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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Pair of George III Neo Classical Candlesticks Made in London by John Carter 1771
By John Carter
Located in London, GB
An exceptionally fine pair of George III Neo Classical Candlesticks made in London in 1771 by John Carter.
The exceptionally fine Neo Classical Column Candlesticks stand on a square...
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English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
18th Century French Louis XIV Polished Wrought Iron Four-Light Candelabra
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a mantel or a buffet with this elegant antique four-arm candelabra. Crafted in southern France circa 1780, the large forged piece stands on an octagonal base over a central turned stem, and features four scrolled arms decorated with acanthus leaves and dressed with circular bobeches. The Louis XIV candelabra...
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French Louis XIV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Wrought Iron
Pair of Italian 18th Century Terra Cotta Statues
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional and most charming true pair of Italian 18th century terra cotta statues. Each statue is raised by a mottled circular base where the elegant and wonderfully executed ma...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
$14,100 / set
16h century Griffin Head - Italy
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Griffin head
Italy, 16th century
On a modern metal stand
Measures: 20 x 29 x 21 cm (without the stand)
The griffin is a legendary creature with the body of a lion, the head an...
Category
Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble
$4,185 Sale Price
30% Off
Head of Minerva in bronze
Located in Rome, IT
Marble bas-relief depicting Neptune. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS, INFORMATION OF THE LOT AND SHIPPING INFORMATION CAN BE REQUEST BY SENDING AN EMAIL.
Tags: Grande bassorilievo in marmo. Gran ...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Italian Rococo Pierce Carved Giltwood Frame with Shell Decoration
Located in Milford, NH
A fine Rococo style pierce carved giltwood frame with shell decoration, probably Italian in origin, dating to the 17th/18th century, in very good condition, with minor gilt rubs, imp...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Giltwood
Large Natural Fossilised Ammonite Specimen
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A large-scale natural fossilised ammonite specimen. Sourced from South Ferriby Quarry, Lincolnshire, this striking fossil is of impressive scale, prominent structure, and museum qual...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
Pair of 18th Century Patinated Greek Terracotta Olive Jars with Ochre Glaze
Located in Dallas, TX
Bring timeless Mediterranean character to your space with this impressive pair of 18th-century Greek olive jars. Handcrafted circa 1780, each terracotta vessel features a classic ovo...
Category
Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
Italian, Late 17th / Early 18th Century, White Carrara Marble Bust of Athena
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive and very high quality Italian late 17th / early 18th century white Carrara marble bust of Athena. The bust is raised by a rectangular base with cut corners and a fine w...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble
enrichetta
Located in Milano, IT
Table candelabra.
Composition performed with:
dinosaur portion made of plastic material.
Porcelain dessert plate with openwork border.
Manufacture: Bavaria.
Assembling portions of po...
Category
Italian Arts and Crafts Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Plastic
$418
18th Century Carrara Marble and Dore Bronze Mantle Clock, F. Berthoud
Located in New York, NY
A fabulous and quite important 18th century Louis XVI period Carrara marble and dore bronze mantle clock, signed F. Berthoud, Paris. The body of the clock is exceptionally cast and f...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
Boiled Leather Trunk, Spanish, 17th Century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Leather trunk
Spanish, 17th century
Boiled Leather, wood and iron
Measures: 22 x 53 x 32 cm.
Provenance :
- collection Metz-Noblat, Château de Clevant, France
Rectangular trunk of the form and size of a small suitcase with wrought iron hinges and lock-plate.
Wood, covered with leather, cut and embossed with every surface of the thick cow hide covered in interlace, zoomorphic features.
The construction method is boiled leather, often referred to by its French translation cuir-bouilli: a process used to change flexible, vegetable-tanned leather into rigid, moulded objects. For shaping of the vegetable-tanned leather, heat and moisture were used, as indicated by the term boiled leather. No written medieval sources describing the production of decorated cuir bouilli objects survive, so knowledge of the process relies on the important studies of the Scottish leather historian John William Waterer. A large range of methods, materials and techniques could be used in various combinations. The vegetable-tanned leather, made supple with moisture and heat, was stuffed, shaped and nailed to the rigid wooden coffer support. The stuffing material was probably modeled beeswax or stearin wax. To shape the leather, to create its topography, « Cushions » were made by lacing a thread through an awl hole and attaching the flexible leather and stuffing to the rigid wooden support on the bottom. Then the decoration was done: lines were incised through the upper layer of the leather (epidermis) with different thicknesses of knives or needles. Contours were created with deep v-shaped cuts, decoration with thin incision and final details with a needle point. For the incision and pouncing stage, the leather was probably kept heated and moistened for suppleness.
