About Three Centuries Shop
For 35 years, the Three Centuries Shop has been providing fine antique furniture and decorative arts. It caters to a variety of discerning clients, collectors, dealers and decorators. This antique store first opened in 1981 in Davenport Road, Toronto, Ontario. In 2003, it relocated to its current home in Vancouver, near Granville Island. The Three Centuries Shop is an antique store that specializes specifically in the collection of French antique furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries. It also carries some Chinese antique items such as clocks and lamps. With its gro...Read More
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Featured Pieces
The Explorer Oil Painting on Canvas, Romantic Style, 19th Century
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
This original oil painting on canvas depicts a forlorn young couple sitting on/by a large rock at ocean's edge, either lost, shipwrecked, or possibly exploring. He gazes at a map, de...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Oil Painting by Maltese Artist Vincenzo D’Esposito “Pulling Up the Nets”
By Vincenzo D'Esposito
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A rare oil on canvas from Maltese artist Vincenzo D’Esposito (1866-1946) depicting a group of fishermen in southern Italian or Maltese folkloristic garb ...
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Early 20th Century Maltese Aesthetic Movement Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Mid/Late 19thC French Napoleon III Ebonized and Gilt Wood Mirror
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An elegant 19thC French ebonized wood mirror with gilt decorative banding around the frame with the top frieze accented by a lion's head at either end and frolicking putti at the ce...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Wall Mirrors
Materials
Wood
French Empire Mantle Clock in Gilt Bronze, Apollo Belvedere Bust, 1820
By André-Antoine Ravrio
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A period French Empire Apollo Belvedere mantle clock in gilt bronze, the rectangular plinth on a stepped base richly decorated with acanthus. The plinth itself houses the large white...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Cast Resin Yellow Disk by Light and Space movement artist DeWain Valentine
By DeWain Valentine
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A classic mid century modern cast resin Disk sculpture produced in various colors in 1968 by American artist DeWain Valentine regarded as a pivotal figure in the Light & Spac...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin
An Empire Style French Mahogany and Ormolu Mounted Day Bed or "Lit en Bateau"
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A Fine French 19th Century Empire Style Day or Alcove Bed known in French as "lit en Bateau" The bed is made of fine Cuban Mahogany and is embellished with a ormolu mounts all alo...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Empire Daybeds
Materials
Bronze
A Rare Portrait of an Imperial Russian Boy Dressed in a Sailor's outfit
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A well executed and extremely rare portrait of what appears to be a 3 year old Imperial Aristocratic Russian boy dressed in an iconic sailor suit worn over a vest bearing the emb...
Category
Early 20th Century Russian Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
A French Empire Portrait of a Mother and Daughter in the manner of H.F. Reisener
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An elegant unsigned French Empire Family portrait of a mother and her young daughter presented in its original giltwood Empire frame executed in the manner of Henri Riesener. With...
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Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
A Grand Tour Patinated Bronze Statue of Mercury or Hermes by Emile Bruchon
By Emile Bruchon
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A rare finely cast Grand Tour patinated bronze statue of the Roman God Mercury ( Hermes in Greek Mythology) dressed in flowing classical robes standing with his right foot raised ...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A French Empire three quarter length Portrait of a Naval Officer
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A well executed three quarter length portrait of a French Empire Naval Officer holding a spyglass nautical telescope and dressed in emblematic period clothing with white long pants...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Empire Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
A 19 Century Renaissance Revival Ebony Veneered and Inlaid Bed After G.B.Gatti
By Giovanni Battista Gatti
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An exceptional and rare Milanese late 19 Century Renaissance Revival ebony framed bed profusely inlaid and encrusted with scrolling arabesques of entwined scrolled foliage, honeysuck...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Beds and Bed Frames
Materials
Brass
The Sunflower Goddess by West Coast Canadian Artist Peter Aspell (1918 - 2004)
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A large modern primitive oil on canvas painting titled "The Sunflower Goddess" by Peter Wintherhalter Aspell (1918-2004) signed and dated 1987 at the top left hand corner of he canvas.
Born in 1918 in Saanich British Columbia Canada, Aspell‘s first formal training was with the near contemporary artist Jack Shadbolt. His first big break came in 1947 when one of the world famous Group of Seven...
Category
Late 20th Century Canadian Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
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