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
French 19th Century Grand Tour Period Bronze and Marble Urn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome French 19th century Grand Tour period patinated bronze and Vert de Patricia marble urn. The urn is raised by a square Vert d...
Category
19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
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.
Category
Early 20th Century French Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Wrought Iron
Handpainted Ikat Red Flames Iron Tray
Located in ROCCAVIVARA CB, IT
The magic of the Ikat world reproduced by hand on this tray
The details of the colors will enlighten your table.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Iron
Grand Tour Serpentine Inkwell and Cover Inset with 7 Lava Stone Cameos, 19th C
Located in Spencertown, NY
The 7 cameos of historical figures, fitted with 3 quill holders, 2 inkwells and a pounce pot. The underside of the lid is framed with a circular gouache dep...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Serpentine
19th Century Silvered Bronze Athénienne Jardinière by Ferdinand Barbedienne
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A French silvered-bronze athénienne by Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris, last quarter 19th century with a revolving liner, the frieze applied with bucrania suspending ribbon-tied berried laurel swags above a border of bellflowers on a stippled ground above three seated female sphinxes issuing stylised foliage and scrolls on lion monopodia cast with the mask of Hercules, scrolling foliage and anthemions joined by stretchers, raised on a concave-sided triform marble base on a further thin silvered-bronze base, inscribed to the tripod base 'F. BARBEDIENNE'
Measures: 103.3cm. high, 41.5cm. diameter; 3ft. 4 3/8 in, 1ft. 4 1/4.
This impressive athénienne is a key reminder of the longevity of a particular model and design’s success from Antiquity through to the 19th century and up until this day. Typically known as the ‘Trépied du Temple d’Isis’, this athénienne is designed after the Roman antique originally found at Pompeii and now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples (fig.1). From being for example an inspiration for the baptismal font of Napoléon’s son in 1811, this model was the inspiration to many highly skilled makers throughout the 19thcentury such as the Manfredini brothers from Milan and of course the Parisian well-established bronze founder Ferdinand Barbedienne who executed the present example.
The Temple of Isis was a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis and was among one of the first discoveries during the excavation of Pompeii in 1764. Certainly considered as one of the most elegant examples of antique tripods, the existence of this model was then popularized to the rest of Europe via prints, one of the first being by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in 1779. This type of tripod was also popularised by an engraving in C. Percier and P. Fontaine’s, Receuil de Décorations Intérieures of 1801. Interestingly, there is also a watercolour now in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris, showing this type of tripod displayed at the 1801 Exposition des Produits de L’Industrie in the Louvre.
The passion for Greek and Roman Art in the 19th century.
The discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum around the middle of the 18th century gave rise to a new passion for Antiquity and the excavated masterpieces renewed the repertoire of fine and decorative arts and served as models for Neoclassicism. Members of the aristocracy as well as connoisseurs, particularly in England, completed their education by undertaking a ‘Grand Tour’ of Italy and often fell victim to the recently unearthed Greek and Roman artefacts...
Category
19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Silver Plate, Bronze
Pair of Antique Grand Tour Patinated Bronze Grey Hounds Seated Marble Plinths
Located in New York, NY
A Beautiful Pair of 19th Century Antique Grand Tour Patinated Bronze Grey Hounds Seated on Marble Plinths. Each dog is beautifully cast and hand-chi...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Vintage Grand Tour Painted Concrete Hercules Pedestal- a Pair
Located in west palm beach, FL
Fantastic pair of vintage concrete Hercules statues. They are great alone or add a stone top for the chicest garden console ever. Acquired from a Palm ...
Category
Mid-20th Century North American Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Stone, Concrete
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...
Category
19th Century European Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Leather, Paper
Oil on Canvas, Orientalist Scene, Signed Louis Saphier, circa 1920
Located in Houston, TX
Oil on canvas, orientalist scene, signed Louis Saphier, circa 1920.
Louis Saphier was active and lived in both New York and Holland. He is known for lan...
