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Vintage Navajo Modern BezelSetOnyx GoldFilledTop DoubleSilverBand Solitaire Ring
By Navajo
Located in Chicago, IL
This vintage Navajo modern minimalist solitaire two-finger ring, which was handmade by an unknown Native American, features a sterling-bezel-set black onyx cabochon on one end of a linear-textured yellow gold-filled asymmetrical flat narrow top, which will span nearly three fingers over a soldered silver double band. One band is US-size 8, the larger one is 8.5.
On the underside of the flat top, the zigzag mark of a lightning/bolt or snake/serpent may be an individual artist or that of a Native American trading post, which acquired such jewelry when members of the community pawned pieces when in need of goods or credit. Old Pawn jewelry...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Berkshires
Materials
Onyx, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver, 14k Gold
ArtDeco c1925 Bakelite TriColor RedBlueGreen Carved Ribbon Bow BrassPin Brooch
Located in Chicago, IL
Antique ArtDeco-period Bakelite rare three-color ribbon bow hand-blended-and-carved brooch. Given the colors, narrow style, texture and affixed brass pin...
Category
1920s Unknown Art Deco Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Brass
Contemporary Verso Signed Abstract Oil on Canvas
Located in Sheffield, MA
Oil painting is composed of vibrant orange tones mingled with neutral brown and grey tones. Verso is titled and signed illegibly. Canvas measures approximate 20 inches squared in height and width. Signed original artwork, abstract Modernist art...
Category
20th Century American Modern Berkshires
Materials
Canvas
Hollywood Regency Étagère
Located in Sheffield, MA
Custom designed Hollywood Regency style étagère. This brass shelving unit features four shelves with glass and a Napoleonic form pediment. Includes attached wall brackets. Dimensions...
Category
Mid-20th Century North American Hollywood Regency Berkshires
Materials
Brass
VivienneWestwood 1998 3Piece Runway Look for Jagger Shirt Skirt Suit Ensemble
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Chicago, IL
For the late British designer's Spring/Summer 1999 fashion show, this Vivienne Westwood runway-look three-piece ensemble of a black corset-sty...
Category
1990s English Berkshires
Louis XVI Style Fauteuil
Located in Sheffield, MA
Elegant French Louis XVI style armchair with bleached wood frame, fluted leg and cubic blocks decorated with florets, upholstered in Classic beige suited fabric. Appropriate for dini...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Berkshires
Materials
Wood
$2,400
Miriam Haskell Vintage Brooch
By Miriam Haskell
Located in Alford, MA
Miriam Haskell unique vintage brooch, c.1960s, incorporating an array of contrasting beads, in black, pale gray, and salmon, each topped by a small crys...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Berkshires
Couture 1920s Chanel Rousselet Hearts Camellia Metallic Glass Bracelet & Sautoir
By Chanel
Located in Chicago, IL
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's earliest fashion motifs of camellias, hearts, and topaz are combined in this Art-Deco period tightly silk-strung metallic-glass couture set of a mixed-bead ...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Gold-filled, Yellow Gold, Silver, Brass, Copper
CommeDesGarcons 1999 Unique HandCut OverDyed Appliques Pullover PlungeVneck Top
By Comme des Garçons
Located in Chicago, IL
Unlike anything else from the 1990s, Comme des Garcons founder Rei Kawakubo (b. 1942) designed in 1999 for her Spring/Summer 2000 collection this pink-overdyed pullover soft stretch-...
