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Wax Portrait of Queen Charlotte of Great Britain, Attributed to John Flaxman
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wax portrait of Queen Charlotte of Great Britain,
Attributed to John Flaxman,
Late 18th century.
A large and rare portrait of Queen Charlotte, i...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Georgian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Other
China Trade Watercolor Pictures of Junks & Sampans, Set of Five
Located in Downingtown, PA
China trade watercolor pictures of junks & sampans,
Set of Five,
Circa 1850
The Chinese watercolor paintings on pith paper each depict a diffe...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Robert Mapplethorpe Botanical Porcelain Plate, Calla Lily, 1984
By Robert Mapplethorpe
Located in Downingtown, PA
Robert Mapplethorpe Botanical Plate,
Calla Lily, 1984
Made By Swid Powell
The Robert Mapplethorpe porcelain plate depicts in black and white a Calla Lily made in 1984. It is lithographically printed porcelain based on Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs and made by Swid Powell.
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits, and still-life images. He was concerned with Classical aspects of beauty, whether in his nudes, floral still life pictures, or self-portraits—light, shadow, composition, and form were central to all his work.
Dimensions: 12 inches diameter x 1 inch height
Reference: Annette Tapert, Swid Powell: Objects by Architects, New York, 1990, pp. 142-43
See: Examples from this series can be found in the MFAH, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Also see Yale University Art Gallery for an examples.
Robert Mapplethorpe was born on November 4, 1946, in Floral Park...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
American Applique Picture of a Basket of Strawberries
Located in Downingtown, PA
American oval shadow box felt picture depicts strawberries in an openwork straw basket with the large long handle rising above. Within an oval gilt frame...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Felt
American Feltwork Picture of Fruit in a Footed Bowl, Probably New York State
Located in Downingtown, PA
American Feltwork Picture of Fruit in a Bowl,
Probably New York State,
Circa 1890-1910
The large framed American feltwork picture is extremely striking with strong original colors. The feltwork depicts a group of different fruit in an openwork metal footed bowl...
Category
Antique 1890s American Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Textile, Felt
Piero Fornasetti Framed Set of Coasters of the Months, "12 Mesi, 12 Soli" design
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Framed Piero Fornasetti Framed Set of Coasters,
"12 Mesi, 12 Soli" design,
Coasters Early 1960s
The six large ceramic coasters are from the "12 Mesi,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Double Sailor's Valentine of Sea Shells with Heart and Star Designs
Located in Downingtown, PA
Double Sailor's Valentine of Sea Shells,
Barbados, West Indies,
Circa 1885
A double sailor's valentine with Spanish Cedar box with two sides. The right side is centered with a heart within within a ring of pink shells with beds of different colored sea shells at the border The left side has a star in the center and also with a circular ring of shells with alternating panels around the border
Dimensions: Open: 18 1/2 inches wide x 9 inches x1 1/2 inches deep; Closed: 9 inches wide x 9 inches high x 3 inches deep
See an article from the Seaport Museum, New York City, about the story and history of valentines.
From Wikipedia
A sailor's valentine is a form of shellcraft, a type of mostly antique souvenir...
Category
Antique 1880s Bajan Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Shell
Faience Plaque in the Form of a Horse, circa 1840
By Rörstrand
Located in Downingtown, PA
Continental faience plaque in the form of a horse,
circa 1840,
Probably Rorstrand.
The plaque is amusingly decorated with a galloping gray horse wi...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Swedish Early Victorian Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Vintage Large Shellwork Sailor's Valentine
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Sailor's Valentine,
Shellwork,
20th Century.
The impressive Valentine shellwork has a cover which is now displayed separately. The valentine is in an octagonal mahogany box...
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Shell
Regency Silk and Wool Picture of Mother and Her Children, after John Hoppner RA
By Sir John Hoppner
Located in Downingtown, PA
Superb large English silk and wool portrait,
A Mother and Her Four Children,
after John Hoppner R.A.,
circa 1810-20,
Within gilt frame.
