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Important Antique Italian Carved Marble Bust of a Woman, by Giovanni Dupré, 1877
By Giovanni Dupre
Located in Dallas, TX
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A wonderful interpretation of an Italian woman, this hand-carved marble bust is signed and dated “G. Dupre F. 1877”. The woman has thick, braided hair...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Busts
Materials
Stone, Marble
Antique Lidded Italian Apothecary Jar with Rampant Lions Coat of Arms, 19th C.
Located in Dallas, TX
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This lidded Italian apothecary jar dates to the 1800s. The albarello has a white ground with a coat of arms hand-painted on the front. The heraldic d...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Jars
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Paint
19th Century Italian Blue and White Armorial Albarello Jar
Located in Dallas, TX
Reminiscent of the color scheme of Delftware, this blue and white armorial albarello jar dates to the 1800s. The off white ground of the Italian jar is prominent on the verso side, w...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Jars
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Paint
Italian Blue and White Albarello Jar with Cartouche and Landscapes, 19th C
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand-painted with a pastoral landscape beneath a coat of arms, this Italian albarello jar from the 1800s has a beautiful cobalt blue and white palette. The heraldic cartouche depicts...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Jars
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Paint
Polychrome Italian Albarello Jar with Foliate Decorations, Late 19th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
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Hand-painted in Italy during the late 1800s, this polychrome albarello jar has a green ground beneath numerous foliate rinceaux in orange and white. T...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Jars
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Paint
Italian Albarello Jar with Interlacing Bands Motifs, 19th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
The interlacing band motifs on this Italian albarello jar are quite mesmerizing. Hand-painted in the 1800s, this majolica apothecary container has an arabesque of white bands, partia...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Jars
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Paint
Tall Antique Italian Blue and Yellow Lidded Albarello Pot, 19th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
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A rather tall albarello, measuring 17 inches tall, this Italian pot is adorned with symmetrical imagery of foliage. Dating to the 1800s, the lidded po...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Jars
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Paint
Antique Italian Majolica Drug Vessel, 19th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
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A rather unique albarello jar from Italy, this handled majolica drug vessel, which dates to the 1800s, has colorful, hand-painted cartouches on a white...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Jars
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Pair of 18th Century Italian Albarelli Jars
Located in Dallas, TX
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Dating to the 1700s, this pair of vibrant albarelli jars have two distinct portraits inset within ovals. The blue ground Italian jars have also been h...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Jars
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Rare Pair of Monumental French Gros Relief Barbotine Vases by Lefront Circa 1875
By Théodore Lefront 1
Located in Dallas, TX
–Ceramiques impressionistes & Gres Art Nouveau. Olivier Fanica et Gerard Boue. 2005 Massin Editeur.-
Théodore Lefront (1835-1893) was a leading maker of decorative ceramic pieces du...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Vases
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Carved Marble Vase Aux Beliers Tazza from France, Circa 1900
Located in Dallas, TX
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A beautifully detailed tazza from France (circa 1900), hand-carved in marble with a pair of rams head handles. Additional motifs include an acanthus c...
Category
Early 20th Century French Decorative Bowls
Materials
Marble
Antique Blue and White Lidded Vases from Savona, Italy, Circa 1800
Located in Dallas, TX
During the 17th through 19th centuries, highly skilled artisans in Savona, Italy, produced beautiful tin-glazed earthenware known as maiolica (majolica). These blue and white lidded vases with serpentine handles, from circa 1800, are such an example.
Early Savona offerings were painted cobalt blue on a white background, as seen on these vases. Because the scenes depicted on the main bodies are distinct, they are considered a near pair, although their dimensions do not vary. Both illustrations contain country houses surrounded by tall trees and fronted by vegetation emerging from rocky terrain. In each scene, people can be seen in front of the houses, with one having two citizens and the other having four. One of the renderings is bordered by roundels at the top and by a leafy vine at the bottom; the other vase does not have any surrounding motifs. The sides opposite the pastoral images are distinct as well: the one with the borders has curled vines surrounding the Savona Lighthouse (a production mark of studios from this region), while the other vase has the lighthouse above a pair of small foliate margents.
