Antiques

🧡 Deco Ebony/Walnut Coffee Table

❓ Art Deco Ebony Elephant walnut coffee table in good condition with oval top sitting on an ebony elephant on walnut base. The table has a glass top for protection.

Price: £475 / $645

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Deco-EbonyWalnut-Coffee-Table

🧡 Impressive Relief Sculpture of Christ Carrying The Cross On His Way to Calvary, Circa 1560

❓ Continental, 16th century - a magnificent piece. Simon Of Cyrene is helping to carry the cross, Veronica offers Christ a cloth. You can also see Maria Magdalena and Johannes who support Mary; and Roman soldiers.

❓ This sculpture shows one of the fourteen “stations of the Cross”. Coniferous wood with a beautiful old wax patination.

Price: £12,500 / $16,495

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Impressive-Relief-Sculpture-Of-Christ-Carrying-The-Cross-On-His-Way-To

🧡 Chinoiserie Wallpaper Panels

❓ A beautiful pair of French, original, large textured chinoiserie, hand printed wallpaper panels, adorned with colourful Pagoda style houses with trees, plants, fruits, people; Set on a lacquered black background.

Absolutely stunning! Both set in beautiful black and gold frames.

Price: £780 / $1,025

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Chinoiserie-Wallpaper-panels-

🧡 19th Century Ebonised Boulle Cabinet

❓ Circa 1860, a superb quality mid 19th Century ebonised, boulle and ormolu mounted two door cabinet.

Price: £3,850 / $5,045

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/19th-Century-ebonised-boulle-cabinet

"It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that will make it feel like an old French kitchen."

🧡 US chef and TV host Tyler Florence on why having money doesn't mean you have taste!

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🧡 Vintage 1960s Abstract Painting attributed to Garner Tullis

👉 Don't miss the opportunity to own a piece of history with this remarkable Garner Tullis original.

❓ Introducing the stunning 1960s abstract original painting attributed to Garner Tullis. This remarkable piece perfectly encapsulates the essence of abstract expressionism, a movement that revolutionized American art during the midcentury.

❓ With bold and dynamic brushstrokes, Tullis expertly captures the raw emotions and energy associated with this influential art form. The vibrant colours and mesmerizing composition make this painting a captivating addition to any modern art collection. Its timeless appeal and ability to effortlessly complement midcentury interiors make it a must-have for art enthusiasts and interior design aficionados alike.

❓ Garner Tullis was an American artist born in 1939, he was a printmaker and painter. He was a highly experimental artist, especially in the 1960s.

Garner collaborated with many artists via Tullis Studios, notably William Wiley and Sean Scully.

He permanently relocated to Urbino in Italy in 2001. His works are in public collections, Brooklyn Museum, NY; Cleveland Art Museum, OH; the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA.

Price: £1,250 / $1,615

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Vintage-1960s-abstract-painting

🧡 19th Century Italian Marquetry Inlaid Cylindrical Pot Cupboard

❓ Good quality 19th century Italian walnut marquetry inlaid cylindrical pot cupboard, inlaid with classical figures and foliage on a plinth base.

Price: £1,250 / $1,605

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/19th-Century-Italian-Marquetry-Inlaid-Cylindrical-Pot-Cupboard

🧡 French Oak 4 Drawer Filing Cabinet, circa 1900

❓ Simple yet full of character. The brass plaque with maker’s name says: ‘Organisation De Bureaux, Amstein & Richard, 170 Avenue de Saxe, Lyon’.

Each of the drawers have brass handles and index plate. The filing cabinet takes A4 files.

Price: £1,150 / $1,465

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/French-Oak-4-Drawer-Filing-Cabinet

“For the novice furniture collector, buying antiques can seem a rather daunting prospect. Nobody wants to feel that they could be throwing money away.

The main thing is that you should always buy something first and foremost because you like it.”

~ David Linley, furniture designer

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🧡 Unusual Carved Hardwood, Gilded & Ebonized Japanese Mirror

❓ Circa 1920. Fascinating foliate-carved gilded frame and protruding shaped panels at both ends with gilded and finely carved Geisha girls in a foliate background.

Price: £675 / $860

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Unusual-Carved-Hardwood-Gilded-and-Ebonized-Japanese-Mirror

🧡 Stylish Miniature Ladies Lighter: Silver with Guilloche Enamel

❓ Beautiful little collectible. HS monogram on the lid. 935 silver fineness. Austria. Second half of the 20th century.

Price: £155 / $195

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Miniature-ladies-lighter-made-of-silver-with-guilloche-enamel

🧡 Attractive Chinese Bottle

❓ Very pretty bottle, in perfect condition. hand painted, 20th century.

