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French Louis XVI Style Brass And Glass Coffee Table. Offered is a lovely vintage French Louis XVI Maison Bagues style brass coffee table or cocktail table with an insert glass top. ...

This 1.5 inch gold hoop is the latest fabulous hoop earring you need! These 2.5 mm wide hoop earrings are lightweight and easy to wear so it does not pull on your earlobes... And the...

Spectacular French Modern Seashell, Amethyst And Rock Crystal Mirror. Offered is a large outstanding rectangular Organic Modern French mirror strategically encrusted with a beautiful...

Brilliantly faceted and richly colored, this mid-20th century Bohemian crystal vase exemplifies the bold artistry of cut-to-clear glasswork. Crafted circa 1950–1970, the piece featur...

Monumental 52 Inch Star Shaped Chandelier. This outstanding 20th century star shaped chandelier, possibly Italian is made of gilt metal with li...

The twisted bangle bracelet is amazing! The details for this gorgeous bracelet are listed below: Bracelet Type: Bangle with Safety Latch Metal Quality: 14 Karat Yellow Gold Circumfer...

A rare antique, circa 1890s, German hand carved and painted wood carousel horse carnival fair ride by Peter Schneider (famous for making the first double decker carousel in 1898). ...

French Art Deco credenza with mirrored doors after Jules Leleu. Glamorous French Art Deco Jules Leleu inspired four-door enfilade / buffet / cred...

More information coming soon… This shapely cast stone wall fountain is from France and dates to circa the 1970s. The demi-lune basin is adorned with a cavetto undercut above and be...

Vintage & Unworn, Rare John Galiano Sheer Lace Boned Bustier Lace-Up Embroidered Corset Top US - M, UE - 2, Italian - 3, French - 2. This fabulous corset features brown sheer floral ...

Pair of Murano glass sconces, each crafted with a single curved panel of hand-blown smoked glass on a brass frame. We love the modern style and hand-crafted quality of these sconces....

Introducing our new Dubois hexagonal coffee table, a study in form and finesse that pays homage to the golden age of French cabinetmaking. Drawing inspiration from the meticulous cra...

78801 Vintage New Mexico Chimayo Rug, 01'08 x 03'03. This handwoven wool vintage Chimayó rug from the renowned Ortega’s Weaving Shop in New Mexico i...

19th Century French Louis XV Serpentine Walnut Display Armoire ~ Bookcase is a magnificent expression of the Rococo style, rendered in exquisite French walnut that is a bit on the bl...

Antique French Gothic Revival Carved walnut mirrored credence cupboard or cabinet~~versatile size~~c. 1880s Charming antique cabinet in popular French Gothic Revival style~~upper...

The deep patina of the aged oak wood draws one to this handsome side table from France, which may also serve as a nightstand or small console. Decorative carving abounds in the top, ...

A heavyweight brass Surrealist pipe that is spring-loaded to function as a note holder, and with an opening to hold a pen. The bronzed flat plate metal base is attached to the pipe...

Vintage in the manner of Venini tiered murano glass chandlier, circa 1970s. The chandelier is made up of individual murano glass prisms creating five tiers. This vintage chandelier c...

This richly sculpted hand carved and gilded Bodhisattva sculpture is almost certainly a fragment of a larger structure, likely an architectural ornament from an East Asian Buddhist t...

Brand: David Yurman Gender: Ladies  Metal Type: 18K Yellow Gold Ring Size: 5  Width: 3.83 mm Diameter: 20.00 mm Weight: 3.91 grams Ladies DAVID YURMAN 18K yellow gold diamond ...

E. Salazar Texas Artist Image Size: 15 x 13 Frame Size: 19 x 17 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Riding High"

Tom Ford for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche Lace-Up Blouse with Lace Skirt Suit F/W 2002 Runway Collection French size 38 - US 6 Very romantic, and in same time very sexy look. Black...

An authentic early 20th century Korean dovetailed elm chest often used for storing valuables or clothing. The large fish-form lock, common on chests from the provinces of northern ...

Rare French Majolica Chesnut Platter signed Sarreguemines Majolica circa 1870.

