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Period: 19th Century
Georgian Rare Pair Treacle Glazed Stoneware Cottage Money Boxes
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and large pair Georgian English treacle glazed stoneware cottage money boxes dating from the early 19th century. The large cottage money boxes ar...
Category
English George III Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Stoneware
Jewish Silver, Enamel and Jewel Torah Crown Keter
Located in London, GB
This Torah crown is a small (15cm high), exquisitely-crafted and lavishly-decorated piece of Judaica.
The Torah – the first of five books of the Hebrew...
Category
European Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Silver, Enamel
19th Century French Salesman Sample Wine Screw Press Model
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce period handcrafted miniature grape screw-press machine salesman sample. Massive industrial machines used for winemaking throughout French and Italian vineyards...
Category
Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Model of the Oyster Sloop Fanny Fern of Quincy Mass
Located in Norwell, MA
Period model of the sloop Fanny Fern of Quincy Mass. Exceptional antique model that shows the craft in great detail including the bulwarks, cabin, hatch, launch, winch, etc. Fitted with a pair of accurate sails. Set on a wood cradle...
Category
North American Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
English Pearlware Pottery Miniature Cottage Moneybox
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A charming and rare antique English, probably Yorkshire, pearlware pottery miniature cottage moneybox dating from the early 19th century. The small cottage stands raised on a stepped...
Category
English George III Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Pottery
19th Century Turkish Brass Repousse Valet Shoe Shine Decorative Stand
Located in Stamford, CT
This fabulous estate find is an old Turkish shoe shine kit that came from Istanbul. It is made of sturdy wood and brass with beautiful repousse Iznik in...
Category
Turkish Other Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass
Grand Tour Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Carved Giallo Antico Grand Tour model of the temple of Caster and Pollux
Large carved Giallo Antico Grand Tour model of the temple of Caster and Pollux of superb carving, the frag...
Category
Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Marble
Miniature Antique Empire chest of drawers
Located in Ballard, CA
exquisite exemple of a miniature sample of an empire chest made by a "Compagnon" most likely this was for the mentor to judge the ability of his pupi...
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
Stunning Grand Tour, Temple Ruin Design, Hand Carved Nutwood Table Picture Frame
Located in Lisse, NL
Amazingly hand-carved photo or picture frame with a top quality, original drawing of a girl.
If ever there was an antique work of art 'with a soul' then this unique and all origin...
Category
European Grand Tour Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Nutwood, Paper, Velvet, Glass
Georgian Mahogany Miniature Chest
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Good Quality And Charming Early 19th Century Mahogany Miniature Chest, Having Well Figured Top Over Three Long Drawers With Original Brass Knobs And Boxwood Inlaid Escutcheons, Over Elegant Shaped Apron With Original Splayed Bracket Feet.
There is regular debate over whether miniature furniture was made as an apprentice piece, which is when a craftsmen who was looking for a job at a workshop would create something to showcase their talents. Or whether it was made as a travelling salesmans sample piece, which is when a few items were produced as scale models but a well established workshop as a form of physical catalogue in advance of a travelling salesman’s road trip around the country, for him to use to try and fill his order book with full size counterparts.
We believe that this particular little Georgian Miniature Chest was probably made as an apprentice piece, due to the relative simplicity of it, combined with the exceptional execution, which maybe suggests that somebody was very much trying to impress somebody else. It is also slightly unusual in form, which again suggests it was made more as a one off item with a specific purpose, as opposed to a scale model of other items.
It is certainly a charming piece of antique miniature furniture...
Category
English Georgian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Swiss Black Forest Carved Thatched Roof Cottage Box
Located in Stamford, CT
Fantastic and rare example of Black Forest folk art, a tour de force of carving by a master woodworker. This lift top box in the form of a thatched cottage has many wonderful details...
Category
Swiss Black Forest Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Walnut
Victorian Honey Glazed Pottery Boot Pin Cushion
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An unusual and large Victorian, probably Staffordshire, honey glazed pottery boot pin cushion dating from the 19th century. The large boot is well potted c...
