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Verdini Antiques
Vincenzo Raffaelli Rome, Via del Babuino 93 Performed between 1835 and 1845 ca. Round top in colored marbles "pebble" samples 200 ca. Diameter 91.2 cm = 3 Roman feet Thickness 5.2 cm = 2 Roman inches The round top in colored marble that we are dealing with, is a real "pebble" sample made of ancient "excavation" marble and modern marble, that is, used after the sixteenth century such as Malachite, Portoro or Napoleonic Orbicular Granite etc. The particularity and rarity of this table is given by the fact that the samples of marbles used, in addition to being rare then (and even more so today), were worked differently from all the other types of samples that were made between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The sample tables of this period generally have a frame in black marble from Belgium or other fine marbles, which contains all the rare colored samples committed.
Galerie Flak
U’u Club Marquesas Islands, Polynesia 18th or 19th century Carved wood and fibers Height: 138.5 cm – 54 ½ in. Provenance Collection David Petty, London Collection Pierre-Richard Royer, Paris Collection Alexandre Bernand, Paris Private collection, acquired from the above in September 2016 Exhibition TEFAF 2024, Maastricht, Serge Schoeffel, catalogue T3, p. 28
Snackers Antiques & Fine Art
Louis Philippe mantel clock Paris, circa 1835 Partially fire-gilt and partially patinated bronze H 70 x W 75,5 x D 27 cm Produced by the clockmaker Douyon The goddess Victoria is depicted seated on a cushion, leaning against the clock and holding a laurel wreath. At her feet lie a caduceus and an anchor. Beneath the clock are ears of corn and fruit. The ears of corn and fruit signify abundance; the anchor symbolises fidelity; and the laurel wreath represents victory.
N. Vrouyr
Etablissements veuve Guillon et fils, Belgium Before 1925 Warp and weft, cellulose, pile, wool 460 x 370 cm Numbered at the back Literature: Arthur De Rudder, International exhibition of modern decorative and industrial arts (Paris, 1925): official catalogue of the belgian section Exhibition: International exhibition of modern decorative and industrial arts, Paris, 1925, Belgian Pavilion, gallery of complete interiors, dining room by the Maison Gustave and Edouard Blondel
Spazio Nobile Gallery
Pao Hui Kao, Urushi Black in Red Lacquer Leaf, 2023, Crepe paper, rice glue, Urushi lacquer, red and black pigments, gold kinstsugi, 114 x 70 x 16 cm, unique piece, signed by the artist at the back /Black Urushi Paper Pleats, 2023 tracing paper, rice glue, Urushi lacquer, black pigment, sideboard (70 x 33 x 135 cm), low stool (45 x ø 32 cm), low bench (35 x 130 x 29 cm), side table (60 x ø 32 cm), unique pieces, signed and dated by the artist Certificates of authenticity Bibliographical references: Pao Hui Kao, 25 Seasons, Artist Book, Spazio Nobile Editions, Brussels, 2024 Exhibitions: Fondation POC, Brussels, 2020 Jewish Museum, Brussels, 2021 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize Finalist, Seoul, 2022 Pao Hui Kao, 25 Seasons, Solo Exhibition, Spazio Nobile, Brussels, 2023-2024 Fondazione Dries Van Noten, Venice, 2026
Laurent Schaubroeck
PAUL EVANS & PHILLIP LLOYD POWELL Monumental Wall Unit Unique piece ORIGIN: USA DATE: c. 1960 MATERIALS: Steel, wood, gold leaf DIMENSIONS: W236 × D51 × H282 cm PROVENANCE: Martin Brooks, Doylestown Extraordinary wall-mounted cabinet by Paul Evans and Phillip Lloyd Powell, two key figures in American postwar design. This one of a kind piece combines carved wood, torch-cut and enameled metal, and gold leaf. Features four floating shelves and a two-door lower cabinet with concealed storage. Rare in both scale and collaboration.
