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Material: Ormolu
Pair of Antique French Transitional Ormolu-Mounted Rouge Griotte Marble Vases
By Henry Dasson
Located in New York, NY
A pair of antique French transitional ormolu-mounted rouge griotte marble covered vases or urns
Last quarter of the 19th century attributed to Henry Dasson
Each with domed lid with...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Griotte Marble, Ormolu
Pair of Chinese Porcelain and French Chinoiserie Style Gilt Bronze Candelabra
Located in London, GB
Pair of Chinese porcelain and French Chinoiserie style gilt bronze candelabra
Chinese and French, 19th Century
Height 72cm, width 47cm, depth 35cm
This superb pair of candelabra...
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19th Century French Chinoiserie Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
French Empire Bronze / Mahogany Vanity
Located in Tarry Town, NY
French Empire style mahogany vanity / dressing table with gilt bronze mounted design and oval attached mirror, front pulling drawer and side pair of candelabra. The vanity / dressing...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Ornate Brass and Ormolu Oil Lamp
Located in Pewsey, GB
An Ornate Brass and Ormulu Oil Lamp with original reservoir. It has central masks on the square base of the deity Cernounnos who represented prosperity. The upper vase shaped part of...
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1880s French Victorian Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Near Pair French Marble Stands
Located in Swadlincote, GB
A near pair of French mahogany stands with ormolu mounts and marble tops, in very good overall condition.
32" high
12.5" square
You are welcome to view this item at our showroom, p...
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19th Century French Louis XIV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Lovely 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Mahogany kidney-Shaped Occasional Table
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Lovely Late 19th Century Transitional Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Mahogany kidney-Shaped Occasional Table
The shaped inset brocatelle violette d’Espagne marble top with pierced three-quarter “heart” gallery, centered to the front by a paneled frieze drawer, on square fluted pilasters joined by an under tier, on cabriole legs and lion paw sabots
With a paper label inscribed Le Garde Meubles Public Bedel...
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Porcelain and Ormolu Medici Designed Vase
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very handsome French 19th century Louis XVI st. Biscuit de Sèvres porcelain and ormolu Medici designed vase. The vase is raised on a chased ormolu base below a square support and f...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Ladies Hand Wall or Desk Letter Clip Erhard & Sohne Ormolu, German 1890s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A gorgeous ladies hand wall or desk letter / paper clip. Made of Ormolu, by Erhard & Sohne, Germany. Beautiful color and patina. This was made by Erhard & Sohne in the early 1890s-19...
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1890s German Belle Époque Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Belle Époque Period Onyx & Ormolu Mounted Pedestals
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional pair of French 19th century Neo-Classical st. Belle Époque period Onyx and ormolu pedestal columns. Each pedestal is raised by an impressive square base with a fine mo...
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19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Onyx, Ormolu
Antique French Empire Style Neoclassical Gilt Bronze 10-Light Chandelier
Located in London, GB
A French Empire Style Ormolu 10-Light Chandelier
Constructed from gilded bronze, with hand-chased details and burnished highlights, the chandelier composed of a central dish inspired by an Ancient Roman...
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19th Century French Empire Revival Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair Antique French Sèvres Porcelain Ormolu Gilt Bronze Dore Table Urns Lamps
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning and imposing pair French Sevres soft paste porcelain and ormolu twin handle electric table lamps of traditional Urn form, and of good size pr...
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19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. White Carrara Marble and Ormolu Clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. white Carrara marble and ormolu clock. The clock is raised by foliate topie shaped feet below the oblong shaped white Ca...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Carrara Marble, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Mahogany and Ormolu Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exquisite and very attractive French 19th century Louis XVI st. mahogany and ormolu desk. The desk is raised by elegant circular tapered fluted legs with ormolu fine topie shaped ...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th Century Renaissance St. Patinated Bronze And Ormolu Centerpiece Urn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most attractive French 19th century Renaissance st. patinated Bronze and Ormolu centerpiece urn. The urn is raised by on an oval base with a patinated Bronze merman swimming above ...
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19th Century French Renaissance Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Marble and Ormolu Lamps
Located in Dublin, IE
A stunning pair of French 19th century Louis XVI style ormolu and Brèche Violette marble lamps. Each lamp is raised by an elegant square base with concave corners...
