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Early 18th Century French Tapestry ( 4'9" x 8'6" - 144 x 260 cm )

Rare 18th-century wooden cabinet in the style of Louis XV, fine French manufacture. The cabinet is made entirely of fine dark wood, four legs for support. The two legs at the front are more worked and thin, very important, those at the back have classic square strong dorma. The cabinet is developed in height rather than width. Centrally there is only one door all decorated with sinuous wood inlays and squiggly fretwork, very true to the French Baroque style. At the top we see a semi-curved frieze, which lends even more majesty to the product. Inside, it is all covered with antique pink wallpaper...

Fine round antique walnut table, 18th century, Italian manufacture. The table has a very complex base consisting of three large feet, connected to a single central stem. The feet a...

Rare Italian antique hand carved marble font. Made of fine hand-sculpted Italian white Carrara marble. The column has a beautiful turning. The large basin has a typical Baroque decor...

Japanese Imari porcelain tokuri, Arita, circa 1700, Genroku Period. The squared vessel painted with shaped panels of flowering plants, upon textile design inspired grounds. Rising to...

La Terre Sainte, The Holy Land, Tiree Des Memoires De M.De.La Rue. Par N. de Fer. Geographe de Sa Majeste Catoliq et de Monseigneur le Dauphin. Avec Privil du Roi 1703 Detailed map of the Holy Land from Nicholas de Fer's L'Atlas Curieux ou le Monde. East is oriented at the top. MAKER Nicolas de Fer 1646-1720 The French cartographer and engraver, Nicolas de Fer, was a master at creating maps that were works of art. The maps that he published were printed during the Baroque period when the decorative arts were characterized by ornate detail. De Fer’s detailed maps and atlases were valued more for their decorative content than their geographical accuracy. Nicolas de Fer was born in 1646. His father, Antoine de Fer, owned a mapmaking firm. At the age of twelve, Nicolas was apprenticed to a Parisian engraver named Louis Spirinx. The family business was starting to decline when his father died in 1673. Nicolas de Fer’s mother, Genevieve, took over the business after the death of her husband. In 1687 the business was passed on to Nicolas and the profits increased after he took over the firm. Nicolas de Fer was a prolific cartographer who produced atlases and hundreds of single maps. He eventually became the official geographer to King Louis XIV of France and King Philip V...

Antique map titled 'Partie de L'Angleterre' Uncommon map of the English Channel coastline with many boats on the sea. Source unknown, to be determined. Artists and Engravers: Made...

Antique map of Java titled‚ Iava Maior‘. Beautiful hand-coloured miniature map of the island of Java. This map originates from ‘Recueil des Voyages qui ont servi a l'etablissemen...

Antique print titled 'Societatis Indiae Occident (..) - West Indisch Huys op Raapenburg (..)'. Despite the title suggesting this print is a view of the West-Indisch House in Amst...

Folio Leaf: 37 x 23 cms. Hand colored copper engraving. Matthäus Merian der Ältere (or "Matthew", "the Elder", or "Sr."; 22 September 1593 - 19 June 1650) was a Swiss-born engr...

Blue and white bowl Delft, 1690-1710 The bowl is painted on the outside with a continuous garland of flowers under a scroll border. The inside is boldly painted with a flying bird u...

Antique map titled 'Carte particuliere des Costes de l'Afrique'. Depicts the coasts of Mozambique and Tanzania. With an inset map of Anjouan Island. Artists and engravers: Pub...

Antique map titled 'Carte particuliere des Costes de l'Afrique'. Map of the coasts of Namibia and South Africa. With an inset map of Saldanha Bay. Artists and Engravers: Publ...

Antique print, titled: 'Das Bildnus des H. Evangelisten Johannis (…).' - This original antique plate shows a portrait of John the Evangelist. From: Biblia : das ist die gantze He...

Antique map titled 'Isole di Banda Nelle Molucche'. Small old map depicting the Banda Islands, Indonesia. Artists and Engravers: Published by V.M. Coronelli in Venice, 1706.

Antique map titled 'Horna vulgo Hoorn'. Bird's eye view plan of Hoorn, The Netherlands. With title cartouche, coats of arms and key. From an atlas published by De Wit, ca. 1698-1...

Antique map titled 'La Seigneurie d'Over-Yssel subdivisee en Trois Parties, Sallant, Twente, et Drente.' Detailed map of the province of Overijssel in the Netherlands. From Jaill...

Antique map titled 'Africae Pars Borealis.' Very decorative antique map of the northern part of Africa by Heinrich Scherer. The map is full of the spurious geography of the perio...

Antique map titled 'Electorat Bavariae.' Map of the Electorate of Bavaria by the Jesuit Heinrich Scherer. The lower map shows the Lake Constance. Source unknown, to be determined. ...

Antique map titled 'Hydrographia Canalis Marini Inter Angliam et Galiiam de Fluentis.' Sheet with with two charts of the English Channel, each adorned with beautiful compass rose...

