Grand Tour Furniture
GRAND TOUR STYLE
For 18th-century young British noblemen, no education was complete without a year on the Grand Tour. Although it had no official route, the Grand Tour focused on places foundational to European art, literature and architecture, including sites in France, Germany, Switzerland and, most importantly, Italy. It was an opportunity not just to witness the roots of the classics they had studied but also to take some of it home. Grand Tour furniture was among the souvenirs.
Grand Tour furniture ranged from marble architectural models replicating ancient wonders to actual antiquities often taken illicitly, leaving a legacy of looting still being unraveled today. Other items reflected the artistic richness of the Renaissance cities and other destinations. In Italy, this included scagliola tables and pedestals mimicking marble as well as tabletops and wall panels embedded with pietra dura hard stone mosaics.
Furniture was also developed to display Grand Tour purchases in the owner’s home, presenting them as a cultivated and well-traveled person. Mahogany collector’s cabinets held objects like intaglio moldings of coins and seals while others had specialized drawers that framed pietra dura panels.
Many objects were specifically produced for Grand Tour collectors. Often accompanied by retinues on journeys lasting months or years, the elite travelers, the wealthiest of whom extended their trips to Egypt and the Holy Land, required artful personal mementos befitting the experience. For example, Grand Tour micromosaics — small artworks, most not more than two inches wide — arose from the entrepreneurial impulses of artisans who had trained in the Vatican’s workshops.
Grand Tour journeys would help inform a range of decorative styles such as neoclassical, Rococo and Adam style. (Architect and designer Robert Adam toured Italy and France for five years.) The Grand Tour flourished at a time of economic prosperity and political stability, but the French Revolution in 1789 brought it to an end. Yet as the tradition faded in popularity in England, the rising wealth of the United States led to an increase in tourism across the Atlantic and a similar passion for collecting to show one’s worldliness.
Find a collection of Grand Tour decorative objects, wall decorations, lighting and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Grand Tour
Big Size 73cm Alabaster Table Lamps Column Shape Italy, 20th Century
Located in Mombuey, Zamora
Excelent conditions, like new
These alabaster lamp are of excellent quality and are in perfect condition, They are beautiful color.
Photographs do not capture their beauty
It's har...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Alabaster
Grand Tour Brass and Marble Tazza
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish, classic and chic Italian tazza dates to the latter of the 19th century.
Note: The piece has been professionally polished and finished with...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Brass
Old Paris, Grand Tour Greek Exekias Style Vase Now as a Lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Old Paris, Grand Tour Greek Exekias style vase now as a Lamp
Painted in the style Exekias , circa 540-530 BC, with a pale yellow background and black figures
Measures: 24" high to ...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
19th C Grand Tour Roman Style Iron Gorget on Stand
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th c Grand Tour Roman style iron gorget on stand
Decorated with a intense battle scene with Imperial Roman soldiers fighting native warriors, with tw...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Iron, Wrought Iron
Bronze Statuette of Venus, 2nd Half 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Small dark patinated figure of Venus on round profiled plinth.
Category
Mid-19th Century European Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Oil on Board Harbour Scenes Manner of Luigi Maria Galea
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Manner Of Luigi Maria Galea (1847-1917)
circa 1900
The Grand Harbour, Valetta, early morning; and The Grand Harbour, Valetta, at dusk
signed illeg...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Paint
Oil on Canvas, Orientalist Scene, Signed Louis Saphier, circa 1920
Located in Houston, TX
Oil on canvas, orientalist scene, signed Louis Saphier, circa 1920.
Louis Saphier was active and lived in both New York and Holland. He is known for lan...
Category
1920s Vintage Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Italian Marble Plaque of George Slaying the Dragon, C.1870
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique 19th Century Italian Grand Tour marble relief depicting St George slaying the Dragon.
England has always been one of the leading countries in terms of travelling and explori...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Antique Limestone Statue of The Uffizi Boar
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
After the antique, a finely modelled and weathered limestone garden ornament.
This classical sculpture is generally thought to be based on the story of the slaying of the Calydoni...
Category
20th Century English Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Limestone
Large French Antique Gilt Bronze Mounted Rotating Marble Pedestal / Stand
Located in London, GB
A large French antique gilt bronze mounted marble pedestal
Having a central female gilt bronze mount with a floral wreath under a rotating top with additional bronze mountings an El...
Category
1880s French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Continental Grand Tour Marble Tazza
Located in New York, US
Our large neoclassical tazza carved from variegated charcoal colored marble with red and grey dates from the nineteenth century.
