One of the conversation pieces is a gilded
ormolu encrusted with multi-colored stones.
The antique French side table is decorated with tortoiseshell-and-brass marquetry and has
ormolu mounts and fluted columns.
Blue John, or "Derbyshire Spar", takes its name from bleu-jaune (blue-yellow) probably from the days when worked pieces were sent to France to be mounted in
ormolu (gilt bronze) and fitted with gilded handles and ornament by French craftsmen.
Marrying well, he turned to producing luxury silver,
ormolu, and japanned goods for a more exclusive clientele.
They included buttons, buckles, boxes, trinkets and other toys (small metal goods) made in gold and silver and in a variety of compositions - plated work that looked like solid silver, excellent ornamental pieces in
ormolu (gilded bronze) and of course, most recently, the steam engines of James Watt.
Get the look with a White
Ormolu Highlife mirror, PS39.99 from Dunelm Mill (www.dunelm-mill.com), and make it your own with one of the 60 colours available in the Super range by Plastikote, www.plasti-kote.co.uk Use a colour combination WITH flat-pack furniture, such as this unit, it's easy to take everything apart or spray each piece separately before you assemble it.
Get the look with a White
Ormolu Highlife mirror, PS39.99 from Dunelm Mill (www.dunelm-mill.com), and make it your own with one of the 60 colours available in the Super range by Plastikote, www.plasti-kote.co.uk Get the look with a White
Ormolu Highlife mirror, PS39.99 from Dunelm Mill (www.dunelm-mill.com), and make it your own with one of the 60 colours available in the Super range by Plastikote, www.plasti-kote.co.uk Use a colour combination WITH flat-pack furniture, such as Use a colour combination WITH flat-pack furniture, such as this unit, it's easy to take everything apart or spray each piece separately before you assemble it.
Here are some fine ceramic examples we sold recently: a 19th century Sevres
ormolu mounted jardiniere (PS520), a pair of German porcelain wall mirrors by Sitzendorf (PS500), a Coalport hand-painted plate by Frederick Herbert Chivers (PS450), and a pair of Minton hand-painted plates (PS390).
In Satish Tang's sculpture Manga
Ormolu version 5.0-h, robot appendages coexisted with traditional Asian iconography.
The mid-nineteenth century saw the rise of the Biedermeier style of furniture-making, which has often been credited with preceding the modernist design movement -- with its geometric shapes, and deliberate lack of excessive gilding and other embellishments such as
ormolu mounts.
He brought manufacture of these items on to an industrial scale with the Manufactory at Soho, experimented widely with new materials and finishes such as ceramic inlays and
ormolu, and moved on to more general engineering and to minting coins.
John Ringling's French Empire-revival mahogany bedroom furniture at Ca d'Zan, with its
ormolu caryatids and fantastical creatures, is appropriately stately, but seemingly out of place in a "Venetian" palace.
