Ormolu Furniture

A Lovely Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze and Crystal Eight Light Chandelier Multi-faceted and shaped crystal with some amber, cut crystal central column, eight perimeter lights. Deta...

Antique French richly draped Baccarat crystal and ormolu chandelier. 10-light.

An important pair of gilt lacquered and bronzed twin branch candelabra of unusual design the finely decorated square wasted bases surmounted by a bronzed figure of an old man resting...

Monumental gilt and patinated bronze candelabra by Beurdeley French, late 19th century Measures: Height 273cm, width 90cm, depth...

A fine pair of French 19th-20th century Louis XV style figural gilt bronze Putti torchere table lamps on a carved Rouge Royal base. Each figure rep...

A large and important French 18th century Louis XV period Tortoiseshell and ormolu Boulle cartel clock signed Le Faucheur, A Paris. The clock is ra...

Fabulous Louis XVI antique fireplace mantel in Breche d'Alep marble with beautiful bronze ormolu enrichments. A deep and generous mantel above with beautiful designs in the marble ma...

A Fine Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Petites Commodes Incorporating Exceptional Eighteenth Century Chinese Lacquer Panels. Stamped on the lock ‘Duvivier, Paris, 77 F St Antoine’. Each commode has a a shaped white marble top above a frieze with two short and one long drawer. Below is a cupboard door with a gilt-bronze framed lacquer panel flanked by two open shelves with gilt-bronze galleries. The commodes are raised on square section tapering legs with gilt-bronze caps. The commodes incorporate exceptional 18th century lacquer panels. The panels are of wonderful quality and unusual in that they incorporate amongst traditional oriental landscape and Palace scenes, figures in Western costume...

A magnificent large antique Tuscan Empire ormolu mirror plateau centerpiece from a historic Italian villa, finely crafted in mercury-gilded bronze. This exceptional 19th-century circular mirrored table runner features an incredibly detailed frieze chased with classical rosettes, floral motifs, and acanthus leaves, resting on three powerful sculpted lion paw feet. The center retains its authentic, original antique mercury mirror plate showing a beautiful, subtle foxing patina while remaining perfectly reflective. Fresh to the market from a private family estate, this highly decorative Italian centerpiece plateau offers an unmatched blend of historical provenance, rare Neoclassical craftsmanship, and timeless aristocratic elegance. This extraordinary large antique Tuscan Empire ormolu mirror plateau centerpiece, dating back to the early 19th century, represents a supreme example of Italian Empire metalwork. Imposing and monumental in its proportions, this circular mirrored plateau or surtout de table features an outer rim masterfully hand-chased in heavy bronze and gilded using the prestigious historic mercury gilding technique. The decorative band is richly adorned with a continuous relief of delicate rosettes, multi-petaled flowers, and classical foliage that beautifully catches the light. The entire structure is elevated by three masterfully sculpted and finely detailed lion paw feet, a signature motif of the Empire style that lends the piece stability, majesty, and architectural presence. What makes this large antique Tuscan Empire ormolu mirror plateau centerpiece uniquely valuable is its exceptional, untouched historical provenance. This regency mirrored center piece comes directly from a historic noble villa nestled in the heart of Tuscany, Italy, where it has been carefully preserved by the same aristocratic family for generations. Having never been altered, restored, or offered at auctions, it appears on the international art market for the very first time. This rare "fresh to the market" status greatly enhances its investment value for discerning collectors and high-end interior designers. The incredible level of bronze chasing, the genuine mercury gilding, and the presence of the original glass justify its premium placement. The center of this historical piece is fitted with its authentic antique mercury mirror plate. The glass displays a wonderful, genuine aged patina with charming traces of vintage silvering loss and subtle foxing dots accumulated over two centuries. Far from being a defect, this authentic aging creates a magnificent antique texture while ensuring the mirror remains perfectly bright and reflective, bouncing candlelight beautifully across any room. Interior Design, Placement & Versatile Styling Suggestions: With its grand 46 cm diameter and striking golden reflections, this large antique Tuscan Empire ormolu mirror plateau centerpiece offers incredible versatility for high-end interior design projects, luxury homes, boutique hotels, or prestigious executive offices. In a Dining Room or Salon: It serves as the ultimate centerpiece (surtout de table) on a grand mahogany table, designed to support heavy sterling silver candelabras, fine porcelain, or crystal vases, multiplying their light and colors through the mirror reflection. In an Entryway or Living Area: Placed on a historic console table or a round credenza...

Important French Napoleon III carved Rouge Griotte Marble and ormolu mounted figural fireplace mantel chimneypiece. The rectangular carv...

A beautiful and exceptionally high quality French early 19th century Louis XV st. Sèvres Porcelain and ormolu inkwell, signed Sèvres. The inkwell is raised by striking pierced scrolled foliate ormolu movements in a most decorative satin and burnished finished. At the center is the finely detailed Sèvres Porcelain tray...

