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A bronze paper knife opener depicting a elephant head, Great Britain 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
The paper knife or letter opener was originally used for cutting open the pages of hand-produced books where the folding of the printed sheets creates some closed edges that require ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century British Letter Openers
Materials
Bronze
A bronze paper knife opener dipicting a perched owl, Austria 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
The paper knife or letter opener was originally used for cutting open the pages of hand-produced books where the folding of the printed sheets creates some closed edges that require ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Austrian Letter Openers
Materials
Bronze
A bronze paper knife letter opener depicting a dachshund head, Austria 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
The paper knife or letter opener was originally used for cutting open the pages of hand-produced books where the folding of the printed sheets creates some closed edges that require ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Austrian Letter Openers
Materials
Bronze
Antique temple Shokudai candlestick Japan end of 19th century.
Located in Milan, IT
Antique red lacquer wood temple Shokudai candlestick with crysantenum shaped base, original finish consistent of its age. Bronze spike candle holder at top. Meiji period (1868-1912),...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Candlesticks
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Big porcelain pipe: a waitress holding mugs of beer, Germany 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Painted porcelain pipe, with opening stove, depicting a waitress, sitting on a beer barrel, holding three mugs full of beer, ready to be served. The amber mouthpiece is connected to ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century German Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Porcelain
Erotic cast pewter plaque, France 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Erotic cast pewter plaque: A good surprise. In the bedroom with a bourgeois interior, the master of the house surprises the maid asleep, feather duster in hand and petticoat up. By E...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Pewter
Art nouveau gold and jade vinaigrette, by Georges Fouquet France 1900.
By Georges Fouquet-Lapar
Located in Milan, IT
Round Art nouveau Vinaigrette, made of 18K gold. Configured as a pendant with safety lock.The lid of the box is in white jade with in the center several coiled snakes that also invad...
Category
Early 20th Century French Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Jade, Gold
Group of small wooden geometric models with chromatic faces, Italy 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Group of 16 little solid wooden geometrical models for teaching class. One face of each is colored following the chromatic scale of colors. Paravia, Italy beginning XX century.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Glass and silver vase with enamelled Scottish Terrier dog, United States 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Tall glass vase with high neck, opening at the rim with smooth 925/1000 sterling silver band. On the front there is a Scottish Terrier dog, engraved and painted in enamel. United Sta...
Category
Early 20th Century American Vases
Materials
Sterling Silver
An Art Decò set of fireplace clock stand, ceramica Sarreguemines, France, 1930.
Located in Milan, IT
Art Deco Ceramic Clock Holder Fireplace Set. It depicts two greyhounds dogs in a runnung and jumping competition. Ceramic stamp in blu under the transparent glaze. Monochrome ceramic...
Category
Early 20th Century French Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Surgical instrument: a scalpel, late 19th century, United States 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
A surgical instrument from the late 19th early 20th century. An iron scalpel. With brass handle. Tiemann & Co, American manufacturing. New York, United States circa 1900.
Category
Early 20th Century American Scientific Instruments
Materials
Iron
Surgical instrument: forceps, late 19th century, United States 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
A surgical instrument from the late 19th early 20th century. An iron tong. SS White Maker, H.C. distributor Kern. American manufacturing. Philadelphia, United States circa 1900.
Category
Early 20th Century American Scientific Instruments
Materials
Iron
A late19th-Century dental extractor, United States 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
An instrument for dental use. A late 19th early 20th century dental extractor. An iron forceps used in tooth extraction. White Maker, H.C. distributor Kern. American manufacturing. P...
Category
Early 20th Century American Scientific Instruments
Materials
Iron
A late19th-Century dental extractor, United States 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
An instrument for dental use. A late 19th early 20th century dental extractor. An iron forceps used in tooth extraction, one of the two handles, is curved to allow grip during tooth ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Scientific Instruments
Materials
Iron
A pair of Mediterranean red coral branches, copper bases, Italy 1870s.
