Early 19th Century Architectural Models

Very rare praetorian tablet in brass and wood signed Cittelli in Milan from the early 19th century. Instrument for tracing and topographical surveying...

An English Regency period neoclassical inlaid mahogany architectural ballot box with a broken pediment top over canted fluted plasters on the sides below, c...

Architectural models as these were made by apprentices or master craftsman to apply for a title by their respective guild. In France these craftsme...

Early 19th century cast iron and walnut cobblers last / boot form Wonderful old school American walnut and cast iron cobblers tool. These were made to make and repair boots. A ...

Very fine early 19th century Tunbridgeware architectural model of a chapel which also serves as a jewelry chest and dressing mirror, the diamond tiled roof in ebony and sycamore, the front with micro-mosaic rose window over Gothic inlaid door with mother of pearl and mixed woods, the door opening to reveal four kingwood drawers with bone knobs, the reverse having identical door revealing a the original beveled mercury glass dressing mirror, the whole expertly worked to an exacting standard. Tunbridge ware is a form of decoratively inlaid woodwork, typically in the form of boxes, that is characteristic of Tonbridge and the spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent in the 18th and 19th centuries. The decoration typically consists of a mosaic of many very small pieces of different colored woods that form a pictorial vignette. Shaped rods and slivers of wood were first carefully glued together, then cut into many thin slices of identical pictorial veneer with a fine saw. Elaborately striped and feathered bandings for framing were pre-formed in a similar fashion. There is a collection of Tunbridge ware in the Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery in Tunbridge Wells.[1 While Tunbridge ware boxes...

Typical form with satyr heads, gilt balls and faux marble plinth. W. Hodgins Estate.

With removable dome cover with leaf form finial, all raised on corinthian columns, conforming base with carved leaf tip decoration.

Architectural models as these were made by apprentices or master craftsman to apply for a title by their respective guild. In France these craftsmen were known as the 'Compagnons du ...

Architectural models as these were made by apprentices or master craftsman to apply for a title by their respective guild. In France these craftsmen were known as the 'Compagnons du ...

Hand-painted architectural model of a two-level house in the style of the 19th century with corner rustication, a slightly protruding middle Avant-Corps and pilasters. The back shows...