Category
1990s Japanese Berkshires
"ALL WAR IS IN BAD TASTE"
By Al Diaz
Located in North Adams, MA
"ALL WAR IS IN BAD TASTE," Al Diaz, 2022
Silkscreen on 320 gram Coventry Rag paper
Dimensions: 14" x 20"
Signed and numbered by the Artist in pencil
An edition of 50
Al Díaz’s career spans five decades. Born and raised Puerto Rican in New York City, by age 15 he was an influential first-generation subway graffiti artist known as “BOMB-ONE.” His friendship and artistic collaboration with high school schoolmate Jean-Michel Basquiat on SAMO, (a late 70s Avant-garde graffiti tag project) has been noted often in contemporary art history. Díaz later contributed percussion to numerous musical recordings and performances, including Basquiat’s historic 1983 record, “Beat Bop,” (considered to be one of the earliest hip-hop albums...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Berkshires
Materials
Other Medium
Couture Late1920s ChanelRousseletStyle Pearlescent Pendants SilverChain Necklace
Located in Chicago, IL
Featuring 12 large patinated pearlescent charms distinctly handcrafted by Parisian Louis Rousselet--the master glass-and-metal-ornament parurier for French couture fashion houses since 1920--this heavy silver chain necklace is made in the unique chunky style of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel that she introduced in the late 1920s.
Capping Rousselet's signature Art-Deco-period handmade beads, his intricate multi-texture metal tops for these balls resemble organic shapes like the stems of acorns or fruit. In a bib arrangement, the duotone reflective heavy spheres--in black glass, blue-gray enameled galalith, and silver metal--conform to the cleavage of the wearer.
Aside from chain jewelry commissioned by Chanel, Rousselet-style jewelry was usually constructed with thin wires or braided string to enable his beads to attract the most attention. Notably, this necklace fastens with an enlarged spring-ring clasp that became associated with increasingly heavy Chanel costume jewelry. Like 1920s Chanel jewelry by Rousselet, the necklace is both unmarked for French origin and unsigned.
In subsequent decades, variations of chunky-charm chain necklaces were reproduced by Chanel with her other paruriers using different materials in which they specialized, such as a similar Chanel-signed piece in the 1960s by bronze-maker Maison Denez...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Brass, Gilt Metal, Silver
Schreiner NY 1950s 22 ProngSet Crystals AB & PiecrustSetPaleYellow Clip Earrings
By Henry Schreiner
Located in Chicago, IL
In 1956 when Christian Dior's ultra-feminine New Look had dominated fashion for nearly a decade, Schreiner New York handcrafted these opulent unsigned earrings with 22 prong-set open-back crystals to accompany the eveningwear of an American high-end fashion designer. They may have been for client Pauline Trigere when her ready-to-wear collections with accessories including unmarked-Schreiner jewelry were sold by NYC's Bergdorf Goodman and worn by her clients including Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Elizabeth Taylor. Comparatively, Schreiner jewelry produced in the 1950s for direct sale to high-end department stores, such as Neiman Marcus, Henri Bendel and Saks Fifth Avenue, were the only pieces to include a brand signature.
Using the best quality European crystals that were custom-made for him, the founder Henry Schreiner was among the world's leading glass-jewelry designers before he died in 1954, whereafter his daughter and her husband continued with their handcrafted production. The family shared this distinction with Western Germany-based Max Muller and Paris-based Roger Jean Pierre, who were commissioned to create haute-couture pieces for the world's leading fashion houses. Notably in 1949, Henry Schreiner was commissioned by Dior to create several exclusive pieces.
We know these earrings were not created earlier than 1956 because of the use of iridescent coating on some of the crystals that produces a rainbow effect. Known as aurora-borealis (AB) stones, Swarovski initially produced them exclusively for a haute-couture collection that year by Dior. Shortly thereafter, the Schreiner team had access to such colorful stones, and most certainly used them as soon as possible to enable their American fashion-designer clients to compete with the new Dior iridescent-colors trend.
At the bottom tips of the marquise-shaped pale yellow stones...
Category
1950s American Modern Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Crystal, Yellow Gold, Gilt Metal
Vendome GiltLeavesBranch GoldFilagree Handwired BlackGlass Crystals ClipEarrings
By Vendome
Located in Chicago, IL
These post-WWII Vendome hand-wired clip earrings each feature a spray of yellow-gold gilt-metal leaves with a stylized branch and five prong-set clear crystals among a cluster of fac...
