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Large Royal Copenhagen Crackle Glazed Lidded Urn. Thorkild Olsen, Denmark, 1951.
Located in Malmö, SE
Elegant Royal Copenhagen crackle glazed lidded urn with gilded banding on foot, rim and lidd.
Designed by THORKILD OLSEN (1890-1973) for ROYAL COPENHAGEN. Made in Denmark, 1951. Make...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Italian Hand Painted Ceramic Vase by Bica
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Stunning pop art vase by Bica 1970, hand painted piece representing a blond woman and a brunette woman.
Bica is a company that produces Italian ceramics. They are based in Deruta, ...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Hand Painted Chinese Dragon Vase
By Pols Potten
Located in Greenwich, CT
The yellow dragon vase is crafted out of porcelain and finished with a yellow glaze and hand painted Chinese dragon design. The color yellow and pai...
Category
2010s Dutch Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Large Antique Chinese Porcelain Bowl Famille Rose Made circa 1860
Located in Katonah, NY
This lovely Chinese porcelain bowl was hand-painted in Famille Rose shades of deep purple, orange, and green.
The outside of this beautiful bowl features a top band of purple diamond patterns inset with panels of blooming peonies and small monochrome orange landscapes. Below the purple band...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Ming Dynasty Carved, Painted and Giltwood Amitayus Buddha
Located in Austin, TX
A beautiful and serene Chinese Ming dynasty carved wood figure of the Buddha Amitayus, the Buddha of long life, and a form of Amitabha Buddha. He is seated in dhyanassana, dressed in...
Category
17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood
Pair of Islamic Enameled Vessels, Ancient Urns
Located in Vero Beach, FL
This is an exceptional and historic pair of Damascus enameled metalwork vessels or urns. These art objects show signs of rough use and handling through the centuries. Although it is ...
Category
16th Century West Asian Islamic Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
$4,240 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century English Staffordshire Blue & White Marbleized Neoclassical Footbath
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th Century English Staffordshire Blue & White Marbleized Neoclassical Footbath
A generously scaled 19th-century English footbath in the rare and visually arresting blue and white ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Egg on Tripod hand painted Sterling Silver Enamel on Guillochè Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Egg on tripod in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with translucent fired enamel on guillochè, Russian Empire style inspired by Carl Fabergè eggs ...
Category
1960s Italian Other Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
17th Century Carved Wood Silver Gilt Polychrome Figure of Saint John
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Large Saint John the Evangelist figure created in the workshop of Franz Matthias Hiernle in Mainz, Germany. The superbly carved and highly decorated slender figure, in an elegant and...
Category
17th Century German Baroque Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Country Style Easter Bowl Porcelain with Hare Figure Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Completely handmade porcelain bowl with a hands-free naturalistic painted hare figure with black spots. The Easter bunny is sitting in the middle of the bowl for decorating nuts or s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Country Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Country Style Easter Bowl Porcelain with Hare Figure Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Completely handmade porcelain bowl with a hands-free naturalistic painted hare figure with black spots. The Easter bunny is sitting in the middle of the bowl for decorating nuts or s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Country Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Owl misteltoe figurine porcelain Hutschenreuther art dep Prof. Klee 1918 Germany
Located in Wien, AT
Wonderful perfectly preserved owl sculpture on a pedestal, made of white porcelain, partly gilded, handmade in the world famous German porcelain manufactory Hutschenreuther.
The pol...
Category
1910s German Jugendstil Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Limoges 22k Gold Trinket Piano Box Louis XVI Courtesan Scene
By Limoges
Located in BILBAO, ES
Elegant vintage Limoges 22-karat gold trinket piano box.
French vintage Limoges porcelain in cobalt royal blue with fine gold decor.
Marked on base as “L...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel, Gold Leaf
Rosanjin Kitaoji Signed Shino Ware Chawan Tea Bowl Original Sealed Signed Box
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous Shino ware pottery Chawan tea bowl by Japanese master potter Kitaoji Rosanjin (1883-1959) who was arguably one of if not the gr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Swedish 1790s Long Case Mora Clock with Blue Gray Paint and Carved Crest
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Swedish painted wood Mora clock from circa 1790s with carved crest, blue gray painted finish and single door. This exquisite Swedish Mora clock, dating back to the 1790s, is a tes...
