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Collectibles and Curiosities For Sale
Style: Baroque
Style: Empire
Countye of Monmouth, Dated 1610
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
The countye of Monmouth with the situation of the townshire described Anno, 1610 The reverse with Monmouthshire, Chapter VI and an alphabetical list of towns. In a beautiful Flemish oak polished and gilded frame Cartographer: John Speed...
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1610s English Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Paper

France Late 18th Century Baroque Silver Box
Located in Brescia, IT
France Late 18th century silver carriage shape box in Regency Style This magnificent piece of art of silver jewelery. It is an example of h...
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Late 18th Century French Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Silver

Rare 17th Century Baroque Cabinet, South Germany Probably Augsburg, Wunderkammer
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
A small architectural table cabinet, veneered in walnut and mulberry, the centre doors enclosing an arrangement of nine various sized drawers with bone knobs, behind a central door a...
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Late 17th Century German Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Brass

Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella on the Appian Way, Early 19th Century Circular
Located in Paris, FR
A large circular micromosaic panel representing the so called "Tomb of Cecilia Metella on the Appian way" near Rome. This plate shows superior quality and m...
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Early 1800s Italian Empire Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Marble

19th Century Religious Wood Carving
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Carved oak religious carving, 19th century. This is an excellent quality wood carving with a nice old patina.
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Early 19th Century European Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Oak

Collection of 18 Prints of Musical Instruments from Gabinetto Armonico, 1722
Located in valatie, NY
A collection of 18 framed prints from engravings of musical instruments from the book by Gabinetto Armonico, which was published in 1722. The book had a total of 150 instruments. The...
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18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Paper

17th Century Italian Ballot Voting Urn Carved Blue and Red Painted Wood
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Italian ballot urn shaped wooden box, carved and painted, coming from Tuscany, Monte San Savino near Arezzo in Central Italy. This ballot urn is an excellent example of a 17th century wooden voting box...
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Mid-17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Pine

18th Century Giacomo Guardi Old Master Painting of Venetian Lagoon, Provenance
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Vero Beach, FL
18th century Giacomo Guardi old master painting of Venetian Lagoon. Provenance. Old master painting in oil on canvas by the artist Giacomo Guardi (1764...
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18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Canvas

19th History of the Antecolombian America with Original Engravings and Pictures
Located in Miami, FL
The book it´s in Spanish. Catalan Region Beautiful handmade engravings 996 pages.
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Late 19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

19th Century Compass and Sundial Together
Located in Miami, FL
19th century compass and sundial together.
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Late 19th Century French Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood

Devotional Pendant, Oil on Aventurine, Gold, Enamel, Spain, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Devotional pendant or reliquary. Oil painting on aventurine, enamel, gold. Spain, 17th century. Medallion or devotional pendant or reliquary made of aventurine or aventurine with an octagonal shape and faceted fronts, enhanced with a series of enamels combining black and gold, which protect two oil paintings with a Catholic Christian religious theme, located one on each side of the piece. Protected, you can see a very particular Virgin with Child for being inspired by the Icon of the Madonna del Popolo (Rome, Italy), and a simplified Martyrdom of San Lorenzo (the saint, the grill and an angel with a crown and the palm corresponding to the subject). The edges of the piece have been protected with simple metal elements. The painting of San Lorenzo follows a common composition in the Spanish school, and would recall works such as the painting of the main altar of the Church of San Lorenzo de Huesca, for example, but also others such as the engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi (executed around 1527) in some details. The so-called icon of the Madonna del Popolo was well known for being considered as made by Saint Luke, and was brought to the church of the same denomination by Gregory IX from the Sancta Sanctorum of the Lateran Palace after a flood caused a terrible plague in the city and through a solemn procession with the image of Santa Maria del Popolo. Regarding the material of the piece, a certain type of glass and a type of quartz (which can be green or reddish-brown, and usually has tiny elements of yellow mica that give it golden reflections) is known as aventurine or aventurine. In the first case, it is known that “aventurine” or “stellaria” appears mentioned in the Murano workshops for the first time during the first quarter of the 17th century, in reference to a very complicated production paste (it is said that the name comes from of this circumstance, that is, that its creation was due to luck or luck) that imitates the effects of that stone (from India and Russia at that time) thanks to the inclusion of copper particles, and that it was used as if out of stone (cut) given the complexity of its use in blowing (practically impossible). And, dealing with this material, it is necessary to mention “The Nativity” by Pietro da Cortona, dated around 1656, which is kept in the El Prado...
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17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Gold, Enamel, Other

