ANTIQUES

England Late 19th Century

Tray in Papier Maché with full-field oriental-style decoration. Scene with courtesans in the centre.

Europe First Half 19th Century

Wooden temple clock with applied bronze decorations. The base and the capital of the columns are in gilded bronze. Display with Roman numeral hours.

India First half of the 20th century

Polychrome enamels on silver depicting an elephant with a palanquin and characters. The decoration of the object in enamels with vivid colors is embellished with glass pastes and beads hanging from the roof of the palanquin and from the elephant's ears. Base below finely engraved.

Italy, XIX Century

Pair of single flower vases in Murano glass.

Italy, Second Half of the XX Century

Centerpiece in pod-shaped and hand-hammered silver with polylobed edge. Under the rim incussi hallmark of the silver and silversmith. 866 grams.

Europe, 1920s-1930s

Art deco box in bronze and black fabric. On the lid decoration portraying female nude.

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Sextant with brass frame, vernier with adjusting screw and microscope for reading, three coloured filters for the fixed mirror, four for the mobile mirror. Marked "P. & G. Mattei Cardiff".

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Sextant with brass frame, vernier with adjusting screw and microscope for reading, three coloured filters for the fixed mirror, four for the mobile mirror. Marked "P. & G. Mattei Cardiff".

Fuller's Spiral Slide Rule

Fuller's cylindrical slide rule. It consists of an outer wooden cylinder that slides up and down and rotates, covered with paper marked with a graduated spiral logarithmic scale; inside is a longer wooden cylinder, also covered with paper marked with decimal tables. A brass index is screwed to the top of the neck, a second, longer brass index is screwed to the mahogany base and marked with a scale. The outer sliding cylinder is marked near the top: “FULLERS SPIRAL SLIDE RULE”; at the bottom it's marked: “ENTD. STATS. HALL / STANLEY, Maker, LONDON". The upper part of the long brass index is engraved: 1791 (/) 1903, for which it can be assumed (as for another similar specimen, preserved at the National Museum of American History) that the first is the serial number, while the second the year of completion. George Fuller, professor of civil engineering at Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland, patented this instrument in 1878; the Stanley firm produced about 14,000 Fuller spiral slide rules in nearly a hundred years.

Milan, First half of the 20th century

Silver table mirror with beveled mirror. On the side, the silver mark and the manufacture are engraved.

“F. W. Morgan Optician Manchester”

Brass microscope signed on de base "F.W. Morgan Optical Manchester".

"Baradelle a Paris"

Theodolite in gilded brass, with fixed and movable alidade central compass; signed on the underside "Baradelle a Paris". Baradelle was a French family of makers of scientific instruments; their production includes that of the father Jean-Louis-Jacques (active from 1752 to 1794) and his son Nicholas Eloi (active from 1774 to 1814), both signing indiscriminately with the sole surname. There is the painted and gilded wooden base with phytomorphic motifs as well. A similar theodolite belongs to the English collections of the Science Museum Group.

19th Century / 1801 - 1900, 18th Century / 1701 - 1800

Gilded brass monocular with extensible bosy; the end is enamelled and decorated with gilded phitomorphic gyrals.

19th Century / 1801 - 1900, 17th Century / 1601 - 1700

Brass and steel iron scale with spring system; it comes with 3 sets of cup weights; one consisting of six elements, two with houses (the outermost weight in the form of a case with a lid) and with six and five weights respectively. The latter, which is older than the rest of the lot and dates back to the 17th century, is stamped with a chalice on the outer part, while each of the inner weights has a triangle within which a six-pointed star is inscribed.

Tibet First half of the 20th century

Tibetan teapot in white metal, completely embossed and chiseled on the whole body and on the lid, ending with a "vajra" as a knob. The handle in the shape of a qilong and the infuser in the shape of a chimera.

India Early 1900s

Carved wooden pestle with spool lathe handle, square central part with lotus flower carving and arrowhead.

Europe 1920s-1930s

Pocket watch with visible movement. Spring loaded 8 days. Shows slightly worn.