Category
1920s Vintage Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Canvas
Rare 19th Century Leblanc Freres Grand Tour Bronze Statue of the Arc De Triomph
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and very rare early 19th century solid bronze with marble base Grand Tour model of the Arc De Triomph by the world renown French company of LeBlanc Freres...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
After the Antique, a Large 20th C Plaster Figure of a Discus Thrower
Located in Bagshot, GB
After the Antique, a large 20th C plaster figure of a discus thrower
20th century
(Pedestal not included), 100cm wide, 42cm deep, 168cm high (39in wide, 16 1/2in deep, 66in high) a...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Plaster
19th Century Statuary Marble Bust of the Braschi Antinous as Dionysus, Signed
Located in London, by appointment only
19th century statuary marble bust of the Braschi Antinous as Dionysus, Signed Puge
19th century statuary marble bust of Antinous as Dionysus, Sig...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Statuary Marble
Three Marble Vases and a Sarcophagus, Etching by G.B. Piranesi
Located in Bradenton, FL
The central vase is carved with a priest and worshippers sacrificing the suovetaurilia (a boar, a ram and a bull), and is placed on a sarcophagus guarded by winged sphinxes. The left...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Paper
Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of Spinario the Thorn Picker
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A grand tour bronze sculpture of Spinario.
Measures: Height: circa 8 1/4 in.
Items purchased from David Sterner Antiques must delight you....
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
1970s Art Deco Style Vintage Shell Sconces in Gold & White Murano Glass
Located in New York, NY
Stunning oversized, ribbed sea shell-shaped wall lights in a high quality warm blown Pearl Murano glass worked with the Scavo technique on reverse that gives them the appearance of e...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Brass
Borghese 1890 Steel Engraving Greco Roman Scene Bernard Picture Co. New York
By Borghese
Located in Miami, FL
Framed 1890 Steel Engraving Greco Roman scene sand clock by Bernard Picture Co. New York, New York.
Marked Borghese on the reverse.
Category
19th Century American Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Steel
Pair of 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Tazze in Polychrome Marbles
Located in Kinderhook, NY
Pair of 19th century Italian 'grand tour' tazze or shallow urns of neoclassical form composed of ancient Roman marbles; the tazze having round giallo antico bowls and socles on squar...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Bronze Statuette of Venus, 2nd Half 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Small dark patinated figure of Venus on round profiled plinth.
Category
Mid-19th Century European Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Grand Tour Souviner / Patinated Bronze Sculpture of Sophocles 'Greek Tragedian'
Located in Dallas, TX
Grand Tour Souviner / patinated bronze sculpture of Greek Tragedian (playwright) Sophocles (479 BC-406 BC).
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Italian Marble Plaque of George Slaying the Dragon, C.1870
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19th Century Italian Grand Tour marble relief depicting St George slaying the Dragon.
England has always been one of the leading countries in terms of travelling and explori...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Grand Tour Style Silver Leaf Intaglio Trumeau Mirror
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Grand Tour style silver leaf Intaglio Trumeau mirror, tall and sleek with silver leaf frame. The top section (15"w x 9" h ) has three neoclassical plaster medallions...
Category
20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Mirror, Plaster, Wood
Big Size 73cm Alabaster Table Lamps Column Shape Italy, 20th Century
Located in Mombuey, Zamora
Excelent conditions, like new
These alabaster lamp are of excellent quality and are in perfect condition, They are beautiful color.
Photographs do not capture their beauty
It's har...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Alabaster
Pair of Grand Tour Porphyry and Sienna Marble Obelisks, Italian, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The porphyry obelisks on sienna 'marmo giallo' and porphyry base, condition: 2 small cracks on 1 base and a repair to the other on top of base. Condition commensurate with age and use.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Porphyry
Museum Mounted Grand Tour Inca or Sipan Silver Official Necklace
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Museum mounted grand tour Inca or Sipan silver necklace, a 20th century copy of an original neckpiece worn by an "Oficia"l of Inca or Sipan decent. Unmarked. Removable from the stand...
Category
20th Century Central American Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Metal, Silver
Mid 18th Century Micromosaic Plaque
Located in London, GB
A fine quality mid 19th century oval Micro-mosaic Plaque depicting St Peter’s Square Rome, enclosed in unusual black slate marble frame decorated with shells, scrolls & wolves.
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
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
A Sculpture of Hercules
Located in New Haven, CT
This is a beautiful copy of the Farnese Hercules executed in the Grand Tour Period made of albaster - it stands on a custom-made rare white marble pedestal with black veins.
The Fa...
Category
1860s Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Alabaster
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...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Monumental Gold Leaf Sculpture of an Angel
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Monumental gold leaf sculpture of an angel
Grand Tour style, made of gold leaf lacquer over fiberglass-reinforced resin
The statue measures 94"...
