Renaissance Furniture

Crucified Christ, Sorrowful Crucifix. Carved and polychrome wood. Possibly southern German school, 15th century. Polychrome and gilded wood carving showing Christ with the Crown of Thorns, on the Cross, already deceased (eyes closed), with the usual INRI phylactery on the upper crossbar of the Latin cross, three nails (note the crossed feet) and a short, golden and polychrome purity cloth or perizonium. It is known, in German, as “Gabelkreuz” or “Gabelkruzifix” (“Sorrowful Crucifix” in Spanish) to a type of Gothic Crucified Christ that is especially expressive (prioritizing external suffering over other aspects) and that, normally, presents the cross in a of Y or ypsilon (alluding to the Tree of Life), created, apparently, thanks to the influence of the mysticism of the late 13th and early 14th centuries (Saint Brigid...

A bronze fountain figure of a winged cherub holding a fish, the figure standing with proper right foot aloft, the right foot standing atop rock-work base with seashells, the fish of the koi variety, the whole in the spirit of Andrea del Verrocchio’s ca. 1470 “Putto with Dolphin”, and after a similar figure by Leonardo Rossi...

Beautiful pair of Spanish Renaissance Revival Savonarola chairs, crafted in solid wood and richly carved with scrolling vegetal motifs. The iconic X-frame silhouette, inspired by med...

2 English Renaissance-style (20th Century) etched pewter hour glass. (PRICED EACH)

A pair of Italian Renaissance walnut chairs. Pozzetto, Ref & quot;Volpi Collection- Art Treasures of the Davanzati & quot; These chai...

From Niagara Furniture a Vintage Williams Kimp Sideboard in excellent condition, with the top have recently been French polished to give it a straight from the showroom look. Simple...

An extremely popular American Fireside Chair designed after an original antique chair. This reproduction antique has all of the features of it’s ancestr...

Antique Venetian Style Figural Floor Lamp.

An Italian Renaissance style side table, of carved walnut, having a rectangular marble top, in molded frame, raised on legs hand-carved as griffins, joi...

This mid-18th century cabinet is a so called 'kussenkast' or pillow cabinet. The pillow refers to the shape of the raised panels in the doors. It is a ...

Rare late 15th or early 16th century Mudejar tile of the so-called ‘Arista’ technique with intricate geometric decoration. Good condition; some chipping to the edges, some wear to ...

An evocative Venetian Renaissance oil on wood panel depicting a graceful Portrait of a Lady. The sitter’s serene expression and refined composition recall the elegance of Titian’s Ve...

Italian Renaissance-style (18th Century) walnut headboard with an open design top under a panel door design (originally a confessional having a Jesuit logo)

ANTIQUE AUSTRIAN DECANTER AND CORDIAL GLASSES Hand-blown pinched clear glass decanter and four matching cordial glasses. Profusely decorated by ha...

Venetian mirror made in the strictest Murano tradition with a crest and frame carefully engraved by hand. All assembled with gold crystal elements handmade in the Murano furnaces. Wo...

Lot of four Henry II style dining chairs. Features a hardwood construction with carved and molded spindle backs. The chairs are supported by fluted legs with H stretchers and bun fee...

This monumental Italian wall fountain was hand-carved in verona rossa marble in the early 1900’s. Truly the work of a master mason, the fountain is comprised of four thick pieces of richly carved marble, with each piece weighing several hundred pounds. The marble has lovely salmon color with cream inclusions that has developed a soft patina. The 3 ¼” deep back wall is adorned with a repetitive C-scroll border. A winged lion mascaron hovers above a geometric panel filled with nondescript interlaced carvings. Below the panel is a scalloped shell with sprawling barbed rinceaux that flows between a pair of volute scrolls on the edge of the wall. The shell has a small, incised circle where a spout or tap can be placed, depending on the desired use. Beneath the vertical wall is an 8 ½” thick sinuous bowl embellished with thick quarter round molding. The front façade has a stylized coat of arms consisting of a shaped shield emblazoned with a fleur de lys. Inside the basin, the back wall has been carved with a pair of volute C-scrolls surrounding bundled leaves. At the base of the leaves is a small drainage hole. Three volutes highlight the luxurious column that sits on a rectangular plinth with two canted corners. All three volutes are in the traditional S-shape, with two of them flanking the larger channeled scroll. A small fleur de lys graces the front of the plinth, which has gently sloped top edges. There is a thin grooved molding near the base. A natural conversation piece for any courtyard or garden setting, the Renaissance style Italian wall fountain can be used indoors or outside. It could also be used as a large sink...

