Antique Marbles

In 1839 Barbedienne collaborated with the inventor Achille Collas who had succeeded in enlarging and reducing works of art to arbitrary sizes by a simple mathematical calculation, al...

These limestone varieties are commonly referred to as "red marble", although they are not real marbles but sedimentary rocks. The exploitation of the quarries in Rance stopped in the...

The subjects were very popular at the time that they were first created and, perhaps due to Bridan residing in Italy for several years whilst studying at the French Academy there, th...

Albacini was a restorer of ancient marbles who worked extensively on such aristocratic assemblages as the Charles Townley collection, later to form the basis of the fine sculpture co...

These appear to be later since this is the style of carving that is seen today in modern marbles carved in India Measures: Top W 25" x H 70 1/2" Base W 45" x D 20 1/2" x H 7 1/2".

Levillain takes bas-relief modelling of the figures, which is taken from ancient sculptural tablets such at the Parthenon Marbles. The upper bands of the vase are cast with birds...

The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for the "hardstones" used: onyx, jasper, cornelian, lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San L...

A very attractive antique late Regency giltwood centre table attributed to Gillow of Lancaster and London, inset with an Italian Pietra Dura top, The central turned baluster supp...

The case is formed of stunning specimen marbles in the cubist manner, the highly prized black and gold Portoro marble contrasting with the exquisitely figured pink, orange and red ma...

Colby, a young sculptor, has on exhibition at Currier & Winter’s, a small collection of marbles executed in bas-relief. They are remarkable for delicacy of finish and pure and clearl...

His habit of making casts from his marble sculptures and giving them to institutions was fortuitous, for many of Caffieri's marbles were lost in a fire in 1761. Caffieri insisted o...

The top is of a dense veinless black marble inlaid with specimen stones that range from decorative marbles, banded agates, rare sardonyx and gemstones.

The model for these candelabra, characterized by shafts enwreathed in palm leaves and an animal-claw base, draws inspiration partly from ancient marbles and also from early 19th-cent...

The eyes were inlaid with contrasting marbles. The icon features a point face, arched eyebrow, a subtle smile, long earlobes that touch the shoulders.

Once again, the sublime combination of precious metal and marble amplifies the robe's magnificence, further accentuated by the presence of an ormolu body chain swaying gracefully fro...

Metopes often had painted or sculptural decoration; the most famous example are the 92 metopes of the Parthenon marbles some of which depict the battle between the Centaurs and the L...

The Emperor Diocletian went to Pannonia to find marbles for his buildings, he admired the artistic quality and ordered their columns and decorative elements for his palace in Split, ...

The star itself is made up of Persian turquoise marbles, while five carats worth of old mine cut diamonds surround it on all sides, granting it a celestial sparkle.

Mercier Frères was commissioned by European aristocrats to custom create furnishings with exquisite details and fine quality ormolu decorations combined with the finest woods and mar...

The so-called Grand Tour style refers to all items that these visitors collected from their trips, be it traditional Italian furniture and decorative arts, with precious marbles and ...

This was one of the few surviving antique marbles in Florence and a prime attraction for Grand Tourists of the 18th century.

After the plaster of the Salon of 1822, Bosio executed two marbles, one for the castle of Versailles and another for the castle of Pau.

Sormani was able to meet the Empress’s high standards with the excellent quality of the cabinet work, bronze mounts, use of lacquer and unusual marbles. Sormani’s firm was a maker of...

The best stone come from the Senese Mountains and is the most highly prized of all the Siena marbles and can be dark or pale yellow in appearance.

The painting on the right represents a large Baroque building in stone and paved with marbles, two floors, with moving façade, large columns with corinthian columns, a large portal w...

Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19.

The greater, softer, variety of colours and patterns in the marbles from overseas was another factor in the demise of the local industry.

A versatile artist active during the second half of the 19th century, Herbert produced romantic bronzes and marbles, as well as furniture and decorative pieces in the neoclassical an...

The horses reinvent the theme of the colossal Roman marbles of the Horse Tamers in the Piazza Quirinale, Rome.

Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19.

These images are bordered by a circle of inlaid specimen marbles, edged with inlaid green malachite. This decoration is set within a wide circular ebonised wood top, the sides of whi...

Symmetric lines, strong mouldings, flower motives, putti and Classic Corinthian capitals are sculpted from royal red Belgian marble and white Italian Carrara. Two marbles which were ...

He certainly worked in just hardstones and, as exemplified in the present table, was famous for sourcing finely-figured examples of rare marbles. Martine Newby in her 2003 treatis...

In 1839 Barbedienne collaborated with the inventor Achille Collas who had succeeded in enlarging and reducing works of art to arbitrary sizes by a simple mathematical calculation, al...

The inlaid decoration comprises a central sunburst within a patchwork border of specimen marbles and fossils including: Madrepore, Petworth, Portoro, Brocatelle, Sicilian Jasper ...

The set was owned originally by Colonel Thomas Bruce (Lord Elgin) the 7th Earl of Elgin. He sold the "Elgin Marbles" taken from the Parthenon to the British government in 1816.

"A method of inlaying coloured marbles or semi-precious stones into a stone base, often in geometric or flower patterns...."

Highly skilled stonemasons created intricate and accomplished designs often using semi-precious stones and imported marbles, drawing their inspiration from Florentine Pietre Dure.

"A method of inlaying colored marbles or semi-precious stones into a stone base, often in geometric or flower patterns...."

In 1845 he would publish his own book on the Elgin Marbles entitled "Remarks on the Parthenon". Lucas's etchings focused heavily on his own ideas, biblical stories, and 18th century ...

A superb early Victorian ebony collector’s cabinet, of rectangular form with two cupboard doors opening to reveal four short and two long drawers lined in the original silk velvet, t...

In 1839 Barbedienne collaborated with the inventor Achille Collas who had succeeded in enlarging and reducing works of art to arbitrary sizes by a simple mathematical calculation, al...

In 1839 Barbedienne collaborated with the inventor Achille Collas who had succeeded in enlarging and reducing works of art to arbitrary sizes by a simple mathematical calculation, al...

For all his association with rococo sensuality, Carrier-Belleuse's mastery at articulating form gave as much vitality and appeal to the marbles carved from his models as to his many ...

The front has six, long drawers either side of the tabernacle, each simulating a pair of smaller drawers, with pietra paesina panels within a geometric border of black & red marbles ...

He came to prominent public attention in the Salons of 1755 and 1757 with his marbles of L'Amour and the Nymphe descendant au bain (also called The Bather), which is now at the Louvre.

. … One division of these rooms is appropriated to bronzes: the Theseus reduced from the work of Phidias, among the Elgin Marbles, the Venus di Medici, Eve’s Hesitation by John Bell,...