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Christian Dior Red Velvet Salon Mirror, Paris, 1950s
By Christian Dior
Located in St. Catharines, ON
Classic and elegant Empire-style salon mirror by Christian Dior in Paris. Covered in rich red velvet, the front is applied with neoclassical design elements in brass including rosett...
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Vintage 1950s French Empire Vanity Items
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Large Oak Box with Silver Military-style Romanov Double-headed Eagles, c 1900
Located in St. Catharines, ON
The hinged lid applied with a military Russian Tsar Alexander III-style Romanov eagle in silver above crossed cannons, (see description below), two sides applied with a smaller silve...
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20th Century Unknown Russian Empire Boxes and Cases
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Hand-carved Rutile Quartz Perfume Bottle by Abdul Zuber
Located in St. Catharines, ON
A beautiful perfume bottle or flacon, the smoky rutilated quartz tear-drop shaped body entirely hand carved in the classical manner with a spiraling design. Fitted with a rutilated q...
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Artisan Vanity Items
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Russian Nicholas I silver icon of the Tikvin Mother of God, Moscow, 1837
Located in St. Catharines, ON
A beautiful Pushkin-era silver icon depicting the Tikvin Mother of God, covered with a silver-gilt oklad, with repoussé garments, veil and applied haloes of sunburst design. The Chri...
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Antique 1830s Russian Russian Empire Figurines and Sculptures
Materials
Vermeil, Silver
Russian Brass Imperial-era Double-headed Eagle Bookend, 19th century
Located in St. Catharines, ON
A perfect addition to your imperial library, the center of this Russian brass bookend features a stylized repoussé Romanov eagle holding orb and scepter, enclosing the shield of St. ...
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Antique Late 19th Century Russian Russian Empire Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Russian Civil War Commemorative Porcelain Cup and Saucer
Located in St. Catharines, ON
Painted between 1935 and 1946 by the Dimitrov Factory near Moscow, the rare porcelain cup and saucer commemorates the Russian Civil War of 1918-21. Of high quality with crisp detail and vivid color, the front of cup depicts a detailed scene of Red Army Cavalry on patrol while the saucer features exploding artillery shells on a burgundy background enhanced with gilt scrolls.
cup 2 1/8 in. ( 5.4 cm) high; 3 1/4 in. ( 8.2 cm) diam.
By Sergei Efremovich Sazonov (1870-1944), Dmitrovsk Porcelain Manufactory. Stamped with factory mark on base of cup and saucer in Russian: Dimitrovskaia for the factory, RSFSR for Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Verbilki town outside Moscow and NKMP:-Peoples Commissariat for Local Industry. Few examples of this service, which was produced in the former Gardner Factory, appear on the market.
Literature: For a plate by the Dmitrov Factory see Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky, Revolutionary Ceramics: Soviet Porcelain...
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Mid-20th Century Russian Boxes and Cases
19th Century American Silver Love Letter Box by Meriden-Brittania
Located in St. Catharines, ON
A beautiful rectangular love letter box made of heavy gauge silver and inset with a key hole, the cover decorated with a circular raised foliate motif ...
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Antique Late 19th Century American Late Victorian Boxes and Cases
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Sterling Silver, Silver
French Tsar Nicholas I Bisque Porcelain Portrait, 19th Century
Located in St. Catharines, ON
Depicting the Russian emperor, Tsar Nicholas I (r 1825-55) in profile within a 19th century neoclassical style bronze circular frame.
French, 1825-55.
...
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Antique 19th Century French Neoclassical Figurines and Sculptures
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Brass
Russian Silver Pencil Holder, Moscow, circa 1910
Located in St. Catharines, ON
From the Romanov era period of Tsar Nicholas II, this Russian revolution survivor from Moscow is designed as a smooth silver pencil holder engrave...
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Vintage 1910s Russian Russian Empire Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver
Timofey Katurkin Russian Watercolor of Laughing Woman
Located in St. Catharines, ON
Laughing Peasant Woman
Signed in Cyrillic T. Il’ich, l.r. and inscribed To Dear A. F.Sklarevski...
Watercolor
Image size: 7 x 6 in. (17.8 x 15.2 cm.)
Framed: 18 1/2 x 17 1/4 in. (47 ...
