Antique Quilling

The piece features a striking contrast between deep, dark ebony wood and hand-inlaid porcupine quills, which create a rhythmic, graphic pattern across the lid and sides.

A small Sinhalese Porcupine Quill Box with a sliding lid. The panels of porcupine quill panels arranged in a chevron pattern, bordered with ebony and bone inlaid banding.

19th Century Native American Sioux quilled and file-burnt stem with highly polished T bowl.

Quilled knife sheath with quilled drops, tin cones with yellow horsehair.

The interior has pin cushions and compartments with quill and decorated bone lids.

The minuscule holes for weaving the strands were likely made with a porcupine quill, as the beaver-like animal is indigenous to North American wooded areas.

In her hand she holds a quill feather, likely intended as a memento mori.

Lakota Sioux child's dress quilled on buffalo hide; collected and entered into the Maryland Academy of Art and Science prior to 1880.

19th Century beaded and quilled bowcase, quiver, bow and arrow set from the Northern Cheyenne ex-Forest Fenn collection.

A fine antique 19th-Century British Colonial porcupine quill and ebony box, made in Ceylon the colonial name for Sri Lanka.

Antique Anglo-Indian quill box handcrafted and decorated with porcupine quills and bone dots.

Superb Vienna bronze representing a cat and doubling as a quill wipe with boar hair on its back, Austria 1900s.

Lower body The uprights and upper crosspieces are carved with long quills. The leaves are divided into two rectangles molded and framed with feathers of birds.

An Oriental, lacquered papier-mâché quill case in Chinoiserie taste, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1890.

Anglo-Indian Wood and Porcupine Quill Inlaid Vide-Poche. Anglo Indian Ebony Wood and Porcupine quill Inlaid Vide-Poche.

Eyecatching Ceylonese rectangular porcupine quill box with decoration of ebonised casing and striking porcupine quills and infills of white and black bone 'dots' Sliding lid reveals...

Petite and charming Ceylonese rectangular porcupine quill box with ebonised casing and inlaid bone decoration.

The jambs are garnished with graceful bird's quills. On the leaves, the pennants form a frame and divide each panel in two.

This is a small antique calligrapher's quill pot. A Chinese, rouge soapstone carved pen holder, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900.

The face of the screen is composed of Quilled paper. Paper coiled and worked into designs taking advantage of the positive and negative space created by the act of the coiled material.

A beautiful antique bronze letter opener dating to the 1920s or earlier, crafted by an unknown sculptor. This beautiful Art Nouveau piece displays graceful, flowing lines and subtle ...

Significance and Details: - Artist: Sydenham Edwards - Publisher: William Curtis - Published in: "Curtis's Botanical Magazine" around 1799. - Special Characteristics: The pink quill...

Impressive antique Anglo Indian lap top desk crafted in quills and ebony decorated with bone dots. The surprising interior has multiple components featuring a felt writing surface, n...

A very interesting and unusual French oil on canvas from the early 20th century depicting figures playing a game of Quilles de Neuf. Very nicely painted work depicting the game of n...

An exceptionally fine quality highly detailed and glazed quite rare Pair of standing English Porcelain Staffordshire Poodle Dogs modelled as Pen or Quill Holders, third quarter of th...

Vintage French Skittle Game ‘Jeu de Quilles de Neuf’,circa 1920. Hand painted, turned pins with wonderful aged patina.

Description: Jewelry box, in wood wrapped with rosewood trembles and silver decoration with "WEDDING SOUVENIR". Metal: Silver. Origin: Portuguese. Brand: javali II Title. Weight: 929...

Wonderful patina. This wonderful quill-style or feather-shaped letter opener, paying homage to the historical quill pen would enhance any desk.  

This handwritten (it appears with quill) letter was addressed to the Governor of the state of Ohio in 1861- the beginning of the Civil War.

