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Folk Art For Sale
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Framed Collection of Twenty-One Native American Arrowheads
Located in Chicago, IL
An exceptional set of twenty-one stone arrowheads, discovered in Wisconsin's Waukesha County and framed within a 19th-century faux grain painted shadowbox, these arrowheads not only ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier American Native American Antique Folk Art
Materials
Stone
AR Stater Agathokles, Sicily, Syracuse
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: helmeted head of Athena right
Reverse: Pegasos flying left, triskeles below
VERY RARE
Beautiful toning
Weight: 6.80 g
Grade: Good Extremely Fine
Reference: Pegasi 19 va...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Greek Classical Greek Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Southern Netherlands. Medal of the Holy Sacrament of the Miracle of Brussels
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: SACRAMENTVM . MI – RACVLOSVM . BRVXELLE, cross with the Holy Hosts, carried by God the Father
Reverse: dito
VERY RARE, only 2 known specimens (1 in the KBR in Brussels and ...
Category
17th Century Belgian Classical Roman Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
40 stuiver siege coin Breda
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: .BREDA . OBSESSA . 1625, coat of arms of prince Maurits, value above, rosette underneath, left and right city crest
Reverse: blank
RARE
During the Eighty Years' War, Breda...
Category
1620s Dutch Other Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
A Roman bronze applique in the shape of a theatre mask
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Mask of a bearded deity, short beard and hair braided in the characteristic high hairstyle, with layered ringlets on either side.
4 cm (h)
Green patina
...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Antique Stone Carving of a Claw
Located in Pittsburgh, PA
Ancient Stone Carving Fragment of a Claw. France, circa 15th Century.
Category
15th Century and Earlier French Rustic Antique Folk Art
Materials
Stone
A Rare and Finely Detailed Greek Bronze Statuette of an Actor with Large Phallus
Located in London, GB
A Rare and Finely Detailed Greek Bronze Statuette of an Actor with Large Phallus
Bronze
Greek
First half of 4th Century BC
Size: 10.5cm high - 4¼ ins high
Provenance:
Ex Privat...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Greek Antique Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
An Unusual Large Carved Giltwood Wall Mirror
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
An 18th century carved giltwood mirror of good size with a Hebrew motif set in clouds and a sunburst, the shaped plate with deeply carved acanthus leaves and a serpent below
Circa 1770
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Glass, Giltwood
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
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Folk Art
Materials
Gold Leaf, Metal
Elegant Terracotta Standing Court Dignitary, Tang Dynasty, EU Passport
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Elegant Standing Court Dignitary with joined hands in blue robes and a bird headdress. Polychrome Traces.
When China was unified again, first briefly ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Tang Antique Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
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
1660s Dutch Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Antique Mahogany Inlaid Fretwork Mirror with Ho Ho Bird
Located in STOKE ON TRENT, GB
Antique Fretwork Mirror
Antique Mahogany Inlaid Carved Fretwork Mirror with Gilt Ho Ho Bird Pediment.
Mahogany carved fretwork mirror for sale with a gilt Ho Ho bird pediment shell...
Category
18th Century Rococo Antique Folk Art
Materials
Mahogany
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
Late 18th Century Austrian Rustic Antique Folk Art
Materials
Fir
Ancient Roman Intaglio from 1st-2nd Century AD Carved Carnelian Stone
Located in Chicago, IL
Ancient Roman Carnelian Intaglio. An intaglio is defined as a small Gemstone, generally semi-precious, that has been carved with images or inscriptions only on the face. This style of carving is the opposite of the cameo technique. The engraving of gemstones was a major luxury art form in the ancient world and an important one in some later periods. This particular Intaglio is Carnelian and dates from the second century AD and shows the head of a figure in profile. It is in very nice original condition and would be ideal for making into a ring. The word Intaglio comes from the Italian word intagliare, meaning “to engrave” or “cut into.” Intaglio describes the process in which an image is engraved into a stone, creating an image in the negative. When a stone carved in this way is pressed into hot wax...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Folk Art
Materials
Carnelian, Stone
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 quality. Painting of beautiful size...
Category
1720s Italian Antique 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...
Category
1730s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
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
Late 17th Century Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Maiolica
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 ...
Category
1780s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
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
1780s Dutch Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
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
15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Egyptian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Faience
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
15th Century and Earlier Greek Classical Greek Antique 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...
