🌟ANTIQUE THURSDAYS - A FRENCH DECOUPAGE TABLE 🌟
Today's Antique Thursday is a most amazing French decoupage or papiermache table.
I love this piece because it is authentic. It is super old, possibly 1820's, and totally and fully created by hand.
We bought this in a market in Paris, and the seller was well known to our antique dealer there.
It's hand painted, with gilded details and stunning floral decoupage. It is a little bit marked, but that happens with antiques, and in my opinion, is one of the characteristics that makes antiques so special. I hate it when my clients say, "Oh, can't you just fix this little mark here, or do this?"
This is not H&M home, nothing is perfect and made in China. These pieces have lasted years and years, and those marks are their battle scars!
I was looking at the gilt and red scrolls on the side, and they made me think of Chinoiserie, and if I am correct, that could put this table way back into the 1700's. I'll have to have a look at it in person tomorrow. People just don't get it!!
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It's stunning. A seriously impressive piece.
I knew some folks once upon a time that made a living out of making things look old. The secret being that if you don't claim it's old and let the people make up their own minds then it's not fraudulent. :)
Most of them were sold on consignment so there was no claim to be made either way.
That's a very pretty piece, lovely piece :)