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Pre Columbian Moche Portrait Head Vessel South Latin American Antiques
Located in London, GB
A Pre columbian Moche portrait Vessel
A vessel modelled on a Amazonian native American Indian, a personage with a grimacing face perhaps a prisoner the shaved head and fringe is typ...
Category
Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Pair of 18th Century Italian Rococo Gold Leaf Tassel Ornaments
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Pair of 18th century Italian hand-carved gold leaf tassel ornaments.
They are two of the same shape of tassel but in two different sizes ...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Gold Leaf, Metal
20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Painting Madonna with Child Saint John, 1650
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 17th century. Oil artwork on canvas depicting a splendid Madonna with child and Saint John. Painting from the Tuscan school of notable pictorial qua...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Biblical Painting, 1650
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Splendid 17th century Italian painting. Oil on canvas artwork attributable to the painter Pietro Paolini (1603-1681), lacking authenticity. Born in Lucca, he trained in Rome under th...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Oil on Canvas Antique Mythological Painting The Rest of Diana, 1680
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Refined Italian painting from the second half of the 17th century. Oil artwork on canvas depicting a subject of great charm, Diana's rest. Immersed in a splendid Arcadian landscape w...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian School Antique Painting Madonna with Child
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great Italian painting from the first half of the 17th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a splendid Madonna with child attributable to Cristoforo Roncalli known as Pomarancio ...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Painting Saint Anthony the Abbot 1750
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Ancient Italian painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Saint Anthony the Abbot of good pictorial quality. Antique wooden frame, not coe...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Biblical Oval Painting Joseph at the Well
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Ancient Italian painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting biblical subject Joseph at the well sold by the brothers of good pictorial quality. Oval painting wi...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Collection of 48 Antique Pre-Columbian Hand-Built Pottery Heads & Bust Artifacts
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A monumental collection of 48 pre-Columbian hand-built pottery heads and bust artifacts. Possibly deriving from West Mexico, Michoacan or Chupicuaro. Although primitive, the carving ...
Category
Unknown Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery, Wood
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Painting, 1720
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Ancient Italian painting from the first half of the 18th century. Oil on canvas framework, first canvas, depicting historical/biblical subject, King David brings the ark of the coven...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Religious Painting The Sacrifice, 1720
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject, The sacrifice, of good pictorial quality. Painting of good size and pleasant furn...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Painting Landscape with Figures, 1750
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Ancient Italian painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting landscape with characters and animals at the well of excellent pictorial quality. Painting of great ...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Early 18th Century Italian Carved and Dovetailed Walnut Alms Box
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 18th century Italian carved and dovetailed walnut alms box, circa 1725
Large dovetails and old handwrought nails give this small scale box a hea...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Iron
A Pair Of French Carved Giltwood Reclining Lion Sculptures, Florentine, With Pad
Located in Dallas, TX
A Pair Of 17th Century Carved Giltwood Reclining Lion Sculptures, Florentine, With Padded Rests On Backs. 17th Century
Category
French Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Painting Bacchanal of Cherubs, 1660
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 17th century. Oil on canvas artwork of the Neapolitan school depicting Bacchanal of cherubs of excellent pictorial quality. Painting of great size a...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Painting the Bath of Diana, 1750
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Oil on canvas framework of the Venetian school depicting a mythological subject Diana's bath of good pictorial quality. Bucolic landsc...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas Roman School Painting Saint Agnes of Montepulciano
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Refined painting from the Roman school of the 18th century. Oil artwork on canvas depicting the communion of Saint Agnes of Montepulciano. The Dominican saint was born around 1268 an...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Pre Columbian Lambayeque Stirrup whistle Vessel South Latin American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Sican Lambayeque Stirrup whistle Vessel
A most interesting stirrup whistle vessel of a man seated on top of a raft of storage vessel, the vessel features a conical sp...
Category
Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Painting Psyche Descends into the Underworld
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Spectacular Italian painting from the second half of the 17th century. Oil on canvas artwork of considerable size depicting a mythological subject of great charm, Psyche descends int...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
1781 Tyrolean Painted Wardrobe
Located in Albignasego, IT
Tyrolean wardrobe dated 1781
Measurements: H. 185 cm - W. 140 cm (150 cm at the frames) - D. 53 cm (58 cm at the frames)
Essence: Fir
Period: 1781
Origin: Tyrol
Description:
Tyrol...
Category
Austrian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Fir
Native American Pipe and Bag
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Native American pipe bag. Original catlinite pipe bowl and stem. Comes in a buffalo hide pouch. Pipe bag and attached early Canadian silver trade brooch and elk ivories. Circa 1780-...
