Italian Cream Architectural Polished Travertine Marble Four Sided Obelisk
Located in Chicago, IL
Italian cream pale polished travertine four sided marble obelisk composed of pieces of marble laminated together to compose the obelisk. Hollow on the interior and felted bottom. N...
Marble
Chinese Speckled Green Brush Rest, c. 1800
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush rest was an essential fixture of the Chinese scholars' desk. This early 19th...
Porcelain
Chinese Robin's Egg Peach Water Dropper, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This porcelain peach is a traditional Chinese water dropper, a calligraphy accessory that would have been found upon a scholar's painting table a...
Porcelain
Chinese Yellow Glazed Brush Rest, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush rest was an essential fixture of the Chinese scholars' desk. This 19th-centu...
Porcelain
Chinese Green Glazed Brush Rest, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Set alongside the four treasures of the study - the calligraphy brush, ink, paper, and inkstone - a brush rest was an essential fixture of the Chinese scholars' desk. This 19th-centu...
Porcelain
Carl Aubock Set of Smoking Accessories
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Chicago, IL
Brass and Wicker Wrapped pipe stand (Or Paperweight) with two brass spoon rests.
Brass
Reclining Ho Ho Boy Charm Weight, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This 19th century weight originally used its heft domestically to protect a child. A simple yet ingenious concept, the stone anchored the baby’s swaddling cloth to the bed so the chi...
Ceramic
New Brush Stand Solid Wenge Wood Small Holds 12
Located in Somis, CA
Our calligraphy brush stands are made of solid wenge wood, a prized, sustainable, exotic wood with beautiful grains. Top of the stands are deco...
Wood, Wenge
Italian Travertine Marble Obelisk
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful Italian travertine marble Obelisk, in the Modern style, circa 1970s, Italy. A great decorative object for a shelf, credenza, office, library, cocktail table, etc. Very go...
Travertine, Marble
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #3846 Brass Bookends
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck model #3846 brass bookends. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in polished brass. The Auböck #3846 booke...
Brass
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #1928 'Hands' Brass Bookends
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #1928 'Hands' Brass Bookends Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in patinated and polished brass. ...
Brass
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #3652 Brass Bookends
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck model #3652 brass bookends. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in patinated and polished brass. Each pie...
Brass
Antique Chinese Green-on-Green Overlay Glass Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Green-on-Green Overlay Glass Snuff Bottle, Qing Dynasty. A clear bubbly glass bottle of flattened teardrop form with a cylindrical neck, and a neatly carved oval foot rim. The tr...
Glass
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #3847 Brass Bookends
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #3847 Brass Bookends Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in polished and patinated brass. Each piec...
Brass
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #3848 Brass Bookends
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck model #3848 brass bookends. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in polished brass. Each piece bears the ...
Brass
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #4635 Brass Bookends
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #4635 Brass Bookends Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in patinated and polished brass. Each piec...
Brass
Carl Auböck #4330/1 Polished Brass Hook
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carl Auböck #4330/1 Polished Brass Hook Designed in the 1950s, this versatile and Minimalist Viennese hook is executed in polished brass by Werkstätte Carl Auböck, Austria. Produc...
Brass
Carl Auböck #4995 Patinated Brass Hook
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carl Auböck #4995 Patinated Brass Hook Designed in the 1950s, this versatile and Minimalist Viennese hook is executed in polished and patinated brass by We...
Brass
Brush by Carl Aubock
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Sagaponack, NY
An elegant brush hand carved from cow horn with naturally occurring variations in color and pattern.
Horn
Malachite Rock on Display Stand Chinese Scholar Stone
Located in Atlanta, GA
A malachite rock specimen with intense green and black colors fitted on a wood stand and displayed as a Chinese scholar stone. The gemstone in t...
Stone
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #3654 Brass Bookends
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #3654 Brass Bookends Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in patinated and polished brass. Each piec...
Brass
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #3651 Brass Bookends
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck model #3651 brass bookends. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in patinated and polished brass. Each pi...
Brass
Blue & White Ming Scale Weight Drum, c. 1600
Located in Chicago, IL
This small porcelain object is a scale weight from the late Ming-dynasty (1368-1644), a dense counterweight for a tabletop balances used by merchants to ...