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1890s French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu Candelabra Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant and large scale pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu candelabra lamps. Each five arm lamp is raised by a circular base with a mott...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Pair Of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu And Onyx Lamps
By Henri Picard
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful and finely decorated pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Onyx lamps, signed Henri Picard. This wonderful pair is raised by a square pedestal with recesse...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Onyx, Ormolu
19th Century Chinese Famille Verte Style Vase / Lamp
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th century Chinese famille verte style (Samson) hexagonal vase, having scenes of girls amongst flowers, leaves and vases, mounted on a gilded ormolu base.
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century Ormolu and Marble Mantel Clock
Located in London, GB
In its unusual and beautiful design, this sumptuous mantel clock effortlessly transcends the boundaries between sculpture, clockmaking and objet de vertu...
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
Royal Blue Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Inkwell and Pen Tray in the Louis XVI Taste
Located in London, GB
An Ensemble de Bureau in the Louis XVI Taste
Constructed using gilt bronze, and 'Sevres' style porcelain having 'Bleu de Roi' borders, and hand p...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
A true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st Ormolu and Silvered Bronze lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and highly decorative true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Silvered Bronze
lamps. Each lamp depicting Prometheus's punishment by Zeus is raised on a rectangular and stepped Ormolu base that is tastefully decorated with pearl patterns, reeded designs, and scrolling movements. Above the stepped base is a Silvered Bronze cherub...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu And Crystal Lantern
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A spectacular and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Crystal lantern. The lantern is modeled off an antechamber lantern still situated in the Palais de Versail...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
Pair of French Antique Japonisme Glazed Ceramic and Ormolu Mounted Lamps
By L. Malpass
Located in London, GB
Pair of French antique Japonisme glazed ceramic and ormolu mounted lamps
French, Late 19th Century
Lamps: height 104cm, width 36cm, depth 26cm
Shades: height 33cm, diameter 50cm
In the Japonisme style, these superb, exceptionally large lamps (converted from vases) are made from glazed ceramics and fitted with ormolu mounts. The beautiful vases are parcel gilt and decorated with exquisite images of, to the front, a Japanese male figure on one and a female figure on the other; complemented by images of Japanese landscapes including trees, birds (ducks), shrubbery, flowers, and insects, including stick insects and butterflies.
Each piece is fitted with superb ormolu elephant...
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Late 19th Century French Japonisme Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Cartel Clock and Companion Barometer by Henry Vian
By Henry Vian
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Exceptional Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Cartel Clock and Companion Barometer By Henry Vian after Jean-Charles Delafosse
Henry Vian after Jean-Charles Delafosse
The tops with a...
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Continental 19th century Louis XVI st. Burl Wood, Fruitwood and Ormolu pedestal
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A unique and most decorative Continental 19th century Louis XVI st. Burl Redwood, Ebonized Fruitwood and Ormolu pedestal. This stunning pedestal is raised by an Ebonized Fruitwood pl...
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19th Century Unknown Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
French 18th Century Louis XVI Period Ormolu and Marble Clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A charming and high quality French 18th century Louis XVI period ormolu, Gris St. Anne and white Carrara marble clock, signed 'Mailland, a Paris'. The clock is raised by six mottled ...
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Highly Elaborate Ormolu Mounted Crystal Chandelier by F&C Osler
Located in Steyning, West sussex
A most unusual ormolu mounted cut glass chandelier with diamond cut stem issuing four arms with scroll tails supporting the main band of crenellation form inserted with diamond cut panels, the arms mounted with diamond cut spheres and columns supporting scalloped edge drip pans, cut glass twelve point stars and ball knop finials, the chandelier draped with halfback spangles, ormolu mounted stars and tapered faceted ball finals...
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1880s English Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Marble and Ormolu Table Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful and very high quality pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Brèche Verte d'Egypte marble and ormolu lamps. Each lamp is raised by a square base with a fine mottled bo...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
pair of French 19th century Ormolu and Enameled Vases, signed Barbedienne
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and most impressive pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. enameled Bronze and Ormolu vases, signed F. Barbedienne circa 1880. Each impressive Champlevé vase is raised ...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Mantelpiece Clock in the Louis XVI Manner, Retailed by E & S Watson of London
Located in London, GB
Constructed in a fine quality two-tone ormolu case, and adorned with rose ground ‘Sevres’ style panels to both front and sides, depicting; rising from oblate toupie feet, the domed case is of modest breakfront form, with a flambeaux urn atop, having tea rose garlands conjoining the body; the clock face delineates the hours in Roman numerals in white cartouches, and is driven by an eight day movement, striking on a bell, with the backplate having the retailer’s stamp, ‘E & S Watson...
