ANTIQUES & OUR GARDEN IN ENGLAND

The baby geese are now fully grown and a damp bedraggled young fox is looking for rabbits in the morning

meanwhile the heron has taken up place in the weeping willow overlooking the lake............

full of fish!

A classic English summer afternoon, freezing cold and wet

A trip to the restorers to see our latest large 18th century painting that is now ready to hang. 

and the mounts from some of the finest Empire furniture we have ever had

and because it is the 14th July, Bastille day we have had the Berlioz arrangement of the Marsaillaise playing

Berlioz - La Marseillaise

and another version.......Serge Gainsbourg - Aux Armes

OWLS & OTHER ANIMALS

Our baby barn owls were ringed two weekends ago...............four fat, healthy little owlets.
Paddy Jackson from Barn Owl Conservation came, as he has, for the last few years to measure weigh and ring our baby owls. 

weighing the babies

ringing is a skilled and very precise job

little owls when put on their backs just lie there looking at the world going by

all four, with the youngest on the left, they are laid and hatch a couple of days apart

Letting the mother free..............

ANTIQUES IN THE SUMMER

The last month has seen the big antiques fairs in London, by far the best was Masterpiece held in a magnificent marquee in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.

In France things are beginning to slow down for the summer break, most of the auction houses close and there is a general migration out of towns, to the countryside or the sea. Our house in Provence is now let till the end of August.

We have some marvellous new stock arriving in the shop.

Two French Empire period console tables both with black marble tops.

Empire period mahogany commode with wonderful quality bronze ornamentation.

French Regence period arm chair 

These pieces of furniture will be in the shop and on our main website very soon.