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
Abraham Hondius, Dutch Golden Age oil on canvas of a stag hunt, 1660-80
By Abraham Hondius
Located in Chicago, IL
A Dutch Golden Age stag hunt in oil on canvas, circa 1660-80, attributed to Abraham Hondius and initialed "AH" lower left. Hounds bring the stag down at the water's edge of a wooded ...
Category
Antique Mid-17th Century Dutch Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
English Sheffield champagne bucket or wine cooler with paired tray, c. 1900-50
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage English Sheffield champagne bucket or wine cooler with paired tray dating to the first half of the twentieth century. The bowl is hand chased with repoussé fruit and flowers,...
Category
Early 20th Century British Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Sheffield Plate
Pair of cast bronze Tamil Nadu panchaloha figures of Shiva and Parvati, 1800's
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of 19th-century Tamil Nadu bronze figures of Shiva and Parvati, cast in panchaloha using the traditional lost-wax method and posed mid-dance on shallow lotus plinths. Parvati ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Indian Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bronze
English Victorian Doric column silver-plated table lamp, c. 1850-60
Located in Chicago, IL
An English silver-plated table lamp from the 1850s, built as a Doric column on a gadrooned drum plinth over a stepped circular foot. The proportions and reeded shaft follow the "Shef...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate, Nickel
8 Piece Amber Glass Decanter and Stemware Set by Phineas Dummer, Circa 1830
Located in Chicago, IL
An 1830s amber cut glass decanter and stemware set attributed to Phineas Dummer of the Jersey Glass Company, Jersey City, New Jersey. This set is cut in the paneled slice-cut style t...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American Barware
Materials
Blown Glass, Cut Glass
American Neoclassic Bird's Eye Maple Four Drawer Chest, 1820
Located in Chicago, IL
An American Neoclassic chest of drawers in bird's-eye maple, made in Philadelphia or Baltimore in the French Restoration taste, circa 1820. The case employs both solid and veneered b...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century American Neoclassical Commodes and Chests of ...
Materials
Birdseye Maple, Cherry, Poplar, Pine
Pair of English Adam-style reticulated silver-plate wine coasters, c. 1880-1920
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of English wine coasters from Sheffield, made in the Adam taste between 1880 and 1920. Each has a pierced silver-plate gallery over a copper body, worked in an interlaced oval...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century British Adam Style Tableware
Materials
Silver Plate, Copper
English Georgian cut glass mallet decanter, c. 1810
Located in Chicago, IL
An English mallet-form decanter, cut and blown in the Georgian period, circa 1810. A slice-cut lip sits above a broad swirl-cut band on the neck, narrowing to a second slice-cut band...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century British Georgian Barware
Materials
Blown Glass, Cut Glass
Danish Tonalist Seascape Oil on Canvas, Early 20th Century
Located in Chicago, IL
A Danish tonalist seascape in oil on canvas, circa 1910. A row of weathered pilings marches out into calm water, leading the eye toward a horizon where a cool gray sky meets an equal...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Pair of Barker-Ellis silverplate pear-shaped pepper castors, c. 1912
By Barker Ellis Silver Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of Barker-Ellis Silver Company pear-shaped pepper castors in Birmingham electroplate. Gadrooned rims frame the pierced, domed lids, each topped with a small ball finial, while...
Category
Vintage 1910s British Georgian Tableware
Materials
Sheffield Plate
Mayauel Ward contemporary iridescent blue blown glass vase, 2015
Located in Chicago, IL
An iridescent blown glass vase by Manhattan Beach, California glass artist Mayauel Ward. The tapered, fluted body sits on a footed base and draws in at a waisted neck before flaring ...
Category
2010s Vases
Materials
Blown Glass
Steuben Studio jade & alabaster opaline compote, c. 1920
By Steuben Glass
Located in Chicago, IL
A Steuben blown glass compote made in Corning, New York, around 1920. The wide, shallow bowl is blown in Steuben's signature jade green and set on an alabaster opaline stem and foot,...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Tableware
Materials
Blown Glass
Abraham Hondius, Dutch Golden Age oil on canvas of a stag hunt, 1660-80
By Abraham Hondius
Located in Chicago, IL
A Dutch Golden Age stag hunt in oil on canvas, circa 1660-80, attributed to Abraham Hondius and initialed "AH" lower left. Hounds bring the stag down at the water's edge of a wooded ...
