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22.50 Carat Stunning Bi Color Tourmaline Crystal from Paprook Mine, Afghanistan
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
Stunning Bi-Color Tourmaline Crystal From Paprook Mine, Afghanistan
WEIGHT: 22.50 Carat
DIMENSIONS: 6.2 x 0.7 x 0.5 Cm
ORIGIN: Paprook Mine, Afghanistan
Color: Green And Light Pink
T...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Rock Crystal
21st Century Leather Olimpia Round Bathroom Set Made in Italy
By Pinetti
Located in Bagnatica, Lombardia
Olimpia, in all its beauty.
A complete set with all the bathroom essentials: A round soap dispenser, a toothbrush holder and a cotton pad holder to...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Brass
21st Century Canaria Medium Basket Handwoven in Italy
By Pinetti
Located in Bagnatica, Lombardia
Another style, another iconic weave.
Canaria is our brand new family of baskets available in different sizes able to meet several uses. A magazine holder, a blanket or shoes holde...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Leather
Pre Inuit/ Eskimo Thule Culture Artifacts
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A curated collection of Pre Inuit Thule Culture (1,200-1,600 A.D.) Artifacts housed in a Museum Style Frame. The Collection includes various implements used in daily life by the wide...
Category
Early 1600s North American Tribal Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Stone
Large Midcentury Vintage 'Hove' Advertising Light Box
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Large mid century vintage 'Hove' advertising light box.
The box is made from fiberglass and contains a modern LED light fitting.
The item has a...
Category
1990s British Industrial Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Fiberglass
Large Glazed Stoneware Screen Composed of 84 Modular Elements, Anne Barrès, 2010
By Anne Barrès
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Large glazed stoneware screen composed of 84 modular elements by Anne Barrès.
2010.
Unique piece.
Can be displayed both indoors and outdoors.
H : 95.5’ x 93.7’ inches (claustr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Metal
Tinaja Andaluza De Cal
Located in Madrid, ES
Maravillosa tinaja de barro española , concretamente andaluza, de Granada.
Se usaban para hacer la mezcla de cal para pintar de blanco las casas de los pu...
Category
18th Century Spanish Country Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Ceramic
Printing Block Wallpaper Complete Repeat Empire Acanthus Leaf Roundel
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Rare woodblock with complete repeat. Of interest to wallpaper collectors or as a conversation piece in the home as a decorative carved wallhanging.
A rare, large 19th Century French wallpaper...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Oak
Wall Sconce Tin Diamond Single Arm Wallace Nutting Collection
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Surviving pieces of vernacular lighting are extremely rare and it is hard to source convincing re-creations. These are copies of a period sconce from the Wallace Nutting Collection a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Folk Art Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Tin
Dumbell Lignum Vitae Weight Training Fixed
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Rare piece of weightlifting memorabilia.
Unusual conversation piece for use or as a collectors piece
Beautiful, tactile lustrous patina. Lignum vitae is sought after for the beauty of its grain, coloring, patina, density and toughness
The dumbbell is a free weight...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Wood
Pair of Large French Planters
By Rouen
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pair of large French planters.
Origin France, circa 1900.
Attributed roun.
Excellent condition. Material: porcelain.
No restorations
In 1644, Nico...
Category
Early 1900s French Empire Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Ceramic
Chess and Backgammon Lacquered Wood Board, China, Late 19th Century.
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Chess and backgammon lacquered wood board. China, late 19th century.
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Stone
Early 20th Century Hand-Crafted Hardwood American Duck Decoy
Located in Germantown, MD
An Early 20th Century Hand-crafted Hardwood American Duck Decoy measuring 18" in width, 7.5" in depth and 12" in height.
Category
Early 20th Century American American Classical Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Hardwood
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 2006
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
2006.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world”. Femininity and sensuality are exalted. Inspired by the body, before and after birth, or simply the sea, the parts of the sculpture conjugate around a mysterious interior cavity, secret and troubling. The interior wall doesn’t correspond to the exterior, and has its own volumes, deformities, and intimacy. The pieces present two kinds of interior: one open, and partially uncovered, the other totally hidden inside. The differences of their respective deformation reinforce the impression of life : the subjective representation of muscles and bones, of bulges pushed by an interior force, like a visceral movement of respiration. The surface of the ceramic is crackled but soft and fine, even reflecting light like the skin. The nuances of color reinforce the expression of sensuality.