Silk over linen fabric ground, silk floss, worsted wool yarn, Merino wool yarn and oil paint.
A remarkable silk picture with painted sky background and each figure with a painted face and hands with the remaining portions of the picture finished in wool. The design comes from a mezzotint after John Hoppner made in the 1790s. John Hoppner specialized in painting mothers and children.
The picture depicts a large standing female figure dressed in a white dress and wearing a turban. She stands by two classical columns with her four children in front of her.
The youngest child is sitting on the ground playing with her red shoe in her hands with a tambourine by her side. Her elder sister stands behind her. Both girls are dressed in Empire-style muslin dresses...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Georgian Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Silk
British Sailor's Woolwork of Three Royal Navy Ships, Circa 1885
Located in Downingtown, PA
British sailor's woolwork of three royal navy ships
Circa 1885
The British sailor woolwork depicts an unusual scene of three different types of Royal Navy Ships which are all flying the White...
Category
Antique 1880s English Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
18th-century Dutch Delft Shaped Chinoiserie Polychrome Plaque
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch Delft shaped Chinoiserie Polychrome plaque,
Circa 1730-40
The shaped plaque has a raised molded border decorated with a series of alternating painted panels of flowers and Chinese auspicious objects. The central scene is painted with a slightly off-center table with a vase filled with flowers and a large parrot perched on the branches. Several flying bugs can be seen around the flowers. To the left is a gardener with two watering pots at his feet. The whole in a puce, yellow and green palette. The top is surmounted with a blue shell pierced with a suspension hole. The exterior rim of the plaque in blue.
Dimensions: 8 7/8 inches high x 9 3/4 inches x 1/2 inch depth.
Provenance: B.F. Edwards Collection...
Category
Antique 1730s Dutch Georgian Decorative Art
Materials
Delft, Faience
British Sailor's Large Woolwork of HMS Brunswick
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's large woolwork of HMS Brunswick,
Made by J. H. Miller, Brixton,
Circa 1865
The large-scale sailor's woolwork depicts an image of a Royal Navy Second Rate Battleship...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
Antique French Madam Knipp Engraving of Pigeon
Located in Downingtown, PA
Madam Knipp engraving of pigeon,
From Les pigeons par Madame Knip, ne´e Pauline de Courcelles ; le texte par C.J. Themminck,
Paris France,
1809-1811.
A remarkable large engraving of a pigeon- The Colombe Ramier or Columba Cenea or Wood Pigeon floating within a gilt frame and white matte and with UV Tru-view Clear UV Glass.
From a large collection of framed...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Georgian Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Sailor's Woolwork of The British Ship Gold Finder on her voyage to Australia
Located in Downingtown, PA
Sailor's Woolwork Nautical Picture,
Inscribed:The British Ship Gold Finder on her voyage to Melbourn, August 2, 1864. Worked by T.J. Francis,
Circa 1864
This sailor's woolwork depicts aportside view of the the Gold Finder. The Gold Finder was a 3-masted iron ship built in 1863 by J. Laing of Sunderland. There is a detailed inscription below including the maker's name- T.J. Francis.
A notice in the Liverpool Mercury on Tuesday May 3, 1853......This ship is expected to sail very fast, has all her passenger arrangements on a novel and peculiar plan, affording an amount of light and ventilation such as no other passenger ship ever possessed. The ships bell has recently been acquired by the Merseyside Maritime Museum. It seems though that the ship's description involved a degree of hyperbole as she was in fact laid down as a coal ship and converted to passenger accommodation later to meet the demand for the Gold Rush in Australia.
Dimensions: Framed: 28 3/10 inches high x 31 inches wide (72cm x 79 cm).
The Australian gold rush started after Edward Hargraves found the precious metal in New South Wales in 1851. He was not the first to discover gold but is credited with launching the stampede when thousands tried their luck at unearthing wealth - and some succeeded. Hargraves (1816-1891), a former hotelier and cattle farmer, played a small part in the California gold rush of 1849. He didn't get rich but met people who knew about gold and where it could be found - they pointed out similarities between California and New South Wales. Hargraves headed back to Australia to test these theories and stake a claim for a Government reward for the discovery of viable gold fields. Despite initial setbacks, he organised fellow prospectors in the quest for gold which was successful. Hargraves was granted massive rewards of more than pounds 12,000 and later a pension of pounds 250 a year.
