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Period: 1820s
Swedish Carved Burl Bowl
Located in Greenwich, CT
Swedish 18th Century dugout burl ale bowl of organic form, the whole with deep rich patination and oxidation from exposure to ale.
Category
Swedish Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Birch
19th C. Italian Grand Tour Carrara Marble Double-Handled Urn on Lion's Paw Base
Located in New York, NY
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 ...
Category
Italian Grand Tour Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Carrara Marble
Vienna Imperial Porcelain Coffee Service, 8 People, Prussian Blue & Gold, 1825
Located in Vienna, AT
Elegant 19-piece coffee service consisting of a coffee pot, a large milk or hot water pot, a large sugar urn and eight coffee cups with saucers.
Large bulbous vessels on stepped stan...
Category
Austrian Biedermeier Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
English Copper Hammered & Cast Brass Jardiniere with Acanthus Paw Feet, C. 1820
Located in Charleston, SC
English copper hand hammered & cast brass jardiniere with a rolled rim, flanking scrolled side handles, and resting on the original acanthus lion paw feet, Early 19th Century.
Category
English George III Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Copper, Brass
Large Biedermeier Box or Chest, Walnut Veneer, Brass, South Germany circa 1820
Located in Regensburg, DE
Large Biedermeier Box or small chest in walnut veneer from Southern Germany around 1820.
Original brass handle. Ebonized key escutcheon and edges. Restored and hand-polished with she...
Category
German Biedermeier Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
John Blades Regency Pillar and Diamond Cut Candelabra
By John Blades
Located in Steyning, West sussex
An exceptional large pair of Regency pillar and diamond cut glass and ormolu candelabra by John Blades with scolloped cut base mounted with a finely cut ce...
Category
Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Cut Glass
Pair of American Gilt Bronze and Crystal Argand Lamps, Philadelphia. Circa 1820
Located in Charleston, SC
Pair of American two arm git bronze and crystal argand lamps with centered crystal reservoirs surmounted by gilt swans, original etched floral globes with prisms, terminating on trip...
Category
American American Empire Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Pair of American Rococo Revival Patinated Bronze Candelabras, Ca. 1825
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
American Rococo Revival Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Rare decorative fruit basket made of wax. Italy, first half of the 19th century.
Located in Milan, IT
A composition depicting a vase-shaped wicker basket with a decorative fruit triumph made of wax. The elegant wicker basket contains an arrangement of colored wax fruit. The branches ...
Category
Italian Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Wire
British Campaign Royalty Leather Traveling Trunk, Circa 1820
Located in Charleston, SC
British Campaign water proof leather traveling trunk with leather fitted interior compartment, brass banding mounts, Royal coat of arms brass plate, brass side handles, and retains t...
Category
English Campaign Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Pair of Berlin Porcelain Faux Marble and Gilt Urns, circa 1825
Located in New York, NY
of amphora form, affixed at the shoulder with two gilt griffin-form handles, painted to simulate red white-veined marble, gilt rims, sceptre mark above eagle within roundel in underg...
Category
German Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Unusual Pair of Regency Ormolu-Mounted Cut-Glass Vase Candelabra
By John Blades
Located in Steyning, West sussex
The circular stepped bases of vase form this unusually surmounted with an ormolu twin branch these supporting drip pans and thistle shaped candle nozzles these cut with fine strawber...
Category
British Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Rare English Porcelain Covered Cachepots, Derby, circa 1820
Located in New York, NY
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. ...
Category
English Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Antique George IV Sterling Silver Gilt Table Snuff Box
By John Linnit
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A magnificent, fine and impressive antique George IV English sterling silver gilt table snuff box; an addition to our antique box collection.
This...
Category
English Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
John Lawrence & Co 1826 Sterling Silver Purse Vinaigrette
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive antique George IV English sterling silver vinaigrette in the form of a purse; an addition to our silver boxes collection.
This antique George IV sterling silve...
Category
English George IV Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Pair of Porcelain of Paris, Urns, circa 1820
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of porcelain of Paris, urns, circa 1820.