Both vases have domed, removable lids with a conical finial emerging from a painted sunburst. Curled leaves have been painted along the circumference above a solid blue ring. The two curvaceous handles are each comprised of a pair of snakes bound with a ribbon. Our blue and white lidded Savona vases...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Italian Vases
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Pair of 19th Century French Cast Iron Vases by Alfred Corneau de Charleville
By Alfred Corneau
Located in Dallas, TX
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This pair of cast iron French vases, which have a wonderful sky blue finish, were produced by the Corneau Foundry, led by one of its founders, Alfred C...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Vases
Materials
Metal, Iron
Antique French Black Forest Carved Inkwell with Oak Leaves and Birds, Circa 1890
Located in Dallas, TX
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Hand-carved in France, circa 1890, this Black Forest inkwell is incredibly detailed with motifs of oak leaves and a pair of birds. The two birds (a fl...
Category
Antique 1890s French Black Forest Inkwells
Materials
Glass, Wood
Small and Unique 18th Century Italian Giltwood Altar Niche on Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
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Hand-carved in Italy in the 1700s, this giltwood niche has been mounted to a painted black stand. The small altar piece is quite unique, with the teal...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Mounted Objects
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
17th Century Dutch Wooden Coat of Arms Cartouche on Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand-carved in the 1600s, this wooden coat of arms cartouche depicts an ornate crest atop a shaped console with several charges. The cartouche is Dutch, considerably predating the fo...
Category
Antique 17th Century Dutch Mounted Objects
Materials
Wood, Paint
Pair of Decorative Circa 1750 Italian Giltwood Finials
Located in Dallas, TX
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Dating to circa 1750, these decorative giltwood finials are from Italy. Each finial has a shaped console background, surrounded by volutes, curled lea...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
18th Century French Oak Sculpture of Madonna and Child
Located in Dallas, TX
Mary and Jesus, often referred to as Madonna and Child, have been the subjects of art since the 3rd century when a rendering of the duo was painted on the walls of the Roman Catacomb...
Category
Antique 18th Century French Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Oak, Paint
Pair of 19th Century Painted Cast Iron Planter Vases from France
Located in Dallas, TX
Originally from France, this pair of cast iron vases would make wonderful planters for either inside or outdoors. The vases, which date to the 1800s, have been painted white; however...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Metal, Iron
18th Century French Pot Feu Finial in Carved Oak
Located in Dallas, TX
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Hand-carved in oak during the 1700s, this French pot feu finial has immense character. The wood has been bleached more recently, leaving the wood gray...
Category
Antique 18th Century French Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Oak
18th Carved Belgian Granite Roof Finial on Contemporary Wooden Plinth
Located in Dallas, TX
Originally an architectural for the roof of a Belgian building, this granite finial dates to the 1700s. The foliate finial has deep carvings, making it presentable from all sides. La...
Category
Antique 18th Century Belgian Mounted Objects
Materials
Stone, Granite
Chateau Villaret French Antique Champagne Barrel or Planter, Circa 1920s
Located in Dallas, TX
Wooden barrels similar to this one from circa the 1920s were often used at vineyards to store picked grapes. Typically, workers would gather grapes from the vineyard in a metal bin t...
Category
Vintage 1920s French Decorative Baskets
Materials
Metal, Iron
Pair of Antique French Bronze Mounted Gros Relief Barbotine Vases, Circa 1880
Located in Dallas, TX
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Dating to circa 1880, these wonderful French barbotine vases have bronze mounts, inspired by the visual stylings of Japonisme. The hand-painted vases ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Japonisme Vases
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Antique French Blue Ground Barbotine Cachepot in the Style of Montigny, C. 1900
Located in Dallas, TX
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A beautiful French cachepot, hand-painted circa 1900 with a sky blue ground beneath multiple flowering plants. Reminiscent of barbotines from the Mont...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Pair of Small French Empire Giltwood Busts, Circa 1815
Located in Dallas, TX
During the period of French history known as the Empire style, design reflected Napoleon’s belief that ancient civilizations (such as Greece, Rome, and Egypt) were the only societies...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Busts
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
19th Century Spanish Bronze Apothecary Mortar and Pestle with Dog Head Handles
Located in Dallas, TX
This unique bronze mortar and pestle would have been used in a Spanish apothecary during the 1800s. A pair of downward facing dogs serve as handles that extend well beyond the main b...