Category
Antique Mid-17th Century Dutch Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
English Sheffield champagne bucket or wine cooler with paired tray, c. 1900-50
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage English Sheffield champagne bucket or wine cooler with paired tray dating to the first half of the twentieth century. The bowl is hand chased with repoussé fruit and flowers,...
Category
Early 20th Century British Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Sheffield Plate
Pair of cast bronze Tamil Nadu panchaloha figures of Shiva and Parvati, 1800's
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of 19th-century Tamil Nadu bronze figures of Shiva and Parvati, cast in panchaloha using the traditional lost-wax method and posed mid-dance on shallow lotus plinths. Parvati ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Indian Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Bronze
English Victorian Doric column silver-plated table lamp, c. 1850-60
Located in Chicago, IL
An English silver-plated table lamp from the 1850s, built as a Doric column on a gadrooned drum plinth over a stepped circular foot. The proportions and reeded shaft follow the "Shef...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Table Lamps
Materials
Silver Plate, Nickel
8 Piece Amber Glass Decanter and Stemware Set by Phineas Dummer, Circa 1830
Located in Chicago, IL
An 1830s amber cut glass decanter and stemware set attributed to Phineas Dummer of the Jersey Glass Company, Jersey City, New Jersey. This set is cut in the paneled slice-cut style t...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American Barware
Materials
Blown Glass, Cut Glass
American Neoclassic Bird's Eye Maple Four Drawer Chest, 1820
Located in Chicago, IL
An American Neoclassic chest of drawers in bird's-eye maple, made in Philadelphia or Baltimore in the French Restoration taste, circa 1820. The case employs both solid and veneered b...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century American Neoclassical Commodes and Chests of ...
Materials
Birdseye Maple, Cherry, Poplar, Pine
Pair of English Adam-style reticulated silver-plate wine coasters, c. 1880-1920
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of English wine coasters from Sheffield, made in the Adam taste between 1880 and 1920. Each has a pierced silver-plate gallery over a copper body, worked in an interlaced oval...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century British Adam Style Tableware
Materials
Silver Plate, Copper
English Georgian cut glass mallet decanter, c. 1810
Located in Chicago, IL
An English mallet-form decanter, cut and blown in the Georgian period, circa 1810. A slice-cut lip sits above a broad swirl-cut band on the neck, narrowing to a second slice-cut band...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century British Georgian Barware
Materials
Blown Glass, Cut Glass
Danish Tonalist Seascape Oil on Canvas, Early 20th Century
Located in Chicago, IL
A Danish tonalist seascape in oil on canvas, circa 1910. A row of weathered pilings marches out into calm water, leading the eye toward a horizon where a cool gray sky meets an equal...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Pair of Barker-Ellis silverplate pear-shaped pepper castors, c. 1912
By Barker Ellis Silver Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
A pair of Barker-Ellis Silver Company pear-shaped pepper castors in Birmingham electroplate. Gadrooned rims frame the pierced, domed lids, each topped with a small ball finial, while...
Category
Vintage 1910s British Georgian Tableware
Materials
Sheffield Plate
Mayauel Ward contemporary iridescent blue blown glass vase, 2015
Located in Chicago, IL
An iridescent blown glass vase by Manhattan Beach, California glass artist Mayauel Ward. The tapered, fluted body sits on a footed base and draws in at a waisted neck before flaring ...
Category
2010s Vases
Materials
Blown Glass
Steuben Studio jade & alabaster opaline compote, c. 1920
By Steuben Glass
Located in Chicago, IL
A Steuben blown glass compote made in Corning, New York, around 1920. The wide, shallow bowl is blown in Steuben's signature jade green and set on an alabaster opaline stem and foot,...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Tableware
Materials
Blown Glass