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Period: 1880s
Late 19th Century Decorative Stand - Black Forest
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful antique black forest standard, fine carved chestnut wood. The center is covered with green fabric. Small objects can be displayed on this. The standard comes with three c...
Category
German Black Forest Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Antler, Walnut
Solid Brass 21” Barley Twist Candlesticks with Square Bases, England, 19th c.
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
English solid brass barley twist candlesticks are very desirable when they reach 21" in height. What makes them more collectable is the square base (most are round) with the double beaded border (very unusual). They have large circular bobeches to collect any dripping wax...
Category
English Victorian Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Pair of 19th Century Exoticism Candlesticks
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
Pair of polished bronze elephant candlesticks which clearly show the late 19th Century fascination with the exotic. Similar to Orientalist subjects in the nineteenth-century, exotici...
Category
Aesthetic Movement Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Dr C Dresser for Linthorpe A large vase with raining green and subtle blue glaze
Located in London, GB
Dr C Dresser for Linthorpe A large vase with raining green and subtle blue glaze. A chip to the rim and some nibbles and a chip to the base. No cracks, still rings well.
Category
English Arts and Crafts Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Christofle Wine Trolley with Grape Leaves, Silver Plated, late 19th
By Christofle
Located in Paris, FR
This wonderful wine trolley is adorned with the most delicate grapevine you may find. A system makes possible to modify the inclination of the bottle to gently pour your best red win...
Category
French Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver Plate
A Shapely 19th Century Chinese Export Black Lacquered Dressing Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
the scalloped top centering an oval medallion radiating coved reserves above a conforming body fitted with brass bale handles; finely decorated with gilded figures in a garden lands...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Oversize French Majolica Palissy Fishs Jardiniere, circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
Oversize French Majolica Palissy fishes jardiniere Circa 1880.
Attributed to Thomas Sergent.
Very rare model, trompe l'oeil wood crate with f...
Category
French Rustic Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Late 19th Century Automaton of a Monkey under Glass Dome
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Late 19th century automaton of a monkey in 18th century style dress. Likely to be French, this piece shows all the hallmarks of J. Phalibois, one of the foremost makers of clockwork toys...
Category
French Victorian Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Glass, Wood, Silk
1880s, European Sterling Silver Box
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Solid sterling European box. 4.25 ounces. Sun, basket of fruit, flowers adorn the top of the box. Gold wash inside.
Category
Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Wilhelm Schiller & Sons Majolica Peacock Vase
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Schiller Majolica vase which features a peacock seated on a pedestal. Coloration: blue, green, yellow, are predominant. The piece bears maker's marks for ...
Category
German Victorian Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
19th Century French mantel clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th Century French gilded ormolu and patinated bronze mantel clock, having a seated cherub holding the rains of a winged dragon pulling a scrolling foliate ...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ormolu
Loetz Bohemian Glass Art Nouveau Tulip Vases Pair Iridescent Green/Red c. 1880s
By Loetz Glass
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare early pair of Loetz Bohemian Glass Vases in a graceful Tulip Motif made by Johann Loetz Witwe in the 1880s. Green and rich red color with silver and blue iridescent highlights s...
Category
Austrian Art Nouveau Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Glass
Fine and Rare Miniature Satsuma Vase by Taizan Yohei
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very fine miniature ceramic vase in satsuma ware by Taizan Yohei IX (1864-1922) circa 1880-1890s of late Meiji period. The vase with a broad flat should...
Category
Japanese Japonisme Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Meiji Period Bronze Sculpture of a Mother and Son by Atsuyoshi
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Meiji period bronze sculpture of a mother and son by Atsuyoshi, she is shown seated on a gnarled rootwood base, with her arm round a crying boy standing by her knee and offering her breast, wearing a short robe, trousers and a cloth incised with Mount Fuji around her head, and bare feet. Signed Atsuyoshi saku, Maruki Shachu seisaku (??????????? (??????????). Japanese, circa 1880.
Footnote: Atsuyoshi is known for a number of finely modelled bronze studies of both wild and domesticated animals, almost all of them made for the Tokyo based Maruki Company. This is therefore an unusual subject matter for him and Japanese bronzes in general , however Oliver Impey and Joyce Seaman, in ‘Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period’ (in the Ashmolean Museum Collections), pp. 68-69, include a bronze group of a woman who has just finished breast feeding...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Antique Pair of French Ormolu Mounted Bleu Celeste Sèvres Vases, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful antique pair of French Louis Revival Sèvres "Bleu Celeste" porcelain and ormolu mounted twin handled vases, circa 1880 in date.
