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Palais Royal French Ormolu Mounted Desk Writing Set with Pen
By Palais Royal
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very finely made antique French Palais Royal ormolu mounted mother of pearl desk stand with pen dating from around 1900. The stand comprises of an ornate looped wire work carrying handle with a candle holder mounted on a shaped metal body embossed and engraved with floral designs and with a coiled pen support one with a snake head terminal and other with a flower with a polished mother of pearl bowl...
Category
19th Century French Rococo Revival Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Canon A-1 Black Body 35mm SLR Film Camera with Canon FD 50mm F1.8 Prime Lens
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Canon A-1 Black Body 35mm SLR Film Camera with Canon FD 50mm F1.8 Prime Lens
1978 to 1985 Made in Japan
Weight: 609g
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Late Victorian Chinoiserie decorated Letter rack
By Maple
Co.
Located in Dereham, GB
Late Victorian Chinoiserie decorated Letter rack
Black Laquered Background with gold detail
Depicting Figures bedside river scenes
foliage & leaf decoration
urn with flowers,
Sitting...
Category
Late 19th Century English Rococo Revival Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Ormolu
$661 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique English Novelty Inkwell - Brass Tortoise / Turtle c.1890
Located in Bath, GB
A handsome antique English inkwell cast in solid English brass in the form of a Tortoise retaining his original glass eyes.
The lid lifts to ...
Category
1890s British Late Victorian Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Hermes, Paris, Equestrian / Horse Head Letter Opener, c.1960
By Hermès, Ravinet D
Enfert
Located in Bath, GB
A highly collectable letter opener or paper knife made in gilded bronze and dating to c.1960; a scarce-find in the gold colour.
The handle is in the form of a horse head, beautifu...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Victorian Military Campaign Burr Walnut Brass Bound Writing Slope With Key
Located in Reading, Berkshire
19th Century Victorian Military Campaign Burr Walnut Brass Bound Writing Slope With A Tooled Black Leather Scriver
Slope will include
A Single Glass Inkwell
A vintage pen
S moder...
Category
19th Century British Campaign Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
$2,479 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Tortoiseshell and Silver Stationery Box William Comyns
By William Comyns
Located in Northampton, GB
Raised on Four Sterling Silver Scrollwork Legs
From our Writing Box collection, we are pleased to offer this Tortoiseshell and Silver Stationery Box by William Comyns. The Stationer...
Category
Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver
Large English Antique Brass Desk Magnifying Glass / Paperweight c.1910
Located in Bath, GB
Always very popular and a very useful desk-top accessory. These large circular magnifiers actually are the condenser or magnifier from a Magic Lantern dating to around 1910; they are...
Category
1910s British Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Vintage Ink Blotter, English, Marble, Desktop Accessory, Paperweight, Art Deco
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage ink blotter. An English, marble desktop accessory or paperweight, dating to the Art Deco period, circa 1930.
A treat for the ca...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble
Yashica-Mat Twin Lens Reflex Camera With Yashinon 80mm F3.5 Lens Medium Format
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Yashica-Mat Twin Lens Reflex Medium Format Camera With a Yashinon 80mm F3.5 Prime Fixed Lens
Takes Medium Format Roll Film Comes With Original With Brown Leather Yashica Case.
Yas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
19th Century Chinese Camphor Wood and Ebonised Writing Slope
Located in Martlesham, GB
19th century Chinese camphor wood and ebonised writing slope of exceptional quality, having a drawer to the front which when pulls out opens the tambour shutter on top to reveal a lift up stationary rack with various sized compartments, in the bottom central compartment there is the makers label “SUI KEE CHAN” There is a hinged lid which lifts up and over...
Category
1840s Hong Kong Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Hardwood
WMF Württembergische Metallwaren German Jugendstil Pewter Desk Stand and Inkwell
By WMF Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish German Jugendstil pewter desk stand and inkwell by renowned makers WMF (Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik) and dating from around 1906. The stand comprises of a centr...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Pewter
Fine Angular Geometric Czech Art Deco Black Enamel Crystal Perfume Bottle 1930s
By Karl Palda
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Supreme geometric and angular shaped Czech crystal Art Deco perfume bottle
Clean geometric lines on black enamel.
Vintage Bohemian, Czech cry...
Category
Early 20th Century Czech Art Deco United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass
1950
s Original Small Pathe Film Cassette - Large Quantity Available
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1950's Original Small Pathe Film Cassette - Large Quantity Available.