19th Century French Majolica flowers plate.

A fascinating Neoclassical piece of art from Austria (circa 1790), this oval panel has been hand-carved with a bombe (out curving) form that accentuates the bas-relief figures. The i...

Mirror, French, from the Louis Philippe period. Original mercury “diamond dust” mirror. The frame is made of solid wood hand carved and stuccoed, the mirror boasts floral chiseling a...

Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 25 x 30 Frame Size: 34 x 39 Medium: Oil on Canvas Circa 1950 "Lazy Day Blues" Texas Bluebonnet Biography Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist who painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. Born in 1910 in Bastrop, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as landscape painter, Robert Wood. Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets". Salinas served in the military from 1943 to 1945. Although he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, he was allowed to live at home. At the fort, Colonel Telesphor Gottchalk assigned him to paint murals for the officer's lounge and various other projects, and Salinas continued to be able to paint during his entire conscripted period. Even before he achieved notoriety among galleries, dealers, and museums, Salinas was widely followed and appreciated by many Texans, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may be considered responsible for launching Salinas popularity beyond the boundaries of Texas. In 1973, Texas capital, Austin, honored Salinas for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas closer together with his paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas. From the years of the Great Depression through President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society of the 1960s, Texan Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) remained one of the Lone Star State's most popular artists. Today, his works remain popular with Texas collectors and those who love landscapes of the beautiful "Hill Country" that lies in the center of the state. One of the first Mexican American painters to become widely recognized for his art, Salinas was a favorite of President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as well as of Sam Rayburn, the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Texas Governor John Connelly. In fact, President Johnson was so enamored with his Salinas paintings that the artist will forever be associated with America's first Texas-born President. Works by Porfirio Salinas is in a number of museum collections, grace the halls of the Texas State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Austin, and are included in virtually every major private collection of Early Texas Art. Porfirio Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near the small town of Bastrop, Texas, about thirty miles from Austin. His father, Porfirio G. Salinas (1881-1967), and his mother, Clara G. Chavez, struggled to make a hardscrabble living as tenant farmers, but eventually were forced to give up farming. The family moved to San Antonio, where Salinas' father was able to get a job working as a laborer for the railroad, but the scenic area around Bastrop, with its pine trees and the wide expanse of the Rio Grande River, would forever remain a touchstone for the artist. For the rest of his life, Salinas and his brothers went back frequently to visit their grandmother in her little farmhouse. When in Bastrop, Porfirio painted on the banks of the Rio Grande or in the groves of pine trees. The Salinas family was close-knit, and Porfirio was the middle child of five children, so he had an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother and sister. His mother was a native of Mexico, so throughout his childhood the family made the long drive to Mexico to visit Clara Salinas' family. As a child growing up in the bi-lingual section of San Antonio, Salinas drew and painted incessantly and by the time he was ten, he was already producing work that was mature enough to sell to his schoolteachers. Many years later in an article in the New York Times he was described as a "boy whose textbooks were seldom opened and whose sketchbook was never closed." Instead of studying, the young artist spent his spare time watching artists paint in and around San Antonio. As an aspiring painter, Salinas was fortunate to grow up in the historic city, which had the most active art scene in Texas. It was his exposure to older, professional painters that encouraged the precocious young painter to leave school early in order to help his family and pursue a career as a professional artist, despite his father's inability to see art as a career with any future for his son. When Salinas was about fifteen he came to know the artist Robert W. Wood (1889-1979). He met Wood while he was employed in an art supply store and he soon began to work as an assistant to the English-born painter, who had moved from Portland to San Antonio in 1924. Although the diminutive Englishman was already an established professional artist, he did not have a great deal of formal art training and so he was then studying with the academically trained Spanish painter Jose Arpa (1858-1952) in order to augment his knowledge and give his work a more polished look. Salinas was an eager young man, and while working in Wood's downtown San Antonio studio he learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the English artist. He began to accompany Wood and Arpa to the hills outside San Antonio, where they painted small Plein-air studies of fields of blue lupin - the state flower, the famous "Bluebonnets" of Texas - in the springtime and scenes of the gnarled Red Oaks as they changed color in the fall. He was soon assisting Wood in the tedious work of painting the tiny blue flowers that collectors wanted to see in the landscapes they purchased of central Texas. According to a 1972 newspaper story, "Legend has it that one day in the 1920s artist Robert Wood decided he could not bear to paint another bluebonnet in one of his landscapes. He hired young Porfirio Salinas to paint them in for him at five dollars a painting." Whether this story is accurate or apocryphal isn't clear, but the ambitious and independent young Salinas wasn't destined to be anyone's assistant for very long. The formative event of Porfirio Salinas' teenage years was the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, a Roaring-Twenties dream of the eccentric oilman Edgar B. Davis (1873-1951). These competitive shows of paintings of wildflowers and Texas life were mounted in San Antonio from 1927 to 1929. Held at the newly opened Witte Museum each spring, the exhibition featured large cash prizes donated by the philanthropic Davis, which were an inducement for artists to travel from all over the United States to paint in the Hill Country of Texas. The "Davis Competitions," as they were known, helped to cement San Antonio's reputation as an art center, a legacy that remains with the "River City" today. The shows generated a great deal of excitement in the area, helping to make celebrities of the some of the artists who had already settled there and encouraging others to make San Antonio their home. Over the three years that the wildflower competitions were held, more than 300 paintings were exhibited, and many thousands of viewers saw the paintings at the Witte Museum and on tours throughout the state and in New York. Each year Davis would generously purchase the winning paintings and then donate them to the San Antonio Art League. Young Porfirio Salinas would have been able to not only watch his two mentors - Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa - paint the works that they entered in the Davis Competitions, he would have been able to see Arpa take several of the major prizes, receiving the judge's accolades for "Verbena," "Cactus Flower" and "Picking Cotton," works that are still on view at the San Antonio Art League Museum today. Unfortunately, Davis eventually put his donations to work in other charitable endeavors, bringing to an end the wildflower events, but only after they inspired Salinas and other young painters and had helped to make wildflower paintings the most sought-after subject for traditionalist Texas collectors. In 1930, when he was only twenty, Salinas hung out a shingle and began to paint professionally, augmenting the sales of his easel paintings with what little business he could garner by painting signs for local concerns. It was a struggle for the young artist to make a living, as the effects of the Great Depression were settling in. His early works are very similar to those of Robert Wood's, both in subject matter and treatment. Salinas did small paintings of Bluebonnets for the tourists who visited San Antonio to see the famous Alamo as well as paintings of the Texas missions...

