French Rococo Gilt Bronze and Crystal Sconces With Five Arms, Circa 1820, Pair

Antique French Louis XV style gilt wood and composition mirror, 19th c. The mirror features a rectangular frame, with floral accents, encasing flat mirror plate, "diamond" dust to mi...

Antique Chinese Wooden Wedding Basket (c. 1860 - 1880) with red and black lacquer finish. So-called Peking opera basket. Top in gold leaf design depicts a Chinese sage on horseback w...

Exquisite set of hand made brass fireplace tools from England (late 1800s) along with hand forged iron brush from France (mid 1800s). Set includes shovel, fork, tongs, brush and stan...

Antique French Provincial fruitwood farmhouse table, 19th c.. The tabletop is comprised of four boards. The table features two frieze drawers, rising on stretcher-joined legs, separa...

Pair of French bronze and crystal five arm sconces. Sconces are candle powered and can be electrified if desired. Early 19th century.

Pair of French Rococo gilt bronze three-arm floral sconces. Sconces are candle powered and can be electrified, Early 19th Century.

Very fine pair of gilt and patinated bronze two light sconces depicting Mars holding two branches, in the manner of Jacques Caffieri. Jacques Caffieri was one of France's most important bronze casters during the reign of Louis XV. A nephew of Charles Le Brun, the chief designer and painter to Louis XIV, Caffieri had great talent of his own, so it isn't surprising he became sculpteur et ciseleur ordinaire des bâtiments du roi (Sculptor, Bronze Caster and Chaser for the King's Palaces). In 1740, Caffieri's wife bought a royal privilege--a form of permit from the king--which allowed them to gild bronze as well as cast it within the same workshop; these two processes would usually have been done by separate businesses. After his son Philippe Caffieri...

Pair of French gilt bronze five arm sconces with concave molded floral backs mounted to scrolled arms with floral bobeches. Originally candle powered and have been electrified. Early...