All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Copper : Pre 1900 item #21822
Unusual Victorian copper ladies' button-up boot. The Victorians often placed these along their mantles for purely decorative purposes. Most examples are made of brass, but this piece is entirely copper. Another nice touch is the applied scalloped pattern along the front edge of the boot and the white brass buttons.

Origin: England or America, ca. 1880. Condition: excellent. Size: 5" tall.

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1910 item #1492190 (stock #BZ752)
Edwardian Art Nouveau sterling silver card case. Made by Clark & Sewell in Birmingham in 1906. Rectangular with hinged cover and plain back. On front is one maiden with faraway look, one iris flower, two water lilies, and the sun in the act of setting or rising (direction not indicated). All surrounded by whiplash border. The works! A wonderful period piece. Fully marked. Very good condition with strong definition and deep patina.

Dimensions: H 3 3/4 x W 2 5/8 x D 1/8 in...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1900 item #1485077 (stock #BY695)
Victorian sterling silver drinks set. Made by Gorham in Providence in 1888. This set comprises pitcher and mug on tray.

Pitcher and mug have curved bodies and split-mounted branch handles. Tray lobed quatrefoil. Applied scroll rims. For fermented refreshment as indicated by the on-message fruiting grapevines in tactile relief. Hefty rusticity wrought from precious metal. Each has engraved script monogram. Fully marked including maker’s stamp, date symbol, and nos...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Chinese Export : Pre 1900 item #1199000
Up for sale is a large antique Chinese export famille rose vase, hand painted and glazed; 2 large scenes, first depicting an official riding on horse, escorting by his entourage; second depicting a young official paying respect, Bai Shou, to a prestigious older couple - Duke Fen Yang Wang & Duchess from the late Tang dynasty, who are sitting in a hall during a double 70th birthday celebration, Shuang Shou; and 2 small scenes around the neck of the vase; 19th century. Overall is in very goo...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : German : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1422709 (stock #TBD00312)
A set of six hand painted porcelain plates with floral bouquets in the well and a gold band around the edge. The mark of KPM with the initials and the scepter in underglaze blue was used from 1837 to 1844. The size would indicate that they are dessert plates, though they are deeper than most. They are 7 inches diameter (18 cm) and 1 inch (2.5 cm) deep.

Condition: excellent, no chips, cracks, hairlines or repairs. Showing only some evidence of light use...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : American : Art Glass : Pre 1900 item #1282862 (stock #AG-136)
This is a large, signed Crown Milano glass jar/jardiniere made by Mt Washington. It is an exceptionally large jar: it is 10 3/4 inches wide and 8 1/4 inches high. The jar is in excellent condition - no chips, cracks or repairs (there is some expected, age-appropriate fading to the paint). It is signed in its polished pontil.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Religious Artifacts : Pre 1492 item #828460
Priceless Past
$695.00
This interesting little ceramic figure is purportedly from the Majapahit period (1293-1500)of Eastern Java. Possibly a religious figure, it is barefoot and has tribal head-dress and flowing robes. There does appear to be a light colored glaze underneath the surface dirt which I have not attempted to remove or clean. The statue is just under 20 cm in height and weighs 444 grams. This is a truly unique piece of ancient artwork, the likes of which we have not seen...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : Bohemian : Pre 1900 item #1283169 (stock #BG-048)
Offered is this beautiful, coralene-decor, Bohemian glass vase, made by Moser. Excellent condition. It is approximately 9 3/4 inches (25 cm) tall. Similar items are shown in Baldwin's book on Moser glass (see last picture).
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Low Countries : Pottery : Pre 1800 item #1460526 (stock #5A37C)
Dutch Delft Pottery thick Polychrome painted Plate, 18th Century, 9" diameter, 1 1/4" high, with garden scene. There are some chips around the rim, glaze is crazed.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1910 item #1486662 (stock #BZ148)
Turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau glass vase with engraved silver overlay. Elongated baluster with flared rim and raised foot. Overlay in form of budding and blooming tulips with entwined and whiplash tendrils. On foot is scrolled cartouche engraved with scroll-letter C between the years 1880 and 1905. Glass is green. Silver has faint marks including La Pierre maker's stamp. Very good condition.

Dimensions: H 12 3/8 x D 3 3/4 in. #BZ148

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : English : Pottery : Pre 1920 item #88669
Wonderful pottery candlestick decorated in an underglaze blue floral transfer and clobbered with overglaze iron red, yellow, and purple pigments. The effect is much like chintz china, but with stronger coloring. The bottom is marked with the registration number indicating the piece was designed in 1913 and bears the mark used by Cauldon Potteries from 1905 to 1920. It is also marked "Grip", probably referring to the very uncommon form...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Folk Art : Dolls : Pre 1900 item #1327343 (stock #1298)
Dressed in a blue calico dress this sweet little stump rag doll has a lot going for her. She has an ink drawn face, a lollipop head, and a body that flares out but stops at the hips and never had legs. If I was a mother back in the 19th C. I would have been mighty pleased with myself that I thought up the stump doll concept. It really works, and makes for a very nice doll. She is rag stuffed, has dainty little arms, and a nice blue calico striped dress...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Pewter : Pre AD 1000 item #1491464
Senatus Consulto
$1,650.00
A lovely renaissance style pewter flagon or jug, made by Ulrich Appel in Nuremberg, Germany c. mid-late 17th. century.