Category
French Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Spanish Silver Candle Holder
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A fine and impressive antique Spanish silver candlestick; an addition of our ornamental silverware collection
This fine antique Spanish silver candlestick has a waisted circular shaped form onto a domed circular shaped base to a colet style rim.
The surface of this impressive antique candlestick is ornamented in a swirl design.
The impressive waisted knopped column is fitted to the base with a screw fitting, as to be expected for such a candlestick.
This silver candlestick does not have a weighted base.
This antique Spanish candlestick...
Category
Spanish Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of Delft Blue and White Vases, circa 1820
Located in New York, NY
With vivid cobalt decoration in Chinoiserie style.
Category
Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Delft
Pair of Regency Tole "Brighton Pavillion" Figural Table Lamps
Located in Essex, MA
Now lamps with wood bases, each depicting an Asian figure in painted costume dress.
Category
English Regency Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Tin
Antique Carnelian and Yellow Gold Vinaigrette
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique 1820s 12k yellow gold and carnelian vinaigrette; an addition to our collection of silver boxes and cases.
This exceptional, fine and impressive antique 12k yellow gold vinaigrette has a cylindrical form.
The surface of the sides, base and cover of this impressive antique vinaigrette are encompassed with concentric bands of tooled decoration, accented with punched circular motifs.
The underside of the antique box features an impressive chased tiered floral motif, accented with further tooled decoration.
The upper plateau of the cover is ornamented with an impressive collet set carnelian panel to the centre.
The hinged cover opens to allow access to the original, hinged pierced decorated grille.
Condition
This 19th century antique gold vinaigrette...
Category
Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold
English Pearlware Three-Piece Garniture, Wedgwood, circa 1820
By Wedgwood
Located in New York, NY
Impressed Wedgwood.
Slight indentation on inner rim suggests that these originally had covers.
Category
English Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Pearlware
Pair of American Mahogany Urn Cutlery Boxes with Fluted Medallion Gallery C 1820
Located in Charleston, SC
Pair of American mahogany flanking Urn telescopic cutlery boxes with acorn finials, fluted medallion gallery, original interior cutlery slots, and resting on turned ringed circular s...
Category
American American Empire Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Mahogany, Pine
Antique French Green and White Opaline Glass Pumpkin Casket Box – Charles X Era
Located in Hamburg, DE
This exquisite French opaline glass casket box, dating from the Charles X period, showcases the elegant craftsmanship typical of early 19th-century French glasswork. Designed in the ...
Category
French Charles X Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Opaline Glass
Candlesticks with Caryatids in Gilt and Dark-Patinated Bronze – Empire, 1820s
Located in Knivsta, SE
French Candlesticks with Caryatids in Gilt and Dark-Patinated Bronze – Empire, 1820s
A magnificent pair of French candlesticks in gilt and dark-patinated bronze, made during the he...
Category
French Empire Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Gold Snuff Box, Restauration Period, circa 1820-1830
Located in Paris, FR
Rectangular box with rounded corners. The hinged lid as well as the bottom are embellished with an intricate geometric pattern framed with rinceaux motifs on a matte gold background....
Category
European Restauration Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold
Whitehurst of Derby Wall Clock
Located in Whaley Bridge, GB
Sn3122, fine quality, Regency, mahogany wall clock by Whitehurst of Derby, having original painted dial with Roman numerals, original hands and convex glass with brass bezel, in octa...
Category
English Regency Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Mahogany
Regency Mahogany Bracket Clock by George Grove, London
Located in Norwich, GB
Small regency bracket clock.
Mahogany chamfered top case surmounted by a brass pineapple finial with brass inlay, standing on a raised plint...
Category
English Regency Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Mahogany
Pair of Regency Ormolu and Bronze Candelabra
Located in Steyning, West sussex
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.
Category
British Regency Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Exceptional Pair of Swirl Cut Regency Decanters with Swirl Cut Stoppers
Located in Steyning, West sussex
Exceptional pair of swirl cut Regency decanters with swirl cut stoppers.
