Ormolu Decorative Objects

A palace size antique French ormolu-mounted Sevres Porcelain covered Urn. This magnificent vase painted on a white porcelain body centered with a Bouguereau style painting of female beauties encompassed by Cupids in a mythical garden setting with swans and a gazebo on one side, and a flying cupid observing a winged cherub holding a dove on the reverse. Signed: CH. Fuchs Marked with blue interlaced L's mark circa 1890 Dimensions Height 66" (167 cm) Width 24" (61 cm) Depth 18" (45 cm) The mark Ch Fuchs stands for the renowned painter Charles Fuchs...

A French white marble mantel clock of obelisk form with ormolu decorations in Louis XVI style. The enamel dial with Arabic numerals an...

A Pair of 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Baccarat Crystal Celeste Blue Opaline Vases. Each vase is of amphora form with a wide upper mouth that extends downwards ...

Stunning and very large Chinese Canton famille verte ormolu mounted porcelain vase of museum quality, from the city of Canton, is decorated in the so-called Famille Verte manner, mid...

An Exceptionally Stylish Pair of patinated Ormolu Bronze Dore single light Candlesticks of compact proportions, mid Nineteenth Century. Superbly formed on finely cast triple scroll...

These exceptional, large pair of red marble and gilt bronze candelabra is opulently decorated finely-cast neoclassical style decorations. Each candelabrum is formed as a red marble vase...

The mounts are similar to those by Gouthière. The one vase having more speckling of white in the porphyry than the other.

Very large antique French Sèvres style porcelain vase French, Late 19th Century Height 154cm, diameter 41cm This fantastic vase is the work of J. Pascault, a famed porcelain artist of the late 19th Century who specialised in the production of Sevres-style pieces. It is beautifully executed, and especially impressive given its large size of one and a half metres (almost 5 feet) in height. The vase is tall and slender in shape, set on a gilt bronze plinth, and surmounted by a cover with a pinecone finial. Its ovoid body is decorated around its exterior in the Rococo taste: showing a female figure and winged putti in a landscape...

Continental, 20th century. A traditional creamware basket with pierced body. The bowl is mounted with an engraved ormolu mount. Marked to underside.

An antique French ormolu souvenir of Lourdes, showing St Bernadette before the Virgin Mary as the "Miracle du Clerge", 5th April 1858, mid 19th Century i...

A fine cased carriage clock The substantially sized 'Gorge' case houses a lever platform escapement, striking the hours and half hours on a blued st...

Decorated with Insects From our Decorative collection, we are delighted to offer a pair of French Aesthetic Movement Bronze Vases. The Frenc...

Large Baroque style Austrian ormolu mounted musical clock Austrian, early 19th Century Total height: 211cm Clock: Height 135cm, width 86cm, depth 52 Stand: Height 76cm, width 81c...

An impressive and majestic French 19th century patinated Bronze and Ormolu statue of a horse and groom, modeled after the horses of Marly. The spectacular horse is draped in a saddle...

This is a stunning pair of Adam Revival antique gilded ormolu triple branch candle wall lights, dating from the Circa 1840. Each wall light has a tapering body, supporting a spiral ...

A very attractive pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. white Carrara marble and ormolu cassolettes with all original gilt. The pair are raised by a thick square shaped marble ba...

An important pair of ormolu-mounted cobalt blue Sèvres Porcelain vases with hand painted portrait and scenes to the front and back. Date...

A pair Napoleon III Egyptian imperial porphyry urns and covers, each with a shaped cover and baluster body on a concave support and square b...

Sevres Ormolu-Mounted Covered Vase of impressive size depicting cupid and two cherubs in a lush and colorful garden on both sides. The glazed painting applied bursts with bright and ...

Large 19th-century Russian Neoclassical Ormolu and Amethyst Cut Glass Vase St. Petersburg, mid-19th century  Offering a magnificent glimpse into 19th-century Russian Neoclassicism, ...

A sensational and most elegant pair of Japanese 19th century Imari Porcelain and French Louis XV st. Ormolu mounted vases. Each colorful vase is raised by a pierced Ormolu base with ...

A very impressive late 19th century gilt bronze mounted cobalt blue Sèvres style porcelain three piece garniture. The impressive...

A very impressive 19th century French gilded ormolu and bronze mantel clock, having a pair of bronze putti entwined around the eight day duration chiming clock with four scrolling fo...

A Large Gilt-Bronze Four-Glass Mantel Regulator Calendar Clock. The architectural case composed of two columns supporting a stepped top. The front and back with bevel glazed doors. The enamel clock...

A French 19th Century Pot-Pourri Covered Vase Large pot-pourri covered and ormolu-mounted ceramic vase Resting on an ormolu base simulating a perfume burner with posts in claws. L...

Empire period ormolu mantel clock by Le Roy et fils French, c. 1810 Height 36cm, width 37cm, depth 14cm This refined mantel clock was created during the Empire period by the esteem...

