Baroque Furniture

Spectacular and very decorative piece. Large carved wooden reliquary bust of a Madonna. Beautiful traces of color. Small losses and without the relics. Silver/silvered central piece ...

A fine 18th century Italian Rennaissance style Baroque cassone, or marriage chest, made of solid walnut. Bold details are hand carved in high relief and include a central panel with ...

Set of Four Fabergé Liqueur Glasses – Imperial Collection (Czar Imperial Model) Hand-cut and colored crystal, original velvet presentation box Refined set of four Fabergé liqueur gl...

We are pleased to offer for sale an Italian mid–20th-century tray—modern in spirit yet clearly inspired by the 18th century. Made in Italy between the 1960s and 1970s by the historic...

The Treasures of Rembrandt Book by Michiel Roscam Abbing Art Gallery Book in slip case. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the birth of one of the wo...

This elegant antique piece is crafted from Italian marble. The central part of the mantel features a beautiful hand carving of a mythological figure or mask, typical of the Baroque E...

Unique panel depicting a saint figure and Angels. Wonderful layers of its original color, France, circa 1650-1750 . Weathered, small losses. Treated against woodworm. Measurements in...

Refined dining set consisting of a shaped table and four matching chairs, executed in the Boulle style and dating from the second half of the 19th century. Made of ebonized wood, the...

Stunning candlestick in solid 800 silver made with the fusion technique. The round base, finely engraved and chiseled with beaded and wave motifs, has a diameter of 17.5 cm (6.9 in.)...

Mid-18th Century Swedish Period Baroque cabinet. With decorative carved pediment with two large doors below. Super crisp carved decorative detailing, opening to shelved storage and ...

An impressive antique commode of particularly elegant proportions, distinguished by its beautifully executed marquetry and highly decorative veneered surfaces. The top features an e...

Impressive oak baroque armoire that dates from the late 1700's into early 1800's. Note the heavily paneled doors, massive crown all resting on large bun feet. Restored, later professionally painted in layered shades of antique white and light gray; all lightly distressed to fit the age of this stately armoire. Any scratches, cracks, dings, or age related separation are reflective of age and do not detract from the beauty nor function of this large oak armoire...

Stunning Danish baroque style high-backed ear-flap chair hand made in the 1930s The frame and armrests are made beautifully of turned and carved solid oak....

This pair of French stone sculptures from the early 20th century features two Médicis vases with gadroon decor on a square base. This exquisite pair of early 20th-century French ston...

8 Baroque Style Erotic Prints of Compromised Aristocrats & Soldiers, I (I is our inventory tag) Italy, 20th Century Prints,  This suite of eight Italian Baroque-style erotic prints ...

A large 19th-century Italian Baroque–style crucifix, crafted in silvered bronze and ebonized wood, mounted on a circular wooden base. Above the figure of Jesus Christ is a plaque ins...

Antique French carved oak vitrine cabinet bookcase barley twist renaissance from France. A gorgeous antique French bookcase cabinet, unusually...

17th Century Flemish School Oil on Panel Painting. Painting depicts the head and shoulders of a bearded elderly man, presented in a carved and gilded period-style frame. The sitter i...

French Baroque Style German brass tray top yale burge coffee table. Elegant French Country Baroque style walnut coffee table with solid brass removable two handled tray top. The well crafted wood...

Stylish antique iron gate coffee table with a 3/8" thick flush-mounted tempered glass top. Classical in styling, with rustic and Industrial infl...

Very attractive torso in Limewood dating from the early 18th century. Probably originally part of a larger altar group. Delicately sculpted with great patina giving it a almost abstr...

A magnificent Baroque commode with serpentine front in burled walnut with embossed gilding. Chest is raised on a carved plinth that rests on cabriole feet, and features four drawers ...

79767 Vintage Chinese Aubusson Tapestry, 06'06 x 07'10. The Château de Monceaux: A Vintage Chinese Aubusson Tapestry Masterpiece of Grace. This handwoven wool and silk vintage Chines...

This Dutch Delft vase follows the classic garlic neck form, its bulbous body rising through a slender fluted neck to a secondary globular knop and a flared, scallop-rimmed mouth. The...

Lovely baroque painted metal procession cross with a great patina. Italy circa 1750. weathered and small losses. Measurements include the wooden base. H:42cm W:28,5cm D:9cm

A multipurpose Spanish fratino table from the 19th century in handsome oak construction with stretchers of wrought-iron for dining, as a center table, or writing desk. Thick top plan...

A lovely angel, his right hand extended as if to touch something or hold something. He appears very calm and peaceful, clothed in a partial shroud which is draped over his shoulder...

This exceptional Spanish coffee table is entirely crafted from solid chestnut wood. The piece shows a warm deep-brown color and a rich patina, the result of centuries of use and care...

This 18th century Swedish Baroque chest of drawers is a stunning example of Scandinavian craftsmanship. Featuring a gently curved front, it is constructed from solid wood and showcas...

