Fable Antique

It invites one to lean close and listen to the threads, where fable meets florals, and nature’s theater is forever suspended in silky soft wool.

Japanese two-panel screen: Gibbons of Folklore, Edo period (17th century) Kano School painting of gibbons in Japanese fables. The left panel represents a Japanese fable of a monkey a...

Ranging from adventure and romance to moral fables and fantastical stories, her stories include favorites like “Aladdin,” “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” and “Sinbad the Sailor,” a...

Was sold in the Grand Depot 21 rue Drouot Paris. Fontaine / Aesops Fables English Losange mark.

Immortalized by the Greek storyteller, the fables were reprised by Jean de la Fontaine in French which revitalized the fables for a wider European audience during the late 1600s.

Was sold in the Grand Depot 21 rue Drouot Paris. Fontaine / Aesops Fables English Losange mark.

Was sold in the Grand Depot 21 rue Drouot Paris. Fontaine / Aesops Fables English Losange mark.

Was sold in the Grand Depot 21 rue Drouot Paris. Fontaine / Aesops Fables English Losange mark.

Each of the five vertical panels is beautifully hand-painted with intricate neoclassical motifs, while the smaller upper sections depict scenes from La Fontaine’s Fables, bringing a ...

The backplate depicting an Aesops fable scene.

It is a brilliant idea and matches the time period of the first fables versions which date from the second half of the 12th century.

Following the fable, the moral was: The liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

This exceptional Victorian parcel-gilt silver vase by Daniel and Charles Houle depicts scenes from the Greek fable the Judgment of Paris, in which Trojan youth Paris chooses Aphrodit...

This print originates from a series depicting fables by Samuel Howitt. Samuel Howitt was an English painter, illustrator and etcher of animals, hunting, horse-racing and landscape sc...

Impressive antique and top quality hand crafted eleven light chandelier with a fabulous fable creature 'Orge'. An ogre (in English) is a deformed human-like creature and bad spirit ...

Her first book under her own name, Flower Fables, a collection of fairy tales, appeared in 1854.

The de Vos family prospered and were able to make important investments in real estate in Antwerp De Vos enjoyed the patronage of influential aristocrats in Spain such as the marqui...

The de Vos family prospered and were able to make important investments in real estate in Antwerp De Vos enjoyed the patronage of influential aristocrats in Spain such as the marqui...

The painting depicts a tale from Aesops Fables, "Jackdaw and Peacock Feathers". The fable relates the story of a crow that adorns himself with peacock feathers to make himself more b...

The legend serves as a fable about justice, repentance, and compassion.

Late 19th or early 20th Century French Napoleon III period fireback. The fable of the cobbler and the financier (Jean de la Fontaine 1621-1695).

Johnson took inspiration from Aesop's fables, and the goat is a creature that featured in several of these tales.

Title on the engraving: "Un Christ d'un original très ancien, que la fable donne pour après nature" Translated: "A Christ of a very old original, which the fable gives for nature" ...

The centerpiece is a rare design depicting Aesop's fable, the Fisherman and his Flute. Bowl is in good condition with only one minor paint chip and no cracks.

Larger seating ensembles illustrated more fables, but some never appeared in tapestry seating form.

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

The paintings are titled "Le bergere et son troupeau", or "Shepherd and his flock", as marked; they could be named after the fable by Jean de La Fontaine, published in 1678.

This print originates from a series depicting fables by Samuel Howitt. Samuel Howitt was an English painter, illustrator and etcher of animals, hunting, horse-racing and landscape sc...

From the series “Les Fables de La Fontaine”.

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

Exceptional Louis XVI chairs with original fables of Fontaine Aubusson.

Impressively sized, it draws the viewer into a wooded wonderland that prompts new traditions in retelling classic fables. This tapestry may be based on Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, the p...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...

With geometric motifs, telling stories of the life of saints or profane themes such as the La Fontaine fables, sometimes with text as if it were a comic book ancestor, they became on...