{"title":"European Country House Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEverything here came home in a single forty-foot container, shipped across the ocean from France and Belgium. I chose every piece myself, by hand, in dealers' back rooms and country markets. Paintings, furniture, lighting, silver, boxes, and the small decorative things that make a room feel lived in. Over two hundred and seventy-eight pieces that already belonged to a home once, and are ready for the next.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pre-claim-reserve-louis-xv-style-sandblasted-oak-commode","title":"2nd Half of Pre-Claim Reserve — Louis XV Style Sandblasted Oak Commode","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePre-Claim Reserve — 50% Non-Refundable Deposit\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis listing reserves a Belgian Louis XV style commode currently in transit from Europe. Full preclaim price is $3,500. \u003cstrong\u003eThis checkout secures the piece with a 50% non-refundable deposit of $1,750. The remaining balance of $1,750 is due within seven days of the piece passing inspection on arrival in Utah.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Piece\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA Belgian Louis XV style three-drawer commode in sandblasted solid oak. Double-arbalète (crossbow) shaped front with scalloped apron and bun feet. Original gilt brass rococo-style hardware throughout, including foliate cartouche escutcheons and scrolled drawer pulls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eDating: late 19th to early 20th century, approximately 1880 to 1930.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eApproximate dimensions: 34\"H x 52\"W x 26\"D. Exact measurements will be confirmed upon arrival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinish:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sandblasted and bleached oak. This is a modern decorative treatment applied before acquisition, consistent with the current Belgian designer aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition notes:\u003c\/strong\u003e Locks are present throughout but no keys came with the piece. Drawers function normally but do not lock. Additional condition details will be documented on arrival inspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhotography disclosure:\u003c\/strong\u003e The photos shown are the only photos available at this time. Additional photos from the dealer were expected but not received before the piece was wrapped and delivered to the shipper. Full arrival photography will be provided once the piece lands in Utah.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTerms of the Pre-Claim Reserve Agreement\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBy completing this checkout and paying the 50% deposit, you agree to the following terms:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1. Non-refundable deposit.\u003c\/strong\u003e The $1,750 deposit is non-refundable except in the specific circumstances outlined in sections 4 and 5 below. Cancellation by the buyer for any reason other than arrival damage or inspection failure forfeits the deposit in full.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2. The piece is removed from inventory.\u003c\/strong\u003e Once the deposit is paid, the piece is taken off the market and held exclusively for you. It is not shown, offered, or sold to any other party.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e3. Transit timeline.\u003c\/strong\u003e The piece ships from Europe in AMD's consolidated container. Transit typically runs eight to fourteen weeks from the time of purchase abroad. Timing varies with crossings, weather, and customs. You will be updated at each milestone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e4. Arrival inspection.\u003c\/strong\u003e Austyn personally inspects every piece on arrival against its condition at purchase. If the piece arrives with damage that was not present at purchase, you may choose from three options: a full refund of your deposit, an adjusted price reflecting the damage with your approval to proceed, or a twelve-month store credit for the full deposit amount.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e5. Inspection failure.\u003c\/strong\u003e If the piece does not meet AMD's standards on arrival, the reservation is cancelled and the deposit is refunded in full.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e6. Balance due.\u003c\/strong\u003e Once the piece passes inspection, you will receive an invoice for the remaining $1,750 balance, due within seven days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e7. Shipping to you.\u003c\/strong\u003e After the balance is paid, AMD will prepare a shipping quote based on actual dimensions and weight, with optional insurance as a separate line item. Insurance is strongly recommended as these pieces are one-of-a-kind. Nothing ships until you review and approve the shipping cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e8. Sold as-is.\u003c\/strong\u003e The piece is sold in its current condition. No restoration or refinishing is performed before shipment. Restoration can be discussed as a separate project if desired.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e9. Local pickup.\u003c\/strong\u003e If you are local to Utah or traveling through, you are welcome to inspect the piece at the warehouse before it ships to you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePayment confirms agreement.\u003c\/strong\u003e By paying the deposit, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to all terms above. A copy of this agreement and the Pre-Claim Reserve FAQ will be sent to your email after checkout for your records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eQuestions? Email \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"mailto:hello@austynmariedesign.com\"\u003ehello@austynmariedesign.com\u003c\/a\u003e or DM @austynmariedesign on Instagram.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eItem #27\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51232698859798,"sku":"AMD-02896","price":1750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/CFCEC512-686D-4B90-9B4C-7C43D7A4A1DB_1_105_c.jpg?v=1776718932"},{"product_id":"vintage-belgian-oak-marble-top-chest","title":"Vintage Sandblasted Oak Commode with White Marble Top","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE SHIPPING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe oak on this one has been sandblasted back to bare, pale wood, so the grain reads soft and matte against the white marble top. Two short drawers sit over three long ones, each with cast brass rococo pulls and a working lock. It works as easily in an entry or bedroom as it does as a bar or vanity base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 34 in H x 43 in W x 22 in D (approx; marble overhangs the case)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Sandblasted to bare wood (marble cleaned, not blasted)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Oak (assessed)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Vintage\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Early to mid 20th century\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | Likely France\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Louis XVI \/ Louis Philippe manner\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | commode, marble top chest of drawers\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Solid oak case, frame and panel back, through dovetailed drawers, solid drawer bottoms\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Pale hardwood (drawer linings)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Cast brass drawer pulls and escutcheons\u003cbr\u003e[d]Marble | White marble top with grey veining\u003cbr\u003e[d]Drawers | Five (two short over three long)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Keys | One key present, lock functional\u003cbr\u003e[d]Feet | Turned bun feet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eSold as-is; photos govern. The oak has been sandblasted, which removes the original surface entirely and is irreversible. Blasting opens the grain, can leave a slightly raised or textured surface where softer growth wore away faster, and softens crisp detail on moldings and edges. It also removes the surface oxidation, tool marks, and pore cues that would otherwise confirm species and date, so the oak is stated as an assessment and the date as a construction based estimate rather than a confirmed year. There is no maker's mark, stamp, or label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe white marble top is cleaned, not blasted, and shows scattered surface scratches, light staining, and natural veining throughout consistent with age and use (see photos). The top retains a shallow channel running parallel to the rear edge where a splashback once seated; that gallery is no longer present. One lock is functional and a single key is present; the key operates but is not represented as original to the piece. There is minor chipping and small losses to the base molding and one lower corner (see photos). Drawers run and the hardware is intact. Dimensions are approximate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#1\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482654638358,"sku":"AMD-03439","price":2600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-9771.jpg?v=1785385756"},{"product_id":"antique-european-figures-in-landscape-oil-painting","title":"Antique European Oil Painting Figures in Landscape","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA man sits reading to a woman in a rose silk gown, her plumed hat tilted and a knowing look on her face, while children gather at her side and silver dishes of fruit rest on the ground before them. The setting is a wooded parkland opening to bright sky, a dark rocky mass rising behind. This is a fête galante, the elegant outdoor gathering of conversation, reading, and leisure that French painting made its own in the 18th century, in the tradition of Watteau and his followers. Oil on canvas, unsigned, in a heavy carved and gilded frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Unidentified\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | No signature found, front or reverse. Unsigned is usual for fête galante scenes of this type, many of which were painted for the decorative trade rather than for exhibition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[d]Subject | A fête galante. Figures at leisure out of doors, a man reading to a woman in a rose gown and plumed hat, with children and silver dishes of fruit around them in a parkland setting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European, likely French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[d]Age | 18th or 19th century. The unlined canvas, keyed stretcher, all-over craquelure, and darkened varnish confirm genuine age. The fête galante subject was painted from the early 1700s and copied by Watteau's followers throughout the 1800s, and without a dated mark or a conservator's examination the work cannot be pinned to a single century from visual evidence alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Canvas Size | 12.5 in. W x 19 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 20.25 in. W x 27 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Vertical\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Carved and gilded frame with a deep fluted scotia and beaded edges. Genuine wear, rubbing to the gilt, and a separation at the upper right corner joint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]School or Movement | Fête galante tradition. A type of French painting that grew up in the early 18th century around Antoine Watteau, showing elegantly dressed figures gathered out of doors for courtship, music, and conversation in a parkland or garden. It blended the earlier Flemish merry-company scene with a new French lightness and became one of the defining subjects of the Rococo. The subject was carried on through the century by Watteau's followers such as Pater and Lancret and countless painters working for the decorative market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Surface | Age-related craquelure and cupping throughout, most visible in the darker passages. Unrestored. The canvas is unlined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Unlined original canvas on a keyed wooden stretcher, set within the gilt frame. A small patch repair is present on the reverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe painting carries a wide network of craquelure across the entire surface, with cupping in the darker passages where the paint has lifted slightly at the edges of the cracks. This is consistent with an unlined oil on canvas of age that has dried and moved over time. The varnish has discolored and darkened, which deepens the shadows and warms the overall tone. The canvas is unlined and remains on what appears to be its keyed wooden stretcher. There is a small patch repair on the reverse of the canvas, near the center, addressing a weak point or old hole in the fabric; please factor this in. The frame is carved and gilded, with a separation at the upper right corner joint, gesso losses at that corner, rubbing to the gilt throughout, and wear along the edges. Please review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#3\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482654703894,"sku":"AMD-03442","price":1450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/DSA09082_35b396a7-c1be-4918-8328-ceafca077e44.jpg?v=1785985125"},{"product_id":"vintage-signed-chicken-oil-painting-farmyard-rooster","title":"Signed Chicken Oil Painting Farmyard Rooster and Hens","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA rooster leads his hens and a scatter of yellow chicks across a farmyard, a thatched outbuilding and a hazy distance behind them, a pond catching light at the lower left. It is signed Borofsky at lower right, with a matching Borofsky label on the reverse. The name recurs across a whole run of decorative farm animal oils but corresponds to no documented artist, so I am selling it as exactly that: a signed decorative farmyard painting in the old Dutch barnyard manner. The canvas has been restretched and the gilt frame wears softly at the corners, both of which suit a working farmhouse picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Signed Borofsky, artist unidentified. The name appears on a large, consistent body of decorative farm animal oils and corresponds to no documented artist in the reference records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | Signed Borofsky at lower right, with a Borofsky label on the reverse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Rooster, hens, and chicks in a farmyard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Vintage. Dated on the character of the painting and the Borofsky signature type, since the canvas has been restretched and the reverse worked on, so construction no longer dates the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Canvas Size | 26 in. W x 22 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 30 in. W x 26 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Horizontal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Giltwood, with wear and small losses at the corners\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]School or Movement | Decorative farmyard genre in the Dutch barnyard tradition. The subject descends from 17th century Dutch painters like Melchior d'Hondecoeter, who built large decorative canvases around poultry and farmyard fowl. That tradition carried through into a long line of decorative farmyard pictures painted for the home, of which this is a later example.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Canvas, restretched\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe painting reads as stable and clean in hand, the farmyard scene bright and the paint film sound across the surface, with light surface grime consistent with age. I have not disturbed the varnish. The canvas has been restretched onto its current stretcher and the reverse shows evidence of prior working, so the back is not original to the painting. The restretch has the canvas sitting sound and taut. The giltwood frame shows honest wear, with rubbing and small losses to the gilt and gesso at all four corners and scattered scuffs along the length, most visible along the top edge. I am describing the reverse and frame only from what I can see. Please review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#7\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482654966038,"sku":"AMD-03446","price":595.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/28D06BC7-DCC4-4DB3-9F0E-B9DB163A8014_1_201_a.jpg?v=1785185696"},{"product_id":"antique-fruit-langoustine-still-life-oil-painting-1900","title":"Antique Still Life Oil Painting, Fruit and Langoustine, Circa 1900","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eSomething stops you in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethis one before the fruit does: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethe langoustine split \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eopen on the pewter \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eplate, its shell \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ecatching the only warm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003elight in an \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eotherwise deep brown \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003efield. Around it the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003epainter piled a full pronk \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003etable, a footed glass \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003etazza and a wicker \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ebasket spilling grapes, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003epeaches, apples and a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003emelon, a roemer and a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003etall flute behind, a cut \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003elemon and a clay \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003epipe at the front \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eedge. It is painted \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ein the 17th century \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eDutch manner, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eostentatious still life the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eAntwerp and Dutch masters \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ebuilt their reputations \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eon, and it carries a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003esignature in red at the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003elower right that I have \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003enot been able to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ematch to a documented \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ehand. Oil on board, in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ean ornate gilt \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ecomposition frame.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e[d]Artist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e| Bearing a signature \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ereading \"De Sanctis\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e(indistinct), artist unidentified\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e[d]Signature | Lower right, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ein red\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eon board\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e[d]Subject | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eFruit still life with langoustine, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eglassware, and silver spoon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e[d]Origin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e | Continental European\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e[d]Age | Antique, circa 1900\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e[d]Panel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eSize | 27.5 in. W x 21.5 in. H\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 34 in. W x \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e28 in. H\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e[d]Format | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eHorizontal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e[d]Frame | Ornate gilt \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ecomposition frame, acanthus and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003escroll corners\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e[d]Style | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eDutch Old Master manner, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003epronkstilleven\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e[d]Support | Board\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eThe painting presents \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ewell overall, with a warm dark \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003epalette and the fruit and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003elangoustine reading clearly against \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethe deep brown ground. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eThere is a spot of white paint \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eor fill visible on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eupper edge of the composition, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003enoted here so it is not a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003esurprise in hand. The surface \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eshows light age. I have not \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ecleaned or revarnished it, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eI am not making a claim about \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eearlier restoration either \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eway, since that is not \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003esomething I can determine from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethe surface alone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eThe frame \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eis an ornate gilt \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ecomposition frame with acanthus and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003escroll corners. It shows \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003escattered rubbing to the high points \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eand small composition losses \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ealong the edges, with a visible \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eloss on one side rail. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003egilt remains bright and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eframe reads well from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eacross a room. The hanging hardware \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eand backing brackets are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003erecent additions and are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003enot original to the piece.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#12\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482655064342,"sku":"AMD-03451","price":785.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-8877.jpg?v=1785264482"},{"product_id":"antique-dutch-oil-painting-cows-sheep-meadow-1870","title":"Antique Signed Dutch Oil Painting Cows and Sheep in Meadow","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA herd rests at the end of the day in a Dutch water meadow, a horned cow standing watch over the group while the others settle into the grass around her. The painter has given the animals real individuality, the wet muzzle and heavy brow of the standing cow, the black-and-white markings of the one reclining beside her, three sheep folded down at the left near a pollarded willow, and a pair of white ducks and a mallard at the edge of the stream. It is a fully staged farmyard scene rather than a quick study, painted with the crisp, patient hand of the 19th-century Low Countries animal painters who carried the tradition of Paulus Potter and Aelbert Cuyp into their own century. The work is unsigned apart from an interlaced monogram at the lower right, and I was not able to identify the hand behind it, but it belongs squarely to the world of the great Dutch and Belgian cattle painters. It survives unlined on its original stretcher, which is uncommon for a canvas of this age and scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Unidentified. Continental European, 19th century. The work bears an interlaced monogram reading \"AB\" at the lower right; I researched the monogram and was not able to match it, for certain, to a documented artist, so no attribution is made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | Bearing an interlaced \"AB\" monogram in reddish-brown at the lower right. No full signature is present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Cattle, sheep, and ducks resting in a meadow beside a stream, with a pollarded willow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European, likely Dutch or Belgian. The pollarded willow, the low flat horizon, the wide cloud-filled sky, and the black-and-white dairy cattle follow the Dutch meadow tradition most closely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Antique, mid to late 19th century. The reading rests on the keyed expansion stretcher, the unlined original canvas, and the even oxidation of the reverse rather than on style alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Canvas Size | 34 in. W x 23 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 46 in. W x 35 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Horizontal landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Ornate carved and gilded frame in the 19th-century taste, with a fluted main hollow, acanthus-leaf corner cartouches, and running ornament borders. Some gesso losses to the lower rail, consistent with age. Frame is period to the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]School or Movement | Dutch and Flemish animal painting, 19th-century revival. This is the tradition of cattle and sheep set in open meadow landscape that began with 17th-century Dutch painters such as Paulus Potter and Aelbert Cuyp, who treated farm animals as a serious subject in their own right, and was revived and made hugely popular again in the 1800s by painters like Eugene Verboeckhoven in Belgium and Albertus Verhoesen in the Netherlands. In the Low Countries a herd of healthy cattle in a green meadow was long read as an image of rural prosperity and calm, which is much of why these scenes were so sought after by 19th-century buyers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Canvas, unlined, on the original keyed mortise-and-tenon expansion stretcher with a vertical center crossbar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Stretcher | Original keyed expansion stretcher, hand-wedged corners, center crossbar. Consistent with professional 19th-century construction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe painting is on its original canvas, unlined, and remains on its original keyed stretcher, which is increasingly uncommon for a work of this age and size. The tacking margins are intact and wrapped over the stretcher edges, and the reverse shows the even oxidation and settled dust of genuine age. Under UV examination I found no evidence of overpaint or retouching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe paint surface carries a fine, even craquelure consistent with age, and an older varnish that has a slightly uneven sheen with some surface grime in the darker passages. The handling throughout is crisp and well preserved, with strong detail in the animals. I have not had the work formally assessed by a conservator, and I am describing only what is visible to me in hand and under UV; the piece would likely respond well to a professional clean, though it presents well as it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame is an ornate carved and gilded period frame with some gesso losses to the lower rail, consistent with its age. Recent hanging hardware, angle brackets and a braided wire, has been added for safe display and is not original.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePlease review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#9\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482655097110,"sku":"AMD-03448","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/DSA09053_e28e611b-60c2-4e46-b805-97b88bc7f142.jpg?v=1785988815"},{"product_id":"antique-belgian-sheep-oil-painting-landscape-1870","title":"Antique Sheep Oil Painting Landscape, Oil on Board","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA flock of six sheep settled on a hillside at the close of day, one ewe standing watch while the others rest in the long grass, a wooded bluff rising behind them and open sky opening out to the left. The painting sits in the Belgian tradition of sheep-in-landscape work that runs through the middle and later 19th century, the same tradition that produced Verboeckhoven and the de Beul family. This example is unsigned, which is usual for animal-and-landscape studies of this kind, many of which were painted for the trade rather than for exhibition. The fleece is the thing to look at closely: each animal is modeled with a different weight of wool, the standing ewe in a deep russet against the pale gold of the two at rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Unidentified\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | None found\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on board\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Sheep resting in a landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European, likely Belgian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Antique, circa 1860 to 1890, assessed on frame construction, composition ornament, board support, and handling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Panel Size | 22.25 in. W x 16.75 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 30.5 in. W x 25 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Horizontal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Original to the work. Period giltwood with acanthus and running-leaf composition ornament over a gesso ground\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]School or Movement | Belgian animal painting of the 19th century. A tradition of pastoral and livestock subjects that carried the Dutch Golden Age manner of painting animals into 19th-century Continental academic practice. Its painters specialized in cattle and sheep set in carefully staged landscape, prizing accurate modeling of the animals above all, and the best of them built entire careers on the subject. It was popular with collectors across Europe and remains a recognizable and collected category today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Board\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe painting presents well overall with a warm, unified surface. There is fine age craquelure across the sky, visible on close inspection and consistent with the age of the work. A few small surface accretions and pale specks are present in the sky passage. The paint film reads as stable in the areas visible to me, with no tears, punctures, or significant losses apparent. There is minor rubbing at the extreme edges where the board meets the frame rebate. I have not examined the work outside the frame and cannot speak to the reverse or to any earlier restoration, so I am describing only what is determinable in hand and from the photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame is original to the work and carries scattered composition losses and rubbing to the high points of the ornament, most visible along the outer leaf edge and at the corners. This is normal for a giltwood frame of this age and does not detract from its presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#13\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482655228182,"sku":"AMD-03453","price":1285.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-8824.jpg?v=1785263270"},{"product_id":"vintage-silver-plate-oval-gallery-serving-tray-cavalier-england","title":"Vintage Cavalier Silver Plate Oval Gallery Tray, England","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAn oval silverplate gallery tray by Cavalier of England, with a pierced arcade gallery, two shell-capped scroll handles, and a well engraved with flowing floral scrollwork. The gallery is the reason to look twice, a row of slim Gothic arches cut clean through the metal that reads almost like tracery when the light passes behind it. It sits on four ball feet and is generous in scale, big enough to stage a full drinks setup or a floral centerpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 21.75 in W x 14 in D x 1.75 in H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Surface | Machine-buffed, with plate loss to gallery, well, and underside\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Material | Silverplate on base metal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Period | Mid-20th century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1960 to 1975\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | England\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | Edwardian revival\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Also Known As | galleried salver\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Maker | Cavalier, Birmingham\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Mark | SILVER PLATED, CAVALIER, MADE IN ENGLAND, stamped to underside\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Decoration | Engraved floral and scroll well, pierced arcade gallery, gadrooned rim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Handles | Twin scroll handles with shell caps\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Feet | Four ball feet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe tray is structurally sound and sits flat and steady on all four feet. The form is intact with no dents, no bends, and no damage to the pierced gallery. The plating shows honest wear from use. There is visible plate loss with copper and base metal showing through in several areas: along the gallery arches, in patches across the engraved well, and more heavily across the underside, where the surface is worn and mottled. The top surface carries scattered scratches, spotting, and areas of dark tarnish and discoloration, most noticeable around the rim and the shell handle mounts. The engraved decoration in the well remains crisp and fully legible. This is a piece that shows its age on the surface while remaining sound and fully usable, and the wear reads as character on a tray meant to be handled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#17\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482655293718,"sku":"AMD-03455","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-10476.jpg?v=1785438636"},{"product_id":"vintage-silver-plate-oval-gallery-tray-circa-1900","title":"Antique Silver Plate Gallery Tray, Oval Serving Tray","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe oval form is drawn in with a serpentine edge and lifted on four little bun feet, and the pierced gallery carries an applied border of flower swags and ribbons in the Neoclassical taste. The silver has worn back over the years to show warm copper through the surface and around the pierced rim, the kind of surface that looks right at home in a room styled for age rather than polish. Two open handles make it easy to carry and easy to stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 18.25 in W x 12.5 in D x 2.25 in H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Surface | Worn silverplate with copper showing through across the well, rim, gallery, and feet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Primary Material | Silverplate over copper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Period | Late 19th to early 20th century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1890 to 1920\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | Neoclassical revival, Adam taste\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Also Known As | galleried salver\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Maker | No mark present\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Construction | Electroplate on a copper base, pierced and applied gallery, seamed bun feet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Handles | Two pierced open carrying handles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis tray shows heavy, honest wear to the plate and should be read as a decorative piece with a worn surface, not a bright polished one. The central well has extensive plate loss, with the silver worn thin to a soft gray over much of the surface and copper showing through in broad patches, most visibly across the center and toward one end. The pierced gallery shows copper coming through along most of the high points of the swag border and along the reeded top rim. All four bun feet show copper through the silver at the contact points. The applied swag decoration is intact all the way around with no losses to the castings and no breaks in the piercing. Both handles are secure. The tray sits flat and stable and is structurally sound throughout, with no splits, no dents of note, and no repairs I can find. The wear is cosmetic and consistent with long household use. If you want a mirror-bright tray this is not that piece; if you want the warm, coppery, lived-in look, the surface is the appeal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#19\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482655359254,"sku":"AMD-03457","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-10444.jpg?v=1785438980"},{"product_id":"item-32-antique-oak-riser-or-platform","title":"Antique Carved Oak Display Riser","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA low oak riser carries a band of hand-carved acanthus scrollwork along its front edge, the kind of Continental carving vocabulary that shows up again and again on Renaissance Revival case pieces. Raised on two feet, it was made to lift something else into view, a bowl, a small bust, a planted urn, rather than to be the object itself. The decoration is saved entirely for the front, with the sides and back left plain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 14.5 in. W x 3 in. H x 8.75 in. D\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Surface | Old finish throughout, consistent color in the carved recesses and on the flat top, with no visible sign of recent stripping or refinishing. Not confirmed as the original finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Primary Material | Oak\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Period | 19th Century \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European, likely French, Belgian, or Dutch. Country not yet confirmed, see note below\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style or Movement | Renaissance Revival, Louis XIII Revival carving vocabulary. This carving style was produced across a long window, roughly 1880 to 1930, and does not by itself fix a date\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Also Known As | display plinth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Maker | Not identifiable, no mark present\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Marks | None found\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Construction or Technique | Hand-carved acanthus and scroll relief to the front edge, plainer molded edges to the sides and back, set on two feet whose material and attachment have not yet been confirmed in hand\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis riser is in good, presentable condition. The top surface carries two water ring stains, visible as darker circular marks, left by something that once sat on it. The carved front edge and moldings show only light, age-appropriate wear at the raised high points, with the carving elsewhere crisp and undamaged in the photographs. Please review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#32\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482655719702,"sku":"AMD-03467","price":285.