Collectibles and Curiosities
Collectibles and Curiosities For Sale
Color: Gold
Eclectic Collection of Five Continental Dog-Form Inkwells
Located in London, GB
Eclectic collection of five Continental dog-form inkwells
Continental, circa 1900
Measures: Largest: Height 12cm, width 30cm, depth 18cm
Smallest: Height 10cm, diameter 7.5cm
T...
Category
Early 20th Century European Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal, Bronze
French Onyx and Enamel Miniature Table Cabinet
Located in London, GB
This elegant dressing table cabinet uses precious materials on a delicate scale, resulting in a piece that is both practical and luxurious.
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Category
Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Onyx, Marble, Ormolu, Bronze, Enamel
Baroque Liturgical Vessel, Open Ciborium, Sanctuary Lamp, Aspersoria
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Antique baroque church liturgical vessel, open Ciborium, sanctuary lamp, Aspersoria.
Late 18th century Italian Baroque open Ciborium, Sanctuary lamp ...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver Plate, Brass
Tiger's Eye Cufflinks
Located in Van Nuys, CA
These gold cufflinks feature tiger's eye gemstones, which have been formed into power rods. The gemstones have a beautiful gold and brown sheen to them, even in low light situations....
Category
Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Charles X Dance Card in Mother-of-Pearl and Bronze, Palais-Royal Work
Located in Paris, FR
Charles X dance card in mother of pearl and ormolu, embellished with flowers and flowery interlacing. It is engraved with “Souvenir” and decorated with deli...
Category
Early 19th Century French Charles X Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Grand Tour Bronze Sarcophagus Form Box
Located in Stamford, CT
Unusual 19th century Italian Grand Tour bronze box in the form of a sarcophagus, circa 1880. Nice form, handsome desk-top accessory, great addition to any box collection.
5.5 inches...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Swiss Gold Musical Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
This special and important Swiss gold music box is chased and engraved with a set of musical instruments surrounded by elaborate swirls of ornate foliage. Embossed with a delightful braided gold design, the two-compartment box features an exquisite oval agate key, which opens a recessed lock in the base of the box. Such a box would have been a prized possession and would have been able to fit neatly into a gentleman’s waistcoat pocket.
Ingenious miniature portable devices, musical snuff boxes...
Category
19th Century Swiss Other Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Rare Inkwell, Bronze Art Nouveau USA President Wilson 1st W War, Signed Cuzin
Located in Paris, FR
Rare, one of a kind.
This unique Art Nouveau bronze inkwell, signed by Cuzin, circa 1918
representing USA President Tommy Wilson (28th USA President from 1913-1921).
This i...
Category
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Large & Top Quality Bronze Art Deco Wall Plaque /Sculpture of Christ by S. Norga
Located in Lisse, NL
Realistic and powerful Art Deco wall plaque of Jesus by Sylvain Norga.
Because he has created some of the best, bronze wall plaques of Christ,...
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Art Deco Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Scrolling Design and Excellent Condition, Large Pair of Gothic Art Candelabras
Located in Lisse, NL
Stylish and very decorative pair of antique church candleholders.
If you are looking for stylish, practical and truly decorative candelabras then this antique pair could be perfect...
Category
Early 20th Century European Gothic Revival Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass, Bronze
French Gilt Bronze Brooch by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A circular shape brooch in gilt bronze by French art jeweler Line Vautrin (1913-1997), circa 1940s-1950s. It depicts what appears to be figures of saints on a crossed background with...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Cabinet Size Bronze Sculpture of Venus de Milo after Ron Liod Sauvage
By Ron Sauvage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine Venus de Milo bronze after Sauvage.
In an diminutive size that is perfect for the desk, mantel or vitrine.
Simply a wonderful little...
Category
20th Century French Grand Tour Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Swiss Gold Musical Vinaigrette
Located in New Orleans, LA
This early 19th century Swiss gold vinaigrette has the charming addition of a musical mechanism. The entire box is crafted of 14-karat yellow gold envelo...
Category
19th Century Swiss Neoclassical Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Antique Vienna Cold Painted Bronze Boxer Dog circa 1900, Car Mascot
Located in Bath, GB
An absolutely charming cast bronze boxer dog, cold painted in Austria, circa 1900.