19th Century, Compass and Sundial Together
Located in Miami, FL
19th century, compass and sundial together.
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Late 19th Century French Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood

Early 19th Century Silver-Plated Putti On A Star-Shaped Lucite Base
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Early 19th Century silver plated putti on a modern star shaped Lucite base.
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Early 19th Century French Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Silver

Arcon Chest Coffer Leather Armorial Spanish Baroque Gilded Brass Studwork Domed
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Rare, early 17th century, Spanish, leather, ‘Arcon’ or domed travelling coffer with a gilded armorial & ornamented with brass studwork. Surviving utalitarian pieces such as travel...
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1620s Spanish Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Leather

17th Century Lantern Alarm Clock by Johannes Quelch, Oxford
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
An English 17th century lantern clock made of brass and iron, circa 1665-1670. The clock consists of going and striking trains, as well as a...
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17th Century British Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Brass

Regiment Des Dromedaires Camel Saddle
Located in New Orleans, LA
This fascinating piece of military history is a camel saddle created for and used by the Dromedary Regiment (Regiment des Dromedaires) during Napoleon’s Egyptian campaigns between 1798-1801. The term “dromedary” refers to the dromedary camel...
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Late 18th Century French Empire Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Silver, Brass, Iron

19th Century French Empire Miniature Commode
Located in Winter Park, FL
A fine early 19th century French Empire miniature sample commode with four dovetailed drawers. Made of burl of walnut veneer with oak and pine as secondary woods. Working locks with ...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

Antique German Drop-Shaped and Brass Decorated Iron, 19th Century
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Antique German drop-shaped and brass decorated iron with wooden handle.
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Early 19th Century German Empire Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Bronze

Large 1870 Original Religious Painting, Cherubs, Signed by S. Barber, Spain
Located in Miami, FL
1870 original religious painting. Cherubs Signed by S.Barber Interior measurements: 48.42in x 39.76in Frame: 2.75 in.
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Late 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Paint

Crown or Crest, Pinewood, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Top or top made of pine wood carved in color with a human bust in the center, located by grabbing two scrolls and thus creating an axis of symmetry for the...
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17th Century European Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Pine

Italian 19th Century Giltwood Altar Piece with Cloudy Sun-Ray Motifs
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian 19th century gilded wood richly carved altar stand. This Italian giltwood altar stand features exquisite cloud motifs in its top part with radiating sun-rays draping the back wall of the piece. The polygonal shape is decorated with mirrored panels and alternates mirrored ionic pillars...
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Mirror, Wood

19th Century Nutwood and Bronze Empire Miniature Chiffonier / Chest of Drawers
Located in Lisse, NL
Handcrafted masterpiece from the mid-1800s. This unique, top quality and great condition miniature is an absolute joy to own and look at. Top quality miniatures are hard to find and...
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Early 19th Century Dutch Empire Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Bronze, Brass

18th Hispanic Filipino Crucified Christ Carved Wood Sculpture
Located in Valladolid, ES
One of a kind sculpture of Crucified Christ in carved wood and crystal eyes (one of them its loose), 18th century Hispano Filipino School. The crown, ...
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1730s Philippine Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Silver

17th Century Old Master Oil Painting Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Spanish School
Located in Vero Beach, FL
17th century old master oil painting of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Spanish school. Dramatic expression and perfect use of chiaroscuro, the art of light and shadow effects, makes th...
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17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Canvas

17th Century Italian Holy Water Stoup
Located in Brussels, BE
Italian holy water stoup. Second half of the 17th century.
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17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Bronze, Silver