A stunning and high quality French early 19th century Louis XVI st. Mahogany, Ormolu and white Carrara marble console. This wonderful demi lune shaped dessert console is raised on fo...

Pair Neoclassical Russian Ormolu Gilt Bronze Blue Glass Vases Russian, 20th Century Height 33cm, width 16cm, depth 12cm An impressive pair of Russian vases, fashioned from striking...

Pair of Charles X ring holders (baguiers) with ormolu mounts embellished with small flowers. A high backing of mother-of-pearl joins a small, ormolu bowl featuring openwork interlaci...

An outstanding and high quality Italian 19th century neo-classical st. Imperial Porphyry and ormolu urn. The exceptional solid Porphyry urn is raised by a square ormolu base with a r...

An impressive and high quality French 19th century Neo-Classical st. Ormolu and Portoro Marble side table, circa 1890. The table is raised by three slender and tapering legs supported on claw feet. Each leg is connected by a circular Ormolu ring stretcher with chains extending...

Neoclassical style porcelain and gilt bronze mounted circular table by Fournier French, late 19th Century Measures: height 75.5cm, diameter 76cm This beautiful circular table is...

A stunning 19th century ormolu clock garniture in the Louis XV style by Ch. Drieu, the white enamel with Roman numerals signed “Ch. Drieu, 4 Rue de Thorigny”. The clock is flanked by...

A sensational and high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XV/XVI st. Belle Epoque Period Rouge Griotte marble and Ormolu lamps. Each stunning vase mounted into a lamp is raise...

A very impressive French Louis XVI style, 19th Century Marble topped commode, having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts and mouldings, quartered veneers to the drawer fronts and sides. H...

An Exceptional and Unusual 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted English Partners Desk Made for the French Market The rectangular top with gilt-tooled leather writing-sur...

A pair of French Louis XV style, three branch gilt bronze wall lights. Not electrified.

An elegant and most decorative pair of French 19th century Louis XV st. ormolu sconces. Each three-arm sconce is centered by a fine bottom acorn-shaped finial below striking richly c...

A highly detailed and most elegant French early 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and ebonized Fruitwood Boulle Marquetry cabinet/trunk. This impressive rectangular trunk is raised ...

A striking French 19th Century Louis XV st. Napoleon III period ebony, brass inlaid and ormolu mounted Boulle desk. The two drawer desk is raised by cabriole legs elegantly decorated...

An elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Baccarat Crystal chandelier. This stunning eight arm chandelier is fitted with a bottom spiral reeded Baccarat Crystal bowl he...

A stunning and very high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Époque period ormolu and Sarrancolin marble lidded urns. Each urn is raised by an elegant circular ormolu base with block feet adorned with striking rosettes below a wrap around tied fluted band. The elegantly shaped marble body...

An exquisite and most decorative true pair of French and German collaboration 19th century Louis XV st. ormolu, tole and Meissen porcelain sconces. Each three arm sconce is centered by an exceptional bottom ormolu foliate reserve and elegant pierced lattice design from where the two bottom arms branch out. The beautifully scrolled arms are adorned with a stunning array of tole leaves and wonderfully executed colorful hand painted Meissen porcelain flowers leading to remarkable foliate ormolu bobeches and candle cups. At the center of each sconce are exquisite Meissen porcelain statues with the sconce to the left depicting a beautiful maiden dressed in colorful classical attire while wearing a lovely bonnet and holding her dress. The sconce to the right depicts a man also dressed in period attire seemingly serenading the woman while holding a bassoon amidst a stunning array of hand painted Meissen porcelain flowers and scrolled ormolu movements. Above is a single arm decorated in the same manner also displaying a lovely foliate bobeche and candle cup. Meissen porcelain or Meissen china...

An elegant and most unique French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and frosted glass lantern. This wonderfully decorative lantern is decorated by a bottom inverted acorn finial. Abo...

Antique French Louis XVI Mahogany and ormolu longcase clock, circa 1890.

A charming French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Baccarat Crystal centerpiece/bowl. This wonderful bowl is raised by an Ormolu base with a reeded and twisted rope band, while ...

Louis XV style gilt bronze 33-light chandelier French, 20th Century Height 156cm, diameter 102cm This beautiful chandelier is crafted from gilt bronze in the Rococo style of Lou...

A good quality late 19th Century French Sevres style porcelain comport, having a turquoise ground with an inset hand painted panel depicting a romanic scene of courting couples, with...

A Fine Ormolu mantle Clock after a Design by Thomire. This theme is constantly repeated during the Directoire & Empire period. Thomire is known to have used this model. The quality ...

A beautiful antique French ormolu clock set in the Rococo style. It features cupid as a cherub, seated to the top with torch and quiver of...

The vases in this pair feature the striking combination of Kangxi era (circa 1700) porcelain with later 19th century French gilt bronze. This type of combination—of Chinese porcelain...

