Gilt Furniture

A pair of delicate and unique French neoclassical style side tables in the manner of Adam Weisweiler. Each table features a circular top with a dark marble inset, framed by a gilt br...

An antique German vesta box with art-nouveau motifs. This is an amazing and very rare vesta matches box, created in northern Europe with Art-Nouveau motifs, between the 1890-95. The...

Pair of French (or Italian ?) garland friezes in gilded wood for wall decoration. They used to be thicker, but someone made them thinner to fit something. Very elegant, like the ones...

Dimensions - H: 36in W: 24in D: 23 1/4in SH: 16 3/4in This pair of antique companion pair of Louis XVI style distressed gilt armchairs is perfect fo...

An extremely rare and monumental pair of Decorated Six Light “Lily” wall sconces by, Tiffany Studios. Each sconce is finished in its original gilt bronze finish and each sconce furt...

Always highly sought-after, a fun vintage Italian ice bucket in the form of an owl. These are heavy and solid pieces designed by contemporary Italian artist, Mauro Manetti of Flor...

A rare large antique 19th-Century French Gien porcelain oyster platter, fluted and gilt at the edges, circa 1890. It's a lovely glazed white color with pale blue undertones. Maker's ...

Spanish Sunburst Flush Mount, Gilt Iron, Spain, 1950s. _________________________________________________________________________ Stunning Brutalist Foliage Sunburst Light Fixture / C...

This elegant 19th-century Italian neoclassical candlestick is crafted from a combination of gilt bronze and patinated brass, showcasing refined classical design elements and sculptur...

Unique stack of leather books design tantalus with hidden 'shot glasses' & decanters. If you are looking for the most interesting and worldly gift for yourself, a friend or a loved ...

A rare and exquisitely painted pair of Paris porcelain vases, each signed by Narcisse Vivien, one of the most refined enamel decorators active in the Paris ateliers of the late 19th ...

Personalize your design with our brass scallop shell knob. Made of cast brass faithfully recreates the natural characteristics of this seashell, this exquisite accessory adds a touch...

One of a Kind Sunburst Flush Mount Crown Light, Wrought Iron, Gold Leaf, Pressed Glass, Spain, 1940s Large size. This stunning ceiling lamp features a hand forged iron sunburst fram...

A superb painted and upholstered French super kingsize bed, in excellent original parcel gilt and painted condition, comes with new slatted pine bed base.

Antique iron red (orange) and gilt decorated porcelain bowl - featuring hand painted bats surrounding a shou character beside peaches and scrolling foliage - gilded border edge - Gua...

Belgium / 1960 / Mirror / wood / Baroque / Mid-century / Vintage Traditionally carved and gilded baroque style oval wall mirror. Richly decorated with rows of motifs in the frame an...

Charming tall and wide oversized rectangular gilded wastebasket or trash can in gilt gold and cream with red accents. Perfect to be used formally or informally in a bathroom, powder ...

Hand Forged Gilt Iron and Amber Glass Four Arms Chandelier Spain, 1940s. Hand forged iron four-light pendant or ceiling hanging light with amber globe lampshades This eye-catching ch...

This 19th century Rococo-style, gilded and painted in blue and red table lamp, featuring an decorative urn shaped body with side handles carved in wood. The lamp is raised on a squar...

Rectangular/octagonal table box in 925 silver. The box was completely handmade in Florence at the end of the last century. Engraved with floral and abstract motifs, it has been fin...

A French early 20th century Louis XV style gilt bronze and cut-glass three-light chandelier. The elongated gilt-metal body with cut-glass pendants, surmounted with three scrolled can...

Elegant gilt wood mirror, probably Italian, circa 1940s or earlier. It measures 36"H x 20"W. It retains its warm original patina to the gilt frame.

A fine French 19th century Louis XVI style ebonized gilt bronze-mounted tulipwood, kingwood and fruitwood floral marquetry single-drawer center table, desk or writing table. The ornately decorated marquetry top, centered with a floral bouquet, butterflies, scrolls and acanthus. The raised on four fluted ebonized legs surmounted with gilt-bronze spigots...

Regency Style Leather Wrapped Davenport Desk, Atrib. Maitland-Smith  Late 20th century  A stunning Regency-style leather-wrapped Davenport desk, attributed to Maitland-Smith, was ma...

Among the most beautifully printed books on Chinese ceramics. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains by: Bushell, Dr. Stephen W. and William M. Laffan New York: Pr...

A fine antique American gilt silver box. By Gorham Manufacturing Co. In gilt sterling silver. In a very rare, half-round form. The lid with engraved rocaille and floral decorati...

Vintage four light chandelier with golden iridescent glass shades in the manner of Tiffany Favrile and Aurene glass from Steuben.

Dimensions - H: 31 in W: 48 in D: 24 1/4 in This Louis XV Style Bronze and Leather Top Desk by Baker is truly an incredible piece! Crafted of the highest quality this piece is bound...

Stunning Paulo Venini-style waterfall pendant chandelier (Large edition). Beautiful Italian Murano glass cascade pendant light, 58 clear iridescent ‘teardrop’ crystals on a three-tie...

A good antique German Hand-Painted KPM porcelain portrait plaque signed "Wagner" after the painting "Reflection" by the Italian artist Angelo Asti (1847-1903). Asti was born in Milan...

English Coalport Cobalt Ground Porcelain Dinner Service with tea and coffee service for Twelve / with tableware serving Pieces. 10 piece place setting...

A 1950s Murano green opaline jewellery box by Cendese with gilt metal edging. There are other available colours and designs under other listings.

Spectacular and very decorative piece. Large hand carved wooden reliquary bust of a saint. Beautiful weathered color and gilding. Small losses/Old repairs and without the relics. Ita...

