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GRAND TOUR STYLE

For 18th-century young British noblemen, no education was complete without a year on the Grand Tour. Although it had no official route, the Grand Tour focused on places foundational to European art, literature and architecture, including sites in France, Germany, Switzerland and, most importantly, Italy. It was an opportunity not just to witness the roots of the classics they had studied but also to take some of it home. Grand Tour furniture was among the souvenirs.

Grand Tour furniture ranged from marble architectural models replicating ancient wonders to actual antiquities often taken illicitly, leaving a legacy of looting still being unraveled today. Other items reflected the artistic richness of the Renaissance cities and other destinations. In Italy, this included scagliola tables and pedestals mimicking marble as well as tabletops and wall panels embedded with pietra dura hard stone mosaics.

Furniture was also developed to display Grand Tour purchases in the owner’s home, presenting them as a cultivated and well-traveled person. Mahogany collector’s cabinets held objects like intaglio moldings of coins and seals while others had specialized drawers that framed pietra dura panels.

Many objects were specifically produced for Grand Tour collectors. Often accompanied by retinues on journeys lasting months or years, the elite travelers, the wealthiest of whom extended their trips to Egypt and the Holy Land, required artful personal mementos befitting the experience. For example, Grand Tour micromosaicssmall artworks, most not more than two inches wide — arose from the entrepreneurial impulses of artisans who had trained in the Vatican’s workshops.

Grand Tour journeys would help inform a range of decorative styles such as neoclassical, Rococo and Adam style. (Architect and designer Robert Adam toured Italy and France for five years.) The Grand Tour flourished at a time of economic prosperity and political stability, but the French Revolution in 1789 brought it to an end. Yet as the tradition faded in popularity in England, the rising wealth of the United States led to an increase in tourism across the Atlantic and a similar passion for collecting to show one’s worldliness.

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Style: Grand Tour
18/19 C. Italian Grand Tour Fine Antique Mixed Marble and Scagliola Obelisk
Located in New York, NY
A Fantastic 18th/19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Mixed Marble and Scagliola Obelisk. This grand tour Italian mixed marble and scagliola obelisk mixes Egyptian architecture in...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Marble

Pair 19th Century Painted Pine Corinthian Column Pedestals
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Pair 19th century painted pine Corinthian column pedestals in the classical Italian style with scrolling acanthus leaves and fluted detailing. The pair are finished in an off-white p...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Pine

Pair Rouge Marble ‘Grand Tour’ Models of Ruins Celebrating the Corinthian Order
Located in New York, NY
A Large and Incredible Pair of Rouge Marble ‘Grand Tour’ Models of Ruins Celebrating the Corinthian Order, Most Probably Attributed To The Workshop Of Benedetto Boschetti. The fist ...
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1860s Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Marble

A Pair of ‘Grand Tour’ Models of Ruins Celebrating the Corinthian Order
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Large Pair of Giallo Antico Marble ‘Grand Tour’ Models of Ruins Celebrating the Corinthian Order, Attributed To The Workshop Of Benedetto Boschetti. The Temple of Castor and Pollu...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Marble

A Near Pair of Venetian 19th Century Blue Lapis Lazuli and Marble Obelisks
Located in London, GB
A Near Pair of Lapis Lazuli Obelisks Veneered with the rare and semi-precious deep blue lapis admired for its intense colour, each obelisk with Carrara marble bases and moulding. Pr...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Lapis Lazuli, Carrara Marble

Pair of Giltwood Architectural Corinthian Columns in Grand Tour Style
Located in Nashville, TN
A nicely carved pair of 19th century Grand Tour period giltwood souvenirs of fluted columns with Corinthian capitals.Now mounted on contemporary acrylic bases with a back channel for...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Giltwood

