Beautiful bronze mortar, heavy and powerful in the hand. It is sold with its original pestle, the ring of which rests perfectly on the inner rim. The mortar is decorated with stylized columns, with a [...]
Small wrought iron compass, known as a "man's head" compass, dating from early 18th-century France. It is of fine quality, attractive due to the brilliance of the metal. Its charming size is almost co[...]
Superb 18th-century black marble mortar with its pestle. The beautiful marble has a superb patina and is engraved "GP" underneath. This mortar is quite rare as it is sculpted and includes its pestle. [...]
Large wooden hourglass with 4 marine columns. Inside there is a vial formed of two clear bubbled glass bulbs. The two bulbs are connected to each other by a wax seal covered with paper and a waxed cor[...]
Beautiful Louis XIV period double-lens telescope in leather and green vellum. Beautiful gilding with small tools on each tube. Minor restoration to the tip.
A set of two brass scientific instruments, signed “Butterfield à Paris,” made by the renowned engineer and instrument maker Michael Butterfield (c. 1635–1724), active in Paris during the reign of Loui[...]
A brass hourglass with six columns and hexagonal bases. It features a bulb with two bubbled glass vials, one of which has two bulbs. The seal is made of waxed paper covered with a black waxed cord. Th[...]
Beautiful brass equatorial ring,The ring carries a latitude scale 90.0.90The hour ring graduated on one side from I to XII twice and subdivided by 30 minutes, 15 minutes, 7.5 minutes. Inside the same [...]
Interesting full circle of Geometer Architect with 6 pinnules signed Delure in Paris. C.1720 Compass with 8-way wind rose. North indicated by a Fleur de Lys Ball-jointed base with butterfly-shaped cla[...]
A rare object to find, which fits in hand, shape of a small bowl with a pouring spout, it is a mortar for special medicines, because it is made from Serpentine stone, monolith. This fine stone, dur[...]
Hourglass from the end of the 17th beginning of the 18th century in iron sheet An opening in the frame reveals the vial made up of two clear "bubbled" glass bulbs connected together by a wax seal cove[...]
Two globes forming a pair. One representing the celestial and the other the terrestrial.A rare pair of miniature globes composed of a celestial and a terrestrial globe, made during the 17th century.Pa[...]
Bronze apothecary's mortar, truncated cone-shaped, with a circular base, decorated with eight crenellated buttresses. Made in Le Puy-en-Velay, dating from the second half of the 17th century. Very goo[...]
Table sundial Bronze18th centuryVery good conditionDated on it : year 1725 Also an inscription: "Tempus Fagit" The style (central piece) is based on a sun decorationDiameter: 15.5 cmAll deliveries, ca[...]
Made of bronze, here is a very pretty little mortar, a bit big however to be a poison mortar. It is decorated with a rotating decoration composed of crowned female masks and thick stylized columns. Ni[...]
Working sundial and compass integrated with a retractable and adjustable bird gnomon, made by Chapotot in Paris. The latitude of major cities is engraved on the back of the dial.Louis Chapotot was act[...]
Here an elegant survivor, it is not common to find a modest utilitarian wooden compass 2-3 centuries old and to be able to admire it still.
Solidly built from dark and hard wood, reinforced by iron [...]
Beautiful Butterfield Floral Decorated Graphometer in Paris C.1680 Mounted on its ball joint foot. Finely engraved wind rose compass with eight directions. Very good original condition.
Museum. Horizontal Sundial Dated 1699 Louis XIV Signed NB Nicolas Bion?" Exceptional horizontal brass sundial dated 1699 and signed NB Nicolas BIon? for latitude 53 45 Gnomon worked with openwork flor[...]
Two scarifiers for bleeding
in their original case
First half of the 18th century
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7.5 x 6.4 x 2.8 cm [case]
6.2 and 5.3 cm long [instruments]
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Beautiful and rare early models, in bro[...]
A beautiful bronze mortar from the late 17th/early 18th century. The mortar is conically shaped and made by the famous Louis Dubois.
The mortar is marked Louis Dubois A Puy in relief and features a s[...]
Very pretty little mortar, presented with a pestle, which has a good chance of being its. In bronze, it is decorated around the edge with 4 stylized columns. Beautiful old cast bronze, and its genuine[...]
Hourglass with three flasks in a red and gold painted metal frame.
Each base is decorated with a bird in the grass. The wider base features a frieze of stylized flowers and the narrower base a quatre[...]
Engraved brass pocket sundial made by Nicolas Bion (1655-1733), at the end of the reign of Louis XIV.
Butterfield type, Octagonal tray richly engraved freehand. Compass to the north marked by a fleur[...]
Slate sundial.
18th century period.
Bears the inscription in Latin: Quas quaeritis horas perditis
(you look for the time and you lose it)
Two slightly damaged corners.
elegant wrought iron gnomon[...]
End of the 17th century Beautiful pinnule graphometer by Butterfield in Paris 1635-1724 complete with its ball joint. It is in very good condition, measures 25 cm long and 11.5 cm high.
Bronze mortar - DUBOIS AUPUY manufacturer -
18th century.
Facing decoration of four putti faces.
Beautiful original patina.
Small casting/molding defects. (see photos)
Dimensions: 9.5 cm high x 1[...]
Bronze mortar, late 17th century, Rouen (Normandy), with half-round decoration of figures and/or masks between the buttresses in the form of columns, and on the edge four small masks.
Reference: book[...]
17th Century Tripod Apothecary skillet dated 1698 by Ward Rymens
The skillet is in superb condition and has had a restoration on one of the feet
bronze with a very beautiful patina
Delivery in Be[...]
Horizontal pocket sundial. Octagonal brass plate with indexes engraved with Roman and Arabic numerals. Dial called "a l'oiseau" adjustable according to the latitude. It is signed by the manufacturer B[...]
Butterfield-type brass sundial with foliage decoration around and on the bird gnomon.
In its black shagreen box wrapped in red velvet.
Signed "SAUTOUT L'AINE A Paris" on the reverse.
Dimensio[...]
Brass instrument, on a square base 14.3 cm square. Central circle: 11.5cm diameter.
Elegant wind rose, 16 directions, decorated with a fleur-de-lis in the north direction, with engraved indication of[...]
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