Romantic Gifts

A Set of Four North Italian Neoclassic Cream Painted & Parcel Gilt Armchairs Late 18th Century Upholstered in cream leather Height 39 in. Width 24 in. Depth 19 in. Provenanc...

Antique cast stone and shell form birdbath. Great antique condition, nice wear and aged patina will add interest to any outdoor space.

This somewhat cylindrical petrified wood lamp is topped by a charcoal gray linen shade with a white plastic liner and European mounting. Single socket electrified for US use. Petri...

A rare to find, matched pair of brass mirrors by mastercraft. Designed by William Doezema for Mastercraft, and produced in the 1970's. This pair is in excellent condition and has a ...

Beautiful pair of double doors with wonderful painted surface. This pair of neoclassical doors, would e a increasing addition to any room. They are fully operational and still heave ...

A spectacular and fine, dovetailed poplar, rosewood grain painted and ebonized document box. The gold stenciling is of a very fine quality. Retains the original fire gilded steel bai...

This is an extremely handsome French Rococo Revival footstool. Unusual shape and size. Mid-19th Century likely France retaining the original Gray undercoat with cream exterior and go...

The Cliffs by Balcomb Greene painted in 1978. Signed on the front titled and dated on the reverse. Paintings of the Montauk coast by Balcomb Greene are few and far between. This painting likely created at his Studio in Montauk New York. Painting is in excellent original condition and retains the original gallery frame. provenance: Estate of Gertrude B. Pascal / Gifted from the previous in 1987, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY / Christie's, New York 2012 / Private Collection, New Jersey Public collections: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Over a lifespan of 86 years, Balcomb Greene followed his muse wherever it led, unfettered by what had come before, unafraid of where the future might lead. Despite a series of different pathways explored, his purpose remained ever constant: to express truth as he found it and communicate it to a broader audience. In the 1930s, Greene was a young artist committed to abstraction as his expressive language. Greene’s paintings and collages of the 1930s reflect the influence of Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian and put him in the company of fellow Americans, including Ibram Lassaw, Josef Albers, Ilya Boltowsky and George L. K. Morris, all among the founding members, in 1936, of American Abstract Artists. John Wesley Greene, his christened name which he never legally changed, was born in 1904 in Millville, New York, the third child and only son of Methodist minister The Reverend Bertram Stillman Greene (1864–1929) and Florence Stover Greene (1876–1911). His family on both sides were Revolutionary-era colonists, originally living in Connecticut and Vermont before joining the Yankee migration to the western frontier of New York State. In 1922, John Wesley Greene enrolled at Syracuse University aided by a scholarship for the sons of Methodist ministers and intending to fulfill the promise of his name and follow his father into the ministry. As with so many before and after him, the liberal education he absorbed at Syracuse broadened his horizons and reshaped his life plan. Studying philosophy, psychology, and literature, along the way he separated himself from organized religion. During his senior year, on a visit to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Greene was introduced to Gertrude Glass (1904–1956), an art student and the Brooklyn-born daughter of Latvian Jewish immigrants. Following Greene’s graduation, the two married in 1926 and went to Europe. They stopped briefly in Paris but spent most of their time in Vienna where Greene had a fellowship to study psychology. When they returned to New York in 1927, Greene enrolled in a master’s program in ‘English literature at Columbia University. When his thesis advisor rejected his essay topic on the “fallen woman” in seventeenth-century literature as inappropriate, he left without a degree. From 1928 until 1931, Greene taught English at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. At some point, he stopped using his given name, John, and began to call himself, more distinctively, Balcomb, the family name of his paternal grandmother. While Greene wrote three novels (all unpublished) during his teaching years at Dartmouth, his wife was a working artist, and he eventually developed an interest of his own in painting. In 1931, Greene gave up his teaching position and he and Gertrude went to Paris, determined to immerse themselves in the modern art ferment they had briefly experienced in their earlier visit. For young Americans with no prescribed agenda, a receptiveness to innovation, and wide-open eyes and minds. Paris, in 1931, offered a rich stew of approaches to modern art. The city absorbed and transmuted an international mélange of styles—cubism, orphism, futurism, dadaism, constructivism, neoplasticism, suprematism, de Stijl, Bauhaus—France encountering Holland, Germany, Italy, and Russia with Pablo Picasso from Spain, Constantin Brancusi from Romania, and Jacques Lipchitz from Lithuania. As a sculptor, Gertrude Greene...

