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Mr. John was one of the preeminent American milliners during the mid twentieth century, closing up his elaborate New York salon sometime in the 1970s, although he continued to design...

With settings and construction like Art-Deco-period unsigned crystal costume-jewelry by Bavarian-born blacksmith Henry Schreiner (1898-1954), this mid-century unsigned silver-soldere...

John Richard Limited Edition Giltwood Plume Mirror. Signed. Dimensions: 36 inches tall x 20 inches wide

Antoine Blanchard French, 1910-1988 Flower Market, La Madeleine, Paris Oil on canvas 13 by 18 in. W/frame 19 by 24 in. Signed lower right Provenance: Catalda Fine Arts, Inc., New York Private Collection, New York Trinity House Paintings, London Private Collcetion, New York Alexander Avenard Collection Le Trianon...

One of Minton's most popular patterns is named "Porcelain Ball” which features a large diameter plate bordered by a gold and white floral decoratio...

Jean Salabet French, Born 1900 Night in Montmartre Oil on canvas 10 ⅝ by 13 ¾ in, w/ frame 15 ⅜ by 18 ⅜ in Signed lower left Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter known for hi...

Carved limestone French limestone wall fountain with metal lion face.  

The Victorian Rococo giltwood top of mirror frame is hand-carved with flowers, leaves and scrolls. The centre oval contains two birds without stretched wings and a nest and eggs...

As we approach the holiday season, this complete Minton for Tiffany dinner service for 12 will work with many decorating themes to dress up any even...

Add this vintage painted metal Tete-a-Tete to your garden for added seating, charm and interest. Garden bench, outdoor seating, tete a tete.  

Like a turtleneck ensemble acquired by TheMet Costume Institute, Ann Demeulemeester designed this bold-silhouette contrasting-texture wool set of chocolate ribbed high-neck cropped tight knit sweater and black bias-cut crepe mini skirt for her Fall/Winter 1996-1997 collection, when the latter low-waisted garment without a waistband was worn on the Paris runway over trousers. The soft thick darted pullover jumper characteristically has the designer's hallmark of oversized exaggerated cuffs, which can be left unfolded for a more feminine look. The Belgian designer meticulously tailored the brushed-wool skirt so that its three seams are in the back, where there are also darts to flatter the bias drape, two belt loops, and invisible zip closure at the center. Aside from featuring knitted turtlenecks in almost every ensemble that debuted on the runway that season, this collection was significant because Demeulemeester--who was known for her black-and-white palette of monochromatic pieces until she retired from her independent label in 2013--added colors and textures including this sweater. However, red was the only color featured on the runway. For an alternative pairing idea, we included a photo of a similar brown ribbed darted high-neck sweater, which was worn in Demeulemeester's runway show for Fall/Winter 2000, but with a shiny billowy slit maxi skirt...

Unlike anything else from the 1990s, Comme des Garcons founder Rei Kawakubo (b. 1942) designed in 1999 for her Spring/Summer 2000 collection this pink-overdyed pullover soft stretch-...

18th century Chippendale mahogany camelback sofa with scrolled arms, molded tapered legs and bowed front. This example has dynamic impact due to its super lines. The bowed front seat...

A 1900s French re-creation of a classic design, these faux-bamboo chairs have been adapted and adopted by designers and furniture makers since the 1700s. This set of four re-interprets the archetype of ‘the East, carved wood faux bamboo-form chairs are made out of solid wood with a carved faux bamboo design throughout the frame. Well constructed with double stretcher leg supports with solid wood seats and is in good condition. These Vintage Chinese Chippendale Chairs...

A masterfully designed modernist oil and vinegar cruet set of impeccable quality made of glass and polished metal by Cini Nils, Italy, ...

In the style of Paolo Buffa, this 1950;s butterfly wing back chair has been restored and newly upholstered in a neutral linen fabric. Beautifully carved wood swag motif accents the front of the chair leading down to gracefully outward curved tapered...

Impressive monumental scale antique Italian rectangular mantel or fireplace mirror. The piece has two bold pillars with highly detailed carved molding all the way around. The Italian...

Australian designer Annabel Ingall hat in bands of natural, melon, rust, and brown straw. High crown with small, turned-up brim. Looks unused.

This English library or sofa table has aprons of stylized leaves carved within repeated half circles, turned legs and stretchers.

These Directoire period metal doors were once window shutters on an 18th century French chateau that now have been repurposed and made into doors for this cabinet which can lend itse...

An Important 19th Century Neoclassic Gilt Bronze & Crystal Chandelier
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19th Century 
Eight light chandelier with gilt bronze swans Height 48 in. Diameter 36 in. P...

Francois Gall Hungarian-French, 1912-1987 Walk in the Park Oil on canvas 8 ½ by 11 in, w/ frame 15 ¾ by 17 ¾ in Signed lower left Francois Gall, Hungarian by birth, became a natura...

Wonderfully stylish, the rustic Neoclassical styled garden dining table base offers the opportunity to add a top that will suit your need for size and style. Combine it with a wood,...

