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Silver snuffbox with miniature, France 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Round silver snuffbox with embossed iris flowers. The miniature, painted watercolor on ivory, depicts a woman with a crown of roses in her hair and a pearls necklace. Signed A. Baron...
Category
Early 20th Century French Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Silver
Gold and ivory snuffbox depicting Mars, Venus and Cupid, France 1750.
Located in Milan, IT
Round snuffbox, made out of gold, ivory and tortoiseshell. Purely neoclassic, the surfaces are plain. The base shows a rim round shaped. Same and symmetrical profile also on the cove...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century French Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Gold
Gold snuffbox with miniature, France 1810.
Located in Milan, IT
Snuffbox in Moss Agate and 18K Gold. This snuffbox features a round base and smooth, vertically rising sides. When held against the light, the moss agate reveals its characteristic t...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Gold
Gold tortoiseshell snuffbox with miniature depicting Venus and Cupid France 1800
Located in Milan, IT
Round 18K Gold and Tortoiseshell Snuffbox. Round base with plain vertical sides. A pair of gold lines at the center of the side marks the interlocking opening. Both the base and lid ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Gold
Gold snuffbox, guache, tortoiseshell, France 1784.
Located in Milan, IT
Round snuffbox 18 K gold, tortoiseshell and gouache technique depicting two childs and a landscape. France 1784. (SHIP TO EU ONLY)
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Gold
Tortoiseshell and gold snuffbox with miniature, Paris 1820.
Located in Milan, IT
18K gold and tortoiseshell snuffbox with an oval miniature on ivory. Round in shape with a flat surface, this snuffbox features a concave profile and a gold hinge recess on the back. The interior is entirely in smooth gold, both at the base and the lid. The top is adorned with a polished and finely chased gold border. At the center is a square gold frame...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Gold
A botanic model of a pale pink tulip, Brendel, Germany 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
A rare Brendel botanical model of Tulipa gesneriana, the Tulip N.200 (Liliaceae), light pink color. The wooden ebonized round base holds the model which opens revealing the flower. T...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century German Scientific Instruments
Materials
Wood
A glass and vulcanite syringe, London 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
An end of the 19th-Century medical’s instrument. A glass and vulcanite syringe. London, UK circa 1880.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century British Scientific Instruments
Materials
Glass
A natural specimen of fish, Italy 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
A natural specimen of Gattuccio (Scyllum Catulus), preserved in formaldehyde and sealed on cylindric shape glass vase. Italiy early 20th century.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass
A table game with dice, France 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
A board game with dice.
Base, lid and central element are in oak wood, the cylinder is in glass containing three dice. France late 19th century.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Games
Materials
Glass, Wood
Apothecary precision scale, travelling set, France 1890
Located in Milan, IT
Precision travel scale, pharmaceutical use. The box is made of oak wood. The scale can be completely disassembled and positioned inside the drawer. A lever allows you to lift the pla...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Scientific Instruments
Materials
Wood
A glass ampulla with Pulvis eructanea, France 1870.
Located in Milan, IT
Specimen from wunderkammer, a glass ampoule with turned fruitwood lid painted black and label on the front. The paper label reads: Pulvis eructanea. France circa 1870.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Natural Specimens
Materials
Glass, Fruitwood, Paper
A glass ampulla with corallium sidere, France 1870.
Located in Milan, IT
Specimen from wunderkammer, a glass ampoule with turned fruitwood lid painted black and label on the front. The paper label reads: Corallium Sidere and the number XXI. France circa 1870
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Natural Specimens
Materials
Coral
A precision brass scale, France 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Precision scale made out on brass. France circa 1880.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass
An apothecary glass mortar and pestle, Italy 18th century.
Located in Milan, IT
Apothecary glass mortar, fitted with glass pestle. Italy early 18th century.
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Italian Scientific Instruments
Materials
Glass
An apothecary bronze mortar and pestle, England 1800.
