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Fine Circular Protractor by William Cary, London c.1810
By Cary
Located in Norwich, GB
including mechanical calculators, measuring instruments, telescopes, microscopes and navigation and
Category
Antique 1810s English Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass
Antique Staffordshire Lord Horatio Nelson Hand Painted Toby Jug Pitcher Figure
Located in Thiensville, WI
front of a cannon, with his right hand tucked in his waistcoat. He holds a telescope at his side
Category
Antique 19th Century English Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
19th Century Amboyna Console/Card Table Attributed To Holland
Sons
By Holland
Sons
Located in Dublin, IE
rectangular hinged top decorated with leaf banding, opening on telescope action to a burgundy baize playing
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Victorian Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Amboyna
Valerio Adami
By Valerio Adami
Located in Weesp, NL
subjects were highly stylized and often presented in fragments, as seen in Telescoping Rooms (1965).
In
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
$1,606
Large Pipistrello Table Lamp by Gae Aulenti for Martinelli Luce
By Gae Aulenti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
height. Glazed stainless steel telescope. The shape of conic base grows in the height through the ribs of
Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Stainless Steel, Aluminum
Large Pipistrello Table Lamp by Gae Aulenti for Martinelli Luce
By Gae Aulenti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
height. Glazed stainless steel telescope. The shape of conic base grows in the height through the ribs of
Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum
Charles X Figural Ormolu Mantel Clock Depicting Urania
By Nicholas Douillon
Located in Montreal, QC
raised trophy with telescope, chart and a finely cast band depicting the zodiac. The case is tastefully
Category
Antique 1830s French Charles X Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
1870 Antique Burnished Brass W F Stanley Level Surveyor Measurement Instrument
Located in Milan, IT
. The instrument consists of a telescope, two orthogonal levels, a compass complete with a goniometric
Category
Antique 1870s British Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass
Miniature Terrestrial Globe Newton
Son London, Post 1833, Ante 1858
By Newton and Son
Located in Milano, IT
bronze; on the foot there are the scale reproductions of a compass, a telescope and an open book.
The
Category
Antique 1840s English Early Victorian Maps
Materials
Bronze
Art Deco Floor Lamp Kaspar
Sic Nickel Plated Brass Paper Shade Vienna 1932
Located in Vienna, AT
signs of age and use.
The stem is extendable from up to down 135 cm to 172 cm.
The telescope arm is
Category
Vintage 1930s Austrian Art Deco Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass, Nickel
French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Belle Époque Period Ormolu Clock
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
center is a charming and finely detailed plaque of cherubs looking through a telescope and playing with a
Category
Antique 19th Century French Belle Époque Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Brass Surveyors Level by Troughton
Simms, London
By Troughton
Simms London
Located in Norwich, GB
Brass Surveyors Level by Troughton & Simms, London
Sixteen inch extending telescope with
Category
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass
"Study for Caldwell 49" by Jan Pieter Fokkens
By Jan Pieter Fokkens
Located in Chicago, IL
telescope. Despite their photographic realism, “these beautiful images of outer space are not real,” says
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Materials
Paint, Canvas
A Napoleon III Gilt and Silvered Bronze, Onyx and Enamel Figural Clock Set
By Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
incorporated it in a clock mechanism to allow a telescope to point continuously at a single star.
The Onyx
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Mantel Clocks
Materials
Onyx, Bronze, Enamel, Ormolu
Celestial Table Globe by Harris and Son
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
of globes, mathematical instruments, telescopes from Bloomsbury, London. On their “New Celestial
Category
Antique 1810s English Globes
Materials
Mahogany
Stati X Silver Smoke Floor Lamp by Eloa
Located in Geneve, CH
off in much the way that a telescope would- showing us a sky of endless possibilities. Off to the side
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass, Steel
$11,315 / item
Set of 2 Stati x Silver Smoke Floor Lamps by Eloa
Located in Geneve, CH
carries us off in much the way that a telescope would- showing us a sky of endless possibilities. Off to
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass, Steel
$22,631 / set
Stati X Amber Iridescent Floor Lamp by ELOA
Located in Geneve, CH
carries us off in much the way that a telescope would- showing us a sky of endless possibilities. Off to
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass, Steel
$11,315 / item
Set of 2 Stati x Amber Iridescent Floor Lamps by Eloa
Located in Geneve, CH
carries us off in much the way that a telescope would- showing us a sky of endless possibilities. Off to
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Brass, Steel
19th Century Hepplewhite Style Bow Front Sideboard
Located in Forney, TX
" over "patent lever" in oval circle; hallmarked: "Reg" over image of telescope on cross shaped stand
Category
Antique 19th Century Hepplewhite Sideboards
Materials
Mahogany, Oak, Paint
A Monumental Meissen Porcelain Figural Group of Mount Parnassus
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
idyllic poetry.
