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King Richard the Lionheart Porcelain Staffordshire Pottery Statue Figurine
By Staffordshire
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A Staffordshire figure of King Richard the Lionheart, 19th Century, modelled standing with a flag, in his armour and crown featuring gilded decorations, on an oval gilt-line plinth b...
Category
Early 20th Century British Late Victorian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Victorian style Antique Florist Etched Crystal Glass Footed Vase
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Beautiful Late Victorian Style tall crystal etched vase, with no chips, and no cracks, just some scratches to the underside of base from normal uses. Age and Manufacturer are unknown.
Category
Vintage 1920s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
Mid-Century Japanese Nambu Cast Ironware Flounder Fish Dish Trinket Paperweight
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A rare and uncommon piece of Nambu Cast Iron Serving Ware. It was design by Goro Mori, shaped like a flounder fish, made in the Iwate Prefecture of Japan. Mori's was a contemporary o...
Category
Vintage 1950s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Materials
Iron
1960s Ettore Sottsass Volcanic Glaze Pottery Vase Raymor Bitossi Italy Memphis
By Bitossi
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Ettore Sottsass designed double volcanic glazed dipped ceramic vase. Produced by Bitossi/Raymor of Italy. The ceramic vase has no handling damages, and no chips, no cracks. It is ...
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
1950s Organic Design Vase by Minnie Negoro Japanese Female Alfred Noguchi Jouve
Located in Hyattsville, MD
The stoneware has a satin warm grey over brown glaze. Incised to bottom, "COLLEGE of CERAMICS, alfred M. Negoro." The piece is in very good condition with no chips or cracks. Has imperfection under glaze/or in glaze on the top on rim, but not rough to touch.
MINNIE NEGORO...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Stoneware
19th Century Lucky Horseshoes Cigar Humidor Blackened Wood Brass Tin Lined
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Presented in unrestored condition a 19th century survivor, a Cerused Oak Cigar Humidor with Brass Script & 4 Horseshoe Adornments, Original Working Lock and Skeleton Key. Tin Lined ...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American High Victorian Snuff Boxes and Tobacco...
Materials
Wood
1880s Decorated Salt Glaze Stoneware Jug Stamped 1 MILLER & WOODARD STRASBURG VA
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Nice old decorated salt glaze stoneware jug stamped 1 MILLER & WOODARD STRASBURG VA. There are chips and cracks present, and pictured. "1" gallon capacity mark, cylindrical form with...
Category
Antique 1880s American Folk Art Jars
Materials
Stoneware
Antique French Colonial Style Candle Sconces Pair
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Repair to right sconce, right side candle socket. Wax remnants on both sconces. The 4 old candles that were procured with these, that are shown in the images are included.
Each sco...
Category
Antique 19th Century American American Colonial Candle Sconces
Materials
Metal
Undulating Op Art W.German Ceramic Flower Vase Vintage Mid-Century Psychedelic
By Verner Panton
Located in Hyattsville, MD
1970s Scheurich W.German Pottery. One of their most popular designs. No chip, no cracks.
Category
Vintage 1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Rare 1980s Robert Berks Sculpture of Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award RFK Bust
By Robert Berks
Located in Hyattsville, MD
This version/size of RFK by Robert Berks is only created to be the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism since 1968. The Robert F. Kennedy human rights award is in dem...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Mid-Century Modern Busts
Materials
Resin
Salt Glaze Cobalt Stoneware Pottery Jar Double Wreath Banner Decorated Crock
Located in Hyattsville, MD
About the size of a cookie jar, we have an unmarked salt glaze stoneware jar with double wreath banners. This creates an empty frame, perhaps where an advertisement, or producers de...
Category
Antique 19th Century American American Craftsman Jars
Materials
Clay
George Nelson Safety Number Lucite Ruler Graphical Mid-Century Vintage 1960s
By George Nelson
Located in Hyattsville, MD
USA, c.1960s. George Nelson & Associates design attributed Lucite Ruler from the SAFETY NUMBERS Graphic Design + Clock Series for Howard Miller. Unsigned.
The ruler is about 13 inch...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Lucite
Antique Brass Centerpiece Jambati Tibetan Singing Bowl
By Ronald Pearson
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Large and Heavy Antique Bowl, nice compliment to darker wood furnishings.
Category
20th Century Tibetan Tibetan Decorative Bowls
Materials
Brass
1950s Hotel Concierge Desk Bell Brass + Rhinestone Turtle by Boj, Eibar Spain
By Boj Eiber
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Rhinestone Turtle Concierge Brass Service Bell. A very unusual and rare mid-20th century Toledo gilt tortoise bell, covered in sparkling paste diamonds. Manufactured by BOJ of Eibar,...