Porcelain
Blue & White Ming Scale Weight Drum, c. 1600
Located in Chicago, IL
This small porcelain object is a scale weight from the late Ming-dynasty (1368-1644), a dense counterweight for a tabletop balances used by merchants to ...
Earthenware
Nailsea blown glass paperweight, c. 1800's
Located in Chicago, IL
Green glass Nailsea paper weight. Founded 1788, the Nailsea Glassworks in Somerset, England found itself one of the largest English glass works by the 1830's. The glassworks closed i...
Blown Glass
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H 5.5 in W 1.5 in D 0.5 in
Monique Gerber French Sculptural Cast Bronze Letter Opener Art Du Bronze
By Monique Gerber
Located in Chicago, IL
Monique Gerber French bronze cast letter opener in a very sculptural and minimalist form. Designed Monique Gerber. Can be used as a sculptural object or paper weight as well. Remin...
Bronze
Art Nouveau Glass Paperweight with Floral Silver Overlay, c. 1910s
Located in Chicago, IL
This elegant paperweight from the early 20th century is expertly crafted of cut glass and floral silver overlay in the manner of Art Nouveau. The translucent glass cube is shaped wit...
Silver
Early 20th Century English Brass Horseshoe Clip
Located in Chicago, IL
This early 20th-century English desk clip is a charming and practical piece of history. Featuring a brass horseshoe mounted on a chip-carved wood base, it was originally designed to ...
Brass
Chinese Rock Crystal Seal, C. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This small rock crystal carving is a personalized seal once used by a Qing-dynasty scholar-official to sign important documents. Also known as a chop, such stamps were widely used by anyone who regularly signed formal documents, such as scholar-officials, merchants, and doctors. The final addition to any document or calligraphy painting, seal marks conveyed the scholar's authority and affirmed the document's authenticity. Seals were one of the many treasured accessories of the scholars' studio and many were carved from fine materials such as jade or jasper. This crystal seal...
Rock Crystal
Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Seal
Located in Chicago, IL
This small porcelain column recreates the personalized seals used to sign important documents throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties. Also known as a chop, such stamps were widely us...
Porcelain
Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Seal
Located in Chicago, IL
This small porcelain block recreates the personalized seals used to sign important documents throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties. Also known as a chop, such stamps were widely use...
Porcelain
Chinese Blue and White Water Coupe, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Alongside the Four Treasures of a Chinese scholar - paper, brush, ink, and inkstone - this delicate porcelain water coupe likely once resided on the desk of a great calligrapher. Created in the mid-19th century, this petite coupe would have sat beside an inkstone, and held the water used to mix the scholars' ink. An excellent example of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain, the dish is expressively painted with plum blossoms and eternal knot...
Porcelain
Vintage Brass Horseshoe Paperweight
Located in Chicago, IL
A playful vintage brass horseshoe paperweight meant to bestow good luck, prosperity, and good fortune--or just hold the papers in place on your desk.
Brass
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H 5.5 in W 1.5 in D 0.5 in
Monique Gerber French Sculptural Cast Bronze Letter Opener Art Du Bronze
By Monique Gerber
Located in Chicago, IL
Monique Gerber French bronze cast letter opener in a very sculptural and minimalist form. Designed Monique Gerber. Can be used as a sculptural object or paper weight as well. Re...
Bronze
Cast Brass Swordfish Letter Opener
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming mid-20th century cast brass swordfish letter opener. Doubles as a paperweight too!
Brass
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H 5.5 in W 1.5 in D 0.5 in
Monique Gerber French Sculptural Cast Bronze Letter Opener Art du Bronze
By Monique Gerber
Located in Chicago, IL
Monique Gerber French bronze cast letter opener in a very sculptural and minimalist form. Designed Monique Gerber. Can be used as a sculptural object or paper weight as well. Re...
Bronze
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H 5.5 in W 1.5 in D 0.5 in
Monique Gerber French Sculptural Cast Bronze Letter Opener Art du Bronze and Box
By Monique Gerber
Located in Chicago, IL
Monique Gerber French bronze cast letter opener in a very sculptural and minimalist form. Designed Monique Gerber. Can be used as a sculptural object or paper weight as well. Remini...
Bronze