Trio Of Decorative Boxes Covered In Porcupine Quills And Bone, Priced Per Box. Measurement is for the largest Box.

An Anglo-Japanese brass pen/quill tray with a pair of porcelain inkwells decorated with cherry blossoms.

Made of brass featuring pewter inkwell with glass dome reservoir and slots for three quill pens. Originally patented in 1861-67 by Thomas Hudson and manufactured by Cutter Tower Co....

Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur T., The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales From The Old French.

Original Vintage Poster-Inchiostri G. Diletti-Brisighella-Ink-Italia, c.1900 We see a woman writing a letter with a pen-holder and ink. At the bottom of the poster, we find the eag...

Portrait of a Country Lady, depicted Seated wearing a silk glove and with a Quill Pen English artist, circa 1820's, unsigned oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 35 x 29 inches provenance...

A stunning and well sized antique molded copper sheet weathervane featuring an eagle with wings proudly spread, head cocked and perched atop a sphere finial with a large pointed quil...

Set within a humble attic room, a poet - possibly Robert Burns - elatedly raises his quill and book in a moment of inspiration. Well presented in a black frame.

The inscription “Ad Lumen,” translated as “Towards the Light,” together with the symbolic attributes of the book and quill, suggests an allegorical reference to the French Age of Enl...

NB Will be supplied with a modern quill set, and modern notepad. Dimensions When open Height To Surface 79.5cm Width 61.5cm Depth 61.5cm Dimensions When Shut Height 96cm Width 61c...

The desk set includes pounce pot and dish, quill holder and inkpot. Two matching candles with roe deer rose burr joining chamois horn to claws; the other with carved horn.

Description: Embossed silver inkwell with two tanks and bell, quill holder and resting on four claw-shaped feet.

Description: Silver inkwell with relief floral motifs with two tanks, bell, quill holder, candle holder and resting on four cut-out feet.

Description: Inkwell in rosewood with silver applications on the inkwell, sandpit, quill holders and resting on three palm-shaped feet.

Description: Silver inkwell in the shape of a globe with reliefs and applications, quill holder, resting on a circular base cut in the shape of a quarter of a circle.

Sold With A Green Modern Notepad, Modern Inkpen, And A Quill Set. With Storage Drawer Underneath, Raised On Turned Brass Feet

Description: Silver inkwell with two reservoirs, pearlescent friezes around the edge, letter and quill holder, resting on six spherical feet, and a wooden-lined bottom.

The frieze again with conforming moulded reed panels and centre plaque with Ormolu mount in crossed quill with ribbon ties. All beneath a slim and reeded shelf Opening Sizes 94c...

Of great character and excellent quality, this precious painting of the seventeenth century has as its subject Saint Mark the Evangelist, half-length portrait, in profile to the righ...

In one hand he holds a quill, while his other hand rests on a sword at his hip.

The name quilling is thought to come from the origin of the art when birds’ feathers or quills were used to coil the strips of paper around.

The open book signifies revealed scripture and active evangelism, while the quill underscores authorship of the Gospel of Mark.

This depicts a slumbering woman, represented as an allegorical figure of philosophy, amidst the traditional attributes of a scholar’s study: a desk with a quill pen, a pile of books ...

Dimensions: 104 x 87 cm The work depicts the lady seated in a chair with green upholstery, holding a quill pen as she writes at a round table. In the background, a classical sculpt...

An alternative identification is Saint Jerome. The book and quill would support this as Jerome revised a translation of the bible.

The inkwell is ingeniously integrated into the composition, with a central opening at the chest and two smaller apertures likely intended for quill or pen rests. The underside is imp...

This elegant oval composition presents Walpole in a thoughtful pose, surrounded by attributes of scholarship, including books, manuscripts, and a quill—symbols of his literary and in...

This elegant oval composition presents Walpole in a thoughtful pose, surrounded by attributes of scholarship, including books, manuscripts, and a quill—symbols of his literary and in...