Extremely Rare Cantilevered Style Teak & Brass World Globe

Made up of 18 articulating orbs in white and chrome, they hand from 18 black thread cables and original canopy. This is a RARE Stilnovo chandelier! Many of the orbs retain original S...

These vintage heavy brass Mallard head bookends show a wonderful patina from age and use. One panel is slightly taller than the other ( see detail images). THIS ITEM IS LOCATED AN...

Reminiscent of Art Nouveau design - extremely fine iron work makes this a sculptural tree table lamp. Four dragon gaurdians at base and delicate detail on leaves and 5 lights - newly...

Pair of brass wall sculptures together forming 'The World' by Curtis Jere´ - This midcentury brass World Map was designed by American artist duo Curtis Jere. It is signed to base. A ...

This whimsical screen depicting 4 life-size people in cubist style is framed by a dark wood and interior woven cane. This is not see through, finished on both sides (see detail image...

Incredible hand painted scene of "Ballet Russe" with dancers in elaborate Deco costumes and fabulous details in the dress and shoes. This is a one-of-a-kind triptych panel which fills any wall with glamour and beauty. The quality of movement of figures and color is stunning. Dimensions for each of these panels are: Side panels are 24 inches in width, Center panel is 48.5 inches in width. This piece is in the style of Christian Berard, famous triptych panels. Beauty, color, and detail make this panel museum quality art. This panel was acquired from an important Palm Beach estate in Florida (originally purchased in Paris in the late 1950s said by previous owner) and we suspect that this Ballet Russes panel...

Title on the globes: VALK, Gerard and Leonard. [Terrestrial globe:] Cosmotheore, caelesti nostro globo, par, et plane novus, hic terrestris ut existeret, certo scias, errore veterum ...

A large and extremely rare 24-inch terrestrial globe by Newton Our most magnificent and rare globes were a pair of 24-inch Newton globes. These too were updated in 1852 (terre...

A Large World Globe

J.H. Homann (Germany, 1664-1724) Nürnberg, after 1715 Globus Terrestris [and] Globus Celestis. juxtu observationes Parisienses Regia Academia Scientiarum constructus [and] juxtu observationes Parisienses Regia Academia Scientiarum constructus. Nuremberg, [after 1715]. Original stands by Homann Heirs, [after 1730]. An extremely rare pair of terrestrial and celestial globes, each with 12 hand-coloured engraved paper gores, over a papier mâché and plaster sphere, each globe with papier mâché meridian ring, mounted on horizon rings with a handwritten number VIII and III on each globe. The horizon rings supported by four quadrants with text "Zu finden in Nürnberg / wohnhaft unter der Vesten / bey denen Homaenischen Erben/ dem Prediger Klöster gegenüber", both globes on a turned single wooden black stand. Diameter 64 mm (2.5 inches), height 185 mm. RARE. Johann Baptist Homann (1664–1724), a German geographer and cartographer. He founded a publishing business in Nürnberg in 1702, and published his first atlas in 1707, becoming a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin in the same year. Homann was appointed Imperial Geographer to Charles VI in 1715 and became the most important map...

Pair of mid-century world globe bookends. They globes are two pieces of timeless design and high quality, ideal for a very masculine and sophisticated environment These pieces ar...

3-455, pair Italian revolving globe bookends.