Category
British Regency Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Cut Glass
Fine Pair of Step and Diamond Panelled Cut Glass Magnum Regency Decanters
Located in Steyning, West sussex
A fine pair of step and diamond panelled cut glass magnum regency decanters.
Category
European Regency Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Cut Glass
Antique Enamel and Silver Filigree Box, Circa 1820
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique enamel and English silver filigree box; an addition to our silver ornamental collection.
This except...
Category
English Georgian Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Pair of English Pearlware Deer, Staffordshire, circa 1820
Located in New York, NY
Pair of English pearlware deer, Staffordshire, circa 1820. Figures of a stag and a hind.
Category
English Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Antique Sterling Silver Three-Light Candelabrum Centrepiece
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A magnificent, fine and impressive antique George IV English sterling silver three-light candelabrum centrepiece; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection.
This magnificent antique English sterling silver three light candelabrum has a cylindrical tapering, shaped form.
This antique silver centrepiece...
Category
British George IV Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
A Russian Empire Carved Gilt Wood and Faux Malachite Painted Mantel Clock
Located in Stockholm, SE
A very nice and charming carved gilt wood and faux painted malachite empire clock. Probably Russian.
Ça. 1820-30. The figure probably of the Greek goddess HYGIEIA. She was one of the daughters of the god of medicine...
Category
Russian Empire Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Pair of French 19th Century Old Paris Porcelain Swan Handle Vases, Marked
Located in New York, NY
A fine pair of French 19th century Empire Period Old Paris Porcelain swan handle vases. Each is beautifully hand-painted with a light blue colored ground and further adorned with 24K...
Category
French Empire Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
French Ormolu Figural Mantel Clock with Glass Dome, circa 1820
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A French Charles X period ormolu mantel clock. The drum case flanked by a young couple standing under a palm tree with flowers all around, while the lady touched the man's hand.
The...
Category
French Charles X Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French Empire Candleabra
Located in Westwood, NJ
Pair of French Empire bronze doré three-light candelabra with nautical motifs, dolphins and shells.
Category
French Empire Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Georgian Chain Fusee Skeleton Clock by Jones, Strand
Located in Norwich, GB
Georgian Skeleton Clock by Jones, The Strand, London
Georgian skeleton clock standing on an ebonised stepped base lined with blue velvet and original square glass dome.
Lyre ...
Category
English Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
German Porcelain Two-Handled Vase, circa 1820
Located in New York, NY
Marked KPM porcelain. Campana shaped with beautiful floral still life.
Category
German Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Vase (Decoration Orchidées), Sign: Le Verre Francais, Style: Art Nouveau, 1924
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Vase Sign: Le Verre Francais
acid worked
Le Verre cameo glass was a separate line of art glass designed by Charles Schneider. Its production was made at the same time as the Schneid...
Category
French Art Nouveau Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Art Glass
Pair of 19th Century Empire Gilt Bronze and Patinated Bronze Victory Candelabras
Located in Berlin, DE
Pair of Large 19th Century Empire Ormolu and Patinated Bronze Victory Sculptures Candelabras in the manner of Philippe Thomire (1751-1843)
A large a...
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French Empire Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Black Lacquer Chinese Export Work Box
Located in Tampa, FL
An early 19th century black lacquer, Chinese export work box, beautifully decorated in gold. The decoration is a court seen in gold gilt with two brass handles on the sides and paw f...
Category
Chinese Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Pair of French Early 19th Century Empire Gilt-Bronze Candlesticks, circa 1820
Located in Berlin, DE
Pair of French early 19th century Empire gilt-bronze candlesticks, circa 1820
Pair of Empire gilt bronze candlesticks, each with a fluted stem, highlighted on top by a finely chas...
Category
French Empire Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Restauration Paris porcelain gilt vase early 19th century circa 1830
Located in GRENOBLE, FR
Paris porcelain vase enhanced with fine gold, French early 19th century fine work.
