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Folk Art For Sale
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Fishing Model Boat, Museum Quality
Located in Bafra, 55
This handmade, high-quality decorative wooden fishing boat, with its stunning 17.7-inch length, 5.5-inch width, and 6-inch height, is sure to impress. This handmade boat can be used ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Arts and Crafts Folk Art

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Wood

American Folk Art Carved Cat Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
A whimsical and bold 20th century American Folk Art cared wood sculpture depicting a stylized seated cat with a long neck, expressive face, and a beautiful chip carved surface. It cr...
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20th Century American Folk Art Folk Art

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Pine

Travel Scale, Oriental Manufacture, 20th Century, Opium Weights
Located in Monza, IT
Travel scale, oriental manufacture, 20th century, opium weights Balance in wooden case carved with ethnic motifs, contains the counterweight inside. Case dimensions: 36x10cm, heigh...
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20th Century East Asian Art Deco Folk Art

Materials

Wood

19th c. American Folk Tramp Art Crown of Thorns Cross in a Large Scale
Located in Savannah, GA
This late 19th century large scale American Folk "Tramp" Art double sided "Crown of Thorns" cross is made up of thousands of carved and joined pieces, held together with the joinery ...
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1890s American Folk Art Antique Folk Art

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Wood

Ararat Rugs Dragon Rug, Antique Caucasus Museum Revival Carpet, Natural Dyed
Located in Tokyo, JP
The source of the carpet comes from the book Hali Magazine 1993 Issue 67, pg.93 and Hali Magazine 1992 Issue 61, pg.61. Peter Bausback, Mannheim, described it on the occasion of his ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Revival Folk Art

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Wool, Natural Fiber, Organic Material

English Shipwright's or Carpenter's Sash Fillister Plane by Atkin and Sons
Located in Austin, TX
A fine English shipwright's or carpenter's sash fillister or plough plane, c.1900, of finely patinated beech wood and brass by Atkin and Sons, Sheffield Works, Birmingham Marked A &...
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Early 1900s English Antique Folk Art

Materials

Metal, Brass

Small Swedish Folk Art Painted Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A Swedish allmoge folk art painted little box with a combination lock most probably from the region of Dalarna in central Sweden. Hand carved and origi...
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1920s Swedish Folk Art Vintage Folk Art

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Pine

Open Round Nantucket Lightship Basket with Original Paper Label
Located in Nantucket, MA
Made with oak staves, handle, mahogany base and attached brass ears, in excellent condition. The poem on the label reads” I was made in Nantucket, I’m strong and stout. Don’t lose me...
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Mid-20th Century North American Folk Art Folk Art

Materials

Brass

Ararat Rugs Senna Rows of Flowers Rug, 18th Century Revival Carpet Natural Dyed
Located in Tokyo, JP
The source of the rug comes from the book Antique Rugs of Kurdistan A Historical Legacy of Woven Art, James D. Burns, 2002 nr.28. This was an exclusive example of offset rows of flowers designed 18th Century rug...
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21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Revival Folk Art

Materials

Wool, Natural Fiber, Organic Material

Antique Set of Mexican Papier-Mâché Masks 1
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1960. We offer this antique set of 8 Mexican papier-mâché masks 100% handmade and paited with anilina (natural pigments).
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1960s Mexican Folk Art Vintage Folk Art

Materials

Paper

Japanese Old Wood Carving Bear 1930s-1950s/Vintage Figurine Sculpture Folk Art
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
It is a wooden folk craft in the shape of a bear. Mainly manufactured in Hokkaido. It is a wood carving made from 1930 to 1950. The eyes are made of glass. This type is rare in Japa...
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Late 20th Century Japanese Showa Folk Art

Materials

Wood

George Edouard Tremblay Folk Art Hooked Rug, Mat or Tapestry of a Winter Scene
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This framed hooked rug or mat was done by the well known George Edouard Tremblay of Quebec Canada in approximately 1940 in his period Folk Art style. The rug or mat is done with wool...
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Folk Art Folk Art

