London - Decorative Objects

An exceptional formation resembling an other-worldly landscape. This spherical geode has been exposed to reveal a gorgeous amethystine quartz interior, the tinted stalactites resem...

"Chardonneret Moqueur" by Rene Lalique An endearing early 20th Century French Art Deco clear and frosted yellow glass figure of a goldfinch with its head raised, exhibiting excellen...

Georg Nilsson by Gero, Zeist. An Art Deco silver plated jewellry box with two compartments and two lids with ebonised Beech handles and four corresponding...

This 20th-century bronze figure of Wellington in military attire depicts Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, a prominent military and political figure in British history. Art...

Fine traditionally hand-crafted and turned Ash platter finished with Japanese scorched yakisugi technique and natural rim. These are handmade to the...

Large organic bronze cast gold tinted candelabra forms a circle of six alternating candles of choice, from regular candles to 3.5 cm diameter. They wi...

Hallmarked in London in 1901 by Mappin & Webb, this handsome pair of Antique, Edwardian, Sterling Silver Vases, are plain in design, and of larger than usual size. Each vase measures...

Hallmarked in London in 1891 by Francis Boone Thomas, this large and impressive antique sterling silver dish displays a fine example of late Victorian craftsmanship. Oval in form and...

An Antique solid Silver Epergne Centrepiece with a large oval central basket supporting a tall trumpet shaped vase on top of an impressive concave shaped stand. The central stand has...

Hallmarked in Sheffield in 1893 by Atkin Brothers, this attractive, Antique Sterling Silver and Glass Biscuit Jar, stands on 3 ball and claw feet, and features pierced and engraved d...

Midcentury ceramic vase, circa 1960s by Jacques Pouchain (1925-2005). This milk-pitcher-shaped vase in Pouchain's signature cloudy glaze style is stylish, characterful and substantia...

A charming pair of decorative silver plate geese or mallard ducks, made in Spain in the twentieth century. The geese are very finely modelled with excellent details to the faces, f...

This fine and imposing sculpture is an excellent example of 16th century Italian craftsmanship. The figure is stood on a raised, shaped rectangular base with a carved "dolphin" at th...

A large pair of early 19th Century bronze & ormolu 4-light Candelabra, having spheres holding scrolled mask-head candlearms with acanthus decorated ovoid drip-pans, raised on taperin...

Pair of brutalist aluminium and brass candlesticks by David Marshall (c. 1980s). These brutalist style candlesticks are both weighty and tactile with the maker's mark impressed on th...

Decorative elongated ceramic flower vase (circa 1960s). This mid-century flower vase is cylindrical in shape and stylishly glazed with a sheen in a d...

Mid-century decorative ceramic bowl (circa 1960s) by Albert Thiry. Chalky-white glazed interior sides prepare the viewer for the delightful base which consists of a circle of subtle ...

Mid-century malachite vide poche ashtray, Italy, C.1950. In excellent condition commensurate of age.

A very unusual and Murano blue and turquoise glass vase. The original round foil sticker is visible on one side marked: Murano Made In Italy. A beautiful decorative piece perfect for a glass display case or shelf where the light can shine through it to emphasise the beautiful and almost luminous two-tone coloured glass. The vase is made in the Sommerso (submerged) style with darker royal blue glass submerged inside lighter turquoise clear glass...

An elegant early 20th-century Art Deco large cold-painted silver bronze figure of a young beauty captured in a graceful pose. Mounted on a marble base adorned with a delicate beaded ...

A Mid-Century ceramic bottle / vase by Alexandre Kostanda (circa 1960s). This stunning asymmetric earthenware vessel presents a misty appearance with earth tones in brown, beige and ...

Art Deco gilt bronze sculpture of the 'Theban Dancer' by CJR Colinet French, circa 1925 Measures: Height 55cm, width 59cm, depth 23cm The important Fr...

An Aesthetic Movement mantel or bracket clock, Signed James Aitchison, Paris in the number 12, with finely carved floral decoration to the front and sides, a french city evening scen...

A C.1920s black Catalan terracotta cosi pot from the village of Quart. Originally used for the storage of wine &/or olive oil. Nicely patinated du...

This is a charming Derby figure of a shepherdess with a garlanded lamb, made in or shortly after 1760. The figure is one half of a set called the "Garland...

Pair Of Showa Period Japanese Lacquered Woven Bamboo Ikebana Vases, Japan, C.1950 The word Ikebana translates as the Japanese art of flower arrang...

"Chinese Legend" by Erté An eye catching limited edition cold painted Art Deco bronze figure of an elegant beauty in a full length costume resembling a Fenghuang. The bronze surface with excellent colour and detail, signed Erté, numbered 50/500, dated 1988 and with foundry mark. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 55 cm Circa: 1988 Foundry: Seven Arts Materials: Bronze Book Ref: Erte – The Last Works by Eric Estorick Page No: 152 SKU: 8260 ABOUT Erté Sculpture...

An Aesthetic Movement ebonized clock with finely carved decoration, the clock movement is by Edwards and Sons with a pair carved devices below and a blue and white floral ceramic bor...