Once dry, the leather would be hard and rigid.
the saturated leather is worked over a form, possibly even damp sand, with the pattern shaped using bone or wooden tools. Compare to metal, leather was lighter and it offered protection from cuts and punctures. Cuir bouilli objects were produced by specialist leather workers and needed skillful craftsmanship.
The surface is filled with roundels shaped foliages enclosing animals, lions and peacocks. The foliate arabesques creating a vegetal connection tweet the animals create the impression of a lush verdant space . The vegetal pattern here employed in combination with geometrical pattern came from the pre-islamic artistic traditions of the Byzantine and Sasanian empires. An aspect of Islamic geometry Is the basic symmetrical repetition and mirroring of the shapes that create a sense of harmony.
The decoration of this truck is inspired by the islamic « arabesque » a form of vegetal ornament composed of spirals, intertwining plants and abstract curvilinear motifs. An arabesque character is given to the birds of the decorations through extreme stylisation. This arabesque maintained the classical tradition of median symmetry, freedom in Detail and heterogeneity of ornament.
The presence of the peacocks is a paradisiacal allusion: in popular Islamic literature they were among the original inhabitants of the garden of Paradise expelled with Adam and Eve. Peacock as a decorative motif may have originated in the West, despite their eastern provenance. There was an ancient belief that the flesh and feathers of peacock do not decay. This led to the peacock becoming a christian symbol for Christ’s resurrection.
Renowned for their decorative wall hangings, seventeenth-century Spanish leatherworkers also produced utilitarian objects, such as this trunk. A similar trunk is on display at the Metropolitan museum of art ( 09.158.1).
Related literature :
Davies L. 2006. Cuir bouilli. Conservation of leather and related materials, 94-102, Oxford: elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann
Grabar, Oleg. The Mediation of Ornament. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992
Gabriela Germana Roquez, "El mueble en el Peru en el siglo XVIII...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
$12,915 Sale Price
40% Off
French C 18th Terracotta Bust of a Gentleman
Located in London, GB
After a model attributed to Jean Antoine Houdon, possibly Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert (1750 - 1780), poet.
Superbly sculpted in a coat and ruffled shirt set on a waisted socle....
Category
French Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
French White Carrara Marble Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
This 1890s French White Carrara Marble Sculpture is a timeless and elegant masterpiece, hand-crafted from the finest marble in France. Its classic design and high-quality material ma...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Carrara Marble
Large Chinese Export Punch Bowl in Mandarin Palette & Gilt Accents, ca. 1780
Located in Atlanta, GA
Large Chinese Export punch bowl in Mandarin Palette & Gilt Accents, ca. 1780.
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Korean Ceramic White Bowl Joseon Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Korean ceramic porcelain bowl covered in a white glaze with a hint of bluish green circa 18th century, possibly earlier, of the Joseon Dynasty. The deep bowl was hand-thrown on the...
Category
Korean Archaistic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
18th Century Terracotta Bust of Girl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautifully detailed. Hand sculpted terracotta on original marble plinth.
Category
French Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble
Gothic Canopy, France, 15th Century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Gothic canopy
France, 15th century
Alabaster, some traces of polychromy
33 x 23 x 20 cm
Provenance:
- Private collection Genève, Switzerland
...
Category
French Gothic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Alabaster
$23,917 Sale Price
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19th-Century Flame Mahogany Mantel Clock by Breguet Raised by Lion Paw Feet
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
An extremely rare mantel clock with a figured mahogany-veneered case by A-L Breguet
Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823), who was of Swiss origin, is undoubtedly the most celebrated clockmaker of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in France. He is responsible for the invention of the self-winding watch, the tourbillon and the sympathetic watch ( a watch that is placed in a cradle of a special clock. It is then linked by means of a pin fixed behind the clock dial. Built into the motion work which, when released by the clock, automatically sets the hands to the clock's time as well as correcting the watch's regulator necessitated by any degree of inaccuracy registered at the moment of synchronisation) and many other horological improvements and developments. Around the year 1807 Breguet brought in his son, Antoine-Louis (born 1776), as a business partner, and from this point, the firm became known as Breguet et Fils. Breguet had previously sent his son to London to study with the great English chronometer maker John Arnold...
