Baroque Decorative Objects

Hand carved Italian Santo: figure of Franciscan abbot or saint, circa 1780-1800. Note: Regional differences in humidity and climate during shipping may...

Fine 17th century domed box with highly figured kingwood marquetry veneer laid in a geometric pattern, the front having elaborate pierced and embossed brass escutcheon, the whole wit...

A charming 17th-century Colonial sculpture depicting the Niño Jesús as Salvator Mundi, carved in wood and retaining its original polychromy with a naturally aged surface developed ov...

Tall early 18th century Portuguese gilt oak church torchère with deep foliate carvings on a tripod base. This torchère can easily be converted into a ...

Fine male torso in Greek Thassos marble with base in black Imperial marble, late 18th century WITH VIDEO Origin Venice, private collection. Torso of great quality and workmanship, ...

This particular set of wooden tiles, was handmade with colorful rural scenes, to decorate the sides of the Sicilian carts used during popular folks. Thes...

Pitcher ‘cantaros’ from Calanda, Aragon-Zaragoza area of Spain. A rare piece from a Private collection, circa 1890. Other examples can be seen in the Museo de Zaragoza. With gorgeou...

Exquisite and Unique sculpture of Saint Anthony of Padua, 18th century. Of exceptional craftsmanship, the iconography is typical of this saint. He is depicted as a young friar holdin...

Bronze baluster bowl. Antique bronze votive bowl with ten bronze balusters punctuating the outer surface in high relief. Italy 16th century. Dimensions: 5” diameter top x 3.25" H; ...

This is a Talavera Majolica Amphora/Urn Vase. It depicts a hand painted amphora/urn with a white background showing a scene in the front of a Spaniard gentleman riding a horse and in...

Centerpiece fountain with octagonal basin in Rosso Verona marble and Greco Thassos marble, 18th century Water flows from the center of the basin through a hole. It dates back to the...

The sculpture features a small dancing Angel 'Putto" supported on a marble block with wonderful detailing on the draping cloth and face. The sculpture is supported by an iron rod stu...

Antique baroque sterling silver little love cart late 19th Century, Italy. This a very nice and lovable piece of art fine art jewellery. Totally han...

Antique marble Centenary, 19th-century. Once used during the grape harvest, today it can be used as a decorative element or as a water basin, etc. (with the option of drilling a hol...

18th century Italian slipware decorated Pottery Group, "Fleeing the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79AD" in Pompeii resulting in the death of over 100 people.. No marks. N.P. Trent has...

A late 18th century blacked wooden sewing box with gold painted decoration all around brass engraved lock and hinges Aged patina 17 x 10.5 cm, total heigth 10.5 cm

Baroque brass candlestick for pillar candles. The body features a profiled brass base with a centrally mounted hand-forged wrought iron spike to secure the candle. Denmark, circa 17...

Spectacular Venetian Botticino marble well, 18th century Elegant and delightful octagonal Botticino marble well, featuring two relief designs. From Venice, private collection. The...

A early 17th century French Gargoyle. Gargoyels were originally intented as waterspouts for churches and castles but soon were used as ornamentation. A...

Italian Venetian-style (20th Century) green glass pear shaped paperweight.

Snuff Box Snuff Box Venetian landscape is in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated 24 carats.. Snuff Box Snuff Box Venetian landscape has translucent fired enamel on guilloche and min...

Diese antike Biskuitporzellan-Büste ist eine meisterhafte Hommage a den tragischen „verlorenen Dauphin“, Louis XVII (1785–1795). Das Werk basiert auf den berühmten Entwürfen des köni...

Candlestick Ercole Barovier and Ermanno Toso, is much more than just an accessory; it is a work of art in blown glass, emblematic of artisanal craftsmanship. With its dimensions of 2...

Rare red pitcher ‘cantaro’ from Calanda, Aragon-Zaragoza area of Spain, circa 1750 a rare piece from a Private collection. Other examples can be seen in the Museo de Zaragoza. With g...

