$19 million home for sale in Buckhead

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$19 million home for sale in Buckhead

A collection of photos of Descante, a $19 million house for sale in Atlanta, Georgia.

This is a view from the back courtyard of Descante. Beacham and Co. Realtors held an invitation-only open house to introduce Descante, a $19 million home on the market in Buckhead, to real estate agents Tuesday.

This circus-themed piece of artwork is on display in the formal living room at Descante. It is by Gloria Stuart, the actress who played 100-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater in "Titanic."

The kitchen includes unique lighting and one of the nine fireplaces in the estate.

Jim Warwick of Beacham and Co. Realtors takes a look at the Descante brochure in the formal dining room at the estate. The floors are 170-year-old Versailles parquet.

In the library at Descante can be found a 14-foot fireplace taken from Cambridge Univerisity. A second fireplace from Cambridge is in the solarium. The estate has a total of nine fireplaces, all antique, from the 17th to 19th centuries.

In the billiards room, Carlos Nadal paintings fill the walls.

Real estate agents (from left) William Hale, JoeEllen Bradley and Mark Bhaggan, all from Harry Norman, take a closer look at an antique from Paris. It is the 13th in a series of 15 pieces.

The dinosaur footprint embedded in the stone kitchen floor is reportedly 70 million years old.

Descante has some whimsical features, such as unicorn door knockers. The fountain in the front courtyard is a 16th-century English baptismal fountain with a biblical scene.

The 19th-century facade on the front of the Descante pool house is from a winery building on the grounds of a castle in the south of France.

Bridget and Jerry Dobson, the owners of Descante, have a room for their two grandchildren with a collection of toys and whimsical characters.

Bridget and Jerry Dobson, the owners of Descante, had this table created to solve the problem of loose pocket change. It has a hole in the center of the glass.

Beacham & Co. Realtors offered an invitation-only open house to introduce Descante, a $19 million home on the market in Buckhead, to real estate agents, including Harry Norman's Kathi Rhodes (back left, blue shirt), Jody Weatherly (black top, also with Harry Norman), Becca Harrell (in cream suit) with Dorsey Alston Co., and Harry Norman's Sally George (front right, coral shirt). The main staircase descends to a large foyer.

The master bedroom at Descante, a $19 million home now on the market in Buckhead.

The second powder room at Descante includes an American Indian mortar and pestle, converted to a sink, from the Dobsons' California ranches.

Outside the pool house, Karen Williams (left), a guest of Beacham and Co.'s Becky Hughes (right), takes a look at the 19th-century facade on the front of the pool house. The facade is from a winery building on the grounds of a castle in the south of France.

An Etruscan boy statue, circa 500-800, stands at one end of the main hallway on the main level of Descante. The estate includes two caretaker apartments, a pool house and a third guest apartment under the pool house.

The 19th-century facade on the front of the Descante pool house is from a winery building on the grounds of a castle in the south of France. The tiles around the pool start with Bible scenes and end with fairy-tale scenes.

Originally tiling the pool with biblical scenes, the Dobsons later added fairy tale scenes.

Glennis Beacham (center) of Beacham and Co. Realtors offered an invitation-only open house to introduce Descante, a $19 million home on the market in Buckhead, to real estate agents Tuesday.

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This is a view from the back courtyard of Descante. Beacham and Co. Realtors held an invitation-only open house to introduce Descante, a $19 million home on the market in Buckhead, to real estate agents Tuesday.

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