20th Century Marble Italian Planter, 1960

Large design flowerpot from the 1970s-1980s. Italian furniture carved in Mahogany wood of particular shape and construction. Planter equipped with wheels to facilitate movement insid...

Iron planter, Italy, 1970s. Furniture of beautiful line and pleasant decor in iron patinated by time and water. Indoor or outdoor planter supported by wavy legs and feet with wheels ...

Antique Italian holy water font from the second half of the 19th century. Tub in veined red marble in seventeenth-century style composed of a circular basin with molded edge and mult...

Italian chest of drawers from the mid-20th century. Cantù production furniture carved and veneered in walnut, burl, beech, mahogany and fruitwood in Empire style. Commode with four l...

An Italian Renaissance-style garden planter or basin in hand-carved limestone with a centered shell and scrolls on either side. It has a heavy top rim and bevels on the bottom. Minor...

A 20th Century marble planter sourced in the South of France. Crafted from solid white Carrara marble with intricate gray veining, this planter features a beautifully sculpted square...

20th century, Italian bronze planter or Gueridon Measures: cm W 56 x maximum diameter 51 x H 90. H on the floor of the wide 81 cm This refined planter was made in Italy, in Naples, towards the Early 20th Century in the style of «Retour d'Egypte». It consists of a tripod structure in finely chiselled gilded bronze and lacquered in tones. Each leg originates with scroll decorations and phytomorphic elements with golden details, supported by a sphinx with hairstyle, tail and golden wings. This sits on a curvilinear and wavy element decorated with golden ramage and a man’s head with a long beard of classic taste. The legs end with an injured foot and rest on a tripartite base that connects them. In the middle of each leg there is a bronze junction with curls and volutes that converges towards the others in the center, where a vertical element contributes to the momentum and gracefulness of the whole. The basin of the planter is in lacquered tin, with gold edges and reserves. The rising part of the tub has some holes that allow the breathability of the space. This tripod is inspired, with variations, to a famous model of the brothers Luigi and Antonio Manfredini, active in Milan at the beginning of the nineteenth century, financed by the viceroy of Italy Eugenio de Beauharnais, adopted son of Napoleon Bonaparte, for the opening of the real manufacture of Eugenia. The Retour d'Egypte style was widely echoed in France and Europe and originated from General Bonaparte’s military campaign in Egypt in 1799. The fashion of the Egyptians had already in Italy found a previous interpreter in the engraver Giovan Battista Piranesi, but the vast diffusion that also had in the furniture the Egyptian ornament...

A stunning 20th century large pair of hand carved marble planters. Decorated with cherubs and swags of foliage with egg-and-dart moulding to the ...