Mid-18th Century Set of Three Lacquered Wood Boxes with Landscape Scenes
Located in Brescia, IT
These fine wood lacquered boxes are in Baroque style. There are natural landscape and one of these has the scene of the fire in the town of Edimburg...
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Mid-18th Century Austrian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood, Lacquer

Stunning Antique Sterling Silver Pair of Rimonim - made in London in 1922
Located in London, London
Hallmarked in London in 1922 by Arthur Bowe trading as Noble & Co., this attractive pair of George V, sterling silver Rimonim have ornate lattice work throughout the bodies and featu...
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1920s English Baroque Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities

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Sterling Silver

Pair of Niches, Pinewood, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Pair of altar fragments or niches made of carved pine wood that are decorated with a series of important carvings with lots of plant-themed volume, scrolls, ropes, architectural deta...
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17th Century European Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Pine

18th Century Baroque Sanctuary Oil on Wood Panel, Spain
Located in Miami, FL
18th century sanctuary oil on panel The Roman Sanctuary of the Felix father in Jativa, Valence, Spain.
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Late 18th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood

Women's Tahitian Black Pearl Necklace with a 14 Karat Gold Ball Clasp
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This vintage women's Tahitian graduated black pearl necklace is unmarked with respect to a specific maker, but is marked with European g...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Collectibles and Curiosities

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Gold

Mid-18th Century Set of Five Wood Lacquered Boxes with Landscape Scenes
Located in Brescia, IT
These fine wood lacquered wood boxes are in Romantic style and they are painted both on the sides: on one of these there's an elegant lady on one side and on the other side, a natura...
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Mid-18th Century Austrian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood, Lacquer

Le Style Empire, Décoratations, Extérieures Et Intérieures, Mobilier, Bronzes
Located in valatie, NY
Le Style Empire: Décoratations, Extérieures et Intérieures, Mobilier, Bronzes. Printed in Paris by Chez F. Contet. All volumes are 1st Ed's with the exception of volume 1 which is a ...
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Early 20th Century French Empire Collectibles and Curiosities

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Paper

Mid-18th Century Set of Three Wood Lacquered Boxes with Portraits
Located in Brescia, IT
These fine wood lacquered wood boxes in Baroque style, are painted both on the sides: there's an elegant lady portrait on one side and on the other side, a natural landscape, so fine...
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Mid-18th Century Austrian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood, Lacquer

16th Century Spanish Carved & Polychrome Painted Saint Anne with the Infant Mary
Located in Miami, FL
This sculpture represents Santa Ana (Saint Anne) with the infant Mary. Verge.    
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16th Century European Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood

Frame with Vellum Painting, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Carved and gilded frame with painting on vellum, "Virgin of the Rosary with Santo Domingo de Guzmán and Santa Catalina of Siena", 17th century. Registration in the back zone (Mr. Jos...
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17th Century European Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Leather, Wood, Paint

Spanish Navaja, Spain, 1806
Located in Paris, FR
Spanish Navaja, Spain 1806 This exceptional knife lates of the Spanish wars (1808-1813). Superb quality. The Blade is engraved on one face « LA INVENCI...
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Early 18th Century Spanish Empire Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

Mid-18th Century Pair of Lacquered Wood Boxes with Landscapes and Hunting Scenes
Located in Brescia, IT
These fine wood lacquered wood boxes are in Flemish style; the cover are hand painted with a natural landscape, so fine as Flemish painting can be. The other one has an home interior...
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Mid-18th Century Austrian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood, Lacquer

Early 17th Century Sculpture
Located in Copenhagen, K
Amazing Baroque sculpture of a woman wearing a crown in original paint. Her hands are missing. Colors are untouched, recently cleaned off from a thick dark coating, I have images fro...
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Early 17th Century French Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Oak