Category
15th Century and Earlier European Antique Folk Art
Materials
Granite
Statuette of the Goddess Neith
Located in London, GB
Bronze statue of the goddess Neith, striding, her left foot extended forward. Her left hand is extended forward and formally held a papyrus sceptre, a fragmentary ankh is visible in ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Egyptian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
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. ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier English Antique Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Horus
Located in London, GB
A bronze Horus in the form of a falcon, wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, with a frontal uraeus. The wings are folded down the back of the falcon. The feet end with ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Antique 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
1780s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Late 18th Century Light Blu Floral Painted Blanket Chest
Located in Albignasego, IT
Tyrolean (Northern Italy Alpine Region) light blue painted chest
Measurements: H. 81cm – L. 142cm – D. 59cm
Period: approximately 1780
Origin: Tyrol
Essence: Fir
Tyrolean chest ent...
Category
1780s Italian Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Fir
18th Century French or Italian Santo Nativity Figure
Located in Nantucket, MA
18th century French or Italian Santo Nativity Figure, a hand carved and painted fruitwood figure for a Christmas Crèche or Krippe. Excellent and delicate details to the head and hands. The half figure stands on a dowel set into platform base, dressed in original fine linen robe...
Category
18th Century Italian Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Linen, Fruitwood
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
15th Century and Earlier Indian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
18th Century Memento Mori Carving Shelf Calvarium Ledge Macabre Curio Antique
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A finely carved Memento Mori base to hold the holy cross, now hangs to make for a decorative wee shelf. Original polychromed painted decoration, European in origins, age related wear...
Category
18th Century European Antique Folk Art
Materials
Hardwood
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
18th Century French Rustic Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
17th century Jesus Christ Santos Sculpture
Located in Springfield, OR
For your consideration is this beautifully carved, painted and detailed Cristo depicting Jesus nailed on the cross. I had an expert take a look at it and he believes the Jesus figure...
Category
17th Century Spanish Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
17th Century Oil on Panel Flemish Signed Antique Painting, 1660
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Flemish painting from the 17th century. Artwork signed lower right C. Droochsloot referable to the Dutch painter Cornelis Droochsloot (1630-1674), lacking authentication. Oil...
Category
1660s Dutch Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
17th Century Oil on Canvas Antique Religious Italian Painting Magdalene, 1680
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the second half of the 17th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Penitent Magdalene of excellent pictorial quality. Large size p...
Category
1680s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Panel Spanish Antique Religious Painting Ecce Homo, 1750
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Spanish painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on panel depicting a religious subject, Ecce Homo, of good pictorial quality. Painting on wooden panel over 3 cm thick, id...
Category
1750s Spanish Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Seascape Landscape Painting, 1730s
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian school of the first half of the 18th century. Oil artwork on canvas depicting a refined landscape of good pictorial quality. In the foreground we find numerous characters acc...
Category
1730s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Pre Columbian Costa Rican Jadeite Axe God pendant
Located in London, GB
A Pre Columbian Jadeite Axe God pendant from the Guanacaste/Nicoya region of Costa Rica Circa. 800 to 1200 AD.
The axe god pendant of highly stylized Human form drilled through the ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Costa Rican Antique Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
1776 Green Floral Painted Cabinet
Located in Albignasego, IT
Green Floral Painted Wardrobe Dated 1776
Measurements: H.165 cm – W.130 cm (142 at the frames) – D.42 cm (50 at the frames)
Essence: Fir
Period: 1776
Origin: Tyrol
Tyrolean wardrob...
Category
1770s Italian Neoclassical Antique Folk Art
Materials
Fir
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Bamboccianti School Genre Scene Painting 1660
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 17th century. Oil artwork on canvas depicting a splendid genre scene called bambocciante, this because it belongs to the pictorial school developed ...
Category
1660s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Biblical Painting Moses Striking the Rock
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian school of the first half of the 18th century. Oil on canvas artwork of considerable size and excellent pictorial quality depicting a splendid landscape with a biblical scene ...
Category
1720s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Still Life Painting Flowers, 1720
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the early 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting an amazing still life with flowers and a view in the background of excellent pictorial quality. ...
Category
1720s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Ancient wrought iron door knocker with dragon head
Located in Benalmadena, ES
Ancient knocker with a dragon's head in wrought iron and decoration of points and lines typical of Spanish forging from the 17th century.
Category
18th Century Spanish Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wrought Iron
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Still Life Painting, 1720
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the early 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a fabulous still life with flowers and a view in the background (right) of excellent pictorial q...
