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Period: Late 19th Century
Elegant Paperweight in Bronze and Nero Portoro marble. Late 19th Century
Located in Knivsta, SE
Elegant Paperweight in Bronze and Nero Portoro marble. Beautiful designed male lion. Made in France during the late 19th Century.
Wear consistent with age and use
Category
French Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Very Rare Antique Baccarat Glass Paperweight with complex Millefiori
By Baccarat
Located in Knivsta, SE
Very Rare and Elegant Antique Baccarat Glass Paperweight with complex Millefiori, made in France probably during the 1870s. (Not signed)
Beauti...
Category
French Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Glass
19th Century Murano Glass Paperweight - Pen Holder
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Beautiful antique paperweight, handmade from multi colored glass, in the shape of a rooster. On top a small vase, probably intended to hold a pen. ...
Category
Italian Belle Époque Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Blown Glass, Art Glass
Antique Florentine Grand Tour Pietra Dura Blossoming Rose Flower Paperweight
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique paperweight is unsigned, but presumed to have been acquired during a Grand Tour through Italy, and dating to approximately 1880 and do...
Category
Italian Arts and Crafts Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Stone, Marble
Antique Braise Cast Iron Flat Press Laundry Trivet, France, 19th Century
Located in Labrit, Landes
This cast iron trivet is particular Because it was created to put braises inside.
This type of model represented a step forward for the laundress b...
Category
French Industrial Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Iron
Late 19th Century English Set of 4 Brass Bell Weights
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Late 19th century set of 4 brass bell weights, English. An assembled set by W&T Avery, Birmingham, England. Includes: 4lb., 2lb., 1lb, & 8 oz. sizes. Two smallest are not marked by t...
Category
English Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Brass
Antique Grand Tour Italian Vatican Micro-Mosaic Marble Desk Weight 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a stunning decorative antique Italian Grand Tour Vatican Micro-Mosaic inset black marble desk weight, in the form of a miniature table, circa 1870 ...
Category
Italian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Agate, Malachite, Onyx, Granite, Marble, Porphyry
19th Century Polychrome Sculpture of a Roman Woman
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Italian original painted plaster sculpture of a young Roman woman in nice gilt dress and flower wreath. This well sculptured smiling lady cou...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Plaster
Antique Grand Tour Pietra Dura Specimen Top Paperweight, 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a superb decorative antique Italian Grand Tour marble Pietra Dura mounted desk paperweight, circa 1880 in date.
This splendid rectangular paperweight is exquisitely inlaid with a sumptuous arrangement of semi-precious stones including malachite, agate, onyx and amethyst.
It is beautifully inlaid on a slate base.
Not only is this desk paperweight very functional, but it is also an exquisite mineralogical wonder that can be admired by all discerning collectors.
Condition:
In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation,
Dimensions in cm:
Height 2 x Width 17 x Depth 10
Dimensions in inches:
Height 1 inch x width 7 inches x depth 4 inches.
Pietra dura is a term for the inlay technique of using cut and fitted, highly polished coloured stones to create images. It is considered a decorative art.
Pietre dure is an Italian plural meaning "hard rocks" or hardstones; the singular pietra dura is also encountered in Italian. In Italian, but not in English, the term embraces all gem engraving and hardstone carving, which is the artistic carving of three-dimensional objects in semi-precious stone, normally from a single piece, for example in Chinese jade.
The traditional convention in English has been to use the singular pietra dura just to denote multi-colored inlay work. However, in recent years there has been a trend to use pietre dure as a term for the same thing, but not for all of the techniques it covers, in Italian.
But the title of a 2008 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe used the full Italian sense of the term, probably because they thought that it had greater brand recognition. The material on the website speaks of objects such as a vase in lapis lazuli as being examples of "hardstone carving (pietre dure)"
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London uses both versions on its website, but uses pietra dura. "A method of inlaying coloured marbles or semi-precious stones into a stone base, often in geometric or flower patterns...."
Giovanni Montelatici...
Category
Italian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Malachite, Onyx, Marble
Late 19th Century Bronze Winged Sphinx Statuette Red Griotte Marble
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
An antique small bronze sculpture of a winged Sphinx, on a red "Griotte" marble plinth.
The statue is quite refined, with a nice golden color and old patina.
Decorative piece that a...
Category
French Egyptian Revival Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
Rare Faceted Bohemian Amanita Muscaria Glass Paperweight
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
A mid to late 19th century Czech paperweight, showing the mastery of Czech glass blowing. A similar example is in the Bergstrom-Mahler Glass Museum in Neenah, Wisconsin. It doesn't h...
