All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Lacquer : Pre 1700 item #1480909 (stock #480)
Box in black lacquered wood inlaid with mother-of-pearl, golden details. The decor is composed of birds among plants and shrubs. The birds are very active, the one in the center tends to what appears to be a stylized egg in a nest? Probably a meaning. The designs are simple but harmonious and very elegant. The inlay work is empirical but the materials used are solide and they have stood the test of time well indeed the lacquer has not peeled off and the mother-of-pearl is still well maintained...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Leather : Pre 1920 item #1472403 (stock #MSJcrocValis)
June Hastings
$3,900.00
Rare antique saltwater crocodile valise from Austria with heavy brass fittings, original key, and ID tag. Large in size measuring 16.5” high, 24” long, and in excellent condition, it is an impressive piece. Dates 1890-1909. The only other one we have seen was on PBS Antiques Roadshow at
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/15/washington-dc/appraisals/austrian-crocodile-valise-ca-1900--201006A34/
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1910 item #1460487
Pair of large carved and painted black forest horse head shelves or wall sconces with leaves and flowers. Circa late 19th century. Wonderful and rare FACING PAIR! Measure 18" tall, 12" wide and 8" deep.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Ivory : Pre 1900 item #493469
19th century aneroid desk barometer in a stunning ivory case raised on a turned pedestal and surmounted with a carved ivory bust depicting a young farm maiden. The carving is superbly done, with great attention to the girl's hair and 18th century-style lace-trimmed bonnet. Her face is charming. The ivory has a beautiful yellowed patina that has not been cleaned. The enameled dial is in French, but there is no maker's mark visible...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Pre 1910 item #807919
Exceptionally fine Edwardian tortoishell letter box decorated with gold pique. The serpentine front is inlaid in a pattern of floral swags flanking a center wreath. The curved top has a matching wreath and swags as well as songbirds. The gold has a beautiful rose tint that contrasts nicely with the rich golden-brown of the tortoise, and the surfaces are intricately engraved to enhance the appearance...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1900 item #1430212 (stock #BNJebontDesk)
June Hastings
$2,400.00
A beautifully-detailed 19th Century Anglo-Indian desk set elaborately carved in ebony with a center storage box topped by a fabulous carved elephant with ivory tusks, one drawer, and lion paw feet. Excellent antique condition, there is one age crack, see photo. Measures including feet 16.5 long, 7" high including elephant, 10" deep.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1900 item #1468145
David Anthony
$1,975.00
This exceptional wood carving of a Santos was made during the early 19th C. and was executed with bold strokes with great impressiveness. The central figure is giving the sign of Christ while holding a black object - perhaps a globe - in his other hand. He is clothed with a coral colored cape, buff tunic, and black boots with gold outlining. Standing atop a sphere, he is surrounded by an oval frame - underscoring the deep relief of the carving. The top and bottom are framing devices with swirls...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1910 item #1245642 (stock #Sold)
Amazing pair of antique black forest carved wall sconces. Hand carved heavy walnut with incredible intricacy. Birds, leaves and scalloping. 14" tall, 8" deep. Couple missing pieces, but very complete. Excellent condition for age and detail.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1900 item #1468146
David Anthony
$1,695.00
This extraordinary wood carving is a figure of Santo Nino enveloped in an oval cartouche with swirling flourishes above and below. Nino is robed in dramatic array as she holds a globe in one while giving the sign of Christ in the other. The drapery and decoration of it is exceptional as is the rich relief carving. We believe that this Spanish Colonial era panel is early 19th C...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1837 VR item #1180606 (stock #SR42)

A rare 2 color English wooden snuff box in the form of a shoe decorated with brass studs and dated 1856. in perfect condition, c1820. Condition: excellent Height: 5.5 inches Width: 1.25 inches

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1900 item #540007
A wonderful late Victorian tea caddy in the form of a miniature William IV style double-pedestal sideboard with a scallop shell backsplash. The lid lifts to reveal three small compartments for storing caddy spoons and other implements. The two outer compartments have removable pegs that allow the fronts of each of the pedestals to be removed, revealing two drawers for the storage of tea. The center area between the pedestals would have been used to store a crystal mixing bowl...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Horn : Pre 1700 item #1487236 (stock #E1018)
An exceptional, antique 17th century, Eastern European, Fork-shaped gun powder-flask, made of deer antlers fitted with a brass nozzle and two iron suspension rings.

