18th-Century French Ornamental Panel Engraving by Salembier Antique

18th-Century French Ornamental Panel Engraving by Salembier AntiqueAn engraved ornamental design sheet printed in warm sanguine ink, featuring two vertically oriented decorative panels with neoclassical trophy compositions. The motifs include musical instruments, garden implements, urns, garlands, cherubs, and scrolling foliage arranged in symmetrical Louis XVI style panel designs. The sheet is signed in the plate at lower left: Salembier fecit (Salembier made this) A handwritten plate number 97 appears in the upper

Inspired by Versailles and Petit Trianon

Large Paint Victorian Painted Floral Tin Box

The gilt surfaces show wear and patina consistent with age

Circa 1850-1880

Italy (most likely): Italian church furnishings often used this combination of gilded gesso

consistent with late 19th / early 20th-century French production

The carving style

and competitions from the late 19th through early 20th century

Besancon 1835

likely for the home décor market rather than academic sculpture

featuring repeating leaf and palmette motifs in relief

smoking tables