Two Figural Dogs with Gilded Bowls

Most impressive ruler. Made and signed by HERMES. Very heavy gauge silver plate. Rounded corners and a soft curvature on top. Measures 10" and 25 centimeters. Overall, 11 1/2" long x 1 1/2" wide. Feels substantial and solid in the hand. A handsome Hermes object...

Large round "Decision Maker" coin. On one side, applied letters spell out: "Make a Decision DO IT!" On the other side, the applied letters spell out: "Make a Decision THE HELL...

A fabulous one-of-a-kind: a hinged box with an engraved rabbit, wearing a smoking jacket, holding a golf club and smoking a cigar. Solid gauge sterling silver. Made in Birmingham....

A rarity: a wide-bordered sterling silver picture frame. Made and signed by VAN CLEEF & ARPELS. Inside is an original photograph of an impossibly chic woman...

Most appealing figural "rabbit" pin: a seated bunny eating a coral carrot. 18K yellow gold. Sparkling faceted ruby eye. 1 2/3" x 3/4." Alice Kwartler has sold the finest antiq...

14K stickpin with the letter "A." Shiny gold border; textured gold in center. 2 1/4" long. Alice Kwartler has sold the finest antique gold and diam...

A fine antique English electroplate charger. By Elkingto & Co. Designed by Léonard Morel-Ladeuil for the 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition. In the Neo-Grec manner with a stylized Pomp...

Turn-of-the-century European silver bell. Tulip-bowl with twisted gadrooning. Figural handle depicting an old-fashioned countryman holding two live fowl. Here’s dinner—eventually. Su...

Capture the elegance and charm of this exquisite Buccellati sterling silver figurine featuring two musicians in full regalia. Crafted with meticulous detail, this mid-century Italian...

French neo classic desk seal. Wonderful desk seal, created in France during the late 18th century, back in the 1798-1808. This magnificent piece of art was conceived as a miniature sculpture mounted in a Louis XVI neoclassical style base. This base is crafted in 18 karats gold over silver with chiseled and incised decorations, supporting a magnificent extremely detailed carving of a women. The carved piece, depicts, the naked portrait bust of the classical Greek-Roman goddess of the flowers and nature Flora (Heba), facing forward and exhibiting her breasts, undressed and crowned with flowers, wheat and ivy. Flora or Heba She was the deity of the flowering plants, fertility, spring, and blossoming. Although she was a minor figure compared to other goddesses of the Roman empire, she was important as a fertility goddess. Flora was responsible for the abundance of the crops in spring, so her worship strengthened as this season approached. Her name derives from the Latin floris, which means flower, and her Greek counterpart was the nymph, Chloris. The Sabine King Titus Tatius introduced Flora into the Roman pantheon...

Faberge. A Hardstone Group of Three Pekinese Dogs Carved of grey-brown chalcedony, the eyes set with rose-cut diamonds, 11.2 cm. wide, circa 1900, with...

Miniature wildlife artist, Paul Eaton from England, hand sculpted a horse head pendant (3/4"w x 5/8"h x 3/8"d) which is elegantly framed with one or two drop freshwater pearls (...