Antique Grotesque

Below, the body of the vase is fluted, on its top and bottom, and its middle is encircled by a band of foliage, interspersed with grotesque masks. The vase’s body stands on a socle w...

The composition was completed in the first state, but there were still some white spots in the background; these were filled in by dots in the second state. A mascaron is a grotesqu...

The union of the gruesome and the grotesque appealed strongly to his imagination and in completeness of detail and carefulness of grouping the illustrations excel nearly all his othe...

The table is supported on four curving cabriole legs, which are set on scrolling gilt bronze feet and mounted with gilt bronze grotesque style satyr masks. The shaped table top is fr...

Superb original print, full margins, representing a grotesque scene of evocation of spirits, in excellent condition excep for some imperceptible light rednesses of the paper Honoré...

Amusing original print, full margins, demonstrating a great mastery of the graphic techniques. Representing a grotesque scene depicting a couple during esoteric rituals with a turni...

Superb original print, full margins, representing a grotesque scene of evocation odf spirits, in excellent condition excep for some imperceptible light rednesses of the paper Honoré...

Superb specimen, full margins, depicting a grotesque scene set on a ship with a human chaos, is in excellent condition, with imperceptible aging signs (light redness and some traces ...

Back of the forks show grotesque Masks. Porcelain handles decorated with flowers in polychrome colors on white ground surrounded by Bleu du Roi, lavishly accented by decorations in ...

However it is unusual to find marquetry used as decoration at this period and the design incorporating grotesques and strapwork is rather strongly reminiscent of the designs of Danie...

Essentially a style of interior decoration, it consisted of more or less riotous displays of C and S scrolls and curves, created from stylized stretches of foliage, flowers, rocks, s...

Amusing original print, full margins, demostrating agreat mastery of the graphic tecniques, representing the grotesque scene set at the backstage with the actors evoking the spirits...

Small imperceptible tears ont he edges of the sheet. Representing a grotesque scene of a sale of a skeletal horse to hippophagus customers, this amusing plate is overall in excellent...

He took a dispassionate look at aspects of life that were imperfect--even grotesque--and often rendered his subjects sympathetically.

In architecture, a chimera or grotesque is a fantastic or mythical figure used for decorative purposes, but in the 12th and 13th century (when most people were illiterate) they were ...

Each table in fact represents a different revolutionary political committee in a grotesque and caricatural way. Based on Hess’drawings, the woodcuts were probably realized by the gre...

The vases are mounted by extraordinary gilt handles headed by winged female masks to the sides and grotesque masks to the shoulders. The spreading necks decorated with Greek key deco...

The silver charger mounted on a velvet board, of circular form in the Neo-Grec manner, depicting a classical figural scene of a semi-clad maiden surrounded by three female attendants...

Classical Antiquity gives the city fresh air to breathe with a new ornamental repertoire, interlacings, laurel leaves, choux bourguignons, palm leaves, spokes of heart, putti and gro...

Such paintings as The Scandalized Masks (1883) and Skeletons Fighting over a Hanged Man (1891) feature figures in grotesque masks inspired by the ones sold in his mother's gift shop ...

The screen's decor is a rich tapestry of architectural motifs, vases, music and art allegories, flowers, putti, grotesque and symbolic animals inspired by Ancient Greek and Roman myt...

Such paintings as The Scandalized Masks (1883) and Skeletons Fighting over a Hanged Man (1891) feature figures in grotesque masks inspired by the ones sold in his mother's gift shop ...

Such paintings as The Scandalized Masks (1883) and Skeletons Fighting over a Hanged Man (1891) feature figures in grotesque masks inspired by the ones sold in his mother's gift shop ...

The third pair inspired by the fantastical Flemish grotesque tradition popularised by Cornelis Huys in the fifteenth century.

The corners of the furniture, in addition, count on classicistic dolphins and grotesques of children with the lower half of the body transformed into vegetal elements and volutes.

Across the punch work surface, small flower heads and stylized acanthus leaves play while the knees are carved with grotesque heads issuing from further acanthus leaves.

All four sides, as well as the upper lid, are covered in a profusion of grotesque, pictorial, and heraldic decorative elements.

He returned to Florence for a brief stay, where he collaborated with Alessandro Allori, Ludovico Buti, Giovan Maria Butteri and Ludovico Cigoli on the decoration of the ceilings of t...

The sides The sides are filled with wonderful pastiglia work, spread out in a frieze on the belt and in a large grotesque, from which the white-cream colour sparkles on the walnut b...

Fuseli had first explored the motif of the hooded old woman in an early Roman drawing, 'The Venus Seller'. The idea of a grotesque old woman, hooded and with angular nose and project...

The elaborate decoration of the wall mirrors is based on grotesques in the lower part, from which plant elements emerge that are prolonged, accompanied by hangings, towards the upper...

Its poetically enigmatic title, darkly erotic "Death and the Maiden" treatment, Hugo-esque play on beauty and the grotesque, fluid, sinuous forms, and rippling textures reflect the m...

In 1784 a pair of Sèvres vases with Raphaelesque grotesques in violet on a white ground, made in 1782 were mounted with gilt-bronze goats as handles, which Pierre Verlet recognized i...

Chased Quattrocento grotesque ornament, including griffins and foliate scrolls.

Deep and tapering well and wide turned-down rim with chased Quattrocento grotesque ornament, including griffins and foliate scrolls.

Several Roman soldiers doze at the base of the tomb, except for one grotesque figure, who, beginning to wake, shields his eyes from the light and looks on with a face of bewilderment...

Continental German (late 19th Cent) sculpted terra-cotta master mask mold of a smiling Grotesque face with a mustache displayed on a square black marble base stand (part of 39 pc.

Continental German (late 19th cent) sculpted terra-cotta master mask mold of an insane looking Grotesque face with deep laugh lines displayed on a square black marble base stand (par...

The sideboards have carved panels with grotesque figures carved in the wood of typical Renaissance and Gothic style.