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Antique Maritime Diorama of a Four-Masted Clipper Ship c. 1880–1910
Located in Black Rock, CT
A commanding antique maritime shadow box diorama, featuring a four-masted clipper ship at full sail
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Late 19th Century Unknown Folk Art Antique Diorama

Materials

Metal

Historic Diorama Featuring the Four Masted Barque William P. Frye at Full Sail
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
This great historic diorama likely dates to the first part of the 20th century. It represents a
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Antique Diorama

Materials

String, Glass, Wood, Paint, Paper

Fine Carved Wood Diorama of Spree in the Cellar by J. Graber
Located in Berghuelen, DE
a fine tridimensional woodcarving of a folksy scenery. three hunters and a monk drinking in the wine cellar. carved by the woodcarver j. graber. with woodframe, behind glass-plate. h...
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Early 20th Century German Antique Diorama

19th Century Victorian Scale Model Gothic Stone House with Glass Diorama C 1860
Located in Central England, GB
Victorian Scale Model Gothic Stone House with Glass Diorama C 1860 This brilliantly constructed
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Diorama

Materials

Wood

Fine Carved Wood Diorama Poacher in the Alps by Steiner, Meran, circa 1900
Located in Berghuelen, DE
a large three-dimensional woodcarving of a hunting scenery. a poacher is targeting a group of chamoise in the mountains. carved by ernst or sebastian steiner, meran ca. 1900. with wo...
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Early 20th Century Italian Antique Diorama

Materials

Wood

Edwardian Starfish Shaped Shell Valentine- Passing Lighthouse
Located in Downingtown, PA
Edwardian Shellwork Valentine Diorama, Circa 1900. A large circular Edwardian star-shape shellwork
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Early 1900s Adirondack Antique Diorama

Materials

Shell

C. 1900 English Shadowbox Hunt Scene Panel
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
diorama effect as they are floated off the black ground. 23.75" w., 11.25" h., 1" d.
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Early 20th Century English Edwardian Antique Diorama

Materials

Paper

Small Nantucket Keepsake by Tony Sarg
By Tony Sarg
Located in Nantucket, MA
Lift top box with miniature ship diorama lid The box is painted a dark maroon with “Nantucket
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Antique Diorama

Materials

Pine

Hand Carver Folk Art Fish in Glass Display Case
Located in Peekskill, NY
is fully carved, painted and set up as a diorama. The plants are painted copper and the fish is wood
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Antique Diorama

Nineteenth Century Automata Signed By Henri Marc of Paris
By Henri Marc, Paris 1
Located in London, GB
Housed within a swept gilt rectangular frame, the mountain and lake hand painted diorama
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1870s French Victorian Antique Diorama

English Victorian Butterfly Collection
Located in Stamford, CT
dioramas principally of British birds that is still in existence today. Pratt & Sons work for the Booth
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19th Century British Victorian Antique Diorama

Stuffed British Pheasants in Glass and Wooden Display Case from the 19th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
. These British pheasants, in a miniature diorama would make for an uncommon decorative item in most homes
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19th Century British Antique Diorama

Materials

Glass, Wood

LANGEROCK Belgian painting landscape orientalist Egypt Cairo 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
, Langerock also produced panoramas and dioramas. For example the panorama of the City of Rio de Janeiro
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1880s Academic Antique Diorama

Materials

Oil

Painting Scene "Parisian Interior" Signed Martin-Sauvaigo. Oil on panel France
Located in palm beach, FL
the Paris International Colonial Exhibition of 1931 with several large dioramas, and finally at the
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Early 20th Century French Antique Diorama

Materials

Paint

1930s Yellow Daisies Floral Arrangement Still Life Oil Painting, Framed
Located in palm beach, FL
Colonial Exhibition of 1931 with several large dioramas, and finally at the 1937 Universal Exhibition in
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Early 20th Century French Antique Diorama

Materials

Paint

Antique Persian Tabriz Rug. Size: 5 ft 5 in x 9 ft 5 in (1.65 m x 2.87 m)
Located in New York, NY
botanical diorama with pendulous vines, branching trees and flowering shrubs that continue through the edges
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Late 19th Century Persian Tabriz Antique Diorama

Materials

Wool

Convent interior
Located in Paris, IDF
Paris Salon between 1831 and 1878. First employed in the painting of dioramas, he then produced numerous
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Early 19th Century French School Antique Diorama

Materials

Ink, Pen

Monumental 1916 Mural for the California Academy of Sciences by C.B. Hudson
By Charles Bradford Hudson
Located in NYC, NY
hired him to paint the backgrounds of their groundbreaking new form of exhibit, the diorama. These
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Early 20th Century American Antique Diorama

Materials

Board

Prisoner of war straw-work ark
Located in London, GB
glass diorama with brass supported sections. Great Britain was constantly at war with France between
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1850s French Folk Art Antique Diorama

