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Pre Revolution Desk

19th Century Ormolu Mounted Pedestal after Jean Henri Riesener
By Jean-Henri Riesener
Located in Los Angeles, CA
to the French Revolution led Riesener to work with Paris dealers, including the pre-eminent marchand
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Pedestals and Columns

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Marble, Ormolu

Louis XVI Style Commode after Jean-Henri Riesener by François Linke, circa 1905
By Jean-Henri Riesener, François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
lattice work, as appears on this commode, used on the desk for the Comte d'Orsay, talks of 'mosaic
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Antique Early 1900s French Louis XVI Commodes and Chests of Drawers

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Bronze

Black Geometric Sculpture by Ursula Meyers Conceptual Artist
By Ursula Meyer
Located in Stamford, CT
organic forms and glazes identified with the pre-Dessau Bauhaus and the more architectonic and heroically
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Late 20th Century American Modern Abstract Sculptures

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Wood

Palatial Sculpture of Henri Robert-Marcel Duchamp by Ursula Meyer
By Ursula Meyer
Located in Stamford, CT
skills as a potter, presumably bridging the organic forms and glazes identified with the pre-Dessau
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Wood

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French 40s Art Deco Mirror-Clad Cabinet w. Glass Appliques
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Very chic and unusual parisian cupboard/cabinet, clad on the front and sides with clear beveled mirrors and sapphire-blue beveled glass appliqués. Exceptionally well-made. Orig...
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20th Century French Art Deco Cupboards

French Art Deco Sideboard with Radio and Record Player, 1930s
Located in Barntrup, DE
Art Deco Sideboard with Radio and Record Player, France, 1930s. Beautifully sculpted Art Deco sideboard in blockboard and walnut veneer. The rotatable drawer-look middle section with...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Sideboards

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Metal, Brass

President John F. & First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s English Victorian Tea Table
By Albert Hadley, Sister Parish
Located in St. Louis, MO
President John F. & First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s English Victorian tea table Quite possibly the most important tea table in American History The famed, English Victorian tea ta...
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Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Card Tables and Tea Tables

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Lacquer

Michael Graves Monopoly Set
By Michael Graves (b.1934)
Located in New York, NY
The Monopoly game set designed by Michael Graves (b. 1934 Indianapolis, IN - 2015 Princeton, NJ) for Parker Brothers. Circa 2002. Signed with Graves' signature incised in small m...
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Early 2000s Games

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Wood

Michael Graves Monopoly Set
Michael Graves Monopoly Set
H 3 in W 16 in D 16 in
Mid-Century Modern Cabinet Console Record Player attributed to Ico Parisi design
By Ico Parisi
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Cabinet Console of the 1930s in burr walnut and walnut flame applied veneered. Cabinet with two shelves, the upper with central flap drawer with internal turntable Record player LES...
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Vintage 1930s Italian Art Deco Musical Instruments

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Walnut

Crosley Art Deco 179 "Dual Four" Antique Tombstone '1934' Radio
By Crosley Radio
Located in Oakland, CA
Art Deco Crosley radio from the earlier 1930s. The radio is highly decorative with a “skyscraper” shape, a chevron book-match face, silver-painted sides, and a highly detailed frame ...
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Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Musical Instruments

Materials

Metal

17th Century Italian Baroque Lacquered Spruce Religious Furniture 1600
Located in Roma, RM
This monumental piece of furniture, of Veneto-Alto Veneto provenance, made entirely of lacquered fir wood. Full seventeenth century (ca. 1650) is presented as an imposing double-bodi...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Baroque Bookcases

Materials

Spruce

Thorens "Excelda" Camera Phone Phonograph Player circa 1930s Very Rare
By Thorens
Located in Oakland, CA
This is an authentic Excelda portable gramophone, the portable phonograph of the 1930's that resembled the pocket cameras of that time (usually referred to as a “Cameraphone”). It wa...
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Vintage 1930s Swiss Art Deco Musical Instruments

Materials

Metal

Ferdinando Vichi Lifesize Marble Figure "Apollo Belvedere"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ferdinando Vichi (Italian, 1875-1945) A fine and lifesize Italian white Carrara marble Greco-Roman figure of the Belvedere Apollo, after the original, now in the Vatican Museum, the ...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Greco Roman Figurative Sculptures

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Carrara Marble

Young Manufacturing, Mid-Century Modern, Sculptural Dresser, Walnut, USA, 1970s
By Young Manufacturing Company
Located in Stamford, CT
Young Manufacturing, American Mid-Century Modern, Sculpted Curved Front Dresser, Walnut, United States, 1970s Fully refinished American designer Mid-Century Modern dresser or sidebo...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Dressers

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Walnut

Palatial 19th Century Louis XV Style Giltwood Carved Five-Piece Salon Suite
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and palatial French 19th century Louis XV style giltwood carved five-piece salon suite, comprising of a canapé (Settee) and four fauteuils à la reine (Armchairs), all of ...
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Living Room Sets

Materials

Fabric, Wood

19th Century Italian Carved Giltwood Marble Top Console Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A handsome Italian 19th century carved giltwood console table with Brèche d'Alep marble top. The rectangular form centered by a female mask, raised on four curved form legs inter-joi...
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Antique 1870s Tables

Materials

Marble

Early All Original “Mrs. Chair” by George Mulhauser for Plycraft
By George Mulhauser
Located in Round Rock, TX
Swivel and tilt “Mrs. Chair” and ottoman designed by George Mulhauser for Plycraft, c. 1960s. Constructed of a molded walnut ply shell and a wood wrapped base. This smaller scale var...
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

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Fabric, Walnut, Plywood

Japanese Antique Side Table Radio Table 1930s-1950s Primitive Japandi
Located in Chiba-Shi, JP
This is an old Japanese side table. It was made from the early to mid-Showa period. It has been mainly used as a telephone stand, radio stand, and record player stand. The main body ...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Furniture

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Wood

Pair of French Walnut Library Ladders
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French (19th Century) walnut library ladders with side railings and steps leading to a top platform (on casters) (attributed to Napoleon III's personal library) (Related item...
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Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Stairs

Materials

Walnut

Signed Acrylic Modernist Bauhaus Inspired Chess Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large, and quite spectacular acrylic MidCentury chess set. The board is very thick and substantial on four thick disk legs, the pieces are defined by a painted yellow or orange co...
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20th Century Bauhaus Games

Materials

Acrylic

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Russian 'Imperial Period', Nephrite Jade, Gold and White Chalcedony Desk Seal
Located in Brisbane, QLD
This magnificent desk seal dates to Russia pre the 1917 revolution and is crafted from nephrite
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Antique 19th Century Russian Desk Accessories

Materials

Chalcedony, Jade, Gold, Yellow Gold

Spectacular Original Antique American Empire Settee/Loveseat
By Charles-Honoré Lannuier
Located in Chicago, IL
cabinetmakers selling furniture in pre-Revolutionary Paris. Both relatives contributed to Lannuier's training as
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Antique 19th Century American Settees

Materials

Mahogany

Important Federal Inlaid Mahogany Tambour Cylinder Secretary Bookcase
By John Aitken 1
Located in New York, NY
key-hole escutcheons opening to three adjustable shelves above; a tambour desk, the interior fitted
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Antique 1790s American Federal Secretaires

Materials

Rosewood, Mahogany

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