Provenance: Jay Waldmann, Waldmann Inc., Southampt...
Category
Late 18th Century European Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Bronze Bust of Aeskulap
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylsh bronze sculpture of the Greek god oh healing Aeskulap, and it was most likely originally acquired on the grand tour of Europe in the late 19th century.
Note: At the b...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Bronze Bust of Caesar on Marble Pedestal
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
Nicely detailed Bronze bust of Caesar with terrific age acquired patina made in Italy during the late 19th century during the Grand Tour.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Italian 19th Century Neoclassical Style Ormolu and Marble Columns with Busts
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An outstanding and high quality true pair of Italian 19th century Neo-Classical st. Grand Tour period ormolu, black Belgian and Rouge Royal marble columns with busts...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Antique Marble Sculpture of Aphrodite on Column
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A 19th century antique marble sculpture of Aphrodite also referred to as the ‘Crouching Venus’ on an octagonal pedestal. It is based on the antique Roman statue...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Statuary Marble
Borghese 1890 Steel Engraving Greco Roman Scene Bernard Picture Co. New York
By Borghese
Located in Miami, FL
Framed 1890 Steel Engraving Greco Roman scene sand clock by Bernard Picture Co. New York, New York.
Marked Borghese on the reverse.
Category
19th Century American Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Steel
1890 Steel Engraving Greco Roman Scene by Bernard Picture Co. New York Borghese
By Borghese
Located in Miami, FL
1890 Framed steel engraving Greco Roman scene by Bernard Picture Co. New York, New York.
Marked Borghese on the reverse.
Category
19th Century American Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Steel
Grand Tour Bronze Model of a Recumbent Horse
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Grand Tour bronze model of a Recumbent horse, realistically cast and modeled, raised on a faux marbleized base.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of French 19th Century Neoclassical St. Patinated Bronze and Ormolu Columns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An attractive and most decorative true pair of French 19th century Neoclassical st. Grand Tour patinated bronze and ormolu columns. Each column is raised by an elegant square base wi...
Category
19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Grand Tour Pompeii Bronze of Silenus, Greek God of Wine
Located in Stamford, CT
Superior quality large scale Italian Grand Tour bronze of the god Silenus after the Roman original excavated at Pompeii in 1864. This very fine cast shows the god holding aloft a coi...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Tazze in Polychrome Marbles
Located in Kinderhook, NY
Pair of 19th century Italian 'grand tour' tazze or shallow urns of neoclassical form composed of ancient Roman marbles; the tazze having round giallo antico bowls and socles on squar...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Pair of Monumental Marble Obelisks, White #2
Located in Berlin, DE
Extremely rare and decorative obelisk pair. Various types of marble an absolute rarity and a guaranteed eye-catcher in every interior. Measures: 73.2 inch.
(U-Hud-2).
Category
20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Mammoth Photograph of Notre Dame
Located in Rochester, NY
Grand tour 19th century photograph of Notre Dame Cathedral, late 19th century. Matted. Unframed.
Category
19th Century Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Paper
19th Century Grand Tour Bronze Statue of Narcissus
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality Grand Tour patinated bronze figure of Narcissus, dating from the last quarter of the 19th century.
Narcissus was a hunter in Greek mythology and he was distinguished for his beauty.
This well patinated bronze classical figure...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Large Fine Bronze Sculpture of Mercury and Original Marble Pedestal
Located in Rochester, NY
Fine Grand Tour bronze sculpture of mercury flying on the wind after Giambologna. Polished rouge marble and bronze attached base. Green marble pedestal. Inscribed Jean de Bologne...
Category
Mid-19th Century European Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Stone, Marble, Metal, Bronze
Grand Tour Style Allegorical Bronze of Thalia, Greek Goddess of Comedy & Poetry
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The finely cast & patinated bronze figure of Thalia, one of the nine Greek Muses and known as The Goddess of Comedy & Idyllic Poetry, shown standing draped in classical attire holding a comedic mask by her side in one hand and a poem in the other, raised overall upon a stepped red marble plinth...
Category
1890s French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
19th Century French Egyptian Revival Slate and Gilt Obelisk
Located in Stamford, CT
19th century Grand Tour Egyptian Revival carved and polished black slate obelisk, the front decorated with very fine incised hieroglyphic designs which have been accented with gold l...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Slate
Pair of Terracotta Lions, after Canova, 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The pair of recumbent lions facing towards each other.