Original untouched new old stock film cassettes from the iconic French film company Pathe. Listing is for a si...
Category
1950s French Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Steel
Classic Cartier 18ct Gold Nib Stylo Plume
M
Fountain Pen Boxed With Guarantee
By Cartier, Montblanc
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Elegant Cartier 18ct Gold Nib Stylo Plume M Ribbed Palladium Fountain Pen With Cartier Box, Guarantee With Boxed Cartridges
Manufactured by Montblanc
The pen is made from Palladium...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Art Deco United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Gold
$1,990 Sale Price / set
24% Off
Cartier Pasha Limited Edition Platinum Finish Graduation of Lines Rollerball Pen
By Montblanc, Cartier
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Stunning Cartier Limited Edition Pasha Platinum Finish Rollerball Pen Graduation of Lines Blue Lacquer Pinstripe
Platinum Detailing
With Guarantee stamped 2008
Box
A tr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Art Deco United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Platinum, Enamel
$1,935 Sale Price / set
28% Off
1940
s New Old Stock Vintage Button Cards - Pack Of Ten
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1940's New Old Stock Vintage Button Cards- Pack Of Ten. We recently came across a large hoard of new old stock hardware and general merchandise items, laying untouched since the 1940...
Category
1940s French Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic, Paper
Exquisite Georgian Hand Crafted Mahogany Writing Slope With Red Tooled Leather
By Thompson Cabinet Company
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Early 19th Century Exquisite Brass Bound Hand Crafted Mahogany Writing Slope Burgundy Red Tooled Leather, Two Glass Brass Topped Inkwells
Tw...
Category
1820s British Georgian Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Antique Art Deco Russian Polished Malachite Egg and Stand 20th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a superb large Russian malachite egg and stand, circa 1930 in date.
This beautiful malachite egg features the distinctive textured pattern of the green polished stone and fe...
Category
1930s Unknown Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Stone
Gilded Austrian Bronze Inkwell / Pen Rest, Signed Bergmann
By Bergmann Foundry
Located in Bath, GB
A magnificent and grand late Victorian Austrian desk set, made from cast bronze, beautifully finished in gold.
The cast Owl is a figural inkwell ...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Edwardian Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
$3,633 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract, Organic Gabriel Fourmaintraux Hand Painted Ceramic Vide Poche c1950
s
By Gabriel Emile Fourmaintraux
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Organic in form, abstract ceramic vide poche by Gabriel Fourmaintraux, France
Strong pallet of red, yellow and orange enamels contrast wonderfully with the exterior matt black glaze
...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Ceramic
Glass Millefiori Paperweight by Strathearn or Perthshire Scotland, circa 1970
By Strathearn
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautiful handmade Millefiori collectors Paperweight, that we attribute to a Scottish maker, Circa 1970.
This paperweight is handmade with a mixed Millefiori cane design,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Scottish Mid-Century Modern United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass
1940
s New Old Stock Vintage Coffee Bags - Pack Of Ten
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1940's New Old Stock Vintage Coffee Bags - Pack Of Ten. We sourced these from the US. Extraordinary original 1940's new old stock, never used, incredible graphics. Listing is for a p...
Category
1940s European Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Paper
Sunshine Recorder by Casella of London
Located in London, GB
A Campbell–Stokes sunshine recorder, attributed to Casella & Co, circa 1910.
Mounted on a later wooden display plinth.
Marked with serial number...
Category
Early 20th Century English United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Gilt Bronze, Pearl and Enamel Singing Bird Box by Bontems, circa 1890
By Bontems
Located in London, GB
A stunning gilt bronze and seed pearl singing bird box by Bontems of Paris - CIRCA 1890.
The bird rises from beneath the enamal oval lid and is sure to delight!
Category
Late 19th Century French Victorian Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Grand French Three-Piece Desk Set, Hand Painted Porcelain Inset, circa 1860
Located in Bath, GB
Wonderful to find a top-notch, highly decorative and most unusual desk set, French in origin dating to around 1860. Made from nutty coloured burl Walnut, all three pieces are mounted with the most wonderful polished brass mounts all inset with fabulous hand painted porcelain plaques.
Our restorer had to remove all the mounts to professionally clean and on doing so found the name of the figure depicted on the plaques, "Ninon De Lenclos" a French Author, Courtesan, Freethinker and Patron of the Arts.
