Collection of Thirty-Five Framed Antique Iron Keys

18th century glazed ceramic fragments arranged on an iron framed panel.

Miniature signed and framed watercolor Portrait of a woman.

Miniature signed and framed watercolour portrait of a woman.

Decorative Resin Picture of Romantic Women of the Arts, with Golden Frame

1920s Framed painting of Spanish Architecture, Granada, Signed M. Rioja.

Orientalist Framed Painting of an Arabic City Dated 1884 Measurements with frame: 35.5x43x4cm.

The collection is contained in a guilloche frame with a wavy edge. Inside there is a panel covered in velvet on which five sealing wax stamps are applied. The seals, clockwise from t...

A total of five woodprints by Jan Schonk. His initials signed on the block. Framing is optional. Biography: Jan Schonk (Schiedam 1889 - Soest 1976, The Netherlands) Jan Schonk took classes at the academy of Fine arts and technical sciences in Rotterdam. Started working as an independent artist. From 1925-1930 he was a freelance designer at Plateel Pottery in Zuidholland. There he designed relief tiles...

A set of three framed bathing suits from the 1920's. This collection of antique swimwear is comprised of two female swimsuits and a male suit which ar...

Various brands including one with a collie, one with a horse, an eagle (Turkish), cows (Turkish), birds (Egyptian Deities, and others). A large one at top for La Reclama, Havana Ciga...

Multicolored and gilt bands of different types. Including some Egyptian, Habana and Turkish (upper right ones with a steam ship and a river landscape). Mounted on white linen in a gi...

On offer is a set of five Japanese textile art panels called Oshi-E circa Meiji Period (1868-1912). This usual set of panels depict various aspects of daily life in Edo time with beautiful details. Some of these panels are snapshots of the buzzling commercial activities at the marketplace, providing insight into the signages, architecture, costumes and how people interacted within a historical and pictorial context. Other panels depict daily leisure activities such as lounging in the park or visiting friends. The realistic rendering and attention to details are not short of "photographic" quality. From the signage of the shops to the motions and attires of the individual characters, from the hairstyle, small ornaments, down to the facial expression, were all recorded in great details. Each panel was signed with the artist's name Yukihana in Kanji with a red seal. These panels are unframed and await your custom touch (framing with inner gilt spacer and mat costs about 250-500 depending on the material chosen, see a framed example in the last picture of a single framed panel we have for sale). We offer them for sale individually, but it will be great for a collector to consider the whole set so that they can stay together. The Oshi-E (also known as kiritori zaiku) is a type of ornamental textile art dated back to the Muromachi period (1392-1573). It started among the elite aristocratic women in Kyoto before spreading wider in the Japanese society. Throughout Edo and Meiji period, Oshi-E were sometimes used to make offerings to the altars in the temple and in the late 19th century, it was exported to the west along with the other embroidery textile art. Oshi-E was made by using silk wadding to create a relief design. Various silk fabric swaps and sometimes wires and tassels, often recycled from older kimonos...