PAIR OF FINE COLLECTABLE ANTIQUE CIRCA 1820 ITALIAN ROME MICROMOSAIC PLAQUEs

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of original Swedish Oil on Board Paintings in large hand carved oak frames Please note t...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of original copper plate prints dating to 1719 by Bernard De Montfauucon of Paris. Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, O.S.B. (French: [d? m?~fok?~]; 13 January 1655 – 21 December 1741) was a French Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Saint Maur. He was an astute scholar who founded the discipline of palaeography, as well as being an editor of works of the Fathers of the Church. He is regarded as one of the founders of the modern discipline of archaeology Montfaucon was born on 13 January 1655 in the Castle of Soulatgé, a small village in the southern town of Corbières, then in the ancient Province of Languedoc, now in the modern Department of Aude. Other sources claimed his birth date is in 16 January, the most accepted date. After one year he was moved to the Castle of Roquetaillade, residence of his family. When he was seven, he was sent to Limoux, to the college run by the Fathers of Christian Doctrine Montfaucon served in the French army as a volunteer and participated in the Franco-Dutch War of 1673. He was a captain of grenadiers and made two campaigns under the command of Marshall Turenne, participated in the Battle of Herbsthausen and fell ill in Saverne in Alsace. Because of his infectious illness he made a vow to Our Lady of Marceille to give one hundred livres to her sanctuary in Limoux and to become a monk, if he was able to return to his country as a result of her intervention. After the death of Montfaucon's father at the Château de Roquetaillade, in 1675 he entered the novitiate of the Benedictine monastery of Bream in Toulouse. There he learned several ancient languages: Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean, Syriac, and Coptic. In 1687 Montfaucon was called to the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and he started to work on an edition of the works of the Greek Church...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very unique pair of reverse bevelled and painted Italian floral mirrors...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original pair of circa 1850 Silk Embroidered pictures depicting birds and fruit A very good looking and decorative pair, they hav...

Each Capodimonte porcelain plaque in this pair portrays a famous episode from Roman history: The Rape of the Sabines. The scene on each pl...

Nicely rendered pastoral scenes of the French countryside depicting shepherds and their sheep flocks.

A wonderfully decorative pair of Italian 19th century Neo-Classical st. Grand Tour Period Giltwood and Exotic Wood plaques. Each highly detailed inlaid panel is based on frescoes fro...

A very important and rare Roman micromosaic plaque, circa 1840-1850. circular, "Village People" in a later giltwood frame plaque sight size 12 1/2" b...