A Vintage Henkel Harris Two Piece Breakfront brought to you by Niagara Furniture. This china closet is impressive in both it’s desig...

XVII Century Renaissance Venetian Rosso Verona marble wellhead/cistern with wrought iron top pulley over octagonal base, Italy By: unknown Material: m...

Vintage French Renaissance L.F. Moreau Cast Spelter Metal Boy and Girl Figural Table Lamp in White, Gold, and Blue. Circa Early 20th Century. Measurements: 45.5" H (to finial) x 35.5...

Pair Monumental Samuel Yellin Style Wrought Iron Andirons, Italian Renaissance, Late 19th early 20th century Palatial in Size are these finely cast pair of Arts and Crafts Gothic an...

This lovely vase, crafted in the Italian Renaissance style, was meticulously painted by an artist, and it's in excellent condition. The motifs are absolutely stunning, and they show ...

Antique Westerwald German Cobalt Blue Figural Stoneware Pottery Jug Pitcher. Circa Late 19th Century. Measurements: 19.5" H x 10" W x 6" D.

Renaissance-style round sterling silver entree dish. The bottom of the entree dish is smooth, while a border made with the casting technique with acanthus leaf motifs has been welded...

16th - 17th century French Renaissance period fire grate. Made of beautifully forged wrought iron and bronze. The condition is good. The width at the front is 93 cm (36.6 inches). ...

Spectacular portuguese armchair in carved wood. Late 18th / early 19th century. Solid wooden structure and beautiful carved with lots of details. The original fabric is torn on the s...

Italian Renaissance style (19/20th Century) large oak refectory table with carved apron and legs with trestle base.

Superb 19th century Antique French Dark Oak “Hunt Cabinet”, Bookcase, Vitrine or Display Cabinet! Direct from France, and one of several exquisite glass door bookcase/cabinets from...

Italian 19th Century Renaissance Style Walnut Refectory Table with a massive two-inch thick 17th century two-plank top above a 19th century associated boldly carv...

This extraordinary cabinet is made of the finest oak in the tradition of the Dutch Renaissance during the “Dutch golden age” This cabinet is made in ...

An antique Italian Rosso Verona marble sculpture or mask of Zeus with detailed carvings. The solid marble head has a fabulous patina. It is mounted on a square marble plinth, in good...

A tall walnut cabinet buffet, having a plank top with dentil moulding above a single drawer. The recessed paneled doors with iron pulls, flanked by Doric columns sitting on multi-moi...

Decorate an entryway or hallway with this finely carved pair of antique Sgabello chairs. Handcrafted in Italy circa 1860, each Renaissance-style seat ...

Italian Renaissance-style (19th century) oil painting on canvas depicting a white peacock in a garden surrounded by other birds in an ornately carved giltwood frame.

Antique Renaissance Victorian Hand Carved Black Walnut Full Size Bed Frame by Eastlake Gorgeous Victorian black walnut, finely hand carved full Size bed...

Beautiful French rustic sofa or bench from the early 20th century. This characterful sofa or bench is a country house piece of furniture in folk art with an unusual straight shape. T...

Gilt Bronze Display Stand — France, Late 19th Century Elegant gilt bronze display stand made in France in the late 19th century. Crafted in the Renaissance Revival style, with decor...

English Renaissance-style halberd spear with wooden shaft and small 29-inch iron ax blade.

Handsome oak library piece that can be used as a desk or Work table. Made of oak having carved gadrooned edges. A stretcher made of iron. Carved on all sides and five drawers ox bow ...

Copy of a portrait painting titled "Mona Lisa"

Pair of gothic revival carved cherubs circa 1970. Good quality pair of hardwood cherubs which are coloured to match walnut. Each figure seated on a plinth base of carved rock, tree...