The alignment of technique and what it causes one to see and feel has rarely been so intimately successful.
Wayne Fischer perfected his technique in the 1970s and has remained faithful to it. He adds fibers to porcelain clay that has been chosen for its whiteness to create and accentuate volume around empty space, by assembling slabs or thrown pieces. Then, he makes another piece that takes its place inside; both parts are formed with no hand...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Ceramic
Nautical Vernier Sextant, G.W.Butters, London
Located in Norwich, GB
Vernier Nautical Sextant, G.W. Butters, London.
A fine curved frame vernier sextant, the polished silver arc signed G.W. Butters, London.
Eng...
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Brass
Light Up Paper 'Yield' Sign, 1980s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage light up Yield sign with a white wire metal frame and rice paper body. Made with great attention to detail and skill. A very unique piece that...
Category
1980s American Vintage Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Metal
Pair of Hand Painted Early Carnival Rounding Boards
Located in Norwalk, CT
Bring an unusual piece of folk history into your home with this stunning pair of early 20th century rounding boards salvaged from a carnival. With hand painted designs and gold leaf ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Wood
111.85 Carat Glamorous Natural Bi Color Flower Tourmaline Drilled Carving
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
111.85 Carat Glamorous Natural Bi Color Flower Tourmaline Drilled Carving
Weight: 111.85 Carats
Dimension: 4.4 x 3.0 x 0.7 Cm
Origin: Africa
Col...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Malagasy Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Crystal
67.05 Carat Gorgeous Tri Color Tourmaline Drilled Carving from Africa
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
67.05 carat gorgeous tri-color tourmaline drilled carving from Africa
Weight: 67.05 Carats
Dimension: 3.5 x 2.4 x 0.8 Cm
Origin: Africa
Color: Red Pink and Green
Shape: Carving
Quali...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Malagasy Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Crystal
76.80 Carat Natural Bi Color Drilled Tourmaline Carving Gemstone From Africa
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
76.80 Carat Natural Bi Color Drilled Tourmaline carving gemstone From Africa
Weight: 76.80 Carats
Dimension: 3.5 x 3.0 x 0.7 Cm
Origin: Africa
C...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Malagasy Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Crystal
A Table Mirror in Pine by a Swedish Cabinetmaker, Folk Art, Early 20th Century
Located in Odense, DK
This charming hexagon shaped table mirror in pine is a stunning example of Swedish Folk Art from the early 1900s. The mirror is crafted in solid...
Category
Early 20th Century Swedish Primitive Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Pine
42.00 Carat Unique Bi Color Tourmaline Carving from Madagascar Africa
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
Unique Bi-Color Tourmaline Carving From Madagascar Africa
Weight: 42.00Carats
Dimension: 2.9 x 1.7 x 0.9 Cm
Origin: Africa
Color: Peach & Green...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Malagasy Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Crystal
Batman, Joker & Riddler Clay Busts, 2004
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unique and peculiar painted clay character busts of Batman, Joker and Riddler. Life sized, heavy, and well made. Unknown provenance. All signed 'AG 2004' on the back carved into the ...
Category
Early 2000s Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Clay, Paint
13.70 Carat Glamorous Rubellite Tourmaline Drilled Craving from Africa
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
Glamorous Rubellite Tourmaline Drilled Craving From Africa
Weight : 13.70 Carats
Dimensions : 2.8 x 1.4 x 0.5 Cm
Origin : Madagascar Africa
Clarity : SI
Color: Pink
The rubel...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Malagasy Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Crystal
Gorgeous 53.65 Carat Bi Color Tourmaline Crystal From Paprok Mine Afghanistan
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
Gorgeous Bi Color Tourmaline crystal from paprok mine Afghanistan
WEIGHT: 53.65 Carat
DIMENSION: 5.7 x 1.0 x 0/9 Cm
ORIGIN : Paprok Mine, Afghanistan
COLOR: Pink And Green
TRE...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Crystal
Glamorous 162.08 Gram Fluorite Specimen with Dog Tooth from Pakistan
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
Glamorous Fluorite specimen with dog tooth from Pakistan
WEIGHT: 162.08 grams
DIMENSIONS: 5.9 x 5.6 x 3.4 Cm
ORIGIN : Pakistan
TREATMENT None
...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pakistani Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Rock Crystal
Talavera Decorative Lavabo Sink Folk Art Mexican Ceramic Blue White
By Cesar
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
Elegant white and blue sink lavabo made with the Talavera technique. Artist, Cesar Torres portraits the colonial art of Mexico.
