Folk Art

A very fine and unique, fresh to market, stoneware studio pottery tile shaped panel hand painted with nude figures titled Europa & The Bull by renowned ceramic artist Eric James Mell...

Charming donkey and goat figurines from the great master and innovator of Modern Italian Ceramics, Guido Gambone. Signature and famous donkey mark on bot...

A very fine and unique, fresh to market, stoneware studio pottery tile shaped panel hand painted with a seated nude and with a female trapeze performer titled Circus:Trapeze by renow...

Wow this is a very big water pitcher or jug. This 19th century sponge ware pitcher has wonderful bands and pattern both inside and out. The condition is pristine and wonderful light ...

A very stylish English large studio pottery twin handled bowl decorated with abstract swirl and linear designs by David Melville dating from the 20th or early 21st century. The heavi...

This finely quilted and appliquéd quilt is dated 1876 in quilting and has the initials EG. Abutting hearts in the center are a lovely design but the stars they form makes it even mo...

This is a fine example of unusual hard to find spongeware pottery. This is a rare sponge butter crock with the original lid. There are very minor rim chips in the lid back.

An ancient Roman glass vessel. Constructed as a double unguentarium with twin tubular bodies with a folded rim, applied spiraling through the bodies, and an arch handle. From a Hudson, New York collection. Simply a wonderful piece of Roman glass...

A very fine and unique, fresh to the market, stoneware studio pottery tile shaped panel hand painted with nudes titled Mermaid by renowned ceramic artist Eric James Mellon (British, ...

Great simple human form. Vintage Viking white leather gym wrestling dummy. This guy is solid. Nicely worn leather. Team Viking on front and makers iden...

These large Amish denim rag balls used to make braided rugs. Fantastic country look of four rag balls.

This is a printed silk handkerchief from the interwar period, with an Italian aviation theme. This handkerchief features four early aircraft plane models, two of which are seaplanes. The inner field of the handkerchief is pale blue and contained by a black three-line waving border. The outer field is medium blue, with a darker blue at each corner. A white and black fasces rests in each corner. The center of the silk features a golden spread-wing eagle. Above the eagle’s head floats a gold crown. The eagle’s talons grip a shield printed with the Savoy arms, a white cross on a red field. Two gold fasces adorn either side of the shield. In most historical accounts of the early days of military aviation, our reverence for the activities of the American Expeditionary Force and its French and British companions-in-arms on the western front has led us to overlook the immense Italian contribution to the formation of airpower doctrine. The first aerial force projection occurred on Nov. 1, 1911, when Lt. Giulio Gravotta, flying a German-built monoplane, dropped one bomb on Zard and another on Taciura -- in Libya -- during the Italian-Turkish War. This event occurred just a little more than a year after the first flight of an Italian-designed and built aircraft. At about the same time, Gianni Caproni, a young Italian engineer with a passion for innovation and a vast admiration for the Wright brothers, built his first flying machine. By May 23, 1915, the day Italy entered World War I, Caproni had become Italy's leading aircraft designer and manufacturer. Caprooni designed and built a multi-engine bomber with range and bomb capacities to make it a potent offensive weapon. On Aug. 20, 1915, two of these Caproni three-engine bombers attacked the Aisovizza aerodrome with explosive and incendiary bombs, a preview of the most sustained, effective air offensive of the First World War. By early 1916, regular raids against Austro-Hungarian targets were being conducted by seven squadrons of Caproni bombers, with some 540 bombing missions flown by the year's end. Missions were on the increase, both in distance to targets and number of aircraft involved. In late 1917, due to the lack of suitable training facilities in the United States, a contingent of some 500 Americans were sent to Foggia, Italy, to learn military flying. After completing their training, the new pilots were commissioned in the Army Air Service, and the majority of them were sent to France to serve with the American Expeditionary Force. About 75 remained in Italy under the command of Capt. Fiorello LaGuardia...

Luis Germán Cajigas is known for his folkloric style which celebrates the simplicity of life. In this original 3d painting, he is depicting a detail...

A fantastic, quite unique and rare early work by famed American studio potter Rose Cabat who became well known for her ceramic "feelies" and use of innovative glazes. These formative...

Vintage planter peanuts can be used to decorate the kitchen, use as waste receptacle or storage purpose.

20th Century painting by Joe Boudreau, untitled #2. This untitled work was painted with acrylic, house paint, oil and water colored paint by Chicago arti...

Three gracefully shaped, light colored solid stone mortars from Shanxi Province, China. These nicely textured pieces are suitable for many uses and work perfectly as shelf decoration...

Louis-Auguste Dechelette (1894-1964) acrylic on board titled "Mixing Poison". It is signed lower right and bears an exhibition label on the back. It also has a christies lot number taped on the back from a 2010 sale in which it was bought in. This is a delightful folk art painting. Biography Plasterer and painter by trade, Louis-Auguste Déchelette was discovered in 1941 by Robert Rey, director of Fine Arts and was very successful. He exhibited for the first time in 1942 at Galerie Jeanne Bucher. his paintings tend to political trends, street scenes and campaigns, always animated with funny characters, and marked in their subject and composition, a bit of black humor. Exhibitions 1942 Galerie Jeanne Bucher. Paintings of Louis Déchelette 1944 Galerie Jeanne Bucher. André Bauchant...

Moroccan hand-loomed wool rug, ivory with chocolate brown diamond design.

Carnival panel with great crusty mirror.