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Large 1920s Danish Porcelain Sculpture
By Arno Malinowski
Located in New York, NY
This 1927 Royal Copenhagen porcelain sculpture is exceptionally large in scale, and appears to represent an Amazon with her hound. It is remarkable for the...
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Vintage 1920s Danish Neoclassical Revival Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Two Japanese Bronze Shells
Located in New York, NY
These charming bronze shells were cast in Japan in the 19th century. They lived for many years in the collection of the Paris artist Pierre Le-Tan. One of...
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Antique 19th Century Japanese Edo Scholar's Objects
Materials
Bronze
$9,000 / set
Salviati Miniature Glass Tazza
By Antonio Salviati
Located in New York, NY
In 19th-century Venice, glassmaking studios were pokey little family affairs. The craft was passed on from father to son, and conducted in a studio, with an assistant or two, and per...
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Antique 1880s Italian Classical Roman Urns
Materials
Glass
1920s Swedish Grace Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
This abstract 1920s Swedish sculpture of painted-and-gilded plaster, on a painted-wood base, is pleasing from all angles. At the time and place where it...
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Vintage 1920s Swedish Modern Abstract Sculptures
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Plaster, Wood
18th Century Giltwood Sculpture of a Female Nude
By Michelangelo Buonarroti
Located in New York, NY
This giltwood sculpture was carved in the round, probably in southern France or northern Italy in the 1760s. Her pronounced musculature speaks to the ongoing influence of Michelange...
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Antique Mid-18th Century French Neoclassical Mounted Objects
Materials
Bronze
Bust of Prince Albert
Located in New York, NY
In centuries past, lucky artists were ennobled after mastering their craft and achieving renown, but Baron Marochetti had been born into the noblility before he proved his mettle as ...
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Antique 1850s Italian Victorian Busts
Materials
Bronze
$8,000
Pair of French Rock-Crystal and Gilt-Bronze Candlesticks Circa 1950
By Bonzano Paris 1
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite pair of candlesticks was retailed by Bonzano, a Paris firm that specialized in ormolu-mounted rock crystal objects. They have an interior channel to permit electrific...
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Vintage 1950s French Régence Candle Holders
Materials
Rock Crystal, Ormolu
French Empire Bronze of a Woman
By Pierre-Philippe Thomire
Located in New York, NY
This Empire ormolu head of a woman was made as a furniture mount in France around 1810, and probably adorned a bed. In any case, closer to our own time, it was deemed worthy of mount...
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Antique Early 1800s French Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Art Nouveau Centrepiece
Located in New York, NY
This ravishing Art Nouveau silver plated centrepiece is decorated with butterflies, flowers, and budding tendrils, and retains the original applied patina and cobalt-blue-glass liner...
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Antique Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Silver Plate
$5,000
John Torreano Contemporary Sculpture of a Jewel
By John Torreano
Located in New York, NY
This faceted, geometric sculpture by the contemporary New York artist John Torreano dates to the mid-1980s.
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Late 20th Century American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Paint
Alessandro Albrizzi "Nest of Snakes" Sculpture
By Alessandro Albrizzi
Located in New York, NY
Baron Alessandro Albrizzi grew up in, and later inherited, the family palazzo in Venice, where the French doors that opened onto the garden had hardware embellished with bronze snakes. The memory of them prompted him to create the“nest of snakes” sculptures...
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Vintage 1970s American Modern Animal Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Set of 12 Porcelain Shells by Giovanni Garibaldi for Richard-Ginori
By Giovanni Gariboldi
Located in New York, NY
In the 1920s Gio Ponti, who defined 20th century Italian design, was the art director of Richard-Ginori, a venerable porcelain company established in the 18th century. When Ponti moved on in 1930, his protégé Giovanni Gariboldi, who also designed furniture and interiors, filled the vacated position. It would seem that Gariboldi found his model for these shell-shaped dishes in nature, but this is not the case. Rather, he channeled the essence of “shellness," and endowed his design with the faux verisimilitude of delicate ribbing along the scalloped edge. Yet he had them glazed in improbable candy-like pastel colors of pink, yellow, and blue. Originally used principally as ashtrays, no doubt, they could also be put to use as serving dishes for nuts and candies, or as decorative tabletop objects...
