Arabesque Antique

Fine bands of Arabic calligraphy, geometric interlace, and vegetal arabesques are reproduced with remarkable precision, demonstrating the sophisticated craftsmanship achieved during ...

The central part receives a beveled oval mirror set in a beaded frame with gold highlights, framed by scrolls and vegetable arabesques in cast iron. Several levels of double coiled h...

He wears a sumptuous blue velvet overcoat over a waistcoat finely embroidered with floral or arabesque motifs in silver thread and silk, embellished with a white lace ruff, known as ...

The rich cranberry lac red field of this impossibly striking Indian carpet has a design of ascending palmettes and lancet curved leavers of varying sizes and complexities in a “book-...

The pendant ends with a gold seal finely chased with arabesques. Below, an intaglio is engraved on orange-colored agate.

The beginning of this new path is marked by the “Portrait of Gertrude Stein”: the subtlety of the superimpositions and the complex arabesques that made the transparencies indeciphera...

The exterior is decorated in cobalt blue under a white glaze with stylized floral, geometric, and arabesque motifs characteristic of Persian ceramic traditions influenced by both Isl...

Stretching across the field is an intricate allover arabesque design formed by endless Islimi vine-scrolls.

Binding this flourishing landscape together are flowing Eslimi arabesque vine scrolls whose uninterrupted movement represents eternity and the interconnected nature of life.

The body is decorated with scrolling foliage and vegetal motifs in solid silver arranged in arabesque patterns across the surface. The piece features a classical form with a flared ...

Crafted in walnut and richly inlaid with contrasting fruitwoods, the frame is embellished with a sophisticated arrangement of scrolling foliage, floral motifs and Rococo arabesques e...

Around it, a decoration forming a basket and arabesques is set with antique-cut diamonds set with the culasse facing upwards.

Antique Anglo-Indian Kashmir Hand-Carved Wood Jewelry Box, Velvet Lined, circa 1920s A beautifully handcrafted Anglo Raj Kashmir wood trinket or jewelry box, dating to the early 20t...

Technique: Color lithograph Maker: Alexandre Marcel Raymond, France, early 20th century Keywords: Alexandre Raymond, L'Art Islamique en Orient, Islamic architecture, Seljuk art, Sel...

These finely executed vignettes are framed by delicate swags, urns, ribbons, floral garlands, and scrolling arabesques, creating a harmonious composition that reflects the elegance a...

The small, salmon-orange field is anchored by jewel-like corner escutcheons and is asymmetrically filled with swirling acanthus arabesques.

this rare late 19th century Antique workshop carpet highlights a powerful and rhythmic curvilinear composition featuring an elegant, open-field arabesque network where stylized palme...

Black velvet laces forming arabesques and spirals. Wide batwing sleeves and lining in fuchsia pink silk crepe embellished with older lace.

In Persian symbolism, these endless arabesque lines represent eternity, divine order, and the interconnected nature of creation.

Connecting every iconic motif is an elegant network of Islimi arabesques and scrolling tendrils that flow effortlessly throughout the extraordinary masterpiece.

An elegant mid 19th century Ottoman silk carpet dating to circa 1850, showcasing a classical medallion composition surrounded by finely rendered floral arabesques. The softly faded f...

On either side of the main motif, openwork arabesques and fleur-de-lis patterns adorn the upper part of the band.

The rim is richly decorated in the characteristic mid-Qianlong export manner: alternating panels of cobalt-blue ground painted in underglaze blue with scrolling white floral arabesqu...

Raymond, Constantinople (Istanbul), 1924 Keywords: Islamic Art, Islamic Architecture, Ottoman, Seljuk, Seljuk Architecture, Konya, Turkey, Alaeddin Mosque, Alaeddin Camii, Anatolia...

This rare 19th century Antique rug highlights a powerful and rhythmic floral composition featuring an elegant curvilinear central medallion system surrounded by graceful sweeping vin...

The straw field displays a four peony and arabesque wreath medallion with a mostly asymmetric scatter of tree peony stems, other seasonal flowers and four butterflies positioned near...

The back is adorned with the initials “L V,” finely engraved and chiseled with arabesques on a platinum setting. The antique pendant opens via a hinge on the side, and inside is a re...

Scrolls of vinery unfurl endlessly across the tan ground, weaving together Shah Abbas palmettes, boteh-inspired blossoms, rosettes, flowering tendrils, and lyrical arabesques into a ...

This rare late 19th century Antique rug highlights a powerful and rhythmic floral composition featuring an elegant series of multi tiered center pendants surrounded by dynamic sweepi...