Italian 19th Century Neoclassical Style Ormolu and Marble Columns w/ Orb Finials
Located in Savannah, GA
This outstanding and high quality pair of Italian 19th century Neo-Classical style Grand Tour period columns feature embossed gilded ormolu and orb finials atop. They are raised by ...
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1820s Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Marble, Brass, Ormolu

1911 Baedekers Guide to Switzerland
Located in Seguin, TX
Baedeker's Switzerland. Handbook for travelers by Karl Baedeker. Published by Baedeker, Leipzig, 1911. Since the 1830's Baedeker set the standard for authoritative pocket guidebooks ...
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Late 19th Century German Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Paper

Large Grand Tour Bronze Model of the Place Vendôme, With Napoleon
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large Grand Tour Bronze Model of the Place Vendôme, With Napoleon France, circa 1870s This exceptional Grand Tour bronze model of the Place Vendôme, dating back to the 1870s in France, is a magnificent tribute to history and artistry. Standing at an impressive height of 26 inches and mounted on a 6.75-inch square Belgian Black Marble base with a bronze fence...
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19th Century French Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Belgian Black Marble, Bronze

A Finely Sculpted Grand Tour Style Model of The Temple of Vespasian, Circa 1900
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The large & finely sculpted alabaster structure showing a trio of fluted columns terminating to finely carved Corinthian capitals, supporting an entablature with a carved frieze illu...
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Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Alabaster

Travertine Stone Mediterrane Mid-Century Modern Obelisks Grand Your Style
Located in Miami, FL
1980s Italian Beige Travertine Stone Obelisk in the Style of Grand Tour. Look great as display and also very useful as bookends. Handcrafted and Parts of Label at the base.
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1980s Italian Vintage Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Travertine

Baedeker's Germany Travel Guides 1897 & 1914 - a Pair
Located in Seguin, TX
Baedeker's Northern, 1897 and Southern Germany, 1914. Handbook for travelers by Karl Baedeker. Published by Baedeker, Leipzig, 1897/1914. Since the 1830's Baedeker set the standard ...
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Late 19th Century German Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Paper

Corpus by Alejandra Figueroa Sculpture Photograpy Book
Located in Seguin, TX
Corpus by Alejandra Figueroa. Published by Rizzoli, New York, 2004. A series of black-and-white photographs of statues from the world's greate...
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Early 2000s American Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Paper

Pair of Grand Tour Style Carved Alabaster Bookends Formed as Classical Ruins
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very good pair of architectural inspired columnar bookends, both carved in the form of ancient ruins of reeded columns, raised on stepped bases. Dimensions noted are those shown fa...
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Mid-20th Century European Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Alabaster

Grand Tour Specimen Marbles Plaque, Italy, circa 1850
Located in Kinderhook, NY
Italian Grand Tour marble specimen plaque in original silver-giltwood frame consisting of 20 different rare and ancient marbles, including Porphyry and Jasper, inlaid into a black an...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Marble

Ebonized And Ivorine Tempietto
Located in Essex, MA
Grand tour style decorative temple with removable top. Amherst Mass collectors estate.
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Late 20th Century Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Wood

Small Grand Tour Pietra Paesina (Ruin Marble) Bronze Mounted Plaque or Curio
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine Grand Tour plaque or curio. With a pietra paesina or ruin / ruiniform marble form plaque mounted in a gilt bronze frame with an integral bail...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Stone, Marble, Bronze

Orange-Brown Banded Jasper Point
Located in New York, NY
Unusual orange and brown banded jasper point from Madagascar.
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2010s Malagasy Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Stone

1860 Grand Tour Bronze Statue of Place Vendome Column with Napoleon, Marble Base
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for auction this stunning antique circa 1860 Grand Tour bronze statue of Place Vendome Column with Napoleon on top in so...
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1860s Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Bronze

Italian Alabaster Obelisks - A Pair
Located in Savannah, GA
A pair of Italian alabaster obelisks, mid 20th century. With removable caps and drilled for lamp conversion. larger: 5 inches wide by 20 inches tall smaller: 4 ¼ inches wide by 14 ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Alabaster

