Grand Tour Furniture
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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Item Ships From: USA
Style: Grand Tour
Grand Tour Bronze Statue Of Dionysus
Located in Bradenton, FL
19th century Grand Tour bronze statue of the ancient Greek Dionysus. Dionysus also known as Bacchus, was the god of wine, fertility and festiv...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Corpus by Alejandra Figueroa Sculpture Photograpy Book
Located in Seguin, TX
Corpus by Alejandra Figueroa. Published by Rizzoli, New York, 2004. A series of black-and-white photographs of statues from the world's greate...
Category
Early 2000s American Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Paper
Early 20th Century Grand Tour Classical Faux Malachite Cast Iron Urn
Located in Elkhart, IN
A stunning Grand Tour Neoclassical vase, urn, or planter.
Italy, Circa Early-20th Century
Cast iron, with a hand-painted faux malachite pattern, and gold handles & rims
Measures:...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Iron
Italian Grand Tour Bronze Model Of Dancing Faun Of Pompeii
Located in Bradenton, FL
Italian classical bronze sculpture of the Dancing Faun of Pompeii. Fauns were an example of spirits of untamed woodland, often connected to Pan and Greek satyrs by Romans, or followe...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Grand Tour Marble Composite Bust of Man
Located in west palm beach, FL
A striking vintage Coastal bust of man. A chic character from the Grand Tour era. A marble composition with a beautiful all over patina from time. Made in Italy. Acquired from a Palm...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Italian Grand Tour Classical Verdigris Bronze Sculpture of Narcissus
Located in Bradenton, FL
Italian Classical bronze sculpture of Narcissus with a verdigris patina, believed to by Chiurazzi, or a similar foundry, Naples, circa 1900.
Narcissus is shown nude except for a pai...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Grand Tour Patinated Bronze Model of the Temple of Vesta, Italian, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The model, made as an inkwell and lacking it's cover.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Large Ornate Venetian Mirror Etched and Applied Foliate Floral Designs
Located in Atlanta, GA
A gorgeous, large and ornate Venetian style mirror of rectangular form with foliate and floral designs on the top, along the perimeter and bottom of the mirror. Yes. That's right. Th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Glass, Mirror, Wood
Pair of Neapolitan Grand Tour Gouaches Naples Bay & Mount Vesuvius- Larger
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Neapolitan Grand Tour Gouaches Naples Bay & Mount Vesuvius- Larger
Italy, Circa 1850s
A captivating Pair of Neapolitan Grand Tour Paintings, or...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Giltwood, Paper
A Pair of Bronze Neoclassical Grand Tour Candelabras, Late 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
Grand Tour
Pair of Bronze Candelabras
Late 19th Century
DIMENSIONS
Height: 10.33 inches
Width: 4.75 inches
Depth: 4.75 inches
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1890s English Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Neapolitan Grand Tour Gouaches Naples Bay & Mount Vesuvius- Smaller
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Neapolitan Grand Tour Gouaches Naples Bay & Mount Vesuvius- Smaller
Italy, Circa 1850s
View these enchanting vistas of 19th-century Italy with ...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Glass, Giltwood, Paper
Spanish Silver Testavin with 1633 Coin Inset, Reign of Phillip IV
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Spanish silver testavin with 1633 coin inset, Reign of Phillip IV. Eight Reales Coin marked Philip PVS IIII D G & crowned Spanish sheild reversing to Hispania R V M Rex 1633 with Arm...
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19th Century Spanish Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Silver
Pair of Large Neoclassical Urns
Located in New York, NY
Pair of large neoclassical urns. Grand tour patinated copper craters after the antique with swan-form handles from Naples. Italy, early 19th century.
Dimension: 24.5" H x 15" D X 1...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Copper
Pair of Italian Capriccio Framed Oil on Canvas Paintings of Landscape With Ruins
Located in Elkhart, IN
A gorgeous pair of Grand Tour style framed oil paintings of an Italian Capriccio landscape with ruins
Italy, Mid-20th Century
Oil on canvas, gilt frame
Measures: 9.5"W x 1"D x 9.5...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Pair Carved and Polychromed Figural Venitian Wall Brackets
Located in Pittsburgh, PA
This fanciful pair of hand carved, gilded, and polychrome figural wall brackets were made in the 19th Century in Venice, Italy.