Description: Antique print, titled: 'Circus Flaminius (…)' - This original old antique print shows a reconstruction of Circus Flaminius, a large, circular area in ancient Rome, l...

Antique map Sunda Islands titled 'De Eilanden van Sunda, waar onder zyn Sumatra, Java, Borneo enz'. Old map of the Bangka Belitun Islands, part of the Greater Sunda Islands, incl...

Antique portrait titled 'Thomas Muntzer'. Portrait of Thomas Müntzer. Thomas Müntzer was an early Reformation-era German theologian, who became a rebel leader during the Peasants' War. He turned against Luther with several anti-Lutheran writings, and supported the Anabaptists. In the Battle of Frankenhausen, Müntzer and his followers were defeated. He was captured, tortured and decapitated. This print originates from 'Historie der kerken en ketteren van den beginne des Nieuwen Testaments tot aan het jaar onses Heeren 1688 ... In het Neederduyts vertaald' by G. Arnold. Artists and Engravers: Gottfried Arnold (1666 – 1714) was a German Lutheran...

Antique map titled 'Het Heylige Land verdeeld in de Twaalf Stammen Israels (..)'. Decorative and detailed map of the Holy Land divided into 12 Tribes, sh...

Antique map titled 'Circuli Franconiae pars Occidentalis, exhibes simul integrum fere Electoratum Moguntinum (..)'. Antique map centered on Nuremberg and Bamberg. Extends from th...

Antique portrait titled 'Macedonius'. Portrait of Macedonius I. Macedonius (died after 360) was a Greek bishop of Constantinople from 342 up to 346, and from 351 until 360. He inspired the establishment of the Macedonians, a sect later declared heretical. This print originates from 'Historie der kerken en ketteren van den beginne des Nieuwen Testaments tot aan het jaar onses Heeren 1688 ... In het Neederduyts vertaald' by G. Arnold. Artists and Engravers: Gottfried Arnold (1666 – 1714) was a German...

Antique map titled ‘Rhinolandiae Amsterlandiae et circumjacent (..)’. Map of the regions of Rijnland and Amstelland in the Netherlands, including the cities of Amsterdam, Leiden ...

Description: Antique map titled 'Paskaarte van de rievier de Elve streckende van Oldenbroek tot Hamburgh.' Rare and interesting chart of the East Frisian Islands (or Watten) and ...

Antique map titled 'Byzondere Kaart van de Landen Daar de Apostelen Het Evangelium Gepredikt Hebben (..).' Highly decorative map of the eastern Mediterranean...

Description: Antique map titled 'Erster Abriss der Stadt Jerusalem wie sie Furnemblich zur Zeit des Hernn Christi beschaffen (..).' Spectacular town plan...

Antique print, titled: 'Majorinus Numida' Majorinus was a bishop of Carthage in dispute with Ceacilianus. He favored the so-called Donatist sect. Het died ca. 329 AD. The background to the controversy was the wave of persecutions of Christians by the Roman Emperor Diocletian. At that time some Church leaders - unwilling to endure torture or death and become martyrs - had been ready to take such acts as worshipping the gods of the old pantheon, considered idols by Christians, or surrendering church books and property to the imperial authorities. Such people became known as 'traditors' ("surrenderers"). One of these "traditors", named Caecilian, had returned to the fold of the Church once the persecutions ended, and was consecrated Bishop of Carthage and Primate of North Africa. Those of the faithful who refused to accept the authority of such a spiritual leader raised Majorinus as a rival bishop; however, Majorinus died shortly after being consecrated, and it fell to Donatus to take his place and continue the struggle. This rare print originates from: 'Historie der Kerken en Ketteren van den beginne des Nieuwen Testaments tot aan het Jaar onses Heeren 1688. Onzydig in 't Hoogduytsch beschreeven, door den Hoog-geleerden Heer Godfried Arnold, Voor deezen Hoog-Leeraar in de Historien tot Giesen. In het Neederduyts vertaald. Vercierd met verscheyde Koopere Plaaten door den Heer Romeyn de Hooghe.' (transl.: History of Churches and Heretics from the start of the New Testament until the year of our lord 1688 ...), by Godfried Arnold, Dutch edition published by Sebastiaan Petzold, Amsterdam 1701. This edition contains portraits of heretic figures, etched by the reknown Romeyn de Hooghe. Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Romeyn de Hooghe' after an anonymous artist. Gottfried Arnold (pseud. Christophorus Irenaeus) was an important representative of the so-called radical Pietism, publicist, church historian and chants writer (so he was believed to have written the well-known Church song 'O Durchbrecher aller Bande'). Arnold studied theology in Wittenberg. From the Lutheran Orthodoxy he converted, through writings of Spener, to Pietism, associating later into a circle around the court preacher Sprögel, who was influenced by Jakok Böhm. Many medieval mystics were later re-issued by him. In addition he was clearly influenced by Grotius and the early enlightenment. His quest for the 'true' Christianity rightly brought him in the early Church. So he arranged an edition containing the sermons of the desert father Macarius. Arnold was a skilled patristicus, although he did not escape from the creation of an ideal image of the Christian life in the early Church, in his view a flowering time which ended with the reign of Constantine. His first study of the early Church ('Die erste Liebe der Gemeinen Jesu Christi') provided him a professor position in Gießen, a post which he soon left, disappointed by what he called the 'Ruhmsachtige Vernunftwesen des akademischen Lebens'. He continued as an individual scientist and he published books and poems. His main work is 'Unparteiischen Kirchen- und Ketzerhistorie' (1699-1700), of which this is the Dutch translation. He adapts in this study the reformatory decay theory, where the censure lies no longer with Constantine, but the post-Apostolic time. The decay is temporarily lifted with the Reformation, but occurres again soon, so that even the contemporary institutional Protestantism lies under the fire of his criticism. On the other hand he favours the 'Church of the spirit' that existed in all times (invisible) and is characterised by avoiding the world and asceticism. Not the orthodoxy, but the subjectivity of religious man...