Category
Vintage 1950s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Materials
Brass
1970s Patinated Brass Ashtray Table Sculpture Mid-Century American Design
By Arnaldo Pomodoro, Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Similar to the ubiquitous Art Deco black bakelite ashtrays designs prevalent in American Diners and Bowling Alleys of the early Twentieth Century.
The bottom is rounded like a coco...
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Brass
1950s Gold Gilt Lanyard Vanity Trash Can Vintage Mid-Century Perforated Braided
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Estate fresh, very bright gilt finish. Heavy trash can at almost 7 pounds.
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Hollywood Regency Decorative Baskets
Materials
Metal
Red Eye Orb Cendese AB Murano Paperweight Mid-Century Eyeball Iris Sculpture
By Venini, Vintage Murano Gallery
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Wonderful, minimalist design reminescent of Caliari Venini Inciso Art Glass Cubes.
This one has a red sphere inside a sky blue and clear larger orb. It retains both, 'Made in Italy,' and the Murano Cendese...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Art Glass
1950s Japanese Owl Sculptures Brutalist Metalsmith Birds Black Iron like Noguchi
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Designed by an unknown Japanese craftsman. A pair of heavy welded bookends, minimalist in design and creation. Forged belt of thick metal bent to create a 3D abstract bird form. Some...
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Antique Eastern Copper Hearth Ash Can Fireplace Bucket Crafted Moorish Design
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Old Copper Bucket procured from Pakistan.
Category
20th Century Pakistani Anglo-Indian Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Copper
1960s Mexican Terracotta Face Planter Vintage Mid-Century Figural Fun Pot
By Edwin and Mary Scheier
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Rings true, meaning there is not a crack through the body of the vessel. There are two chips, pictured.
Dia 8 x H 7.25 in
Category
Vintage 1960s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Planters, Cachepots and Jardini...
Materials
Terracotta
Hooded Madonna + Jesus Bust Sculpture Bookends Gino Ruggeri Bianchi Mid-Century
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Gino Ruggeri Bianchi
Rare hard to find versions of the Hooded Madonna and Jesus with translucent resin cloaks, opaque resin figures, on black resin bases. Sold as a pair.
Each Sculpt...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Busts
Materials
Resin
Vintage Tall Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Vase Fighting Dragons Flaming Pearl
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Magnificent hand-crafted Chinese Cloisonné vase, very tall with facing Dragons, from a time capsule estate in Washington D.C. 14 1/2 Inches tall and so highly detailed it is sure to...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Vases
Materials
Copper
1960s Rosewood Wastebasket + Aluminum Sleeve Martin Aberg Rainbow Trash Can Bin
By Martin Åberg
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Extremely rare rosewood office waste basket with metal removable sleeve by Martin Aberg for Rainbow Servex of Sweden.
Category
Vintage 1960s Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Aluminum
Rare Toni Hambleton Sculpture Edition Series Puerto Rico Artist
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Toni Hambleton is a Mexican born artist living most of her adult life in Puerto Rico. She is known for her architectural and wall mounted pieces. This piece was done for a 2007 Gala...
Category
Early 2000s Puerto Rican Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Large Skohg River Stone Sterling Overlay Flower Paperweight Sweden Gustavsberg
Located in Hyattsville, MD
This is a largest Skohg stone with have ever had, its wonderful!
4.75 x 4 x 1.63 in
1 lb 9 oz
Category
Vintage 1950s Natural Specimens
Materials
Stone, Sterling Silver
Deep Blue Bowl Footed Ashtray Vintage Mid-Century Cigar like Seguso Orrefors
By Seguso
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Heavy bowl. Slighly Footed pedestal base in the form. Showing some light wear to edges and bottom, pictured. Unknown maker, unsigned, but possibly Italian. High quality, and Estate F...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Scandinavian Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Glass
1960s George Nelson Ruler from the SAFETY NUMBERS Graphic Design + Clock Series
By George Nelson
Located in Hyattsville, MD
USA, c.1960s. George Nelson & Associates design attributed Lucite Ruler from the SAFETY NUMBERS Graphic Design + Clock Series for Howard Miller. Unsigned....
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Desk Sets
Materials
Lucite
Big Inch Art Deco Tape Dispenser Large Footed Streamlined Tear Drop Atomic Era
By (after) Raymond Loewy
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A wonderful throwback from the pre-Atomic Era. We have never seen one of these before, extremely over built shop tape dispenser. Came out of an old very dormant QBC Print Shop in Vi...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Paperweights
Materials
Metal
1960s Kenyan Zebra Wooden Sculpture Wall Hanging Relief Whimsical Fluffy Horse
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Wonderful Mid-Century Kenyan Wall Hanging Sculpture of a Zebra. Good size and well done. Not signed.
