Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
GRAND TOUR STYLE
For 18th-century young British noblemen, no education was complete without a year on the Grand Tour. Although it had no official route, the Grand Tour focused on places foundational to European art, literature and architecture, including sites in France, Germany, Switzerland and, most importantly, Italy. It was an opportunity not just to witness the roots of the classics they had studied but also to take some of it home. Grand Tour furniture was among the souvenirs.
Grand Tour furniture ranged from marble architectural models replicating ancient wonders to actual antiquities often taken illicitly, leaving a legacy of looting still being unraveled today. Other items reflected the artistic richness of the Renaissance cities and other destinations. In Italy, this included scagliola tables and pedestals mimicking marble as well as tabletops and wall panels embedded with pietra dura hard stone mosaics.
Furniture was also developed to display Grand Tour purchases in the owner’s home, presenting them as a cultivated and well-traveled person. Mahogany collector’s cabinets held objects like intaglio moldings of coins and seals while others had specialized drawers that framed pietra dura panels.
Many objects were specifically produced for Grand Tour collectors. Often accompanied by retinues on journeys lasting months or years, the elite travelers, the wealthiest of whom extended their trips to Egypt and the Holy Land, required artful personal mementos befitting the experience. For example, Grand Tour micromosaics — small artworks, most not more than two inches wide — arose from the entrepreneurial impulses of artisans who had trained in the Vatican’s workshops.
Grand Tour journeys would help inform a range of decorative styles such as neoclassical, Rococo and Adam style. (Architect and designer Robert Adam toured Italy and France for five years.) The Grand Tour flourished at a time of economic prosperity and political stability, but the French Revolution in 1789 brought it to an end. Yet as the tradition faded in popularity in England, the rising wealth of the United States led to an increase in tourism across the Atlantic and a similar passion for collecting to show one’s worldliness.
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Style: Grand Tour
Pair of Grand Tour Style Carved Alabaster Bookends Formed as Classical Ruins
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very good pair of architectural inspired 'Grand Tour' style columnar alabaster bookends, both carved in the form of fluted columns, raised on stepped bases. Dimensions noted are th...
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Mid-20th Century European Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Alabaster
19th Century Grand Tour Antique Handmade Bronze Mortar with Pestle
Located in Roma, IT
19th-century grand tour antique handmade bronze mortar with pestle. This fantastic piece has an original patina.
The pestle is 9.05 inc high wit...
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Mid-19th Century European Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
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Bronze
Large Antique Grand Tour Travel Photography Album by Bosetti, X., L.P. Et Al
Located in New York, NY
Large scale 17 inch by 14 inch 19th century Grand Tour photography album comprised of 92 photographs which include a number of rare images, many of which are signed.
53 photographs...
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19th Century European Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
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Leather, Paper
Early 20th Century Mahogany Plinth in the Form of a Classical-Style Column
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Early 20th century mahogany plinth in the form of a classical-style fluted column with carved Ionic scrolling and Corinthian foliate detail to the capital.
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Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Mahogany
An Antique Grand Tour Period "Rosso Antico" Red Marble Obelisk Column w/ Flame
Located in New York, NY
A very finely carved 19th century Grand Tour period "Rosso Antico" marble souvenir, including Egyptian Obelisk with a Flame Finial. It is inscribed with gilt Latin lettering describi...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Marble
Early 19th Century Grand Tour Model of a Roman Sarcophagus
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
An early 19th century bronze Grand Tour model of a Roman sarcophagus or bath, circa 1830, with removable blue glass liner. Once a Grand Tour souvenir acquired by an adventurer travel...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Italian Grand Tour Bronze Censer with Birds
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine antique Italian attributed grand tour bronze lidded censer applied with birds dating from around 1860. The censer stands raised on a square ba...
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1860s Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Bronze
Grand Tour Bronze Sarcophagus Form Box
Located in Stamford, CT
Unusual 19th century Italian Grand Tour bronze box in the form of a sarcophagus, circa 1880. Nice form, handsome desk-top accessory, great addition to any box collection.
5.5 inches...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Bronze
Italian Antique Grand Tour Bronze Riding Boot Match Holder
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A quality antique Italian Grand Tour bronze boot shaped vesta or match holder dating from 1900. Modeled as a riding boot with a spur strapped to the boot with the body of the boot ac...
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Early 1900s Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Breccia Medicea Marble and Bronze Obelisks, "Crabs", Limit.Edition 2018
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of Italian marble and bronze obelisks Crabs -Grand Tour collection- produced by Lorenzo Ciompi, 2018.
Designed, produced and executed directly in exclusivity for Compendio Galle...
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2010s Italian Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Breccia Marble, Bronze
19th C Grand Tour Painting on Porcelain View of Vatican/St. Peter's Basilica
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th century Grand Tour Painting on Porcelain View of Vatican/St. Peter's Basilica
Italy, circa 1880s
Standing in rectangular gilt bronze engraved frame with applied stylized flo...
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Late 19th Century Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Bronze
$1,960 Sale Price
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Italian Grand Tour Model of a Roman Oil Lamp
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A decorative Italian Grand Tour model of a Roman oil lamp, circa 1835,in the manner of Benedetto Boschetti (1820-1870).
Once a Grand Tour souvenir acquired by an adventurer explorin...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Marble
Grand Tour Model of the Eiffel Tower, Now as a Lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Grand Tour model of the Eiffel Tower, now as a lamp, newly wired. The architectural model stands 30" high, 33" high to the top of the socket.
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Early 20th Century French Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Wrought Iron
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Walnut, Large Wooden Screw of a Wine Press, a Wooden Sculpture, Italy 1900s
Located in Roma, IT
Large wooden screw of a wine press, Italy, 1900s.