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19th Century English Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Gold, Ormolu
$20,451 Sale Price
20% Off
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. White Carrara Marble, Ormolu and Wedgwood Lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. white Carrara marble, ormolu, and Wedgwood lamp. The lamp is raised by a circular base decorated with a beautiful fitted pierced Rinc...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Neo-Gothic antique three piece ormolu clock set
Located in London, GB
The central clock with dial to the center, displaying hours in individual plaques in Roman numerals and five minute intervals engraved into the ormolu case in Arabic numerals, the ca...
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19th Century French Gothic Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
$16,582 / set
19th Century French Ormolu-Mounted Rouge Griotte Nine-Light Candelabra, c.1870
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19th Century French pair of ormolu mounted on rouge griotte, nine light candelabra. Formerly with central vases, the scrolled candlearms ...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Griotte Marble, Ormolu
$12,817 Sale Price / set
31% Off
French 19th Century Renaissance St. Alabastro Marble and Ormolu Centerpiece
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and most decorative French 19th century Renaissance st. Alabastro marble and ormolu centerpiece/planter. The oblong centerpiece is raised...
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19th Century French Renaissance Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of Large Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze and Samson Porcelain Candelabra
By Samson & Cie
Located in London, GB
A pair of large Louis XV style gilt-bronze and Samson porcelain candelabra
French, Late 19th century
Measures: Height 68cm, width 54cm, depth 36cm
Crafted with great artistry and skill by the Samson porcelain manufactory in late nineteenth century France, these exceptional candelabra feature superb full-length porcelain subjects set within elaborate gilt-bronze lighting branches. Made in the Louis XV style, each pair, symmetrical to each other in design, consists of five-lighting branches, a mount for the porcelain, and elegantly sculpted bases.
The porcelain figures are that of a man and woman playing musical instruments, wistfully gazing towards each other while they stroll and play; he plays a variation on the bagpipes, probably the French cabrette, while she plays a large guitar-like stringed instrument. They stand 68cm in height and bear the Samson mark to the underside. Beautiful pieces, the porcelain figures of which can stand separately, they are wonderful examples of French antique...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu And Crystal Plafonnier Chandelier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exquisite and finely detailed French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu and Crystal plafonnier chandelier. This stunning four light plafonnier is centered by an Ormolu acorn bottom...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
French late 19th century patinated Bronze and Ormolu bust of Raphaella
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An elegant and most impressive French late 19th century patinated Bronze and Ormolu bust of Raphaella, signed Faure de Brousse. This beautiful bust depicts a Renaissance era princess...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of French Early 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu Candelabras
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant and very high quality pair of French early 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu candelabras. Each eight arm candelabra is raised by fine mottled feet below impressive blo...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Fine Quality Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Lamp Table By François Linke
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Fine Quality Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Lamp Table By François Linke
François Linke – Variant to Index no. 641
The round shaped fleur de pecher marble top encircled by a...
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Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XIV St. Ormolu Candelabras
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and most impressive pair of French 19th century Louis XIV st. ormolu candelabras. Each seven arm candelabra is raised by a triangular base with three delicate tapered flut...
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19th Century French Louis XIV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Wedgwood-Style Jasperware, Ormolu and Marble Mounted Two-Tiered Side Table
By Wedgwood
Located in London, GB
Wedgwood-style jasperware, ormolu and marble mounted two-tiered side table
French, Late 19th Century
Height 75cm, width 80cm, depth 47cm
This superb two-tiered side table is adorned with beautifully crafted Wedgwood-style jasperware plaques and ormolu (gilt bronze) mounts. The richly veined marble table top beautifully complements the colour palette of blues, whites and browns created by the plaques and wood. Vibrant ormolu mounts frame the specimen stone tabletop, plaques, sides and legs.
Wedgwood is the renowned English manufacturer of fine china and porcelain...
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Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of Ormolu and White Carrara Marble Electrified Candelabras
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu and white Carrara marble candelabra lamps. Each lamp is raised by a fine circular white Carrara marble base with elegant ...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Carrara Marble, Ormolu
French 19th Century Neo-Classical St. Ormolu And Crystal Chandelier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most impressive and unique French 19th century Neo-Classical st. Ormolu and crystal chandelier. The five arm, ten light chandelier is centered by three stunning tiers of prism shap...
