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A French 19th Century Pair of Louis XVI Style Candelabras, circa 1870
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A French XIXth Century Pair of Louis XVI Style Candelabras
Two candelabras in bronze very finely chiseled and gilded with two fluted branches, the twisted barrel from which escapes...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
$2,413 Sale Price
25% Off
Minton Majolica Nautilus Shell Flower Pot
By Minton
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica flower pot (jardiniere) which features a nautilus shell on a coral-like base which is draped in seaweed. Colouration: turquoise, gr...
Category
English Victorian Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Rare Pair of Early Period Makuzu Kozan Takauki High-Relief Vases
By Makuzu Kozan
Located in Atlanta, GA
A stunning pair of ceramic vases with gilt, paint and high-relief decoration by imperial artist Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916, also known as Miyagawa Kozan) circa 1876-81 (late Meiji period). These vases belong to early period (1876-1881) of Kozan's repertoire, during which time the high relief sculpturing (known as Takauki ware) was used as a distinguished technique on top of the traditional gilt and paint ornaments of satsuma ware. Due to the relatively limited production and the fragile nature of these wares, not a large quantity of the examples remained in the first place, not mentioning a fine matching signed pair in such impressive sizes.
Not only a rarity, this pair of vases is also superb in workmanship, thus the fine example of the work from that short and unique period of the artist's career before he switched to the underglaze period. In a conceptually mirrored fashion, the surface is richly decorated with flying cranes among large lotus leaves and flower, like an idyllic aqua scenery of pure poetry on a circular scroll. The high-relief appliques were rendered and composed in realistic fashion but with a dramatic touch. They are literally about to break the surface free, alive and in motion. The dark colors of the glaze were used to set a moody tone. The approach to create this type of ornamentations is more akin to sculpturing an ink painting in three-dimension than ceramic making. It is not hard to imagine the demand of both the artistry and the technique.
Both vases were signed as "Makuzu Kozan Kiln" and each further with another name and seal, which are most likely the individual artist involved in the making process. Similar signatures can be seen in the reference book below.
For similarly Takauki vases, see Miyagawa Kozan Makuzu...
Category
Japanese Japonisme Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Minton Majolica Lily Basket
By Minton
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Minton Majolica basket which features pond lily leaves and flowers tied together with lily stems which form the handle. Four flower bud feet. Co...
Category
English Victorian Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
George Jones Majolica Magnolia Cache Pot
By George Jones
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
George Jones Majolica cache pot which features magnolia blossom and two moths. Turquoise ground version. Colouration: turquoise, green, white, are predominant. Bears a pattern number...
Category
Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
19th Century Anamilier Bronze Entitled "Ewe And Lamb" by Pierre Jules Mêne
Located in London, GB
Wonderful 19th Century animalier bronze group of a standing ewe with her feeding lamb beneath her, the bronze with excellent rich brown patina and very fine hand chased surface detai...
Category
Art Nouveau Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Antique French 20k Gold Snuff Box, Circa 1870
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique French 20 karat tri-coloured gold snuff box; an addition to our 19th century collection.
This exceptional antique French 20k yellow gold snuff box has an oval shaped form.
The body of this antique box is embellished with panels of engine turned and tooled decoration, incorporating circular and floral motifs.
Each incurved cornered panel is encompassed with applied simplified foliate festoon and column style borders, accented with tri-colored gold highlights.
This impressive antique 20ct gold box...
Category
French Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold
Very Important Gilt Bronze, Enameled Bronze and Patinated Bronze Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very important gilt bronze, enameled bronze and patinated bronze clock depicting two children holding the stellar globe on which a cupid holding a torch in the right hand and a gar...
Category
French Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
English Brass and Mahogany Yacht Binnacle Southampton, Circa 1870
Located in Charleston, SC
English yacht binnacle mounted on a mahogany rope motif base, oval glass viewing port, with the original removable brass vented side light and carrying handle. Binnacle is fitted with an interior compass submerged in alcohol signed...
Category
English Victorian Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Victorian-era silver plate wunderkammer inkwell with emu egg
Located in Milan, IT
Victorian-era silver plate wunderkammer inkwell that presents in the center of the tray a palm tree from the cut trunk on which rests reclining on four palm leaves an Australian e...
Category
Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
English Brass and Polished Steel Skeleton Clock Under Glass Dome Webber, C. 1870
By Webber
Located in Charleston, SC
English brass skeleton clock under original glass dome with a polished steel roman numeral dial, fuse chain movement, and affixed to an oval carved wood felt base with four bun feet....
