Alexander's Antiques

A Monumental Spanish Alhambra Earthenware Porcelain Vase with Islamic/Moorish Designs and Arabic Caligraphy This monumental two-handled vase is constructed in earthenware with an el...

A Chinese Imari porcelain covered ginger jar from the Kangxi period (1662–1722). The Kangxi reign is widely regarded as a golden era for porcelain, marked by innovation in color pale...

An Important Pair of Louis XV Period French Ormolu Three Light Candelabra with 18th Century Chinese Foo Dogs An important pair of Louis XV period French ormolu three light candelabra, each centered by an 18th century Chinese terracotta foo dog mounted within an elaborate arrangement of mercury gilt bronze branches. The opposing male and female figures are modeled seated with raised heads, open mouths, exposed teeth, curled ears, and defined facial features. Their dark brown terracotta bodies are hand engraved with linear detailing through the fur and musculature, while small enamel accents are applied around the brows, necks, shoulders, and haunches. Each figure rests on a shaped gilt bronze platform surrounded by scrolling Rococo ornament. From behind the figures rise three asymmetrically arranged ormolu branches formed as curved stems with applied leaves. Each branch terminates in a foliate candle nozzle above a spreading arrangement of modeled leaves and berries. The composition combines Chinese ceramic figures with French mid 1700s Parisian gilt bronze mounts, a form of luxury decorative mounting associated with French interiors of the Louis XV period. The ormolu structure is assembled from numerous separately cast sections, consistent with the construction of French gilt bronze objects of the 18th century. The bases are built from individual scrolling elements joined around an upper platform, with projecting feet formed from molded C scrolls, leaf forms, and pierced sections. The branches are likewise cast in separate lengths and joined at structural points around the central figure. Large acanthus leaves wrap around the curved stems, while smaller leaves and buds appear at the junctions. The candle nozzles are cast with raised Rococo foliage and fluted vertical divisions. Examination of the undersides reveals visible sand casting texture, surface irregularities, and unevenness associated with period bronze casting methods. These areas were not intended for display and retain evidence of the casting and finishing process that is less visible on the worked exterior surfaces. The original surface is mercury gilded, or ormolu, the traditional French method in which a gold and mercury amalgam was applied to bronze before heating removed the mercury and left the gold bonded to the surface. The remaining gilding follows the modeled contours of the cast bronze, including the recessed veins of the leaves, molded borders of the bases, and raised details of the candle cups. Variations in the surface and areas of wear allow the underlying bronze to appear in places, while the protected recesses retain deeper gilding. The combination of separately cast components, hand chased surfaces, mercury gilding, and visible sand casting beneath the bases corresponds with Parisian bronze production of the mid 1700s. The Chinese terracotta figures date to the 18th century and were incorporated into the French mounts as central sculptural elements. Each foo dog is separately modeled and hand finished, with incised lines defining the body, legs, tail, and facial features. The male and female figures form a related opposing pair rather than exact duplicates. Their individual modeling, dark fired surface, engraved decoration, and applied enamel details remain clearly visible against the surrounding ormolu. The French bronze mounts were designed around the dimensions of the Chinese figures, with the branches rising behind and around each animal while leaving the bodies exposed from multiple viewpoints. The pairing of 18th century Chinese figures...

A Large and Quite Unusual French Sevres Style Porcelain Dore Bronze Mounted Covered Box. This large French covered box is in the style of the Sèvres porcelain manufactory and dates ...

Baccarat Pink Opaline Gilt Covered Box/Bonbonier; Pumpkin Form. A Baccarat pink opaline gilt covered box, formed in the shape of a pumpkin. The vessel is composed of three parts: a ...

Important & Large French Porcelain and Doré Bronze Mounted Neoclassical Jardinière/Centerpiece with very unusual Grisaille and Camaïeu Painting Porcelain Panels, Circa 1840 Impo...

A pair of French table lamps composed of graduated Geometric Octagonal Cut smoky rock crystal arranged as tall multi tiered columns, in the manner of Baguès. Each lamp is constructed...

French White Opaline Shell Form Ormolu Mounted Dresser/Jewelry Box This antique French shell shaped white opaline dresser or jewelry box features a mold...

Antique French Baccarat Opaline Perfume Casket Box with Four Bottles This opaline perfume casket is formed as an oval box with softly rounded corners and a domed hinged lid. The body is constructed from opaque white opaline glass panels fitted within a continuous gilt bronze framework. The lid opens on rear hinges to reveal a fitted interior designed to hold four square perfume bottles, each topped with a gilt bronze stopper. The interior is organized with a shaped gilt bronze cradle and separators that secure each bottle individually. The exterior mount includes a front escutcheon with a keyhole aperture, flanked by applied scrolling feet at each corner, raising the casket slightly above the surface. A delicate gilt bronze swing handle is mounted at the sides, allowing the casket to be lifted as a single unit. The underside is enclosed with a matching opaline glass panel framed in bronze. The casket is identified as a French Baccarat opaline perfume casket. Baccarat is documented as a manufacturer of opaline glass objects and luxury toiletry items during this period, supplying fitted boxes and perfume sets for domestic and dressing table use. The attribution is based on material, construction, and documented Baccarat production of comparable opaline caskets...

