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Material: Precious Stone
Porte-manteaux muraux
Located in PARIS, FR
Handcrafted pieces that transcend their role as simple supports, playing with a structural and graphic aesthetic. These semi-precious stones with their golden reflections and mysteri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Art Deco Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Metal
P.Gouthiere Wall lamp
Located in PARIS, FR
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A destructured form, with a patina, for the P.Gouthière wall lamp associating
the transparency of the selenite to the reflections of the rock crystal.
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Création : Antoine DARIU...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Post-Modern Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Iron
Wall Mirror, Adorned with Lapis Lazuli and Labradorite, Handmade by Aline Erbeia
By Aline Erbeia
Located in GENEVA, CH
Mirror: " Count your blessing"
Number of stones : 88 Lapis-Lazuli and 280 Labradorite
Each mirror is unique, just like the people who will own them. They are distinguished by the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Mirror, Precious Stone
Wall Mirror, Adorned with Semi Precious Stones, Handmade by Aline Erbeia
By Aline Erbeia
Located in GENEVA, CH
Mirror: " Time for me to fly"
Number of stones : 258 Red Jasper, 181 Labradorite, 8 Bloodstone
Each mirror is unique, just like the people who will own them. They are distinguish...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Mirror, Precious Stone
Composition of Wall Mirrors, Adorned with Amethysts, Handmade by Aline Erbeia
By Aline Erbeia
Located in GENEVA, CH
Mirror: "High Hopes"
Composition of 4 mirrors, each measuring 33cm in diameter
Number of stones: 536 amethysts
Limited and numbered and signed edition
Each mirror is unique, ju...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Mirror, Precious Stone
Wall Mirror, Adorned with Aragonites, Herkimer Diamonds Handmade by Aline Erbeia
By Aline Erbeia
Located in GENEVA, CH
Mirror: " Written in the stars"
Number of stones: 5 Aragonites and 60 Herkimer Diamonds
Each mirror is unique, just like the people who will own them. They are distinguished by t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Metal
Wall Mirror, Adorned with Green Aventurines, Handmade by Aline Erbeia
By Aline Erbeia
Located in GENEVA, CH
Mirror: " A la folie"
Number of stones : 283 green aventurine
Each mirror is unique, just like the people who will own them. They are distinguished by the unpredictable and harmo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Metal
Wall Mirror, Adorned with Red Jasper, Handmade by Aline Erbeia
By Aline Erbeia
Located in GENEVA, CH
Mirror: " The time is now"
Number of stones: 146 red jasper
Each mirror is unique, just like the people who will own them. They are distinguished by the unpredictable and harmoni...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Mirror, Precious Stone
Wall Mirror, Adorned with Amethysts, Handmade by Aline Erbeia
By Aline Erbeia
Located in GENEVA, CH
Mirror: " Equilibrium"
Number of stones: 503 amethysts
Limited and numbered and signed edition
Each mirror is unique, just like the people who will own them. They are distinguis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Mirror, Precious Stone, Wood, Lacquer
Wall Mirror, Adorned with 635 Amethysts, Handmade by Aline Erbeia
By Aline Erbeia
Located in GENEVA, CH
Mirror: " Nothing's gonna stop us now"
Number of stones: 635 amethysts
Each mirror is unique, just like the people who will own them. They are distinguished by the unpredictable ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Mirror, Precious Stone
Rose Quartz Buddha Head 4.4 Lb
Located in Somis, CA
100% natural finest AAA grade rose quartz. Statue is hand carved of a young Shakyamuni with downcast eyes above pursed lips, flanked by long earlobes, al...
Category
20th Century Indian Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Rose Quartz
Contemporary Tea Pot Jasper Stone Silver Plated Colour Natural Stone Handle
Located in Milan, IT
Elevate your daily tea ritual with our teiera, a plated brass vessel crafted in italy with precision turning techniques. The exquisite quartz top handle adds a touch of jewelry-inspi...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Silver Plate
Mellerio Paris, A French Gold, Diamonds, Silver, and Smoky Quartz Carved Horse
By Mellerio
Located in New York, NY
Mellerio Paris, A French Gold, Diamonds, Silver-Gilt, Rock-Crystal, Jade, Mother-Of-Pearl and Smoky Quartz, Carved Horse Sculpture, Jeweled Mounted Object.