Price: £255 / $325

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/chinese-bottle

“My mom used to take me to antique shows, which I hated because everything was so dusty and old... all these weird ladies selling their antiques."

"But it was really amazing that I was exposed to that when I was younger. Now that I have my own taste, I understand it more.”

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🧡 Peinture Sur Toile, Casimir Nekrov

❓ A beautiful 20th century oil painting, Russian - in great condition, and with lovely character. Signed by artist Casimir Nekrov.

Height 17.5cm, width 12.5cm (30.5cm x 28.5cm with frame)

Price: £295 / $380

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/PEINTURE-SUR-TOILE-CASIMIR-NKROV---RUSSIE-XXe-siecle

🧡 Rare Japanese Statue: a Mother Nursing Her Baby, Edo Period

❓ Beautiful and rare statue of a mother nursing her baby, in excellent condition. Cracked porcelain. Notice the hand of the mother holding her baby's head - a really nice piece.

Price: £2,700 / $3,475

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Rare-Japanese-statue-of-a-mother-nursing-her-baby-Edo-period

🧡 Victorian Miniature Oak Country House Pillar Post Box

❓ Post boxes like this one would have stood in the front hall of a country house for the facility of family and guests, and would have been emptied twice a day by a member of the household, the letters taken to the post office.

The door with original working lock opens to a leather lined interior. The brass framed 'times of collections' panel is glass fronted. The drawer at the base bears a diamond lozenge showing that the design was registered in 1872.

Price: £7,500 / $9,650

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/10203-A-Victorian-Miniature-Oak-Country-House-Pillar-Post-Box

🧡 Brass Hanging Lantern, Louis XVI Style

❓ This pretty brass hanging lantern is suspended from its ceiling rose decorated with floral motifs.

This is a highly decorative petite lantern with intricate quality castings. Made c.1920.

Price: £600 / $775

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Brass-Hanging-Lantern-Louis-XVI-Style

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~ Dimple Kapadia, actress

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🧡 Magnificent Icon of The Feasts with an Annual Menaion and Two-Row Cycle of Mother of God Icons.

❓ Russia. Second half of the 19th century.

❓ A majestic monument to Christianity and late Russian icon painting, where in one image the annual and Mother of God universe of Orthodoxy is revealed, full of sacrifice. With the epicenter of suffering and resurrection, the testimony of all the upcoming saints and with hope in the miraculous images of the intercessor. The Virgin Mary series is interrupted by the marks of Unexpected Joy, Joy of All Who Sorrow, the Sign and Coronation of Mary - milestones of the communion and growth of spiritual truths.

❓ The Passion Series is composed of: the Ascension of Mary, the Old Testament Trinity, the Entry into Jerusalem, the Raising of Lazarus, the Washing of the Feet, the Last Supper, the Flagellation of Christ, the Imposition of the Crown of Thorns, the Carrying of the Cross, the Crucifixion, the Descent from the Cross and the Entombment. Particularly attractive is the rare completeness of the lists of icons of the Mother of God, which can serve as an encyclopedia of the Mother of God images.

❓ The bright decorative painting on a golden background sounds excitingly solemn and life-affirming.

❓ Cypress board, gesso, tempera, gilding.

Price: £5,475 / $7,075

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/A-magnificent-icon-of-the-Feasts-with-an-annual-menaion-and-a-two-row-cycle-of-Mother-of-God-icons-Russia19th-century

🧡 The History of Royal Doulton & English Ceramics

📍 The Royal Doulton company began as a partnership between John Doulton, Martha Jones, and John Watts, as Doulton bought (with £100) an interest in an existing factory at Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth, London, where Watts was the foreman. They traded as Jones, Watts & Doulton from 1815 until Martha Jones left the partnership in 1820, when the trade name was changed to Doulton & Watts. The business specialised in making salt glaze stoneware articles, including utilitarian or decorative bottles, jugs and jars, much of it intended for inns and pubs. In 1826 they took over a larger existing pottery on Lambeth High Street.

📍 The company took the name Doulton & Co. in 1854 after the retirement of John Watts in 1853, and a merger with Henry Doulton and Co., although the trading name of Doulton & Watts continued to be used for decades. For some of the 19th century there were three different businesses, run by the sons of John Doulton, and perhaps with cross-ownership, which later came back together by the end of the century. By 1897 the total employees exceeded 4,000.

📍 Manufacturing of circular ceramic sewage pipes began in 1846, and was highly successful; Henry Doulton set up his own company specializing in this, Henry Doulton and Co., the first business to make these. This merged with the main business in 1854. His brother John Junior also later set up his own pipe-making business.

