1840s Decorative Objects

Pair of Chinese mahogany tole demilune hinged poly chromed tea bins with gilt figural stenciling and decorative landscape scenes with foliage and bird motif, M...

Signed by Cojoie AD, the decor-painter and on the reverse, LM et Cie, the making mark of the manufacture A circular hand painted pottery charger, decorated with an orientalist sc...

An Incredible and Quite Important Pair of 19th Century Pink Ground Paris Porcelain Vases. The pair of Paris porcelain campana vases bear gilt crowned initials, indicating a connecti...

Graceful bronze carriage clock by Jules, Paris, c. 1840 (Late 19th Century), numbered 542 and includes "Jules A Paris" stamp as well. The piece is finely decorated with foliate engra...

Mid-19th century oak carved bucket on stand, possibly Scandinavian, the bucket has two brass handles and the stand has one brass band, bother the stand and bucket has lovely naive ca...

Nathaniel Mills. A very rare Castle Top Vinaigrette depicting a scarce view of Warwick Castle from the River Avon. Made in Birmingham in 1847 by Nathaniel M...

Of ginger jar shape with outscrolled handles, surmounted by a pierced lid with knob-form finial; decorated with Court figures in a pagoda riverscape.

A large and very finely cut-glass Victorian bowl.

Twin handled double lipped vase. Finely painted with feathers and handles terminating with molded masks.

Pair of French porcelain perfume bottles, Jacob Petit, circa 1850.

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a major French novelist and a founder of literary realism. He is best known for La Comédie humaine, a vast series of interconnected novels and storie...

Depicting birds amongst foliage.

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely exquisite ornately hand carved Antique Italian box depicting stallion horses circa 1840 A v...

Hallmarked in Birmingham in 1844 by Nathaniel Mills, this fine quality, Victorian, Antique Sterling Silver Castle Top Card Case, features a high relief chased scene of The Scott...

Each well modeled as a youth in Renaissance dress, one foot upon a gourd and supporting a four-light candelabrum, the arms cast with acanthus, the st...

A fine and unusual French antique Grand Tour table thermometer in patinated bronze. Set upon a naturalistic trefoil shaped patinated bronze base with...

French gilded brass carriage clock in a finely engraved case with bevelled glass. The rear of the case with conforming engraving to the rear door incorporating shutters for the wind...

Rosewood Portico Regulator Mantel Clock Housed in a fine quality Rosewood portico case with boxwood stringing, turned pillars with brass capitals, gilded cast foliate bezel and stan...

Now on a Sevres porcelain socle dated 1849.

Twin handled double lipped vase. Finely painted with feathers and handles terminating with molded masks.

Impressive pair of carved antique wooden bull sculptures, European, circa 1850 A unusual subject not only well carved body but also this extends ...

An unusual pair of large Chinese export canton famille rose thousand butterfly porcelain vases. The vase has a very unusual shape and was most pro...

By Christophe Fratin (1800-1864).

Pair of large and exotic Paris porcelain vases, circa 1840. With exotic figures in riverscapes.

Early Victorian Strut clock in the style of Thomas Cole. Gilded frame with engraved scroll work, oval beaded bezel surrounding a beautiful e...

Fire-gilded bronze table clock: a childlike bacchanal seated on a wine barrel under an arched vine arbour, holding grapes and a wine glass in his hands, on an oval base with an appli...

Pair of English barley twist single candlesticks with flanking bobeches and circular faceted reeded bases, Mid 19th century.

An exceptional, fine and impressive, large pair of antique Victorian English sterling silver letter openers/meat skewers; an addition to our Victorian silv...

19th century, Italian white marble sculpture by Pompeo Marchesi with cupid, Italy, 1840 This valuable sculpture, made in white marble in 1840, is a work signed by Pompeo Marchesi....

A fine true pair of patinated bronze, ormolu and white marble figural candelabra in excellent condition. Set upon a white marble base, with ormolu swags surrounding the marble. The p...

Early Victorian Skeleton Clock by Joseph Watson & Son, Cambridge Eight day chain fusee movement with fine wheelwork set between steeple sh...

This Italian Neoclassical white marble sculpture is signed by the Neopolitan artist Giacomo Cali. The sculpture is of Aristedes (530–468 BC), the ancient Athenian statesman and general in the Greco-Persian Wars...

French Charles X Ormolu Mantel Clock Rounded arched pillared case with fine ormolu floral mounts, chased decoration to the pillars standing on a r...

What a wonderful page turner. Realistically carved in the form of a monkey, the turner has that beautiful smooth patina from years of handling. Probably French CIRCA 1840.

A fantastically modelled gilt bronze monkey chef, he stands proudly on a black polished stone base.

French ormolu Lyre clock standing on a stepped rectangular base with acanthus leaf decoration and floral swags resting on four turned and chased toupe feet. Chased garland gilt bezel surrounding a fine enamel dial with Roman numerals and a gilded starburst...

Large portrait bust of a middle-aged man in antique garb. The plaster bust is signed A. Frederich and dated 1843 on the underside and stands on an ebonised wooden column base. The bu...

Gorgeous pair of Italian Grand Tour candles in bronze, ormolu and marble. The toga clad maidens in bronze hold aloft the ormolu candle holders stand on the red marble base. circ...

A Louis Philippe bronze and ormolu desk set, comprising two ink wells and a powder shaker in the form of crenelated urns with anthemion-bud finia...

A male portrait bust in the Roman manner by Lawrence MacDonald (1799-1878) Carved in Carrara marble, rising from a round socle supporting a waisted column, the bust having resemblances to Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington as a young man. Signed by the artist, 'L. MacDonald, Romae, 1847'. Dated 1847 Dimensions: H: 26 in / 65 cm W: 19.5 in / 49 cm D: 10 in / 26 cm Lawrence MacDonald (1799-1878) Macdonald worked as an ornamental sculptor for the architect James Gillespie Graham before entering the Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh, in 1822. In Rome, in 1823 he was one of the founders of the British Academy of Art. He returned to Edinburgh in 1826 and became a member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1829. Four years later he settled in Rome, and from 1844 he worked in Bertel Thorvaldsen's former studio. He became the city's most fashionable portrait sculptor and, according to the Art Journal, his studio was filled with 'the peerage done into marble, a plaster galaxy of rank and fashion'. His sitters included the essayist Henry Taylor...

A Louis-Philippe ormolu centerpiece case, circa 1845 The round centerpiece case with three dolphin supports on a concave-sided base Measures: Height 12.5 in. (31.75 cm.) Diameter...

A pair of Egyptian porphyry and bronze candelabra after Charles-Antoine Bridan, each comprising a bronze figure and two candle branches set on a cylindrical porphyry base with ormolu...

Between 1839 and 1849 (?) Chef-modèle made out of patinated bronze, base in Rouge Griotte marble. Signed « Fratin », « Fonderie de L. Richard Eyck et Durand » engraved on the base. D...

We delighted to offer for sale this lovely and very rare bronze head of a Russian Priest with a paper label from the very famous James Bourlet & Son's L...