French Empire clock of stunning quality of borne shape constructed of rouge marble, original fire gilt ormolu and patinated bronze. The dial of the clock is signed "L Ravrio" below 1...

Antique French Empire patinated and gilt bronze mantel clock French, early 19th century Measures: Height 55cm, width 43cm, depth 13cm This fine Empire period mantel clock is wro...

Arch top French mantel clock in a finely decorated Ormolu case with classical scene to the front, standing on a mahogany base with brass banding and resting on brass feet. Enamel ...

Antique gilt and patinated bronze cherub centrepiece by Moreau French, 19th Century Height 38cm, width 50cm, depth 27cm This exceptional Louis XVI style centrepiece is the creation...

Monumental Sèvres style ormolu mounted porcelain vase of the Four Seasons French, c.1895 Height 152cm, diameter 45cm Set on a polychrome ground, dominated by a rare and fitting beige ground, which is accentuated and banded with strips in green, this beautiful and monumental porcelain vase...

Dimensions - H: 1 3/4in W: 3 1/2in D: 2in This Mid 18th Century Porcelain and Bronze Box by Meissen is truly a spectacular piece and is of the highest quality! If you look at the p...

A fine pair of early Victorian cornucopias of exceptional quality on white marble bases mounted with finely chased gilt bronze elephant heads supp...

A Very Large 19th Century Antique French Baccarat Crystal and Ormolu Mounted Covered Box, Attributed to Baccarat. This incredible large crystal box is all hand-diamond cut and attri...

A high quality and most stunning pair of Japanese 18th century Imari Porcelain and French Louis XVI st. Ormolu mounted urns. This wonderful pair of urns are raised by Ormolu socles d...

A fine Pair of 19th century Japanese Imari Porcelain and French Gilt-Bronze Mounted Thirteen-Light Celadon Torchere Candelabra. The bottle-shaped Japonisme vases with a Royal red background, decorated with parcel-gilt and black soaring eagles in the hunt within a forestall scene. Each Vase fitted and surmounted with a French 19th century Louis XV Style 13-Light scrolled candelabrum and all raised on a circular pierced gilt-bronze plinth. circa: 1880. Imari Porcelain (????) is the name for Japanese porcelain wares made in the town of Arita, in the former Hizen Province, northwestern Kyushu. They were exported to Europe extensively from the port of Imari, Saga, between the second half of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century. The Japanese as well as Europeans called them Imari. In Japanese, these porcelains are also known as Arita-yaki (???). Imari or Arita porcelain has been continously produced up through the present day. Characteristics Though there are many types of Imari, Westerners' conception of Imari in the popular sense is associated only with a type of Imari produced and exported in large quantity in mid-17th century. This type is called Kinrande. Kinrande Imari is colored porcelain with cobalt blue underglaze and red and gold overglaze. The color combination was not seen in China at that time. Traditional Ming dynasty color porcelain used dominantly red and green, probably due to scarcity of gold in China, whereas gold was abundant in Japan in those days. The subject matter of Imari is diverse, ranging from foliage and flowers to people, scenery and abstractions. Some Imari design structures such as kraak style were adopted from China, but most designs were uniquely Japanese owing to the rich Japanese tradition of paintings and costume design. The porcelain has a gritty texture on the bases, where it is not covered by glaze. There is also blue and white Imari. Kakiemon style Imari is another type of Imari, but it tends to be categorized separately in Europe. History "Imari" was simply the trans-shipment port for Arita wares. It was the kilns at Arita which formed the heart of the Japanese porcelain industry. Arita's kilns were set up in the 17th century, when kaolin was discovered in 1616 by the immigrant Korean potter, Yi Sam-pyeong (1579–1655). (He may also be known by the name, "Kanage Sambei".) Yi Sam-Pyeong, along with his extended family of 180 persons, left Korea on the offer of a privileged position in Japan. This decision was made after the occurrence of certain Japanese invasions of Korea. After Yi Sam-Pyeong's discovery, his kilns began to produce revised Korean-style blue and white porcelains, known as "Shoki-Imari". In the mid-17th century there were also a lot of Chinese refugees in Northern Kyushu due to the turmoil on Chinese continent, and it is said one of them brought coloring technique to Arita. Thus Shoki-Imari developed into Ko-KutaniImari. Ko-Kutani was produced around 1650 for both export and domestic market. Blue and white porcelain continued to be produced and they are called Ai-Kutani. Ko-Kutani Imari for the export market usually adopted Chinese design structure such as kraak style, whereas Ai-Kutani for the domestic market were highly unique in design and are accordingly valued very much among collectors. Ko-Kutani style evolved into Kakiemon style Imari, which was produced for about 50 years around 1700. Imari achieved its technical and aesthetic peak in Kakiemon style, and it dominated European market. Blue and white Kakiemon is called Ai-Kakiemon. Kakiemon style transformed into Kinrande in the 18th century. Kinrande used blue underglaze and red and gold overglaze, and later some other colors. Imari began to be exported to Europe because the Chinese kilns at Ching-te-Chen were damaged in the political chaos and the new Qing dynasty government stopped trade in 1656–1684. Exports to Europe were made through the Dutch East India Company, but the designation "Imari Porcelain" in Europe connotes Arita wares of mostly Kinrande Imari. Export of Imari to Europe stopped in mid-18th century when China began export to Europe again, since Imari was not able to compete against China due to high labor cost. By that time, however, both Imari and Kakiemon style were already so popular among Europeans, Chinese export porcelain copied both Imari and Kakiemon style, which is called Chinese Imari. At the same time, European kilns, such as Meisen also tried to copy Imari and Kakiemon. Export of Imari surged again in late 19th century (Meiji era) when Japonism flourished in Europe. Thus in western world today, two kinds of Imari can...