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceContainerInventory-10380.jpg?v=1787189506"},{"product_id":"antique-oil-painting-european-town-square","title":"Antique Oil Painting of a European Town Square","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA Continental town view in oil on canvas, a topographical scene built around a covered well with an ornamental wrought-iron crown at the center of a broad square. The painting is signed with a monogram cipher lower right; the artist is unidentified. It has been relined at some point to stabilize and preserve the original paint layer. Painted in a careful, faintly naïve provincial hand, the view records a specific European square, with arcaded ranges to one side, gabled townhouses receding down the street, and small figures in mid-19th-century dress moving through the scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Unknown, initialed with a monogram lower right\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Title | Continental Town Square with Well\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas, relined\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Town square with covered well and figures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Circa 1860 to 1890\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Size | Canvas 14 in W x 10.25 in H; framed 19 in W x 15 in H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | Continental School, provincial topographical view\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Gilt gesso on wood, foliate molding\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | Monogram cipher, lower right, artist unidentified\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe painting is in good, stable antique condition and has been relined to preserve the original paint layer, which reads as secure. There is fine overall craquelure consistent with a 19th-century oil on canvas, visible across the sky and foreground, with no active flaking noted and no significant paint losses in the image field. The surface would benefit from a light professional clean to lift a layer of age grime, though it presents well as is. The signature is a monogram cipher at the lower right and remains legible under raking light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame is a period gilt gesso on wood with a foliate outer molding and a beaded inner course. It shows honest age wear and several losses that should be disclosed plainly. There is a notable gesso loss at the top center of the outer molding, exposing the ground beneath, along with cracking and small flaking losses at the corners and scattered rubbing to the gilding overall. The frame is structurally sound and holds the painting securely. It is an attractive, sympathetic period frame that presents well from viewing distance, with the losses most apparent on close inspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e #29\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482656604438,"sku":"AMD-03478","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/DDSA07916.jpg?v=1784424302"},{"product_id":"vintage-victorian-style-cast-iron-dog-wall-hook","title":"Vintage Victorian Style Cast Iron Dog Wall Hook","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA cast iron wall hook with a dog's head modeled in the round at the top, mounted on a scrolled backplate that ends in a double hook below. It was made to hang by an entry or in a hall to hold a coat, a hat, a leash, or keys. The dog is the whole point of it. Someone chose to turn a plain utility hook into a small sculpture, and the long-muzzled head has real character to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 6 in. W x 8.5 in. H x 4.5 in. D\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Weight | Heavy for its size, typical of solid cast iron\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Surface | Old worn finish with active surface rust, washed and left as found, not stripped or refinished\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Primary Material | Cast iron\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Period | Vintage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Date | Undated. No maker's mark or foundry stamp is present to fix a year\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style or Movement | Victorian style, in the ornate figural hardware tradition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Also Known As | figural coat hook, leash holder\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Maker, Mark, or Attribution | No maker's mark, foundry stamp, or number found on the piece\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Construction or Technique | Sand cast. The dog's head is a separate casting screwed onto the backplate rather than cast in one piece with it\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Hardware or Mounts | Backplate pierced with mounting holes for wall fixing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis piece is honest and used. I have washed it, so what remains on the surface is rust, not dirt. There is active orange surface rust and dark pitting across both the front and the back, heaviest on the reverse of the backplate as shown in the photos. The metal is solid and structurally sound. It stands and hangs as it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe most important thing to know is how it is built. The dog's head is a separate casting that is screwed onto the backplate, not cast in one piece with it. You can see the join and the seam in the close-up photos. It sits firmly. I am pointing it out so there are no surprises, since a two-part construction like this can read as a repair or a later marriage of parts, and I would rather you decide for yourself from the pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThere is no maker's mark, foundry stamp, or number anywhere I can find, which is why I am not putting a date or a country of manufacture on it. The scrollwork is worn soft in places from age and handling. The hooks themselves are intact with no breaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#52\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482656768278,"sku":"AMD-03475","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceContainerInventory-9930.jpg?v=1786408580"},{"product_id":"antique-english-mahogany-barley-twist-games-table-1860","title":"Antique English Mahogany Barley Twist Games Table","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a fold-over games table in well-figured mahogany, the kind of piece that sits against a wall as a console and opens out when you want a surface for cards. The top swivels and unfolds to a playing round, hinged at the back rail. The legs are the character here: deep open-spiral barley twist down all four, ending in little turned feet, which gives a fairly serious piece a bit of movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe flame figure across the top and frieze is the other thing worth standing in front of. It catches the light and shifts as you move around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 29 in H x 35 in W x 34 in D (open)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Surface | Later finish, French polished, method not established\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Mahogany\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1860\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Victorian\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | fold-over card table, games table\u003cbr\u003e[d]Maker\/Attribution | none; no maker's mark present\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Solid carcass with mahogany veneer, pegged mortise and tenon rails, swivel-and-fold hinged top\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Oak and pine\u003cbr\u003e[d]Playing Surface | Painted and ebonized round, hinged at rear rail\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Brass top hinges\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eStructurally sound and standing square. The mahogany top and frieze retain good flame figure with a French-polished surface showing scattered scratches, small losses, and old wear throughout, consistent with age and use. There is veneer lifting and chipping along the front top edge (see photos). The interior playing surface is a painted and ebonized round, not baize or leather; it is worn and scuffed with a visible split running across it and paint losses along the hinge line. The swivel-and-fold mechanism operates. The secondary wood of the carcass and rails shows genuine oxidation, shrinkage gaps, and old surface grazing; no evidence of active infestation. Brass top hinges present and functional. Later finish, method not established. Dimensions approximate. Sold as-is; photos govern condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#38\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482656833814,"sku":"AMD-03476","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/23656941-C339-46EB-A7FD-713ABA467DDC_1_201_a.jpg?v=1785258864"},{"product_id":"antique-regency-mahogany-chest-of-drawers","title":"Antique Regency Mahogany Chest of Drawers","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAntique English mahogany chest of drawers, two short drawers over two long, with satinwood crossbanding, boxwood stringing, and fan-inlaid spandrels. A Regency piece from around 1810 to 1820, the kind of well-proportioned chest that works as a bedroom chest, an entry piece, or under a window with a lamp and a stack of books. The figured mahogany drawer fronts and the pale satinwood banding give it more dress than a plain country chest without tipping into formality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 33.5 in H x 37.5 in W x 21.25 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | French polished, resurfaced over time\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Mahogany, solid and veneered\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1810 to 1820, Regency\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Regency\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | two over two chest, commode (US)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Hand-cut dovetails, pine drawer linings, pine backboards, cockbeaded drawer edges\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Pine\u003cbr\u003e[d]Decoration | Satinwood crossbanding, boxwood stringing, fan-inlaid spandrels\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Oval stamped brass plate handles with rosette centers, brass escutcheons\u003cbr\u003e[d]Feet | Splayed bracket feet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThis chest has been refinished and carries a French polished surface that has been refreshed over its life; it is not the untouched original shellac. The color and figure of the mahogany are rich and even. The top shows several small dark filled or burn-type marks and a few shallow divots in the mahogany, most visible in raking light, along with light surface scratching consistent with age and use. There are losses to the satinwood crossbanding at two of the top corners where the banding has chipped away. The drawers run on pine linings and retain their hand-cut dovetails; the pine backboards are intact. At the back of the case there is a later structural repair: modern hex nuts and a bolt through a backboard, together with a later brass repair plate, not visible from the front but disclosed here. The oval stamped brass handles appear to be a matched set consistent with the period but are not confirmed original to the piece. Locks are present at the drawers; not tested. No keys present. Sold as-is with photographs governing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#39\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482656866582,"sku":"AMD-03477","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-10244.jpg?v=1785451164"},{"product_id":"antique-double-oil-painting-house-summer-winter-1870","title":"Antique Double Oil Painting House in Summer and Winter, Circa 1870","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAntique paired oil paintings, one house across two seasons. The left panel shows the garden deep in snow in 1871, a fir weighed down with white, bare fruit trees against a brick wall, the house behind shuttered against the cold. The right panel is the same house and garden in summer 1870, green lawn, flower beds in bloom, a figure on the path, shutters thrown open. One painter recorded the same view twice, a year apart, and framed the two together as a record of a single place through the turning year. Oil on panel, Continental European, unsigned but dated on both panels in the artist's hand. The kind of personal topographical record that was never made for sale, only to hold onto a specific house and garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Unknown artist, Continental European\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | Unsigned. Each panel dated in the lower right in the artist's hand, the summer panel 1870 and the winter panel 1871\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | The same house and walled garden painted in two seasons, summer and winter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European, likely French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Antique, dated 1870 and 1871\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Panel Size | 12 in. W x 8 in. H, each panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 27.5 in. W x 11.5 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Two panels framed together as a pair, side by side in a single surround\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Period giltwood frame with beaded inner course, striped reeded liner, and a carved leaf-and-berry outer molding\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | Topographical, seasonal pair\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Panel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBoth panels are stable and read well, with the paint film intact across the surfaces. The winter panel carries thick impasto in the snow that stands up off the surface as the artist laid it. The summer panel is darker in the foliage with the varnish gone amber, which deepens the greens. Both dates are clearly legible in the lower right. The panels are set into a single period frame and the reverses are not accessible without removing them, so I am describing what is visible from the front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame shows its age. There is gesso loss and chipping at the outer corners, rubbing along the high points of the carved molding, and small stable cracks in the giltwood. The striped liner is worn in places. The frame presents as a genuine period surround with honest wear rather than a restored or replaced one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#44\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482657030422,"sku":"AMD-03482","price":880.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-7862.jpg?v=1785177552"},{"product_id":"antique-italian-mother-and-child-oil-painting-unframed-1900","title":"Antique Italian Mother and Child Oil Painting, Unframed","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA single figure in deep rose, bent over her infant, sits at the edge of a dirt path while the rest of the picture opens away from her into grey weather and a distant peak. The painter put all the drama in the sky and all the warmth in one small place, and the composition works because of that imbalance. It belongs to the Italianate genre tradition that northern European painters carried home out of Rome and went on painting for the rest of the century. The hand here is unidentified, and I would rather say so than guess.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Unidentified. Italian School\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Italy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | Bearing an indistinct signature in the lower right. Not legible and not attributed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Mother and child seated in a southern landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Late 19th or early 20th century, assessed circa 1900\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Size | 16 inches W x 20 inches H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Vertical, sold unframed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | None\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | Italianate Romantic genre\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Canvas reverse exposed and visible, tacking edges intact on all four sides, re-stretched at some later point onto a plain softwood strainer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dating Evidence | Original iron tack holes with rust staining through the fibers along all four tacking margins, and an oval supplier stamp on the canvas reverse\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Provenance | No labels, gallery stickers, or auction tags. An oval stamp of the colourman type on the reverse, lettering present but not legible, and a blue chalk stock number\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSold unframed, and the surface is the thing to understand before buying. A greyish purple veil sits over the whole upper two thirds of the picture, above and around the paint rather than in it, and it reads to me as discolored varnish. At the upper left corner there is an abrupt patch of clean blue sky and cream cloud that does not blend into the surrounding grey and has a harder edge than the painter would have given it. My reading is a cleaning test window, where somebody took the varnish down in one small area and stopped. I cannot prove that from looking, and I am telling you what I see rather than what I know. What it means practically is that the picture under that veil is probably brighter and cooler than the picture in these photographs, and a conservator could tell you what it would take to bring it forward. I have not had that done and I am not selling it as done.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNo craquelure network is legible to me across the paint film, in the sky or in the thicker foliage passages. Whether fine cracking is present under the varnish and simply masked by it, I cannot say. Scattered small pale flecks sit across the sky and foreground, reading as surface accretion rather than paint loss. There is a dull bloom over parts of the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe canvas itself is sound. No tears, no punctures, no patches. The tacking margins carry heavy uneven oxidation, brown and grey banding along the fold lines and greenish staining in patches, along with the rusted round holes from the original stretching. Along the top turnover there is fiber loss and loose threads, heaviest at the upper left corner, and a few fibers stand proud along the right edge. The extreme bottom edge shows abrasion and small paint loss where the canvas has been knocked at some point. All of this sits at the outer margins rather than in the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe strainer is a plain light softwood, mitered at the corners, with no keys and no slots for keys. It is a later replacement, secured with staples that sit alongside and independent of the earlier tack holes. Hanging hardware is two modern D rings and braided wire, and is not original to anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#47\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482657128726,"sku":"AMD-03485","price":695.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-7783.jpg?v=1784999233"},{"product_id":"antique-belgian-interior-oil-painting-woman-knitting-1905","title":"Antique Belgian Interior Oil Painting","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe woman has stopped mid-task, red wool still looped over her fingers, and the whole room has gone quiet around her. A Continental European interior in oil, likely Belgian or Dutch, painted in the Hague School manner where a single window does all the work and everything else falls into warm shadow. The longcase clock anchors the center. A geranium burns red on the sill. The floor catches a slab of afternoon light and throws it back up into the scene. The canvas bears a signature at lower left that I could not match to a documented artist, so it is sold as the accomplished anonymous work it is, carried by the handling and the light rather than a name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Bearing a signature lower left, artist unidentified\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | Signed lower left, indistinct, not matched to a documented artist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Cottage interior with a woman knitting beside a longcase clock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European, likely Belgian or Dutch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Antique, circa 1900 to 1910\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Canvas Size | 26 in. W x 22 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 34 in. W x 30.25 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Horizontal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Carved and gilded period frame, laurel and berry outer molding over an oak leaf inner course, original to the period\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | Hague School manner, Continental interior genre\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Relined onto a second canvas over a keyed stretcher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Provenance | Two inventory labels to the verso, a printed 658 and a red bordered label with a handwritten number\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe painting presents well overall, with the loose confident brushwork intact across the figure, the window, and the light on the floor. There is general fine craquelure consistent with age, visible across the darker passages and the background wall. The canvas has been relined onto a second plain weave canvas over a keyed stretcher, a standard conservation measure that has stabilized the original and left the paint film sound across the lower third and elsewhere. The relining removed the original tacking edges and any labels or colourman marks that would have been on the reverse, which is why the dating rests on style and construction rather than documentation. I did not find inpainting in hand, though I would want a buyer to know that relined works have by definition been worked on the reverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame is a substantial carved and gilded period frame with a laurel and berry outer molding over an oak leaf inner course. It carries gesso losses at the corners, addressed with small metal mending brackets, and scattered minor chips and rubbing to high points consistent with age. The gilding is warm and largely intact across the faces. The frame reads as original to the work and is a real part of the value here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#51\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482657292566,"sku":"AMD-03490","price":1100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Screenshot_2026-07-28_at_12.00.31_PM.png?v=1785261637"},{"product_id":"antique-french-mahogany-commode-1800","title":"Antique French Louis XVI Mahogany Marble Top Commode","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAntique French marble-top commode, circa 1800, in figured mahogany with fine geometric parquetry banding and oval reserves in the Neoclassical taste. Three drawers behind a grey-and-white veined marble top, with quarter-column corners on block feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA statement piece with real age to it, the sort of commode that anchors an entry or sits under a mirror in a bedroom. The parquetry stringing that frames each drawer and the oval-banded lower reserve are the character here, set against the plume figure of the mahogany.