1870s Furniture

The two prints depict vibrant and distinctively shaped flowers, rendered with the meticulous detail characteristic of chromolithography from the 19th century. Here’s a description of...

A fine and rare pair of stoneware figures representing Commerce and Knowledge, possibly produced by Doulton & Co. of Lambeth, England, the figure of Knowledge depicted as a youth, classically robed and seated on a tree trunk, with open book in proper left hand and stylus in proper right hand, the figure of Commerce depicted as a youthful Hermes, the Greek god of trade, commerce and communications, partially draped, wearing a winged helmet and holding a caduceus, standing alongside a barrel topped with a book and a money pouch, English, ca. 1870. Each figure 47 ins. high. Knowledge 20 ins. wide, 16 ins. deep. Commerce 20 ins. wide, 16 ins. deep. On associated composition stone square pedestals...

Napoleon III Mantel Clock or Console 180s Black Marble and Solid Brass Sculpture

A large Victorian leather stool, of long rectangular form, the deep buttoned top reupholstered in blue-black leather, the frieze pierced with a band ...

This is a charming antique French 800 silver miniature sedan chair, Circa 1870 in date. The sedan chair beautifully detailed, the door opens to ...

Burled walnut and walnut writing slope with brass mounts, made in 1870, on a late 20th century lacquered stand. The burled walnut top with a central brass inlaid presentation plaque ...

Behold the resplendent beauty of this magnificent 19th century victorian style Black Starr Forest sterling silver tableware water pitcher. Immerse yourself in the opulent of a bygon...

The print titled "La Ménagerie Impériale - Musée des Empaillés" is another satirical caricature from the series by the artist Hadol. This print, numbered 30, continues to depict vari...

Victorian sterling silver goblet. Made by Charles Boyton in London in 1873. Ovoid bowl on knopped cylindrical stem; raised foot. Engraved garland frames (vacant) and exuberant leafin...

KYOTO STYLE NAGA HIBACHI (FIREBOX BRAZIER GRILL), Japanese, Meiji Period, The rectangular hibachi is of Keyaki (Zelkova) wood construction with the original copper liner, and a colum...

E W Godwin for William Watt. An Anglo-Japanese Old English or Jacobean ebonized armchair. See Susan Webber Soros. The Secular Furniture of E W Godwin Illustration 109 for a cane-seat...

Dated 1873 English watercolor of Scottish Highland cattle. These long-haired horn cattle are a hearty breed indigenous to the area. Grazing in the Highlands of Scotland. Signed & Dat...

The image is a colored chromolithograph of the Hibiscus coccineus, commonly known as the American Scarlet Rosemallow, from the work 'The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States...

This is an exceptional pair of antique English silver plated wine coolers by the renowned silversmith Hawksworth, Eyre & Co of Sheffield, circa 1870 in date. The wine coolers stand on circular pedestal bases with decorative Faustian masque handles and bodies which are masterfully embellished with grape vine decoration. Each cooler is fitted with a removable lid and liner and the lids are engraved with crests of a bull. Add some classic elegance to your home with this lovely decorative pair of coolers. Condition: In excellent condition. As antique items, the coolers show minor signs of use commensurate with age, these minor condition issues are mentioned for accuracy and, as seen in the accompanying photographs, they display beautifully. Dimensions in cm: Height 27 x Width 26 x Depth 19 Dimensions in inches: Height 11 inches x Width 10 inches x Depth 7 inches Hawksworth, Eyre & Co was founded in 1833 by Charles Hawksworth and John Eyre as successors of Blagden, Hodgson & Co. The first mark was registred in 1862. They were manufacturers and silversmiths of silver and silver plated objects. In the 19th Century they opened branches in London, Buenos Aires, Montreal and New York, an amazing accomplishment at that time. The partnership was dissolved in 1869 and the business was continued by James Kebberling Bembridge, Thomas Hall...

Beautiful American antique silver plate pitcher by Reed & Barton, 1879. Great chiseling work in the metal look carefully at the refined d...

The print titled "La Ménagerie Impériale" is a satirical caricature featuring Marguerite Bélenger. It is part of a series composed of 31 hand-colored lithograph plates by the artist ...

Lao and Burmese Peoples – Lithograph from French Indochina Exploration (1873) This lithograph, part of Francis Garnier’s *Voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine,* depicts Laotians and B...

Antique map titled 'Nord-America'. Old map of North America. This map originates from 'H. Kiepert's Kleiner Atlas der Neueren Geographie für Schule und Haus'. Artists and Engrave...

