Spoon Holder in Brass with Star Repoussé Pattern, probably early 19th Century

Elegant Water Cistern with tap for wall hanging in brass from early 19th Century. Probably made in Italy or France. With som charming patina. Pefect as a beautiful interior detail in...

Safari Canteen Bottle, Rattan, Glass and Tin, probably late 19th C/early 20th C A charming canteen bottle or flask, inspired by the fashion and style of safari and tropical explorat...

Brass Wall Utensil Holder, Empire, Early 19th C, with Roman Goddess with Putti This highly ornate utensil holder is made in repoussé brass. It features a scene of a Roman Goddess in...

Swedish paperweight in the marble in the shape of a cannon barrel. Beautiful patina. Empire, early 19th century. Minor chips (se pictures) Wear con...

A Vintage Luggage Travel Bag in Brown Leather with Nickel Details. Early 19th Century Europe. A sleek and elegant vintage luggage bag in beautifu...

An Elegant Empire Backgammon Game Box in Mahogany (Swietenia Mahogani) with details in Hallmark Silver. Made in the early 19th Century. This Games Box for Backgammon is the perfect decorative piece that is also complete with pieces for playing the game! A refined Empire outside which lets the expensive materials of the piece convey the object's elegance. The interior of the box's lid forms one of the playing fields, the other being the bottom part. The backgammon board on the inside of the box is made out of intarsia wood...

Early 19th century brass cooking pot This is a lovely looking 19th century cooking Pot, it has been used as a log bucket and works very well as such. ...

Designed to be displayed on a table or mantel, this brass cachepot with coat of arms and lions is from France. Hand-hammered in the 1800s, the cachepot was worked from the reverse si...

Large 19th century brass jardinière with faces This is a good quality piece of solid brass craftsmanship, the Jardinière has a rolled rope top edge and very unusual masks, one on ...

This whimsical hand carved seated wooden brown bear holds a brass cup suitable for cigarettes, matches or even a small bouquet of flowers. Very detailed carving with tiny teeth and a...

Imposing cup in red, Egyptian porphyry featuring three cupids on a circular base. The patinated bronze cupids serve as the supporting stem for the wide-rimmed cup. Two of the cupids ...

A museum quality early 19th century Paris porcelain urn. The twin handled vase sits on a rectangular porcelain base (modelled as part of the vase), which is decorated on all four sides with finely painted scenes titled 'Gene de Corrinte', 'Gene de Mytilene', 'Gene de Sparte', and 'Gene de Chiu' in reference to various Greek city states. The ovoid body of the vase is richly decorated with Greek key and stylized acanthus designs over and below a large gilt framed oval cameo of Athena on one side and a similar cameo on the other side bearing an undecipherable name. The overall background colour scheme of the vase is dark red/burgundy and dark emerald green, two colours which were more commonly used by the Dagoty factory in Paris than other porcelain manufacturing firms at the time. The vase is unsigned. Note: Pierre Louis Dagoty's porcelain was characterized by the use of vivid colours and the thick application of burnished gold leaf. He borrowed from the repertoire of Neoclassical ornament but his designs also included Egyptian and Chinoiseries motifs. Dagoty's elegant ceramics won him the patronage of Empress Joséphine. At the height of production, in 1807, he employed over a hundred workers, and exported his wares to Russia. After the fall of the First French Empire in 1814, manufacture continued under the Duchesse d'Angoulême, the only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Between 1816 and 1820, Dagoty worked in partnership with François Maurice Honoré. In 1817. Dagoty and Honoré received a commission from President James Monroe...