The outer side is finely engraved with scrimshaw traditional motifs including sun with rotating rays, scrolls and geometrical pattern in the form of the standing figures...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre AD 1000 item #1476730
Senatus Consulto
$1,495.00
A stunning and very early carved head for a wig, in oak wood, gothic style of the late Scandinavian renaissance, c. 1630-60.

Very attractive features, almond eyes, thick brows and a pointed beard. This wig heads becomes common in the later 18th. century, but heads this early are exceedingly rare!

Height: c. 40 cm. - a large and impressive antiquity, that would look good with an original 17th. c. helmet as well as a wig.

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1837 VR item #703072 (stock #9628 )
Rare Chinese export carved wood tea caddy in the form of an eggplant with leaf form screw lid. Early 19th century.

Height: 4.5”

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1900 item #1180998 (stock #SR1255)

This snuff box in the form of a shoe, c1860, is mahogany.

Condition: excellent
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1800 item #1001998 (stock #26C10 2107)
Early Georgian shagreen covered slant front knife box with original brass hardware and working lock. English. Circa 1740-1760. Materials: Shagreen (shark skin) over wood with brass bail handle, hinges and lock escutcheon. Including key. The hinged cover reveals the original velvet fitted interior with divisions for 24 pieces of cutlery (slots to hold 12 knives and 12 forks)...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1900 item #1180750 (stock #SR482)

A Snuff box in the form of a shoe was a convenient form to put in a jacket pocket to carry snuff. This mahogany and brass studded shoe dates to 1860

Condition: excellent Height: 3 inches
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Lacquer : Pre 1900 item #1488006 (stock #IS568)
Antique 18th century Islamic Turkish lacquered papier mache Ottoman firman document scroll holders, also known as kubur (ferman mahafaza kabı-kubur or Osmanlı Dönemi Ferman mahfaza kabı - kubur).

The item is cylindrical in shape and finely hand-painted in polychrome and gold. It features seven colors of birds amidst a dense gold foliate ground, along with thistle leaves...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1920 item #1422281 (stock #11127)
Model of a Royal Carriage, realistically detailed with an ebonized carved wood and gilt decorated coach with one working door. Resting on a working metal suspension undercarriage and wheels, one removable trunk.

Late 19th/Early 20 C

H 13 in. x W 41 in. over all, coach 28 in. x D 9 in.

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1800 item #1129161 (stock #1682)
A George III Brass Banded Mahogany Serving Tray with Sculptured Handles. Dimensions; 18.75" long x 3.5" high. Circa 1800. Some wear, but in very good shape overall.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Horn : Pre 1800 item #1479058 (stock #EA293)
Large antique, 18th century, American Revolutionary war period, Pennsylvania Dutch rifleman's powder horn (1770s-1780).

It is made of a hollowed-out brown horn with a domed oval wood base secured with brass tacks and fitted with a brass loop in the center for a suspension cord.

The body is engraved in the middle with the initials J.R.K. The upper part below the wooden base is engraved with typical 18th-century Pennsylvania Dutch Hex signs – a rosette for good luck and a Pennsylvania...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1900 item #1146124 (stock #1748)
A Victorian Oak Wood Tantalus, with three Bottles a Brass Frame and with a Working Lock and Key. Stamped "Mappin and Webb Oxford Street London". Circa 1880-1890. Dimension; 16.5" x 6" x 13" high to handle; total weight approximately 17.5 pounds; bottles approximately 4.4 pounds each. Slight chips on the base of stoppers and on edge of one bottle; Not noticeable. Also two of the brass corners at the base are split (see picture).
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1837 VR item #937539 (stock #555)
A George III Regency Period Satinwood Inlaid Mahogany Tea Caddy. Sarcophagus Form with Brass Rings on the Side and Top; the Top Ring with a Brass Fruit Basket design. It Stands on Four Brass Bun Feet, with dimensions of 11.5" wide x 5.25" deep x 6.5" high. There are Two Lidded Inserts Over the Inside Tea Compartments and a Mixing Bowl that is not believed to be original. Circa 1815, with Some Minor Inlay Missing (see pictures), otherwise in excellent condition.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Lacquer : Pre 1900 item #163434
Stunning Imperial Russian lacquered tea caddy. The top is handpainted with a scene of a Boyar cradling a princess in his arms as they ride a large wolf through the forest--no doubt a scene from a Russian fairy tale. The quality of decoration is superb. The inside of the caddy is lacquered red.

Origin: Russia, circa 1850. Condition: very good; the surface is alligatored but completely intact and colorful; there are a scattered white spots that look like snow along one side of the lid (less ...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Lacquer : Pre 1900 item #172313
Wonderful lacquered box from Russia's Imperial era. The lid has a handpainted summer troika scene. Scenes depicting troikas in the snow are a bit more common. The design is very colorful and the facial detail on the three people is very nice. The lid is signed "E. Gustov" (translated). The box is lacquered red inside.

