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Shield form with a crown over a coat of arms with different symbols, the frame carved and gilded in the baroque style. From the Michael Kittredge collection.

Antique Double Sailor's Valentine, circa 1880, a pair of handcrafted shell collages mounted in mahogany octagonal shadowboxes, hinged together and mounted with a clasp and a chain for hanging. This valentine features a heart and the message "Forget Me Not." The valentine is in great condition, but does of course have a few shells that have come loose over the past century and a half. The cases remain in great condition as well. Each Measures: 9-1/8 in H x 9-1/8 in W Victorians in the Age of Exploration and its accompanying Eclectic Movement embraced arts and crafts from around the world. Shell boxes are frequently seen, and even the odd shell diorama...

SATURDAY SALE Very comfortable lounging sofa made in Italy by Ambienti Bernini. It reminds me of the Mario Bellini "le Bambole" sofa but with tufte...

T.M. Nicholas is a contemporary American painter known for his impressionistic landscapes and coastal scenes, particularly of New England. Following in the tradition of American Impr...

A novel vintage piece from the 1980s, this jacket is crafted of supple black suede and features a yoke, mandarin collar, and two pairs of tails at the neck of dark brown mink. The se...

This exquisite set of eight antique wine goblets, crafted in France, exemplifies refined 19th-century glassmaking. Each goblet showcases an elegan...

Pair of Sculptural Table Lamps Les Héritiers (French, contemporary) Cast bronze with black patinated finish France, early 21st century This expressive pair of table lamps by the Fre...

Mahogany mink waist-length jacket with shawl collar and sleeves that can be turned back with cuffs or let down for full length. Velvet cords terminating in mink spheres tie under the...

The vintage magazine basket is made of hammered brass sheeting on the front and sides nailed to a wood base with a brass handle top centre. A band of festooning and bows runs across ...

1950's Italian bar cart/serving trolley by Cesare Lacca for Cassina, in mahogany stained maple, brass bottle holder, brass structural rods, brass hardware and caster wheels, with thr...

This vintage amusing enameled silver pendant adjustable-chain unsigned necklace, belt or novel interior decoration features heart-shaped two-inch...

Lovely set of six Swedish period Gustavian chairs with original scraped blue paint and newly upholstered vintage linen seats.

Black velvet opera coat featuring a ruched collar and wrists. Loose fit with curved front hem and balloon sleeves. Single rhinestone button closure. White satin lining.

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Major Date: 2024 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14" x 12" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso Edition: Unique

