1820s Decorative Objects

Pair of French Empire Gilt Bronze Candlesticks, France, 1820s An elegant pair of French Empire candlesticks in finely chased and gilt bronze, dating from the 1820s. The tall and bal...

A magnificent, fine and impressive antique George IV English sterling silver gilt table snuff box; an addition to our antique box collection. This...

Each vase depicts a landscape scene on one side and a bouquet of flowers on the other.

A remarkable early 19th C. Black Catalan terracotta cosi pot from the village of quart, Catalonia. Incredibly rare XXL size. Heavily patinated with many age old staple repairs. Or...

Pair of French Empire Gilt Bronze Candlesticks, 1820s A fine pair of gilt bronze candlesticks from France, dating to the Empire period, circa 1820. Each candlestick is richly decor...

An exceptional French Napoleon III gilt bronze figural mantel clock, dating to the early 19th century, showcasing the elegance, artistry, and masterful craftsmanship that made French...

Early 19th to mid 19th century Chinese, Iron, water bath. With the patina of decades, this cast-iron sarcophagus-shaped bath has its original handles and exudes a timeless floral dec...

Chinese black lacquer box dating from the early 1800s to 1820s. This piece was originally an interior compartment from a larger work box, made for export during the period. The surfa...

Hallmarked in London in 1821 by Christopher John Buckler, this handsome, Antique Sterling Silver Snuff Box, is gilt, and features a cast "Topers" scene on the lid of three gentlemen ...

This pair of French chenets from the Early 1800s is a stunning example of Egyptian Revival design. The chenets feature a stately dark patina bronze sphynx...

Now lamps with wood bases, each depicting an Asian figure in painted costume dress.

Mantel clock by Grant. An unusual mantel clock with the heavy bronze case in the form of a log cabin. The clock workings by John Grant, Fleet St...

An elaborate three light candelabra with a pillar and file cut base mounted with a central silver band decorated with finely feather cut rosettes and hung with rounded rule drops sur...

A fine pair of large antique 19th century Roman neoclassical Campagna shaped black Scagliola vases or urns. Seated on a square base, the rim and body of each vase has a meticulously ...

A fine pair of Ormolu and bronze bases issuing serpentine scroll arms supporting diamond cut drips and candle nozzles hung with star buttons and triangular icicles.

This pair is unique in that the one on the left depicts 'The Chainbridge', one of the first suspension bridges designed by Thomas Telford-Over the Menai Strait in Wales, circa 1870. ...

A fine model of Chronos carrying off time. The superbly modelled and cast figure of Chronos with scythe in one hand and carrying the clock under his arm. Set on a fine marble base wi...

The elaborately cut bases of bulbous form mounted with ormolu serpentine scroll arms supporting diamond cut drip pans and candle nozzles the centre issuing acorn cut glass finials th...

A stunning pair of Regency cut glass storm lights the radial cut bases with step cut foot supporting strawberry diamond cut eggs mounting fan ed...

A Regency diamond and step cut magnum carafe. England, circa 1820.

A large and rare C19th pair of `Grand Tour` Medici lions in carved wood, at opposing stances with heads turned to sinister and dexter, with one paw on a ball. Circa 1830. In good co...

A Fine Quality Pair of French Empire Bronze and Gilt Ormolu Candelabra, each in the form of cherub figures holding up three ornate candle branches, These magnificent candelabras we...

Bronze gilded and enameled frame with colored glass cabochons. First third of 19th century, circa 1820-1830 Troubadour style. High-quality manufacturing. Sight size: 44,5 x 31 cm. ...

P0241 An attractive Regency-era rosewood jewellery box, dating back to circa 1820. This antique piece features striking decorative scroll inlays and a fully lined interior. It retain...

Pair of Paris porcelain cachepots and stands, circa 1820.

A pair of Antique busts of the French philosophers Rousseau and Voltaire. Unusually although from fairly standard portraits the busts appear to be English rather than French as they ...

The patinated plinths with a central applied winged putti in military garb flanked on either side by gilt applied masks within lozenges.

Marked with blue crossed swords. Modelled standing in a long coat, the base impressed "Goethe 1828".

This lovely Baroque French giltwood picture frame is a unique small size and would be a great enhancement to any piece of art. Note multi layers of carving on sides- truly a little g...

Small ormolu inkwell with a beehive-shaped system decorated with bees at the top, on a base animated with flowers and vegetation. The basket-shaped receptacle is decorated with wheat...

Each with large center still life panel.

A regency tea caddy made of rosewood inlaid with brass. Bronze dore feet are a winged lion with flowers and fruit. A wonderful and desirable shape. E...

Antique Staffordshire Pearlware Bocage Figure Group Ca. 1820 depicting a lady carrying her child and riding on a goat and its little goat. The goat also carries some baskets and fill...

Pair of Empire Candlesticks in gilt and dark patinated bronze. Made in France during the 1820s. Beautiful decorated with flowers and a dark patinated column in the center of the cand...

This Georgian period traveling desk from circa 1820, crafted in England, features an Italiante metal handle and lock that enhance its functionality and historical charm. The exterior...

