Rare Pair of English Giltwood Brackets

A pair of elegant wall sconces in gilt bronze having elaborate foliate, ribbon and leaf form with coiled vine-like sconce arms topped budding candle holders festooned with decoration...

A pair of early brass and iron andirons having elongated fluted brass onion tops surmounted by four etched "face" finials at the compass points over short shafts with scrolled and ar...

Very fine pair of gilt and patinated bronze two light sconces depicting Mars holding two branches, in the manner of Jacques Caffieri. Jacques Caffieri was one of France's most important bronze casters during the reign of Louis XV. A nephew of Charles Le Brun, the chief designer and painter to Louis XIV, Caffieri had great talent of his own, so it isn't surprising he became sculpteur et ciseleur ordinaire des bâtiments du roi (Sculptor, Bronze Caster and Chaser for the King's Palaces). In 1740, Caffieri's wife bought a royal privilege--a form of permit from the king--which allowed them to gild bronze as well as cast it within the same workshop; these two processes would usually have been done by separate businesses. After his son Philippe Caffieri...

A pair of polished andirons with double striated brass pomegranates surmounted by finials, above turned brass shafts, on stamped and scrolled heavy blackened wrought iron bases with ...

A Pair of 19th Century Carved Giltwood Rococo Wall Brackets. Both are decorated with an asymmetric pierced foliate design featuring richly carved rococo C scrolls interspersed with f...

This most impressive and highly decorative pair of 18th century style wall brackets is carved from solid wood in an elaborated scrolled design with foliate and shell embellishments. ...

Decorate a wall with this elegant pair of antique walnut corbels. Crafted in Southern France, circa 1860, each fruitwood wall bracket features a motif reminiscent of classical or Roc...

Shaped plateau and stiff leaf frieze on a C- scroll and flowerhead shaped support