An extremely rare and unique, one of a kind French gold, diamonds, Silver-gilt, rock-crystal, jade, obsidian, mother-of-pearl, and smoky quartz carved jeweled sculpture "CHEVAUX DE LEGENDE", "A Legendary Horse" by Mellerio, Paris, circa 1991.
Sitting on black obsidian base, the solid rock-crystal slab is finely applied with a carved smoky -quartz and jade horse with a harness mounted in 18k gold, brilliant -cut diamonds, rubies, turquoise, and amethyst chains and pendants. The top columns adorned with 18k gold and brilliant cut diamond pendants, the bottom with gold and mother of pearl plaques. The obsidian base with a plaque engraved: CHEVAUX DE LEGENDE" / N° 05 / MELLERIO DITS MELLER / PARIS / 5003 D
The piece is in excellent condition and comes with a custom made wood case made for transport. It's very elegant and has French hallmarks throughout. A truly magnificent piece.
Measures 10.5" high x 8.5" wide x 4" deep
Founded in France in 1613 by the descendants of Italian immigrants from the Vigezzo Valley in the north of Italy, Mellerio is one of the oldest jewellery houses in Europe. The family business soon attracted the attention of the Royal Court and Marie Antoinette herself reportedly purchased a precious bracelet featuring 7 cameos surrounded by rubies in 1780. Later on, in the 19th century, Mellerio became the official supplier of the French Royal family and the Court of Netherland.
Mellerio creates many jewellery items, all set with rare gems such as peridots, amethysts, aquamarines, citrines and topaz, applying for a patent, the flexible stem, a very supple and light jewellery mechanism. Mellerio remains also well known for their spectacular series of Art Nouveau jewels, created at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as for the creation of trophies rewarding some of the greatest footfall and tennis players of history. In 1993, the jewellery house launched their first watch collection.
Today, Mellerio has stores in Paris, Japan and Hong Kong.
July 14, 1789: this date is known throughout the world as the beginning of the French Revolution. According to a ledger belonging to House of Mellerio, this was also the day that the jeweler sold a golden key to the Comte de Coutance for 10 livres. This ledger, as well as inventories dating as far back as 1768, are the jeweler’s oldest archives. These archives have continued to grow over the years, as the House, established on rue de la Paix in Paris, still lives on today, still in the hands of the same family from Craveggia, in the North of Italy.
The tumultuous history of the Mellerio family in France probably goes as far back as the Italian wars of the Renaissance, but the first official document proving their commercial activity in Paris dates back to 1613. This document is the famous royal warrant awarded by Marie de Medici to a number of Italian families established along the rue des Lombards, including the Mellerios, allowing them to sell “small jewelery items”, therefore granting them a small exception to the traditional monopoly enjoyed by Parisian jewelers. At that time, powerful corporations regulated the operations and customs of Parisian business, but thanks to this exceptional warrant, the Mellerios managed to escape the confines of this framework. Today, this wax-sealed document is kept at the city hall of Craveggia.
From 1613 to the Revolution, the Mellerios lived between France and Italy. The corporations tried many times to put an end to their trade privileges, but all in vain, as a dynasty of sovereigns renewed the warrant. Always marrying and often retiring in Craveggia, the Mellerios continued to maintain their jewelry business in Paris. At first, they did this without a shop. Wearing backpacks (wooden boxes divided into small compartments where jewels were kept), they would tour town fairs around Paris and royal castles.