Antique 18th century Boulle bracket clock by Brezagez and Marchand French, circa 1740 Measures: Clock: Height 87cm, width 47cm, depth 21cm Bracket: Height 40cm, width 53cm, depth 24cm Total: Height 127cm This beautiful 18th century French bracket clock...

An elegant and most decorative French 19th century Louis XV/XVI st. Ormolu and Gilt Crystal vase. This stunning vase is raised by an oval C shaped Ormolu base with foliate scrolls am...

A Pair of Regency Bronze, Gilt-bronze & Marble Candle sticks. Gilt-bronze candle cup above black paginated bronze eagles. The eagles clutching se...

Antique 19th Century French Empire style ormolu bronze mantle clock. The foliate surround gilt dial, Inside with eight day movement with strike on bell. The top mounted with a figure...

A Garniture de Cheminee by Japy Freres et Cie Constructed in two color gold ormolu, comprising a richly decorated mantle clock and two candelabra in ...

A most impressive and large scale true pair of French 19th century patinated Bronze Marly horse statues, after a model by Coustou. Each statue is raised on a rock and ground like des...

A stunning museum quality French 19th century ormolu, patinated bronze, Rouge Griotte, Coquillier de Bilbao, and Sarrancolin marble statue and original pedestal named "Gloria Victus...

A high quality and most elegant French 19th century Louis XV st. Ormolu and Tortoiseshell box. This truly stunning rectangular box is raised on four scrolling Ormolu acanthus leaf le...

The central circular dial surmounted by two love birds, the lower section with two cherubs on either side, and decorated with garlands of flowers and scrolling features throughout.

A charming and most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Cranberry Glass and Gilt Metal box. The wonderful square lidded box is raised by four Gilt Metal butterfly shaped feet s...

A very rare French Empire ormolu mantel clock of an Astronomy Lesson. I have never seen this model before and it is larger than the other models by Jean Andre Reich. The clock has its original fire/mercury gilt ormolu or bronze doree. The clocks rectangular...

A magnificent and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Sévres Porcelain, patinated Bronze and Ormolu garniture set. This stunning set consisting of a central clock and two ...

Pair of antique Louis XVI style green marble and gilt bronze vases French, Late 19th Century Height 50cm, width 24cm, depth 18cm A superb example of late 19th century French decora...

Pair of French neoclassical style gilt bronze and cut glass lamps French, 20th century Dimensions: Height 75cm, width 24cm, depth 20cm Designed in the neoclassical Louis XVI sty...

A fine quality pair of Sèvres style ormolu-mounted porcelain urns with cherubs and flowers. Origin: French Late 19th-early 20th century Measure: H...

A very fine 19th century Rouge Griotte marble and gilt bronze clock in the Louis XVI style decorated with gilt bronze motifs, of rectangular form the painted floral porcelain white e...

French neoclassical style enamel, onyx, and gilt bronze pedestal clock French, late 19th century Measures: Height 125cm, width 36cm, depth 30cm This beautiful pedestal clock has...

A beautiful French Napoleon III ormolu carriage clock, with all five panels mounted in red marble. The marble panels overlaid with original gilt bronze neoclassical figures and acant...

French Ormolu monkey motif green crystal controlled bubble paperweight. France, Circa 1900s. An extraordinary work, with fine cast ormo...

Antique 19th Century French Louis XV style mantel clock, a captivating piece fashioned from Sevres style porcelain and adorned with ormolu accents. Atop the clock rests a striking 'b...

Marble, gilt, and patinated bronze three-piece clock set by Barbedienne French, late 19th century Measures: Clock: Height 93cm, width 60cm, depth 28cm Candelabra: Height 97cm, width 46cm, depth 33cm This monumental marble, gilt, and patinated bronze three-piece set is a stunning example of Barbedienne's craftsmanship during the Parisian Belle Époque. Paul Dubois' 'Le Courage Militaire...

An elegant and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu centerpiece tazza. This stunning centerpiece is raised by a triangular base with concave sides and showcasing a w...

An exceptionally well hand painted French sevres style soft paste porcelain circular centerpiece, deep dish or cabinet plate of large proportions, last half of the nineteenth century...

This beautiful clock was crafted in circa 1870 in France. Known as a carriage clock, it was designed for use when travelling. Such clocks were crafted on a small scale with handles, ...