Pair of Tall Silver on Copper Antique Engraved Anglo Indian Lidded Urns
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Stand out pair of antique Anglo Indian lidded urns handcrafted in silver on copper in a dramatic
Silver Plate, Copper
Set of Hammered Copper Urns with Ringed Handles
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Set of three associated Anglo-Indian copper urns or bowls with ringed handles. Featuring a hand
Bronze, Copper
Antique Large Indian Silver Copper Urn
Located in Worcester, GB
Antique large indian silver copper urn Good looking and large antique highly decorative copper
Copper
Antique Indian Mughal Kashmir Copper Inlaid Engraved Bidri Cup Vase
Located in Wilton, CT
Antique heavy copper chalice with very fine bidri work, circa 1900. Measures: 5 1/2" high, 4 1/2
Copper
Large Scale Copper and Bronze Urn
Located in Stamford, CT
19th century Indian hand hammered copper urn with bronze bird form ringed handles with rich antique
Bronze, Copper
Large-Scale Copper Urn
Located in Stamford, CT
Large-scale hand-hammered copper urn with great surface and patina, India, 19th century.
Copper
From cupolas to cookware and fine art to filaments, copper metal has been used in so many ways since prehistoric times. Today, antique, new and vintage copper coffee tables, mirrors, lamps and other furniture and decor can bring a warm metallic flourish to interiors of any kind.
In years spanning 8,700 BC (the time of the first-known copper pendant) until roughly 3,700 BC, it may have been the only metal people knew how to manipulate.
Valuable deposits of copper were first extracted on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus around 4,000 BC — well before Europe’s actual Bronze Age (copper + tin = bronze). Tiny Cyprus is even credited with supplying all of Egypt and the Near East with copper for the production of sophisticated currency, weaponry, jewelry and decorative items.
In the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, master painters such as Leonardo da Vinci, El Greco, Rembrandt and Jan Brueghel created fine works on copper. (Back then, copper-based pigments, too, were all the rage.) By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, decorative items like bas-relief plaques, trays and jewelry produced during the Art Deco, Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau periods espoused copper. These became highly valuable and collectible pieces and remain so today.
Copper’s beauty, malleability, conductivity and versatility make it perhaps the most coveted nonprecious metal in existence. In interiors, polished copper begets an understated luxuriousness, and its reflectivity casts bright, golden and earthy warmth seldom realized in brass or bronze. (Just ask Tom Dixon.)
Outdoors, its most celebrated attribute — the verdigris patina it slowly develops from exposure to oxygen and other elements — isn’t the only hue it takes. Architects often refer to shades of copper as russet, ebony, plum and even chocolate brown. And Frank Lloyd Wright, Renzo Piano and Michael Graves have each used copper in their building projects.
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