Caretto & Occhinegro
The Master of Antwerp Adoration (Active in Antwerp first decades of XVI century) The Annunciation to St Anne, circa 1525 Oil on panel 59 x 62 cm Expertise Peter van den Brink Literature: Van den Brink 1997, pp. 32, 35 note 22, fig. 5; Van den Brink 2007, pp. 168, 175, 179 note 38, fig. 16b; Cécile Scailliérez, in Paris 2017, pp. 84, 86, fig. 32
Galerie Alexis Bordes
Constant MONTALD (Ghent, 1862 – Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, 1944) View of Houses in Spring 1917 Gouache on paper laid down on card Signed and dated lower right “C. Montald 17” 70 × 88.5 cm Provenance: Belgium, private collection (acquired at public auction in 1993) ; France, private collection
Galerie Raf Van Severen
Rik Wouters (1882, Mechelen - 1916, Amsterdam) "Portrait de Rik Wouters, Chemise Blanche", dated 1912 oil on canvas on panel, 51.5 x 61.5 cm Annotated at the back: "Nr 99 Portrait de Rik Wouters par lui même toile collee sur panneau"; "Mme V: Rik Wouters"; "Portret van Rik Dhr Mevr. De Carnière" Provenance: Private collection, Brussels; Collection Leten, Ghent; Anc. collection Nel Wouters Literature: Roger Avermaete, Rik Wouters, Editions Arcade, Brussels, 1965
Galerie Nicolas Bourriaud
MONIER Emile (1883–1970) Bust of a young Koumbo girl, 1930 Black veined marble, signed ‘EMILE MONIER’, dated ‘1930’ and titled ‘KOUMBO’ H. 65.5 x W. 43 x D. 30.5 cm. Circa 1930 Unique piece Possibly a Lobi girl from Burkina Provenance: public auction, Paris, 6 June 1984 Bibliography: E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs, vol. 9, Paris, 1999, p. 756
Galerie Jean-François Cazeau
Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) La Force (Strenght), 1987 Painted polyester resin 35 x 53,3 x 29,2 cm Edition of 10, numbered 3/10 Artist's signature and number '3/10 Niki de Saint Phalle' (on a plaque fixed at the bottom) Provenance: artist's studio; Gallery Gimpel Fils, Londres; private collection, acquired in 1989; private collection, France
Klaas Muller
Jan Boeckhorst (Münster 1604 - Antwerp 1668) Henri IV at the Battle of Ivry 17th century Pen and Brown ink, watercolour and gouache, heightened with whith and red wash on paper 200 x 291 mm In 1622, Maria de' Medici signed a contract with Rubens for two series of twenty-four paintings. The first series depicted her own life story, the other the heroic deeds of her husband: Henri IV. As was his custom, Rubens worked on this commission together with some of his pupils and assistants. The successful king had been assassinated 12 years earlier whilst riding through Paris in an open carriage. He had brought an end to the fierce civil war between Protestants and Catholics and did not shy away from doing the heavy lifting on the battlefield himself. What was intended to be a tribute to one of France’s bravest leaders turned out to be a damp squib. Due to turmoil at court, the series about the famous battle near Paris remained unfinished. This dynamic and finely worked drawing captures the dramatic moment of the Battle of Ivry (1590), where King Henri IV led his forces to a decisive victory during the French Wars of Religion. Executed in pen and brown ink and enriched with watercolour and gouache, the composition is animated by vigorous movement and strong contrasts of light and shadow. The artist heightens the scene with touches of white and red wash, emphasizing the glint of armour, the energy of the horses, and the intensity of the clash. The central figure of Henri IV, mounted and illuminated, commands the composition, surrounded by swirling troops and fallen adversaries. Ethereal figures above the battlefield introduce a sense of divine favour, a motif often associated with royal propaganda of the period. Despite its relatively intimate scale, the sheet conveys remarkable grandeur and narrative force, making it a compelling example of late 16th‑ to early 17th‑century battle imagery. We are grateful to Stijn Alsteens of the Fondation Custodia for his attribution of the drawing to Jan Boeckhorst.