Materials

Wool, Burlap, Pine

19th Century Diorama of Sailing Ship ‘Eleanor’
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th Century diorama of the sailing ship ‘Eleanor’ in original glazed case. Painted antique shadowbox diorama of a three-masthead clipper ship alo...
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19th Century Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Glass, Wood

19th Century Antique Ships Chandler Shop Advertising Sign
Located in Peabody, MA
A relic from Boston’s mercantile history and the seafaring trade. This 19th century shop sign displays a fairly detailed replica of a navigator’s octant (or sextant) and the proprietor’s name and street number...
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Late 19th Century American Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Ngbaka Congolese Tribal Mask for Initiation Rituals, Early 20th Century
Located in London, GB
With a beautiful dark patina, this early 20th century wooden mask shows a naturalistic human face, flattened, with the forehead, open mouth and stylised teeth in light relief; the ri...
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Early 20th Century Congolese Tribal Folk Art

Materials

Wood

20th C. Vintage Large Double Wooden Pulley Block Industrial Maritime Nautical
Located in Meulebeke, BE
Exceptionally large industrial nautical wooden pulley block with double wood sheaves made from oak, steel. Very rustic and stylish item with a romantic wear of hard labour. Pulle...
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20th Century Belgian Industrial Folk Art

Materials

Metal

American Legion Baseball and Basketball Folk Art Paintings
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Pair of baseball and basketball paintings found in a Midwestern American Legion hall. These were proudly displayed behind the legion hall bar. Grea...
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1940s American Folk Art Vintage Folk Art

Large Wood and Glass Tic Tac Toe
Located in Naucalpan, Edo de Mex
A collaboration by Orfeo Quagliata creating iconic family entertainment. This Board Games edition presents classic games like Backgammon, Chess and Tic Tac Toe, made out of wood and ...
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2010s Mexican Folk Art

Materials

Art Glass, Wood

Old African Wooden Mortar
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Solid wood mortar produced in Africa in the 1950s. With its raw shape and organic hue, it will be perfect in a natural, refined and delicate decoration. We simply imagine it plac...
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Mid-20th Century African Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Pair of 17th Century Carved Antique Swedish Gustavian Gilt Tassels
Located in Stockholm, SE
Pair of Gustavian 17th century carved antique Swedish Gustavian gilt tassels. The tassels are hand carved and thus different, but similar. Origi...
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17th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Swiss Alp Painted Pine Trunk
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Swiss alp painted pine trunk ,from Rougemont village , the inside of the trunk was painted later and a part of the foot are missing, see photo
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Early 19th Century Swiss Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Rupert Deese Signed Mid-Century Modern California Studio Pottery Pedestal Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeously crafted, beautifully yellow glazed, Mid-Century Modern pedestal bowl by California master ceramist Rupert Deese who worked closely with pottery legend Harrison Mcintosh. Signed with Deese's cipher/ stamp on the base as well as the original label. Would be a great addition to any collectors of Deese's work or Mid-Century Modern ceramics/pottery collection or a very eye-catching stand-alone accent piece in about any setting. Deese's work can be found in numerous collections and museums including: Museum of fine Arts, Boston, Boston Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Maloof Foundation, Alta Loma, California Millard Sheets Collection, Gualala, California Mingei International Museum, San Diego Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Richard & Alice Petterson Museum, Claremont, California Roger Corsaw...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

Early 20th Century American Folk Art Box
Located in Chicago, IL
A fascinating and truly unique early 20th century American Folk Art box with the most wonderful Greek temple design with eight blue painted Doric columns around the perimeter and wit...
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Pair of Mirrors, 1960
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of mirror from 1960 From Italy.
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Retro Vintage Wall Decoration with Glazed Tiles. Image of a Sailboat Hardbor
Located in Tilburg, NL
Retro vintage Vallauris La Grange wall plate / tile tableau Retro vintage wall plate / tile tableau / wall decoration with glazed tiles. Vallaur...
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1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Folk Art

