Rare model with articulated arms and toothed wheel. Complete with their buckles and tongues. Beautiful ironwork on the wheel support. Excellent condition! 18th century period, circa 1770. Dimensions 1[...]
Painted enamel on convex copper depicting the episode of Saint Louis and the Crown of Thorns.This enamel can be attributed to Baptiste Nouaillier, an enameller active in Limoges between 1699 and 1775.[...]
Miniature chest of drawers in marquetry. With two drawers on the front. The top is decorated with veneered wood in a checkerboard pattern. Late 18th century. Width: 30 cm - Height: 23 cm - Depth: 18 c[...]
SleighCarved and polychrome lacquered wood, cast iron.XVIIIthLouis XV periodBeautiful sleigh in carved and polychrome lacquered wood with a Medicis lion figurehead, decorated with scrolls and foliage [...]
Superb pocket watch display, one of those fine thick watches, which were called "onion" under French Regence and Louis XV. Placed in the evening near bed, it served as a bedside clock. It is a lacewo[...]
wrought iron key about 10 cm long with a drilled shank, an S-shaped bit and a cross-shaped hole, the circular ring with a diameter of 3 cm is drilled in its center and bears the inscriptions "election[...]
Two small giltwood frames, each containing six red wax seals, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, one with antique glass and a collector's label. Frame dimensions: height 17.5 cm - width 13.5 cm.[...]
Coat of arms of Belgium on vellum by Lambert Antoine de FROMENTEAU de RUYFF Baron Born on April 14, 1721 - Nancy, 54395, Meurthe et Moselle, Lorraine, France Died on December 29, 1788 - Ruyff, Baelen [...]
Seal Stamp Stamp Brass Matrix with the Arms of the Buissy Family 18th Century Cambrésis, Ponthieu Silver, with a gules fess, charged with three gold clasps. Handle slightly dislocated from the socket
IN EXCELLENT CONDITION AND FUNCTIONAL ITS KEY IS ORIGINAL, WEIGHING 1 KG 300 SAFE PADLOCK, YOU MUST PUSH THE RATCHET TO THE RIGHT TO OPEN THE LOCK ENTRANCE, VERY GOOD SPRING, FROM THE LATE 18TH EARLY [...]
Gilded wooden frame containing seven beige and black wax seals, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, under glass. Frame dimensions: height 16cm - width 18cm. Very decorative and in good condition.
CHARLES-NICOLAS COCHIN THE YOUNGER (1715-1790) Ball Paré at Versailles for the Marriage of Monseigneur the Dauphin on Thursday, February 9, 1747. De Bonneval. Door and Steps on the Right. Etching and [...]
Lettre de cachet signée Louis XVI et par le Ministre de la Guerre le Maréchal de Castries
Versailles le 8 octobre 1784
Cachet plaqué
Les lettres de cachet sont des manifestations discrètes et pers[...]
Base for anatomical study model in marbled softwood, with legends on handwritten plates on paper applied to the 4 faces of the prism. Late 18th century.
The 4 cards have legends relating to the nervo[...]
Wax stick case, simple, cylindrical, opening 2/3 by a screw thread, each end engraved of one seal, which you see, are astonishing and full of meaning: *in a circle: The sun, the moon between two cross[...]
Cylindrical box "turner's test", 17th-18th century. Cylindrical box decorated with various bands and a lid with a carved star. lid with a carved star. The base bears a series of inscriptions that allu[...]
Beautiful 18th century herbarium in its 4to binding in ivory vellum, title page with a colored urn dated 1774; and bearing the ex-libris of Abram, Curé de Coursan. This pretty glossary of the plants o[...]
Ivory chess piece depicting the Raja (the King), carved in the round, kneeling on a square base and wearing his crown. A hole in his right hand for a possible royal attribute? Beautiful shade of ivory[...]
Louis XVI period fashion mannequin circa 1770, 85 cm tall; a model that allowed milliners at their clients' homes, at the Queen's court for example, to dress their offerings on the spot. A mannequin l[...]
A Silver Perpetual Calendar Notebook.Germany, Early 18th Century.Measures 8.7 × 5.3 cm.This finely crafted notebook features silver outer covers intricately engraved with fruit and foliage motifs emer[...]
Four framed silver plaques engraved with portraits of English monarchs and a nobleman. English, 18th century. The silver plaques depict Queen Elizabeth I (c.1533-1603), Sir Walter Raleigh (c.1552-161[...]
Tithe Stone – Period at least 18th century We offer you this rare square-shaped tithe stone with rounded sides, with carved grips in the corners to facilitate its handling. This stone measuring instru[...]
