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Period: Early 19th Century
Regency Mahogany Miniature Bowfront Chest
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Good Quality Late Regency Period Mahogany Miniature Chest, Of Bowfronted Form, Having Well Figured Top With Ebonised Stringing, Over Two Short And Three Long Drawers Retaining...
Category
English Regency Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Empire Mahogany Sleigh Bed, Cabinet Makers Example, as Dog Bed
Located in Huntington, NY
This rare cabinet makers example of an antique Empire mahogany sleigh bed,
As Dog bed. With new poly foam bed covered in black & white ticking.
Category
French Empire Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
Biedermeier Walnut Miniatur Chest of Drawers
Located in Darmstadt, DE
The miniature or model chest of drawers dates back to the Biedermeier period and was made with walnut veneer on a softwood body. The chest of drawers is in very good restored conditi...
Category
German Biedermeier Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Walnut, Softwood
19th Century Dutch Miniature Secretaire Cabinet
Located in Casteren, NL
19th century miniature secretaire cabinet made from Oakwood.
Decorative object, can be used as jewelry/letter box.
Originates Netherlands, dating, circa 1800
Category
Dutch Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Oak
19th Century German Antique Mahogany, Walnut Model of an Egyptian Temple
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A light-brown, antique German model of an Egyptian temple made of handcrafted, partly painted Mahogany and Walnut, in good condition. The inside of the de...
Category
German Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany, Walnut
Early 19th Century Neoclassical Automaton Windmill Sewing Box
Located in Essex, MA
Rare early 19th century working automaton sewing box with hidden compartments for necessaries and sewing implements. Original handmade cloc...
Category
Dutch Neoclassical Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Alabaster
Indian Inlaid Table Top Cabinet
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine early 19th Century Indian bone inlaid padouk miniature secretary, Monghyr, the two doors inlaid with flowers, vines and birds opening to reveal a fall front writing surface, the...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Bone, Padouk
Life-Size Mannequin Attributed to Francois-Pierre Guillois, Late 18th Century
Located in Peekskill, NY
There hasn't been much information regarding this particular type of lay figure, indeed these are exceptionally rare, until fairly recently since the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge ...
Category
French Industrial Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood
Regency Satinwood Miniature Chest
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A good quality late Regency Period, 19th century, satinwood miniature chest of attractive small proportions having well figured and crossbanded top, over three drawers with original turned wooden knobs, raised on elegant original splayed feet with shaped apron.
A chariming little 19th century miniature chest of drawers, which is shallower than most and therefore attractively proportioned. It also boasts beautifully figured satinwood veneers which have retained an excellent colour and patina. This would probably have been made as a travelling salesmans...
Category
English Regency Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Satinwood
Regency Mahogany Miniature Chest Of Drawers
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A 19th Century, Late Regency Period, Mahogany Miniature Chest Of Drawers Of Attractive Small Proportions, Having Well Figured Rectangular Top Over Two Short And Two Long Drawers, Ret...
Category
English Regency Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
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 Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
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 Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Pottery
Georgian Mahogany Miniature Chest
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
An attractive and good quality early 19th century Georgian
mahogany miniature chest having well figured top over
two short and three long drawers with later brass
lions mask knobs...
Category
English Georgian Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
Regency Mahogany Tea Caddy Miniature Serpentine Sideboard
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
An Extremely Rare And Exceptionally Good Quality English Regency Period Mahogany Tea Caddy, In The Form Of A Serpentine Miniature Sideboard, Having Lift Up Hinged Lid With Attractive...
Category
English Regency Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Mahogany Tilt-Top Tripod Table, Mini, Salesman or Example Sample
Located in Huntington, NY
An early 19th century mahogany tilt-top tripod table
Mini, salesman or example sample.
With tilt-top, tripod base.
Category
American American Classical Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
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...
Category
English Regency Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Oak
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 Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Stoneware
Regency Mahogany Miniature Chest of Drawers
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Good Quality Early 19th Century, Regency Period, Mahogany Miniature Chest, Having Well Figured Rectangular Top Over Three Long Drawers, With Replacement Brass Turned Knobs, Fl...
Category
English Regency Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
Miniature Walnut Commode
Located in Greenwich, CT
Early 19th Century walnut commode, the inlaid top with cookie corners over turned and fluted legs flanking three inlaid drawers and standing on turned turnip feet, French or Italian ...
