Antique Grotesque

Early 19th Century Regency mirror, the period plate set within carved giltwood pierced frame of cartouche form surmounted with pierced scrolling foliate crest flanked with two figura...

The earthenware is polychrome decorated with grotesques with lion heads and coats of arms. This very beautiful cooler is oval in shape with a scalloped golden border decorated with a...

QUITE RARE PICTURE PLATE OF VIENNESE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY: Stunning quality / edged areas are decorated with so-said Grotesque (Italian: GROTTESCHI) pattern. - Mate...

From this however they soon recovered, on discovering the grotesque figure of our hero, with whom they were soon so highly delighted, that a subscription was set on foot for his bene...

Arabesques, foliage, grotesques and bas-relief medallions with mythological scenes or portraits cover the facades and uprights of French Renaissance furniture.

The Bamboccianti depicted scenes of everyday life with realism and detail, often with a humorous or grotesque touch. The Nordic painters, such as Pieter van Laer (known as "Il Bamboc...

Spanish bronze baroque brazier, raised on three legs in the form of curly scroll to the outside, topped with grotesque masks of synthetic features. The container is flattened and sta...

Just below the ribbed handles on each side are a pair of grotesque bearded Classical masks, and a celadon glaze is applied to the neck and lower body of each piece.

A forerunner of 20th-century Expressionism and one of the major figures of the Belgian avant-garde in the late 19th century, James Ensor was a visionary, mystic, allegoric, anarchic ...

A fascinating piece of art represents portraits on the lower and Christian grotesque art at the top, through short and soft strokes, details of the artworks are perfectly applied thr...

This exceptional marble fireplace has a shaped mantel above a frieze finely carved with scrolling acanthus, flowers and a grotesque mask, centred by a cartouche carved with the coat ...

Aubrey Beardsley was an English illustrator who contributed to the development of the Art Nouveau style, known for his grotesque, decadent and erotic depictions inspired by Japanese ...

Father Wind is depicted as a Grotesque to to ward off evil and as a reminder of the separation of the earth and the divine; which are often confused for gargoyles, but are two differ...

The elaborate pedestal with theatrical grotesque masks on the corners and fine chiseled reliefs on each side showing scenes from his most famous works.

Callot also had a genius for caricature and the grotesque. His series of plates of single or dual figures—for example, the Balli di Sfessania (“Dance of Sfessania”), the Caprices of ...

The wide outer rim is enriched with fantastical Grotesque decoration on a cobalt-blue field, executed in the refined historicist style characteristic of Cantagalli’s late nineteenth-...

Rings of faux pods separate the center from a series of grotesque motifs of small birds and masks. These go around the basin and are, in fact, faithfully repeated on the brim.

Architectural elements, grotesques, medallions, lettering, crests, mythical creatures, angels and ornamental motifs in gold and silver metallics and polychrome.

Dating to the early 18th century, this very rare form is decorated in the Moustiers style and possibly from the workshop of Clermont-Ferrand. With grotesque mask handles and the o...

Callot also had a genius for caricature and the grotesque. His series of plates of single or dual figures—for example, the Balli di Sfessania (“Dance of Sfessania”), the Caprices of ...

Ernst's work often featured ironic juxtapositions of grotesque elements with Cubist and Expressionist motifs.

The element is a figurative fountain mouth, modelled in this instance as a young girl with rather grotesque features, not least her distended mouth.

., exceptionally executed Parisian work, most impressive large size, beautifully patinated gilt bronze and brass fireplace andirons in Neo-Gothic taste, featuring turned column with ...

In the sides, there are other cherubs holding a cartouche decorated with scrolls, shells and a grotesque mask . The box is supported by the lions paws of four snake head-swans placed...

Five cheerful dwarf figures drinking and eating; It stands on a removable round basement decorated with relief grotesque and festoons pattern. It comes from a private collection of...

Inside oval are depicted fan motifs and in the center, within a lozenge, there are grotesque drawings. The metal edging is chiseled in the corners with foliated decorations.

He no longer limited himself to such types as the lorette and the Parisian student, or to the description of the noisy and popular pleasures of the capital, but turned his mirror to ...

The base supports a large trumpet shaped top with a flared and crimped rim the body finely hand painted with flowering blooms on trailing leafy stems with gilded trailing stems aroun...

English fairground panel We share what we love, and we love this very well carved turn off the century fairground rounders panel/frieze, depicting a screaming grotesque being, attr...

These scenes are framed by winged grotesque handles and the entirety of these vase is decorated profusely, including the socle, where a putto is depicted inscribing a tablet.

