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 Charcoal and Watercolor Architectural Drawing, circa 1800
Located in Kinderhook, NY
Grand Tour charcoal and watercolor drawing executed by an English tourist in Italy, circa 1800, depicting a gentleman peering over a staircase balustrade in a Baroque interior...
Category
Early 19th Century European Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Giustiniani Egyptomania Pottery Plate with Gilt Highlights, Swan Right
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Giustiniani Egyptomania pottery plate with gilt highlights, and a central right facing swan
Neapolitan manufacture (Biagio Giustiniani & Sons) dated to 1830-1840, impressed script G.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Giustiniani Egyptomania Pottery Plate with Gilt Highlights, Swan Left
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Giustiniani Egyptomania pottery plate with gilt highlights, and a central left facing swan
Neapolitan manufacture (Biagio Giustiniani & Sons) dated to 1830-1840, impressed script G.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Grand Tour Italian Gilt Bronze Pendant Oil Lamp
Located in New York, NY
An 1870s Italian Historicist reproduction of a Baroque oil lamp in gilt bronze with winged mermaids and grotesques. Possibly made as a Grand Tour copy of an original lamp from the ch...
Category
1870s Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Grand Tour Bronze Figure of Diana
Located in Stockton, NJ
A finely cast 19th century Grand Tour figure of a Diana.
Category
1870s Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Antique Grand Tour Patinated Bronze Dogs Seated on Sienna Marble Plinths
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful pair of 19th century antique grand tour patinated bronze dogs seated on siena marble plinths. Each dog is beautifully cast and hand-chiseled with meticulous craftsmanship...
Category
1880s Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze
Three Italian Framed Watercolors of Scenes of Rome
Located in Essex, MA
Nicely framed and newly matted. The pantheon, forum and temple of Hercules Victor.
Category
1860s Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Other
Pair of Neoclassical Table Lamps
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish set of tables lamps were recently acquired from a Palm Beach estate and were originally vases produced during the "Grand Tour" of Europe and at some point have been moun...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Brass
Pair of Italian Grand Tour Paintings of Maenads, After Pompeii, Signed
Located in Stamford, CT
Two wonderful oil on canvas paintings of Maenads, inspired by frescoes unearthed at Pompeii in the late 18th century. Both shown suspended in air holding instruments in flowing drape...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Italian Ruby Glass Box with Miniature of Basilica
Located in Dallas, TX
Lovely little 19th century ring jar or pill box made of a thick wine colored ruby glass.
It has a miniature of a Basilica on top, gilt metal mounts with beautiful filigree on the si...
Category
Early 19th Century Vatican Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Metal
Grand Tour Bronze and Alabaster Tazza, Italian, Late 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
An exuberant alabaster bowl affixed to a rams head bronze stand with paw feet, standing on a circular base of wrapped sheafs of wheat, Italy, circa 1880.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Alabaster, 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...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Burlap, Mahogany
Cast Bronze Dante Alighieri Grand Tour Bust Sculpture Statue on Marble
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Italian cast bronze bust of Dante Alighieri on marble plinth. Item features: Fine bronze casting, beautiful patina, remarkable details, on bevelled edge marble plinth, circa ...
Category
1890s Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
l Grand Tour Bronze Tazza with Amazonian Battle Scene
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish late 19th Century Grand Tour bronze Tazza is detailed with an Amazonian battle scene and was acquired from a Palm Beach estate..
Note: The color of the piece is the dar...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
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 Furniture
Materials
Other
Faux Marble Round Center Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish center table with its faux specimen marble pattern and finish is very much in the style of pieces created from the Grand Tour of Europe in the late 19th century.
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Wood
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 Furniture
Materials
Porphyry, Bronze
Pair of Sienna Marble and Bronze Tazzas
Located in Dallas, TX
A pair of Sienna marble and bronze tazzas dating from the early 19th century, purchased in France. This pair is possibly French or European. D...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
19th century Grand Tour Green Marble Tazza Vase with Classical Carved Details
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A Grand Tour 19th century green marble tazza vase with classical carved motifs on tall pedestal. After a model of the renowned Warwick vase, this Grand Tour...
Category
19th Century Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Pair of 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Bronze Oil Lamps on Marble Bases
Located in Stamford, CT
Fantastic pair of Roman bronze tripod stands, each with three removable hanging oil lamps, each of those a different type, with a lid in the form of an animal, a rat, a hawk and a swan. The detail on these is incredible, not an exact pair, one has stags heads the other goats heads, one a figure of Mercury, the other of young Dionysus...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Griotte Marble, Slate, Bronze
M.L. Monteith, Signed Modern Oil on Panel, Scene from Verdi's Opera "Othello"
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A dramatic and colorful Oil on Board in a custom Gilt wood frame. Figures on a monumental staircase. Signed lower right, labelled and dedicated on verso. In a fine gilt frame.
Panel ...
Category
20th Century Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Wood
19th Century 1860 French Antique Neoclassical Brass Lantern
Located in New York, NY
Superb quality French lantern in heavy cast bronze, whole handmade, rare piece with very fine details of chasing and decoration with architectural elements. Eight textured glass arch...
