Baroque Objets d'Art and Vertu

Period: XVIII century. Provenance: French, signed Haye. Dimensions: 8 cm x 5,9 cm Signed HAYE A PARIS, octagonal brass dial engraved, inset compass, mounted with hinged gnomon with ...

Period: XVIII century. Provenance: Germany, signed Johan Schrettegger Augsburg. Dimensions: 5 cm x 5 cm / étui 5,7 cm x 6 cm. Horizontal sundial finely carved gilded brass, signed...

A beautiful, rare solid silver Anglo-French octagonal pocket sundial with compass by Michael Butterfield, circa 1700. The sundial is made for a latitude of 44° and could be used in ...

French baroque egg-shaped box. An exceptional beautiful box, created in Paris France during the late 18th century, circa 1780. The box is most probably a snuff box, designed in the ...

A beautiful late 19th century French Napoleon III style antique mirror dating around 1880. Made from solid wood with a beaten brass surface decorated with various geometric and flora...

A beautiful and elaborate enamelled glass and paste chatelaine, all set in silver. (A chatelaine was a set of chains, or one fixture made to be worn by the house keeper, to carry key...

French snuff box in agate and gold. Fabulous round box, created in Paris France during the reigning period of king Louis XV back in the 1760. This beautiful box has been designed wi...

Chinese conchinoiseries box in black lacquered wood and silk interior Exquisite and beautiful Chinese box in lacquered wood with gold chinoiseries representing different Chinese custom scenes. Inside the box is lined with hand-painted silk With a representation of a bird and camellias in very good condition for its age and use. The Camellia represents longevity in oriental culture. and happiness. These types of boxes were used to transport ivory fans...

French snuff box in agate and gold. Exceptional and very rare oval snuff box, created in Paris France during the second monarchic restoration period, between the 1818 and 1838. This beautiful box was designed in the baroque and Louis XV style, depicting the mythological scene of Venus and cupid holding an arrow. It was carefully crafted with two pieces carved from translucent gray-brownish agate and decorated with sculpted chiseled and repousse parts in yellow gold of 18 karats. Fitted with a hinged lid and embellished with one rose cut diamond. The scene represents the Greek-Roman mythological scene of Venus seated in her seashell chariot pulling back Cupid to take away his arrow. In ancient Greece Cupid was known as Eros, the young son of Aphrodite the goddess of love, beauty and fertility. For the Romans, Cupid is the god of love, son of Venus and Mars, god of war. Cupid was an assistant to his mother Venus, he directed the primordial force of love and brought it to mortals Weight: Total 100.45 Grams, (64.39 Dwt). Measurements: 65 mm by 53 mm by 33 mm (2.56 x 2.09 x 1.31 Inches). Hallmarks: Stamped two times with ancient French marks; the Zeus head...

Jesus is shown as if speaking his last words to God the Father. The refined execution of Corpus Christi recalls an Italian late baroque production where the dramatic expression of th...

A really beautiful Swedish sterling silver lockable box or sugar chest from the early 20th Century. The handcrafted box was made in Stockholm in 1916 by 'A...

A very unusual antique two part gold and silver crucifix. Composed of two sections, the front is 14K yellow gold, the back is silver, held together by wooden dowels in the back apparently original to the piece. Purchased as part of a collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century Greek and Russian religious pieces...