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Art Nouveau Maribou Cigar Cutter By Ignatius Taschner
Located in Montreal, QC
Figural cigar cutter with ash tray in the shape of a maribou, leaning over a bowl. The bird's-eye is the opening for the cigar and the beak is the knife. the stub falls into the bowl...
Category
Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Brass
A Large Late Regency Period Sheffield Tea Urn
Located in Montreal, QC
This is a splendid example of the form. that breaks away from Neo-Classical plainness into exuberant and lively ornament. The two handled urn is banded with leaves and acanthus. The...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Set of Four Empire Style Three-Light Wall Sconces, Gilt and Patinated
Located in Montreal, QC
Set of four French Empire style cast bronze three-arm wall sconces. The
oval cast gilt bronze back plate, with stylized acanthus leaf design, supporting a gilt banded dark patinated...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Bronze
A Suite of 6 Large Opaline Globe Bronze-Mounted Pendant Fixtures
Located in Montreal, QC
A 1920s bronze pendant light with a large white opal glass globe. The bronze fitter has a dark antique patina and is cast with decorated wre...
Category
Vintage 1920s Canadian Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Antique Satin Birch and Inlaid Writing Table
Located in Montreal, QC
This Sheraton Revival writing table is beautifully and precisely made and is clad in well chosen decorative veneers. It on raised on square tapering legs united by stretchers and has...
Category
Antique 1870s English Sheraton Console Tables
Materials
Birch
A Belle Epoque Eight Arm Chandelier Modelled with Dionysis/Bacchus Masks
Located in Montreal, QC
This chandelier has a heme-spherical “bag” formed as florets and eight down-swept lights with opaque flower-form shades interspersed with masques of the young Dionysis/Bacchus, so pr...
Category
Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Large Oriental Brass Hibachi/Jardiniere
Located in Montreal, QC
This handsome vessel is decorated with a bas-relief of dragons disputing a flaming pearl, the feet are modelled as a stylised bird (or possibly a stylised elephant) The rim is inver...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Materials
Brass
A Pair of French Canadian Oak Stools
Located in Montreal, QC
This pair of stools are copies of ones in a private collection. Jean Palardy, in his celebrated "The Early Furniture of French Canada". lists the original (plate 246).
His, he describes as a Flemish...
Category
Antique 1890s Canadian Arts and Crafts Stools
Materials
Oak
$1,500 / set
Samson Porcelain Ornithological Vase
By Edmé Samson
Located in Montreal, QC
This lamp is both highly decorative and useful. It is by Samson, hard paste, unlike Derby and is spuriously marked Derby. As is sometimes the case, the bird painting is of excellent ...
Category
Antique 1850s French Regency Table Lamps
Materials
Porcelain
Victorian Covered Plated Chafing Dish with Armorial
Located in Montreal, QC
This is a wonderful example of the form. Two-handled, within sinuous border and raised on bun feet, the base is fitted with a water compartment complete with original silver plated s...
Category
Antique 1860s British Victorian Sheffield and Silverplate
Materials
Silver Plate
Edwardian Three Tier Silver Plated Plate Stand
Located in Montreal, QC
An item redolent of another age, this cake stand was originally made for afternoon tea, scones, petit fours, cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off, crumpets and slices of cake....
Category
Early 20th Century British Edwardian Tableware
Materials
Silver Plate
Large Bing and Grondahl Porcelain Roaring Lion
By Bing
Grøndahl
Located in Montreal, QC
This wonderfully large porcelain roaring lion is well molded and hand painted with attention to detail. It is fully marked with the three towers of Copenhagen on the bottom of one fr...
Category
Vintage 1940s Danish Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
"Narcissus" Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture After the Antique
Located in Montreal, QC
A late 19th century / early 20th century bronze figure of Narcissus, after the Antique, He wears a wreath in his hair and carries a goat skin wine sack and stands on a circular base....
