FOLK ART AND CURIOSITIES

28 Oct 2020  |  France, Paris
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Two statuettes in salted sandstone, one representing a woman holding a basket (repair) signed J. LERAT, the other representing a man holding a jug.

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Swiss peddler of polychrome cast iron clocks. Beginning of the 20th century.

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Cast iron inkwell imitating bronze, depicting a man at the barber's. Height 12 cm

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Bronze pyrogen representing a dwarf holding a pitcher, on a marble base. France. 19th century.

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Bust of Bacchus on a bronze base. France. XIXth century.

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Figurine representing a dwarf or a grotesque character in silvery metal. Italy.

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Bronze statue of the actor Guillot.

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Beer mug featuring a turnip face, pewter mount with name and date engraved "Musterschutz 1893/1894".

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Two wax busts on an alabaster base depicting an elderly couple, bearing the inscription "T. Cooper 22 New Bond St. London March 1840".

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Four terracotta Buddha heads.

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Moulding with a man's head. Height. 23 cm

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Two sconce medallions depicting two grotesque heads. Germany. 19th century.

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Head representing a jester sticking out his tongue in polychrome wood. Italy. XIXth century.

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Orientalist wall lamp with a Bedouin head in carved wood.

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Head of a processional mannequin featuring a polychrome wooden Madonna with enamelled glass eyes.

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Four vases containing coral branches, one of which is made of bronze and the other three of wood with a fake marble decoration. Italy.

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Wooden statue representing a standing woman with her hands folded on her waist. France. XIXth century.

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Pine mannequin, fingers of the hands and feet carved. England. 19th century.

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Two Dutch interiors in a glass box, carved wooden figures, by Cornelis Bavelaar, circa 1820.

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Pig snout, veterinary education model. Height 25 - Width 22 cm

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Polychrome papier-mâché jockey. France.

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Two big heads: Woman with the headband and Woman with the hat, made of polychrome papier-mâché. Spain. 1960. Height. 57 and 69 cm

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Mask representing Olivier Hardy, France.

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Shooting target showing a cabaret dancer maybe Yvette Guilbert. Height 100 cm

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Three painted wooden passe-boules depicting a Hussar, a Court Man and a Turk. France. Early 20th century. Height. 59 cm

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Walnut wood panel carved with chimeras, rinceaux and a madman's head in relief. Germany. 19th century.

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Louis XIV style coffee mill in walnut with a back drawer, ivory medallions with grotesque heads and the handle of the crank showing a female head attached. 18th century.

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Coffee grinder said Louis XIV in walnut. 18th century.

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Funnel-shaped coffee grinder with square hopper, flower-shaped vice attachment lug. 18th century. Height 16 cm

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Statuette depicting a Capuchin monk. 18th century. Height. 32 cm

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Turkish coffee grinder in walnut with engraved floral decoration, fretworked board and scalloped iron sheet bowl. 19th century.

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Wrought iron bridle bit with gilt bronze bosses depicting a fantastic animal. Probably from the 16th century.

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Carved wrought iron key, the ring featuring a Janus head, the stem decorated with a snake in relief. Early 18th century.

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Two lighters, one model surmounted by a brass handle depicting a mermaid, the second with a case containing the flint decorated with a dog and a deer pursued by a dog. Late 18th century.

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Corkscrew in steel fasté gone up with a handle of umbrella in ivory.

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Small medallion box, probably made of boxwood, carved with two scenes from the Old Testament including the Sacrifice of Abraham and Samson and the episode of the donkey's jaw, engraved with the date 1600. Secret closure opening with a small spike...

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Three jewels: a gold chain and clasp, a metal chain.

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Boxwood wet stamp and fruitwood handle, carved in notches with the words: "BARTHELEMI VERMARE DE JOUX 1758" and christic monogram. Rhone, region of Lyon. 18th century.

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Nutcracker in fruit-wood, pliers model with incised decoration of two trees, on one of the branches is carved a squirrel. Alpine work. 19th century.

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Roman of Venetian type, one end of which ends in an ornate ring completed with its piriform bronze weight. 18th century.

