Houston Mounted Objects

Painted French tole mushroom decoration for planters or gardens. Circa 1950s. Probably originally created as a prop for a Parisian department store window or a theater. Twenty-six in...

Large Vintage glazed gilt ceramic hand sculpture. This stunning 20th century glazed gilt ceramic sculpture of a large hand. Great coffee tabl...

Mounted on an iron stand this painted iron wheel makes quite the statement. This wheel was painted in a Kelly green which has since worn with age and that o...

Mounted on an iron stand this painted iron wheel makes quite the statement. This wheel was painted in a Kelly green which has since worn with age and that o...

Vintage ship model of the United States of 1797. The USS United States was a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Thi...

Vintage rustic wood wheel from a wooden cart mounted on an iron stand. This large hand carved wooden wheel shows natural age splits and texture and will serve as a wonderful piece of...

Vintage rustic wood wheel from a wooden cart mounted on an iron stand. This large hand carved wooden wheel shows natural age splits and texture and will serve as a wonderful piece of...

A handsome display of earth’s most breathtaking examples of natural history that have formed over the past 450 million years. Three natural mineral specimens...

English hat mold on custom wood Stand. Antique hat molds are highly sought after and this one in the shape of a men's hat is truly a collectors dream....

A Tiffany & Co. copper plaque made for the Houston Negro Hospital in 1926 dedicated to the memory of lieutenant John Halm Cullinan. The Houston Negro Hospital was created in 1926 when the earlier black Union-Jeremiah Hospital was no longer capable of accommodating the rapidly growing black population of Houston, Texas. African American community leaders began a campaign to garner support from local physicians when oilman Joseph Cullinan, who had earlier supported the existing hospital, donated $80,000 to construct a new facility. The city of Houston donated three acres of land in the Third Ward for the new fifty-bed hospital. Construction began in 1925. The dedication of the hospital was held on June 19, 1926, a major holiday in Texas known as "Juneteenth," which commemorates the day Emancipation occurred in the state. At the dedication a bronze tablet from the Tiffany Company was unveiled stating that the building was erected "in memory of Lieutenant John Halm Cullinan," Joseph Cullinan's son who had died during World War I. The tablet also declared that the hospital was "dedicated to the American Negro to promote self-help, to insure good citizenship, and for the relief of suffering, sickness, and disease among them." The hospital officially opened in July 1927 and became the first non-profit hospital for black patients in Houston. The hospital also provided work for black physicians...

Vintage moth collection from France, circa 1940. Mounted specimens on pins over hand-written paper labels. Glass topped wooden shadow box with yellow a...

Large and incredibly beautiful pair of carved marble urns carved in an oval shape with handles on the sides. Scrolling foliage vines with grapes adorn both the base and the urns. ...