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Material: Mother-of-Pearl
Four Panel Tropical Underwater Scene with Mother of Pearl Inlays on Wood Panel
Located in Soquel, CA
Four Panel Tropical Underwater Scene with Mother of Pearl Inlays on Wood Panel
Elaborate four panel scene by an unknown artist. Water, coral, and some tropical fish have been painte...
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Early 1900s Japanese Art Nouveau Antique Mother-of-Pearl Animal Sculptures
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Abalone, Wood, Acrylic
A Charles X Palais Royal Ormolu and Mother of Pearl Equestrian Statue
Located in London, GB
A very fine and rare Charles X period Palais Royal ormolu and engraved mother of pearl Statuette Sculpture of a horse. With an engine-milled ormolu mounted mother-of-pearl base
Prove...
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1830s French Antique Mother-of-Pearl Animal Sculptures
Materials
Ormolu
P, Vintage Mother of Pearl Animal Sculpturer, Italy, 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage mother of pearl animal is an original decorative object realized by Anonymous Italian artist in 1970s.
Good conditions except for mi...
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1970s Italian Vintage Mother-of-Pearl Animal Sculptures
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
Fish Nº2 with mother-of-pearl shell and eye of the tiger by Alcino Silversmith
Located in Porto, 13
Fish with mother-of-pearl shell and eye of the tigerstone.
This fish is a contemporary sculpture made of chiseled silver plate applicated to the natural mother pearl shell, is total...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Mother-of-Pearl Animal Sculptures
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Mid-Century Mother-of-pearl and Metal Bird
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1960 silver plated bird with mother-of-pearl insets.
Measurements:
Height: 27"
Width: 20"
Depth: 14".
Category
1960s North American Vintage Mother-of-Pearl Animal Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate
Mother of Pearl / Abalone Shell Fish Sculpture
Located in San Diego, CA
A vey nice mother of pearl / abalone shell handmade fish sculpture, circa 1990s. The piece is well detailed and the craftsmanship is amazing. The sculpture is in very good condition;...
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Mid-20th Century American Mother-of-Pearl Animal Sculptures
Materials
Abalone, Mother-of-Pearl
1980s Sculpture of a Deer Lying Down with Mother of Pearl Antlers
Located in Marbella, ES
1980s Sculpture of a deer lying down with mother of pearl antlers.
Category
Late 20th Century European Mother-of-Pearl Animal Sculptures
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
Monumental Pair of Chinese Carved Wood Brush Pots, Late 18th Century
Located in North Miami, FL
Monumental pair of Chinese carved wood brush pots adorned with mother of pearl and white bone details. Late 18th century. Brush pots were used by Chines...
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18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Mother-of-Pearl Animal Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Mother-of-Pearl
Carved Natural Amber Sculpture "Nesting Snakes" by Lee Downey Bali, Indonesia
By Lee Downey
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A finely carved natural Aber Specimen group of nesting snakes, featuring a large, very clear amber specimen from Chiapas, Mexico, a carving representing two snakes intertwined around a tree trunk rests within a section of natural moose antler which cleverly represents the base of the tree. A mother-of-pearl carved egg form tops the display. On a jet base with an amber piece giving the impression of an imbedded sphere. Offered with a custom-fitted Balinese fabric...
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Late 20th Century Indonesian Country Mother-of-Pearl Animal Sculptures
Materials
Other
Two Marquis Collection of Beverly Hills Birds White Ivory Stone and Fossil Stone
Located in Miami, FL
Elegant pair of birds in white ivory stone with beige fossil stone mounted on a square base.
The beaks as well as the bases are in mother-of-pearl.
Makers mark underneath, Marquis Co...
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Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Mother-of-Pearl Animal Sculptures
Materials
Stone
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Greyhound, Bronze Sculpture, Italy, 1970s
Located in Naples, IT
Bronze sculpture representing a beautiful alert and elegant dog on a white marble surface. In excellent condition with slight patina wear.
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Vintage Mother of Pearl Nautilus Shell
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1970s Vintage 'Nantucket' White Wicker Sculpture of a Whale
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Rare Miniature Horse Sterling Silver and Mother of Pearl Sculpture by Watrous
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Originally Watrous made bells and iron nickel-plated toys, this is a rare example of one of his horses done in sterling silver. The horse is fitted with a saddle and bridle and looks like he or she is pracing on a sliver of mother of pearl stand with 3 curls sterling feet. It is marked sterling and has a CW hallmark.
Biography information for 925-100
Watrous Mfg. Co.
Wallingford, Connecticut 1896 - Present
Originally plated wares, began sterling line in the 1920s. Successors to Maltby, Stevens Co., in 1898 Watrous became a division of International.
More biography regarding toy manufacturing
Posted by BellToyBoy on July 3, 2012
A brief history of Watrous Manufacturing Co.
