Antique Pietra Dura Marble Ashford Desk Obelisk Thermometer Buxton Derbyshire Circa 1860 Sculpture with two stylized fans facing

with two stylized fans facing opposite

created from the finest high quality solid flame mahogany

Lin Fengmian

The bronze having the Bergman foundry stamp of a "B" within a vase and "Austria" and another lozenge shaped stamp

At the age of eighteen he went to Paris for further training and was a student of Eugene Isabey and Eugene Ciceri

Antique Pietra Dura Marble Ashford Desk Obelisk Thermometer Buxton Derbyshire Circa 1860 Sculpture with two stylized fans facingA 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