Category
Vintage 1960s Kenyan Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Letter Tray Desk Organizer Rosewood Danish Desktop Georg Petersen Mobelfabrik
By Georg Petersens Møbelfabrik
Located in Hyattsville, MD
This is the early production Selectform model, designed and made by Georg Petersen Mobelfabrik A/S. This example retains the Georg Petersens Mobelfabrik A/S label and Danish Furnitu...
Category
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Desk Sets
Materials
Rosewood
Japanese Stoneware Willow Bow Vase Bottle Vintage Mid-Century 1960s Rainbow
By Otagiri Company
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Large Bottle form Vase with arcing striations. Retains OMC label. A couple small chips to bottom foot/rim.
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Planters, Cachepots and Jardin...
Materials
Ceramic
Japanese Stoneware Ikebana Footed Planter Vintage Mid-Century 1960s Bonsai
By Otagiri Company
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Small stoneware planter. Two glaze chips or loss, one on each rectangular foot, quite small, pictured. Retains partial label.
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Planters, Cachepots and Jardin...
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Balsa Wood and Tin Lined Tea Box Workshop Prop Decor Storage
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Vintage balsa wood, and tin lined lidded tea box, retaining partial labels.
Category
Vintage 1950s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Tea Caddies
Materials
Wood, Paper
Modernist Abstract Sword Copper Plated Brass Letter Opener like Carl Aubock
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Honest time worn age. Heavy wear and patina to plating letter opener, beautiful understated piece. This was definitely the estate owners go to desktop tool. A bit over 8 inches lon...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Letter Openers
Materials
Brass
1960s Japanese Bird Stork Metal Table Sculpture Vintage Mid-Century Modernist
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Japanese Cast metal bird.
W 2.5 x D 4.5 x H 2.5 in
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Materials
Metal
7 Railroad Track Sign Symbol Steel Enamel Abstract Table Sculptures Vintage
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Square W 2 x H 2.5 in
Diamond W 3.75 x H 2.75 in
Category
Vintage 1950s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
1960s Vintage Stoneware Owl Totem Vase Vintage Mid-Century Modern
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Cool, abstracted Owl, bird motif vase. 6 inches high.
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Art Deco Mushroom Snuff Cannister Collection Brass Polka Dot Austria Argentor
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck, Argentor of Vienna
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A collection of 7 mushrooms, red and black. Make for a wonderful display of old world metalsmith technics. Lids can be taken off and designed to set flat on a table surface, to be used as ashtrays.
Large...
Category
Vintage 1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Jars
Materials
Brass
Mid-Century SPV Denmark for Raymor Pewter Salt Pepper Shakers
By Paul Evans
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Patinated Pyramid Salt and Pepper Vessels. Design is attributed to Paul Evans.
W 2 x 15/16 x 2 in
W 1.5 x 15/16 x 3 in
Category
Vintage 1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Pewter
Vintage Cigarette Box Red Polkadot Art Deco Werkstatte Argentor Vienna Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck, Bauhaus
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Stamped into coin shaped feet, 273 and, Made in Austria. Chips to paint, tarnish to brass, oxidation to lid surface. Functioning properly.
W 4 x D 3 x H 1.5 in.
Category
Vintage 1930s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Metal
1960s Dolomite Mushroom Art Glass Footed Ashtray Vintage Italian Mid-Century Era
By Sergio Asti
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Wonderful footed heavy art glass footed cigar / cigarette ashtray / dish. No chips, No cracks. Unsigned, Estimated Age and Origin.
Dia 6 5/8 x H 5 1/...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Scandinavian Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass
1960s XL Tapio Wirkkala Vase Rosenthal Cogwheel Flower Centerpiece Alvar Aalto
By Tapio Wirkkala
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Very rave in this massive size, but is chipped on top rim.
Category
Vintage 1960s German Scandinavian Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Mid-Century Organic Heart-Shaped Wenge Bowl Unknown Craftsman AD Vintage 1950s
By Emil Milan
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Three stress cracks through the hardwood, which appears to be Wenge. Wonderful organic form. No movement the cracks are all tight.
W 13 x D 10 x H 3.25 in.
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Wood
Love Collaboration William Hullow + Isabella Parks Earthtone Geometric Slab Vase
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Wonderful five spouted slab vase from two famous listed ceramicists / artists. Who were know to be romantically involved, and collaborated on works occasionally.
No chips and no ha...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Stoneware
1700s Colonial Hand-Forged Strongbox Verdigris Green Jewelry Table Chest Safe
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Hand Wrought Lock Box. Beautiful patina. Painted inside with date, which is after the original creation date.
Box W 13.25 x D 10 x H 10 in.
Key L 4 in.