Ulrich Appel became a master of pewter in 1659 and this vessel would have been made shortly thereafter.

The surface of this entire jug is profusely decorated with particularly artfull and tecnically difficult style of late renaissance - early baroque micro-engraving...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Coin : Pre 1900 item #1486413 (stock #BY963)
Classical coin silver christening mug, ca 1850. Baluster bowl with high-looping leaf-capped s-scroll handle and round stepped foot. Large scrolled frame (vacant) surrounded by rural idyll with house and barn set in bosky landscape. In foreground a hunter takes aim at a fox. No vermin allowed in paradise. New York retailer’s stamp (Ball, Black & Co.) and star and eagle associated with Hartford production. Very good condition with nice patina.

Overall dimensions: H 5 x W 5 x D 3 1/8 in. Weight...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : English : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1347236
Global Ceramics
$130.00
A pair of dishes, printed and hand painted with flowers in pastel shades, the edges scalloped and gilt. Doulton Burslem mark for 1885-1902. Diameter "8¾/ 22,5 cm (both plates). Condition: fine.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : Bohemian : Pre 1910 item #1225954 (stock #1004)
Offered is this beautiful, Moser purple-to-clear vase with deep-cutting of flowers, made around 1900. The vase is 3 3/4 inches (9,5 cm) tall and is in good condition. Broad polished pontil with slight 'pull'.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Plate : Pre 1900 item #1216917 (stock #6965)
A Martin Hall Victorian English silver plated meat dome. This 12-1/4" x 9-3/8" meat dome or cover was made by Martin, Hall & Co. of Sheffield, England (1854-1934). This table serving piece features a bolted and pegged finial with a wing nut and it stands 8-3/4" high. It is stamped 1127 EPNS with the maker's mark, and it is in excellent condition with no monograms, bends, corrosion, losses, damage or repairs other than one small penpoint protruberant dent and a nearby shallow penpoint dent. T...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : American : Cut Glass : Pre 1910 item #689919 (stock #5460)
A high quality period American Brilliant Cut glass 9-3/8" comport identified for us as the Meteor pattern, produced by Pairpoint. This unsigned footed glass dish measures 6" across the bowl, and it is in excellent original condition with no cracks, losses, damage or repairs other than some very tiny bites to a few of the edges (largest shown is 3/16" long). A beautiful piece of glass from the great period of American cut glass. All items are thoroughly and conservatively graded and all condit...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : French : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #951598 (stock #26C10D 103)
French Sevres porcelain urn-form vase in a cobalt glaze, decorated with ornate ormolu mounts and a bronze cherub holding a dove. 19th century. The vase had once been converted into a lamp. Size: 24.25 inches ht. x 12.5 inches wide x 9 inches deep. Very nice condition, no chips or cracks or breaks.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : English : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #1458723
Global Ceramics
$200.00
Two double-handled cake plates with natural flowers surrounded by a border in cobalt blue, cream and gilt. Unmarked, c 1830 and probably by Ridgway. Width "9 ¼ and 9 ¾ / 23.5 and 24.5 cm respectively. Condition: a firing crack to one plate visible from behind, otherwise fine.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : English : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1180355 (stock #SR8068)

c. 1790, 9" diameter. This piece has an incredible mock Chinese mark. Condition: excellent

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Coin : Pre 1837 VR item #319820
Outstanding pair of early American coin silver sugar tongs. The arms are cut in a modified fiddle shape and are decorated with superb applied fruit baskets. The claws are shaped as scallop shells. The end has a period monogram “BC”. These are undoubtedly the finest coin silver sugar tongs we’ve seen. The inside is marked with an unidentified pseudo-hallmark.