Gilt bronze and porcelain Louis XVI style circular side table French, late 19th Century Measures: Height 78cm, diameter 80cm This beautiful circular side table is designed in th...

This elegant dressing table cabinet uses precious materials on a delicate scale, resulting in a piece that is both practical and luxurious. ...

Each candleholder of columnar form surmounted with ormolu stiff-leaf capitals and with acanthus-wrapped base, on pedestal bases with outswept scrolling feet. Fitted with two brass bulb sockets. Adjustable. Later mounded as a lamps. With duck blue...

An elegant and most charming pair of Chinese 18th century Louis XV st. Famille Rose Porcelain and French 19th century Ormolu mounted centerpieces. Each wonderful centerpiece is raise...

This is a large and elegant English cut glass table lamp, late 20th century in date.   This elegant lamp has a sophisticated cut glass body raised on a splendid ormolu base.  The bod...

The mounts are similar to those by Gouthière. The one vase having more speckling of white in the porphyry than the other.

A good quality late 19th century plum pudding mahogany Louis XVI style vitrine, having a marble top, gilded ormolu mounts, shaped glass panels to the door and sides, three glass shel...

An elegant and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated Bronze and Ormolu chandelier. This stunning three arm chandelier, with a patinated Bronze quiver like center, ...

A spectacular and high very quality French mid 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and Baccarat crystal chandelier. The thirty-six arm chandelier is centered by a beautiful solid botto...

A lovely and affectionate true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Alabama Rose Marble, Ormolu, white Carrara marble, and Bisque Porcelain statues...

A fine, large and important French Empire clock of Apollo playing his lyre in patinated bronze, ormolu and antique vert marble. The dial is signed for the important maker Lepine and ...

A Superb Example of a French Well Figured Wooden Jewellery Casket of very fine quality of rectangular form, featuring seldom seen applied hand painted Sevres Style Porcleain panels d...

Large second Empire gilt bronze and marquetry display cabinet French, late 19th Century Measures: Height 271cm, width 235cm, depth 52cm ...

An impressive and majestic French 19th century patinated Bronze and Ormolu statue of a horse and groom, modeled after the horses of Marly. The spectacular horse is draped in a saddle...

Fine antique French Empire Ormolu mantel clock of a chariot drawn by two winged horses carrying the chariot with a female figure. Thi...

A fine and important monumental pair of Sevres gilt bronze mounted, hand painted with extensive gilt highlights, cobalt blue porcelain vases and cover with lovers and landscapes on o...

A Superb Coromandel-Veneered Mantle Clock The case constructed of very well-figured Coromandel giving the maximum amount of decorative effect, with gilt bronze accents; the plinth base of rectangular form, with everted stepped corners, and precisely chased gilt bronze figures, two representing Mercury-the god of travel and merchants with his winged helmet and coin purse in hand; the others representing Fortuna-the goddess of luck; the sides glazed, with mooresque arcaded pierced mounts enclosing a vase, in gilt bronze with overlapping palm trees above: the top of domed form with an octagonal platform, surmounted by an architectural dome, its engraved detail and structure reminiscent of Byzantine prototypes. The silvered chapter ring with Roman numerals for the hours, and within an arabesque dial divided into quadrants, with the key aperture at 6 o'clock. Below, the manual calendar, and a semi-circular thermometer. The dial signed by the retailer "Hunt & Roskell / London." The mechanism replaced with a one-year duration movement by Achille Brocot. English, circa 1860 A closely related clock, by Thomas Cole, though not bearing his signature, with a case of identical form and differing bronze decoration, previously with Butchoff. A third known coromandel-veneered example, also unsigned, is discussed by John...

A diamond cut glass bowl fitted into an ormolu receiver ring, swagged with flowers.

A Highly Important Pair of French Japonisme Ormolu, Patinated Bronze & Cloisonné Vases, by Christofle & Cie. Christofle & Cie is a renowned French silver and metalwork manufacturer f...

In the Louis XIV style, the tortoiseshell and brass inlaid ebonized wood body, with three wooden shelves, the front with glazed doors, surmounted with a white marble top.

Pair of French Empire style gilt bronze sconces French, 20th Century Measures: Height 88cm, width 38cm, depth 35cm This elegant pair of sconces is wrought from gilt bronze in th...

This French Marble Mantel from the 20th century is a luxurious addition to any home. Crafted in the elegant Louis XIV style, it features stunning malachite stone in a beautiful emera...

Large Baroque style Austrian ormolu mounted musical clock Austrian, early 19th Century Total height: 211cm Clock: Height 135cm, width 86cm, depth 52 Stand: Height 76cm, width 81c...

Set of four Baroque style gilt-bronze wall lights by Picard French, 19th century Measures: Height 64cm, width 53cm, depth 27cm By Picard, Henri (French, fl. 1831-1864), and each...