I think what was done at a later date was it was mounted during the ...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze, Chrome
Admiral Viscount Bridport’s Gold and Hardstone Armorial Swivel Fob Seal
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
The openwork gold pendent mount supports a three sided faceted quartz, each side seal engraved respectively with the crest of Hood within the motto ‘Tria Juncta in Uno for the Order ...
Category
1780s English Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Quartz, Gold
Bronze Pax or Pax Board, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Paper holder bronze. 16th century.
Portapaz made of bronze with a flat handle in "that" on the back that presents a decoration in light relief framed in an architectural composition of classic taste. Under the columns of the sides two heraldic shields are presented; the center shows a Birth of Christ under a winged dome with heads of winged angels in the corners; flanked by two birds, at the top and under a semicircular arch, is the bust of Saint Dominic...
Category
16th Century Spanish Renaissance Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Figure of Game Birds
Located in Brea, CA
Late 19th-early 20th century, the birds on a breakfront base. Measures: 11.25'' H x 8.25'' W x 4.75 D.
Category
Early 20th Century American American Craftsman Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Antique Austrian Cast & Cold Painted Bronze Miniatures Cat Figurine Whimsy Lot
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Lot of three ornately cast and cold-painted antique Austrian bronze miniatures of whimsical cats. These highly detailed sculptures date from approximately 1900-1920.
Approximate dimensions of figurines: (L/W/H)
Cat 'Paper Boy...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Edwardian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Large Himalayan Inlaid Bronze Vajra with Wrathful Faces, 15th-16th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A large and unusual Himalayan bronze and mixed metal nine prong vajra featuring wrathful faces. In the style of the Tangut (Western Xia) Kingdom (1038 to 1227), but probably later, most likely 15th-16th century.
The body of the vajra crafted from a copper alloy, with five wrathful faces on either side and gold and silver inlays to the center. The prongs crafted of iron, with each side having eight prongs arcing outwards around a central prong before coming back to a copper alloy point.
The vajra is meditational tool...
Category
16th Century Mongolian Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold, Silver, Bronze, Iron
Masonic Brass Enamel Chain, Pewter Inkwell, Cloth Regalia
Located in Miami, FL
20th century brass enamel chain and monogrammed black cloth regalia was worn by the Knights Templar of the Masonic fraternity for ceremonial meetings. Offered with a pewter and glass...
Category
20th Century French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Pewter
1930s English Solid Bronze Urn by George Adlam & Sons
By George Adlam & Sons
Located in Sagaponack, NY
An Arts & Crafts heavy lidded urn of solid bronze.
Category
1930s English Arts and Crafts Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Antique Bronze Religious Art Sculpture / Statue Depicting Christ with Children
Located in Lisse, NL
19th century finest bronze group statue.
This excellent quality and very refined sculpture of Christ with children is another one of our recent great finds. Anyone who knows what it takes to create a bronze sculpture from start to finish realizes how special these works of art really are. For us to have found this rare, antique specimen more than made our day. Firstly, because we love the subject matter and secondly, because antique bronzes always are the best when it comes to the details and the patina. Both the serenity in Jesus' face and the way His cloth is perfectly draped around His sitting body are details that never fail to impress. The angelic faces of the two children who are clearly enjoying to be in His presence, make this meaningful and striking sculpture even more pleasant to look at. This handcrafted and antique work of beauty simply warms your heart and it will look marvelous, no matter where you decide to have it on display.
Our price for this work of religious art...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Gothic Revival Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Antique Austrian Cast and Cold Painted Bronze Miniatures Cat Figurine Whimsy Lot
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Lot of three ornately cast and cold-painted antique Austrian bronze miniatures of whimsical cats. These highly detailed sculptures date from circa 1900-1920.
Approximate dimension...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Edwardian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Devotional Pendant, Oil on Aventurine, Gold, Enamel, Spain, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Devotional pendant or reliquary. Oil painting on aventurine, enamel, gold. Spain, 17th century.