They are superbly decorated in ...
Category
French Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Picture Frame, Bronze Dorée, France, Late 19th Century, 8 x 11 cm
Located in Greven, DE
Antique picture frame from France.
Beautiful bronze work on burgundy fabric.
Inside dimension: 8 x 11 cm
Category
French Victorian Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
French Majolica Vase with Fishs and Shells, circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica vase with fishs and shells, circa 1880.
Bamboo handles.
Category
French Aesthetic Movement Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica, Faience
Staffordshire Figurine "Young Lady Side Saddle on Horse", circa 1885
Located in Incline Village, NV
Late 19th century Staffordshire porcelain figurine depicts a young well-dressed lady riding a handsome white horse "side saddle". She is colorful dressed i...
Category
Victorian Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Arts & Crafts Pewter Copper Glas Wood Decorative Box
Located in Munich, DE
It was a great pleasure to find this rare Arts & Crafts pewter and copper box.
The copper applications are decorated with green and blue glas cabochons.
The ...
Category
English Arts and Crafts Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Copper, Pewter
Doulton Lambeth Art Union of London Floral Vase by Emily E Stormer
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish Aesthetic Movement Doulton Lambeth floral design Vase made for the Art Union of London by renowned artist Emily E Stormer and dating from around 1885. The stoneware va...
Category
English Aesthetic Movement Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Antique French 19th Century Gilt Bronze Standing Picture Frame
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Magnificent elaborate gilt bronze picture frame with a guilloche inset matt. The frame with garlands and swags with original oval glass an metal back with easel.
Category
French Louis XV Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Victorian Pierced and Etched Brass Pietra Dura Triple Fold Out Picture Frame
Located in Cincinnati, OH
This ornamental 19th century tabletop triple picture frame was made in England by London based luxury goods and box manufacturer Halstaff and Hannaford of Regent Street. The brass f...
Category
English Late Victorian Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone, Brass
Antique Pair Bronze Semi-Nude Classical Ladies Sculptures/Bookends 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning antique pair of patinated bronze reclining Classical semi-nude sculptures of young ladies mounted on carved marble bases, circa 1880 in date.
These exceptionally ...
Category
Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze
MATCHiNG PAIR OF ANTIQUE ROMAN GRAND TOUR HERCULES GILT BRASS MARBLE BASE CUPS
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning original pair of Circa 1880 hand made in Italy Grand Tour bronze Hercules cups with black marb...
Category
Italian Grand Tour Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Brass
Napoleon III Decorated Fern Stand
Located in Riverdale, NY
Tripod fern Stand of ebonized wood, burl veneer and mahogany in the Napoleon III style, which is the name commonly given to a 19th century style of Renaissance Revival that encompasses a myriad of Revivalist styles including Louis XVI, and Japonism.
These are seen in the gilt and bronze putti medallions and gilt bronze Geisha...
Category
European Napoleon III Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Pair of 19th Century French Neoclassical Style Iron Urns on Plinths
Located in Houston, TX
Pair of 19th century French Neoclassical style iron garden urns on plinths. These beautiful French cast iron campana garden urns, planters or jardi...
Category
French Neoclassical Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
French Majolica Jardinière on Fluted Pedestal, Sarreguemines, circa 1880
Located in New York, NY
Sarreguemines mark to jardinière.
Category
French Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
French Enamel Bronze Frame
Located in Riverdale, NY
French enamel bronze frame, hand-painted in black and white with gilt accents. Late Victorian, high quality. The front enameled panel is held by prongs...
Category
French Victorian Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Majolica Iris Vase Massier, circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
Tall Majolica iris vase Massier unsigned of the end of 19th century.
Art Nouveau period.
Category
French Art Nouveau Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Minton Aesthetic Movement Plum Red Glazed Art Pottery Monkey Candlestick
By Minton
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish and unusual Minton Aesthetic Movement plum glazed art pottery monkey candlestick dating from around 1885. The candlestick stands on a rou...
Category
English Aesthetic Movement Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Earthenware
Pair Gilt Bronze French Ewers Jug Vases Napoleon III Cherub
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Stunning pair of French Napoleon III silver gilt bronze jugs or ewers
Perfect left and right of this highly decorative pair
Large handle surmounted by the winged cupid
So much intric...