Urania, seated with telescope and globe, representing astronomy and astrology,
Polyhymnia
Category
Antique 19th Century German Rococo Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Victorian Desk Clock / Barometer / Thermometer Set
By J.H Steward
Located in Norwich, GB
barometers during the second half of the nineteenth century. Maker of the celebrated Lord Bury Telescope and
Category
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Mantel Clocks
Materials
Oak
Stellar Mini Aubergine Acetato Aubergine Pendant by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
skies brightest through a telescope, stellar’s soft glow requires closer inspection to see its detailed
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Stainless Steel
Stellar Medium Smoky Grey Acetato Smoky Grey Pendant by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
seeing the night skies brightest through a telescope, stellar’s soft glow requires closer inspection to
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Stainless Steel
Stellar Big Transparent Acetato Transparent Pendant by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
skies brightest through a telescope, stellar’s soft glow requires closer inspection to see its detailed
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Stainless Steel
Stellar Medium Aubergine Acetato Aubergine Pendant by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
skies brightest through a telescope, stellar’s soft glow requires closer inspection to see its detailed
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Stainless Steel
Stellar Mini Transparent Acetato Pendant by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
skies brightest through a telescope, stellar’s soft glow requires closer inspection to see its detailed
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Stainless Steel
$1,023 / item
Stellar Small Transparent Acetato Transparent Pendant by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
seeing the night skies brightest through a telescope, stellar’s soft glow requires closer inspection to
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Stainless Steel
Stellar Big Smoky Grey Acetato Smoky Grey Pendant by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
skies brightest through a telescope, stellar’s soft glow requires closer inspection to see its detailed
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Stainless Steel
Bow-Front Marine Barometer by John Dollond
By Dollond, London
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Letters’ for his refracting telescope. Other customers included Captain Cook, Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson
Category
Antique 1820s English Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass
Oxidised Surveyors Level by Reid and Young
Located in Norwich, GB
tripod mounting with four holding rings. Thirteen and a half inch adjustable brass telescope surmounted
Category
Vintage 1920s British Edwardian Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass
Center is Everywhere by Josiah McElheny
Located in Jersey City, NJ
with holes corresponding to each visible light seen through the lens of an extremely powerful telescope
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Brass
Niels Larsen
Sons Suede Pommel Horse
By Niels Larsen
Located in Hopewell, NJ
telescoping mechanism on all four legs works smoothly and easily.
Signed with a plaque that reads Niels
Category
Vintage 1930s English Industrial Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
Materials
Leather, Wood
Early 19th Century Set of Four Trompe-L’Oeil Oil Paintings on Marble with Putti
Located in Palm Desert, CA
open book, a globe and a telescope. The Serious Music panel is signed on the lower right by the artist
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Paintings
Materials
Marble
French Marble, Gilt Bronze and Amboyna Burl Side Cabinet
Located in London, GB
central gilt bronze plaque, depicting cherubs navigating with globes, telescopes, compasses and maps. The
Category
Antique 19th Century French Neoclassical Cabinets
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
Antique Library Bronze of Napoleon Bonaparte 19th Century
Located in London, GB
-high boots. He stands on a decorative rectangular bronze pedistal, with canon ball and a Telescope
Category
Antique 1850s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Impressive Antique Austrian Champlevé Enamel, Silver-Gilt and Lapis Lazuli Clock
Located in London, GB
illustrations of, for example, a globe and a telescope. This design is in keeping with the design of the clock
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Austrian Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Silver, Enamel, Bronze
Valerio Adami Limited Edition 24/100 Screen print Paysage de Ruines
By Valerio Adami
Located in Weesp, NL
subjects were highly stylized and often presented in fragments, as seen in Telescoping Rooms (1965). In the
Category
1990s Italian Post-Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Vintage Miniature German Variable Camera Tripod 1920s with Ansel Adams Book
By Carl Zeiss
Located in Incline Village, NV
extends to over 50" through a system of seven graduating slide out brass telescoping extenders; each
Category
Vintage 1920s American Art Deco Photography
Materials
Brass
David Malin IC 2118, the Witch’S Head Nebula, in Eridanus 2010 Print
Located in New York, NY
Through the use of very long exposures taken with a telescope, Malin reveals stars and
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Prints
Materials
Paper
1980 Italy Black
White Stilnovo Milano Telescope Wall
Ceiling Lamp
By Stilnovo
Located in Niederdorfelden, Hessen
Minimalist halogen wall and ceiling lamp with a black and white metal frame. The head on the telescopic arm is adjustable. Thus, the light can be aligned selectively. Manufactured by...