Category
British Victorian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Pottery, Velvet
Carved Wood Sternboard from Captain's Gig On "Terpsichore"
Located in Norwell, MA
Captain's gig sternboard hardwood with rope carved border and brass lettering "Terpsichore Sandefjord" Norway. Great old sternboard from the Captain's gig from the Terpsichore. Circa...
Category
Norwegian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass
19th Century Grand Tour Bronze Thermometer of the Luxor Obelisk
Located in Stamford, CT
A bronze cast of the Luxor Obelsik, with one side fitted for a thermometer. This was a popular Grad Tour souvenir in the late 19th century. Now missing the glass tube.
10.5 inches high 4 by 4 base
The Luxor Obelisk...
Category
French Grand Tour Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Bronze
Antique Shadowbox Diorama of Ship Models
Located in Bridgeport, CT
An impressive and unusual 19th century cased ship diorama displaying four ships at sea. A four masted schooner sets the background with a tug boat, two masted vessel and a steamship ...
Category
American Classical Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Botanic Model a. Dall’eco, Italy, 1880
Located in Milan, IT
A rare botanical model by A. Dall'Eco di Pteris serrulata N.66 (Ferns. Sporangium and Spore). The round boxwood base contains 4 elements, components of a model of fern Pteris serrula...
Category
Italian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Plaster, Boxwood, Paper
Antique Victorian Pine Miniature Salesman Sample Vanity Dresser Cabinet Mirror
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique 19th century Victorian salesman sample miniature pine mirrored dresser with one drawer over a two shelf cabinet.
Category
Victorian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mirror, Pine
English Antique Pearlware Pottery Castle Spill Holder
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An unusual and rare antique English pearlware pottery model of a castle spill holder dating from the early 19th century. The castle stands on a shaped mou...
Category
English George III Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Pottery
Wunderkammer Geometrical Model, Germany, 1880
Located in Milan, IT
Geometrical model. Fruitwood base is black stained (ebanized wood), over it, a sphere created by geometrical oakwood elements. Overall, another smal...
Category
German Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Rope, Ebony, Oak
Boy With Thorn "Spinaro" Sculpture Alabaster 19th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Pretty alabaster sculpture of a young man removing a thorn from his foot.
Theme taken up many times in the sculpture, the oldest known example of the boy with thorn...
Category
Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Alabaster
19th Century Artists Lay Figure
Located in Conwy, GB
A life size articulated artist’s mannequin or Lay figure in the manner of models by French artist Francois-Pierre Guillois.
Category
French Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Handmade Antique Miniature Country House Sideboard / Kitchen Cabinet Late 1800s
Located in Lisse, NL
One of a kind, charming and small-size country house cabinet.
This handcrafted, antique cabinet was made for one of two reasons. It was either made as a scale model a sales represen...
Category
European Country Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass
Young Boy Playing the Flute Sculpture on Marble Terrace, 19th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Charming sculpture in spelter with bronze patina, in the style of Auguste Moreau, representing a young flute player dressed in country clothes, carrying his flute in his left hand an...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Marble, Spelter
Unique Early 19th Century Artists Lay Figure
Located in London, GB
Early 19th century artists lay figure
We are proud to offer an early 19th century artists lay figure, whom we have lovingly named Jean Claude. With ...
Category
French Early Victorian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Pine, Paint
19th Century Italian Wood Mannequin, Circa 1870-1880
Located in Milano, IT
Mannequin
Sculpted and carved wood
Italy or France, second half of the 19th century.
It measures 25.59 x 6.29 x 3.54 in (65.5 x 16 x 9 cm)
It weighs 2.2 lb circa (1 kg circa)
St...
Category
Italian Other Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Antique Brass Letter Holder Paper Clip
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Antique brass letter or envelope holder. In the shape of a delicate hand, this petite clip with an end ring will not only look handsome on a desk, but is quite capable of holding pap...