Category
American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Stone
18th Century Tempera on Paper Italian Antique Landscape Painting, 1780
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the late 18th century. Tempera on paper fixed on canvas with frame (see photo) depicting landscape with figures, animals and architecture of good pictor...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Paper
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Religious Painting Ecce Homo, 1660
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Splendid 17th century Italian painting. Oil artwork on canvas depicting an Ecce Homo of great strength and drama. Ecce Homo is the phrase that Pontius Pilate, Roman governor of Judea...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Painting Julius Caesar Portrait, 1680
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great Italian painting from the first half of the 17th century. Oil on canvas artwork, first canvas, depicting a splendid portrait of Julius Caesar. The painting in question seems to...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas French Antique Painting Landscape with Dog, 1750
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique French painting from 18th century. Oil on canvas framework depicting landscape with hunting dogs with partridges of good pictorial quality. Painting of great measure and impa...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas French Religious Painting Saint Francis Of Assisi
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique French painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Saint Francis of good pictorial quality. Non-contemporary frame in wood and plast...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Pre Columbian Mezcala Stone Pendant Axe god Figure Ancient Mexico
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Mezcala Stone Pendant Axe god Figure Ancient Mexico
Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Guerrero region, Mezcala culture, ca. 600 to 100 BCE
A abstract serpentine figur...
Category
Mexican Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Stone
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Religious Painting Saint Lawrence
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 17th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Saint Lawrence of good pictorial quality. Large size and impact painting adorned w...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Ushabti for Imenmes
Located in London, GB
A mummiform ushabti in blue faience. Four registers of hieroglyphic characters are painted around the lower half of the ushabti, with a vertical column of hieroglyphs in the centre o...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Faience
Italian Folk Art Fish Sculpture from 18th/19th Century Fragments Found Objects
Located in Forney, TX
A fabulous large Italian folk art fish sculpture. Hand-crafted in the 21st century using found 18th and 19th century architectural fragments and decorative antique / vintage elements...
Category
Italian Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Shell, Driftwood, Giltwood, Reclaimed Wood
Primitive carved sandstone
Located in Miami, FL
Archaïque polished probably ritual stone ring from Central America or Caraïbe island .
Face carved and polished sandstone or granite.
Category
Unknown Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Sandstone
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Still Life Painting Vase with Flowers
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great Italian still life from the first half of the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting an amazing vase with flowers of excellent pictorial quality. Painting of exceptional...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Rare 18th Century Antique Persian Quilted Embroidery 2'6" x 3'7"
Located in New York, NY
Rare 18th Century Antique Persian Quilted Embroidery, The Quilt’s Origin: Persia, Circa Date: 1800
Category
Persian Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wool
An Exceptional New Zealand Māori Bugle-Flute ‘Pu Turino’
Located in London, GB
An Exceptional New Zealand Māori Bugle-Flute ‘Pu Turino’
With soft and shallow surface decoration profusely carved with a dynamic scrolling motif made of two sections bound together with original and complete ‘Kiekie’ vine roots at four points
The bow shaped mouth piece of anthropomorphic form with small rounded sounding hole to the end
Soft silky smooth medium brown patina
18th Century
Size: 33.5cm high, 4.5cm wide, 2.5cm deep - 13¼ ins high, 1¾ ins wide, 1 ins deep
Provenance:
Collected by Robert Nutter Campbell 4th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry on his return from Singapore 1829
Thence by descent
Sold Sothebys, New York, May 17, 2002, lot 368
Ex Private English collection
Ex Finch and Co...
Category
New Zealand Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
An Anatolian Marble ‘Star Gazer’ Figure
Located in London, GB
An Anatolian Marble ‘Star Gazer’ Figure
Marble
Anatolian
Early Bronze Age / Circa 2700 - 2100 BC
Size: 5cm high, 3cm wide - 2 ins high, 1¼ ins high
The highly stylised oval head wi...
Category
Turkish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Marble
Late 18th Century Green Painted Cabinet
Located in Albignasego, IT
Green painted wardrobe from the end of the 18th century
Measurements: H. 183 cm – L. 121 cm (129 at the frames) – D. 54 cm (58 at the frames)
Period: 1780
Origin: Tyrol
Essence: Fir...
Category
Austrian Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Fir
Late 18th Century Blu Painted Blanket Chest
Located in Albignasego, IT
Alpine (European Mountain Region) painted chest
Measurements: H. 65 cm – W. 150 cm – D. 75 cm
Period: approximately 1770
Origin: Tyrol
Essence: Fir
Tyrolean chest decorated with wo...
