Munich - Objets d'Art and Vertu

This charming Art Deco baby rattle was created in the 1920's. It is designed as a rabbit sitting quietly with its ears down. The rabbit has two little balls inside his hollow body. I...

This stunning hair comb was hand crafted in France in 1810 ca. The tiara is made out of fire gilt brass. The top of the comb is made put of polished fire gilt metal. Underneath the p...

This rare satin art glass medallion executed in relief depicts a fairy or a nympf designed as a young woman with dragonfly wings. It is signed Stalin at the bottom right for Gabriel ...

This unusual miniature silver scent bottle was created towards the end of the 19th century. On both sides of the bottle we see a large sun with a face, the sun rays spreading over th...

This elegant little lighter will fit into any pocket or small handbag. It was created out of silver in 1920 ca. It has a beautiful engine turned decoration on the outside. It has a s...

A round Carnelian cameo depicts a laureate after an antique model. The three colour cameo shows a profile bust of a bearded man. This cameo has a diameter of 2 cm. The small oval two...

This elegant handbag is made from exquisite petit point stitching. The motif is a luscious flower baskuet on both sides of the bag. the inside of the bag is lined with cream coloure...

This empire tiara was made out fire gilt metal in 1810 ca. It is decorated with thirty five facetted corallium rubrum beads riveted onto the headv ornament. The tiara features a pier...

This rare and delicate bag was handcrafted in the early 19th century. The silk is covered with a net that is used for embroidering. The handbag is decorated on one side with hand emb...

This beautifully designed sturdy silver Belle Époque hairpin has a very good hold and is capable to keep swept up hair in place by itself. The delicate wavy ornament with a double ro...

This striking hair comb was made at the beginning of the 1920's. The comb is cut out of two layered celluloid, one layer is bottle green, one layer a kind of light stone grey. The ha...

This fine hair comb has been handcrafted in the 1830's. It is made out of silver and in the centre decorated with a beautifully sculpted large cental flower...

This outstanding Art Nouveau buckle in the shape of a peacock feather has been designed and executed by Piel Frères, Paris around 1900. An identical buckle is published in Vivienne Becker's book 'Fabulous Fakes', page 91, Grafton Books 1988. The same buckle, executed in silver, is published in 'Pariser Schmuck', catalogue of the exhibition of the same name page 275. That catalogue describes the buckle as ' a peacockfeather with short quill, the eye of the feather is represented by a kidney shaped blue glas cabochon on green green shimmering metal foil'. Piel Frères were an important firm of jewellers based in Paris, they are mentioned in the 3 volume enzyclopedic publication 'La Bijouterie Française ' written by Henry Vever.

This unique and extremely rare antique purse is made out of fire gilt metal. The pouch is decorated with six oval and one round painting on glass imitating Roman micro...

This finely modelled and extremely rare French Art Nouveau ring features two entwined irises and two flower buds surrounding a fine white orien...

This charming little scarf clip has been created in the Japanese taste popular in 1875 ca. The front of the scarf clip is decorated with animals and flowers in relief. Three differen...

This unusual hair comb is made out of gilt metal and features a buckle motif. It is decorated with a ball and a cone suspended from fine snake link chains.

This exquisite hair comb was created in the second quarter of the 19th century. The ornamental part of the comb is designed as a series of entwined circles amidst scrollwork to the l...

This unmounted cameo was hand carved out of shell in the last quarter of the 19th century. The face and the hairstyle are carved in Roman Revival manne...

This wonderful Victorian belt buckle was made in the last third of the 19th century, most probably around 1875-1885. The buckle has been cast fro...

This lovely hairpin was created in the last decade of the 19th century in Bohemia which, at the time of the creation of this hair ornament belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Bo...

This extravagant tiara in the Arts and Crafts taste was created out of silver plated copper in the last decade of the nineteenth century out of silver plated copper. The metal shows ...

This delightful vinaigrette was hand crafted out of sterling silver in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. It is hallmarked in inside the lid and on the base with a bust of ...

This unusual silver French desk top seal with a chunky violet fluorite handle has been handcrafted in 1895 ca. The fluorite fluorspar is set in a silver mount and decorated with iris...

This exquisite vestacase was created in Europe in the 1880s. The compact rectangular case is worked in silver, elaborately decorated with niello work, depicting acanthus-like leaves ...

This set of six unusual buttons was created in the 1880s in England. The buttons are carved out of different coloured marble. Each button is decorated with a coiled snake. The snake’...

This elegant plain round silver pillbox is stamped 800. It is accompanied by an Italian stamp in use since the mid 1930's. The box has been in use and has some very light superficia...

This delightful little pendant in the shape of a basket is made out of guilt metal and decorated with pale blue and white enamel.

This elegant silver handbag is made out of engraved silver and delicate silver mesch. The bulge of the bag is made out of silver and impressed, cut and engraved with flower, flower ...