Located in Milan, IT
A specimen of Naturalia: a pair of Mediterranean red coral branches (Coralium Rubrum), mounted on vase-shaped embossed copper bases. Italy circa 1870.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Coral, Copper
A branch of japanese red coral (Coralium Japonicum), Italy 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
A specimen of naturalia from Wunderkammer. A branch of Japanese red coral (Coralium Japonicum), mounted on a wooden base, holds a palm tree in the shap...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Coral
Terracotta sculpture depicting a ox, Italy, second half of the 19th century.
Located in Milan, IT
Terracotta nativity sculptures depicting the neck and head of an ox.
The sculpture is made of terracotta entirely by hand, finished in stick and color. In the nativity scene, the ox ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Animal Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
Terracotta sculpture depicting a donkey, Italy, second half of the 19th century.
Located in Milan, IT
Terracotta nativity sculpture depicting the neck and head of a donkey. The sculpture is made of terracotta entirely by hand, finished in stick and color. In the nativity scene, the d...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Animal Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
22 wooden models for teaching, Italy 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
A group of 22 small geometric solids made of solid wood with white traces for educational use. Some solids are decomposable. Castiglione, Turin, Italy circa 1900.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
A 19th-Century dental elevator.
Located in Milan, IT
A dental instrument. A 19th-Century iron elevator. A baluster-turned shank with double claw, fitted with a horn handle and screwdriver. British manufacturer. London circa 1850.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Scientific Instruments
Materials
Iron
Important book The spiritual testament of Benito Mussolini, Rome 1976.
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and important book is presented in a prominent format, 48 x 34 cm. The front cover and the back cover (front and back plate) offer a refined work of embossed copper foil entir...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Books
Materials
Copper
A cigar holder, silver sterling 925/1000, signed Tiffany, United States 1930.
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in Milan, IT
A cigar holder, sterling 925/1000. Made of smooth silver in the shape of a cigar with a lid, a lapis lazuli, cabochon cut, is set at the end. The edge of the bezel and the profile of...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Silver
Jewel walking stick, USA 1841.
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: jeweled walking stick, octagonal milord-shaped knob in 16 kt gold with on the top a large central octagonal gold-bearing quartz and 8 oval lateral ones in different co...
Category
Antique 1840s American Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Quartz, Metal, Gold
A mid-19th century surgeon's instrument, a saw. Lollini Brothers, Bologna, Italy
Located in Milan, IT
A 19th-century surgical instrument. An amputation chain saw with a white metal body and iron stops, extractor, and chain. The bar-shaped body has a rectangular section that curves sl...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Italian Scientific Instruments
Materials
Metal, Iron
Iron and wood horse shaped food chopper, England, 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Iron and wood horse shaped food chopper.
The iron slab has been cut with a horse silouette, The superior and inferior edges have been slightly grinded, while the curved lower...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Antiquities
Materials
Iron
An ostrich egg from a wunderkammer, with a red painted wooden base, Italy 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
A specimen of Naturalia an ostrich egg (Struthio camelus) mounted on a wooden base painted red. The upper part, mounted on the summit, in the shape of a pinnacle, always of the same ...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Ostrich Eggshell, Wood
An ostrich egg from a wunderkammer, with an ebonized wooden base, Italy 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
A specimen of Naturalia an ostrich egg (Struthio camelus) mounted on an ebonized wooden base. The upper part, mounted on the summit, in the shape of a pinnacle, always of the same w...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Ostrich Eggshell, Wood
A collection of silver, marble, and enamel sculptures. Italy, 1920.
Located in Milan, IT
The group of 9 sculptures is made of 800/1000 silver, enamel, and a base of green Alpi marble. The base is square, rises perpendicularly, and has rounded corners. On the front of the...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Silver, Enamel
A group of six sculptures in silver, marble and enamel, Italy 1920.
Located in Milan, IT
The group of 6 sculptures is made of 800/1000 silver, enamel and base in red Verona marble. The base is rectangular, rises perpendicularly and has rounded corners. Along the side of ...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Silver, Enamel
A 18th-Century scientific instrument: wooden screw dilator clamp.
Located in Milan, IT
A medical instrument. A brass screw clamp (dilator), with a rosewood handle. It consists of two symmetrical parts, each with a circular cushion element that continues with a cylindri...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass
Silver Betel nut Cutter. India, beginning of 20th century.