The Talavera is not just a simple painted ceramic:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Spanish Colonial Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Majolica
Unique Hand Carved Black Forest Tree Trunk Grandfather or Longcase Clock w. Bear
Located in Lisse, NL
Stunning clock for the collectors of very rare and truly stylish Black Forest antiques.
Tree trunk design longcase or grandfather clocks are a rare find and this 6.5 feet tall specimen could hardly be in better condition. All handcrafted and hand carved in the first half of the 1900s this wonderfully naturalistic tree trunk floor clock is the perfect home decoration for anyone with a nature or Black Forest inspired room or interior. This finest workmanship antique comes with the original dial face, weights and pendulum and they all have the same wonderful leaf and flower patterns that complement the tree or forest theme of this work-of-art tall clock. The natural aging of the carved wood has also grown this clock its stunning patina, making it even more of a gem to enjoy and to look at. The large door comes with the original, antique and perfectly beveled glass window which makes this unique clock...
Category
Early 20th Century European Black Forest Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Brass, Iron
51.05 Carat Incredible Natural Loose Bicolor Tourmaline Carving from Africa
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
51.05 carat incredible natural loose bicolor tourmaline carving from Africa
Weight: 51.05 Carats
Dimension: 2.8 x 2.8 x 0.8 Cm
Origin: Africa
Co...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Malagasy Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Crystal
46.55 Carat Stunning Bi Color Drilled Tourmaline Carving from Madagascar Africa
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
46.55 Carat Stunning Bi Color Drilled Tourmaline Carving From Madagascar Africa
Bicolor Tourmaline Carved
Weight: 46.55 Carats
Dimension: 3.3 x ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Malagasy Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Crystal
Zinc French Butchers “Boucherie” Trade Sign, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
19th century Zinc French butchers “Boucherie” trade sign.
Referred to as a Boucherie, this handcrafted zinc horses head sign would have hung above a...
Category
Early 1900s French Victorian Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Zinc
Former Mannequin Head Representing The French Actor Fernandel, circa 1960
Located in Mouscron, WHT
Former Mannequin Head Representing The French Actor Fernandel, French Manufacturing circa 1950/1960.
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Plaster
Sublime 53.15 Carat Tri Color Tourmaline Crystal from Nooristan, Afghanistan
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
Sublime Tri Color Tourmaline Crystal From Nooristan, Afghanistan
Weight: 53.15 Carat
Dimension: 1.9 x 2.0 x 1.3 Cm
Origin: Nooristan, Afghanis...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Crystal
Glamorous 46.05 Carat Tri Color Combined Tourmaline Specimen from Afghanistan
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
Glamorous Tri Color Combined Tourmaline Specimen From Afghanistan
WEIGHT: 46.05 Carat
DIMENSIONS : 3.0 x 1.8 x 1.3 Cm
ORIGIN: Afghanistan
TREAT...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Rock Crystal
Natural 29.70 Gram Lovely Purple Appetite Bunch Specimen From Pakistan
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
Natural lovely purple appetite bunch specimen from Pakistan
WEIGHT: 29.70 grams
DIMENSIONS: 2.4 x 1.7 x 1.4 Cm
ORIGIN : Pakistan
TREATMENT None
The Fluorite meaning comes from the L...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pakistani Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Rock Crystal
34.60 Carat Amazing Bi Color Fruit Shape Tourmaline Drilled Carving from Africa
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
Amazing Bi-Color fruit shape Tourmaline Drilled Carving From Africa
Weight: 34.60 Carats
Dimension: 3 x 1.8 x 0.8 Cm
Origin: Africa
Color: Red & Green
Shape: Carving
Quality: ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Malagasy Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Crystal
Sublime 17.15 Carat Loose Bi Color Tourmaline Drilled Carving for Jewelry Making
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
Sublime Loose Bi-Color Tourmaline Drilled Carving For Jewelry Making
Weight: 17.15 Carats
Dimension: 2.3 x 1.6 x 0.7 Cm
Origin: Africa
Color: Pink & Green
Shape: Carving
Qualit...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Malagasy Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Crystal
Ceramic Tiles by Danikowski
By Boleslaw Danikowski
Located in Paris, FR
9 ceramic tiles by Boleslaw Danikowski (1928-1979), after studying Fine Arts in Lille, practiced his profession as a potter and ceramicist in a small vil...
