Decorative Objects

Handmade Danish midcentury modern decorative dish bowl designed and manufactured on the island of Bornholm by Michael Andersen & Son in the early 1960s. Crisp white glaze with a very...

A beautiful rich verdigris green handmade rope vase. This piece stands at nearly 7" tall and is created from fired clay. The neck of the vase is made from clay coils that wrap all th...

Very large mid-century hand-blown Murano glass sculpture depicting the bust of an antelope in clear glass with amber colored horns. With its original paper label from the studio, Al...

An Italian desk box with the triumph of Bacchus. Beautiful carved antique piece, created in Italy during the 19th century, circa 1850. This is a desk box been made in the shape of a...

The Small Vase is a charming member of our Striving for Imperfection Collection, standing at a petite height of 6.7 inches. The pieces in this collection are made from a mix of 60%...

Decorative Italian Art Glass vase. Clear glass with playful green swirl pattern and a central stylized lady bug design.

Beautiful Dore bronze statue of woman standing a square base having music instrument in her hand in singing position.

Swedish Large Stone Box in Empire style, circa 1820 Beautiful stone patterns on the lid and box. Made from Öland limestone. Originally used as a tobacco jar. Height: 11 cm/4.3 inc...

This unique and elegant Gilded Age Round Glass and Brass Picture Frame originates from France, Circa 1900. Features a round composition framed in brass and joined with stylized fleur...

Well it does not look much like what we know about the Roman Emperor Gajus Julius Caesar's facial appearance. But given the inscription to its back Julius - 44 (Caesar died in 44 bef...

American Midcentury Modern sterling silver picture frame. Retailed by Cartier in New York. Square window in wide, flat, and plain surround. With glass, silk lining, and wood laminate...

- Gunnel Nyman " Serpintine" vase - Nuutajärvi - Signed : Gunnel Nyman Nuutajärvi Notsjö 1957 - Great example of her mid 20th century art glass design

Finely cast Grand Tour patinated bronze figure of Mercury after the original by Giovanni da Bologna, aka Giambologna, in French, Jean de Bologne (1529-1608), Apparently unsigned.

German Classical Male Sculpture by Clemens Werminghausen (1877-1963), finely sculpted and cast in bronze , with iridescent green patination and painted composition, depicting a powe...

Very large Japanese Meiji period and finely sculpted figure of an eagle carved from teak with burlwood stand. In excellent condition. Apparently unsig...

Pair of finest quality antique (19th century) French gilt bronze flower vases in the Aesthetic style with champleve enamel designs and prominent dragon form handles. Apparently unsi...

Set of three large decorative wood vases by De Coene Frères. Various woods with decorative marquetry details at the neck of each. 1) H:38 D:12 2) H34: D:11 3) H:23 1/2 D:10 1/2 In...

This set is comprised of a soap holder, toothbrush holder, tray with raised edges, tissue holder and paper bucket. The onyx quarries of the Carolina vill...

19th century Italian carved alabaster head of a saint wearing a bishop's mitre in the Gothic style. Though a fragment, the intense gaze of this small carving gives it a lot of presence. Rendered by a master carver, this piece has a lot of personality. Likely an architectural fragment, the weathered surface and distressed condition only add to the appeal of this unique sculpture. Mounted on an ebonized walnut base. 10 inches high 3.5 square 5 7/8 inches high by 4 wide by 3.75 deep (head only)

The shapely forms of the pieces in the Explorer Collection, have been condensed into these vases. They are objects that are part of my cosmos, taken from my drawings. The materialisa...

A beautiful Belgian crystal candlestick holder from luxury maker Val Saint Lambert, Belgium. Candlestick has a hexagon base (a nice alternative to round) and Measure 9.63" Height. Markers' acid mark on bottom "Val Saint Lambert" as shown in last image. Dimensions: 5" base x 9.63" Height. If you need a pair, please search 1stDibs ref. #: LU1314231314802 Belgian VSL crystal cocktail glasses (not shown) also available, search 1stDibs ref. #: LU1314230827922 For Richard Ginori black...

A regence boulle marquetry ormolu-mounted bracket clock Our violin-shaped cartel is decorated with a marquetry Boulle with engraved brass decorated with windings, florets, cartridge...

A pair of blue, grey, and white natural agate bookends or decorative objects. This agate pair can work well on a bookshelf, or as standalone decorative obje...

Bust of woman with open hands lifted rendered in lavender and violet painted plaster composite with a silver sparkle glaze on a black mica base, signed Austin Prod, 1981.