A walnut sculpture. Really nice.
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20th Century Italian Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Wood, Walnut
Italian Neoclassical 19th Century Black-Ground Terracotta Vase
Located in Rome, IT
Elegant Italian 19th century neoclassical black painted terracotta vase after the original Roman marble vase.
Bordered center body decorated with styl...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Terracotta
Italian 19th Century Neoclassical Style Ormolu and Marble Columns w/ Orb Finials
Located in Savannah, GA
This outstanding and high quality pair of Italian 19th century Neo-Classical style Grand Tour period columns feature embossed gilded ormolu and orb finials atop.
They are raised by ...
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1820s Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Marble, Brass, Ormolu
$5,500 Sale Price / set
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Small Grand Tour Pietra Paesina (Ruin Marble) Bronze Mounted Plaque or Curio
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine Grand Tour plaque or curio.
With a pietra paesina or ruin / ruiniform marble form plaque mounted in a gilt bronze frame with an integral bail...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Stone, Marble, Bronze
19th Century Bronze Apothecary Mortar & Pestle, Circa 1800
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The cup shaped cast body decorated with incised ring-turned detail, rising from a waisted & stepped circular foot, together with its original pestle.
Combined weight, 3.75 lbs.
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Bronze
Large French Antique Gilt Bronze Mounted Rotating Marble Pedestal / Stand
Located in London, GB
A large French antique gilt bronze mounted marble pedestal
Having a central female gilt bronze mount with a floral wreath under a rotating top with additional bronze mountings an El...
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1880s French Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Black marble paperweight with micromosaic of Colosseum Rome souvenir Grand Tour
Located in Milano, IT
Elegant Belgian black marble paperweight shaped at the edges with central oval plaque containing a micro-mosaic depicting a view of the Colosseum (Rome).
These examples of micromosa...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Belgian Black Marble
Pair of Grand Tour Egyptian Porphyry Obelisks, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The pair of obelisks with gilt lion faces on front base and gilt lion paws at corners, signed indistinctly. Rome dated 1893.
Category
1890s Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Porphyry, Bronze
Pair of Monumental English Regency Framed Italian 18C Painted Tapestries
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING an EXCEPTIONAL Pair of Monumental English Regency Framed Italian 18C Painted Tapestries/Paintings.
We are of the firm opinion, that these tapestries were made and hand-pa...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Burlap, Mahogany
$26,000 Sale Price / set
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Pair Maitland Smith Pyramid Grand Tour Tessellated Wood Brass Claw Feet Obelisk
Located in Miami, FL
A pair of Maitland Smith Neoclassical tessellated Wood and Brass Claw Feet Obelisk.
In good vintage condition with some wear to the tessellated Wood.
Pyramid Core measures:
5 x 5 x 2...
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1960s American Vintage Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Brass
Bankes Obelisk, England, Ashford Black Marble, First Half of the 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
So-called Bankes obelisk made of black marble ("Ashford Black"), after the obelisk of Philae, which William John Bankes acquired shortly afterwards after...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Marble
1830 Watercolor and Gouache Painted Vignettes of Eastern Entertainers
Located in Savannah, GA
The caption of this charming pen and ink, watercolor and gouache vignette reads
"A troupe of Eastern Entertainers taken from diary of G. Copeland 1830."
Perhaps a rememberance from...
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1830s English Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Silk, Glass, Paint, Paper
$612 Sale Price
20% Off
Micro mosaic tablet, 19th Century
Located in 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, NL
A fine mid-19th century serpentine grand tour micro mosaic tablet or paperweight of the iconic St Peter's Vatican, The Colosseum of Rome, The Pantheon, The Ruins of The Roman Forum a...
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1850s Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Marble
Grand Tour marble medallion in relief depicting Claudius, early 19th c
Located in Stockholm, SE
An exquisite early 19th-century marble relief medallion, finely crafted to depict the Roman Emperor Claudius in profile. The relief captures Claudius adorned with a laurel wreath, sy...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Marble
Palais Royal Letter Opener In Mother Of Pearl From The Nineteenth Century
Located in Bilzen, BE
A fine 19th century antique letter opener, Palais Royal, France, complete in mother of pearl Length 28cm Good condition with aged patina
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19th Century French Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
Grand Tour Style Scale Architectural Model of an Archway
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A handsomely made bronze scale architectural model of an arched gateway circa 1880. It is of Grand Tour style, ornamented with a decorative finial to the ...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Bronze
Italian Grand Tour Onyx and Bronze Ewer
Located in Essex, MA
Brown and white banded onyx, with bronze details, animal feet and a horned figure holding a bunch of grapes.
Category
Late 19th Century European Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Other
Pair of Large 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Black Marble Nero Antico Obelisks
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
A very attractive pair of Italian Grand Tour black marble obelisks. Detailed hieroglyphics to the front side, on a green marble plinth. Minor corner chips to both obelisks, otherwise...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Marble
Georgian Circa 1790 Italian Grand Tour Micro Mosaic Lady Bird 22 Carat Ring
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Georgian micro mosaic, late eighteenth century circa 1790, finely modelled as a ladybird, set into an octagonal goldstone.
The gold mount echoes the octagonal shape of the goldstone...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Gold
18/19 C. Italian Grand Tour Fine Antique Mixed Marble and Scagliola Obelisk
Located in New York, NY
A Fantastic 18th/19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Mixed Marble and Scagliola Obelisk. This grand tour Italian mixed marble and scagliola obelisk mixes Egyptian architecture...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Marble
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