Mami Kato Furniture

This is a wonderful rhino sculpture in solid carved wood, Europe, 1950s. Very well made, this rhino sculpture features nice wood grain and colors - great shape and proportions. Gr...

The funeral look of this furniture-sculpture is tempered by the softness of the polyurethane that makes it: in perfect Gufram tradition nothing is as it seems. "THE END in BLACK" is ...

Exceptional pair of penguin sculptures, finely carved from wood with an elegant black lacquer finish that accentuates their sleek, streamlined forms. Their wings, beaks, and feet are...

The sphere of color (that's its name) is part of a collection called "Animal Instinct", it includes around 35 spheres like that collection made between 2007 and 2009 mixed techniqu...

Introducing an alluring textured sculpture of two intertwined loops that showcase a fluid, interlocking design that creates a sense of movement and balance. Crafted in a sculptural s...

Cosmetic Vessel ‘Hinted Bird’ type Ancient Phoenician, Eastern Mediterranean, Late 7th - early 6th century B.C. Carved, incised and smoothed Tridacna (clam) shell 15 cm long 8 cm wide 4 cm high Provenance: Private collection, UK (acquired before 1983) This subtle, anthropomorphically carved clam shell, represents an ancient iron age cosmetic vessel made in the Phoenician region of the eastern mediterranean, during the late 7th - early 6th century B.C. ie. after the Assyrian occupation the region, and before the Babylonians. Perhaps due to this short period of production, only around 100 of these objects have been found, mostly throughout the Near East and Mediterranean, but also as far west as Italy (i.e. The British Museum example 1852, 0112.3 - Fig.2). Tridacna clam shells themselves are native to the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf. The present work finds a close comparison with a Tridacna maxima shell that has an umbo (apex) carved with 'eyes' and smoothed-down exterior (fig. 1). That object was found at the Great Temple of Amman, in modern day Jordan (Caubet and Poplin 1995: 492, n.21; Koutsoukou 1997: 147 - 48, n.185; Routledge 1997: 37, n.37, fig.7) and illustrated in Brandl (2001: fig.7, p.57). The style of both works is characterised by minimal carving and Brandl suggests they are part of a group called 'The Hinted Bird Engraved Tridacna'. Brandl also posits that the engraved Tridacna industry grew out of the withdrawal of the Assyrian's from the Phoenician coast, as shells from the Red Sea would have then become available through agents in Egypt. However, the period of production was only brief, as it seems the Tridacna production centre in the region was destroyed 50 years later by the Babylonians. More heavily engraved examples exist in The British Museum (fig.2) and The Metropolitan Museum, New York (fig.3). Further examples can be consulted in the seminal, 1974 study of these objects by Rolf Stucky: The Engraved Tridacna Shells...

Rare Venetian blown glass push and pull door handles from a hotel in Venice late 1940's, by Alfredo Barbini (1912-2007) for Vitreria Gino Cenedese, Italy. This exceptionally was ori...

19th-century Staffordshire spaniels featuring classic russet and white coloring with hand-painted details and expressive faces. As is common with early Staffordshire, they are unmark...

A hallmark of any well-appointed home is character, something achieved through architectural intrigue, refined style, or a curated collection of meaningful objects. Over the past cen...

Medium Brass Mar de Cobre Wall Sculpture by Aura Carpio Dimensions: D 70 x H 5 cm. Materials: Copper, Brass. Weight: 7 Kg. Aura Carpio® (CDMX). Mexican industrial designer graduate...

All glass sculpture perfect for a colorful touch in any space. Born from a collision of ideologies, blending the traditional and the contemporary, with technical and artisanal metho...

Sculpture elephant in hand-carved noble wood. All in waxed noble wood and with 2 tusks in white finish.