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Folk Art For Sale
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Period: Early 1900s
1800's Swedish Mortar made of solid Öland limestone.
Located in Boden, SE
Mortars made of Öland limestone in the 1800's was used by many in Sweden.
They was known for its durability and ability to withstand wear over time.
In good vintage and charmy condit...
Category
Late 18th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Native American Vintage Basket
Located in Summerland, CA
Antique Native American Navajo woven basket. Handcrafted and made from all natural fibers. Excellent condition.
Shape is superior condition.
Category
Early 1900s North American Native American Antique Folk Art
Materials
Organic Material, Willow
Man of the Sandwich Islands, with His Helmet J. Webber del. J.K. Sherwin Sc.
By John Webber
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An English 18 century engraving titled "Man of the Sandwich Islands, with his helmet " signed .J. Webber del. J.K. Sherwin sc. The subject was sk...
Category
Late 18th Century English British Colonial Antique Folk Art
Materials
Paper
A Roman bronze head attachment of a youth
Located in UTRECHT, UT
A finely detailed appliqué with the face of a youth, wavy hair framing the circular face, with well defined eyes, pierced for inlays.
5.5 cm (h)
Provenance:
Ex Jean-Phillipe Mariaud de Serres...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Art Nouveau Moriz Jung Cabaret Fledermaus Vienna Enameled Advertising Sign
Located in Vienna, AT
A domed, black & white enameled Art Nouveau advertising sign for Cabaret Fledermaus in Vienna. Artwork by Moriz Jung from the early 1900s, the production date is around the 1960s. Hi...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Folk Art
Materials
Metal, Enamel, Iron
18th Century Original Painting by John Nost Sartorius "Caring for the Horses "
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
John Nost Satorius, was an English painter of horses, horse-racing and hunting scenes. He is considered the best-known and prolific of the Sartorius family of artists.
Category
Late 18th Century European Sporting Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Paint
18th Century Oil on Canvas Venetian Architectural Capriccio Landscape Painting
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Venetian school of the mid-18th century. Oil on canvas painting depicting an invented landscape composition of remarkable pictorial quality. On the right is a ruined building, probab...
Category
1750s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Nude Theme Straight Razor, Germany, 1905
Located in Incline Village, NV
Great barber shop collectible item consisting of a German straight edge razor with a molded red celluloid handle; theme is a nude standing on a pil...
Category
Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Antique Folk Art
Materials
Steel
Richters German Anchor Stone Blocks Building Toy
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Richters German anchor blocks building toys / Der Geschickte Baumeister
Made in Rudolstadt, Germany, circa 1900.
Wooden box with printed paper labe...
Category
Early 1900s German Baroque Antique Folk Art
Materials
Quartz
Ceramic Pre-Columbian Colima Hunchback Figure Vessel
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pre-Columbian figural vessel from West Mexico Colima culture (circa 300BC-400AD). Made of molded clay, the stoneware vessel depicts a seated hunchback...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Mexican Pre-Columbian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Spanish Colonial Gilt Wood Reliquary or Table Box
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is an outstanding example of a late 18th/early 19th century Spanish Colonial Reliquary or table box. The emerald green combined with th...
Category
Late 18th Century Mexican Spanish Colonial Antique Folk Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Ancient Persian Islamic Blue Glazed Pottery Vessel Jug Caligraphy Khorasan 1200
Located in Portland, OR
A rare ancient Persian totally intact 12th/13th Century Islamic vessel/jug, from Khorasan.
The vessel with a deep blue glaze and having a band of incised Islamic caligraphy to the to...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Persian Khorassan Antique Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Antique Cocoon Jar, Han period (206 BCE - 220 CE)
Located in Hønefoss, 30
An antique cocoon jar. Earthenware with hints of red color pigments. China, Han period (206 BCE - 220 CE).
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Han Antique Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware
18th C "Stolen or Strayed" Gem Penned Notice Sign For its Return Giltwood Frame
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A stolen gem!!!! beautiful penned circa mid to late 18th century notice for it to be returned. Housed in a later glazed deep moulded gilt frame
“Stolen or strayed the 8th instant At...
Category
18th Century English Antique Folk Art
Materials
Art Glass, Giltwood, Paper
Chippendale Mahogany Dressing Table Mirro
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Mahogany Chippendale style dressing table.
This wonderful dressing table stands upon cabriole legs with well carved ball and claw feet and carved shells to the knees.
Circa 1900
The ...
