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THE SELECTION OF THE WEEKEND BY PAUL BERT SERPETTE Paul Bert Serpette is a world in itself. With its 415 stands, it brings together the finest and rarest of antiquities of all times. A real museum where we sometimes need a guides with a sharp eye and professional knowledge. A small tour of the wonders that you will be able to see this weekend on the market in the company of antique dealers ...

Owl, ceramic, Jacques Pouchain, unique piece, circa 1950- 60 Maxime Hardy , Alley 5, Booth 255, Paul Bert Massif, impressive and nothing disturbing, this owl will leave no one indifferent. Signed Jacques Pouchain and realized in the workshop Dieulefit in the 50s, this work presents a variety and a richness of Gestures exerted on the material: holes, scarifications, punches, striations, etc. The whole surface of this owl is worked by the hand of man, helped by summary tools as in time immemorial. The level of the zoomorphic ceramic of the time.

 Judith, pink sandstone, Flanders, early XVII Christine and Jean-Jacques Genin , Alley 4, booth 162, Paul Bert. True, the head of Holopherne and the sword of Judith is no longer there, but Judith, the one who freed her people from the yoke of the tyrant, stands before us, standing, staring up at her head, which she seems to brandish.

18th century Antique Lahaye , Alley 5, booth 245, Paul Bert. An impeccable state for this 18th century chest of drawers, which has crossed ages without cumbersome. This elegant furniture with delicate and neat finishes is sober, it can perfectly fit into a modern interior to give it the unique character of past centuries.

Alessandro Mendini for Studio Alchimia, Prototype u 1979 Remix Gallery , Alley 6, Paul Bert. This is the strength of Paul Bert Serpette, offering you a wide selection of quality that will take you from the XVIII to the 80 's in an alley! The Mendini prototype is a unique piece because this prototype is unmatched by the gap between its shape and its coating. The Italian designer dares the contrast between an ultra-simplified and almost rigid form of the four-foot table and the marble pop that composes it. Almost no other. 

Cacatoès , signed H Meunier, tuffeau, 1930 Marie-Laure Daveau Queysanne , Alley 2, booth 127, Paul Bert Let's stay in the animal theme with this sculpture of Meunier of the thirties. A confrontation of treatments that accentuates the magnitude and scale of this exotic bird to the immaculate whiteness.

 Console, XIXe, Napoleon III, marble and marquetry Fatma Smida , Alley 4, booth 1, Marquetry and wrought iron force the respect. Each of the four feet of the console are treated differently. The floral composition is of a rare finesse of execution. This is a very beautiful example of the French know-how of the nineteenth century.

.Office, 1970s, zebrano veneer, stainless steel Eric Delpla, Allée 3, stand 153, Paul Bert If in July the call of the beach is stronger than the call of the office, which could however resist to the beauty of it? Created in the 70s, this office is deployed as a fan of zebrano, a wood from Central Africa that lends it its warm and exotic tones. Difficult to resist the desire to sit there and to floor on its files to.

 Circa 1990 FCA Antiquités , Alley 3, booth 17, Serpette. Born in 1945, Jacques Le Bescond is a self-taught French sculptor. His work has as a guideline elegance and serenity. Two notions here perfectly represented through these two profiles which kiss without touching, in a total complementarity of their form and their color. 

Diana huntress, ivory, workshop of Leonhard Kern (1588) -1662), Germany, XVII Elise Jullien , Alley 4, booth 5, Serpette. Some fifteen copies in the world are known. To say if this ivory Diana is wanted one of them is in the museum of Washington , One at the Louvre. And yet another here in Serpette, at Elise Jullien. Sometimes accompanied by two dogs, often represented with a child at her feet, the theme has experienced some variations within the workshop of Leonhard Kern Here it is always found. 

Genoa, end of the 18th century Sophie Cougoule , booth 4, Alley 3, Serpette. The Age of Enlightenment was also the one of the most beautiful chandeliers Gilding, crystal and pearls intermingle here for a royal and sumptuous effect that will sublimate a living room as an entrance.