1870s Decorative Objects

In Sevres style (see photo of base). The floral painting signed 'H.A. Steele' (?).

Important Cartel d'époque Napoléon III, 1870, cadran signé par Gorini Daleau, à Poitiers. Bronze d'or original Measures: H 91cm, L 44cm, P 20cm. Contact us before ordering to confir...

Minton Majolica vase which features grapes and vine leaves, two lion head handles and a (fixed) pedestal base. Colouration: turquoise, pink, ochre...

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...

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...

Clock in gilt and patinated bronze, period Napoleon III, 19th century. Good working condition Contact us before ordering to confirm product ...

A Bronze Vase, chiseled and partially gilt bronze en relief decorated with grasshoppers and wheat axes. The best of French Art Nouveau, Christofle et Cie...

An English brass mounted standish with a single drawer and a central handle flanked by 2 replaced inkwells. The piece is centered by a beautifully engraved brass decorative element a...

Black Forrest hand carved oak hinged boar head cellarette with bone tusk, carved intertwined branches with oak leaves, and resting on decorative foliate scr...

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...

19th century complete perfume travel set encased in a beautiful inlaid mahogany box. The box contains 4 deep red crystal cut glass bottles with sterlin...

An elegant neoclassical bronze portico clock. The patinated bronze with gilt bronze accents with round white porcelain dial. The four columns on each side with a plinth base at the...

This beautifully enamelled set comprising an inkwell and two candlesticks will cheer up any room. A fine example of the wonderful enamel work executed in Bresse around 1870. The mast...

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...

A beautifully cast antique french bronze picture frame dating to the late nineteenth century. This elegant frame has a wonderful presence and weight, reflecting the quality bronze ca...

Brown Westhead Moore and Co Majolica basket which features flowers on the four corners, basketweave style sides and the handle modelled in the for...

Royal Copenhagen, biscuit sculpture after Berthel Thorvaldsen. Portrait of Berthel Thorvaldsen. Approx. 1870s. Marked. First factory quality. In excellent condition, burning cra...

This is an antique country ladies garden trug. An English, pitch pine outdoor tool carry, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1870. Strikingly figured and wonderfully practical, id...

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...

Brownfield Majolica figure which features a young child wearing a grown ups hat and shoes, carrying an umbrella. Title, 'PAPA' molded into the base - French and Spanish for Dad. No d...

French blue celeste porcelain and ormolu mantel clock. Very good condition with original ormolu and no damage to the porcelain panels, some of which have neo-classical influence. Two...

This is a late 19th century Italian neo classical bronze compote. This classical bronze compote has ornate claw feet and mythical figures on either side of the bowl with rings. This ...

Pair of large bronze-mounted celadon and gilt covered potpourri jars, circa 1870 on French mounts.

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver dish modelled in the form of a bassinet/cradle; an addition to our baby related silverware collection T...

Ceramic vase finely detailed and gilded hand-painted with excellent colors showing different scenes.

A pair of gilt bronze candelabra lamps, elegantly transformed into electric lighting while preserving their timeless grandeur. Each piece is masterfully crafted with intricate neocla...

Heart-shaped spice. Silver. LOPEZ PORTER, Manuel. Spain, Granada, 1870. With contrasting and burilada marks. Silver spice rack in its color with a heart shaped shape and curved spout to one side that has two hinged lids and three spaces inside (partition above and not below); It is supported by three legs decorated with classicist elements and has, towards the side, a series of fine smooth moldings. The hallmarks are those corresponding to Granada, to date, and to the silversmith Manuel López Portero, who also worked as hallmarks in the city. The shape of the piece does not follow the usual prototypes of the time or of the school to which it corresponds (a heart shaped silver box...

Egyptian Revival Bronze and Marble Mantel Clock Egyptian revival mantel clock housed in a polishes black slate and marble stepped case, decorated with winged uraeus and hieroglyphs, surmounted by a patinated bronze sphinx wearing nemes and resting on lions paw feet. Enamel dial with Arabic numerals and original ‘blued’ steel hands. Eight day French movement with anchor escapement striking the hours and halves on a silvered bell. The backplate signed Societe Clusienne S.C.A.P.H. Cluses and numbered 4144. C.1870 Societe Clusienne were based in Cluses near to the Swiss border in France. The case attributed to G.Servant Georges Emile Henri Servant ( 1828-1890) succeeded his father at their foundry at Rue Vieille-du-Temple, Paris in 1855. He specialised in the production of Neo-Egyptian style clocks. He was noted for the high quality of his bronzes at both the Paris Universal Exhibition 1855 and the London Exhibition in 1862. Many of his clocks were exported to the United States where his Sphinx clocks...