Category
19th Century English Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Terracotta
Large Roman Grand Tour Style Carved, Polychromed Wood & Bronze Mounted Tazza
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Large Roman Grand Tour style carved, polychromed wood & bronze mounted tazza, with a circular carved polychromed ribbed 16.5-Inch diameter bowl, with flanking bronze handles. Resting...
Category
20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Italian 19th C. Grand Tour Terracotta of a "Fauno Danzante Con Cimbali" ca. 1860
Located in CH
Italian 19th Century Grand Tour Terracotta of a "Fauno Danzante con Cimbali" Circa 1860
The statue depicts a satyr dancing and playing; in his right hand he holds the rattlesnakes...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Terracotta
Mid 18th Century Micromosaic Plaque
Located in London, GB
A fine quality mid 19th century oval Micro-mosaic Plaque depicting St Peter’s Square Rome, enclosed in unusual black slate marble frame decorated with shells, scrolls & wolves.
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Grand Tour Florentine Pietra Dura Panel
Located in New York, NY
Late 19th century Grand Tour Florentine Pietra Dura panel depicting man drinking from vessel. Measures: Image 7" H x 3.75" W, frame 10" H x 6.75" W ...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Stone, Marble
French 19th Century Grand Tour Period Bronze and Marble Urn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome French 19th century Grand Tour period patinated bronze and Vert de Patricia marble urn. The urn is raised by a square Vert d...
Category
19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Large French Grand Tour Period Bronze Sculpture Recumbent Lion
Located in Montreal, QC
Grand Tour period bronze sculpture of lion resting on a rosso levanto marble base. France: circa 1850.
Category
1860s French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Incredible Rare 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Scagliola Center Table
Located in Charleston, SC
Incredible rare 19th century Italian Grand Tour scagliola center table.
The classical inspired table features the Greek key decorated lintel top supported by a tryptich of monop...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Scagliola
French 19th Century Grand Tour Period Patinated Bronze Urn
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome French 19th century Grand Tour period patinated bronze urn. The urn is raised by a mottled square base below the fluted socl...
Category
19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
German Glazed Terracotta Monkey Tile by Karlshrue
Located in Houston, TX
German glazed terracotta monkey tile by Karlshrue.
German glazed terra cotta or Majolica monkey tile by Karlshrue, circa 1920. This gorgeous wall art depicts two monkeys on a tree br...
Category
1920s German Vintage Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Terracotta
Grand Tour Bronze Sculpture of Spinario the Thorn Picker
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A grand tour bronze sculpture of Spinario.
Measures: Height: circa 8 1/4 in.
Items purchased from David Sterner Antiques must delight you....
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Grand Tour Mid 19th Century Neoclassical Marble Gueridon
Located in Essex, MA
Mid 19th century carved marble gueridon in the neoclassical taste. All marble. Carved throughout. Top carved in full classical style. Monopod lion legs , tripartate base. Wonderful t...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Siena Marble, Statuary Marble
19th Century Grand Tour Bronze Thermometer of the Luxor Obelisk
Located in Stamford, CT
A bronze cast of the Luxor Obelsik, with one side fitted for a thermometer. This was a popular Grad Tour souvenir in the late 19th century. Now missing the glass tube.
10.5 inches high 4 by 4 base
The Luxor Obelisk...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Italian 19th Century Grand Tour Period Patinated Bronze of a Roman Athlete
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome Italian 19th century Grand Tour period patinated bronze of a Roman athlete. The bronze is raised by a rectangular mottled edge black Belgian marble base below a thick rect...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Grand Tour Style 20th Century Venetian Canal Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Grand Tour-Style (20th Century) unframed canvas oil painting of a bright, aqua canal crowded with gondolas under passage in front of Doge's Palace with St Mark's Campanile just behind it, and the domes of the Punta della Dogana visible in the distance in the lower left corner. Painting unsigned, noted as coming from a 20th-Century studio that specialized in historic commercial reproduction paintings...
Category
20th Century Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Canvas
Antique Italian Green Marble and 'Lava Cameo' Inkstand
Located in London, GB
Antique Italian green marble and 'lava cameo' inkstand
Italian, 19th century
Measures: Height 10cm, diameter 14cm
This charming inkstand is crafted from green marble and gilt metal....
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Metal
19th Century Micromosaic Table Top with Views of Rome from the Grand Tour
Located in London, GB
A grand tour circular table top
Possibly by Domenico Moglia
The circular platform of marmore nero, inset with fine micromosaic panels consisting of hundreds of coloured glass tesserae; a central flower bouquet sit within a malachite border surrounded by a border including four cartouches in conforming malachite reserves representing Roman views including the Arch of Titus, the Temple of Vesta, the Capitoline Hill, and the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, connected by floral garlands.