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Crystal, Gilt Metal, Yellow Gold
Leaded Glass Ice Holder
Located in Sheffield, MA
This gracefully shaped leaded glass ice bucket has two cutout handles for carrying the bucket to the dining table or bar. The bucket has a modern look whi...
Category
20th Century European Berkshires
Materials
Glass
$325 Sale Price
31% Off
Lenox Aesthetic Movement Dinner Service W/ "Prunus" Sterling Silver Gilt Overlay
By Lenox's Ceramic Art Company
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This amazing service for 12 was made by Ceramic Art Company/ Lenox ca. 1890 and features sterling silver with a gold wash overlay in an iconic "Japonesque"...
Category
1890s American Aesthetic Movement Antique Berkshires
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Rustic Chinese Terracotta Jar Lamps
Located in Sheffield, MA
Pair of similar white painted, grey green terracotta lamp bases made from rustic vintage Chinese clay jars used for wine storage. These are not a...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Rustic Berkshires
Materials
Terracotta
$4,800 / set
Agent Provocateur 1990s LingerieLike BlackLaceSet BikiniHalterTop & Short Shorts
By Agent Provocateur
Located in Chicago, IL
Vivienne Westwood's son Joe Corre opened the first lingerie boutique for his sexy London-based brand Agent Provocateur in Soho in the mid-1990s, when the sole owner of this black lac...
Category
1990s British Berkshires
Antique Ebonized Queen Anne Style Mirror
Located in Sheffield, MA
A small continental Queen Anne style mirror with ebonized frame, gold gilt shell decoration on the oval top and gold trim accent that surrounds...
Category
19th Century European Queen Anne Antique Berkshires
Materials
Mirror, Wood
At the Masquerade
By Dietz Edzard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Dietz Edzard
German, 1893-1963
At the Masquerade
Oil on canvas
25 ½ by 31 ¾ in, w/ frame 31 ¼ by 37 ½ in
Signed lower right
Dietz Edzard was born in Bremen in 1893 Germany. He trav...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Berkshires
Materials
Oil
TomFord YvesSaintLaurent RiveGauche Slim StraightLeg Black FineDenim Jeans
By Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, Tom Ford
Located in Chicago, IL
In the sexy sleek skin-tight style that Texan Tom Ford introduced as the former artistic director at Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche while the French esteemed eponymous designer was r...
Category
Early 2000s European Berkshires
Louis XVI Style Nightstands
Located in Sheffield, MA
Pair of glamorous Louis XVI style nightstand cabinets or end tables having one drawer for storage and lower storage cabinet with door. The cabinet body has squared corners and fluted legs. The gold toned accents adds extra style and elegance to these stands.
Bedside tables, side cabinets, neoclassical nightstands, Swedish style night stands...
Category
Early 20th Century Louis XVI Berkshires
Materials
Wood
$3,800 / set
The Glow
Located in Sheffield, MA
LOUIS GRANER Y ARRUFI
(Spanish, 1863-1929)
The Glow 1923
oil on canvas
Signed & dated 23 lower left
In a Fine Giltwood Carved Frame
33 by 25 ½ in. W/frame ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Berkshires
Materials
Oil
Cole Haan Red Leather Jacket
Located in Alford, MA
Cole Haan vintage red leather jacket with cropped styling and straight cut.
The jacket features banded mock collar, hem, front placket and...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Berkshires
Pair of Vintage Chinese Fu Dog Lamp
Located in Sheffield, MA
A wonderful pair of vintage Chinese Foo dog statues converted into small table lamps. These dog lamps were the property of Valley Castle in Cornwall Connecticut.
Fu dogs are actual...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Berkshires
Materials
Ceramic
$3,200 / set
Country Kitchen Counter or Center Island Worktable
Located in Sheffield, MA
A wonderfully handcrafted French Island Unit / Counter has a great white washed finish of a Swedish, Gustavian, country or farmhouse look. The island was possibly once used as a shop counter now can be used as a kitchen island worktable. The unit has been completely refurnished and cleaned for kitchen use. It now has a newly added teakwood top.