Matching Pair Grand Tour Bronze Greco Male Figurine Bookends On Alabaster Base
Located in High Wycombe, GB
A Stunning and Unusual Pair of Matching Grand Tour Bronze Spelter Greek Male Figurines on Alabaster Bases. The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a...
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Mid-19th Century Greek Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Alabaster, Bronze, Spelter

Italian Grand Tour Alabaster Model the Roman Forum Temple of Vespasian
Located in Stamford, CT
Italian Grand Tour model of the ancient Temple of Vespasian located in the Roman Forum, Rome. Carved from alabaster, this is a handsome example of a souvenir carving which would have been collected by a European or American sophisticate making a Grand Tour of the ancient sites of Italy. This wonderful architectural miniature is evocative of another time and place. Roma Templo Di Vespasiano' etched into the black marble base. It has been drilled to be wired, not the first time I have owned one of these that had been mounted as a lamp. The Temple of Vespasian and Titus is located in Rome at the western end of the Roman Forum between the Temple of Concordia and the Temple of Saturn...
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Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Alabaster, Marble

Italian Grand Tour Marble and Alabaster Plaque of Ancient Scholars - Poets
Located in Bradenton, FL
Rare Italian Grand Tour marble and alabaster plaque with profile faces of ancient Italian scholars and poets, including Michelangelo, Dante, Aristo, G...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Alabaster, Marble

Micro mosaic tablet, 19th Century
Located in 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, NL
A fine mid-19th century serpentine grand tour micro mosaic tablet or paperweight of the iconic St Peter's Vatican, The Colosseum of Rome, The Pantheon, The Ruins of The Roman Forum a...
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1850s Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Marble

Pair of Italian Grand Tour Carved Yellow Alabaster Bookends
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Grand Tour Column Bookends in Yellow Carved Alabaster from Italy, circa 1960s Bookends are marked with authentic period stickers "Hand Carved", "Archer ...
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1960s Italian Vintage Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Alabaster

Pair Of Antique Putto Bookends, Italian, Decor, Cherub, Grand Tour, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a pair of antique putto bookends. An Italian, plaster decorative cherub book rest in Grand Tour taste, dating to the early Victorian period, circ...
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1850s Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Plaster

Specimen Marble Obelisks, Grand Tour Style
Located in El Monte, CA
A superb pair of specimen marble obelisks constructed from a variety of specimen marbles. The highly decorative and large scale pair complements traditional and contemporary interiors.
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20th Century Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Marble

19th Century Italian Grand Tour Bronze and Marble of Mercury
Located in Stamford, CT
An finely cast 19th century Italian bronze depicting the Hermes, the Greek god, (the god Mercury in Roman mythology) seated on carved gray marble. Afte...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Marble, Bronze

Grand Tour Style Scale Architectural Model of an Archway
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A handsomely made bronze scale architectural model of an arched gateway circa 1880. It is of Grand Tour style, ornamented with a decorative finial to the top depicting a pair of squi...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Bronze

19th C Grand Tour Painting on Porcelain View of Vatican/St. Peter's Basilica
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th century Grand Tour Painting on Porcelain View of Vatican/St. Peter's Basilica Italy, circa 1880s Standing in rectangular gilt bronze engraved frame with applied stylized flo...
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Late 19th Century Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Bronze

19th Century French Grand Tour Style Eight Panel Painted Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic monumental late 19th century French painted oil on canvas folding eight-panel screen. The large screen measures over 14 feet long and features neoclassical and grand tour t...
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19th Century French Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Canvas, Wood

Early 20th Century Mahogany Plinth in the Form of a Classical-Style Column
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Early 20th century mahogany plinth in the form of a classical-style fluted column with carved Ionic scrolling and Corinthian foliate detail to the capital.
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Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Mahogany

