Fascinating late 19th century Grand Tour paperweight in form of a decorated book with a central cameo style relief of the artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known as Michelangelo in white alabaster. The book is carved in a slightly translucent ''Alabastro ghiaccione del Circeo'' with delicate etched filigree patterns to represent tooling on a book and inscribed ''Michelangelo'' under the cameo. italy, circa 1890.Based in London, we are dealers in fine decorative antiques from the 18th and 19th centuries. We specialise in this era of enlightenment, neoclassicism and the Grand Tour, with its far reaching influence on style and taste in Britain, Continental Europe and beyond: elegance in the age of Napoleon. Our extensive stock covers all aspects of this period and decorative antiques influenced by the period. We constantly source new, beautiful items and upload to our site regularly. We are first and foremost antique collectors with over thirty years of experience...