The kitchen counter...
Category
Early 20th Century European Country Berkshires
Materials
Wood, Teak
Louis XV Style Giltwood Wall Bracket
Located in Sheffield, MA
Ornate "S" scroll Italian Florentine giltwood hand carved wall bracket.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Louis XV Berkshires
Materials
Giltwood
Le Grand Hotel, Paris, 1954
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, B. 1900
Le Grand Hotel, Paris ,1954
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work i...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Berkshires
Materials
Oil
Suarez Red Lizard Covertible Clutch
By Suarez
Located in Alford, MA
Perfect clutch in cherry red lizard by Suarez, known for their exotic skin handbags, features an interesting metal and black bead chain that converts it int...
Category
Late 20th Century American Berkshires
1941 ChanelRelevant American Reinad ArtDecoStyle Silver PolkaDot LargeBow Brooch
By Reinad
Located in Chicago, IL
In Spring 1941 after French fashion couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel had stopped production of her clothing designs while she remained in Europe during the WWII era, the decades-old American costume-jewelry company Reinad began imprinting pieces in its new retail line, Chanel Novelty Co, with the script signature "Chanel". As this was prior to the use of the sans-serif capital-letter signature "CHANEL" on French-made jewelry that was commissioned by the Parisian designer, as well as before U.S.-copyright protection began in 1955, the House of Chanel that was mostly owned by the Jewish Wertheimer family of venture capitalists (who remarkably still produced Parfums CHANEL and French-vineyard wine via legal proxy while they lived in asylum in The States during the war) filed a U.S. lawsuit to demand that Reinad halt the use of its founder's famous last name.
As the Werthheimers' quickly won, Reinad only produced the single seasonal collection stamped with the French brand name, and subsequently only imprinted its company name as the sans-serif capital-letter signature "REINAD" without a copyright symbol, which was different that its prior signatures dating back to its founding in 1922. When Chanel herself resumed French-made fashion production in Paris in 1953 (with Werthheimer support leading to their acquisition of all rights to her name despite her post-war eight-year exile in Switzerland due to close association with Nazis), for the first time all of her creations were signed "CHANEL" like the original packaging of the exceedingly profitable "No.5" perfume.
While Reinad continued to produced costume jewelry until 1954, in the last decade of this business, the U.S. company continued to try to appeal to potential Chanel buyers by at least making Chanel-style designs. As such, owning an attractive and well-made Reinad piece can be considered a useful investment in fashion history as evidence of a little-known turning-point involving the most famous ongoing luxury-fashion business Chanel, as well as of the impact of that legal judgement had on advancing U.S. design protection for brands that later used the copyright symbol.
Like early ArtDeco-style oversized heavy metallic costume jewelry by Chanel, this three-dimensional monochrome silver-alloy polkadot bow brooch imitates a pale polkadot-textured ribbon. Notably, while high-quality ribbon for styling hair or decorating clothing in a non-functional way was still an expensive accessory...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Rhodium, Silver, Base Metal
Spatial Spiral: Crawl - Abstract spiral ceramic sculpture
By Michael Boroniec
Located in East Quogue, NY
Spatial Spiral Crawl ceramic sculpture by Michael Boroniec - ceramic, glaze
Michael Boroniec’s “Spatial Spiral” series is an adventure in three dimensions and expands the concept of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Berkshires
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Bouquet Mousse Stone Fruit and Flower Basket Vases
Located in Sheffield, MA
From a chateau in France, these are known as 'bouquets' fashioned after 17th century Baroque style. These "corbeilles" of potted flowers and fruits remain blooming and ripe through a...