Category
Late 18th Century Swedish Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
Gilt Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain Louis XVI Style Casket on Stand
Located in London, GB
Gilt bronze and Sèvres style porcelain Louis XVI style casket on stand
This magnificent Louis XVI style ormolu casket is supported by a mirror-topped table stand, which sits on four tapered, fluted legs connected by a curving X-form stretcher. In the centre of this stretcher is an ormolu urn decorated with rams heads, four hoof feet and birds on the top. The legs of the table are also ornately decorated with draped garlands and scrolled detailing. The apron is inset with Sèvres style porcelain plaques depicting scenes of cherubs and children in landscapes as well as decorative floral detailing, and is surmounted with laurel leaf mounts.
The casket itself is of oval architectural form, and is set on fourteen small feet. It features further porcelain plaques depicting cherubs, musical instruments and a central oval portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette within a crowned gilt cartouche. Her portrait is flanked by two cherubs and is sat within a decorative royal blue border, matching the turquoise colored borders of the other plaques. The reverse of the casket is similarly decorated and features a painted plaque of her husband King Louis XVI.
The plaques are separated by mounted ormolu columns decorated with crowns and draped laurel leaves, and each column is surmounted by floral crowns. Each curved side of the casket features an ormolu mask of a female figure, and the hinged lid is surmounted by two reclining female figures wearing draped dresses and holding a central crown. The casket opens at the lid to reveal a velvet interior.
There is an inscription below the portrait of Marie Antoinette which spuriously reads ‘This casket formerly property of Marie Antoinette, presented to my beloved wife as souvenir of our European tour / Sept 8th 1886 / Louis L...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ormolu
Large Olle Alberius for Rörstrand "Kurbits" Centerpiece Bowl, 1960s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Swedish Mid-Century Modern handmade and hand-decorated centerpiece bowl in rustic chamotte clay by Swedish designer Olle Alberius (1926-1993). The decorations are inspired by the tra...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Pottery, Stoneware
Early 20th Century Three-Tiered Red Lacquer Lunch Basket with Gilt Décor
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese three-tiered lunch basket from the early 20th century with red lacquer, gilded décor and black bamboo handle. Created in China during the early years of the 20th century, this three-tiered lunch basket features a red lacquered ground accented by a lovely gilded hand-painted décor. Topped with a large black lacquered tripartite bamboo handle with rattan links and metal detail, the basket is topped with a circular lid adorned with a grouping or women and children sitting or standing in front of a bench. The body itself showcases children with ribbon-tied pigtails sitting down, carrying lamps or crossing a bridge among others, while the lower section is decorated with birds perched on branches or rocks. Each section is removable and presents a dark brown with purple undertone interior. With its small proportions, complimenting colors and skillfully painted décor, this early 20th century Chinese three-tiered basket...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Metal
Pair French Vases Opaline Glass Hand Painted, circa 1835
Located in Katonah, NY
Pair of vases with hand-painted flowers on opaline glass.
We see pink, purple, orange, lilac, and white flowers, all naturalistically rendered.
The roses, daisies, and morning glory...
Category
Early 19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Opaline Glass
Rare 1935 Art Deco Metaphysical Ceramic Vase by Marcello Fantoni for Deruta
By Deruta
Located in Bagnolo Mella, Brescia
This remarkable Art Deco metaphysical vase, created by renowned Italian ceramic artist Marcello Fantoni for Deruta in 1935, is a rare and highly collectible piece of Italian ceramic art. The vase features a striking black glaze with silver bands on two sides, capturing the refined elegance of 1930s Liberty style. An additional silver ring encircles the base, further enhancing its sophisticated design. On the front, two red giraffes are exquisitely sculpted (not simply painted) within a carved recess, resembling a grotto — a masterful touch that showcases Fantoni’s unique artistic vision.
In excellent condition, this vase exemplifies the finest craftsmanship of early 20th-century Italy. Other pieces from the same series are part of the Deruta Museum collection, highlighting its historical and cultural significance. This rare and extraordinary piece is a valuable addition to any serious collection of Italian Art...
Category
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Neolithic Painted Pottery Jar, Machang Period #9
Located in Bradenton, FL
Chinese Neolithic Pottery Jar from the Majiayao Culture, specifically the Machang phase, in northwest China, and dating back roughly 4000 years. Jar is made from earthenware and pain...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Other Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery
French Sèvres Style Bronze-Mounted Cobalt Blue Hand Painted Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
A large French Sèvres style gilt bronze ormolu-mounted cobalt blue hand painted porcelain urn table lamp, first half of the 20th century. Bronze figurine handles, front side with han...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Empire Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Swedish antique rustic Folk Art Wooden box with original color
Located in Boden, SE
19th century Swedish folk art wooden box from Piteå, Norbotten Northern Sweden
The wooden box has untouched original color.