Fine and important French ormolu and marble cherubs clock garniture Comprising a clock and a pair of five-light candelabra. Origin: Fr...

One of a kind Spanish Bow Mirror with Cross Design, Wrought Iron, Gold Leaf _________________________________________________________________________ Wrough...

Cube shaped blue opaline glass planter jardiniere with gilt brass hardware. The gilt brass is presented in its authentic patina but can be polished upon buyers request. All 4 corners...

A circa 1930’s gilt metal Bagues chandelier with crystal flowers

Limited edition of 99 numbered and signed copies. In Helioendimio, beyond the smiling crescent moon, the radiant sun’s gaze meets the eye of the creator who, at the same time, is bo...

Midcentury mirror-engraved Murano glass serving tray. This wonderful piece was produced in Italy during 1950s by the master Murano glass-maker of Ercole Barovier. This wonderful i...

A strike repeat alarm carriage clock by Pierre Drocourt. Stamped and numbered with the Drocourt mark on the back plate in a gilded 'Gorge' case. Drocourt was one of the great carriag...

Beautiful pair of Green Murano Glass lamps with tiny gold inclusions. The glass lamp bodies sit on a gilded bases and they have been Newly rewired with adjustable polish brass double...

Pair of stools in "Bamboo" style gilt metal with cushion upholstered with a fabric by Pierre Frey. Price for the pair. Please ask for availability.

A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. A retailer's label reads " Fred K/ Keer's Sons - Framers and Fine Art Dealers - 917 Broad St. Newark, N.J." - Another label from the gilder reads "Carlo Bartolini - Doratore e Verniciatori - Via Maggio 1924 - Firenze". Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Canvas diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 54 inches (137.2 cm) Frame width: 42 1/2 inches (108 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

Arnaldo Pomodoro Johnson Foundry, Milan 1979 Gilded Bronze Ed. 344/600 Excellent Condiction

This is a vintage gilded wrought iron Georgian inspired coffee table. This neo classical style coffee table has a hand blown glass top that has a ripple effect. The coffee table has ...

A sizeable ornate French Louis XVI style overmantel mirror. The top crested by a large floral foliate arch above a ribbon tied bow and quiver again with floral foliate swags to shoul...

Elegant pair of carved, lacquered, and gilded wood sofas with pure gold leaf. These Directoire-style sofas feature curved legs and sides that lend a refined touch. The green lacquer ...

Dimensions - H: 29 1/4 in W: 39 3/4 in D: 23 1/2 in An outstanding Antique French Louis XV style bronze-mounted leather top desk, dating to the turn of the 20th century and signed ...

Decorate a bathroom, powder room or entryway with this elegant antique mirror. Crafted in the Burgundy region of France circa 1860, the large gilt mirror has traditional lines with r...

Empire period bed in solid mahogany and mahogany veneer, richly decorated with finely chased and gilded bronzes, with its canopy. The front of the bed features a lyre in the center, framed by two sheath feet with shafts decorated with caduceus and Mercury busts...

Empire Style Malachite on a Bronze Doré Gilded Stand Desk Decorative Object LA. A Beautiful Empire style malachite orb on a bronze Doré stand retour d'Egypte of 3 figures of standing...

A Large Silvered Bronze and Baccarat Crystal Centerpiece The silvered bronze mounts design simulating branches, foliages, leaves and grapevines Original fitted festooned Baccarat Cry...

Pair of Large Italian Empire crystal and gilt tole chandeliers, circa 1815-1835. Gilt tole repousse rings strung with crystal beads and pendants. Six gilt-iron arms – each supporting...

Pair of Antique French Pendant Baccarat Style Crystal Basket Chandelier Dimensions: Diameter 11.03 in/28 cm Height 31.5 in (chain = 11.81) / 80 cm (chain = 30 cm) One light bulbs E27...

Mid-Century Culver Ltd Gold and Teal Green Vintage Rocks Single Glass With 22-Karat Gold Accents and Arched Window Pattern. Vintage Culver Ltd Emerald Green Scroll double old fashioned glass with bright 22k gold trim. Collectible Valencia pattern in a green and gold leaf finish drinking single glass, replacement, beautiful 1950's Culver Ltd 24K gold enamel and green scroll design. Description: Green & Gold Grillwork Design, Barware. Pattern: Emerald Scroll by Culver Ltd. Green color is vivid, not faded, and gold scroll is in perfect condition. No chips or cracks. Signed “Culver Ltd”. Dimensions: 4 in x 4 in. Condition: colors are perfect, but the rim of the glass at some point shows imperfection, it is not chipped but looks like because it was hand made it is imperfect. You can see it in the video and pictures. Could be used as a small flower vase or brush pot. Collectible Hollywood Regency Valencia pattern double old fashion glass in a green and gold leaf finish. This fabulous vintage Culver barware...

A set of 4 circa 1940’s English Neoclassic style gilt bronze lantern with an interior six-light cluster. Sold individually. Measurements: Minimum drop: 40″ Diameter: 19″

The Modern Primal Console is part of the Blessing collection designed and manufactured by Egg Designs in South Africa. The Blessing console has three legs that are hand chiseled usi...

A French art deco modernist cigarette case. This is a gorgeous cigarettes case created in Paris France during the art deco period, back in the 1925-1930. The case has been crafted i...

***Reduced In-House Delivery Rates - Click on “Ask Seller” to Request a Quote*** Antique French Louis XV Style Foliate Carved Walnut & Gilt Fireplace Mantle C1930. Measures- 56w...

Extraordinary wine-cooler in the form of a beautifully sculpted, gilt and polychromed Swan of impressive stature, makes certainly the conversation-piece of the party. The white paint...