Bronze horse bell – Flower and fleur-de-lis decoration Diameter: 5 cm Condition: Good overall condition, with slight deformation due to use and a small loss (see photos). This pretty bronze bell, deco[...]
Beautiful embroidery representing an alliance coat of arms, in a Bérain frame, 18th century period. The alliance coat of arms made in embroidery is mounted in a beautiful Bérain frame from the 18th ce[...]
Amazing miniature wardrobe from the 18th century, gendarme's hat and shell feet, paneled doors with flat strips, in oak. Provincial work, some old restorations.
Large CORPORATE MUG in pewter with a truncated cone resting on three skates depicting grotesque masks, with a molded spout and a "ball" thumb lid topped with a soldier presenting a shield loaded in re[...]
Rare Belt Buckle worn at the court of Surakarta in the 18th century. This is a magnificent belt buckle of iron and gilt copper, fashioned in the form of intertwined serpents, known as Timang ular-ular[...]
Two precious feminine jewels, hidden under the dresses of ladies, late 18th or early 19th century. Smaller than garter buckles (perhaps corsets), these must have been keys opening onto hidden treasure[...]
An extrememly rare Jeton / médaillon deprésence comité révolutionnaire française , brass pendant case with glass front and back. A unique opportunity to own a piece of French history.“Commune de reuni[...]
Beautiful master chest of drawers in plum and walnut veneer, opening with three drawers. This piece of furniture is entirely mounted on softwood, including the drawer recesses. Beautiful original orna[...]
Very pretty pair of antique incense holders with a magnificent patina. In stuccoed wood, stucco, from the end of the 18th century in the shape of a rosette. Good condition, diameter dimension 22.5 cm [...]
very interesting little Louis XV period walnut chest of drawers. It opens with five models end carved drawers, three of wich are in the belt; They are decorated with bronze pull andles and lock entrie[...]
FIRE STEEL
France, 18th century
Steel
Length: 7 cm Width: 3 cm
Lighter or fire instrument with two oblong, fluted side wheels, centred on a frieze engraved with oak leaf motifs.
Text and ph[...]
Pair of stirrups. Carved wood, iron. Chile, 18th century.
Pair of stirrups composed of a carved wooden block, half-moon shaped on the front, and decorated on the outside with geometric and plant elem[...]
18th century weight. Bronze.
Incomplete bronze weight, with the container and two smaller ones, all cold decorated with incised and stamped designs, with simple rims on the smaller containers and mor[...]
Presented superbly in a double-beveled silver-plated box frame and on a pearl gray canvas support with a beveled edge, this rare padlock and its key, like a jewel, is displayed divinely well in its ri[...]
"Masterpiece of a Master Coachbuilder". This is what was called in the 18th century a "Landeau", a flat-roofed suspension carriage. This reduced reproduction is of high quality of detail and of good s[...]
Exceptional 18th century statue sword, central Italian manufacture, entirely in carved wood. The blade is silver leaf, while the hilt and grip are gilded with pure gold leaf. Both parts preserve the l[...]
Set of three heraldic plaques. In bronze. 18th century.
Bronze plaques decorated with a castle with a pelican pecking its chest at the door, a heraldic element enhanced with symmetrical plant shapes.[...]
Engraved silver seal, oval shape, beautiful size, its handle is turned and beaded boxwood, with beautiful old patina.
Central coat of arms, topped with count's crown, surrounded by branches, central [...]
France, Late 18th Century - Early 19th Century
Auvergne – Haute-Loire
Some objects seem easily understood at first glance, while others resist, carrying a memory that time has nearly erased—but no[...]
Round silver plaque, entirely cast and chiseled, representing a battle scene executed in high relief.
Without visible hallmarks. Italian work from the first half of the 18th century.
Presented in an[...]
Chest of drawers called mastery in marquetry of native wood opening with three drawers, lock entries in gilded bronze. Work attributable to HHache in Grenoble. Louis XIV period around 1710 Some jumps [...]
Beautiful pair of stirrups called clogs in brass from the 18th century. with chiseled patterns on the top and sides. Patina shovel, transformed into appliques. Length 30 cm Width 10 cm Height 12.5 cm [...]
Rare sign decorating a shop of religious objects, representing a censer decorated with gadroons, in painted iron enhanced with gilding, and its three chains. The censer is double-sided. Period XVIII A[...]
Two pretty old keys in wrought iron and in good condition. Keys for boxes or small pieces of furniture. One has a heart in its pattern, perhaps a reference to a wedding object. Period 18th century, pe[...]
This rare sprinkler or ground watering can with rose water or perfume, was used since antiquity in the countries around the Mediterranean. Glass examples are known in Spain and Catalonia dating from t[...]
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