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Bronze
Posts tagged Bronze from the RareVictorian furniture archive.
Victorian Brass/Bronze Hardware
If you are a fan of Victorian brass & bronze door hardware, there is a recent post in the Victorian forum that has extensive images of ornate hardware collections from "stever". Steve has photos of hardware manufactu
Neo-Grec Herter Brothers or Pottier & Stymus Chairs
I don't run across fine Neo-Grec, ebonized, Rosewood chairs like these too often. Each chair has a bronze plaque in the back splat, one of a male figure and the other of a female. There is ample ormolu throughout the cha
Charles-Guillaume Diehl - It Does Not Get Much Better
Another stop on my Philadelphia Museum of Art visit, this Neo-Grec jewelry cabinet was considered a "masterpiece" at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867. This cabinet is still a show-stopper today and was manufactur