Category
English Victorian Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass, Steel
19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu Bronze Clockset
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A refined Louis XVI style mantel clock with matching candelabras. The case is made of gilt brass and bronze ormolu casted ornaments, the dial is enameled iron. Resting on a white marble base. Richly embellished with neoclassical ornaments, flower garlands and ribbons. The clock is made in France 1870-1880. The clock is in good condition, it have original gilding. On a wooden carved gilded pedestal. The clockwork have a 8-day movement and strikes every half our on a bronze silver plated bell...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze, Enamel
French Bronze Three Branch Candlesticks / Candelabra, Cherubs, circa 1870, Pair
Located in Bath, GB
A most magnificent pair of late Victorian three-branch candelabra dating to circa 1870. Having been lovingly professionally restored, the ormolu and silvered finishes are now bright ...
Category
French Victorian Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Vanity Case with Crystal Boxes and Sterling Silver Lids by George Betjemann 1870
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Beautiful feathered walnut, brass bound, vanity box by the famous makers “Betjemann & Sons” of London. This vanity box has several compartments and the attention to detail is fabulou...
Category
English Victorian Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Painted Swedish Gustavian Mora Clock
Located in Hollywood, FL
This is a painted Swedish Gustavian Mora clock. I have installed new battery works. The original works are offered with this clock but they do not...
Category
Swedish Primitive Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Brown Westhead Moore & Co Majolica Kittens Vase
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Brown Westhead Moore and Co Majolica vase which features two cats or kittens playing with a ball, around a boot rested on a tasseled cushion base. Colou...
Category
Victorian Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Prince Edward and Princess Alexandra of Wales by Count Gleichen
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
These bronze figures show Edward, Prince of Wales, standing in a nonchalant pose with one leg crossed over the other, a cigar in his left hand, his hat at his feet and a shotgun slung over his right arm. The elegant Princess of Wales is depicted skating, with feathers in her hat, and wearing a fur-trimmed coat and muff as the wind catches her three-quarter length skirt. Each stamped Elkington & Co Founders and G 1870. English, dated 1870.
Provenance: Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Count Gleichen.
Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Count Gleichen, was the son of Prince Ernst of Hohenlohe-Langenburg and Princess Feodore of Leiningen, half-sister to Queen Victoria. He ran away from school to England in 1848 and was sponsored to enter the Royal Navy by Queen Victoria. In 1854 he attained the rank of Lieutenant after serving as mate on the flagship Cumberland, where his future brother-in-law was captain and his future father-in-law was admiral. In 1866 he retired from the navy and trained with the British sculptor William Theed. As a sculptor, he carried out several portrait commissions for Queen Victoria including a statuette of Prince Alfred, her second son, and another of Prince Albert Victor...
Category
English Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Pair of porcelain biscuit sculptures, after Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Paris, FR
Important pair of decorative sculptures in white biscuit , featuring two women draped in the Antique style, accompanied by winged putti. One, holding a large sunflower, raises her ar...
Category
French Baroque Revival Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Ormolu & Cut Crystal Circular Form Flower Epergne by F&C Osler
Located in Steyning, West sussex
A fine ormolu flower epergne with scroll banding supported on paw feet stamped Osler segmented in four sections, each with five posy vases of various sizes with flat diamond cut bodi...
Category
Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ormolu
Antique 19th Century French Rosewood Marquetry Inlaid Eight Day Mantel Clock
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique 19th century French antique rosewood marquetry inlaid eight day mantel clock with a beautiful shaped marquetry inlaid case with an eight day movement boasting a delightful Ro...
Category
French Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Rosewood
Rare 1870s E. Howard Marble Train Station Bank Municipal Clock Vintage Antique
By E. Howard & Co.
Located in Hyattsville, MD
This is a very rare clock with the original movement still inside. However, this clock is NOT WORKING, and its completeness is unknown, being sold as-is, as a wall prop. We are not clock collectors or professionals, this is an estate procurement.
No damage to marble or pendulum window. Writing and numbers wearing off marble surface. Bottom back wood case has some cracks, but all there. A very heavy clock.
W 14.5 x D 4 x H 29.75 in.
E. Howard & Co., Boston, Mass., "No. 27" marble front...
Category
North American Victorian Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Carrara Marble
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Doulton Lambeth Exceptionally Rare Pair Impasto Arrabian Pattern Vases, 1879
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptionally rare Doulton Lambeth Impasto pair of bottle vases marked Arrabian by F M Collins (Mrs Vale) dated 1879.
F M Collins was a Faience Depart...