Located in Milan, IT
Antique silver betel (areca nut) nut cutter (‘sarota’) from Maharashtra (central-western India) depicting a standing man embracing a woman – Raja Rani Sarota (cutter with a Raja and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Shagreen etui case, London circa 1800.
Located in Milan, IT
A very fine English Etui Case with original period fitting. The etui is carved in fruitwood and covered in a dark grey shagreen (Pastinachus sephen, Forrskål 1775) covering. It opens by pushing the button on the side. Finished in silver, the inner grid shows a series of cut-out seats for the insertion of the fitting, which includes a pencil, one bodkin, an ear pick...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Antiquities
Materials
Silver
Jeweled walking stick, in gold with pietradura, Florentine mosaic. USA 1844.
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: jeweled walking stick, octagonal milord-shaped knob in 16Kt. gold. In the upper part, we find a table embedded with a pietradura, or Florentine mosaic, of octagonal sh...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Gold, Iron
Walking stick depicting Napoleon Bonaparte involved in the battles, France 1910.
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: silver-gilt handle in the shape of a milord, depicting soldiers, representing the European states involved in the battles against Napoleon Bonaparte. The knob depicts ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Antiquities
Materials
Metal, Silver
A small telescope in paper, glass and snakewood. Golden decoration. France 1780.
Located in Milan, IT
A small pocket telescope with one extension, lens holder and ring in amoretto wood (Brosimum Guianense); objective holder body in green painted and pressed cardboard with rich decora...
Category
Antique 1870s French Scientific Instruments
Materials
Shagreen, Wood
A deconstructed sculpture depicting a foot. Italy 1920.
Located in Milan, IT
A deconstructed sculpture depicting a foot. The sculpture is made of burnished and patinated terracotta. The anatomy is rendered making use of a variety of basic geometric shapes suc...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
An articulated life-size artist model, Italy end of 19th century.
Located in Milan, IT
Articulated painter's mannequin, depicting a teenage boy, life-size. The mannequin is made of walnut wood, the articulated spheres are made of maple wood. The limbs are fully articul...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Maple, Walnut
An articulated artist model, Italy 1920.
Located in Milan, IT
Articulated painter's mannequin, with a metaphysical face. The mannequin is made of carved cherry wood for the body parts and maple wood for the spheres in the joints. The stand is m...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Wooden maquette, depicting the Eiffel Tower, France early 20th century.
Located in Milan, IT
Miniature Wunderkammer architectural model, entirely handmade, in painted balsa wood, depicting the Eiffel Tower. Grand Tour item. Original patina. France early 20th century.
Category
Early 20th Century French Architectural Models
Materials
Wood
Silver punch ladle with bone handle, M & S, Vienna Austria 1880.
By Markowitdch & Scheid
Located in Milan, IT
Antique soup or punch ladle in silver and gilding. The handle, made of bone, is decorated on both sides. Signed M & S. In 1858, George Adam Scheid came to Vienna and entered the work...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Austrian Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
Memento mori sculpture depicting a skull, Italy 1700.
Located in Milan, IT
Wunderkammer Memento Mori sculpture, depicting a carved wooden skull. Italy circa 1700.
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
A marine specimen: the piranha fish, Italy 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Taxodermy marine natural Wunderkammer specimen, embalmed Piranha fishes (Serrasalmus Brandtii). The Specimen is stuffed and mounted over a laquered wooden base black color. Italy cir...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Wood
Writing clamp in the shape of a ball and a billiard cue, Great Britain 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
A wooden-based desk clip, covered with green paper. A brass hinge, with a spring, holds the tip of a billiard cue, on which runs the ivory billiard ball, with a brass caricature face...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century British Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Walking stick, a boar’s head, by Joseph Ladislav Nēmec, Prague 1900.
By Josef Ladislav Némec
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: L-shaped silver handle, depicting a boar's head with Baltic amber acorns and embossed and carved leaves. Cabochon garnet stone eyes. Ebony wood shaft. Metal ferrule. S...
Category
Early 20th Century Czech Antiquities
Materials
Stone, Metal
Walking stick, silver knob with intaglio glass, by Anton Pribil, Austria 1900.