Meissen stunning tall figurine group: the bucolic festival (seven figurines) MEASURES: height: 14.56 inches diameter of base: 7.87 inches Manufactory: Meissen Hallmarked: Blue Meissen Sword Mark (glazed bottom) model number C 59 / former's number 163 / painter's number 4 FIRST QUALITY Dating: 19th century / made circa 1870 Material: porcelain, glossy finish, multicolored painted Technique: handmade porcelain Style: Rococo MODELLED BY: MICHEL VICTOR ACIER (1736-1799) The sculptor was born at Versailles / France. He had studied Art of Sculpture in Paris and was appointed as sculptor of Meissen Porcelain Manufactory then (1762). Acier created many models generally in style of Rococo and specially in Watteau style. Finally, the sculptor became Model Master of the Saxon King in year 1780, moving to Dresden then. - MODEL C 59 CREATED CIRCA 1768 - 70. DETAILED DESCRIPTION: THE BUCOLIC FESTIVAL, CONSISTING OF SEVEN FIGURINES ° there is a young female lute player attached to top piece, adored by a ° boyish gallant figurine, who is presenting a hat to her, filled with flowers' blossoms (the hat had been laid on ground) ° cherub with tambourine, riding on billy goat ° a further cherub, fondling the billy goat ° a third cherub, seizing a ribbon as well as a bird ° man with wine bottle and violin ° woman with wine...

The plant depicted in the print on offer is Azalea mollis 'Glabrior', a variety of the Rhododendron species. Its common English name is the Smooth Azalea. This particular variety is ...

The engravings presented here are exquisite botanical illustrations from the 'Dictionnaire Classique des Sciences Naturelles', an authoritative work published in Brussels in 1845 und...

Meissen gorgeous figurine group of stunning appearance: There are four gardener children of most lovely appearance visible. Manufactory: Meissen. Dating: Third quarter of 19th century / made circa 1870. Blue Meissen sword mark with pommels on hilts. First quality. Material: white porcelain, glossy finish, finest painting. Technique: Handmade porcelain.   Designer: Johann Joachim Kaendler / designed and modelled circa 1767    / he was chief sculptor at Meissen manufactory from 1742 - 1775. He is the most famous modeller Meissen manufactory ever had and created famous series such as Shepherd Figurines, Comedian's Children, Gardener Children (with Acier), Paris Town Criers (with Reinicke and Meyer), Gallant Figurines, etc. Specifications: Subject: Gardener children figurines...

A dramatic pair of hand-carved, gessoed and 22k gold gilded, urn-form balustrade finials surmounted by flame forms. Each on a tapered foot with a pe...

Miss Ethel Mortlock an oil on canvas called 'Town' of Marie Adelaide Brassey (aged 3) who became Marchioness of Willingdon (see below) and is buried in the Nave at Westminster Abbey, signed and dated 1878. Picture 60 x 45 cm Ethel Mortlock (1865-1928) an extraordinary woman and sought after portrait painter, she painted this aged 16!. Born in Cambridge and lived in London. She exhibited at The Royal Academy between years 1878-1893 no less than 29 paintings also at the Grosvenor Galleries. Many of Paintings in museums (See History below and her sitters). Marie Adelaide Brassey - Marie Adelaide Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon, GBE, CI DStJ (née Brassey; 24 March 1875 – 30 January 1960) was a daughter of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey. On 20 July 1892, she married Freeman Thomas , 1st Marquess of Willingdon (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), the future Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India. She became : Invested as an Imperial Order of the Crown of India (C.I.) in 1917, Decorated with the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal , Invested as a Dame of Justice, Venerable Order of St John (D.J.St. J.),Decorated with the Order of Mercy. Invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in December 1917. Invested as a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1924 Birthday Honours. Marie Canyon on the Cowichan River, Vancouver Island is named for her, commemorating a 1930 canoe trip from Cowichan Lake down that river to the city of Duncan, British Columbia. The Lady Willingdon Hospitol in Lahore, Pakistan is named after her .The Lady Willingdon Hospital in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India, is named after her. About Ethel Mortlock : Her clientèle of sitters included members of the aristocracy and European nobility and included, by her account, the Shah of Persia (1900) and the ‘Chinese Ambassador’, Li Hung Chang (who was actually the Chinese Viceroy), à propos which sitting the Sketch published an illustrated interview with Ethel in August 1896. Ethel was thought pretty grand by the American papers who reported that Chang had to go to her studio for sittings in 1896 rather than she wait upon him. He brought her a roll of silk and a white jade palette as presents. Li Hung Chang was a pretty big cheese; his wife had two thousand servants waiting on her. The Chatham, NY, Courier reported that Ethel had painted every Ambassador who had come to London. These last clients, allegedly by failing to pay the £1000 charged for their portraits, landed Ethel in trouble. They were, of course, conveniently unavailable to the bankruptcy commissioners so this sob-story could not be checked. Strapped for cash she was caught out when the executors of a racehorse owner called Edward Overall Bleakley found, in his effects, IOUs for hundreds of pounds (Bleakley had bequeathed his own portrait by Ethel to Manchester Infirmary [Daily News, 1.8.98]). Ethel went to court, claiming that these were offset by painting commissions, but the court found against her and she was told to pay up. Now saddled with legal costs, she was caught again when Captain Noel Hoare, her man of business, died and it was found that he had mortgaged to Hoare’s Bank, without her knowledge (she said), three properties in Sloane Street that she had been building. She tried to buy back one of these but lost a £500 deposit when she could not complete, making a bad situation rather worse. Bleakley’s executors now broke her and her examination in bankruptcy in 1901 can be read in the PRO as above. Her troubles were attributed to extravagance and betting - the Bleakley IOUs were assumed to be in fact gambling debts and the creditors now included all sorts of tradesmen and the Hotel Cecil where Ethel was then living, presumably in some style. She did not help herself by claiming an income of £250 p.a. when individual commissions were on her own account at the £1000 mark as above, meaning that the Chinese and Persian portraits alone would have occupied her last eight years and she would have obtained these prestigious commissions at the age of 18 (she gave her age as 26). Faced by the raised eyebrows of her superiors in mental arithmetic Ethel then upped her declared usual income to a still rather modest £800. She claimed to keep no sort of cash book, accounts, or any memoranda. Proceedings closed with Ethel declared bankrupt and a number of people out of pocket; the settlement was at 7/6 in the pound. Ethel went back to her easel. Some financial aspects seem never to have been sorted out; funds in Chancery relating to her, Hoare and Bleakley were still being recorded in the London Gazette every few years at least up to 1938; maybe the born in Cambridge; she appears never to have married. The 1881 census had not heard of her - she may have been in the United States at that time. However, standard works about Victorian painters, such as the Antique Collectors’ Club Dictionary of British Artists (Johnson %26 Greutzner, 1976) and their Dictionary of Victorian Painters (C Wood, 2nd edition, 1978) tell us that she was a pupil of Sir William Orchardson (who came to London in 1863) and that by 1904 she had exhibited 29 works at the Royal Academy. I have listed these, usually prestigious, sitters, who included Don Carlos...