Italy, circa 1855
Domenico Moglia (1780 - 1862)
Brothers, Luigi and Domenico Moglia, are celebrated as two of the few great mosaicists of the 19th century. Both are recorded as exhibiting at the 1851 Great Exhibition, London. Domenico's work included micromosaics plaques depicting views of 'the roman forum', 'the colosseum', and the 'temples of Paestum.'
The Lombardi Museum contains a collection of architectural...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Malachite, Marble
European Tour Bacchus Bronze Sculpture on Gilt and Rouge Royale Marble Base
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
European tour bacchus bronze sculpture on gilt and rouge Royale marble base from a palm beach estate
Note the refinement of the fingers and...
Category
Late 19th Century European Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of Serpentine Grand Tour Lions
Located in Cheshire, GB
Pair of serpentine Grand Tour lions.
Category
19th Century Unknown Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Serpentine
Antique Pair of French Grand Tour Bronze Marble Cherubs Figures Putti Bookends
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stylish example of a pair of heavy well cast Grand Tour bronze seated figures of two amorino (infant cupid or cherub) probably of French origin, early nineteenth century.
Each fig...
Category
19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Grand Tour Inlaid Marble Specimen Paperweight, Early 20th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The center made up of blue marble veneers, yellow marble and green marble with each section banded by Carrara marble.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
19th Century Grand Tour Micro Mosaic Tablet with Roman Views
Located in Kastrup, DK
19th century Micro Mosaic tablet with five oval panels with Roman views, approx. 1860-1880.
Very fine tesserae and small briquettes of semi-precious stone...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Stone, Marble
20th Century Grand Tour Pair of Italian Figurative Pen-Holders Desk Accessories
Located in Milan, IT
A set of two lovely Grand Tour hand-painted terracotta figurative pen-holders of Neapolitan origin, molded as a male and female foreign tourists caricatures, British characters.
Bot...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Terracotta
Large Grand Tour Verdigris Bronze Sculpture of Spinario by Benedetto Boschetti
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A large-scale and very finely modeled Grand Tour bronze sculpture after the Greco-Roman model of "Spinario" or the "Boy with Thorn" by Benedetto Boschetti...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Antique Gilt & Patinated Bronze Cherub Mounted Chamber Sticks 19th C
Located in London, GB
A fine quality pair of antique gilt & patinated bronze cherub mounted chamber sticks circa 19th century.
Category
1880s French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Italian Antique Grand Tour Bronze Riding Boot Match Holder
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A quality antique Italian Grand Tour bronze boot shaped vesta or match holder dating from 1900. Modeled as a riding boot with a spur strapped to the boot with the body of the boot ac...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Grand Tour Style Neolcassical Bronze Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Grand Tour style heavy bronze table lamp, column shaped on pedestal with lyre motif, atop a marble base on ornamental lions feet. 44.5" H x 8" W x 8" D.
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique Pair of French Sienna Marble Grand Tour Bronze Candelabra Candlesticks
Located in Dublin, Ireland
A very fine pair of French patinated chisel cast bronze and well grained sienna marble grand tour single light table or mantle candlesticks of impressive quality. first quarter of th...
Category
19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Siena Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
Crackle Glaze Italian Pottery Urn Marked Made in Italy for Tutto Bene, 1830
Located in Ferndale, MI
Bulbous Italian pottery vase or urn. Signed made in Italy for Tutto Bene, 1830.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Pottery
"Two Fates" German Bronze Sculpture after the Antique Cast by R. Bellair
Located in Shippensburg, PA
GRAND TOUR POLYCHROMED BRONZE GROUP OF "TWO FATES"
Foundry cachet verso for "R. Bellair & Co, Berlin, Friedrichstr.182"
Item # 012JIP09L
A good Grand Tour classical bronze group bas...
Category
20th Century German Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Giltwood Figural Cathedral Floor Lamps, a Pair
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Antique French giltwood figural Cathedral floor lamps - a pair.
Category
19th Century French Antique Grand Tour Furniture
Materials
Marble
Grand Tour furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Grand Tour furniture for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage furniture created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, more furniture and collectibles, wall decorations and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, stone and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Grand Tour furniture made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Bertrando Di Renzo, Giustiniani, F. Barbedienne Foundry, and Ferdinand Barbedienne. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for furniture differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $45 and tops out at $365,566 while the average work can sell for $2,501.
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