He was born in Gosport, Hampshire, the son of an army officer, and educated at Lewes and Brighton Grammar School. Hargraves joined the merchant navy before arriving at Sydney in 1832 and marrying Eliza Mackie four years later.
Publicity about the gold rush prompted many migrants to sail from Liverpool to seek their fortunes - the first licence was issued in Victoria on 21 September 1851. Australia's population boomed as the emigrants...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Five-Masted Ship under Steam, Minotaur Class
Located in Downingtown, PA
Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Five-masted Ship under Steam,
HMS Minotaur or HMS Agincourt,
Minotaur Class Broadside Ironclad,
circa 1880
The sailor's woolie depicts a portsi...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
18th-century Johann Weinmann Engravings of Grapes, Set of Four
By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Located in Downingtown, PA
Johann Weinmann engravings of grapes,
Set of Four,
Circa 1740
Johann Weinmann engravings of grapes, each engraved by Seuter (S to the lower ri...
Category
Antique 1740s German Georgian Prints
Materials
Paper
Large Marine Painting of the Frigate Essex by Will Robedee
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Frigate Essex,
Signed Will B. Robedee
Painted September 30, 1976,
Oil on Canvas on Board,
The large framed painting on canvas applied to board depicts the Frigate Essex. The Es...
Category
Vintage 1970s American American Classical Decorative Art
Materials
Paint
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Special Commission Large Iznik Plaque, 1950s
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Rare Vintage Piero Fornasetti Special Commission Large Iznik Plaque,
1950's.
Piero Fornasetti coloured panel designed for the Hilton in Istanbul features Iznik pottery vessels a...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Spanish Catalan Faience Rabbit Hunting Tile Picture
Located in Downingtown, PA
Spanish Catalan Faience Hunting Subject Tile Picture
Late 18th Century
The framed picture depicts a huntsman firing his gun at a hare with his dog before him in a landscape with a h...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Spanish Country Decorative Art
Materials
Faience
18th century Engravings of Fish by Marcus Bloch- A Pair
By Marcus Elieser Bloch
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th Century Engravings of Fish by Marcus Bloch,
A pair,
circa 1780.
A fine pair of prints of fish by Marcus Bloch with decoupage frame.
Dimensions: 13 3/4 inches x 20 inches wide....
Category
Antique 18th Century German Georgian Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Wedgwood Porcelain Plaques of Ships, the Clipper Ship, Great Republic & Clipper
By Wedgwood
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wedgwood porcelain plaques of ships-
The clipper ship, great republic & clipper ship Hurricane
1976-1981
The two painted plaques depict on one The...
Category
Vintage 1970s English American Classical Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
Woman Artist-Madame Pauline Knipp Engraving of an Exotic Pigeon
Located in Downingtown, PA
Madame Pauline Knipp engraving of a pigeon,
From Les pigeons par Madame Knip, ne´e Pauline de Courcelles ; le texte par C.J. Themminck,
Plate 2,
Paris 1809-1811.
A remarkable ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Regency Prints
Materials
Paper
China Trade Watercolor & Gouache Set of Twelve Paintings of Fruit & Flowers
Located in Downingtown, PA
Superb quality painting!
China Trade Watercolor & Gouache on pith paper,
Set of twelve paintings of fruit and flowers,
Circa 1850-1860
...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Wedgwood Porcelain Plaques of the Ships the Great Republic and the Dashing Wave
By Wedgwood
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wedgwood Porcelain plaques of ships
The Great Republic and The Dashing Wave
1976-1981
The pair of Wedgwood porcelain painted plaques eac...