Category
Italian Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Fir
Late-Period to Ptolemaic Period Egyptian Wooden Mummy Mask Ear on Custom Mount
Located in Chicago, IL
This Late Period to Ptolemaic Period Egyptian carved wood ear, once part of a mummy mask, stands as a poignant testament to ancient Egyptian customs and beliefs. Dating back over 250...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
END OF THE 17th CENTURY MONTELUPO MAJOLICA PLAQUE
Located in Firenze, FI
Beautiful tabernacle plaque in polychrome majolica, depicting the Madonna with child and Saint Anthony of Padua. The design and colors recall the first polychrome majolica from the f...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Maiolica
Very Rare and Early Carved Vessel in the Form of a Hedgehog
Located in London, GB
A Very Rare and Early Carved Vessel in the Form of a Hedgehog
Alabaster
Near Eastern
3rd Millenium BC
SIZE: 9.5cm high, 9.5cm wide, 15.5cm deep - 3¾ ins high, 3¾ ins wide, 6 ins ...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Alabaster
Early Folk Art American Two Sided Framed Military Drawing with Map
Located in Savannah, GA
This unusual set of drawings in a double sided frame came out of an old New England Estate in a Beacon Hill, Boston home. From what we have gathered, they are hand-colored drawings o...
Category
American Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
A Finely Carved Gandhara Head of ‘Atlas’
Located in London, GB
A Finely Carved Gandhara Head of ‘Atlas’
Grey schist
India
3rd - 4th Centuries AD
SIZE: 19cm high, 11cm wide, 12.5cm deep - 7½ ins high, 4¼ ins wide, 5 ins deep
References
Pratap...
Category
Indian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Schist
Ancient Indus Valley cup bearer Fertility figurine C (2800-2600 BC).
Located in London, GB
Ancient Indus Valley cup bearer Fertility figurine Circa (2800-2600 BC).
A rare female pottery cup bearer figurine in terracotta with pointed facial features and applied diamond sha...
Category
Indian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
An Openwork Copper Alloy Garment Pin
Located in London, GB
An Openwork Copper Alloy Garment Pin
Superb colour and patina
Bronze
Eastern Iran or Central Asia
2000 BC
SIZE: 35cm wide - 13¾ ins wide
A similar pin in the Louvre-France, was exh...
Category
Persian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Copper
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Painting Sacking of the City, 1670
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great Italian painting from the second half of the 17th century. Oil artwork on canvas depicting the sacking of a seaside city by the Saracens, of good pictorial quality. We find cou...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Religious Painting Praying Madonna
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the second half of the 18th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a religious subject, Madonna praying, of good pictorial quality. This is a very wid...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Panel Flemish Antique Religious Painting Supper at Emmaus
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Flemish painting from the first half of the 18th century. Oil on panel painting depicting a religious subject Supper at Emmaus of good pictorial quality. Modern frame in wood...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Rustic French Spinning Wheel with Original Parts from the 18th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French rustic spinning wheel from the 18th century, with original parts. Created in France during the 18th century, this spinning wheel will be an excellent decorative addition to ...
Category
French Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Painting Episode from the life of Diogenes
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Good quality non-coeval copy of a painting by Salvator Rosa exhibited at the National Art Museum in Copenhagen. Oil artwork on canvas ...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Religious Painting Christ at the Column, 1720
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the early 18th century. Oil on canvas framework depicting a religious subject Christ at the column of good pictorial...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Oil on Canvas Flemish Antique Painting Stil Life with Dogs, 1660s
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great Flemish painting from the 17th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a copy of the famous still life by Frans Snyders (1579-1657), a dog defending the carcass from two other...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Painting Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great Italian painting from the first half of the 18th century. Oil artwork on canvas depicting a religious subject, the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, of good pictorial quality. Altar...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
A Very Rare Long Maori Paddle ‘Hoe’
Located in London, GB
A Very Rare Long Maori Paddle ‘Hoe’
Superb colour and patina
Wood
Maori / New Zealand
Late 18th / early 19th Century
Size: 217cm long - 85½ ins long
Provenance:
W.D. Webster, B...
Category
New Zealand Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
18th Century Oil on Panel Flemish Antique Religious Painting Saint Peter, 1780
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Ancient Flemish painting from the second half of the 18th century. Work oil on panel depicting a religious subject, St. Peter, of good pictorial quality. Painting of limited size, fo...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Anglo-Saxon Hanging Bowl
Located in London, GB
A very rare and near-complete copper-alloy hanging bowl and associated fittings. Crafted from a single sheet of bronze, the body of the bowl is curved, with a slightly recessed lip. ...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Megalithic Stela
Located in London, GB
A tall anthropomorphic stele of carved granite, divided into two distinct regions of the body and face. The body is a single unarticulated block, but the facial features are outlined...
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European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Granite
Bronze Siren
Located in London, GB
Sirens were dangerous bird-like females who tempted sailors with their hauntingly beautiful song. In Homer’s Odyssey (XII, 39) Odysseus and his sailors were warned about the lethal c...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Painting The Death of Poppea, 1780
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting the death of Poppea. Legend has it that the emperor Nero killed his wife with a kick in the abdomen af...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
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