An incredible amethyst formation with central calcite "arch" and calcite spear. Two special calcite formations are shown here; the first is a beautiful arch covered with a blanket...

'Paradise 09 Chartreuse Quartz' is a unique glass sculpture created using hybrid hand-made glass techniques by the British artist, Amy Cushing. Combining mouth blown glass with kiln...

A decorative bronze writing case by legendary French Art Deco metal worker Edgar Brandt (1880-1960).  Constructed of bronze and signed with a serial number verso.  The case can be ...

A large green glazed Hurlingham pottery vase stamped and numbered underneath. Cream glazed on the inside. Some marks to the green glaze which should be visible in the photos, otherwi...

Turkey and France, circa 1890 and later An unusual group of three Iznik jugs with typical polychromatic floral sprays of tulips, rosettes, carnations and saz leaves. One from the Fr...

A heavy amber coloured Saint Gobain glass vide poche.

"Timore" by Marc Lalique A delightful French frosted grey glass sculpture of a standing baby elephant with its trunk raised, the surface with very fine detail, signed Lalique France...

A silvered bronze vase with a frieze of prancing horses, bears incised monogram of French foundry Valsuani. Signed M Divani. Marcello Valsuani emigrated from Italy to France and wor...

An impressive, large single crystal point of smoky quartz with pleasing facets. The interior of the quartz crystal is interspersed with gorgeous black tourmaline in a variety of orie...

This is a superb antique French gilt bronze mantel clock with Bleu Celeste porcelain panels in the Sevres manner, circa 1860 in date. The case crowned with two cherubs holding laurels one holding a mask emblematic of theatre, flanking an oval Bleu Celeste porcelain panel of the playwright Molière . The base decorated with ormolu flowers is raised on turned feet and inset with Sevres plaques decorated with cherubs. The circular dial has Roman and Arabic numerals and the clock has an 8 day striking movement complete with count wheel strike and bell, stamped with Miroy Freres...

This handcrafted vintage grain storage pot is a beautiful example of Anatolian terracotta artistry, offering a glimpse into traditional craftsmanship and rural heritage. Originally c...

Howell and James in the style of Lewis Foreman Day. A small Aesthetic Movement walnut mantle clock with brass finials and brass feet, a pierced gallery to the top centred with a fan ...

C19th stone Putti holding a wreath. Charming and decorative C19th stone characterful putti standing and encircled in a laurel leaf wreath. There is wear and signs of damage however t...

An exciting clear, frosted and opalescent Art Deco glass vase with raised lozenge pattern interspersed with flowering branches heightened with light staining, signed to base R Laliqu...

This is a superb quality antique French malachite, bronze and ormolu mantel clock dating from Circa 1850 in date. It features Louis XVI seated on an ormolu throne chair whilst reading a book. The clockmakers name is inscribed on the backplate. It is of high quality and is in excellent clean and running condition having been fully overhauled by our clockmaker. Pendulum is original. The movement bearing the serial number 29, made and signed by Japy Fils 1849. It has an early French silk suspension...

A stunning lucite and brass Jaeger LeCoultre Inline Skeleton Clock, with a clean minimalistic design which would look stylish in any setting. The beauty of these skeleton clocks is that you can see the 16 jewel Swiss movement working and watch the balance staff turn. This delightful Mid Century...

Large and decorative antique silver jewellery box of superb quality and lined with green velvet. The exterior has cast and applied supports ...

A stunning grape agate with calcium carbonate arrangement! Origin: Indonesia

William James Neatby (attributed). An Arts and Crafts Glasgow Style mahogany plant stand, with elongated uprights, circular caps and stylized floral pier...

Super decorative glazed vase, intricate monochromatic surface pattern. Italy 1950s H 30cm x D 20cm

Mid-century French ceramic apothecary jar by Albert Thiry (circa 1960s). A delightful piece with Thiry's signature style, chalk-white base with ...

A pair of mid-19th century ormolu candlesticks with engine-turned detail throughout, having urn-shaped nozzles and tapering stems with vase-shape to the bottom, ending on circular ba...

Liberty & Co in the style of. An English Arts & Crafts hexagonal pewter Inkwell with a Green Ruskin ceramic jewel to the hinged lid. Retaining the original pewter removable inkwell. ...

A delightful silvered bronze vide poche, jewelry tray, pin dish or occasional dish in the shape of a duck, made by Valenti in Spain, c. 1970. The duck is beautifully modelled in bro...

Explore the extraordinary allure of this mesmerizing quartz sphere, featuring stunning golden rutile inclusions from Brazil. The perfectly polished surface accentuates the intricate ...

French ceramic duck flower vase (1994) by Albert Thiry. A creamy-white glaze contrasts with a delicate green which progresses in intensity on the piece's ...

An unusual sculptural arrangement of two clear quartz crystals, punctuated and adorned on all sides with dark green tourmaline, watermelon colour in cross section.

