Two Hungarian Framed Vestments

A beautifully framed set of hand embroidered silk vestments. The sash-collar and cuffs in a floral black and off white palette on a white silk background...

An extraordinary original antique map, framed in the 1970s by Brehm Nuremberg, Germany, showing Hungary. Map is dated 1629 and approx. 7 ¼" wide and 6 ?" high in viewable size. Frame...

This fine pair of faience chargers were crafted by the pottery manufactory in Montereau, France. The manufactory was established in the 18th century and flourished in the 19th century with the creation of Creil-Montereau faience, a kind of lead-based earthenware set on a white body which originated in the area which these chargers are crafted from. The pair of chargers...

Large tanned leather shield forms with nail head trim and carved and painted applied crests with some gilt details. Each with a different crest- one with a swan and rampant lions, th...

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon (1707-1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist. Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his most well-known work, Hi...

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon (1707-1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist. Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his most well-known work, Hi...