{"title":"Metalware","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"antique-brass-swan-planter-pair-hollywood-regency","title":"Antique Brass Swan Planter Pair","description":"\u003cp\u003eA commanding pair of brass swan planters or cachepots — large and small, necks arched in opposite directions, wings spread and feathers rendered in fine cast detail. The kind of object that has lived on console tables and sideboards in grand houses for a century and looks exactly right there still.Cast brass throughout with a warm, naturally aged patina. The hollow bodies are generously sized — large enough for a potted orchid, a trailing vine, or simply a cluster of seasonal branches. Together they create an asymmetric pair with real sculptural presence.Swan motifs in brass and gilt bronze were a favorite of the Empire and Regency periods — Napoleon himself adopted the swan as a personal emblem — and these pieces work equally well in a period interior or a contemporary room that knows what it’s doing.Unmarked. Sold as a pair.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46950386335897,"sku":null,"price":525.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/IMG_8299.jpg?v=1776169847"},{"product_id":"antique-cast-iron-horse-head-hitching-post-wall-mount","title":"Antique Cast Iron Horse Head Hitching Post Wall Mount","description":"\u003cp\u003eA horse stands at the front of a grand house. Someone needs to tie the reins to something. This is that something.A cast iron horse head hitching post mount — the horse rendered with real anatomical sympathy, ears pricked, eyes alert, iron ring through the mouth for tying. Mounted on an oak leaf and foliate backplate with original mounting holes. The surface carries a spectacular aged patina — layers of verdigris, iron oxide, and original paint building up over a century or more into something that no restorer could replicate.These were fixed to the exterior walls of houses, stables, and public buildings across America and Europe throughout the 19th century. As horses disappeared from daily life they came down from the walls — and the good ones, like this, ended up exactly where they belong: in the hands of someone who knows what they’re looking at.Wall mount. Original iron ring intact. Displays beautifully as architectural salvage or decorative object.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46950433685657,"sku":null,"price":395.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/IMG_8293-removebg-preview.png?v=1776882234"},{"product_id":"antique-french-champleve-enamel-gilt-bronze-centerpiece-bowl-cranberry-glass","title":"French Champlevé \u0026 Gilt Bronze Centerpiece Bowl, Rococo Revival, c.1870","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrench Rococo Revival centerpiece bowl, gilt bronze frame with polychrome champlevé enamel decoration, late 19th century. The bronze frame is cast in C-scroll Rococo ornament — acanthus leaves, floral sprays, scrolled handles — with enamel panels in blue, cream, red, and green on a gilt ground, raised on four cast feet. A pressed glass insert in amber or pale cranberry tone, with beaded rim and scroll pattern, sits within the frame. This format — gilt bronze frame with enamel decoration housing a colored glass liner — was a staple of the French decorative arts industry through the Second Empire and Third Republic (c. 1860–1890), produced for the residential market in both Paris and Lyon ateliers. Unsigned, which is typical for the category; major makers (Barbedienne, Christofle) typically signed work, while smaller commercial ateliers did not.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46951636238489,"sku":null,"price":1100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/0_IMG_7852_5a1e395c-320d-419b-bead-47d152074a7f-removebg-preview.png?v=1776882163"},{"product_id":"antique-french-empire-brass-tazza-apotheosis-relief-medallion","title":"Antique French Brass Tazza, Empire Revival, Apotheosis Relief, Lyre Handles","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA large French brass tazza in the Empire Revival, or Neo-Grec, taste, 22.5 inches across, the center set with a cast classical relief medallion of a seated figure attended by Roman warriors and supplicants beneath a winged horse and an ascending figure. Lyre-form handles spring from scrolled palmette-and-anthemion mounts, the bowl rim banded with Greek key and foliate ornament, all on a foliate pedestal and stepped base. This is the Neo-Grec decorative vocabulary that French foundries produced through the second half of the 19th century, here unmarked. The metal is given as brass; gilt bronze cannot be ruled out and would raise the value. A substantial, impressive object with honest gilt wear; one handle shows a possible crack to verify.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46961536794777,"sku":null,"price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/IMG_6433-removebg-preview.png?v=1776881922"},{"product_id":"antique-cast-iron-wall-plaque-bas-relief-cat","title":"Cast Iron Oval Wall Plaque, Bas Relief Cat Among Flowering Branches, Aged Patina","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA cast-iron oval wall plaque worked in bas-relief, a long-haired cat seated beneath flowering branches with butterflies above and a flowering vine down one side, the fur and foliage rendered in fine detail. The surface carries a heavy rust-brown patina with a blue-green passage along the left edge; that color reads as old paint or an applied finish rather than evidence of age, since rust forms quickly and is not a reliable dating clue. Decorative cast iron of this kind was made in America and England from the late 19th century onward, but the plaque is unsigned, and unmarked cast iron is hard to date; a 20th-century or later decorative casting cannot be ruled out from images. A handsome, weighty piece with a cast hanging hole at the top.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46972883370137,"sku":null,"price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/IMG_6577_2-removebg-preview.png?v=1776881589"},{"product_id":"antique-brass-repousse-jardiniere-dragon-handles","title":"Antique Brass Repousse Jardiniere","description":"\u003cp\u003eA substantial and richly worked antique brass jardiniere in the Rococo Revival taste — oval form raised on four scroll feet, the body densely worked in repousse with cartouches, scrolling foliage, beaded borders, and radiating sunburst panels. The undulating rim rises and falls in an energetic wave profile. The handles are cast as coiled serpents or dragons — sinuous, scaled, and highly detailed — terminating in foliate grip points. Original liner insert retained.The weight and quality of the casting, combined with the density of the ornamental program, point to late 19th century Continental manufacture — French or Dutch workmanship in the tradition of the great Rococo Revival brasswork that furnished bourgeois interiors across Europe in the final decades of the century.An excellent centerpiece vessel — equally suited to cut flowers, greenery, or display as a decorative object on a console, sideboard, or library table.Category: Decorative Objects \/ Metalwork \/ Planters \u0026amp; JardinieresStyle: Rococo Revival, Victorian, Continental EuropeanMaterials: Brass, repousse, cast handles\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valley House Antiques","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46972961194137,"sku":null,"price":395.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/1270\/1593\/files\/IMG_6583-removebg-preview.png?v=1776881533"}],"url":"https:\/\/valleyhouseantiques.com\/collections\/metalware.oembed","provider":"Valley House Antiques","version":"1.0","type":"link"}