16th Century Spanish or Italian Baroque Wrought Iron Nails and Furniture Mounts
Located in Stamford, CT
Group of 16th century (or earlier, possibly Gothic) Spanish or Italian wrought iron furniture mounts. These hand-wrought bosses and nails show incredible workmanship. These would have been used to decorate - and to structurally hold together an early chest or casket. The four geometric bosses beautifully made, eight ounces each without the nail! The nails are works of art in themselves, with their heavy geometric heads. Also two round bosses with the nail integral to the piece, one a mushroom form, the other like a parasol. And a single hand-wrought double sided nail. Great group of early iron. Provenance: Frances Pratt, Writer, Artist, Collector. New York City. Approximate sizes: 4 bosses 4.625 inches square 11.75 cm Round bosses 3 inches diameter the larger 2.5 the smaller 7.6/ 6.35 cm 4.5 in high 11.4 cm 5 nails...
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16th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Iron

“Saint Dominic and Saint Francis”, Colonial School, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Saint Dominic and Saint Francis”. Polychromed terracotta. Colonial (South America) school, 18th century. It is narrated in this piece, with a remarkabl...
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18th Century South American Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Terracotta

Women's Large Cultured Pearl Choker Necklace with a 14-Karat White Gold Clasp
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This vintage women's cultured pearl choker necklace is presumed to have been made in North America in circa 1950 in the Baroque style. The pearls...
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Mid-20th Century American Baroque Collectibles and Curiosities

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Gold

18th Century Snuff Box With Secret Erotic Motive
Located in Copenhagen, K
Very funny little snuff box with a text about Etimologie; the true learning or real learning, on the lids outside and a hidden erotic motive on the inside of the lid.
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Late 18th Century French Empire Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood, Paper

"Virgin with Child Jesus". Spain, End of the 17th-Early 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Spanish Baroque sculpture is one of the most authentic and personal examples of our art, because its conception and its form of expression arose from the people and from the deepest ...
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Late 17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood

Original Oil on Wood Panel of St. Anthony of Padua
Located in Miami, FL
Original oil on panel of Saint offering the Child, by an unidentified artist. --This painting represents St. Anthony of Padua. The scene is one tha...
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Mid-17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood, Paint

Odysśee de la Mer Coral Quartz Sea Fan Bronze Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Odyssee de la Mer. A large 19th century French cast bronze fragment with a mounding growth of over 5000-carat natural citrine and black tourmaline that surround a giant black sea fan...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Baroque Collectibles and Curiosities

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Coral, Quartz, Tourmaline, Bronze

Italian 19th Century Painted and Gilded Wooden Reliquary with Angel Face
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian 19th century painted reliquary. This reliquary features a gilded and carved angel face on the door. The sides are flanked with and lions faces with ring pulls. The general...
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood

18th 1st Edition of "New Art of Cooking" in Spanish by Juan Altamiras
Located in Miami, FL
18th First Edition of "New Art of Cooking" in Spanish with skin flap. Traditional recipes of Spanish gastronomy
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Mid-18th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Animal Skin, Paper

Empire Style Birdcage Model of Chateau de Luneville, Early 20th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The wood and wire birdcage faithfully depicting the chateau.
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Early 20th Century French Empire Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood

Late 17th Century Baroque Court Portrait, Possibly of "Louis, Dauphin"
Located in Essex, MA
Beautiful court portrait of What May Very Well Be Louis XIV's Son, known as "Dauphin". The child in Baroque "Hunting" Attire, holding a bow and arrow, with a Papillon in Stride....
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Late 17th Century French Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

Original Oil on Panel of St. Anthony of Padua , by Unidentified Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Original oil on panel of Saint offering the Child, by an unidentified artist. --This painting represents St. Anthony of Padua. The scene is one that is often chosen to represent ...
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Mid-17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

Reredos Fragment, Gilded Wood, circa Second Half of the 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Altarpiece. Wood carved and gilded. Baroque, towards the second half of the 17th century. The Solomonic column was an element already known in the Renaissance (and before) that was popularized in art, in large part, thanks to the Baldachin of St. Peter's Basilica of the Vatican by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1624-1633), where he presented branches. In Spain, this type can already be seen in the Silver Tabernacle of the Cathedral of Seville (Juan de Alfaro, 15931596), used in altarpieces from the 1620s; nevertheless, the apogee of the Solomonic column will come from the hand of José Benito de Churriguera, whose altarpieces have an extraordinary importance since the second half of the 17th century and already at the beginning of the 18th century (note similarities and differences between the present altarpiece and that of the Convent of San Esteban...
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17th Century European Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood

Empire Painted and Lacquered Spyglass, Early 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The adjustable spyglass with gilt brass trim and original leather case.
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Lacquer

Baroque Period, Italian, Marble Tabernacle
Located in Newport Beach, CA
Fabulous, hand-carved and veneered, 1700's, solid marble tabernacle from an Italian church altar. The scrolling, side pillars are surmounted by a ...
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Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Marble

French Bronze Mortar, Early 17th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The mortar with fleurs de lys decoration.
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Early 17th Century French Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Bronze

19th Century Masterpiece BIG Book "The Superstitions of Humanity"
Located in Miami, FL
19th Century. Impressive book Works illustrated with gorgeous stickers and engravings depicting historical and mythological scenes momuments and copied art objects of the most auth...
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1880s Spanish Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

Continental Baroque Style Miniature Mahogany Console Model, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The bombe chest with hinged lifting top.
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Mid-19th Century European Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Mahogany

19th-Century French Empire Bronze Napoleon Commemorative Inkwell
Located in New York, NY
French Empire (19th Century) bronze inkwell in the form of Napoleon's casket covered by a shroud with a crown finial top and resting on a tiered base with...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Bronze

16th Century Spanish Carved & Polychrome Painted Saint Anne with the Infant Mary
Located in Miami, FL
This sculpture represents Santa Ana (Saint Anne) with the infant Mary. Verge
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16th Century European Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood

Antique and Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities for Sale

Antique and vintage collectibles and curiosities can bring whimsy and wonder to any interior. 

Decorating with old scientific instruments, historical memorabilia and vintage musical instruments, as well as other authentic collectibles and curiosities that can be found on 1stDibs, presents an opportunity to create a unique, natural history museum-like atmosphere in your home that can provoke conversation as often as it pays tribute to how far we’ve come in understanding our world. 

And bringing collectibles and curiosities into your space is actually on trend — Wunderkammern, or curiosity cabinets, were all the rage in Europe during the 1500s and continued to have adherents there and in the U.S. in the following centuries. Today, however, they’re experiencing a real surge in popularity and influencing how many interior designers are furnishing and decorating homes — combining contemporary with antique, scientific with tribal, earthly with extraterrestrial, Les Lalanne tables with Flemish tapestries.

The original Wunderkammern were entire rooms filled with objects demonstrating their owners’ worldly knowledge: A proper one included artificiala or preciosa (objets d’art); naturalia (such as skeletons, shells, minerals); exotica (taxidermy or dried plants); and scientifica (scientific instruments), frequently alongside religious relics and ancient artifacts.

Pay tribute to a history of rich and diverse musical traditions that have taken shape all over the world by decorating your home with a collection of antique and vintage musical instruments — with a little help from strong hanging wire or some wall hooks, vintage brass instruments such as a gong, French horn or trumpet can help elevate a home office or complement the efforts you’ve made to ensure a welcoming vibe in your home’s entryway. Bells or antique wind instruments can add provocative metallic contrasts to dark woods as tabletop decorative objects.  

Create an intriguing focal point with Georgian scientific instruments, such as stick barometers with mahogany cases or lacquered brass telescopes. These items stem from an era named for the monarchies of the four King Georges, who ruled England in succession starting in 1714 (plus King William’s reign, which lasted until 1837). Just as there was beautiful jewelry produced during the period that today is coveted by collectors, there is much to be found in the collectibles and curiosities realm too.

Wanderlust, nostalgia and a shared love of good design are contributing factors to certain trends in decorating — just as vintage trunks and luggage have reappeared as furniture or home accents in a bedroom or foyer, decorating with globes, maps or nautical objects is similarly rooted in the allure of travel and a penchant for the stylish finishing touch that collectibles bring to our homes.

Find a wide range of antique and vintage collectibles and curiosities on 1stDibs.

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