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Cloud Collar

Rare Chinese Yun Jian Embroidered Silk Cloud Collar, circa 1880
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional and rare antique Chinese Yun Jian embroidered silk cloud collar dating from circa
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Antique 1880s Chinese Qing Textiles

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Silk

Rare Chinese Yun Jian Embroidered Silk Cloud Collar, circa 1880
Rare Chinese Yun Jian Embroidered Silk Cloud Collar, circa 1880
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H 23.63 in W 29.93 in D 0.4 in
Framed Chinese Embroidered Silk Collar Qing Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
Yunjian (Cloud Shoulder or Cloud Collar). This striking example features a two-tiered design with eleven
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Antique 19th Century Chinese Qing Textiles

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Silk

Framed Chinese Embroidered Silk Collar Qing Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A silk collar from China dated to late Qing Dynasty circa 19th century. Known as Yunjian (Cloud
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Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Textiles

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Silk

Framed Chinese Embroidered Silk Collar Qing Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A silk collar from China dated to late Qing Dynasty circa 19th century. Known as Yunjian (Cloud
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Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Textiles

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Silk

Framed Chinese Embroidered Silk Collar Qing Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
Yunjian (Cloud Shoulder or Cloud Collar), this multi-lobed textile piece was a detachable collar worn
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Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Textiles

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Silk

Framed Chinese Embroidered and Appliqued Silk Collar Qing Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A silk collar from China dated to late Qing Dynasty circa 19th century. Known as Yunjian (Cloud
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Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Textiles

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Silk

Vintage Turkish Oushak Gallery Rug with Neoclassic Style, Wide Hallway Runner
Located in Dallas, TX
captivating, this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak gallery rug features five Chinese Cloud collar
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Mid-20th Century Turkish Neoclassical Turkish Rugs

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Wool

Antique Chinese Stoneware Pillow 19th Century
Located in Katonah, NY
sweet dreams. Along the top and bottom of the pillow are traditional Chinese cloud collar decorations
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Antique 19th Century Chinese Qing Ceramics

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Stoneware

Vintage Persian Mashhad Rug with Islamic Quatrefoil Tile Geometric Pattern
Located in Dallas, TX
composed of angular vines and Chinese cloud-collars made from trefoils. Crosses, eight-pointed stars, and
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Mid-20th Century Persian Art Deco Persian Rugs

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Wool

Vintage Persian Tabriz Rug with Islamic Quatrefoil Tile Art Work Design
Located in Dallas, TX
Chinese cloud-collars interlock and flow into one another, each replete with unique floral ornament. It is
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Mid-20th Century Persian Islamic More Carpets

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Wool

Distressed 18th Century Antique Ningxia Chinese Narrow Runner Rug
Located in Milan, IT
, each of which was to be used as a meditation mat for Tibetan monks. Each square is decorated by a cloud
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Antique Early 18th Century Chinese Ming Chinese and East Asian Rugs

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Wool

Vintage Tibetan Style Dragon Stacking Picnic Box, Painted Wood, 1990's, China
Located in Austin, TX
cover stack. A large roundel design of a golden dragon face within a cloud collar border adorn the
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1990s Chinese Tibetan Furniture

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Wood

Mid-19th Century, Antique Islamic Brass Candleholder Floor Lamp
Located in North Hollywood, CA
. Rising from wide trumpet foot through to slightly tapering cylindrical shaft with two pronounced collars
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Antique 19th Century Turkish Moorish Floor Lamps

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Brass

Japanese Bronze Okimono of a 'Karasu Tengu' 鴉天狗 Holding Up a Flower Branch
Located in Amsterdam, NL
collar with a cloud design. In his lowered right hand he holds a feathered hauchiwa (magical feather fan
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Metalwork

Materials

Bronze

A panel of two square Ottoman Empire ‘Dome of the Rock’ tiles
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
, black and apple green with a trellis of split and winged palmettes with cloud-scroll collars. Syrian
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Antique 16th Century Syrian Architectural Elements

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Ceramic

A panel of four square Ottoman Empire ‘Dome of the Rock’ tiles
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
with a trellis of split and winged palmettes with cloud-scroll collars, framed. Syrian, 16th century
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Antique 16th Century Syrian Architectural Elements

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Ceramic

Art Deco Czech Glass Decanter Set and Glasses, C 1930
Located in Devon, England
collar neck to the decanter. The condition is great with just minor signs of age, odd little marks here
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Mid-20th Century Czech Art Deco Barware

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Silver Plate

Antique 19th Century Brass Islamic Middle Eastern Floor Lamp
Located in North Hollywood, CA
cylindrical shaft with two pronounced collars to gently flaring mouth and flat rim, the shaft with pierced
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Antique Late 19th Century Egyptian Moorish Metalwork