Located in Milan, IT
Bronze Apothecary mortar, fitted with mortar pestle. England early 19th century.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Scientific Instruments
Materials
Bronze
An apothecary bronze mortar and pestle, Italy 1700.
Located in Milan, IT
Bronze Apothecary mortar, fitted with mortar pestle. Italy early 18th century.
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Italian Scientific Instruments
Materials
Bronze
An apothecary bronze mortar and pestle, Italy 1700.
Located in Milan, IT
Bronze Apothecary mortar, fitted with mortar pestle. Italy early 18th century.
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Italian Scientific Instruments
Materials
Bronze
An apothecary bronze mortar and pestle, Italy 1700.
Located in Milan, IT
Bronze Apothecary mortar, fitted with mortar pestle. Italy early 18th century.
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Italian Scientific Instruments
Materials
Bronze
Precision demountable scale for travel, France 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Apothecary traveling scale entirely demountable. All the pieces fits inside the front drawer. Oak wood box, brass elements and glasses. Glass protection sides. France 1880.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass
An iron vase full of shells, France circa 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
An iron cast square vase with an iron base, with relief decorative elements, over which is a connecting element. Overall the iron rods that describe a vase silouette. The basket is f...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Natural Specimens
Materials
Iron
Apothecary glass funnels, Italy 1800.
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of apothecary glass funnels. Italy 1800 ca.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Italian Scientific Instruments
Materials
Glass
Silver handle walking stick with floral elements, Italy 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick with silver-plated copper and iron tip. The shaft is made of ebony. The milord pommel, made of embossed silver, has a series of smooth vertical bands that separate it. ...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Silver, Copper, Iron
System walking stick, matches holder, Italy 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
System walking stick with deer horn tip, santos wood shaft (Cesalpina Ferrea, Brazil). L-shaped handle in slightly silvered brass with smooth band...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Antiquities
Materials
Brass
Folk art walking stick, leather discs and black horne, England 1860.
Located in Milan, IT
Folk art walking stick: stick with metal tip, the shaft made from an iron core in which leather discs are inserted, with a progressive diameter up to the handle. The cane is polished...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Antiquities
Materials
Metal, Iron
A pair of wooden Grand Tour obelisks, emulating marble, Italy 1870.
Located in Milan, IT
A pair of Grand tour obelisks, made out of lacquered wood emulating Black Belgian marble and gilt brass elements. Four gilt brass spheres are the feet, than a parallelepiped base wi...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Obelisks
Materials
Brass
Wooden carvin nutckraker depicts a screaming man’s head, France 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Made out of hazel wood, the nutcracker simply depicts a screaming man’s head. The handle depicts a fish. The subject is really unusual, the quality of sculpting, carving and cure of ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
A large apothecary-herbalist Biedermeier wooden jar, Austria 1850.
Located in Milan, IT
A large apothecary-herbalist jar with lid in the purest Biedermeier style. Made of maple wood, the surface is finished with shellac and beeswax, with black lacquered edges and knob. ...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Austrian Jars
Materials
Wood
Art déco bowling bookends, USA 1930.
Located in Milan, IT
Unusual pair of American Art Deco’ bookends depicting a women and a man playing bowling. Painted white metal sculptures. USA circa 1930.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Bookends
Materials
Metal
An imitation of a coral branch from Wunderkammer, Italy 1780.
Located in Milan, IT
The base is wheel turned wood, white laquered painted. The branch is emulated by a metal rod covered by stucco and Murano glass, black beads. Italy circa 1780.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
A pair of magnifyng glasses, Italy 1870.
Located in Milan, IT
A pair of Wunderkammer round shape magnifying glasses for scientific purpose with black wooden frames, mounted over a black wooden bases. Italy, circa 1870.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Scientific Instruments
Materials
Glass, Wood
A black forrest pipe holder with a dog, Germany 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Pipe holder, made of carved wood depicting a french bulldog. Glass paste eyes. Black Forest, Germany, circa 1900.