Category
Early 20th Century French Baroque Berkshires
Materials
Cast Stone
Couture ThierryMugler 1990s CorsetStyle SilkLined Denim WideShoulder Power Dress
By Thierry Mugler Couture
Located in Chicago, IL
In the 1990s, French Thierry Mugler (1948-2022) designed this haute-couture labeled and numbered corset-style topstitched zigzag-panel ecru 100%-cotton-denim cocktail dress, which is...
Category
1990s French Berkshires
Louis XV Style Oval Dining Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
Late 19th century oval dining table has a scalloped apron with hand-carved drapery and urns on four sides and cabriole legs with spines ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Berkshires
Materials
Wood
Vendome Green/Blue Crystal Semi Parure
By Vendome
Located in Alford, MA
Vendome brooch and earrings set, the brooch of star shape consisting of large pear-shaped green crystals interspersed with sapphire blue round crystals ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Berkshires
Materials
Crystal
$425 / set
12 St. Louis "Apollo" Flutes with Gold
By St. Louis Crystal
Located in Great Barrington, MA
These are the classic, iconic champagne flutes made by St. Louis in a perfect set of 12. Hand blown crystal with optic rib cutting, zipper cut stem and star cut base. The subtle ribb...
Category
1950s French Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Crystal
$3,000 / set
Pair of Boiserie Cabinet Doors
Located in Sheffield, MA
Great pair of Louis XV provincial style doors perfect for a rectangular a base, a custom vanity or built-in cabinet. A great example of carpentry with ca...
Category
19th Century French French Provincial Antique Berkshires
Materials
Oak
Miriam Haskell 1930 Fringe Glass & BrassBar Pendants ChainLink Art Deco Necklace
By Frank Hess for Miriam Haskell
Located in Chicago, IL
Featuring a relatively heavy fringe of dangling Russian-gilt brass bars and contrasting French-blue textural hand-pressed glass beads topped with filigree caps to resemble flower bud...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Brass, Yellow Gold, Gilt Metal
1970s Floral Maxi Ensemble
Located in Alford, MA
A unique vintage find, this ensemble consists of a long black maxi skirt and sleeveless top, its floral design repeated in cut-out appliqués down the left side of the skirt. the A-li...
Category
1970s American Berkshires
Antique French Iron Park Bench
Located in Sheffield, MA
Exceptional cast iron bench with wonderful aged patina.
Keywords: benches, park bench, garden bench, patio furniture.
Category
19th Century French Antique Berkshires
Materials
Iron
$6,500 Sale Price
23% Off
Vintage Chinese Figure Lamp Yes We Have It, on Your Desk
Located in Sheffield, MA
The vintage lamp has as a base a carved wood Chinese draped figure standing on a two-tier metal embossed base. The lamp is electrified for a single US b...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Chinoiserie Berkshires
Materials
Metal
1930s Art Deco Velvet Clutch
Located in Alford, MA
Elegant 1930s black velvet clutch featuring an Art Deco clasp of rectangular form, complementing the softly rounded upper edge of the bag. The clasp is composed of marcasite in an op...
Category
1930s American Berkshires
Pair of Gothic Style Antique Cast Iron Sconces
Located in Sheffield, MA
The pair of antique sconces have cast iron filigree shields and light sockets. Wired for US electrical use and regular light bulbs. The sconces, with their rustic finish, would look ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Gothic Revival Berkshires
Materials
Iron
$1,200 / set
18thC EnamelDoublePainting SilverFiligree SpanishRococo AprilBirthday Pendant
Located in Chicago, IL
This early 18th-Century Spanish Rococo period silver-filigree double-sided pendant with dangle features miniature colorful enamel devotional paintings on both sides of a white porcelain centerpiece, which are associated with an April birth.
One side depicts a mountain landscape with a haloed richly-robed dark woman holding a lap-seated dark child and a holy orb...
Category
Early 18th Century Spanish Rococo Antique Berkshires
Materials
Silver, Enamel
Walborg Deco-Inspired Beaded Evening Bag
By Walborg
Located in Alford, MA
Walborg Art Deco inspired evening bag composed of black and gold beads, both reflective bugle beads and mat seed beads, arranged in a geometric pattern of squares and rectangles. Bot...