Category
20th Century Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Wood, Lacquer
Grand Tour Florentine Pietra Dura Panel
Located in New York, NY
Late 19th century Grand Tour Florentine Pietra Dura panel depicting man drinking from vessel. Measures: Image 7" H x 3.75" W, frame 10" H x 6.75" W ...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Stone, Marble
Old Paris, Grand Tour Greek Exekias Style Vase Now as a Lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Old Paris, Grand Tour Greek Exekias style vase now as a Lamp
Painted in the style Exekias , circa 540-530 BC, with a pale yellow background and black figures
Measures: 24" high to ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Large French Grand Tour Period Bronze Sculpture Recumbent Lion
Located in Montreal, QC
Grand Tour period bronze sculpture of lion resting on a rosso levanto marble base. France: circa 1850.
Category
1860s French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Continental Grand Tour Marble Tazza
Located in New York, US
Our large neoclassical tazza carved from variegated charcoal colored marble with red and grey dates from the nineteenth century.
Provenance: Jay Waldmann, Waldmann Inc., Southampt...
Category
Late 18th Century European Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Italian 19th Century Neoclassical Style Ormolu and Marble Columns with Busts
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An outstanding and high quality true pair of Italian 19th century Neo-Classical st. Grand Tour period ormolu, black Belgian and Rouge Royal marble columns with busts...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Italian 19th Century Grand Tour Period Patinated Bronze of a Roman Athlete
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome Italian 19th century Grand Tour period patinated bronze of a Roman athlete. The bronze is raised by a rectangular mottled edge black Belgian marble base below a thick rect...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Bronze Bust of Aeskulap
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylsh bronze sculpture of the Greek god oh healing Aeskulap, and it was most likely originally acquired on the grand tour of Europe in the late 19th century.
Note: At the b...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Grand Tour Furniture
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...
Category
1880s French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique Italian Green Marble and 'Lava Cameo' Inkstand
Located in London, GB
Antique Italian green marble and 'lava cameo' inkstand
Italian, 19th century
Measures: Height 10cm, diameter 14cm
This charming inkstand is crafted from green marble and gilt metal....
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Metal
19th Century Micromosaic Table Top with Views of Rome from the Grand Tour
Located in London, GB
A grand tour circular table top
Possibly by Domenico Moglia
The circular platform of marmore nero, inset with fine micromosaic panels consisting of hundreds of coloured glass tesserae; a central flower bouquet sit within a malachite border surrounded by a border including four cartouches in conforming malachite reserves representing Roman views including the Arch of Titus, the Temple of Vesta, the Capitoline Hill, and the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, connected by floral garlands.
Italy, circa 1855
Domenico Moglia (1780 - 1862)
Brothers, Luigi and Domenico Moglia, are celebrated as two of the few great mosaicists of the 19th century. Both are recorded as exhibiting at the 1851 Great Exhibition, London. Domenico's work included micromosaics plaques depicting views of 'the roman forum', 'the colosseum', and the 'temples of Paestum.'
The Lombardi Museum contains a collection of architectural...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Malachite, Marble
Pair of French 19th Century Neoclassical St. Patinated Bronze and Ormolu Columns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An attractive and most decorative true pair of French 19th century Neoclassical st. Grand Tour patinated bronze and ormolu columns. Each column is raised by an elegant square base wi...
Category
19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
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
Crackle Glaze Italian Pottery Urn Marked Made in Italy for Tutto Bene, 1830
Located in Ferndale, MI
Bulbous Italian pottery vase or urn. Signed made in Italy for Tutto Bene, 1830.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Grand Tour Style Allegorical Bronze of Thalia, Greek Goddess of Comedy & Poetry
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The finely cast & patinated bronze figure of Thalia, one of the nine Greek Muses and known as The Goddess of Comedy & Idyllic Poetry, shown standing draped in classical attire holding a comedic mask by her side in one hand and a poem in the other, raised overall upon a stepped red marble plinth...
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1890s French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Grand Tour Borghese Gladiator in Cast Metal
Located in New York, NY
Monumental French late 19th century Grand Tour heavy cast metal sculpture of the Borghese Gladiator. The piece depicts a swordsman during fight and is a cast reproduction of the fame...
Category
1880s French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Metal
Grand Tour Italian Bronze Vase with Trailing Vines, 19th Century
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional quality antique bronze vase applied in heavy relief with fruiting vines and with a handle applied to the side dating from the 19th century. Attributed to Grand Tour th...