Category
Antique 19th Century Spanish Decorative Bowls
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Pair of 16th Century Italian Renaissance Carved Wooden Lion Supports
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand-carved in the 1500s, these Italian lion supports are the work of a master-level craftsman. It is possible that they were originally legs for a High Renaissance cassone. A fresh ...
Category
Antique 16th Century Italian Renaissance Animal Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Pair of 18th Century Silvered Red Copper Candlesticks from France
Located in Dallas, TX
At over three feet tall, this pair of silvered copper candlesticks would make impressive decorative accessories. Dating to the 1700s, these French candlesticks have a unique patinati...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century French Louis XIV Candlesticks
Materials
Metal, Copper
Rare 17th Century French Repousse Copper Water Fountain
Located in Dallas, TX
Based on the exquisite detailing and brass embellishments, this rare copper water fountain would have most likely belonged to a wealthy French family in the 1600s. While not a founta...
Category
Antique 17th Century French Bottles
Materials
Metal, Brass, Copper
Pair of Italian Creamware 2-Piece Topiary Fruit Bowls
Located in Dallas, TX
A very realistic rendering of a tower of fruit, this pair of creamware topiaries was produced in Italy during the mid-1900s. Creamware is a type of...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Decorative Bowls
Materials
Creamware
Pair of 16th Century Carved Wooden Terms or Beam Supports from Northern Europe
Located in Dallas, TX
A fascinating bit of history, this pair of carved wooden terms dates to the High Renaissance during the 1500s. A term is a beam support in the form of a human head where the bust con...
Category
Antique 16th Century European Renaissance Busts
Materials
Metal, Iron
Pair of Vintage Italian Grape Cluster Creamware Bowls
Located in Dallas, TX
Creamware, which is earthenware with a lead glaze over a pale body that results in a pleasing cream color, are beautiful decorative accessories that can be paired with just about any...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Earthenware, Creamware
Heavily Worked 19th C. French Brass Jardiniere with Paw Feet and Cherub Handles
Located in Dallas, TX
Virtually no section of this French brass jardiniere is unadorned, with vivid images inspired by items found in nature (such as paw feet) and mythology (genii and cherubs). The heavi...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Metal, Brass
Small Antique Greek Terra Cotta Jar
Located in Dallas, TX
A small pithos (a Greek storage container), this terra cotta jar has well-balanced proportions, with a thin protruding ring just above the widest part of the body. The opening has a lightly rolled rim, adding to the rounded form of the jar. It has a wonderful chalky white finish, with some commensurate losses revealing traces of the original orange hue of the terra cotta, along with areas containing a cream and brown patina. The variegated color enhances the character of this small jar that was once used to store oil or grains. Dating to the early 1900s, our Greek terra cotta...
Category
Early 20th Century Greek Jars
Materials
Terracotta, Paint
Antique Red Painted French Wine Hotte from the Haute-Garonne
Located in Dallas, TX
Wine hottes were used during the 19th and early 20th centuries for collecting grapes at French vineyards. The vineyard employee would attach the hotte to his/her back (see the last d...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Decorative Baskets
Materials
Metal
Antique Tall Silvery-Green Painted French Wine Hotte, Chateauneuf-du-Pape
Located in Dallas, TX
Wine hottes were used during the 19th and early 20th centuries for collecting grapes at French vineyards. The vineyard employee would attach the hotte to his/her back (see the last d...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Decorative Baskets
Materials
Metal
Small Italian Limestone Bas Relief Plaque, Crinkled Ribbon and Fruit Carvings
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand-carved in Italy, this small limestone plaque depicts a bas-relief display of flowers, fruit, and leaves accompanied by a crinkled ribbon bow. The ends of the ribbon gracefully t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone, Limestone
Italian Bas Relief Plaque of a Grape Vine in Carved Limestone
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand-carved in Italy, this limestone plaque depicts a bas-relief display of grape clusters hanging from a vine with large leaves. Presented horizontally, the vine stretches almost the entire length of the rectangular plaque. The gray limestone has developed a wonderful, mottled patina with elements of black, white, and gold. Our bas relief plaque...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone, Limestone
Pair of Tall 18th Century Silvered Brass Candlesticks from France
Located in Dallas, TX
At over three feet tall, this pair of silvered brass candlesticks would make impressive decorative accessories or light sources. Dating to the 1700s, these French candlesticks have a...
