-of-french-empire-style-vases-design-after-claude-galle-second-half-of-the-19th-century

Pair of “Psyche and Cupid” seven-light wall sconces. ca. 1810.
Pair of “Psyche and Cupid” seven-light wall sconces. ca. 1810. Matte and burnished gilt bronze. Attributed to Galle. Image©La Pendulerie Exceptional Clocks and Fire Arts, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.lapendulerie.com/artworkdetails/789419/0/galle-important-pair-of-wall-sconces