Materials

Enamel

Outsider Art Carved Wooden Figure
Located in New York, NY
Outsider Art carved wooden figure, possibly of an African-American subject (possibly an African carving) of a man with his hands in a quizzical pose. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Other Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Early to Mid-20th Century Rosewood Biwa Plectrum, Japan
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Rosewood Plectrum for Biwa, Japan A beautiful rosewood plectrum used in plucking the strings of a chikuzen-biwa, which is a 4-5 string fretted lute used t...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Meiji Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Mexican Sterling Silver Sombrero
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Sterling Silver Mexican Sombreros. Heavy Weight Silver. Stamped Sterling Mexico. Made for the Tourist Trade.
Category

20th Century Folk Art

Materials

Sterling Silver

Early 20th Century Hand Painted Duck Decoy Antique German
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Found in Germany at an estate sale, this hand carved and hand painted duck decoy is perfect for the collector. Well used by a previous hunter t...
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1910s German Folk Art Vintage Folk Art

Materials

Wood, Paint

Antique Pair of Folk Art Collages Paintings of Partridges in Tramp Art Frames
Located in Munich, DE
This charming pair of collages of a male and a female partridge has been skilfully made out of feathers. The game birds have been set in a colourful landscape surround painted in watercolours. The paintings have been mounted by the last owners in oat coloured passe - partouts with white boardes...
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1880s Austrian Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Feathers

Antique English Painted Wood Firescreen Flower Basket Dummy Board
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Antique Englishpainted wood firescreen flower basket dummy board During the 18th and 19th centuries, dummy board fire screens were highly fashionable, esp...
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Early 20th Century English Victorian Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Mid-Century Hand-Crafted and Hand-Painted Hardwood American Duck Decoy
Located in Germantown, MD
An Mid Century, large, Hand-crafted and Hand-Painted American life size Duck Decoy measuring 20" in width, 9" in depth and 13" in height.
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Mid-20th Century American American Classical Folk Art

Materials

Hardwood, Paint

1642 Dated Charles I / Jacobean Hand Carved English Oak Coffer Linen Chest Trunk
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this sympathetically restored, 1642 Charles I / Jacobean, hand carved English oak coffer, trunk or chest This piece is stunning, its hand carved t...
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1640s British Jacobean Antique Folk Art

Materials

Oak

American Oval Timber Trade Sign with Two Masted Ship and Rope Boarder. C. 1850
Located in Hollywood, SC
American oval hand carved timber trade sign with a centered two masted ship, rope border, upper painted banner "The London and New York Trading Company"...
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1850s American American Empire Antique Folk Art

Materials

Rope, Wood, Paint

18th Century Italian Carved Wood and Polychromed Figure of Baby Jesus
Located in Ballard, CA
18th century exceptional Italian carved wood and polychromed figure depicting baby Jesus holding the world in his hand, he has halo made from sterling silver and the globe is also st...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Folk Art

Materials

Silver

21st Century Italian Tic Tac Toe in Calf Leather with Plexiglass Pieces
Located in Bagnatica, Lombardia
A beautiful, modern board game that displays elegantly no matter where it is. Our Boston tic tac toe board is a light-hearted, beautiful complement to any table. Crafted of premium I...
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2010s Italian Modern Folk Art

Materials

Leather, Walnut, Plexiglass

Stan Bitters Signed Large Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Pottery Haniwa Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, unique, beautifully glazed, quite rare, and special double-faced "Haniwa" pottery sculpture by American California studio pottery master ceramists Stan Bitters whose work was instrumental in shaping the organic modernist movement in the 1960s. Bitters received his Bachelor of Arts degree in painting from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1958. He also studied under Peter Voulkos at Otis College. After graduating, he worked for Hans Sumpf as the company's resident artist. During this time he created architectural murals, tiles, birdhouses, planters, and sculptural objects – designs that would earn him recognition later on as a pioneer of the organic modernist craft movement - many still some of the most iconic designs today. Stan Bitters' work was featured as a part of the prestigious California Design series of exhibitions and annuals that chronicled art and design in California from 1954-1976. His works were also featured as part of a group show entitled Golden State of Craft 1960-1985 at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, CA. This show was part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, an unprecedented collaboration of more than 60 museums and other cultural institutions in Southern California, celebrating the birth of the Los Angeles art scene. Bitters' work was also exhibited at Heath Ceramics' Boiler Room...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Folk Art