Rosaline Necklace. A gorgeous locket with a Sèvres style floral enamel painting serves as the design inspiration for this necklace. It was presented to me as a Art Nouveau compact...

Edouard Léon Cortès (1882–1969) was a French painter of French and Spanish ancestry. He is known as "Le Poète Parisien de la Peinture" or "the Parisian Poet of Painting...

Vintage Tom Ford for Gucci Turquoise Ostrich Bamboo Heel Men's Loafers US size - 10.5 Turquoise color Ostrich soft leather, Real bamboo heel, Braided leather accent around. Leather ...

Inspired by the winding paths carved by glaciers, Esker is a fusion of movement and structure. This handmade silver band features a sculptural, layered effect, as if metal has been n...

The Ginkgo Fireplace Screen is designed to be seen. This piece combines movement, elegance, and allure to make it the perfect piece to finish off your fireplace decor. Each leaf is formed with individual, hand bent iron. Inspired by Ginkgo trees...

Veldt is a tribute to the raw, unrefined beauty of the natural world. Crafted in oxidized 925 sterling silver, its organic wrinkled texture mimics the cracked earth, aged bark, or fa...

A mid-century cabinet No. U-450 designed by Jiří Jiroutek made of ash, birch, fabric, and steel. The cabinet features a flip-top concealing storage with venting along the underside. ...

This Danish oak vitrine may be used as a display cabinet or bookcase. The upper pane glass doors and canted sides allow for lovely display of any collection held within. The newer pr...