A wonderful 19th century letter opener acquired in Paris France. The piece has the bust of a period lady at the top and is very sophisticated and elegant. A compliment to any desk or...

A French Baroque style walnut putto from the late 18th century, sitting on a pillow. Created in France during the last quarter of the 18th century, this walnut sculpture charms us wi...

Our artisan's pieces are a dream come true, as in Dragon Trainers. This ceramic piece is completely hand-crafted and painted with love and care.  

Gorgeous small statuette depicting a silver cherub from the Baroque period, late 1700s. The statue is made entirely of gilded silver and depicts a music...

Before describing the object under consideration, we must make an important clarification; the artifact, one of many that we will publish over time, is part of the museum collection of a historic Florentine crystal grinder that unfortunately closed recently. It is the Marcello Galgani & Son company, whose completely manual and artisanal work has not withstood the disproportionate advance of mass-produced mechanical processes! Marcello Galgani began his craft as a grinder and restorer in 1960; as the years went by, Marcello mastered and became familiar with particular techniques and shapes, resulting in the production of objects that manage to retain the freshness of grinding and engraving, the warmth and softness of light, and the inimitable flavor of unique artifacts. After several years, his son Lorenzo, who grew up among crystals, also entered the business and immediately became passionate about this ancient craft with skill and ability. Stimulated by the aesthetic sense of the past, father and son, set up a workshop in which the shapes they researched and created themselves are mouth-blown by traditional Tuscan glassmakers in Empoli, then ground and engraved using ancient sixteenth-century techniques, with motifs born from the Galgani's inexhaustible imagination or culturally inspired by designs of objects seen and studied in Florentine museums (Uffizi, Galleria Palatina, Museo degli Argenti, etc.). Marcello and Lorenzo Galgani were also Masters in the difficult art of restoration, bringing rare and precious objects back to life. As mentioned the company recently closed and disposed of all its last production, and only Marcello's old private museum collection remained, which includes unique and special objects created over time, a collection that the craftsman made available to us for a planned sale. All of the objects were made entirely by hand with old grinding wheels, but there were mainly two tools that allowed the creation of masterpieces: the right hand and the left hand of the master craftsman. Ancient glassmaking techniques were used for all the ground and engraved products: first, the object was ground with an emery wheel fed continuously by a jet of abrasive sand and water, then re-polished with a very fine-grained sandstone wheel also fed with water; the engravings were done freehand using as many as 10-15 small stone wheels for each design (flowers, branches, animals, etc. ); then the object was polished and shined; we must make, at this point, an important clarification on these last two operations: towards the end of the 1960s acid crystal polishing was devised, the object was immersed and rotated in a solution of sulfuric acid, fluoridic acid and water and in a short time all the defects left by the previous processes were eliminated, it was a fast, industrial operation that allowed to lower costs considerably, with discrete but not excellent results. But for Galgani's products polishing is done with a cork bark wheel wet with water and pumice, to make the surfaces more transparent, and finally polishing was achieved with a felt wheel wet with a paste of water, iron oxide, and cerium oxide. This series of processes takes an average of two days of work( sometimes much longer) for each object, each engraving or grinding is the result of the creative inventiveness of the two artisans, inventiveness that transforms crystal into reality material of the highest aesthetic value and inestimable value. All the items in the entire collection have never been used; they were part of the exhibition. Large crystal vase; the decorations, in baroque style represent a series of "grotesques" The object is "a unique piece" signed by the Master, it was created in Marcello Galgani's workshop in 1983 and made with the techniques (grinding, engraving and polishing) that we explained in the description; for the shape, the Master was inspired by a vase present in a painting, preserved in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence by the sixteenth-century painter Jacopo Ligozzi...

Very beautiful Pair of candlesticks / Church candlesticks / Altar candlesticks in gilded and patinated bronze. The candlesticks consist of a candlestick on a vase cup, on a turned ba...