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 34 in H x 54 in W x 24.5 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Later finish, method not established; cleaned and waxed\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Mahogany veneer\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1800\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | France\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Louis XVI \/ Directoire, Neoclassical\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | commode à marbre\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Oak drawer sides, pine backboards\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Hand-cut dovetail joinery, cut nails, riven backboards, solid mahogany-veneered oak carcass\u003cbr\u003e[d]Marble | Grey and white veined, original to the form\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Brass keyholes; locks non-functional, no key, escutcheon covers absent\u003cbr\u003e[d]Drawers | Three\u003cbr\u003e[d]Weight | Heavy; white-glove delivery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[Key] | One key\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eSold as-is with the photos governing condition. This is a genuinely early piece and it shows its age honestly. Every drawer front has splitting in the veneer and solid, and both side panels have splitting as well, most visible as a vertical run down the proper-left side. The top drawer has had earlier repair work, including a patched veneer corner visible in the detail photos. The mahogany surface has been worked at some point and carries a later finish; the method could not be determined, so it is described that way rather than called original. None of the drawer locks function, there is no working key to my knowledge, and the keyhole escutcheon covers are missing. The marble top has yellow staining toward the back edge and the usual edge wear, and there is splitting in the wood lip that surrounds the marble. Dimensions are approximate. Species is assessed as mahogany veneer from the figure and color, with oak and pine secondary. Date is a construction-based estimate; there is no maker's mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#56\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482657456406,"sku":"AMD-03495","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-10156.jpg?v=1785383343"},{"product_id":"antique-european-moody-river-landscape-oil-painting-1890","title":"Antique European Moody River Landscape Oil Painting","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA stand of slender birches catches the last light on a river bend, the water threading silver through marsh grass as dusk settles over the far treeline. This is a Continental European tonal landscape in the Barbizon manner, oil on canvas, worked in the muted earth palette and heavy atmospheric sky that defined the school from the 1850s onward. Unsigned, as much of this material is. The handling is confident: thick impasto in the foliage and reeds, thin scumbled sky, the low sun handled with real restraint. It descends from the tradition of Corot and Daubigny, the moody dusk landscape that reads so well in a library or study.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Unknown Artist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | None found\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | River landscape at dusk, tall trees and winding stream\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Antique, circa 1880 to 1910\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Canvas Size | 25 in. W x 17 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 32 in. W x 23.5 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Horizontal landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Period gilt gesso and composition, carved acanthus and leaf-and-berry ornament, losses present\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | Barbizon tradition, tonal landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Canvas, relined 1991\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe painting shows an age-consistent craquelure network across the sky and foliage, with some cupping in the darker passages. Surface grime and a warm discolored varnish sit over the whole image, softening the tonal range. The canvas was relined in 1991, noted in pencil on the stretcher; the original tacking edges and any reverse markings are covered by that work. The paint film is stable in the photographs. I have not cleaned or tested the surface, so I am describing what is visible and leaving the rest for in-person inspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame is a substantial period gilt piece and presents well from across a room, but it carries real damage up close. There is gesso and composition loss at the lower-left and upper-left corners exposing red bole and raw wood, two older rectangular fill patches along the top and right rails that were never regilded, and several cracks in the outer leaf molding at the corners. Sold as-is, an honest antique frame with losses rather than a restored one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#60\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482657587478,"sku":"AMD-03499","price":1150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceContainerInventory-11148.jpg?v=1788654774"},{"product_id":"antique-belgian-cherry-marble-top-commode-1900","title":"Antique Louis XVI Style Cherry Commode with Marble Top","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a small-scale three-drawer commode, circa 1900, in the neoclassical Louis XVI manner. The fruitwood front is worked with fine dark line inlay drawn into long lozenge reserves, and each side panel carries a large inlaid diamond. Above it all sits a black fossil-limestone top, the natural shell flecks scattered across the surface when the light catches it. Restrained rather than ornate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe three graduated drawers are built the old way, in solid quarter-sawn oak with hand-cut dovetails. Brass swing-bail handles, diamond escutcheons, and tapered legs ending in brass sabots finish it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 34 in H x 40 in W x 21.5 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Surface | Fossil limestone top (petit granit); wood with older cleaned and waxed finish, method not fully established\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Material | Fruitwood, consistent with cherry (cherry family; unconfirmed)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1900\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Louis XVI\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | Belgium (attributed; sourced in Belgium, petit-granit top)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | commode, chest of drawers\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Hand-cut dovetailed drawers in solid quarter-sawn oak; veneered case; planked back\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Oak drawer linings; softwood\/oak carcass\u003cbr\u003e[d]Inlay | Dark line stringing in lozenge reserves; diamond reserve to each side panel\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Brass swing-bail pulls, diamond escutcheons, brass sabots\u003cbr\u003e[d]Top | Black fossil limestone, removable\u003cbr\u003e[d]Keys | One key present; locks the top two drawers. Bottom drawer lock non-functional\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eSold as-is; photos govern. This is a genuine antique carrying honest damage and old repairs, disclosed here in full. The two side panels each show splitting and cracking through the center of the veneered diamond reserve, prominent on these show surfaces, along with areas of veneer loss to the sides. The back left leg is damaged and carries an old repair; it is stable. The bottom drawer has a large crack that has been repaired. The case corners and top edges show veneer chips, lifting, and small losses. The planked back shows staining and later metal mending plates. Throughout, the fruitwood veneer and dark line inlay show minor lifting and small losses at edges consistent with age. The fossil-limestone top has surface scratching, light edge chips, and natural fossil inclusions inherent to the stone rather than damage. The three drawers are solid quarter-sawn oak with hand-cut dovetails and open and function. One key is provided; it locks and unlocks the top two drawers. The bottom drawer lock does not function. Wood species is stated as an assessment, cherry\/fruitwood, from grain and color; the face is veneered and has been cleaned, so the pore cues that would separate cherry from pear are not readable, and pear is a genuine alternative. This piece stands and functions but should be understood as a decorative antique with visible flaws, not a restored example.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#62\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482657685782,"sku":"AMD-03501","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-7592.jpg?v=1785172952"},{"product_id":"antique-french-marquetry-commode-1870","title":"Antique French Neoclassical Louis XVI Marquetry Commode","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA French marquetry commode from around 1870, its three graduated drawers laid with richly figured flame veneers and framed by stepped geometric inlay in contrasting woods. Cast cameo mounts, each a pair of classical profile portraits under a ribbon crest, give the front its character. The grey veined marble top and slender tapering legs on brass sabots keep the whole piece light despite its scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 38 in H x 49 in W x 24 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Original polished surface, cleaned and waxed\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Figured mahogany and walnut veneers with contrasting inlay\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1870\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | France\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Neoclassical, Louis XVI transitional\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | commode\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Oak-lined drawers with hand-cut dovetails, planked oak back\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Oak\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Cast cameo drawer mounts and escutcheons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[d]Top | Pale blue-grey veined marble, molded edge\u003cbr\u003e[d]Marble | Pale blue-grey, approximately full case width, molded edge, seated on case\u003cbr\u003e[d]Locks and Keys | Working lock with original key present\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThis commode is in good antique condition, structurally sound and standing squarely. The construction is honest to its period: oak-lined drawers with hand-cut dovetails, a planked oak back, and oxidation consistent with age throughout the interior and underside. The flame-figured veneers are largely intact with strong color and figure. There is a small area of veneer loss and a short check to the inlay at one lower drawer corner, disclosed and shown in the photos. Expected minor lifting and old shrinkage may be present at veneer edges. The cast cameo mounts and escutcheons are complete across all three drawers. The lock is present and has been tested; it works with the original key, which is included. The grey veined marble top is intact with surface scratches and a few small stains visible in raking light, and light edge wear consistent with age; buyer should confirm they are satisfied with the marble on inspection. Surface has been cleaned and waxed, not stripped or refinished to bare wood. Species is assessed from figure and secondary wood, not laboratory-confirmed. Date is a construction-based estimate; there is no maker's mark. Dimensions are approximate. This is a large marble-top case piece requiring white-glove freight. Sold as-is with photos forming part of the description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#63\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482657751318,"sku":"AMD-03502","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-10141_8450fe5e-ccb3-4eab-8323-dd0a0add2b5b.jpg?v=1785381569"},{"product_id":"vintage-belgian-oak-double-sided-kitchen-island","title":"Vintage Belgian Oak Double Sided Kitchen Island","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOak has a way of anchoring a kitchen, and this double-sided island does it from every angle. Both long faces open to full-height cabinets, so it works freestanding in the middle of a room the way a built-in never can. Paneled all around, mounted on castors, with a warm oak top conditioned to an even, soft glow. Staged as the heart of a space, it earns its footprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 36.5 in H x 80 in W x 33 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Cleaned and conditioned, color evened for uniformity\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Oak\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Vintage\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Early 20th century\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | Belgium\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | none; provincial utilitarian form\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | shop counter, work island, buffet-bas\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Frame and panel throughout, finished on all four sides; boarded top with cleated ends\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Cast metal leaf-pattern door pulls; one later stamped-brass mending plate at a corner\u003cbr\u003e[d]Casters | Four composite\/rubber wheels, later\u003cbr\u003e[d]Weight | Heavy; solid oak, white-glove freight only\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThe top had cracked and settled, and we have repaired it: the split was glued and the top reworked so the piece is now structurally sound and stable. The repair remains visible as a fine line running with the grain across the top, and there is natural shrinkage gapping between one or two boards. The base, which had loosened at one corner, has been made sound in the same work. We have also conditioned the wood so the color reads more even across the piece; it presents beautifully, but this is not an original undisturbed surface. Some darker staining and marks remain in the grain, honest to the piece's age and use, along with old soiling in the interior and at least one worm-track exit hole on the top with two small filled holes nearby. Cast leaf-pattern pulls are present on the doors. One corner carries a later stamped-brass mending plate, and the castors are later composite wheels. Both cabinet sides are the same, each opening to interior shelf storage. Solid oak and large; white-glove delivery. Photos govern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#64\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482657784086,"sku":"AMD-03503","price":2850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/A16FDB9E-B025-4503-8151-042D303BDF71.jpg?v=1784575018"},{"product_id":"antique-french-folk-art-milking-stool","title":"Antique French Folk Art Milking Stool","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 23.25 in H x 12.5 in W x 11 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Seat Height | 12.5 in\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Cleaned and waxed\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Solid fruitwood or beech (assessed; see condition)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Late 19th or early 20th century\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | France\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Primitive \/ Folk Art\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | tabouret de traite, berger stool\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Solid slab seat, three splayed round legs with wedged through-tenons, single tenoned front stave; underside battens, one a later replacement\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Not applicable, solid throughout\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eSold as-is; photos govern. This is a hand-made vernacular piece and carries the marks of real age and use. The seat has an open shrinkage split running in from the front edge, stable, along with a bright chip and edge losses at the front rim where the surface has worn or knocked away. The seat top shows the wedged round leg tenons and the stave mortise, all sound. The surface has been cleaned and waxed to an even sheen; this is not an untouched original patina. On the underside there are two support battens, one original and oxidized and one a later replacement in fresh wood secured with wire nails. Legs and stave are firm and the stool stands solid. Wood species is assessed from surface appearance and grain and is not confirmed. Date is a construction-based estimate; there is no maker's mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#67\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482657882390,"sku":"AMD-03506","price":275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-10068.jpg?v=1785508895"},{"product_id":"antique-french-marble-gilt-bronze-cassolettes-pair-1900","title":"Antique French Marble Urns Pair, Gilt Bronze Cassolettes","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003eThese are a wonderful pair of French cassolettes, the kind of marble and gilt bronze garniture that once flanked a mantel clock. The bodies are carved from veined white marble with grey and soft rust markings, no two panels alike, mounted in gilt bronze with upswept scrolling handles, floral swags, and a flame finial crowning each lid. They sit on square marble plinths dressed with applied ribbon and leaf mounts and raised on small bun feet. I bought the pair in Belgium. Unmarked, but the casting and construction place them firmly in the late 19th to early 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e[d]Type | Cassolettes, pair\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e[d]Material | Veined white marble with gilt bronze mounts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e[d]Origin | France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e[d]Age | Circa 1890 to 1910\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e[d]Style | Louis XVI style, Neoclassical\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e[d]Size | 11.5 in H x 5.5 in W x 3.25 in D each\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e[d]Handles | Gilt bronze scrolling handles with floral swags\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e[d]Finial | Gilt bronze flame finial, fixed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e[d]Base | Square marble plinth with applied gilt bronze mounts and bun feet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e[d]Marks | No maker's marks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"auto\"\u003eBoth urns are in good antique condition and stand straight and stable. One of the marble feet was repaired so that all four feet on that urn now sit level and firm. The repair is solid and the piece is steady in use. There are a couple of minor flea bite chips that scuff along the front of one of the urns, small and consistent with age. The gilt bronze shows honest age-related wear and a warm patina throughout, with light rubbing to some of the high points. The marble on both is intact aside from the flea bites noted, with natural veining and small inclusions that are part of the stone. The flame finials are fixed and do not unscrew. Sold as a decorative pair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eItem #78\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482659225878,"sku":"AMD-03517","price":595.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/EC6B437B-4ABE-40CA-B25E-97678A2B86E9.jpg?v=1784407358"},{"product_id":"item-79-crystal-and-brass-ormolu-style-bud-vase","title":"Vintage French Pressed Crystal Bud Vase with Gilt Brass Foot","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA slim faceted glass vase raised on a gilt brass foot, the sort of piece that reads as far more expensive than it is. The whole body is worked in a tight allover diamond point pattern that catches light from every angle, and the rim finishes in a sawtooth crown of points. The brass foot ring is set with small cast shells at intervals. It holds a single stem or a few, and earns its place on a mantel or shelf whether or not there are flowers in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 10.25 in H x 4.25 in D\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Surface | Original glass and gilt finish, unpolished\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Primary Material | Pressed lead crystal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Period | Vintage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Date | Mid-20th century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | Neoclassical taste\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Also Known As | bud vase, stem vase\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Mount | Gilt brass foot ring with cast shell ornament\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Construction | Mold-formed with allover diamond point pattern and sawtooth rim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Secondary Material | Gilt brass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe vase is in good vintage condition and displays well. The glass is bright and clear with strong light return through the diamond point pattern. The sawtooth rim is intact around its full circumference with no chips or losses that I can find. The body shows the light surface scratching and a little interior cloudiness normal for a vintage vase that has held water and been handled. There is a small amount of dark speckling visible against the glass in a couple of the photos, which is minor and does not read at display distance. The gilt brass foot ring is secure to the glass and sits flat. The gilt on the brass shows light rubbing and wear consistent with age, with some softening of the finish along the high points. The cast shell ornaments are all present. The star cut underside of the foot is intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAttribution note: this is assessed from photographs and construction. The glass carries a mold seam through the base and the facets are mold formed rather than wheel cut, which places it as pressed rather than hand cut. It has a light ring and some weight, consistent with lead content, so it is described as pressed lead crystal. There is no maker's mark. Origin is given as France on the character of the mount and pattern; it is not confirmed by a mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#79\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482659258646,"sku":"AMD-03518","price":155.