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Classical Greek Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Westminster Chiming Grandmother Clock in a Mahogany Case
Located in Montreal, QC
This grandmother clock has a spring-driven, three train, chiming movement, facilitating the Westminster chime on a nest of gong rods. The case is mad...
Category
Early 20th Century English Georgian Grandfather Clocks and Longcase Clocks
Materials
Brass
F&C Osler, a Pair of Lead Crystal Wall Sconces
By F.
C. Osler
Located in Montreal, QC
An unusual pair of three light late Victorian silvered mounted, cut glass candle sconce, stamped F&C OSLER. The arm plate supporting two s shaped ...
Category
Antique 1880s English George III Candle Sconces
Materials
Crystal
$8,500 / set
North West Basket, Salish
By Salish Indians
Located in Montreal, QC
The Salish basket, circa 1900, is finely woven with a stylized imbricate design, the cover has a cutout star design with central knob, there are minor lo...
Category
Early 20th Century Canadian Native American Native American Objects
Materials
Straw
$476 Sale Price
20% Off
French 8 Light Bronze Chandelier Hung with Crystal Drops
Located in Montreal, QC
This elegant Louis XV style chandelier has scrolling arms applied with acanthus and mounted on a bronze central body. Unusually this has flower form short stems, from which are hung ...
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Louis XVI Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Belle Époque Sitzendorf Porcelain-Mounted Mirror, Encrusted with Flowers
Located in Montreal, QC
This handsome girandole mirror dates from the late 19th century, the Belle Époque between the Franco- Prussian War and the Great War. Europe then was rich and flourishing. This mirro...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century German Belle Époque Girandoles
Materials
Porcelain
Louis XV Style Octagonal Mirror With Bronze Mounts
Located in Montreal, QC
This mirror has a bevelled plate surrounded by verre eglomisee angled panels so there is much sparkle and reflection.
The elaborate pierced bronze crest is centred by a stylized shel...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Wall Mirrors
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Mounted, Frosted and Hand Cut Bell Jar Lantern
Located in Montreal, QC
A "Bell-Jar" fixture is rarely found in this quality. The suspension chain and band are cast, not just stamped sheet brass; likewise, the candle holder and strawberry shaped boss t...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Lanterns
Materials
Brass
Empire Period Mantle Clock by Leroy a Paris
Located in Montreal, QC
This mantle clock is by a well-respected Paris maker in a fashionable style. The oval base supports a vase shaped clock case in turn supported by winged dolphin heads and flanked by ...
Category
Antique 1810s French Empire Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Three-Piece French Enamelled Glass Garniture, Attributed to Baccarat
Located in Montreal, QC
This garniture is painted with birds and flowers on a pale blue ground. The oblong footed bowl has a shaped gilt rim ,with white jewelling and centering palmettes. The flanking vases...
Category
Antique 1880s French Aesthetic Movement Garniture
Materials
Opaline Glass
Italian Stool Carved with a Boy and Blanket, Attributed to Valentino Besarel
By Valentino Besarel
Located in Montreal, QC
Valentino Besarel 1829-1902 is the craftsman responsible for this outstanding "Fantasy" piece. On a simulated bamboo X frame, with carved rope lashings, is set the amusing scene of a...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Victorian Stools
Materials
Walnut
An important Restauration period ormolu Gueridon, c. 1820, Attributed to Thomire
Located in Montreal, QC
An important Restauration period ormolu Gueridon, c. 1820, Attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843).
With a round Siena marble molded edge top, the frieze with a plain mo...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Charles X Center Tables
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Antique Pair of French "Sevres" Bleu Celeste and Gilt Bronze Covered Urns
Located in Montreal, QC
These are large, French and of excellent quality. From acorn finials to square stepped bases, this pair exude quality unmistakably. They have the de luxe look of items from the Belle...
