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The extra deep fully sprung seats on these armchairs make for a great sitting experience and is one reason why they are so sort after. The design of the armchairs lends them to both...

The extra deep fully sprung seats on these armchairs make for a great sitting experience and is one reason why they are so sort after. The design of the armchairs lends them to both...

It is also very rare as we believe that there may also be some sort of bed storage underneath the seat with what looks like a mattress in it but we cannot confirm what it is without ...

Fishermen and women in colorful regional dress gather and mend nets, sort the day’s catch, carry baskets, and work beside small sailing vessels drawn onto the shore.

The cabinet's proportions and shallow drawer configuration suggest use for maps, architectural drawings, printing materials, or educational charts, while the angled top provided a co...

Studios such as Bradley & Hubbard, Handel, and Jefferson Glass Co. popularized richly colored slag glass fixtures during the early 20th century, often pairing ornate metalwork with h...

Transporting 19th century Chinese gouache painting on paper, executed in a traditional style with figures sorting tea leaves in a modest courtyard background.

That is part of what gives this costume print its value to anyone interested in how nineteenth century Europe sorted and pictured the peoples of the world. The sheet is a wood engrav...

Timor in the 1840s was divided between Dutch and Portuguese spheres and governed in practice through a patchwork of local rulers, so court offices of this sort were a real part of is...

Transporting 19th century Chinese gouache painting on paper, executed in a traditional style with figures sorting tea leaves in a modest courtyard background.

The low, broad form has a quiet architectural quality, while the mellowed finish gives it the sort of patina collectors and designers look for in authentic Tiffany bronze.

The extra deep fully sprung seats on these armchairs make for a great sitting experience and is one reason why they are so sort after. The design of the armchairs lends them to both...

The interior organization includes four open mail-sorting cubbies, two miniature flank drawers with turned button knobs, and unique side-facing open storage shelves built right into ...

Every precious knot of its surface speaks to lineage and permanence, making it the sort of heirloom reserved for distinguished interiors and serious collections.

The table is carved and finished all round. Pieces of this sort were known as Conventuelle, or console tables. 

The best Regency designers have been described by modern design historians as Modernists in their outlook and this piece is a perfect example of that sort of thinking. Creating a pie...

Based on specimens in the natural history collections of Marmaduke Tunstall, Thomas Pennant and others, Brown's work was intended as a sort of supplement to George Edwards' "A Natura...

This is precisely the sort of statement piece that works exceptionally well in a grand entrance hall, drawing room, boutique hotel or important period interior, while its four-way co...

Even though this watch is over 110 years old, it is still dependable and can be worn for all sorts of events and counted on to get you there on time, every time.

Another characteristic feature of their style, inherited from Bellini’s school, is the positioning of the sacred figures in front of a sort of parapet that divides the scene; beyond ...

Another characteristic feature of their style, inherited from Bellini’s school, is the positioning of the sacred figures in front of a sort of parapet that divides the scene; beyond ...

It is unusual to find marble tops on tables of this sort.  Although it has not been possible to attribute this piece to a particular maker, it does have pronounced similarities with...

Four are long-bodied running hounds of the greyhound or whippet sort — one bright yellow, one brown and orange, one pale blue with brown markings, one red-orange.

If the vaguely modernist-brutalist form weren’t enough it has also been decorated with a sort of floral-tattoo art motif in places. Holy smokes- this is a really interesting chair!

To the back is a raised "paymaster" style gallery hutch designed for sorting letters, postcards, and bills. It includes multiple vertical slots, horizontal slots, and two small centr...

This cabinet represents a highly specialized piece of early commercial furniture, intended for use in retail glove shops, haberdasheries, or dry goods stores where inventory needed t...

The reverse side was engineered for high efficiency, packed with an array of specialized small drawers, cubbies, open shelves, and hidden cash compartments to sort inventory, wrappin...

This functional, hand-crafted interior configuration reveals a central organizer with four equal-sized vertical cubbies perfect for sorting mail, flanked on either side by deep, buil...

Lightly aged with a timeworn finish, the rectangular box assembles with an elevated base, removable lid and a single tray insert with eight shallow compartments - ideal today for sor...