As soon as 1540 France's second Renaissance is in the making, intimately linked to the rediscovery of the Antique world. The development of the printing and engraving industry allows the spread of artworks and models in many cities and countries. The Italian influence can be perceived in every artistic field. While the French king entrust the most talented Italian artists with major projects such as Il Rosso or Primaticcio in Fontainebleau, French artists also travel to Italy to form themselves to this new style. In Italy they get acquainted with the work of Leo Battista Alberti the first to theorize perspective (De Pictura, 1435-36) and architecture (De re oedificatoria, 1541). Those two publications would have a revolutionary impact on arts. Furniture is marked by the work of the most famous Italian architects of the time as well as French architects. Indeed Philibert de l'Orme competes with Alberti and by the end of his life publishes several treaties including one devoted to a theory of architecture (1567). Unfortunately he would not live to complete the second volume. In this treaty he expresses his interest for mathematical norms applied to architecture, copied from the Antique. His journeys in Italy allowed him to accumulate the most sophisticated references. Jean Bullant, another architect of great talent also theorizes his practice. He establishes rules characterizing Greco-Roman art staying faithful to Vitruvius. Following this new inspiration the structure of furniture evolves. From then on appear columns, capitals, cornices, friezes and architraves. The ornamentation uses this inspiration as well with egg-and-dart, palm leaf and rose adorning the most beautiful pieces. In Lyon, crossroad where meet merchants from everywhere those new experiments are welcomed. Lyon florishing printing industry allows the spreading of models and treaties essential to the artist's work. Thus the first publication of Vitruvius' De Architectura in France would be printed in Lyon in 1532. Artists from Lyon rediscover and familiarize themselves with the Antique knowledge very early. They adopt those new ideas and use them in their own creations. Lyon cabinet-makers re interpret Antique architecture and Italian Renaissance palaces to give their pieces a pure and harmonious architectural structure. Grooved pilasters are particularly favored. They are topped by capitals of diverse orders always respecting the sequencing with simpler ones for the lower levels and the richest ones on the higher levels. As for the ornamentation, one of the great distinctiveness of Lyon workshops remains the architectural perspective illusions, drawing inspiration from Tuscany. True masterpiece of the Second French Renaissance this important cabinet illustrates Lyon workshops' taste for fine Italian architecture inspired by Antiquity. An architectural perspective of great quality is treated in symmetry on each panel. This two-bodied cabinet without recess stands on four rectangular feet. The base comprises a molding, a palm leaf frieze and is bordered by a braid. The lower body is divided by three grooved pilasters with Tuscan capitals framing two door-leaves. The two panels are encircled by a moudled frame with palm leaves. They are finely carved with a decor of fantasized architecture depicting an Italian Renaissance palace erected symmetrically on each side of a grooved pilaster. On the ground floor a door opens through a stilted arch while the stories are opened with mullioned windows, dormers and occuli. Two large pegged-boss cladded pillars support the entablature enriched by a palm leaf frieze upon which stands an arch whose coffered intrados is centred by a rose. Behind this arch a pyramid appears, standing in front of a second facade with a window topped by a broken curvilinear pediment under a cul-de-four with a shell. The checker flooring gives depth to the low-reliefs creating vanishing points structuring the panels and guiding the eye of the observer. A thin laurel braid highlights the belt of the cabinet where are located two drawers. Their facades are adorned by palm leaves in hoops. The upper body is encircled with palm leaves. The same ternary division as in the lower body appears. However, the pilasters are topped by Ionic capitals with volutes and egg-and-dart. The door-leaves are framed with flowers. On the panels the artist has designed another architectural decor. On the foreground open two arches on top of grooved pilasters with rectangular capitals adorned with palm leaves. The arches are enriched with braids and the coffered intrados bears a decor of roses. The spandrels also bear a flower decor. In the background another arcature hosts a fluted grooved column topped with double basket acanthus capital, characteristic of Corinthian order. The triangular pediment is interrupted by a choux bourguignon. A large cornice crowns the cabinet. It stands on pilasters and forms an entablature comprising a palm leaf frieze and an egg-and-dart, triglyph and palm leaf cornice. The cabinet's sides have also been carefully considered. The lower body's panels are enriched with an arch rising above a broken pediment portico hosting a twisted column. Flowers garnish the spandrels. An architectural facade completes the decor. The upper body's panels present two arches supported by a facade opened with dormers and mullioned windows as well as cartouches (one bears the inscription 1580 dating the cabinet) suggesting the interior of an Italian Renaissance palace, confirmed by the chandeliers. The flooring leads our gaze to a second arch with a broken curvilinear pediment where stands a flower vase. This arch opens onto a perspective of another facade along a road. Inside the cabinet, on the lower body door-leaves appear two designs. On the right door is depicted a Crucifixion. Saint Mary and Saint John flank the Christ on the cross. In the bottom part is inscribed « Dure uiator abis nihil haec spectacula curas / Pendenti cum sis unica cura Deo. / Tota suo moriente dolet natura Magistro. / Nil qui solus eras caussa dolenda doles. ». The signature [Christoff Swartz Monachiensis pinx[it] / Ioa[nnes] Sadeler sculp[it]] tells us it was made by Johan Sadeler I (1550-1600) after Christoph Schwartz (1548-1592). This engraving belongs to an ensemble depicting the Passion of Christ Johan Sadeler executed in 1589 after an altar piece painted by Christoph Schwartz for the private chapel of Renée of Loraine, wife of Duke William V of Bavaria. This altar piece made of nine copper panels has been destroyed during the 19th century. The Crucifixion panel once in the centre of the altar piece is the only one that survived and is today kept in Munich's Alte Pinakothek. On the left door appears Saint Francis receiving the stigmata. The inscription says : « Signastidomine Servum Tuum. Franciscum. Signis Redemptionis Nostrae ». This Renaissance cabinet with an architectural decor appearing as much in the structure faithful to Antique rules...

