Heavy Brass Ship Light, Rare & Beautiful Object of History with Super Providence

Our vintage and classic Rolex Submariner Date reference 1680 features a stainless steel 40mm case and stainless steel Oyster bracelet with flip lock clasp. The matte black dial and b...

Our vintage and very attractive, manual wind, round 9k yellow gold cased Tudor, with sub seconds dial and ivory coloured arabic numeral dial, is presented in excellent condition give...

Our vintage Yema motorsports chronograph with date, a Meangraf Super (reference 721122) features a 39mm stainless steel case, manually wound Valjoux 17 jewel movement and rotating ki...

Our Breitling Super Avenger Chronograph Night Mission reference V13375 features a prominent 48mm case black steel with black/ yellow leather / rubber strap with tang buckle. Presente...

A unique piece within our carefully curated Vintage & Prestige fine jewellery collection, we are delighted to present the following: This heavy 9ct stone ring consists of Citrine an...

A unique piece within our carefully curated Vintage & Prestige fine jewellery collection, we are delighted to present the following: This pretty 18c...

A window display Pomellato King Original and authentical a 13mm Brass King from Pomellato merchandising and window display actually 4 in stock In original Packaging Established 43 years ago in the Italian city of Milan, Pomellato has been forging its own meticulous path in jewelry making for many years. Having started life as a chain maker, the distinctive chain design still appears in every collection, albeit in ever more luxurious and bejeweled forms. From the iconic Nudo collection and its almost infinite combination of stackable rings to the colorful Capri collection, Pomellato jewelry...

Gold & Coral Resting Lady Object By Romolo Grassi The Lady is 18k Yellow Gold on one very fine solid coral. Accented with diamonds and mounted on quartz Gold Gram Weight: 766.7 grams...

OCTAGONAL RELIQUARY PENDANT Probably Italy, c. 1600 Fire-gilded brass, glass, velvet, ink on paper Weight 63.2 grams; dimensions 82 × 47 × 21 mm (with loop) Physical description: Double-sided pendant in octagonal form made of fire-gilded brass. Both sides of the pendant with deep profiled frames with glass. The slightly indented side panels comprise openwork friezes with symmetrical scrollwork. On the front is dark red velvet, onto which tiny bone relics of saints (now missing) would have been attached. Labels on a lace-like paper silhouette remain, with names written in ink, mostly faded; only “S. Agnes” is legible. The back is hinged and when opened reveals a velvet-lined interior and paper insert with floral decorations on a turquoise ground, on which fragments of bones are attached. Baluster shaped base for shield-like pendant loop and ring. This reliquary pendant is difficult to situate historically because it is a composite object. It represents traditional handwork in the form of a paper cutout, combined with a jeweler’s beautiful fire-gilt brass case. The work of paper cutting, painting, and ornamentation, sometime combined with needlework, is comparable to work still being done in the nineteenth century by nuns and pious ladies. It is prayerful work, a devotional exercise in itself, and shows reverence to the tiny relic fragments that it would have framed and honored. Early versions of this sort of handiwork might be found in the meticulous displays sometimes called “Paradise Gardens.” These were made, beginning in the sixteenth century, by the nuns at Mechelen, in northern Belgium, in multimedia handwork displays of sewing and gluing, combining relics with paper, cloth, glass, metal wire, and found materials. These textured and pious displays were then combined with paintings and cases by professional artists and artisans, as in the example in Cassel. Unfortunately, because of water damage, only one of the labels of the original relic displayed in this reliquary is legible, inscribed “S. Agnes” at the center top; the other names are faded. Presumably the deep velvet-lined box would have also held an assortment of relics other than the ones that were visible through the glass, and perhaps there would have been another display in the glass on the other side of the pendant. There is a second paper insert, this one decorated with a turquoise ground and silhouette flowers to which bone fragments seem to be still attached. The octagonal case, in contrast to the paper cutout, is not at all “home-made.” It has an openwork frieze in scrollwork patterns familiar from enamel work and other metalwork done for European courts and nobility. It is not unlike cases for expensive watches...

SUPER SEVEN CUFFLINKS ON CACTUS QUARTZ Studio Greytak’s Super Seven Cufflinks on Cactus Quartz show off some of nature’s most powerful pairings. On one si...

A necessity during the Victorian Era, hat pins not only balanced precarious hats atop piles of hair but also moonlighted as weapons against overzealous gentlemen. Though teetering ha...

A necessity during the Victorian Era, hat pins not only balanced precarious hats atop piles of hair but also moonlighted as weapons against overzealous gentlemen. Though teetering ha...