Category
Napoleon III Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Folk Art Antique Carved Walnut Statue of Abraham Lincoln Circa 1880s Era
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a very large, larger than life, folk art or primitive carved statue of Abraham Lincoln. The piece looks like it was made by a naive artist and was from a northern New Jersey ...
Category
American Folk Art Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Walnut
Set of 4 Marble Mortars from 18th Century
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
These very nice 4 mortars are made of white marble. This is a French work, 18th century.
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble
German Silver Gilt and Shell Covered Nautilus Cup, circa 1880
Located in New York, NY
With a figure of Neptune holding aloft a beautiful iridescent shell enclosed by three strap-work figures. The cover surmounted by three sea horses and...
Category
Austrian Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Pair of Hugo Lonitz Majolica Satyr Vases
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Pair of Hugo Lonitz Majolica vases which feature satyr masks to the side, with grape vine swags. Colouration: cobalt blue, green, cream, are predo...
Category
German Victorian Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
Arts and Crafts Coffee or Chocolate Pot This is a beautiful hand made piece, th
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Arts and Crafts Coffee or Chocolate Pot
This is a beautiful hand made piece, the main body of the pot is copper with a very stylish swan neck handle, and a turned lid
The condition ...
Category
Arts and Crafts Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Copper
Antique Grand Tour Pietra Dura Specimen Top Paperweight, 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a superb decorative antique Italian Grand Tour marble Pietra Dura mounted desk paperweight, circa 1880 in date.
This splendid rectangular paperweight is exquisitely inlaid with a sumptuous arrangement of semi-precious stones including malachite, agate, onyx and amethyst.
It is beautifully inlaid on a slate base.
Not only is this desk paperweight very functional, but it is also an exquisite mineralogical wonder that can be admired by all discerning collectors.
Condition:
In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation,
Dimensions in cm:
Height 2 x Width 17 x Depth 10
Dimensions in inches:
Height 1 inch x width 7 inches x depth 4 inches.
Pietra dura is a term for the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished coloured stones to create images. It is considered a decorative art.
Pietre dure is an Italian plural meaning "hard rocks" or hardstones; the singular pietra dura is also encountered in Italian. In Italian, but not in English, the term embraces all gem engraving and hardstone carving, which is the artistic carving of three-dimensional objects in semi-precious stone, normally from a single piece, for example in Chinese jade.
The traditional convention in English has been to use the singular pietra dura just to denote multi-colored inlay work. However, in recent years there has been a trend to use pietre dure as a term for the same thing, but not for all of the techniques it covers, in Italian.
But the title of a 2008 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe used the full Italian sense of the term, probably because they thought that it had greater brand recognition. The material on the website speaks of objects such as a vase in lapis lazuli as being examples of "hardstone carving (pietre dure)"
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London uses both versions on its website, but uses pietra dura. "A method of inlaying coloured marbles or semi-precious stones into a stone base, often in geometric or flower patterns...."
Giovanni Montelatici...
Category
Italian Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Malachite, Onyx, Marble
Late 19th Century Brass Gothic Style Candlesticks
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful pair of antique brass candlesticks.
Gothic style. The candlesticks are in good condition. Beautiful color and shine. Sturdy and solid.
Estimated age and origin: France, ...
Category
French Gothic Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Porcelain biscuit sculpture "Young Woman at the Fountain", by Nicolas Lecorney
Located in Paris, FR
Very large white biscuit signed on the base "Lecorney" and debossed "EB Paris", depicting an elegant figure in the round of a young woman draped in the antique style, collecting wate...
Category
French Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Holdcroft Majolica Square Box and Cover
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Holdcroft Majolica square box and cover which features storks, squirrels, blossom and parrot feet. Coloration: cobalt blue, green, turquoise, are predomi...
Category
English Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Majolica
French Majolica Pair of Vases with Painted Flowers Pointu, circa 1880
By Jean Pointu
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica pair of vases with painted flowers signed Pointu, circa 1880.
Category
French Romantic Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Aesthetic Movement Zodiac Black Marble Mantle Clock with Gong-Striking Movement
Located in London, GB
A rare and wonderful Aesthetic Movement black marble brass gong-striking mantel clock with brass finials and brass gallery to the top, just below with hand-painted porcelain panels o...
