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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Style: Grand Tour
Returnable Items Only
19th Century Grand Tour Influenced Gilded Ormolu Ink Well, Stamped, Barbedienne
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality late 19th century French gilded Ormolu Gran Tour influenced gilded Ormolu ink well, having classing motifs and Roman Centurion bust embo...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
Grand Tour Hand Carved Boxwood Romantic Boy & Girl Under Palm Leaf Wall Plaque
Located in Lisse, NL
Beautiful quality, one of a kind German or Italian antique wall sculpture.
This rare wall sculpture from the late 1800s is all hand car...
Category
Late 19th Century European Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Boxwood, Nutwood
Pair of Terracotta Lions, after Canova, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The pair of recumbent lions facing towards each other.
Category
19th Century English Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Terracotta
Superb Quality Antique Micro-Mosaic Grand Tour Souvenir of a Visit to Rome
Located in Montreal, QC
Superb quality antique micro-mosaic Grand Tour Souvenir of a visit to Rome. set with seven panels, vignettes of Roman views in a shaped slate tablet. and in original frame. Part of a...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Slate
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 Anubis
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Giustiniani Egyptomania pottery plate with Anubis and gilt highlights
Neapolitan manufacture (Biagio Giustiniani & Sons) dated to 1830-1840, impressed s...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Crouching Panther Bronze Sculpture by Bayre
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish and chic bronze sculplture of a crouching panther will make a definete statement with is form and finish.
Note: Signed by the sculptor Bayre
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Tomb of the Scipios Grand Tour Souvenir
Located in New Orleans, LA
This incredible Grand Tour inkwell relic takes the form of the ancient Tomb of the Scipios, a family of Roman war heroes and generals. Beautifully carved ent...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Siena Marble
A Carved Breccia Marble Tazza, Italian, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The Tazza with a raised floral carving in the center of the cup with gadrooned decoration around the cup with tapering stem and half fluting. Ending in small square base. Minute chip...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
A Fine Early 19th C. Grand Tour Portrait by Friedrich Moosbrugger, Dated 1827
By Friedrich Moosbrugger
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A finely executed & extremely charming 19th century portrait of young Italian woman, probably that of Vittoria Caldoni.
Vittoria Caldoni was an Italian woman from Albano most favoured as a sitter by several of the German artists working in Italy at this time.
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1827 bottom right, re-lined and set within a carved and ebonized frame.
Canvas dimensions, 23.75” H x 18” W. Framed dimensions, 27.25" high x 21.75" wide x 2" deep.
Artist Bio: Friedrich Moosbrugger (1804 - 1830) was a German genre...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Wood, Canvas
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
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...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Specimen Marble-Topped Table, Grand Tour
Located in Montreal, QC
This is a rare and superb survival. Not merely do we have this intricately inlaid parquetry top, resplendent with various coloured marbles, but we even have the original walnut cente...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Pair of Italian Red Marble and Bronze Obelisks "Acanthus", Limited Edition, 2017
Located in Rome, IT
pair of italian marble and bronze obelisks, ACANTHUS , -grand tour collection- produced by Lorenzo Ciompi, 2017
designed, produced and executed directly in exclusivity for COMPENDIO GALLERY on limited edition of 10
all the bronze details was made expressly from a important roman bronzist from original cast model by Bottega Valadier and others neoclassic models-end XVIII° century
red levanto italian...
Category
2010s Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Grand Tour Bronze, Roman Woman by Susse Freres
By Susse Freres
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This bronze was produced by the firm of Susse Freres in France at the end of the 19th century during the "Grand Tour" of Europe. The piece has aged to a beautiful soft coloration.
F...
Category
Late 19th Century French 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
Inkstand of Neopolitan Fisherman
Located in London, GB
A good Italian Grand Tour model of a Neopolitan fisherman at his work. In ormolu and patinated bronze the oval base is naturalistically decorated with rocks and seaweed which the fis...
Category
1860s Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Grand Tour Neapolitan Tripod Oil Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Grand Tour Neapolitan Tripod Oil Lamp. Bronze patinated metal oil lamp of tripod form with lion head masks with rings, supported by lion monopedia on ball terminals on conforming bas...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
French Bronze Match Strike in the Form of an Old Soldier as a Water Seller
Located in London, GB
A very well cast and interesting French patinated bronze match strike. It is in the form of a water seller, in the uniform of an old Republican soldier, sitting on a bench. He is seen wearing a tricorn hat with a cockade to the brim, mutton chop whiskers, with a water cistern on his back and the cistern lid at his feet. In his hand and on straps are the water cups and in his belt a pair of pistols...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique Chased Silver Snuff Box Set with Fine Italian Micromosaic Plaque
Located in London, GB
The small rectangular silver snuff box, chased with foliage decorations and featuring a hinged back, is set with a detailed micromosaic plaque on top. The plaque depicts a rural land...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Stone, Silver
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
A Fine Grand Tour Style Bronze of Mercury Mounted as a Table Lamp, Circa 1900
By Giambologna
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The large & finely proportioned cast bronze figure of Mercury - Roman god of abundance & commercial success, shown cradling a caduceus in one hand - the other arm outstretched toward...
