Early 19th Century Architectural Models

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

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.

Beautifully carved Grand Tour Alabaster Model of The Duomo in Florence, Italy.

Very detained beautiful replication of the Basilica San Lorenzo in Milan. Exceptional detail throughout the piece.

A rare early 19th century Italian Grand Tour model of the tomb of Roman consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, the sarcophagus of rectangular form in carved solid Belgian black marble (Nero del Belgio), the lid with acanthus-scrolled ends, the front edge incised and yellow painted CORNELIVS. C. N. F. SCIPIO, the sarcophagus having graduated and dentil cornice above Doric entablature with triglyphs, rosette metopes, and guttae above yellow painted incised inscription reading: CORNELIVS.LVCIVS.SCIPIO·BARBATVS.GNAIVOD.PATRE PROGNATVS.FORTIS.VIR.SAPIENSQVE.QVOIVS·FORMA·VIRTVTEI·PARISVMA FVIT. CONSOL.CENSOR.AIDILIS.QVEI.FVIT.APVD.VOS.TAVRASIA·CISAVNA SAMNIO.CEPIT.SVBIGIT.OMNE.LOVCANA.OPSIDESQVE.ABDOVCIT translated as "Cornelius Lucius Scipio Barbatus, sprung from Gnaeus his father, a man strong and wise, whose appearance was most in keeping with his virtue, who was consul, censor, and aedile among you - He captured Taurasia Cisauna in Samnium - he subdued all of Lucania and led off hostages" on a deep compound graduated plinth on a Giallo Antico marble base. Most examples of this form house inkwells, this example quite rare as the interior is hollow, possibly for use as a match safe or quill nib receptacle. Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus (died circa 280 BC) was one of the two elected Roman consuls in 298 BC and led the Roman army to victory against the Etruscans near Volterra. A member of the noble Roman family of Scipiones, he was the father of Lucius Cornelius Scipio and Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina and great-grandfather of Scipio Africanus...

Two similar early 19th century 'Grand Tour' carved marble models of the 'Farnese Tubs' from the Fontana della Piazza Farnese, Rome, Italy; the tubs and lions paw supports of carved P...

A set of 12 Industrial molds or sculptures of varying sizes from France circa 1930's.