Early 1900s Furniture

A stunning Daum Spring flowers small vase -Polychrome enamelled and cameo cut back depicting a selection of spring flowers and foliage on a brown and yello...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique American sterling silver six piece tea and coffee service in the Queen Anne style; an addition to our silver teaware collection This exceptional antique American sterling silver six piece tea and coffee set consists of a spirit kettle, teapot, coffee pot, cream jug, covered sugar bowl and slop basin/bowl. The pieces of this American silver tea service...

Jack-in-the-pulpit vase designed by Louis C. Tiffany, manufactured by Tiffany Studios New York, 1906, signed The "Jack-in-the-pulpit" vases represent a special design category within the production of the Louis Comfort Tiffany company. These glasses were modeled after the Arisaema Triphyllum plant and are among the most iconic designs of this famous manufacturer. Our example shines in pure gold. It was made in 1906 and received as a wedding gift at the time. The vase is marked "L.C.T." and "2210A" (underneath). Material and technique: mouth-blown glass, reduced and iridescent Louis Comfort Tiffany (New York 1848 – 1933 New York) was a famous American designer, artist and painter of American Art Nouveau. He was best known for his works in glass colored with metal salts and made a name for himself in the decorative arts at the time. In the course of his career, he created a unique style that combined outstanding craftsmanship with a love for natural shapes and bright colors. Nature had always been his inspiration and in his designs he tried, in his very own way, to capture its beauty forever. Tiffany designed lamps...

A large and deep seated Howard & Sons club armchair, with strong frame and raised on square tapering legs and original brass castors, stamped Howard & Sons to all four castors and re...

A superb antique French mirror hand carved to resemble bamboo, circa 1900. It retains the original mirror glass and the wood has the lovely original surface and patina. Add French st...

Quality antique Edwardian mahogany inlaid table top revolving bookcase having a quality mahogany inlaid top with a pretty satinwood inlaid...

Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel (RSt&K), consistently marked pieces with the tradename “Amphora” by the late 1890s and became known by that name. The Amphora pottery factory was loc...

George Bussey Wooden Fishtail Tennis Racket, The Gordon A lawn tennis racket by Bussey, 'The Gordon'. A nice ash frame with convex walnut wedge. The wedge is stamped 'The Gordon', to...

Beautiful antique oak Globe Wernicke bookcase consisting of 7 stackable parts with foot and top lid. Origin: England Period: Ca. 1900 Size: 86.5cm x 29cm x h.242cm

A fine and large Italian 19th-20th century Art Nouveau carved walnut credenza buffet server by Vittorio Valabrega (1861-1952). The tall finely carved walnut body with twin center doo...

Arts and Crafts era oak bookcase. Original leaded glass door, 4 adjustable shelves, nice figured oak, wonderful warm old surface. Original brass knob and ball feet.

Early 20Thc Old Hickory child's chair with a hand woven replaced seat.

A fabulous Art Nouveau Ozone Cisele Loetz small vase, of square form with a hand worked wavy top. This is one of a series commissioned by the English retailer Max Emanuel, who regula...

Edwardian Art Nouveau sterling silver picture frame. Made by AE Goodby & Son in Birmingham in 1904. Shaped surround with bracket supports; applied ornament with climbing tendrils, unfurled scrolls, and languid overhanging flowerheads. Mounted to stained-wood support. With glass, silk lining, and hinged easel wood...

Wonderful and rare Art Nouveau corner armchair. Striking Dutch design from the 1900s. Solid oak frame with a re-upholstered black leather seat. In very good condition with a beaut...

A fine antique original, authentic, Art Nouveau French cameo glass table lamp, signed Muller Freres, circa 1900. Established in Lunéville, France, Muller Frères consisted of a group ...

Pair of crystals wall sconces, France circa 1900s. The French sconces have a bronze frame with a Lyre shape. The antique sconces are fully ornate with crystals: a few of them in past...

An iconic armchair of the Vienna Secession movement, the Thonet model no. 511 bent beechwood armchair, featuring stunning lines and beautiful proportions. A design tour de force, it ...

Charming set of 3 dessert plates decorated with pink roses, circa 1900 signed Keller and Guerin Luneville.

AUTHOR: GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von - Willy Pogany. TITLE: Faust. PUBLISHER: London: Hutchinson & Co., 1908. DESCRIPTION: LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY POGANY. 1 vol., 10-15/16" x 9"...

Fine quality antique Edwardian antique inlaid mahogany occasional / lamp table having a lovely mahogany top with two drop leaves and satinwood inlay, one frieze drawer with original ...

This is a gorgeous giltwood oval back French settee that dates to the 1900s era and will show a distressed giltwood finish and beautiful original Aubusson floral upholstery. The fram...

This is a phenomenal Art Nouveau stucco oversized vase with six (6) masks/faces emerging in relief from deep foliage. SIGNED to underside, Antonnin Larroux (1859-1937). Finished a ...

Sterling Silver Birmingham Hallmarks From our Silver collection, we are delighted to introduce this Art Nouveau Silver and Enamel Cigarette Case by Robert Chandler. The Silver and ...