Category
Czech Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Art Glass
Antique Grand Tour Pietra Dura Specimen Paperweight 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a superb decorative antique Italian Grand Tour marble Pietra Dura mounted desk paperweight, circa 1880 in date.
This splendid rectangular paperweight is exquisitely inlai...
Category
Italian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Malachite, Onyx, Marble
Rare Meissen Cobalt Blue Hand Painted "Shoe" Slipper of Castle Moritzburg C 1890
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Museum quality piece of rare art from the re known firm of Meissen, Germany. This popular cabinet item was made in the last half of the 19th century w...
Category
German Baroque Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Pair of French Louis XV Style Doré Bronze Dogs on Malachite Plinths
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Dimensions- H: 3in W: 4 1/4in D: 2 7/8in
This exceptional pair of French Doré bronze dogs on malachite plinths/bases are an amazing example of high quality antique smalls. Finding a pair in this good of condition is highly uncommon. Malachite Was believed to have healing factors in Europe during the Renaissance and later people saw malachite as a sign of wealth and power due to its rarity. Most pieces made with malachite whether it was a piece of furniture or a pair of bronze dogs...
Category
French Louis XV Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Malachite, Bronze, Ormolu
Antique Boston Sandwich or French Miniature Scramble Paperweight
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique scramble paperweight.
With an entertaining collector's label to the base that reads 'Sandwich Junk Wt.'.
That collector thought it was a Boston Sandwich weight. We're unsure if this is American or French. So, Baccarat, Saint Louis, or New England Glass Co...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Art Glass
Antique Baccarat Pansy with Bud Glass Paperweight
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine Baccarat paperweight.
By Baccarat.
With a deep purple and yellow lamp work pansy with a branching stem, leaves, and small bud on a clear base.
In a high and round profile.
...
Category
French Belle Époque Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
French 19th Century Set of Scale Weights Stand Desk Accessory
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
19th Century Set of Brass Scale Weights, France
A charming late 19th Century set of weights in brass, housed in their wooden stand. Weights such as these were used with different sc...
Category
French Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Brass
Antique Boston & Sandwich Pink Poinsettia Glass Paperweight
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique American paperweight.
By Boston & Sandwich Glass Company.
With a 10-petal pink poinsettia with two leaves on a clear background.
The center cane features a rare sta...
Category
American Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Glass
Austrian 1870 Egyptian Revival Sphinx Paper Weight In .800 Sterling Silver
Located in Miami, FL
A Sphynx paper-weight made in Austria.
An unusual desk paper-weight, created in Vienna Austria back in the 1870. This beautiful piece was designed with Egyptian revival and grand to...
Category
Austrian Egyptian Revival Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Victorian Slate Paperweight of Hand style of Odd Fellows Hands Offs Sculpture
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Wonderful very old professional office relic with a cheeky message; Hands off! Private papers. Reminiscent of the odd fellows Victorian Era designs.
Category
American Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Slate
A Blue John Paperweight, late 19th century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The parquetry Blue John Pattern within a rectangular black stone surround
Category
British Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Quartz, Marble
19th Century English Pair of Cast Iron Mounted Lion Masks
Located in Staffordshire, GB
19th century English pair of cast iron mounted lion masks
circa 1890.
Price is each.
Measures: Large H 49 x W 19.5 x D 11cm
Small H 43 x W 18 x D ...
Category
British Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Iron
Antique Rare Paperweight Glass Ball with Picture
Located in Vienna, AT
Antique rare paperweight glass ball with picture, alpaca base, good original condition, around 1880.
Category
Austrian Biedermeier Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Alpaca, Glass
Large Saint Louis Millefiori Paperweight, St. Louis Scrambled Paperweight
By Saint Louis
Located in Miami, FL
A stunning paperweight dating back to the late 19th Century with roses and flowers that will spark your imagination every time you put your eyes on it.
This art piece has faceted e...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murrine
French Belle Époque, Gilt Silver & Rose Quartz Sculptural Paperweight, ca. 1880
Located in New York, NY
French French Belle Époque
Sculptural Paperweight
Gilt Silver and Rose Quartz
ca. 1880s
DIMENSIONS
Height: 3-5/8 inches
Width: 3-3/4 inches ...
Category
French Belle Époque Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Quartz, Silver
19th Century French Paperweight Bronze Dog Sculpture on Grey Marble Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
This antique dog sculpture paperweight was created in France, circa 1880. Standing on an oval grey and white marble base with bottom felt, the s...
Category
French Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Elegant Paperweight in Bronze and Nero Portoro marble. Late 19th Century
Located in Knivsta, SE
Elegant Paperweight in Bronze and Nero Portoro marble. Beautiful designed lioness. Made in France during the late 19th Century.
