Decorative Objects at Auction

Investing in this Enameled Ceramic Vase signed by M. Millet, originating from the 1980s, presents a compelling opportunity to own a piece of unique artistic expression. Crafted with ...

An imperial Faberge carved Labradorite ostrich on nephrite base, 20th century In original box. Limited Edition: 18/250 Measures: 7″ high x 3.5″ deep x...

Monumental Life Size Parrot Bird Sterling Silver 925 Centerpiece, Sculpture on Marble Base Signed by Artist L. Soprani and marked 925 Dimensions: Height 26in; width 26 1/2in; d...

Large german Hutschenreuther porcelain empire style cobalt blue vase with handles and hand painted in gold decor. Decorated with mythological sc...

A pair of antique French Sevres gilt bronze mounted porcelain urn vases. The vases are covered with a polychrome enamel, decorated...

19th century grand tour carved alabaster model of the wrestlers ,circa 1895 modeled after the Roman statue of the same name, currently located in the Uffizi Gallery...

A palatial french ormolu-mounted Sevres Porcelain hand-painted vase and cover, circa 1838. This monumental Sevres porcelain vase stands 56" high, and is beautifully hand-painted with classical scenes of lovers and cupids, in teal / turquoise blue ground porcelain. Made with very fine quality figural bronze handle, the vase turns to a full 360 degree angle and is mounted on a solid bronze base with fine detail. Painted with beautiful flowers throughout the entire vase, leading up to the cover, which is adorned with an acorn bronze...

A rare antique Japanese Meiji era enamel vase. The vase has a globular shaped body and a long neck. The exterior of the vase is adorned with medallions with an image of a Egyptian f...

Antique 19th century French Louis XVI style gilded bronze and white marble mantel clock. The circular case is decorated with a floral elements and surmounted by the figures of Venus...

An antique Japanese copper footed rectangular trinket box with hinged lid. Late Meiji period, before 1912. The surface of the piece is enamelled with cloisonne swirl motif. The lid is garnished with a depiction of a dragon. High quality. Collectible Oriental Vanity...

An antique Japanese copper footed rectangular double-bottom box with hinged lid. Late Meiji period, The piece is decorated with cloisonne enamel depictions of dragons, phoenix bird, flowers against the swirl motif background. Collectible Oriental Vanity...

Sophie Buhai black onyx coquille handcrafted stone box, USA. Black Coquille Box. Handcrafted graphic onyx box in black. Measures: H1 x D4.5 in Made in United States. Discover the studio Founded in 2015, the Sophie Buhai brand offers heirloom-quality modernist jewelry and accessories, designed for everyday wear, that transcend generations and trends. The collections express a distinct visual language, melding elements of minimalism and surrealism with a thoughtful sense of proportion and scale. The brand debuted with an emphasis on contemporary interpretations of the modernist sterling silver jewelry...

An antique Japanese gilt bronze centerpiece urn or jardiniere with enameled body. Late Meiji period, before 1912. The foot is decorated with sculptural sea creatures. The item has fi...

Edward F. Caldwell and Co., An extremely fine and rare American ormolu-mounted malachite clock with the prince of wales's feathers, circa early 20th century The shape, design, and...

An antique Chinese hand carved white hard Jade vase. The vase is decorated with relief dragon and waves patterns, and engraved detailed motifs. Circa: early 20th century. The item, p...

This Murano Glass Shark Sculpture from the 1960s, crafted with vibrant orange and clear glass, offers a compelling blend of artistic mastery and ...

A very fine antique Japanese cloisonne covered gourd shaped vase having a white enamel ground painted with polychrome vines and flowers. Featuring two cylindrical handles also decora...

A vintage European, probably Czech, Bohemian glass bowl in a Ruby red shade. The bowl is made in a panel design, adorned with scalloped and gilded ...

Theodore Deck (1823-1891) A Polychromed Faience quadrangular vase, decorated in a cartouche with butterfly and birds on branches of prunus and peonies in the Japanese Taste on a pu...

