Antique Gables

Trilobed Gable with Plain Copings
 France, 14th–15th century
 Limestone 26 x 38 x 14 cm Architectural fragment in limestone, comprising a triangular gable with plain copings, distin...

The window incorporates a painted orange glass star motif against a painted blue glass background, all contained within its pine frame. The piece was salvaged from a working men’s c...

Biedermeier secretary. The carcass is cherry-veneered and displays a continuous veneer pattern. It is topped by a pointed pediment with an ebonized profile strip. The sides are large...

Referenced as Fletcher #3 the image is the second in his Gable series. Lisieux is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

The text "Drondrecher 1.Mannchen 2.Meischen" suggests that the two birds are a male (Männchen) and a female (Weibchen), although the spelling seems a bit off from contemporary German...

The top is finished with a pointed gable. The top plate is hinged and reveals a small hiding place.

At the top of the right gable there is a hole where a stick would be rested to keep the lid open - see picture.

The queen stands in three quarter view, her hands folded at her waist, wearing a gable hood with a dark veil falling behind and a jeweled pendant at her neck.

Behind the central gable rises a tall, steeply pitched spire crowned with a decorative finial and weathervane.

A central tower and a run of pinnacled gables crown this country house view. A line of dark conifers and deciduous trees runs along the near bank, their forms doubled more softly be...

Tower, gable and turret combine under a mantle of ivy in this antique print of Danbury Palace, Essex, a colour woodblock country house view from Morris's Picturesque Views of Seats, ...

The main image, headed 'Hoofdfaçade', shows the school front in brick and stone: a steep gabled roof breaking forward into twin dormer-like gables at either end and a taller central ...

Below is the full front elevation, a narrow, stepped Dutch gable rising through three floors: three round windows pierce the gable, three tall curtained windows light the second floo...

The massive square tower of the cathedral of Malines rises high above a crowded old street in this upright steel engraving, its enormous clock dials and tall pointed openings dwarfin...

An archway and old stepped gables close the view at left. The lettering reads Town-Hall, Cologne, on the Rhine, and credits the drawing to William Leighton Leitch, the Scottish land...

A grand frontal view of the Holstein Gate at Lübeck, its two round towers with tall conical roofs flanking a stepped central gable and a deep arched gateway. Behind it the twin spire...

The upper half gives the full front elevation: a long polychrome brick and stone facade in the Dutch Renaissance revival manner, a central pavilion rising to a tall, scrolled and ste...

Originally crafted as an exterior gable finial ornament (Gegyo-hire) representing sacred water-clouds (Unki) to protect the sacred hall from fire, the piece has been ingeniously reim...

At ground level three deep pointed portals lined with sculpture open onto a broad flight of steps, the central portal crowned by a tall gable. A tall pinnacled turret rises at the fa...

The building rises in stepped terraces above a long base raised on posts, every roof line crowded with flame shaped finials, carved gables and tall pointed spires. Broad curving balu...

The queen stands with her hands folded at her waist, wearing a gable hood with gold lappets and a long black veil, and a jeweled necklace and brooch.

The tower is built in stages, crowned with pinnacles and small turrets, and a high gabled transept with tall windows stands beside it. Tall stepped-gable houses line both sides of th...

A tall half-timbered house with steep gables and overhanging upper stories stands on a street corner in this upright steel engraving.

It is a steel engraving of great clarity, contrasting the delicate tracery of the tower with the rough, weathered surfaces of the old houses. The leaning gables and patched roofs are...

The tower, with its corner turrets and pinnacled crown, stands against a pale blue sky with drifting clouds, and the steep roof and Gothic gable of the church lie below it. The stre...

Beyond the bridge rise the distinctive stepped gables, red brick buildings, and distant church architecture characteristic of medieval Bruges.

The engraving is a detailed architectural study showcasing the Gothic canopy work above the choir stalls, complete with pointed arches, crocketed gables, and heraldic shields below—d...

The view is dominated by a church with two slender towers capped with onion domes and lanterns, rising over a crowd of steep roofs, gables and chimneys. To the right, a long row of b...

The case is built as a multi-tiered facade with pierced tracery, arcaded galleries and steep gables, surmounted by four slender spires. Details include chip-carved rope mouldings aro...

The lower vignette shows a large white house with stepped gables among palm trees on a low shore, with a garden wall along the water.