Medallion or devotional pendant or reliquary made of aventurine or aventurine with an octagonal shape and faceted fronts, enhanced with a series of enamels combining black and gold, which protect two oil paintings with a Catholic Christian religious theme, located one on each side of the piece. Protected, you can see a very particular Virgin with Child for being inspired by the Icon of the Madonna del Popolo (Rome, Italy), and a simplified Martyrdom of San Lorenzo (the saint, the grill and an angel with a crown and the palm corresponding to the subject). The edges of the piece have been protected with simple metal elements.
The painting of San Lorenzo follows a common composition in the Spanish school, and would recall works such as the painting of the main altar of the Church of San Lorenzo de Huesca, for example, but also others such as the engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi (executed around 1527) in some details. The so-called icon of the Madonna del Popolo was well known for being considered as made by Saint Luke, and was brought to the church of the same denomination by Gregory IX from the Sancta Sanctorum of the Lateran Palace after a flood caused a terrible plague in the city and through a solemn procession with the image of Santa Maria del Popolo.
Regarding the material of the piece, a certain type of glass and a type of quartz (which can be green or reddish-brown, and usually has tiny elements of yellow mica that give it golden reflections) is known as aventurine or aventurine. In the first case, it is known that “aventurine” or “stellaria” appears mentioned in the Murano workshops for the first time during the first quarter of the 17th century, in reference to a very complicated production paste (it is said that the name comes from of this circumstance, that is, that its creation was due to luck or luck) that imitates the effects of that stone (from India and Russia at that time) thanks to the inclusion of copper particles, and that it was used as if out of stone (cut) given the complexity of its use in blowing (practically impossible). And, dealing with this material, it is necessary to mention “The Nativity” by Pietro da Cortona, dated around 1656, which is kept in the El Prado...
Category
17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Other
Pair of Antique English Naval Cannon
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Pair of antique English naval cannon each with a tapering three stage barrel flanked by plain trunnions, with a knob shaped cascabel button before a shaped rectangular raised vent and ending in a 3 1/2” bore muzzle, enclosing a removable conforming wood plug, circa 1800.
Stood upon a naval type bronze-mounted four wheeled wooden carriage, including its wedge shaped quoin with knob handle.
The Earls of Lonsdale, Lowther Castle, Cumbria, presumably by descent to Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944), until sold by his heir and brother, Lancelot, 6th Earl, as part of the contents of Lowther Castle, Maple & Co. Ltd./Thomas Wyatt, Tuesday 14 April 1947 and two following days, lot 558: ‘A pair of Old Gun Metal Cannons on teakwood carriages, 3ft. 6in. long’.
Mrs. P.M. Adie-Shepherd, sold Christie’s, London, 29 May 1970, lot 96.
Lowther Castle is a castellated mansion built by Robert Smirke between 1806 and 1814 for William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1757-1844). It was constructed on the foundations of the former 17th century family seat, Lowther Hall, but it was only in the early 19th century that it was afforded the name ‘castle’ in keeping with the Europe-wide fashion for romanticism and which was promoted by influential characters such as William Beckford at Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire in England and by the writer Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford, Roxburghshire, Scotland. While it’s not known when these naval cannon were acquired for Lowther they would have been entirely fitting in the castle or its approaches and it’s likely that they were in place soon after the castle was completed, or perhaps acquired later by the 5th Earl. A tantalising possibility is that the cannon were originally aboard the East Indiaman Lowther Castle which was active in the early 19th century.
HUGH CECIL LONSDALE, 5TH EARL OF LONSDALE (1857-1944) AND THE DEMISE OF LOWTHER CASTLE
In 1882 at the age of 25 Hugh Lonsdale (1857-1944) unexpectedly inherited the earldom and with it the extensive Lonsdale estate, including tens of thousands of acres of Cumberland and Westmorland and coalfields at Whitehaven. However, despite his spectacular inherited wealth – he was suddenly one of the wealthiest men in England, over the course of his lifetime he managed to decimate the family fortune. He led a full and colourful life, one of adventure and luxury. An early intrepid escapade took place in July 1888 when, as part of an expedition called the Scotch Naturalist Society, he set embarked on horse sleigh...
