#ormolu

[treasures-and-beauty]

Antique Malachite and Gilt Bronze Lidded Jewelry Casket, 19th Century. This is a malachite mounted oval ormolu casket, circa 1880 in date. The hinged cover features a large oval inset malachite panel with six smaller ones around the sides. The beautifully engraved body in the Palais Royale manner and raised on leafy scroll feet.

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Antique French Verge Fusee Desk Clock Gilt Bronze Memento Mori Skull Skeleton

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French Ormolu, late 19th century

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Ormulu model of a Toucan

France, late 19th - early 20th c.

Ormolu (gilt bronze) with ormolu-mounted ebonized base

H 9 in. (23 cm) x W 11 ½ in. (29 cm)

Via Christie’s

[vintage-treasures]

Louis XV Mantel Clock (mid-18th century) Joseph Waltrin (1720–1789), who served as Clockmaker to the King at the Château de Choisy, provided the mechanical movement for this Rococo timepiece. This object combines German porcelain figures with French metalwork. The design features Meissen porcelain pugs resting on a rocaille base beneath a blooming tree.

Loc. Private Collection. Dim. 39.5 cm H x 31.5 cm W (15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)

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Fancy little boxes......... my beloved

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Lost in the oc soup, come back later

[livesunique]

A German Ormolu-Mounted Mahogany roll top desk, 

By David Roentgen, c. 1785-90.

The rectangular top with three-quarter gallery above a frieze drawer, the roll top mechanism released when writing slide is pulled, revealing fitted interior with two spring-loaded stepped drawers, the lower central drawer flanked by file cabinets and previously with springloaded action, now no longer functioning, the pulls consequentially added, the file boxes further opening to interior compartment, the middle drawer with ivorine plaque D. Sherratt & Co, 61 Bridge Street Row, Chester. 51 in. (129.5 cm.) high, 571⁄4 in. (145.5 cm.) wide, 351⁄2 in. (90 cm.) deep.

Courtesy: Christie’s