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Metal
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Directors Chairs from Telescope Chair, Leopard Print Fabric, Midcentury, Pair
By Telescope Chair Company
Located in Madison, WI
Directors chairs, pair, upholstered in leopard print design fabric. Made by Telescope Chair Company
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Brass
Antique Telescope
By Bardou
Son
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A very fine antique Brass and iron adjustable table-top telescope signed Bardou & Son (Paris
Category
Antique 19th Century French Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass, Iron
$3,500
English Refracting Telescope
By Thomas Harris and Son
Located in Savannah, GA
Working brass telescope on mahogany tripod base. Signed "Tho. Harris and Son Opticians to the Royal
Category
Antique 19th Century English Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass
19th Century Library Telescope
Located in Newark, GB
A wonderful brass telescope by Newton & Company Opticians of 3 Fleet Street, Temple Bar, London
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass
Brass And Shagreen Telescope
Located in Madrid, ES
A gilt brass and green shagreen skin telescope on stand, from the collection of the Marques de
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Scientific Instruments
Antique Brass Telescope Lamp
Located in Southampton, NY
Antique brass telescope now mounted as a lamp with a Greek Key patterned base border and silk
Category
Antique 19th Century British Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
Great Military Spotting Telescope
By Warner and Swase Co.
Located in Pasadena, CA
Leather covered spotting scope on original tripod. Great optics and breaks down easily for travel.Tripod adjusts easily.
Category
20th Century American Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass
English Brass Telescope, 20th Century
Located in London, GB
A beautiful 20th century English brass telescope on an adjustable mahogany tripod base. Offered in
Category
20th Century English Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass
Polished Brass Telescoping Floor Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Two Light Polished Brass Telescoping Floor Lamps Supported By Tripod Cabriole Legs.
Category
Early 20th Century English Victorian Floor Lamps
$13,500 / set
Three Draw Telescope, circa 1755
By Francis Watkins
Located in Houston, TX
"Three Draw Telescope," Watkins at Charing Cross, London circa 1755.
Jeremiah and Walter
Category
Antique 1750s English Scientific Instruments
Old Military High Powered Telescope
Located in Pasadena, CA
Old telescope mounted on a more recent stand. Find out what your neighbors are doing. Great optics
Category
Vintage 1940s Scientific Instruments
George III Telescoping Toasting Fork
By Birmingham
Located in New York, NY
With a three section system, ebonized handle and ring terminal. Fully marked by Joseph Willmore. At some stage, this piece was presented as a gift and the silver shaft is engraved WF...
Category
Antique 1810s English George III Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
"Telescope", Glossy White Ceramic bottle
By Giovanni Mengoni
Located in Perugia, IT
Glossy white ceramic bottle. Designed, made with a potter's wheel, and finished entirely by hand by author Giovanni Mengoni. The object has the ability to have function for tail serv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Pitchers
Materials
Ceramic
Impressive WWII Bronze Telescope and Tripod
By W.
L.E. Gurley
Located in Oakland, CA
for details.*
Handsomely restored bronze telescope by W. & L.E. Gurley, USA. This magnificent piece
Category
Vintage 1940s American Industrial Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Vintage Pair of Telescoping Table Lamps
Located in Culver City, CA
A very sleek and simple, modern pair of table lamps, circa the 1980's, that have the facility of extending to a greater height. The height down is 36" to the top of the shade. It ext...
Category
Late 20th Century American Table Lamps
$1,950 / item
Howard Lewin pear burl wooden telescope sculpture
By Howard Lewin
Located in Maastricht, NL
A pear burl wood telescope shaped sculptural object by Californian artist Southern California
Category
Vintage 1980s American Craftsman Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pearwood
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