Materials

Brass

Antique Egyptian Middle Eastern Brass Candleholder Floor Lamp
Located in North Hollywood, CA
. Rising from wide trumpet foot through to slightly tapering cylindrical shaft with two pronounced collars
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Antique 19th Century Asian Moorish Metalwork

Materials

Brass

A 19th C. Japanese Porcelain Kutani Red Ground Scroll Cartouche Vase
Located in New York, NY
surrounded by delicately gilded clouds. The deer are considered sacred messengers of the gods in Japanese
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Vases

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Porcelain

Antique Dutch Oil on Board Painting of Cattle, Signed and Dated 1858
Located in Dallas, TX
is a cream-colored bull with tipped horns and a collar around his neck. To their right is a felled
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Antique Mid-19th Century Dutch Paintings

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Wood, Giltwood

19th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Thread Meditation Carpet (4'x7'-122x213)
Located in New York, NY
royalty, and scattered about are cloud bands, cloud knots and precious objects including: a cord knot
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Antique Early 1900s Chinese Chinese and East Asian Rugs

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Metallic Thread

Antique 19th Century Middle Eastern Moorish Brass Pierced Floor Lamp
Located in North Hollywood, CA
from wide trumpet foot through to slightly tapering cylindrical shaft with two pronounced collars to
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Antique Late 19th Century Egyptian Moorish Floor Lamps

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Copper, Bronze, Brass

Antique Pair Sevres Bleu Celeste Porcelain & Ormolu Candelabra 19th C
Located in London, GB
floral and leaf branches above cherubic central column, to floral painted porcelain collar and on stepped
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Antique 1860s French Candelabras

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Ormolu

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Located in Atlanta, GA
A Korean embroidered silk rank badge (Hyungbae in Korean) from late Joseon Dynasty circa the end of 19th century. The badge features a design of double leopards above the Li-sui wave...
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Contemporary Hand-Painted Japanese Screen of Cranes by the River
Located in 10 Chater Road, HK
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20th Century Chinese Showa Paintings and Screens

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Brass

Chinese Woven Top Canopy Bed, c. 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
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Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Daybeds

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Japanese Two-Panel Screen
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Decorative Art

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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens

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19th Century Chinese Silk Embroidery Panel
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Exquisite piece of antique embroidery from the 19th century with supporting documents from Hong Kong. Two sleeves of high officials combined to create an intricate panel. The art tel...
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Antique 19th Century Chinese Qing Textiles

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Late 19th Century Antique Chinese Framed Silk Embroidery Panel
Located in Pomona, CA
An antique Chinese silk embroidery in 3D framed. The museum quality display wall decor. There are numerous auspicious symbols and Birds, floral embroidered in colored silk threads ...
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Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Textiles

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Silk

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Mountain Landscape with Calligraphy
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Mountain Landscape with Calligraphy. Late Edo (c. 1850) painting of a dramatic mountainside carved by a waterfall with a crane flying in the foreground an...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Paintings and Screens

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Thorvaldsen Neoclassical Roundels - Denmark, c. 1825
By Bertel Thorvaldsen
Located in Kinderhook, NY
Beautiful pair of c. 1825 repoussé sheet-brass roundels depicting Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen's 'Day' and 'Night'. As opposites they represent the two halves of a day, and to...
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Bobyrug’s Antique Chinese Silk and Metal Embroidery
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Very beautiful 19th century Chinese embroidery with nice design and beautiful colors, entirely hand embroidered with silk and metal on silk foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome o...
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Antique 19th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Textiles

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Silk

Exhibited Framed Fine Chinese Embroidery Silk Panel Qing Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very fine embroidered silk panel in giltwood frame originally from the Annette Martin Collection and exhibited at the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco February 8th - Mar...
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Antique 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Textiles

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Silk, Giltwood

19th Century Chinese Embroidered Silk Ladies Butterfly Short Robe
Located in Chicago, IL
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Located in Atlanta, GA
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Framed Antique Chinese Silk Robe with Dragon Roundel Design
Located in Atlanta, GA
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Japanese old wood carving demon mask No.A /Before 19th cent/Wall-hanging
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
We have 2 pieces of this item in stock. This item is sold individually, so the other item is listed as No.B. Please also take a look. This is a wooden "oni" mask made from the Edo p...
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Wall-mounted Sculptures

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Ningxia Seatcover
Located in San Francisco, CA
on a red field which has faded to caramel. The outer cloud collar medallion consists of light and
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Chinese Chinese and East Asian Rugs

