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Bonjour! Welcome to French Metro Antiques, direct importers of fine French antique furniture and accessories. We invite you to share our passion for aesthetics, language, history and the French culture.
Located on Dickson Street in downtown Fayetteville, Arkansas, French Metro Antiques is a mecca for those who have an appreciation for beauty, quality, and authenticity. We travel to France two times a year to personally select each accessory and piece of furniture that arrives at our door.
$ 4,995.00
Late nineteenth bronze wild boar sculpture signed Buschelberger (Anton Buschelberger 1869-1934). 14" H X 25" W X 6" D
$ 3,995.00
Large nineteenth century oil on canvas painting in original gilt wood frame. Signed B. Lessertisseux (Maurice Lessertisseux (1864-?). Landscape with sheep and village. 39" H X 50" W framed ...
$ 3,495.00
Nineteenth century Louis Philippe period walnut buffet with three drawers, two doors, and two interior shelves. Includes two keys. c. 1830-1848. 39.25" H X 55.5" W X 20" D ...
$ 3,995.00
Early twentieth century oak, beechwood, and brass ship's wheel on its original brass helm pedestal. Brass on the wheel is engraved Anciens Etablissements de la Brosse & Fouche, Nantes 1914...
$ 1,595.00
Large early nineteenth century set of brass scales with two hanging brass pans on wooden base. Multiple stamps on the pans were made by the French government to certify accuracy....
$ 395.00
Mid twentieth century drink service. Includes six serving glasses and pitcher, c. 1950. 5" H X 3" Diameter Glasses 8" H X 5" Diameter Pitcher
This week at French Metro we are taking a look at this nineteenth century Napoleon III period hourglass. This hourglass was originally used aboard a ship at sea and features bronze supports and ebonized wooden rings to protect the sandglass within. The marine hourglass was an effective tool at sea and still in use by the 1860s when this glass is from, despite the invention of marine clocks and the like. The marine glass was used in a number of ways by sailors to find longitude, calculate the speed of a ship in knots, and to set watches. Hourglasses were used on ships to help determine longitude by providing the time for the ship's log. To find longitude, a ship's captain...
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