Category
Vintage 1970s American Classical Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
British Sailor's Large Woolwork of a Royal Navy Ship Under Full Sail
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's large woolwork of a royal navy ship under full sail,
circa 1875
The sailor's woolie or woolwork depicts a starboard ...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
Leslie Formalik Trompe L'oeil Paintings of Butterflies, Pair, Dated
Located in Downingtown, PA
Leslie Formalik Trompe L'oeil paintings of butterflies,
Pair,
Dated 2013 and 2019
The pair of beautiful tromp l'oeil paintings each depict a different pinned butterfly...
Category
2010s North American Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
Arthur Nevin Print of a Red-Breasted Merganser Duck Decoy, Beach Haven, NJ
By Arthur Nevin
Located in Downingtown, PA
The large 1970s print by Arthus Nevin depicts a Red-Breasted Merganser Bird Decoy.
It is inscribed Red-Breasted Merganser Beach Haven, NJ., 1935.
102/1...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Prints
Materials
Paper
Mexican Portrait Miniatures of Officer and Wife
Located in Downingtown, PA
Mexican Portrait Miniatures of Officer and Wife
Medium: Oil on Board,
Circa 1845-50
Two intricately detailed oil-on-board miniatures portray a military officer and his wife. The pai...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
Arthur Nevin Print of a Mallard Hen Duck Decoy, Bay Head, NJ
By Arthur Nevin
Located in Downingtown, PA
The large print by Arthur Nevin is inscribed Mallard Hen Decoy, Bay Head, New Jersey, 1920, it is also signed & numbered 45/150.
Category
Vintage 1970s American Folk Art Prints
Materials
Paper
Charming Dutch Tin-Glazed Earthenware Tile Picture of a Cat
Located in Downingtown, PA
Amusing Tile Picture of a Cat,
Makkum,
The six tile picture depicts a cat seated on its hind-quarters with its tail curled through its legs looking forwa...
Category
20th Century Dutch Georgian Delft and Faience
Materials
Delft
British Sailor's Woolwork of a Royal Navy Ship with Red Ensign
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of a Royal Navy Ship
circa 1765
The sailor's woolwork, also known as a woolie, depicts a port side view of a ...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Victorian Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy on Checkerboard Sea
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy on Checkerboard Sea,
circa 1865
The British sailor's woolie depicts a port side view of a three-masted ship with trapunto white sails on a rough sea depicted as a checkerboard in shades of blue. The ship flying the White Ensign. The sky still retains the original light blue. The woolie is in a wide medium dark wood frame.
The wool is protected by Museum UV...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Gold Adam Porcelain Plates, Set of Twelve
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Gold Adam Porcelain Plates,
1970s.
A complete set of twelve vintage painted gold ground transfer-printed porcelain plates in black and white...
Category
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
"Stonington, Maine" Painting by Janet Sullivan Turner, Oil on Canvas
Located in Downingtown, PA
"Stonington, Maine" Painting by Janet Sullivan Turner,
oil on canvas,
Signed "J Sullivan Turner" lr,
Circa 1965.
The painting from the artist's collection signed and named Stonington, Maine.
Dimensions: Framed 24 3/4 inches x 30 3/4 inches wide, sight 24 inches high x 30 inches wide.
Condition: Good
Provenance: The Estate of the Artist
Commenting on Turner’s work, Philadelphia art critic, Dr. Burton Wasserman...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
Large Picture containing Six Different Engravings of Grouping of Birds
By Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Located in Downingtown, PA
Large Framed Picture containing Six Different Engravings of Grouping of Birds,
Histoire Naturelle, Ornithologie by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de B...
Category
Antique 1780s French Georgian Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
French Silk Textile Portrait, Marie Thérèse of France, Louis XV's Daughter
Located in Downingtown, PA
French Royal painted silk textile portrait,
Marie Thérèse of France,
Madame D' Angoulême,
Eldest daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and o...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Charles X Decorative Art
Materials
Silk
Madame Pauline Knipp Engraving of A Bird, Colombi-Galline Goura
Located in Downingtown, PA
Madame Pauline Knipp Engraving of A Pigeon,
From Les pigeons par Madame Knip, ne´e Pauline de Courcelles ; le texte par C.J. Themminck,
Paris 1809-1811.