Category
1720s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Ecce Homo
Located in Guadalajara, Jalisco, MX
Beautiful and carefully detailed polychromed wood ecce homo from 17th century Seville
Category
17th Century Spanish Spanish Colonial Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
AR Denarius Gordian III (238-244)
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right
Reverse: SALVS AVGVSTI, Salus feeding snake on her arm from patera
Gewicht: 3.41 g
Kwaliteit: Prachti...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR Denarius Vespasian (69-79)
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: IMP CAESAR VESPAS AVG COS V TR P P P, laureate head right
Reverse: AVGVSTAE – PACI, Victory standing right, holding shouldered palm frond with her left hand and a wreath in ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Greek Classical Roman Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Antique Italian Copper Wine pitcher 18th Century Venetian Venice European
Located in London, GB
Antique Italian Copper Wine pitcher 18th Century Venetian Venice European
A fine example of Italian copperwork from the 1700s, with fine embossed decoration including Fish, Leav...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Copper
AR Drachm Bagadat, kingdom of Persis, Persepolis
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head right, with mustache and earring, wearing diadem and kyrbasia
Reverse: fire temple of Ahura-Mazda, above, half-figure of Ahura-Mazda, to inner left, Baydād (Bagadat) st...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Greek Classical Greek Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR Denarius F. Fabius Labeo INCUSE
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) below chin
Reverse: incuse
Weight: 3.84 g
Grade: Very Fine
Mint: Rome
Reference: Crawford 273/1; Sydenham 532
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Painting Madonna with child and Saint John
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian school of the mid-18th century. Painting depicting a splendid Madonna with Child and Saint John, of excellent pictorial quality. The protagonists are represented in a real pe...
Category
1750s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Mythological Antique Painting, 1670
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the second half of the 17th century. Oil on canvas artwork of great pictorial quality depicting a mythological subject, infant Zeus and the goat Amalthe...
Category
1670s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
AR drachm Mithradates I, Hekatompylos
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head left in bashlyk
Reverse: archer seated right on omphalos, three line legend, H
Not known to Sellwood, unpublished coin of Hekatompylos mint
Weight: 3.95 g
Grade: Abou...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Greek Classical Greek Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Capture of Grave by Prince Maurits
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: MAVRITIVS. PR. AVR. CO. NASS. CAT. MARC. VER. ET. VLIS, armoured bust right, ÆT 34 on arm, underneath G.V.B.F.
Reverse: TANDEM. FIT. SVRCVLVS. ARBOR, young orange tree sprou...
Category
Early 1600s Dutch Other Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR Denarius P. Clodius M.f. Turrinus
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: P CLODIVS / M F., laureate head of Apollo right; lyre to left
Reverse: Diana Lucifera standing right, bow and quiver over her shoulder, holding torches
BEAUTIFUL TONING
W...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR Denarius Julia Paula, wife of Elagabalus (219-220)
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: IVLIA PAVLA AVG, draped bust right, showing later coiffure with small bun
Reverse: CONCORDIA, Concordia seated left, holding patera, star in left field
Beautifully detaile...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Death of Princess Anne, wife of William IV
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: ANNA D.G. M.B.R.P. GUB. ET TUT: WIL: V.A.P.N. MDCCIX. O. MDCCLIX. XII. IAN:, bust of princess Anna with diadem right, above her head a wreath of stars
Reverse: HE U QUO VOTA...
Category
1750s Dutch Neoclassical Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Religious Painting Saint Francis, 1770
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting from 18th century. Oil painting on canvas, already backed again, depicting a subject of sacred art, Saint Francis of good pictorial quality. Large impact painting, a...
Category
1770s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
1/4 daalder siege coin in tin Alkmaar
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: castle between 7 – 3
Reverse: blank
VERY RARE
Weight: 9.86 g
Diameter: 25.0 mm
Grade: Very Fine
Reference: vG. 49; CNM 2.01.5
After the fall of Haarlem, Don Frederik turn...
Category
16th Century Dutch Other Antique Folk Art
Materials
Tin
Vintage, New and Antique Folk Art
Folk art refers to a genre of art that shares the creator’s traditions, offering not just an artistic display but an opportunity to learn about a culture. Vintage, new and antique folk art typically reflects a heritage or location. It can include utilitarian objects and handmade art as diverse as weather vanes, portraiture and paintings, carnival art, quilts and duck decoys.
American folk art is frequently valued because of the traditional skills involved, like weaving, hand-carving wood and even stonework. Many folk artists are self-taught, while some train as apprentices within their community. By using available materials and taking a personal approach to their creations, artists ensure each piece is unique and conveys a story. Native American folk art includes functional objects reflecting their heritage, such as baskets, textiles and wooden pieces.
During the Great Depression, artistic materials in America were hard to come by, so artisans used discarded wood from cigar boxes and shipping crates to make highly stylized, notched pieces — most often picture frames and boxes — that are today sought after by collectors. This folk art style is called tramp art and was popular from roughly 1870 until the 1940s.
Folk art brings vibrant culture and traditions into your home. Browse an extensive collection of folk art on 1stDibs.
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