Category
1960s Japanese Berkshires
Victorian Folding Iron Campaign Lounge Chair
Located in Sheffield, MA
The Victorian adjustable folding iron lounge chair is capable of several upright positions or in a flat position. The outdoor chair can also act as an armchair without the folding le...
Category
19th Century Canadian Campaign Antique Berkshires
Materials
Iron
Couture 1990s France MartinGrant Paris Wool Hourglass DrapedWaist SlitSkirt Suit
By Martin Grant
Located in Chicago, IL
As French couture made by Martin Grant at his Paris atelier in the Marais in the mid-1990s, this pale grey plaid lightweight-wool slit-skirt suit has many hand-tailored elements that...
Category
1990s French Berkshires
Original Antique Dutch Industrial Etagere in Iron and Slate
Located in Sheffield, MA
Make a statement with this hard to find, original antique industrial shelving from the archives of government building in the Netherlands. ...
Category
Late 19th Century Dutch Industrial Antique Berkshires
Materials
Slate, Iron
Stylish Gilt Metal Floor Lamp
Located in Sheffield, MA
The elegant and slender gilt metal floor lamp has three splayed legs and center pole decorated with applied gilt metal leaves. The lamp is electrified for US use with two light fixtu...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency Berkshires
Materials
Iron
Round Baroque Style Metal Base and Glass Top Dining Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
Crafted in the USA, the elegant wrought iron circular base features a circular top supported by 4 cabriole legs tied together with stretchers coming together in the center. Table base is in excellent condition. The glass top shows much wear and is used for photo purposes only. Price is for the base, only, glass can be included or not included. This base can make a wonderful entry foyer, center hall table.
Garden table, garden dining table, patio or porch dining table for indoor or outdoor use. center table.
Base: 34" diameter x 29.75" height.
Metal dining table, round metal dining table,
Category
20th Century North American Post-Modern Berkshires
Materials
Wrought Iron
$3,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Antique Carved Stone Capitals and Bases
Located in Sheffield, MA
The pair of antique stone capitals come with separate semi-circular bases. These are to be attache to a wall like pilasters. Can be used for planter bases, small side table or as gar...
Category
19th Century American Classical Roman Antique Berkshires
Materials
Stone
$1,500 / set
Geoffrey Beene Olive/Black Gown with Stole
By Geoffrey Beene
Located in Alford, MA
Quintessential Geoffrey Beene in cut and detail, this stunning and sophisticated gown is composed of olive green satin with black wool crepe panels strategically integrated into the ...
Category
1990s American Berkshires
Antique ArtNouveau European FauxLampwork Glass Flora CherryBlossom Long Necklace
Located in Chicago, IL
With a silver clasp that could be as old as the Victorian period and in an Art-Nouveau style with pale intricate flora motifs, this antique long glass necklace features lampwork-like...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Nouveau Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Silver
Antique Gold Gilt Iron Leaf Candle Sconces, Pair
Located in Sheffield, MA
The pair of antique baroque style handcrafted iron sconces are decorated with various forms of leaves and are secured by brackets, each with a hole at the top for attaching a screw o...
Category
19th Century European Baroque Antique Berkshires
Materials
Iron
$1,200 / set
MiriamHaskell 1930s Torsade Set GiltFiligreeCapped FauxPearls Earrings & Choker
By Frank Hess for Miriam Haskell
Located in Chicago, IL
During the Art Deco period, Miriam Haskell's first designer Frank Hess designed this blue-and-white glass-beaded hand-sewn torsade set of dangle earrings and a choker necklace, whose knotted string is capped with their characteristic Russian-gilt brass flora filigree. Coinciding with the American Great Depression, to offer some less expensive costume jewelry than her initial ready-to-wear styles featuring Parisian hand-crafted materials found in French couture, Haskell reduced the cost of some of her findings by locally sourcing stamped metal and incorporating hand-pressed glass beads from Germany and Czechoslovakia.