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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
Antique Marble Sculpture of Aphrodite on Column
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A 19th century antique marble sculpture of Aphrodite also referred to as the ‘Crouching Venus’ on an octagonal pedestal. It is based on the antique Roman statue...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Statuary Marble
Grand Tour Style 20th Century Venetian Canal Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Grand Tour-Style (20th Century) unframed canvas oil painting of a bright, aqua canal crowded with gondolas under passage in front of Doge's Palace with St Mark's Campanile just behind it, and the domes of the Punta della Dogana visible in the distance in the lower left corner. Painting unsigned, noted as coming from a 20th-Century studio that specialized in historic commercial reproduction paintings...
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20th Century Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Canvas
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...
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Early 19th Century European Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
19th Century Bronze Bust of Caesar on Marble Pedestal
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
Nicely detailed Bronze bust of Caesar with terrific age acquired patina made in Italy during the late 19th century during the Grand Tour.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of Serpentine Grand Tour Lions
Located in Cheshire, GB
Pair of serpentine Grand Tour lions.
Category
19th Century Unknown Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Serpentine
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
Hand Painted Ikat Turquoise Flower Iron Tray
Located in ROCCAVIVARA CB, IT
The magic of the Ikat world reproduced by hand on this tray
The details of the colors will enlighten your table.
Each piece is unique and created by talented artisans.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Iron
19th Century Italian Micro-Mosaic Grand Tour Table Attributed to Roccheggiani
By Cesare Roccheggiani
Located in London, GB
A rare grand tour table
Possibly by Cesare Roccheggiani
The circular platform of marmore nero, inset with fine micromosaic panels consisting of thousands of coloured glass tesserae; a central roundel depicting The Vatican from St Peter's Square within a malachite border, surrounded by a border including four cartouches in polychrome reserves of Roman views including the Coliseum, the Roman Forum, with the remnants of the Temple of Vespasian; the Temple of Vesta, and the Pantheon, all interspersed and linked by voluminous bouquets of fruit and flowers representing the 4 seasons; the outer stylised border inlaid with deep blue tesserae evocative of exotic Lapis Lazuli. Supported on a finely carved Italian giltwood base, its design incorporating baskets of fruit and floral garlands echoing the 4 seasons theme of the table.
Italian, Circa 1875
Other table tops inspired by this design, although not as finely executed, can be found in several Russian collections (which house the greatest micromosaics) including Vorontsov Palace, Muranovo House, as well as the imperial State Hermitage Museum. A tabletop with profuse floral micromosaic work was commissioned by the Belgian Royal family (sold Sotheby's, 2003).
The floral garlands, the magnificent quality of the inlay and the use of distinct curved tesserae support the present attribution to Cesare Roccheggiani. According to Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel, the world expert on micro mosaics, curved tesserae pieces were used in foliage, grass and animal fur by only the very best mosaicists such as Roccheggiani. Evidence of curved pieces, for instance, is observed in the foreground of the Temple of Vesta cartouche, to name but one observation of the master's hand.
The scion of a dynasty of mosaicists, Roccheggiani was perhaps the most successful mosaicist in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. He is doubtless related to Lorenzo Roccheggiani, a late eighteenth-century master mosaicist at the Vatican, whose work included the altarpiece, Crucifixion of St. Peter after Guido Reni. Nicolo Roccheggiani, possibly Lorenzo's son, was also a principle artist at the Vatican, involved in executing the famous tabletop Achilles Shield...
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19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Malachite, Marble, Belgian Black Marble
Pair of Monumental Marble Obelisks, White #2
Located in Berlin, DE
Extremely rare and decorative obelisk pair. Various types of marble an absolute rarity and a guaranteed eye-catcher in every interior. Measures: 73.2 inch.
(U-Hud-2).
Category
20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Cabinet Size Bronze Sculpture of Venus de Milo after Ron Liod Sauvage
By Ron Sauvage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine Venus de Milo bronze after Sauvage.
In an diminutive size that is perfect for the desk, mantel or vitrine.
Simply a wonderful little...
Category
20th Century French Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
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
European Tour Bacchus Bronze Sculpture on Gilt and Rouge Royale Marble Base
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
European tour bacchus bronze sculpture on gilt and rouge Royale marble base from a palm beach estate
Note the refinement of the fingers and...
Category
Late 19th Century European 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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