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XVI Urns
Materials
Bronze
German Bronze Oil Lamp in Original Condition
Located in Montreal, QC
This Aladdin lamp is German, and dates from the late 19th century, The bronze is exquisitely cast in bas-relief with masks and scrolling acanthus. The base and knopped stem ,the slid...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century German Renaissance Revival Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Footed Topographical Comport Depicting Windsor Castle
Located in Montreal, QC
Porcelain footed topographical comport with painted view of Windsor Castle seen beyond the river Thames, surrounded by floral reserves in scrolled yello...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Centerpieces
Materials
Porcelain
Vienna Porcelain Cabinet Charger
Located in Montreal, QC
Vienna porcelain hand-painted circular charger portraying Mary, Queen of Scots being told of her impending execution, within a rectangular gilt beaded frame and dark green ground surround with foliate and floral motifs under- and overglazed. Bordered with beaded gilt on claret. Beehive mark to reverse, and written, "Maria Stuart...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Platters and Serveware
Materials
Ceramic
Meissen Stoneware Model of Seal by August Gaul
By August Gaul
Located in Montreal, QC
Meissen stoneware model of seal standing on his front flippers, by August Gaul (1869-1921) for Bottger.
Signed, A. Gaul on base and impressed unde...
Category
Early 20th Century German Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of French Bronze and Slate Tazzae
Located in Montreal, QC
Each exuberantly modeled with trailing acanthus on a pounced ground, with dragon- form handles and spiral-fluted stem, the slate base of square section supported by four stylized do...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Régence Urns
Materials
Bronze
$3,800 / set
Pair of French Boulle Side Cabinets
Located in Montreal, QC
This sumptuous pair of salon cabinets are what the French call meubles d'appui. Each is enclosed by a single glazed door and with canted sides. They are ...
Category
Antique 1880s French Moorish Cabinets
Materials
Bone
$16,500 / set
Victorian Figural Silver Plated Centerpiece
Located in Montreal, QC
This exuberant centerpiece is a playful addition to your dinner table. The central trilobed dish is hand-engraved with flowers and supported by three frolicing cherubs. The elaborate...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Victorian Centerpieces
Materials
Silver Plate
Pair of Empire Four Light Bronze Candelabra
Located in Montreal, QC
Pair of Empire period parcel-gilt and patinated bronze four-light candelabra, the patinated column raised on triform scrolled feet over incurved plinth supporting a gilt bronze stand...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Candle Holders
Materials
Bronze
$3,600 Sale Price / set
44% Off
Antique French Louis XVI Style Mahogany and Parquetry Bureau a Rognon
Located in Montreal, QC
Although of kidney shape, this desk is more substantial than generally found in such a form. The top has a pierced brass gallery enclosing a fanning kingwood veneer. The leather slide-out writing surface is enclosed by a pair of tambour shutters which, when rolled back, reveal small drawers. The desk is flanked by three curved drawers...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Pair of German Shaped Dessert Dishes Each Modelled with a Bird Amidst Flowers
Located in Montreal, QC
These are porcelain and were made late in the 19th century, probably by Sitzendorf. The edges are scalloped and gilt, the body is applied with rambling roses...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century German Victorian Serving Pieces
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Sevres Porcelain Cabinet Plates : Scenes Gallants
Located in Montreal, QC
This pair are painted with lovers in a romantic and rustic landscape. There are two Scenes Gallantes: dancing in one, resting by a fountain in the other,...
Category
Antique 1840s French Louis XV Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
After Giambologna: The Abduction of a Sabine Woman
By Giambologna
Located in Montreal, QC
This fine 19th century copy of the famous group is in a sumptuous Serpentine marble. The Sabine man crouches in submissive pose, whilst the Roman carries off the writhing woman. It is well-presented on the original matching plinth and pedestal . This perhaps forms part of someone's Grand Tour along with mosaics and bronzes after the antique...
