Antique Pietra Dura Marble Ashford Desk Obelisk Thermometer Buxton Derbyshire Circa 1860 Recently Added By the 1960s and 1970s

By the 1960s and 1970s

holding a mask in one hand and a thyrsus (a stick wrapped in vine leaves and tipped with a pine cone)

The painting is housed in the original gilded and sponge decorated frame

Antique American Boudoir Bronze & Slag Glass Table Lamp

red and underglaze blue

Antique Pietra Dura Marble Ashford Desk Obelisk Thermometer Buxton Derbyshire Circa 1860 Recently Added By the 1960s and 1970sA fine & large antique black marble & specimen stone desk obelisk & thermometer, Ashford Derbyshire, circa 1860. This large 14. 75" obelisk is made of Derbyshire black marble. The obelisk is very elegantly inlaid with a variety of semi precious polished hard stone, including Derbyshire Blue John, lapis lazuli, malachite, Carrara marble, polished agate etc. The top of the obelisk is inlaid with colored stone in a floral design, below is a mercury