Category
French Empire Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Maya Bird Sello Stamp
Located in Chicago, IL
Stamps, or sellos, such as this one were common during the pre-Columbian period in Mesoamerica and most popular during the Formative Period that spanned the years between 1200-800 B....
Category
Mexican Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Pair 18th Century Hand-Carved Wooden Angels
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair 18th century hand-carved wooden angels were sculpted by a talented artist from solid blocks of hardwood, and feature exquisite features and d...
Category
French Romantic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Hardwood
$3,900 / set
Fine Pair of Wedgwood Base Georgian Storm Lights
By Wedgwood
Located in Steyning, West sussex
A fine pair of wedgwood drums with mythological scenes mounted with gilt lacquered bases supporting glass storm shades.
Category
British Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
$13,724 / set
Beautiful Pair of Angels, Provence or Italy, 17th c.
Located in PARIS, FR
Set of Ceroferous Angels, bearing the light brought by Christ.
Beautiful sculpture . Very fine workmanship .
Mounted on cherub-like supports, one arm on the hip.
Gilt and polychrome...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Mantel Clock 18th Century Louis XVI Period by Baillon À Paris
Located in Warsaw, PL
This exceptional mantel clock was crafted by Jean-Baptiste Baillon III, one of the most renowned and innovative horologists of his era. Baillon served an elite clientele, including t...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$5,596 Sale Price
28% Off
18th Century Chelsea Derby Lettuce Form Sauce Boat, circa 1760
Located in Basildon, GB
18th Century Chelsea Derby Lettuce Form Sauce Boat, circa 1760, leaf-shaped body with a scalloped rim, hand-painted floral design with colourful flowers and green leaves, handle is ...
Category
English Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Austrian Ebonized and Parcel Gilt Bracket Clock Late 18th/Early 19th Century
Located in Buchanan, MI
An Austrian Ebonized and Parcel Gilt Bracket Clock
Late 18th/Early 19th Century
Height 21 x width 11 x depth 5 1/2 inches.
Property from the Collec...
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Austrian George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Ebony
Antique Russian Solid Silver Chinoiserie Tea Caddy
By Victor Savinsky
Located in Northampton, GB
Rare Form with Chinoiserie Figures
From our Tea Caddy collection, we are delighted to introduce to the market this rare example Russian Silver Chinoiserie Tea Caddy. The Tea Caddy ...
Category
Russian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Silver
Silver Wire Mineral Specimen with Calcite Crystals – Kongsberg, Norway
Located in Edison, NJ
Native silver is among a handful of minerals that have been deemed inherently valuable by mankind since antiquity. In the world of mineral collecting, silver specimens and sulfosalts...
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Norwegian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Silver
Stone Carved Anthropomorphic Sculpture From The Recuay Culture Peru 400bc-400ac
Located in Madrid, ES
ANTHROPOMORPHIC SCULPTURE CARVED IN STONE OF THE RECUAY CULTURE PERU 400BC-400AC
Recuay is an archaeological culture of Ancient Peru that developed in the Sierra of the current Peruvian department of Áncash between 200 AD. C. until 600 d. C. It corresponds to the stage called Regional Developments, it has also been called the Huaylas or Santa culture.
Like the other Early Intermediate cultures, little is known about this culture. The most accepted position is that it was an extension of the Chavin culture, after the influence of the "White on Red" style in the region. Regarding the political aspect of the recuay, there is a hypothesis that questions their autonomy and maintains that Recuay would be part of one of the many political units that made up the Moche state.
The recuay style, characterized by its ceramics and stone sculpture, was initially described by Eduard Seler in 1893, based on ceramic specimens brought to the Ethnographic Museum in Berlin by Mariano M. Macedo. Seler named this style of pottery Recuay, based on the report that these pieces had been found in the town of Recuay. Later studies showed that this characteristic pottery was not originally from Recuay but from Copa, near Carhuaz, for which reason the name change to that of this town was proposed. Eventually the name of Huaylas was used for this culture. In 1919 Julio C. Tello explored the area and recovered lithic sculptures and Recuay-type ceramics. In the 1960s Rafael Larco Hoyle proposed changing the names of Recuay and Copa to Santa, arguing that the Recuay style had originated in the coastal regions of the Santa Valley. However, the name Recuay has persisted.
