Maria Jose Franco Maldonado Furniture

Exceptional oil painting on canvas by Haitian artist depicts lush green jungle with bright and vivid colorful parrots overlooking beautiful lush jungle, acrylic paint on canvas, with...

Framed wall embroidery features beautiful floral motif on dark khaki fabric with wood frame, circa 1970s. Very good condition.

Chinese Gold Thread Embroidered Dragon Artwork, Framed, 20thC Measures- 11''H x 26.25''W x 1.25''D

American oil on canvas landscape with a flowing stream, trees and mountains, watering cows in the foreground, sun in the background, encompassed on the original stretchers and the or...

Manufacture Züber Diane au bain from the "Psyché et Cupidon" series. Based on the original printed by the Manufacture Dufour in 1815. The twelve paintings in their entirety refer t...

Large hand embroidered and quilted textile from North India. Mughal style silk and metal threaded tapestry framed from Rajasthan, India Fanciful Asian folk art design in this disti...

Late 19th century Chinese silk embroidery rank badge textile, with a finely detailed dragon along with other various symbols embro...

This is a 19th century scene of a wild sea with a boat by the painter Emmanuel Joseph Lauret (1809-1882). A landscape artist of the 19th century...

English Renaissance embroidery of a crest having a crown top mounted on a red velvet background in an ebonized wood frame.

Original Morgan Creek/Warner Bros 8x10 inches Publicity Still for Ace Venture: Pet Detective (1994) featuring an iconic image of Jim Carrey. Publicity (film/production) stills were ...

"The Mules" Oil on Canvas Painting. Oil painting of a rural scene in a parcel-gilt wooden frame.

Artistically framed for display in a slight shadow frame with non-reflective pixie glass, these pair of embroidery art panels from Japan are dated circa 1910-1930s, end of Meiji to early Taisho period. This period was the peak of the Japanese oversea expositions, when all things Japonisme took Europe and America by storm and left long-lasting impact on western art and design. The influence, however, was clearly not one-directional; As when Japanese artists, artisans and dealers experienced western art, it in turn inspired and impacted on the aesthetics of the Japanese art made for the western tastes. An interesting crop of art forms quickly emerged with a particular outlook that bridged the east and west, with the fundamental techniques still rooted in Japanese traditions. These rare hyper-realistic embroidered portraits were such an example. They took the essential format of the western portrait that permeated the Victoria and Edwardian Society, but substituted with exotic Japanese subjects and executed in traditional embroidery techniques which had been perfected for centuries by the natives. The two portraits on offer, one an elder man with long white beards and a pair of round spectacles lighting a pipe, and the other a grinning man with a peasant attire, were both set in black background, stimulating an appearance of Classic western oil painting or perhaps even the photograph. The fine stiches were maneuvered into an impressively hyper-realistic imagery that was far removed from the traditional Japanese embroidery...