Quintessential Things

Pair of Satsuma style hand painted porcelain table lamps with scenes depicting birds and peonies

This pair of 19th-century Dutch-style side chairs features highly decorative inlays of flower urns, tulips, foliage, butterflies and birds on all sides. While the upright backs with ...

On offer is a French Louis XIV-style upholstered window or hallway bench. For much of the late 18th-century, this grand style was intentionally designed to project the power, majesty...

On offer is a French Louis XIV-style upholstered window or hallway bench. For much of the late 18th-century, this grand style was intentionally designed to project the power, majesty...

This 1960s Murano glass table lamp, made by Seguso Vetri d'Arte in Venice for Marbro Lamp Company in California, features an amber "honey yellow" color, likely designed by Archimede ...

This 1960s Murano glass table lamp, made by Seguso Vetri d'Arte in Venice for Marbro Lamp Company in California, features an amber "honey yellow" color, likely designed by Archimede ...

This 19th-century mahogany, three-tier demilune wine butler, also called a “dumbwaiter,” was historically used for self-service dining without staff. It features three brass inserts ...

This 19th-century mahogany, three-tier demilune wine butler, also called a “dumbwaiter,” was historically used for self-service dining without staff. It features three brass inserts ...

On offer is a doll with 19th-century styling, including a center-parted hairstyle and a hand-painted face. Like a typically smaller “penny wooden” doll, which sold for a penny, and h...

On offer is a hand-carved wooden wall hanging of an eagle. The symbolism of the eagle with spread wings, clutching the two crossed arrows, is a traditional motif representing strengt...

On offer is a Queen Anne-style wingback armchair, a classic example of early 18th-century English design. If it looks like it takes you into its arms to cozy you, you would be right....

On offer are a pair of 20th-century lamps made from antique Dutch Delftware tobacco jars. Such containers were originally designed in the 18th century to store imported tobacco leave...

This early 20th-century mahogany chest of drawers is a fine example of the George III style, a period design noted for its clean lines, high-quality wood, and elegant proportions. Th...

This early 20th-century mahogany chest of drawers is a fine example of the George III style, a period design noted for its clean lines, high-quality wood, and elegant proportions. Th...

This pair of French chairs offers a classic example of late 19th-century, Louis XV-style open-arm chairs, often referred to as fauteuils. They are defined by their elegant Rococo cur...

A serene world within a rock is this Chinese jade “boulder carving.” The work represents a traditional art form where a single piece of natural jade is intricately sculpted into a mi...

This oval tray table is a 19th-century decorative piece comprised of a tray and a separate custom-built stand. The tray is crafted from papier-mâché, with a black lacquer finish and ...

On offer is a modern marble sculpture by American sculptor Easton. Titled "Eye of the Storm,” this abstract piece by the artist (also known as Q.T. Easton) was created in 2012. Hand-...

On offer is a classic white marble vase hand-carved likely from either Carrara or Vermont marble. Both stones are known for a white base and soft gray cloud-like veining. The piece’s...

This console table is a fine example of 19th-century French Empire style furniture, specifically attributed to the respected Parisian maker Bedel & Cie. The piece reflects the ar...

On offer is an ornate carved and gilt wood mirror. It serves as a classic example of the Louis XV Rococo style, a design movement characterized by fluid lines, naturalistic motifs, a...

Public interest in Egyptian décor surged twice in the 20th century—after Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered in 1922 and during worldwide "Egyptomania" amid the international tours of ...

On offer is a solid marble pedestal in the Neoclassical style featuring a three-piece design with a cylindrical body, octagon base and round top. It is made from white natural marble...

This antique mechanical game is known as "Jeu de Course" (The Race Game). Not for kiddies, it was a popular parlor and betting game produced in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The game includes six hand-painted lead horses ridden by jockeys in colorful silks. A lever on the front (marked with a cast plaque with the letters M.J. & Cie) activates the internal mechanism, causing the horses to revolve around the felt-covered track on a circular lane with cast metal "lamp post" gates. The winner is the horse that stops closest to the finish line, which was originally marked by a small flag (missing in this antique example). This game is housed in a wooden box with lid, finished in black with gold accents. A Jeu de Course game (specifically one by M.J. & Cie) is featured in a key scene in the 1993 movie “Dave.” It is central during an emotional moment between Dave Kovic (played by Kevin Kline, impersonating President Bill Mitchell) and First Lady Ellen Mitchell (played by Sigourney Weaver). Dave is playing with the mechanical horse race game...

On offer is an American Federal-style mahogany demilune sideboard, a piece handsome enough in proportions and detailing to be part of the Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room. That sp...

On offer is a mahogany, light-filled display cabinet. Crafted in the Sheraton Revival style (circa 1880–1910), it echoes Thomas Sheraton's refined Neoclassical designs from a century...

Who doesn’t love versatility? Especially in tight spaces. On offer here is an elegant flip-top piece that folds open with a gate-leg mechanism to serve as a full-size table for games or intimate dining. Then, with good manners, it folds back up to be tucked against a wall as a console table. Crafted in Michigan by Big Rapids Furniture...

If you live in Palm Springs, move along. But if you’re a Seattleite, you need this. “This” being an antique brass repoussé umbrella stand...

