Antique Lead

The entire ceramic body is enveloped in a lustrous lead-rich majolica glaze, where rich molasses brown streaks blend into honey and amber tones across the moulded anatomy.

Above the urn are six foliate designed Ormolu stems with leaves, various buds, and open Lilies. The stems lead at the top candle cups with electrified candles.

The table may be English or German, although its construction and overall character lead us to believe that a British origin is most likely.

From the County Cork area of Ireland which lead to the "Waterford" glassworks. Early pieces with solid arms and retaining their original form and prisms.

The vibrant green enamelled fronds spread across the body beneath an ochre studded band, offset by a rich treacle-brown lead glaze that pools into the recessed graining.

The composition of these chargers draws directly upon classical antiquity and sixteenth-century Italian istoriato dish formats, translating dynamic crowd scenes into high-gloss lead ...

On the reverse, the underside is finished in an off-white lead glaze and retains a wire suspension bracket threaded across the rim for wall display.

In ordinary ambient light, the glass is bright and colourless, manufactured to emulate the sparkling clarity of heavy lead crystal in high Victorian and Edwardian dining rooms.

Loose rigging lines preserved in an accompanying black compartmental box retain handwritten working notes and diagram tags, documenting the original lead of the ropes for reassembly ...

In the foreground small figures walk along the paths at left and center, and at lower right two men in turbans lead a pack of hunting dogs. Beneath the view runs a key in German, num...

The earthenware body is coated in vibrant, glossy lead glazes dominated by a deep cobalt blue field.

In front, broad meadows and a winding river lead the eye back, crossed by a small footbridge at left and a weir at right.

Art Sz: 13 3/8"H x 9 1/2"W Frame Sz: 19 1/4"H x 15 1/4"W Dec 31st 1909 & Feb 10th 1910 Watercolour and mixed media on paper The Suffolk National Hunt Flat Race was an amateur hor...

Formed from dense Derbyshire stoneware, the exterior is coated in a glossy, lead-based majolica-style glaze. The surface displays pooled streaks of treacle brown, inky cobalt blue, a...

Black chalk, pen, brown ink, bistre and white lead on paper. On the recto, upper right, inscription in pen and brown ink: «du Cavailler Baillogne».

This multi-layered colour gather is fully encased in clear, heavy lead glass using a method reminiscent of mid-century sommerso techniques, creating visual depth that changes noticea...

Going into the detail of the composition, his design invention as well as the stupendous lighting and chromatic effects lead us to link his authorship to the inventive flair of the w...

The present centerpiece illustrates this synthesis of materials, combining transparent lead crystal with sculpted bronze mounts of mythological inspiration.

As witnesses to these “dawns that would lead to Varennes,” painters have left us a few depictions of these places where intellect and pleasure intermingled.

A stone balustrade and stairs lead up to the doors at the center, people are gathered on the steps at the right, and a stormy sky with a plume of smoke fills the right background.

The surface is covered in a lead glaze mottled with metallic oxides in the tortoiseshell manner, the dark green, gray-blue and brown flowing and mingling over the cream-colored body ...

It is constructed using slip-cast or press-moulded pottery with a glossy clear lead glaze over polychrome underglaze and overglaze enamel colours.

The production technique combines sharp underglaze transfer printing to establish the fine line work with skilled hand-enamelling to fill the landscape and central animal motif, fini...

The piece is finished in the deep emerald green monochrome glaze celebrated in Awaji Island ceramics from the Meiji era, probably made around 1890. This translucent lead-based glaze ...

Hinshelwood records the sculpture and the leaded windows behind it in great detail, while the soft light on the floor and the kneeling figures give the scene warmth.

Fallen timber and broken ground lead the eye into the picture. The sheet is lettered "KEONIGSTEIN

In the foreground travelers lead laden donkeys and horses down a rocky path past cypress trees.

The legs have beautifully carved floral bouquets at the knees, and lead downward into scrolled foliate feet. The legs are joined by an elaborate X-stretcher mounted as a radiating sp...

In the third register two men lead a pair of rams and another leads a horse, while a group carries folded cloths and rings.

Dark patina, with many bullet holes and lead bullets still in side. Attached to cast zinc legs and stand.

The Brass Meridian Rings lead up to the North Poles which display wonderfully detailed and richly chased mounts showcasing the hours in Roman Numerals.