Category
Italian Directoire Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Ebony, Fruitwood, Walnut, Pine
Early 19th c.Medical Teaching Device- Shadowboxed Wax Fetus Models c.1800-1850
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
Two early 19th century British wax models of a fetuses with attached placenta. Used as a medical teaching device. Numbered and attached to a velvet background. In a sealed woo...
Category
Mid-Century Modern Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood, Velvet
Antique Miniature Oak Blanket Chest 19 Century Dutch
Located in Den Haag, NL
For sale this beautiful miniature blanket chest. Solid oak with Ebony details.
early 19th century three panels on the front. Very nice patine on the oak wood.
Hand carved. Still ...
Category
Dutch Renaissance Revival Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Oak
Antique English Gold Mounted Walking Stick
Located in London, GB
Antique English gold mounted walking stick
English, 1809
Height 91cm, diameter 2.5cm
This charming walking stick, created in 1809, is adorned with symbolic motifs.
At the top ...
Category
English Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Metal, Gold
An urn-shaped Regency perfumer
Located in New York, NY
Neoclassical urn-shaped perfumer from the Regency period (1812-1820). It is beautifully patinated bronze and decorated with floral garlands and a flower finial. England.
Category
English Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Bronze
"Bronze perfumer with decorative butterflies. France."
Located in New York, NY
French urn shaped perfumer with lid. Patinated bronze with decorative butterflies on a square plinth. France 1820's
Category
French Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Empire Miniature Commode
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th century French Empire miniature commode. A well executed miniature chest made of walnut and veneer of walnut with two large drawers below a smaller top drawer and with solid walnut columns. Inscription written in ink on the back of each of the large drawers: Don D...
Category
French Empire Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Walnut
Regency Mahogany Miniature Table Cabinet
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Good Quality And Charming Early 19th Century Regency Period Mahogany Miniature Table Cabinet, Having Rectangular Top Over Superbly Figured Panelled Doors, Enclosing Four Concealed Long Drawers, Raised On Elegant Original Turned Feet.
This attractive little piece of Regency miniature furniture, as the name suggests, was probably made as a simple stand alone cabinet to be placed on top of a table top type surface. Alternatively it may have been specifically made as a travelling salesmans sample piece of furniture. Whichever its original purpose it is incredibly useful for modern day living however and we think it could be used to hold a wide variety of different day to day items.
The mahogany veneers have been very carefully chosen to ensure that they are well figured and this results in a very decorative item. Overall the quality of construction is also excellent and it has clearly been made in a well respected workshop.
As with all items which we offer for sale this antique table cabinet...
Category
English Regency Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
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 ...
Category
French Empire Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Small Decorative Carpenter's Sample Secretary, Sweden circa 1800's
Located in Round Top, TX
This unique small decorative item served as a "carpenter's sample" to share with customers prior to ordering a full size secretary. Note the size of 24" wide x 27" high.
All the pain...
Category
Swedish Country Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wood, Paint
19th Century French Chestnut Diminutive Armoire
Located in High Point, NC
19th century chestnut miniature armoire from France. This is a wonderful piece of craftmanship, with a lovely crown following down to a case which is entirely raised panelled and peg...
Category
French French Provincial Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Chestnut
George III Mahogany Miniature Bowfront Chest
Located in Essex, MA
With two drawers over two drawers, splayed feet.
Category
English George III Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Italian Micromosaic Plaque Depicting the Capitoline Doves
Located in London, GB
This Fine, circular micromosaic plaque shows four doves drinking water from a golden bowl, upon which they perch. The Classical design for the mosaic is taken from one found in the Roman Emperor Hadrian's villa in the 2nd century AD. Hadrian's mosaic, which was on the floor as is traditional, was probably based on a design by Sosus of Pergamon, a Greek master artist. Known as the Capitoline Doves...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Glass
Seven Miniature Furstenberg Biscuit Porcelain Busts of English Men of Letters
Located in Spencertown, NY
Seven Furstenberg miniature busts of English men of letters, early 19th century together with a William IV Amboyna two-door glazed cabinet. Including,
Locke, Dryden, Garrick, Pope.
Category
German William IV Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Porcelain, Amboyna, Wood
Portrait of a Lady of the 18th Century French Miniature Gilt Bronze Frame
Located in Pistoia, IT
Magnificent miniature portrait of young damsel from the 18th century. Finely hand-painted. Her beautiful face with the whitest skin, just pinkish on the cheeks, looks like porcelain...
