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Original Antique Winter Sport & Skiing Poster Murtal Bahn Railway Murau Austria
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster advertising skiing and winter sports in Murau Styria Austria by the Mur Valley railway (opened 1894): Wintersportplatz Murtal-Bahn Murau. Fantastic art...
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1910s Austrian Vintage Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Paper
Arts & Crafts Period Britannia Standard Silver Porringer by Tessier in 1911
By Parson Brothers
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London, 1911 by Parson Brothers (for Tessier), this handsome, George V, Antique, Britannia standard silver Porringer has been beautifully hand crafted, with visible han...
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1910s English Arts and Crafts Vintage Antiques Associations Members Furniture
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Britannia Standard Silver
Collection of Blue and Green Studio Glass Vases
By Michael Harris
Located in Greenwich, CT
Assortment of blue and green Mdina glass vases, made in Malta in the 1960s and 70s under the direction of founder Michael Harris, an English artist who established the Mdina glasswor...
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1960s Maltese Modern Vintage Antiques Associations Members Furniture
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Glass
Fine Pair of Swedish 19th Century Empire Mirrors
By C. Werné 1
Located in Allerum, SE
Fine pair of 19th century Swedish Empire mirrors signed by master mirror maker C. Werne´, circa 1820, Sweden.
Category
19th Century Swedish Empire Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Wood
Exceptional Early 19th Century Waterford Crystal Eighteen-Light Chandelier
By Waterford Crystal
Located in Long Island City, NY
An exceptional early 19th century gilt bronze and Waterford crystal eighteen light chandelier
An etched crown above a crystal string body leading to a beaded basket with drop crysta...
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Early 19th Century Irish Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Pair of Japanese Miyao Bronze Statues, Meiji Period
By Eisuke Miyao 1
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality pair of 19th century Japanese Miyao bronze statues of a Falconer and a Samurai warrior, each in patinated bronze with gold leaf highlights....
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Original World War One Poster - Britons And Canadians Fight In The Allied Armies
Located in London, GB
Original antique World War One propaganda poster, Britons and Canadians fight under your own flag in the allied armies alongside the stars and stripes enlist today! Dynamic design fe...
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1910s American Vintage Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Paper
Bronze Desk Top Model of a Signal Cannon
Located in Cheshire, GB
Bronze desktop model of a signal cannon on Bakelite carriage with bronze wheels.
Dimensions:
Height 4 inches
Width 10 inches
Depth 4.5 inches.
Category
Early 20th Century British Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Brass
Original Vintage Poster Free Holland Welcomes The Soldiers Of The Allies WWII
By Pat Keely
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two propaganda poster - Free Holland Welcomes the Soldiers of the Allies / Welkom in het vrije Nederland! Dynamic design by the...
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1940s Dutch Vintage Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Poster Belgrade Yugoslavia Turist Express Holiday Travel Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for Belgrade - Turist Express Beograd Yugoslavia - featuring great artwork of a smiling couple with wings on their backs dressed in trench coats and ho...
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1950s Serbian Vintage Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Paper
19th Century Arts and Crafts Oak Table by James Shoolbred
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
A very attractive blonde oak centre table by James Shoolbred. The table is raised on turned and fluted legs, united by an X-framed stretcher with bobbin turned decoration, the table edge is also carved. The underside of the table has a plaque with Shoolbred’s London trade details, ‘James Shoolbred & Co. Tottenham House, Tottenham Court Road, London’.
James Shoolbred & Co were established in the 1820s and started out as a draper and later became a department store in Tottenham Court Road. Shoolbred expanded into the stores either side and by the 1870s they were designing, manufacturing and selling high quality furniture, until 1931 when the company ceased trading.
James Shoolbred was one of many who specialised in furniture of the Aesthetic Movement, although they also used fashionable trends of the time like Japanese...
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1870s English Arts and Crafts Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Oak
Pair of American Classical Andirons
Located in Greenwich, CT
Good pair of brass and wrought iron andirons, the urn finials over hand hammered shafts, the upper section cylindrical, the lower section square divided by ringed collar, standing o...