Franck Anelli Fine Art
Transition period secretary in wardrobe stamped Charles TOPINO (1742-1803) and Jurande hallmark Rectangular in shape, the front uprights with cut sides, the front legs arched, the hind legs straight, the oak frame, it opens with a drawer, two leaves and a flap revealing a compartmentalized interior of seven drawers and four compartments. Top of breccia marble from Aleppo. Inlaid decoration in rosewood, amaranth, holly, sycamore, lemon tree, stained wood, tobacco wood, drawing lattices on the uprights and the upper drawer, those of the latter, embellished with flowers, and trompe-l'oeil on the front and on the sides, a decoration of garlands of oval cartouches of stylised acanthus leaves uniting the panels of the toilet seat and the leaves, each also presenting, in the upper part, a leafy garland that can be found on the side panels. The latter are decorated with two gadrooned urns close to the flowered vases of the leaves. The toilet seat has a trompe-l'oeil perspective decoration, an orangery whose open shutters give a glimpse of a wooded landscape in the distance, a perspective accentuated by the checkerboard paving, also present on the leaves. Eight boxes of fruit trees are spread around a table on which are placed two flowered vases and under which is a watering can. The interior reveals six side drawers in three rows, inlaid with a floral vase pattern, as well as a central drawer. Stamped TOPINO and hallmark of Jurande Charles TOPINO received master in 1773 The art of marquetry The bronzes are discreet on our desk and this is intended to give pride of place to marquetry, qualified as wooden painting. If it is possible and tempting - rightly to link a cabinetmaker to his marquetry and this is regularly the case for Topino whose utensil marquetry inspired by the borders of Chinese Coromandel lacquer screens of the time is a characteristic of the artist - it turns out that the models circulated and that inlaid panels could be used by the same circle of cabinetmakers. If the vases, potiches, flowers, utensils reproduced, invented, associated, allow us to recognize Topino's art, it should be noted that the framing motif made up of oval reserves with quartefeuilles and spandrels can be found on secretaries, a chest of drawers and a dressing table stamped Jacques Bircklé. By this same cabinetmaker, a secretary also presents the same vases present on our furniture. Very similar marquetry panels. both in their compositions and in their frames can be found on a chest of drawers attributed to Jacques Bircklé, illustrated in the book by Pierre Kjellberg, who also defines the paving pattern as Bircklé's "almost exclusiveness". our secretary thus witnessed the circulation of drawn or engraved models -
Galerie von Vertes
Henry Moore (Castleford 1898-1986 Much Hadham) Upright Motive, Maquette n° 4, 1955 Bronze with brown patina 30,8 x 6,4 x 7,9 cm Edition of 9 + 1 A.P. Conceived and cast between 1956 and 1962 by Fiorini Ltd, London Provenance: Zabriskie Gallery, New York City; B.C. Deane Collection, US; D.J. Rosenthal Collection, US; Dr. Phillip Cohen Collection, Washington, D.C.; Private collection, Washington, D.C. (by descent from the above); Bonhams, New York, 20 November 2025, lot 119; Private collection, Switzerland This work is registered in the Henry Moore Foundation archives. Literature: Alan Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings, vol. III: Sculpture 1955-64, London 1965, n° 381 (another cast ill. pl. 15b); Alan Bowness (ed.), Henry Moore, Sculpture and Drawings, vol. III: 1955-1964, London 1986, n° 381 (another cast ill. p. 21); Henry Moore Foundation (eds.), The Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue, online catalogue, n° LH 381 Background information: Upright Motive was the first in a series of narrow vertical sculptures by Moore, which he compared to totem poles. The Upright Motives were part of a large commission for the courtyard of the new Olivetti building in Milan. When he visited the site, 'a lone Lombardy poplar growing behind the building convinced me that a vertical work would act as the correct counterfoil to the horizontal rhythm of the building. This idea ultimately grew into the : Upright Motifs.'
Dei Bardi Art
Saint Peter Circle of Daniel Mauch Upper Rhine, circa 1490 Walnut bust 39,2 x 49,5 x 26 cm (with base) Provenance: private Rhenish collection Literature: Antlitz des Mittelalters Mittelalterliche Bildwerke aus rheinischem Privatbesitz, ed. Reinhard Karrenbrock and Claudia Lichte, with technical studies by Michael Rief and Ulrike Villwock, Rottweil/Aachen, 1999, n° 33, pp. 108–110 Exhibitions: Dominikanerforum, Rottweil, 31 October 1999 – 6 January 2000; Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, 4 March – 21 May 2000
Snackers Antiques & Fine Art
Walter Pompe (Lith 1703-1777 Antwerp) Cross with ivory corpus, Antwerp 1770 Carved wood and ivory H 57,5 x W 27 x D 11 cm Signed Comes with CITES document Walter Pompe was a very well-known sculptor, especially of Buxus/Palm and Ivory carvings. The richly decorated Calvary features ivory bones, skull, and the snake with apple. With CITES document.
Galerie von Vertes
Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto 1929-2026 Tokyo) Repetition GL.A, 1996 Collage and acrylic on canvas 41 x 31,8 cm Signed, dated and titled on the reverse Provenance: Shinwa Auction, 23 November 2014, lot 145; private collection, Japan (acquired from the above); Bonhams, Hong Kong, 11 June 2016, lot 26; Private collection, Asia (acquired from the above); Christie's, Hong Kong, 3 December 2020, lot 517; private collection, London (acquired from the above) Certificate of authenticity from the Yayoi Kusama Studio on 21 August 2012 Repetition or seriality would become her signature technique in everything that she created: 'Repetition of the same patterns, an action which stems from my disease, is applied in my writing just as it is in my artwork. Dreams and hallucinations are actually occurring. This obsessional image is what I have transformed my disease into, and is therefore, to me, irreplaceable.'