Category
English Aesthetic Movement Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Antique French Ormolu & Marble Double Encrier Inkstand Standish 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful antique French Empire Revival ormolu mounted and patinated Verde Antico marble inkstand, Circa 1870 in date.
Of rectangular form with a pair of raised inkwells h...
Category
English Empire Revival Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ormolu
Japanese Meiji Articulated Bronze Crab
Located in Essex, MA
Wonderful patina and fully articulated. Purchased in London by previous owner.
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Large Patinated Bronze Alhambra Islamic Vase Made for the Islamic Market
Located in New York, NY
Large French patinated bronze Alhambra Islamic vase made for the Islamic market, beautifully hand chiselled and detailed with openwork Bronze handles, the central medallion with Isla...
Category
French Islamic Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Magnificent Patinated Bronze Sculptures After Clodian
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A Pair of 19th Century Grand Tour bronzes after the original sculptor, Claude Michael Clodion. The male and female Satyr Bacchus themes with putti and the adult figures with an origi...
Category
Grand Tour Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze
Pair of "Cloisonne" Enamel Vases, Attr. to l'Escalier de Cristal, France, C.1870
Located in PARIS, FR
Pair of Japanese-style roll-shaped vases, made in “cloisonné” enamel and gilded bronze. The cylindrical body is decorated with polychrom floral branches, flowers and butterflies on a...
Category
French Japonisme Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
An Ormolu and Coromandel Lacquer Inkwell, circa 1880
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
An Ormolu and Coromandel Lacquer Inkwell, circa 1880
Chiseled and gilded bronze inkwell composed of a chantered shape tray in Coromandel lacquer, moulded edge in chiselled and gilded...
Category
French Chinoiserie Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Dutch Victorian Walnut Tea Stove, 1870s
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Magnificent and rare Antique Victorian tea stove.
Striking Dutch design from the 1870s.
Solid walnut hand-carved frame with four hand-carved legs.
Original brass bucket inside.which ...
Category
Dutch Victorian Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Bronze and Gilt-Bronze 'Warwick' Vase by Barbedienne, Paris, circa 1870
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A bronze and gilt bronze 'Warwick' vase by Barbedienne, Paris, circa 1870, modeled after the original, the masks between the entwined vine handles, egg-and-dart rim, with grapevine d...
Category
Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Théodore Deck (1823-1891), Pair of Blue Deck and Eggplant Enameled Vases c.1875
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Théodore Deck (1823-1891) Pair of Blue Deck and Eggplant Enameled Vases
Rarissima pair of polylobed shape enameled faïence vases
Very avant-garde and modern design of alternating B...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Faience
'African Venus' Bronze Sculpture by C. Marnyhac, France, Circa 1878
Located in PARIS, FR
An exceptional life-size two patina bronze figure, representing a young African woman taming a snake, dressed with a feathered loincloth and a long drape in her hair, and wearing Afr...
Category
French Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Italian Patinated Brass and Marble Architectural Model Inkwell, circa 1875
Located in Atlanta, GA
Cast in great detail in bronze in the neo-Gothic style, the top lifting to reveal three round openings, lacking glass inkwells, resting on a marble plinth base, raised on cast bronze...
Category
French Gothic Revival Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Animalier Bronze Study Entitled 'Chien et Pigeon' by Pierre Jules Mêne
Located in London, GB
Excellent quality and very rare mid-19th century French Animalier bronze study of a seated griffon hound looking intently at two pigeons feeding beside him. The bronze with excellent...
Category
French Other Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Elizabeth a Sayers Doulton Lambeth Aesthetic Movement Onion Shape Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional and rare Doulton Lambeth Aesthetic Movement onion shaped vase decorated with star like motifs by renowned artist Elizabeth A Sayers dated 1878.
Elizabeth A Sayers while recongized as a highly accomplished and distinguished artist did not spend much time at Doulton Lambeth so pieces by her are both rare and sought after.
This stylish stoneware onion bodied vase...
Category
English Aesthetic Movement Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Rare Antique English Biscuit Box - 28 lb Weight c.1870
By Jonas & George Bowen
Located in Bath, GB
Always highly sought-after, these novelty "weight" biscuit boxes came in two sizes; this one is the smaller box which is the harder to find; it would look perfect next to it's larger...
Category
English Victorian Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver Plate
Pair of « Rams » Perfume Burners attr. to Maison Millet, France, Circa 1870
Located in PARIS, FR
Diameter base : 16 cm
Provenance : Michahelles Collection, Hamburg
Beautiful pair of Louis XVI style perfume burners in fluorite with elegant chiseled and gilded bronze mount. The l...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone, Bronze
A 19th C. French Patinated Bronze & Ormolu Mounted Rouge Marble Clock Garniture
Located in New York, NY
A Very Unusual and Quite Rare 19th Century French brown and green Patinated Bronze & Ormolu Mounted Rouge Marble Clock Garniture. This three-piece garniture set, comprising a centra...