Origin: Russia, circa 1890. Condition: decoration and overall condition is excellent, three corners of the lid have flakes. Size: 5-3/4" x 3-15/16" x 1-3/4" high.

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1920 item #1325088 (stock #RMT-127)
Carved Wooden Top Hat

(Early 20th C., some scratches

12.25” x 10” x 6.75” tall

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1900 item #1342465 (stock #1471)
Really nice early pantry box with a label on the lid and on the front. Both labels read Raisins and it written in nice old sepia ink. The box in in fine crisp condition with nice old patina, mellow honey brown color and hand made nails. The box has a Shaker quality to it but the world made these boxes also so I can't say for sure that it is. It is 8 1/4" across the top and 4 1/4" tall and is circa 1830-40. This is a top notch pantry box.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Lacquer : Pre 1900 item #1469962 (stock #BNJmonkPapBo)
June Hastings
$450.00
A 19th C black lacquered Victorian papier-mache tabletop box with a gold Chinoiserie scene. The lid is decorated with monks in a Chinese style garden where as the sides are decorated with noble families at leisure in a similar Chinese garden. What makes this box special are the monks on the lid and detailed decorations on all 4 sides. Measure 11.75" long, 2.75" high, and 3.5" wide
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Lacquer : Pre 1920 item #1394826
DAY FINE ARTS
£440.00
Burmese betel nut container, gilded relief work with glass insets. 17 cm high, 15 cm lid diameter. Undated, estimated to be late 19th/ early 20th century. generally good condition, some missing glass and crack in base. Can be viewed in central London and shipped worldwide.
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Lacquer : Pre 1920 item #1394828
DAY FINE ARTS
£440.00
Decorated .Burmese lacquered betel nut container. Ex Henry Brownrigg Collection London 18 cm high 18 cm lid diameter. undated, estimated to be late 19th early 20th century. Generally good condition, small damage to bottom base rim. Can be viewed in central London and shipped worldwide..
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1900 item #336714 (stock #168)
A Victorian Rosewood Lap Desk or Writing Box with an Satinwood Inlay on Top; from the mid-19th century (circa 1860). Dimensions; 14" wide x 9.5" deep x 4.5" high. Condition is good except for internal crack under the top. The base lining is more recent
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Ivory : Pre 1900 item #1396108 (stock #RMT-144)
Antique American Sailors Cane Handle with ivory handle, hallmarked gold collar and shark’s vertebra shaft. Circa 1860, now mounted on a wood base.

Overall height: 12"

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Ivory : Pre 1837 VR item #25072 (stock #1016)
Bamboo Grove
$400.00
Victorian era small ivory notebook cover with interior pocket and divider and silver pencil. The cover has the initials ¡°EB¡± in blue. Good condition. H: 4 ½ inches, W: 3 inches
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Wood : Pre 1800 item #1470539 (stock #R85)
Rare Antique 18th Century Russian wooden spoon carved of Karelian birchwood in typical 17th-18th century style with avoid, fig-shaped bowl, with rounded stem adorned with series of burned rings and knobbed finial.

MEASUREMENTS: Overall length: 18.7cm (7.36 inches) Width of bowl: 5.7 cm (2.24 inches)

CONDITION: In very good condition, free of any repairs, or restoration.

This type of the spoons ware made in Russia in the 18th century from Burr-Maple, Boxwood, and other wood as a...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Lacquer : Pre 1900 item #787947
A very fine Imperial Russian lacquer box by Vishniakov. The lid is decorated with a winter scene showing an empty troika, still tethered to its horse, located just outside a snow-covered log building. The scene is beautifully detailed. The interior is lacquered in the dark rust shade characteristic of Vishniakov.

Origin: Russia, ca. 1880. Condition: the top shows considerably alligatoring, but no paint loss; two of the top corners have flakes (visible in photos); the interior has wear to t...

All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Organics : Lacquer : Pre 1837 VR item #1411764 (stock #5A6E)
English Papier Mache Wine Bottle Coaster, Ca. 1820, Regency period, 5 1/4" diameter, 1 7/8" high, with lacquer decorated of Red Oak Leaves and Black Acorns continued outside in the solid Gold background, Red leaves outlined in Black, inside shows some black lacquer crazing but not too bad, bottom still retains old Denim. The Lacquer painted surface shows some wears.