Antique cardboard lithographed demijohn headdress - Andrea Cioni & Figlio (Empoli, Tuscany)

Period: Circa 1913-1920 (Italy)

Period packaging that caps the neckline of large wicker transport demijohn to seal the neck.

Jusquiame - Henbane

Antique pharmacy bottle.

Red ‘POISON’ label

Indicating to the pharmacist that it must be stored separately from other substances in the cabinet for toxic substances, the famous ‘poison cabinet’.

It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not been moved from the shelves since the late 1950s. The cellar had served as a medical analysis laboratory and a laboratory for the pharmacy’s compounded preparations from 1900 until around 1950.

Date: Begining of 20th century

EMPTY

Large antique wooden pharmacy drawer with compartments - From a pharmacy or herbalist's cabinet

3 compartments 

Ref C - 39.5x50cm

Can be used as a storage box

Weight: 4.1kg !

Original heraldic engraving on copper (1722) in colour - A System of Heraldry - By Alexander Nisbet

The vignette was cut from an original folio sheet and then hand-enhanced with a subtle watercolor painting.

The event is presented under a modern passe-partout

Family coat of arms: McClellan of Barclay

Original heraldic engraving on copper (1722) in colour - A System of Heraldry - By Alexander Nisbet

The vignette was cut from an original folio sheet and then hand-enhanced with a subtle watercolor painting.

The event is presented under a modern passe-partout

Coat of arms of the family: Dalrymple of Cranstoun

Stem - Baroque base in turned wood and gilded stucco - Italy (Tuscany), 19th century

Italian Giltwood Altar Floral Stand

Antique religious altar bouquet stem made of turned and carved wood, covered with a stucco undercoating (gesso) and gilded.

Lack of gesso and gilding in some places, which is precisely why the white gesso appears under the gilding.

Traces of use and visible gaps in stucco

Stem - Baroque base in turned wood and gilded stucco - Italy (Tuscany), 19th century

Italian Giltwood Altar Floral Stand

Antique religious altar bouquet stem made of turned and carved wood, covered with a stucco undercoating (gesso) and gilded.

Lack of gesso and gilding in some places, which is precisely why the white gesso appears under the gilding.

Traces of use and visible gaps in stucco

Antique intaglio and cameo print from the Grand Tour of the 19th century

Two-tone sulfur print

True testimony of the Grand Tour carried out by the aristocrats in the 19th century

Antique bust / scholar profile

Antique intaglio and cameo print from the Grand Tour of the 19th century

In Brown Wax

True testimony of the Grand Tour carried out by the aristocrats in the 19th century

Profiles in the antique style, mythological scenes or Greco-Roman deities

Antique intaglio and cameo print from the Grand Tour of the 19th century

In Red Sealing Wax

True testimony of the Grand Tour carried out by the aristocrats in the 19th century

Profiles in the antique style, mythological scenes or Greco-Roman deities

Antique intaglio and cameo print from the Grand Tour of the 19th century

In Red Sulfur

True testimony of the Grand Tour carried out by the aristocrats in the 19th century

Profiles in the antique style, mythological scenes or Greco-Roman deities

Antique intaglio and cameo print from the Grand Tour of the 19th century

In Gray Sulfur

True testimony of the Grand Tour carried out by the aristocrats in the 19th century

Profiles in the antique style, mythological scenes or Greco-Roman deities