Louis XVI Style Centrepiece

French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) bronze dore centerpiece with 3 cupids holding 2 etched glass tiers with wreath top.

A beautiful and intricately painted Louis XVI style 'Cache Pot' in white porcelain with a silver frame. From the French verb 'cacher', meaning 'to hide', these vases were designed to contain and disguise the utilitarian growing pot of an indoor plant, and to make an attractive feature of indoor greenery. A delicate design criss-cross design of pink roses, foliage and gold spots encircles the body of the vase, while the upper silver frame is hallmarked with the 950/100 Minerva head...

We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Red and black ceramic table centerpiece made in Rockabilly style, the colors are strong and decisive, the black has the distinction of having beautiful reflections nacreè (mother of pearl), reflections that unfortunately the photos can not capture, from life are really seductive, the form is nicely undulating, pleasant and very capacious; the centerpiece was produced between 1950 and 1953, by skilled artisans in the area of Vallauris, the "French city of ceramics" in Provence north-east of Cannes, renowned since ancient times for the production of this fascinating material; there were more than 250 production centers, but today very few remain and since the mid-20th century, they are dedicated to the manufacture of contemporary ceramics. The word "Rockabilly" is a combination of "rock and roll" and "hillbilly" (a derogatory term used to define the Appalachian mountain people and, in a generic sense, meant country boor); Rockabilly was a musical genre developed in the early 1950s, it was one of the first forms of rock & roll. It was a fusion of bluegrass, country, boogie-woogie, and jazz, originally from the southern United States, and was played and sung by artists such as Buddy Holly...

Louis XVI style gilt bronze and crystal bowl features high quality chiseled bronze. The upper edge of the crystal cup has got a bronze rim with geometrical engraving but the highligh...

Oval with handles and a pale green with central panel of a floral still life. Serrated edge with overall gilded details.

A fine and impressive suite of three antique German silver and green glass dishes, in the Art Nouveau style; an addition to our silver mounted glass...