Antique Violins

The Madonna sits in quiet contemplation, gently cradling the infant Jesus in her arms, while the surrounding angels form a harmonious ensemble: one plays the violin, another the cell...

Finely-sculpted terracott figure of boy playing violin. Sit on a separate French dore bronze finely-cast base.

According to legend, he had a vision in which an angel appeared to him with a violin. This depiction of legends can be found in many painters, especially from the 17th century.

ABOUT THE ARTIST Lyonel Feininger was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin wit...

Atop the marble base is a patinated Bronze winged cherub playing a violin decorated in beautiful roses. The cherub is dressed in a loose fitting flowing garment while leaning over hi...

This superb 19th century giltwood wall mirror, with its curvaceous violin shape and exuberant Rococo style decoration, would add a gleaming golden accent to any room.

An exquisite violin-shaped Régence style wall mirror in hand-carved and gilded wood, with a beautiful stylised shell at its crest and swirling acanthus scrolls cascading down each sh...

The cardinal, looking blissfully content, sits in his lavish living space playing the violin, accompanied by a flutist. Alfred Charles Weber is one of the most esteemed French expon...

18th century Italian framed painting on canvas of a group of musical instruments, including a French horn, lute, violin and pan flute, all hanging from a ribbon with a big bow on top...

Cantini): Martigues Harbour (1904); Trees at l'Estaque (1908); Arcades at l'Estaque (1908); Statue with Two Red Vases (1908); Tuilerie St-Henri, or The Factory (1908) Nantes (MBA): P...

Leaning against the twisted tree trunks, the angelic trio gives a small concert, playing the violin, lute, and harp. While at the feet of the Virgin, three cherubs gather flowers to ...

Mirecourt – famous for violin-making 47. Bayonville-sur-Mad – rural hamlet 48.

A charming French early 19th century Louis XV st. patinated wood and Giltwood mirror. The violin shaped patinated green frame has an attractive mottled inner border surrounding the o...

Sturdy turned column post with steel bracket and brass button that when pushed, allows the desk to be raised or lowered. Violin shaped plinth base with book-matched mahogany veneer a...

The set is raised by 's' scrolled cabriole legs below a scalloped design frieze with carvings of flowers and foliage. The violin shaped seat is below the curved back with more richly...

A pair of small, violin-shaped Rococo carved giltwood table mirrors, adorned with scrolled foliage.

Beautiful musicienne par flora sculpt of Female playing the violin. Bronze on marble base signed "musicienne par flora sculpt" having beautiful patina.

Opposite her, a male companion dressed in rustic, weathered attire plays a small violin or fiddle. He wears tall grey-blue boots, purple trousers, and a bright green hat, with a brow...

The youngest of six, she spent most of her youth at Creggane Manor, Rosscarbery, near Cork where her father, William Robert Starkie JP (1824–1897), was a resident magistrate, who had...

The manufacturer Rudolf Sommerhuber was one of the most important potteries since 1491. This tile shows a violin artist in an impressive way. Many important ceramic artists cooperate...

It is dressed with large violin crystals and oblong faceted prisms. The whole is finished below by a pendant ball

Many consider the Act I prelude Wagner's greatest single composition, an inspiring free-variation curtain-raiser on one soaring theme starting and ending softly on divided violins in...

It depicts a young man playing the violin before a rocky ledge, while a sleeping maiden rests her head in his lap, her eyes closed.

His father Edmond Julien was Flemish and taught violin and his mother Joséphine Caroline Grillet came from Lorraine and taught piano His father taught him to play the violin.[3] He b...

The characteristic panels are decorated with a central plain violin motif with the edges carved with fine foliage.

Date: 1890 Medium: Watercolor en Grisaille Dimensions: 18.00" x 26.75" Signature: Signed Lower Left Editorial illustration, image of a man playing a violin with other men looking on...

Original antique advertising poster for a play - The Frisco - featuring artwork by the French artist Louis Galice (1864-1935) of a lady in a fashionable red dress and white hat carry...

However, in these paintings, the game of seduction is absent as indicated by the presence of a third person in both scenes, a maid in one and a young boy holding a violin in the othe...

While in Europe he studied the violin in the morning hours and painting in the afternoon.

This is for instance the case with the composition Vanitas Still Life with a Skull, a Violin, a Musical Score, a Pipe and Tobacco, an Hourglass and a Candle on a Draped Table (Sold a...