Unique and exquisite brass cast leaf bowl. Handmade using highly skilled and specialised traditional processes to create an original and sumptuous piece. Slight variations in the pa...

Original nickel plated tea light holder shaped as a Magnolia Twig. Handmade individually with incredible detail and cast using very traditional techniques. Slight variations in the ...

An Unusual and Rare English ‘Memento Mori’ Carved Shrine with Two Human Skulls to the underside, a carved ‘Dragonfly’ Marble 16th / 17th Century England Size: 36cm high, 28cm w...

"John" console table by Stephane Ducatteau, Signed by Artist, France, 2010. All Ducatteau pieces are available exclusively from Decoratum and are To Order only. Please allow 6-8 w...

An impressive early 20th Century American iridescent glass vase of slender form with green hearts shining through an attractive golden iridescence, signed L C Tiffany Favrile and numbered to base. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Height: 23 cm Condition: Very Good Condition Circa: 1905 Materials: Iridescent Coloured Glass SKU: 6667 ABOUT Louis Comfort Tiffany Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewellery, enamels and metalwork. Early Life He was born in New York City, New York, the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Company; and Harriet Olivia Avery Young. He attended school at Pennsylvania Military Academy in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. His first artistic training was as a painter, studying under George Inness in Eagleswood, New Jersey and Samuel Colman in Irvington, New York. He also studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1866-67 and with salon painter Leon-Adolphe-Auguste Belly in 1868-69. Belly’s landscape paintings had a great influence on Tiffany. Career Louis started out as a painter, but became interested in glassmaking from about 1875 and worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn between then and 1878. In 1879, he joined with Candace Wheeler, Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists. The business was short-lived, lasting only four years. The group made designs for wallpaper, furniture, and textiles. He later opened his own glass factory in Corona, New York, determined to provide designs that improved the quality of contemporary glass. Tiffany’s leadership and talent, as well as his father’s money and connections, led this business to thrive. In 1881 Tiffany did the interior design of the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, which still remains, but the new firm’s most notable work came in 1882 when President Chester Alan Arthur refused to move into the White House until it had been redecorated. He commissioned Tiffany, who had begun to make a name for himself in New York society for the firm’s interior design work, to redo the state rooms, which Arthur found charmless. He worked on the East Room, the Blue Room, the Red Room, the State Dining Room and the Entrance Hall, refurnishing, repainting in decorative patterns, installing newly designed mantelpieces, changing to wallpaper with dense patterns and, of course, adding Tiffany glass to gaslight fixtures, windows and adding an opalescent floor-to-ceiling glass screen in the Entrance Hall. The Tiffany screen and other Victorian additions were all removed in the Roosevelt renovations of 1902, which restored the White House interiors to Federal style in keeping with its architecture. A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm that same year. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated December 1, 1885 and in 1902 became known as the Tiffany Studios. In the beginning of his career, he used cheap jelly jars and bottles because they had the mineral impurities that finer glass lacked. When he was unable to convince fine glassmakers to leave the impurities in, he began making his own glass. Tiffany used opalescent glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. He developed the “copper foil” technique, which, by edging each piece of cut glass in copper foil and soldering the whole together to create his windows and lamps, made possible a level of detail previously unknown. This can be contrasted with the method of painting in enamels or glass paint on colorless glass, and then setting the glass pieces in lead channels, that had been the dominant method of creating stained glass for hundreds of years in Europe. (The First Presbyterian Church building of 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is unique in that it uses Tiffany windows that partially make use of painted glass.) Use of the colored glass itself to create stained glass pictures was motivated by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement and its leader William Morris in England. Fellow artists and glassmakers Oliver Kimberly and Frank Duffner, founders of the Duffner and Kimberly Company and John La Farge were Tiffany’s chief competitors in this new American style of stained glass. Tiffany, Duffner and Kimberly, along with La Farge, had learned their craft at the same glasshouses in Brooklyn in the late 1870s. In 1889 at the Paris Exposition, he is said to have been “Overwhelmed” by the glass work of Émile Gallé, French Art Nouveau artisan. He also met artist Alphonse Mucha. In 1893, Tiffany built a new factory called the Stourbridge Glass Company, later called Tiffany Glass Furnaces, which was located in Corona, Queens, New York, hiring the Englishman Arthur J. Nash to oversee it. In 1893, his company also introduced the term Favrilein conjunction with his first production of blown glass at his new glass factory. Some early examples of his lamps were exhibited in the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. At the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, he won a gold medal with his stained glass windows The Four Seasons He trademarked Favrile (from the old French word for handmade) on November 13, 1894. He later used this word to apply to all of his glass, enamel and pottery. His first commercially produced lamps date from around 1895. Much of his company’s production was in making stained glass windows and Tiffany lamps, but his company designed a complete range of interior decorations. At its peak, his factory employed more than 300 artisans. Recent scholarship led by Rutgers professor Martin Eidelberg suggests that a team of talented single women designers – sometimes referred to as the “Tiffany Girls” – led by Clara Driscoll played a big role in designing many of the floral patterns on the famous Tiffany...