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
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 ...
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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...
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Antique Late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Beds and Bed Frames
Materials
Brass
An English 19 Century oil painting of four children after Henry Raeburn
By Joshua Reynolds
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A large Museum quality Victorian family portrait of three kneeling or seated boys fondly gathered around a little baby girl toddler seated on a blanket in front of a bucolic...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Scottish Romantic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
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
William Switzer Gustavian Style Louis XV Style Pine Trumeau Mirror
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A Louis XV Style or Swedish Gustavian classically inspired pine trumeau mirror. The trumeau part of the mirror is adorned by carved armorial plaque featuring war trophies,...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Neoclassical Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors
Materials
Pine
A Rare Pair of French 19 Century Gilt Bronze Dolphin Candelabra
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
These are an exceptionally rare pair of stylized standing gilt bronze dolphin six arm candelabra plus a central stem raised on a rectangular gilt bronze malachite veneered bases. T...
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Empire Candelabras
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
A French Empire Mahogany Day Bed with Gilt Bronze Mounts After Thomire
By Pierre-Philippe Thomire
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A classic French Empire period day bed made out of solid flamed mahogany raised on block feet and straight edge identical head and foot boards decorated with gilt bronze busts of...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Beds and Bed Frames
Materials
Bronze
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