The paintings of the French artist —nicknamed “Young Baptist” for having perpetuated and evolved his father’s great pictorial tradition—are imbued with a soft sensuality derived from...

This is not a later, generic surround but a richly carved and gilded oval with scrolling foliage and emphatic ornament, the sort of frame that turned a private likeness into a public...

Historic Chinese Chippendale mirrors frequently combine precisely this sort of open scrollwork and naturalistic foliage with exotic decorative motifs.

A playful yet meaningful jewel, beautifully made and full of storytelling charm exactly the sort of piece the Victorians adored. Additional information: Material: 18ct Gold, Seed Pe...

For designers, the combination of aged painted surfaces, original-style gilding and dramatically veined marble provides the sort of texture and historical depth that can keep a newly...

According to the myth, the queen decided to become the human tomb of her late husband herself, swallowing his ashes so that he might continue to live within her – an ultimate gesture...

The piece stands on flattened bun feet.  Pieces of this sort were only available to the wealthiest people of the period.

This English mahogany collectors cabinet was made in the 19th century to store some sort of a collection. It was made in mahogany and has panels on every side.

It was in 1841 and earlier that the firm had supplied numerous articles of furniture to the château d’Eu, the furnishings being in the baroque and 17th century style and the present ...

The front of the piece consists of a series of six drawers above two cupboard doors and both drawer and door fronts are adorned with intriguing "spider's web" type carving, which is ...

Large enough to carry a lapel or a coat at 6cm across, and the sort of signature Deco jewel that anchors a collection.

The interior dimensions of the drawers are: D 31 x W 28 x H 8 cm the interiors are covered in some sort of fabric.

The particularly slim and elegant proportions of the arms, the carved floral accent on the top of the head rail and the tapering leaf carved arm supports and collars on the legs are ...

Recessed into the back plane of this writing leaf is a circular cutout designed to hold a glass inkwell, positioned right next to a deeply scooped, elongated pen and pencil tray, res...

The overall design offering that sort after elegant victorian strength of balance in jewellery design thats has become timeless and impossible to replicate.

Known as a meuble à deux corps, this sort of cabinet appears to have been a speciality of the leading southern French workshops.

In 1887, shortly before leaving on the trip, Eakins had met the poet Walt Whitman, who described Eakins at the time as 'run down and out of sorts' when he began his travels, but much...

With its elemental form and exotic banded stone, this is the sort of object that suggests a well-traveled interior assembled over a lifetime rather than a room decorated from a singl...

Enamelling was frequently carried out away from the pottery that made the pot, by independent decorating workshops working to their own patterns, which is why chinoiserie figures of ...

Johann Georg Tompke is not a household-name painter in the way that the great Viennese or Italian Baroque masters are, but he is documented in exactly the sort of ecclesiastical, reg...

The 'Tabac d'Obourg' inscription adds a fascinating layer of history, connecting it to Belgium's tobacco trade. It is exactly the sort of object that collectors and interior designer...

His pieces feature every sort of plant life, from thistles to fuchsias, clematis to chrysanthemums.

The mosaic-like inlay used on chairs of this sort is known as taracea and was used throughout North Africa and Spain, particularly notable in the work made for such buildings as the ...

The top shows a naturally worn surface with darkened areas and honest wear—exactly the sort of lived-in finish collectors seek in true vintage pine.

Honestly, I don’t mind that sort of thing much anymore. It just becomes part of the object’s history.

Thers is a historical repair toward the base of the basket, carefully and skillfully done, not with bamboo but with some sort of fiber. Clearly, such effort would have only be made f...

Overall the base shape of the chair is just wonderful, but there are all sorts of other beautiful details - like the very elegant feet up front, the curvy feet at the back and the ha...

The porphyry works itself provided some of Sweden's most important exports until its destruction by fire in 1866, effectively bringing to a close production on any sort of scale. ...

These are precisely the sorts of differences one would expect when an established court image was recreated by another accomplished painter.

Equally at home in a traditional study or a contemporary office, it is the sort of desk which is intended to be used and enjoyed every day.

A REMARKABLE DECORATIVE OBJECT This is an unusually engaging Barbedienne-related object, combining exceptional bronze casting, richly modelled relief, gilt decoration and marble wit...