They feature fanc...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Wood
Grand Tour Style Sienna Marble Model Temple of Castor & Pollux, Now as a Lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Grand Tour Style Sienna Marble Model Temple of Castor & Pollux, Now as a Lamp
Italy, Circa 1950s
A magnificent Grand Tour Style Sienna Marble Model of the Temple of Castor and Pollu...
Category
20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Siena Marble, Marble, Brass
Large Grand Tour Sculpture Bronze Greco-Roman Uffizi Wrestlers Barbedienne
Located in Rochester, NY
Grand Tour circa 1860s bronze of the Wrestlers. Rich fine dark brown patina. Marked "F. Barbedienne Fondeur." The Wrestlers also known as The Two Wrestlers, The Uffizi Wrestlers or The Pancrastinae...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
An Italian Grand Tour Porphyry and Sienna Marble Paperweight, late 19th century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The profile of Caesar in profile in high relief.
The yellow marble base with stepped edges.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Porphyry
Grand Tour Style Greek or Roman Plaster Foot Sculpture
Located in Elkhart, IN
A gorgeous Grand Tour style cast plaster sculpture of an Ancient Greek or Roman foot
Turkey, Early 21st Century
Measures: 11.13"W x 4.88"D x 4.13"H.
Very good condition.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Plaster
Vintage Carved Grand Three Bulb Table Lamp - a Pair
Located in west palm beach, FL
Spectacular vintage pair of carved gilt table lamps. These incredible lamps have three bulbs all operated with their own pull string. Their intricate detailing matched with their sca...
Category
Early 20th Century Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Wood
Grand Tour Neoclassic Mahogany Bronze Roman Ruins
Located in Bradenton, FL
A Grand Tour bronze mounted mahogany and marble model of Roman Ruins, 20th century. This is a rare and exceptionally made model of the Grand Tour period as it is made from carved mah...
Category
20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Bronze floor lamp Pompeii Grand Tour
Located in Hudson, NY
Bronze floor lamp Pompeii Grand Tour attributed to Caldwell
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Early 20th Century Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
A Grand Tour Specimen Marble Paperweight, Late 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
A rectangular shaped paperweight with inset Porphyry, Siena Marble and Mother of Pearl in black marble framework
Category
1890s Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Siena Marble, Porphyry
Pair of Cabinet Size Roman Classical Urns or Vases
Located in Rochester, NY
Pair of Roman classical two handled urns. Patinated cast iron. Mid 19th century grand tour.
Category
19th Century European Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Iron
Kidnap of The Sabine Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture Manner of Giambologna
Located in New York, NY
19 centuryb Italian Patinated bronze sculpture depicting the Kidnapping of the Sabine Women, after the model by Giambologna, aka Jean de Boulogne, and Giovanni da Bologna (1529-1608...
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1890s Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Large Antique Italian Grand Tour Plaster Sculpture of the Dying Gaul
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Large and impressive Antique Italian Grand Tour Plaster Sculpture of the Dying Gaul. Cast out of plaster, this figure shows Gaul, an ancient Celtic warrior slumped forward with a pai...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Plaster
Pair of Rock Crystal Obelisks and Sphere
Located in Hanover, MA
Beautiful grouping of clear rock crystal quarts pair of obelisks and a sphere.
Category
1950s Brazilian Vintage Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Rock Crystal
A Grand Tour Italian Specimen Marble Paperweight
Located in Spencertown, NY
The white ground inlaid with specimen marbles and porphyry with ridges on 2 sides
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Hunting Putti Sculptures Statues Marble 1850
Located in Portland, OR
A very fine pair of Italian Grand Tour putti bronze statues on Breccia marble bases, circa 1850.
One of the nicest pairs of antique Grand Tour bronze putti we have had in a while, th...
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1850s Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Breccia Marble, Bronze
18th Century India Bronze Hanging Oil Lamp
Located in Bradenton, FL
18th Century Sri Lankan hanging bronze oil lamp with Makara head spout. Solid bronze. Can be hung or used as a stand-alone decorating piece. Great piece to use with any decor. Dimen...