Category
French Art Deco Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass
Black Cat of Cast Iron Hand Painted Door Stop Decorative Gift for Holiday Season
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Black cat of cast iron hand painted door stop decorative gift for holiday season
Beautiful cast Iron of late 19th century Early 20th C. black cat of ha...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Metal, Iron
19th Century Silver Loderein Box in the Shape of a Book
Located in Delft, NL
A 19th century silver loderein box in the shape of a book
A silver loderein box in the shape of a book with engraving. 19th century.
Under the box hallmarked with the silver hal...
Category
Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Silver
Grand Tour Bronze Thermometer of the Luxor Obelisk, Paris
Located in Stamford, CT
A bronze cast of the Luxor Obelsik, one side a thermometer. This was a popular Grad Tour souvenir in the late 19th century. Mounted on a polished black slate base.
8.5 inches high by 3.5 by 3.5
The Luxor Obelisk...
Category
French Grand Tour Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Bronze
Antique Austrian Silver Fish Shaped Pepper Pot
Located in London, GB
Large silver pepperette in the form of a carp fish. The model features finely detailed and lifelike scales and sits on its four fins. The head is rem...
Category
Austrian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Grand Tour Patinated Bronze Model of Trajan's Column Early 19thc
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful antique Grand Tour patinated bronze model of Trajan's Column, circa 1820 in date.
This splendid bronze with the relief cast stem and panelled plinth above a s...
Category
Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Academic Cast Depicting a Discus Thrower, Italy 1880
Located in Milan, IT
Over the plaster round base is set the cast of a sculpture of a Discus thrower. Cast for drawing teaching in Academy. Italy 1880 ca.
Category
Italian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Plaster
George III Mahogany Miniature Bowfront Chest
Located in Essex, MA
Sweet piece. Bow front with four drawers , spade feet. Turned wood knobs.
Category
English George III Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Hand Carved Solid Nutwood Wall Corner Cabinet w. Phoenix Sculpture
Located in Lisse, NL
Stunning and all handcrafted, single door corner cabinet for wall mounting.
For the collectors of great looking and ready to use antiques we also...
Category
European Victorian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Bronze
George III Mahogany Miniature Bowfront Chest
Located in Essex, MA
With two drawers over two drawers, splayed feet.
Category
English George III Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Miniature Childs Porcelain Tea Service
Located in Delft, NL
19th century Miniature Childs Porcelain tea service
9 pieces Miniature Porcelain, not marked
Tea pot, a lidded sugar bowl, a milk jar, 6 cups and saucers
19th century, proba...
Category
German Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Porcelain
Mahogany Apprentice Chest, Satinwood Inlay
Located in Port Chester, NY
A beautifully made mahogany apprentices' practice chest of drawers with satinwood inlay. Handsome mouldings at top and and carved plinth at the bottom....
Category
English Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood
French Miniature Bamboo Armoire
Located in Atlanta, GA
19th century French miniature armoire or wardrobe made from faux bamboo with a pair of mirrored doors and one drawer. The piece bares the label of the Bazar de l'Hôtel de Ville, a 19...
Category
French Art Nouveau Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mercury Glass, Pine
French 19th Century Hand Carved Walnut Wood Four Doors Miniature Chest
Located in Firenze, IT
This lovely French late 19th century walnut miniature chest is ornately hand carved with the typical Coastal France, probably Breton, geometrical patterns inlays and charming hand-tu...
Category
French Baroque Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Nutwood, Walnut
19th Century Silver Loderein or Snuff Box in the Shape of a Book
Located in Delft, NL
A silver loderein or snuff box in the shape of a book
A silver loderein box in the shape of a book with engraving.
19th Century.
The box is silver hallmarked with the silver t...