Our vase is decorated with a gilt music score trophy on one side, a crown of laurel leaves surround...
Category
French Restauration Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Figural Tazza, circa 1820
Located in New York, NY
Royal Copenhagen porcelain figural tazza, circa 1820.
Category
Danish Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
A Pair of French 19th Century Empire Candlesticks
Located in Stamford, CT
A pair of French 19th century Empire gilt and bronze candlesticks.
Category
French Empire Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Gold and Enamel Zarf, Swiss, Early 19th Century
Located in Paris, FR
A gold and enamel zarf, pierced and enamelled. The collar is decorated with geometric patterns enamelled green and blue. The zarf has two medallions of pin...
Category
Swiss Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Orologio a Vaso Francia Primo Quarto XIX Secolo
By Non-Standard Furniture and Lighting
Located in Milano, IT
Orologio a vaso in bronzo dorato poggiante su un plinto ornato con motivi a foglie susseguenti poggiante su quattro piedini a sfera. Il corpo dalla caratteristica forma a vaso biansa...
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French Empire Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Spanish Colonial 1820 Rare Large Display Amphora with Handles in Solid Sterling
Located in Miami, FL
A Spanish Colonial amphora vase with handles.
Gorgeous oversized antique silver piece with baroque and neo-classic patterns. made at the beginning of the 19th century, during the ...
Category
Mexican Spanish Colonial Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Large French Gilt Bronze and Crystal Domed Casket, Circa 1820
Located in New York, NY
The bronze finely chased with foliage and flower heads, the escutcheon with chased cornucopia terminating in bird heads, the crystal box upheld by gilt bronze scrolls terminating in ...
Category
French Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
English Regency Fusee Mantel Clock, by Viner in Ormolu and Derbyshire Marble
Located in London, GB
English Regency ormolu and Derbyshire black marble mantel clock. Typical drum shaped clock, set on four elaborate ormolu toupee feet. The Derbyshire black marble base has an applied ...
Category
English Regency Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Rare Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock "Au Taureau" by J. Mansfield, Circa 1830
Located in Madrid, ES
his exceptional gilt bronze mantel clock, known as "au taureau," is a distinguished piece from circa 1830. The clock features a finely detailed bull figure supporting an elegant rect...
Category
Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Antique Roman Neoclassical Campagna Shaped Black Scagliola Vases or Urns
Located in New York, NY
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 ...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Scagliola
Late Georgian Mahogany Box In The Form Of A Chest
Located in Essex, MA
Salesman size chest with lifting top concealing a compartment. Three working drawers below. Bracket feet.
Category
English Georgian Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Mahogany
French Antique Charles X Pair of Ormolu Candlesticks
Located in London, GB
A fine pair of antique French Charles X period Ormolu candlesticks. The mercury/fire gilding is completely original. The circular base is decorated with anthemion rising through a cu...
Category
French Charles X Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ormolu
Regency Mahogany English Fusee Bracket Clock by Memmes, London
Located in Norwich, GB
Regency bracket clock in an arch top case with brass inlay and dentil moulding, side carrying handles and standing on four brass ball feet.
Painted dial with Roman numerals and original spade hands signed ‘Memess, Trafalgar Square, London’.
Glazed rear door to the fine quality eight day single fuse movement with arch shaped plates and ‘regulating’ pendulum. C.1820.
‘Watchmakers and clockmakers of the world’ by Brian Loomes...
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English Early Victorian Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Mahogany
Large Gilt Bronze Portico Clock, Restoration Period
By Lepine
Located in Paris, FR
Large gilt bronze portico regulator clock from the Restauration period. It takes the form of an antique architecture with four smooth Corinthian columns with acanthus leaf capitals. ...
Category
French Restauration Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Meissen Biscuit Porcelain Figure of Goethe, Dated 1828
Located in New York, NY
Marked with blue crossed swords. Modelled standing in a long coat, the base impressed "Goethe 1828".
Category
Antique 1820s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
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