This is how Jean-Baptiste Mellerio (1765-1850) is said to have sold a bracelet set with rubies and Antique cameos to Marie-Antoinette, which still exists today. Many elements seem to prove the veracity of this anecdote. The queen was particularly fond of cameos, which cover the entire background of her famous jewelry cabinet, and ruby was her favorite stone after diamond. The famous bracelet, reacquired a few years ago by the House of Mellerio, is indeed an 18th century jewel, set with antique cameos representing the profiles of Roman emperors. Two branches of the family were operating in Paris during this time, under the reign of Louis XVI: that of Jean-François (1746-1828), the paternal ancestor of the current Mellerios, and that of Jean-Baptiste (1765-1850).
The French Revolution forced them to return to Italy. However, both Jean-Baptiste and François Mellerio (1772-1843), who was the son of Jean-François, were eventually able to return to Paris after the founding of the Consulate. Jean-Baptiste opened a shop at the Iron Crown of rue Vivienne, and François opened his at the Palais des Tuileries, rue du Coq Saint-Honoré. His well-organized order books give an idea of his high-ranking clientele during the “Old Regime”, among which were the Comte and Comtesse Octave de Segur, the Marquise (later Duchess) de Tourzel, former governess of the royal children, and her daughter, the Comtesse de Bearn, the Craufurds -who organized the flight to Varennes, the Duc and Duchess de Gramont, the Comtesse de Boigne, and Madame de Souza, Talleyrand’s mistress.
We also see the names of the imperial family: Empress Josephine, the Queen of Holland, Princess Elisa, Caroline and Pauline. At that time, the House of Mellerio specialized, among other things, in the trade of antique cameos, a newly fashionable genre of jewel that captured the imagination of all the princesses and noble women of the time.
The years of the Restauration and July Monarchy were among the most glorious. The Bourbons were back on the throne, and the clientele of the House of Mellerio had regained its former wealth. Mellerio supplied Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, as well as his mother, wife and sister, with sumptuous jewels, including a set of emeralds made piece by piece, while the Duke of Bourbon, last prince of the House of Condé, offered diamonds to his mistress, the scheming Baronne de Feucheres, and Monsieur de LaFayette also bought cameos for one of his granddaughters. For the first time, Mellerio ventured into the world of arts in 1815, when Carlotta Grisi, a famous dancer who created Giselle, as well as an actress named Rachel, bought jewels at the Mellerio store on rue de la Paix.
1848 marked a new turning point. France once again became a Republic. François Mellerio handed the company over to his son, Jean, and the latter decided to travel to Spain to build a new clientele. He later became one of the jewelers of the royal family, and met Eugénie de Montijo, who remained a faithful client when she became empress of the French people. The Imperial years were lavish. During the Second Empire, Paris was a pageant of crinoline dresses designed by Worth, while jewels by Mellerio, Worth’s neighbour on the rue de la Paix, adorned the noble women of the Tuileries court.
The Empress bought pearls. Mathilde Bonaparte...
Category
20th Century French Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Jade, Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold, Silver
Misha Kahn, "Radiant Affection", 2022
By Misha Kahn
Located in New York, NY
Misha Kahn [American, b. 1989]
Radiant Affection, 2022
Rose quartz, bronze
Measures: 28 x 65.75 x 18.25 inches
71 x 167 x 46 cm
Unique
Since 2017 Mi...
Category
2010s Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Austro-Hungarian Silver, Enamel and Gems Carriage Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This magnificent Austro-Hungarian silver parcel gilt model of horse-drawn carriage features a total of five gracefully galloping horses. four horses pul...
Category
Mid-20th Century Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Chinese Export Lacquer and Hardstone Mirror
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Chinese export lacquer and hardstone mirror, with various hardstone floral inlays in a gilt lacquer cartouche frame. The inset mirror is 22" x 2...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Precious Stone, Lacquer, Mirror
18th Century Scottish Horn and Polished Stone Tea/Tobacco Caddy
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING A BEAUTIFUL AND EXTREMELY RARE 18th Century Scottish Horn and Polished Stone Tea Caddy or Tobacco Jar.
This is a piece of Scottish history !!...
Category
18th Century Scottish George II Antique Precious Stone Furniture
Materials
Bone, Horn, Precious Stone
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