Title: *Our Artist in the United States – VIII. Pittsburg* Published in *The Graphic*, December 2, 1876. This hand-colored engraving was published in The Graphic on December 2, 1...

Antique costume print including many different costumes including costumes of Hungary, Tyrol, Sweden and others. This print originates from 'Blätter für Kostümkunde. Historische ...

Attributed to Zsolnay Pecs - Hungarian, impressive porcelain and gilt metal floor lamp, Converted from an oil lamp, Unique and very rare floor lamp .The Porcelain parts are still ...

A George Jones Majolica Rooster (Cockerel) teapot, English, ca. 1872, naturalistically modeled as a running cockerel, the tail feathers forming the handle, the open beak forming the ...

Audsley, George Ashdown and James, Lord Bowes ‘The Keramic Art of Japan’, Liverpool and London, Henry Sotheran, 1875. 2 volumes, first edition hardback folio including 41 coloured an...

Pair of majestic French 19th century carved 23k giltwood mythological Griffin sculptures. Expertly carved. These impressive one of kind griffin sculptures (or statues) were architect...

Mahogany Torchiere in the Hepplewhite Style. Standing upon Shaped Legs with Pad Feet. circa 1870 Featuring a ring turned and fluted Column with Carved Wheat Ears. The Top of the ...

Minton Majolica serving dish which features a triton balancing a shell on his fish tail. Coloration: turquoise, green, cream, are predominant. The piece bears maker's marks for the M...

This exquisite handmade antique Persian Farahan rug from the 1870s captures the elegance and artistry of a bygone era. Measuring 4.1 ft x 6.7 ft (126 cm x 204 cm), this distressed wo...

This gigantic yellow ware seaweed mocha mixing bowl is in fine condition. It has amazing light blue sea weed decoration. Fantastic large bowl!!

E W Godwin, attributed, probably made by Collinson and Lock.An Anglo-Japanese walnut circular parlor chair with fan shaped arms on bulbous turned legs united by a circular stretcher....

Wilson Hall, Melbourne University – Gothic Revival Landmark, 1879 This hand-colored wood engraving, published in The Illustrated London News on May 31, 1879, showcases the origina...

A superb antique pair of French Grand Tour bronze and Siena marble mounted tazze, Circa 1870 in date. This pair of patinated bronze campana urns are after the Borghese models with ...

Wilkinson & Co., pair of English sterling silver shell dishes, made in Sheffield in 1872 during the Victorian era. Exquisitely crafted and standing on 3 snail legs, they measure 5''...

