Antique Copper Milk Cans
1890s English Antique Copper Milk Cans
Brass, Copper
Late 19th Century Belgian Country Antique Copper Milk Cans
Copper
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Late 19th Century French Country Antique Copper Milk Cans
Copper, Iron
19th Century English Antique Copper Milk Cans
19th Century English Antique Copper Milk Cans
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Copper
1880s French Country Antique Copper Milk Cans
Copper
1890s French Antique Copper Milk Cans
Copper
1890s French Antique Copper Milk Cans
Copper
Early 20th Century French Antique Copper Milk Cans
Metal, Copper
Late 19th Century Dutch Antique Copper Milk Cans
Brass, Copper
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1920s European Industrial Antique Copper Milk Cans
Brass, Copper
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Metal, Brass, Copper, Wrought Iron
Early 2000s Italian Modern Antique Copper Milk Cans
Brass
19th Century Korean Campaign Antique Copper Milk Cans
Brass
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Antique Copper Milk Cans
Bronze, Lead
21st Century and Contemporary American Folk Art Antique Copper Milk Cans
Wood
Early 2000s French Country Antique Copper Milk Cans
Rush, Oak
19th Century English Antique Copper Milk Cans
Mahogany, Giltwood
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Pine
1940s French Art Deco Antique Copper Milk Cans
Bronze
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Wood
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Copper Milk Cans
Earthenware, Glass
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Copper
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Walnut
2010s Abstract Antique Copper Milk Cans
Canvas, Oil
Early 19th Century Canadian Antique Copper Milk Cans
Pine
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Materials: Copper Furniture
From cupolas to cookware and fine art to filaments, copper metal has been used in so many ways since prehistoric times. Today, antique, new and vintage copper coffee tables, mirrors, lamps and other furniture and decor can bring a warm metallic flourish to interiors of any kind.
In years spanning 8,700 BC (the time of the first-known copper pendant) until roughly 3,700 BC, it may have been the only metal people knew how to manipulate.
Valuable deposits of copper were first extracted on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus around 4,000 BC — well before Europe’s actual Bronze Age (copper + tin = bronze). Tiny Cyprus is even credited with supplying all of Egypt and the Near East with copper for the production of sophisticated currency, weaponry, jewelry and decorative items.
In the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, master painters such as Leonardo da Vinci, El Greco, Rembrandt and Jan Brueghel created fine works on copper. (Back then, copper-based pigments, too, were all the rage.) By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, decorative items like bas-relief plaques, trays and jewelry produced during the Art Deco, Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau periods espoused copper. These became highly valuable and collectible pieces and remain so today.
Copper’s beauty, malleability, conductivity and versatility make it perhaps the most coveted nonprecious metal in existence. In interiors, polished copper begets an understated luxuriousness, and its reflectivity casts bright, golden and earthy warmth seldom realized in brass or bronze. (Just ask Tom Dixon.)
Outdoors, its most celebrated attribute — the verdigris patina it slowly develops from exposure to oxygen and other elements — isn’t the only hue it takes. Architects often refer to shades of copper as russet, ebony, plum and even chocolate brown. And Frank Lloyd Wright, Renzo Piano and Michael Graves have each used copper in their building projects.
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