The box is stable in construction.
Nice storage inside.
Ha...
Category
19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
Meissen Cobalt Ground Pâte-sur-pâte Figural Vase, Attributed to Leuteritz
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Meissen Cobalt Ground Pâte-sur-pâte Figural Vase, attributed to Leuteritz
Germany, second quarter 19th century
We are pleased to offer an extraordi...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$4,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Art Deco Crackle Glazed Bowl by Gunnar Nylund for ALP, Sweden, 1930s
Located in Malmö, SE
A beautiful stoneware art deco bowl with crackle glaze. Details in hand painted gold.
Designed by Gunnar Nylund for ALP (Lidköpings Porslinsfabrik), Sweden, 1930s.
Great condition. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Art Deco Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
American Mahogany and Églomisé Banjo Clock, E. Howard, Boston # 5, Circa 1860
Located in Charleston, SC
American mahogany and églomisé banjo clock with original signed and numeral paper dial under glass, decorative painted and gilt throat panel, with a hinged painted and gilt door concealing the brass pendulum. Clock is in working condition with no issues. Signed by E. Howard and Co...
Category
1860s American American Empire Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Brass
$5,200 Sale Price
35% Off
Japanese 7-Pcs, Arita Sweetmeat Set & Matching Lacquer Box Meiji Period, 1880s
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A seven-piece Japanese Arita Sweetmeat set and matching lacquer box, Meiji period (1880-1890). Comprising of a central hexagonal dish and six-fan shaped ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain, Lacquer
19C Anglo Indian Vizigapatam Stamp Box
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely gorgeous and very rare 19C Anglo Indian Vizigapatam stamp box.
Made in Colonial India (the Time of the Raj) circa 1860.
Prob...
Category
Mid-19th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Bone, Shell
Naturalistic Ceramic Centerpiece Marine Handmade in Italy Without Mold, 2023
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The piece is a unique representation of a man in a modern way. The man is gently painted with acrylic color.
Our designer creates these pieces completely by hand, without any mold....
Category
2010s Italian Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
$2,833 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Lomonosov, 1960s, Porcelain Polar Bear and Two Cubs
By Lomonosov
Located in Bochum, NRW
Beautiful large seated polar bear by Lomonosov together with two cubs. Made of hard-paste porcelain, hand painted. Each marked "Lomonosov Made in USSR".
...
Category
1960s Russian Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
$1,440 Sale Price / set
25% Off
Mid Century Modern Bowl by Bitossi Italy
By Bitossi
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
A Mid-Century Modern Bistossi ceramic bowl with a stylized crossword design of squiggly lines with block squares in red, gray blue and black on a white glazed soft textured backgroun...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Antique Hand-Carved and time-worn European Church Candlesticks
Located in Leesburg, VA
Pair of Antique Hand-Carved and time-worn European Church Candlesticks
Anonymous
Probably France; 18th century
Giltwood, silvered, iron
Approximate size: 21.5 (h) x 5.5 (w) x 5.5 (...
Category
Late 18th Century French Baroque Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Giltwood
Chinoiserie German Dinner Plate with Painted Ming Dragon by Meissen Porcelain
Located in North Miami, FL
Chinoiserie german dinner plate with painted green Ming dragon by Meissen Porcelain
By: Meissen Porcelain
Material: porcelain, paint, enamel, ceramic
Technique: enameled, glazed, ha...
Category
Early 20th Century German Chinoiserie Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
Minimalist Ceramic Vase - Red
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
Created out of a playful approach to materiality and form, this item is a ceramic vase as well as a sculptural piece. The designer Julien Renault chose to mainly follow his intuition...