Bronze, dark-brown patina, unmarked. Measures: Height: 23” Width: 14” The notion of an “American Rococo” seems a contradiction in terms. The very word rococo is as French as Camembert. It connotes a style that reigned along with Louis XV in the aristocratic decadence of the 18th Century. It was garlanded, nonchalant, associated with erotic marshmallow nudes by Francois Boucher and foppish courtiers costumed as shepherds pretending they understood Jean-Jacques Rousseau when all they really wanted was romantic dalliance in the formal gardens of Versailles. In the history of painting it produced but one great artist, Antoine Watteau. By contrast, Americans of the period are remembered as the flinty inheritors of New England Puritans, full of rectitude and having not a moment for furbelow or frippery. Such few painters as were around included hard-nosed realists like John Singleton Copley and Charles Willson Peale. Well, as it turns out, life once again acts according to the principle of paradox. There was an American rococo. It came to us indirectly via England disguised under the name Chippendale. Now for the first time the style receives comprehensive survey in the exhibition “American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in Ornament.” Jointly organized by New York’s Metropolitan Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, it opens here Sundaywith a spread of some 170 works of decorative art and a conscientious catalogue with essays by Met and LACMA curators Morrison H. Heckscher and Leslie Greene Bowman. There are at least two ways of looking at the decorative arts. Connoisseurs appreciate their design and craftsmanship. Those of sociological bent examine objects of material culture for their revelations of history and the temper of the times. Actually neither view is complete without the other. Stylistically the rococo reveals a longing for intimacy in its small scale and an urge to organic nature in its love of stylized vines, tendrils, tiny flowers and seashells. If it were a new manner being promoted by Madison Avenue today it would probably be called “Baroque Lite.” There is an ease about the style that makes it airy, but it has an underlying formality that bespeaks lives of gentrified cultivation rather than beer-bellied sloth. It’s fascinating to examine the flintlock firearms on view and find these weapons of death shaped and decorated with the most exquisite care by wood carvers and metal engravers. All of this is completely consistent with the main currents of 18th-Century European thought. In France, Rousseau sang the virtues of nature and the noble savage like a present-day ecologist. In England, John Locke...

A Large 19th C. Terracotta vessel from Calanda, Spain. Originally used for the storage/transportation of wine/olive oil. Heavily patinated terracotta with pale tones.

Based upon the paintings by the French painter Eustace Le Sueur (1616-1655), the left vase depicts the Muses Clio, Euterpe and Thalia and the right vase depicts the Muses Melpomene...

Early 19th century Capodimonte lively figural group of two women tending to a gentleman’s hair with playful little dog, circa 1820.

Elegant pair of Candlesticks i bronze with dark patinated column. French Empire during the 1820s. Wear consistent with age and use

Empire Cast Iron Pocket Watch Stand with Martial Decoration, circa 1820 Striking Empire-period pocket watch stand in cast iron, dating from the early 19th century, circa 1820. A po...

Imposing Pair of Italian Giltwood Altar Candlesticks – 19th Century This striking pair of ecclesiastical candlesticks originates from Italy and dates to the mid-19th century. Standin...

A magnificent English Regency oval cranberry glass dressing table box with toleware lid inset with embroidery surrounding a colour wash print. The cranberry glass with deep cut diamo...

Early 19th Century Sycamore Muffineer, Sugar Shaker This beautiful piece has been hand turned on a lathe, it comes into 2 parts so that it can be filled with sugar or other spices ...

A rare pair of finely figured Swedish Blyberg Porphyry Campana Urns of grand scale dating to the early 19th Century. Swedish Circa1820 This pair of superb large urns are of bel...

Two elegant, simple early Biedermeier silver candle holders on a round stand with a slightly curved, smooth shaft, chased decoration on the edge of the foot, on the narrow bulge rings and on the upper edge of the slightly flared vase-shaped spout. Branded by the Wheel mark, Viennese official hallmark: 13 Lot silver, dated 1827 Master's stamp: 'LK' in oval - Leopold Kuhn, Worked as master 1818-1828 Bibliography: 'Old Vienna' dictionary for Austrian and southern German arts and crafts...

A most unusual pair of bronzes of the philosophers and authors Voltaire ( 1694-1778) and Rousseau (1712-1778). Each is seen sitting full length and in chairs. They are set on rectang...

An exquisite pair of gilt bronze cups richly decorated with palmettes, small flowers and pierced foliages, on a godrooned base adorned with a pine cone finial. Two ormolu dolphins su...

Painted pattern numbers 3/233 in red or black.

This remarkable Indian box dates to the early 19th century and was traditionally used as a work box or storage vessel for food, jewelry, fruit, and other treasured objects. Cast in s...

An English Regency serpentine satinwood marquetry inlaid tea caddy with rosewood cross-banding throughout. The top is centered with a leaf roundel,the central front panel with an ova...

Hand carved Marble Bust of Sarah Siddon with original pedestal. United Kingdom, late 19th century.

A large sarcophagus shaped rosewood tea caddy with a semi domed top. Original glass inside and two tea compartments. Mother of pearl inlaid escutcheon. On bun feet. The interior is f...

A 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Hand-Carved and Hand-Polished Carrara Marble Double-Handled Urn on Lion's Paw Base. Intricately hand-carved with meticulous detail, the wide mouth ...

Early 19th C. French Empire Ormolu Mounted Inkwell with Porcelain Plaque of the Alexander Mosaic. This French ormolu mounted inkwell is of rectangular form and is centered by a porc...

Pair of Regency Glass Cornucopia - The hand blown blue glass is in excellent undamaged condition and sits on the original white statuary marble plinth ...

Pair of Anglo Irish cut and faceted glass candlesticks, circa 1820.

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely Portrait of the Infanta Margarita Teresa Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (Queen of Spain) A very sweet ...

This magnificent cut glass urn stands on a Garter star cut foot, supporting the most unusual, deep scale and swirl cutting design. The corresponding lid unusually mounted with a crow...

This is a Rare and unique Swedish Mora Clock with 100% Original Paint. New battery works and reproduction face have been installed. the Original works and face are offered with eve...