Large French Baccarat Hand-Diamond Cut, Crystal Egg-Shaped Casket with Reticulated Dore Bronze Mounts This large French Baccarat crystal casket...

A beautiful Antique French Dore Bronze Mounted Cut Crystal Baccarat Jewelry Box in Rectangular Shape A doré bronze mounted cut crystal jewelry bo...

A Rare 19th Century Viennese Enamel on Silver & Hand-Carved Rock Crystal Covered Box Model of a Swan This finely carved rock crystal model represents a swan, naturalistically r...

A 19th Century French Patinated Bronze and Ormolu Mounted Figure of a Lion, after the Medici Lion, on a Verde Antico Marble Base The bronze figure depicts a striding lion, modeled a...

A French Ormolu Mounted Chinese Famille Verte Porcelain Vase Mounted as a Lamp A French ormolu mounted Chinese famille verte porcelain vase mounted as a lamp. The porcelain body is ...

A Very Unusual and Large French Pink/Peach Opaline Floral Enamel Decorated Ormolu Mounted Box. This large rectangular box is formed in an elongated octagonal shape with chamfered corners and a hinged lid. The body is crafted from pink to peach-toned opaline glass, its surface decorated with an overall diapered pattern of raised panels. Each recessed diamond panel is adorned with hand-painted enamel floral sprays, consisting of white petals tipped with blue and accented with green foliage. The decoration is consistently arranged across all surfaces, including the lid and sides, giving the box a uniform appearance. The lid opens on a hinge to reveal a polished opaline interior of the same peach tone, framed with a band of gilded ormolu. A wide ormolu mount encircles the midsection, serving as both hinge and clasp support. This mount is chased with a repetitive foliate design, forming a textured surface that contrasts with the smooth opaline glass. The mount’s gilding provides structural reinforcement and adds a decorative metallic border between the upper and lower sections of the box. The hinge runs the full width at the back, while the front is fitted with a small clasp mechanism, discreetly incorporated into the ormolu banding. Measuring substantially larger than typical decorative opaline caskets...

An Oversized Chinese Famille Noire Porcelain Vase, circa 1860 An impressive and unusually large Chinese porcelain vase, circa 1860, decorated in the famille noire palette with extens...

An Important Large E. F. Caldwell Patinated and Doré Bronze Figural Lamp E. F. Caldwell & Co., New York. A large and rare American patinated and doré bronze figural lamp raised on a ...

An Unusual and Quite Rare 19th Century French Round Form Agate and Ormolu Mounted Box. An unusual and quite rare 19th century French round form agate and ormolu mounted box. The box...

A Large and Important Pair of French Louis XVI Period Ormolu and Carrara Marble Mounted Armorial Obelisks with Military Trophies. These monumental obelisks are constructed in Carrar...

A Set of 3 French Rock Crystal Octagonal Obelisks. A set of three French rock crystal obelisks is carved from substantial blocks of clear natural crystal, each rising in a tall tape...

A 19th-Century Italian Floral Micromosaic Octagonal Mirror A large 19th-century Italian octagonal mirror surrounded by an extensive border of finely worked floral micromosaic panels....

Pair French Louis XVI Doré Bronze Camel-Head Five-Light Sconces, circa 1790 A pair of important French Louis XVI doré bronze five-light wall sconces, circa 1790, prominently modeled ...

Unusual Meissen Porcelain Group of Children Feeding Swans at a Pond, fantastic quality and Painting, 1880s This large porcelain group depicts a boy and girl seated together on a roc...

A Fantastic quality and rather Large Chinese Rose Mandarin Porcelain Punch Bowl/Centerpiece Painted -mmm with Imperial Court Scenes, 1850s This large Chinese Rose Mandarin porcelain...

Large Orientalist Bronze Group of Boy Riding a Camel, Brown, Green, and gilt Patina The bronze group depicts a boy riding a camel, executed on a large scale that makes it an uncommo...

A Rare and Unusual 19th Century Hand-Painted Meissen Porcelain Charger, “The Triumph of Galatea”, further decorated with Platinum, Gold, and Enamel The charger is formed as a large ...

A amazing Pair of French Charles X Period, Circa 1820, Ormolu and Patinated Bronze Mounted Candelabra Lamps with Beautiful Rouge Marble Bodies. Each lamp is of large scale, rising f...