Category
2010s Portuguese Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
$53 / item
Herend Finest Quality Hand Painted Porcelain Queen Victoria Butterfly on Flower
By Herend
Located in Tustin, CA
Beautifully handmade estate porcelain Herend Queen Victoria Butterfly on Flower has been expertly hand-painted by the legendary Hungarian master artisans of Herend. Special rust fish...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Hungarian Other Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
MCM Kinetic Painted Steel Mobile by C. Jere for Artisian House
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare and very difficult to find MCM kinetic painted steel mobile by C. Jere for Artisian House, circa 1987. The piece is in good vintage condition and can fluctuate in size based on...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Steel
Set of Two 18th Century Italian Silk Frames with Embroidery and Saints Figures
Located in Milano, MI
Pair of antique embroidered frames, rectangular shape, in ivory colored silk satin with embroidery in cotton and gold lamé of floral elements and love knots. These are devotional monastic Italian...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Paste, Silk
Set of two exceptionally rare Sezession vases Villeroy Boch 1910 Dresden Germany
Located in Wien, AT
Extraordinary pair of vases, in the Secession style, originals from the Art Nouveau period, made around 1910 by the famous Villeroy and Boch factory, Dresden, Germany.
The vases eac...
Category
1910s German Jugendstil Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Bohemian Overlay Ruby Red Enamelled Glass Perfume Bottle, 19th Century
Located in Rostock, MV
Exceptional perfume bottle (flacon) and stopper in clear crystal glass and ruby red overlay
the body has been cut in 6 side panels and hand-painted all around with various scenes in...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Enamel
"Charleston Dancers" Cast Iron Doorstop, Anne Fish for Hubley, C 1939
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
"Charleston Dancers" Cast iron doorstop, Anne Fish for Hubley, C 1939
Inscribed © Fish, Lower left front, refer to photo #4
A fine period example, of one of the rarest Anne Fish doorstops...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Orientalist Figural Cold Painted Bronze
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Antique orientalist bronze with an impressive composition depicting a female warrior with a spear, a parrot on a tree stump, and a monkey with a fruit bowl all with the original cold...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Moorish Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Meiji Period, Blue and White Vase with Phoenix Decoration
Located in New York, NY
A Palace Size Japanese Meiji Period (1868-1912) Blue and White Vase with Phoenix Decoration. This vase is absolutely beautiful with an incredible array of hand-painted blue decoratio...
Category
1890s Japanese Meiji Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
Monumental Japanese Kutani Porcelain Vase, Meiji/Taisho Period, Signed
Located in New York, NY
A Monumental Japanese Kutani porcelain vase, Meiji/Taisho Period, Signed Akiyama sei. The main body is all hand-painted with wonderful ...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Doulton Lambeth Floral Vase
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
A Doulton Lambeth stoneware vase, decorated with beautifully hand-painted flowers by A. Euphemia Thatcher.
The Doulton Lambeth factory, like many potteries of the 19th and early 20t...
Category
Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Mid Century Vase by Fratelli Fanciullacci Italy
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Stunning and vibrant, vase with sgrafitto and hand-painted colored glossy pattern. On the base is painted Italy 8614.
Fratelli Fanciullacci Pottery: during the first half of the 20t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Zebra Gold Skull
Located in Paris, FR
Sculpture Zebra Gold Skull with structure in resin
hand-painted with gold and black paint, on solid
blackened iron base. Base: 25x25cm. Exceptional
and uniq...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Iron
$5,990
Chinese Northern Wei Terrecotta Attendant - TL Tested
Located in Dallas, TX
Circa 386-534 ADA well defined Chinese Northern Wei Terracotta Attendant Statue.
The Figure is depicted standing with his hands along the body, wearin...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Tang Antique Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Early 20th Century Cold-Painted Bronze entitled "Erotic Mummy" by Franz Bergman
Located in London, GB
An erotic Austrian cold painted bronze figure of an Egyptian sarcophagus opening to reveal a naked beauty with excellent colour and very fine hand finished detail, signed with the Be...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Late Victorian Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Bronze
Powder Case Art Deco style designed for Cartier USA Sterling Silver Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Powder case for handbag in 925/1000 sterling silver with black and red fired enamel. Opening with spring button. Ground mirror and retina inside. Measure cm. 7.3 x 7.3 x 1.5. Weight gr.250. Created in the Art Deco style for Cartier USA in the 1980s, inspired by designs by Louis Cartier from the early 1900s. Manufactured in Florence in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for withstanding numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 750°<800° C. About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier.
Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation.
Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ".
With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones.
At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists.
In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001.
In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State".
We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue.
An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Set of 8 Antique Spanish Ceramic Kitchen Canisters / Storage Jars
Located in Barcelona, ES
Set of 8 glazed ceramic kitchen canisters / storage pots and jars. Spain, 1930s
Rare find.
Handcrafted in off-white ceramic with dark brown inscriptions and floral decorative painted details in shades of green and garnet.
A highly decorative set of 6 antique kitchen canisters...