During the ArtDeco period when Gabriel "Coco" Chanel was at her peak as a Parisian couture fashion-designer in the early 1930s, this antique one-of-a-kind handcrafted gem-fringed and gilt-chain medallion brooch with trombone clasp was commissioned to accessorize one of her clothing designs. Marked only "FRANCE" like some early 1930s Chanel couture jewelry (without a brand stamp until the 1950s), its artistic origin is most likely from ornate organic-form sketches by her favorite parurer Fulco di Verdura. The Sicilian duke began creating fabric patterns for Chanel in 1927, which shortly expanded to fine jewelry beginning with custom pieces for herself. These include the iconic Byzantine-influenced gem-adorned cuffs referencing the Maltese military-cross, which the French designer can often be seen wearing in circa-1930s photos. This bright yellow-gold brooch suits goldsmith Verdura's early anti-Art-Deco aesthetic that was considered a radical departure from 1920s silver-tone jewelry, which otherwise featured linear geometric designs or figurative representation. The softly-shaped deconstructed gem-bouquet mixes amethyst and rose-quartz beads with natural Keshi pearls and intricate tiny gilt leaves, which are wired to a Baroque-motif open-work frame that dangles another gem surrounded by a thick gilt-rope halo. Notably, Verdura is credited with re-introducing since Victorian times the rope motif to jewelry. Since 1930, Verdura's unique style was influenced by travels with Chanel to explore Byzantine art, Baroque architecture, and exotic flora-and-fauna among his native Italian aristocratic estate. The legendary fashion-editor Diane Vreeland and American entertainment-stars were among the first Chanel clients to acquire couture real-gem-adorned jewelry made by Verdura, while one of the two brooches treasured by Vreeland was titled "Theodora". See our photo of the Byzantine mosaic of Empress Theodora, whose image wearing many teardrop pearls above her chest and surrounded by a golden halo seems to be the inspiration for this brooch. As one of the most important modern-design collaborations, Chanel's close relationship with Verdura lasted largely-undocumented years in Paris, until he launched his first outside jewelry venture with a Hollywood designer-boutique after emigrating to the United States in 1934. By 1939 as a financially-backed in-demand goldsmith, he founded the namesake jewelry-company Verdura in NYC. After he retired in 1973, the brand continued to operate without him with different owners. Given the duo's designs that played with historic and military references, Chanel's couture commission for this purple medallion may have been sparked in the early 1930s when the internationally-new...

Very handsome pair of exceptional bamboo and pebble stone mirrors. Circa 1940's, just full of character and texture. Perfect for a master bathroom Suite or a pair of console...

Young British Artist (YBA) Philippe Bradshaw (1965-2005) was represented by blue-chip international art galleries when he was the first to reimagine iconic-art images as tapestry-like metal-chain installations in multimedia environments. He is best known for transforming hand-assembled colorful anodized-aluminum links into shimmering semi-transparent layered curtains, whose hanging long strands uniquely amplified the light and sound of his projected camcorder videos and DJ'd music. In Bradshaw's first American exhibition "Disco Damage" in 2001 at NYC's legendary avant-garde art gallery, Deitch Projects, this jewelry-costume sculpture became part of the artist's live-in evolving studio installation. While later celebrating 15 years of art happenings that had occurred at that Soho exhibition space, its gallerist-cum-museum-director Jeffrey Deitch--who was physically scarred during this unforgettable chaotic several-month experience orchestrated by Bradshaw--recounted this show in his retrospective hardcover book "Live The Art". When Bradshaw drowned in the Parisian-river Seine in August 2005 while living the high life of his skyrocketing success in Europe, he left a small body of large installations that is mostly distributed among the world's top private art collections. Notably, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has acquired one of his multimedia works. Last year, another assembly of his chain-curtains made a rare public appearance at new modern-art museum, Heidi Horten Collection, during its inaugural exhibition in Vienna. Since winning a major British visual-art prize in 2000 that marked Bradshaw's art-world ascent following fellow Goldsmiths-College YBAs who were close friends, this sculpture evolved from one of his most elaborate jewelry costumes that he created in London while seducing the American who became his girlfriend. Unlike other pieces of jewelry that he made as gifts to participating acquaintances while video taping...