Beautiful Baroque marble holy water font or stoup, Unique and original period piece. Italy, circa 1650-1750. Weathered condition with some minor cracks that have no influence on the ...

Beautiful Baroque marble holy water font or stoup, Unique and original period piece. Italy, circa 1750 H:12cm W:24,5cm D:18-33cm

Set of 6 High-Quality Rococo Salon Chairs, 18th Century Walnut Solid walnut wood frame, upholstered with classic spring core cushions covered in a beige fabric. Curved and richly o...

Late 19th century Hispano-Moresque lustreware platter, 16th-century style A decorative Hispano-Moresque style lustreware platter produced in the late 19th century, inspired by 16th-c...

The dimensions of this elegant model glass are bigger than usual and for this reason it becomes an eye catching on your table. The baroque shape is a timeless style for every occasio...

Our “Vernazza” Old Walnut 3-drawer dresser - The Italian Art & Handcraft of fine custom antique reproduction. Available in custom size and configuration by quote - handmade to or...

outstanding tapestry in wool and silk, Bruxelles, second half of the 17th century. Depicting a detailed scene of The Bull Hunting. On the background of the landscape the Monument of ...

19th century Baroque Spanish side table with marquetry geometricals figures 19th century Spanish trestle table in walnut. This...

Italian Baroque Throne Armchair in Nutwood Reupholstered in Velvet Gorgeous Baroque throne armchair made of full nutwood in Italy. The armchair was com...

A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular 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 (all high quality gilt is original) 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, circa 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 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...

JP Kroese, Dutch Baroque, Marquetry, Moon Face Dial, Grandfather Clock, 18th C A stunning totally refinished case showcases this spenderd18th century, the brass dial with enameled l...

Spectacular wall fountain in Breccia Pernice and Giallo Siena marble. An extraordinary work of Venetian origin, composed of three modules. A generously sized, well-proportioned, an...

A large 17th century French capital on a associated base. Sculpted front and sides, flat backside. Great to decorate a garden or display indoors.

Outstanding Spanish Baroque Sunburst Chandelier / Pendant Light, Carved Giltwood, Silver and Gold Leaf Gilding. Spain, 1930s-1940s. Eye-catching giltwood sunburst chandelier ceiling ...

the rectangular top with canted corners and a molded edge atop a conforming case housing four drawers, the case raised on bracket-form feet

Antique pair of figural heavily carved walnut sgabello chairs. Winged figures and baroque designs. The sgabello is a type of chair or stool with carved...

Grand pair of Italian hand-carved scroll arm benches made in the Baroque taste. The bench seats feature highly carved beech frames with intricate designs having a floral motif. The f...

Housing two lights each. These will be newly rewired with certified US UL sockets for the USA and appropriate sockets for all other countries. Beautiful floral motif in pressed copp...

A stunning, monumental baroque antique (1700s or earlier) Italian walnut chest of drawers from the Lombardy region of Italy, typical of the Bergamo cabinet-making tradition. Decorati...

Borgia sterling silver dinner set for twelve. This set comprises 96 pieces (dimensions in inches): Forks: 12 dinner forks (8 1/4), 12 luncheon forks (7 1/2), and 12 salad forks (7);...

The Netherlands Gouda Workshop of W. J. Oliviers Verswaen (De Swaen) Circa 1625 - 1650 A polychrome Dutch Delft tile with the decoration of a starling identifiable by its spotted bo...

Antique Beaded Evening Bag with Floral Motif, Circa 1920s or Earlier A charming antique beaded bag, dating to the 1920s or earlier, showcasing delicate craftsmanship and timeless el...

Odyssée De La Mer. A large 19th-century French cast bronze fragment with a mounding growth of over 5000-carat natural citrine and black tourmaline that surround a giant black sea fan...

A rare and opulent pair of custom pillows in the manner of Mariano Fortuny, rendered in the highly coveted Glicine Giardino colorway of moss green and antique gold. Each pillow pres...

A French, solid oak coffer from the 1700s, the heavy storage trunk has a paneled construction graced by various hand-carved patterns such as roses along the upper trim, and more abst...

Antique 17th century Flemish tapestry pillow crafted from an authentic verdure style tapestry fragment with softly aged floral and foliate motifs woven in earthy natural tones. The d...

Mythological Seas: Pair of 18th-Century Portuguese Azulejo Mermen 18th Century This spectacular pair of 18th-century Portuguese tile pictures depicts two imposing mermen. Executed i...

A beautifully tailored pair of authentic Fortuny pillows crafted from a classic vine-and-grape botanical pattern, rendered in Fortuny’s signature metallic pigment. The textile featur...

19th Spanish walnut desk with two drawers and solomonic turning legs and solomonic stretcher it is carved in four sides It has a central lock for...

From Spain, constructed of solid walnut, the rectangular top without edge top, conforming case housing two carved drawers with two doors paneled with solid walnut, raised on a plinth...

This extraordinary fireplace mantel in white statuary marble with opulent carved roses is incredible. It is eye catching and one of a kind. It could work very well in a Rococo interi...