A Queen Anne carved giltwood pier mirror, circa 1700-1710.

Early German baroque bronze mermaid door knocker on frosted lucite stand. This door knocker is a work of art; heavy bronze with original patina, ...

Queen Anne silver taperstick London 1704 Richard Syngin (Syng). The taperstick of plain early design with knopped stem and moulded circular base. Britannia standard silver. Weight 1...

Set of four antique copperplate engravings with hand coloring. "Britannia Illustrata," the publication in which these prints originally appeared, was one of the most important topogr...

Early 1700s Italian clock (Rome). Beautiful table clock from the early 1700s, made of rosewood panelled wood and gilded bronzes. Measurements: width cm 27, depth cm 13.5 - height cm...

Hand colored copper engraving "Ingleby Mannor the Seat of the Honble. Sr. Wm. Foulis Bartt.," by Johannes Kip. From Kip's most significan...

A magnificent pair of solid silver sterling candlesticks Hallmarked for london 1705 Silversmith John Barnard Weight 609 grams Height 21.5 cm Square bases with chamfered edges ...

Having a circular, later, upholstered top resting on a three-leg frame of turned walnut, the stretchers also expertly turned, the corners with turned medallions

The painting depicting the Madonna draped in velvet garments in a state of adoration, the painting unrestored, in period and likely original walnut frame

Ca.1700 Antique Brussels Tapestry Pillow - 19'' X 14'', Wool, Empire Traditional, Handmade and Needlework,

Framed map of Mexico & Florida circa 1705, Paris. Small map with Mexico and the Gulf Coast. Inset text indicating Panama, Acapulco, Mexico City and the Mississippi. Extends North to ...

Denmark. Schenk (Petrus), Dania Regnum Ducatus Holsatia. et Slesvicum Insulae Danicae et Provinciae Jutia Scania etc. Amsterdam, 1706, engraved reticulated map on thick paper with co...

The drawer fronts of this oak geometric chest have applied shaped geometric moldings typical of this time period. The hardware has engraved designs bu...

Late 17th Century French Tapestry ( 10'9" x 13'8" - 327 x 416 cm ) Material: Wool warp,18 warps per inch; wool and silk pattern wefts, Z-2; woven sideways. This extremely attractive...

Rectangular top upholstered in old needlepoint that needs replacement. Turned legs and stretchers.

With a fabulous oyster veneer top over a drawer raised on barley twist legs joined by stretchers. Bun feet.

With D shape drop leaves and a frieze drawer. Swing out leaf supports.Turned legs and stretchers.

Well carved with baroque scrolls ,triangular base.

Rectangular leather back and seat with brass studs, square legs with carved stretcher. Brass finials. Provenance William Hodgins.

Rectangular top over two drawers and a cabinet door.

Each with a shaped, carved and pierced crest rail over period needlepoint seats and backs raised on block and turned legs and Spanish feet. Provenance, L...

With a rectangular top over a drawer with a pair of brass handles. Turned legs with turned stretcher. Lower 3/4 stretchers. Bun feet.

Carved with a distressed surface with paint losses in original condition. From the estate of Martin Trust, Boston and Palm Beach.

Cartographer from Germany 1678-1757. Hand colored. Gilt wood frame. Estate of William Hodgins.

With a rectangular top with oak oyster veneer decoration. Over a drawer and raised on turned legs joined by turned stretchers. Button feet. A more unusual example with great patina.

William & Mary Partially Ebonized stained pine blanket chest of drawers New England, Circa 1700 The applied molded hinged top opening to view a well with three false drawers; the c...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this exquisite, hand made in England, William & Mary circa 1700 Oyster and Laburnum wood and Burr Walnut cen...