📍 Previously sewers were just channels made of brick, which began to leak as they aged. The 1846–1860 cholera pandemic, and the tracing by Dr John Snow of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak in London to a water supply contaminated by sewage led to a huge programme of improving sewage disposal, and other forms of drainage using pipes. These and an expanding range of builder's and sanitary wares remained a bedrock of Doulton into the 20th century. Metal plumbing items such as taps and cast iron baths were added to the range later. Kitchen stonewares such as storage jars and mixing bowls, and laboratory and manufacturing ceramics, were other long-standing specialities. Further facilities were set up for making these in Paisley in Scotland, Smethwick, St Helens near Liverpool, and Rowley Regis in England, and eventually Paris.

📍 By the 1860s Henry Doulton became interested in more artistic wares than the utilitarian ceramics which had grown the business enormously. British stoneware had languished somewhat in artistic terms, although Wedgwood and others continued to produce jasperware and some other stonewares in a very refined style, competing with porcelain. The Doulton wares went further back to earlier salt-glazed styles, with a varied glaze finish. This "gave stoneware an entirely new impetus, realizing the potential of the material".

📍 As the company became interested in diversifying from its utilitarian wares into more decorative objects, it developed a number of earthenware and stoneware bodies. The so-called "Lambeth faience" (from 1872) was "a somewhat heavily potted creamware much used in decorative plaques and vases", often with underglaze painting. Other bodies were called "Impasto" (1879); "Silicon" (1880), "a vitrified unglazed stoneware decorated with coloured clays"; "Carrara" (1887), white earthenware, also used as architectural terracotta; "Marquetrie" (1887), "marbled clays in checker work", then glazed; "Chine" impressed with fabrics to texture the clay, these burnt away in the kiln.

📍 By 1871, Henry Doulton, John's son, launched a studio at the Lambeth pottery, and offered work to designers and artists from the nearby Lambeth School of Art. The first to be engaged was George Tinworth followed by artists such as the Barlow family (Florence, Hannah, and Arthur), Frank Butler, Mark Marshall, Eliza Simmance and John Eyre. John Bennett was in charge of the "Lambeth faience" department until he emigrated to America in 1876, where he had success with his own pottery.

📍 Doulton was rather unusual in that most of the Lambeth studio pieces were signed by the artist or artists, usually with initials or a monogram incised on the base. Many are also dated. Until 1882, "every piece of the company's art stoneware was a unique item" but after that some pieces were made in batches, as demand grew.

📍 There were initial technical difficulties in producing the "art" pieces; at first they were fired in the open kiln with other wares, but later saggars were used. They were not especially profitable, sometimes not profitable at all, but there were huge profits in other parts of the business. Like other manufacturers, Doulton took great trouble with the wares submitted to international exhibitions, where it was often a medal winner. The period 1870–1900 saw "the great years of Doulton's art stoneware", which remains popular with collectors.

📍 In 1882, Doulton purchased the small factory of Pinder, Bourne & Co, at Nile Street in Burslem, Staffordshire, which placed Doulton in the region known as The Potteries.

📍 Doulton also manufactured architectural terracotta (in fact usually stoneware), mainly at Lambeth, and would execute commissions for monumental sculpture in terracotta. Their late Victorian catalogues contained a wide range of architectural elements with, for example, tall Tudor-style chimney pots in many different designs. The Tudor originals of these were built up in shaped brick, but Doultons supplied them in a single piece. There were ranges of small Gothic arches, columns and capitals.

📍 William James Neatby was the Royal Doulton's chief designer from 1890 to 1901 and designed some of the finest Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) architectural ceramics and sculptures. Everard's Printing Works in Bristol is a leading surviving example of an exterior in Doulton's Carrara glazed architectural terracotta.

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🧡 Pair of Beautiful Dutch Marquetry Armchairs

❓ Circa 1840. A quality pair of Dutch floral marquetry chairs. The shaped cresting rail smothered marquetry, the curved panel back depicting a Roman soldier in a chariot.

Great colour, style and patination.

Price: £3,600 / $4,670

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Pair-of-Dutch-Marquetry-Armchairs-1

🧡 William IV Mahogany, Rosewood & Gilded Mirror

❓ Circa 1830. An unusual and stylish William IV mahogany, rosewood and gilded mirror. Something distinctive for interior projects.

Price: £600 / $775

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/William-IV-Mahogany-Rosewood-and-Gilded-Mirror

🧡 Antique Victorian Coat Hooks

❓ This set of Victorian ceramic end coat hooks would originally have been found in a large wardrobe. They are good and sturdy and now on a piece of reclaimed timber. Sold with brass screws to attach to the wall.

Price: £85 / $110

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/COAT-HOOKS-3

🧡 Large Late Victorian Pine Estate Cabinet

❓ Circa 1880. A late Victorian yellow pine two-part estate cabinet. A really interesting style which is worth consideration for interior projects - could be sensitively repainted to great effect.