By Anton Pribil
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: a jeweled cane with a milord-shaped knob, in gilded silver, with an embossed decoration of twisted lines that rise to the edge of the upper part. At the end is set a r...
Category
Early 20th Century French Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Metal, Silver, Iron
Industrial pendant lamp from a tailor's shop, in metal and mirrors, USA 1920.
Located in Milan, IT
Industrial swinging lamp, from a tailor's shop, made of a circular cone, in green enameled metal, where on the inside, are positioned mirror trapeziums to refract the light, with bra...
Category
Early 20th Century American Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Metal, Brass
Industrial swinging light from a tailor’s shop, USA 1920.
Located in Milan, IT
Industrial swinging lamp, from a tailor's shop, made of a circular plate, made of metal, on the inside, are positioned mirror trapeziums to refract the light, with a brass bulb attac...
Category
Early 20th Century American Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Metal, Brass
A crocodile skull wunderkammer specimen, Italy 1870.
Located in Milan, IT
A natural specimen from Wunderkammer: a crocodile skull.
The wooden column base is decorated on the upper edge. A metal bar supports the crocodile skull. Italy circa 1870.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Metal
Black Forest carved hazelnut wood sculpture depicting two birds, Germany 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
Black Forest carved hazelnut wood sculpture depicting two birds framed by oak branches, leaves, acorns with a terminal shield. Germany late 19th century.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century German Animal Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Eagle bronze inkwell, signed Anton Puchegger, Austria circa 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
Bronze inkwell depicting a standing eagle with folded wings. The sculpture rises on a rectangular base and, as it rotates, reveals the white ceramic ink container. Stag horn beak. Si...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Austrian Inkwells
Materials
Bronze
Bookends depicting the heads of black labrador dogs, England 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
Large pair of carved and lacquered black wooden bookends, depicting two black Labrador dog heads. England, late 19th century.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
A travel aphotecary with oak wood box, England 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Small travel apothecary with oak wood box, glass containers inside and bone spoon. England circa 1880.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Scientific Instruments
Materials
Glass, Wood
A trunk style travel apotecary cabinet in mahogany wood and brass, England 1790.
Located in Milan, IT
English travelling apothecary made of mahogany Sipo mahogany (Entandrophragma utile) and brass with a rectangular base, a front drawer, an opening to...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass
Walking stick, matches candle holder, by Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, Belgium 1910.
By Gustave Serrurier-Bovy
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick with candle holder system, with black bovine horn tip. The cane is made of light colored Malacca (Rattan) wood. The handle is made of gilded brass, hexagonal in section...
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Antiquities
Materials
Brass
Porcelain Easter egg painted on a gold background depicting flowers, Russia 1890
Located in Milan, IT
Painted porcelain Easter egg, depicting a bouquet of flowers on one side and an imprinted floral motif with branches and fruit on a gold background on the other side. Russia, circa 1...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Russian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
A color print depicting a hunting scene, England 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
A color print on paper, depicting a hunting scene (Full Cry – Hunting incidents). Solid cherry wood frame, polished and beeswaxed. England circa 1880.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Prints
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
An oversized brass silk scale with wooden stand, Italy 1850.
Located in Milan, IT
Ancient scale for weighing silk. Over a square wooden base weighted with lead with brass plaque and connecting element rise the tall wooden central part, made out of wood, with moved...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Italian Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass, Iron
A Copernican armillary sphere, Paravia, Milan, Italy 1930
Located in Milan, IT
A Copernican armillary sphere made of iron, paper, brass and wood, with the Sun inside, and the Earth on the outside, made of wood and covered with paper. Pedestal made of turned and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass, Iron
A carpet made of iron, from a conveyor belt, USA 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
An example of reinterpretation and realization of an old element. A piece of a conveyor belt made with big jointed iron mesches, industrial use, today usable as a carpet. United Stat...
Category
Early 20th Century American North and South American Rugs
Materials
Iron
Painted porcelain Easter egg, depicting the Archangel Michael, Russia, 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Painted porcelain Easter egg, depicting on one side the icon with the Archangel Michael, and on the other side, the Cyrillic monogram: C.R (Risen Christ), on a gold background. Russi...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Russian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