A remarkable large engraving of a pigeon- A Columba Coronata (Colombi-Galline Goura). The print floats within a gilt frame and white matte and with UV Tru-view Clear UV Glass.
We have 14 different examples from this volume. Ask for details.
Dimensions: Framed: 28 3/4 inches 21 3/4 inches wide x 1 1/4 inches; Sight: 20 3/4 inches high x 13 1/4 inches
Pauline Knip née Pauline Rifer de Courcelles (26 July 1781 – 18 April...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Regency Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
1930s Set of Nine Framed American Typography Pages
Located in Downingtown, PA
Set of nine framed American typography pages.
From new letters and lettering by Paul Carlyle & Guy Oring,
Originally published, 1938
The pages ...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Botanical Still Life Painting on Vellum with Insects, Continental
Located in Downingtown, PA
A fine continental botanical still life painting with insects,
possibly Scandinavian,
Gouache and oil on vellum,
early 19th century.
The painting is stunning. The painting with...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Swedish Neoclassical Paintings
Materials
Paint
English Porcelain Botanical Plaque, Attributed to Derby
By Derby
Located in Downingtown, PA
Beautiful English Porcelain Botanical Plaque,
Attributed to Derby,
Circa 1825
The upright rectangular porcelain plaque is painted with a finely painted grouping...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
British Sailor's Large Woolwork with Ship named The City of Rome on a Rough Sea
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Large Woolwork with Ship named The City of Rome on a Rough Sea,
Nineteenth Century.
The large sailor's woolwork or woolie depicts a view of the ship, SS City of Rome, with three funnels and four masts. On the bow is stitched the ships name "CITY OF ROME". She flies a number of flags: the Red Ensign on the foremast, an anchor flag on the main mast, a red banner on the mizzenmast as well as an American flag on the jigger mast.
There are two smaller ships in the foreground, all on a choppy sea with multiple colors of blue and white. The wool is within a maple frame.
She is considered one of the most beautiful steamships built, with her classic clipper bow and sail rigging illustrating the transitional period of sail to steam
Frame: 26 1/4 inches high x 33 1/4 inches wide x 2 1/10 inches deep.
Now with Museum Conservation Glass.
Reference:
City of Rome was a British ocean liner, built by the Barrow Ship Building Company for the Inman Line to be the largest and fastest liner on the North Atlantic route. Though not achieving the requested specifications due to design compromise, and so returned to Barrow-in-Furness after only six voyages, she is considered one of the most beautiful steamships built, with her classic clipper bow and sail rigging illustrating the transitional period of sail to steam. The Anchor Line managed her on various routes until 1900. She was scrapped in 1902.
Development and design
The completion of the Guion Line's Arizona in 1879 forced all major trans-Atlantic companies to consider building new high-speed passenger liners. Designed by William John, who later would design the United States Navy's first battleship, the USS Texas...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
Chinese Porcelain Framed Famille Rose Plaque of Golden Pheasant on a Tree Branch
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Porcelain Framed Famille Rose Plaque of Golden Pheasant on a Flowering Tree Branch,
20th Century,
The large porcelain plaque, in an upright format, depicts a large Golden Ph...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Porcelain Framed Famille Rose Plaque of Birds with Prunus and Cherry
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Porcelain Framed Famille Rose Pair of Plaques of Birds with Prunus and Cherry Trees,
20th Century
The beautiful large plaque, in a horizontal format, depicts a pair of birds...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
Dutch Delft Tile Large Picture of A Fleet of Ships
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch Delft Tile Large Picture of A Fleet of Ships,
19th Century
The 20 tile blue & white Dutch Delft Tin-glazed Earthenware Tile picture depicts a ...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Dutch Other Decorative Art
Materials
Delft
18th Century Rotterdam Dutch Delft Tiles Framed Pictures of Rearing Horses
By Delft
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th Century Dutch Delft Manganese Tiles Pictures of Rearing Horses,
Rotterdam,
Circa 1780
The pair of framed manganese six-tile pictures each depict a...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Dutch Georgian Delft and Faience
Materials
Delft
Chinese Export Glass Picture of a Persian Warrior
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export glass picture of a Persian warrior,
The Chinese reverse glass picture depicts a Persian warrior seated on the back of a dappled horse riding at a trot, a shield slu...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Decorative Art
Materials
Glass
China Trade Framed Pith Paper Set of Pictures of Butterflies and Plants
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Watercolours of Flowers and Butterflies on Pith Paper,
Set of Eight,
Circa 1840-60.
