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Vintage Petrified Wood Catch-All Bowl
Located in San Diego, CA
A very nice vintage petrified wood catch all / bowl, circa 1970s. The piece is in very good condition with wonderful brown and tan colors and measures 7"W x 6"D x 1"H. Cool piece! ...
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Mexican Mid-Century Modern Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Petrified Wood
White Rock Quartz Crystal Geode Natural Specimen Sculpture
Located in Miami, FL
White Rock Crystal Geode Natural Specimen Sculpture its divided into two parts.
Category
European Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Gorgeous Highly Polished Rainbow Obsidian Paperweight
Located in San Diego, CA
A gorgeous highly polished rainbow obsidian paperweight, circa 1960s. The piece is in very good condition with wonderful colors and measures 6.25"W 4....
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American Mid-Century Modern Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Stone
Vintage Petrified Wood Paperweight
Located in San Diego, CA
A very nice vintage petrified wood paper weight, circa old! The piece is in very good condition with wonderful brown and tan colors and measures 3"W x 3"D x 1.5"H; felt liner on the ...
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Congolese Mid-Century Modern Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Petrified Wood
Large Turquoise Rock or Paperweight
Located in San Diego, CA
Gorgeous large turquoise rock / paperweight from central Nevada. The piece has great color and texture and measures 4.5"W x 4.25"D x 3.5"H. Great deco...
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American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Stone
Natural Grey Quartz Geode Decorative Object or Paperweight
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful natural grey quartz geode specimen. Great as a standalone object on shelf, table, atop books, on a desk, as a paperweight, etc. Very good condi...
Category
Organic Modern Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Crystal, Quartz
Prehistoric Ammonite Fossil or Natural Specimen
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This Prehistoric fossilized ammonite is likely from Madagascar and thousands of years old. This fossil is free standing and could be used as a unique design element as a natural specimen...
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Malagasy Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Stone
Purple Amethyst Decorative Object or Paperweight
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful purple amethyst cluster decorative object, paperweight, or luxury display piece. A great piece for a bookshelf, cocktail table, on a desk as paperweight, etc. Dimensions:...
Category
Organic Modern Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Amethyst, Quartz
Vintage Petrified Wood Paperweight
Located in San Diego, CA
A very nice vintage petrified wood paper weight, circa 1960s. The piece is in very good condition with wonderful brown and tan colors and measur...
Category
Congolese Mid-Century Modern Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Petrified Wood
Ancient Islamic Persian Khurasan Silver Inlaid Bronze Caligraphy Inkwell 1200
Located in Portland, OR
An important Islamic Khurasan bronze and silver-inlaid inkwell & cover, Eastern Persia, Circa 1200.
The inkwell of cylindrical form and having a shallow dome top cover with a tall knopped finial and inlaid with a twin band of scrolled silver. The base of the dome and the rim of the cover having bands on interlaced silver inlay, the inkwell having three loop handles.
The body of the inkwell having two bands of silver inlaid Naskh script, between the bands are twin panels...
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Persian Islamic Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver, Bronze
Vintage Cut Geode Paperweight
Located in San Diego, CA
A very nice vintage cut geode paper weight, circa 1960s. The piece is in very good condition with wonderful brown, tan, grey and blue colors and measures 4...
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American Mid-Century Modern Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Petrified Wood
Industrial Iron Desk Decoration Letter Sign, 2000s
Located in Praha, CZ
Made from sheet metal and plastic
in good original condition
nice patina.
Category
European Industrial Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Iron, Sheet Metal
Antique Money Coin
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique money coin
Each coin is unique and varies slightly in size and stain.
Sold individually.
Category
African Minimalist Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Wood
Madagascan Fossil Tree Trunk Slice
Located in London, by appointment only
Madagascan fossil tree trunk slice.
Measures: 25 cm.
29 cm.
5 cm.
Category
Brazilian Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Stone
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Carl Auböck Paperweight #5371 or 5788 "Heart", Austria
Located in Berlin, DE
Carl Auböck paperweight #5371 or 5788 "Heart", Austria. Price is per piece. Available in different sizes.
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Austrian 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Vintage Beautiful Glass Paperweight Made Around 1960
Located in Oostrum-Venray, NL
Vintage Beautiful Glass Paperweight Made Around 1960
Additional information:
Dimensions: 6 W x 6 D x 5 H cm
Period of Time: 1960
Condition: Good
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
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Glass
Murano Glass Mushroom Ornament or Paperweight
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
An unusual and very charming vintage blown glass ornamental mushroom, its transparent stem flecked with tiny air bubbles and topped with a shapely black and white speckled cap. Beaut...
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Italian 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
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Blown Glass
Petrified Wood Bookends
Located in New York, NY
Stunning pair of petrified wood bookends.
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American Mid-Century Modern 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Petrified Wood
Decorative Paperweights '8' in Black / White / Red Terrazzo
By Bentu Design
Located in Paris, FR
'8' paperweights in terrazzo (Black / white / red). Brass detail.
Set of three pieces.
Measures: 8.3 x 6 x 6 cm
Bentu design furniture and lightings derive its uniqueness fro...