Category
French Louis XV Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Bronze
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...
Category
Italian Empire Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Marble
Antique Victorian Ladies Leather Piedmont Shoes Boots Mercantile Store Display
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Pair of antique Victorian ladies high boots constructed of brown leather and used as mercantile models for a store display. Each sole has an impressed mark of "Piedmont" in script an...
Category
English Early Victorian Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Leather
Colonial Era Hand Carved Wooden Horse and Rider
Located in Los Angeles, CA
early 19thc hand carved wooden colonial era horse and rider. beautiful patina and age to this piece. The fading of color is expected over the time that is has been made. Wear is cons...
Category
American Adirondack Antique Early 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 Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Pottery
Regency Mahogany Miniature Sideboard Tea Caddy
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A charming and rare early 19th Century Regency Period mahogany tea caddy, in the form of a miniature pedestal sideboard, having extremely well figured, crossbanded hinged top, over d...
Category
English Regency Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
American Mahogany Five Drawer Miniature with Flanking Columns & Bun Feet, C 1820
Located in Charleston, SC
American Sheraton Mahogany five drawer miniature chest with a carved molded edge top, flanking turned bulbous half columns, turned wooden knobs with central mother of pearl inlays, a...
Category
American Sheraton Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Mahogany, Pine
Regency Miniature Mahogany Breakfast Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
An exceptional Quality Regency Period Miniature mahogany centre, or breakfast table, having superbly figured circular tilting top over turned central column and elegant four splay base, retaining original brass castors.
Sometimes there is debate as to the original purpose of antique miniature furniture. There are predominantly two types, that which was made as an apprentice piece and that which was made as a salesmans sample piece. There was also some miniature furniture of a particular scale which would have been made as dolls house furniture...
Category
English Regency Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Early 19th Century Taylor's Dummy for Young Gentleman Children's Fashion
Located in Munich, DE
This very rare early 19th century tailor's dummy for a young boy has been hand crafted out of painted papier maché and wood.
Category
English George III Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Paper
Staffordshire Pearlware Long Case Clock
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Staffordshire Pottery pearlware model which features a long case clock, stood on a marbleised base. Decorated 'in the round' - decoration to front and ...
Category
English Folk Art Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Pottery
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 Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Friezes of Grapes in Gilded Wood
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Rare pair of antique freezes with grapes in gilded wood: very beautiful. Probably they were part of some large mirror that broke, who knows where, when and how.
They can be laid over...
Category
Italian Baroque Revival Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Fruitwood
Early 19th Century Micromosaic Dog Chasing a Duck, After Gioacchino Barberi
Located in Paris, FR
Large micro-mosaic plate depicting a dog with a red collar chasing a duck beside the Tiber river. After Gioachhino Barberi. The Barberi family was a very ...
Category
Italian Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Cut Glass
19th Century Miniature Bow Fronted Chest of Drawers
Located in London, GB
An early 19th century well-figured and faded mahogany miniature bowfront Chest of 2 short and 3 long graduated drawers. The Chest retaining original brass handles, with crosshatched ...
Category
English Sheraton Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
Regency Mahogany Apprentice Chest
Located in Shipston-On-Stour, GB
A small Regency mahogany table top apprentice or collectors chest.
The top drawer is an arrangement of four smaller ones, with further drawers below and brass knobs.
The top has a re...
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English Regency Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Brass
Micromosaic of Shepherd, Early 19th Century
Located in Paris, FR
Rectangular micromosaic plate featuring a shepherd, seated and resting with his dog at his feet. The shepherd is wearing a woolen cloak over his colorful clothes. He is holding a hat in his left hand and his staff in his right. A wicker basket at his feet is filled with a bouquet of flowers and a bunch of grapes.
This pastoral theme is characteristic of the micromosaic production of Gioacchino...
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French Restauration Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Stone
19th Century English Painted Miniature Portrait Signed by Chester Dennery
Located in Esbeek, NL
First half of the 19th century painted portrait, depicting Newark Hudson.
Signed by Chester Dennery, England.
Bronze gilded frame.
Category
English Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Paint
Early 19th Century Painted Miniature Depicting Nicolette Six
Located in Esbeek, NL
Painted miniature of a girl, depicting Nicolette six.
Dated 1818.
Category
European Antique Early 19th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Paint
