Whether you are a seasoned veteran or a first-timer to the antiques fair, Provenance Antiques wishes you the warmest of welcomes to Market Hill. Provenance Antiques is thrilled to be back at Market Hill – our “home away from home” twice a year for the fall and spring antiques fairs. We have so many wonderful pieces to share with you.
Provenance Antiques is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with a 10,000-SF store and their own warehouse facility outside Nice, France. Provenance Antiques personally selects their own antique furniture, accessories, artwork, architecturals and garden from France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Provenance Antiques celebrates the exceptional, and our mission is just that – procuring the finest antiques possible to present to you – our friends and clients. We are inspired to find that perfect piece that has it all – quality, beauty, and integrity.
Provenance Antiques has been returning to Round Top, Texas, going on 15 years now. Each fair is always new and exciting. One of the greatest opportunities Market Hill presents is meeting so many wonderful people. All sorts of people with a shared passion – the love of beautiful and quality antiques and art.
Our style can best be described as very eclectic – ranging from quite primitive to the very refined. We buy with our hearts. We buy what we love. The only requirements for the pieces we purchase are that they are not only beautiful and of quality, but each must have exceptional characteristics. We greatly enjoy working very closely with our clients, getting to know who they are, what they do, and what they love. This communication absolutely helps us to better serve our clients, fulfilling not only their needs but their passions, as well. Our clients are as unique and as individual as our antiques.
We equally enjoy sharing our pieces with our clients and visitors, thoroughly describing what a piece is, how it is constructed, where it was found, and, most importantly, what makes the piece so special and unique. Knowing that a very special piece is perfect for someone, and that it is going home with someone to be loved as much as we have loved it, is very satisfying indeed. A more-than-satisfied client becomes a loyal client and a friend. Some of the very special pieces we are bringing to Market Hill for the spring show, include:
An exceptional grand-scale farm table, a trestle table, from the Catalan region of Spain. Beautifully constructed from apple wood, and with an excellent patina, it’s a perfect table for large gatherings. This piece is accompanied by a very attractive 18th-century primitive cheese-making board, now presented as a coffee table; a stunning pair of early 19th-century flambeaux flame finial statues, expertly carved from Pierre De Bourgogne stone from the Burgundy region of France; and, a very rare and monumental pair of French palatial mirrors masterfully constructed from beautiful gilt wood.
A wonderful primitive 18th-century billot table from the Ardeche region of France, perfect as a coffee table, surrounded by 18th-century Spanish Santos fragments; a fabulous set of three 19th-century jardinieres/cache pots in painted cast iron from the Provence region of France.
Also part of this unique collection is a very handsome 19th-century French Deux Corps Napoleon III-period bibliotheque in painted wood with beautiful wavy glass, along with a very stunning French 18th-century statue of a wonderfully carved angel complemented by beautiful detailing presented on its iron stand.
Yet another showpiece is a stunning 18th-century credenza from the Veneto region of Italy. Beautifully constructed in painted wood with canted sides – scantonata – four doors on a plinth base, accompanied by a fabulous Arte Populaire early 18th-century copper girouette weathervane from Provence, France.
An extremely rare and very sensational early 18th-century French Regence chaise lounge/bathtub which has a wonderful painted finish. The seat slides off to expose a fabulous copper tub. A very unique piece to grace any living area, bedroom, or bathroom.
And, last but not least, a very charming oil-on-canvas painting from Blois, France, entitled “Interieur Abandonne,” or "Abandoned Interior," of a country home kitchen presented in its primitive frame; and, a handsome set of 18th-century stone mortars from Spain.
Enjoy the show.