Antique Bronze Roaring Tiger Bookends, Pair
Located in Elkhart, IN
A gorgeous pair of Neoclassical or Grand Tour style bronze bookends in the form of roaring tigers. USA, Late 19th century Measures: 7.75"W x 4.75"D x 9"H. Good original vin...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Bronze

Siena Marble Obelisk Pair
Located in Leeds, GB
A pair of obelisks made from Siena marble with black marble ball detail. In the style of those collected on The Grand Tour. Made in Italy in the first part of the 20th Century. A c...
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Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Siena Marble

Pink Marble Obelisk in the Style of the Grand Tour
Located in London, GB
A Large Marble Obelisk from Italy in the style of the Grand Tour collectibles. This piece would look perfect in your wunderkammer collection or set on y...
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20th Century Italian Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Stone, Marble

Vintage Italian Carrara Marble Sculpture of David
By Michelangelo
Located in Houston, TX
Stunning vintage Italian carved carrara marble sculpture or statue of David. Offered is a good sized well executed marble figure of David as a youth, copied from the original by Mic...
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1940s Italian Vintage Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Carrara Marble

19th Century Bronze Apothecary Mortar & Pestle, Circa 1800
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The cup shaped cast body decorated with incised ring-turned detail, rising from a waisted & stepped circular foot, together with its original pestle. Combined weight, 3.75 lbs.  
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Bronze

Pair of Black Marble and Bronze Obelisks "Gold Lizard", Limited Edition, 2017
Located in Rome, IT
pair of italian marble and bronze obelisks " GOLD LIZARD" -grand tour collection- produced by Lorenzo Ciompi, 2017 designed, produced and executed directly in exclusivity for COMPEN...
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2010s Italian Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Belgian Black Marble, Bronze

Italian Neoclassical 19th Century Black-Ground Terracotta Vase
Located in Rome, IT
Elegant Italian 19th century neoclassical black painted terracotta vase after the original Roman marble vase. Bordered center body decorated with styl...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Terracotta

Monumental Marble Inlaid Obelisks, Grand Tour Style
Located in El Monte, CA
Unique monumental Italian 19th Century Grand Tour Style Specimen marble inlaid obelisks. Marble is precisely cut and inlaid into a fine two-tone...
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20th Century European Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Marble

Italian Grand Tour Bronze Censer with Birds
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine antique Italian attributed grand tour bronze lidded censer applied with birds dating from around 1860. The censer stands raised on a square ba...
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1860s Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Bronze

Pair of Grand Tour Greek Revival Bronze Urns on Marble Bases
Located in Essex, MA
Each vase with scrolled handles resting on "griotte rouge" marble bases.
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1870s French Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Griotte Marble, Bronze

Pair Of Italian Grand Tour Marble Obelisks
Located in Essex, MA
Typical form with different marbles.
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Marble

Grand Tour Bronze Thermometer of the Luxor Obelisk, Paris
Located in Stamford, CT
A bronze cast of the Luxor Obelsik, one side a thermometer. This was a popular Grad Tour souvenir in the late 19th century. Mounted on a polished black slate base. 8.5 inches high by 3.5 by 3.5 The Luxor Obelisk...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Bronze

19th Century French Painted Tole Covered Urn Pair
Located in Savannah, GA
This very handsome pair of French toleware lidded urns, in a deep red color with gold gilt accents, feature lion head handles on either side and artichoke finials atop the lids. Each...
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1860s French Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Metal

Large Signed 19th Century Grand Tour Bronze Statue of Narcissus
Located in Bradenton, FL
Large 19th Century Grand Tour bronze sculpture of Narcissus after the original found in 1862 at Pompeii. Signed "Bucciano Napoli". When first found in Pompeii it was identified as Na...
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19th Century Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Bronze

Framed Set of Eleven Micromosaic Plaques of Italian Monuments
Located in London, GB
A framed set of eleven micromosaic plaques of Italian monuments Italian, 19th century Measures: Height 22cm, width 21.5cm, depth 2.5cm Made du...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Giltwood