Category
French Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Faience Chinoiserie Clock, Luneville, circa 1875
Located in New York, NY
Modeled with foo-dog perched on a rock and leaning on a clock as it emerges from the waves.
Category
French Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Faience
Baccarat Grasshopper Vase Exposition Universelle Paris 1878, made in France
By Baccarat
Located in London, GB
A rare and beautiful ‘Grasshopper’ vase by Baccarat, made in France and designed for the Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) in Paris in 1878.
The...
Category
French Art Nouveau Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Glass
A Very Fine Black Forest Wall Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Magnificent & Rare Black Forest Carved Wood Wall Clock, representing owls. High carving quality and very realistic. Germany, circa 1870.
Dimensions: Height 35" Width 17" Depth 6...
Category
German Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
19th Century French Pair of Baccarat Enameled Opaline Vases with Hunting Scenes
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
A Fantastic and Large Pair of French 19th Century Baccarat Enameled Opalescent Vases. Each vase is of baluster form, with enameled paintings of large hunting scenes...
Category
French Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal
Gillinder & Sons Washington Bust, 1876
By Gillinder & Sons
Located in Savannah, GA
A Gillinder & Sons milk glass portrait bust of George Washington for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia.
3 ½ inches wide by 3 ¼ inches deep by 6 inches tall
Category
American Federal Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Milk Glass
Neo-Egyptian Marble Clock Attributed to G. Servant, France, Circa 1870
Located in PARIS, FR
Black and red marble pyramid shaped Egyptian style clock attributed to G. Servant, surmounted by a patinated bronze figure representing the Egyptian goddess Isis sitting on her throne. Wearing the Hathor hairdress (the solar disc surrounded by the sacred cow horns), she holds in her right hand the Ouadj, the goddesses scepter surmounted by a canopy of papyrus, symbolizing health and eternal youth and in her left hand, the cross of life Ankh, symbol of rebirth and eternity.
That Egyptian style in fashion since Napoleon the First and his military campaigns in Egypt around 1799 was rediscovered in France in the 1830's and above all in the 1860's. Some renowned French artists, such the sculptors and bronze-casters Guillaume Denière (1815-1903), Emile Hébert (1828-1893) et Georges Servant (1828-1890), presented at the 1867 and 1878 Paris Universal Exhibitions, an a-part section dedicated to their Egyptian style production. Their shows drew then considerable attention from the public and the wealthy collectors. During the 1867 Universal Exhibition, one could admire the Stand realized by the French silversmith-jeweller Gustave Baugrand (1826-1870), where his works executed in most Fine materials took inspiration from the Egyptian Antiques, exhibited then in the Louvre museum.
Georges Emile Henri Servant (1828-c.1890), who took over his father in 1855 at their foundry, rue Vieille-du-Temple, in Paris, specialized in the production of neo-Egyptian style clocks, very popular in France since 1860’s, and also the making of Greek style decorative objects. He drew considerable attention to the high quality of his bronzes at the 1855 Paris Universal Exhibition and then at the 1862 London Exhibition. At this time Servant exported up to 40% of his production, principally to the United States, where for instance, his clocks were sold with great success by Louis Tiffany Inc. or Hamann & Roche of New York. But his success came really at the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition, where he was awarded a gold medal for his neo-Greek and Egyptian works (Les Merveilles...
Category
French Egyptian Revival Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of Gothic Revival heavy brass candelabras with 5 graduating candle holders.
Located in London, GB
A pair of large Gothic Revival heavy brass table candelabras each with a row of five graduating candle sconces on a flat base with hexagonal feet.
Category
English Gothic Revival Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Meissen Grouping of Apollo's Sun Chariot with Sun Putti for Catherine the Great
Located in New York, NY
A magnificent and quite large, Baroque style, Museum quality, antique Meissen Porcelain grouping of Apollo, the Sun God's, Sun Chariot with his Putti Servant, originally designed by Johann Joachim Kändler in 1772-1773 for Czarina Katharina, Better known as Catherine the great...
Category
German Baroque Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
19th C. French Gilt and Porcelain Inkwell - Estate of Barbara J. Walters
Located in Morristown, NJ
19th c., France, an ormolu, gilt and polychrome enameled porcelain encrier or inkwell in pot form. It is decorated with flowering vines, the gilt bronze top with wells for writing im...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ormolu
Brown Westhead Moore Majolica Owl Figure
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Brown Westhead Moore & Co majolica figural which features an owl perched on a branch. The owl with original glass eyes. Coloration: brown, cream, ...
