Antique Bark

Fully slated, having four grouse, four rabbits and leaf design. Bark varies in color from a light tan to a mid-tone brown.

The antique birch bark container was traditionally used as a storage vessel for food, dried herbs, or other valuable items.

Description Barkcloth, ngatu, made of bark (likely paper mulberry). Rectangular cloth, light brown in colour and made from sections of cloth pasted together with tapioca.

Launched in 1872, the Bark ST. GEORGE was also based out St. Johns and likely ran between that port and Liverpool since Yorke painted the ship in Liverpool.

This antique rigged model has standing and running cords, cabins, hatches, etc., colorful paint job. Great old mustard paint. Set onto a simple cradle. Identified on the stern as the...

Mbuti Ituri (Congo) traditional handpainted Pygmee bark cloth. +/- 1920 These cloths we're made from the inside of the bark of the Ficus latex tree.

Mbuti Ituri (Congo) traditional handpainted Pygmee bark cloth. +/- 1920 These cloths we're made from the inside of the bark of the Ficus latex tree.

19th century hand-carved bark canoe bailer from Minnesota. Fur trade era.

Rigged model of the American sailing bark W.S. Cook. Early twentieth century model with built up cabins, winch, capstan, stove pipe, etc.

American rustic adirondack barked "cockpen" design loveseat of twig & root construction with split twig arms & seat (New York State, late 19th/20th Cent).  

This large vintage primitive basket planter is a compelling example of hand-crafted folk art, distinguished by its sculptural presence, expressive weave, and organic materiality. Han...

The tray has an unusual gray glazed body worked as tree bark. Applied twig form handles support a single branch of two leaves colored with brown centers, flowing into shades of green...

The caps are pine, the thwarts brown ash.  The white birch bark (white on the inside) is sewn with split spruce roots and the seams are payed with spruce gum.

The anterior links have a cylindrical form, embellished with a naturalistic 'bark' textured decoration. The links secure with a hinged whale-back fastening.

This piece was made using chazutsu, ( or Kabazaiku) a technique involving the application of thin sheets of cherry bark veneer, either polished or left in a more natural appearance, ...

A striking antique Black Forest picture frame, hand-carved in the traditional bark-form style popular in Switzerland and southern Germany during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Totai Shippo, the Japanese Meiji (1867-1912) period porcelain decoration, is best described as a rare type of cloisonne enamel on porcelain that gives the piece an appearance of bark...

Title: Cinchona Bark Varieties: An Illustrated Botanical Atlas (1826) Description: This rare and finely illustrated botanical atlas, 'Versuch einer Monographie der China.

19th Century Stormy Seascape of the Bark "Caroline" in a White Squall, an oil ln canvas seascape depicting the "Caroline" dismasted in a white squall on the equator in 1847, enroute ...

Antique Seascape with a Five Masted Bark, by Julius Gregersen (German: 1860 - 1953), circa 1921 - 1928, an oil on canvas seascape with view of the five masted bark KOBENHAVN sailing ...

Macy, New Bedford, for the Larboard Boat on the Whaling Bark Sunbeam (1856 - 1908), having an improved toggle head with acute barb (standing nearly at a right angle), and an unusual ...

A striking and culturally rich Samoan bark cloth textile (siapo), dating to the late 19th to early 20th century CE.

Antique Shorter & Boulton Majolica creamer pitcher / jug featuring a rustic tree bark motif with wild rose flowers and branch handle.

Antique Majolica creamer pitcher / jug featuring a tree bark, oak leaf and acorn nut theme with branch handle, purple lavender interior.

These grooved wooden beater were tools used to pound and soften tree bark, for the processing of bark cloth used as clothing.

Description Lovely detailed piecse. Finely decorated in the Totai Shippo technique on porcelain. An extremely difficult process with excellent workmanship and superb colour contrast....

Featuring an inner frame constructed from grapevine bark and an outer covering of woven palm bark this extraordinary piece can double as a statement storage piece or as a planter.

The sliding doors and drawer fronts are decorated with natural bark veneer, possibly from a Japanese evergreen broadleaf tree such as Shii, Japanese Stone Oak.

