Antique Grotesque

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...

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.

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 ...

An exceptional architectural high relief hand carved stone band of running scroll decoration frieze panel, with beautiful scrollwork, representing wind or water, and mythological cre...

The design of the face masks, or Bartmänner, went through a design change during the 17th century as they "became progressively debased and notably grotesque". Distribution and use T...

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

The entire lyre is mounted onto a base of white, veined marble with ormolu beading, swags and grotesques, all set on ormolu toupie feet.

A pair of triple back settees In the mid-Georgian Chippendale manner Constructed in a richly carved, well patinated mahogany; rising from cabriole front & rear legs, terminating i...

This is centred beneath by a grotesque mask, and above by a shell-shaped mount, distinctive of Linke's work.

The ministers standing on either side of the throne area all grotesquely satirized. In the background, beefeaters carry large forks and eye the oxen greedily.

Although when most people hear the word “gargoyle”, they probably envision small, winged creatures with grotesque visages. However, the phrase has a deeper meaning, encompassing any ...

Featuring artistic medieval Renaissance Grotteschi style, decorated in intricate highly stylized foliate scrolls, mysterious masks, dragons and grotesques. Signed in blue against...

Carved in low relief at each end of the frieze are winged mythical dragons and to the side are vases of flowers beneath which are elaborate angled c-scrolled jambs decorated with mas...

These supports are set on a giltwood tri-form base, which is decorated with foliage and strap work carvings, and set on three feet in the form of Grotesque masks.

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

His decorative designs were highly influential providing templates from which other craftsmen and artists worked. His arabesque and grotesque ornament combine fantastic iconography a...

Stunning picture plate with figurines of Royal Vienna Porcelain Manufactory: Finest quality / edged areas are decorated with so-said Grotesque (Italian: Grotteschi) pattern laid on...

The circular tabletop has been beautifully cast with bands of low-relief ornament, depicting scrolled, fruiting vines, grotesque masks, ovolo mouldings, and stylised classical busts.

The Monumental Tablet Etching, engraving, drypoint and burnishing, c. 1748 Series: Grotteschi (Grotesques, 4 plates) Original, unwashed condition.

Around the rim of the plate, scrolling foliate vines and flowers are interspersed with four grotesque masks. The centre is similarly decorated, with intertwining scrolls, acanthus le...

Lautrec was too proud to submit to his lot, as physical freak, an aristocrat cut off from his kind by his grotesque appearance. He found an affinity between his own condition and the...

They are each signed H Vian and depict a grotesque mask to the lower section. The wall sconces have a fascinating provenance, hanging for many years at the Metropolitan Opera, New Y...

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...

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 casting features a shaped, scrolling arched crest at the top centered around a hand-carved grotesque mask motif. Historically placed against the back wall of a fireplace to absor...

In place of the lion's ears they have a pair of horns, over shaped and molded mane, grotesque mask, the lion's body is serpentine shaped with prominent pair of large breasts, two-par...

When Pan discovers that he is only holding reeds instead of the beautiful nymph, he cuts a few reeds and glued them together with beeswax, making the first Pan flute to console himse...

Antique Lithograph of Italian Faience Flambeau and Salière, Delange, 1869 Large format antique lithograph depicting an ornate flambeau (candlestick) and salière (salt cellar) decora...

The subtle Ancient Rome-inspired decoration of grotesques and scrolling vegetal arabesques burgeoning from urns is characteristic of the neoclassical Adams style taken up by Edwards ...

This console rests on scrolled feet, adorned with discreet grotesques. The result is simply majestic! With its graceful silhouette and beautiful patina, this Italian 1740s Venetian c...

Both men have been styled in grotesque fashion, with a pair of spiraled horns emanating from their heads.

This striking bronze features a finely detailed classic putti adorned in flowing narrow robe, standing atop an impressive and sumptuous tapering tripartite form sculptural stand, ric...

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 beautiful Renaissance Revival bowl decorated with grotesque ornaments and foliate in blue, yellow and green on a white ground.

The richly carved oak frame features an intricately detailed crest with a fierce grotesque mask surrounded by scrolling foliage, embodying the bold character and symbolism of Renaiss...

Many of its original frescoes survived, and their motifs and ancient style of ornamentation, called ‘grotteschi’ (grotesque) after ‘grotte’, became extremely popular during the Renai...

Many of its original frescoes survived, and their motifs and ancient style of ornamentation, called ‘grotteschi’ (grotesque) after ‘grotte’, became extremely popular during the Renai...

Many of its original frescoes survived, and their motifs and ancient style of ornamentation, called ‘grotteschi’ (grotesque) after ‘grotte’, became extremely popular during the Renai...

Many of its original frescoes survived, and their motifs and ancient style of ornamentation, called ‘grotteschi’ (grotesque) after ‘grotte’, became extremely popular during the Renai...

The most eye-catching aspect of the urn is the pair of figural grotesque handles on the side of the urn. These became popular design motifs during the Renaissance due to the discover...

This splendid etching can be appreciated in its context, with its charge of exoticism and grotesque irony typical of Japanese masks, made with an engraving technique of the highest l...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...