19th C Mini Gilded Floral Arch Salvage Piece Antique

19th C Mini Gilded Floral Arch Salvage Piece AntiqueGold Mini Floral Arch Salvage Piece French or possibly Austrian gilt bronze furniture or decorative mount (Applique) Mid late 19th C (circa 1850 1890) during Second Empire or Early Belle Epoque Possibly mercury gilded or fire gilded Arched floral garland with a central rose bloom flanked by smaller blossoms and scrolls, terminating in round rosettes Single peg at the back suggests it was mounted through wood, likely on a fine veneered surface

Shield features a cross charged with five annulets (rings) - quartered with striped (barry) fields and flanked by laurel branches of honor

Chateau de Commequiers I (Vendée)

Contes et Nouvelles en Vers

Bowl is wrapped in a metal stand with colorless glass leaf accent

liturgical hanging

The mirror plate is flat and even

Standing at 44

Marks on the back suggest it may have passed through a design archive

de Musset — Poésies

and minor enamel losses consistent with age and use

integrated into the surface rather than later-added labels

de Medina pinxit” (after a painting by Juan de Medina)