The set is made up of a Stationery box with brass swing handles each side; the box complete with a working tasselled key. The box opens to reveal the wonderful original gilded leather lining with the original paper lining the sides of the dividers. The lock and hinges are beautifully engraved, a true sign of quality.
The next piece is a hefty large oval Walnut Inkstand with a large glass inkwell...
Category
1860s French Victorian Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
$3,032 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Zsolnay Pecs Green Eosin Iridescent Glazed Deer Mounted Desk Stand
By Zsolnay
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and unusual Hungarian art nouveau art pottery desk stand mounted with deer and decorated in eosin iridescent green glazes dating from around 1900. The desk stand has a boat sh...
Category
Early 1900s Hungarian Art Nouveau Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Ceramic
Josef Ekberg, Gustavsberg Of Sweden, Shaped Lustre Vase With Hand Applied Gilt
By Josef Ekberg
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
A super little vase glazed with an intriguing sea green lustre and hand decorated with gilt decoration by Josef Ekberg for Gustavsberg, Sweden
Wonderful Ekberg craftsmanship
Signed a...
Category
Early 20th Century Swedish Art Deco United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Porcelain
Antique English Bronze Dog Inkwell, King Charles Spaniel, c.1880
Located in Bath, GB
A handsome Victorian novelty inkwell, cast in bronze in the form of a King Charles Spaniel, beautifully executed with two lovely glass eyes.
The underside is inscribed with a roma...
Category
1880s European Late Victorian Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
$1,045 Sale Price
20% Off
Silver Gilt and Full Radial Guilloche Enamel Singing Bird Box with Original Key
Located in London, GB
A sublime silver gilt and full radial guilloche enamel with highlights, singing bird box, with original silver and enamel key and original leather carry case. When wound and the bird-form start/stop button actuated, the magic starts immediately with the bird lid...
Category
1920s Austrian Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver, Enamel
19th Century Rosewood Writing Slope Decorated With Beautiful Inlay Throughout
Located in Reading, Berkshire
19th Century Rosewood Writing Slope Decorated With Stylish Inlay Throughout.
The slope features a well executed fitted interior sadly no hidden compartment.
Interior when folded ou...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
$1,678 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Elegant Victorian Flame Mahogany Writing Slope
Stationary Leather Interior
Located in Reading, Berkshire
An Elegant 19th Century Antique Victorian Flame Mahogany Decorative Inlaid Writing Slope With Black Ebonised Accents & Fitted Stationary Compartments With A Tooled Leather Interior
Supplied with two glass inkwells
A new notepad
A vintage ink pen...
Category
Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Fine Crystal Perfume Bottle With Faceted Stopper By Orrefors, Sweden. c1980
s
By Orrefors
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Beautiful and pure, crystal clear perfume bottle by Orrefors, Sweden
Unusually faceted, cut crystal stopper completes this most appealing piece
Circa 1980's
Height with stopper 3.5 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Crystal
Classic Cartier 18ct Gold Plated Ribbed Trinity Rollerball Pen
Cartier Box
By Cartier
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Classic Cartier 18ct Gold Plated Vendome Trinity Rollerball Pen
Cartier Box
Made in Paris, France
Item Is Sold WithA Red
Gold Leather Cartier Box
Cartier pens are desi...
Category
Late 20th Century French Art Deco United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Gold Plate
Tunbridge Ware Correspondence Box by Edmund Nye 19th Century
By Edmund Nye Tunbridge Wells
Located in Cheltenham, GB
Mid 19th century Tunbridge ware stationery box by Edmund Nye, manufacturer.
The dome-shaped top is inlaid with a specimen parquetry panel, crossbanded with boxwood and stringing and...
Category
19th Century English Georgian Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Ash, Walnut, Satinwood, Boxwood
$1,786 Sale Price
20% Off
Sterling Silver Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Fountain Pen A Haviland-Nye
Located in Reading, Berkshire
A Sterling Silver A Haviland-Nye Hallmarked Fountain Pen With A Schmidt Medium Nib, With A Black Tooled Leather Box
Hallmarked A Haviland-Nye 2002 London Made Specially for H.R.H Qu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Art Deco United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Vintage Wooden Chopping Boards - Small Size - Good Quantity Available
Located in Hook, Hampshire
Vintage Wooden Chopping Boards - Small Size - Good Quantity Available.
Sourced from Hungarian and Romanian street markets, crudely made and well used small chopping boards made mai...