The top is made of rustic French industrial factory wood pellet with eight planks secured at each end by u-shaped iron bars, as well as by long bolts from...

A stately round cast stone table top supported by 3 cast stone lion figured legs. The table has wonderful aged patina and character only time ca...

Contemporary minimalist Industrial round blackened steel table is custom hand forged iron. Use this organic modern table for dining, office or a...

Stylish and inviting, this vintage wrought iron sofa and two matching garden lounge chairs are in the manner of maker, Russell Woodard and De...

Elegant and rustic at the same time, this custom oak top and wrought iron dining table base can be made to your specification. Table can...

This rustic antique farm house work, dining harvest table, once painted but much of the residue of the original paint still remains for added charm ...

This is a great African Gemsbok taxidermy shoulder mount. It is posed with the head in a semi-upright position looking to the animal's right side. This a elegant example of a mount o...

Hard to find, stylish and practical, the metal framed antique boat, ship or sailing yacht deck chair is great for relaxing and enjoying a leisurely cruise. The chair is fitted with ...

Step back in time and bring a piece of history into your home with this exquisite gate leg drop leaf table from the early 1800s. A meticulously built piece showcasing the beauty of A...

An unusual 19th Century antique, finely carved decorated drop leaf table with turned legs and beautiful aged patina. The sides of the...

Add an American, Swedish Gustavian or French Provincial country look to your kitchen or dining room with this antique American commode or buffet server. This handsome tall wide and deep commode kitchen chest, painted a light Swedish grey has been recently scrubbed back and refinished for a faded, modern look. Three deep top drawers and 3 cabinets below for great storage. The piece is also great for common room storage and an addition as a work surface. Antiqued iron metal draw...

Style and comfort, an early 20th century Chippendale Revival carved mahogany sofa with straight back, flared arms and tight seat. Sofa frame, rails and legs are hand crafted with int...

A striking and most decorative French mid-century wrought iron base with elegantly scrolled curved legs at either end, connected by a stretcher that will hold a top of your choice be...

A timeless Swedish Gustavian inspired round pedestal farmhouse table made with reclaimed whitewashed cherry wood table top and a natural colored wood table base. The table makes a p...

Vintage industrial rustic rolling cart made of wood planks and cast iron wheels and brackets, the loader has two end wheels that swivel and are slightly shorter than the larger sides...

A wonderful and sexy piece. Retaining the original upholstery of pleated organza. This item can be viewed in person at The Berkshire Galleries in Great Barrington Massachusetts.

George Loring Brown American, 1814-1889 “Pastoral Landscape with Locomotive and Picnic Goers” Circa 1850 Oil on canvas 30 by 48 in. W/frame 34 by 52 in. The Hudson...

Natalia Suvorova Born 1945, Leningrad, Russia. Signed A. Cybopoba Russian, Early 20th Century “A Floral Still Life” Oil on Board Signed lower right 31 by 21in. W/fr...

With a shaped top over a foliate carved apron centered by a cabochon cartouche, on carved cabriole legs ending with claw feet.

Marcel Dyf, French, 1899-1985. Reclining nude. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left Dyf. Measures: 23 ½ by 28 ¾ in. With frame: 33 ½ by 38 ½ in. Marcel Dyf was born in Paris, October 7...

Stylish and comfortable Ficks Reed bamboo with pewter finish accented details. Great as patio, porch or family room sofa covered in natural canvas. M...

The Elizabethan/ Jacobean style dining table has hand-carved decorations of grapes, flowers, leaves and rosettes. The table extends to doub...

Make a statement with this hard to find, original antique industrial shelving from the archives of government building in the Netherlands. ...

Elegant and rustic at the same time, this custom made wrought iron garden dining table base can be used indoors or outdoors, porch or patio. Add the table top of your choice be it wo...

A large version of a French confiture, hand-carved with Rococo design on the front and double paneling on the sides. Hinged door with lock and key and...

The pair of contemporary stools newly upholstered with remnants of antique mid-eastern carpet. The wood legs are painted black.

