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
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
19th Century Grand Tour Influenced Mantel Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive 19th century French Sienna marble and bronze mounted Grand Tour influenced mantel clock, having an arched top, mythical gods...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze
Pair of Breccia Medicea Marble and Bronze Obelisks, "Crabs", Limited Edition 2018
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of Italian marble and bronze obelisks Crabs -Grand Tour collection- produced by Lorenzo Ciompi, 2018.
Designed, produced and executed directly in exclusivity for Compendio Gall...
Category
2010s Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Breccia Marble, Bronze
Italian Bronze Mortar and Pestle, Original Patina, Italy, Pharmacy or Herbalist
Located in Roma, IT
Antique bronze mortar. Handmade with pestle. Original patina
Italian bronze mortar and pestle
Measures: Pestle height 7.5 in.
Category
Mid-19th Century European Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Large Grand Tour Bronze Model of the Colleoni Monument by Verrochi
Located in New York, NY
A Large Italian 19th century Grand Tour bronze model of The Colleoni Monument by Verrochi, on a granite base.
Category
1880s Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Rare Original Early 19th Century Roman Grand Tour Rosso Antico Marble Lion Bath
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this incredibly rare original early 19th century Roman Grand Tour Rosso Antico marble bath with Lion head detailing
This bath is stunning, I hav...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Grand Tour Inlaid Marble Specimen Paperweight, Early 20th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The center made up of blue marble veneers, yellow marble and green marble with each section banded by Carrara marble.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Italian Grand Tour Giallo Di Siena Oil Lamp, circa 19th C. Boschetti
Located in New York, NY
An Italian carved Grand Tour Giallo di Siena oil lamp. Beautifully carved with leaf detailing and rounded bronze handle, set above marble base with ros...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Siena Marble
Pair of Grand Tour Bronzes of Atalanta and Hippomenes
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This set of two late 19th Century F. Barbedienne bronzes were acquired from a Palm Beach estate.
FYI
Atalanta, the Greek Goddess of Running, is one of the lesser-known gods worth kn...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Plaque of Napoleon Crossing the Alps after the Painting by David
Located in London, GB
Bronze plaque in high relief of Napoleon crossing the Alps after the famous painting by Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748-29 December 1825...
Category
Early 1800s French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
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
French 19th Century Neoclassical Black Marble Baluster Vase
Located in Berlin, DE
French 19th century neoclassical black marble baluster vase
Impressive neoclassical tall baluster-shaped vase made of polished black marble, showin...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Belgian Black Marble
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
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
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 Marble Sculpture of the Melossian Hound
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish and handsome piece dates to the "Grand Tour" period of Europe and is titled the "Melossian Hound" of ancient Greece, Albania, and is carve...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Diane De Gabies Silvered Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture by Gautier & Albinet
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A finely scaled model of the Diane de Gabies published by Gautier and Albinet.
With a wonderful distressed silvered surface throughout.
The Diane de Gabies is modeled after th...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Portoro Marble and Bronze Obelisks "Gold Lion", Limited Edition, 2018
Located in Rome, IT
Pair of Italian portoro marble and bronze obelisks, gold lion -Grand Tour collection-
produced by Lorenzo Ciompi, 2017 designed, produced and executed directly in exclusivity for Co...
Category
2010s Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
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
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
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
Pair of Bronze Busts of Rousseau and Voltaire
Located in London, GB
A pair of Antique busts of the French philosophers Rousseau and Voltaire. Unusually although from fairly standard portraits the busts appear to be English rather than French as they ...
Category
1820s English 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
French Grand Tour Patinated Bronze Animalier Mounted Thermometer
Located in London, GB
A fine and unusual French antique Grand Tour table thermometer in patinated bronze. Set upon a naturalistic trefoil shaped patinated bronze base with...
Category
1840s French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Italian Micromosaic and Specimen Marble Occasional Table
Located in Essex, MA
Circular top now cemented in a wrought iron base with scrolled legs. Top with central view of the Coliseum and surrounded by various hardstones including porphyry.
Category
1860s Italian 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
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
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
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
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
Late 19th Century Grand Tour Italian Bronze Sculpture of Nude Venus Candlestick
Located in Lisse, NL
Elegant and highly stylish candlestick or table lamp.
This handcrafted and heavy quality, bronze candle stick or table lamp from the 1890-1910 era is in very good condition. This ro...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
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
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
Giustiniani Egyptian Motif Pottery Plate with Gilt Highlights, Rodent
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Giustiniani Egyptomania Pottery plate with gilt highlights, and a central Rodent
Neapolitan manufacture (Biagio Giustiniani & Sons) dated to 1830-1840
19th century, impressed scrip...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Walnut, Large Wooden Screw of a Wine Press, a Wooden Sculpture, Italy 1900s
Located in Roma, IT
Large wooden screw of a wine press, Italy, 1900s.
A walnut sculpture. Really nice.
Category
20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Wood, Walnut
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 standing atop the mouth of Aeolus - Ruler of the Four Winds, while ...
Category
Early 20th Century European Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
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
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
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
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
Large Grand Tour Verdigris Bronze Sculpture of Spinario by Benedetto Boschetti
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A large-scale and very finely modeled Grand Tour bronze sculpture after the Greco-Roman model of "Spinario" or the "Boy with Thorn" by Benedetto Boschetti...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
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
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
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
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
Antique Grand Tour Classical Regency Carved Marble Plaque Battle Travalgar 1805
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Superb and quite rare example of an exquisitely hand carved in really seldom seen high relief rectangular Marble Plaque depicting the “Battle of Trafalgar” scene of generous size, ea...
Category
19th Century British Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
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
Vintage Brass Verdigris Male Head Bust Sculpture
Located in Elkhart, IN
A gorgeous brass verdigris Grand Tour classical style male head bust sculpture
USA, Late 20th century
Measures: 3.75"W x 4.5"D x 5.25"H.
Good vintage condition.
Category
Late 20th Century American Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Brass
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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