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Period: Mid-18th Century
Pair of extremely rare Alabaster vases, Italy, 1st half of 18th century
Located in Walkertshofen, BY
The vases have a baluster shape and are richly decorated with foliage and acanthus. The foot is multiple and decorated, the shoulder has a band of peripheral foliage with mounted and...
Category
Italian Louis XIV Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Alabaster, Bronze
Figure of a ram, Derby Porcelain Works, circa 1760
By Derby
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Derby was able to produce exceptional work, as this figure of a recument ram attests. Skillfully sculpted, moulded and potted, there is something about the expression produced by the...
Category
English Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Grand Scale, 18th Century, English Document Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An impressive, solid wood, period, hinge-top document box completely covered in tole and incised brass with delicate foliate designs throughout. The inside lined in a vibrant, scarle...
Category
English Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal, Brass
Pair of Belgian Bluestone Cone Sculptures
Located in Dallas, TX
These 18th-century cone sculptures are made from premium Belgium bluestone and are ideal for enhancing any indoor or outdoor design project. Their unique shape provides a striking vi...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone
Bowl Large Dairy Fruitwood Folk Vernacular, 18th Century
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
An exceptional, large 18th century treen turned fruitwood dairy bowl with a rich lustrous patina
Provenance: Collection of the late Geoffrey Harley, Pickwick End, Corsham
The f...
Category
English Baroque Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Fruitwood
Wood Hand Carved Planter Vase Jardinière Cachepot Antique
Located in Ventura, CA
Wood Hand Carved Planter Vase Jardinière Cachepot Antique, this one-of-a-kind Hungarian Corn Grinder stands as a captivating statement piece for any home....
Category
Hungarian Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
18th Century Giltwood Sculpture of a Female Nude
By Michelangelo Buonarroti
Located in New York, NY
This giltwood sculpture was carved in the round, probably in southern France or northern Italy in the 1760s. Her pronounced musculature speaks to the ongoing influence of Michelange...
Category
French Neoclassical Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Bow Porcelain Element Figures, "Water" and "Land" , circa 1765
Located in Basildon, GB
Pair of Bow Porcelain Element Figures, "Water" and "Land" , circa 1765, both brightly coloured, 'Water' depicted by Neptune and a large fish, and "Land" depicted by Ceres and a lion.
Category
English Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Rectangular Hand-Painted Wooden Box with a Character with a Hat
Located in Marbella, ES
16th Century Rectangular Hand-Painted Wooden Box with a Character with a Hat
Category
European Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Italian Limestone Venus Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
This Italian Limestone Venus Sculpture is a stunning depiction of the goddess of love, carved with incredible detail and from authentic 18th century limestone sourced from Italy. The...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Limestone
Antique Dutch Porcelain Charger in the Chinese Manner, circa 1750-1780
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique Dutch Porcelain charger in the Chinese manner, circa 1750-1780. This is a very old, delicate piece. Please ask us about condition as we...
Category
Dutch Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Figure Columbine with her Hurdy Gurdy, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1756
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
From the Commedia dell’arte, shown seated on a tree stump and playing her favourite instrument. Probably after Kandler, who described the model as a Tyrolean maiden playing a lyre.
...
Category
English Rococo Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Torchère 15 Candleholder Iron Spanish Fleur-de-Lys Renaissance
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
- Striking Spanish wrought iron standing torchère in the Renaissance style
With fifteen rolled candle-sockets, and two decorative fleur-de-lys finials, on a knopped...
Category
Spanish Baroque Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Wrought Iron
Italian Carved or Cast Stone Fruits: Final Price
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Antique Italian carved stone fruits triumph for Garden or for the top of the staircase,
ref. M/108.
Category
Italian Baroque Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Stone
$661 Sale Price
44% Off
Figure of a Nun, Perhaps Heloise, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A classic example of early bow porcelain.
The figure is of a Dominican Nun, and is based on a continental model, probably Meissen.
Bow produced a number of apparently religious...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Harlequin and Columbine Dancing, Chelsea, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
One of the best: Harlequin & Columbine Dancing, after the Meissen figure, from the series of characters from the Commedia dell'Arte.
