“STAYING FREE”, ISARA - 2024

Oil on canvas. (Tulip Banja Luka)
Dimensions : 105,5 x 105,5 cm frame included.
 

ISARA - Isabelle Ravet (1969-) :

Professor of painting at the ISARA Workshop
Professor at l’UDA - Université de Louvain-la-Neuve.

Scholarship :
- Fondation Roi Baudouin - Restauration du patrimoine architectural

Studies :
- San Servolo - Venice (IT)
- Paris - IPEDEC - Décors panoramiques

References :
- Collection Wittamer - Brussels
- Château de Seclin (FR)
- Château de Moxhe (B)
- Several private collections : Belgique, France, UK,…

Exhibitions :
- Several Private Expositions
- Knokke - Galerie Charivari (B) - 2001
- Salon d’Automne - Paris (FR) - 2003
- Espace Sablon - Brussels - 2005, 2007, 2009, 2014
- Château de Clerlande (B) - 2010
- Bozar Brussels - 2013
- St. Petersburg (Russia) - 2016.
- Banque Delen (B) - 2023.

AN ANGLO-DUTCH TORTOISESHELL CENTRE TABLE

A very rare Anglo-Dutch red-tinted tortoiseshell and kingwood veneered centre table, the rectangular top with ripple-moulded rim and geometrical inlay above a frieze drawer and square tapering legs joined by an H-stretcher on ebonised bun feet.
One drawer.
Ca 1780.
The underside of the drwawer numbered “204 16” and “14983” in white chalk. Very good condition.
Dimensions : 96,5 cm long, 66 cm wide and 76 cm high.

Comparanda :
- A commode, sold by Mallett in 1995, with very similar decoration and inlay, catalogued as “England ca 1780”. Certainly by the same furniture-maker as our table.
- A pair of similar commodes were on sale with Christopher Hodsoll.

Tortoiseshell mantel-mirror.
19-th century.
!!! : 118 x 77 cm

A Dutch Colonial silver-mounted amboyna casket, apparently unmarked, of rectangular form with two silver swing handles, the mounting with incised floral decorations.
Dutch East Indies, late 18th century.
24 x 17 x 11 cm.
Comparanda : Christies Amsterdam, 15 dec 2008, lot 308.

A FRENCH SILVER AND SILVER-GILT SNUFFBOX

Silver, silver-gilt, tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl.
Late 18th century.
8,2 x 8,6 x 3,9 cm.
Perfect condition.

Veneered with kingwood, decorated with gilt bronzes and enameled bronzes.

Interior lined with red silk and the original mercury mirror fixed with ripple mouldings.

This coffer can be compared to several coffers in the p1" >19th century.

One lid and one drawer.

Dimensions : 60,5 x 37,5 x 50 cm.

No marks found.

TWO NORTHERN ITALIAN CARVED WALNUT BRACCIA

used for the traditional game « Pallone col bracciale ».
18/19th century.

The small one is SOLD.
 

A Flemish embossed brass mirror.
Ca 1900. Original mirrors.
Dimensions : 59 x 92 cm.

A pair of Portuguese kingwood turned columns.
High : 122 cm
Price : 500 €

Different specimen of wood.
Caius Mucius & Horacius Cocles.
Very good condition.
Eger (G), 17th century.
Dimensions : 37,5 x 33,5 cm & 39,5 x 30,5 cm.

Bibliography :
•  “ Reliefintarsien aus Eger ”, Jochen Voigt, Halle an der Saale, 1999,
•  “Egerer Reliefintarsien ”, Heribert Sturm, München 1961.