Midcentury Russian Malachite Bowl with Bronze Rim/ SAT. SALE

This lovely vintage malachite decorative bowl is from the 70's. It has the brass trim surround. Great desk accessory or ring bowl.

This gorgeous artist vintage bowl from the 1960s is enamel black with rose toned center with swirls of sterling silver and the bottom is silver plate. It ...

This Mid-Century Modern handvwrought Mexican 3 metal bowl is sliced in metals like a pie. Brass, copper and silver-plate. it has copper footed 3 ball feet. It was professionally poli...

This fun, nautical and very Palm Beach lucite embedded bowl has a center of polished aluminum. The interior are assorted colored shells, resin coral, colored orange sand, and dried plants. Vintage from the 70's. Makes a great desk accessory or soap tray...

This lovely and substantial malachite and bronze vintage box is 2 parts. The bronze embedded lines form the perimeter set against the malachite. This makes a great desk accessory and...

This beautiful folded Italian Murano Seguso cased folded glass bowl is large and Mid-Century Modern. It has the combinations of two colors of light y...

This is a wonderful heavy malachite and brass rimmed bowl from Brazil

The equator bowl is a Brutalist sculpture made of hand carved craters throughout its bronze body. The outer surface is a blackened patina and the inner is a matte shiny raw bronze...

The crater bowl is the theoretical shape a meteorite may have formed when crashing into lava rock. The hand-carved original was cast in bronze and patinated on the outside with a high polished exterior. The outside of the heavy bowl...

Malachite is one of Russia’s most prestigious stones, and its use in the creation of this rare and opulent inkwell indicates commission and ownership by an individual of considerable status. Wonderful doré bronze accents are the perfect complement to the vivid green stone. Two dipping wells and pen tray make this inkwell as functional as it is beautiful, circa 1890. Dimensions: 18 1/4” wide x 11” deep x 5 1/2” high. The 19th century proved to be the golden age of Russian malachite. The stone became a sign of prestige and a token of wealth so much so that Russian papers of the time wrote: “To afford having a big piece wrought in malachite is synonymous to owning diamonds.” Due to malachite's relatively close proximity, Russian tsars could easily obtain the malachite they needed to decorate their lavish palaces, such as the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, paneling walls and commissioning beautiful inlaid works of art. Year after year the Russian (Romanov) treasury paid increasingly unreasonable prices to hoard the best malachite, much of which went into Romanov palaces and extravagant objects d’art. The Hermitage Museum possesses a collection of over 200 examples of this “palatial” malachite...

A charming and humorous Austrian brass bowl or tray in the shape of a foot, designed and executed by Werkstatte Hagenauer Vienna in the 1950s. also...

Natural malachite stone specimen vide poche tray hand carved at center. May be used as a decorative object or used as a paperweight to brighten ones desk. Beautiful includes crysta...