This fine hardstone cameo depicts a woman or men wearing a wreath of ivy. In Greek and Roman mythology the ivy wreath worn around head was the attribute of a followers of Dyonisos a...

This elegant pair of clasps are designed as peacocks with their fan. The peacocks are made out of Pinchbeck and mounted in metal clasps with a rose gold gilding. The peacocks's fans ...

This set of six buttons was designed in the Arts & Crafts taste of the last decades of the 19th century. The buttons are made out of sterling silver and are impressed with the Britis...

This wonderful large grape brooch was made out of corallium rubrum, a Mediterranean coral, in an Italian workshop between 1850-1860. The grape is made out of different size boutons, vine leaves and 14K golden twines - with the help of golden wires...

This Iron quizzing glass was crated towards the end of the eighteenth century in France. The large round split ring indicates that it was to be worn on a chain. Thirty two round stee...

This beautiful Belle Époque carving of a cockatoo was executed in around 1900ca out of bone. It was intended as a handle for a walking stick or a parasol. The head has beautifully ca...

This most amazing hair pin was handcrafted in China in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It is designed as a bouquet of flowers with a butterfly.

This exceptional quality powder compact was imported by H C Freedman Ltd of Birmingham in 1914. The box is impressed on the inside with the makers mark, the date letter for 1914, 92...

These Victorian Dress Buttons were handcrafted out of deep orange coloured banded agate in the second half of the 19th century. The nine buttons show an exiting variation within the ...

This charming hair ornament has been crafted out of embossed silver in the 1880s. The articulated four leaf clover is riveted onto a hairpin made out of celluloid.

This oval cameo was carved in the 2nd quarter of the 19th century out of a two layered shell. It shows a profile bust of the great German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ...

This charming hair ornament was handcrafted in the second quarter of the 19th century. The hairpin is decorated with a butterfly made from small facetted steel nails that were rivete...

This charming antique brooch was created in the Edwardian era around 1900. It was handcrafted out of 15 carat gold and platinum. The little fox in the center of the crop is made out ...

This graceful pair of stickpins was created in 1845 ca out of 18 karat gold. Each pin features a Flower with bright green enamelled flowers highlighted by 1 larger and four smaller ...

Unmounted soap stone cameo in high relief of a sitting caritas (charity) surrounded by four children in a garden. She is bare breasted, wears a richly pleated gown and a necklace. Sh...

This elegant stick pin was handcrafted in the last quarter of the 19th century. It is made out of 14 karat gold. An oval turquoise cabochon is set in a mount designed as an infinity ...

This shell cameo in the form of a rounded rectangle was carved around 1900 ca. out of a three layered shell. The bottom layer is of a dark fudge colour, the next layer of a deep purp...

This large intaglio was hand carved towards thew end of the eighteenth century or the very beginning of the nineteenth century. 1800 out of a large fla...

This rare button features a shell cameo of a young man carved in antique manner. The cameo is mounted in a silver button.

The plaque shows a butterfly, a grasshopper and a spider in its net. The plaque is a fine example of Shakudo work dating from the 2nd half of the 19th century. Diameter plaque: 3.7

This charming little cut steel hair pin has been hand crafted in the second quarter of the 19th century. It is made from facetted steel nails riveted ont...

This hair ornament was handcrafted in the 1sthalf of the 19thcentury, most likely around 1830. It is made out of gilt silver and set in open claw settings withtwisted gold wiire deco...

These unusual hair ornaments come as a set of four haipins with two prongs each and two pins with one prong each connected by a silver chain. All the pins are mounted with natural colour facetted...

This unusual bangle has been decorated with a finely carved Victoran shell cameo of Mars. The cameo has been mounted on a bakelite bangle in 1920 ca.

This little elegant travelling inkwell is made out of plated silver. The lid and the bottom of the box are set with slices of agate dyed blue.

This set of six buttons was created towards the end of the 19th century. The buttons are made out of brass and are decorated with dark rose coloured guilloché enamel in between two o...

This elegant horseshoe stickpin promises good luck to its wearer, understated elegance thanks to the delicate design, executed in platinum and set with diamonds. The pin is made out...

Delightfully modelled cupid holding bow and arrows in his hands. The dancing amor is standing on a pedestal. The seal is made out of silver plated metal and carries the initials J D....

Five agate intaglios of varying size and age have been mounted in 18 karat gold settings. The settings are connected by golden balls made out of 18karat . They are threaded on a foxt...

These shoebucles were created out of silver in the scond quarter of the 19th century. The octangular shaped shoe buckles are embossed with a rich flower and foliage design. They were...

Very pristine and elegant Victorian writing set comprising a sardonyx pencil, a sardonyx ruler and a letter opener. The ruler measures 0.8 cm x 0.8 cm, length 16.5 cm. The length o...