Art Nouveau–Style Gilt Bronze Wax Seal with Female Figure and Monogram Antique

Art Nouveau–Style Gilt Bronze Wax Seal with Female Figure and Monogram AntiqueGilt bronze wax seal featuring a full length Art Nouveaustyle female figure, modeled standing with hands at her hips and wearing a flowing, fitted garment with sinuous contours. The figures elongated proportions, softly stylized facial features, and fluid drapery are characteristic of Art Nouveau design. The figure rises from a circular gilt base and terminates in a flat circular sealing matrix engraved with a script monogram, composed of intertwined

Dovetailed drawers

Originated in Continental Europe and Restored/Reframed in New York

1802 (New Edition)

Milan Metelak

Embossed figure of a winged man (possibly Hermes/Mercury) beside a gryphon-like wing is likely a maker's marker used by a lesser known European manufacturer

The backs show evidence of age and prior mounting

Jacquard edition with woven bees

This set includes seven of the original volumes (missing volumes II and V)

This antique vanity set consists of a cast bronze (or bronze-alloy) caddy fitted with a matching pair of small cut-glass scent bottles

Designers at the factory during the 1950's - 1970's included Frantisek Koudelka

Additional Description: Marquetry inlaid jewelry or document box

maker's mark at interior