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George III Inlaid Tea Caddy, England, Circa:1800
Located in Alexandria, VA
Mahogany with satinwood, harewood, and ebony inlay - banded - shell and floral urn inlays - recessed brass handle on lid, fitted interior with two removable hinged lid wooden tea sto...
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Antique Early 1800s English Regency Tea Caddies
Materials
Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood, Harewood
Pair of Centennial 10" Bronzes of Washington & Franklin, Circa:1876
Located in Alexandria, VA
These statuettes of George Washington & Benjamin Franklin were hand cast, probably in France in the 1870s, to be sent to the USA for sale during the 100 year anniversary of the Ameri...
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Antique 1870s European Federal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Grand Tour Bronze Tazzas on Marble Plinths, Italy, Circa:1890
Located in Alexandria, VA
This pair of hand-cast bronze Edwardian tazzas on Sienna marble plinths were copied from Classical ancient Roman/Greek urns being excavated all over the former Roman Empire. The cast...
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Antique Late 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Urns
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Grand Tour Bronze Bust of Homer, Italy, Circa:1890
Located in Alexandria, VA
This solid (except for the pedestal) hand-cast bronze is of the 8th Century BCE Greek poet, author of the Iliad & the Odyssey. Although there are no images from life of Homer, busts ...
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Antique Late 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Busts
Materials
Bronze
Pair Louis XV Style Bronze & Crystal Candelabras, France
Located in Alexandria, VA
These Belle Epoque 3-light candelabra are the very essence of elegance and romance. Use them for evening parties or intimate dinners and they will add a warm glow and sparkle. The pa...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Candelabras
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Rare Vieux Paris Tall Vases, Circa:1830
Located in Alexandria, VA
This pair of neoclassic Vieux Paris conical shaped vases have Classical Roman motifs on one side. Portraits on the other side depict an inebriate on one vase and a teetotaler on the ...
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Empire Vases
Materials
Porcelain
A Pair of Porcelain de Paris Ovid Form Vases, Circa:1820
Located in Alexandria, VA
This is an exceptional pair of Old Paris vases with beautiful hand-painted panorama scenes. The bucolic scenes are of fashionably dressed people hanging out with cows by a meandering...
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Antique 1820s French Empire Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Grand Tour Equestrian Bronze. Italy, Circa:1820
Located in Alexandria, VA
This bronze is a hand cast miniature copy of a life-size marble statue of Marcus Nonius Balbus the Younger which today stands in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. The sta...
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Antique Early 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Wedgwood Parian Bust of Robert Stephenson by E. W. Wyon
By Josiah Wedgwood
Located in Alexandria, VA
This handsome parian bust is of Robert Stephenson(1803-1859- England),. It is documented on the back shoulders in embossed letters with the name of subject, sculptor, publisher, an...
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Busts
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Exceptional Wedgwood Edwardian Jasperware "Etruria" Planters, Date 1907
By Wedgwood
Located in Alexandria, VA
This outstanding pair of "Etruria" jasperware planters pulls their decorative motifs from the forms and decorations of ancient Rome -- and more spe...
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Early 20th Century English Edwardian Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Ceramic
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Antique English Inlaid Mahogany Tea Caddy, circa 1790
Located in Bath, GB
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19th Century Grand Tour Style Bronze of Venus De Milo, Continental, Circa 1890
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Finely cast and exhibiting a fine dark brown patina overall.