This is an engraving by Johann Georg Wille after the work of Godfried Schalcken. This is a genre scene. Representing a family is sitting around...

Triptych of purple candelabra with mechanical clock in baroque style 1990s New

19th Century Italian Faience Floral Decorated Apothecary Jars. Each with applied floral finials. both with latin inscription depicting the type of medicine contained in each jar. One...

This interesting pair of bronze candlesticks combines the elegance of the Baroque with Gothic and Renaissance influences. The tripod base, finished with scrolls, is topped with a twi...

A pair of Italian carved giltwood altar prickets, each with five iron spikes rising from carved bobèches arranged among scrolling acanthus and foliate branches. The stems rise from a...

A shell bowl by Capodimonte in ivory white porcelain divided in three sections with gold edges. Marked with sticker Visconti and the crowned N. Perfect for dif...

Porzellanfabrik, Thuringen, Germany, circa 1920s, by Aelteste Volkstedter. To set a breathtaking table, first give each guest their own unique porcelain sculpture …. This dramatic co...

A gilded wooden sculpture of a cherub’s head from the 17th or 18th century. A sculpture of an angel’s head in the Italian Baroque style from the 17th or 18th century. H: 17 cm, W: 1...

Venetian school of the beginning of the 18th century Architectural Capriccio with classic ruins and oriental figures Oil on canvas, cm 115 x 152 with frame; cm 98 x 136 canvas The p...

Large handmade solid silver candelabra made with the casting technique, then chiseled and engraved entirely by hand. The base is square with scroll work, typical of the Baroque perio...

A striking hand-carved wooden sculpture, nearly 200 cm tall, with a twisted form that evokes organic movement and architectural rhythm. Painted in delicate layers of soft pink, green...

Exquisite flowers in hearty oak This is a pair of antique finials or decorative finishing elements. Dating circa 1680 and nearly 350 years old, they are remarkable ...

Decorative ice bucket in red crystal in a Baroque style. The ice bucket is made of crystal. Produced by Artel in Czech Republic. It is a contemporary item.

A German Repousse Brass Alms Dish, 17th Century These dishes were originally used as everyday flatware by the wealthy during the Medieval period, serv...

A finely carved and polychromed wooden figure depicting Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Spain, circa 1750–1800. The saint is represented holding her traditional attributes, the palm ...

Large 18th century Italian carved Santo figural icon sculpture depicting a boy with arms raised dressed in a blue parcel-gilt outfit with boots. Heavily aged and distressed polychrom...

17th century Italian candlestick with aquamarine. The candlestick is from originally from a church in Florence. It hand-carved and hand-painted with hints of pale greenish-hues showi...

Pair of silver 800 candlesticks in Italian Barocco Genoese style. The body worked on silver sheet was embossed and engraved by hand with scrolls and flowers Measure: 820 grams.