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-11202.jpg?v=1785705664"},{"product_id":"vintage-pewter-coasters-trinket-dishes-set-of-6","title":"Vintage Pewter Trinket Dish with Reeded Rim","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA small \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epewter trinket dish \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewith a fine reeded \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erim and a stepped \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewell, the kind of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eplain, honest \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emetalware that gets \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eused every day and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enever asks for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eattention. It holds \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erings, cufflinks, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecoins, or paper clips \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eon a desk or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enightstand, and works \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ejust as well as a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecoaster under a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eglass. Sold \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eindividually, so you \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecan take one or build \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eyour own set.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[d]Dime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ensions | 4 in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ediameter x 0.5 in H\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[d]Surface | Original \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esurface, hand-cleaned\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[d]Primary Material \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e| Pewter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[d]Period | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMid-20th century\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[d]D\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eate | Circa 1950 to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1970\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[d]Origin | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eContinental Europe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[d]Also Known As | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epin dish, vide-poche\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[d]Maker, Mark, or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAttribution | No \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehallmarks or maker's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emarks present\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[d]Cons\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etruction | \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMachine-spun, reeded \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erim with concentric \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003estepped well\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[condition]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGood \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003evintage condition. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe surface shows \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elight scuffing and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003escattered fine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003escratches from use, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand a soft, even \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epatina consistent \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewith age, most \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003evisible in the well. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSome darkening in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erecesses where \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etarnish has settled. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo dents, no splits, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eno losses. The reeded \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erim is crisp. There \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eare no hallmarks or \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emaker's marks. Sold \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eas a decorative \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epiece. Please review \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eall photographs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eclosely, as they form \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epart of this \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edescription.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#83\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482659422486,"sku":"AMD-03522","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-11223.jpg?v=1785704038"},{"product_id":"vintage-cut-glass-bud-vase-gilt-brass-rim-belgium","title":"Vintage Cut Glass Bud Vase with Gilt Brass Rim","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCut crystal bud vase with a fitted gilt brass rim, footed and cut in alternating bands of diamond hobnail and long vertical flutes. The brass collar is a nice touch that lifts it above ordinary pressed glass, giving the mouth a clean gold line that catches the light. It holds a single stem or a few short flowers, and works just as well empty as a small bright object on a shelf or vanity. The cutting is crisp and the glass has real weight in the hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 8 in H x 3.25 in diameter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Surface | Original polished glass; gilt brass rim reattached\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Primary Material | Cut glass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Period | Vintage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Date | 20th century; no date evidence present\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | Cut glass with diamond and flute banding\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Also Known As | bud vase, posy vase\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Secondary Material | Gilt brass rim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Construction | Wheel-cut and polished glass, footed form with a fitted metal collar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe vase is in good decorative condition with two issues to note plainly. First, the gilt brass rim at the mouth has been detached and glued back on; the repair is holding and the rim sits level, but it is a repair and not original attachment. Second, the foot shows damage: there is a crack visible across the underside of the base and a small chip or flake at the foot edge. Read the photos of the base closely before purchase. The glass body itself is clean and bright with crisp cutting and no cloudiness. The gilt on the brass rim is even with light wear. This is sold as a decorative piece; the foot condition should be considered if you intend to fill it with water and flowers regularly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#84\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482659455254,"sku":"AMD-03523","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-11210.jpg?v=1785705045"},{"product_id":"antique-french-marble-bistro-table-2","title":"Antique French Marble Top Cast Iron Bistro Table","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA round French café table of the kind that once filled Parisian sidewalks and brasseries, with a pale veined marble top set on a fluted cast iron pedestal that splays into three scrolled feet. The compact size makes it a natural two-seater for a breakfast corner or an entry, or a generous side table beside a chair. The top has cleaned up to a soft bright white with grey veining running through the stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 23.5 in diameter, 29 in high\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Cast iron base with worn original black paint; marble cleaned, unpolished\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Material | Marble top, cast iron base\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1890 to 1910\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | France\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | French café \/ bistro\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | guéridon de bistrot\u003cbr\u003e[d]Maker | Unmarked; raised casting detail present on the base\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Round marble top on a three-footed cast iron pedestal, fluted column, scrolled foliate feet, threaded plate union\u003cbr\u003e[d]Availability | One of two individually listed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eStructurally sound and standing solidly on its cast iron tripod base. The marble top rests on the base in its original manner and is stable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe marble top has a crack that runs through the stone to the edge; this is disclosed plainly as a structural condition of the top. It is common in antique café marbles of this age and does not affect the table's stability in normal use, but it is a permanent flaw and the top should be handled and moved with care. The top has been cleaned and presents as a bright, soft white with natural grey veining and only faint remaining surface marks; light iron-oxide spotting is present in places. The underside is hand-finished and rough, with oxidation and old bedding residue at the mounting plate that match the age of the base, indicating the top and base have been together for a very long time. The marble surface is unpolished, in its cleaned but unrestored state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe cast iron base retains worn original black paint with surface oxidation and rust bloom in the recesses of the casting. The column joins the feet at a threaded cast plate with long-oxidized hardware. There is raised cast detail on the base but no legible foundry name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe date is given as a construction-and-wear-based estimate from the hand-finished marble underside, the aged threaded union, and the character of the casting; there is no maker's mark or dated stamp. All dimensions are as measured. Sold as-is; photographs are part of the description and govern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e#86 - 2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482659520790,"sku":"AMD-03528","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/867AF0B4-E55F-41D6-BDEB-35C1CD313712_1_201_a.heic?v=1785726016"},{"product_id":"vintage-terracotta-mini-planter-pot","title":"Vintage Terracotta Mini Planter Pot","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEach has the pinched double rim and a drainage hole through the base. Sold individually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 2.25 in. H x 2.5 in. Dia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Surface | Original surface, unwashed, with soil and mineral traces around the rim and body\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Primary Material | Terracotta\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Period | Vintage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Date | Mid to late 20th century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Also Known As | thumb pot, seedling pot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Construction or Technique | Wheel thrown or machine formed, unglazed, with a single punched drainage hole to the base\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSold individually from a group of like pots, and each one differs. Expect small rim chips and flakes, mineral crust and dried soil in the clay, and darkening where the pot sat wet. Several pots in the group show a shallow chip to the rim edge, and one or two carry a short flake running down from the rim. None of the pots have been washed or scrubbed. Drainage holes are open. The clay is unglazed throughout, so staining is absorbed rather than sitting on a surface, and it will not come out. These are working garden pots that were used, and they read that way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePlease review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#90\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482660012310,"sku":"AMD-03529","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceContainerInventory-10541.jpg?v=1787191230"},{"product_id":"antique-english-campaign-mahogany-butlers-tray-table","title":"Antique English Campaign Mahogany Butlers Tray Table","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Tray Dimensions | 4.25 in H x 27 in W x 18.5 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Overall on Stand | 28.5 in H x 24.5 in W x 17.5 in D\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Finish | Later finish, method not established; refreshed reddish surface\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Mahogany\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1880\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Campaign\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | butler's tray on stand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[d]Construction | Dovetailed tray corners; drop-down gallery sides on inset brass strap hinges; pierced carry handles; folding X-frame stand with bolted pivot\u003cbr\u003e[d]Straps | Woven fabric support straps to the stand, hold the tray\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Brass strap hinges to gallery sides, original to the tray\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eSold as-is, with photos governing. This is a working antique with honest wear throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe tray floor has a full-length shrinkage split running the length of one board, open and visible, consistent with age and stable. The tray surface shows scratches, scuffs, ring marks, and general wear across the mahogany. The gallery sides fold down on their brass strap hinges; the hinges are present and functional, original to the tray. Pierced carry handles at each end are intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe finish has been worked at some point and is not original; it reads as a refreshed reddish surface, method not established. Color and sheen on the folding stand match the tray.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe folding X-frame stand is structurally sound and matches the tray in wood, color, and wear. Pegged joints and worn feet are age-consistent. The tray rests on the stand and lifts free; it is not fixed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSpecies assessed as mahogany from color, grain, and weight consistent with the form; no maker's mark, stamp, or label is present. Date is a construction-based estimate from the dovetailed tray, brass strap hinges, and folding gallery, with no dated mark to confirm a single year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#101\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482660471062,"sku":"AMD-03540","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Container_Inventory-10917.jpg?v=1788460664"},{"product_id":"antique-french-sandblasted-oak-empire-buffet","title":"Antique French Sandblasted Oak Empire Buffet","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE SHIPPING\u003c\/em\u003e - please email austynmariedesign@gmail.com for a shipping quote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is an Empire buffet from the first half of the 19th century, built as a single deep cabinet behind a pair of paneled doors with a long drawer across the frieze above. Detached columns at the front corners, ringed top and bottom in brass, give it the architectural front the Empire period is known for. I had the piece sandblasted after acquiring it, which took the oak down to a pale, raw, matte surface very different from the warm waxed oak these usually wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 39.75 in H x 54.5 in W x 24.5 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Empire, first half 19th century\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1840, construction-based estimate\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Empire\u003cbr\u003e[d]Country of Origin | France\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Oak (assessed; see condition note)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Sandblasted to raw, pale, matte surface\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Oak and softwood interior and back\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Solid plank construction; riven and hand-sawn backboards; detached front columns; paneled doors\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Pierced brass door escutcheons; brass shield escutcheon to drawer; brass column collars; later zinc-plated door strike plates\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | buffet à hauteur d'appui, Empire commode\u003cbr\u003e[d]Drawer | Single frieze drawer\u003cbr\u003e[d]Interior | Single shelf (later, cut-down replacement)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Keys | None present\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThis buffet has been sandblasted, which I did after acquiring it. Blasting removes the original surface, oxidation, and tool marks, so the exterior reads as a pale raw oak rather than an aged waxed finish. It also removes the surface cues that would normally confirm wood species from the outside; I have assessed the piece as oak based on the grain, the ring-porous figure on the door panels, and the unblasted oxidized wood visible inside the case, but I am stating that as an assessment rather than a certainty. The interior and backboards retain their old dark oxidized surface and were not blasted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe doors do not stay shut. The original locking mechanism is not functional for keeping them closed, and later zinc-plated strike plates have been added, which is what you see on the door edges; they do not hold reliably. No keys are present for the drawer or the doors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe right front leg is missing a section, with old splitting and loss at the lower portion (see photos). There are small worm flight holes visible in the leg and along a column base, with oxidation in the checks consistent with old, likely inactive activity; the piece has not been formally tested or treated for active infestation, so I am disclosing it as-is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe interior shelf is a later replacement that has been cut down, a make-shift job rather than an original fitted shelf. The backboards show an old patched repair let into the planks. There is shrinkage, checking, and splitting throughout consistent with age, including at the top edge and corners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#102\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482660503830,"sku":"AMD-03541","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-8492.jpg?v=1785188092"},{"product_id":"antique-french-louis-xvi-marquetry-commode","title":"Antique French Louis XVI Marquetry Commode","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrice does not include shipping.