Category
Early 20th Century German Animal Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Wood
A poket sextant signed Stanley, London 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
A travel nautical instrument, sextant, to determine the ship’s position. The cover became the base of it. Signed Stanley, London, England circa 1890.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Scientific Instruments
Materials
Brass
Bookends with horses, USA 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of bookend patinated metal depicting horses at the rails. America end of 19th century.
Category
Early 20th Century American Animal Sculptures
Materials
Metal
A pair of goats bookends, signed Pierre Laurel, France 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of bookends in bronze, yellow Siena marble base, representing jumping goats. Signed Pierre Laurel. France circa 1900.
Category
Early 20th Century French Animal Sculptures
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze
A branch of a light blue mother of pores with shells, Italy 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
A Specimen from Wuderkammer: a branch of blue Madrepora (Heliopora Coerulea). The Specimen, with various examples of shells, is mounted on a column-shaped wooden base with gilded par...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Coral
: Wooden pocket diptych sundial Ernst Christoph Stocket. Germany 1780 - 1811.
Located in Milan, IT
Wooden pocket diptych sundial Ernst Christoph Stocket - type, Bavaria. A folding wooden sundial is partially covered in paper with engraved/printed decorations and text. A compass is...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century German Scientific Instruments
Materials
Wood, Paper
An ivory dyptich sundial, Germany, 17th century.
Located in Milan, IT
Ivory diptych sundial for latitude 48 degrees with vertical and horizontal dials, pin gnomon for Italian hours and lunar volvelle. Compass needle and glass cover. On the plain back ...
Category
Antique Early 17th Century German Scientific Instruments
Materials
Ivory
A seed scale model, France 1830.
Located in Milan, IT
Rare model of scale for seeds. Wooden and iron. France 1830 ca.
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Scientific Instruments
Materials
Iron
A wunderkammer marine natural specimen, the Melo melo shell. Italy 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
The base is made out of rosewood. The shell, Melo Melo, (Family Volutidae) is mounted with reef and small shells. Italy last part of 19th century.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Shell, Wood
Terracotta vase depicting the head of a man with mustache, Austria 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
Terracotta vase finished in color depicting the head of a man with mustache. Austria, around 1890.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Austrian Vases
Materials
Terracotta
A terracotta snuff box in the form of a squatting woman. France, 1810.
Located in Milan, IT
The snuffbox is in terracotta. Made in the early 19th century, it depicts a discreetly crouching woman "going about her business". In the back there is a hole where the snuff comes o...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Terracotta
A black forrest vase with fox and bird, Germany 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Flower vase made of carved wood depicting the fox watching the bird on a tree. Glass vase. Germany, Black Forest, ca. 1880.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century German Vases
Materials
Glass, Wood
An academic cast depicting Costanza Bonarelli head by Bernini, Italy 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
An academic cast. Over the fruit wooden black painted base is set the cast of Costanza Bonarelli head by Bernini. Cast for drawing teaching in Academy. Italy circa 1890.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Fruitwood
A tobacco jar depicting a West Highgland dog’s head, Austria 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
An unusual tobacco container made of painted terracotta and depicting the West Highland terrier dog’s head. The top opens revealing the container. Austria late 1800s - early 1900s.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Austrian Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Terracotta
A pair of Grand Tour obelisks, Green Alps marble, Italy second half of 19th cent
Located in Milan, IT
A pair of Grand Tour obelisks. Made of Green Alps marble. On the front side of the plinth, there is a bezel with a silver mask depicting the head of a lion. Italy second half of the ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Obelisks
Materials
Marble, Silver
Folk Art Model of a Toy Depicting a Steam Train, USA, 1900
Located in Milan, IT
A toy model of Folk art, steam train, consisting of two elements, the locomotive and a coal wagon. Made of oak wood with metal details. the chimney, like the round elements that run in the upper part, is made of brass with traces of gilding. Wooden bars to emulate the arms of the wheels. Washers and screws secure the wheels, complete with spokes. The service car...