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18th Century Sri Lankan Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Italian Bronze Hanging Oil Lamp
Located in Bradenton, FL
18th Century Italian hanging bronze oil lamp with removable lid. Solid bronze. Can be hung or used as a stand-alone decorating piece. Great piece to use with any decor. Dimensions l...
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18th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
An Antique Italian Emerald Hand Blown Glass and Silver Decanter and Four Glasses
Located in New Orleans, LA
A charming 1920's Italian hand blown glass and silver decanter and four glasses in a lovely shades of emerald green and having designs of silver with silver rims. The ground stopper ...
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1920s Italian Vintage Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Silver
Antique 19th Century Italian Cameo Brooch
Located in New Orleans, LA
Vintage shell cameo sterling silver pendant necklace brooch 600.
Stunning pendant for a necklace the bell flips up or down depending on whether you...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Gold
Pair, Grand Tour Neoclassical Bronze & Marble Mounted Blue John Specimen Columns
Located in Atlanta, GA
English, 19th century.
An exceptional and rare pair of Grand Tour period Neoclassical columns. Each column has a stepped bronze and white marble plinth and base that is separated b...
Category
19th Century British Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Roman Bronze Oil Lamp With Theatrical Mask Handle
Located in Bradenton, FL
A rare Roman Grand Tour cast bronze oil lamp with a pear-shaped body leading to a curvaceous spout. Handle has a theatrical mask with expressive facial features and tight curly hair....
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Italian Grand Tour Empire Style Specimen Marble Center Table
Located in Forney, TX
A stunning vintage Italian Empire Grand Tour style specimen marble 'pietra dura' table.
Topped with a spectacular exhibition quality round specimen marble slab, featuring a large va...
Category
Mid-20th Century Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Siena Marble, Griotte Marble, Stone, Carrara Marble, Belgian Bla...
Antique German Bohemian Etched Red Flash Glass Beer Stein - German Ruby Krug
Located in New Orleans, LA
A stunning antique Bohemian etched red flash glass beer stein. It dates to the mid-19th century. This item has been handcrafted utilizing glass
etching and engraving depicting a wood...
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1860s German Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Crystal, Pewter
air Of French 19th Century Grand Tour Period Bronze Lamps, Signed Barbedienne
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome pair of French 19th century Néo-Grec st. Grand Tour Period patinated Bronze lamps, signed Barbedienne. The pair of original oil lamps are raised on circular socle shaped bases below the stunning and high quality busts of the goddess Athena. Each oil lamp displays wonderful and richly chased classical scenes of female figures playing instruments and weaving while dressed in elegant flowing fabrics. Above is a mottled top cap below our signature Cedric DuPont...
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19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Ebonized And Ivorine Tempietto
Located in Essex, MA
Grand tour style decorative temple with removable top. Amherst Mass collectors estate.
Category
Late 20th Century Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Wood
Pair, 19th Century Grand Tour Gilt Bronze & White Marble Candelabras
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian or French, early 19th century.
A fantastic pair of 19th century Grand Tour gilt bronze candelabras in the neoclassical taste. The beautiful cast grape vines...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Early 19th Century Bronze French Grand Tour Urns (Pair)
Located in Louisville, KY
This pair of early 19th century Grand Tour Period bronze gilt volute krater urns on stone bases are absolutely breathtaking. The base is a heavy black slate with etched Neo-classic f...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Stone, Slate, Bronze
Bernard de Montfaucon - Roman Temple Engravings, Nimes, France
Located in Savannah, GA
Bernard de Montfaucon
(French, 1655-1741)
This pair of copperplate engravings, depicting Roman temples (including temple at Nimes, France, or the Maison Carree) is from Montfaucon’...
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Early 18th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Pair, Grand Tour Style Italian Bronzed Plaques Aldrovandi & Homer
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian, late 19th century.
A pair of Grand tour bronzed plaques depicting
1) Ulisse Aldrovandi (Italian, 1522-1602) was an Italian natura...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
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 Furniture
Materials
Stone, Marble, Bronze
add photosCamillo de Vito, View from Naples Pier, Gouache, c.1820s Regular price
Located in Savannah, GA
Camillo de Vito
(Italian, active 1794-1845)
Veduta del Molo di Napoli (view from the Naples pier), circa 1820s.