Spectacular cast iron hitching post in the fabulous faux bois style. Cannon ball top all original no damage or repairs. Rare to the market and ready to be installed. Definitely will ...

This Sheraton Revival writing table is beautifully and precisely made and is clad in well chosen decorative veneers. It on raised on square tapering legs united by stretchers and has...

An exceptional and unusual antique German salt glazed hand worked stoneware bottle decorated with stylised fruit designs dating from the 19th centur...

Each of these oak Glastonbury chairs has a pointed back and a fixed rectangular seat. The shaped arms and X-frame legs are attached with protruding pegs, giving the impression of a c...

Log o solcometro contamiglia nautico in ottone a forma di harpoon, signed T. Walker's Patent Harpoon Ship Log A 1 London , from the second half of the 1800s. It is an ancient nautical instrument, very rare and with a characteristic shape, which measured the distance and speed of a ship. Veniva gettato fuori bordo e trascinato dietro la nave stessa; ruotando grazie alla sua elica, trasmetteva il numero di giri fatti su se stesso ai tre quadranti realizzati su una placca in metallo smaltato posta al centro del log; i quadranti riportavano le misurazioni in miglia da 0 a 100 in decine, da 0 a 10 in unità, da 0 a 1 in quarti. I dati venivano poi letti ogni ora per ricavare anche la velocità. Good condition replaced flap perfectly working and mounted on custom-made brass wood base. Measurements length cm 54 - 21.2 in, propeller diameter cm 13 - 5.1 in. The last photo is the gift box. In past centuries, the attempt to measure the speed of ships was severely hampered mainly by the 'unavailability of time-measuring instruments of sufficient accuracy: by throwing a piece of wood overboard from the bow of a ship and measuring the time it took to reach the stern, it was possible to obtain some information about the speed of the ship itself, but with many errors and inaccuracies. The principle of the mechanical solcometer was explained to the Royal Society in 1699 by Robert Hooke, but the first model produced for commercial use was not patented until 1802 by Edward Massey...

Title: Rare 1873 Engraving of the Market in Luang Prabang by Louis Delaporte Description: This exquisite engraving, titled "Marché de Luang Prabang," captures the vibrant daily li...

Great example of mid 19th Century cherrywood French farmhouse table. Circa 1860’s from the Normandy area of France with great colour / patina. With a bread slide...

This 19th century American solid brass ship steering wheel was, more than likely, from a yacht. Fishing and commercial boats were more inclin...

upholstered in original velvet and metallic trim, square in shape with a slanted hinged top, the interior also upholstered, raised on elaborately carved lions paw feet

A pair of antique 19th century Louis XVI style marble mounted dore bronze armorial Bookends/paperweights depicting "Peace and Music". Each is beautiful...

The print titled "La Ménagerie Impériale" is a satirical caricature featuring Devienne. It is part of a series composed of 31 hand-colored lithograph plates by the artist Hadol, publ...

Title: "Photograph of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan, Late 19th Century" This photograph shows the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, Italy, one of the world’s oldest...

Introducing a delightful German Davenport desk dating back to 1870. This small and narrow desk showcases a distinctive design with an inclined top table and a convenient box with a lid. Its unique shape corresponds to the renowned typology known as the Davenport desk, named after Captain Davenport...

Italian sofa designed by Osvaldo Borsani (attributed) and produced by Tecno with original fabric and metal frame with manufacturer’s mark, production Italy ca 1970s. Please note tha...

Title: Monkeys at Billiards - Published in *The Days' Doings*, June 17, 1871. After a drawing by Paul Meyerheim. This whimsical and satirical hand-colored engraving, titled Monkey...

19th century Swedish folk Art wooden bowl dated 1871 Signed OAS A stunning antique organic wooden bowl with lovely patina & trace originalpaint. You can see the use of time. The bowl...

19th century articulated wooden figure We are proud to offer a rare survivor from the 19th century, in the form of a hand carved pine figure of a soldier. With a polychrome painted...

Exceptional cascade pendant with large glass Murano oversized around 40 cm with gilt gold structure. The Design and the quality of the glass make this piece the best of the italian Design. This unique Carlo nason cascade...

Vase in ceramic from France. It has been done during the 19th Century. Decor with Caracthers and Flowers. Main clors are white blue. Signed Henriot Quimper.

Stunning Baccarat pressed glass barley twist oil lamp, now converted to electricity. Extremely decorative, nice height. PAT Tested and U.K compliant. Can be re-wired for anywhere ...

English Majolica game pie dish George Jones. Measures: Length / 10 inches on 7.5 inches, height / 6.5 inches.

Meissen very interesting figurines' group: The Legacy Hunter or Ancient Love The details are stunningly scupltured = finest modelling Manufactory: Meissen Dating: made circa 18...