Category
Early 20th Century American Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Metal, Brass
Pair of Antique Silver Grape Shears, Krusius Brothers, Germany Late 19th Century
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of antique grape shears, Krusius Brothers, made of sterling silver with the motif of grapes, grape leaf, vine in three dimensions with fox heads. These shears are made in German...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century German Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Scissors to Cut the Stems of the Bunches of Grapes, USA 1860
Located in Milan, IT
Scissors to cut the stems of the bunches of grapes presented on the table at dessert time.
Made of silver, short and quite thick blades, suitable for cutting off the stems of the bunches, with a decoration of vegetable inspiration, branches knotted to bunches of grapes and vine leaves,
Grape shears were invented in England in the Victorian era and then spread to Europe, especially France. The rigid "table manners...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver Scissors to Cut the Stems of the Bunches of Grapes, USA, 1900
Located in Milan, IT
Vintage Sterling Silver Grape Shears/Scissors by Watson of Attleboro, MA. They were manufacturers of silver novelties from 1880 onwards. These grape shears feature floral style handl...
Category
Early 20th Century American Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Embroidery Scissors, Iron, in the Shape of a Tower, Germany, 1840
Located in Milan, IT
Antique embroidery scissors. Made of cut iron, with a silhouette in the shape of a gothic tower, extremely rich in every part with engravings.
Ger...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century German Antiquities
Materials
Iron
Convex Round Mirror, Italy, 1870
Located in Milan, IT
A Wunderkammer round curved mirror with white wooden frame, mounted over white wooden round base. On the rear of the frame there is one round malachite stone. Italy circa 1870.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Convex Mirrors
Materials
Malachite
Convex Round Mirror, Italy, 1870
Located in Milan, IT
A Wunderkammer round convex mirror with black wooden frame mounted over a black wooden round base. On the rear of the frame there is one round mother of pearl nacre stone. Italy seco...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Convex Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Natural Specimen: Cubic Pyrite and Fluorite Crystals, Italy, 1880
Located in Milan, IT
A Naturalia mineral specimen. A fluorite crystals and cubic pyrite cristals mounted over a guild-plated and lacquered wooden base with leaves decorati...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Wood
Pair of Smoky Quartz, Vanadinite, Malachite, Copper Crystals, Italy, circa 1880
Located in Milan, IT
A pair of a naturalia mineral specimen. A composition with smoky quartz, vanadinite, malachite and native copper crystals, mounted over a gold plated wooden base with leaves. Italy c...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Malachite, Quartz, Copper
Pair of Mineral Specimen: Calcite Flowers and Pyromorphite Crystals, Italy 1880
Located in Milan, IT
A Pair of Naturalia mineral specimen: Calcite flowers and Pyromorphite crystals, mounted over a carved wooden base, vase shape, gold gilded. Italy around 1880.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Natural Specimens
Materials
Wood
Botanic Modelof a Primrose Flower, Paravia, Italy, 1940
Located in Milan, IT
A botanical maquette for didactic use, depicting a flower of Primrose, Acaulis, Primulaceae. Made of metal, paper, plaster, galalith and wood. Extremely detailed. Paravia, Milan, Ita...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Scientific Instruments
Materials
Metal
Botanic Model of a Red Grape Flower, Paravia, Italy, 1940
Located in Milan, IT
A botanical maquette for didactic use, depicting a red Grape flower, Vitis Vinifera, Anipelidee. Made of metal, paper, plaster, galalith and wood. Extremely detailed. Paravia, Milan,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Scientific Instruments
Materials
Metal
Botanic Model of Solarum Tuberosum Flower, Paravia, Italy, 1940
Located in Milan, IT
A botanic didactical model, depicting a Solarum Tuberosum flower, pale pink color, made out of papier machè, plaster and wood, hand painted. Extremely detailed. Paravia, Milan, Italy...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Scientific Instruments
Materials
Plaster, Wood
Bookends with Pekingese Dogs, France 1915
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of enameled metal bookends dipicting a Pekingese dog breed. France circa 1915.
Category
Early 20th Century French Animal Sculptures
Materials
Metal