Robert Goosens, the French haute-couture Chanel-favorite parurier who enjoyed reinterpreting ancient and antique styles of jewelry with rock crystal and faux stones, also collaborated with Madame Alix Gres. Relevant to this statement necklace, the Parisian theatrical-costume designer, who founded the French fashion-house Maison Gres, commissioned Goosens to make spiral-wire adornments for her couture gowns. This handmade hammered brass wire choker necklace with five dropped en-tremblant pendants is decorated with unique colorful beads and wrapped wire. The piece dates between 1969-1971 based on similar unsigned spiraled-wire metal jewelry without goldsmithing marks in the museum collection of TheMet (see our photo), which acquired it from Maison Givenchy founder Hubert de Givenchy, who was one of most supportive fans of Gres. Like the legendary sculptural clothing designs of Madame Gres, this necklace was inspired by Greco-Roman costumes, while its sculpted shapes by Goosens reference her signature curvilinear fabric techniques that earned her the sobriquet of "the master of the wrapped and draped dress". Goosens (1927-2016), nicknamed Monsieur Bijou, also made jewelry inspired by other periods of antiquity to compliment the couture clothing of Coco Chanel, Cristobal Balenciaga, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent. After Goosens collaborated with Gres, he revisited golden spiral designs with Saint Laurent. Similar to the free-flowing fabric manipulated in Gres gowns, this hand-shaped necklace that we photographed in sunlight is a study in motion that drapes across a curvy cleavage. Adding drama to this necklace below its wire choker, the top teetering-wire pendant is a twisted and hammered horizontal double spiral, which is a Hellenistic symbol of life and transformation suggesting the breasts of a goddess of fertility and motherhood. Yet distinctly Goosens, 18 hand-cut and hand-dyed "ancient-Roman-blue" rock-crystal beads are wire-strung to weight a second tier of two separate vertical double-spiral pendants. On each, a wrapped-wire tube divides the blue beads. Between these vertical pendants in two tiers, the central vertical pendants each feature a one-of-a-kind multicolor bead (yellow/blue/red/black/white) in two lengths with abstract organic patterns recalling ancient Italian glasswork. Four more blue beads bracket these larger colorful beads. An additional 10 blue beads and 5 wire tubes decorate the bottom looped wire pendant, as well as the bottom of the wire choker. Like the hammered-wire jewelry designs of modern artist Alexander Calder, the creative complex construction of this necklace surprisingly required no metalsmith techniques, such as soldering or casting, just great skill with a jewelry pliers and hammer. For a bigger picture of couture clothing by Madame Gres during the decade beginning in 1969, she notably designed many museum-collected one-color silk-taffeta draped long gowns with empire waists and simple high collars or geometric cut-outs. Remarkably, the focal points for some of these unique dresses were at the wrists, from where long pouf sleeves voluminously droop around the hands to nearly the floor like two enormous long-petaled flowers. If paired with this equally downward-focused and balanced necklace from this same period, its bold Greco-Roman elements would have pulled a viewer's gaze of the dress from floor to face. Although there is no significant provenance for this necklace, hammered brass and tinted rock crystal were among the few materials repeatedly associated with Goosens from 1969-71. For example, in his overlapping interior-decor collections based on themes of waterlilies or foliage, Goosens hammered gilt brass wire and sheets (see our closeup photo) to represent plant parts or he wired rock-crystal beads to appear as tiny fruits. While the two multicolor glass or resin beads in this necklace are atypical, the combination of blue, yellow and red is a palette that the designer used for other pieces of rock-crystal jewelry and he created many kinds of multicolor faux stones with glass or resin paste, such as faux Tibetan turquoise including black and white. According to journalism based on interviews with Goosens, he often acquired unusual stones and glass for inspiration during his extensive travels exploring museum-collected antiquities. Since Maison Goosens was acquired in 2005 by Maison Chanel, it opened the Parisian showroom Galerie Goosens and associated shops to sell many kinds of reproductions and reimagined works by the founder, which fortunately does not suit the completely handmade elements of this necklace. So this couture piece remains one-of-a-kind. If desiring a vintage haute-couture original by Robert Goosens, we recommend perusing the Maison Goosens website so that a reproduction with a contemporary signature is not mistakenly purchased. Madame Gres (1903-1993) was born Germaine Emelie Krebs, but initially identified her fashion designs with the pseudonym Alix and later Alix Barton...

Isla brings form to Pamela’s love of working with texture and shape. A gleaming finish of polished ridges and sandblasted channels evokes both the nobility of ancient worlds and the ...

Long black opera gloves in French kid featuring a three-button opening on the wrist side.

Classic mahogany cabinet with tooled and gilt diamond pattern green leather door panels and distinctive polished brass door pulls. Features a single adjustable interior shelf. De...

Rare artwork by the tribe of Zulu in Africa, the native weapon to attack the enemy and animal, and protect oneself. It's a typical form to have a Cowhide Shield with Spear and Mallet...

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...

We have one brick red/cordovan leather sofa and matching armchair designed by the Italian architect, Alberto Rosselli in 1972 for Saporiti Italia. Two pieces total. Price shown is fo...

Fine American Kling Colonial maple dresser with matching mirror in very good condition. Beautiful traditional chest of drawers, perfectly sized for any ...

Rare find, Utagawa Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797 to 1858, woodblock prints on paper, peach and swallows in moonlight. The first is signed and i...

This Rare Early Prohibition Art Deco RadioBar, crafted in the early 1930s, was specifically built during Prohibition to discreetly store and hide alcoh...

A dazzling 1970s postmodern console in lavender lacquer with hand finished faux marbling.

Krizia black silk tunic printed with large white outline of a big cat, accented with green eyes and a red mouth. Straight, loose cut with dolman, short sleeves...

Hand-Painted on silk, Chinese households honor their ancestors in private family rituals, invoking their spirits for long life, health, and prosperity. Commemorative portraits, which...

French, 20th century. An antique compote with cut glass geometric panels to the bowl and faceted stem. The foot is mounted with a bronze stepped ring. Marked with numbers to the bro...

Philippe Charles Jacquet is not simply a painter of landscapes; he is a creator. Jacquet has mastered the ability to combine what is real and what is imagined. As a result, his comp...

During the Art-Deco period, Miriam Haskell and her first designer since 1926 Frank Hess created these blue-tone enameled scallop-edged Russian-gilt brass earrings with intricate wire...

