This handsome little gueridon measures about 27 inches across. The wood is supple and smooth...

 

 

Another gueridon, this stately model being about four feet across, and with a sliced-pie configuration in the veneer on top.

 

 

An extraordinarily unusual Moderne design, wood and chromed metal. It's ample, being about five feet across. Sorry SOLD!!

 

 

Ah, Dear Diana, tell us, is it time to buy? (I forgot to photograph the two garnitures which accompany her majesty... splendid glass and marble affairs for either side.)

 

 

Can you read the signature on the upper left? Hint: the last name begins with a "B" and ends with a "T." This is probably my best find in years, and you're going to have to pay off my mortgage to get it out of my hands... It was sold to me as a cendrier (ashtray), but I prefer to think of it as a vide-poche.

 

 

Speaking of the great iron master, this might have been done by one of any his serious admirers. The better news: I have a pair! (See them restored and with glass shades on my French table lamps page).

 

 

Four of these Des Hanots sconces (unsigned). Think how great they'll look when the metal has Jack's famous brushed nickel finish on it...

 

 

 

Madame takes zee doggie out for zee afternoon stroll...

 

 

"Which way did that babe with the woofer go?"

 

Over two feet wide, signed Fayral. Now we both know that Art Deco figures don't get any better than this, don't we? Of course opinions are opinions, but I'll take this as quickly as a Preiss, and have change left over for a dozen donuts. SOLD, of course!!!

 

Entirely serviceable, wouldn't you say? SOLD, natch!

 

 

This smallish vase is signed Delavan, a premier etain craftsman.

 

 

Sorry, show-stopper time! Opalescent glass rods, mind you!!! SOLD, but remembered!

 

 

Ah... the world getting you down, weighing a little heavily on you? Pas de probleme, just light up and dump your ashes here (the tops swing out). Macassar ebony, 'natch. SORRY, it's SOLD!!

 

 

Now would a trip to France be complete without a meaningful addition to the Nouveau collection? This very tall beauty is signed Marionnette.

 

 

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