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Antique Late 19th Century European Grand Tour Figurative Sculptures
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H 10.25 in W 3 in D 3 in
Antique English George III Rosewood Tea Caddy Circa 1820
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique English George III tea caddy offers rosewood construction in casket form with gadroon elements and raised on bun feet, c1820
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Antique Early 19th Century English George III Tea Caddies
Materials
Rosewood
Pair of Gilt Bronze Grand Tour Urns on Marble Bases
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Antique 19th Century French Vases
Materials
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Gilt Bronze Bust of George Washington
Located in Montreal, QC
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Antique Mid-19th Century American Federal Busts
Materials
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Pair of Japanese Bronze Bookends, circa 1880
Located in New York, NY
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Materials
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Very Good Pair of Louis XV Style Silvered Bronze Candelabra, France Circa 1870
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very handsome pair of 19th century silvered bronze 3 branch candelabra in the style of Louis XV. Both showing a trio of richly cast foliate shaped branches fitted with detachable t...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Candelabras
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Bronze
19th Century Vieux Paris / Old Paris Porcelain Urn with Raised Gilt Detailing
By Manufacture Le Vieux Paris, Old Paris
Located in Madrid, ES
The term Vieux Paris, or "Old Paris" porcelain does not refer to one particular maker, but is used to describe French porcelain pieces made by one of more than thirty manufacturers o...
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Rococo Revival Urns
Materials
Porcelain
H 16.54 in W 9.06 in D 7.49 in
Pair of Bronze Models of a Standing Bull and a Running Cow, circa 1890
By Francois Auguste Hippolyte Peyrol 1, Isidore Jules Bonheur
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A pair of large and finely patinated bronze models of a standing bull and a running cow after models by Isidor-Jules Bonheur, Cast on a Naturalistic Base.
French, circa 1890.
Signed 'I BONHEUR' and stamped 'PEYROL EDITEUR'.
Bonheur was a regular exhibitor at the Paris Salon and his naturalistic depiction of farm animals, including cattle, was one of his most popular subjects. The bronze was cast by his brother-in-law, Hippolyte Peyrol, who ran one of the most successful art foundries in Paris at this time.
Isidore-Jules Bonheur (1827-1901) was the son of the painter Raymond Bonheur and younger brother of Rosa Bonheur, the famous sculptor. He was born in Bordeaux and studied painting, at first with his father and then with the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, moving on to sculpture in 1848.
He made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1848 with a painting and plaster study of the same subject ‘African horseman attacked by a lioness’. From then onwards, Bonheur exhibited regularly at the Salon as well as other exhibitions, winning medals in 1865 and 1869 together with the prized Gold Medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889.
He was awarded the Legion d’Honneur in 1895.
Most of Bonheur’s casts were by his uncle by marriage, Hippolyte Peyrol, whose tiny foundry mark is often very difficult to find.
Bonheur’s studies range from farm animals, bears and tigers in a very naturalistic vein to equestrian groups. Although noted primarily for his small groups he did complete two large scale commissions, one to his sister Rosa, at Fontainbleau and the other, two stone lions at the steps of the Royal...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
H 15.36 in W 21.66 in D 7.09 in
Pair of Grand Tour Greek Bronze Vases on Marble Bases
Located in Richmond, London
A decorative pair of Grand Tour bronze-patinated urns of ancient Greek 'volute krater' form,
Italy, 19th century.
Why we like them
We love the decorative look of these urns, evoking the Grand Tour travels of the 19th century. Perfect for lamp conversion.
Design
This shape was introduced in the late 6th century B.C. and was favoured by significant artists who worked in terracotta and in bronze. The earliest example in bronze belongs to the late 5th century B.C. and was found in a tomb in Agrigento. A characteristic of volute-krater handles is the fine articulation of the volute itself and of the lower terminals where they rested on the shoulder of the vase. Here, as in most metal examples, they assume the form of swans' heads. A pair of handles of this design is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Chiurazzi, De Angelis and Sommer where the main Neapolitan foundries that catered for the needs and tastes of the grand-tourists throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. They produced a wide range of fine quality objects, often using the museum casts...
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Antique Late 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Urns
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Antique Old Paris or Vieux Paris Porcelain Fan Shaped Vase
By Old Paris, Manufacture Le Vieux Paris
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique French porcelain vase.
With extensive gilding and painted floral decoration to each side.
Simply a great piece of Ol...
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Antique 19th Century French Belle Époque Vases
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Porcelain