Category
English Aesthetic Movement Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Brass
Old Paris Porcelain Vase Painted with Seascape and a Woman and Man on a Row Boat
By Old Paris
Located in Boston, MA
I want to offer you this fabulous Old Paris porcelain vase. This vase is hand painted on both of its sides with different beautiful paintings. One side has a detailed painting of a seascape with people on the shoreline and buildings and boats in the background. The other side is painted with a woman and a man from this town on row boats with a lightning storm...
Category
French Neoclassical Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
A Monumental 19th C. Moser Gilt and Enameled Yellow Crystal Parrot Vase
By Moser
Located in New York, NY
A Monumental 19th Century Moser Gilt and Enameled Yellow Crystal Parrot-Relief Vase. Of bottle vase form, in translucent amber/yellow crystal, decorated with trailing oak-boughs and ...
Category
Czech Other Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal
Pair of Vases with Elephants by F. Barbedienne, France, circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
Signed F. Barbedienne
Charming pair of small vases in gilded and enameled bronze, with orientalist decoration of arabesques and polychrome foliage on a blue background. They are dec...
Category
French Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Late 19th Century Dress Form Mannequin
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Shapely dress form mannequin from the 19th century. In good working order, on castor wheels. Has minor water stains, no tears or damage to the fig...
Category
American Industrial Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
A Pair of Antique Vieux Paris Hand Painted Vases
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A lovely pair of antique porcelain Vieux Paris vases. Hand painted with portraits of a boy and a girl and gold colored accents. The vases are in good condition. No chips and no hairl...
Category
French Belle Époque Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Black Forest Carving
Located in Martlesham, GB
19th century walnut Black Forest carving of a eagle perched on a rock with a deer below, lovely crisp carving and fabulous quality, circa 1880.
Category
Swiss Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Glass Painted Vase on Marble Foot
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Elegant antique vase, not too large, dating from the late 19th century, presumably French. With this vase you see a collaboration of different techniques coming together. The base is...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble
Antique Gutta-Percha Inkwell, Original Glass Inserts, Circa 1880s
Located in Greven, DE
Exceptional Gutta-Percha inkwell with original glass inserts.
Category
Late Victorian Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Glass, Resin
Diana of Gabii in bronze
Located in 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, NL
Diana of Gabii in bronze on a basic in marble.
Beautiful patina, Cast by Fumiére & Cie, Paris
Category
French Grand Tour Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
A Salesman Sample Of A Demilune English Chest
Located in Tampa, FL
This is a salesman sample of a Demilune English chest. It has four doors with an ivory bar handle. It is all inlaid around the top and the bottom. It sits on four legs. Circa 1800s.
Category
English Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ivory, Wood
19th Century French Blue Barbotine Jardiniere with Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
19th century French blue Barbotine Jardiniere with stand is a colorful and vibrant example of the amazing pottery that emanated from northern Fra...
Category
French Beaux Arts Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
1880s Decorated Salt Glaze Stoneware Jug Stamped 1 MILLER & WOODARD STRASBURG VA
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Nice old decorated salt glaze stoneware jug stamped 1 MILLER & WOODARD STRASBURG VA. There are chips and cracks present, and pictured. "1" gallon capacity mark, cylindrical form with...
Category
American Folk Art Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Stoneware
Exquisite Japanese Satsuma Vase by Seikozan
Located in Atlanta, GA
A miniature vase in elegant upright form reminiscent of the Chinese imperial Willow Leaf form made by Japanese studio Seikozan circa 1890-1910s (late Meiji Period). One of the many a...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Lewis F Day, Howell, James & Sons Aesthetic Movement Ebonised & Polychrome Clock
Located in London, GB
Lewis Foreman Day, for Howell, James and Sons.
An Aesthetic Movement ebonized and polychrome painted mantle clock with a carved floret to the centre of the arched and turned gallery flanked by turned finials, with a dentil moulding below, and criss cross lattice work to the upper sides, the lower sides with hand painted Aesthetic flowers in planters...
Category
English Aesthetic Movement Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Victorian Sterling Silver Cockerel Sugar Box (1882)
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A magnificent, fine and impressive, large and rare antique sterling silver cockerel sugar box; part of our continental ornamental silverware ...
Category
British Victorian Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of vases Barbediene foundry France Napoleon III
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pair of Barbadians of Napoleon III
Pair of vases with enamel Barbediene French foundry
Very good condition (some natural wear)
Gilt bronze and enamel
Attributed to Louis Constant Sevin...
Category
French Empire Antique 1880s Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
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