A Caldwell Ormolu Mounted Chinese Six-sided Green Crackle Porcelain Monochromatic Table Lamp. Caldwell is especially known for adapting imported Chinese porcelains into their lighting and decorative objects, designing ormolu mounts to both secure and elevate the presentation of the porcelain. This lamp demonstrates that practice, with a tall Chinese six-sided porcelain vessel, monochromatically glazed in green with a crackled surface, set into a finely worked Caldwell ormolu base and fitted with bronze lamp hardware. The porcelain body is formed with six faceted sides that rise from a hexagonal foot to a waisted midsection and broad shoulder, narrowing again toward the upper rim. Its height and proportions give the lamp a commanding scale, larger than many other mounted Chinese porcelains employed by Caldwell. The green glaze is applied evenly across the entire surface, presenting a dense network of crackle lines throughout. These fissures in the glaze are consistent across all six faces, with natural variations in density that add to the distinctive character of this crackle ware. Areas where the glaze meets the angled edges of the form reveal a slightly deeper pooling of tone, offering subtle gradations across the surface. The porcelain is mounted at the base into an ormolu plinth of hexagonal outline, custom-fitted by the Caldwell firm. The bronze is cast with a repeating border of stylized palmette motifs, interspaced with small beaded ornamentation along the lower edge. Six small ball feet elevate the lamp slightly above the surface, ensuring stability while introducing an architectural quality to the base. The upper mount at the shoulder is a circular ormolu collar fitted seamlessly around the porcelain’s rim, providing a transition into the lamp hardware above. The shaft is executed in patinated bronze, leading upward to twin electrical sockets with pull chains, and is topped with a gilt finial cast in the form of a stylized cluster of fruit and leaves, a motif frequently employed by Caldwell. Caldwell & Co., based in New York and active from the late 19th century through the early 20th century, became one of the leading American workshops for high-quality bronze lighting and decorative fittings. Their collaborations often included the incorporation of Chinese porcelains, which were mounted into elaborate ormolu bases and adapted for functional use as lamps. The present lamp reflects this integration of imported material with American decorative design, the porcelain serving as the body while the ormolu provides both structural support and ornamental framing. Caldwell’s mounts are noted for their precision casting, detailed chasing, and balance of decorative schemes with the porcelain forms they enclosed. In size, the lamp is of substantial proportions, larger than typical porcelain-mounted table lamps of its era. The porcelain vessel alone stands as a significant form, and with the bronze mounts and electrical fittings, the total height increases to a commanding presence suitable for placement in an interior requiring both functional light and decorative emphasis. The combination of Chinese green crackle...

A Pair of 18th Century French Ormolu Four-Light Candelabra, by André-Charles Boulle Each candelabrum is structured around a baluster stem rising from a tripartite base. The stem is ...

A unusual Silvered Bronze Cocktail Table/Gueridon/side table in the Manner of Elkington & Co. The cocktail table features a circular top with a broad rim and central medallion, e...

An English Regency Mother-of-Pearl Veneered Tea Caddy, Circa 1840 An English Regency mother-of-pearl veneered tea caddy, circa 1840, of architectural casket form with chamfered corne...

An Unusual 18th Century Meissen Porcelain Blanc de Chine Schneeballen Snowball Vase with Phoenix Head Handles This unusual 18th century Meissen porcelain vase is executed entirely i...

A Monumental Royal Vienna Porcelain Portrait Vase Signed Wagner with 24K Gold Decoration and Raised Enamel. The covered vase has a slender ovoid body raised on a shaped pedestal bas...

Pair of Monumental Meissen Porcelain Rococo Floral Encrusted Potpourri Vases. A monumental pair of Meissen porcelain covered potpourri vases ...

Rare and Unusual French Rock Crystal and Ormolu Mounted Sphere Shaped & Winged Hippocampus Lamps, Signed Armorial Each lamp is structured on a triangular ormolu base with canted...

Pair of French Empire and Regency Style Patinated and Doré Bronze Urns Mounted as Lamps This pair of patinated and doré bronze urns, subsequently mounted as lamps, is designed in th...

A Large 19th Century French Ormolu Mounted Orientalist Vase, E. Lièvre This large 19th-century French Orientalist vase has a tall baluster form with curved sides, a narrow neck, and...

Cut Crystal and Ormolu-Mounted Centerpiece This centerpiece features an oval cut-crystal bowl mounted in gilt bronze, combining clarity and structure with refined metalwork. The bod...

A very Unusual KPM Hand Painted Porcelain Plaque “Venus and Cupids by the Sea” in Gilt Bronze frame The rectangular porcelain plaque depicts Venus standing on a rocky shore, surroun...

A Magnificent and Monumental E.F. Caldwell & Co. Doré Bronze Neoclassical Lamp, Museum Provenance A magnificent and unusually large E.F. Caldwell & Co. doré bronze lamp in t...

