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Vintage Oil on Board Painting Framed Still Life Modernist MCM Signed 1963 19x20"
Located in Wilton, CT
Vintage still life oil painting on board depicting a pitcher and a bowl of lemons on a checkered towel. Nicely done in confident technique with balanced composition, good color, and ...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Paint
Fine Shaped Burl Tabletop with Compass Star Inlay
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine English early 19th Century solid burl yewwood tabletop with molded edge and scalloped sides with mahogany and sycamore compass star inlay, the who...
Category
1830s English William IV Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Yew
French 19thc Paper Covered Box Diorama of Strasbourg Cathedral Under a Glass Top
Located in valatie, NY
French 19th c paper covered box with what appears to be a 3D diorama of the Strasbourg cathedral under a glass covered top. These paper boxes were de...
Category
1840s Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Folk Art Root Carving Man and Dog
Located in Greenwich, CT
Wonderful English 19th century Folk Art sculpture of a man being greeted by his dog, the figure wearing a tall Cornish hat hugging and being hugged by his adoring four legged friend,...
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1820s Great Britain (UK) Folk Art Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Relief Carved and Painted Frigate
Located in Greenwich, CT
A rare relief carved and painted sailing ship on heavy board depicting a three-masted 26 gun third-class US naval frigate under partially reefed sail nearing a point of land with a l...
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Mid-19th Century American Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wood
English Shell Grotto House
Located in Kent, Dover
An English shell grotto modelled on a cottage, with doors and a glazed window with mirror interior. Nicely worked throughout with no losses.
Category
1930s English Vintage Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Shell
Koulango Female Ancestral Statue, Ivory Coast, Early 20th Century
Located in CA, CA
The hard wood of this female Koulango statue, from the Ivory Coast in the early 20th century, has developed a beautiful black patina. With hands resting on the abdomen, and the neck ...
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Early 20th Century Ivorian Tribal Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wood
18th Century Shipwright's Tar Ladle
Located in Greenwich, CT
A sculptural 18th century shipwright's over-scale tar ladle having large bowl and long handle with shaped throat and retaining fantastic scumble surface from use.
Treen
Category
1770s Great Britain (UK) Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Ivory Coast Zoomorphic Dance Mask, Gouro People
Located in CA, CA
A beautifully painted, stylised ritual dance mask with an assertive presence, used by the Gouro people of the Ivory Coast. The mask is in the form of an African wild dog...
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Mid-20th Century Ivorian Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Swedish Burl Bowl of Sculptural Form
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine early 19th century Swedish root burl bowl retaining traces of original mustard and ox blood read paint and having lovely organic form with excellent patina.
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Burl
A Folk Art Bridge Model
Located in Conwy, GB
A scratch built painted pine model of a foot bridge
Fab little thing, the staircases unhook for no reason that we can see.
Category
Early 20th Century English Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Venetian Grand Tour Carnival Figure of a Young Girl, Paint Decorated Metal c1770
Located in valatie, NY
Rare Venetian First Grand Tour Carnival Figure of a Young Girl, Paint Decorated Metal, Late 18th c. The Carnival in Venice traces its origins to 1162, when Venetians celebrated a mil...
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Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Metal
18th-Century English Pottery Hearty Good Fellow Toby Jug
Located in Downingtown, PA
English pottery hearty good fellow pearlware toby jug
circa 1800
An unusual variation on the hearty good fellow standing toby jug, The base in white with the Toby figure standing, supporting a large white jug under his right arm, and holding a pipe with his left hand across his chest with his head turned slightly to the left. He has a bright blue jacket and yellow pantaloons with an orange waistcoat. He has a brown tricorn hat...
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Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Unique 18th Century English Carved Panel of Two Kings
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unique carved Folk Art panel, dated 1768, depicting a double portrait of mythological kings, whimsically portrayed in miniature stature with protruding...
Category
1760s English Folk Art Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Pottery Pearlware Sponged Spirit Flasks Modeled in Form of Boots, Scottish
Located in Downingtown, PA
British pottery pearlware sponged spirit flasks modeled in form of boots,
Scottish, circa 1840-1850.
Wonderfully folky pair of unusual flasks sponged in mottled colors of blue, pin...
Category
Mid-19th Century Scottish Early Victorian Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Grasshopper
Located in Greenwich, CT
A grasshopper weathervane with body of pitted iron rotating on vertical rod with N E W S directionals below, now on wooden box stand with one side removable. The grasshopper was the ...
Category
1930s English Vintage Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Iron
$15,500
Enamel Sign for Colman’s Mustard
Located in Cheshire, GB
Enamel sign for Colman’s Mustard, of rectangular form decorated in blue and yellow enamel.
Dimensions
Height 16 inches
Width 62.5 inches
Depth 0.5 ...