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1920s American American Classical Vintage Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
19th Century Table Clock with Silver, Nephrite and Precious Stones by Dreyfous
Located in London, GB
This delicate table clock features a central circular white dial with black Roman numerals and gilt detailing. The dial is signed 'E. DREYFOUS, To Their Majesties' and is mounted all...
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Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Jade, Silver
Original Antique Poster Midnight Sun Norway Travel Gronoy Bolgen Mountain View
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster issued by Norwegian State Railways for Norway The Land of the Midnight Sun featuring scenic artwork by the Norwegian painter Thorolf Holmboe...
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Early 1900s Norwegian Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Paper
Pair of Indian wooden doors with painted decoration
Located in London, GB
Pair of Indian wooden doors with painted decoration
Indian, 19th Century
Height 165cm, width side-by-side 96cm, depth 10cm
This pair of wooden doo...
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19th Century Indian Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Wood
Bohemian Gilt, Enamelled and Cut Red Overlay Glass Decanter
Located in London, GB
This beautiful decanter was created in Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic), a region which was famous for its decorative glassware. Antique Bohemian glass is celebrated for the high ...
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20th Century Czech Bohemian Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Cut Glass, Glass
18th Century George III Sterling Silver Drum Mustard Pot
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A exceptional antique 18th century English sterling silver drum mustard pot; an addition to our silver cruets / condiments collection.
This exceptional antique George III sterling silver mustard pot has a plain drum form with applied borders to the upper rim.
The body of this large antique Georgian silver mustard pot...
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1770s British George III Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Restoration Period Console Table Made for King Louis-Philippe, circa 1830
By Jean-Christophe Fischer
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A highly important restoration period maple and Amaranth veneered console table with patinated bronze female term supports, made for King Louis-Philippe by Jean-Christophe Fischer.
French, circa 1830.
This rare console table has a rectangular marble top above a frieze with two drawers raised on finely cast patinated bronze female term supports, a mirrored back and a plinth base.
The table is stamped ‘Fischer à Paris’ and with ‘LPN’ beneath a crown for Louis-Philippe Neuilly, and the number 13687.
The locks stamped 'Huby Fils Serrurier a Paris'.
This console table was formerly owned by Louis-Philippe, King of France, at the Château de Neuilly.
Louis-Philippe, Duc d'Orléans, was born October 6, 1773 in Paris, the eldest son of Louis-Philippe-Joseph, Duc de Chartres.
The Château de Neuilly was built for Marc-Pierre de Voyer d'Argenson. It was purchased in 1818 by Louis Philippe, who was then proclaimed King of the French on April 9, 1830. The château was looted and destroyed during the 1848 revolution. After his abdication, Louis-Philippe spent the last two years of his life in England.
Jean-Christophe Fischer (1779-1854) was an important French ébéniste and bronzier, specialising in making furniture, mirrors and chairs. He had an established business in Paris from 1820 until his death in 1854. During this time he produced furniture for the King Louis Philippe, for his Château de Neuilly residency, amongst other important commissions.
From 1820 to 1827 he was collaborating with Geoffrey Kopp under the name of Fisher and Kopp, he was then joined in 1839 by his son, who took over the company in 1848.
In 1837 he participated in the Exposition de l'Industrie Francaise, where he exhibited a cylinder bureau, a table and a pair of consoles, winning a silver medal for his work. According to the Exhibition's report:
"ses meubles se distinguaient autant par la perfection du travail que par l'élégance des formes; ils étaient en palissandre relevée seulement par des baguettes dorées ou en bois blanc. Un bureau a cylindre, une table de travail et deux consoles, nous ont paru les plus remarquables de l'Exposition."
In 1844, he also participated in the Exposition de l'Industrie Francaise where he received a Gold Medal for his work with ebony and bronze.
Exhibitions:
Museum of Decorative Arts, Masterpieces of the great cabinetmakers, n.51 a desk with filing cabinet...
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Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Edwardian George I Style Sterling Silver Café au Lait Set
By Mappin & Webb
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Edwardian English sterling silver café au lait set in the George I style; an addition to our collectable teaware collection.
This excep...
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Early 1900s British George I Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Thai Ban Prasat Ware Vase
Located in Hudson, NY
Thai Ban Prasat ware vase, the Ban Prasat area of Thailand was home to an agrarian civilization about 3000 years ago. Discovered by an archeological dig in ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Thai Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
George III Mahogany Collectors Cabinet
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular top over a pair of paneled doors enclosing adjustable shelves, raised on turned feet and original casters. Provenance; Norman Adams Ltd. Londo...