The superb set of Chinese watercolours of flowers and insects are painted on pith paper a...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Chinese Porcelain Framed Famille Rose Plaque of Long Tailed Hawk on a Rose Tree
Located in Downingtown, PA
20th Century Chinese Porcelain Plaque
This 20th-century Chinese porcelain plaque features a long-tailed hawk perched on a flowering rose branch. The scene is rendered in the Famille...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
English Porcelain Porcelain Botanical Plaque
By Derby
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Porcelain porcelain botanical plaque,
Probably Derby Porcelain
The framed porcelain square plaque is beautifully painted with a bouquet of flowers including roses, crocu...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
17th-Century Botanical Engravings of Mosses and Ferns By John Parkinson
By John Parkinson
Located in Downingtown, PA
John Parkinson was the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists. Here the pair of prints show mosses and lichen and the other of ferns.
From: Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris: or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers...
Category
Antique 1620s English Jacobean Prints
Materials
Paper
British Sailor's Woolwork or Woolie of the Named Barque "Polly"
Located in Downingtown, PA
Large British Sailor's Woolwork of the Barque Polly,
Named "Polly",
Circa 1885-95
A large sailor's woolie or woolwork of a port side view of a ship named "Polly" under full sail. The ship is rigged as a barque.
The name "Polly" can be seen on a banner flying from the mainmast and on the front of the bow and the shiop was named after the owner's wife Marian Poyy Woodside. (see below). The sails are trapunto, creating a three-dimensional look of the sails full of wind. The sea is depicted is rippling bands of green and white.
Dimensions: Frame: 26 1/4 inches high x 31 inches wide x 2 inches
Reference: The ship was built in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1885, and launched by Marian "Polly" Woodside, the wife of the owner, tossing flowers across the bow. (Champagne being too precious). The ship made several voyages primarily between South America and the UK before being repositioned in the Pacific.
A barque has three or four masts. The fore and mainmast are square-rigged, and the mizzen fore-and-aft, usually gaff-rigged. Carries a mainsail on each mast, but the mainsail shape differs per mast (square or gaff). Barques were built with up to five masts. Four-masted barques were quite common.
Barques were a good alternative to full-rigged ships because they require a lot fewer sailors. But they were also slower. Very popular rig for ocean crossings, so a great rig for merchants who travel long distances and don't want 30 - 50 sailors to run their ship.
A label on the reverse states that the wool was on The Antiques Road...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
Laddie John Dill Large Lithograph and Woodcut on Wove Paper, 1985
By Laddie John Dill
Located in Downingtown, PA
Laddie John Dill large lithograph and woodcut on wove paper,
Untitled, signed, dated and numbered 25/35, 1985.
Dimensions: 37 inches x 64 1/2 inches wide (sight 28 inches x 55 1.2 inches)
Reference:
From the artist's own bio.
Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles artist, had his first solo exhibition in New York City with Illeanna Sonnabend Gallery in 1971. He was one of the first Los Angeles artists to exhibit. Light and...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Prints
Materials
Paper
Francois Nicholas Martinet Bird Engraving, circa 1770
By François Nicolas Martinet
Located in Downingtown, PA
Francois Nicholas Martinet bird engraving,
circa 1770.
The framed Francois Martinet engraving is from Buffon's Historie Naturelle des Oiseaux displa...
Category
Antique 1770s French Georgian Prints
Materials
Paper