Dynamic and chic, this versatile vase will diffuse a sophisticated aura into a modern living room or entryway decor. The elegant form of the conical Sil...

Ceramic vase designed by Formafantasma and Ginori 1735 for Cassina. The vase is hand drawn on white biscuit porcelain and decorated with specific ceramic chalk pastels. Each piece is...

Candle box Gold Croco made with white porcelain from Limoges, France. With porcelain lid. With gold plated 24 karat crocodile and with black crocodile skin in leather style. Insi...

Lovely set of real Art Deco candle sticks .Black Bakelite feet , comes with a curved chrome candle holder . Manufactured by Noordermeer Holland 1930s

This is a vintage recumbent lion figure. A Continental, bronze animal sculpture after Antoine-Louis Barye, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1970. Superb detail accentuates thi...

The oval bowl modelled as two sycamore leaves. Lalique no. 11216. Engraved Lalique, France. Made after 1946. Very good condition.

A small factory was established in 1740 by Rasmus Olsen was eventually acquired in 1890 by Jens Michael Andersen (Danish, 1859 – 1931). The factory was in the town of Rønne on the is...

Murano Glass Bullicante Bowl with Generous Gold Polveri, Alfredo Barbini (likely. Seguso is another possibility but it's more likely Barbi...

Imagine a meeting of masters: A Morandi® & Yves Klein Homage Have you ever wondered what would have happened if the minimalist master Giorgio Morandi and the visionary Yves Klein ev...

A vibrant MCM Italian ceramic vase by Ivo de Santis for Gli Etruschi, circa 1960s. The vase features colorful stripes and a spiral accent. Signed on the underside. The hand thrown ...

Wonderful midcentury chrome glass and briarwood pocket emptier. This fantastic piece was designed in Christian Dior Style during the 1980s. The...

Large octagonal table frame for round photos diameter cm. 7, in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on sunburst guilloche, with Napoleon III French Empire style borders and ornaments. External cm. 17 x 17. Weight gr. 483. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1978 on the inspiration of previous artefacts from the early 1900s and manufactured in Florence at the headquarters of the Salimbeni company with completely manual execution by artisan artists with a very thick plate and large reinforcements suitable to support numerous high-fire enameling firings at approximately 750 < 800° C. It is a new object that has never been used but is considered vintage because it was built more than 20 years ago. The hallmarks struck to the underside of this fine box include: manufacturer's mark: 391FI metal mark fineness:925 Art Deco was also born in France and is the abbreviation of "Art Decoratif". With more decisive and geometric features than Art Nouveau, therefore more evident and "harder", with always contrasting and strong colours, Art Deco spread throughout the world, from Shanghai's China to the under construction New York and in various parts of Europe. Many artists and designers of the time dedicated themselves to the creation of drawings, paintings, objects for personal use and furniture, interior furnishings, entire buildings and skyscrapers, in this new style. Sandoz in Paris, Lalique with its crystals, Puiforcat with its silverware, Erté with its "ante litteram" fashion designs, Tiffany with its table lamps, Louis Cartier with its objects inspired by the Far East (hence the connection with Shanghai). Salimbeni was able to interpret and propose new objects inspired by Art Deco, in precious metals, semiprecious stones and fired enamels, when, exhibiting at jewelery exhibitions in the United States, and more precisely in New York, he made contact with Cartier buyers first, and also with Tiffany later, and for them he created objects in this style inspired by the original drawings of Louis Cartier, obtained from the buyer of the time, but with absolutely different and original designs and interpretations. Many of the objects produced by Salimbeni for Cartier in the United States had taken inspiration from famous Cartier objects belonging to famous people. An example of all is Mary Pickford's set consisting of a powder compact, cigarette case, pill case and evening handbag. About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier. Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation. Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ". With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones. At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists. In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001. In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State". We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue. An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...

Unique silver Hanukkah lamp, Iraq, circa 1880. On four feet, a handmade silver tray with nine candle holders for eight days of Hanukkah, and one for t...

Dylan Martinez’s hyperrealistic water balloons are made of solid sculpted glass sandblasted and acid-etched to resemble real water balloons. The sculptures are made in small batches,...

"Roma Imperiale" is not just a vase or rather a sculpture, imagine it as a memory, the memory of a nobility now dissolved, a suspended memory, forgotten in a secret garden, of those ...

A charming and delightful example of the "playful child" genre of bronzes that proliferated in the early decades of the 20th century -- some of the best examples by important sculptors such as Brenda Putnam and Harriet Frishmuth...