Category
Early 20th Century Spanish Art Deco Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Pottery, Ceramic
$3,351 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Large Amphora Vase Majolica Figurative Subject Crocodile Hunt Rubens Policrome
Located in Recanati, IT
Majestic majolica Amphora vase, with a height of 183 cm (72 in) and a diameter of 52 cm (20,5 in): a unique piece, entirely handmade and hand-painted in Gubbio, Central Italy, in 1995. Its surface is decorated with a splendid and detailed reproduction of the famous "The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt", painted by Peter Paul Ruben's (1615).
The body of the vase shows remarkable technical capabilities, given its size and complexity. The amphora is divided into three parts: the base, the central body and the neck. The rarity of majolica artworks of this size lies in the technical difficulty of managing the entire creation process given the large size, both for the making of the terracotta artifact and the subsequent decorating phase. During the first firing of the clay biscuit the risk of breakage is very high and also during the second firing of the color majolica hides many pitfalls, this explains the rarity of artworks of this size, the difficulty of the decorations and consequently their value.
Description of the reproduction painted :
Peter Paul Rubens created the canvas oil painting entitled The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt between 1615–16. The hunt takes place on the banks of the Nile, as indicated by a palm tree in the background. As hippopotami and crocodiles were considered dangerous nuisances, their destruction was a duty performed by noblemen. The hunting party comprises three men in orientalizing costume—mounted on Arabian horses, who hunt with lance and sword—and two valets clad in roughly-hewn jerkins—one of whom has been killed by one of the beasts. The enraged hippopotamus tramples the crocodile, as both are attacked by the hunters and hounds...
Category
1990s Italian Baroque Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic, Majolica
Vintage Hand Ornament, Brown Pink Glazed, Ceramic Dish, Vallauris c 1960s
By Vallauris
Located in Glasgow, GB
An ornamental hand-shaped dish by Vallauris, handcrafted in 1960s France.
Formed from ceramic in the shape of a human hand, the piece features a gently curved palm designed to funct...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
Meiji Fukagawa Gilded Porcelain Vase, Wave Ground & Enameled Medallions, C. 1900
By Fukagawa
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Meiji Period Fukagawa Gilded Porcelain Vase with Wave Ground and Enameled Medallions, Japan, Circa 1900
A superb Meiji-period Japanese porcelain vase attributed to the esteemed Fuka...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Porcelain
French Ceramic Decorative Platter by the Frères Cloutier 'circa 1970s'
Located in London, GB
French ceramic decorative platter by the Frères Cloutier (circa 1970s). A charming decorative platter created in the trademark subtle hues of the Clout...
Category
1970s French Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
$611 Sale Price
20% Off
French Mid-Century Decorative Ceramic Plate by Atelier du Grand Chêne
Located in London, GB
French Mid-Century curved ceramic plate hand-painted with a woman's face with short hair, by Atelier du Grand Chêne (circa 1950s). The piece is absolutely charming and has a whiff of Picasso about it - indeed the couple who founded Le Grand Chêne...
Category
1950s French Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Ceramic
$611 Sale Price
20% Off
Bengal Tiger Sculpture
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Bengal tiger realistic sculpture in pained leather in the style of Abercrombie and Fitch
Category
1950s Hollywood Regency Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Leather
$1,250
Table Cigarette Case floral miniatures and inserts of gold paillons Salimbeni.
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Octagonal table cigarette case in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated with external edges and fired enamels inserted in fine designs in the Baroq...
Category
1960s Italian Modern Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel, Gold, Gold Plate
Large Industrial Factory or Stration Clock by Telefonbau Und Normalzeit
Located in Vienna, AT
Steel frame painted with an aluminum clock face, clock hand and glass cover. Made in Germany in the late 1970s by TN (Telefonbau und Normalzeit). Formerly a slave clock, it is now fi...
Category
1970s German Industrial Vintage Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Steel
Vintage French Carved and Painted Terracotta Frog Sculpture
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a garden or a backyard with this large frog. Crafted in southern France and made of terracotta, the reptile sculpture is a captivating example of ceramic artistry, featuring...
Category
2010s French Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Terracotta
Pair Italian Florentine Black and Gold Gilt Pedestal Plant Stands
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Mid-Century Modern Period Florentine Gold Gilt and Black Painted Pedestals, circa 1950-60's Italy. Classic and versatile Florentine Mid-Century stands. These can be stand-alone state...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Painted Decorative Objects
Materials
Gold Leaf
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