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Antique French Finely Carved Ivory Pill Box

Catalogue: Antiques: Decorative Art: Organics: Ivory: Pre 1920   item# 1181853 (stock# 498AOG)

Antique French Finely Carved Ivory Pill Box
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The Art and Orchid Gallery
561-575-6868


$325 

The Art and Orchid Gallery's round ivory pill box was hand carved on the cover as well as the sides and bottom of the box in micro-fine old French motifs. The ornamental designs on the bottom and sides can also be observed on 15th to 17th Century French repousse, champleve enamels and accessories to paintings.[206A] The square fret work is found in 18th Century ceramic patterns.[26B] The cover seems to be an armorial design totally symmetrical through the center of the fountain with birds, ...click for details


Antique Damascene Calligraphy Ink Box, Mughal

Catalogue: Antiques: Decorative Art: Metals: Brass: Pre 1920   item# 1181435 (stock# 497AOG)

Antique Damascene Calligraphy Ink Box, Mughal
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561-575-6868


$390 

The Art and Orchid Gallery's calligraphy ink box is made of solid brass with Damascene silver inlay work on the cover, sides and the inside well covers. Decorative techniques using contrasting metals can be traced back to the craftsmen of ancient China and Egypt. The inlaying of silver and gold into copper alloys, like bronze and brass, was a widely practiced art in Damascus, hence, the name Damascene.[162A] This metal craft came to India from Persia and Kabul.[169B] Our box is mostly co ...click for details


Antique Japanese Brazier, Bunsei Era by M. Seimin

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Metalwork: Pre 1837 VR   item# 1180068 (stock# 495AOG)

Antique Japanese Brazier, Bunsei Era by M. Seimin
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The Art and Orchid Gallery
561-575-6868


$998 

The Art and Orchid Gallery's sentoku bronze brazier was cast by Murata Siemin, Japan's most famous ornamental metal worker, during the Bunsei Era (1818-1830) of the Edo Period.[120A, 197B, WEBC, WEBD, WEBE, 32F, WIKG] Murata Siemin initiated the lost wax process for bronze casting in Japan and became its most famous metalworking artist of the 18th Century.[197B] This brazier was made from a type of bronze called sentoku. It contains some zinc, like brass, which gives it a gold color but ...click for details


Chinese Lapidary Sweetmeat Box w Archaic Symbols

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Hardstones: Pre 1980   item# 1179637 (stock# 493AOG)

Chinese Lapidary Sweetmeat Box w Archaic Symbols
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The Art and Orchid Gallery
561-575-6868


$498 

The Art and Orchid Gallery's large carved verde antico marble sweetmeat box is an example of elaborate Chinese lapidary art.[97A, 63B] Although this is a 20th Century carving, a carved marble jar from the Shang Dynasty (1523-1027 B.C.) with similar archaic symbols is known.[107C] This Shang marble jar depicts a t'ao-t'ieh mask, or devil mask.[42D, 71E] The mask design is made of ancient Chinese totems of bird, serpent and mammal worship. They were used extensively on bronze ritualis ...click for details


Antique German Centerpiece, Pierced and Appliqued

Catalogue: Antiques: Decorative Art: Ceramics: German: Porcelain: Pre 1920   item# 1177791 (stock# 482AOG)

Antique German Centerpiece, Pierced and Appliqued
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The Art and Orchid Gallery
561-575-6868


$475 

The Art and Orchid Gallery's hand enameled porcelain pierced bowl was made in the Meissen-style, generally of the Kuehn Period (1833-70).[138A] That is, illustrations of similar pierced dessert ware with applied floral and enameled flower groups are referenced during the period when Kuehn was Director of the Meissen kilns.[39B, 138C] Many other porcelain manufactories from that area and even England and France produced Meissen-style wares at lower prices because of its popularity in the 19th ...click for details


Antique Ping Sancai with Prunus Relief Decoration

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Porcelain: Pre 1920   item# 1177223 (stock# 485AOG)

Antique Ping Sancai with Prunus Relief Decoration
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561-575-6868


$130 

The Art and Orchid Gallery's translucent porcelain vase, or ping in Chinese, is hand decorated with relief appliques of Prunus branches, flowers and fruit.[86A] Prunus has been a favorite decorative symbol of the Spring on Chinese ceramics from the Ming Period. On our ping the Prunus is done in the style of the Kang Hsi Period.[204B] The sancai (or san ts'ai in Wade Giles) are light blue, yellow centered plum flowers and fruit with aubergine, or eggplant color, tree bark in relief agains ...click for details


Antique Bowl Done in Sancai with All Relief Ornaments

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Stoneware: Pre 1920   item# 1176812 (stock# 484AOG)

Antique Bowl Done in Sancai with All Relief Ornaments
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The Art and Orchid Gallery
561-575-6868


$115 

The Art and Orchid Gallery's bowl, or wan, was crafted in China of stoneware, or what the French call 'gres', which has a hardness of 7 on Mohs scale but is not translucent.[86A, 33B, 28C] The ornamentation of chrysanthemum flowers, leaves and stems were hand made as applique relief with the wan hand glazed in iridescent sancai, or three color (also called san tsai during the Ming Dynasty).[73D] The colors on this piece of gres are green, a brownish aubergine on the florals and mudd ...click for details


Pair Gamet Signed French Enamel Limnings

Catalogue: Antiques: Decorative Art: Enamel: Enamelware: Pre 1920   item# 1175327 (stock# 481AOG)

Pair Gamet Signed French Enamel Limnings
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The Art and Orchid Gallery
561-575-6868


$1795 

The Art and Orchid Gallery's limnings, or miniature paintings, are the quintessence of 'email des peintres', that is, enamels painted on plaques.[8A, 13B] These miniatures display radiant luminosity through the predominant use of 'a jour' enameling, i.e. transparent enamels which exploits the shine of the underlying metals.[13C] Various degrees of chromatic intensity from light of the setting summer skies reflect in pink skin tones of the figures, flowing water, and satiny dr ...click for details


Chinese Ink and Color on Silk Shou dai Niao

Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Paintings: Pre 1980   item# 1174986 (stock# 480AOG)

Chinese Ink and Color on Silk Shou dai Niao
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The Art and Orchid Gallery
561-575-6868


$125 

The Art and Orchid Gallery's well done hand painted Shou dai Niao, or 'bird with long feathers', was painted on silk in China before 1980.[123A] The bird, perched on a bough of viburnum has a very long split tail like a flashy Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher but the colors of America's Eastern Bluebird.[143B] Birds with long tail feathers have been popular subjects for Chinese painting, and other arts, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties and were frequently exported during the 19th Cen ...click for details


Tour de Force Large Tibetan Covered Bowl

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Pre 1920   item# 1174587 (stock# 478AOG)

Tour de Force Large Tibetan Covered Bowl
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The Art and Orchid Gallery
561-575-6868


$1195 

The Art and Orchid Gallery's antique large Tibetan bowl with cover is multimedia and probably multi-cultural . It is an unusually skillful, ingenious and creative mixture of decorative motifs and techniques. It has the typical ambiguity of provenance one finds in objects of "Tibetan Art".[187A] This exemplary creation exhibits Chinese brightly enameled metals over Indian repousse copper lotus designs and appliques of carved semi-precious stones, characteristic of Nepalese craftsme ...click for details

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