A single circa 1900 brass and wood English table lamp with original patina. Measurements: Height of body: 15" Height to shade rest: 24" Width: 11" Depth: 7".

Art Nouveau pendant light circa 1905 in copper and brass in the spirit of Was Benson. This one was produced by General Electric France. 4 lights, electrified in very good condition...

Sevres porcelain box Origin France Circa 1900 Interior decoration (flowers) bronze mount hand painted box.

This fine American Indian Pima pictorial basket is in fine condition except some roughness around the top edge of the basket. The base has some minor...

Cameo Glass Landscape Vase with spuriously signed "Daum Nancy" and "TIP". 10.25" H

Antique mahogany display cabinet having an astragal glazed door to the top section with a fitted interior and two shelves. The base ha...

An unusual French Beaux-Arts period wood and iron pegged hat and coat rack, with removable arms – circa early 1900s. Most often found in the entry ways of French homes or in the caf...

An Arts & Crafts oak adjustable height swivel office chair, with Industrial style mechanisms that allow one to adjust the height of the seat, ...

Émile Gallé (1846-1904), Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Vase « Gladioli Flowers » Large piriform vase on heel with long collar in dark blue and blue multi-layered glass Cased glass, opales...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this highly collectable Chinese export Circa 1900's Mahjong set with the original heavily inlaid and super d...

Cast brass made in Austria, circa 1900 Up to six available, price per piece.

Unusual and early two colour Emile Galle cameo botanical vase in browns over orange. A Ball and shaft shape with fine ridges in the shaft/stem and a botanical pattern for the lower part. It depicts brown berries and leaves on trailing branches. Very unusually, the vase is an early Galle...

Jugendstil wall mirror.

Beautiful bentwood construction with perforated plywood seat from the 1900. Excellent restored. Two pieces available.

A very fine English early 20th century century Art Nouveau silver plated "Chariot à Viande" meat-carving trolley-cart on wheels, by Elkington Plat...

An Edwardian miniature travel clock. An outstanding antique miniature travel-carriage boudoir clock, made in Geneva Switzerland by the Concord Watch Co. This little antique clock is...

This 9-piece desk set is a luxurious antique crafted by Catchpole And Williams LTD in London in 1904. Made of sterling silver (.925), this set exudes elegance and sophistication. Eac...

Pair of French Faience Vases Circa 1900. Decorated with leaves on the top , coat of arms on the base.

Sensational image by Frederick Simpson Coburn In the style of one of my favourite artists, Goya Photogravure Limited edition of 300. This is No. 84 From The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe...

Antique Rookwood Irene Bishop vase or urn featuring Art Nouveau / Arts & Crafts styling with an Autumn Oak leaf motif of browns and orange glaze. Cirac 1901. Shape 40. Signed IB f...

A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. A retailer's label reads " Fred K/ Keer's Sons - Framers and Fine Art Dealers - 917 Broad St. Newark, N.J." - Another label from the gilder reads "Carlo Bartolini - Doratore e Verniciatori - Via Maggio 1924 - Firenze". Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Canvas diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 54 inches (137.2 cm) Frame width: 42 1/2 inches (108 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

Early 20th Century S. Persian Double Saddle-Bag Carpet ( 2'4" x 4'9" - 72 x 145 )

Secession office chair no.715F by Gustav Siegel for J&J Kohn in very nice original condition with original leather. Very rare finding in this condition.

Set of 3 Antique Swedish Stoneware Preserving Jars, Rörstrand & Gustavsberg, c. 1900 A beautiful set of three antique Swedish stoneware preserving jars from around 1900, including p...

High quality French oak farmers chair from around 1900. Nice chiselled Seat Details with carving.

A large antique Bernard Palissy style majolica pottery lobster charger plate, by "Joaquim G. Roque Casadinho", Portugal, circa 1900. The plate is decorated with a large lobster to th...

A very exciting object made by the famous Amphora factories in Bohemia in exceptionally high quality and a very rare design. The vase or jardiniere or centerpiece is designed with a...

A fine Japanese cloisonne hinged box with pheasant and autumn foliage, by Inaba Nanaho and the Inaba Cloisonne Company, Meiji period, circa 1900, ...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique European sterling silver and enamel singing bird box; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection. This exceptional antique sterl...

Antique French Octagon sofa table carved oak Barley Twist Louis XIII Renaissance. Direct from France, a fabulous antique French octagon table, with im...

Antique Cast Iron Hay Grapple Farm Barn Hook Metal Forks Country Decor. Circa Early 1900s. Measurements: 37" H x 41" W x 18" D. 55" at widest point when open.

As pioneer and master of the Modern, Otto Wagner seized the then rather new technique of bending Wood for his furniture designs. The design of this armchair dated back in 1901. This ...

Fiske, John. The American Revolution. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1901. In two volumes. Reprint ("Twenty seventh thousand"). 8vo. Three-quarter tan calf, blin...

A circa 1900 solid bronze standing mirror made by the Villiers and Picard Company, Ateliers Modernes D'Etalages. Company still in business today as A.M.E. Incredible Art Nouveau fret...