Category
Early 20th Century British Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Enamel
$1,321 Sale Price
41% Off
Sculptural Downton Abbey Laundry Pincers
Located in Greenwich, CT
A pair of over-scale laundry pincers used at the turn of the century by a laundress in a great country house like that depicted in Downton Abbey for remo...
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Sycamore
Pair of Meissen Hoopoe Birds, 19th Century
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A pair of Meissen Hoopoe birds naturalistically modelled perched on leafy tree stumps after the models by J J Kandler with blue crossed sword marks, 19th century.
Batch 71 61579 ...
Category
1890s German Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Greek Pair of Silk/Metal Thread Embroideries, 18th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Greek Pair Silk/Metal Thread Embroideries, 18th Century
Additional Information:
Dimensions: 0'11" L x 0'6" W
Origin: Greece
Period: 18th Cen...
Category
18th Century Greek Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Carved Bantam Wearing a Crown
Located in Greenwich, CT
An early 19th century French carved bantam sporting a crown, well carved in pine. Good detailing to face, plumage, tail feathers and feet. Possibly originally from a ring toss game...
Category
19th Century French Folk Art Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Tiffany & Co. 14 Karat Yellow Gold, Enamel and Diamond Compact
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique 14 carat yellow gold, hot enamel and 0.30 carat diamond compact made by Tiffany & Co - boxed; an addition to our diverse ornamental collection.
This exceptional antique 14 carat yellow gold compact case has a rectangular rounded form.
The anterior and posterior surfaces of the case are embellished with impressive cream coloured hot enamel, accented with paralleling black borders with incurved corners.
The anterior surface of the case is ornamented with an applied oval cartouche, incorporating a ribbon box decorated frame accented with twenty-nine Dutch cut diamonds, totalling 0.30ct.
The anterior edge of the compact features a push fit catch ornamented with further black enamel decoration.
This impressive antique compact opens to reveal the original integrated mirror and two powder compartments.
Each makeup compartment features a flush hinged cover, with a subtle protruding thumbpiece to either side; the flush hinge indicates the high quality of the piece.
The upper rim of the compact is fitted with an impressive yellow gold chain handpiece, accented with six tubular designs ornamented with further cream and black hot enamel decoration.
The interior rim of the antique mirror bears the renowned maker's/retailer's mark 'Tiffany & Co' and the 14ct gold fineness mark (14K).
This exceptional Tiffany & Co compact case in gold is fitted to the original hinged leatherette presentation box with a satin and velvet lined interior, securing with a push fit catch; such an example in the original box is rare to the market.
The interior of the box bears the retailer's mark 'Tiffany & Co'.
This exceptional case is the finest of its type you could hope to acquire.
Condition
This antique Tiffany compact...
Category
1910s Vintage Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Gold, Enamel
Country Stool with original Hand Painted Scene to top, English mid 19th Century
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is an English mid 19th century, country stool, with a chamfered rectangular Elm top having a hand painted, country scene on it. It has three turned oak legs that are pegged into...
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Mid-19th Century English Country Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Elm, Oak
Enamel Sign for Colman’s Starch
Located in Cheshire, GB
Enamel sign for Colman’s Starch, of rectangular form decorated in blue and white enamel.
Dimensions
Height 16 Inches
Width 62.5 Inches
Depth 0.5 Inches.
Category
Early 20th Century British Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Enamel
$1,321 Sale Price
38% Off
Carved bust of a tribeswoman
Located in Cheshire, GB
Finely carved wooden bust of a striking tribeswoman figure carved from an exotic hardwood with a rich patina free standing.
Dimensions
Height 22 Inches
Width 13 Inches
Depth 17 Inches
Category
Early 20th Century North African Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wood
$7,490 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of 19th Century Burmese Leather Mâché Tigers
Located in Kent, Dover
A pair of charming Burmese leather mâché Burmese tigers, with glass eyes and bone teeth.
Category
1880s Burmese Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Leather
Mary Rich Islamic Influence Gold Lustre Patterned Porcelain Studio Pottery Bowl
By Mary Rich
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish studio pottery porcelain miniature teapot with Islamic influence design in rich gilding on a green coloured ground by renowned potter Mary Rich (b.1940) and dating from the 20th Century. The small barrel...
Category
20th Century English Modern Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Indo-Portuguese Ebony Corpus
Located in Kent, Dover
A fine 18th century Indo-Portuguese corpus, carved out of solid ebony. In very good condition with a good patina.
Category
Early 18th Century Indian Baroque Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Ebony
English Pottery Pearlware Figures of Sailors
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Pottery Pearlware Sailor Figures,
Circa 1820.
A lovely pair of English pottery pearlware figure groups each depicting a sailor resting on his sea trunk...