Category
Antique 18th Century French Candlesticks
Materials
Metal, Brass
A Mounted 17th Century Cut Brass Bassinoire Cover from France
Located in Dallas, TX
This highly pierced brass decorative element from France was originally the cover of a bassinoire from the 1600s. A bassinoire is a device where hot coals are inserted into a vented ...
Category
Antique 17th Century French Mounted Objects
Materials
Metal, Brass
17th Century Wooden Maritime Carving from Amsterdam
Located in Dallas, TX
Dating to the 1600s, this wooden maritime carving from Amsterdam features a pair of asymmetrical dolphins with foliate tails. Interestingly, both dolphins have been carved in the vei...
Category
Antique 17th Century Dutch Animal Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Highly Detailed French Gilt Bronze and Glass Centerpiece Jardiniere, Circa 1885
Located in Dallas, TX
Dating to circa 1885, the amount of detail on this French gilt bronze and glass jardiniere is quite amazing. The result is a beautiful, pierced oval main body that is topped by a hig...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Decorative Bowls
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Pair of Unusual 19th Century French Bronze Tazzas, Décor Panthère
Located in Dallas, TX
A tazza is a wide, yet shallow, stemmed vessel, often used as a cup. Perhaps the most famous tazza is the Egyptian Farnese Tazza (on display in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Na...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Decorative Bowls
Materials
Stone, Metal, Bronze
Large Antique French Bronze Sculpture, Bellowing Stag, Doe, and Fawn, Late 1800s
By Clovis Edmond Masson
Located in Dallas, TX
This large French bronze sculpture depicts a family of deer traversing across a rocky terrain dotted with flowers. Sculpted in the late 1800s by Clovis-Edmond Masson, the sculpture has fantastic movement, as all three deer are depicted in full stride, with their hooves off the ground. The largest of the group is a stag with a wide antler spread and detailed musculature. To the stag’s left is a doe looking back towards a fawn, who is looking up at the stag. The sculpture has a rich, green-brown patination with areas that have retained the gold of the bronze. Behind the doe are two engravings: “C. Masson” and “Salon des Beaux-Arts”, indicating that the sculpture is the work of Clovis-Edmond Masson and was exhibited at the Paris Salon (the original).
Clovis-Edmond Masson was born in Paris in 1838 and specialized in sculptures that accurately depicted animal behavior. Masson exhibited at the Salon regularly from 1867-1881, placing this sculpture in that time frame. The most famous work by Masson was commissioned by Rama V...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Animal Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Pair of Early 1900's French Pine Candlesticks with Fleur De Lys Relief Carvings
Located in Dallas, TX
The pine wood of these French candlesticks has a beautiful satiny brown patina with darkened grains that truly stand out. Hand-carved in the early 1900s, the candlesticks have a trip...
Category
Early 20th Century French Candlesticks
Materials
Metal, Iron
Small 17th Century Oak Carved Bust from France
Located in Dallas, TX
A small oak bust, dating to the 1600s, this well-carved wooden statue hails from France. Depicting an unknown religious figure, the sculpture has a deep rich brown patina, enhancing ...
Category
Antique 17th Century French Busts
Materials
Wood, Oak
18th Century Bell Shaped French Bronze Mortar with Pestle, Inscribed PE AMET
Located in Dallas, TX
Mortars, such as this bell-shaped bronze one from the 1700s, were used in kitchens of grand chateaux in France. They could also be found in apothecaries, where pharmacists would use ...
