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Period: 1950s
Vintage Japanese 3 Tea Cups from Mid-Century Studio Pottery
Located in Norton, MA
Vintage Japanese 3 tea cups from mid-century studio pottery.
In good original new condition and just found in the warehouse, never used before.
Category
Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Air France La Croix Du Sud Plane Collectible Toy, circa 1940-1950
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Air France La Croix du Sud plane collectible toy
Cream and red lithographed sheet metal mechanical plane
Wings marked ALBA
Measures: L54xP61xH18cm...
Category
French Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Metal, Sheet Metal
Set of 8 Traditional Antique Button Soccer Game Figures, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Set of eight table button soccer game players. Traditional figures used to play this classic button Spanish game.
Manufactured in Spain, circa 1950.
In original condition, wit...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Richard Rohac, Car with Lantern, 1950
Located in Vienna, AT
Richard rohac, rare car with lantern, thermometer, 1950, good condition.
Category
Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Unusual Set of German Mid-20th Century Shop Trade Sign Tools
Located in London, GB
Unusual set of German mid-20th century shop trade sign tools
Every now and again we are lucky enough to acquire items that firstly we have never seen and secondly, we will never see...
Category
German Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Metal, Brass
Scandinavian Maritime Painting Oil on Panel in Warm Colors by Noren Nils Martin
Located in Salzburg, AT
Maritime painting in oil on plate by Noren Nils Martin (1907 Västervik - 1998 Uppsala)
The scene on the water is calm and is characterized by warm colors.
The boat is already ashor...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
1940's Bronze "Egyptian Style" Door Handle
Located in Bois-Colombes, FR
1940's bronze " Egyptian Style " door handle
Two pairs available.
Pair can be sold independently
Price given for two pairs.
Category
European Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Hollywood Regency Ebony Game, Card Table, Louis XVI Style, Bronze Mounted
Located in Stamford, CT
A Hollywood Regency Ebony Game or Card Table having a finely finished checkerboard top on one side and a card table felt on the opposite site. The sleek stylish tapering bronze mount...
Category
Hollywood Regency Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Mexican 1950’s Pepsi Cola Bottle Cap Embossed Metal Sign
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare 1950’s. Mexican Pepsi Cola Soda Pop Bottle Cap Gas Embossed Metal Sign
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Sheet Metal
Marcel Marti Bronze Abstract Totem Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Superb Marcel Marti (1925–2010) attributed abstract patinated bronze sculpture that is unique from every angle. This is a striking postwar piece of art fr...
Category
Spanish Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Handcrafted Italian Art Studio Large Stoneware Bowl Aqua Color
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large 1960s Mid-Century Modern handcrafted large pottery platter.
Hand-made stoneware decorative plate with classic sandy fat lava glaze.
This ceramics were known to collectors as 'f...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Moroccan Vintage Tribal Kilim Rug Textile North Africa
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Moroccan authentic vintage flat-woven Tribal Kilim rug from the Middle Atlas of Morocco, North Africa. Handwoven clectible Moroccan textile in stripes of red and dark green, black an...
Category
Moroccan Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
1950's Commercial Sign "All - Stainless Inc"
Located in Hanover, MA
Vintage commercial business sign from early 1950's for All - Stainless, Inc.
78" long by 12" high panel of patinated blue colored aluminum with 1/4" th...
Category
American Industrial Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Aluminum
Glazed Terracotta Vase, Circa 1950
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This vase is made of glazed terracotta. African work. Circa 1950.
Category
French Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Otto and Gertrud Natzler Signed Monumental Bowl with Original Paper Label, 1958
Located in Studio City, CA
A masterful work by famed potters Otto and Gertrud Natzler. This monumentally large round-shaped footed bowl was wheel thrown and formed by Ge...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware
Set of 3 Table Soccer Traditional Spanish Figures, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Set of three table soccer game players. Iron traditional figures used to play this classic 'Futobolin' Spanish game..
Manufactured in Spain, circa 195...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Set of 3 Traditional Antique Button Soccer Game Figures, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Set of three table button soccer game players. Traditional figures used to play this classic button Spanish game.
The players are build buy attaching a printed photography or dra...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Collection of Antique Trains
Located in Redding, CT
Collection of antique trains. It includes two 1950s American Flyer streamline aluminum trains. One engine and one pull car. Some are Lionel Trains and som...
Category
Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Tin, Metal, Iron
Mid-Century Cork & Rope Mirror Adrien Audoux & Frida Minet
Located in Austin, TX
Cork & Rope Mirror Audoux Minet circa 1950.
Measure: Total height with the rope / 20.5 inches.
Diameter of the mirror / 10 inches.
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Cork, Rope, Mirror
Hans Coper Small Pot
By Hans Coper
Located in Atlanta, GA
Hans Coper, small pot.
-Stoneware, black glaze
-Circa 1958
-Impressed with artist's seal
Literature:
Tony Birks, Hans Coper, Yeovil, 2013, p. 99 for a...