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1790s English George III Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Mahogany
Large Pair 19th Century Japanese Blue and White Vases
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive pair of Japanese Meiji (1868-1912) period Blue and white porcelain vases, each with wonderful classical motif decoration to the neck and base. Blossom trees to the ...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Six Panel Screen: Ducks at Water’s Edge
Located in Hudson, NY
Meiji period painting (1868 - 1912) of a peaceful water landscape in Spring with plum, peony, camellia, and bamboo. Ducks swim in a pond while a pa...
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19th Century Japanese Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Gold
19th Century Rosewood Writing Table
Located in Martlesham, GB
A very fine 19th century rosewood writing table in the style of Gillows, having a leather lined adjustable easel top with concealed end compartments, each with fitted interiors, on l...
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1830s English Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Original Vintage Winter Sport Skiing Poster Wengen Berner Oberland Switzerland
Located in London, GB
Original vintage ski travel poster for Wengen Berner Oberland Switzerland featuring a great black and white photo design showing skiers skiing at speed...
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1950s Swiss Vintage Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Paper
19th Century French Carrara White Marble Bust of Marie Antoinette
By Félix Lecomte
Located in London, GB
Bust of 'Marie Antoinette'
After the original by Felix Lecomte
Constructed in Carrara statuary marble, the bust of the Queen is set on a truncated ...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Carrara Marble
Louis XVI Serinette in the Form of a Miniature Commode by Richard, Paris, 1775
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A very rare Louis XVI period serinette or bird organ in the form of a transitional style gilt bronze mounted and marquetry inlaid miniature commode in the manner of gilbert, by Robert Richard, Paris.
With a label for ' RICHARD - maitre facteur d’orgues et mécanicien / Rue de richelieu à la bibliothèque Du Roy / Paris 1775'.
This rare Serinette or Bird Organ has a wooden cylinder barrel mounted by twelve pins and linked to twelve sound pipes. A crank attached to the front panel controls the bellows that activates the mechanism.
The exceptional marquetry inlaid case is in the form of a gilt bronze mounted transitional style miniature commode. The top of the commode is inlaid with a landscape scene with buildings, opening to an interior with an allegory of Love Conquering All, represented by two doves perching on a bow and quiver. The front of the commode depicts two obelisks centred by a Fine musical trophy and each side is inlaid with panels depicting the Medici Vase. The back of the commode is decorated with floral marquetry.
A closely related Serinette dating from circa 1770, also in the form of a miniature commode, with the marquetry case stamped by the master marqueteur Leonard Boudin, is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
The term serinette is derived from serine, French for finch. The instrument worked like a small barrel organ with a barbed cylinder, wind box and lead pipes and produced a high, thin sound in imitation of birds. Other versions included a merline, which copied blackbirds and a turlutaine, which copied curlews. Used to teach caged birds to sing tunes, different barrels could be inserted to train different birds. It first appeared in France circa 1730 and became a popular drawing-room toy for fashionable women. An interesting painting commissioned in 1751 for Louis XV by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and now in the collection of the Louvre, depicts a refined lady seated in her salon playing a bird organ to encourage her bird to sing.
Robert Richard
Robert Richard was a Parisian organ and harpsichord maker and the mécanicien du roi to Louis XV and Louis XVI and was based in the Bibliothèque du Roi in rue de Richelieu.
Initially working alongside the Cliquot family who acted as 'facteur d'orgue du Roi', he is recorded as building an organ for the church of Notre-Dame de Quebec, in Montreal in 1753 (destroyed in 1759) and as the inventor of a mechanical concert shown in an engraving by d'Eisen in 1769.
Canon Jean Marie De La Corne described Robert Richard as : ''Le plus habile ouvrier de paris, fameux mechanitien et Homme de probité''.
French, Dated 1775.
Literature:
Pierre Kjellberg, The French Furniture of the 17th century, The Editions of the Amateur, 2008
Count Francois de Salverte, Cabinetmakers of the 18th century, Editions of Art and History, 1934
Raymond Russell, Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of Musical Instruments, Volume I - Keyboard Instruments,(London, 1968; p. 69.)