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Early 20th Century Russian Russian Empire More Objets d'Art and Vertu
Russian Miniature Brass Samovar Set, 20th Century
Located in St. Catharines, ON
Of typical form in the Russian imperial style, a classic samovar set tooled in brass comprising a miniature brass samovar, drip bowl and tray. The samovar ...
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20th Century Russian Russian Empire Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass
1890s Russian Fabergé Imperial-era Silver Dip Pen, St. Petersburg
By Fabergé
Located in St. Catharines, ON
From the Romanov era, period of Tsar Nicholas II, the tapering cylindrical quill of rococo design, the ends decorated with scrolls, one with a reeded foliate border.
by Fabergé, workmaster Julius...
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Antique Late 19th Century Russian Rococo Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver
French Silver Niello Snuff Box, Hunting Scene, Early 19th Century
Located in St. Catharines, ON
A rare French silver nielloed snuff box featuring a mythological hunting scene on the cover within a finely detailed wooded landscape, a hound barking up a tree is being restrained by a young warrior...
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Antique 1830s French Boxes and Cases
Materials
Silver, Niello
Dutch Silver Bench and Chair Miniatures for a Doll's House, Schoonhoven, 1970s
Located in St. Catharines, ON
Dutch Silver Bench and Chair Miniatures for a Doll's House, Schoonhoven, 1970s
Two Beautiful Dutch silver miniatures comprising a classic ladder back bench...
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Vintage 1970s Dutch Models and Miniatures
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Silver
Franco-Russian Alexander III Commemorative Medallion, 1896
Located in St. Catharines, ON
In silvered bronze, a table medallion commemorating Nicholas and Alexandra’s visit to Paris to lay the first stone on the Alexander III bridge in 1896, w...
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Antique 1890s French Greek Revival Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver Plate, Bronze
Silver Trinket Box with Chinese Scene, Late 19th-Early 20th Century
Located in St. Catharines, ON
A heavy silver box with canted corners, the hinged cover in the style of an ancient traditional woodcut featuring a Chinese traveling figure or salesman w...
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Early 20th Century Anglo-Indian Boxes and Cases
Materials
Silver
1910s Russian Imperial-era Enamelled Dip Pen with Gold Nib
Located in St. Catharines, ON
A rare Russian enameled silver-gilt dip pen from the Romanov era, period of Tsar Nicholas II, of gilded silver with cloisonné enameled scrolling foliage within...
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Vintage 1910s Russian Russian Revival Desk Accessories
Materials
14k Gold, Silver, Gold, Enamel, Vermeil
1890s Russian Imperial-era Gold Dip Pen by Friedrich Köchli St. Petersburg
Located in St. Catharines, ON
From the Romanov era, period of Tsar Alexander III or Nicholas II of solid gold tapered design made by the renowned Russian imperial court jeweler, Frie...
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Antique 1890s Russian Russian Empire Desk Accessories
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14k Gold, Gold, Yellow Gold
Russian Silver Alexander II Tankard by Sazikov, St. Petersburg, 1859
By Pavel Sazikov
Located in St. Catharines, ON
From the Romanov era, period of Tsar Alexander II, the cover and sides of the trompe l'oeil silver tankard chased to simulate oak woodgrain, enhanced with horizontal polished silver gilt bands. The hinged cover has a crenelated edge surrounding a circle of dots like the rivets of an oak barrel. With curved handle and thumbpiece, with original gilded interior.
By Sazikov, with the Imperial Warrant, St. Petersburg, 1859, assaymaster Eduard Fedorovich Brandenburg, stamped with the maker's mark in full in Cyrillic.
5 ¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high including thumbpiece.
Literature: Beyond Fabergé: Imperial Russian Jewelry by Marie Betteley and David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Schiffer, 2020, page 309.
Supplier to the Imperial court and founded during the reign of Catherine the Great in the centre of Moscow, Sazikov was one of the earliest and finest silver firms in Russia. In the 1820s Sazikov introduced historicism in Russian silver by producing objects with historical motifs or imitating ancient styles. Decades before Fabergé, the firm excelled in the Style Russe...
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Antique 1850s Russian Russian Revival More Objets d'Art and Vertu
Materials
Silver
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