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18th Century Ox Bone Carved Riding Hunting Cups Classical Figures Green Man
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A Rare Pair Of Antique Early 18th Century Folk Art Carved Hunting Cups.
Carved From Ox Bone decorated with a sgraffito scratched design with ink forced into the marks, very much in ...
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Antique 18th Century European Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Natural Fiber
19th Century Slate Animal Grave Markers Tomb Stones Taxidermy Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A collection of slate animal grave markers, these appear to of all been from the same family/estate/property. Likely all working animals and much loved.
All initialed and dated to...
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Antique Early 19th Century English Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
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Italian 16th Century Pair of Curios Chest Feet The Sea Monk Folk Art
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A rather odd pair of hardwood carved furniture feet from South Tyrolean region Italy, possibly from a ecclesiastical piece like a chest.
They remind me of the early imagery of the S...
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Antique 16th Century Italian Sculptures and Carvings
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Early 19th C George III Folk Art Shell Work China Man Sailor Maritime Naval
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A wonderfully detailed and intricately decorated early 19th century shell work figure.
Depicting a traditionally dressed Chinese gent, with his wispy beard, hat and holding his bask...
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Antique Early 19th Century English George III Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Natural Fiber
19th Century Memento Mori Carved Skull & Cross Bones
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A well executed almost life size skull and crossbones pine carving, depicting the remembrance that we all will pass.
Likely a part of a larger religious carving, possibly placed a...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Pine
Early 20th Century Folk Art Appliqué Collages Henry vii & Queen Elizabeth 1st
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A really fabulous pair of Folk Art collages by a Sophie Louise Munns (signed on the original backing paper).
Full length portraits in interior sett...
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Early 20th Century English Paintings
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Textile, Paper
Circa 1850 Folk Art Carvings of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert on Horseback
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Pair of mid-19th century folk art carved and polychrome painted wood figures of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on horseback with origin...
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Pine
Late 17th/Early 18th Century Polychrome Tobacconist Figure Sign Folk Art Carving
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A large carved and polychrome painted tobacconist's figure almost certainly 17th or early 18th century
For a related example see Edward H. Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. Page 412, plate 436.
Originally this may well have been a tobacconist's shop window figure. For a similar, but slightly earlier unpainted example, see Sotheby's, The W. J. Shepherd collection of treen, 30th November 1983, Lot 393, illustrated in Pinto "Wooden Bygones of Smoking and Snuff Taking", plate 1.
Carved wooden figures, often painted, were placed outside tobacconist's shops as signs from the 17th century onwards. The earliest of these figures is the 'black boy' or 'blackamoor'. 'At the sign of the black boy' or 'at the sign of the blackamoor' was a popular address for tobacconists since the early 17th century. The 17th century figures...
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Antique 17th Century English Sculptures and Carvings
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Pine
1817 Sgraffitoed Latin Memento Mori Pewter and Lead Glass Skull Tanker
Located in Lowestoft, GB
An interested continental pewter and lead glass tanker, dated 1817 with the initials "I B" incised in the lid.
The tanker is heavily Sgraffitoed with a Latin Verso, cartouches and...
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Antique Early 19th Century European Sculptures and Carvings
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Huge 18th Century Heraldic Armorial Plaster Gesso Gilt Lion
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A large scale heraldic gilt lion off naive depiction, constructed around a pine carcass with a thick hessian and plaster/gesso skin.
The original gilt is beautifully faded, the pl...
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Antique 18th Century European Wall-mounted Sculptures
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19th Century Sicilian Italian Marionette Folk Art Puppet 'Opera dei Pupi'
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A oversized late 19th century Marionette in original untouched condition, originating from Palmero Italy.
The figure is missing both arms, its original clothing is heavily fad...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Carnival Art
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Textile, Pine
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