Morateur Gallery

Painting by Friedrich Eckenfelder (Berne 1861- 1938 Balingen), “Landscape in the Swabian Alps”, oil on canvas 58 x 40 cm, signed lower left. Friedrich Eckenfelder was a Swiss-Germa...

A large pair of French Art Deco wall sconces were created by the French artist "Sabino" in great condition. This design came in two sizes, the large version is 18.5" high and the sma...

Art Deco floor lamp with nickel finish bronze and lacquered wood.

Very elegant pair of gilded bronze, brass and glass double arm wall sconces in the French neoclassical style of the 1950s by Jacques Adnet. The sconces are in excellent good conditi...

Ancient Ethiopian painting imported to Italy by a diplomat during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, in the late 1930s. This genre scene painting is divided into eighteen squares bordered by a black frame and divided into three lines. The scene depicts the story of a couple with three children through the stories of their domestic life and their rural activity; each box has a caption written in the Amharic language. In the first line: they grind; they drink; …illegible… while they spin; they bring water. In the second line: comb, cut your hair; treats your teeth; grind; they bring the wood; they bring water. In the third section: they prepare beer; they prepare bread; they cook bread; they prepare lunch; while they eat; while they drink. This canvas is painted in shades of ocher and is mounteed on a ebonized frame. Dates back to the late 1930s. The canvas show minimal tears and signs of wear but we can customize a restoration. The human figures are characterized by unrealistic proportions of the head and body and depicted in static positions. This sense of fixity and the narration in successive chapters in domestic environments make the paintings easily intelligible and suggestive. A particularly fascinating aspect of Ethiopian art...

We offer this Art Deco Gold-Tone Aluminum Torchiere Floor Lamp. circa 1940.

A Japanese hanging scroll or Kakejiku, circa 1890, depicting bamboo grass and a rabbit. In Japanese culture, the rabbit is a symbol of cleverne...

Marius-Ernest Sabino wall-sconces in the Palmes model Measures: Height 21", width 12", depth 8" Glass only: 16" x 5" Electrified for the US.

Bomolo oil on canvas abstract painting signed bottom right 1960. Known in it's day as Airport Art, Local Artists would sell their paintings to Tourists. Ma...

An Art Deco floor lamp in Walnut Wood and Nickel Plated details. This piece comes with a Beige cotton shade.

Continental school, 19th-20th century "Cherubs" Gouache and Watercolor on paper Size with frame: 19 x 11 in. (48.26 x 27.94 cm.)  

- 1960s - Czechoslovakia - Glass factory Harrachov - Blown glass with bubbles - Brass with patina - Origin: hotel.