1860s Home Accents

Napoleon III gilt wood & silk fire screen. Magnificent faux bamboo and hand embroidered silk screen in the Japanese style circa 1860. In very ...

A fine & large antique black marble and specimen stone desk obelisk, Ashford Derbyshire, circa 1860. This large 14.5" obelisk is made of Derbyshire black marble. The obelisk is very elegantly inlaid with a variety of semi-precious polished hard-stone, including Derbyshire Blue John, Lapis Lazuli, Malachite, Carrara Marble, Polished Agate, and many others. Each obelisk stands on a stepped base and is inlaid with a floral motif, condition is excellent, no damage or restoration noted. Ashford Black Marble is the name given to a dark limestone, quarried from mines near Ashford-in-the-Water, in Derbyshire, England. Once cut, turned and polished, its shiny black surface is highly decorative. Ashford Black Marble is a very fine-grained sedimentary rock and is not a true marble in the geological sense. It can be cut and inlaid with other decorative stones and minerals, using a technique known as Pietra Dura. The mineral has been used decoratively since prehistoric times; the first recorded customer was the Elizabethan Countess, Bess of Hardwick...

Stunning trunk in solid camphor wood made in the early 19th century. English colonial style produced in southern India for the European market. Features bronze handles, lock and keyh...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this super decorative Italian Renaissance Coin mounted Giltwood Cassone trunk circa 1860-1880 which was sold...

A very fine, spectacular antique Italian oil on canvas screen/room divider, circa 1860. The four fold screen is very finely painted with an Italian fishing/harbor scene, the base is ...

This is a pair of antique Marly Horse bookends. A French, bronze and slate Grand Tour book rest, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1860. Subs...

A handsome Smith's terrestrial globe, circa 1835. Mounted on a brass semi-meridian that sits on a turned wooden upright and circular base. Printed in several colours, the globe compr...

A very good set of antique 19th century mahogany library steps, circa 1860. This set of library steps are made of solid flamed mahogany, the upper two steps of ogee form and all three steps are inset with an original high quality tooled & gilded 'Oxblood' colored inset leather. The very top step with a hinged top with a storage area underneath, the middle step pulls forward to reveal a surprise and quite the talking point; an original lidded porcelain chamber pot...

Outstanding 19th century Continental 3 panel oil on canvas screen featuring animals and a still life, circa 1860. Adds warmth and charm to any room!

19th Century chinoiserie and black lacquered four panel screen, the screen has two panels on each of the four panels, and each panel depicts various birds and foliage, all in very go...

Rare orrery, or mechanical model depicting the solar system, from the second half of the 19th century. On the cartouche of the globe we read: Globus Jan Felkla Syn Roztoky Prahy. Bronze patinated cast iron structure, brass gears and terrestrial sphere of papier maché. Measures: 60 x 18 cm, height 47 cm. Very good condition and perfectly working. Jan Felkl (1817-1878) was born in Bohemia and already in 1840 he had designed some globes in 6 different sizes. During the following 20 years he became the biggest maker of globes in market Austro-Hungarian, making terrestrial and celestial globes in 17 different languages, lunar globes...

Antique brass orrery planetarium made for the German market by Jan Felkl Prag in the second half of the nineteenth century. Cast iron base, papier mâché´ globe, with detailed territorial map and oceanic currents. Very good condition. Measures: Length 75 cm - 29.5 inch, height 48 cm - 18.8 inch, width 28 cm - 11 inch. Shipping in insured by Lloyd's London and the gift box is free (look at the last picture). Jan Felkl (1817-1878) was born in Bohemia and already in 1840 he had designed some globes in 6 different sizes. During the following 20 years he became the biggest maker of globes in market Austro-Hungarian, making terrestrial and celestial globes in 17 different languages, lunar globes and planetaria. Felkl showed his globes at international fairs in 1867 in Paris and in 1873 in Vienna. He established his Geographic and lithographic Institute in Prague for Making globes and maps. In 1870 he moved his factory from Prague to Roztok and his youngest son became his partner in the firm now named Felkl & Son, making globes and selling them all over the Europe and also in the Usa. Shipping is insured by Lloyd's London; our gift box is free (look at the last picture). The orrery is the most detailed and complex representation of the cosmos and in addition to the movement of stars,it includes movement of the sun, moon and planets, like a giant clock mechanism. Among these devices one of the oldest was an orrery by Archimedes, which Cicero speaks widely in Tusculanae Disputationes I, 63: when Roman troops sacked Syracuse in 212 BC, the consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus in Rome brought the instrument of Archimedes, who, thanks to his ability and divine intelligence that he possessed, had managed to generate the motions of planets, each so different, from a single rotation.
Because of heliocentric system theorized by Copernicus, it was possible to create mechanical antique orreries...