Copper Haystack Measures
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Platters and Serveware
Copper
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Jars
Copper
Antique Early 19th Century British Georgian Vases
Copper
20th Century English Edwardian Pitchers
Copper
Antique 19th Century European Victorian Pitchers
Copper
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Pitchers
Copper
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Antique Early 19th Century Victorian Glass
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Urns
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Early 20th Century Chinese Metalwork
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Early 20th Century English Edwardian Pitchers
Copper
Antique 19th Century British Historical Memorabilia
Copper
Antique 19th Century English Decorative Objects
Copper
Antique 1850s English Victorian Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Copper
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Tableware
Copper
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Serving Pieces
Copper
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Serving Pieces
Copper
Antique Early 19th Century English George IV Pitchers
Copper, Lead
Antique 19th Century British Pitchers
Copper
Antique 19th Century English Pitchers
Copper
Antique Late 19th Century English Pitchers
Copper
Antique Late 19th Century English Pitchers
Copper
Antique Early 19th Century British George III Pitchers
Copper
Antique 19th Century Victorian Pitchers
Copper
Antique Late 19th Century English Pitchers
Copper
Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Jars
Copper
Antique 18th Century Georgian Pitchers
Copper
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Pitchers
Copper
Antique 1840s English Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Copper
Antique 19th Century English Decorative Objects
Antique Late 19th Century Urns
Copper
Antique 1880s Scottish Pitchers
Copper
Antique 19th Century English Industrial Pitchers
Copper
Materials: Copper Furniture
From cupolas to cookware and fine art to filaments, copper metal has been used in so many ways since prehistoric times. Today, antique, new and vintage copper coffee tables, mirrors, lamps and other furniture and decor can bring a warm metallic flourish to interiors of any kind.
In years spanning 8,700 BC (the time of the first-known copper pendant) until roughly 3,700 BC, it may have been the only metal people knew how to manipulate.
Valuable deposits of copper were first extracted on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus around 4,000 BC — well before Europe’s actual Bronze Age (copper + tin = bronze). Tiny Cyprus is even credited with supplying all of Egypt and the Near East with copper for the production of sophisticated currency, weaponry, jewelry and decorative items.
In the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, master painters such as Leonardo da Vinci, El Greco, Rembrandt and Jan Brueghel created fine works on copper. (Back then, copper-based pigments, too, were all the rage.) By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, decorative items like bas-relief plaques, trays and jewelry produced during the Art Deco, Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau periods espoused copper. These became highly valuable and collectible pieces and remain so today.
Copper’s beauty, malleability, conductivity and versatility make it perhaps the most coveted nonprecious metal in existence. In interiors, polished copper begets an understated luxuriousness, and its reflectivity casts bright, golden and earthy warmth seldom realized in brass or bronze. (Just ask Tom Dixon.)
Outdoors, its most celebrated attribute — the verdigris patina it slowly develops from exposure to oxygen and other elements — isn’t the only hue it takes. Architects often refer to shades of copper as russet, ebony, plum and even chocolate brown. And Frank Lloyd Wright, Renzo Piano and Michael Graves have each used copper in their building projects.
Find antique, new and vintage copper furniture and decorative objects on 1stDibs.
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