Antique Puppet Theater

Beautiful torso of a man, carved in scooped out palm tree - once used like puppet for theater

Masterfully designed and rendered complex Cubist figural work. Work is signed lower left and it is not framed.

A full size travelling puppet theater, of wooden construction with gesso finish. These were often

illustrations of Breton landscapes and shadow puppet theater at the Chat Noir Cabaret in Paris. Both art forms

puppet theaters often featured tales of chivalry and epic battles, with Saracen characters representing

early experiences in a street puppet theater, Friedl joined the textile department of the School of Art

Fabulous and extremely rare puppet theater with great color and its curtain, France, circa 1900

songs, acrobatics, farce, and drama, Chinese Puppet Theater rivaled full-scale theater productions for

songs, acrobatics, farce, and drama, Chinese puppet theater rivaled full-scale theater productions for

-1725). Chikamatsu wrote first for Kabuki and then Bunraku, Japanese puppet theater. He is sometimes

, painting, etching and puppet theater. As a painter her major work was in portraits and watercolors. Her

Fabulous and extremely rare small puppet opera theater with great color and its curtain, As

written for the puppet theater (Bunraku) and staged for the first time in the 8th lunar month of 1748 in

Bunraku puppet theater, including historical romances and domestic tragedies, often based on actual events

backed with linen. This poster advertised the puppet theater of John Hewitt performed at the Musée

and shadow puppet theater at the Chat Noir Cabaret in Paris. Both art forms showcased Rivère’s

was a French artist best known for his delicate illustrations of Breton landscapes and shadow puppet

A very fine example of a professionally carved puppet from Italian theater. Puppet shows very very

A group of four antique confessionals in Neo-Gothic style, made of oak.

The Lartington hall carved Boiserie panels by Signor Anton Leone Bulletti. A highly important suite of eight carved and patinated wood panels commissioned by Monsignor Thomas Edw...

An antique pair of antique Burmese / Thailand marionette puppet dolls depicting a man and woman wearing traditional Thai silk and linen clothing. Fertility figurative folk art. A uni...

Great Wooden Carved Plaque with Stag Family, Brienz 1900s A great walnut wall panel with an artistically carved scene showing a family of stags in the forest. Hand-carved, probably ...

Wonderful hand carved wooden wall plaque with intricate detail of a scene from Ramayana. According to the Hindu epic Ramayana relates the story of the life of Rama, the seventh incar...

Antique Burmese Carved Wood Panel of a Court Scribe. The standing heavenly being holds a manuscript with a brush in the right hand writing scripture on an accordian style book while ...

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This is a small rectangular hand carved and lacquered panel. It depicts a scene where a Chinese man is seated and holding a cup while a Chinese woman is observing from the top. The w...

Relief made of carved and gilded wood. Some chip and repairs. Differences in shade. Wear due to age and use.

Mid-19th Century Sicilian Marionette Knight with Sheild A mid to late 19th Century hand carved Sicilian marionette knight puppet/marionette. Still wearing all in brass armour and si...

This Chinese opera marionette puppet is dress in an elegant embroidered silk dragon robe. The puppet head is of painted ceramic. The ornate headdress is decorate with beads, silk and...

Mid-19th Century Handcrafted Sicilian Marionette Knight A mid to late 19th Century hand carved Sicilian marionette knight puppet. Still wearing all in brass armour and silk clothing...

An interesting collection of five (5) unused, vintage Chinese puppets.

A Chinese vintage camphor wood low-relief wall plaque from Zhejiang depicting a celestial guardian on a mythical animal. Created in Eastern China during the midcentury period, this w...

This Chinese opera hand puppet is dress in an elegant, embroidered silk dragon robe. The puppet head is of painted wood. The white face usually represents a villain. Puppetry is a ma...

19th Century Italian / Sicilian Large Hand-Crafted Puppet Marionette In the rare form of an Arabic clothed gentle with long turned up moustache. The head, hands and feet are all h...