A brightly glazed English majolica bread tray showing a graphic pattern of pears on a brown bark-like ground, Adams & Bromley - circa 1875-1885.

A relic from the family of Bounty Mutineer John Adams: An exceptionally rare documented piece of Bark Cloth from the Pitcairn Islands, with a fragment of paper pinned to it stating ‘...

Pair of Edouard Drouot bookends representing barking dogs Marble and Bronze, made in France Dimensions of each piece W 5.71 in. (14.5 cm) D 5.12 in. (13 cm) H 7.49 in. (19 cm) Ver...

Lovely and very detailed piece. Unsigned. Japan 19th or 20th century. Weight: 5 grams Provenance: Collected in the 1980's. From the collection of Clemens Merkelbach van Enkhuizen, ...

Original Antique World War One poster - Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark! With note by Walter Emanuel - featuring a serio-comic map of Europe at war with military soldier caricature port...

Woman’s Back Ornament, egbe Mangbetu people DR Congo Early 20th century Banana leaves and bark,, raffia embroidery 14” long (35.5 cm); 10.5” high (26.5 cm); 3” deep (7.5 cm) The ...

A naturalistic floor lamp in molded terracotta imitating a tree trunk, the shaft treated to resemble bark with branch stumps and foliage in relief, the removable upper section formin...

Made in Portugal, early 20th Century, 1910's / 20's period. All cork tree bark set together with metal and wooden spikes. These come in good, all original condition, with normal sign...

Executed in brass with a beautifully woven birch bark column, the lamp combines refined metalwork with one of Finland's most traditional natural materials.

Made in Portugal, early 20th Century, 1910's / 20's period. All cork tree bark set together with wooden spikes. This comes in good, all original condition, with normal signs of wear ...

A fine English garden round planter pot of terracotta from the Edwardian era, featuring a faux bois or tree bark and vine exterior around the circumference.

The top surface has a smooth, glass-like finish, while the natural bark edge is left raw and untouched.

The top surface has a smooth, glass-like finish, while the natural bark edge is left raw and untouched.

The top surface has a smooth, glass-like finish, while the natural bark edge is left raw and untouched.

The top surface has a smooth, glass-like finish, while the natural bark edge is left raw and untouched.

The solid cross features a masterfully hand-chased fine bark-texture trimming along its scrolling edges, creating a soft and sophisticated historic shimmer.

The tree trunks are rendered with warm, ochre-toned brushstrokes where the light strikes the bark, set against rich, shadowed foliage worked in layered greens.

The top surface has a smooth, glass-like finish, while the natural bark edge is left raw and untouched.

The top surface has a smooth, glass-like finish, while the natural bark edge is left raw and untouched.

Each chair features naturalistic twig-form construction with textured bark detail, slender ladder backs, and delicate stretchers.

The top surface has a smooth, glass-like finish, while the natural bark edge is left raw and untouched.

Large Awaji pottery vase with calla lilies carved into an unusual bark-like textured surface giving the impression of flowers growing in the natural world.

Charming early 19th century fine quality British oil on board; small painting with a lot going on; subject matter. rural scene of two young boys frolicking on white horseback down by...

There is also fine attention-to-detail in the carving of the twisting locks of hair, the wreath of flowers around her left wrist and the cymbals dangling on the tree root to reverse,...

Epitomizing the era's obsession with flowing, organic forms, the substantial frame is brilliantly sculpted to mimic intertwined tree branches and deeply textured bark that seamlessly...

The elaborate composition incorporates a brightly colored bird beside a nest filled with eggs, together with a coiled snake, monkey, reeds, broad leaves, tree bark, and moss-like tex...

An amusing eighteenth-century genre scene depicting a shepherd pausing to rest beneath a tree, whilst his dog barks at a defiant goat. Unsigned. Beautifully presented in a smart blac...

Thicker brushstrokes add texture to the tree bark and the plants. Signed and dated "Eduardo Tojetti 1896" on verso.

American Rustic Adirondack (late 19th/20th Century) center table with rectangular barked top & apron on legs joined by a box stretcher.