Dr. David Kwo Da-Wei Limited Edition Chinese Lithograph "Sheba Siamese Cat"

This large antique scroll is unsigned and presumed to have originated from China and date to approximately 1860 and done in the period Qing Dynasty style. The scroll is hand painted ...

Ebonized wood four panel Chinese screen, circa 1850. Allegorical story depicting the dream of the red chamber beautifully presented on this rare four-panel...

Robert Gary Miller "Pauline" ( Indigenous Canadian 1950-) 1990 signed and numbered 7/10 artist proof lithograph. Framed and matted. See our other items for more R.G. Miller paintings. Actual size- 22.5" H x 18.5" W, framed size- 33.38 H x 28.75 W About the Artist Robert Gary Miller-Lahiaaks was born in 1950 on the six nations...

1950s original oil painting on canvas with a monkey nurse treating a patient in a hospital bed. The painting is by an unknown artist as it is not signed, ...

Prominant and listed with international sales, English artist Thomas Mackay (1851 - 1920) featured here the impressionistic watercolor "Woman on Stairs" in a beautiful frame with glass. Thomas Mackay British visual artist who was born in 1850. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including "A young Girl beside a Duck Pond" and "A young Girl in a Flower Field" sold at Christie's South Kensington "British and Continental...

Nina Vasilyevna Skorubskaya (Russian 1918–2010). Oil on canvas. Signed H.B. Ckopyockog. Actual picture size: 25.5 inches high x 32.5 inches long x 1 inch deep Frame size: 34.25 inc...

This is a picture of a cat drawn by a person named "Toshizumi Nitta" from the end of the Edo period to the beginning of the Meiji period. She is a very simple and cute cat. He is a vassal of the Tokugawa Shogunate, born in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture (southern part of Gunma Prefecture). He was related to the Tokugawa family and lived in a large mansion in the Ota clan in Gunma prefecture. However, the Nitta family's territory was very small, and they were by no means a wealthy vassal. He seems to have lived quite poorly. So he painted cats and sold them to people. The Nitta family continued to draw pictures of this cat for four generations. "Nitta toshizumi" is equivalent to the fourth generation. During the Edo period, sericulture was thriving in the Kanto region. Cats were said to be the gods of silkworms, as they drive away mice, the natural enemies of silkworms. It was the Nitta family who drew such a cat on paper, pasted it in the silkworm chamber, and sold it as a mouse repellent. There were also other monks who painted pictures of cats, but the Nitta family in particular was related to the Tokugawa family, so people believed that paintings of cats had special powers. , a lot of paintings...

Chuichi Konno (1915-2006) Cat and Pumpkin Patch Showa period, 1940s. Folding screen in two-panels. Painted on paper with mineral pigments and gofun. Sign: Chuichi Sea...

Antique Thai painting depicting an Aspara or dancing nymph in the forest with perhaps Hanuman, The Monkey God, recognized in both Hindu and Buddhist religio...

A Chinese 'Ancestor Portrait' oil on canvas laid down on board, depicting a seated dignitary. The Chinese characters identify the artist at Giuseppe Castiglione...

Playful Cat Hirose Toho (1875-1930) Hanging scroll, ink, mineral pigments and gofun on silk. Painting inscription: Toho Sha Painting seals: Upper - Hirose Hitoshi Lo...

Kano School painting, in mineral pigments and gold leaf on mulberry paper with a silk brocade border. Artist seal reads: Hokkyo Unsen.