This breakfast or dinette table exemplifies the California Modern aesthetic pioneered by architect and designer Cleo Baldon (1927–2014). Crafted in the 1960s by Baldon’s Los Angeles-...

On offer is a hand-carved and gilded-frame mirror in the classic Louis Philippe style. This was an eclectic and practical style of French architecture and decorative arts that emerge...

This 1920s Chinese wedding cabinet is an example of an antique lacquered storage piece, likely originating from Fujian, an eastern coastal city known for the distinctive red and blac...

Oh, to be a skilled wood carver in the 19th century. One would never lack employment. When it came to doing up their new homes, well-to-do folk then were inspired by European grandeu...

This 19th-century folk art chest exemplifies traditional chip-carved furniture, most likely originating from Scandinavian or Friesian (Northern European) woodworking practices. Measu...

This 19th-century French bench, crafted by hand in the Louis XV style, features flowing curves such as the serpentine-front seat, as well as hand-carved details like S-shaped cabriol...

Very few furniture makers get a revival of their best work a century after their death. Other than France’s André-Charles Boulle, only Great Britain’s Thomas Chippendale (1718–1779) ...

It’s hard to imagine a more quintessential expression of American rural tradition in furniture than this down-to-earth, hardworking table. No nonsense. No elaborate carving of shells...

19th Century Mahogany Serving Tray on Folding Stand English serving tray on folding stand The tray is made from solid mahogany This would make a handsome bar / cocktail stand Tr...

You can almost see this 20th-century, carved gilt wood mirror reflecting a gathering of well-coiffed socialites, cocktails in hand and just the top of their off-the-shoulder shantung...

On offer is a classic English burr walnut chest-on-stand so gorgeous that even if you live in a minimalist’s environment of charcoal matte walls, black granite and stainless steel ap...

She’s certainly no beauty, possibly in her 30s, but there’s a strength and clarity about this woman. She does her long hair into a complex chignon, a practical style in those years p...

On offer is a Mid-Century Modern bronze sculpture, titled a "Reclining Form (Thorns)" created in 1976 by British artist Robert Adams (1917–1984). The work features an abstract, aerod...

This elegant leather document holder, ornamented with a romantic inset watercolor, contains a formal presentation address written in a decorative 19th-century German script. The docu...

Fabulous Edwardian revolving bookstand. I believe this is from the late 19th century. Beautifully curved legs and feet. I’m not sure what kind of wood. It looks like mahogany. It mea...

On offer is a handmade Parcheesi game board signed on the back by Alice Muckelston, whose love of the game is expressed in the painted hearts. Parcheesi is an American adaptation of ...

On offer is an American crazy quilt dated 1885, the time of crazy quilts’ peak popularity. The 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia and the nation’s growing textile industry—wi...

Celebrate your Scandinavian ancestry with this set of amber-colored glassware on tall columned stems. Each of the six goblets is etched with a frosted Viking longship, complete with ...

On offer is an amphora, an ancient Greek form. Such two-handled pots had a narrow neck accessing a larger bag-shape body. So, if you wanted to ship grains from your vast estates in S...

Imagine lightly clad maidens dancing together in the sun amid the spring grasses. Some scenes never lose their allure, even after 2600 years. Nineteenth-century Europeans were inspir...

If you adore the exuberance and gilded grandeur of Louis XV’s reign, but your home’s style and scale is more Cleaver Family than a Bourbon residence, this is for you. Over your livi...

If, like Elon Musk, you are frequently seen wearing a special edition watch designed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first Swiss watch in space, move along. Although harki...

Beautifully carved details on the exterior, hinged lid that folds back and a drop front that opens to a fitted interior with small compartments. Maker’s mark: nonexistent. Clearance...

If a shimmering mermaid were suddenly spun around and turned into a chair by a wicked, maniacal sea witch (apologies, Ursula), this would be it. The messages “Dreams of a Sea King” a...

These striking chairs are high-quality Brutalist-style dining chairs attributed to the renowned Israeli designer Ilana Goor (b. 1936). A multidisciplinary artist, sculptor, and desig...

Theater operators! Restaurant owners! Or those of you secretly possessing a lost Vermeer. (You know who you are.) In fact, anyone with items of very special notice to share with thos...

On offer is a George III-style tea table featuring a scalloped gallery with two functional pull-out trays and a small but deep drawer with an oval punched brass pull at the center. C...

While the corner cabinet was a clever 18th-century response to tight dining spaces, this one made of knotty pine is both a practical and handsome answer. On the utility side, as a co...

This wrought iron mirror is styled in the manner of the preeminent metalworker of the Art Deco period Edgar Brandt (1880–1960) who was credited with transforming wrought iron into a ...

You are looking at the 20th-century “great-great granddaughter” of the classic ballroom chair. This specific design by Giuseppe Gaetano Descalzi originated in 1807, about the time th...

Furniture had to be adaptable and hardworking in sparsely furnished 18th-century English and Colonial American homes. This was not the time for stunning ‘sculptural” chairs nobody si...

This set of carved wood chairs manage to be both rustic and refined. Done in Baroque style with nail head-trimmed velvet upholstered seats in the color of a fine pinot noir to compli...