Category
1950s Hungarian Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Beech
Rare Gucci Solid Sterling Silver Lion
s Paw Letter Opener
By Gucci
Located in Bath, GB
I have only ever had one other of these and it was silver over bronze; I was amazed to find this heavy solid silver example fully marked "925" on the underside and signed by the famo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
Exquisite Victorian Walnut
Black Leather Campaign Writing Slope
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Exquisite Victorian Hand-Crafted Burr Walnut Writing Slope With Black Tooled Leather Interior With Secret Compartment
SLOPE 23
Brass front ...
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Art Deco Shagreen
Silver Plated Magnifying Glass c.1930
Located in Bath, GB
A handsome and most unusual magnifying glass in a winning and highly sought-after combination of English silver plate and Shagreen.
The ferrule frame and terminal are all silver pl...
Category
1930s British Art Deco Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver Plate
Rene Lalique Glass
Deux Aigles
Paperweight
By René Lalique
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Rene Lalique clear & frosted glass 'Deux Aigles' paperweight, with details highlighted in grey staining. Features two eagle heads facing each other with a ball in their beaks. Moulde...
Category
1910s French Art Deco Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass
Quality Vintage Solid / Sterling Silver Letter Opener - Pheasant
By Richard Comyns
Located in Bath, GB
A stunning, beautifully cast letter opener in solid English Sterling silver with a hefty weight of 98.5 Grams / 3 17 Troy Ounces.
The handle features a wonderful Pheasant and the si...
Category
1960s British Mid-Century Modern Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Sterling Silver
Wilhelm Kage, Argenta Gustavsberg, Incised Stoneware Silver Piscine Dish C1940
By Wilhelm Kage
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Unusual Argenta stoneware footed dish with applied silver swordfish central motif
Tied silver banding to rim
Designed by Wilhelm Kage for the Argenta series for Gustavsberg, Sweden...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Art Deco United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver
20th Century Bronze / Brass Industrial Flame Proof Ceiling Light / Desk Lamp
By Industrial Design
Located in Leicester, Leicestershire
Solid bronze desk lamp with braided cable and dimmer switch.
Comes with vintage Edison filament lamp E27.
Made in the 1980s by Kokosha - Osaka, Japan.
...
Category
19th Century Japanese Industrial Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Antique Georgian Rosewood Writing Box by William Chrisp
Located in Northampton, GB
Scrolling Brass Inlay
From our Writing Box collection, we are pleased to offer this Antique Rosewood Writing Box by William Chrisp. The Writing Box of rectangular shape edged in bra...
Category
1820s English George IV Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Silver, Brass
HERMES PARIS BURR
BURL WALNUT
AMBOYNA DESK STATiONERY SET PAD HOLDER PEN POT
By Hermès
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely suite of original suite if super rare and highly collectable Hermes Paris stationary items
A wo...
Category
20th Century French Art Deco United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Walnut
1950
s New Old Stock Vintage Pocket Plane Whistles - Bundle Of Ten
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1950's New Old Stock Vintage Pocket Plane Whistles - Bundle Of Ten. We recently came across a large hoard of new old stock hardware and general merchandise items, laying untouched si...
Category
1950s Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Plastic
Inkwell Grand Tour Neoclassical Patinated Bronze Marble Campaign
Located in Cheltenham, GB
Inkwell Grand Tour Neoclassical Patinated Bronze Marble Campaign
Grand Tour neoclassical patinated bronze campaign inkwell. Finely cast and chased patinated bronze inkwell decorated...
Category
Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$617 Sale Price
33% Off
Adorable, Pedigree French Poodle, Toffee Glaze Ceramic Figurine, Vallauris 1950s
By Vallauris
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Sporting a 'Dutch Cut' to his coat, this adorable ceramic poodle stands tall and proud
Collar and feet are gilded, the glaze is a delicious toffee caramel colour and the eyes are pin...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Rolex Dealer
s Quote Pad, Swiss, Leather Bound, Notebook Slip, Late 20th
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage Rolex dealer's quote pad. A Swiss, leather bound notebook slip, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1980.
Wonderfully tact...
