About B. Hester Antiques
B. Hester - Antiques & Unique Objects was founded out of a life-long appreciation for design, architecture and travel. After a decade of life abroad, our business grew from a personal passion for collecting distinctive antiques, art and textiles from Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Rather than focusing on a single region, country or era, we work to curate a diverse selection of pieces that span centuries and cultures; each chosen for its uniqueness, craftsmanship, and character. Our collection is guided by a discerning eye and a love for beautiful things that sp...Read More
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Featured Pieces
Contemporary Decoupage Glass Tray with Classical Garden and Orangery Scene
Located in Fredericksburg, TX
A rectangular glass decoupage tray featuring a detailed architectural garden scene with a grand orangery or country house, formal rows of potted trees ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Decorative Dishes and Vide...
Materials
Glass, Paper
Contemporary Decoupage Glass Tray with Antique Fishing Fly Illustrations
Located in Fredericksburg, TX
A contemporary rectangular glass decoupage tray featuring three colorful fishing flies reproduced from an antique sporting illustration. The flies are ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Materials
Glass
Contemporary Decoupage Glass Catchall Tray with Antique Fishing Ledger Motif
Located in Fredericksburg, TX
A contemporary handcrafted glass catchall tray. The decoupage design combines the image of a vintage fishing creel with script and details taken from an antique fish and game sales l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Decorative Dishes and Vide...
Materials
Glass, Paper
Vintage Southern California Poolside Painting, Signed Forte
Located in Fredericksburg, TX
A colorful vintage painting depicting a quiet residential swimming pool surrounded by flowering plants and mature landscaping. The artist concentrates on the reflections across the w...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Signed Modernist Abstract Still Life Painting on Board, Newly Framed
Located in Fredericksburg, TX
A graphic modernist abstract painting composed of overlapping geometric forms and recognizable objects, including a key and keyhole. The layered palette of turquoise, terracotta, och...
Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Paint
Unsigned Mid-Century Modern Geometric Abstract Painting on Canvas
Located in Fredericksburg, TX
Unsigned modernist abstract painting, likely dating from the mid-20th century. The composition features intersecting architectural forms rendered in deep blue, charcoal, gray, muted ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Paint
Azelio Paolini 1962 Oil on Canvas, Asian Figure with Flowering Branches
Located in Fredericksburg, TX
A striking 1962 oil on canvas by New York artist Azelio Paolini, depicting a solitary Asian figure standing before a large vessel filled with flowering branches.
Paolini was active ...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Paintings
Materials
Paint
Modernist Still Life Painting with Vessels and Geometric Forms
Located in Fredericksburg, TX
An expressive modernist still life depicting a grouping of vessels and geometric forms rendered in saturated blues, greens, ochre, violet and warm earth tones. The composition has a ...
Category
Late 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Paint
Signed Modernist Painting of the Great Sphinx and Pyramids, Dated 1984
Located in Fredericksburg, TX
A colorful modernist depiction of the Great Sphinx of Giza framed by the Egyptian pyramids. The artist constructed the scene with small, mosaic-like brushstrokes in shades of blue, s...
Category
Late 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Paint
Modernist Geometric Still Life in Pastel Chalk on Paper
Located in Fredericksburg, TX
An unsigned modernist composition executed in pastel chalk on paper. The work depicts an arrangement of cones, spheres, cubes and architectural forms rendered in deep aubergine, gray...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mid-Century Modern Still Life Oil on Canvas Signed “Parsons”
Located in Fredericksburg, TX
An original mid-century modern still life executed in oil on canvas, depicting a carefully arranged composition of geometric forms, an earthenware vessel, and natural objects set aga...
Category
Mid-20th Century Decorative Art
Materials
Paint
19th C. Northern European Carved Wood Figural Tobacco Pipe with Silver Mount
Located in Fredericksburg, TX
A charming 19th-century Northern European tobacco pipe hand-carved from richly patinated hardwood in the form of a hand grasping the pipe bowl. The bowl is fitted with an ornate silv...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Silver
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