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAntique French Louis XVI marquetry commode, made in France in the late eighteenth century. The case is a low chest of three long drawers with a slightly projecting top, geometric parquetry across the front and sides, and the tapered square legs of the neoclassical period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhat sets it apart is the veneer work. Each drawer front carries a banded rectangular panel of quarter-figured wood framed by contrasting stringing, and the pattern carries onto the canted front angles and the panelled ends. The original oval beaded pulls and beaded escutcheons are still in place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt is a genuine period piece, not a later revival, which the hand-cut dovetails, draw-bored peg joints, and riven backboards confirm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 31.25 in H x 46.5 in W x 21.5 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Cleaned and waxed, later surface, method not established\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Assessed as figured oak and fruitwood veneers with walnut and boxwood banding; see condition note\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1780 to 1800\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | France\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Louis XVI\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | commode\u003cbr\u003e[d]Maker or Attribution | Unstamped, no maker's mark located\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Veneered softwood and fruitwood carcass, hand-cut through dovetailed drawers, draw-bored pegged mortise and tenon case joints, riven backboards\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Softwood, with pine drawer linings\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Oval beaded stamped-brass pulls and beaded escutcheons\u003cbr\u003e[d]Drawers | Three long drawers\u003cbr\u003e[d]Keys | None present\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eThis is a genuine late eighteenth-century commode and it shows the wear of its age honestly. Please read this section with the photos, which govern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe top had an open, full-length shrinkage split with cupping and lifting to the boards along it. We have glued and stabilized the top; the boards now sit substantially back in plane and the split is closed and repaired along its length, with a fine residual line and slight variation still visible at the edge on close inspection. The top is solid and stable. This is a disclosed structural repair to the most visible surface of the piece and is shown in the photographs. There is veneer loss and lifting at the top right drawer corner, a smaller loss along the top front edge, and a loss to one inlaid corner spandrel. Scattered small veneer chips, lifting, and old filled areas appear across the front and top consistent with age. The parquetry is otherwise sound and well figured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAll three drawer bottoms have significant shrinkage splits running the length of the riven pine boards, wide and open in places, consistent with age and seasonal movement. The drawers remain functional but the splits are substantial and are shown in the photographs. Old worm flight is present across the drawer sides, bottoms, and backboards; I have not had the piece tested for active infestation and am noting the flight as historic in appearance only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe surface has been cleaned and waxed at some point; this is a later surface and I cannot establish the original finish or the method used, so I am not calling it original. The primary show wood is veneer over a softwood and fruitwood carcass. Because it is veneered and figured I am giving the species as an assessment rather than a proven fact: it reads as figured oak and fruitwood with walnut and boxwood banding, but I have not confirmed species and the banding could include other fruitwoods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe backboards are riven and hand-worked with genuine old worm flight and oxidation, secured with cut nails. The drawers are hand-dovetailed and run, with wear to the runners and drawer edges as expected. The original oval pulls and beaded escutcheons are present and appear original to the piece; the locks are present but I have not tested them and no keys are present. The legs are sound. Dimensions are as measured. Sold as-is, with the photographs governing the sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#103\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482660569366,"sku":"AMD-03542","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-10205.jpg?v=1785452571"},{"product_id":"antique-dutch-mahogany-jardiniere-stand-c1800","title":"Antique Dutch Mahogany Plant Stand with Brass Liner","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis is a small Dutch neoclassical stand, built around a deep, removable brass liner and raised on slender fluted legs. It began life as a tea stove: the brass well held a covered pot kept warm over smoldering peat through a long Dutch afternoon, with the little apron drawer below for the strainer, spoons, and caddy key. The watertight liner is why it reads so naturally as a planter now, a second life for a piece made for the ritual of keeping tea hot at your elbow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 20 in H x 11.5 in W x 11.5 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1800\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Louis XVI \/ Dutch Neoclassical\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | jardinière on stand, theestoof, bottle stand, cellarette\u003cbr\u003e[d]Country of Origin | Netherlands\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Mahogany, flame figured\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Original surface, cleaned and waxed\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Oak (drawer)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Hand-cut dovetail drawer, hand-pegged joinery, solid and veneered mahogany over oak\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Cast brass rosette ring pulls, brass toupie feet, removable brass liner\u003cbr\u003e[d]Drawer | Single working drawer in apron\u003cbr\u003e[d]Liner | Removable brass liner, original\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition] Sold as-is, in good honest antique condition for its age, with the photos governing. The flame mahogany retains a warm original surface that has been cleaned and waxed rather than stripped or refinished. There is an old vertical shrinkage split to one case side, stable and consistent with age, visible in the photos. Expect minor veneer losses and lifting at the top rim and around the drawer surround, and light chipping to veneer edges at the canted corners. The drawer runs on its original hand-cut dovetailed joints and opens and closes freely. The removable brass liner shows genuine age: oxidation, spotting, verdigris to the interior base, and a soft overall patina, with old soldered seams intact and two small ring lifts present. The brass rosette pulls and brass feet are consistent with the piece; I have not disturbed them to confirm they are first to it, so I am describing them as period-appropriate rather than documented original. One rear leg-to-case joint shows an old repair or reinforcement, visible in the joinery closeup. Overall a structurally sound, usable piece that shows its age in the ways a 220-year-old object should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#105\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482660634902,"sku":"AMD-03544","price":590.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/3CBCD6E2-CAFE-4B73-9F12-E4694FA07435.jpg?v=1787960413"},{"product_id":"item-106-chiffoniere-petite-chest-of-drawers-will-chip-and-use-marble-top-with-it","title":"Antique French Directoire Cherry Chiffonnière, Petite Chest of Drawers","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a petite French chiffonnière from the Directoire period, made in solid cherry with five graduated drawers and a grey fossil-marble top. The tall, narrow footprint was built to hold linens or small personal things in a bedroom or dressing room, and it still does that job beautifully beside a bed or in a corner that needs storage without bulk. The paneled sides and hand-cut joinery are the tell of a piece made by hand around two hundred years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 32 in H x 17.25 in W x 13 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Later finish, method not established; old surface with honest crazing\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Solid cherry (merisier)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1830\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | France\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Directoire\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | chiffonnière\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Solid throughout; pegged mortise-and-tenon frame-and-panel case; hand-cut dovetailed drawers\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Oak drawer linings\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Brass escutcheons; iron locks\u003cbr\u003e[d]Top | Grey and white fossil marble\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[key] | Not original key but turns\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eSolid cherry throughout, with a warm honest surface. The finish is a later one; the method is not established, and there is fine crazing across the top rail and case sides consistent with an older refinish. This is not the original surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe piece has old wood-worm flight holes to the back frame, top rail, case sides, and legs. It has been treated and there is no active infestation. The holes and some of the surface crazing have been filled; the filler is a pale color and has not been tinted to match the cherry, so it is visible across the case sides, rail, and legs on close inspection and in raking light. I would rather you see it in the photos than be surprised by it in person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe chest stands level and square. A long shrinkage split runs down one side panel, with additional shrinkage checking at the top rail, both consistent with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe marble top is a grey and white fossil marble with characterful veining. It is chipped along the edges and the back, with a loss to one corner. The marble sits loose on the case, as these tops typically do, and I would treat it as delicate in handling and transit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe brass escutcheons do not all match their cutouts. The lower drawer escutcheon is broken and the lock cutout beneath it is torn and enlarged; the brass is loose there. Locks are present on the other drawers; I have not tested them and no keys are included. The legs are scuffed and abraded at the feet from use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDating is a construction-based estimate; there is no maker's mark. Sold as-is, with photos governing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e#106\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482660667670,"sku":"AMD-03545","price":1100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-9944.jpg?v=1785441024"},{"product_id":"antique-french-sandblasted-walnut-commode-circa-1800","title":"Antique French Louis XVI Sandblasted Walnut Commode, Circa 1790","description":"\u003cblockquote class=\"ml-2 border-l-4 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.1)] pl-4 text-text-300\"\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSandblasted French walnut chest of drawers, in the Louis XVI taste. The walnut has been blasted back to bare wood, leaving a pale honey surface with open grain and visible texture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThree full-width drawers with molded frames, fluted canted corners, square tapered feet, shaped apron. Solid plank top secured with wooden pegs. Frame-and-panel sides and back. Hand-cut dovetails reinforced with iron nails. Cast brass hardware with neoclassical escutcheons, each with an eagle above a laurel wreath and ribbon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 38\" H x 36\" W x 22\" D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Louis XVI\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1770-1800\u003cbr\u003e[d]Country of Origin | France\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Walnut\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Sandblasted to bare wood\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Pine\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Hand-cut dovetails, pegged plank top, hand-driven iron nails\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Cast brass, neoclassical eagle and laurel escutcheons\u003cbr\u003e[d]Drawers | Three, full width\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[d]Locks | Two iron mortise locks, top and middle drawers, both working\u003cbr\u003e[d]Keys | Original key present, operates both locks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eStructurally sound and in good working order for its age. This piece has been sandblasted back to bare wood, which removed the earlier surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThere is extensive old woodworm damage throughout. The three drawer fronts are heavily affected on both their outer and inner faces, with fields of small round exit holes together with open meandering channels on the exterior, the galleries opened up by the blasting. The three back boards are equally affected, with dense fine pinholing across their full surface, and the top back rail shows channeling with visible loss of material. The lower rail and feet are also affected. The drawer sides and bottoms are comparatively lightly affected. One drawer back has a small loss at its upper edge. The damage appears historic. I have not had the piece treated, and I have not tested it for active infestation. Please study the detail photographs closely before purchasing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe top is built from several boards. There are open shrinkage gaps along the seams and a split at one corner, consistent with age and seasonal movement. It is secured with wooden pegs that stand slightly proud of the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe applied moldings framing the drawer fronts have small chips and losses at the corners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe drawers are joined with hand-cut dovetails reinforced with iron nails. Drawer bottoms are softwood boards, hand-nailed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe back boards retain their darker oxidized tone and vary in width.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe primary wood is walnut in my assessment, based on its weight, its color, the grain, and the construction. It has not been formally identified by laboratory analysis, and the sandblasting has removed much of the surface detail that would normally confirm species. I am telling you what I believe it to be rather than what has been certified.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe brass hardware is period. The bail handles sit on hand-threaded posts secured with square nuts, seated in hand-cut recesses on the inner faces of the drawer fronts, and the handle positions are original to the piece. Two iron mortise locks are present on the top and middle drawers, fixed with slotted screws. Both are in working order and are operated by the original key, which is included. The bottom drawer carries a matching escutcheon and keyhole but has no lock mechanism and does not lock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe date given is my estimate based on construction. There is no maker's mark or stamp. Sold as is, with all condition captured in the photographs. Expected marks, scuffs, and small losses throughout consistent with age and use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#115\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482660962582,"sku":"AMD-03554","price":2900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-7189.jpg?v=1784913656"},{"product_id":"antique-french-walnut-commode-marble-top-1830","title":"Antique French Empire Walnut Commode with Marble Top","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 38.5 h x 34 w x 20 d in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAntique French walnut commode from the Empire into Restauration period, circa 1830, with its original fossil-limestone top. The columnar case is flanked by flat half-column pilasters and stands on square block feet, a restrained architectural form built for a bedroom or entry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSolid walnut throughout the show surfaces, with a concealed frieze drawer above three long graduated drawers. Turned brass knobs and shield-form escutcheons. The gray-black stone top is a fossiliferous limestone shot through with visible shell and crinoid inclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe piece carries the honest wear of two centuries of use, detailed in full below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 38.5 H x 34 W x 20 D in\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Later finish, cleaned and polished\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Walnut\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1830, construction-based estimate, no maker's mark\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Empire \/ Restauration\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | commode\u003cbr\u003e[d]Country of Origin | France\u003cbr\u003e[d]Top | Fossiliferous limestone, gray-black\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Hand-cut dovetails, solid oak drawer linings, hand-worked pegged oak backboards, cut-nail evidence\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Oak\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Turned brass knobs with rope-twist rosettes, shield-form brass escutcheons\u003cbr\u003e[d]Drawers | Concealed frieze drawer over three graduated long drawers\u003cbr\u003e[d]Keys | One iron key present\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eSold as-is, with photos governing. This is an antique in honest, used condition, and everything visible is disclosed here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFinish: the surface has been worked at some point and is not original. It reads as a later shellac or waxed finish, cleaned and waxed, method not established. It is warm and even, not stripped, scraped, or blasted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWood-boring insect: old flight holes are present on the lower rails, one drawer edge, and scattered on a drawer front. The infestation is inactive; the piece has been checked and is not actively infested. The holes are historic and stable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDrawer front: one long drawer shows a horizontal split with old filler, plus fine surface crazing across the front. Stable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eStone top: genuine wear consistent with age, including surface staining, ring marks, an edge chip, and natural fossil veining and inclusions. The top corresponds to the base; final overhang and bedding fit to be confirmed on inspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHardware: turned brass knobs and shield escutcheons, consistent across the case and appropriate to the period. Originality not verified; check for filled holes behind the drawer fronts on inspection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSpecies: assessed as walnut on color and grain; confirm at an unfinished point on final inspection. Secondary wood is oak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#120\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482661126422,"sku":"AMD-03559","price":2200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-9838.jpg?v=1785385848"},{"product_id":"antique-mahogany-sofa-table-drop-leaves-circa-1820","title":"Antique English Mahogany Table with Drop Leaves, Circa 1820","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a Regency sofa table, made to sit behind a sofa or float in a room and pull double duty as a writing and tea table. Both leaves drop to narrow the footprint, then lift on their brackets when you need the full length. The end-standard base rides on splayed sabre legs with cast brass lion-paw caps and rollers, so it moves easily across a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 27.75 in H x 62 in W x 27 in D open; 41 in W leaves down\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1820\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Regency\u003cbr\u003e[d]Country of Origin | United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Mahogany (assessment, see condition)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | French polished, refreshed\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Hand-cut dovetailed drawers, solid chamfered drawer bottoms, twin drop-leaf top on brackets, end-standard trestle base, splayed sabre legs\u003cbr\u003e[d]Inlay | Crossbanded top with boxwood and ebony checkered stringing; matching inlaid panels to the trestle feet\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Cast brass lion-paw caps with boxed brass rollers\u003cbr\u003e[d]Drawers | Two frieze drawers, one lockable\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | Regency drop-leaf sofa table\u003cbr\u003e[d]Keys | None present\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eSold as-is with photos governing. French-polished surface, refreshed at some point in its life, not original. The top shows expected age: scattered fine scratches, some ring and handling marks, and old shrinkage lines running the length of the top and across the leaf joints (visible in the raking light). Crossbanding and checkered stringing are intact around the top and on the foot panels, with minor lifting and small losses possible at the edges on close inspection. Both frieze drawers are hand-cut dovetailed with solid chamfered bottoms; one drawer retains its brass lock, no keys present, lock not tested. Brass lion-paw caps and rollers are present on all feet and appear period-appropriate; originality to the piece is not verified. Some old surface wear and darkening to the turned uprights and stretcher. Primary wood assessed as mahogany from color and figure; no end-grain or unfinished secondary surface was examined to confirm species.