A Large Pair of Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Blue-Ground Vases and Covers, Meiji Period. A decorative pair of cloisonne enamel vases, the bodies decorated with colorful birds, butter...

An antique Japanese Meiji Era tripod enamel metal censer koro. Circa: late 19th century. The sphere form ware is enameled with polychrome medallions with blossoming flowers and butte...

Tall French Daum Bacchus vase with amethyst glass top and green pâte de verre bottom, decorated with a woman face, grapes and leaves. Circa 2000. Signed ...

An antique Japanese late Meiji era enamel metal vase. The amphora shaped vase with a narrow fluted neck. The vase is adorned with a polychrome image of a dragon made in the Cloisonn...

An antique Japanese copper vase with cloisonne enamel design. Late Meiji period, before 1912. The vase has a faceted body with pronounced neck and base. The item is richly decorated ...

A Mid century hand carved Lapis Lazuli sculpture. The sculpture depicts a bird with open wings. The sculpture is adorned with a hand carved Rhodonite head, encrusted with Amber stone...

A German Meissen yellow porcelain candy bowl with a figural knob. The exterior of the bowl is delicately adorned with oval shaped medallions with images of bouquets of flowers, geome...

A 19th French century pair of Lacquered Bamboos Japonisme vases. An amazing pair of tall cylindrical bamboo vases decorated in Japanese Gold and Sil-ver Hiramaki-E Lacquer with Pavilions in The Mist and Weaving Figures, Flown Over by a Pair of Cranes. Enclosed in a Sino-Japanese Inspiration Golden and Brown Patina Bronze Mount Featuring Elephant Heads, Partially Openwork Branches and Salamanders Forming Side Handles. Circa 1870 Attributed to Édouard Lièvre (1828-1886) and Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892) Édouard Lièvre (1828-1886) is one of the most talented and prolific designer and industrialist of the 19th Century, his repertoire is sometimes Sino-Japanese or Neo-Renaissance, whether in furniture or works of art, we can note in particular the parade bed of Valtesse de La Bigne, furniture commissioned by the painter Édouard Detaille or even Sarah Bernhardt, and the famous works in collaboration with Maison Christofle or those in gilded bronze and cloisonné enamel edited by Ferdinand Barbedienne, presented at the Universal Exhibitions in 1878, 1889 and 1900. He was both a draftsman, painter, illustrator, engraver, ornamentalist and cabinetmaker, first trained in the studio of the painter Thomas Couture, Lièvre was then fully immersed in the world of decoration, creation and ornamentation and provides designs for manufacturers and merchant-publishers. Often assisted by his brother Justin, he first produced works of art for his own apartment, seeking out the finest craftsmen to execute his designs for bronzes, ceramics, fabrics and luxury furniture from great virtuosity and great taste. He then collaborated with the cabinet-maker Paul Sormani, as well as haberdasher merchants such as the Escalier de Cristal, bronziers such as Maison Marnyhac and especially Ferdinand Barbedienne as on our vases with bronze mounts characteristics of Edouard Lièvre's work. Born in 1810, died in Paris in 1892, Ferdinand Barbedienne, the most important caster of bronze pieces of art during the second half of the 19th Century, created and directed in Par-is one of the major artistic foundries of his time. Barbedienne specialized in classical reproductions, whose models were exposed in famous European museums. Their illustrated catalogues included many diverse objects such as busts, ornemental sculpture (clocks, candelabras, cups) sometimes even life-sized and bronzes for furniture. Apart from his own produc-tion, Barbedienne worked for the most renowned sculptors such as Barrias, Clésinger and Carrier-Belleuse. All his works were highly esteemed and he, himself honored by contemporary critics. At the London exhibition in 1851 Barbedienne’s firm won two « Council medals ». At the 1855 Universal Exhibition, he won a medal of honor. The success of Barbedienne’s firm brought him many official commissions, such in about 1860, as Barbedienne supplied bronzes for furniture for the Pompeian Villa of Prince Napoléon-Joseph, located avenue Montaigne in Paris. At the London Universal Exhibition of 1862 Barbedienne won medals in three different categories: Furniture, Silversmith work and Artistic bronzes. Barbedienne was made an officer of the Légion d’Honneur in 1867 and Commander in 1878 when he was compared with « a prince of industry and the king of bronze casting ». His glory did not decline with the passage of the time for at the Universal Exhibition of 1889 the critics thanked Barbedienne for the example he set for other bronze-casters by the perfection of his bronzes. “Japonisme” in the second half of the 19th century, was a craze for everything that came from Japan or imitated its style. The word was first coined in a series of articles published by Philippe Burty, from May 1872 to February 1873, in the French magazine “la Renaissance Littéraire et Artistique”. Far from the Academic sphere, artists seeking for new ways of expression, appropriated this discovery. Manet and the impressionists led the way to half a century of enthusiasm for Japanese art, and largely contributed to the esthetical revolution Europe experienced between 1860 and the beginning of the twentieth century. From 1862, The World’s Fairs provoked massive arrivals of fans, kimonos, lacquers, bronzes, silks, prints and books that launched the real era of Japonisme. With those exhibitions, the demand was boosted, the number of merchants and collectors was multiplied, and artists became passionate about this new esthetic. For them, its “primitivism” was probably its most important quality: artists were fond of the Japanese art’s capacity to be close to nature and to reconcile art and society by representing, with a lot of care, the most trivial objects. In painting, Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Degas, Van Gogh, Gauguin were among those who were deeply inspired by Japanese art, affected by the lack of perspective and shadow, the flat areas of strong color, the compositional freedom in placing the subject off-center, with mostly low diagonal axes to the background. The Japanese iris, peonies, bamboos, kimonos, calligraphy, fish, butterflies and other insects, the blackbirds, cranes and wading birds, the cats, tigers, and dragons were endless sources of inspiration, appropriation, and reinterpretation for European artists. The occidental productions were combining styles and artistic conceptions instead of copying Japanese art slavishly. That is what brings to light the comparison between the artworks of Kitagawa Utamaro and Degas, of Katsushika Hokusai and Van Gogh The World’s Fairs of 1851 and 1862 in London, those of 1867, 1878, 1889 and 1900 in Paris, of 1873 in Vienna and of 1904 in Saint Louis presented a number of “Japanese-Chinese” installations with earthenware, bronzes, screens and paintings and attracted the largest amounts of visitors In Vienna, the “Japanese village...

