Rococo Objets d'Art and Vertu

This exquisite late 18th century grey agate and gild metal French rococo nécessaire is dated circa 1760. Tapering rectangular case of grey agate has domed top and base is beautifully...

An early 19th century Swiss enameled gold snuff-box by George Rémond & Co. This fabulous antique snuff-box, was created in Geneva Switzerland in the early 19th century, circa 1810. ...

A fine silver oval, easel back picture frame. By Buccellati. In sterling silver. With heavy gauge Rococo style rocaille decoration to the top and base. Marked Buccellati / Italy / Sterling to the side of the frame. Simply a great Buccellati frame...

Charming miniature silver Rococo style pedestal table made at the turn of the last century for a doll house. In the Romantic taste, the shaped circular tabletop of repoussé silver recalling paintings by the French 17th century artist Watteau features a standing lady in a landscape gazing upon a seated figure who is turned away, framed by a scrolling border. The pedestal stand of scrolling and foliate capped design. This table was probably made for a dollhouse. Collecting miniature...

A fine antique Dresden nut scoop or petit four server. Comprised of an ornate 800 silver scoop and mounted with a hand-painted Dresden porcelain handle. ...

A beautiful antique French 19th century gilt miniature scent bottle. The bottle is a squared urn shape graduating from the top down with an all...

Exquisite 18th Century two color gold mounted diamond and ruby encrusted figured agate snuff box, France, circa 1740. Complex, flaring shape in the form of a garden basket of flowers...

Curling scrollwork and acanthus leaves adorn this little box that closes with a firm snap as you click it shut against the small cabochon sapphire clasp. It's smoothly polished on t...

Shaped like a gorgeous feather with a flat-cut emerald as focus-point, this Emerald, Diamond Gold Brooch with Yellow Sapphire is so exquisite that it can be compared with one of the sculptural masterpieces of the Roman baroque style, the ‘Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.’ The sculpture was inspired by a vision of Saint Teresa, which she described in a very visual, even sexual way. An angel plunged a golden spear into her heart, leaving her breathless and consumed with a spiritual pain so intense that she did not want it to end. This brooch is the contemporary transformation of the sculpture found in the Cornaro Chapel, in Santa Maria della Vittoria, in Rome. The artist was Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Why do we say this? Bernini began by designing the chapel as the 'theatre' for his sculpture. Similarly, the Vintage-inspired Emerald, Diamond Gold Brooch also needs a setting, a background. That, of course, is you! The ‘Ecstasy’ is floodlit by beams of natural light from a hidden window. The natural light mingles with the shine from a cluster of vertical bronze shafts behind the sculpture, shaped to bear a resemblance to the rays of the sun. Imagine this precious gold brooch in your outstretched hand. Rays of rainbow aurora will bounce and shimmer, just like it does on the ‘Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.’ Features of the Vintage-inspired Emerald, Diamond Gold Brooch with Yellow Sapphire: It is all precious stones in this royal brooch...

Crafted in the resplendent Rococo taste is this 18th-century gilt metal étui. Topped by a charming cherub figure, this wonderful case was most likely used to hold sewing necessities,...

A truly elegant objet de vertu comprised of a large green turbo snail shell mounted in sterling silver, resting to three sterling silver legs. The shel...

From the Romanov era, period of Tsar Nicholas II, a shell-shaped serving dish with blue border and scroll designs and central Cyrillic cipher or emblem (worn), stamped with blue overglaze factory mark. By the Kuznetsov Factory, Moscow, circa 1900 9 1/4 x 5 ½ in. (24 x 44 cm.) Founded in 1810 by Iakov Vasilevich Kuznetsov in the Moscow Provinces, the factory flourished in the 19th century adding several branches in other regions. In 1902 the firm received the title "Purveyor to the Imperial Court" and by the end of the Romanov era, had become the largest of its kind in Russia, even absorbing the Gardner Factory, Russia's oldest private porcelain factory. Kuznetsov porcelain...