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XV St. Rosewood and Ormolu Side Table / Center Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking French 19th century Louis XV st. Rosewood and ormolu side table/center table signed by Victor Raulin. The table is raised by impressive elegant cabriole legs with exceptio...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XV St. Ormolu Chandelier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An impressive and high quality French 19th century Louis XV st. ormolu chandelier. The twenty arm chandelier is centered by a beautiful bottom acorn finial below wonderful foliate mo...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Ormolu and Glass Souvenir Trinket Jewelry Box, City of Meran, Italy, circa 1900s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A gorgeous glass top trinket box made of ormolu. The hinged top featuring a City view of Meran. No restoration has been carried out on this charming little trinket box, which remains...
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Early 1900s Italian Hollywood Regency Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
$55 Sale Price
75% Off
French Mid-19th Century Louis XVI Style Three-Piece Garniture Set
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional and extremely high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Époque period marble and ormolu three piece garniture set signed Raingo Frères, Paris. The clock and original matching pair of candelabras are raised by impressive marble bases with the clock raised on reeded block feet at the front and elegant fluted topie shaped feet at each side. At the center is a striking fitted ormolu plaque with lovely scrolled acanthus leaves and Rinceau shaped scrolls flanked by lovely fluted designs with fitted ormolu foliate chandelles. Impressive intricately detailed cornucopias lead up each side with beautiful ripe fruit and blooming flowers tied with a wonderfully executed flowing ribbon. The enameled clock face displays elegant pierced ormolu hands and Roman numeral hour markers and Arabic numeral minute markers centering the signature and framed within the ormolu bezel with a fine laurel band and the original hand blown glass. The graceful arch shaped top displays a superb ormolu reserve of the eternal flame, a quiver, and a bow tied to a berried laurel wreath with a ribbon symbolizing peace, prosperity, and protection. At the center of each candelabra is a remarkable spiral fluted support centered by four elegant curved supports with fine foliate accents and charming swaging chains. Above is the impressive richly chased acorn finial above the two curved fluted arms also adorned with remarkable chains and large acanthus leaves leading to lovely foliate candle cups. All original gilt throughout.
Candelabra dimensions: H: 13" L: 8.5" D: 4.25"
Raingo Fréres, established in 1813 in Paris, specialized in the high precision clock...
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19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Antique Neoclassical Style Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock
Located in London, GB
This mantel clock is a wonderful piece of French Neoclassical design. It is an unusual and very beautiful item, which has been expertly crafted from gilt bronze (ormolu). The clock will add elegance and sophistication to a mantelpiece.
The clock features a table-form body which is topped by a classical urn. The urn is crowned by a pomegranate finial and mounted with twin handles in the shape of rams’ heads with rings in their mouths. The urn is decorated with twisted and cabled fluting, a belt draped with foliate swags, panelled motifs and a ropework band.
The urn stands on a table-shaped body which is surmounted by outward-pointing pinecone finials and laurel branches. The stepped tabletop has scalloped corners and is decorated with an egg-and-dart and leaf-and-dart band, as well as a central Green Man mask. This top is supported on six legs which feature leafy scrolled tops draped with swags and hoof feet. Between the legs, there is a drum clock...
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu, Bronze
Antique Set 4 Ormolu and Veined Rouge Marble Twin Branch Wall Lights 20thCentury
Located in London, GB
This is a very fine set of four good sized ormolu and veined rouge marble twin branch wall lights dating from the second half of the 20th Century.
The lights feature classical Louis...
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20th Century Louis XVI Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
French 19th century Mahogany, Ormolu and marble desk, attr. F. Linke
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. Belle Époque period Mahogany, Ormolu, and Rosalia marble center table/desk, attributed to François Linke. The desk is ra...
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19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XV St. Ormolu And Etched Glass Centerpiece
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A high quality and intricately detailed French 19th century Louis XV st. Ormolu and etched Glass centerpiece. This exquisite four arm candelabra centerpiece is raised on four 'C' scr...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Marble and Gilt Bronze Centrepiece Attributed to Edward F. Caldwell & Co
Located in London, GB
Antique marble and gilt bronze centrepiece attributed to Edward F. Caldwell & Co.