Category
Dutch Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Silver
19th Century Napoleon III Marquetry Wall Cabinet
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th Century French Napoleon III miniature wall cabinet with fine quality marquetry inlay of rosewood, walnut and mahogany. Beautifully detailed with brass trim and escutcheons and...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass
19th C. French Miniature Buffet
Located in Winter Park, FL
A late 19th c. French miniature doll furniture buffet made of walnut with rosewood trim and oak as a secondary wood. Two small dovetailed drawers above cabinet doors opening to an in...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Oak, Rosewood, Walnut
Neoclassical Sample of a Marbles, Rome, Italy, 1870
Located in Milan, IT
From a neoclassical sample, a column with base and elevation, in standard module. The base is made out of yellow marble and has a wavy profile that closes upwards with a distinct edg...
Category
Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Marble, Breccia Marble, Statuary Marble
Robert Brendel's Botanical Model, 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
A Botanical model by Robert Brendel, famous German botanist, 19th century.
As detailed by the University of Aberdeen Zoology Museum, "In the late 19th century Botanist and model-make...
Category
German Other Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Other
Late 19th century Antique Maritime Model of Cargo-Carrack Probably from Genoa
Located in Milan, IT
Wooden antique ship model of a cargo-carrack, probably from Genoa, with three masts, end of the 19th century.
Very good conditions. Measures: Length cm 70 - inches 28, height cm 56 ...
Category
Italian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Finest Quality, Antique Hand Carved Nutwood Swiss Black Forest Beggar Sculpture
Located in Lisse, NL
Museum quality and very good condition, Swiss fine art sculpture.
For the collectors of the rarest and best quality antiques only we also have this museum worthy, wooden sculpture of a beggar. This simply can only be the work of a master carver, because to be able to create these details and this much realism takes a god given talent and a lifetime of experience. With the anatomy, the posture AND the balance of this aged beggar in Medieval clothing...
Category
Swiss Gothic Revival Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Nutwood
Miniature Terrestrial Globe Newton & Son London, Post 1833, Ante 1858
Located in Milano, IT
Miniature Terrestrial Globe
Newton & Son
London, post 1833, ante 1858
Paper, papier-mâché, bronze and wood
It measures: sphere diameter 2.95 in (7.6 cm); diameter of the wooden base 6.02 in (15.3 cm); height 8.36 in (21.24 cm).
Weight: 2,067 lb.
State of conservation: the globe still bears its original paint, but has various small gaps, abrasions and stains on the surface.
The globe is hinged with two pins at the meridian circle, which is in turn inserted perpendicular to the horizon circle; this is supported by four semi-arches connected at the bottom by a small goblet-shaped foot, resting on a wooden bell-shaped base.
Apart from the wooden base, the entire support structure is made of bronze; on the foot there are the scale reproductions of a compass, a telescope and an open book.
The sphere is made of papier-mâché and is covered with twelve printed paper gores.
In the North Pacific Ocean the globe bears a cartouche with the inscription (about 30% of the writing is illegible, but the missing parts can be easily integrated based on the rest):
NEWTON’S
New & Improved
TERRESTRIAL
Globe
Published by Newton & Son
66 Chancery Lane
LONDON
On the globe, much of central Africa is empty and the great lakes Tanganyika and Victoria are not marked (Europeans would begin to explore the area after 1858). Canada is called "British Territory" and Alaska "Russian Territory" (it would become part of the United States in 1867). Australia already bears its modern name (until 1829 it had been called New Holland) and its coasts are completely designed; Tasmania is listed as an island (Matthew Flinders circumnavigated it in 1798). The routes of Cook's various voyages are plotted; both the route followed by Biscoe in 1831 and the "Land of Enderby" which he discovered on the coast of Antarctica, south of Africa, are marked.