At the top, numbered 2, is a long rectangular lead trough in cool gray, its front divided by Gothic gables into bays that alternate small angels holding shields with lion masks.

Two slender pinnacles flank a battlemented gable with a round rose window; below are pointed windows with tracery, a large central window, and a balustrade above a row of pointed arc...

A wooden drawbridge with its long balance beams spans a canal before a row of stepped gable houses, a long building and a tower with a flag.

Ivy has climbed over almost the whole of the ground and first floors in this antique print of Drakelowe Hall, Derbyshire, a colour woodblock country house view from Morris's Pictures...

The main image is a perspective: the lodge has a stepped Dutch gable pierced by a small oculus window, arched ground-floor openings and iron finials along the ridge, while beside it ...

Across the top, the front facing the Nieuwstraat is a plain two-storey block under a pedimented gable carrying a clock, its ground-floor windows round-arched and a broad double stair...

Around the perspective are a front elevation with a steep hipped gable and an arched, fanlit entrance flanked by lower stable wings; a ground plan keyed to a hayloft, horse stable, c...

The upper half gives a single long elevation: a symmetrical three-storey range beneath a continuous hipped roof, its centre and end bays marked by pedimented gables each pierced with...

The building is an ornamental garden pavilion in a richly decorated half-timbered style: broad, deeply overhanging gables with carved bargeboards and brackets at both ends, leaded gl...

A tall central tower and lantern rise well above the roofline, surrounded by a crowd of pinnacles, strapwork gables and chimneys in a dense Jacobean revival idiom.

The front elevation, drawn to 1:100, is a broad, symmetrical villa under a shallow hipped roof, its centre marked by a pedimented gable with a pointed, gothic-arched window and a sto...

A small vignette at the head shows the front of the building, a four-storey brick block with round-arched windows to the principal floors and a pedimented attic gable, standing betwe...

The house is taken from well back across its park, so that the long Jacobean garden front reads as a pale silhouette of gables, turrets, cupolas and clustered chimneys against the sk...

The scene depicts a tranquil coastal village with figures gathered along a sandy shore beside moored boats, whilst distinctive buildings with stepped gables and a church tower crown ...

In the world of architecture, this French oak carving is known as a pediment, which is a triangular-shaped gable that surmounts vertical structures, in this case, a door frame.

(breedte)', shows a long brick range with stepped gables in the Dutch Renaissance manner and a richly polychrome sectioned bay revealing painted friezes, sculpture niches and a coffe...

He has set the house at a slight angle across the canvas, its steep slate roof and brick-dressed gable rising into a high, pale, almost colourless sky, and worked the whole of the ma...

The upper part of the secretaire is composed with a transom-glazed attachment with a small pointed gable, the inside is consisting shelving. The lower part consist a writing flap, th...

Whimsical vintage wire birdcage fashioned after a traditional Colonial house with gable roof and arched windows. With swinging perch!

A real great architectural highlight is the triangular gable - the so-called "Schinkel roof" (named after the german architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who designed a lot of building...

Stepped cornice with a head stool and a protruding chisel gable. Black offset tooth frames. Here is the whole proportion and that can really only the best levelists.

A Flemish house with a stepped gable and warm red roof sits along the water’s edge, framed by mature trees, while a Gothic spire rises in the distance, anchoring the composition with...

The pieces are crowned by Schinkel gables with dentil friezes beneath and round-arched galleries at the very top.

The composition captures daily life within Albany's historic center, where residents gather beneath a large shade tree surrounded by brick and timber buildings displaying distinctive...

His designs were sought after by celebrities such as Clark Gable and Marlene Dietrich. He was also asked to design the executive offices for Chrysler.

A very early oak chest with lovely silvery patina of heavy plank construction raised off the floor with integral legs extending the depth of the edges, and a hinged ridged top with t...

Secretary à deux corps Baroque, Saxony c. 1740, walnut and walnut burl veneer, sloping lid, 2-door top with sprung gable and beautiful interior division, 3-tier, double-arched chest...

The building itself, with its distinctive stepped gables, mullioned windows, and central watergate, reflects the architectural character of London before the Great Fire of London, wh...

Large wall mirror with brass profiles and mahogany veneered frame as well as a gable end rising in the middle. The mirror glass is frame-facetted.

The field features a warm, madder-red mihrab containing a central "Tree of Life" or stylized floral pillar, topped with a distinctive architectural gable reminiscent of village dwell...