Antique Canons

Antique Utah Landscape Print, Weber Canyon & Great Salt Lake Valley, 1861 Description: A refined mid-19th century American landscape engraving titled Weber Lower Cañon, depictin...

These colours were also particularly significant in the Egyptian artistic canon, with red being the colour of chaos and death, and black the colour of resurrection and the fertile la...

The Kashan medallion-and-corner composition — the most celebrated and enduring format in the entire Persian rug canon, perfected in Kashan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries —...

The design follows one of the most beloved formats in the American hooked rug canon: a warm golden-ivory field at the center, animated by a generous central bouquet of deep magenta a...

Both documentary and entertaining, the work offers collectors a quintessential example of early 19th-century sporting art, valued for its narrative charm, technical finesse, and endu...

These figures — associated in Sumba's animist marapu tradition with ancestral spirits, noble clan identity, and the mediation between the living and the dead — represent one of the m...

The sculptures display highly meticulous modeling, particularly evident in the treatment of the drapery, which falls in broad and fluid folds, and in the idealized anatomy of the fig...

These antique prints were produced by the United States Geologic Survey for Clarence Dutton's work, "Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District with Atlas, by Clarence E. Dutton, ...

In France in particular, women painted through the realism of their bodies conveyed their sensual physicality, such as the models of Courbet and Ingres, modelling them according to t...

The print is based on a celebrated Tudor portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger, the foremost court painter of Henry VIII, and was engraved in the mid-18th century in the circle of Geo...

Fine 19th century Welsh dresser, the base with thumb molded top over five drawers all retaining original round ebonized pulls, the lower section with arch over turned canon barrel su...

Each chair features a classic square back with molded framing, fluted tapering legs, and carved rosette corner blocks, all hallmarks of the Louis XVI neoclassical canon. The frames r...

✦ ABOUT THIS RUG An antique Caucasian Shirvan rug of authentic tribal character and great chromatic beauty — woven in the eastern Caucasus (present-day Azerbaijan) in the late ninete...

An authentic and highly collectible antique hand-knotted Caucasian rug, woven circa 1880s in the Talish region of the southern Caucasus — one of the most distinctive and sought-after...

It was serious literary analysis that placed Austen firmly within the literary canon, elevating her status to a writer worthy of study and analysis.

The wide outer guard band showcases exuberant garlands of roses and foliage, a hallmark of the Empire and Restoration periods, fitting perfectly within the canon of classic tradition...

✦ ABOUT THIS RUG A magnificent antique Caucasian Kazak rug of exceptional age, authenticity, and visual power — woven in the southwestern Caucasus in the 1880s, in the bold geometric...

This oil on marble portrait depicts a noble gentleman belonging to colonial high society, following the canons of European portraiture. The subject is depicted full-length, set in a ...

"(published by Father Dom François Chamard, Benedictine of the Abbey of Ligugé in France (Paris, 1882)) Our painting reminds us of a work by the troubadour painter Charles Louis Les...

In 1855 he gained consensus with Un veglione al teatro della Pergola, a work characterized by bright colors but still permeated by a polemical meaning and therefore far from the veri...

As for the cross proposed here, we see a painting rendered according to the fourteenth-century canons introduced by Giotto: Christ has a recumbent head and great attention is given t...

Each chair features a classic rectilinear back with molded framing, fluted tapering legs, and carved rosette corner blocks, all hallmarks of the Louis XVI neoclassical canon. The fra...

Serious literary analysis at the turn of the century also placed Austen firmly within the literary canon, elevating her status to a writer worthy of study and analysis.

Serious literary analysis at the turn of the century also placed Austen firmly within the literary canon, elevating her status to a writer worthy of study and analysis.

That image became the universal aesthetic canon of the era. The posture of the outstretched arms lowered in invitation (“Come unto Me”).

This pair is documented in Il Mobile del Novecento (DeAgostini), confirming its relevance within the canon of early modern decorative arts and Italian interpretations of the Art Nouv...

Characteristic of this current of painters was precisely the portrayal of popular scenes of everyday life in papal Rome, repudiating the official canons and subjects of the time, as ...

Today, Heer is represented in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, affirming his status within the canon of American illustrators from the early modern era.