Category
Antique 1850s Italian Renaissance Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Serpentine
Pair of 1st Empire Style Antique Bras de Lumiere
Located in Montreal, QC
This elegant pair is in the style of the First Empire. Each is cast with palmettes, acanthus, garlands and an oval frame containing a blue bisque figure of a dancing maiden. The fram...
Category
Antique 1880s French Empire Revival Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Bronze
$3,600 / set
Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze and Crystal Mantel Clock Garniture
Located in Montreal, QC
This fine garniture is of the spirit and period of the Belle Epoque It is certainly Belle, the barrel movement is supported by an extremely elegant acanthus and leaf-form frame, and ...
Category
Antique 1890s French Belle Époque Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Empire Style Nine Light Chandelier
Located in Montreal, QC
Empire style chandeliers tend to be quite hefty and large, This bronze example is unusually delicate. The dished circular pan is hung from three flat pierced suspension chains, and s...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Empire Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Bronze
Pair Victorian Cast Silver Scallop Shell Caddy Spoons
By George Hunt
Located in Montreal, QC
A very fine quality pair of caddy spoons with scallop shell bowls, twisted handles and whelk-shell terminals, by John S Hunt. For a collector of caddy spoons, spoons, or fine silver there can be no greater name nor finer quality.
On the death of Paul Storr in 1838, his business (Storr
Mortimer) was continued by his nephew John Samuel Hunt under the name of Mortimer
Hunt. In 1843 the company became Hunt
Roskell until 1897.
Paul Storr entered into business with Rundell, Bridge
Rundell in 1807 who were the Royal Goldsmiths...
Category
Antique 1840s English Victorian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Pair of English Silver Chinoiserie Tea-Caddies, Mid 19th Century Roccoco Style
By Joseph Angell I
John Angell I 1
Located in Montreal, QC
This noble pair are the product of the workshop of Joseph Angell, 1 and II. They are carefully copied from others made in the "tea-picker" pattern by the great Hugenot silversmith Pa...
Category
Antique 1840s English Rococo Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Austrian Silver Galleried Oval Tray
Located in Montreal, QC
This is a particularly attractive example. First the "navette" shape is most unusual, more often found in gem settings than trays. The gallery, pierced with scrolling stylised acanth...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
George Jones Crescent Chamber Pot in the Manner of First Period Worcester
By George Jones
Located in Montreal, QC
This is really well-made. It is of typical form, compressed spherical, and with everted rim. It is painted in two large vignettes with exotic birds in a flowering landscape, and with...
Category
Antique 1890s English George III Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic
$878 Sale Price
34% Off
Pair of Antique Dutch Delft Chargers
Located in Montreal, QC
This large pair are each freely painted with a vase of flowers and fruit in the traditional blue pallet. the edge has minor frittings as is inevitable. other than this they are in ve...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Dutch Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Materials
Ceramic
$1,500 / set
Antique French Louis XVI Style Gilt And Painted Bench
Located in Montreal, QC
This elegant bench would be ideal as a window seat, at the foot of a bed or at a dressing table or even a piano. The ends are double-caned with the caning in original condition and a...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Benches
Materials
Wood
$2,800 Sale Price / item
20% Off
An Antique 12 Light Neo-Renaissance Bronze and Wrought Iron Chandelier
Located in Montreal, QC
This unusual chandelier is made in this rather rare lantern form but without being enclosed in glazed panels. It is hexagonal, with two lights on each side. The upper section is encl...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Renaissance Revival Chandeliers and P...
Materials
Bronze
Edwardian Silver-Mounted Stationary Box with Matching Victorian Blotter
Located in Montreal, QC
This box has much evident quality. The pierced cover is repousse with scrolling acanthus leaves, flowers and trellis-work about a vacant cartouche. It has a long "piano" hinge and is lined in emerald green watered silk. Serendipitously, we have the matching blotter, the cover identically mounted, lined in crimson watered silk.