Category
Antique 18th Century French Decorative Bowls
Materials
Metal, Bronze
A Pair of Large Carved Limestone Horses from Veneto, Italy
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand-carved in Veneto, Italy, this pair of limestone horses are sculptures in the round, meaning that they can be viewed from any angle. Although the c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Animal Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Limestone
Pair of Antique French Burlwood Hunt Plaques, Early 1900s
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand-carved in France during the early 1900s, this pair of hunt plaques feature raised game carvings on each panel, backed by luxurious reddish-brown burlwood with intense graining. ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Animal Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Burl
Pair of C. 1880 French Louis XVI Style Carved Marble and Gilt Bronze Cassolettes
Located in Dallas, TX
Although the origin of cassolettes can be traced back to ancient Europe and Asia, it was not until the late 18th century that cassolettes began to develop the urn-like form seen on t...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Urns
Materials
Stone, Marble, Metal, Bronze
Antique Italian Wooden Bust of Apollo Belvedere, 19th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
After the famous Apollo Belvedere marble statue (dating to Rome, mid-2nd century), this wooden bust of the Roman/Greek god was hand-carved in Italy during the 1800s. The marble is it...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Busts
Materials
Wood
19th Century Circular French Brass Jardiniere with Lions and Paw Feet
Located in Dallas, TX
This circular French brass jardiniere from the 1800s was crafted using both repousse and chasing techniques. Repousse elements are hammered from the verso side, while the chased moti...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Metal, Brass
Pair of 18th Century Carved Wooden Winged Cherubs from Italy
Located in Dallas, TX
Originally from 18th-century Italy, this pair of winged cherubs were hand-carved from wood as reflections of each other, meaning that their bodies are orientated as mirror images. Bo...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
Antique Painted Table Coffer, Dated 1915
Located in Dallas, TX
A rather unique painted chest from Europe, this table coffer was commissioned in 1915. The right side (when viewing from the front) is dated, with the numbers flanking a springing ra...
Category
Early 20th Century European Renaissance Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Paint
Circa 1800 French Copper 2-Handled Vase with Chariot and Cartouche
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand-worked circa 1800, this French vase is adorned with a chariot and cartouche scene. Some of the elements were hammered from the front side, in a metalworking technique known as chasing, while other motifs were worked from the verso side, which is known as repousse. It is not uncommon for the two methods to be used in tandem, and the work of this particular artisan is top notch.
The 5 ¾ diameter opening is flanked by two flared out handles that terminate on the widest part of the main body. A flowing foliate margent (repousse) adorns the top of the body, beneath the lightly textured thick neck (chased). The leaf theme continues beneath a thin ring of roundels that frames the upper body, with a sprawling foliage display that wraps around the lower body, interrupted by a pair of cartouches. One scene depicts a man in a toga with a laurel wreath crown...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Vases
Materials
Metal, Copper
A Tall 19th Century Carved and Lacquered Wooden Urn from Florence Italy
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand-carved in Florence, Italy, in the 1800s, this tall wooden urn has been finished with a white lacquer and golden elements inspired by nature. A golden fruit bouquet arises from t...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Urns
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Paint
Heavy 16th Century French Bronze Mortar with Handles, Dated 1587, 109 lbs
Located in Dallas, TX
A large and heavy (it weighs 109 lbs!) example of a traditional French pharmacy bowl, this bronze mortar with handles is from 1587, as seen on the production date beneath the molded ...
Category
Antique 16th Century French Renaissance Decorative Bowls
Materials
Metal, Bronze
A Tall and Slender Antique Hand Painted Italian Majolica Ewer, Naples Circa 1870
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed on the underside by Gaetano Battaglia of Manifattura Battaglia, this tall hand-painted majolica ewer originates from Naples, Italy, circa 1870. Known as an istoriato (loosely ...
Category
Antique 1870s Italian Renaissance Vases
Materials
Majolica, Paint
A Grand French Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Urn, Circa 1860
Located in Dallas, TX
A beautiful Louis XVI-style urn from France, circa 1860, this grand gilt bronze decorative accessory has been mounted on a square white marble with light cream accents. The main body...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Urns
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Pair of 18th Century French Gilt Bronze Candlesticks
Located in Dallas, TX
Cast in France during the 1700s, this pair of gilt bronze candlesticks feature highly contoured and curved bases are mirrored by the recessed lobes that embellish the shafts and capi...
Category
Antique 18th Century French Louis XIV Candlesticks
Materials
Bronze