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Wrought-iron badge with twisted stem surmounted by a handle ending with a dragon's head. Circa 1800. Length. 93 cm

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Polychrome oak pietà. Alpine work. XVI-XVII century.

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Statuette representing Our Lady of Grace in polychrome wood. Alpine work of the XVIIIth century.

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Carved wooden tavern sign featuring a mermaid. Early 18th century.

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Hoof sign showing a hoof.

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Statuette of a Virgin and Child in polychrome and gold. Late 18th century.

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Wrought iron chest lock with moulded frame enhanced with friezes of fleurons, the link enhanced with a dragon. Gothic period.

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Stoneware jug called bartmannskrug (cracks). Germany. 18th century. Height. 19 cm

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Spoon rest with an indented backrest and decoration of masks, gadroons and floral motifs. (cracks) Vaucluse. 19th century.

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Oil jug with two handles, pouring spout surrounded by a tie and decorated with a cross in a digitized heart. Probably Haute-Loire. 19th century.

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Covered pot showing a castle on a glazed earthen mound. High Provence. Early 20th century.

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Four plates with revolutionary decoration in Nivernais earthenware.

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Seven plates representing a winemaker, a spinner, a cooper, another spinner, gardening attributes, two children in front of a tub, most of the Nivernais.

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Large dish decorated with circumscribed ferns and a wave on the rim in pinkish earth with red and green barolet glaze on a white background that has turned yellow under the lead glaze. Probably Savoy, early 20th century.

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Three paintings under glass, one depicting Saint John the Baptist in his original frame, another Saint Peter (the latter damaged) and a third the Holy Family. Black Forest. Height. 30,5 - 29,5 - 37 cm

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Painting under glass representing a peasant leaning on his spade and in the background men harvesting. 19th century. Height. 28 - Width. 23 cm

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Ex-voto, oil on wood depicting a woman next to her bedridden husband. Dated 1882. Portugal. 19th century.

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Baroque style reliquary cross in carved wood with polychrome and gold decoration. Christ on the cross is dominated by the dove of the Holy Spirit and the figure of God the Father holding the globe. At his feet is the Virgin of Sorrow. On the reverse...

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Red earth fountain with white and brown highlights. Contoured shaped piece decorated with female heads, hearts, rope and serpentine motifs. Straddling the spout, a soldier wearing a helmet, sword in the clear and armed with a pistol, is framed by two...

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Two modelled and sculpted terracotta statuettes with a brown patina depicting a lace-maker from Bruges and a suit of clothes which is signed with the Declercq nail. Belgium. Probably end of the XIXth century.

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Walnut tobacco grater carved with a fleur-de-lys in a rocaille medallion and foliage on an amati background, completed by a tobacco receptacle. Italy ? 18th century.

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Eight butter markings including seven circular and one rectangular in boxwood with floral decoration, stars, a rooster, a goat and cows.

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Clock-shaped rev-counter winding drum dated 1835. Alemannic countries, 19th century.

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A reel with a reel seat mounted on a vice with an incised decoration of a flowery heart, bearing the motto "QUE J AIME LES COEURS TENDRE" and another motto in a cartouche surmounted by a lily "LESSEZ VOUS LIDIA BERCES PAR LES AMOUR LES BONNE NUIT FONT...

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Statue of Saint Peter in polychrome wood. XIXth century.

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Small cabinet in beech and walnut with tempera painted decoration of polychrome floral motifs. Switzerland, late 17th century.

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Walnut box with a cockerel lock entrance decorated with rosettes and variously combined wheels. Velay, 18th century.

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Fruitwood box decorated with floral motifs, rosettes and wolf's teeth. Velay, early 19th century.

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Two bronze pots. 18th century.

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Overjug in elm turned in the shape of a spindle pierced with three levels of staggered arcatures in which three bells take place. It is topped with a braid of coloured cotton fringes. Gers. 19th century.

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Box in spruce, assembled with dovetails discovered, with carved decoration enhanced with polychromy. On the front, a heart crowned between two stylized flowers. On the sides, a heart (slit.) Savoy, circa 1800.

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Overjug in turned elm, enhanced with polychromy, in the shape of a spindle decorated with three levels of bells. Gers, 19th century.

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