Bibliography
P. Van der Krogt, Old Globes...
Category
English Early Victorian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Bronze
Late Regency 19th Century Burr Oak Miniature Chest
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A delightful Regency Period burr oak miniature chest having
Superbly figured top above two short & three long drawers with
Original brass knobs flanked by elegant fluted stiles raised on
Original brass ball feet
(Often much debate is had as to whether miniature furniture was
made as an apprentice piece, which is when a craftsmen who is looking
for a job at a workshop would create something to showcase
their talents, or whether it was made as a travelling salesmans
sample piece, which is when a few articles were made as
scale models in advance of a road trip during which the salesman
would travel the country showing prospective clients
the kind of items they could produce back at the workshop and
take orders from. This particular miniature chest of drawers
is probably the latter and would have been made as a sample
piece. The construction is exquisite and the attention to tiny
detail phenomenal in all honesty. They work that would have
gone into constructing this with all of its fine details would actually
have been more of a challenge and taken a more skilled
craftsmen than its full size counterparts would have done.
It is also super quality and unusual being constructed from burr
oak which has taken on an exceptional rich colour and patina
over the years of its life. A really quite charming piece of
antique miniature furniture...
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English Regency Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Oak
Academic Cast Depicting a Psyche, Italy, 1880
Located in Milan, IT
An academic cast depicting a Psyche, Italy 1890. Sopra la base in gesso di forma rotonda, è impostato il calco in gesso di una scultura raffigurante una ...
Category
Italian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Plaster, Paper
Pair of Victorian Porcelain Staffordshire Figures
Located in New York, NY
Pair of English Victorian style (19th/20th Cent) large porcelain Staffordshire porcelain figures of orange and white seated spaniels holding baskets of flowers in their mouths with g...
Category
Victorian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Ten 19th Century English Victorian Brass Chimney Good Luck Shoes or Boots
Located in Haarlem, NL
Four sets and two single pieces of English Victorian brass chimney ornaments or "good luck" shoes.
What a lovely collection of shiny shoes don't you think? Let me tell you a little bit about them,
during the Victorian period in England, it was fashionable to have a pair of "good luck" brass shoes on your mantel (fireplace), they would been given to you as a wedding gift.
Two sets were definitely match stick holders...
Category
British Victorian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass
Decorative Victorian Antique Sterling Silver Shoe Model, London, 1896
Located in London, London
Carrying import marks for London in 1896 by Edwin Thompson Bryant, this Antique Sterling Silver Model of a Shoe, features attractive chased decoration. The shoe model measures 3.75"(...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Sterling Silver
Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Miniature Sofa
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Charming child's sofa with hand-carved and gilded frame. Cut velvet and silk upholstery.
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Faux Bamboo Apprentice Chest
Located in Port Chester, NY
A charming example of 19th century apprentice miniatures, complete with original wire drawer pulls. The interiors of the drawers are quite clean. The piece came to us with metal brac...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Pine
Gilded Antique Friezes for Furniture
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
- Rare gilded friezes for furniture, to enrich Your door, Your mirror, Your headboard of bed etc. -
O/6842 - crown antique in gilt bronze - cm. 26 x height 1...
Category
Italian Beaux Arts Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Bronze
French 19th Century Rococo Style Miniature Painted Cabinet with Arching Top
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Rococo style miniature painted cabinet from the 19th century, with arching top, open shelves and two doors. Created in France during the 19th century, this miniature cabinet will make for a great decorative addition to any child's room! Featuring an arching cornice sitting above open shelves, the cabinet showcases two petite doors in its lower section. Painted in blue accented with gilt highlights, this miniature 19th century French Rococo style cabinet...
Category
French Rococo Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
George III Mahogany Miniature Chest
Located in Essex, MA
Salesman size with rectangular top over two over three drawers, splayed bracket feet.
Category
English George III Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
Dutch Miniature Terrestrial Globe on Wooden Base, circa 1900
Located in Delft, NL
Dutch miniature terrestrial globe on wooden base, 16 cm high
A miniature globe made of papier mâché with Dutch text on a wooden stand,
circa 1900
Used object
The measurements...
Category
Dutch Antique 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood, Paper
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