Coral Desmophyllum pertusum mounted on an ebony and red tortoiseshell base from Antwerp from the 17th century. Can make a beautiful decor in a cabinet of curiosities.
Desmophyllum pertusum, long ca[...]
Beautiful full black goatskin leather binding, richly gilded with small irons of flowered frames punctuated with stars, forming a beautiful contrast on the two covers, each in good condition, connecte[...]
Splendide et rare modèle de commode en bois de noyer noirci et plaqué de bruyère tullia.
Ce précieux travail d'ébénisterie a été réalisé au cours des décennies centrales du XVIIe siècle et précisémen[...]
Nice tool for an arquebus, four-function multiple wrench, 3 different screwdrivers, and on centre probably, the cutout for a rotary adjustment knob. Unfortunately, I do not have the weapon that this t[...]
Pulverin:
Carved with intaglio engraving. Piriform, it is complete with its cap decorated with acanthus flowers.
On the obverse: figure of a soldier on horseback in landscape. On the reverse the gro[...]
Sceau sur la Matrice, dans un bouclier apparaît un blason avec un faucon d'oiseau de chasse en vol ? Et Fleur De Lis Peut-être les armes d'un fauconnier ? Le dix-septième siècle
This splendid and rare model of chest of drawers in ebonized walnut and tullia briar was made during the central decades of the 17th century and precisely in Rome, because it shows the typical charact[...]
Beautiful early bronze, a casting from 17th century, once silver plated, there are still beautiful traces, and intended to be applied to a religious object or piece of furniture.
It is a rare represe[...]
Clé dite de mariage du XVIe ou XVIIe siècle, bague à décor ajouré d'un cœur et de volutes, base tournée. Tige creuse, mors entaillé de deux croix, en souvenir de la cérémonie religieuse…. Le marié a d[...]
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Very beautiful object, the lid of a Louis XIV or Regency snuffbox, of those oval and flat snuffboxes that we saw appear in France under the reign of L[...]
Plate of oval brass, beautiful mercury gilding, it was the back of enamels on copper or gold, it bears the signature of Huaut brothers, prestigious enamellers of Geneva, late seventeenth century. Addi[...]
Very rare object, to roll the ribbons that embroidered the great ladies of the Court (often to give a capacity to listen to conversations). Extraordinary luxury for a lady's work, with a technique of [...]
Beautiful embossed leather case containing a knife and a game fork, the handle in agate zoned cut to the ends, ending in a tapered silver ferrule, knife whose blade bears a beautiful Cutler's Hallmark[...]
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