Category
Mid-20th Century French French Provincial Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Oil Painting Signed Dansaert Soldier Homecoming Portrait
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Quality French antique oil painting showing a delicate portrait scene
Piece is signed in the bottom right corner and also features the artists name on the frame
Léon Marie Constant...
Category
1830s Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Other
Oil Painting Shepherd Sheep Flock by Henry Schouten Belgium 1890
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Wonderful antique oil painting of a shepherd herding his flock of sheep
Glorious work of art is by Belgium artist Henry Schouten 1857-1927
We date this piece to circa 1890
Great work of art by a collectable artist...
Category
1890s Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Other
Wooden Mortar from Southern Morocco, 19th Century
Located in Wien, AT
This unique antique mortar with pestle was probably carved out of a cedar trunk at the end of the
19th century. One of a kind surface with great patina.
Category
Late 19th Century Moroccan Tribal Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Cedar
Printing Block Wallpaper Complete Pattern Stylised Leaves
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Rare woodblock with complete repeat. Of interest to wallpaper collectors or as a conversation piece in the home as a decorative carved wallhanging.
A large 19th century French wallpaper...
Category
19th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Oak
Glazed Stoneware Wall Sculpture Entitled « Burka », Anne Barrès, circa 2000-2010
By Anne Barrès
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Glazed stoneware wall sculpture entitled « Burka » by Anne Barrès.
Artist signature on the back « Anne Barrès ».
circa 2000-2010. Unique piece. Can be displayed both indoors and o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Ceramic
Authentic Talavera Decorative Vase Folk Art Vessel Mexican Ceramic Blue White
By Cesar
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
Elegant white and blue vase made with the Talavera technique. Artist, Cesar Torres portraits the colonial art of Mexico.
The Talavera is not just a simple painted ceramic: its exquisite decoration is the product of a delicate process of alchemy that translates into fine enamels. In Puebla, Mexico few people still produce using Talavera with the ancestral techniques.
One of those few is Cesar Torres, Don Cesar learned his art in the workshop of the Uriarte family, an excellent workshop where his grandfather worked. In his creations he uses the black and white mud that is obtained from the nearby hills of Loreto and Guadalupe, and colors of mineral origin that he creates in his workshop with recipes from his grandfather.
All the pieces are modeled in a traditional way and go through a production process that usually takes from one to two months, between drying, burning, and painting.
Being surrounded by a living tradition, Cesar Torres Jr., learned from his father since childhood. Architect by profession, Cesar Jr. has come to revolutionize and modernize with new designs and ideas of the current world, nevertheless always respecting the tradition of the processes and materials that make Talavera a Creole art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Spanish Colonial Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Majolica
Printing Block Wallpaper Complete Repeat Metal Peonies
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Rare woodblock with complete repeat. Of interest to wallpaper collectors or as a conversation piece in the home as a decorative carved wallhanging.
Using metal banding laid over w...
Category
19th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Oak
Printing Block Wallpaper Complete Repeat Stylised Vase Sunflowers
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Rare woodblock with complete repeat. Of interest to wallpaper collectors or as a conversation piece in the home as a decorative carved wallhanging.
A large 19th century French wallpaper...
Category
19th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Oak
Prisoner of war straw-work ark
Located in London, GB
Prisoner of war straw-work ark
Dated from late 18th/early 19th century, the lift-off upper section decorated with doors, windows, and geometric motifs...
Category
1850s French Folk Art Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Straw, Pine
Porcelain Sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 1989
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
1989.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Ceramic
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer, 1997
By Wayne Fischer
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A porcelain sculpture by Wayne Fischer.
Perfect original conditions.
Signed.
Unique piece.
1997.
How can an inert object produce deeply unsuspecting, indecipherable, uncontrollable emotions?
Wayne Fischer is an artist who can create works that force one to ask such moving questions as this. If he doesn’t know why, if he can’t explain the deepest reasons of his artistic research, he definitely knows the workings and limitations of the artistic process he invented.
He has never deviated from the course he set for himself since university; translate life. The works presented here show the evolution of his creations over the past thirty years. If Wayne Fischer has received several international prizes and quickly obtained the recognition of his peers in ceramics, nevertheless he retains a singular position at once unavoidable and disturbing. His sculptures are paradoxical, powerful and sensual, and cause a certain unease. They are beautiful, carnal, touchable, all the while being outside the standard idea of beauty. The ambiguity of attraction and rejection is at the heart of this evolution.