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#125\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482661421334,"sku":"AMD-03564","price":2400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-7319.jpg?v=1784914470"},{"product_id":"antique-breton-oak-etagere-ship-wheel-1890","title":"Antique Breton Oak Etagere with Carved Ship Wheel, Circa 1890","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE SHIPPING\u003c\/em\u003e - please email austynmariedesign@gmail.com for a shipping quote\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFour tiers of turned baluster galleries rise from a base carved on all four sides with the Breton ship's wheel. Brittany sits on the Atlantic, and for centuries its economy ran on fishing and the sea, so its cabinetmakers carved that life into their furniture until the wheel became the region's signature. Here it appears four times, each pierced clean through the oak with turned spokes radiating from a central rosette, framed by carved acanthus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt was made as a tea or serving stand, wheeled between sideboard and table with the galleries holding everything in place, though it takes just as easily to books, plants, or a lamp now. The uprights are worked with continuous gouge carving and splay outward as they descend, giving it a tapered, architectural stance. Each tier carries its own gallery of hand-turned spindles, and carved scroll toes end in period brass-cup casters with iron wheels. It stands low, at seated-table height.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 32.5 in H x 21 in W x 25 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Original surface, cleaned and waxed\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Oak\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique, circa 1890\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1890\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Breton\u003cbr\u003e[d]Country of Origin | France\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Hand-fitted joinery, pierced carved roundels, turned spindle galleries\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Brass-cup casters with iron wheels\u003cbr\u003e[d]Tiers | Four\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | tea stand, étagère bretonne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eStructurally sound and stable on all four legs. Solid oak throughout, confirmed by the pronounced medullary ray fleck across the shelf surfaces, with an even warm original surface, cleaned and waxed, and age-appropriate grime settled into the carved recesses. Scattered surface scratching across the shelf tops, heaviest on the upper tier, consistent with a century of use. The solid oak shelf panels show slight separation at the glue seams from seasonal movement, normal in period solid-wood construction and not affecting stability. Minor edge nicks at the shelf corners and along the moulded rails. One or two gallery spindles show slight play in their sockets. The brass casters are period and functional, dull and oxidized, with flat wear on the wheel running edges. Carving is intact throughout with no losses to the pierced roundels or the acanthus. A faint inked or branded mark is present on the lower tier; it has not been legibly identified. No other maker's label or stamp was found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#126\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482661519638,"sku":"AMD-03565","price":695.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-7080.jpg?v=1784911762"},{"product_id":"antique-french-bonnet-portrait-woman-rose-oil-painting-1830","title":"Antique French Bonnet Portrait Painting of a Woman Holding a Rose","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eShe holds a single pink rose, and the reading is consistent throughout: the pansies tucked into her bonnet brim carry the old pun on the French pensée, a thought or remembrance, the pink rose stands for grace and affection rather than the red rose's passion, and the marguerites scattered on the ledge read as innocence. Together they point to an affectionate keepsake, most likely a betrothal or marriage portrait of a middle-class woman around 1830. The wide halo-brim bonnet and the full gigot sleeves date her dress closely to about 1828 to 1835, and the coral clasp at her wrist is the fashionable protective ornament of the period. An unidentified but sure provincial hand, sensitive in the face, plainer in the drawing of the black dress. She carries her age openly, with craquelure across the surface and losses that are part of two centuries of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Unidentified artist, Continental European\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | None found\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Half-length portrait of a woman in a flowered bonnet holding a pink rose\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Iconography | The flowers carry the sentimental language of flowers popular across Europe around 1830. The pansies in her bonnet play on the French pensée, meaning a thought or remembrance. The pink rose she holds signified grace and affection, softer than the red rose. The marguerites on the ledge stood for innocence. Read together, they suggest an affectionate keepsake, most likely a betrothal or marriage portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European, likely French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Antique, circa 1830\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Canvas Size | 23 in. W x 29 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Image Size | 19 in. W x 25 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 27 in. W x 33 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Vertical rectangle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Later gilt composition frame, not original to the work, with corner losses\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]School or Movement | Provincial Continental portraiture of the Restoration to July Monarchy period, roughly 1815 to 1848 in France. Painters working outside the major academies produced sensitive, closely observed likenesses for a growing middle class, often carrying the flower symbolism that was fashionable reading in these years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | Provincial portraiture, sentimental keepsake type\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Canvas, relined\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis portrait shows its age and I want to be clear about what that means before you buy. Fine craquelure runs across the entire surface, consistent with an oil of this period. There are several discrete paint losses where the ground or canvas shows through, the most noticeable being a cluster at lower center near the sitter's hand and the painted flowers, with smaller scattered flake losses in the dark dress and background. The overall surface has darkened and carries grime, which mutes the background and deepens the dress. The canvas has been relined at some point in its life. The relining has stabilized the canvas against further age-related movement, and it also means any labels, stamps, or inscriptions once on the reverse are no longer present, so the dating here rests on costume and construction rather than documents. My notes are drawn from close inspection of the photographs and my own look at the piece. I have not had technical or laboratory examination done, so I am describing what is visibly determinable and leaving undetermined anything I cannot personally stand behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame is a later gilt composition molding, not original to the painting, with chips and losses at the corners. It presents well from the front at hanging distance but should be understood as a replacement, not a period frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePlease review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#127\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482661552406,"sku":"AMD-03566","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/C0E6815A-8CB9-48F2-9869-F127DB00D447.jpg?v=1786998224"},{"product_id":"antique-belgian-louis-xiii-oak-side-table","title":"Antique Belgian Louis XIII Oak Side Table","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE SHIPPING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e27\"H X 64\"L x 27\"D; extends an additional 25.5\" in length = \u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Cleaned and waxed; original surface retained\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Solid oak\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | 18th or early 19th century (construction-based estimate)\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | Belgium\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Louis XIII\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | table d'appoint\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Hand-cut dovetailed drawer, draw-bored and pegged base joinery, hand-planed drawer bottom\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Oak drawer components\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | No drawer pull present\u003cbr\u003e[d]Extension | Single pull-out draw-leaf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSold as-is, in good honest antique condition, with wear fully consistent with age and long use. The piece is structurally sound, sits square, and shows no repairs or replaced elements found on inspection — the drawer, leaf, base, and top all appear original to the piece.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe oak carries a genuine aged surface throughout, cleaned and waxed rather than stripped or refinished. The top shows scattered dark stains, old marks, ring wear, and a lifetime of small nicks and scratches. There is a shrinkage gap across the top boards where the wood has moved over time, and the pull-out leaf shows a corresponding seam where it meets the fixed top; both are normal for a hand-built oak table of this age and are stated here as observed conditions, not defects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe construction is hand joinery: the drawer is assembled with coarse, irregular hand-cut dovetails with deep oxidation into the cuts, and the drawer bottom is hand-planed with an age split running its length. The base is draw-bored and pegged, the pegs standing slightly proud with genuine wear into the turned recesses. The feet show abrasion and minor loss at the toes from use. The drawer runs but shows runner wear and moves with the looseness expected of a period drawer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNo drawer pull is present. No maker's mark, stamp, or inscription was found, so the date is offered as a construction-based estimate rather than a documented one; the hand-cut dovetails, draw-bored joinery, and depth of oxidation support an 18th or early 19th century date. Species is assessed as oak from the grain and ray fleck. Dimensions are as measured. The piece is sold as shown, with photographs governing condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e#135\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482661880086,"sku":"AMD-03574","price":2300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-10317.jpg?v=1785441892"},{"product_id":"gould-parrot-prints-set-of-3-framed-bird-art","title":"Set of 3 - Parrot Prints after John Gould","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThree parrots after John Gould, the great 19th century ornithological publisher, printed in rich color and set behind glass in dark wood frames. The plates reproduce three of Gould's most recognizable parrot studies: the yellow-and-blue Yellow Rosella, a pair of the vivid red-and-green Paradise Parrot, and the long-tailed Derbyan Parakeet in green and lavender. Each carries the original engraved captions and the Gould credit lines from the plates they were taken from. Sold as a set of three, they hang as a natural trio, the kind of layered old-world birds that anchor a library wall or a gallery arrangement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | After John Gould (British, 1804 to 1881)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Color reproduction prints, framed behind glass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Australian and Asian parrots; Yellow Rosella, Paradise Parrot, Derbyan Parakeet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Plates | Platycercus flaveolus, Psephotus pulcherrimus, Palaeornis derbianus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | After English originals\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Sheet Size | 7.75 in. W x 10 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Set of three\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Dark stained wood, three related but not matching profiles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | Natural history, ornithological\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe prints are clean and bright with strong color. Each shows printed toning and edge staining as part of the image, giving an aged look. The frames are older dark wood in three related profiles, not a matched set, with wear, small chips, and rubbing to the edges and corners consistent with age and reuse. One frame has a small loss to the top edge. Glass is intact on all three. Sold as a set of three. All observations are from the pieces in hand and in photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRICE IS FOR MULTIPLE ITEMS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#137\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482661945622,"sku":"AMD-03576","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-7911.jpg?v=1785179918"},{"product_id":"item-141-mini-terracotta-planter-pots","title":"New Terracotta Ruffle Rim Garden Pot, Aged Finish","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 7 in. diameter x 5 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Surface | Applied aged finish, unglazed, pale mineral-look bloom across the body\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Primary Material | Terracotta\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Period | Contemporary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style or Movement | Old world garden style\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Also Known As | ruffle rim planter, piecrust pot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Construction or Technique | Wheel thrown with visible throwing rings, rim hand pinched into a wavy edge, single drainage hole in the base\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe rim measures 7 inches across at its widest. The body narrows toward the base, so the bottom is smaller than the rim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a new pot, made and finished to look old, so read the surface as intentional rather than as wear. The clay is sound with no cracks or breaks. The pale bloom across the body and toward the base is an applied aged finish, not mineral deposit from use. The hand-pinched rim has small irregularities along the ruffle, which come from being formed by hand rather than being flaws. There is a single drainage hole in the base, formed as part of the pot. Please review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#141\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482662240534,"sku":"AMD-03580","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceContainerInventory-10515.jpg?v=1787191166"},{"product_id":"vintage-english-oak-sideboard-bobbin-legs-1920s","title":"Antique English Oak Sideboard with Bobbin Legs","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a compact English oak sideboard from the 1910s, built low and raised on turned bobbin legs joined by an H stretcher. Two central drawers sit between a pair of cupboards, all fronted with the bold geometric applied moldings of the Jacobean revival taste. At just over four feet wide it works as easily as a hall server or console as it does in a dining room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe case is solid oak with paneled sides and a molded top edge. Drawer and door fronts carry raised, canted rectangular panels, and the original brass drop handles and lozenge escutcheons complete the period look. The cupboards open to single fixed shelves; the drawers run on traditional wooden runners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 36.5 in H x 50.5 in W x 19.5 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Vintage\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1910-1920\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Jacobean Revival\u003cbr\u003e[d]Country of Origin | United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Oak\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Later dark stained and sealed surface\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Stained pine and oak-faced panel to back and interior\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Solid oak case, machine-cut dovetailed drawers, paneled plywood and board back\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Brass drop handles and lozenge escutcheons\u003cbr\u003e[d]Drawers | Two, on wooden runners\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | buffet, server, dresser base, credenza\u003cbr\u003e[d]Keys | None present\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eSold in good, structurally sound vintage condition, solid and steady on its legs with all four bobbin-turned supports and the H stretcher intact. The finish is a later dark stain and seal, not an original surface, with overall wear consistent with age and use. The top shows scattered scratches, ring marks, and a worn, slightly chipped front edge with loss to the finish at the corners (visible in photos). The oak top surface has light surface scuffing throughout. Drawer fronts and door panels show minor knocks and edge wear; one drawer interior shows old marks and light staining. The brass drop handles and escutcheons are present throughout; escutcheons are decorative over the keyholes and no keys are present, so the locks have not been tested. The back is made up of stained boards and a panel that show handling marks, scuffs, and paint flecks, as expected for a utility surface. Wood species assessed as oak from the visible ring-porous grain on the top and sides; the darkened back panels are a secondary wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#143\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482662306070,"sku":"AMD-03582","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-7511.jpg?v=1785170691"},{"product_id":"antique-louis-philippe-style-tapestry-armchair","title":"Antique Louis Philippe Style Tapestry Armchair","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTapestry was the prestige covering for French seating for centuries, and by the time this chair was covered a jacquard loom could give you the look of a woven château hanging for a fraction of hand-woven cost. So the pattern is a medieval hunting party, riders and hounds moving through dense forest, on a chair built low and sprung for actual sitting. Someone also paid to cover the outside of the back in the same cloth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 44.25 in H | 25 in W | 23 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Later finish, method not established\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[d]Upholstery | Woven jacquard, medieval hunting scene\u003cbr\u003e[d]Pattern | Tapisserie médiévale, after late medieval Franco-Flemish hunt tapestry\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Material | Stained hardwood, species not established\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1900\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | Continental Europe\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Louis Philippe manner\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | fauteuil Voltaire\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Sprung seat, tacked cambric dust cover, segmented crest rail, show fabric applied under nailhead\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Dome nailhead trim, two finishes present\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSold as found, with wear a buyer should plan around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBoth arm pads are worn through to the backing and wadding, with frayed edges lifting from the nailhead line and a section pulled free of the tacking on the left arm. Both need recovering. The seat is heavily soiled and darkened, with the pattern flattened and abraded across the center, though the weave is intact with no holes or splits. The seat springs have lost tension and press visibly against the cambric cover underneath without coming through it, so the seat has softened and would benefit from a re-tie alongside the arms. The outside back is the best surface on the chair, fully legible and undamaged, with light grime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame finish is rubbed through to bare wood along the top of both arm supports, heavily on the left. There is scuffing along the right side of the seat rail, chips and losses along its lower edge exposing raw wood, a bare patch on the front right rail near the leg, and abrasion at the tips of both front feet. The nailhead trim appears in two finishes, brighter around the back panel and darker around the seat and arms, with a few nails sitting proud near the arm terminals. The chair has been re-nailed at least in part, and the present covering is not the first to the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame is a stained hardwood. The species cannot be confirmed, since the finish covers every readable surface and the underside is closed with a dust cover. The date is a construction-based estimate. There is no maker's mark, label, or stamp on any accessible surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003ccode\u003e\u003c\/code\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#146\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482662666518,"sku":"AMD-03584","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-7126.jpg?v=1784913316"},{"product_id":"item-148-burlwood-french-secretary-w-gray-black-marble-top","title":"Antique French Mahogany Secretaire Desk, Circa 1820","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePrice does not include shipping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a French secrétaire à abattant from the early 19th century, the fall-front writing cabinet that furnished a study or salon during the Empire period. The front drops to a leather-lined writing surface backed by a bank of small fitted drawers and an open shelf, with a cupboard below and a single drawer above.