A Pair of Baccarat Crystal and Dore Bronze Mounted Cut Swirl Vases The vases are formed with elongated baluster bodies raised on square crystal plinths and mounted with dore bronze ...

A Large Russian Porcelain Circular Wall Clock with Gilt Bronze Bow and 24k Two Tone Gold Doube Eagle Dial, Samuel Marti Movement This circular porcelain wall clock is formed as a wi...

A Monumental Pair of Chinese Qing Dynasty Cloisonné Enamel Rooster Figures An impressive monumental pair of Chinese cloisonné enamel rooster figures, dating to the late Qing dynasty...

A Beautiful French Ormolu Mounted Tiffany Blue color Opaline Crystal Casket/Jewelry box This French Blue Opaline Ormolu-Mounted Casket features a solid rectangular form crafted from...

very large pair of french baccarat double overlay white over blue opaline vases,, cut diamond design, decorated with hand painted 24k gold decoration Large Pair of Baccarat Blue and...

A Dore Bronze Mounted French Opaline Crystal Egg-Form Casket Box This French opaline crystal egg form box is shaped as a rounded egg with a smooth, continuous surface and a slightly...

Heavy Antique French Baccarat Milky White Opaline Crystal Ormolu Mounted Box This opaline crystal box is formed in a rectangular shape with rounded edges and smooth contours, presenting a milky white surface consistent across all sides. The lid and base align cleanly, creating a unified profile when closed. The opaline body has an even opaque tone, and the interior mirrors the same finish, maintaining continuity between the inner and outer surfaces. Its proportions are balanced, and the glass shows no variation in texture, demonstrating a high level of material quality. The mounts are composed of gilt bronze forming a complete band around the upper and lower sections. This band is decorated with a repeated upright leaf motif, each leaf individually struck into the bronze to create a regular pattern. A circular flower clasp is positioned at the center front, displaying radiating petals and a central raised node. The hinge is fitted neatly within the mount at the back, allowing the lid to lift cleanly without interrupting the outline of the box. The gilding retains an even color, showing well-preserved ormolu throughout. The mounts sit firmly against the glass, indicating a precise and well-executed construction. The box is produced in high-quality opaline crystal associated with Baccarat’s work, known for its weight, density, and consistent coloration. It survives in mint condition, with no chips, cracks, or abrasions to the glass. The ormolu mounts remain structurally sound, and the decorative details of the leaf-pattern band and rosette clasp are clearly defined. The overall presentation reflects the high standards of French opaline caskets...

A Fabulous Italian Pietre Dure Plaque of an Elderly Couple at Table, Signed and Executed by master “A. Ceccherini” The rectangular pietre dure plaque presents an interior scene dep...

A Pair of 17th/18th Century Japanese Arita Carps/Fish This pair of Japanese porcelain figures represents large carp rising from stylized waves, modeled with their mouths open and bo...

A Pair of French Louis XVI Dore Bronze Greyhound Dog Chenets/Andirons This pair of Louis XVI style chenets is cast in gilt bronze and formed with rectangular bases supported at each...

A Pair of French Baguès style Rock Crystal and Gilt Mounted Double Light Wall Appliques/Sconces. Each sconce is designed with a central oval gilt backplate from which extend two scr...

A Pair of French Empire Period Dore Bronze Column Shaped Lamps, Signed, By Thomire à Paris These lamps are formed as tall, columnar shafts rising from square bases. Each base is mou...

A Highly Important, Early, and Quite Rare 17th Century Italian Pietra Dura Hardstone Inlaid Box, Most Probably from the Grand Ducal Workshop. This rectangular Italian casket...

A Beautiful Pair of Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Covered Ginger Jars Mounted as Lamps. Porcelain Circa 18th Century. The jars are of baluster form, each with a fitted domed lid an...

A Pair of French Painted Tole and Curved Glass Hurricane Lamps in Chinoiserie Pagoda Form. Each lamp is composed of a large, shaped glass hurricane shade fitted into a painted tole ...

Highly Important & extremely Rare Pair of early Jeweled Italian Porphyry, hand carved Rock Crystal, and Dore Bronze three light Candelabra, mounted with various precious stones, inc...

A Highly Important 19th Century Meissen Porcelain Schneeballen Snowball Covered Vase. This covered porcelain vase is modeled in the Meissen Schneeballen, or snowball, pattern and is...

A very Large and Fruitfully Colored Meissen Porcelain Model of a Cockatoo on a Branch, circa 1860 This large Meissen porcelain model depicts a cockatoo perched upon a tree stump wit...

A Pair of 19th Century Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Vases Turned to Lamps. This pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain vases has been converted into table lamps while retainin...

A Monumental signed Meiji Period Japanese Satsuma Gilt Covered Vase with raised Sea Eagle. This monumental signed Japanese Satsuma earthenware covered vase is of baluster form with ...