Elizabeth Miller...
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Mid-18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
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Wood
Early 19th Century 'Cumberland' Mahogany Dining Table by David Edwards
By David Edwards
Located in London, GB
Early 19th century 'Cumberland' mahogany dining table by David Edwards
English, early 19th century
Dimensions: Height 71cm, width 397cm, depth 131cm
This 'Cumberland' table, pos...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Brass
Attractive Late 19th Century Needlework Panel
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Depicts a fanciful scene of children returning form the harvest in an idyllic rural landscape. The leaders are playing pipes with a dog frisking at their feet, while the remaining pa...
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1890s French Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Fabric
18th Century Swedish Baroque Armchair
Located in Allerum, SE
Impressive 18th century baroque armchair, Sweden, circa 1730.
Upholstered in raw linen.
Good condition with wear consistent with age and use. Historical secondary color. Structur...
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18th Century Swedish Baroque Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Wood
Chinese Floral Cloisonné Enamel and Ormolu Vase for Islamic Market
Located in London, GB
Chinese floral Cloisonné enamel and ormolu vase for Islamic Market.
Chinese, early 20th century
Dimensions: Height 20cm, diameter 23cm
This beaut...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Enamel, Ormolu
Antique Sterling Silver Henry Chawner Brandy Pan
By Henry Chawner
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine antique George III English sterling silver brandy pan made by Henry Chawner; an addition to our collection of Georgian silverware
Th...
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1810s English George III Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Mahogany Octagonal Table with Bronzed Metal Griffins
By George Bullock
Located in London, GB
The octagonal top of this table, of solid mahogany, sits above an octagonal frieze, decorated with rosettes, which in turn is supported by four bronzed metal seated griffins. The gri...
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20th Century English Regency Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Metal
Antique Victorian 1887 Sterling Silver Vase by Frederick Elkington & Co
By Frederick Elkington
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver vase with military interest (Durham Light Infantry); an addition to our ornamental silverware collection.
This fine...
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1880s English Victorian Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Antique Victorian Sterling Silver and Cut-Glass Centerpiece
By James Dixon & Sons
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver and cut-glass centerpiece; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection
This exceptional antique sterling silver...
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1890s English Victorian Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Silver
Japanese Two Panel Screen Manchurian Crane and Turtles
Located in Hudson, NY
In Japan, cranes symbolize fidelity as they mate for life and turtles symbolize longevity. Additionally, this screen also has the Japanese motif of sho-chiku-bai, or the three friends of winter (pine, plum, and bamboo). So called the three friends of winter because all three flourish during the cold months. This screen was originally fusuma doors...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Paper
German 18th Century Silver Hanukkah Lamp by Herfurth
Located in London, GB
German 18th century silver Hanukkah lamp by Herfurth
German, c. 1760
Height 17.5cm, width 23cm, depth 7cm
This exceptional German Hanukkah lamp was produced in the 18th century ...
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Mid-17th Century German Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
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Silver
Austrian Orientalist Bronze Model Lamp by Anton Chotka
Located in London, GB
Austrian Orientalist bronze model lamp by Anton Chotka.
This charming cold-painted bronze lamp depicts a busy scene of an open plan coffee shop within ...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Fine Set of Four Important Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Five-Light Sconces
Located in Long Island City, NY
A fine set of four important late 19th century gilt bronze five-light sconces
Heavily chiseled gilt bronze frames decorated with mens faces and a sea shell, centered by a lions mask with five tiered lights.
If you are looking for a chandelier, a lantern or sets of sconces, Charles Cheriff...
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Elizabeth II Set of Six Sterling Silver Menu Holders
By Tessier, London 1
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive set of six vintage Elizabeth II English sterling silver and wood menu holders with military interest; an addition to our dining silverware collection.
These exceptional vintage Elizabeth II sterling silver menu holders...