Price: £1,750 / $2,260

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Large-Late-Victorian-Pine-Estate-Cabinet

🧡 Were you, like actress Margaret O'Brien, fascinated with antiques and ancient times as a child? Could you picture yourself in a big stone castle?!

🧡 Vittorio Dassi: Art Deco Style Grandiose Furniture

❓ Vittorio Dassi (1893-1973) created outstanding classic Italian design from the 1930s to the 1960s; from late Art Deco to the sophisticated functionalism of the 1950s and modular furniture.

Here, Dassi presents a grand furniture set in the Art Deco style, including 6 chairs, a round table and a chest of drawers.

Take a look at the elaborate marquetry panel by Piero Del Grande dedicated to the inhabitants of the depths of the Mediterranean Sea.

Price: £15,635 / $20,030

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Vittorio-Dassi-Grandiose-furniture-set-in-Art-Deco-style

🧡 Majolica Cheese Dish and Board - Attributed to George Jones

❓ A rare patterned Stilton Cheese dish in a majolica design - possibly at the Minton factory by the famous George Jones.

Price: £495 / $635

View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Majolica-Cheese-Dish-and-board-attributed-to-George-Jones-1

ABOUT GEORGE JONES:

Majolica produced by George Jones rivals that of Minton and Wedgwood in both design and workmanship. Jones was the youngest of nine children from a family with no connection to the pottery industry.

At age fourteen, he commenced a seven year apprenticeship with Minton and upon completion in 1844 worked as a travelling salesman for Wedgwood. Little is known of his output during those years or of any associations he may have had with the renowned modelers of those firms.

By 1850 he had established himself as a successful china merchant in Stoke-on-Trent. It was not until 1862 that George Jones entered the pottery manufacturing business with the acquisition of the Bridge works, producing white granite wares.

In 1864, Jones purchased parcels of land from Colin Minton Campbell of the Minton factory for construction of the Trent Potteries, which was completed in late 1865. It was in this new and efficient pottery works that George Jones commenced production of majolica in 1866.

By 1873 Jones eldest two sons, Frank Ralph and George Henry Jones had become familiar with the business and joined their father in partnership. The firm was retitled George Jones & Sons and the name “Crescent” was registered as the trademark of the new company. At the time, the firm employed 590 skilled workers.

Following George Jones’ death in 1893, the family firm saw continued success until the early twentieth century. The company was sold to managing director Walter Bakewell in 1929 and by 1951 the trade name George Jones & Sons was no longer used. The Crescent works was demolished in 1959 after nearly a century of ceramic production.

🧡 Just listed: Retro 1970s Nathan Interior pieces:

👉 Drinks / Cocktail cabinet
👉 Sideboard cabinet
👉 6 Seater Extendable Dining Table with stylish dining chairs

These would be a great consideration for any 1970s revival or inspired interior projects.

❓ About Nathan Furniture:

After WW2, the world was finally emerging from the shadow of war and economic depression. People were looking to the future, house building was in full swing and that, in turn, created a demand for beautifully designed, versatile furniture for an ever-increasing, and discerning market.

Most famous amongst these manufacturers were Stag, Ercol, Morris of Glasgow, and the fabulous, and truly iconic, Nathan Furniture Maker brands. All of these furniture brands continued production well into the 21st century.

Nathan Furniture Makers was the brainchild of Barnett Nathan, who immigrated to London from Russia. Production began in 1916 in London, and originally focused on sideboards, but as their popularity grew, so did their range. By the 1960’s it included several complete ranges of dining room furniture, strongly influenced by the clean and uncomplicated lines of “Scandi design”.

Today, Nathan pieces are still popular, and you’ll find many repainted in contemporary shades and paired with bright wallpaper for a reimagined mid century appeal.

👉 View these Nathan pieces: https://www.antiques.co.uk/search-results.cfm?priceRange=0-max&criteria=Nathan&sellerType=&searchregion=0&maxrows=25&order=dateDESC

🧡 Small Antique Edwardian To***co Tin

A delightful little English, copper and silver plate lidded box, dating to the Edwardian period, circa 1910.

Pleasingly time worn box with a charming appearance!

Price: £195 / $250

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Small-Antique-To***co-Tin-English-Copper-Silver-Plate-Lidded-Box-Edwardian

📢 Calling all interior designers…

🧡 Rare Pair of Exhibition-Quality Tall Carved Walnut Neo-Classical Display Cases

Pristine condition, circa 1890 - would look fantastic in any design project where new meets old.

Price: £7,750 / $9,875

👉 View: https://www.antiques.co.uk/antique/Rare-Pair-of-Exhibition-Quality-Tall-Carved-Walnut-Neo-Classical-Displ