Baroque Furniture

Antique French 19th century or possibly earlier, large hand-carved limestone cherub or putti garden statue or sculpture from a very prominent and historic St. Louis estate on the grounds of St. Louis Country Club...

Magnificent Genoese “Peacock Tail” bed, in painted wrought iron and made in Genoa, Italy, in the early 19th century. This remarkable bed is distinguished by its elegant flared headbo...

A fabulous antique Swiss/German wood tavern table circa late 18th century, Known as Jogl table in Swiss Alps and German Bavarian region, the table features a skirt-boarded rectangula...

Absolutely rare set of 2 Baroque style flush mount for ceiling/wall, or simply suspendable ceiling lights stemming from a Wilhelminian period villa in Germany. Luxuriously crafted fr...

A fine example of a large Italian Baroque style carved oak cabinet with molded cornice featuring dentil molding surmounting a case with two doors featuring raised relief carved folia...

Extraordinary set of four Italian artisan painted dining chairs decorated in the Venetian taste. The chairs feature a shield back or cartouche shaped back. The painted frames are emb...

This rare and finely crafted pair of French 17th-century term caryatids is a stunning example of Baroque-era wood sculpture. Executed in molded and sculpted oak, the figures represen...

A wonderful 19th-century pine chest in a wonderful distressed white finish. The cabinet features three long graduating drawers with faded gilt-coloured line decoration. Each smooth...

At over nine feet long, this sumptuous oak baluster leg table was hand-carved with an H-stretcher in Flanders, circa 1680. Long tables such as these...

Fabulous Italian bombe drop front secretary cabinet in olive wood with the matching chair. Bookcase top with Two drawers with brass hardware and exquisite cabriole legs. Expert craft...

Introducing an incredibly rare and well-preserved set of Jacobean Stuart/Baroque-styled hand-carved armchairs produced in Victorian England in the 1890's during the Baroque Revival ...

Dimensions: 26 1/2 inches high x 26 1/4 inches wide x 12 inches deep A striking pair of antique Italian Baroque style bombe nightstands, masterfully crafted in richly toned walnut a...

The heavy baroque style carving and paneling in the doors add to the dramatic impact of this handsome dark pine armoire resting on carved skirt base. The pine has taken on a deep pat...

Pair of Venetian hand painted armchairs in white antique painting and giltwood Green Velvet in back and seats Beautiful hand paintings in both backs.

Italian (19th Century) four panel folding screen with brown and beige tooled leather panels featuring detailed floral designs, with brass nailhead trim and a black canvas-faced rever...

Amazing gilded paper mache dove/ Holy spirit. Beautiful detailed. The Dove is a symbol for the Holy Spirit inspired by Jesus’s baptism. The dove has been used among many Christian de...

Make a dramatic statement with this impressive antique wall bracket console from Italy. Crafted circa 1760, the substantial piece is richly hand carved in the Baroque manner, featuri...

Pair of Tuscany Baroque Giltwood Mirrors, Mid 18th Century Dimensions: cm W 148 x H 192 x D 11 cm; sight size cm W 116.5 x H 158,5 x D 5 cm This pair of large mirrors, in carved an...

Very Fine Carved Ebonized Mahogany Trunk Hope Chest Dated 1903 Super Clean MINT!

Antique 18th century Spanish Colonial silver oval platter decorated in repoussé and chased floral design, stamped at the back with the maker mark: Francisco Sanchez Taramas, Granada ...

Candlestick with triangular base. Bronze. Spain, 18th century. Bronze candlestick with a triangular base raised on three legs and enhanced with moldi...

Large Italian bronze pedestal table, top painted in imitation of porphyry. The neoclassical bronze tripod base features three caryatids with th...

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Baroque chest of drawers in carved and gilded wood, Sicily, mid-18th century This Baroque-period chest of drawers, finely carved and gilded, was made in Sicily, Italy, around the mi...

In original well used condition being a piece steadily in use for hundreds of years.Cut out on top for lifting with a shaped apron and four shaped and reeded legs with box stretcher....

A high quality and most decorative Italian 19th century Baroque st. specimen marble birdbath/fountain. This exceptional fountain is raised by a detailed marble support with scrolling...

Silik Style Italian Baroque Rococo Dining Room Set by John Turano & Sons. Listing includes (2) 15" leaves, (4) side chairs, (2) armchairs with hand painted...

Double snake-handled vase in baluster form on mounted funnel-shaped base, handles raised at the sides in the form of coiled snake pairs, white ground, extensive cobalt-blue backgroun...

A large two-door Baroque wardrobe crafted from solid oak in the 18th century. The wardrobe features a strongly profiled base zone and doors with intricately designed paneling, with t...

Buffet Table Portuguese, 19th century, made of twisted and trembling mahogany wood. Rectangular top, framed by a trembling frieze, waist with two drawers, simulating four legs and t...

Majestic marble mask depicting Neptune, 19th century From Venice, private collection. The type of marble used is very unique: it is rich in sulfur, which produces sparks during pro...