Materials

Straw, Pine

French romantic painting troubadour Oil on canvas MAUMET 19th Tomb ruined church
Located in PARIS, FR
Marie Bouton (painters and inventors of dioramas!) Our painting is this kind of painting. Here the scene
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1840s Romantic Antique Diorama

Materials

Oil

Mysteries of the Ocean
By Alfred Daguet
Located in Palm Beach, FL
fantastical ocean reef in heavy bas-relief for close observation, a veritable diorama of ropey sea life
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Diorama

Materials

Brass, Iron

"A FEW MORE STEPS" GRANVILLE BRUCE TEXAS WESTERN LANDSCAPE OIL
By Granville Bruce
Located in San Antonio, TX
work on natural history diorama and scenes of historic Texas architectural subjects, Granville Bruce
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Diorama

Materials

Oil

“The Model” by Charles Shepard Chapman
Located in Sheffield, MA
mountain lion diorama in the American Museum's Hall of North American Mammals, which features the Grand
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Early 20th Century American Antique Diorama

Corwin by Charles Abel
By Charles Abel Corwin 2
Located in Houston, TX
dioramas. Corwin began teaching at the Art Institute in 1883 but did not settle in the Chicago area
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Antique Diorama

Materials

Canvas

Charles Abel Corwin Painting
By Charles Corwin
Located in Houston, TX
and prepared him for his later successful career as a painter of murals and dioramas. Corwin began
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Antique Diorama

19th Century Double Sailor s Valentine
Located in Nantucket, MA
, and even the odd shell diorama, shell constructed flower basket or bowl, or even a shell adorned piece
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19th Century Bajan Folk Art Antique Diorama

Materials

Shell

Double Sailor s Valentine "Forget Me Not" Signed and Dated "Barbados, 1915"
Located in Nantucket, MA
shell diorama, shell constructed flower basket or bowl, or even a shell adorned piece of furniture. Much
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1910s Bajan Folk Art Antique Diorama

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Shell, Mahogany

19th Century Double Sailor s Valentine - "Home Sweet Home" circa 1870
Located in Nantucket, MA
shell diorama, shell constructed flower basket or bowl, or even a shell adorned piece of furniture. Much
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1870s Bajan Folk Art Antique Diorama

Materials

Shell, Mahogany

Painting by Clarkson Stanfield R.A
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
were his ‘moving dioramas’, unrolling land and seascapes, some twenty feet high. Similar exhibitions
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19th Century British Antique Diorama

Materials

Canvas

MINATURE 1615 DATED CARVED COFFER SIX PLANK CHEST DOLLS HOUSE ANTiQUE FURNITURE
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
antique early 17th century six plank coffer chest, dated 1615 for a dolls house or diorama This piece is
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1610s English Charles II Antique Diorama

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Wood

La Nymphe des Bois- 19th Century Oil, Nude Figure in Forest Landscape by P Huet
By Paul Huet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
exhibition at the Salon of 1827. In 1829 he painted panoramic views for the 'Diorama', a painted illusion of
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Antique Diorama

Materials

Oil, Panel

Sailboat Diorama
Located in Nashville, TN
Diorama with sailboat named Hope sailing through waters in Hunting Island, SC; lighthouse and
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19th Century American Antique Diorama

Materials

Wire

Framed Diorama with Birds
Located in East Hampton, NY
A rare and beautiful diorama with bubble glass framed in black wood and deep green silk velvet
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Early 20th Century Antique Diorama

Large Domed Victorian Diorama
Located in Peekskill, NY
We bought this perfect six squirrel diorama out of a Historic River 175 year old estate. The owner
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Late 19th Century American Early Victorian Antique Diorama

Ship Wheel Miniature Ship Diorama
Located in Downingtown, PA
Miniature ship diorama, the Frame in the form of a ship's wheel, Early 20th century. The
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Antique Diorama

Materials

Wood

American Folk Art Colonial Diorama
Located in New York, NY
American Folk Art Colonial Diorama. Picturesque Folk Art Diorama depicting early American Settlers
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1920s American American Colonial Antique Diorama

Materials

Wood

20th Century Chinese Cork Diorama
Located in LEGNY, FR
Chinese diorama made of vintage cork in glass and lacquered wood. Finely carved decoration in its
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1920s Chinese Antique Diorama

Materials

Cork

Ship Diorama of the Vessel "Lillian"
Located in Nantucket, MA
Shadow box ship diorama of two masted ship Lillian with matching rowboat, carved wooden sails and
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Antique Diorama

Materials

Glass, Pine

Sailing Ship Diorama 19th Century Signed
Located in Norwood, NJ
George Vempley Burwood, British (1844-1917) signed and dated. Sailing ship, schooner diorama
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1890s British Victorian Antique Diorama