Origin: America, probably New England, circa 1815. Condition: excellent, sharp detail. Size: 6-5/16” long. Weight: 51.5 g...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : American : Cut Glass : Pre 1837 VR item #1427510 (stock #BNJcutwash)
June Hastings
$1,800.00
Very rare, dating circa 1820, American cut lead crystal wash basin and water pitcher set. Possibly by Bakewell Glass of Pittsburgh, the set is in excellent condition. The bowl measures 7.5" high x 16.25 diameter. The pitcher measures 12.5 inches high. Both in excellent condition.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Jewelry : English : Pre 1920 item #1426278
Fabulous chunky 18K and diamond-studded lover's knot ring hallmarked London, 1919. Unusual knot ring with three gold diamond-shaped squares superimposed along the knot band and table-cut diamonds embedded securely within the incised stars on each square. The figural knot can be seen on the underside of the ring and is almost as beautiful as the front. The ring is a US size 8 and can be sized.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : German : Porcelain : Pre 1900 item #1428288 (stock #BNJloveCrown)
June Hastings
$1,100.00
19th C Meissen "Love Crowned" porcelain hand painted figurine of Cupid placing a flower crown over a pair of hearts. In excellent condition save for one small chip on base bottom corner. It is marked with cross swords in underglaze on the base. Measures about 5.5"s high, 2.75" wide, 2.25" deep. Circa 1880. We also have "Love Captive", see last photo.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Pewter : Pre 1910 item #900204
Global Ceramics
$100.00
German pewter vase by Kayserzinn, c 1900. Relief decoration of Marguerites in Jugendstil/Art Nouveau. Impressed marks 50, Kayserzinn, 4081 and an incised P. Height "3¼/ 8,5 cm. Condition: a few nicks to the lower part of the vase as seen on photos.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Spanish : Pottery : Pre 1700 item #1462901 (stock #TBD00423)
A large gold lustre and blue on a cream ground Spanish first half of the 16th century charger, probably Valencia, Manises. Molded with a dome in the center and leaves around the rim with a hole for hanging pierced in the rim before firing. 16 ¾ inches (42.5 cm) diameter.

Condition: Broken and restuck with some fairly crude filling of a couple of lost bits. One serious rim chip and numerous glaze and minor chips on the edge. Some wear to the gold lustre.

There are numerous 19th century ...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : Bohemian : Pre 1900 item #128276 (stock #D22)
High Quality Bohemian cut glass goblet in blue with painted floral decoration. There is a star figure cut into the bottom. No chips. No cracks. No repairs. Height: 7 1/8 inches. Width at top: 3 1/8 inches.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : English : Porcelain : Pre 1837 VR item #832195 (stock #5998)
A Georgian English hand painted Imari dessert dish or platter circa 1800 1820. This 11-1/4" x 7-1/4" unmarked bowl features gold, orange, cobalt, teal, green and purple painted floral designs. Although it lacks an indent, it is possible that this is the platter that went beneath a tureen. It is 1-3/4" deep at the deepest point, so we are also calling it a s dish or shallow bowl. We have so far been unable to identify the manufacturer or pattern, but it is entirely consistent with English late 18...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Plate : Pre 1900 item #260693
An unusually nice silverplated studs box, the top decorated with repousse chrysanthemums. The only clue to the box’s purpose of holding a gentleman’s shirt studs and cufflinks is the figural stud finial on the top. The bottom is marked for the Middletown Plate Co. This is a much more decorative example than most.

Origin: America, 1876-99. Condition: excellent, hardly any wear to the plating. Size; 2-5/8” diameter; 1-3/4” tall.

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Glass : French : Pre 1920 item #1226512 (stock #FG-001)
Offered is this metal-mounted cut glass compote, made probably by Baccarat around 1910. The compote is 9 inches (23 cm) wide and 7 1/4 inches (18,5 cm) high. Overall, the compote is in good condition - some age-appropriate tarnishing to the metal (most probably bronze), as expected. Unsigned, except for the number 'M20' on the metal-base (see last picture) - attributed to baccarat.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : German : Porcelain : Pre 1920 item #1473060 (stock #5A148)
12 German Rosenthal Porcelain Dinner Plates, beautiful rich bright Powder Blue and encrusted raised Gold border, ca. 1908 - 1920, 10 3/4" diameter, almost 11" wide, with encrusted raised gold border rim. mark with encrusted gold "Rosenthal, Selb-Bavaria" within the "Crown" design inside shaped background area, numbered in gold "5400, 103", rim of the bottom also gilded. The condition is good.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Plate : Pre 1900 item #1259654 (stock #7063)
An ornate and extremely well-made silver plated roll top bacon or breakfast server c1880. This beauty has reeded legs with claw and ball feet, Greek style square handles, a threaded finger lift for the rolltop and a fancy pierced drip insert which sits in the removable inner dish. It has thumbwheels holding the assembly together, and the threaded sleeves come apart in two halves for mounting - a complex and high quality feature of this very expensive piece destined only for the richest Victori...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Sterling : Pre 1900 item #868852
This is a Renaissance Pattern Dominick & Haff Sterling Berry Spoon dating 1894. From a Virginia, USA Estate. An 1894 pattern, now obsolete
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Continental : Pre 1900 item #1438592 (stock #BT943)
Swiss Biedermeier silver chafing dish, 19 C. Round with gently curved sides and molded rim. Handle faceted stained wood. Beading. Cover gently raised with naïve-style flower head finial. Marked. Very good condition. Handle has minor chip.

Overall dimensions: H 6 1/2 x W 14 x D 8 in. Gross weight: 40 troy ounces. #BT943

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Continental : Pre 1920 item #1095357
SwisSiam-Arts-Antiques-Gems
Price on Request
A very nice European Silver Cosmetic Box with perfectly fitting lid (gilded/vermeil inside). Base and cover have 800 stamp and hallmark. Condition: good and nice weight. Top has raised/stylized initials VB. Size: H. 9 cm. x 8.5 cm. top diameter x 7.5 cm. bottom diameter.