Category
19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Antique Italian Grand Tour Models of Ruins in Sienna Marble
Located in New York, NY
A very fine and early pair of Roman neoclassical period grand tour Sienna marble models of the Temple of Castor and Pollux and the Temple of V...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Siena Marble
Italian Gouache Depicting a View of Posillipo from Naples, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The brightly colored gouache with fine details in foreground.
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Gouache
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...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Bronze Sculpture of the Borghese Warrior
Located in Miami, FL
Bronze sculpture after the Borghese Warrior of which the original life sized statue is in the Louvre. Placed on a marble plate. Comes with a wood and ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Marmo Gialo and Bronze Stamp Box, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
Italian Grand Tour stamp box, 19th century.
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Siena Marble
Anthony Redmile Faux Marble Creature
Located in Hanover, MA
Cast in marble resin so heavy and cold to the touch, this beast hangs on a wall or peers up at you from a table surface.
Also a profile of a Roman young man ($495); Medi...
Also a profile of a Roman young man ($495); Medi...
Category
Late 20th Century British Grand Tour Furniture
Onyx Obelisks Grand Tour Style Italy Bookend Home Accents Room Accessoire
By Raymor
Located in Miami, FL
This is a tall vibrant Onyx Obelisks or Bookend with natural details and sleek splendor lines. Attributed to Raymor and made in Italy circa late 1970s.
Note the natural banded patter...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Onyx
19th Century Grand Tour Patinated Bronze Silenus Lamp
Located in Essex, MA
19th century Grand Tour patinated bronze figure statue of Silenus, The God of Wine.
- Identical to that found in Herculaneum.
An Greek mythology, Silenus was the tutor...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Alabaster bust of Jean d'Arc
Located in New York, NY
Antique French (19th century) alabaster bust of Joan of Art, inscribed in French, Jeann d'Arc, exquisitely hand-carved .
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Alabaster
Edouard Henri Delesalle Bronze Venus De Milo Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture
Located in Atlanta, GA
Edouard Henri Delesalle (French, 1823-1851), circa 1840.
A good quality Grand Tour model of Venus de Milo cast in bronze.
"Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos is an ancient Greek ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Grand Tour Equestrian Bronze. Italy, Circa:1820
Located in Alexandria, VA
This bronze is a hand cast miniature copy of a life-size marble statue of Marcus Nonius Balbus the Younger which today stands in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. The sta...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Large Handcrafted Rhodochrosite Hinged Box
Located in New York, NY
Large handcrafted rhodochrosite hinged box, 10" x 5.80" x 2.30" H. Rhodochrosite is a manganese carbonate mineral that ranges in color from light pink to bright red and is found in A...
Category
2010s Indian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Stone
Capitoline Venus Grand Tour Mid 19th century bronze
By Praxiteles 1
Located in Mobile, AL
This grand tour bronze sculpture depicts the version of Venus so important to the history of art and literature in the U.S. that the original was temporarily loaned to the National Gallery of Art from the Capital Museums in Rome in 2011. Mark Twain visited Rome and upon his return home in 1867 he published "The Capitoline Venus" and he described the work as the “most illustrious work of ancient art the world can boast of". (with credit to the National Gallery of Art catalog...
Category
Mid-19th Century European Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Miniature Painting "The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine" After da Correggio
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Miniature painting after Antonio da Correggio (1489-1534), "The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine" (c.1526-27). This exquisite miniature in original frame is a Grand Tour souvenir of the highest quality. The blue velvet liner is sun faded. The Christ child places a gold ring on the hand of St. Catherine of Alexandria...
Category
19th Century Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paint, Velvet
Grand Tour Bloodstone Marble Bouillotte Lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Grand tour bloodstone marble Bouillotte lamp
The tole shade measures 13" depth x 6" height x 8.5" top
The height of the urn without the lamp fittings is 14 inches. The base has a 5...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
19th Century Pair of Polished Marmo Marble Sphere Paperweights
Located in Shippensburg, PA
PAIR OF GRAND TOUR POLISHED MARMO AFRICANO MARBLE SPHERES
Circa early 19th century over shaped rock plinth
Item # C104033
A gorgeous pair of 19th century decorative marmo marble sp...
Category
19th Century Unknown Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Stone, Marble
Bronze Sculpture of the Venus de Milo
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This cast bronze of the Venus de Milo dates to the late 19th century and was acquired during the "Grand Tour" of Europe.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Alabaster Italian Obelisks
Located in Nashville, TN
A pair of white alabaster Italian mid-century Obelisks.
The smaller one measures 4" x 4" x 16" and the larger one is 4.75" x 4.75" x 20".
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Alabaster
19th Century French Egyptian Revival Slate and Gilt Obelisk
Located in Stamford, CT
19th century Grand Tour / Egyptian Revival carved and polished black slate obelisk, the fronts decorated with very fine incised hieroglyphic designs which have been accented with gol...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Slate
Pair of Antique English Grand Tour Portrait Plaques "Hera & Rhodus"
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of antique English grand tour portrait 12" Plaques, "Hera & Rhodus". Both by Hancock A Son, Worcester with remnants of exhibition labels, in l...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Composition
Grand Tour Models of Trajan's Column & Cleopatra's Needle, a Pair
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Grand tour models of Trajan's column & Cleopatra's needle, a pair
Both with fine detail, and remnants of a thermometer standing 7.5" H x 3" square black marble base affixed with a bronze fence...
Category
19th Century European Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Bronze, Metal
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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