American, Early 20th Century
Height 31cm, width 75cm, depth 30cm
Attributed to Edward F. Caldwell ...
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Early 20th Century North American Neoclassical Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Marble and Ormolu Portique Clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exquisite and high quality French 19th century Louis XVI st. white Carrara marble and ormolu Portique clock, signed "Tiffany'. Raised by a marble base with ormolu topie shaped supports. Above are two columns decorated by finely chased floral ormolu mounts. The columns are flanked by two fluted tapering ormolu design elements. The enamel dial has a foliate garland at the center and ormolu pendulum. At the top crown is an ormolu floral basket with two lovebirds...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Carrara Marble, Ormolu
French Sèvres Porcelain Watteau Scene Ormolu Cobalt Blue Table Lamp Bronze Satyr
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning French Sevres Soft Paste Signed Porcelain and Ormolu with Twin Handles modelled as a Satyre, Electric Table Lamp of traditional bulbous form and of outstanding quality, and ...
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19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of Neoclassical Style Bedside Cabinets Retailed by Au Gros Chêne
Located in London, GB
Pair of neoclassical style bedside cabinets retailed by Au Gros Chêne
French, late 19th century
Dimensions: Height 83cm, width 50cm, depth 35cm
Designed in the refined Neoclassi...
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Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Pair of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu Sconces
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An extremely elegant pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. ormolu sconces. Each three arm sconce is centered by a finely detailed bottom acorn finial below the elegant tapered fl...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Théodore Deck Attributed French Ormolu Mounted Majolica Tazza
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish and unusual French ormolu mounted majolica tazza molded with figures set within an abstract design border attributed to Theodore Deck (1823-1891) and believed to date ...
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1880s French Aesthetic Movement Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
$901 Sale Price
55% Off
19th Century French Ormolu Mounted Marquetry Center Table Att. Alfred Beurdeley
Located in New York, NY
A Very Important "Table De Salon" or "Table des Muses", after the design by Alfred Beurdeley
An amarante, satine, burr, stained and fruitwood marquetry on sycamore veneers with one...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
French Early 19th Century 1st Empire Period Baccarat Crystal & Ormolu Chandelier
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant and unique French early 19th century 1st Empire period Baccarat crystal and ormolu chandelier. The chandelier is centered by a charming and richly chased bottom ormolu acorn finial surrounded by lovely foliate designs. The most decorative Baccarat crystal dish...
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19th Century French Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Ormolu
French Antique Charles X Pair of Ormolu Candlesticks
Located in London, GB
A fine pair of antique French Charles X period Ormolu candlesticks. The mercury/fire gilding is completely original. The circular base is decorated with anthemion rising through a cu...
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1820s French Charles X Antique Ormolu Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Ormolu Clocks, Lamps and Other Furniture and Decorative Objects for Sale
Antique ormolu furniture and decorative objects can be incorporated into a variety of spaces, and while demand for the material and/or technique was at its peak in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries, ormolu is still widely loved by designers and collectors today.
What is ormolu?
Ormolu is a brilliant form of decorative trickery. To the untrained eye, ormolu clocks, jewelry boxes and other ormolu furniture and decor look like they're made of solid gold. But those in the know recognize ormolu — or elaborate bronze gilding — as having been essential to French design in the 18th and 19th centuries as a cornerstone of the neoclassical and Empire styles.
“Most commonly, ormolu refers to a bronze object that has been covered with gold, typically 18 karat or 24 karat,” explains Jamie Sinai, director of the antiques specialist Mayfair Gallery, in London. “For that reason, ormolu is sometimes called gilt bronze or, in French, bronze doré. Strictly speaking, however, the term ormolu also denotes the technique of applying gold to a metal.”
“The word comes from the French or moulu, which translates as ‘ground or powdered gold’ — the form the gold takes before it is applied to a metal surface.”
From the court of King Louis XVI to that of Napoleon I, the French elite snapped up furniture mounted with ormolu, as well as sconces, candelabra and table lamps made from the material. “As the French reputation for supreme art, architecture and furniture developed, the craze for ormolu spread across Europe,” adds Sinai.
Today, antiques collectors and interior designers continue to prize ormolu for its extraordinary craftsmanship and history-infused glamour.
“This wondrous material was highly sought after in France as the ultimate luxury. It magically resembled solid gold and sparkled under candlelight,” says Sinai.
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