Category
English Neoclassical Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$11,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Lions. Bow Porcelain C1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An attractive pair of lions, in the white; possibly based on a Chinese original.
Category
English Neoclassical Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$17,000 / set
Pair of Itinerant Ballad Singer figures. Bow porcelain C1748
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Flemish man and wife, in the white. He wears an open coat, waistcoat, breeches and tricorn hat, and plays a hurdy-gurdy. She wears a sleeved dress, long apron and linen cap and carri...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$12,950 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Figure of The Vintner's Companion, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Moulded in a dense body in typical muses modeller style and with slightly drab glaze. She stands by a fruiting vinestock and carries an open basket of grapes in her right hand, her e...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$4,690 Sale Price
30% Off
Figure, Sportsman Toper, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Probably an early prototype, the largely open base showing an apparently unique structure described by Watney as ‘a favourite primitive buttressed by a strong overall cone-shape and further strengthened by a cut-out additional layer inside the base in the manner of pastry making.’ (Freeman Collection, Forward, 1982).
Toper is an old English word for a drunk.
Annulet Mark.
Prov: Taylor Coll, Albert Amor...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$4,900 Sale Price
30% Off
Two wooden sculptures depicting a bishop and a cardinal, Venice 1730.
Located in Milan, IT
Two wooden sculptures depicting a bishop and a cardinal, attributed to the sculptor Francesco Bertoz. Active in Rome in 1693 and then in Padua and Venice from 1719 onwards. Above a l...
Category
Italian Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Figure of Pointing Boy by Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1751
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Presumably based on the work of the Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy (1597-1643), also known as Il Fiammingo.
A small series of Chelsea figures from the late 1740s was also ba...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$5,250 Sale Price
30% Off
Silvered Large Wall Sculptures with Mirrors
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
O/6818 - Large, important and beautiful pair of Italian old friezes, that completely decorate a wall, more than a picture, but like two sculptures. They may be used also like scon...
Category
French Baroque Revival Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Fruitwood
$5,352 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Worcester punch bowl, feather moulded floral pattern, circa 1765
Located in Basildon, GB
Worcester punch bowl, feather moulded floral pattern, circa 1765. The inside centre pattern is the "The Fisherman and Willow Paviilon" with a floral decoration around the rim. The b...
Category
English Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 18th Century Italian Putti Candles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nice pair of Italian carved wood Putti that hold candles. The base is 7" x 7". The wing spread is 12". From a beautiful home in Santa Barbara.
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
$4,850 / set
Antique Carved Walnut Figural Relief
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
Antique carved walnut figural relief. A carved walnut figural relief depicting a lady swathed in drapery with flowers, possibly Flemish.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Steel
Figure of Autumn
Located in London, GB
A fine Meissen figure of Autumn modelled by Johann Friedrich Eberlein, circa 1750.
Category
European Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
$6,726
Rare, Antique, French, Chocolate Marble Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elegant, bow front, lift top, hand carved marble box with two, round compartments. The sinuous base is mirrored in the stepped, overhanging top which is surmounted by a relief carved...
Category
French Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Marble
Vaso in Vetro Di Murano Di Sommerso, Anni '60
Located in Milano, MI
Creatore Sommerso
Periodo del design 1960 - 1969
Periodo di produzione 1960 - 1969
Paese di produzione Italia
Stile Mid-Century
Stato Eccellente — Questo pezzo vintage/antico è in condizioni quasi originali.
Materiale Vetro di Murano...
Category
Italian Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Murano Glass
Pair of 18th Century Italian Polychrome Candle Figures
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautifully carved and painted. Nice patina. From a beautiful house in Santa Barbara. They do hold candles on a spike.
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Gold/Silver Weight in Fruitwood, Signed with Monogram "IHS" and Dated "1737"
Located in Aalsgaarde, DK
Gold/Silver weight in fruitwood, signed with monogram "IHS" and dated "1737"
Measures: Height 20, diameter 4 cm.
Height 7.8, diameter 1.5 in.
Category
Scandinavian Antique Mid-18th Century Decorative Objects
Materials
Fruitwood
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