Materials

Clay, Pottery

Japanese Signed Waka-Onna or Ko-Omote Wood Carved Noh Theater Mask, Showa 1900s
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, wonderfully crafted, alluring mask made for Japanese Noh theater. This mask is handcrafted and hand-carved from natural wood and signed/sealed by the maker on the underside. This mask is the mask of Waka-Onna - or young beautiful woman. It may be that of Ko-omote. Ko-omote translates as "little mask" or sometimes "small face...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Folk Art

Materials

Wood, Paint

Early Papua New Guinea Sepik Wood Yam Mask Yellow Red and Black on Custom Base
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early Papua New Guinea Sepik hard wood yam mask with areas of yellow, red, black and white pigments. Expressive face. Mask is 8 1/2 inches high, on custom metal base total height 12 ...
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Mid-20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Folk Art

Materials

Organic Material, Wood

French Modern Carved Pine Sculpture of a Standing Monkey
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
French Modern Carved Pine Sculpture of a Standing Monkey A well carved figure of a crouching monkey with the arms resting on the legs. Raised on an eboinzed wood base.        
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20th Century French Modern Folk Art

Materials

Wood, Pine

Child Sized Wooden Motorcycle
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This tiny treasure has been road hard and put up wet! Wood carved child’s motorcycle - circa 1970s. Painted details are perfectly patinaed. Functiona...
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1970s Bohemian Vintage Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Early Papua New Guinea Sepik Hard Wood Yam Mask Red and Black
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early Papua New Guinea Sepik hard wood yam mask with areas of red, black and white pigments. Mask is 10 inches high, on custom metal base total height 12 1/2...
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Mid-20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Folk Art

Materials

Organic Material, Wood

Set of Two Antique 19th Century Rural Altarpieces in Wood
Located in Leuven , BE
Set of two antique 19th C Rural Altarpieces in wood and with heavy encrusted patina 25,5 x 12,5 x 2,7 / 18,5 x 8 x 4 cm.
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Early 20th Century French Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Early Geometric Pima Indian Basket
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine and very early Pima American Indian hand woven basket is in fine as found condition. This wonderful basket has a nice aged patina and has come from a private American India...
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Early 20th Century American Adirondack Folk Art

Materials

Hemp

Vintage Guatemalan Dance Mask Pretty Lady Female Early 20th Century gold
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Guatemalan Dance Mask of the Female or Pretty Lady with bright colors, red lips with teeth showing and golden hair. Inset glass eyes below o...
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Early 20th Century Guatemalan Tribal Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Old Cedar Wood Sweet Refined Egyptian Mummy Mask
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Elegant old cedar wood sweet Egyptian mummy mask, 8 3/4 Inches high. Soft weathered surface and great expression. Areas of chips erosion and little bits mis...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Tribal Antique Folk Art

Materials

Organic Material, Wood

Painted Wood Design Blocks
Located in New York, NY
Painted wood design blocks. Multiple diverse and amusing design variations available from painted 1” wood blocks in yellow, red, white blue, and coloured stripes United States, mid...
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Mid-20th Century American Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Katerina Evangelidou Greek Stoneware Hand Built Studio Pottery Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A hand-built squat studio pottery vase of slight tapering rhombic form in brown glazes by Katerina Evangelidou (Greek, c.1960). The four sided vase has two erupting vertical seams at...
Category

20th Century English Modern Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

Old Tribal Cubist Squatting Spring Figure Nepal Early 20th Century Namaste Asia
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Old weathered cubist squatting tribal carved wood Spring Figure with hands raised in namaste position. Wonderful open form figure with hands in front of chest and great profile. Thes...
Category