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt is built in richly figured flame mahogany with ebonized carved paw feet at the front and a fossil-marble top. The fall encloses a tooled green leather surface stamped with a gilt Empire motif, and the interior keeps its arrangement of small drawers and pigeonhole shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 55.5 in H x 38.25 in W x 16 in D\u003cbr\u003e[d]Finish | Old surface, cleaned and waxed\u003cbr\u003e[d]Primary Wood | Flame mahogany\u003cbr\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003cbr\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1820\u003cbr\u003e[d]Origin | France\u003cbr\u003e[d]Style | Empire\u003cbr\u003e[d]Also Known As | secrétaire à abattant\u003cbr\u003e[d]Maker\/Attribution | Unmarked\u003cbr\u003e[d]Construction | Solid and veneered mahogany over oak secondary wood; hand-cut dovetailed drawers\u003cbr\u003e[d]Secondary Wood | Oak drawer linings; darkened panel back\u003cbr\u003e[d]Top | Grey-black fossil marble\u003cbr\u003e[d]Hardware | Turned brass knobs and pierced brass keyhole escutcheons\u003cbr\u003e[d]Interior | Fitted writing theatre with small drawers, shelf, and tooled leather writing surface\u003cbr\u003e[d]Feet | Carved ebonized paw feet at front\u003cbr\u003e[d]Keys | One key present; all locks tested and functioning\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003cbr\u003eHonest antique condition with wear consistent with roughly two hundred years of use. The mahogany retains an old surface that has been cleaned and waxed; expect scattered scratches, minor veneer nicks, and shrinkage typical of the age. The case sides show scattered scratches and one small filled repair. The fossil-marble top shows natural veining and surface wear and reads as original to the piece. The tooled leather writing surface is worn with loss to the gilding and darkening overall, retaining its Empire stamped motif.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eInterior small drawers and the pigeonhole shelf are present and functional. One key is present and all locks have been tested and are in working order. One drawer shows a full-length shrinkage split to the solid oak bottom board, consistent with age, along with old water staining and oxidation to the un-refinished interior surfaces. A later metal reinforcement bracket has been fitted to the interior of one drawer front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAt some point later, small circular metal feet were added at the rear of the base to level the piece; these are later additions, not original. The front carved paw feet are original and show expected wear to the ebonized surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe backboards retain a period French railway consignment label from the Paris-Orléans line, shipped as petite vitesse (goods freight) from the station of Meung-sur-Loire to Vendôme. The label documents rail transport within France at some point in the piece's history and reflects shipment, not date of manufacture.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSpecies assessed as mahogany from figure and construction; secondary wood is oak. Date is a construction-based estimate; there is no maker's mark. Dimensions approximate. Sold as-is; photos are part of the description and govern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#148\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482662764822,"sku":"AMD-03587","price":2950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-10395.jpg?v=1785350816"},{"product_id":"antique-georgian-style-brass-and-wood-slatted-planter","title":"Antique Edwardian Brass and Wood Slatted Planter","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe slats here are doing nothing structural. The brass liner holds everything, and the open wooden cage exists so the brass shows through it and catches the light. This shape began as a peat bucket, the vessel that carried fuel from the store to the drawing room fire, before someone reworked it into a parlour piece on a turned base. The openwork version is one I had not run into before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | 15 in. Dia. x 17.5 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Surface | Polished finish to the wood, method not established. Brass liner polished bright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Period | Antique\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Date | Circa 1900, assessed from construction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style or Movement | Edwardian or Georgian revival style, after the Georgian and Regency peat bucket\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Also Known As | jardinière, cachepot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Maker, Mark, or Attribution | None identified\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Marks | No maker's mark, retailer label, or stamp found. A faint script inscription to the underside base plate is not legible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Construction or Technique | Slats individually cut and seated into rebates in the turned rim and base rings, bound at the waist with glue and fibre. Three applied turned ball feet. Fine light stringing lines inlaid to the rim and base mouldings. The brass liner is hand-seamed with a vertical soldered join and a separately applied base disc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Secondary Material | Brass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Hardware or Mounts | Brass swing handle on two brass mounting plates\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Liner | Removable brass, drilled at the base for drainage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOne of the slats in the lower cage is missing, leaving an open gap in the rhythm of the cage that is visible from that side. The slats are the whole visual point of this form, so I want to be plain about it rather than photograph around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe turned base carries four to five shrinkage cracks running vertically through the moulded rings, and at least one of those runs the full depth of the socle. The base plate on the underside is split across its width. This is timber shrinkage in solid turned wood rather than impact damage, and it is what happens to a piece like this over a century, but the cracks are open rather than hairline and there are several of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe brass liner has a vertical seam running the full height of the interior wall with an old solder repair along it, and the applied base disc is drilled through with corrosion and old solder around the opening. The interior floor is scratched and mottled from use. The exterior of the liner is bright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAlong the rim rebate there is old glue residue where the slat ends seat, and there are screw holes through the rim. Some slats sit very slightly proud of their neighbours. The fibre binding at the waist inside the cage is frayed along its edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe wood shows the marks you would expect from long domestic use: small dents, scattered surface scratches, and darkening in the recesses of the turnings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePlease review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#152\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482662895894,"sku":"AMD-03596","price":395.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceContainerInventory-9786.jpg?v=1787946054"},{"product_id":"antique-signed-sheep-shepherd-flock-oil-painting","title":"Antique Signed Sheep Oil Painting, Shepherd and Flock","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA shepherd drives his flock down a wet track past a thatched cottage, a black and white dog holding the rear while a single pale lamb steps into the light at the front of the line. Bare autumn trees fade into a soft, misty grey, and the whole scene sits in the low silver light of a damp morning. The handling is loose and confident, the flock built up in thick, quick strokes of cream and brown against the churned mud of the lane. It is a Continental pastoral in the Hague School manner, signed lower left, Henry Schouten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Signed Henry Schouten, lower left. Henry Schouten was a Belgian painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for sheep, cattle, and farm subjects. The signature on this canvas is clear and reads in full. I am selling it as signed rather than making a firm authorship claim, since a signature records what is on the work rather than proving the hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | Signed Henry Schouten in dark script, lower left, over the reddish brown ground of the lane\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | A shepherd driving a flock of sheep past a thatched cottage, with a herding dog and a single foreground lamb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European, likely Belgian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Antique, late 19th or early 20th century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Canvas Size | 29 in. W x 25.25 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 34 in. W x 26 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Horizontal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Substantial gilt gesso frame with cast foliate and anthemion ornament. Losses to the gesso at the corners and along the top edge, with the substrate exposed in places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]School or Movement | Hague School. A group of Dutch painters working around The Hague from roughly 1860 to 1900, who painted the landscape, coast, and rural life of the Low Countries in a subdued, atmospheric palette of greys and browns. They favoured working people, working animals, and grey weather over bright or picturesque subjects. Sheep and shepherd scenes like this one were a staple of the school and of the many Dutch and Belgian painters who worked in its manner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Unlined canvas on a keyed wooden stretcher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe painting is on an unlined canvas over a keyed wooden stretcher, with the keys present. The paint surface is stable, with fine craquelure in the darker passages consistent with age. There is an old repaired tear in the canvas, visible from the reverse as a patch, with associated retouching to the front in that area. The signature is clear and legible in the lower left. There is a warm surface tone that may be varnish discoloration. I have not cleaned the work and cannot confirm from examination whether it has been previously cleaned or otherwise restored beyond the tear repair noted, so I am not making a claim either way. There are faint inscriptions or a stencil on the reverse of the canvas that I am not able to read with confidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame is a substantial gilt gesso design with cast foliate and anthemion ornament. It carries losses to the gesso at several corners and along the top edge, with the underlying substrate exposed in places, as shown in the photographs. The frame reads as older and may be original to the work, but I cannot confirm that, so it is offered as a period appropriate frame rather than a documented original.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePlease review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#154\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482662961430,"sku":"AMD-03592","price":2200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceContainerInventory-9872.jpg?v=1786573632"},{"product_id":"antique-signed-european-country-house-lake-oil-painting","title":"Antique Signed European Country House Oil Painting, Circa 1900","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA pale neoclassical country house sits across a still lake, approached through a designed park with a domed garden temple set among mature trees at the left. The painting is a topographical view of a real estate, the kind of picture commissioned to record a house and its grounds. It carries a signature in the lower left reading \"Sellensslach,\" a name I could not match to any listed painter in the auction or signature databases, so it is offered as the work of an unidentified hand. The heavy craquelure across the sky and water is the honest surface of a canvas of real age, and the ornate gilt frame appears to have been with it a long while.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Bearing a signature reading \"Sellensslach,\" artist unidentified\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | Lower left, legible as a surname, no database match to a listed painter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Neoclassical country house across a lake, with a domed garden temple and parkland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Antique, late 19th to early 20th century, on craquelure, keyed stretcher, and hand-tacked unlined canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Canvas Size | 23.75 in. W x 19.75 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 29.5 in. W x 25.5 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Horizontal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Ornate gilt gesso with foliate crest and bead courses, composition losses at the corners\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Unlined linen on a keyed wooden stretcher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe painting is structurally sound. There is extensive fine craquelure throughout, most visible across the sky and the surface of the water, consistent with the age of the work. The cracking is stable, with no active flaking or lifting observed. There is surface grime overall and the varnish has discolored somewhat with age, which mutes the palette. Scattered minor paint loss is present, chiefly along the edges and in the darker passages of the foreground. The canvas is unlined and sits slightly slack on its stretcher. The stretcher is keyed and the tacking edges appear intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame is gilt gesso over wood, with a foliate crest and beaded courses. It carries composition losses at the corners and general wear to the gilding consistent with age. It is period appropriate to the painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#155\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482662994198,"sku":"AMD-03593","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/35910C14-CBCB-4040-A7A4-1382412E880D.jpg?v=1787328981"},{"product_id":"antique-french-flower-oil-painting-cream-vase-as-is","title":"Antique French Flower Oil Painting Still Life in Cream Vase *AS-IS*","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThere is a quiet tension in this one. The vase is painted with real confidence, its pale baluster form modeled cleanly against a deep oxblood ground, while the flowers above it, orange zinnias, small blue and white blossoms, a stray pink bloom on a bent stem, are handled more loosely, the way a working study often is. Oil on canvas, French, late nineteenth century, in a substantial gilt gesso frame. The reverse carries a faint pencil inscription in French and a keyed, hand tacked stretcher that dates the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Unidentified\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | No signature located on the front. Verso bears a pencil inscription in French, partly hidden by the stretcher bar, reading \"pas de...\" with \"S.T.1\" beneath. Not an attribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Still life, flowers in a cream vase\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Antique, circa 1890, assessed on stretcher construction and hand tacked attachment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Canvas Size | 12 in. W x 18.25 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 19.5 in. W x 26 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Vertical\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Gilt gesso on wood, foliate and laurel molding. Composition losses at the corners\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | Academic still life, French atelier tradition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[d]Support | Canvas over a keyed wooden stretcher, hand driven tacks, tacking edges present. Canvas bears a tear in the upper right area of the floral group\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe canvas is on its keyed stretcher with the tacking edges present. \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eThere is a tear in the canvas in the upper right, within the painted flower group to the right of the vase, roughly 2 inches long, with associated paint lifting and a small area of exposed ground at the tear.\u003c\/span\u003e There are additional punctures to the canvas in the lower left corner and at the right. The paint surface shows scattered small spots of paint loss, including near the base of the vase, and a light overall grime consistent with age. The tear has not been stabilized or repaired. I have not had the work examined under laboratory conditions, so I am describing only what is visible and what I can see in hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame is a gilt gesso on wood molding with a foliate outer course and an egg and dart inner course. It has composition losses at several corners where the white gesso substrate is exposed, along with smaller chips along the edges. The frame reads as original to the period of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#157\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482663059734,"sku":"AMD-03595","price":590.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-9396.jpg?v=1785197218"},{"product_id":"vintage-silverplate-fighting-roosters-pair","title":"Pair of Vintage Silver Plate Fighting Roosters","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA pair of silver plated fighting cocks caught mid-clash, wings thrown wide and heads lowered for the strike. Figures like these were made as facing pairs to dress a sideboard or a study, and the whole appeal is the drama of the pose. Both are worked with dense feather detail from comb to tail. Neither bird stands on its own, so they are meant to display on a shelf or in a cabinet where they can lean into the fight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Dimensions | Taller bird 8 in. H x 6.5 in. W x 5.75 in. D. Smaller bird 6.75 in. H x 5.5 in. W x 8.25 in. D\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Surface | Original silverplate, unpolished\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Primary Material | Silverplate over base metal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Date | 20th century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European, likely Italian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style or Movement | Continental figural silverplate\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Also Known As | fighting cockerels, gamecocks\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Maker, Mark, or Attribution | Unmarked, no maker identifiable\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Marks | None found on either bird at the feet, body, or tail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Construction or Technique | Hollow cast in multiple sections and assembled, with open joins visible where the cast pieces meet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBoth birds are structurally sound and complete, and sold as a pair. The surface shows light overall wear consistent with age and handling. There are open gaps in the metal at the wing roots and body joins, most visible on the taller bird. These are original to how the pieces were made, where the separately cast sections meet rather than damage, and no section is loose or detached. Neither bird stands upright on its own because the flared wings carry the weight forward, so they display best on a shelf or in a cabinet. No repairs, no replaced parts, and no losses noted. Please review all photographs closely, as they form part of this descriptio\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#159\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51645101670678,"sku":"AMD-03598","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceContainerInventory-9863.jpg?v=1786565040"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/collections\/Belgium_France_Inventory_Continued-7210_1268330b-c77a-4f86-9a2e-57f26c0c3cf5.jpg?v=1784920943","url":"https:\/\/austyn-marie-design.myshopify.com\/collections\/european-country-house-collection.oembed?page=3","provider":"Austyn Marie Design","version":"1.0","type":"link"}