An impressive French 19th century Neo-Greek style bronze nine-lights center piece In patinated and gilt bronze, engraved on the body of foliage and rings, the collar decorated with a frieze of palms in bas-relief. It is held by a tripod base decorated with shards, foliage, and fins, in the center a mask of man. Surmounted by three arms, nine-lights ending in lion’s paw. Curved triangular base with ivy friezes, and palm-leaf feet. Attributed to Georges Emile Henri...

An antique French Baccarat glass vase with a fluted mouth. The vase is adorned with hand painted floral and foliage motifs in the Asian man...

A Vienna Oriental manner cold painted cast bronze and natural materials figural group. The figural group depicts a scene with two arguing Arab boys, one sits on a wagon drawn by a do...

An antique Japanese late Meiji era covered Totai enamel on porcelain trinket or jewelry box. Circa: late 19th century to early 20th century. The ware is enameled with a polychrome floral medallion with butterflies and berries, on the top of the cover, surrounded by floral, and foliage patterns made in the Cloisonne technique. A hand painted image of a flower, under the cover. Dated, 01.12.08, and probably numbered, 6, on the bottom. Totai Shippo...

Bulgari, Bvlgari Italian silver & etched glass sculpture in original fitted leather box, 20th century The glass etched with leafy branches, the silver base engraved Bvlgari on two s...

An antique Japanese, late Meiji Era, lidded and footed enamel over brass censer koro or jar. Circa: late 19th century to early 20th century. The sphere form jar is enameled with imag...