Miami cuban chains are a classic design! This Miami Cuban chain bracelet is a 6mm wide bracelet with a smooth, high polish finish. The links...

Hand-carved in Italy, circa 1800, this pair of giltwood angels is depicted in a double genuflection, or kneeling, stance. Both angels are completely gil...

Striking French Art Deco breakfront in Fine Macassar veneer featuring multi-level top, two keyed large centre doors with well-fitted interiors. The key...

This lovely diamond chevron, or curved, band is decorated with gorgeous bead details! Accented by the lovely 14 karat yellow gold, this ring is an amazing fashion band and stackable...

Hand-carved in Veneto, Italy, this pair of limestone horses are sculptures in the round, meaning that they can be viewed from any angle. Although the c...

A stunning set of Post-Modern fireplace tools by Danny Alessandro. Bold, elegantly refined minimalist taste, artistic very fine quality cast fire tools with ring handles in chromed nickeled steel, comprising four implements each with a circular "ring" handle that slides over and registers securely into a notch on the integral floor stand. The scarce, exceptionally executed original matching set including a broom, tong, shovel, poker and rack finished in rich, lustrous polished chrome. The tools do not look to have ever been used. American Modernist Alessandro sold his works through William H...

Antique French Limestone Sink

Art Deco French Iznik Platter Bowl Edmond Lachenal. blue tulips and red carnations. Diameter / 10.5 inches. H / 2.2 inches. Edmond Lachenal ( 1855 – 1948) was a French potter. He was...

Rare Runway Silk Gucci Pants Brand New w/ Tags $2350 Worn by most of the models for the Spring/Summer 2004 Collection Tom Ford's "Farewell" Spring Collection for Gucci Blush Silk Pa...

This pink sapphire wedding band is made from 14 karat rose gold and is perfect alone or paired with another ring. The four prongs that hold each of the sapphires makes the stone sett...

These studded huggies will bring an elegant edge to any look, perfect for the modern woman. The details for these gorgeous earrings are listed below: 1 set Metal Quality: 14K Yellow...

20th Century gilt iron mirror featuring hand wrought ironwork formed into branches, vines, twine, drapes, and a sun ornament.

With a frame that feels both refined and organic, the Graceful Leaf Mirror lives up to its name. Sculpted vines stretch gently across one corner and along the edges, adorned with han...

An unusual Japanese carved wood, lacquer, and gilt decorated portrait sculpture of a shogun, Edo Period, early 19th century, Japan. The unidentified shogun (possibly Tokugawa Iey...

The Antique Large Greek Terracotta Pot is a striking example of ancient craftsmanship, designed to serve both functional and decorative purposes. This imposing planter, characterized...

French Glazed Terracotta fish sculpture. Interesting antique French iridescent glazed terracotta fish sculpture. This French fish figure is executed i...

Rolex Ladies Datejust Steel & Gold Watch 69173 - Automatic winding, 29 jewels, Quickset date, sapphire crystal. Datejust. Stainless steel case with 18K yellow gold bezel (26mm). Whit...

This antique bronze wine barrel spout from France dates to the 1800s. Most likely used in a traditional foudre barrel, the spout played an integral role in...

A magnificent original hand painted late 18th / early 19th century Italian refectory table. Italy, circa 1800, this one of a kind masterpiece executed in a rare and most impressive...

Very Rare Patek Philippe Calatrava Platinum Ref 3998 P Men's Watch - Automatic; Sapphire Crystal. Calatrava. Platinum ( 34mm ) screw back case with ...

PRESENTING A STUNNING Daum Orchid Amethyst Pate de Verre Vase. Made by the World renowned French maker of ‘Daum’ of Nancy, France circa 1960-80. Gorgeous art glass piece, hand craf...

Add timeless Provençal elegance to your garden or interior with this pair of handmade Anduze planters by La Madeleine. Crafted in southern France using traditional techniques, each v...

Hand-blown glass vase by renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly. This piece has lovely red and green tones with a neon yellow rim. We love the organic, asymmetrical shape. This piece is ...

19th century French Louis XV style giltwood bench. This stunning antique French gilt wood bench has excellent patina and has been profess...