Antique Chinese guan pi xiang (document box), made of huanghuali. Top opens to a tray-shaped storage area. The doors are made with dramatic huanghauli wood burl panels and open to reveal 5 drawers (4 small drawers and 1 larger one).
Republic Period
Dimensions: 18 1/2" high x 19 3/4" wide x 15 1/2" deep.
An elegant French imported Louis XV Wooden Marquetry Desk with leather writing surface and Drawers. The shown Mirror can also be purchased. Please PM Messenger for details. Thank you.
Pair of Deco Era side tables with dramatic marquetry surfaces. Mixed hardwood in contrasting rosette pattern. The tables are square in form with sloped legs and Macassar Ebony veneer.
Age: Art Deco Era (c. 1920's-1930's)
Dimensions: 23 1/2" high x 21 1/2" wide x 21 1/2" deep
An imported gilded French Louis XVI Wooden Console with a genuine Marble Top and a matching Mirror. It is possible to only buy one. PM Messenger for details please.
Antique French Art Deco pedestal desk. Made of hardwood with dramatically striated grain. The desk top has a large, white rectangular writing surface and two drawers. Each pedestal side has four drawers. Beautifully made for drama and comfort. Provadence Lee Caplan Estate-
famous movie producer and director.
Age: Art Deco Era (c. 1920's-1930's)
Dimensions: 29 3/4" high x 54 1/2" long x 27" deep
A beautiful and rare Antique Régence coffee service, complete with silver coffee pot measuring about 12” in height, a creamer measuring 7” in height,and a sugar bowl, measuring 7” in height. The set with delicate repoussé work, shell design feet, acorn finials, and a dragon spout. The handles on the coffee pot and the creamer in ebony wood.
Pair of antique Japanese Inari foxes hand carved out of granite. Each has traces of the original mineral pigment.
Also called zenko, these good spirit kitsune (foxes) are specifically associated with the goddess, Inari.
Believed to be both messengers and guardians, kitsune served Inari in her role as goddess of agriculture, specifically rice. Part of the folklore surrounding the fox is it’s ability to shape shift into human form...
A correct and very rare English Adam Pier table in mahogany and Satinwood. The table of very fine carving with leaf and scroll column decoration. Double column front feet with original gilding and finish. The table measuring 34 inches in height, 25 inches deep, and 6 feet in length. A truly unique find
English Period Furniture – Adam Furniture (Mahogany and Satinwood 1760-1792)
Robert Adam was a Scottish architect...
A rare antique Iwayado Kuruma Choba Tansu (wheeled merchant chest) made of Keyaki (Zelkova) and Suginoki (Cryptomeria) woods. All original hand forged iron hardware and Kijiro Urushi lacquer. Featured metalwork includes motifs of Chrysanthemums and Pine trees symbolizing the Takasago Immortal couple. Unusual pod shaped designs on the recessed drawers.
Age: Meiji period (1870-1880)...
A leaf-shaped sundries tray with insect and snail decoration.
France – ca. 1900
Lenght: 9.84 in (25 cm)
A rare antique Japanese Ryo Biraki (hinged double door) Kimono Tansu made of Kiri (Paulownia) wood. All original hand forged iron hardware including the Warabite style handles. The main lock plate features the Paulownia motif with its blooming flowers. The doors have the raised seed pod corners. The hinges display a crescent moon style mount and the drawers handles are positioned close together and below the center line atypical of most other Tansu...
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A beautiful Lantern,French, gilt bronze with a leaf design pattern measuring 24” x 12” (top width).
An antique Huanghuali Chinese grain storage coffer in a square design. The hinged cover has a floating panel with time honored shrinkage surrounded by a frame. There are four protruding grooved square posts, one per corner that adds a decorative element. Hardware has brass mounts. Through mortise and tenon joinery construction and a beautiful patina acquired over its history. Front slatted moldings and 2 panel replacements using Jichimu wood...
Exceptional Pair of Monumental 17th C. Japanese Bronze Temple Lanterns
A pair of exceptional and extremely rare bronze antique 17th century Japanese lanterns from a prominent Tokugawa temple courtyard. Each lantern is made of 10 individual cast bronze sections...
Lovely antique Chinese blue and white porcelain gourd shaped vase with charming design of bats flying in the clouds. Perfect condition. Six character mark on recessed bottom. Xuantong 1909-1912, kaishu mark in regular script. Demonstrates clearly a feature that is often called hollow or fractured, line. The decoration of the piece, iron red bats among clouds is in a distinctly different style as compared to similarly decorated pieces of the previous reign...
A rare and unusually large souvenir piece of wood cut from a beam from the painted chamber which was one of the oldest parts of the original Palace of Westminster, destroyed by the Great Fire of 1834...