A wonderful mid 19th Century Animalier bronze study of a a pointer turning its head in an alert pose with fabulous rich brown patina and excellent surface detail, raised on naturalis...

Unusual antique Victorian quality lead figure of a satyr musician sat upon a rock playing a flute type instrument. In beautiful weathered condition. Measures: 55 x 23 x 22.5cm Da...

This impressive pair of candelabra made in the era of Napoleon III in France circa 1870 are very powerful and impressive. Heavily cast with references to the classical past and profu...

Sevres Ceramica chest Rococo style 19th century 1870 hand painted origin France Perfect unrestored condition natural wear. The Manufacture nationale de Sèvres is one of the most important and well-known European madame-de-pompadour porcelain...

Each relief molded urn flanked by upright handles, painted with roundels with a scene of lovers on the front and back, on a cobalt blue ground.

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver posy holder; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection. This exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver posy holder has a conical shaped form onto three legs. The surface of the holder has a frosted finish and is embellished with bright cut engraved Greek Key fret band ornamentation in addition to stylized leaf motifs. The body is further ornamented with an applied knop encircled with bead ornamentation flanked with a scalloped border and collet set cabochon turquoises. The upper portion of this impressive example of Victorian silverware is encompassed with a protruding undulating band accented with further collet set turquoise alternating with a swagged chain articulating from ring loops. The upper rim is embellished with a large applied bead decorated border. The vessel terminates with a bright cut engraved layered leaf texture to an applied ball motif. This impressive holder is supported by three hinged legs, conjoined with a silver chain. This antique posey holder...

Antique Bing & Grøndahl porcelain vase with hand-painted butterflies and flowers. Handles modelled as snakes from Medusa's hair. 1870s. Measures: 24 x 15.5 cm. In excellent origi...

Stag Antler Table Top Desk Secretary or rather as described by a British expert: an Anglo-Indian Stag Antler Writing Slope Table Top Desk, late 19th century from Vizagapatam, which was the headquarters of the Vizagapatam District of Madras during the British period. Stag Antler anything is rare and unusual today, especially when it is completely covered in carved strips of Natural unpolished Antler. Finding Stag Antler Writing Desks are beyond rare and in our 30-years in the Antique business...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver coin purse; an addition to our silver boxes collection. This exceptional antique Victorian sterling silver coin purse has a tapering rounded form. The rounded surface of this antique purse is embellished with textured details reproducing the fine definition of the purse's fabric. The upper portion of the body is embellished with a sterling silver gilt border, replicating the formation of the rivets and fleur-de-lis design. This impressive case/purse is fitted via two silver gilt ring loops with the original impressive sterling silver round link chain, incorporating a ring loop attachment to the apex. The silver case secures with a push fit catch and opens to reveal the original segmented coin purse interior. This exceptional antique silver coin purse...

Pair of Victorian Two-Colored Glass Candlesticks, circa 1870

Pair of Victorian Staffordshire Spill vases, circa 1875.

Scottish cast iron and painted raven doorstop perched on rocky plinth base with central incised interior space for door, Late 19th century.

An Incredible and Quite Impressive Life-Sized 19th Century Italian Carrara Marble Hand-Carved Sculpture by Pasquale Romanelli, "Sulamitide". This marble sculpture titled Sulamitide ...

Emile Gallé for St. Clement. Dish on four feet in hand painted faience. Decorated with flowers and birds, 1870s. In very good condition. Signed. Measures: 30.5 x 15.5 x 6.5 cm.

American bronze figural sea mariner bracing in wind against a rope piling and mounted to an oval molded edge base. Late 19th century.

A striking Tibetan ritual trumpet, traditionally known as a kangling, crafted from a human femur bone and adorned with low content silver metalwork and mounted coral beads. These cer...

Antique and rare Bing & Grondahl sculpture in biscuit. Sculpture of pharisee after Thorvaldsen, circa 1870. In very good condition. Stamped. Measures: 29.5 x 14 cm. 1st factory q...