The box is Edwardian hall...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century British Victorian More Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver
Louis XVl Style Marquetry Bonheur du Jour
Located in Montreal, QC
A writing table with a fitted superstructure, this beautifully crafted and elegant piece has all the positive attributes. The upper section is enclosed by a pair of doors each with o...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Antique French Six Arm Candelabra, Bronze Dore on Rouge Marble Bases
Located in Montreal, QC
This pair, very much in the Louis XV style, has a number of points of interest : The six arms are arranged around the central light so there are actually seven lights, the vase shaped stem is modelled in bas-relief with leaves, and the base is a well-chosen shaped rouge griotte marble tablet...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Large Pair of Antique Gilt Bronze French Louis XV Style Candelabra
Located in Montreal, QC
This is an especially sumptuous pair. Each base is pierced with stylised acanthus and en rocaille. The stems are modelled with putti in a leafy arbour and support five arms around a ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
English George III Period Pair of Candelabra, William Parker
By William Parker
Located in Montreal, QC
An important pair of two light cut glass brass mounted George III candelabra attributed to the celebrated maker William Parker,
Each raised on a cut baluster and square base supporting two candle arms with hung drip pans and sconces, also with two complimenting arms terminating to canopied spires and centred by a large triangular spire supporting a canopy with an urn shaped finial, the whole beautifully draped with lustrous swags, pendants and drops all of the highest quality cut glass.
PROVENANCE: original bill of sale
M. Harris and Sons
Sold: Nov 2. 1945, 165 pounds sterling...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Georgian Candelabras
Materials
Crystal
Pair of Antique French Louis XV Style Rococo Gilt Bronze Chenets
Located in Montreal, QC
This pair, while originally for the fireside, would serve equally as bases for a pair of table lamps. They are exquisitely modelled with sinuous, scrolling acanthus and beautifully f...
Category
Antique 1880s French Rococo Table Lamps
Materials
Bronze
Large Pair of Antique Charles X Style French Bronze Candelabra
Located in Montreal, QC
This noble pair are each raised on trefoil bases, supporting three stylised animal paw feet, the tapering cylindrical column is reeded with capital and base decorated with acanthus, ...
Category
Antique 1870s French Charles X Candelabras
Materials
Bronze
Antique Iron Whale Flensing Knife
Located in Montreal, QC
From the days of Moby Dick, this heavy tool was used to remove blubber from a whale carcass. The triangular blade is cast at one end of a long cylindrical handle, the other end is wr...
Category
Antique 1850s English Nautical Objects
Materials
Iron
Antique French Louis XV style Eight-Light Gilt Bronze and Crystal Chandelier
By Maison Baguès
Located in Montreal, QC
This elegant chandelier has come to us in original condition requiring only careful cleaning and regilding the frame. From the swagged crown to the hand-blown ball, it is hung with a...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Louis XVI Style Vitrine
Located in Montreal, QC
It is difficult to sufficiently describe the quality and workmanship of this vitrine; the photos show more than any words can relate. The mounts are to the standard of the great Linke and may prove to be from his own workshop. Those which flank the door are busts of children...
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$20,000
French Clock Garniture de Cheminee by Etienne Maxant
By Etienne Maxant
Located in Montreal, QC
This set is a particularly fine example of this sort mantle ornament; The clock, surmounted by a Cupid with bow and arrow, is flanked by a pair of Campa...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Louis XVI Vintage Vincennes Style Porcelain Floral Five-Arm Chandelier
By Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory
Located in Montreal, QC
This Romantic chandelier is of a type made by the short-lived Vincennes factory absorbed by Sevres. It has a playful quality with stylized porcelain flowers and painted tole leaves. ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass
"Etoile de Matin" French Figural Bronze by Etienne Gaudez, 1845-1902
By Adrien Étienne Gaudez
Located in Montreal, QC
This is a period casting of a young woman, in windswept gown and with arm uplifted while standing on a celestial globe cast with the zodiac. In the Art Nouveau taste, she is allegori...
Category
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