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1980s British Elizabethan Vintage Antiques Associations Members Furniture
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Silver, Sterling Silver
Large Patinated Bronze Japanese Koro Incense Burner
Located in London, GB
Large patinated bronze Japanese koro incense burner
Japanese, late 19th Century
Dimensions: Height 221cm, width 97cm, depth 57cm
This monumental koro...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Original Vintage Poster Team Lotus Ford 49 Formula One Car Racing F1 Motor Sport
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motor sport poster for Lotus-Ford 49 featuring a great illustration of a green and gold Lotus 49 car marked with the number 6 and Team Lotus...
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1970s British Vintage Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Paper
Sterling Bronze Company Mantle Clock
Located in Essex, MA
A nice clock of the same period as Caldwell and with Chelsea works of Boston. With key.
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Early 20th Century American Neoclassical Revival Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Marble Fire Place Plaque
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
A charming mid 19th century carved marble fire place plaque.
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20th Century Italian Antiques Associations Members Furniture
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Marble
Pair of Marble Topped Bedside Cabinets
Located in Whaley Bridge, GB
Sn5125 French pair of tulipwood and inlaid bedside cabinets, each having serpentine marble top above two flower inlaid drawers fitted with origi...
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1950s French Vintage Antiques Associations Members Furniture
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Tulipwood
1970s Sterling Silver Condiment Set
By D J Silver Repairs
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive vintage Elizabeth II English sterling silver three piece condiment set - boxed; an addition to our dining...
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1970s English Vintage Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Silver
Antique Sterling Silver Royal Artillery Menu Holders
By A. Wilcox 1
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive set of four antique George V English sterling silver Royal Artillery menu holders, boxed, an addition to our 1930s ...
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1930s English Vintage Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Sterling Silver
Original Antique Poster Lady Driver Classic Car Art Nouveau Automobile Artwork
Located in London, GB
Original antique advertising poster featuring an Art Nouveau style depiction of a lady with blue eyes wearing a coat and driving gloves holding a car wheel, her headscarf on her hat fluttering in the wind as she looks towards the viewer, driving behind the wheel of a classic automobile...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
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Paper
Fine 19th Century Gillows Parquetry and Gilt Bronze Kidney Shaped Table
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in Benington, Herts
An extremely fine gilt bronze mounted parquetry kidney shaped writing table attributed to Gillows of Lancaster.
English Circa 1865
The rosewood lozenge trellis inlaid kidney shape...
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1860s English Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Bronze
1909 Antique Edwardian Sterling Silver Presentation Cup and Cover
By Elkington & Co.
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A magnificent, fine and impressive, large antique Edwardian English sterling silver presentation cup and cover; an addition to our presentation silverware collection.
This magnificent antique Edwardian sterling silver cup and cover has a plain circular bell shaped form to a circular spreading foot.
The surface of this antique silver cup is plain and unembellished, with an applied moulded border to the rim.
This large silver cup...
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Early 1900s British Edwardian Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Yongjin Han, Piece of Wood, Sculpture, United States, 1976
By Yongjin Han
Located in New York, NY
Yongjin Han was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1934. After the Korean War—in which he fought, lying about his age in order to enlist—he was one of six students admitted to the sculpture program at the Seoul National University. At the time of his enrollment little of his native city remained intact; nonetheless, he had never felt more responsible to his work, firm in the conviction that artistic expression is every bit as essential to life and human nature as eating, drinking, or breathing.
One of Han’s teachers was Kim Chong Yung, a pioneer of Korean abstract sculpture, and by the time of his graduation he had adopted the abstraction that had seized both Europe and the United States several years before. . In 1967 he relocated to the USA, where he studied at Dartmouth and Columbia. Over the course of his long career the artist returned to Korea with frequency and made extended stays in Japan and Europe.
Trips to Korea signified something more than mere homesickness: Han’s work, though made largely in America, remained grounded in his rich cultural heritage. Korea rests on a bedrock of granite, and freestanding sculpture produced of the stone has for centuries demarcated sites of historical and religious significance. Han’s sculpture bridges this past with modernity. Richard A. Born, former Curator at the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, has said that Han “brought Korea’s tradition of direct stone carving out of figuration into a refined, non-objective abstraction.”
For his part, Han put very little stock in designations; his focus, instead, was on the stone itself. His pieces explore a certain harmonization with nature. Han, when describing his work, said, "As stone has been around since the beginning of time, it has much to teach us if we care to slow down and listen." He believed that each stone has its own history, character, and energy and that his task was to draw out these inherently spiritual qualities. He described his process as a “dialogue” with his material: "The stone tells me it has an itch in a certain spot, so I scratch it—and we both feel better!"
