Antiques

19th century French cast iron grill involving a curlicue device resembling a fleur-de-lys. Circa 1890.    

19th Century French cast iron balcon featuring a triad of panels rich in acanthus scrollwork, the centerpiece a curvaceous flower-bearing urn. Circa 1880.

19th century French cast iron grill featuring an hourglass shaped sheaf of yoked chestnut leaves ornament below fluttering ribbons traceries that converge in the form of a mandorla. Circa 1895.

19th Century pair of French cast iron grills incorporating a leafy quasi-mascaron with curlicue tracery horns: an elegant and clever game of identification and elusion. Circa 1890.    

19th century pair of French cast iron grills featuring a design emphasizing the symmetry of dome/bowl-shaped curlicue figures. Circa 1895.

19th Century pair of French cast iron grills featuring a configuration of entwined curlicues entering around a cross fleury device, circa 1895.

20th Century French cast iron grill featuring a veritable congeries of vermicular shapes: sickles, flower stems, leaves all intertwine in this petrified dance of anfractuous extravagance. Circa 1930.

20th century pair of French cast iron grills adorned with undulant art nouveau flower on with trailing fluttering ribbon traceries, sinuous grace tempered by a rectilinear framing pattern. Circa 1930.

French cast iron grill featuring an interfusion of Greek frets and curlicues that frame a triad of ornamental devices: a bucrane/buchranium, a basket of flowers, and twin honeysuckles. Circa 1895.

Pair of French cast iron grills featuring an eclectic catalogue of ornamental devices:  A combination of a Greek fretting and curlicue patterning frames a bucrane/buchranium, a basket of flowers, twin honeysuckles, and a behedeti/ winged sun figure at the top. Circa 1895.