The solid and clear volumes, the physiognomic features, the geometrically detected drapery and the gestural eloquence of the characters, as well as the clear layout in space, certain...

The first sheet reproduces six leaded panels of heraldic stained glass in red, gold and blue: four repeat a pilgrim's scrip and staff ringed by a rosary under the motto DIEV GARD DE ...

A rare and exceptional antique Mission, Arts & Crafts, or Art Nouveau sideboard, credenza, buffet server, or bar cabinet By Charles Rohlfs (signed with branded mark to interior) US...

A massive 21" wide Tiffany-style leaded glass lamp shade. Its graceful, pointed conical form is composed of softly variegated amber and honey-colored glass, accented with small flora...

The underside displays a rich, mottled brown tortoiseshell lead glaze characteristic of English majolica manufacture from around 1870.

Raised over a holder for canes, walking sticks and umbrellas with a beautifully ring turned rail and stunningly carved pierced serpentine side supports above a fitted lead drip pan, ...

In the center foreground two men on foot, both carrying staffs, lead a camel toward the left, and two more small figures walk further up the valley.

Sourced from the South of France, this large artisanal vessel showcases an exceptional visual contrast between its raw, earthy clay base and a rich, vibrant green lead glaze covering...

Travelers cross the bridge above, and on the road in the foreground a mule train makes its way along: a loaded pack mule in the lead, another carrying baskets, a man leading a laden ...

Bright patches of light on the water lead the eye from the punt toward the castle walls, while the dark mass of trees in the middle ground keeps the towers half hidden, as if glimpse...

In the foreground a village church with a tall spire, half timbered houses and a winding path lead the eye to the water, where sailing barges cross a wide reach of the Rhine.

At the waist, carved acanthus foliage and radiating fan roundels lead down into the wider lower barometer section.

Measuring 32 cm in height, the flagon displays an unpolished lead-grey pewter patina. The metal shows expected signs of age and domestic handling, including minor surface pitting, sc...

The vessel is enveloped in a vibrant, rich green lead glaze that flows dynamically over its rounded body, beautifully contrasting with the warm oker-yellow glazed interior.

All framed in the yellow glass. Lead is in fantastic condition Priced and sold individually.

The figures are boldly decorated with irregular daubs and brushwork in yellow and dark manganese slip over a warm reddish-brown ground, all beneath a clear lead glaze. Their expressi...

Contrary to his Neo-Greek contemporaries, Hector Leroux does not attempt to reconstitute an anecdotic Pompeian scene but induce his public into following the lead of an archeological...

A Tiffany Studios New York glass and bronze "Chinese Geometric" table lamp, featuring a mottled orange, yellow, and green leaded glass shade atop an intricately sculpted patinated br...

A delicate, all-over network of fine glaze crazing covers the smooth surface, producing the distinctive crackled patina characteristic of traditional late nineteenth-century lead-gla...

Reeds and dark foreground vegetation lead the eye towards the illuminated distance, while trees soften into the horizon.

The piece retains a magnificent weathered patina with a matte, lead-grey coloration and subtle traces of historic elemental exposure.

A pierced gallery and tapered shoulders lead to a plain gold shank, forming a refined late Edwardian/early Art Deco cluster design.

The interiors and finger-molded rims are finished in a rich, glossy copper-green lead glaze that pops beautifully against the light clay body.

In 1906 Daum revived pâte de verre (glass paste), an ancient Egyptian method of glass casting, developing the method so that by the 1930s Daum's window panels used pâte de verre for ...

The appearance of Halley’s Comet, in 1758 and again in 1835, lead to a fashion for star and comet jewellery. This fascination with the solar system and its celestial bodies continued...

Such crystals, which were made of high-lead-content glass and had a permanent foil backing, gave the illusion of almost any gemstone, including diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds ...

The large central scene shows men in cuirasses seated on a high brick platform with cloaked men standing behind them and an officer standing below at the left, while at the right att...

In the middle band two bare chested attendants with axes over their shoulders lead two bulls covered with long fringed cloths, and between them walk togate men and a man with a box u...

The bulbous form glazed on the shoulder in the traditional “Sancai” (three-color lead based glaze) of yellow, green and white in spots running down the sides creating an “egg and sp...