Its chronology is also highly debatable. The time of its origin between 0 and 200 AD is discussed. C. and its end or collapse is commonly set to 600 d. C. probably caused by the invasion of the Huari conquerors.
It encompassed almost the entire Callejón de Huaylas, a narrow valley fed by the Santa River and enclosed between two mountain ranges, the Cordillera Blanca to the west and the Cordillera Negra to the east. Its influence extended to the east to the Marañón river basin and to the west to the upper parts of the Santa, Casma and Huarmey valleys. To the north it reached the town of Pashash, in the province of Pallasca.
The Copa area, Marca district, Recuay province, Ancash department seems to have been the center or main nucleus of cohesion of this culture. The name of the culture would then be justified, derived from the province of the same name. Other important settlements were those of Huilcahuaín (near the current city of Ancash), Cátac, Araucay, Tambo, Jancu, Upayacu and Pashash (near the current city of Cabana).
Its main form of expression of art was through stone work (carving and masonry), inherited from its predecessor, the Chavín culture. In addition, they made sculptures in lumps that represent warriors with shields or trophy heads, with which they decorated their complex architectural constructions. They also made white clay pottery...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone
$42,095 Sale Price
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A 16th century carved marble sculpture of poseidon
Located in London, GB
This fine and imposing sculpture is an excellent example of 16th century Italian craftsmanship. The figure is stood on a raised, shaped rectangular base with a carved "dolphin" at th...
Category
Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble
17th Century Italian Angel with Cactus Spirit Quartz and Calcite Crystal Matrix
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian hand-carved angel with applied cactus quartz crystals resting on coordinating calcite crystals in matrix.
The angel artifact was once a part of a cornice in an ...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Pacing Horse - Italian School, 18th century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Italian School, 18th century
Pacing Horse
Bronze with brown patina, on a rectangular marble base
H 8 x L 8,5 x P 3 cm
H totale 11 cm
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Apostle – Murcian School, Spain, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Magnificent 18th-century Spanish sculpture from the Murcian School, representing an apostle, finely carved in wood, polychromed, gilded, and estofado. The figure displays remarkable ...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Fruitwood
$4,133 Sale Price
20% Off
A 17th Century William and Mary eight-day double basket table clock by Asselin
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A relatively small and extremely attractive late 17th century English eight-day spring-driven double basket table clock signed on the backplate Asselin London, dating to the period c...
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English William and Mary Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Pair of Irish Georgian Boat Shaped Bowls
Located in Steyning, West sussex
A fine pair of flat cut boat shaped bowls with vandyke rims.
Category
Icelandic Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Cut Glass
$6,207 / set
Pair of Delft Beaker Vases by the De Paauw Factory
By De Paauw
Located in New York, NY
Each decorated with a central oval cartouche enclosing birds and foliage with diaperwork and flowerhead reserve.
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Delft, Paint
A Japanese Edo Period Lacquer Kogo (Incense) Box, late 17/early 18th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
Early Japanese Lacquer Incense Box (Kogo) Late 17thc. Of rectangular form with soft corners, decorated with a diaper pattern in gold lacquer on a brownish black ground, with pewter r...
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Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Pewter
Blue-Glazed Porcelain Box from Hatcher Collection
Located in Atlanta, GA
17th century Chinese porcelain blue-glazed circular pill box from the Hatcher Collection, painted in different tones of blue with a central prunus flower on a wave pattern ground tha...
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Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Pair 18th C. English Matthew Boulton Ormolu Mounted Carrara Marble Cassolettes
By Matthew Boulton and John Fothergill
Located in New York, NY
A Magnificent, Exceptionally Rare, Museum Quality Pair of 18th Century English Ormolu Mounted, Hand-Carved and Hand-Polished Carrara Marble Cassolettes, By Matthew Boulton. These beautiful ormolu-mounted white marble cassolettes are by Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) and John Fothergill (1730- circa 1782) published in their Pattern Book No. 1 (page 171, figure t) and reproduced in Sir Nicholas Goodison's Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton (New York, 1974, page 383, figure 161).
Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) was a close friend of Boulton's and his patterns are thought to be the source for the medallions used on the plinths of these. Boulton's medallions of classical figures are almost identical to the cameos and intaglios made by Wedgwood and his partner James Tassie.
Molds for these examples can be found in the Wedgwood Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum. All derive from the same classical source of Renaissance gems. Many gem collections in Europe were widely published at this time and Boulton's library contained A. F. Gori's Museum Florentinum (1731-1766), in which gems from the Medici collection were engraved.
The subjects of the medallions on this pair are: Pomona, a Roman goddess of fruit trees, gardens, and orchards, and depicted carrying a basket on her head overloaded with fruit, tumbling to the ground, shown once on each vase. Hygeia, once on each, with an olive branch in her right hand, as seen in Tassie's reproduction of Valerio Belli's gem, and holding a snake in her left hand over an altar. This was produced by Wedgwood both as an intaglio and as a cameo. Venus & Cupid, only on one vase, showing Venus leaning against a column with a pike, and giving a helmet to Cupid. Aesclepius, Greek GD of medicine, only on one vase, depicted with a snake wrapped around his staff .The last medallion subject is either Diomedes or Perseus, shown once on each vase, depicted as a conquering hero. Boulton asked patrons to choose from a limited repertoire of motifs, and therefore each vase or pair of vases is adorned with their own combination. Boulton used nine medallion subjects on recorded vases of this type.
PROVENANCE & COMPS
Another pair of this model, with slightly less elaborate lids and finials, from a private collection are illustrated in Goodison's Matthew Boulton: ORMOLU, (page 379, figure 153). A further example is in a private New York collection. This pair, which was acquired from Hotspur in 1981, was formerly in the Collection of Marjorie Wiggin Prescott, sold Christie’s, New York, 31 January 1981, lot 76. The Prescott Collection was one of the most important English furniture collections of its time. The sale consisted mostly of late 17th and 18th century English furniture...
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English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Crystal, Carrara Marble, Bronze
Late 18th C. Pair of Italian Pine Torcheres
Located in San Marino, CA
A pair of Italian Pine Torcheres, circa 1800 or earlier.
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Pine
18th Century Swedish Case Clock
Located in Huntington, NY
A unique Swedish case clock repainted in cream color. Clock is sold as a decorative piece, no mechanical guarantee. Weights (but no pendulum and key) included.
Category
Swedish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal, Brass
French Gothic Stone Sculpture of a Bishop – 15th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Striking Gothic stone sculpture from 15th-century France, depicting a bishop adorned with remnants of original polychromy in shades of blue and green. A highly decorative piece, show...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Limestone
$4,620 Sale Price
20% Off
Candlesticks Pair of English Mahogany, 18th Century, England
Located in New York, NY
Candlesticks pair of English mahogany, 18th century, England. A pair of candlesticks made during the 18th century in England. Made from mahogany with candleholders in brass.
Category
English Gustavian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Mahogany
Antique 18th Century Mennecy Figural Mouse Snuff or Patch Box
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A rare figural porcelain snuff box in the form of a mouse attributed to Mennecy porcelain.
Having a porcelain mounted lid with wonderfully hand-...
Category
French Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Grand Marble Bust of Omphale with Hercules' Lion Skin – Amsterdam, c. 1740
Located in Baambrugge, NL
This exceptional, larger-than-life bust is an impressive work in Carrara marble, crafted in Amsterdam around 1740. It depicts Omphale, the Lydian queen, identifiable by Hercules’ lio...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble
18th Century Antique Mahogany Quarter-Striking Longcase Clock by John Waldron
Located in Devon, GB
This superb George III longcase clock is veneered throughout with patinated figured mahogany of excellent colour. The base, trunk with openin...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
Pocket Watch, Engraved André Hessen. Gold, Enamel, Paris, France, Ca 18th C
By André Hessén
Located in Madrid, ES
Pocket watch, engraved André Hessen. Gold, enamel. Paris, France, towards the last third of the 18th century.
Has faults.
Pocket watch in a case decorated with enamels on the back (inside a pearl band you can see a composition with a clear classicist influence with a female figure, perhaps an allegory of the arts...
Category
European Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal, Gold, Enamel, Other
12.69 Gram Stunning Aquamarine Specimen With Schorl From Skardu, Pakistan
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
12.69 Gram Stunning Aquamarine Specimen With Schorl From Skardu, Pakistan
Weight: 12.69 Gram
Dimension : 3 x 2.5 x 1.4 Cm
Origin: Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit Baltistan, ...