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Vintage 1940s Italian Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Porcelain
31 Brazilian Silver Amulets
Located in New York, NY
These 31 Brazilian amulets, or balangada, were hammered from sheets of silver in the 19th century to form pomegranates, sugar apples, guava, and other...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Brazilian Folk Art Tribal Art
Materials
Silver
$8,500 / set
Pierre Le-Tan Trompe l'Oeil Dummy Board
By Pierre Le-Tan
Located in New York, NY
A "dummy board" painted in grisaille by the Paris artist Pierre Le-Tan that represents an ancient bust, obelisk, photo and calling card. It is signed and d...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Pair of Venini Torqued Obelisks
By Carlo Scarpa
Located in New York, NY
Around 1930 Gio Ponti gave Paolo Venini some sketches for glass obelisks. Shortly thereafter Carlo Scarpa designed for Venini a torqued obelisk in transparent diamante glass -- so na...
Category
Vintage 1930s Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
$20,000 / set
George III Silver Lusterware Vase
Located in New York, NY
This elegant vase of attenuated proportions was given an unusual silver-luster glaze, and embellished with two medallions on a military theme. One depicts a young soldier with a swor...
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Antique 1790s English Neoclassical Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Large Blanc de Chine Berlin Porcelain Vase
By KPM Porcelain
Located in New York, NY
This tall, slender, blanc de chine porcelain vase was made around 1910 in Berlin by KPM, and was probably designed by Alexander Kips. Blending elements of the Art Nouveau and Rococo ...
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Antique Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Unusual Large English Glass Candlestick, circa 1800
Located in New York, NY
This large and dramatic blown and cast-glass candlestick, with a blue-and-white spiral in its stem, was most likely made in England around 1800. It comes from the collection of the legendary aesthete Baron Max Fould-Springer, who lived at the Palais de Royaumont outside Paris, which on his death was inherited by his sister Liliane, Baroness de Rothschild...
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Antique Early 1800s Great Britain (UK) George III Candlesticks
Materials
Glass
Kitsune from the Edo Period
Located in New York, NY
According to Japanese folklore the fox, or kitsune, can assume human form to protect and trick humble country folk. Dating to the 18th century, this fox protects its own pup. Carved ...
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Antique 18th Century Japanese Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
Napoleon III Cut Crystal and Ormolu Vase
Located in New York, NY
In the early 19th century the typical, but fine flower vase was made of porcelain. The better ones were mounted in gilt bronze. But the most fashionable were of cut crystal and gilt ...
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Antique 1850s French Napoleon III Vases
Materials
Crystal
Japanese Scholar's Object
Located in New York, NY
This natural gourd was sliced at the top, hollowed out, and lacquered in black inside, around the rim, and on the bottom where it was signed by the artisan with Chinese and Japanese ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Organic Modern Vases
Materials
Lacquer
Venini Glass Paperweight
By Venini
Located in New York, NY
This egg-shaped Venini glass paperweight has a purple spiral encased in an orange spiral. It still bears the original Venini label with the Veronese va...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Paperweights
Materials
Glass
$2,000
Rare Napoleonic Straw Marquetry Box
Located in New York, NY
This cylinder box is an exceptionally fine example of straw marquetry, and a rare survivor of the craft, which involves the cutting, coloring, and mounting of split straws to form de...
Category
Antique Early 1800s French Neoclassical Decorative Boxes
Materials
Straw
Silver Leaf Pin
Located in New York, NY
The verisimilitude of this pin to a leaf may be the result of its actually having been cast from one. But the unobtrusive nib at the end of the gently curving stem, by which the pin ...
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Vintage 1970s American American Craftsman Natural Specimens
Materials
Silver Plate
$1,000
American Arts & Crafts Sculpture of a Pelican, Circa 1910
Located in New York, NY
The unknown sculptor of this fine, gilded-mahogany pelican appears to have been influenced by the turn-of-the-century Symbolist movement in Europe. The breast feathers are subtly car...
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Antique Early 1900s American Arts and Crafts Animal Sculptures
Materials
Wood
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