Miniature Monuments

As early as the 1820s, London mineralogist John Mawe’s Catalogues offered carved alabaster miniatures of Pisa’s leaning tower: alongside stone replicas of other well-known Italian mo...

Rare fine blue opaline and gilt brassl mounted perfume on marble base. Grand tour monuments in miniature on each side of the bottle.

Grand tour monuments in miniature decorate the four lids and center jewel tazza all mounted in gilt bronze and brass on a marble center platform.

Very interestingly, the Prussian casters did not simply reproduce, in miniature, the ancient Roman monuments as they looked in the early 19th century.

Clean welding make this piece feel like it was carved from a single block of metal into a miniature monument to the future.

Cobalt blue enamelled decorative egg on a constricted round base with rosette ornaments, the front and back wall each covered with a double-headed silver eagle with set polished garn...

Measuring just under two feet tall, this woven sculpture is a monument in miniature to a king of the jungle. As it stands ready to ride, wrapped in a blanket and mounted with a howda...

Very often the style of his works reproduces in miniature historical monuments located in prestigious Italian squares, or important personalities of his time.

The work is done by a renowned sculptor Jovan Soldatovicand it is a miniature proposal for the monument of the poet which was erected in Strazilovo in 1971.

Often dedicated to reproducing historical monuments in miniature, such as the bronze copy of the Istrian stone wellhead in the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, Pandiani execut...

It is number 216 out of 2000. Siextasis is a miniaturized version of a monument in Malaga, Spain created by Berrocal in honor of Pablo Picasso’s ninetieth birthday.

This anonymous sculpture made in the 1960s is a magnificent equestrian monument in miniature. Both the rider and the horse have superbly expressive lines and proportions.

Atomium Brussels sculpture or desk ornament. This vintage miniature atomium Brussels monument is made from wood and is great to place in your interior.

A wonderful third quarter 19th century Italian 'grand tour' ancient marbles specimen plaque in original silver-gilt frame.

Italian, likely Circa 1880. This beautiful box has an exceptional Grand Tour Micro-mosaic plaque depicting the Capitoline Doves or Doves of Pliny after the Roman antiquity. Also by ...

A Grand Tour Centre Table The Top Attributed to Cesare Roccheggiani The carved gilt wood base in the manner of George Smith having four monopedia supports, each depicting leopards h...

This exceptional and rare French nécessaire de voyage is almost certainly the work of the highly respected Parisian manufacturer Pierre-Dominique Maire and the silversmith Jacques-Br...

Rare early 19th century Italian Grand Tour model of an ancient Roman labrum (bath) or sarcophagus in exquisitely carved rosso antico marble having double ring handles and central lio...

Cartography, the study and practice of making and using maps, was at the cutting edge in the 18th-century, helping to shape and define a world rapidly coming into focus. Over the c...

19th century Micro Mosaic tablet with five oval panels with Roman views, approx. 1860-1880. Very fine tesserae and small briquettes of semi-precious stones inlaid on black marble - ...

Antique collection of Italian Grand Tour plaster intaglios Italian, Early 19th Century Height 39.5cm, width 27cm, depth 5cm Consisting of around 200 plaster intaglios, this collec...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare and highly important, Museum quality, extra large framed, Documented English oak Tester bed c...

This Fine, circular micromosaic plaque shows four doves drinking water from a golden bowl, upon which they perch. The Classical design for the mosaic is taken from one found in the R...

An Exceptional and Highly Important Micromosaic Gold Mounted Jasper Snuff Box, most probably by Gioacchino Barberi with the box likely by Moulinié, Bautte & Moynier. Rome & Possibl...

John William Godward 1861-1922 British A Pompeian Lady Signed and dated "J.W. Godward 1904" (lower right, partially covered by frame) Oil on canvas One of the last and greatest V...