Category
Pakistani Adam Style Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Rock Crystal
French Louis XVI Ormolu Mounted Mantel Clock, Leroy
Located in New York, NY
Louis XVI ormolu-mounted Mantel Clock
signed Julien Leroy A Paris
France, 18th century
A similar clock sold at Sothebys New York for $81,250 (Important ...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Enamel, Ormolu
18th Century English Pottery Pearlware Lion & Lioness Figures- Ralph Wood Type
By Ralph Wood Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th Century Pearlware Pottery Figures of Lion & Lioness,
Ralph Wood Type,
The pearlware pottery figures depict a true pair of a lion and a lioness facing each other on a slightly d...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Pearlware, Pottery
18th Century Pair of French Brass Candlesticks
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Pair of 18th century French brass candlesticks with classical detailing, featuring lion masks with garland drops at each corner of the faceted stem. The bases are richly ornamented w...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
$1,200 / set
26.33 Gram Adorable Aquamarine Specimen From Shigar Valley, Skardu, Pakistan
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
26.33 Gram Adorable Aquamarine Specimen From Shigar Valley, Skardu, Pakistan
Weight: 26.33 Gram
Dimension: 3.8 x 3.7 x 3.3 Cm
Origin: Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Pakistan
Aqu...
Category
Pakistani Adam Style Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Rock Crystal
pair of Italian 18th century Tuscan st. Wrought Iron and Brass candlesticks
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A spectacular and most impressive pair of Italian 18th century Tuscan st. patinated Wrought Iron and Brass candlesticks. This exceptional pair of palatially scaled candle holders are...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
Chinese Terracotta Neolithic Jar Ca. 3rd millennium B.C.
Located in Bonita Springs, FL
Chinese Neolithic Terracotta Frog Storage Jar
China, 3rd Millennium B.C.
A striking example of Neolithic ceramic artistry, this elegant terracotta stor...
Category
Chinese Primitive Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery
Large Chinese Terracotta Tomb Figure East Han Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Chinese terracotta tomb figure (Ni Yong) from East Han Dynasty (25-220 AD), likely from the area of nowadays Sichuan. It appears to depict a groom figure with attires and harness i...
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Chinese Han Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
Fossil Ammonite Hoplitoides Wohltmanni Surmounted Etched Brass Stand
By Modenature
Located in Scorton, GB
The latest edition to arrive at THE FOSSIL STORE™ is our famous and exquisite series of designed mount. The ammonites are truly exquisite specimens excavated from the high Anti-Atlas...
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North African Prehistoric Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Limestone, Brass
Hand Carved Stone Vide poche Basin Jardinière Bowl Planter Vessel Sink Antiques
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Hand Carved Stone Vide poche Basin Jardinière bowl planter vessel sink Antiques . 17th C. Possibly earlier Gothic Container . A Water Trough Benitier in a ...
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French Gothic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone, Limestone
$2,800 Sale Price
24% Off
Korean Ceramic Tea Bowl with Slip Inlays Goryeo Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A small ceramic conical form tea bowl from Korean Goryeo Dynasty circa 14th century. The bowl is of a slightly irregular shape and covered in a grayish overglaze. The inlaid slip dec...
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Korean Archaistic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Restored Typewriter/ Consul, Czechoslovakia, 1962s
Located in Praha, CZ
The entire machine is expertly disassembled, cleaned, lubricated, all repaired and fully functional.
The packaging of the machine has surface defects that are associated with the ag...
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Czech Mid-Century Modern Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Gilt Bronze and Malachite Louis XVI Clock
Located in London, GB
Gilt bronze and malachite Louis XVI clock
French, late 18th century
Measures: Height 69cm, width 36cm, depth 13.5cm
This fine Louis XVI mantel clock is wrought from malachite and gilt bronze. The malachite veneer is a later, beneficial refinishing. The clock features a plinth-form malachite base supporting four malachite columns, each with a gilt bronze capital. The columns raise an ornately shaped top, which is inset with a circular white enamel dial and is surmounted by urn-form finials. Beneath the dial is suspended an ornately cast and finished gilt bronze drapery...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Malachite, Ormolu
$13,241 Sale Price
20% Off
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