In “Bell Town” East Hampton, Connecticut, David Watson Watrous was one of the founders in 1851 of the East Hampton Bell Company. He left in 1860 to found the company Clark and Watrous, and then in 1865 created D. W. Watrous & Co. which later became Watrous Manufacturing Co.. The company created sleigh bells, bell toys, and in it’s early days they made casket trimmings. D. W. Watrous was also the town undertaker. Watrous Mfg. Co. had been making bell toys for over forty years according to a 1918 ad. D. W. was to answer the call of the bell until one tolled for him when he died in 1918. His son John Lazarus ran the company till his bell tolled in 1923 and the company stock was then sold to Gong Bell Manufacturing Co.. The Watrous Mfg Co. was dissolved in 1927.
By the early 1900s Watrous Mfg. Co. had developed a distinct bell toy style. While some of the toys had fancy iron frames, more often their toys utilized nickel plated or coppered steel frames and nickel plated steel wheels. Flattened cast iron figures often move to strike a bell or chime. The mechanisms were frequently exposed. Parts were often lacquered over the nickel plating which gave the paint an iridescent quality.. As a reflection of the times there are Soldiers and Sailors, Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders, Admiral Peary and the Polar Bear, and Dancing Coons. Popular toys included many versions with horses, clowns or bears. Comic Character toys included Buster Brown and Tige, Little Nemo and Flip , Charlie Chaplin, Mammy and Foxy Grandpa. In addition to the bell toys, chime toys or gong toys, the company also produced an erector set called Modelit around 1916, and a mechanical tin and wood toy called Flying Areoplanes.
The Watrous Mfg. Co. was closely associated with several of the many East Hampton bell companies. The Barton family is credited with starting the bell industry in East Hampton. An 1880 illustrated map of East Hampton shows Barton and Watrous Bell Mfrs. in one building as well as D. W. Watrous, Mfrs. of Bells and Undertakers Supplies, Undertaking in another.
For a while Watrous Mfg. Co. and N. N. Hill Brass Co. combined their catalogs into one while they were both branches of the short lived, 1903 -1907, toy manufacturers consortium, National Novelty Corporation. Grace Bevin and the Bevin Bros. Mfg. Co. and were major stock holders of the Watrous Mfg. Co. from their Incorporation in 1913 to 1923.
The Gong Bell Mfg. Co. was just upstream from the Watrous Mfg. Co.. In 1912 Clifford M. Watrous, surprisingly unrelated to the Watrous family of Watrous Mfg. Co., became general manager at Gong Bell Mfg. Co.. In 1921 he patented the popular Playphone 600. He would later become President of Gong Bell Mfg. Co. East Hampton was and still is a small town. There were many ties by marriage to other East Hampton families, many involved in the bell industry. The bell and bell toy industry faded leaving Bevin Bell Co. as the sole survivor in East Hampton today.
The water from Lake Pocotopaug still flows over the East Hampton Falls near Watrous Street. The site where Watrous Mfg was located at 103 Main Street in East Hampton is now a parking lot for the town library. The names, a few scraps of paper, and some toys that have somehow survived the normal ravages inflicted by children and time are all that remains of the Watrous Manufacturing Company’s sixty seven year history.
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H 1.83 in W 1.8 in D 1.5 in
Contemporary Tahitian Mother of Pearl and Bone Inlay Elephant Sculpture
Located in Toronto, ON
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2010s Philippine Mother-of-Pearl Animal Sculptures
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Little Insect Bug Lamp in Iron and Mother of Pearl Nacre, Italy, 1970s
Located in Rome, IT
Little lamp in the shape of an insect with mother of pearl shell and iron legs, Italian piece of the 1970s.
The electric wiring is new.
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Mother-of-Pearl Animal Sculptures
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Pair of 19th Century English Carved White Marble Elephants Sculptures
Located in Dallas, TX
Make a statement in your entry with this pair of antique, marble elephant sculptures. Crafted in England circa 1860, the hand carved mammals ...
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Silver Plated Frog with Mother-of-Pearl Card Holder
Located in London, GB
This whimsical yet very useful silver plated standing frog holds a large polished mother-of-pearl clam shell and is mounted on a square moulded base. The piece measures 6 ¼ in – 15.8...
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Amazing French 'Escargot' Light Sculpture in Bronze and Mother-of-Pearl, 1950
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
Truly beautiful 1950s French artist's 'escargot' light sculpture made of cast bronze with a stunning handworked mother of pearl shell serving as the light diffuser.
The snail form has become somewhat of an icon in post war modern art from Matisse's 1953 abstracted 'escargot' collage through to Savador Dali...
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Bronze
H 4.34 in W 9.06 in D 5.91 in
Dore Bronze Swan on a Lake
Located in Fairfax, VA
This lovely sculpture has a Dore bronze swan sitting on a mother of pearl. The swan itself has beautiful detailing along the feathers and the beak, and the piece shines with classic ...
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Located in New York, NY
A brass scorpion with inset mother-of-pearl. The body is a lid that opens up, circa 1960s.
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Brass
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