Category
English Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Mathieu Matégot Style Black Gloss Metal Mesh Marketplace Flower Cart France 1950
Located in Miami, FL
Superb Mid-Century Modern paris marketplace flower cart in the style of Mathieu Matégot.
Handcrafted wrought iron wheels, hairpin legs, handles and a metal mesh display table in gloss black finish.
Iconic paris...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wrought Iron, Wire
Russian Midcentury Toy Truck from Wood
Located in Vienna, Austria
This wonderful wooden dump truck was made in USSR in the 1950s.
Lovely proportions, it´s not only a vintage toy, it´s work of art.
Condition in distress...
Category
Russian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Folk Art The Buttercherner by Outsider Artist Andrew "Grandpa" Pfiender
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
8-109 carved and painted wall panel.
Andrew "Grandpa" Pfiender born 1909 died 1986 was an outsider artist from upstate NY.
Used found objects to create his...
Category
Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Reclaimed Wood
1950s Authentic Moroccan African Tuareg Wedding Runner Rug 15.5 ft long
Located in North Hollywood, CA
1950s authentic Vintage Moroccan nomadic African Tuareg rug, black camel hair with wo and cotton embroidered geometrical modernist designs and adorned with sequins,This rug was used in the Berber...
Category
Moroccan Tribal Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Large French Wicker Rooster, Circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
Large French wicker rooster, Circa 1950.
Measures: Height / 19 inches.
Lenght / 23 inches.
Category
French Country Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wicker
Britt-Louise Sundell Gustavsberg Swedish Abstract Stylized Bird Pottery Plaque
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A large and heavily made Swedish mid-century pottery wall plaque in the form of an abstract stylized bird by Britt-Louise Sundell (1928-2011) for Gustavsberg and probably dating from...
Category
Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Doug Lafortune Sr. Salish Carved Wood and Abalone TOTEM Pole
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
72" TOTEM by Doug Lafortune. Salish TOTEM pole of a raven and beaver cedar TOTEM pole. Carved TOTEM pole with abalone and shell inlays. Carved. .72” x 9...
Category
American Native American Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Cedar
Modernist Studio Ceramic Tile Art by Irina Lorin
By Gills Lorin
Located in Buffalo, NY
Framed mid-20th century Irina Lorin Signed ceramic art tile of figure, consisting of three framed tiles, mid-20th century. 3 tiles measuring 8" x 11" retai...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Grasscloth, Wood
Pablo Picasso Signed Ceramic Plate, Scène De Plage Edition Picasso Madoura, 1956
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, original ceramic plate by famed artist Pablo Picasso titled "Scène De Plage". The work features a black and white abstract design/contrast with black engobe and white gl...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware, Pottery
Handmade Helmet
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Great piece of Folk Art. Handmade metal helmet with leather flaps.
Category
Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Steel
Set of 7 Traditional Antique Button Soccer Game Figures, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Set of seven table button soccer game players. Traditional figures used to play this classic button Spanish game.
The players are build buy attaching a...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Telephone Company's Trade Sign USA 1950
Located in Milan, IT
A window trade sign of an American telephone company, depicting a big phone. Carved out of fruit wood, and white enamel painted. USA 1950 ca.
Category
American Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Plastic, Wood
1950s Light Up Double Sided Beer Mug Yellow Sign
Located in Chicago, IL
1950's light up double sided beer mug sign. It works.
Category
North American Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Candle Holder, Folk Art
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Candle holder, Folk Art, when the candle is extinguished and closed, the figure is replaced and smoke comes out of the mouth. Carved wood, 1950.
Measures: H: 15 cm, W: 12.5 cm, D: 6...
Category
European Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Lucie Rie Signed Stamped Yellow Speckle Glazed British Pottery Bowl, circa 1950s
By Lucie Rie
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous earth-toned, yellow, green, brown speckle glazed ceramic footed bowl by famed Austrian-born British potter Lucie Rie.
The bowl is signed with Lucie Rie's impressed seal on the base.
A rare and unique work. Simply a must for any collector of Rie's work or a beautiful stand-alone piece sure to light up any setting.
Dame Lucie Rie...
Category
English Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
1930's Double Sided Cabin Neon Sign
Located in Chicago, IL
1930's double sided Cabin neon sign. It has new neon, new wiring and new transformer.
Category
North American Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Metal
5 Old Traveling Circus Barriers, circa 1950
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
5 Old traveling circus barriers.
Painted on both sides.
Were hung on supports, these supports are missing.
Small breakages, wear of the patina.
Very cha...
Category
French Other Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Harrison Mcintosh Signed Mid-Century Modern Set of 6 Pottery Sake Liqueur Cups
Located in Studio City, CA
An exquisitely formed and deeply blue glazed set of six ceramic sake/ liqueur cups by renowned American West Coast Californian master ceramist Harrison McIntosh who was famed for his Mid-Century Modern designed ceramics.