Abstract Mid-Century Modern Organic Wooden Sculpture, 1960's

Large photo frame in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with painted fire enamels like lapis lazuli stone. Shaping taken from the tiles of the North Door of the Baptistery of the F...

Rectangular table frame for oval photos cm. 3 x 4 in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel, plum purple, on guilloche, with French Empire Louis XVI style...

Designed by Studio Chora, 2024. Biomorphic: ‘bios' meaning life and 'morphe' meaning form. The Biomorphic series of organic light sculptures are one-of-a-kind and crafted by hand. ...

Thonet manufactured this object (11022) around the turn of the century and was illustrated in their 1904 catalog (see photo). In 1917 Duchamp hung one from the ceiling of his New Yor...

Rectangular photo frame in 925/1000 silver with geometric design and fire-enameled with Chinese influence style. External cm. Internal 11.6 x 14.6 cm. 6 x 9. Weight gr. 194. Created in Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by drawings by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with high thickness plate and large reinforcements suitable to support numerous high-fire enamelling firings at approximately 750° < 800° C. It is a new object that has never been used but is considered vintage because it was built more than 20 years ago. The hallmarks struck to the underside of this fine box include: manufacturer's mark: 391FI metal mark fineness:925 Art Deco was also born in France and is the abbreviation of "Art Decoratif". With more decisive and geometric features than Art Nouveau, therefore more evident and "harder", with always contrasting and strong colours, Art Deco spread throughout the world, from Shanghai's China to the under construction New York and in various parts of Europe. Many artists and designers of the time dedicated themselves to the creation of drawings, paintings, objects for personal use and furniture, interior furnishings, entire buildings and skyscrapers, in this new style. Sandoz in Paris, Lalique with its crystals, Puiforcat with its silverware, Erté with its "ante litteram" fashion designs, Tiffany with its table lamps, Louis Cartier with its objects inspired by the Far East (hence the connection with Shanghai). Salimbeni was able to interpret and propose new objects inspired by Art Deco, in precious metals, semiprecious stones and fired enamels, when, exhibiting at jewelery exhibitions in the United States, and more precisely in New York, he made contact with Cartier buyers first, and also with Tiffany later, and for them he created objects in this style inspired by the original drawings of Louis Cartier, obtained from the buyer of the time, but with absolutely different and original designs and interpretations. Many of the objects produced by Salimbeni for Cartier in the United States had taken inspiration from famous Cartier objects belonging to famous people. An example of all is Mary Pickford's set consisting of a powder compact, cigarette case, pill case and evening handbag. About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier. Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation. Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ". With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones. At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists. In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001. In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State". We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue. An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...

PRESENTING a very RARE Early 19C (or possibly even earlier) Ornate Middle Eastern Bronze Bin. We are of the opinion that this large bin/bucket/planter or water pail is from the very...

Rectangular shaped frame for oval photos cm. 7.8 x 10.4 in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with very fine fire-enameled floral engraving and hand-painted by the painter Renato D...

Renzo in a family of multipurpose trays with a very smooth surface and soft curved edges, now available in a different color composition. Each piece is a unique, no two are the same....

Decorate a man's office or study with this elegant antique bust. Created in France circa 1950, and built of bronze, the bust stands on a black granite base and depicts French emperor...

Octagonal snuff box in gilded 925/1000 silver with English Queen Anne style borders and sides with fired enamels painted like lapis lazuli stone. On the lid, a very fine fire-enamell...

This pair of Grand Tour era ewers are in the 'oinochoe' shape and date to circa 1870. The pair are miniature in size and comprise of ormolu (gilt bronze), malachite, onyx and hardsto...

Bronze hound dog sculpture. Beautifully modeled and patinated French hunting hound on red oval marble base; great movement with two raised paws. France, late 19th century. Dimensions...

Rectangular table frame with concave corners for oval photo cm. 5.5 x 8.5 in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamels on guilloche, with French Empire Napo...

Rectangular table photo frame in 925/1000 sterling Silver gold plated with translucent two-tone striped enamels fired on guilloche and hand-engraved ornaments. Late Empire Napoleon ...

Rectangular snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with two-tone translucent stripes fired enameled on guillochè and fine hand-engraved on all sides, French Empire Napoleon...

This is a lovely Art Deco straw marquetry decorative lidded box whose design is attributed to Jean Michel Frank (1895 - 1941). The rectangular shape has a refined geometric design, a...

Jim Rose, known primarily for his steel furniture, was an avid collector and scoured salvage yards for unique and interesting items. Here, a collection of found steel is reworked, pr...