Wear consistent with age and use
Category
French Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Late 19th Taxile Doat Manufacture De Sevres dated 1899 Flora
By Taxile Doat
Located in Marseille, FR
Art Nouveau ceramic paperweight "Flora" by Taxile Doat, Sèvres factory dated 1899. Some cracks on the periphery.
Category
French Art Nouveau Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Ceramic
A Grand Tour Specimen Marble Paperweight, Late 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
A rectangular shaped paperweight with inset Porphyry, Siena Marble and Mother of Pearl in black marble framework
Category
Italian Grand Tour Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Siena Marble, Porphyry
Antique French Paper Clip
Located in Tampa, FL
A very whimsical antique French brass paper clip in the form of a hand.
Category
French Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Brass
Pair of Grand Tour Armorial Dore Bronze Bookends/Paperweights
Located in New York, NY
A pair of antique 19th century Louis XVI style marble mounted dore bronze armorial Bookends/paperweights depicting "Peace and Music". Each is beautiful...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Marble, Bronze
A Grand Tour Italian Specimen Marble Paperweight
Located in Spencertown, NY
The white ground inlaid with specimen marbles and porphyry with ridges on 2 sides
Category
Italian Grand Tour Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Marble
Antique Signed Utensil Holder, Bellow With Mouse, "Mabotte", France, 1880s
Located in Greven, DE
Beautiful antique bronze work, which can be used as a utensil holder or paperweight.
It is possilble to hand the bronze.
Signed at the bottom by the french artist "MABOTTE".
Category
French Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Bronze
Antique Silvered Deer Sculpture, France, 1880s
Located in Greven, DE
Beautiful antique silvered bronze work on a black stone base.
Finely chiseled and natuarally depicted.
France, circa 1880.
Category
French Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Cast Brass Satyr Bacchus Pan with Grapes and Grapevines Pen Wipe
Located in Haarlem, NL
Antique heavy cast brass satyr with grapes and grapevines in his hair.
With this grape and leafage it easily could be Bacchus and his pointy ears make him also a pan kind of figure.
This cup is not as big as the drinking cups you see with the same satyr, this cup is smaller and it has an insert in which a piece of wood with bristle fits.
This satyr cup is a pen wipe, from back in the days when people used a fountain or a crown pen and ink and you needed your pen brushed...
Category
English Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Brass, Other
Japanese Articulated Copper Lobster
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Japanese articulated copper spiny lobster sculpture on a solid rock Lapis Lazuli. Every single body parts are in working condition and no missing ...
Category
Japanese Meiji Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Copper
Late 19th Century Bronze Artisan Paperweight
Located in Malibu, CA
Late 19th Century Bronze Artisan Paper Weight. Signed, both the top & bottom have been hand tooled with artistry.
The artist's signature is on the top edge.
Category
Arts and Crafts Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Bronze
Large French Napoleon III Carnelian Desk Seal With Blank Matrix
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large French Napoleon III Carnelian Desk Seal with Blank Matrix
France, circa 1870s
A large French Napoleon III carnelian desk seal with a blank matrix, dating to circa 1870s. This o...
Category
French High Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Carnelian
Antique Serpentine Paperweight, Chinese, Soapstone, Marble, Desktop, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique serpentine paperweight. A Chinese, stone and marble dragon fish figure, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850.
Distinctive...
Category
Chinese Early Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Stone, Marble
Grand Tour Inlaid Specimen Marble Paperweight, Late 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The paperweight inset with a plaster cast of the Coliseum, outlined in 'marmo nero' and marmo giallo.
Category
Italian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Marble
Victorian Frosted Glass and Sterling Silver Match Striker / Paperweight
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver and frosted glass match striker; an addition to our ornamental collection.
This exceptional antique Victorian glass sterling match striker, with sterling silver mount, has a globular form.
The surface of the frosted glass body has a textured finish which composes a match striker and incorporating the impressive applied monogram initials 'CIL'.
The upper portion of this antique glass match striker...
Category
English Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Sterling Silver, Silver
An Italian Specimen Marble Paperweight
Located in Spencertown, NY
The square paperweight with specimen marbles inset in yellow marble ground.
Category
Italian Grand Tour Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Marble
Antique Grand Tour Micro-Mosaic Paperweight with Vatican Vignettes
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique Grant Tour micro-mosaic paperweight is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from Italy, or possibly the Vatican City, and dating to approximately 1880 and done in t...
Category
Italian Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Slate
19th Century Victorian Gilt Bronze Leaf Trinket Dish with Sparrow and Beetles
Located in Haarlem, NL
Late Victorian or Aesthetic Movement gilt bronze trinket dish or vide poche or calling card dish.