Early 20th Century Nepalese Tribal Folk Art

Materials

Stone

Spanish Colonial Cuzco Painting of Archangel Michael
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a very good Spanish Colonial, Cuzco School (Cuzqueno) painting of the Archangel Michael. The painting appears to have little or no restorations and, as such, is in remarkable condition. We have chosen to leave that painting as found as the patina highlights the depth and character of the painting. We have listed separately two complementary larger paintings of the Virgin Mary and the Archangel Michael acquired from the same estate. The Cuzco school is a Peruvian Spanish Colonial religious artistic tradition in which Incan spirituality was incorporated into Catholic iconography. These Peruvian paintings incorporate artistic forms that distinguish Cuzqueno paintings from other Spanish Colonial artistic traditions. The Jesuit order, arriving in the mid-16th century, was the principal Catholic order whose mission it was to convert the Inca to Christianity and introduce Christian iconography and European type painting techniques to the Inca capital of Cuzco. Cuzco School paintings...
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Mid-18th Century Peruvian Spanish Colonial Antique Folk Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Paint

Stone Mortar and Pestle, Nigeria
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Stone mortar and pestle Nigeria 20th century Measures: Mortar: 21 x 15.5 x 2 in. / 53 x 39 x 5 cm Height on custom display stand: 26...
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20th Century Nigerian Other Folk Art

Materials

Stone

Large Vintage Hopi Pueblo Redware Pottery Jar Scraffito Avanyu Design
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Large Vintage Hopi Pueblo Redware Pottery Jar Scraffito Avanyu Design. Intricately etched and fully polished red large Hopi - San Ildefonso pottery ...
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1960s American Tribal Vintage Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

Victorian Brass Magazine Rack, Lion Feet, 19th Century
Located in Antwerp, BE
Quality Antique Victorian brass and mahogany revolving magazine stand having a shaped brass handle to the centre, four sections for magazines with b...
Category

1860s English Victorian Antique Folk Art

Materials

Bronze

Pair of Small Kachina Katsina Dolls Hand Carved Decorated Signed by Artist
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully detailed and decorated pair of miniature Kachina dolls. Signed by the artist on the base of one doll. From a collection of Native American objects and artifacts. ...
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20th Century American Native American Folk Art

Materials

Leather, Feathers, Wood, Paint

Late 19th Century Hand Painted Duck Decoy Antique, German
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Found in Germany at an estate sale, this hand carved and hand painted duck decoy is perfect for the collector. Well used by a previous hunter t...
Category

1890s German Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wood, Paint

William Moorcroft Vase
Located in Chipping Campden, GB
William Moorcroft vase decorated in the "Spanish" design
Category

1910s Vintage Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

Early 19th Century French Carved Giltwood Figural Winged Putti Table Lamp
Located in Forney, TX
A fabulous French Empire period giltwood figural candlestick, early 19th century, now professionally electrified and fashioned as a single-light table lamp. Exquisitely hand carve...
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Early 19th Century French Rococo Antique Folk Art

Materials

Gesso, Giltwood

Early 20th Century Carved Wooden Miniature Pequot Ship's Figurehead Model
Located in Nantucket, MA
Early 20th Century Carved Wooden Miniature Pequot Ship's Figurehead Model, circa 1920s, a wonderful folk art carving of a Pequot-Mohican Indian in the form of a ship's figurehead: this is in fact the figurehead of the Whale Ship...
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Folk Art

Materials

Pine

Vintage, New and Antique Folk Art

Folk art refers to a genre of art that shares the creator’s traditions, offering not just an artistic display but an opportunity to learn about a culture. Vintage, new and antique folk art typically reflects a heritage or location. It can include utilitarian objects and handmade art as diverse as weather vanes, portraiture and paintings, carnival art, quilts and duck decoys.

American folk art is frequently valued because of the traditional skills involved, like weaving, hand-carving wood and even stonework. Many folk artists are self-taught, while some train as apprentices within their community. By using available materials and taking a personal approach to their creations, artists ensure each piece is unique and conveys a story. Native American folk art includes functional objects reflecting their heritage, such as baskets, textiles and wooden pieces.

During the Great Depression, artistic materials in America were hard to come by, so artisans used discarded wood from cigar boxes and shipping crates to make highly stylized, notched pieces — most often picture frames and boxes — that are today sought after by collectors. This folk art style is called tramp art and was popular from roughly 1870 until the 1940s.

Folk art brings vibrant culture and traditions into your home. Browse an extensive collection of folk art on 1stDibs.

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