A gouache on paper depicting a sailin...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Glass, Fruitwood, Paint, Paper
Late 19th Century Grand Tour Oil Print
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A late 19th century oil print in shadowbox frame, a Grand Tour souvenir. Orientalist scene with camel & pyramids, in gilt inner frame. Incredibly decorative & fun - made as a souveni...
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Late 19th Century African Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Paint
Italian Alabaster Obelisks - A Pair
Located in Savannah, GA
A pair of Italian alabaster obelisks, mid 20th century. With removable caps and drilled for lamp conversion.
larger: 5 inches wide by 20 inches tall
smaller: 4 ¼ inches wide by 14 ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Alabaster
Set of Two Custom Framed 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Intaglios, circa 1820
Located in Pearland, TX
A superb pair of framed Grand Tour intaglios, circa 1820. These genuine plaster hand-carved intaglios are all gilt paper wrapped and numbered. They are custom framed on a gray linen ...
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Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Linen, Plaster, Wood, Paper
Bay of Naples Gouache Seascape with Vesuvius Erupting, 1906
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Bay of Naples Gouache Seascape with Vesuvius Erupting, 1906, a fine gouache on paper seascape with the panoramic Bay of Naples stretching wide, wit...
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Early 1900s Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Paper
Italian Grand Tour Allegorical Porcelain Plaque of Two Graces - Circa 1900
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian, circa 1900.
A Firenze porcelain allegorical plaque depicting two extremely fine quality graces draped in beautiful dresses, flowers, gold accents to their clothing and shoe...
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20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
Large Pair Verdigris Finished Cast Metal Figural Planters after Clodion
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a gorgeous pair of signed "Clodion" Grand Tour style figural planters. This is a pair "after Clodion" and design in the style of his works, and are done in the grand tour sty...
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1950s Unknown Vintage Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Metal
Italian Grand Tour 800 Silver, Enameled Malachite & Painted Roman Scene Box
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian Grand Tour 800 Silver, Enameled Malachite & Painted Roman Scene Box.
This fantastic antique box is rectangular in form heavily decorated with hand chased foliate scroll work...
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20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
After The Roman Antique - Rock Crystal, Glass & Gold Flecking Grand Tour Pitcher
Located in Atlanta, GA
Likely European, 19th century or earlier.
This pitcher is incredibly unique and unusual. The interior has a cracked rock crystal surface, purple striations and gold flecking which a...
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19th Century British Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Rock Crystal
Antique Grand Tour Italian Capriccio Framed Oil on Board Painting of a Landscape
Located in Elkhart, IN
A gorgeous Grand Tour or Neoclassical style framed oil painting of an Italian Capriccio landscape with ruins
Italy, Late 19th Century
Oil on board, gilt frame
Measures: 10.25"W x ...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paint
Bronze Sculpture "The Snake Charmer" by Charles Arthur Bourgeois
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish and chic bronze sculpure of a snake charmer dates to the late 19th century, and it is the smaller version of the original which was created in 1863.
Dimensions: 12.50" height x 5.13" width x 3.63" depth.
FYI
Charles Arthur Bourgeois...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Grand Tour Marmo Rosso Model of the Tomb of Scipio, Italian, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The red marble sarchophagus mounted on a slate base. Removing the top reveals an empty well.
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Grand Tour Tortoiseshell Quartz/Mable Sculpture of Michelangelo's David
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Grand Tour Tortoiseshell Quartz/Mable Sculpture of Michelangelo's David
Italy, Early 20th Century
Add to your collection with this magnificent Grand Tour Tortoiseshell Quartz/Marbl...
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Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Quartz, Marble
Mid-19th Century Grand Tour Bronze Statue of the Arc De Triomph
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Wonderful statue of the Arc De Triomph made of bronze and marble. It has so many details. It is in good vintage condition and reminds in its original patina. The marble has no chips ...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Grand Tour furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Grand Tour furniture for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage furniture created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, more furniture and collectibles, wall decorations and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, stone and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Grand Tour furniture made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Bertrando Di Renzo, Giustiniani, F. Barbedienne Foundry, and Ferdinand Barbedienne. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for furniture differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $45 and tops out at $365,566 while the average work can sell for $2,501.
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