This rare late 19th century Antique rug highlights a powerful and rhythmic floral composition featuring a majestic multi lobed central medallion system intricately layered with scrol...

The elegant urn-form body is richly adorned with finely executed gilded decoration, including scrolling arabesques, ribbon motifs, and classical detailing, reflecting the refined lux...

This rare late 19th century Antique rug highlights a powerful and rhythmic floral composition featuring a majestic, multi-lobed central medallion system intricately layered with scro...

This rare late 19th century Antique rug highlights a powerful and rhythmic floral composition featuring a majestic, multi-lobed central medallion system intricately layered with scro...

This example presents it with full decorative commitment: a door panel inlaid with a satinwood marquetry composition of a central fan or shell motif surrounded by scrolling foliate a...

Crafted primarily in copper and brass, these vessels were often embellished with engraved geometric and arabesque ornament arranged in carefully structured registers.

this rare late 19th century Antique workshop rug highlights a powerful and rhythmic curvilinear composition featuring an intricately layered, large-scale floral medallion system anch...

The motif, composed of flowing arabesques and floral elements, is outlined with fine wirework and applied with precision, creating a subtle yet highly controlled decorative rhythm.

This rare late 19th century Antique Kum Kapi silk rug highlights a powerful and rhythmic floral composition featuring an intricate, all-over network of spiraling arabesques and delic...

The inkstand is of rectangular form with tapered edges, and makes use of both the 'premiere partie' and 'contre partie' Boulle marquetry techniques, to create scrolling arabesque dec...

Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes) and g...

A deep crown-form ring of substantial construction carries an open Baroque scrollwork frieze of exceptional complexity and quality — cast acanthus scrolls, foliate arabesques and car...

The tortoiseshell front plate profusely decorated with delicate pique work in silver of bouquets of flowers and swags with arabesques. Set upon four feet. 8 day lever movement.

this rare late 19th century Antique workshop rug highlights a powerful and rhythmic curvilinear composition featuring an intricately layered, multi-lobed ivory and ice-blue central m...

The design features elegant chrysanthemums and flowing arabesque (karakusa) vines intertwining gracefully over a stylized stream.

Framing these central vignettes are arabesques in cobalt blue, golden ochre, and verdant green, painted under a softly crackled tin glaze in the Raffaellesque decorative tradition.

The top features geometric and floral bone inlay framed by scrolling arabesques, reflecting the influence of workshops such as Francesco Speluzzi or Giovanni Bosi, active in Milan’s ...

The corners of the field are further emphasized by bold arabesques twisting and curving into the open field along the sides.

Each rectangular panel features a symmetrical composition centered on a classical urn overflowing with florals, surrounding by scrolling acanthus, foliate arabesques, and jewel-toned...

It is topped with an openwork arabesque motif that supports the escutcheon and the bail.

Early 19th Century Ningxia Rug ( 2' x 3'6'' - 60 x 108 ) The ivory field displays a giant lobed strap-work arabesque medallion with en suite corners, set on a “Y” shapes all-over pat...

There is no border, but the surrounding field is densely filled with acanthus volutes, floral quasi-car touches and leafy split arabesques. The tonality is on the light side, but the...

The scene sits within an elaborate frame mother of pearl frame, carved, engraved, and pierced with arabesque and foliate designs. Further religious imagery adorns the frame: the crow...

The design draws on Near Eastern and Islamic ornamental vocabulary, particularly in the pointed lappets, arabesque scrolls, and repeated polychrome enamel patterning.

The field design is classically derived with its wriggling cloud bands, mobile split arabesques, floating palmettes, and wiry vine tendrils.

Raised on a circular pedestal foot, the piece is richly decorated throughout with finely chased scrollwork, foliate arabesques and stippled ground panels, closely imitating late 18th...

A fine mid-nineteenth century gilded mirror, the outer frame with egg and dart moulding, the inner frame decorated with interlocking arabesques with a lightly aged mercury mirror pla...

An antique pendant, adorned with the same motifs as the previous pendants, also features arabesque designs and small, delicate pearls arranged in a tassel and mounted on prongs.

Its design adheres faithfully to the principles of classic traditional rugs, featuring a highly detailed central medallion system framed by complex, stylized arabesques. The palette...

By 1909, Dufy began to feel the need for a more structured compositional approach than that afforded by Fauvist arabesques and for a more differentiated approach to colour.

The medallion unfolds like a celestial map, its intricate arabesques and interlaced florals radiating outward in disciplined symmetry.