Each five arm giltwood sconce displays a stunning and intricately detailed pierced backplate with charming oak leaves and acorns with scrolled, tassels, a violin, and a paint pallet ...

. … Glass paste, its Ingres violin! Georges Despret researches the secret of making legendary vases.

Musicians to either side play their instruments, one a violin and the other a lute.  

This whimsical musical table lamp features delicately painted friezes of musical instruments, the French horn and the Violin on the base of the lamp, with lyrically strewn garlands a...

It is tastefully dressed with cut spires and violin pendants both clear and amethyst. The six scrolling arms have scalloped drip pans, the leafy canopy is original.

Stunning Art Deco design by the notable French artist Roger Broders (1883-1953) depicting an elegant lady swinging her golf club in the foreground with golfers on the green by the cl...

The figures representing a male and female in colored clothing, playing the violin and the mandolin respectively, each standing on a plinth.

Unlike typical trumeaux with a painting or tapestry above the mirror, this work relies on the incredible artistry of the wood sculptor who artfully depicted musical instruments inclu...

A very fine and attractive bronze of a young boy playing the violin, " the little violinist " By Emile Carlier (1849 -1927) resting on a molded stepped marble circular base, signed E.

A painting of a man holding a violin, Professor Armellini, now in the collection of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, is said to date from Betts’s sixteenth year, when the work was d...

The triple-bombé single door body fitted with a Spanish Brocatelle marble top, the single front door centered with a painting depicting a park scene with a man seated across two ladi...

Shows; a: Ivory chopsticks; b: coins; c: Tjenella (slippers); d: Chinese violin; e: bow; f, g: Garinding (Jew's harp made of bamboo); h: Chinese playing cards.

It is boldly hung with large violin pendents, star and flower-head rosettes, spires, and with a crystal-clad central stem.

It is simply yet powerfully conceived. ....Eight-light, heavy cut spires, star shaped medallions and hefty beveled violin shaped drops, all terminating in a large pendant ball, all o...

Although it has endured many scuffs and indignities, this extremely rare Art Deco box still charms, the figures on its lid playing the violin and dancing to the old children's tune o...

A richly carved giltwood band with a twisted rope design extends along the front and side and back framing the unique and most attractive violin shaped seat. The graceful upholstered...

They are reading and singing music and one is playing the violin. One discovers a strong work at the level of the draperies that it is of the tablecloth or the clothes.

The composition is several figures gathered in a landscape with a couple dancing to a violin and a boy playing with a dog. There are superb detail and brushwork making this an excell...

The subtle contours of the top's framework resemble the violin shape, with beveled edges all around, fitted with diamond parquet patterns on the surface.

Cantini): Martigues Harbour (1904); Trees at l'Estaque (1908); Arcades at l'Estaque (1908); Statue with Two Red Vases (1908); Tuilerie St-Henri, or The Factory (1908) Nantes (MBA): P...

A superb original print representing an angel playing the violin surrounded by little angels on clouds in the sky.

Laying on top of the marble is the central pivoting beveled violin shaped mirror surrounded by a double Ormolu mottled frame.

Excellent Meissen piece from the time the model was created: Four children in festive rural rococo clothing on a high, tiered round base, decorated with a leaf wreath and ribbon fest...

Excellent Meissen piece from the time the model was created: Four children in festive rural rococo dress on a high, stepped round pedestal, decorated with a leaf wreath and bow festo...

Crafted in a graceful violin shape, its contoured and beveled top rests upon a scrolled apron that is finely molded and trimmed with a French border that has a more glossy appearance...

Napoleon III style violin shaped table mirror made of bronze with a silvered rocaille decor of scrolled acanthus leaves, small flowers and on the bottom left a Mythological animal ca...

Old print of a village scenery, it shows a man playing the violin outside of a cottage, a man and children sitting on benches and listening, others standing in the doorway.

Gracefully contoured top in the classic "violin" form includes a custom-cut piece of richly veined marble surrounded by multiple tiers of molded detail, with the top cove bevel highl...

The interior 18th century rococo scene depicting a seated Cardinal or Bishop surrounded by a group of aristocrats at trio concert with a lady playing the pianoforte, a standing man p...

His other compositions include several secular cantatas, the symphonic poem Macbeth, a concertino for oboe and orchestra, a number of choral works, and music for solo organ, piano, v...