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paint

19th Century Folk-art Ship Diorama
Located in London, GB
19th Century Folk-art Ship Diorama A highly decorative piece of English nautical folk art, in
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1880s British Folk Art Antique Diorama

Materials

Wood

English Victorian Pine Church Diorama Model
Located in London, GB
Victorian Church Diorama A hand carved pine gesso detailed Victorian church model in a bespoke
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1880s British Victorian Antique Diorama

Materials

Pine

Diorama with Hermit Crab, Italy, 1870
Located in Milan, IT
A natural Wunderkammer specimen a marine diorama with Hermit Crab (Pagurus Bernhardus) a brunch
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1870s Italian Antique Diorama

Materials

Coral

20th Century Large Chinese Cork Diorama
Located in LEGNY, FR
Chinese diorama made of vintage cork in glass and lacquered wood. Finely carved decoration in its
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1920s Chinese Antique Diorama

Materials

Cork

20th Century Chinese Cork Diorama, 1920s
Located in LEGNY, FR
Beautiful 20th century rectangular Chinese Cork diorama. Finely carved decoration in its glass
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1920s Chinese Antique Diorama

Materials

Cork

Early 20th Century American Ship Diorama
Located in Nantucket, MA
Shadow box of a American schooner surrounded by smaller sailing vessels and a lighthouse. Carved out of wood with a painted plaster sea, New England, circa 1920.
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Antique Diorama

Vintage Spinning Mill Occupational Diorama c.1940
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT A forced perspective, hand painted spinning mill diorama constructed primarily from plywood
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Early 20th Century Industrial Antique Diorama

Materials

Glass, Wood, Plywood

Early 20th Century Folk Art Ship Diorama
Located in San Mateo, CA
Folk art diorama of a ship being towed by a tug boat. At the bottom of the diorama is a
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Antique Diorama

Materials

Rope, Glass, Wood

Handmade High Relief/Diorama Carving, circa 1923
Located in San Francisco, CA
High relief/diorama wooden carving of a schooner by a San Francisco sea captain. Framed in wooden
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Early 20th Century American Antique Diorama

Materials

Glass, Wood

Diorama with Butterflies and Flowers, Italy 1870
Located in Milan, IT
A diorama with natural Wunderkammer specimens of multicolored butterflies leaned over flowering
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1860s Italian Antique Diorama

Materials

Animal Skin, Blown Glass, Fruitwood

A diorama with hermit crabs, Italy 1870.
Located in Milan, IT
A natural Wunderkammer specimen a marine diorama with Hermit Crab (Pagurus Bernhardus) a brunch
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1870s Italian Antique Diorama

Materials

Glass, Fruitwood

Exceptional Swiss German Alpine Creche Diorama - 1887
Located in Kinderhook, NY
Extraordinary Swiss German creche diorama composed of intricately cut paper, cardboard, wood, and
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19th Century Swiss Antique Diorama

Materials

Metal

Edwardian Shellwork Valentine Diorama of HMS Devastation
Located in Downingtown, PA
Edwardian Shellwork Valentine Diorama of of HMS Devastation Date: Circa 1900 Origin: England
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Late 19th Century English Folk Art Antique Diorama

Materials

Shell

Circa 1860 English Diorama of Stanfield Hall
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A wonderful c. 1860 English diorama of Stanfield Hall, even the original case & glass in
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1860s English Victorian Antique Diorama

Materials

Glass, Wood

Late 19th Century English Diorama Clipper Ship Shadowbox
Located in Queens, NY
Late 19th century English Victorian painted diorama wall plaque of clipper ship with red flag
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Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Diorama

Materials

Mahogany

Miniature Antler Furniture Diorama, Austria, circa 1850
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Showcase of a Biedermeier desk with candleholders, clock, etc. very fine hand-carved, made of horn.
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Mid-19th Century Austrian Rustic Antique Diorama

Materials

Glass, Horn

19th Century Ship Diorama, England, circa 1890
Located in Toronto, ON
This beautiful handcrafted sailing ship in shadow box with smaller boat in tow shows rich color and patina that only time can imbue. It has been in the family for over 60 years and ...
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1890s English Folk Art Antique Diorama

Materials

Wood

19th Century Diorama Shadow Box of Sailing Vessel
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Early 19th century diorama of a three masted ship in full sail in a choppy sea of white-capped
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Early 19th Century French Antique Diorama

Materials

Glass, Wood

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Antique Diorama For Sale on 1stDibs

Find many varieties of an authentic antique diorama available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of wood, glass and paint, every antique diorama was constructed with great care. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect antique diorama — we have versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. An antique diorama made by Folk Art designers — as well as those associated with Victorian — is very popular. You’ll likely find more than one antique diorama that is appealing in its simplicity, but F. Carlson and Hermann Steiner produced versions that are worth a look.

How Much is a Antique Diorama?

Prices for an antique diorama can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $275 and can go as high as $74,500, while the average can fetch as much as $2,200.