Early 1800s Decorative Objects

Early 19th century candle and oil burning chandelier from an Irish manor house. Features include four sets of four linear beveled crystal chain hangers, 16 doré´ bronze candle...

A pair of Regency candlesticks the finely knurled gilt lacquered bases mounting diamond cut-glass drums this supporting diamond cut-glass eggs terminating with van dyke pans and nozz...

Coppia di torcieri in bronzo e marmo griotte. Una coppia di figure femminili in bronzo reggono delle cornucopie in bronzo dorato che fungono da porta cero e sono posti su una base in...

Two elegant 3-flame silver girandoles on a round base, smooth shaft raised in the centre, the lower third constricted by a profiled beaded ring, the shaft widening conically towards ...

Pair of Rouge Griotte marble vases mounted on bronze patinated metal. Decorations with vegetable and zoomorphic motifs; feral-shaped feet.

Dimensions (l x w x h): 2 7/8 x 1 7/8 x 7/8 in.  

Made in the Netherlands circa 1800 this antique blue and white Dutch Delft charger has beautiful cobalt blue coloring. The center shows a garden with tulips, peonies, and a water li...

A pair of Empire Ormolu-Mounted Malachite Ewers attributed to Claude Galle, circa 1805, Possibly Made For The Russian Market. Each with an ovoid body applied with an ormolu band depi...

Temple clock of French origin, Paris city, Empire era, silk thread mechanism. Bardiglio gray marble. With capitals in gilded bronze. Functioning and over...

This bust of Admiral Lord Nelson was probably produced by Bartholomew Papera after the 1798 marble bust by Anne Seymour Damer. The reverse is impressed, ‘Anna S. Damer Fecit’ and ‘Pub. As the Act Dir’. Incomplete paper label on the integral black base. English, circa 1802. The Hon. Anne Seymour Damer (1748-1828) was a sculptor and author who later inherited Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole’s famed Gothic villa in Twickenham. A friend of Sir William and Lady Hamilton, she probably met Nelson in Naples in 1798, afterwards offering a bust of the Hero to the City of London. On his return to London in 1800, Nelson gave Damer a sitting during which he presented her with his uniform coat worn at the Battle of the Nile. Although Damer’s monumental bust in marble was only delivered to the City in 1803, artist authorised copies in plaster, probably by the plaster figure maker Bartholomew Papera (c.1749-1815), were already circulating. Damer presented Napoleon Bonaparte in person with an example in plaster on her visit to Paris in 1802, whilst another reached the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. The Wedgwood factory purchased a plaster copy of Damer’s bust from Papera in 1802 (for 12 shillings), possibly for an unrealised scheme to reproduce it in basalt pottery...