Precious octagonal Venetian mirror, made in the strictest Murano tradition. Finely hand-engraved on the elements of the upper crest and on the bands, it is assembled with numerous fl...

Antique Marquetry Inlaid Scenic Tarsia Panel of Raffigurante "Il Carro Dell'Aurora"

Petite Antique French Octagon Center Side TABLE Renaissance Carved Oak. Direct from France, a fabulous SMALL antique French octagon table, ornately adorned, just like the full-size ...

This high quality, antique reproduction Large Duncan Phyfe Console is very similar to our best selling model the NOC043 Console, please see the re...

19th century French carved walnut hall bench Breton Brittany Pew Renaissance. Direct from Brittany, France, an ornately hand carved antique French hall bench...

ORIGIN : ITALY, TUSCANY PERIOD : 16th CENTURY DIMENSIONS : Height : 73 cm Length : 180 cm Depth: 57 cm Good condition Walnut wood This significant Florentine cassone in the shape of a sarcophagus features a beautiful front panel flanked at the corners by two mascarons surrounded by voluted acanthus leaves. It rests on two lion's paw feet at the front. The decoration includes a beautiful frieze of scales at the bottom, which continues on the sides. Above this, in the center, a scrollwork cartouche once bore coats of arms. On either side, there is an abundant vegetal decor with vine branches and sumptuous grape clusters. The domed top lid is adorned around its edge with a wide frieze featuring a scale motif, harmoniously matching the lower cornice. This beautiful cassone is interesting for several reasons. The choice of ornamentation is not random. Grapes have numerous meanings and are often associated with fertility, especially when represented on a wedding cassone...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare and highly important, Museum quality, English Tudor King Henry VII Oak tester bed...

Bargueño writing desk, cabinet in walnut tipical from Portugal. This sort of early chest of drawers were use for papers and documents, it was used as a transportable writing desk. ...

An eye caching figural sculpture of Saint George and the Dragon, After Antoine Louis Barye. As the legend goes, Saint George—a soldier venerated in Christianity—defeats a dragon. The...

A 19th-century Spanish Renaissance-style carved oak desk. It features decorative elements such as the geometric panels carved on the front, characteristic of this period, spiral or S...

Venetian mirror made in the strictest Murano tradition with carefully hand-engraved bands. All assembled with golden crystal elements handmade in the Murano furnaces. Wooden frame wi...

This beautiful and friendly-sized cupboard is made of the finest watered oak in the tradition of the Dutch Renaissance during the “Dutch golden age” It is a two-door cabinet over ebo...

From Niagara Furniture a Vintage Councill Triple Dresser and Mirror in excellent, original, as found, condition. Simple yet sophisticated this beautiful Councill Mahogany Triple Dre...

Pair of Italian Renaissance style green patinated bronze figure of horse walking (from a series of 1,000 titled: "Cavalli di San Marco II", signed by L...

Fabulous brass mirror with aged verdigris patina Can be hung both as a diamond or a square Original mirror plate. The plate is slightly distressed / misty The measurement given is...

Dating to the 1700s, this beautiful Venetian chest, which is covered in crimson velvet, has brass embellishments in the style of the Renaissance. The beautiful color of the velvet an...

19th Century French Renaissance Hunt Buffet is a magnificent example of the breed, stretching seven and a half feet wide but with rounded sides...

Jacques Bergé "King David" - Terracotta or Fired Clay with Polychrome Remnants Dated 1736 14.5" h x 5.5" w x 4.5" d A rare and exceptionally refined terracotta sculpture of *King ...