Mcintosh's works have been exhibited in such acclaimed venues as the Smithsonian in the United States the Louvre in France. Over his more than 60-year career, McIntosh had some 43 solo exhibitions from Los Angeles, New York, Belgium, Cannes, France to Japan. His work can be found in numerous collections and museums throughout the world including:
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
The National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Mingei International Museum, San Diego, California
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred University, Alfred, New York
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Belgian...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
1950s Giuseppe Barile Albisola Italian Midcentury Modern Pottery Vase
Located in Morazzone, Varese
Gorgeous and rare polychrome pottery vase.
Made in the pottery manufactury from Giuseppe Barile in Albisola, Italy.
The manufactury was founded in 1950, and closed in 1977.
This v...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Pair of 2 Italian Obelisk 1950
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful pair of two Italian obelisk made in Italy in 1950s.
Category
European Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Chrome
John F. Kennedy Signed Senate Menu Collage
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is a John F. Kennedy inscribed and autographed United States Senate Restaurant menu. Kennedy signed the menu on April 10, 1957, when he was a Senator representing the state of Massachusetts...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Wood Carved American Folk Art Muscle Car
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Hand carved Folk Art American Muscle car. Wood carved with original paint surface.
Category
Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Aluminum Ship's Porthole Mirror
Located in Norwell, MA
Authentic polished aluminum ship's porthole fitted with a glass mirror. Door is hinged and fitted with two dogbolts. The highly polished porthole is also fitted with a teakwood trim ...
Category
Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Aluminum
Giuseppe Barile Albisola Italian Midcentury Modern Pottery Vase, 1950s
Located in Morazzone, Varese
Gorgeous and rare polychrome pottery vase in bizzarre shape.
Made in the pottery manufactury from Giuseppe Barile in Albisola, Italy.
The vase is hand-crafted and hand-painted in bea...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Modernist Large Mosaic Tile Top Cocktail Table by David Holleman
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist large mosaic tile top cocktail table by David Holleman, stunning mosaics,,colors ,,composition.. Classic mid century modern design,, ...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Wood
Oceanic Hand Carved Wooden Sculpture of a Mother and Child
Located in New York, NY
Fantastic Faces on this hand carved tribal wood sculpture of a mother carrying her child most likely Oceanic but possibly African as well.
This tribal a...
Category
Oceanic Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
A French Red Glazed Clay Mirror
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is a very unique French Clay mirror in a striking red glaze. It features one center mirror measuring 7" diameter surrounded by eight 2.75" diameter mirrors around the perimeter....
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Mirror
Pair of Staffordshire Spaniels
Located in Dallas, TX
Pair of 19th century Staffordshire spaniels.
Category
Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
African Nigeria Epa Helmit Mask with Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Epa helmet mask, Nigeria, Africa.
Fully carved mother and child; painted red and black with touches of white;
Provenance: The Children's Museum of Indianapolis; The Eiteljorg Mu...
Category
Nigerian Tribal Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Organic Bend Bamboo Sconce Woven Bamboo Cased Fiber Shades France 1950, Pair
Located in Miami, FL
Pair of original handmade French Folk Art wall lights, sconces in bend Bamboo and cased natural fiber shades.
takes 1 light bulb with max 60 watts.
In working condition.
Projecti...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Bamboo, Natural Fiber
1958 Brass "Not Under Command" Ship's Anchor Lantern by Nippon Sento Co. LTD
Located in Norwell, MA
Solid brass ship's anchor lantern with glass Fresnel lens. Wired with electricity. Japanese maker's badge from by Nippon Sento Co. LTD, Tokyo, Japan, dated 1958. Meticulously polishe...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Dancing in The Garden Folk Art Ceramic Panel, 1954
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3-400 two hand painted Folk Art ceramic panels set in a natural wood frame.
Image size: 12.5 x 6"
Signed Whedon.
Category
Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Post Social Hobby Train Station
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1950s East German train station on the table. Station has 6 pieces. Please note the table is not included. Also there is some more of train cars (in the b...
Category
German Other Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Hobby Horse Ride On Pull Along Mobile Wheels Childs Toy Wood Leather Modern
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
- Unusual folk, hobby horse trainer on wheels
- Exudes charm and character
- Usable & robust in good working order
- Great collector's piece also
...
Category
British Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Leather, Pine
1940s Moroccan Tribal Rug African Ethnic Textile Floor Covering
Located in North Hollywood, CA
1940s Moroccan Tribal Rug African Ethnic Textile Floor Covering.
Vintage semi antique, Moroccan tribal rug, nomadic African Tuareg rug, wool and cotto...
Category
Moroccan Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Large Scale Mexican Folk Art Ceramic Angel Vessel
Located in Atlanta, GA
Large scale Mexican Folk Art ceramic or stoneware angel vessel, Mexican, circa 1950s. We purchased the estate of an Atlanta Coca Cola executiv...
Category
Mexican Folk Art Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Framed Maritime Signal Flag of Letter X
Located in Norwell, MA
Shadow box framed ships signal flag with attached rope and wood toggle. White and red field. Weight is 5 pounds.
Category
Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
Deco Toy Horse on Wheels
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pull toy horse in original condition, functional.
Category
Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Folk Art
Materials
Chrome
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