Category
Early 1800s English Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Adie Brothers Ltd Antique 1920s Yellow Gold Vesta Case
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George V English 9 karat yellow gold vesta case; an addition to our boxes and cases collection.
This exceptional antique George V English...
Category
1920s English George V Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Greek Bronze Illyrian Helmet, Archaic Period
Located in New York, NY
Greek bronze Illyrian Helmet
Archaic period, circa 500-500 BC.
Hammered from sheet-bronze, of domed form, with two parallel ribs to the bowl, a straig...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Greek Classical Greek Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
1990s Vintage Italian Vivid Green Murano Glass Small Cactus Plant in Gold Pot
Located in New York, NY
1990s Italian highly collectible Venetian glass cactus of limited edition, entirely handcrafted in Murano, with modern Minimalist design blown by Formia, in a lifelike organic modern...
Category
1990s Italian Organic Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Gold Mobile Earrings by Jacques Jarrige, 2014
Located in New York, NY
Wearable work of art by Jacques Jarrige. These earrings are hand-sculpted and hammered in silver sterling and gold-plated with 18-Karat, five microns.
This wearable sculpture unmi...
Category
2010s French Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Sterling Silver, Vermeil
Substantial Antique Italian Bronze Mortar and Pestle
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Substantial antique Italian bronze mortar and pestle, finely cast with shell and floral band, complete with 12" x 1.5" D pestle. The base of t...
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Restauration Snuff Box with Micromosaic
Located in Paris, FR
Small rectangular Restauration snuff box crafted in gold. The hinged lid is decorated with an oval micromosaic representing St. Peter's Square in Rome. Micromosaic is set in a gold s...
Category
Early 19th Century French Charles X Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
American Victorian Bronze Presentation Sword with Scabbard
Located in New York, NY
American Victorian bronze presentation sword with an American crest and eagle plate over the handle (inscribed behind handle)
Category
19th Century American Victorian Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Early 1900s Marked Art Deco Period Bronze Relief Wall Plaque Depicting the Pieta
Located in Lisse, NL
Heavy and finest quality, religious bronze wall plaque.
This intense, bronze wall plaque depicts the Virgin Mary grieving over the body of Jesus Christ after the crucifixion. The h...
Category
Early 20th Century European Gothic Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Roman Empire Domitian Coin circa 81-96 AD Set in Gold with Diamond Accents
Located in Atlanta, GA
An authentic Roman Empire, Domitian (circa 81-96 AD), silver Denarius coin, minted in Rome, set in a custom 22-karat gold bezel with 22-karat gold bail with gold bead and diamond acc...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
French Sculptured Gilt Bronze Box by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A gilt bronze box or podier by French Jeweler Line Vautrin, in the pattern of "Moise ou la traversee du desert" coric 1940s-1950s.
A rare mode in the box, the top surface of the cover illustrates the biblical story of Moses crossing the desert out of Egypt...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Dutch embroidered purse with golden purse mount, Amsterdam 1812
Located in Delft, NL
Dutch embroidered purse with golden purse mount, Amsterdam 1812
A golden purse mount with very small golden beads on a embroidered sac
The purse mount has a scene of a fisherwoman w...
Category
Early 19th Century Dutch Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Antique Miniature Portrait with an 18-Karat Yellow Gold Frame & Fitted Case
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This well executed miniature portrait was made in England in approximately 1900 in the period Edwardian style and comes with its original fitted leather case. The painting is unsigne...
Category
Late 19th Century English Edwardian Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Art Deco Figure Nude Woman Dancer Bronze Sculpture - Italy
By C. Rossi 1
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Art Deco Italian figure of a woman dancig with a music instrument.
Sculpture of a dancing nude girl. Bronze with a dark green patina.
Mounted over a marble base.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Art Deco Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Weight, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Weight of the 18th century. Bronze.
Bronze weight, incomplete, with the container glass and two of the smallest, all decorated in cold with incised and...
Category
18th Century European Neoclassical Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Antique Pietra Dura Brooch Pin, Italy, circa 1875
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Gold Pietra Dura brooch pin, Italy, circa 1875. The elongated shape, fine Pietra Dura floral white and green flower inlay colors, the surround gold ...
