Antique Inventions

This imposing walnut carved cupboard sideboard is a tour de force of artistic invention and technical mastery. Close to Tuscan Neo-Renaissance production of the second half of the 19...

Glass has been a prevalent feature of costume pieces since the invention of jewellery. An easily accessible material that can be formed into any shape and dyed any colour.

Pair of Brass Candlesticks with Glass Chimneys Wall or Table Chamber Sticks either way these are beautiful looking pieces, a pair of spring loaded brass candlesticks with glass chi...

By the time they closed shop Elgin had produced over 60 million watches and left a legacy of excellence and inventions as well.

The miniature or pocket globe was a British invention, introduced to the world by Joseph Moxon in 1673 when he produced a 3” globe.

However, Diderot recognized in him a "pleasant invention," and Drouais demonstrates a talent for staging anecdotal details, pets, and accessories that reveal a certain skill for stil...

A beautifully handwoven rattan carpet beater, also known as a rug beater, carpet whip, or dust beater, traditionally used in Europe as a household cleaning tool before the invention ...

This jardinière stands as a superb example of the Barbedienne workshop’s ability to blend technical mastery with artistic invention, the bronze mounts lending weight and permanence f...

The difference being, the patent protects the invention, focusing on functionality and how it works, whilst a registered design protects the visual appearance, such as its shape, pat...

Plate from Le arti per via, series of 12 engravings from inventions by Francesco Maggiotto. Beautiful proof on Venetian laid paper with "three crescent" watermark and countermark let...

This model of small secrétaire was an invention of BVRB, who designed it with smaller interiors, such as bedrooms, in mind.

It was also the time, with the invention of photography, when the painted and drawn portrait was most seriously challenged.

The result is a work that is faithful to Rubens’s invention but unmistakably shaped by Teniers’s eye and hand.

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this old faded and frayed Antique Circa 1880 Tapestry depicting Watteau-Esque figures after Antoine Watteau ...

The deep, warm patina of the Disco alloy—an Andersen invention—lends the piece both a timeless weight and a softly luminous surface.

Wikipedia defines “A neume (/ˈnjuːm/; sometimes spelled neum) as the basic element of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notati...

Litography is based on an invention by Alois Senefelder from 1798. In the 19th century, it was the printing process that enabled the industrial production of printed matter at low pr...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

History of the Bidet Nobody knows who was responsible for the invention of bidet, but historians agree that they first appeared in the 17th century in France as the bedroom hygiene ...

The motif became a paradigm of artistic invention, uniting the sensuality of classical form with the intellectual ideals of humanist Rome.

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in intermediate drawings by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhou...

This print originates from 'A New Method and Extraordinary Invention to Dress Horses (Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser Les Chevaux) and/or A General System of Horsemanship in...

Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in intermediate drawings by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhou...

Total weight: 7.35g Current ring size: (EU 60) USA 91/4 The diamonds are rose-cut, a technique commonly used before the invention of modern brilliant cuts. This cut gives a domed ...

Dating from the 19th century, this vessel was used to conserve food – mainly meats in fat – before the invention of refrigeration.

Mostly know for his work in bronze and his own invention namned after the bay where is grew up in Greenland called Disko.

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

In the case of portraits, they served as a means to record an individual's likeness prior to the invention of photography in the 1840s. To find such a varied collection of this incre...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

He was the patron of invention, art, literature, and trade. The bloodstone is 10mm by 8mm.

The slight irregularities in the early wound balls made them quite lively, it was not until the invention of the automatic winding machine by John Gammeter (an engineer at Goodrich) ...

Plate 17 from "La Methode et Invention nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux" portrays William Cavendish, the first Duke of Newcastle, providing instructions to Captain Mazin in the art of...

The name Montgolfière chandelier obviously refers to the Montgolfier brothers who, in 1883, took a very large balloon to an altitude of 400m, using heated air to achieve the first fl...

One of the central myths associated with Bacchus is the discovery or invention of wine. In some versions of the myth, Dionysus is credited with teaching mortals how to cultivate grap...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Often referred to as the "father of the modern poster," Chéret merges technological marvel and artistic flair in this advertisement for one of the 19th century's most enchanting inve...

Chéret, often called the “father of the modern poster,” captures the wonder and whimsy of Reynaud’s invention with his signature style—flowing figures, vibrant color, and boundless m...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Michael Thonet (1796-1871) was a German-Austrian cabinet maker, known for the invention of bentwood furniture. Measures: 12.5"W x 12.5"D x 27.5"H.

Some of Wedgwood's most meticulous work was executed in cameos and medallions, often featuring royalty and celebrated personages as subjects. The invention of the jasper body circa 1...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

The work has been painted en plein air, an approach that was only made possible by the invention of ready-mixed tubes of paint. Deborne’s career indicates that he favoured this appro...

Stam was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career intersects with important moments in the history of 20th-century European architecture, including the invention of the cantile...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Known primarily for their pioneering work in mechanical objects, including the invention of the propelling pencil by Sampson Mordan Sr. in the early 19th century, the firm also produ...

Surviving examples of this magnitude and condition are exceptionally rare, as most were lost or disassembled after the invention of printing in the 15th century. Its design and craft...

While the drawing may have been executed under Taddeo’s supervision, Acidini sees no trace of Federico’s hand in either the invention or execution of the figure. This strengthens th...

Andersen was renowned for his hallmark contribution to modern Danish design with the invention and utilizing of the Disko metal alloy. While the precise composition of this alloy is ...

Always a lively spirit, rich in imagination and invention, he always knows how to give his work an original impact while maintaining his personality.

He also wanted to move to America to live for two years, so he could get a patent for his invention of a copper percussion cap for guns, which took him long to be recognized for and ...

Bowen in Philadelphia. Employing a new invention, the camera lucida, the images were reduced in size, rendered in intermediate drawings by John James Audubon and his son John Woodhou...

The company tried new inventions again and again and was called "Testing factory".