Objects of Particular Beauty and Quality
PRESENTING AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE & IMPORTANT late 18C Anglo Indian Sadeli Mosaic Sarcophagus Sewing Box. VERY, VERY EARLY Sadeli Mosaic piece, which is what makes it all the more important! Made in the area of Bombay, India circa 1780-1800. The box is in a classic Regency Era Sarcophagus form, very Read more…
PRESENTING AN OUTSTANDING AND MONUMENTAL Early 19C Large English Baroque Gilt Floral Wall Mirror. English, circa 1810-20. In classic ‘Baroque’ style with scrolling acanthus and vines in very ornate design and detail. Made of giltwood, pine, oak and gesso. Early mirror, as is evidenced from the natural aging to the Read more…
PRESENTING a FABULOUSLY RARE 18C Indo-Portuguese Vargueno Mini Cabinet. EXTREMELY RARE, HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND DESIRABLE Colonial piece ! It is an Indo-Portuguese Vargueno Mini Cabinet, circa 1780, with strong Persian influences. Vargueno’s are typically Portuguese or Spanish. Portugal, through its colonization of parts of Asia in the 17th and 18th Read more…
PRESENTING a BEAUTIFUL Large Vintage Japanese Bronzed Sculpture of Toba on his Mule. Some might say ‘Monumental’ .. being 34 inches tall and 30 inches wide ! LOL Probably made in the 1960’s, in Japan, in the Showa Era, this cast 2 piece sculpture is made of iron/steel which has Read more…
PRESENTING A STUNNING 19C Irish Coromandel Wood Campaign Decanter Box. STUNNING mid-Victorian Decanter box from circa 1860-1880. Made in Dublin, makers brass label on the interior, for ‘T.K. Austin & Co., Dublin’, the most famous top quality Merchant in Dublin in the mid to late 19th Century. Made for Military Campaign Read more…
PRESENTING A LOVELY Matching Pair of Handcarved Italian Alabaster Horses. Mid 20th Century circa 1960. Pair of hand-carved horses that look like ‘Lipizzaner Stallions’ on a faux wood resin base. Each sculpture facing the other. Each has it’s original labels on the underside of the base showing their age and Read more…
PRESENTING A GORGEOUS 19C Bronze Dancing Shiva Nataraja. From circa 1860-80 this is a stunning piece of Indian and Hindu symbolism. From India this is an OUTSTANDING version of fairly well known subject matter, namely, a bronze of a dancing Shiva inside a flaming ring. Shiva has a profusely decorated Read more…
PRESENTING AN ABSOLUTELY Exceptional 18C Dutch Regency Marquetry Sofa Table. Made in Holland/Netherlands circa 1790 – 1820. Profusely inlaid with the most GORGEOUS marquetry inlay you will ever see ! Made of fabulous flamed mahogany with the marquetry consisting of boxwood, kingwood, harewood and yew. Floral decorations and still evidence Read more…
PRESENTING A STUNNING Mid-Century Malmaison by Christofle Silver and Gold Plated 63 Piece Service. A service for 10 with: 10 x Knives – 9.5″ long 10 x Large Forks – 8″ long 10 x Small Forks – 6.5″ long 10 x Large Spoons – 7.5″ long 10 x Small Spoons Read more…
PRESENTING AN ABSOLUTELY STUNNING 19C Anglo Ceylonese Sewing Box of Museum Quality. Made in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) circa 1860, this is one of the FINEST sewing boxes of it’s kind that we have EVER SEEN ! The box is made from coromandel wood (an exotic hardwood found in Ceylon) Read more…