19th Century rectangular French mirror with gesso gilt wood and undulating rope design. Original mirror. Use the mirror vertically or horizo...

Outstanding 18th C. Italian carved and gilt wood alter sticks with circular tops, carved applied putti decoration and scrolled feet. Some paint losses, rep...

Marble side or occasional table features a round marble top and a hand-carved wooden base painted gold.  

Unusual and hard to find bentwood rattan garden lounge chair in the style of Audoux Minet and Frida Minet, France, 1960's features a bamboo shell and wheels/ The chair measured at 33...

A Fine Louis XVI Kingwood with Tulipwood & Purplewood Inlaid Commode 18th Century Stamped Crepi Francois Crepi maitre 1778 Reference: Similar Commode, Versailles Illustr...

Versatile, Chippendale mahogany drop leaf table with Marlborough style legs that opens up to seat four, seating up to eight with two D ends. Table has four central fixed legs and tw...

Colonial influenced antique hand-carved rustic country daybed or bench made from natural aged teak, deep enough for sleeping or relaxing. Suitable for indoor or outdoor use. Great in the garden, on a porch or patio. The antique teakwood bench...

Once graced the showroom of a Madison Avenue millinery shop, this midcentury neoclassical wood shelf cupboard would work well for books, displaying collections, use for an organizer ...

The one piece construction classic country farmhouse style antique pine hutch has wonderful aged patina with plenty of character and charm. Its very narrow 14" depth makes it perfect for small or limited space room. The rack has four open shelves, some top shelves having plate holders. Shelves can be modified to be adjustable or removable so the piece can be used to house a flat screen TV at the top and store any audio/video accessories in the enclosed area below. We can do that for you for a small charge. Search terms: Rustic style kitchen hutch...

A wonderfully handcrafted French Island Unit / Counter has a great white washed finish of a Swedish, Gustavian, country or farmhouse look. The island was possibly once used as a shop counter now can be used as a kitchen island worktable. The unit has been completely refurnished and cleaned for kitchen use. It now has a newly added teakwood top. The kitchen counter...

Elizabethan Jacobean style refectory table with carved melon shaped bulbous legs connected with stretchers. Use for dining table, library table, conference table, entry hallway, foyer or center hall table. 70" long, will seat 6-8 people depending on the size of the chairs used. Perfect for an English Tudor, French Country, craftsman, of a streamline minimalist mid-century modern home. This table will bring style and character to a modern or antique decor. Make a statement as a writing table, desk, work table, a dining table, harvest table, or farm table. Top is not original to the base. Search terms: Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque Revival 8' or 8 foot table...

These Italian moderne burgers inspired by the Grosfeld House Hollywood Regency style are upholstered in beige linen and have hand-carved frames painted gray and are embellished with ...

Beautifully styled Mid-Century Modern Round dining table base in cast aluminum with roping detail -- wonderful weathered faux finish wi...

Very shallow 14" deep white washed two door armoire that will fit into a small room or space for extra storage or serve as entertainment cabinet for large screen TV, video and audio ...

Industrial Country Style work table, kitchen, or dining table made from reclaimed wood. Use it in a modern or traditional setting, this table will a...

The table base has an extra strong support at the top of the base to enable it to hold a stone top. Elegant and rustic at the same time, this custom made wrought iron garden dining ...

An Italian Walnut & Veneer Credenza 18thcentury & later The rectangular moulded top above two short panelled drawers with knob handles, and a pair of doors with rosette-car...

The rectangular top over a frieze, all resting on a joint stretcher base

18 ft. 8 in. by 16 ft. 8 in.

Rare antique French garden bench is made of three components: Wood planking for double seating, front and back, as well as sides, decorativ...

The rare diminutive Dutch Bombe linen press has original white painted over blue with three deep drawers below and a double-door storage space ...

A Fine & Rare Pair of Louis XVI Painted & Giltwood Stools Stamped Lelarge 18th Century Jean Baptiste Lelarge III Maitre 1775 Height of back 24 in. Height of seat ...

An Important Neoclassical Giltwood Console Roma,Italy 18th Century The mottled grey rectangular marble above an egg and dart edge, the guilloche frieze with a central rosette, on r...