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A collection of 60 Grand Tour plaster intaglios in the original three-tier birch box, the upper tier with the key to the intaglios pasted under the cover, signed G. Liberotti, Roma a...

Grand tour style decorative temple with removable top. Amherst Mass collectors estate.

A pair of Louis XVI gilt bronze mounted gray and white mottled marble obelisks c1785. The base mounted with bollards in the corners. The body mounted with gilt bronze fittings. Proba...

Antique cast iron colour enamel basket of flowers doorstop dating from the 19th century. The doorstop is modelled in the form of a basket of flowers s...

Rare and unusual antique cast iron black enamel fox head doorstop dating from the 19th century. The doorstop is modelled in the form of a stirrup cup with a...

An Impressive Pair of 'Grand Tour' Models Of the Temples of Vespasian and Castor & Pollux Carved from alabaster and supported on grey marble ba...

Slightly arched top with slide out hidden compartment over a pair of doors enclosing a fitted architectural interior of drawers above a drawer, raised on bun feet and a later ebonize...

A spectacular and finely executed Marquette of Giotto's famous campanile in Florence, Italy. This carved and reticulated walnut model of the bell tower has mirrored inserts and remai...

Very fine early 19th century Tunbridgeware architectural model of a chapel which also serves as a jewelry chest and dressing mirror, the diamond tiled roof in ebony and sycamore, the front with micro-mosaic rose window over Gothic inlaid door with mother of pearl and mixed woods, the door opening to reveal four kingwood drawers with bone knobs, the reverse having identical door revealing a the original beveled mercury glass dressing mirror, the whole expertly worked to an exacting standard. Tunbridge ware is a form of decoratively inlaid woodwork, typically in the form of boxes, that is characteristic of Tonbridge and the spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent in the 18th and 19th centuries. The decoration typically consists of a mosaic of many very small pieces of different colored woods that form a pictorial vignette. Shaped rods and slivers of wood were first carefully glued together, then cut into many thin slices of identical pictorial veneer with a fine saw. Elaborately striped and feathered bandings for framing were pre-formed in a similar fashion. There is a collection of Tunbridge ware in the Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery in Tunbridge Wells.[1 While Tunbridge ware boxes...

Typical form with satyr heads, gilt balls and faux marble plinth. W. Hodgins Estate.

Very fine carved walnut architectural model of a Greco-Roman temple, with hinged lid and column fronted doors, circa 1840, each row of columns either hinged or removable, possibly ma...

With removable dome cover with leaf form finial, all raised on corinthian columns, conforming base with carved leaf tip decoration.