Category
Late 20th Century Swiss United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Leather
Fornasetti paper weight 1962 Zodiac calendar
By Piero Fornasetti, Fornasetti
Located in London, GB
Rare Fornasetti porcelain paperweight with Zodiac calendar c1962
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Porcelain
Baccarat Paperweight Gridel Millefiori B1847
By Baccarat
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Heading : Baccarat Paperweight Gridel Millefiori B1847
Date : 1847
Origin : France
Features : Millefiori gridel canes, monkeys, birds, flowers, horse, and devil interspersed with lat...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass
Large English Antique Brass Desk Magnifying Glass / Paperweight c.1910
Located in Bath, GB
Always very popular and a very useful desk-top accessory, this one is one of the larger examples, quite an imposing size. These large circular magnifiers actually are the condenser o...
Category
1910s British Edwardian Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
19th Century Rosewood Writing Slope Decorated With Beautiful Inlay Throughout
Located in Reading, Berkshire
19th Century Rosewood Writing Slope Decorated With Beautiful Woodland Floral Scenes
Inlay Throughout.
The slope features a well executed fitted interior sadly no hidden compa...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
$2,676 Sale Price / set
25% Off
Vintage Black Bakelite Rotary Wall Cradle Telephone
Dictograph 1940s
Located in London, GB
This is a rare vintage GPO desktop or wall cradle fire emergency telephone 164 in black Perspex Bakelite together with a Dictograph system sub station, serial number 21858 circa 194...
Category
1940s Vintage United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Other
18th Century Dutch Delft Blue and White Ink Well attributed to Anthoni Pennis
By Delft
Located in Hastings, GB
A superb 18th Century Dutch Delft Blue and White Ink Well and Desk Stand attributed to Anthoni Pennis, beautifully decorated in the chinoiserie style.
Marked to the base with the Blu...
Category
Mid-18th Century Dutch Chinoiserie Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Pottery
Gilt Bronze and Champleve Enamelled Inkstand
Located in Cheshire, GB
19th Century gilt bronze and champlevé enameled inkstand with single well with hinge cover and pen rest. All raised up on bun feet.
Dimensions
H...
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
$964 Sale Price
40% Off
Sublime Wedgwood Ordinary Lustre Butterflies Baluster Porcelain Vase #Z4830
By Daisy Makeig-Jones
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
A stunning Wedgwood vase with a glaze reminiscent of fine gossamer. The sky blue base ground has veil of golden brown mottling, adorned with a flutter of gilded butterflies...
Category
Early 20th Century British Art Deco United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Porcelain
$2,233 Sale Price
40% Off
Antique Grand Tour Pietra Dura Specimen Top Paperweight, 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a superb decorative antique Italian Grand Tour marble Pietra Dura mounted desk paperweight, circa 1880 in date.
This splendid rectangular paperweight is exquisitely inlaid with a sumptuous arrangement of semi-precious stones including malachite, agate, onyx and amethyst.
It is beautifully inlaid on a slate base.
Not only is this desk paperweight very functional, but it is also an exquisite mineralogical wonder that can be admired by all discerning collectors.
Condition:
In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation,
Dimensions in cm:
Height 2 x Width 17 x Depth 10
Dimensions in inches:
Height 1 inch x width 7 inches x depth 4 inches.
Pietra dura is a term for the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished coloured stones to create images. It is considered a decorative art.
Pietre dure is an Italian plural meaning "hard rocks" or hardstones; the singular pietra dura is also encountered in Italian. In Italian, but not in English, the term embraces all gem engraving and hardstone carving, which is the artistic carving of three-dimensional objects in semi-precious stone, normally from a single piece, for example in Chinese jade.
The traditional convention in English has been to use the singular pietra dura just to denote multi-colored inlay work. However, in recent years there has been a trend to use pietre dure as a term for the same thing, but not for all of the techniques it covers, in Italian.
But the title of a 2008 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe used the full Italian sense of the term, probably because they thought that it had greater brand recognition. The material on the website speaks of objects such as a vase in lapis lazuli as being examples of "hardstone carving (pietre dure)"
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London uses both versions on its website, but uses pietra dura. "A method of inlaying coloured marbles or semi-precious stones into a stone base, often in geometric or flower patterns...."
Giovanni Montelatici...
Category
1880s Italian Antique United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Malachite, Onyx, Marble
Cartier 18ct Gold Plated Trinity Fountain Pen With Black Body
Cartier Box
By Montblanc, Cartier
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Beautiful Sleek Cartier 18K Gold Nib Black Body Trinity Fountain Pen With Box
Designed by Cartier and Manufactured by MontBlanc
The pen is made from a black composite
Pen nib is 18...
Category
Late 20th Century French Art Deco United Kingdom - Desk Accessories
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate
$1,860 Sale Price / set
25% Off
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