There are 3291 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribeA most impressive French Art Deco black slate and green marble clock garniture in the Egyptian style, the clock surmounted with a reclining bronze sphinx and flanked by two seated winged jaguars and the eight day striking movement flanked by two tapering marble sections and decorated overall with engraved and silvered hieroglyphs and animals, together with a pair of matching obelisks of square tapering form, stamped to the base "Blanpain (?)" and with the inscribed number 6326 (clock 51cms wide x 43cms high, obelisks 58cms high, as viewed, slight damage to the plinth of one obelisk).
A PINXTON COFFEE CAN, PATTERN 108 painted in neo classical style with two oval vignettes of an obelisk or romantic landscape in gilt frame beneath sepia paterae and festoons centred by an urn, the rims and handle gilt, 6.5cm h, c1800. ++ Gilding on the handle and rims rubbed, undamaged, no restoration
A garniture of three Staffordshire smear glazed stoneware obelisks, circa 1800, possibly Warburton, each obelisk decorated in polychrome enamels with fruit including pears, grapes, cherries and plums, within blue lined borders, and raised on square plinth bases, relief moulded with medallions of country landscapes and classical scenes of Vesta and Cupid, 27.5cm high and 23cm high (3) For a pair of similar obelisks see: Property from the collection of Mrs J. Insley Blair, Christies New York, 21st January 2006, lot 555 and The Alice Tully Collection, also Christies New York, 26th October 1994, lot 362. This lot is probably the garniture illustrated in Hugo Morley Fletcher and Roger McIlroy`s, Christies Pictorial History of European Pottery, 1984, pp. 300-301, no. 18, which was catalogued as Castleford and sold for 100 guineas at Christies London on the 14th October 1963.
19th Century `Cleopatra`s Needle` oil lamp having a ceramic reservoir decorated with Egyptian revival motifs supported by a bronze finish obelisk guarded by two sphinx figures and marked with a registration lozange. The stepped base with inscription `Cleopatra`s Needle erected by Thothmes III Heliopolis 1700 BC, London 1878 AD`, 52cm high with star cut etched glass globular shade.
A MARBLE OBELISK CLOCK, FRENCH, LATE 18TH CENTURY surmounted by an ormolu figure atop a marble globe supported by four lions and set upon a marble column, the base set with a white enamel dial signed `Imbert l`ainé / à Paris` for Jean-Gabriel Imbert (master 1776), the eight day movement with silk suspension cord, pendulum and key -- 89cm high
JOANNIS JANSSONII, Eboracum, hand coloured engraved map, 1651, with title cartouche and obelisk, from the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor ....", 5 3/4" x 8", similar maps Gallicia and Insula Zeilon, and another Ceilan Insula, engraved by Mercator/Hondius from Samuel Purchas "Purchas his Pilgrimes", publication 1624-26, 5 1/2" x 7 1/4", gilt frames (4)
A French Louis XVI style black marble and gilt metal obelisk mantel clock, the 9cm circular enamelled dial, inscribed Jn.Ficios, Barthet a Marseilles, Roman and subsidiary Arabic numerals, twin winding holes, eight-day movement, silk suspension, the drum case with urnular finial, flanked by a pair of flowering baskets, tall columns flanking a pendulum, rectangular base, gilt metal bun feet, 41cm high
PELANCA Y TITA: SOLAR HOROSCOPES EXTRACTED FROM AN ANCIENT HEBREW MANUSCRIPT FOUND NEAR CAIRO IN 1836 AT THE TIME OF THE REMOVAL OF THE OBELISK TO FRANCE, Trans Rosa Baughan, L 1893, 1st edn, inscr pres copy, orig wraps + "SEPHARIAL": THE GREAT DEVASTATION A PROPHECY OF THE TIMES THAT ARE COMING UPON EUROPE – AN ASTROLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE GREAT WAR, L, W Foulsham, circa 1914, 2 vols, orig wraps + LUDWIG QUIDDE: THE KISER’S DOUBLE, Trans Claud Field, L [1915], orig wraps + ALAN LEO: WHEN THE WAR WILL END, L [1915], orig wraps + two others (7)
A FINE EARLY 19TH-CENTURY NAPOLEONIC FRENCH PRISONER-OF-WAR STRAW WORK PICTURE, possibly depicting Portsmouth Prison Camp, with figures walking before an armoured walkway to a block house, a warship sailing beyond an obelisk, tinted in different coloured inks (now faded), 13D x 18Iin. (33.5 x 47cm.) In (probably original) frame
Good quality early nineteenth century Nelson commemorative brass faced watch stand in the form of an obelisk with bust of Lord Nelson within wreath supported by two sphinx figures and Trafalgar, Oct 21 1805, Nile, Copenhagen with watch recess below accessed by hinged near cover, on scroll feet, 25cm