Gesso Furniture

Pair of Italian carved wood, gesso, and silver gilt floral prickets with centered spikes for candles, bulbous ring columns with bead work, and terminating on stylized lions paws feet...

A stunning hand-crafted wood and applied gesso altar vase, late 18th century with faux marbling to the base and flame top. Small areas of loss to the gesso and wear to the paint com...

Pair of substantial table lamps by Marbro. Wonderfully distressed from natural use, the gilt and painted wood gourd-form bodies have a patina that only age can bring. Sold sans shades.

A hand-crafted wood and applied gesso altar vase, late 18th century with gilt rose silver finish. Small areas of loss to the gesso and wear to the paint commensurate with the age of...

This is a very unique lamp, completely hand decorated through a very articulate process. Its wooden body is covered with high heat plastered tissue. This tissue is then silver pl...

An exceptional and rare French Regence period mirror, crafted circa 1715, boasting extraordinary scale, symmetry, and ornamental quality. The elaborately carved giltwood frame is cro...

Asian inspired quatrefoil mirror in Chinese cinnabar red lacquer. Heavy, well made mirror of cast resin and gesso with a wood back from Baker Furnit...

With its timeworn surface and elegant restraint, this early 18th-century French cabinet carries with it the quiet poetry of centuries past. Made near Poitiers during the Regence peri...

Walnut wood with carved and gilt Italianate detail style mirror. Top detailing features a floral accented urn and rococo style filigree. Carved and gilt bracketed corners and bottom ...

"English, Mid 19th Century. "The Waterloo Banquet," after William Salter (English, 1804-1875), engraved by Wm. Greatbach, printed by McQueen, depicting an interior banquet scene wit...

P0234 attractive French wall mirror, having original bevelled edge glass in moulded and flower carved gilded frame with floral swags on a olive green board and gilded bow to the top....

A Fine French 19th Century Louis XVI Style giltwood and gesso carved sconce mirror (Wall-Light) girandole with candelabra. The scrolled carved mirror frame surmounted with a pair of ...

Hand carved winged Italian Baroque Putti, water gilded over applied gesso, the face and head polychrome painted. Small hanging hook to the back of the head. Width 23 cm x Height 1...

Very elaborate scrolling foliate carvings on these Italian giltwood girondole mirrors with candle sconces. Oval mirrors reverse etched wit...

French gilt wood and gesso foliage swag medallion crest cherub wall mirror with interior bead work, ribbon border, and lower flanking acanthus motif...

Large antique fireplace mantel with double fluted columns with ionic capitals, Center field with ribbon swag design. Ornate detailed Older shabby chic white painted surface. Some pa...

English satinwood and gilt wood foliage medallion demi-lune pie shaped console, Late 18th Century

A pair of hand crafted wood and gilt gesso overlay baroque display stands (ideal for clocks or small statues and busts), each with applied harleq...

A hand-crafted wood and applied gesso altar vase, late 18th century with gilt and green banding decoration. Small areas of loss to the gesso and wear to the paint commensurate with ...

An elegant English Rococo giltwood mirror dating to the mid-18th century, circa 1750. Hand-carved original oak frame with gesso and exquisite water gilding; retaining original bevell...

Pair of Italian Venetian (19th Century) console tables with trapezoidal tops and stretcher (modern) painted in a golden faux marble texture, resting on ...

This truly exceptional 18th century bible box, formed as a book and profusely decorated in pastiglia throughout, in silver and gold gilt, at it's c...

Italian walnut one drawer hand painted floral and faux marble center table with a turned bulbous ringed urn pedestal, carved squared inset plinth, and terminating on four original ha...

French oval gilt wood and gesso wall mirror with a foliage crest, gadrooned border, and single scrolled acanthus candle arm, Late 18th century. Mirror retains the original glass & wo...

Italian Neoclassical faux painted green marbleized console with decorative gilt foliage shell gadrooning, central gilt foliage medallion, exterior gilt scroll work, flanking interior...

This antique framed oil painting was done by Bernard Pothast of the Netherlands in approximately 1920 in his realistic style. The painting is done on canvas and depicts an interior scene of a Dutch mother in period dress with her children. The painting is framed in its original gesso frame with a small brass name plate...

English Georgian swan neck foliage medallion shell crest gilt carved wood and gesso beveled wall mirror with lower foliage medallion scrolls, Mid to...

Antique c1900s Fine Gilt Gesso Rococo Style Tear Drop Shape Wall Mirror

"In Paris from the autumn of 1899 to the summer of 1900, [Lautrec] seemed to live his former existence, making paintings and prints and maintaining contact with friends... In some wa...

Bearded Man Framed, Collectors Wall Art Black Chalk On Paper Signed J. Parry CA . English 18th / 19th Century J. Parry, Head and Shoulders Of A Bearded Man. Signed on Verso. (parry w...

Contemporary artistic mirror. Sculptural composition, hand carved. Original creation of materials and colors. Unique piece (One of a kind). By Pascal & Annie Leniau, year 1993.

Attributed to Charles Edward Hallé (British, 1846-1914) "Mother and Child" oil on canvas. The Victorian era artwork depicting a young mother holding her joyful infant child, within a carved gildwood and gesso frame. (Relined). Signed (l/r): C.E. Hallé, circa 1870. Charles Edward Hallé (British, 1846-1914) Born in Paris, the son of Sir Charles Hallé...