Shaped snuffbox in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with fired enamel inserted in a fine hand engraving and with round miniature diameter cm. 3.3 hand painted always with fire enamels depicting a sailing ship. Early 19th century Viennese Baroque style. Fine hand engraving on all sides and bottom. Measurements cm. 7.5 x 7.5 x 2. Weight gr. 151. Designed by Franco Salimbeni in 1976 on inspiration of ancient original artifacts and manufactured in Florence at the Salimbeni company headquarters in several specimens, also with different colors and miniatures, with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slabs and large reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous high-fire enamelled firings at approximately 750 < 800° C. Miniature is a very ancient technique which consists of painting works in small proportions. It was born for the decoration of the first letter of the paragraph of the books. Over the years, however, this technique is refined and enriched, then moving on to precious personal items. Hand-painted miniatures can be done with multiple different techniques. The most important that we use on our articles are of three kinds: 1) Fire enamel. 2) Water tempera on an ivory plate. 3) Painted on mother-of-pearl. Fire enameled miniatures: On a first layer of enamel generally white or very clear or even transparent suitably liquefied at a temperature of about 750 ° C, the chosen subject is painted using miniature colors which are as many colored crystals, ground and reduced to a very fine, almost impalpable powder washed and purified in distilled water with the addition of small quantities of deoxidizing acids which, diluted with essential oils (usually essential oil of solder), can be mixed to form a palette of colors. With very fine sable hair brushes you draw the subject starting from the perimeter and then gradually adding various layers of color. It is necessary to carry out various firings very often so that the colors harden and are not absorbed by the underlying glaze as, during the subsequent firings at 750 ° C, during liquefaction, it would spread irremediably. Hence the need to form the painting a little at a time, cooking it numerous times. Therefore it is necessary to proceed with numerous retouching, often overlapping different colors that only the painter's experience knows. A beautiful miniature needs from 20 to over 50 firings and is finished when the painter deems he does not have to further intervene. Some colors must have darker tones than others because then, by superimposing the transparent enamel placed at the end of the miniature, they fade. This transparent layer, called “fondant” in jargon, must be smoothed and polished like all other translucent enamel colors. The miniatures with water tempera colors are painted on real ivory...

Pitcher ‘cantaros’ from Calanda, Aragon-Zaragoza area of Spain. A rare piece from a Private collection, circa 1890. Other examples can be seen in the Museo de Zaragoza. With gorgeou...

A beautiful Italian grand Tour Style Pietra Dura mosaic on marble Plaque with gilt framing. Picture is a bird on branch with leaves and flowers.

Majestic majolica Amphora vase, with a height of 183 cm (72 in) and a diameter of 52 cm (20,5 in): a unique piece, entirely handmade and hand-painted in Gubbio, Central Italy, in 1995. Its surface is decorated with a splendid and detailed reproduction of the famous "The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt", painted by Peter Paul Ruben's (1615). The body of the vase shows remarkable technical capabilities, given its size and complexity. The amphora is divided into three parts: the base, the central body and the neck. The rarity of majolica artworks of this size lies in the technical difficulty of managing the entire creation process given the large size, both for the making of the terracotta artifact and the subsequent decorating phase. During the first firing of the clay biscuit the risk of breakage is very high and also during the second firing of the color majolica hides many pitfalls, this explains the rarity of artworks of this size, the difficulty of the decorations and consequently their value. Description of the reproduction painted : Peter Paul Rubens created the canvas oil painting entitled The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt between 1615–16. The hunt takes place on the banks of the Nile, as indicated by a palm tree in the background. As hippopotami and crocodiles were considered dangerous nuisances, their destruction was a duty performed by noblemen. The hunting party comprises three men in orientalizing costume—mounted on Arabian horses, who hunt with lance and sword—and two valets clad in roughly-hewn jerkins—one of whom has been killed by one of the beasts. The enraged hippopotamus tramples the crocodile, as both are attacked by the hunters and hounds...

A lovely angel, his right hand extended as if to touch something or hold something. He appears very calm and peaceful, clothed in a partial shroud which is draped over his shoulder...

Italy burnished brass planter bowl with lions Heads, early 20th century This is an antique brass jardiniere with a lot of charm. Two lion's...

This sculpture represents Santa Ana (Saint Anne) with the infant Mary. Verge.    

These handcrafted, artisan-made vessels from France, dating from the mid-century to the late 20th century, are crafted from two distinct wood tones that create a striking striped eff...

Fine 18th Century Venetian candle stand or spike, hand-carved and gilded wood. Beautiful columnar shape on a square platform base on bun feet. This go...

Bronze church sculpture representing the Dresden Frauenkirche, this architectural model depicts the Church of Our Lady, one of Dresden’s most significant religious buildings. Cast in...

This 17th-century Flemish Baroque tabletop sculpture from Mechelen represents the Infant Jesus, arms outstretched in divine grace, blessing the viewer with serene charm. A remarkabl...

This beautiful 17th century carved angel has retained its original paint.