Category
Early 20th Century European Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
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
Center Table with Faux Marble Finish
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 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
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
Watercolor of St. Paul's Cathedral in London Sergio Manfredi, Italian
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Watercolor A view of St. Paul's Cathedral in London- Sergio Manfredi (1932-?) Italian painter, Signed and dated "S. Manfredi 1958" lower left and inscribed "London St. Paul's Cathedr...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Paper
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
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
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 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
Eugene Cornu, Large Marble and Ormolu Urn, 19th Century
By Eugène Cornu
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive 19th century veined grey marble lidded urn with wonderful gilded ormolu classical mounts of mythical dragon like handles and masks, raised on a fluted ormolu collar...
Category
19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
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
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 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 19th Century Grand Tour Roman Feet Bronze Candlesticks
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of 19th century grand tour Roman feet bronze candlesticks, each one realistically cast of one pair of human feet, that hold one standard candle.
Category
19th Century Italian 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
Fine Pair of Grand Tour Style Miniature Bronze Busts, Continental, circa 1900
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A very handsome pair of classical bronze busts raised on white alabaster columns decorated with gilt metal rings, atop squared rouge royal marble...
Category
Early 20th Century German Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Alabaster, Bronze
Bronze Sculpture of Atalanta by the F. Barbedienne Foundry
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This beautiful 19th century grand-tour piece of the goddess Atalanta was created by the Ferdinand Barbedienne foundry in Italy. The piece is hallmarked with F. Bernedienne Fondeur on...
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Late 19th Century 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
Italian 19th Century Neoclassical Marble Bowl on Pedestal or Tazza Centerpiece
Located in Firenze, IT
This Italian 19th century ( 1810- 1860 circa) antique neoclassical marble tazza or bowl on pedestal features round lines finished with a rolled edge both on top and on socle. This hi...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
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
Mid-19th Century Faux Tortoiseshell and Ormolu Tabletop Vitrine, circa 1860
Located in London, GB
A 19th century French faux tortoiseshell tabletop vitrine with gilt bronze mounts, superb quality. With original key and original bevelled glass.
U...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Ormolu
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
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.
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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
An Italian hardstone carved owl, c 1930 standing on a polished stone base, C1930
Located in Central England, GB
This superb little fellow is beautifully hand carved from hardstone quartz; a rare variety called tigers eye which gets its name from the similarity of lustrous natural colours whic...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Miniature Italian Pietra Dura Lapis & Jasper Mosaic Plaque of a Bird on a Branch
By PIETRA DURA
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Miniature inlaid hardstone Pietra Dura plaque of a bird on a branch from Italy. Gilt gold wood frame. Frame measures 6 3/8" wide x 5 1/8", image is 2 1/4" x 3 1/2".
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Stone, Lapis Lazuli
Antique grand tour White Marble Bust of Diana the Huntress
Located in New York, NY
Exceptional Grand Tour Carrera marble bust of the Roman goddess, Diana the Huntress, also known as Artemis in Greek mythology. 24 1/2 inches tall and in very good condition. Appare...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Grand Tour Italian Marble Sculpture Bust of Apollo, 19th Century
Located in Shippensburg, PA
GRAND TOUR
Italy, 19th century
"Bust of Apollo Belvedere after Antiquity"
Carved marble Italian, circa late 19th century, unsigned carved "APOLLO" on plinth
Item # 406PNS24E
A ...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Antique Grand Tour Bronze Models of Colonne Vendôme and the Luxor Obelisk 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is a wonderful antique pair of French Grand Tour bronze models of the Colonne Vendôme and the Luxor Obelisk, circa 1870 in date.
This splendid Colonne Vendôme bronze features...
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1870s French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Garden Half Round Cast Iron Urn Planter
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
French Demi Lune Green Patina Fluted Planter Pedestal
Charming and substantial early 20th Century antique French cast iron half round wall planter. This rare piece appears to have b...
Category
Early 20th Century French Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Iron
Pair of Giltwood Architectural Corinthian Columns in Grand Tour Style
Located in Nashville, TN
A nicely carved pair of 19th century Grand Tour period giltwood souvenirs of fluted columns with Corinthian capitals.Now mounted on contemporary acrylic bases with a back channel for...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
Grand Tour Bronze Bust Of Dionysus of the Villa of the Papyri
Located in Essex, MA
The Villa of Papyri was an ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum. Its named after its library of scrolls discovered in 1750. Dionysus was the Greek god of nature. Also the god of wine-m...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze
Large Italian 19th Century Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture “Hercules & Cerynitis”
Located in Shippensburg, PA
GRAND TOUR
Italy, 19th century
Hercules Subduing the Stag Cerynitis
Sand-cast and patinated bronze signed to the base "Fond = Amodio Napoli" cast circa late 19th to early 20th ce...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Copper
Twenty Six Framed Engravings Of " Views of Ancient Buildings in Rome"
Located in Essex, MA
By Matthew Dubourg [British, active 1808-1838]. Complete set of 26 views of the remains of ancient buildings in Rome and its vicinity. Beautifully matted with giltwood frames. Ready ...
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1820s English Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Giltwood, Paper
Pair of 19th Century Italian Paintings of Vesuvius Erupting in Naples
Located in Kastrup, DK
A decorative pair of Italian 19th Century gouache paintings of sailors on the Bay of Naples before Vesuvius erupting by day, and another by night, da...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paper
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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