American oil on canvas portrait of seated young lady in the original gilt wood floral flame, New York, Mid-19th century.

A Large Napoleon III French Cushion Mirror This is an exquisite piece, the centre Glass is Framed with smaller angled mirrors all around and the Black and Gold Frame is decorated wi...

Antique 18th century Italian painted and carved wood candlestick, with a few hints of gilding still remaining. There are small patches of the ...

English Adam style gilt carved wood and gesso oval wall mirror with centered decorative urn, scrolled acanthus foliage medallions, flanking corner ribbons accompanied by graduated fo...

Antique French gilded gold-leaf mirror Napoleon Third era,1870,characteristic of the period are the fine decorations adorning the four corners of the frame. The condition is very goo...

K0355 Fine Victorian wall mirror of horizontal form, having original mirror plate with minor foxing in finely carved and gilded frame with leafy scrolls to the base, standing on remo...

This superb work of art combines the beauty of a painting with the mechanical complicities of an automaton and clock. Depicting a rural scene, the clock is integrated into the church, sitting within the giltwood and gesso frame. Also within the painting is automaton windmill, again integrated into the picture atop the windmill. The automaton runs off the clock, so requires no separate winding, The clock is a fine 8 day, fusee movement with gut string, with verge escapement...

French gilt carved wood and gesso wall mirror adorned with dove's ribbon and a foliage cartouche, interior beaded edge, exterior egg dart border, and retains the original silvered gl...

Exclusively handcrafted piece. This sphere is created using the ancient Chinese papier-mâché technique – a millennia-old craft that eventually spread worldwide. Traditionally employe...

19th Century carved and painted wood figure of a troubadour or minstrel wearing a hat and long coat with his trousers tucked into knee-high boots and having a violin under one arm wi...

French Rococo Gilt and Cream Wall Mirror The mirror has a superb 3” wide Rococo style Cream and Gilt Frame which has a backward slope with very ornate gesso decoration featuring ros...

This English Edwardian cabinet with a Japanned or chinoiserie black lacquer finish with raised gold decoration and red interior was probably made as a cupboard for a dining room but ...

A pair of white table lamps made of gesso over ceramic form. USA, circa 1970. Rewired with new sockets, brass hardware and French black sil...

Venetian Figural pagoda crest gilt carved wood and gesso red lacquered scrolled foliage wall mirror. Mirror retains the original glass and wood backing. Late 18th century.

Pair of English Regency gilt convex mirrors retaining its original slightly worn through water gilding and mercury glass surrounded with an ebony reeded slip and closely applied gilt...

Pair of Chippendale style elaborate giltwood wall or console mirrors. The pair oval in form with a clean center mirror flanked by a finely carved carved frame of roses, floral design and scroll having full bodied winged birds perched on each side of each mirror. These large and impressive Italian mirrors are certain to make a statement in any room in the home. An archetype of the finest English design and craftsmanship, Chippendale style furniture originated with cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale in the 18th century. The style was immediately popular and adopted across Europe and America – and it continues to be a favored style for sophisticated and traditional interiors today. Drawing inspiration from Gothic, Rococo and Chinese design, original-inspired Chippendale furnishings are often variable in their overall aesthetic but are consistent in their aura of luxury and elegance. Essential to Chippendale-style furniture is the use of fine hardwoods, such as mahogany and walnut, and often the presence of a dark finish, which emulates old-world, monarchal designs. Stylistically, refined details like yoked chair...

Pair of French gilt wood and Gesso wall sconces with torches and arrows, centered flower basket, four scrolled acanthus medallion arms, flanking harp mirrors...

A very wide George III pine fire mantel with composition (Gesso) detailing. An original of the Georgian era, this traditional English fireplace is typical of styles of the period, th...

Jules Salles-Wagner (French, 1814-1898) A Large and Impressive French, 19th century oil on canvas "The Water Carrier" depicting a standing and posing young peasant girl holding twin-...

Signed plaster sculpture, 1970s Chipboard base and plasterboard lower platform H58 x L70 x P100 - Kg40 Style Vintage Periodo del design 1970 - 1979 Production Period 1970 - 1979 Yea...

Large contemporary artistic mirror titled "Lagon", one of a kind, inspired by the French Louis Philippe style. Original creation of materials and colors in blue tones. Frame width: 1...

George Adolphus Storey (British, 1834-1919) a very fine and large oil on canvas titled "Love in a Maze". Signed and dated lower right "G. A. Storey 1873". The ...

Painting done with Minguzzi chalk paints. Photo of the glass before cleaning. It was examined by a painting restorer for chalk fixation; based on her experience, she advised me not t...

American Classical mahogany pier table with original rectangular marble top, central acanthus foliage medallion carvings, flanking corner acanthus foliage carvings, flanking marble c...

19th century carved wood Santos with gilt decoration.

This handsome carved pedestal has a square, carved and dentil-moulded top. Finely carved with entwined dolphins below scallop shells. The base of comp...

Add a touch of Parisian opulence to your interior with this magnificent vintage trumeau mirror. A masterful study in French Louis XVI style, this piece features an exquisite hand-car...

Pair of Italian flanking ebonized musical lyre with ribbon gilt wood and gesso three arm foliage wall sconces, Mid 19th Century. Pair were origina...