Category
English Victorian Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Pair of French Gilt Metal and Mother-Of-Pearl Perfume Bottles, circa 1875
Located in New York, NY
With tooled gilt metal scrolls, the mother-a-pearl finely polished exhibiting multi-colored hues.
Category
Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
Royal Worcester Aesthetic / Japonisme Handkerchief Vase, 1876
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Royal Worcester Aesthetic / Japonisme handkerchief vase, 1876
A fine example of the English Aesthetic Movement, realistically modeled of spa...
Category
English Aesthetic Movement Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Stunning Pair of Rococo Design Sterling Silver Candelabra - Hennell London 1870
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1870 by Robert Hennell IV (with one branch bearing marks for Robert Hennell III in 1840), this wonderful, Antique, Sterling Silver Pair of Candelabra, are sup...
Category
English Rococo Revival Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of 19th Century Tall Turned Rosewood Prickett Candleholders
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous pair of tall, 27 inches turned Rosewood with a triangular base on ball feet. Beautifully turned and a very interesting grain pattern from light to dark. Lead filled base for...
Category
English Aesthetic Movement Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Lead
Tunbridge Box Still Bank, circa 1870s
Located in Incline Village, NV
This Tunbridge box still bank is indigenous to the Tunbridge ware cottage industries of the town of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England in the 18th and 19th c...
Category
English Victorian Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Pair of 19th Century Chinese Turquoise Porcelain Ormolu Mounted Covered Vases
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of 19th Century Chinese Turquoise Porcelain Ormolu Mounted Covered Vases with Dragon Decoration. The vases feature a turquoise glaz...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ormolu
Aesthetic Reverse Engraved Mercury Mirror Box
Located in Astoria, NY
Aesthetic Movement Reverse Engraved Mercury Mirror Mounted Gilt Bronze Box, late 1870s, floral motif centering the name "Laura" in Gothic script, above four beveled side panels simil...
Category
Aesthetic Movement Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Mid 19th century hand carved alabaster sculpture of Augustus Caesar.
Located in Allentown, PA
This is a beautifully hand carved alabaster bust of Augustus Caesar. Augustus Caesar was the first Roman Emperor and this day is a remembered in the month of August after his name. T...
Category
Italian Greco Roman Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Alabaster
Neo-Egyptian Bronze and Marble Clock Attributed to G.Servant, France, Circa 1870
Located in PARIS, FR
A black and red marble clock in the shape of an Egyptian temple attributed to G. Servant, flanked by double columns inscribed with hieroglyphs and ornated with a winged uraeus, all made in two patina bronze. The clock is surmounted by a patinated bronze sphinx. Resting on four bronze faces wearing the nemes and terminating in lion paw feet.
Georges Emile Henri Servant (circa 1828-1890) who took over his father in 1855 at their foundry, rue Vieille-du-Temple, in Paris, specialized in the production of neo-Egyptian style clocks, very popular in France since 1860s, and also the making of Greek style decorative objects. He drew considerable attention to the high quality of his bronzes at the 1855 Paris Universal Exhibition and then at the 1862 London Exhibition. At this time Servant exported up to 40% of his production, principally to the United States, where for instance, his sphinx clocks were sold with great success by Louis Tiffany Inc. or Hamann & Roche of New York (A similar clock is now exposed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). But his success came really at the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition, where he was awarded a gold medal for his neo-Greek and Egyptian works (Les Merveilles...
Category
French Egyptian Revival Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique English Victorian Leather and Sterling Silver Table Box
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Victorian English table box.
In brown leather with a wood lined interior.
With applied triangular sterling silver mounts to the corners.
The mounts marked for the J...
Category
British Victorian Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique 19th Century French Baccarat Pink and White Opaline Crystal Covered Bowl
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
An Antique 19th Century French Baccarat Pink and White Opaline Crystal Covered Bowl with Gilt Decoration. The bowl features a rounded base of opaque white opaline, transitioning int...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Opaline Glass
Antique Chinese Civil Service Examination Basket (kao lan)
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Civil Service Examination Basket (kao lan), a traditional rectangular bamboo basket with hinged lid and a pinned overhead handle for carrying, The flat panel lid has ...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique 1870s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
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Antique Church Altars
Blown Glass Ornaments
Bronze Anchor
Bronze Cherub With Clock
Antique Beetle