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Ningxia Seatcover
W 29 in L 28 in
Very Important Chinese Embroidered Collar Decoration, circa 1700
Located in Milano, Italy
. "The four directions" are reminiscent of the extremities' Imperial clouds and are composed of three
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Antique Early 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Textiles

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19th Century Chinese Overlay Glass Snuffbottle with Bats Among Clouds
Located in Paris, FR
The snuffbottle with an elongated body, surmounted by a high collar ending in a small two-tone cap
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Antique 19th Century Chinese Qing Antiquities

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Glass

Pair of China champleve enameled flasks, 19th century
Located in Paris, FR
enameled decoration with fantastic animals among clouds and stylized ribbons around a central medallion
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Antique 19th Century French Vases

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Antique Chinese Enameled Porcelain Snuff Bottle, Jingdezhen Kilns
Located in New York, NY
side of the river the scholar crosses, the sun above partially obscured by clouds painted on the neck
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Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Ceramics

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Porcelain

A monumental Choisy-le-Roi Maiolica vase by Louis Carrier Belleuse, circa 1880
By Louis Robert Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
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Theodore Deck Faience Persian Blue Ground Vase
By Theodore Deck
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
with scrolls, the neck with plantain leaves and cloud collar bands. Impressed TH.DECK mark.
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Pair Antique Chinese Porcelain Blue and White Temple Vases
Located in Katonah, NY
traditional Kangxi design showing scrolling lotus between bands of cloud collars. The form is tall and slender
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Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Jars

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Porcelain

Ningxia Monastic Runner
Located in Milan, IT
is a stylization of the cloud collar motif and the border is decorated by polychrome pearls, both
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Early 20th Century Chinese Tibetan Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Ningxia Monastic Runner
Ningxia Monastic Runner
W 24.81 in L 84.26 in
Ningxia Monastic Runner, circa 1920s
Located in Milan, IT
is a stylization of the cloud collar motif and the border is decorated by polychrome pearls, both
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Pair of Antique Chinese Kangxi Blue and White Bowls
Located in Katonah, NY
twelve cloud collar panels, each with two branches of flowers and a butterfly. The cobalt used on this
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Located in Katonah, NY
feature bright flowers, a Chinese cloud collar (known in the West as a Greek key) along the top edge, and
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Vintage Persian Silk Qum Rug with Panel Inscription, French Rococo Style
Located in Dallas, TX
boteh, and arabesque vine scrolls. Meanwhile the main border is a variation of cloud-collar motifs
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Located in Dublin, Ireland
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Located in Dallas, TX
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Antique Victorian Sterling Silver Coffee Pot
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Antique Paul Storr Sterling Silver Entree Dish, 1828
By Paul Storr
Located in London, GB
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Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Punch Bowl
Located in Katonah, NY
collars that encircle the bowl. In Chinese tradition, peonies send a wish for wealth and honor and cloud
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Pair of Chinese Qing Kangxi Blue & White Shou Ginger Jars, 18th Century
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Japanese Meiji Period Patinated Bronze Censor with Buddhist Lions
Located in Austin, TX
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By Kyoto Pottery
Located in Wilton, CT
. The dragon curled around the midsection amongst the clouds with incised Greek key at the collar
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Pair of Japanese Meiji Period Bronze Lamps
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
. The background shows waves/clouds which are partially gilded. They have a gilded bronze collar and sit
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Bronze

Antique Islamic Brass Candleholder Floor Lamp
Located in North Hollywood, CA
cylindrical shaft with two pronounced collars to gently flaring mouth and flat rim, the shaft with pierced
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Victorian 19th Century English Sterling Silver Teapot
By Charles Stuart Harris
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
a dexter hand issuing out of a cloud pointing to a staff. The raised flared shoulders of the
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Chinese Carved Soapstone Immortal and Attendant, Qing Dynasty, 19th Century
Located in Austin, TX
voluminous robes with billowing scarves and a cloud collar. She holds a large ruyi scepter in her hands. Her
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China, 18th Century Mounted Vase
Located in Paris, FR
flowering buds. French bronze mounts. Cloud collar motif on the shoulder. Porcelain 18th century, good
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Located in London, GB
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Cloud Collar For Sale on 1stDibs

Find many varieties of an authentic cloud collar available at 1stDibs. Each cloud collar for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, fabric and brass. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer cloud collar, there are earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. A cloud collar, designed in the Art Deco, Empire or Louis XVI style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. A well-made cloud collar has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Paul Sormani are consistently popular.

How Much is a Cloud Collar?

A cloud collar can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $4,500, while the lowest priced sells for $380 and the highest can go for as much as $66,500.