Appearing in several versions on the Stella McCartney Spring/Summer 2003 collection runway with silk oversized long bell sleeves (see our photos of the gold and white versions beginn...

A very handsome 18th century American trestle table. Perfect for a dinning, work table, desk, hall table, or would also make a great library table to pile your books on. Made comple...

Merio Ameglio Italian, 1897-1970 Parisian Street Scene Oil on Canvas 18 by 21 ½ in. W/frame 26 by 29 ½ in. Signed lower left Merio noted impr...

Denes Holesch Hungarian, 1910-1983 City Skyline Oil on board 21 ¾ by 26 in, w/ frame 30 by 34 in Signed lower left Denes Holesch (Denes de Holesch) was born in 1910 in Beszterceban...

This is a complete dessert service for 12 that includes the matching coffee or teapot, creamer and sugar made by Copeland Spode, exclusively for Tiffany and Co. The butterscotch col...

With wonderful aged patina, whether a water feature or a standalone sculpture, this wonderful 19th Century Antique Bronze Fountain or Bird Bath will charm the most discriminating ar...

Velvet is in! This black velvet 1950s princess-style coat is in great condition and features a small collar and seven black buttons down the front. The nipped waist and flare skirt s...

Each panel decorated with a landscape. Each panel is H.69 in. by 22 in.

This pair of elaborate sterling silver candlesticks will set the table with many options for centerpieces. The sophisticated decoration of leaves and swirling silver embellish the ba...

Robert Goosens, the French haute-couture Chanel-favorite parurier who enjoyed reinterpreting ancient and antique styles of jewelry with rock crystal and faux stones, also collaborated with Madame Alix Gres. Relevant to this statement necklace, the Parisian theatrical-costume designer, who founded the French fashion-house Maison Gres, commissioned Goosens to make spiral-wire adornments for her couture gowns. This handmade hammered brass wire choker necklace with five dropped en-tremblant pendants is decorated with unique colorful beads and wrapped wire. The piece dates between 1969-1971 based on similar unsigned spiraled-wire metal jewelry without goldsmithing marks in the museum collection of TheMet (see our photo), which acquired it from Maison Givenchy founder Hubert de Givenchy, who was one of most supportive fans of Gres. Like the legendary sculptural clothing designs of Madame Gres, this necklace was inspired by Greco-Roman costumes, while its sculpted shapes by Goosens reference her signature curvilinear fabric techniques that earned her the sobriquet of "the master of the wrapped and draped dress". Goosens (1927-2016), nicknamed Monsieur Bijou, also made jewelry inspired by other periods of antiquity to compliment the couture clothing of Coco Chanel, Cristobal Balenciaga, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent. After Goosens collaborated with Gres, he revisited golden spiral designs with Saint Laurent. Similar to the free-flowing fabric manipulated in Gres gowns, this hand-shaped necklace that we photographed in sunlight is a study in motion that drapes across a curvy cleavage. Adding drama to this necklace below its wire choker, the top teetering-wire pendant is a twisted and hammered horizontal double spiral, which is a Hellenistic symbol of life and transformation suggesting the breasts of a goddess of fertility and motherhood. Yet distinctly Goosens, 18 hand-cut and hand-dyed "ancient-Roman-blue" rock-crystal beads are wire-strung to weight a second tier of two separate vertical double-spiral pendants. On each, a wrapped-wire tube divides the blue beads. Between these vertical pendants in two tiers, the central vertical pendants each feature a one-of-a-kind multicolor bead (yellow/blue/red/black/white) in two lengths with abstract organic patterns recalling ancient Italian glasswork. Four more blue beads bracket these larger colorful beads. An additional 10 blue beads and 5 wire tubes decorate the bottom looped wire pendant, as well as the bottom of the wire choker. Like the hammered-wire jewelry designs of modern artist Alexander Calder, the creative complex construction of this necklace surprisingly required no metalsmith techniques, such as soldering or casting, just great skill with a jewelry pliers and hammer. For a bigger picture of couture clothing by Madame Gres during the decade beginning in 1969, she notably designed many museum-collected one-color silk-taffeta draped long gowns with empire waists and simple high collars or geometric cut-outs. Remarkably, the focal points for some of these unique dresses were at the wrists, from where long pouf sleeves voluminously droop around the hands to nearly the floor like two enormous long-petaled flowers. If paired with this equally downward-focused and balanced necklace from this same period, its bold Greco-Roman elements would have pulled a viewer's gaze of the dress from floor to face. Although there is no significant provenance for this necklace, hammered brass and tinted rock crystal were among the few materials repeatedly associated with Goosens from 1969-71. For example, in his overlapping interior-decor collections based on themes of waterlilies or foliage, Goosens hammered gilt brass wire and sheets (see our closeup photo) to represent plant parts or he wired rock-crystal beads to appear as tiny fruits. While the two multicolor glass or resin beads in this necklace are atypical, the combination of blue, yellow and red is a palette that the designer used for other pieces of rock-crystal jewelry and he created many kinds of multicolor faux stones with glass or resin paste, such as faux Tibetan turquoise including black and white. According to journalism based on interviews with Goosens, he often acquired unusual stones and glass for inspiration during his extensive travels exploring museum-collected antiquities. Since Maison Goosens was acquired in 2005 by Maison Chanel, it opened the Parisian showroom Galerie Goosens and associated shops to sell many kinds of reproductions and reimagined works by the founder, which fortunately does not suit the completely handmade elements of this necklace. So this couture piece remains one-of-a-kind. If desiring a vintage haute-couture original by Robert Goosens, we recommend perusing the Maison Goosens website so that a reproduction with a contemporary signature is not mistakenly purchased. Madame Gres (1903-1993) was born Germaine Emelie Krebs, but initially identified her fashion designs with the pseudonym Alix and later Alix Barton...