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
$3,950 / set
Set of Three Carved Wood Decoys
Located in Cheshire, GB
Set of three carved wood decoys hand-painted and inset with amber glass eyes.
Dimensions
Height 7.5 inches
Width 5.5 inches
Depth 16 inches.
Category
Early 20th Century British Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Pine
$1,652 Sale Price / set
51% Off
Handmade Commemorative African Quilt, Early 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Handmade Commemorative African Quilt Textile, Early 20th Century
A remarkable textile, listing the names and depicting the symbols of the rulers (“Ahosu”) of the West African region...
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Early 20th Century Beninese Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Baluch Bagface, c. 1900
Located in San Francisco, CA
Baluch Bagface Mat, c. 1900
Additional Information
Dimensions: 2'10" W x 2'10" L
Origin: Persia
Period: c. 1900
Rug ID: 16877
Category
Late 19th Century Persian Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
$1,500
Pre World War 1 Nautical Compass by E.S.Ritchie
By E.S. Ritchie & Co
Located in Norwich, GB
Pre World War I Nautical Compass by E.S.Ritchie
Nautical compass mounted by a brass gimbal into a copper brass bound case with sloping glazed aperture with heavily bevelled glass. Flat brass bezel with five holding screws signed ‘E.S.Ritchie’ and numbered 5779. Side opening compartment for a lighted wick with drawer beneath.
The compass is mounted in a heavy painted brass bowl with very fine copper pivot supporting the floating direction card. A diaphragm is located in the base of the bowl for temperature compensation.
E.S.Ritchie founded the business in 1850 to manufacture mechanical, electrical and scientific instruments. In 1857 he turned his attention to navigational instruments and begun making marine bearing compasses for the U.S.Navy before the American civil war. At the time the British admiralty dry mounted nautical compasses were considered by all navies and commercial shipping companies as the highest technological standard of the day, however, in 1860 Ritchie had received a US patent for the first successful and practical liquid-filled marine compass...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Copper
19th Century KPM porcelain plaque of the Battle of Corinth
By KPM Porcelain
Located in London, GB
19th Century KPM porcelain plaque of the Battle of Corinth
German, 19th Century
Frame: Height 37.5cm, width 44cm, depth 5cm
Plaque: H...
Category
Late 19th Century German Classical Roman Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Giltwood, Porcelain
$10,464 Sale Price
20% Off
Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Lady
Located in Cheshire, GB
Oil on canvas, portrait of a Lady Signed GRANT 1889. The Florentine giltwood frame with scrolling leaf decoration.
Dimensions:
Height 33 inches
Width 29 inches
Depth 2.5 inches.
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Paint
$1,404 Sale Price
38% Off
Teec Nos Pos Navajo Rug by Ruth Yabeny, 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Teec Nos Pos Navajo Rug by Ruth Yabeny, 20th Century
By most accounts, the Navajo are the most prolific Native American weavers. While the indigenous peoples...
Category
20th Century American Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Red Afshar Sumak Salt Bag, Late 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Red Afshar Sumak Salt Bag, Late 19th Century
A central white diamond is highlighted in white cotton on this Afshar salt bag. Throughout the field, geometric scarab-like elements ar...
Category
Late 19th Century Persian Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
19th Century German Meissen painted porcelain plaque
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in London, GB
19th Century German Meissen painted porcelain plaque
German, 19th Century
Height 11cm, width 13.5cm, depth 1cm
This charming painted porcelain plaque d...
Category
19th Century German Neoclassical Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Metal
$8,261 Sale Price
29% Off
Navajo Rug, c. 1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
Navajo Rug, c. 1920
Additional Information:
Dimensions: 4'7" W x 5'11" L
Origin: North America
Period: c. 1900
Rug ID: 21121
Category
19th Century Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
$1,650
A large Nelson commemorative armorial pier glass
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large Nelson commemorative armorial pier glass. This George III giltwood mirror has a rectangular glass plate below a shaped cornice with a central coat of arms for Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805) flanked by foliate tendrils on a painted black ground. The sides consist of paired tied-reed columns with palm frond capitals enclosing similar black painted panels of fruiting vine tendrils rising from classical vases. English, circa 1805.
See Wick Antiques, Britain on the High Seas: From Nelson to Churchill, pp.76-77, for a very similar giltwood mirror from a group at Merton Place, the house in Surrey which the Admiral shared with his mistress Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815). They all featured his coat of arms surmounted by a baron’s coronet...
Category
Early 1800s English Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Giltwood
Antique Persian Qashqai Bagface, 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Persian Qashqai Bagface Bag, 19th Century
The drawing has remarkable clarity. An earlier generation of this design. Killer color, with deep aubergine and blue-green.
Dimens...
Category
19th Century Persian Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Antique Persian Baluch Bagface, Late 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Persian Baluch Bagface Rug, Late 19th Century
Additional information:
Dimension: 2'9" W x 3'0" L
Origin: Persia
Period: Late 19th Century
Condition: Good condition with a s...
