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Collectibles and Curiosities For Sale
Style: Art Nouveau
Style: Baroque
18th Century Italian Carved Santo Boy Sculpture Icon
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Large 18th century Italian carved Santo figural icon sculpture depicting a boy with arms raised dressed in a blue parcel-gilt outfit with boots. Heavily aged and distressed polychrom...
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18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Glass, Lacquer, Giltwood, 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

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

Materials

Canvas

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

Rare Set of Four French Baroque Style Hand Carved Giltwood Processional Crosses
Located in Birmingham, AL
A rare set of four antique French Baroque style hand carved giltwood baton de ceremonies or processional crosses used in a village cathedral in the South of France, circa 1850s. Thes...
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1850s French Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Metal

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

Portrait Miniature a Gentleman, South German, circa 1680
Located in Firenze, IT
SHIPPING POLICY: No additional costs will be added to this order. Shipping costs will be totally covered by the seller (customs duties included). A gentleman in silver-studded armo...
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Late 17th Century German Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Copper

Large 18th Century Repousse Baroque Ecclesiastical Carta Gloria, Venetian
Located in Vero Beach, FL
This original 18th century frame is silver gilded over copper. It is elaborately embossed and chiseled. The cartouche is surrounded by rocaille and volute motifs. The Carta is mounte...
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18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Copper, Silver Leaf

Gilded Bronze Processional Cross Top, 20th Century, after Earlier Models
Located in Madrid, ES
End of processional cross. Ormolu, 20th century. Latin cross with straight arms with decoration of tongues between moldings on both fronts, rays at the intersection of the arms, an...
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20th Century Spanish Baroque Collectibles and Curiosities

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Bronze

Sterling Pendant with Hand Painted Landscape on a Butterfly Wing
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Beautiful pendant of a hand painted butterfly wing depicting a tropical scene in an Art Nouveau style sterling silver frame, circa 1920s. Hallmark reads, "Sterling" Measure: 1 1/2...
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1920s American Art Nouveau Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities

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Sterling Silver

Substantial Antique Italian Bronze Mortar and Pestle
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Substantial antique Italian bronze mortar and pestle, finely cast with shell and floral band, complete with 12" x 1.5" D pestle. The base of t...
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18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Bronze

18th Century Spanish Colonial Carved Wood Statue of a Saint
Located in Miami, FL
A very fine Spanish Colonial statue of a male saint in carved and polychromed wood. The saint's face has a beatific expression and the eyes are made of gl...
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Mid-18th Century Philippine Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood

Energetic Glass Buddha by Almeric Walter, Pate de Verre, France, 1900s
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Amalric Walter (français, 1870-1959) A wonderful energetic Glass or Chrystal Shakyamuni Buddha by Almeric Walter from the Art Nouveau, Art Deco period ...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Collectibles and Curiosities

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Art Glass

18th Century German Salt Glaze Tobacco Jar with Pewter Mounts
Located in Stamford, CT
A fine example of a German Baroque tobacco jar with original pewter lid. The rich ocher salt glaze decorated with raised floral motifs. A handsome addition for the collector of pipes...
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Early 18th Century German Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Stoneware

Italian Baroque Walnut Box
Located in Essex, MA
Hinged top, decorated overall with incised carving, lock plate and side handles.
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1670s Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Walnut

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

Early 19th Century French Hand-Carved Nutwood Putto Boy Sculpture
Located in Lisse, NL
Lovely putto sculpture in typical Baroque Style. This beautiful and chubby putto sculpture was probably part of a larger Church ornament/sculpture or ...
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Early 19th Century French Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Nutwood

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

Rare Inkwell, Bronze Art Nouveau USA President Wilson 1st W War, Signed Cuzin
Located in Paris, FR
Rare, one of a kind. This unique Art Nouveau bronze inkwell, signed by Cuzin, circa 1918 representing USA President Tommy Wilson (28th USA President from 1913-1921). This i...
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1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities

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Bronze

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

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

Desk Equestrian Horse Racing Cigar Smoking Box, circa 1900s
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Equestrian cigar box with space for matches. Perfect desk piece. Engraved with racing horses.
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Collectibles and Curiosities

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Brass

20th Century French Painted and Gilt Statue of Jesus Christ, Sacred Heart
Located in Miami, FL
This beautiful statue of Christ was crafted in Spain, circa 1900. The statue features the religious figure standing in a traditional seating pose a...
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20th Century Spanish Baroque Collectibles and Curiosities

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

Reliquary Pendant, Silver, Enamel, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
One of its fronts presents a textile background under a transparent glass, space that was surely designed to contain relics. The other side has a brightly colored enamel with the Vir...
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17th Century European Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Silver, Enamel, Other

Miniature Dutch Baroque Style Silver Mandolin Flask
Located in Stamford, CT
Dutch silver flask in the form of a mandolin with intricate Baroque style decoration, including cranes and a castle among floral arabesques on the front. The reverse depicting a charming scene influenced by Dutch old master genre paintings of two men with two dogs in a fenced yard surrounded by detailed foliage and trees. Complete with a fret and six individual silver wire strings. A tour de force in craftsmanship. No discernible hallmarks. Hinged top reveals a hidden flask...
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Late 19th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Silver

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

Art Nouveau Double Sided Walnut and Rosewood Desk by Lajos Kozma, 1930
Located in Rome, IT
This rare large double sided desk was designed by Lajos (Ludwig) Kozma, who had an unprecedented influence on the European design through his drawings, buildings and furniture. Th...
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1920s European Art Nouveau Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood

Large Statue of Saint Hand Carved in Wood
Located in Houston, TX
Large statue of saint hand carved in wood during the late 17th century, or early 18th century. Some restoration. Sculpture portrays a saint and originall...
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Late 17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Materials

Wood

Collection of British Silver, Objects for Necessaire, Early 1900s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Collection of British silver, objects for necessaire, early 1900s. Stamped. Measures: 18.5 cm. (longest) In very good condition, minor wear.
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Early 20th Century English Art Nouveau Collectibles and Curiosities

19th Century Statue of St Jerome
Located in Mjöhult, SE
Early 19th century wooden statue of St Jerome, circa 1800. South Europe.
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Early 1800s Italian Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Wood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Royal Doulton Kingsware Tobacco Box with Lid
Located in Mexico, DF
Kingsware was developed by Charles Noke and produced between 1898-1939. No other factory in the world has been able to recreate the same lustrous finish, which makes Kingsware a uniq...
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Early 1900s British Art Nouveau Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Ceramic

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

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

17th Century Spanish Baroque Chestnut Carving of Christ
Located in Stamford, CT
A large-scale 17th century Spanish carving of Christ on the cross. Possibly of a much earlier date, the features and posture owing much to Byzantine depictions of Christ, especially ...
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17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Chestnut

Turn of the Century French Art Nouveau Gilt Bronze Ashtray by Marionnet
Located in New York, NY
French Art Nouveau gilt bronze ashtray with a floral design and a fluted edge (signed: MARIONNET).
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Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Antique Collectibles and Curiosities

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Ormolu

Ipsens, Denmark, Terracotta, Art Nouveau Pipe Holder
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Ipsens, Denmark, model number 50, terracotta, Art Nouveau pipe holder, circa 1910s. Measures: 9.5 cm. x 6 cm. In perfect condition. Stamped.
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1910s Danish Art Nouveau Vintage Collectibles and Curiosities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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