Italian antique Baroque wood wardrobe with doors, 1700s Baroque wardrobe in wood with doors. Cabinet with swing doors and two internal shelves, with front legs with ornament and back...

Custom luxury tooled leather writing desk pad with silver gilt embossed made in Firenze Italy. Italian Luxury desk pad in leather tanned in a rich d...

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 two-tone gilt wood, gilt-patinated 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. Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Painting diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 55 1/8 inches (140 cm) Frame width: 46 inches (116.8 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...

JAN BRUEGHEL School "VELVET" 17th Century "Infant Bacchus". Oil on copper. Minor flaws in the paint. Dimensions: 17 x 21 cm with frame: 32cm x 36cm Note: Label with the following ...

Oil on canvas, Vase of Flowers by Francesco Caldei, known as Francesco Mantovani, Mantua 1584-Venice 1674. This is a painting created around 1600 by Francesco Caldei, known as Franc...

From Northern Spain, constructed of solid walnut, the rectangular top with molded edge atop a conforming case housing two drawers over two doors, the doors paneled with solid walnut,...

Antique 19th century Dutch brass repousse cushion mirror. circa 1880. Attractive patination. Good condition commensurate with age.

Impressive early 18th century hand carved life-size marble bust of a Roman man, circa 1700 Italy, possibly older. Condition is good with minor chips and nicks consistent with age...

Golden wood mirror 19th cent. Hand carved. Fruits and flowers. Probably mounted with antique and original parts. Antique mirror on both side. The back has been changed.  

This elegant armchair exudes classic gravitas, with scroll arms, fall turnings and triple toe feet The tapestry back depicting Flora underneath a bower is a distinctive feature. It...

Old Master Baroque Painting on Copper, Circle of Rubens, 17th Century “Sabine Women”, 17th Century Flemish Baroque Oil on Copper, Attributed to the Circle of Peter Paul Rubens A superb 17th-Century Baroque oil painting on copper, attributed to the Circle of Sir Peter Paul Rubens...

18th century Italian painted and parcel gilt corbel or architectural element. Stunning 18th century corbel or architectural element with original gilding a...

Piccola cornice Barocca, laccata e dorata. Cornice lignea traforata riccamente intagliata a soggetti fogliacei. Italia, XVII Secolo.

Pair of Gorgeous Putti or triumphant angels, carved wood, 18th century. Traditionally associated with the Italian or French Baroque.With curly hair and expressive arms and legs, The...

Very large bronze sculpture with brown patina, based on the group "The Rape of the Sabine Women" by John of Bologna (Giambologna). This pivoting composition shows three figures in motion: a man on the ground defeated with his shield turned upside down, a second one arched clutching a woman launched towards the sky trying to escape, all on a naturalistic base. The Sabine man, the Roman and the Sabine woman are all depicted naked. This staging plays on serpentine lines known as "figura serpentinata" and diagonals giving a beautiful variety of volumes and a multiplicity of angles of view. The bronze is signed F. De Luca...

A versatile and useful pair of late c19th high backed bleached oak Swedish carvers or side chairs. They have scroll arms and decorative carving to the back of the seat and along the ...

Pair of elegant Italian baroque carved giltwood candlesticks torchères turned into table lamps with ivory silk lampshades Measures: Height 24 in /60 cm Diameter 14 in /36 cm Weig...

19th century Genovese giltwood and crystal chandelier. This outstanding antique Italian Genovese or Genoese gilt wood and crystal six l...

Sublime 18th century Italian Baroque tilt-top center table featuring a Venetian painted finish decorated with chinoiserie motifs. The table has a scalloped oval top with bold floral ...

Baroque oval silver tray. Made in Milan, Italy in the mid-19th century. Completely hand engraved with scrolls and central flowers. The swirls and flo...

Finely carved elegant vases with lion macarons and flower garlands.

17th century, Italian hand carved walnut cupboard The cupboard, in good condition, is made of solid walnut wood decorated with carvings geometric design characteristic of the tast...

Decorative carved wooden pedestal featuring a cylindrical shaft wrapped in high-relief grapevine detailing. Clusters of grapes and broad leaves spiral upward around the column, culmi...

This stunning 19th-century French decorative fan is a testament to exquisite craftsmanship and artistic elegance. The fan leaf is meticulously hand-painted on vellum or silk, featuri...

Very special set of 6 Italian Baroque or Swedish Rococo style dining side chairs featuring tall shapely backs, stretcher base, Queen Anne style legs, solid wood construction. Hand pa...

Ancient gilded wooden frieze carved with leaves and flowers. Another example of the rich French woodwork of the 18th century. ref. O/7347.

Amazing Pair of "RIACE BRONZES" early 20th Century 139x50x40 cm approx. Pair of patinated plaster sculptures depicting "RIACE BRONZES" good condition

An Italian Baroque style fruitwood wall bracket from the late 19th century, with carved putto figure. Born in Italy during the later years of the 19th century, this fruitwood bracket...

This is a wonderful side or writing table in solid walnut that perfectly adheres to the Baroque aesthetic. The table has had old professional restorations; we have applied a couple o...