19th C Grand Tour Roman Style Iron Gorget on Stand
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th c Grand Tour Roman style iron gorget on stand Decorated with a intense battle scene with Imperial Roman soldiers fighting native warriors, with tw...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Iron, Wrought Iron

19th Century French Grand Tour Iron Model of the Arc de Triomphe
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th century French grand tour iron model of the Arc de Triomphe, in two parts, the fine cast iron model of the Arc de Triomphe with a mirrored top. Raised on a oval ebonized wood and metal chain link fenced base Model of Arc de Triomphe...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Metal, Iron

Stunning Grand Tour, Temple Ruin Design, Hand Carved Nutwood Table Picture Frame
Located in Lisse, NL
Amazingly hand-carved photo or picture frame with a top quality, original drawing of a girl. If ever there was an antique work of art 'with a soul' then this unique and all origin...
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19th Century European Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Nutwood, Paper, Velvet, Glass

1830 Watercolor and Gouache Painted Vignettes of Eastern Entertainers
Located in Savannah, GA
The caption of this charming pen and ink, watercolor and gouache vignette reads "A troupe of Eastern Entertainers taken from diary of G. Copeland 1830." Perhaps a rememberance from...
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1830s English Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Silk, Glass, Paint, Paper

19th Century French Egyptian Revival Slate and Gilt Obelisk
Located in Stamford, CT
19th century Grand Tour Egyptian Revival carved and polished black slate obelisk, the front decorated with very fine incised hieroglyphic designs which have been accented with gold l...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Slate

Large Pair of Antique Grand Tour Period Multi-Marble Columns Mounted as Lamps
Located in New York, NY
A Large Pair of Antique Italian Grand Tour Period Multi-Marble Columns Turned to Lamps. These are truly beautiful in quality, size, condition, and material. Each is expertly hand-car...
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1840s Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Marble, Breccia Marble, Carrara Marble

19th Century Grand Tour Antique Handmade Bronze Mortar with Pestle
Located in Roma, IT
19th-century grand tour antique handmade bronze mortar with pestle. This fantastic piece has an original patina. The pestle is 9.05 inc high wit...
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Mid-19th Century European Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Bronze

Zuber Six Panel Wallpaper Screen The Hunting Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Magnificent 19th century six panel wallpaper screen by Zuber and Cie. The screen features six hand blocked wallpaper panels from "Le Paysage a Chasses" o...
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19th Century French Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Wood, Paper

Grand Tour Pompeii Bronze of Silenus, Greek God of Wine
Located in Stamford, CT
Superior quality large scale Italian Grand Tour bronze of the god Silenus after the Roman original excavated at Pompeii in 1864. This very fine cast shows the god holding aloft a coi...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Bronze

19th Century Grand Tour Antique Handmade Bronze Mortar with Pestle
Located in Roma, IT
19th-century grand tour antique handmade bronze mortar with pestle. This fantastic piece has an original patina. The pestle is 9.05 inc high wit...
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Mid-19th Century European Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Bronze

Large Antique Grand Tour Travel Photography Album by Bosetti, X., L.P. Et Al
Located in New York, NY
Large scale 17 inch by 14 inch 19th century Grand Tour photography album comprised of 92 photographs which include a number of rare images, many of which are signed. 53 photographs...
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19th Century European Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles

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Leather, Paper

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Find a broad range of unique Grand Tour more furniture and collectibles for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage more furniture and collectibles created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include more furniture and collectibles, decorative objects, wall decorations and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, stone and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Grand Tour more furniture and collectibles made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original more furniture and collectibles, popular names associated with this style include Lorenzo Ciompi, Ron Sauvage, and zuber. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for more furniture and collectibles differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $273 and tops out at $39,640 while the average work can sell for $2,433.

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