About Brontosaurus
Old bones. New eye. Brontosaurus is the new project from Justin Corbett, a second generation antique and art dealer whose family has been in the business for over fifty years. Justin's eye was shaped early among classical American, English, and European antiques, then sharpened across careers in fashion design and fine art fabrication - disciplines that taught him to judge craft, proportion, and material on their own terms, whether a piece is two hundred years old or made yesterday. For decades, paleontologists insisted the Brontosaurus wasn't real, a skeleton misclass...Read More
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Featured Pieces
American Empire rosewood piano stool, c. 1830
Located in Chicago, IL
An Empire piano stool made in Boston around 1830, its octagonal seat set on a fluted, tapering rosewood pedestal. The column narrows into a trefoil platform base on turned, suppresse...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century American American Empire Stools
Materials
Upholstery, Rosewood, Pine
Vintage American rag rug with bound edges, c. 1850-1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A 19th-century American rag rug, hand loomed in two panels and finished with bound tan edges. Repeating bands of raspberry, blue, tan, and black run the length of the rug, with thin ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Shaker Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Pair of French hand-colored theatrical engravings, c. 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of French hand-colored copperplate theatrical engravings, each capturing a costumed actor in a named vaudeville role. Both carry the printed publisher's imprint of Martinet, P...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Prints
Materials
Paper
English Queen Anne walnut flip top concertina game table, 1720
Located in Chicago, IL
A rare small scaled Queen Anne flip top concertina action game table in walnut and book matched and figured walnut veneers. The gaming surface is designed with lieu pockets, turreted...
Category
Antique 1720s British Queen Anne Game Tables
Materials
Baize, Oak, Walnut
English silvered copper and brass pulpit lamp, c. 1835
Located in Chicago, IL
An English pulpit lamp in silvered copper and brass, wired for electric use. The pulpit lamp was built as a paired candle-form fixture with spring-loaded ejector shafts rising to a f...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate, Copper
British officer’s trunk in mahogany and brass, c. 1830
Located in Chicago, IL
British officers foot locker in mahogany with brass strap reinforcements and an exceptionally thick, reinforced lid. The brass plate above the lock on the face of the trunk is engrav...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Trunks and Luggage
Materials
Brass
Upper Connecticut Valley Hitchcock turtle back rush seat side chair, c. 1820-30
Located in Chicago, IL
A single Upper Connecticut Valley side chair in the Hitchcock style, with a turtle-back crest above a woven rush seat. The oval back splat carries a gilt and bronze powder stencil d...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Side Chairs
Materials
Rush, Wood
Tornowiec attributed amber blown glass vase, c. 1950-60
Located in Chicago, IL
A blown amber art glass vase, attributed to Tarnowiec. A rolled, flared rim tops a waisted neck that opens into a tapered, ovoid body. The glass warms toward gold at the shoulder, se...
Category
Mid-20th Century Polish Vases
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
New York Neoclassic mahogany wash stand, c. 1825-30
Located in Chicago, IL
A New York Neoclassic wash stand in mahogany, circa 1825–30, with a bowed basin shelf set on a conforming apron and scroll-cut splash. Dramatically carved "S" scrolls support the fro...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century American Neoclassical Tables
Materials
Brass
English Regency mahogany ram's horn armchair, 1820
Located in Chicago, IL
English Regency period ram’s horn arm chair on sabre legs. The chair back has a rectangular concave crest rail morticed between the upper leg posts and over a horizontal back rail. T...
Category
Antique 1820s English Regency Armchairs
Materials
Brass
Chinese betrothal basket with cover, c. 1880-1910
Located in Chicago, IL
Painstaking hand woven, dyed, and detailed Chinese bamboo betrothal basket with cover. The basket shape is round bowl form on an integrated base, and the thick bamboo rim is fitted w...
Category
Antique 1890s Chinese Decorative Baskets
Materials
Bamboo
Balinese carved Klungkung wood bust lamps, 1920-40
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of Balinese carved hardwood bust lamps, circa 1920-1940, depicting a man and a woman in formal traditional dress. The male figure wears a carved ornament tucked into the sash ...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Table Lamps
Materials
Coral