Unusual antique pie safe that has been made into a nightstand. A back has been added to what once was open for the pies to cool after it has been taken out o...

Antique East Lake style victorian black painted hand carved wall mirror with gold accented carved detail. Newly refinished condition. Har...

An intricate and very interesting painted tole and brass chandelier with matching shades. The chandeliers made in Italy in the 1930s. The red is that perfect shade, mixed with gold,...

Among the most in-demand designs by Trifari artistic director Alfred Philippe were his flora and "jelly belly" fauna jewelry from the 1940s. Both iconic styles can be mixed as the go...

Rustic and elegant at the same time, add a neoclassical country touch to your bedroom, bathroom or office. The gold gilt edging gives it a Classic vintage antique...

The pair of antique Corinthian columns are painted with a marblized effect on each base and shaft and have black capitals, above which are ce...

A four-piece serving set in the Spectator Cadet blue pattern by Ralph Lauren Home Collection. Signed, made in 1995-1996. Includes oval serving platter, round vegetable serving bowl,...

A most attractive pair of Italian Neo-Classical style white Carrara marble urns. Elegant fluted bodies giving it both a clean modern and yet classical look. Marble shows aged patina...

The very rustic antique wooden column plinth, pedestal or base in the classical style can be used as side table, end table or pedestal for either...

This set of 12 Coalport dinner plates feature an unusual color combination of a soft gray border decorated with a vibrant palette of brightly pai...

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's earliest fashion motifs of camellias, hearts, and topaz are combined in this Art-Deco period tightly silk-strung metallic-glass couture set of a mixed-bead ...

Belgium former fashion designer Martin Margiela for his eponymous Paris-based Maison Martin Margiela Spring/Summer 2007 collection in a minimalist style debuted this cherry-red crepe...

A classically shaped antique Chinese cypress water bucket with original cast iron handles and straps with lovely old wood patina. The rustic country style bucket has many practical u...

Pair of silver paint decorated Italian Rococo dining side chairs. Chairs are wonderfully carved in the Grotto fashion with arched backs supported...

Cast from an original 19th century French fountain.

A pair of period midcentury sconces in brass and gray metal, each with five arms. In the style of Stilnovo. Italy, circa 1950. Dimensions: 14 height x 8 width x 6.5 deep x 3.5 bac...

Antoine Blanchard French, 1910-1988 Café de la Paix, L’Opera, Paris Oil on canvas 13 by 18 in. W/frame 19 by 24 in. Signed lower right Framed in a fi...

This antique French early Art-Deco period two-strand necklace is strung with a variety of Parisian handcrafted beads that date to the early 1920s, including sea-green lampwork glass,...

c.1960 fascinator consisting of a structured pink velvet ring under a coordinating deep net that extends from top of head down front and sides. One si...

This huge pair of "Barbotine" ceramic plaques have all the bells and whistles. Completely hand-painted with inviting seascapes, each one is surrounded with paste flowers and realisti...

Around 1970 when Bill Blass introduced his eponymous brand after becoming a leading couture fashion designer among New York City society, he created this sleek tuxedo-like ecru-satin...

Antique 19th Century cast stone jardiniere with aged painted surface. Residue of yellow paint still visible giving it added interest and charm. This antique vessel from the Mediterra...

Style and functionality — A marriage of the old and the new. The newly made large zinc top sits on an antique hand carved French Louis XIII style white washed table...

Antique pine American country blanket chest. The wood has great patina and a deep rich warm tone. The tall lift top chest has one dovetailed drawer below with original drawer pulls. ...

1980s royal blue coat and dress with charcoal beading in geometric patterns and hearts. The open coat reveals a V-neck, 3/4 sleeve dress underneath...

This a fabulous five-light table lamp with clustered grapes as shades, handblown applied leaves on Art Nouveau solid iron base. Made in Czechoslovakia it is the perfect lamp for a wi...

The compact dressing cabinet / tall chest of drawers was designed by Raymond Loewy. The cabinet has a tall door on the left and 7 drawers on the right with c...