Han worked alone and with manual tools, and the process is arduous. Carving stone this way takes time, and, what’s more, required great force—yet Han’s sculptures, even the monumental ones, are, as friend and fellow artist David Parker...
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Late 20th Century American Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Wood
Empire period gilt bronze clock with Cupid and Psyche by Le Roy et fils
By Charles Le Roy
Located in London, GB
This beautiful mantel clock was crafted in c.1810 by the famous Parisian clock-making firm, Le Roy et fils. The company was founded by Basile Charles Le...
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1810s French Empire Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu, Bronze
Sèvres Porcelain Garniture, Mounted in Gilt Bronze by Picard
By Henri Picard, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in London, GB
With its delightful painted representations of the four seasons and bacchanalian scenes, this ‘bleu celeste’ garniture demonstrates the technical excellence of Sevres factory porcelain. On top of this, the porcelain vases are beautifully decorated with gilt bronze (ormolu) mounts, expertly cast by Henri Picard, the manufacturer and gilder to Emperor Napoleon III.
This garniture is comprised of a central jardinière and a pair of flanking vases. The jardinière features a wide porcelain body, which is topped by a gilt bronze guilloche-patterned neck. This is fitted with two geometric handles, which terminate in cherubs masks. The jardinière body is finely decorated with a continuous painting of putti playing together in a woodland setting. One putti holds the pinecone-tipped staff carried by followers of Bacchus (or Dionysus), the god of wine and ecstasy. Several putti ride on a goat, led on a harness by other putti. This painting is edged with jewelled and parcel gilt decoration, set against a bright ‘bleu celeste’ ground. The jardinière stands on a shaped gilt bronze stem, its top encircled by a band of stiff leaves, its middle by a laurel wreath, and its foot by beading. The jardinière is placed on a square gilt bronze plinth, which is decorated with grape-form finials, hung draperies and foliate motifs, and is set on four beaded toupie feet.
The pair of vases are similar to the jardinière in their design. They feature ovoid ‘bleu celeste’ porcelain bodies, which are decorated with continuous paintings of the four seasons, within gilt and jewelled frames. Winter is depicted in a scene showing putti huddled together on a sleigh in a snowy landscape, and autumn by cherubs reaping crops with a sickle. Spring is shown by cherubs wearing flower wreaths and dancing while holding garlands, and summer by putti picking grapes and drinking wine. The vases’ bodies are topped by pointed gilt and jewelled ‘bleu celeste’ porcelain lids, crowned by gilt bronze grape finials. Like the jardinière, the vases are fitted with gilt bronze cherub...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Antique Russian Silver Egg Cups
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive pair of antique Russian silver egg cups; an addition to our silver cruet and condiment collection.
These except...
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Early 1900s Russian Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Silver
Wonderful Scottish Folk Art Tea Caddy
Located in Greenwich, CT
Most unusual early 19th century Scottish carved Folk Art tea caddy, the lid with foliate carving and knob finial, the body taking its design from the more hi style sarcophagus form b...
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Early 19th Century Scottish Folk Art Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Birch
Large Original Vintage Art Deco Automobile Advertising Poster for Priceless Oil
By H. de Laurencin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for priceless oil: Motorists! Here is Priceless-Oil Use it! and your engines will be forever young / Automobilistes! ...
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1920s French Vintage Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique Georgian Scottish Sterling Silver Tazza / Centerpiece
By John Seatoun
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, rare antique George I Scottish sterling silver tazza; part of our Georgian silverware collection.
This exceptional antique George I Scottish sterling silver tazza has a plain circular form onto a cylindrical pedestal foot.
The surface of the tazza is plain and unembellished apart from the silversmiths centre punch mark.
The rim of this antique tazza...
Category
1710s Scottish George I Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
French Classical Mantel Clock, circa 1880
Located in Brighton, Sussex
An enchanting classical Louis XVI style gilded ormolu and marble mantel clock, having a standing cherub holding a Cockerel above a white enamel clock face, retails name; Rob. Engstro...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Antiques Associations Members Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
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