Category
Late 19th Century Persian Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Antique Handwoven Navajo Rug, Early 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Handwoven Navajo Rug, Early 20th Century
This scatter-sized Navajo rug with a design of linked diamonds in adjoining rows exemplifies the charm of Southwestern design. The m...
Category
Early 20th Century American Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
19th Century patinated bronze plaque of the Judgement of Solomon
Located in London, GB
19th Century patinated bronze plaque of the Judgement of Solomon
French, 19th Century
Diameter 16cm, depth 1.5cm
The circular front of this lustrous patinated bronze plaque is decor...
Category
19th Century French Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
$1,321 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Persian Afshar Bagface, Late 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Persian Afshar Bagface Bag, Late 19th Century
This charming Afshar bag face uses rich saturated vegetable colors and soft glossy wool, with rows of alternating flowers and b...
Category
Late 19th Century Persian Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
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 Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Glass, Giltwood
Exceptional Antique Persian Bakhtiari Sumak Bagface, 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Exceptional Antique Persian Bakhtiari Sumak Bagface, 19th Century
Flat woven bags executed in various sumak techniques were crucial items for Persian and Caucasian nomads as they tr...
Category
19th Century Persian Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Antique Northwest Persian Bagface, c. 1900
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Northwest Persian Bagface Bag, c. 1900
Kurdish weaving is often enigmatic. While Kurdish weavers were certainly influenced by the larger weaving traditions, be it Persian or...
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
$320 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Handwoven Navajo Rug, Early 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Navajo Rug, Early 20th Century
Having adopted horses and sheep from the Spanish, the Navajo of Arizona and New Mexico were already expert weavers by the time American settle...
Category
Early 20th Century American Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Antique Navajo Rug
Located in San Francisco, CA
This piece has a heavy thick weave and would lay on the floor better than most.
Category
20th Century North American Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
$4,500
Antique Navajo Rug, Early 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Handwoven Navajo Rug, Early 20th Century
Additional Information:
Dimensions: 6'3" W x 10'10" L
Origin: North America
Period: Early 20th Century
Rug ID: 05734
Category
Early 20th Century American Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Antique Persian Baluch Bagface, Late 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Persian Baluch Bagface Bag, Late 19th Century
Additional information:
Dimension: 2'6" W x 2'6" L
Condition: Good, minor moth damage.
Origin: Persia
Period: Late 19th Centur...
Category
Late 19th Century Persian Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Rouen Faience Corpus
Located in Kent, Dover
A French faience corpus manufactured in Rouen. The cross now missing and with historic damage to the wrists and ankles.
Category
1760s French Louis XV Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Faience
$1,045
Antique Anatolian Bergama Heybe Bags, Late 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Anatolian Turkish Bergama Heybe Bags Rug, Late 19th Century
Additional Information:
Dimensions: 1'8" W x 4'2" L
Origin: Anatolia (Turkey)
Period: Late 19th Century
Rug ID: 1...
Category
Late 19th Century Persian Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Antique Persian Afshar Bagface, c. 1900
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Persian Afshar Bagface Bag, c. 1900
This highly graphic Afshar bag face draws a large central indigo-blue hexagon against a complimentary contrasting terra cotta field. Both...
Category
19th Century Persian Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Antique Persian Shahsevan Sumak Bagface, 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Shahsevan Sumak Bagface, 19th Century
Against a deep modulated indigo ground, rows of delicate flowering shrubs are elegantly drawn in the field of this Northwest Persian su...
Category
19th Century Persian Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Four Meissen Porcelain Plaques Depicting the Four Seasons
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in London, GB
This delicately detailed set of four allegorical porcelain plaques portrays family scenes within the theme of the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
Spring can be ide...
Category
Early 19th Century German Folk Art Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Metal
$8,261 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Fine and Rare Early 19th Century Carved Bootjack in the Form of a Pistol
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A fine and rare !9th Century hand carved antique treen bootjack, to remove riding boots, in the unusual form of a pistol.
This is a rare find and unfolds to form a bootjack with be...
Category
19th Century Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Beech
Bronze of an Edwardian Lady on a Window Seat
By Noel Ruffier
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A bronze of a Mme Sans-Gene (Madam Without-a-Care) by Noel-Rouffier, depicted as an Edwardian lady on a window seat.
Category
1890s French Edwardian Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Antique Persian Luri Bakhtiari Flatwoven Salt Bag in Cotton, c. 1900
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Southwest Persian Luri Bakhtiari Flatwoven Cotton Salt Bag, c. 1900
This Luri-Bakhtiari salt bag is a graphic delight. A central cruciform element is drawn in white cotton a...
Category
19th Century Persian Antique Antiques Associations Members Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
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