Bohemian stone glass vase with metal mounting. Lithyalin glass marbled in green, blue and yellow tones with twelve facets. Flanked by two ormolu handles decorated with scrollwork and...

A large vintage hand-blown glass paperweight. The polychrome globe piece represents an aquarium with fish. Collectible Desk Accessories And Home Dec...

A russian hand carved Jasper stone sculpture, Eagle on Alert, The sculpture depicts an eagle sitting on a boulder, eyeing on its prey. This highly graphic variety of jasper, known as...

A pair of antique French Belle Epoque Rock Crystal and bronze candelabras with two light bowls. The candelabras are adorned with pink Rock Crystal drops. Unmarked. Circa: Mid 19th ce...

Al Thani collection, a Mughal Indian square white jade inkwell cover, circa 1800 Purchased from the Al Thani collection, Christies New York, Sal...

French 19th century Louis XV stile gilded bronze mantel clock created in the manner of Chinoiserie. The base is in gilt bronze with the patinated bronze sculpture of an Asian elepha...

An antique Japanese Meiji Era cylindrical shaped enamel brush pot. Circa: 19th century. The cylindrical form pot is enameled with polychrome medallions with cranes in blossoming flow...

An antique Japanese, late Meiji era, Ginbari enamel over copper vase. The urn shaped vase is enameled with a polychrome image of blossoming Wisteria flowers on the light blue ground ...

A pair of antique Japanese early Meiji period cloisonne vases, Adorned with majestic phoenix birds and resplendent multicolor floral motifs within intricate foliate patterns, all ski...

Gianmaria Buccellati, An Italian Silver Furry Model of A Giraffe. A captivating piece of art from the 20th century, crafted with meticulous attention to detail, this exquisite scu...

A French Empire Ormolu Bronze Mantle Clock after Percier et Fontaine, 19th Century. In the hallowed halls of horological history, this Empire gilt-bronze ormolu mantle clock, a subl...

Rare French bronze bust of William Shakespeare by Carrier Belleuse and Pinedo, circa 1870. Signed - A. Carrier-Belleuse Paris and inscribed PINEDO fondeur, on a pink marble base. Mea...

An antique Japanese, late Meiji era, Ginbari enamel over copper vase. The urn shaped vase is enameled with a polychrome image of a dragon on the light blue and white ground made in t...

A super matching pair of large oak barley twist candlesticks. With cast brass sconces Good condition. Lovely colour. The brass sconces are original. Free UK shipping

A wonderful tropical hardwood tea caddy. Very good quality inlay Good condition. No missing pieces of inlay 3 compartments with lids Original patina. Not re-polished Free UK sh...

A fine English Regency mahogany sarcophagus form cellarette. With a lift top, lion head bronze mounts with ring handles and raised on casters. England, circ...

An unusual pair of Russian Neo Classic bronze dore candlesticks with lobed cups mounted with lion heads and paw feet, above acanthus wrapped column and an elaborately decorated base,...

This is a new work by Mattia Biagi Sculptural chair with collage on wood.  

This is a new work by Mattia Biagi Sculptural Tar Mikey mouse head created by a metal structure, staffed Mickey mouse head tar, cement.  

Sculpture depicting a bird made of Lalique Paris crystal glass, sculpted and handcrafted. Signature below. France in the 60s. Note: We try to offer our customers an excellent servi...

Set of 2 sculptural cats/decorative objects Produced in Italy in the 70s by Licio Zanetti. Signature embossed on the bottom of the base. Each individual cat was made of two-tone Mura...

Handkerchief vase made of red layered Murano glass. Made in Italy in the 80s. Note: We try to offer our customers an excellent service even in shipments all over the world, collabo...

Vase made of cased Murano glass in the shade of sage green. Made in Italy in the 60s. Note: We try to offer our customers an excellent service even in shipments all over the world...

Set of two rustic brass candleholders, circa 1950 By unknown manufacturer, made in Spain In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautifu...

Wood candle holder, circa 1960. By Unknown manufacturer. Spain. In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina. Materials:...