Cartier is listed in the Bénézit Dictionary of Artists, confirming his standing within the canon of recognized French sculptors. This example retains a rich patinated finish with sub...

Fratin is listed in the Bénézit Dictionary of Artists, confirming his lasting importance within the canon of French sculpture. This refined antique bronze would make a distinguished ...

This is actually the really cool thing about antique furniture, although there were some canons regarding the styles, at the end of the day these were all hand-made pieces made to th...

Its imperial symbolism, documented Moscow manufacture, and commanding presence place it well above generic European copperware and firmly within the canon of late Imperial Russian de...

The head of the figure on our slab is depicted in profile, according to the canons of the early period, with the eye and front shoulder facing the viewer, however the style of the ca...

The painting follows the canons of Central European Baroque portraiture, dating from the late 17th century to the first decades of the 18th century (ca. 1690-1730), a time of stylist...

She holds a bronze plaque that establishes a "canon" of Western literary mastery.The Names on the PlaqueThe names are listed in their French forms, representing the pinnacle of ancie...

Often overlooked in the canon of decorative arts, pyrography reached its zenith during the Arts and Crafts Movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when it flourished as a...

First conceived in the late 19th century, The Archer was issued by Gladenbeck in three sizes, with one model famously illustrated on the front of the foundry’s 1903 catalogue, unders...

The upper plateau of the cover is surmounted with an angular sterling silver handle or bell canons. The cover opens to reveal a circular sunken well and removable ceramic ink line...

The combination of diamonds and enamel, together with their documented Portuguese hallmarks, positions them firmly within the canon of important Southern European jewelry of the peri...

She later continued her studies in Vienna as a student of Hans Canon and the history painter Fritz L'Allemand. In 1876, Matschnig submitted an oil portrait of Franz Joseph I to an ex...

One can recognize the Roman influence in the very classical and very serious canon of the figures and in the very detailed work of his folds (very tight folds in a manner characteris...

The young woman is depicted according to the canons of Empire fashion, wearing a high-waisted dress with a square neckline, characteristic of the early nineteenth century.

Optica View The Hague Canal & Cannon Foundry, Basset c.1770 This is a finely engraved and hand-colored optical print titled *Vue du Canal et de l’Hotel de Fonderie de Canon a la Hay...

Lemanceau’s works—ranging from panthers and gazelles to llamas and stylized birds—are today considered essential pieces in the canon of Art Deco animalier design and remain highly so...

The combination of dramatic subject matter, fine hand coloring, and association with Vernet places this print firmly within the canon of classic 19th-century Napoleonic imagery.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: This copy was specially bound for presentation to Benedetto (Benedicto) Latilla, General Abbot of the Lateran Regular Canons, to whom the book is dedicated, a...

Title page printed in red and black. Zype was a canon lawyer and church official attached to the Bishop of Antwerp.

Elegant French Regency (early 18th century) chimney piece in classic canon de fusil grey marble stone showing discreet bronze/old-green mastic tones.

Antique bound poetry and song book – this edition published by Methuen in 1898 Bound in cloth over board with gold titling to the spine Presented across 208 pages, with a 40-page add...

This model is documented in Das Thonet Buch by Alexander von Vegesack (Munich, 1987, pp. 118–119), affirming its place in the canon of historic modern furniture design.

- Idealization of the Nude: The female body is idealized, following classical canons of beauty, while retaining a certain naturalism and sensuality inherited from the Baroque

The idealized face, with soft and expressive features, corresponds to the aesthetic canon of the period, which sought to convey an ideal of spiritualized beauty through physical form.

In the canon of American Arts and Crafts, few names command reverence like Roycroft—and few objects better capture its ethos than this hammered copper tray.

The firm's showrooms on Rue Royale and later Place Vendôme became essential destinations for collectors, while acquisitions by institutions like the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museu...

This mid-17th-century Spanish oil on canvas depicts a dignified man of learning - a theologian, or perhaps a cathedral canon. Dressed in a black cassock, marked by a vertical row of...

Details of everyday life—elegant figures walking in period clothing, glimpses of others gathered in front of a canon.. The poster’s classic Art Deco typography boldly displays "Chemi...

The shape of the vase, with a globular body and tall cylindrical neck, reflects the aesthetic canons of the late 19th century, characterized by organic lines and naturalistic decorat...