A Meissen porcelain oval shaped Strut clock with two putti and well modelled trailing flowers and wreath decoration. (The back of the case at 12 o’clock carrying the crossed swords m...

Russian cast iron equestrian sculpture of a Cossack soldier Russian, 1872 Height 38cm, width 37cm, depth 14cm This fine Russian equestrian cast iron...

Important tray made in gilded bronze and “cloisonné” enamel attributed to Elkington and Willms. Ornamented with a centering polychrome enameled peacock plaque, made of very high standard quality, mounted on a gilt-bronze dish, decorated in relief with Japanese Nô theater masks. The great Birmingham firm of Elkingtons, was largely the creation of George Richards Elkington (1800-1865), who worked from 1824 in Birmingham as a manufacturer of silver-mounted scent bottles. By 1829 the business had expanded sufficiently for a branch to have been established in London. In the late 1830s the Elkingtons began making experiments to apply the principles of electro-metallurgy to gilding and plating with silver and in 1840 the patent was at last taken out. Elkingtons owed their rise to a position amongst the most important silversmiths of the country to their exploitation of this new process and the two of the most famous designers then employed, both of them French, Albert Wilms (1827-1899) and Morel-Ladeuil (1820-1888), who helped to make Elkingtons’ reputation with their elaborate exhibition pieces. Albert Willms was apprenticed as modeler and engraver to Klagman, Dieterle and Constant in Paris before working for Morel & Co. in London in 1848. On his return to Paris he was employed by the great Parisian silversmiths including Christofle and Froment-Meurice, for whom he designed pieces to be presented at the 1855 Universal Exhibition in Paris. It was during this period that he joined the firm of Elkington in London as head decorator. Elkington was soon to become one of the first to produce refined pieces in “champlevé” enamel in the Chinese and Japanese styles, which were presented with great success at the London Universal Exhibition in 1862 (see Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture at the International Exhibition 1862, J.B. Waring, London, 1863, III, pl. 211). Willms’ “champlevé” enamels could not be compared, however, with the delicate “cloisonné” enamels exhibited by Japan at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867. This explains why Elkington adapted the ancient Japanese technique to produce pieces according to European taste and custom. Followings the 1867 Exhibition all the major European artists rivaled in ingenuity for the 1873 Universal Exhibition in Vienna. In London Albert Willms presented his luxurious vases and cups in “cloisonné” enamel for Elkington (see Illustrations of Art Manufacturers in the Precious Metals exhibited by Elkington & Co., Inventors, Patentees and Manufactures of electroplate, 1873), whilst in Paris, Ferdinand Thesmar (1843-1912) produced in the workshops of Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810-1892) a tray decorated with a golden pheasant in “cloisonné” enamel on copper...

This exceptional cigar display stand, crafted from mahogany-stained wood, is richly carved and composed of three distinct elements. Taking the form of a ...

A Pair of 19th Century French Ormolu Four Arm Candelabra/vases with Putti, After the Model by Pierre Gouthière, attributed to Henry Dasson. Each candelabrum is of lidded vase form, f...

Pair of French Napoleon III gilt and patinated bronze ten-light candelabra with a traditionally dressed man and woman under palm trees mounted on bases.

Pair of Renaissance Style Viennese Enameled Silver and Rock Crystal Covered Bird Boxes, circa 1875

Four Chatelaine Venetian Scent Bottles circa 1870-1890 blown glass made by the late 19th Century glass masters of Murano. The three smallest are internally decorated with gold powder...

Saint-Louis Bedside Water Carafe comprising of a plate, carafe and glass, with finely chiseled ormolu fittings. Additionally, a pair of matching bottles with faceted crystal stoppers...

Inscribed Gaudez (1845-1902). On a rotating circular plinth.

Large French gilt bronze marine inkstand, circa 1875.

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...

A gilt bronze and violet crystal square bowl, very fine chasing of the bronze, 19th century, Napoleon III period. Contact us before ordering to confirm...

Excellent Meissen porcelain figure of the 19th century: A winged Cupid, covered only with a cloth, his curls held back by a headband, holding his bow horizontally in front of him, dr...

19th century Italian hand-carved and painted cherub presents a charming, colorful and adorable rendering of a young winged cherub, holding a spiral torchere in one hand that can be u...