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Chinese Industrial 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
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Brass
Art Déco French Polished Silvered Bronze Balancing Dice Paperweight by E. Brandt
By Edgar Brandt
Located in North Miami, FL
Art Déco fench polished silvered bronze balancing dice paperweight by Edgar Brandt
By: Edgar Brandt
Material: copper, bronze, silver, metal
Technique: cast, molded, silvered, polish...
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French Art Deco 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
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Copper, Bronze, Silver, Metal
H 3 in W 2.5 in D 2.5 in
Carl Auböck Model #4867 'Egg' Polished Brass Paperweight
Located in Glendale, CA
Carl Aubo¨ck Model #4867 'Egg' brass paperweight. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly clean and refined Viennese paperweight is hand fabricated in polished brass by Werkstätte Car...
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Austrian Mid-Century Modern 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Empire Style Malachite on a Bronze Doré Gilded Stand Desk Decorative Object LA
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A Beautiful Empire style malachite orb on a bronze doré stand retour d'Egypte of 3 figures of standing maidens with a pine cone in the center an detailed crown holder hosting a large...
Category
French Empire Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
Handmade Biomorphic Wood Bowl Catch it All Modern Don Shoemaker Mexico 1970s
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Handmade Biomorphic bowl crafted in wood manner of Don Shoemaker made in Mexico 1970s
Unmarked.
Organic Kidney shape design ideal as small serving dish or catch it all piece.
Meas...
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Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Wood
H 1.5 in W 5.5 in D 7.25 in
Vintage Luminous Blown Glass Aquarium Paperweight
Located in New York, NY
A large vintage hand-blown glass paperweight. The polychrome globe piece represents an aquarium with fish. Collectible Desk Accessories And Home Dec...
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Unknown 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass
Vintage Murano Glass Apple Shaped Paperweight
Located in Glasgow, GB
This vintage Murano glass paperweight, shaped in the form of an apple, showcases handcrafted skill and excellence with its intricate internal details and technical creativity. It exe...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Murano Glass
Gorgeous Murano Italian Art Glass Giant Octopus Paperweight, Italy, 1980s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Beautiful Murano hand blown aquarium Italian art glass paper weight. Showing a giant octopuses, in a glass bubble floating on controlled bubbles. Colors are a blue, yellow, red and c...
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Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Murano Glass
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Petrified Tree Fossil in Greenish Colours
Located in Marbella, ES
Petrified tree fossil in greenish colours.
Category
European Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Petrified Wood
Bronze Seal, Possibly 12th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Stamp. Bronze. Possibly 12th century.
Oval seal with intaglio carving on one side and, on the other, a rectangular shape and a small protruding piece to...
Category
Spanish Medieval Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Very Large Pair of 395 Million Year Old Fossilized Orthoceras Art Statues Fossil
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer this stunning pair of fully polished limestone circa 395 million year old Fossilized Orthoceras statues
Orthoceras ("straight horn") is a genus of extinc...
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Swedish Other Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Limestone
H 33.08 in W 10.24 in D 9.85 in
Very Large 395 Million Year Old Fossilized Orthoceras Marble Finish Art Statues
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning fully polished limestone circa 395 million year old Fossilized Orthoceras statue
Orthoceras ("straight Horn") is a genus of extinc...
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Swedish Other Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Limestone
H 31.11 in W 7.49 in D 7.88 in
Petite Terracotta Rolling Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
With a rounded body that gently curves into a flared spout, this petite ceramic vessel has a beautifully formed silhouette. It has wonderfully aged patina and is intricately painted ...
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Central American Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Terracotta
Antique Terracotta Idol Head on Perspex Base
Located in Roma, IT
Idol head is an original decorative terracotta object.
It represents a portrait of divinity.
Probably made during the Toltec culture (ca. 900–1168 CE).
Mounted on perspex b...
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Central American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Terracotta
Fragment of the Famous Murchison Meteorite
Located in London, GB
Specimen H.126.34 of the famous Murchison meteorite, an observed impact from Victoria, Southeast Australia.
On the morning of 28 September 1969, an explosion occurred over the smal...
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Australian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Other
Enormous Megalodon Shark Tooth Fossil
Located in London, GB
A huge, 6 1/2 inch Megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon) shark tooth, dating to 25 – 2 million years before the present day.
It's hard to comprehend that ...
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American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Other
Egyptian Poly-Chrome Wood Mask 100-200 BC Garniture Sarcophagus Face Mask statue
Located in West Hollywood, CA
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Egyptian poly-chrome wood mask 100-200 BC garniture
Historic. An ancient Egyptian wooden face mask, once part of a large anthropoid sarcophagus.
Sensitively carved from a large piece of cedar wood, with large almond shaped eyes,Once covered in thick paint, remnants of which survive, now dark in color. Beautifully weathered, revealing the grain of the wood beneath.