The pieces from the 1980s and 90s are imposing by their size, stature and symmetry, which give them balance. They generate surprise, curiosity and play between contrasts that are both soft and aggressive. They reference the body, muscles, and torso, without presenting an exact reality. They are double-faced, seductive, and enigmatic. Wayne’s shapes are inspired by shells, bivalves, sometimes presented as though they are floating in space. But the reference of the marine world to the mysterious female body has only one interpretation and only history and emotion condition the reaction of the spectator: he accepts or refuses to see, to be seduced. He is touched or he flees.
The more recent sculptures are appreciated in the fullness of their round volume and the search for a pure universal beauty. “Metamorphosis,” the work recently awarded by the Bettencourt Foundation, is from this series of pieces wheel- thrown and deformed which pushes the porcelain from the inside so the bulges evoke the movement of waves or the musculature of several bodies. The exactness, the clean breaks, the assurance of lines and valleys are testimony to the interior power that governs the creation. The life energy expressed is also felt by the artist as the origin of ceramics. All the pieces are curved and tense. They show no marking, no sign of the hand, no imprints, and yet give an impression of spontaneity, as if a dropped piece of clay found its form by chance. Depending on the angles, the content becomes “the origins of the world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Ceramic
Precious Shadows
Located in Jersey City, NJ
With its rich cultural heritage and growing global recognition, African art is increasingly becoming a sought-after commodity for collectors and investors alike.
Having been born ...
Category
2010s Angolan Modern Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Precious Shadows
Located in Jersey City, NJ
With its rich cultural heritage and growing global recognition, African art is increasingly becoming a sought-after commodity for collectors and investors alike.
Having been born ...
Category
2010s Angolan Modern Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Important "Orgue" Glazed Stoneware Sculpture, Jean-Pierre Bonardot, circa 1990
By Jean-Pierre Bonardot
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Important « Orgue » glazed stoneware sculpture by Jean-Pierre Bonardot.
Artist signature under the base « JP Bonardot ». Unique piece, circa 1990.
H : 21.6’ x 19.7’ x 7.9’ inches.
Category
20th Century French Beaux Arts Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Ceramic
Incredible Loose 31.00 Carat Bi Color Tourmaline Drilled Craving from Africa
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
Incredible Loose Bi-Color Tourmaline Drilled Craving From Africa
WEIGHT: 31.00 Carat
DIMENSIONS: 2.5 x 2.2 x 0.6 Cm
ORIGIN: Madagascar, Africa
Color : Pink and Green
TREATMENT...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Malagasy Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Crystal
3 Folk Art Carved Mahogany Low Relief Fishermen Farmer Sailboat Wall Plaques
Located in Dayton, OH
Set of three vintage folk art style carved wooden relief wall hangings, showing a fisher man with a large fish, a sailboat or raft, and a farmer with basket...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Mahogany
130.60 Carat Stunning Tri Color Tourmaline Crystal from Paprok Mine Afghanistan
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
Stunning Tri-Color Tourmaline Crystal From Paprok Mine Afghanistan
WEIGHT: 130.60 Carat
DIMENSIONS : 5.1 x 2.4 x 1.7 Cm
ORIGIN: Nooristan, Afghanistan
TREATMENT: None
Tourmaline...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Crystal
Precious Shadows
Located in Jersey City, NJ
With its rich cultural heritage and growing global recognition, African art is increasingly becoming a sought-after commodity for collectors and investors alike.
Having been born ...
Category
2010s Angolan Modern Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Acrylic
66.10 Carat Attractive Bi Color Tourmaline Crystal from Afghanistan
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
Attractive Bi-Color Tourmaline Crystal From Afghanistan
WEIGHT: 66.10 Carat
DIMENSIONS: 2.7 x 1.7 x 1.3 Cm
ORIGIN: Afghanistan
COLOR : Peach And Green
TREATMENT: None
Tourmal...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Afghan Adam Style Antique Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Rock Crystal
Vintage Hand Painted on Wood Advertising Sign for Golf Equipments, 1920s
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
This vintage sign for collectors is truly special. Made of wood with relief decorations and hand painted. The advertising sign was dedicated to the golf attire and equipment.
Category
1920s Scottish Vintage Chinoiserie Asian Antiques
Materials
Wood
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