The handles on either end are grotesque figural male heads with curled rams like horns atop of each, and faces with piercing eyes, and open mouths with their tongues sticking out and...

The apron (the side skirt) is intricately detailed with a repeating floral rosette motif and a prominent North Wind / Grotesque mask carved into the center. Era: It is typically date...

Styled after an ancient Chinese temple incense burner censer, monumental scale, whimsical Gothic Victorian taste, featuring highly detailed dragons wrapped around a pair of tall outs...

The high-scrolling handles on either side are decorated with a combination of female mask-heads in small circular roundels, and large male heads, possibly grotesque masks or satyr-fa...

He described the images as "grim faces made more grim, grotesque figures made more grotesque, and dull people made duller by the genius of our talented collaborator 'Ape'; but there ...

He described the images as "grim faces made more grim, grotesque figures made more grotesque, and dull people made duller by the genius of our talented collaborator 'Ape'; but there ...

The central clock with dial to the center, displaying hours in individual plaques in Roman numerals and five minute intervals engraved into the ormolu case in Arabic numerals, the ca...

Renaissance Revival figural carved walnut sideboard, 19th century, having winged cherub crest, over beveled mirror back shelf, drop front cabinet, opening to shelved and storage inte...

Two goat divinities face each other, longing to contemplate the white and sensual body of the young hunter who appears languid and unaware, like a biblical Susanna. The two grotesque...

Born in France in the early 19th century, most likely near the Italian border or Napoleonic territory in present day Northern Italy, most impressive palatial scale, exceptionally exe...

The shoulders of the lamp are set with grotesque masks and rectangular handles, while the lamp itself is supported by a socle above a square base.

Constructed in walnut, richly and finely carved, rising from a serpentine base supported by shaped and scrolled feet, with an spread wing eagle, with one talon aloft, holding a shiel...

This guard, which may be of iron, steel, copper, bronze, or silver, may be simple, or elaborately ornamented (often with patterns or heraldic ornaments, such as the fleur-de-lis, wit...

He described the images as "grim faces made more grim, grotesque figures made more grotesque, and dull people made duller by the genius of our talented collaborator 'Ape'; but there ...

The apron features three drawers to the front, each affixed with gilt bronze mounts in a foliate style and modelled as theatrical masks, while the sides of the apron are affixed with...

The side panels feature sculpted characters set in niches that are topped with fantastic compositions inspired by grotesques. The circular clock face marks the hours in Roman numeral...

A Flemish tapestry panel from the 17th century, featuring a design of scrolling flowerheads and rosettes, with ribbon-ties and French fleur-de-lys motifs in the upper corners, and po...

The actor wears a fierce and unearthly hannya mask, the grotesque face fixed with a predatory smile. A mane of long hair frames the face and extends down the back.

In the papal capital he worked for many noble families and for important cardinals such as Alessandro Farnese and Scipione Borghese.He returned to Florence for a short stay, where he...

Featuring the original rouge marble top with striking white veining, surmounted by an elaborately shaped hand-carved acanthus scrolled shell crest, over large open display shelf with...

Arabesques, foliage, grotesques and bas-relief medallions with mythological scenes or portraits cover the facades and uprights of French Renaissance furniture.

This guard, which may be of iron, steel, copper, bronze, or silver, may be simple, or elaborately ornamented (often with patterns or heraldic ornaments, such as the fleur-de-lis, wit...

Decorative register inherited of the Renaissance, such as grotesques, swirls, acanthus leaves, cornucopia, chimeras, cherub and portraits in oval medals.

Born in Italy during the late 19th century, hand-crafted of warm, rich, finely carved solid walnut, finished in medieval Henry II style / Italian Empire taste, featuring X-frame with...

Adam Style is defined by decorative motifs which include grotesque forms, urns, dancing nymphs, foliate scrolls, pilasters and framed panels.

After Claude-Michel Clodion Each vase of tapering form applied with two grotesque masks hung with laurel garlands above a frieze cast in relief with depictions of putti pulling the ...

He is accompanied by stylised birds, grotesque masks and figures supporting flower baskets on their heads.

Joseph Reinemann, Munich, a Jugendstil silvered pewter novelty desk inkwell in the form of a grotesque bird, with red ceramic liner, on three webbed feet, 11cm high.

Alberto Martini (1876 -1954) was an Italian painter, engraver,and graphic designer. his artworks are described by critics from "elegant and epic" to "grotesque and macabre" and cons...

The lamp features a pair of oval panels, one with a hand-painted classical deity in the clouds and the other painted with wild flowers, each framed with elaborate gilt decoration and...