Provenance: Anthony Duquette an american artist specialized in designs for stage and film. Duquette was born in Los Angeles, California. He grew up between Los Angeles, where he wintered with his family, and Three Rivers, Michigan, where they lived the rest of the year. As a student, Duquette was awarded scholarships at both the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and the Yale School of the Theatre. After graduating from Chouinard, he began working in advertising, creating special environments for the latest seasonal fashions. He also began to free-lance for designers such as William Haines, James Pendleton and Adrian. In the early 1940s, Duquette's parents and siblings moved permanently to Los Angeles, where Duquette had been living since 1935. During this time Duquette was discovered by designer and socialite Elsie de Wolfe. Through the patronage of de Wolfe and her husband Sir Charles Mendl, Duquette established himself as one of the leading designers in Los Angeles. He worked increasingly for films, including many Metro Goldwyn Mayer productions under the auspices of producer Arthur Freed and director Vincente Minnelli.
Upon his return from Europe in 1947, Duquette continued his works for private clients and for the theatre and motion pictures. He presented his first exhibition at the Mitch Liesen Gallery in Los Angeles and shortly thereafter was asked to present his works at the Pavilion de Marsan of the Louvre Museum, Paris. Duquette was the first American artist to have a one-man show at the Louvre.[citation needed] Returning from a year in France, where he received design commissions from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and the Alsatian industrialist Commandant Paul Louis Weiller, Duquette held a one-man showing of his works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
There followed other one-man exhibitions of Duquette's works, including at the M. H. de Young Museum and Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the California Museum of Science and Industry and Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles, the El Paso Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, as well as one-man exhibitions in Dallas, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Phoenix, Arizona.
In 1956, with his wife Elizabeth (known as Beegle), he opened a salon in the converted silent film studios of actress Norma Talmadge, where they entertained friends such as Arthur Rubenstein, Aldous Huxley, Jascha Heifitz and Greta Garbo.
1960–1970s
During the 1960s and '70s, the Duquettes continued to travel extensively, working in Austria, Ireland and France as well as New York, Dallas, San Francisco, South America and Asia. Duquette created interiors for Doris Duke, Norton Simon, and J. Paul Getty, a castle in Ireland for Elizabeth Arden and a penthouse in the Hawaiian Islands. He also designed interiors for commercial and public spaces like the Hilton Hawaiian Village, Sheraton Universal Hotel, and sculptures and tapestries for the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Chicago as well as the Los Angeles Music Center and the University of California at Los Angeles. Designs for film and theatre include Yolanda and the Thief, Lovely to Look At, Kismet, and Ziegfeld Follies for MGM, as well as Jest of Cards, Beauty and the Beast, and Danses Concertantes for the San Francisco Ballet. Operas for which Duquette designed both costumes and settings include Der Rosenkavelier, The Magic Flute, and Salome. His designs for the original Broadway production of Camelot won Duquette the Tony Award for Best Costume Design.
His monumental work of environmental art Our Lady Queen of the Angels was created as a gift to the people of Los Angeles in honor of that city's lyrical name[2] and in celebration of the bicentennial. This hugely successful multi-sensorial exhibit was seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors over a three-year period at the California State Museum of Science and Industry at Exposition Park. As part of the unique experience of "ethnic angels," Duquette included a poetic narration by Ray Bradbury, spoken by Charlton Heston. Duquette embellished the celebratory experience with original music by Garth Hudson (reissued in 2005). The immense size of the building added to the effect, where from the 80 foot ceiling hung an 18-foot Madonna, dressed in an ornate and symbolic gown. She was surrounded by angels and alters and jeweled tapestries. All of this was enhanced by special lighting effects which changed the Madonna's facial color "to represent the four races."[2] Duquette researched angels and learned every major world religion (Catholic, Jewish, Moslem, Buddhist, Hindu believes in the same eight archangels.[3] "Duquette writes that his 'Angels' exhibit stresses over and over again 'the brotherhood of man, which is an implied theme of this 'celebration." He stated, "It is my hope that this celebrational environment, into which I have poured the aspirations of a lifetime, will transport the viewer to another dimension."[4]
In 1979, the Duquettes formed the Anthony and Elizabeth Duquette...
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Egyptian Egyptian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Wood
H 11 in W 10 in D 3 in
Enormous Megalodon Shark Tooth Fossil
Located in London, GB
A huge, 6 1/2 inch Megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon) shark tooth, dating to 25 – 2 million years before the present day.
It's hard to comprehend that this enormous serrated tooth once belonged to a living creature. Yet this beautiful fossil would have lined the mouth of a particularly large Megalodon; one of Earth's most terrifying predators. An ancestor of the Great white shark, Megalodon swam the planet's prehistoric oceans, preying on large whales.
Palaeontologists believe that Megalodon may have been up to 60 feet long and could weigh around 80 tonnes. Its bite is thought to have been the most powerful of any living creature, capable of biting clean through the head of a whale.
Megalodon teeth...
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American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Zeolite Specimen
Located in Houston, TX
Zeolite Specimen cut in a large rectangular segment of two naturally occurring species of zeolite.
Category
American Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
Materials
Stone
Egyptian Paleolithic Tools from the Theban Plateau
Located in London, GB
A collection of Homo erectus tools from the Theban plateau, Egypt, dating to the Lower Paleolithic, circa 300,000-90,000 years ago.
Cf. object 06.322.14 at the Metoropiltan Museum...
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Egyptian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Desk Accessories
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Stone
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