With a little detailed sparrow on the branche an...
Category
European Late Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Bronze
19th Century XL Brass 7 Pound Weight Scale Apothecary Pharmacy Paperweight Desk
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Heavy and very large, 7 pound scale weight, hourglass form.
Category
American Arts and Crafts Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Brass
Victorian Glass and Sterling Silver Match Striker / Paperweight
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive, large antique Victorian English sterling silver and glass match striker, an addition to our ornamen...
Category
British Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Sterling Silver
Victorian Glass and Sterling Silver Match Striker / Paperweight
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Victorian English sterling silver and glass match striker; an addition to our ornamental collection.
This exceptional antique silver and glass match striker has a globular form.
The surface of the glass body is embellished with a serrated texture which composes a match striker.
The ornamentation to the glass body is segmented with plain subtly concave vertical flutes.
The upper portion of this antique glass match striker...
Category
English Victorian Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Marble Paperweight with Figural Bronze Bird of Prey 19th century
Located in Sweden, SE
Late 19th century nice quality bronze and dark green marble work. The finely detailed plumage of the bird with its fierce gaze demonstrates the handiwork of the craftsman. In a world...
Category
Empire Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Victorian Brass Skirt Lifter
Located in Tampa, FL
This is a Victorian brass skirt lifter probably about 1880s made of brass with a great patina. A wonderful and unusual find for any brass collection.
Category
English Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Brass
Count Gleichen’s shrapnel paperweight. Russian and English, 1854
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Count Gleichen’s Russian shell paperweight, the tooth shaped fragment of a Russian armament shell set above another of rectangular form both raised on a silver mount on an ebonized rectangular plinth, applied with a plaque reading ‘Two fragments of a Russian shell fired at Mr Fred Burne assist.t paymaster and Mr Henry Crave St John midshipman of H.M.S. Cumberland in Aug.t 1854 from Tsee Fort Bonarsund whilst conveying refreshments to the English camp – for their messmate – H.S.H. Prince Victor of Hohenlohe Midshipman landed with the Naval Brigade in 1854’. With a framed caricature of Count Gleichen inscribed Vanity Fair, London, July 5, 1884. Vice Admiral H.S.H Count Gleichen – the Queen’s Nephew.Russian and English, 1854.
The print has the following biography on the reverse and on the mount ‘His Serene Highness Prince Victor …. of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, is better known in England as Count Gleichen and as the Queen’s nephew. Born fifty years ago, he was sent to school at Dresden; but at the age of fourteen he conceived ideas not to be bounded within the confines of the small life of a German principality. So he ran away from school to go to sea, and his aunt the Queen of England, being informed of the fact, proposed to her sister to let her adventurous nephew become naturalised as an Englishman and enter the English Navy. This was accordingly done, and Prince Victor, as he was then called, was appointed to the Powerful on the Mediterranean Station, in 1848. He served in the Crimean War and in the operations in China he proved a popular officer and a good sailor-man, and was three times wounded in battle. In 1861 he married the daughter of Admiral Sir George Seymour, sister of the fifth Marquis of Hertford on which occasion it was that he put down his title of Prince and took up for future use that of Count. He became, in due course a Vice-Admiral, and in the meantime he also became a sculptor. It is in the latter art that he now mainly busies himself, and he has created many pleasing busts of his royal relatives and some works of greater pretensions than family portraits. An Alfred the Great, a Beaconsfield, and a Prince Imperial...
Category
English Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Metal, Silver
A cast bronze sprung hinged letter / document clip in the form of a crane’s head
Located in Chonburi, TH
This exquisite cast bronze sprung hinged letter/document clip from France circa 1880 is a stunning example of functional artistry. Crafted in the form of a crane's head, it embodies ...
Category
French Art Nouveau Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Bronze
French Belle Époque, Patinated Bronze Desktop Sculptural Paperweight, 19 Century
Located in New York, NY
Signed illegibly original red marble base.
Dimensions: H: 8.25” x W: 3.25” x D: 4.25” Base diameter: 2.75”
This beautiful and delicate desktop dark chocolate-brown patinated br...
Category
French Belle Époque Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Victorian Brass Paperclip
Located in Tampa, FL
An 1880s English, Victorian very heavy brass clip for papers and objects. A true collectors piece. Can be hung or laid flat.
Category
English Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Brass
French Gilt Bronze Bassinet, circa 1875
Located in New York, NY
French gilt bronze bassinet, circa 1875.
On marble base.
Category
French Antique Late 19th Century Paperweights
Materials
Bronze