Category
19th Century Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
18th Century Galician Brass Hanukkah Lamp Menorah
Located in Firenze, IT
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The backplate pierced with a vase ...
Category
Late 18th Century Polish Neoclassical Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Gilded Bronze Processional Cross Top, 20th Century, after Earlier Models
Located in Madrid, ES
End of processional cross. Ormolu, 20th century.
Latin cross with straight arms with decoration of tongues between moldings on both fronts, rays at the intersection of the arms, an...
Category
20th Century Spanish Baroque Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Pax or Pax Board, Bronze, Spain, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Paper holder bronze, 16th century.
Portapaz made of bronze with an "asymmetric" handle on the back, which presents a decoration in light relief framed in an architectural compositio...
Category
16th Century European Renaissance Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Impressive and Large Bronze Wall Plaque of a Suffering Christ by Sylvain Norga
Located in Lisse, NL
Rare and sizeable Art Deco religious plaque.
Stunning sculpture / plaque by one of the greats when it comes to religious art. This sizeable, heavy and detailed plaque depicts Jesus...
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Gothic Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Jaimal Odedra, Contemporary Pendant Necklaces, Morocco, 2018
Located in New York, NY
Signed: Jaimal Odedra
Nine sizes.
Each piece is modeled and cast by hand using a traditional Moroccan sand casting method.
Category
2010s Moroccan Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Devotional Pendant, Gold, Enamel, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist.
Possibly mallorquin. One of the glasses is fractured. Oval pendant ornamented in its outline by turned gold loops and small metallic pearls. On ...
Category
18th Century European Neoclassical Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Other
French Silvered Bronze Brooch by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A bronze brooch in a silvered finish by French art jeweler Line Vautrin (1913-1997) entitled "Mignonne Allons Voir Si La Rose" (Sweetheart, let's see if the rose). The large round br...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Antique Edwardian 9-Karat Yellow Gold Slide Watch Chain Necklace & Key
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique 9-karat yellow gold watch chain is presumed to have originated from England and dates to circa 1880. This long and substantial tight round link chain features a shield shaped slide with ornate decoration and seed pear accents. The gold watch...
Category
Late 19th Century English Edwardian Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Viennese Cold-Painted Bronze Egyptian Monument Letterbox by Bergman
Located in London, GB
Viennese cold-painted bronze Egyptian monument letterbox by Bergman
Austrian, circa 1900
Measures: Height 46cm, width 39cm, depth 28cm
Demonstr...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Modernist 14-Karat Gold and Silver Ring
Located in Norwalk, CT
Hallmarked Carol Fugmann and sterling. Sterling silver and gold.
Category
Late 20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold, Sterling Silver
Cameo with Gold '9-Karat' Frame; Brooch, Victorian Era, circa 1860
Located in Madrid, ES
Cameo with frame stamped openwork gold (9-karat) decorated with a symmetrical composition based on opposing "ces", simplified volutes and aveneradas forms in the equator of the piece...
Category
Mid-19th Century European Victorian Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Men's Vintage 14-Karat Yellow Gold and Ruby Cufflinks
Located in Toledo, OH
Men's vintage 14-karat yellow gold and ruby cufflinks, 5/8" square with diagonal grooves and four square cut and two pentagon cut rubies in each cuff link...
Category
Mid-20th Century Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Antique Ladies Carved Coral Cherub & 14-Karat Yellow Gold Brooch & Earrings Set
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique demi-parure set is completely unmarked but tests for a minimum of 14-karat yellow gold and is believed to have been made in England in circa 1890 in the period Victorian...
Category
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Coral, Gold
Muscular & Athletic Art Deco Male Sculpture on Marble Base by Jean Marie Camus
By Jean Camus
Located in Lisse, NL
Large Art Deco era sculpture of an athletic male working.
This large and powerful sculpture makes a great centre or desk piece, but it will look beautiful on a side table or credenza as well. The French artist Jean Marie Camus (1877-1955) who also exhibited at the Salon in Paris perfectly captured the body posture of this muscular young man when pulling a log out...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Spelter
Antique Bronze Sculpture or Bust of a Laughing Boy aft. Desiderio Da Settignano
By J. Petermann
Located in Lisse, NL
Rare bronze sculpture of a joyous boy from the early 1900s.