With a loop, the line from hand pressing the glass can only be found on the blue beads, while the white ones are coated in an organic material like authentic French faux pearls. The ends of the textured cords that string the beaded set were frayed to form a fuzzy opaque dome that hides the knots attached to the filigree caps.
No Haskell jewelry was signed before 1947. The unsigned necklace...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Berkshires
Materials
Brass, Gilt Metal, Yellow Gold
Modernist BertoiaStyle Kinetic Silver 8Bead SpiralWire 3Band Asymmetric MensRing
Located in Chicago, IL
Recalling some early-mid-century modernist one-of-a-kind unsigned silver jewelry featuring delicate kinetic parts, tiny forged balls, and thin-wire work by American metal-worker Harry Bertoia, this aged silver unsigned spiraled wire open ring with essentially 3 bands is structured with 3 silver beads forged on both ends and in the center that are notably misaligned. The additional 5 among the 8 balls are kinetic for sliding, but only from one end to the fixed central ball. The subtle asymmetrical design encourages the wearer to think about the single ball--that is identical to the others--that will always remain isolated, unlike mindlessly toying with a traditional "fidget" ring or bracelet.
For insight, view the early silver rings and wire brooches by the artist found in the online catalogue raisonne assembled by the Harry Bertoia Foundation, which may authenticate his unsigned jewelry for a fee that was prohibitive to us while we offer it for sale. Do not overlook his circa-1940 mens-size aluminum 3-sectioned open ring topped with 3 rows of 5 adjacent small matching geometric shapes, nor his circa-1943 spiraled-wire hatpin with 3 white beads, which share significant aesthetics with our inch-diameter ring including the numeric 1-3-5-8 elements. Unlike the ring that we found, those unsigned Bertoia pieces have documented provenance.
Comparatively, another 1stDibs dealer is currently offering an unauthenticated early-Bertoia-style silver wire pendant...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modernist Berkshires
Materials
Silver
$2,340 Sale Price
35% Off
French Louis XV Provincial Style Bergere Lounge chair and Ottoman
Located in Sheffield, MA
Classic over-sized French Louis XV provincial style bergère with matching curved ottoman. The chair features an slightly arched back, straight turned arms and a cushioned seat with a...
Category
20th Century Louis XV Berkshires
Materials
Wood
$2,150 Sale Price / set
25% Off
Chinese Carved Stone Garden Guardian Lion
Located in Sheffield, MA
The features of this stone Foo lion has been softened by being exposed to the elements for many centuries. Still a very handsome sculptural specimen made from carved stone, it is kno...
Category
18th Century Chinese Archaistic Antique Berkshires
Materials
Stone
16thCentury Renaissance Silver Repousse Lovers Pendant Or Engagement Hat Badge
Located in Chicago, IL
This early 16th-Century Renaissance silver-repousse round medallion "lovers" pendant depicts a romantic encounter in a rural landscape between a man and smiling woman wearing Europea...
Category
16th Century French Renaissance Antique Berkshires
Materials
Silver, Gilt Metal
Rainy Evening in Paris
By Antoine Blanchard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antoine Blanchard
French, 1910-1988
Rainy Evening in Paris
Oil on canvas
13 by 18 in, w/ frame 23 ⅞ by 27 ⅞ in
Signed lower right
Antoine Blanchard is the pseudonym under which the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Berkshires
Materials
Oil
Couture 1950s WestGermany DiorDesigner Crystal DoubleTrimmed EmeraldCut Earrings
By Christian Dior Haute Couture
Located in Chicago, IL
While making similar Christian Dior haute-couture costume-jewelry since 1955, parurier Max Muller based near Kaufbeuren, Western Germany, created these exceptionally-clear crystal si...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Modern Berkshires
Materials
Crystal, Silver, Gilt Metal