I am offering you this exquisite set of thirteen Copeland Spode dinner plates which have a gold border and white enamel jeweling on a white porcelain body. They definitely look like simple elegance, and they would look beautiful with any dinnerware you already own. They were made exclusively for the luxury brand of T. Goode of London, who had many notable customers like Queen Victoria and the Tsar of...

A large round cabochon blue topaz gemstone ring with two faceted, pear-shaped tanzanite stones on the side. 18K gold over sterling (not a plated gold). Ring size is 7.25. The fine...

Italian School, 18th century. A masterful example of 18th-century Italian School artistry, this Old Master landscape painting captures the sublime beauty of an idealized European co...

This rosewood dining table is a wonderful example of Danish modernism, balancing clean lines and an organic richness. Resting on slender tapered legs, the vividly grained top conceal...

The Art Deco bon candy basket has a filigree band and is stamped "Sterling".  

"The Less Is More Il modular casegood system, designed by Milo Baughman for Thayer Coggin, Inc. 1981. Stack them on top of each other or place them end to end. There's no limit to th...

Aston Estate Jewelry Presents: An exquisite ring featuring a 2.25 carat marquise cut aquamarine of beautiful sky blue color. The center stone is elegantly set within a detailed open...

A late 1700s Georgian tall chest of six graduated drawers in oak with pierced batwing brasses and beaded drawers on high bracket feet.

This is a gorgeous set of KPM luncheon or dessert plates. Each KPM plate has a different central bright colored bouquet of flowers. Each flower bouquet is ma...

Canadian designer Bernhard Rohne created this handsome three-drawer dresser for Mastercraft. Covering the case are abstract designs in Rohne's signature surface treatment of acid-etc...

Set of six high back brass framed dining chairs by Mastercraft, circa 1960s. The arm chairs measure 24.75" wide x 23.25" deep x 39.5" high...

A mid Victorian era two piece British campaign chest in solid mahogany with brass flush mount handles and cabinet lifts.

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Peace Flight Date: 2024 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14" x 12" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso Edition...

Sheer black lace dress from the 1930s with a fitted bodice through the hips and bias-cut skirt with scalloped seam going from low to high, where...

The work of Santiago Garcia explores the wondrous, colorful and always intriguing world between figuration and abstraction. Through contextualization of reality, the Uruguayan artist...

With square top with drop leaves and sliding compartment exposing a well.The frieze with one false and one working drawer..Turned legs. Brass knobs.

Acquired in The States and likely inspired by the American 1938-commissioned animated-feature movie, Pinocchio, that was produced for two years by Walt Disney based on an Italian children's story, this unsigned pre-WWII yellow-gold-gilt brass necklace with elegant draping chains features a three-inch-long playful kinetic multi-textured faux-carved-wood puppet-on-strings pendant with pointed hat, filigree-capped collar and waist, and flexible geometric-shaped limbs. Structured with three chains, notice the additional texture on the slightly larger links of the upper necklace. Unlike the movie, as the marionette on our necklace wears a lace-like collar resembling the original character illustrated by Enrico Mazzanti in the book by Tuscany-born Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883), the necklace otherwise could date no earlier than the turn of the 19th Century when the spring-ring clasp was first in use. Since that time, Pinocchio became one of the most reimagined characters in literature based on multiple authors whose protagonist was a similar anthropomorphic puppet. To be conservative about its age as the necklace is in good condition, we suspect that Austrian-born Hattie Carnegie commissioned it to accessorize her "hat-to-hem" custom-made or ready-to-wear clothing that frequently featured amusing figural subjects with articulated parts, such as mythical creatures, fauna or clowns. Before her death at the age 69 in 1956, not all of the pieces in the costume-jewelry parures of her eponymous brand since 1919 were signed, while based on experience we assume that at least clip earrings accompanied this creative necklace...

Aston Estate Jewelry Presents: A vintage Breitling wristwatch crafted in stainless steel. The cushion-shaped watch features a sleek panda dial with dual subdials, enhancing its chr...

Pair of metal back and seat chairs with tubular frames. These Industrial chairs have taken on a truly special patina. The chairs would work well for both indoor and outdoor dining, a...

SATURDAY SALE Original signed James Mont Designs upholstered king size headboard with integrated nightstands and two-piece platf...

Aston Estate Jewelry Presents: A distinguished Movado wristwatch from 1920, crafted in Switzerland. This timepiece exemplifies Movado's commitment to precision and luxury. The watc...

Hans Wegner designed this handsome double sideboard as model 20 for Ry Møbler. Solidly constructed of oiled teak, the piece features an upper case wit...