The sculptor of this Fine work of art has managed to capture the pure innocence and joy of a young child.
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna on Laughing Boy — The representation of children belongs among the most charming motifs revived by Renaissance art under the influence of Hellenism. Like a number of similar statuettes of equally unaffected charm, this one is probably the portrait of a child conceived as the infant Jesus. Such statuettes were commissioned to be set up in private chapels. The Laughing Boy is considered to be the last work of Desiderio da Settignano...
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
1979, Old Danish Train Bronze Sign
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A very heavy and patinated bronze sign with raised numerals of the year 1979. The sign is handmade in thick stock and weighs in around 8 kg. The provenance...
Category
1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Early 20th Century 14-Karat Indonesian Gold and Coral Kerosang Kebaya Pin
Located in Haarlem, NL
Beautiful and rare early 20th century antique yellow gold Kerosang pin brooch for your Kebaya.
A Kebaya is an Indonesian blouse without buttons, this golden Kerosang has 4 simple pins with 'claw-like' settings around coral 'buttons'.
Usually kebaya pins have 3 pins and are more decorated elaborately in Indonesian style.
This one has a more sleek 'Dutch Zealandish' design, that is why I'm pretty sure this antique costume jewellery pin...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Victorian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Coral, Gold
Late 19th Century Austrian Bronze of a Bearded Jew
Located in New York, NY
Extremely well cast, with very fine details, bronze bust of a bearded Jew, Austria ,circa 1880.
The bust is screwed on a marble base, and measures 3.25 inches high, 2.5 inches wide,...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Antique Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique and Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities for Sale
Antique and vintage collectibles and curiosities can bring whimsy and wonder to any interior.
Decorating with old scientific instruments, historical memorabilia and vintage musical instruments, as well as other authentic collectibles and curiosities that can be found on 1stDibs, presents an opportunity to create a unique, natural history museum-like atmosphere in your home that can provoke conversation as often as it pays tribute to how far we’ve come in understanding our world.
And bringing collectibles and curiosities into your space is actually on trend — Wunderkammern, or curiosity cabinets, were all the rage in Europe during the 1500s and continued to have adherents there and in the U.S. in the following centuries. Today, however, they’re experiencing a real surge in popularity and influencing how many interior designers are furnishing and decorating homes — combining contemporary with antique, scientific with tribal, earthly with extraterrestrial, Les Lalanne tables with Flemish tapestries.
The original Wunderkammern were entire rooms filled with objects demonstrating their owners’ worldly knowledge: A proper one included artificiala or preciosa (objets d’art); naturalia (such as skeletons, shells, minerals); exotica (taxidermy or dried plants); and scientifica (scientific instruments), frequently alongside religious relics and ancient artifacts.
Pay tribute to a history of rich and diverse musical traditions that have taken shape all over the world by decorating your home with a collection of antique and vintage musical instruments — with a little help from strong hanging wire or some wall hooks, vintage brass instruments such as a gong, French horn or trumpet can help elevate a home office or complement the efforts you’ve made to ensure a welcoming vibe in your home’s entryway. Bells or antique wind instruments can add provocative metallic contrasts to dark woods as tabletop decorative objects.
Create an intriguing focal point with Georgian scientific instruments, such as stick barometers with mahogany cases or lacquered brass telescopes. These items stem from an era named for the monarchies of the four King Georges, who ruled England in succession starting in 1714 (plus King William’s reign, which lasted until 1837). Just as there was beautiful jewelry produced during the period that today is coveted by collectors, there is much to be found in the collectibles and curiosities realm too.
Wanderlust, nostalgia and a shared love of good design are contributing factors to certain trends in decorating — just as vintage trunks and luggage have reappeared as furniture or home accents in a bedroom or foyer, decorating with globes, maps or nautical objects is similarly rooted in the allure of travel and a penchant for the stylish finishing touch that collectibles bring to our homes.
Find a wide range of antique and vintage collectibles and curiosities on 1stDibs.
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