Category
Antique 1770s American American Colonial Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
1940s Lourdes Siphon Seltzer Soda Bottle Collection Colorful Glass Vintage Decor
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A beautiful very old Lourdes Argentinian seltzer bottle collection. Very colorful, even with a pink one, which is a color we have never seen. These are Sold as Non-Function for decor...
Category
Vintage 1940s Argentine Art Deco Bottles
Materials
Glass
Rare Victorian Bronze Biomorphic Paperweight Addams Family Style Hand Sculpture
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Wonderful and extremely rare 19th century office relic with a cheeky message; Hands off! Private papers." Reminiscent of the odd fellows Victorian Era designs, unknown maker or desig...
Category
Antique 19th Century American Late Victorian Paperweights
Materials
Bronze
Mid-Century Artisan Striped Cane Bottle Decanters like Gio Ponti for Venini
By Gio Ponti
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Unknown design/maker, unsigned, possibly Murano.
An amazing pair of hand-blown art glass bottles with matching stoppers. Thin walled, striping all through botles and the stoppers. ...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Bottles
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
19th Century European Black Lacquered Chinoserie Painted Tea/Tobacco Caddy Jar
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A large English lacquered papier-mâché container from the Aesthetic Movement period, featuring a decorative chinoserie painting of stylized Asian figures, pagodas, and a garden bridg...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Decorative Boxes
Materials
Papercord
Bronze Foot an Early Example from the Carl Aubock Workshop Sculpture Paperweight
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Marked, "MADE IN AUSTRIA" We are assume this is an earlier version of the, 'Best Foot Forward' desktop paperweight. Wonderful patina, presented in as found condition.
Category
Vintage 1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Fantastic Orb Centerpiece Bowl Copper Table Sculpture Alien Jensen
By Nambe
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Uncommon and Striking Large heavy copper toned divided serving dish or sculptural centerpiece. Engraved signature to bottom.
Category
Early 2000s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Metal
Antique Baccarat Concentric Millefiori Signed Glass Paperweight
By Baccarat
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A magnificent c.1950s Baccarat Five Row Concentric Close-Packed Millefiori Paperweight. The base features the acid etched post-war Baccarat mark. Large and showy with great bright co...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Glass
1950s Vintage Cleo Hartwig Female Nude Form Mid-Century Chalkware Sculpture
By Cleo Hartwig
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Extremely uncommon Cleo Hartwig slip-cast chalkware sculpture of the female body. Very distressed finish. Signed in mold, C.HARTWIG
Measures: W ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Plaster
Architectural Assemblage Still Life Bronze Welded Wall Sculpture Found Object
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Original, Contemporary and one of a kind wall sculpture. A still life study in color, form, composition and texture. A bronze panel, oxidi...
Category
Early 2000s American Industrial Mounted Objects
Materials
Bronze
1900s Clerks Industrial Wire Tin Map Architectural Drawings Bin Basket Trash Can
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Rare very tall wire form basket, impressed with manufacturers markings and patent dates, 1904-1914 on bottom copper pan.
Top Dia: 14 in.
Bottom Dia 10 in.
Height 23 13/16 in.
Category
Vintage 1910s American Industrial Decorative Baskets
Materials
Copper, Wire
1890s Tiffany Sterling Centerpiece "T" Fruit Bowl Victorian Feather Leaf Motif
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Impressive 19th C. Tiffany and Co sterling silver quad-footed fruit bowl with feather or leaf handles. Stamped with the "T" mark indicating the date of manufacture between 1891-1902....
Category
Antique 1890s American Late Victorian Decorative Bowls
Materials
Sterling Silver
1950s John Power Son Whiskey Dublin Liquor Store Display Bottle Jeroboam
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Rare 1950s still pot whiskey bottle produced in the Lane Distillery, which was closed in 1975 . It is a about the size of a Jeroboam wine bottle or Double Magnum. Approx. 3 Liters (...
Category
Vintage 1950s Northern Irish Mid-Century Modern Bottles
Materials
Glass
Tony Paul for Raymor Fruit Bowl Wire Mesh Centerpiece Basket, 1950s
By Sol Bloom
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Tony Paul design for Raymor circa 1954-55 Raymor product number W-212 referenced in the 1954-55 Raymor Catalog reproduced in Raymor: Modern in the Tradition of Good Taste by Michael ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Baskets
Materials
Steel
1920s Art Deco Stylized Native American Indian Vintage Table Sculpture
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Most-likely was a route 66 touring souvenir from somewhere in the old west. Almost geometric in its simplicity, and stylization. Poured red stone marbilite. Showing wear, and smal...
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Busts
Materials
Resin
Murano Parachute Latticino Ribbon Glass Bowl Centerpiece Italy
By Murano 5, Gio Ponti
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Murano Filigrana Italian Art Glass, good size tapering top, bowl. No damage.
Mouth diameter 5.35 in.
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Materials
Art Glass