Category
Early 1900s Chippendale Antique Folk Art
Materials
Mahogany
16/1700s Brass Mortar and Pestle, France, Primitive Antique, Patina
Located in Skien, NO
Antique French Apothecary Mortar and Pestle, Hand Cast Brass / Bronze, 17th / 18th Century.
This rare primitive mortar and pestle, handcraft...
Category
18th Century French Country Antique Folk Art
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Abstract Geometric Checkerboard Pre-Columbian Early Nazca Textile - 100-300 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Bold color and dramatic design make this style a favorite among collectors of modern art. Excellent condition. Several minor holes are effectively backed with a compatible color, and...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Vintage Late 19th Century Canvas Circus Carnival Midway Folk Art Sideshow Banner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Very early American circus or carnival Sideshow Banner, circa 1890-1900. Fantastic paint detail. Great example of American folk art banner painting. The Great American African Camel...
Category
Early 1900s American Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Petite Pre-Columbian Redware Olla
Located in Chicago, IL
Exhibiting a rich patina and a beautifully irregular pattern of pitted wear, this petite redware olla vessel shows many telltale signs of Pre-Columbian pottery. The vessel has a glob...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Central American Pre-Columbian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Basilius Besler Narcissus Engravings
Located in Greenwich, CT
Atrractive pair of 17th century Narcissus botanical engravings, by Basilius Besler. Besler (1561-1629) was a prominent botanist and apothecarist in Nuremberg. He was tasked with cura...
Category
17th Century Antique Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Antique Swedish Folkart Sunnerbo Painting Made to Use as a Pillow
By Sunnerboskolan
Located in Stockholm, SE
Beautiful Swedish Folk Art (commonly known in swedish as bonad) made 1790-1820s. Part of a bigger painting. Likely made by Johannes Nilsson at Sunnerboskolan, Småland. Local painters were often inspired by decorations in churches, where they learned and trained their crafts. The painting on linen is upholstered as a pillow.
The main motif depicts a holy woman serving wine dressed...
Category
Early 1900s Swedish Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Paint, Linen, Hemp, Paper, Feathers
17th Century Wooden Bowl, Sweden
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Large wooden bowl, dated 1694 and inscribed with two names. Probably for celebrating marriage between "Borhans and Dottir..."
Category
Late 17th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
18th Century Painted Rococo Side Table with Brass Tray
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Beautiful Danish blue and white decorated Rococo table with a heavy brass tabletop tray.
Category
Late 18th Century Danish Rococo Antique Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Edward III 1361-1369 Gold Noble Treaty Period 1361 - 1369, London
Located in Braintree, GB
Edward III 1361-1369 Gold Noble Treaty Period 1361 - 1369, London.
Country: England
England
Period: House of Plantagenet
Ruler: Edward III
Phase: treaty period (1361-1369)
Producti...
Category
15th Century and Earlier British Antique Folk Art
Materials
Gold
French 17th Century Chestnut Brusque
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fabulous 17th century Arte Populaire Brusque from the Ardeche region of France. A vessel used for preparing chestnuts.
Category
17th Century French Antique Folk Art
Materials
Oak
Antique Print of Krasnoyarsk Sculptures and Idols of Russia, 1768
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Monumens de Sculpture et Idoles trouvés dans les Tombeaux'. Copper engraving of monuments of sculptures and idols found in the Krasnoy...
Category
18th Century Antique Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Danish 18th Century Painted Chest of Drawers With Chinoiserie Decor
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Danish 18th century painted Baroque 3-drawer chest with later chinoiserie decorations, brass hardware and locks.
Category
Mid-18th Century French Baroque Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Baule Female Figure African Sculpture
By Baule Tribe
Located in Sharon, CT
A fine old Baule carving, with a rich golden brown surface patina.
Category
Early 1900s Ghanaian Tribal Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Zinc French Butchers “Boucherie” Trade Sign, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
19th century Zinc French butchers “Boucherie” trade sign.
Referred to as a Boucherie, this handcrafted zinc horses head sign would have hung above a...
Category
Early 1900s French Victorian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Zinc
Collection of 18th or Early 19th Century Miniature Carved Hands
Located in Nantucket, MA
Collection of 18th or Early 19th Century Carved Miniature Hands, a collection of five hand-carved miniature wooden hands, probably fruit wood, certainly European and most likely Ital...
Category
18th Century Italian Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Antique Amish Dimond Quilt Lancaster Pennsylvania
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large Amish quilt of center diamond pattern made from a red, green and light blue fine wool and cotton blend and backed by chambray cotton panel. The center diamond in the square p...
Category
Early 1900s American Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Antique German Black Forest Painted Tole Wooden Pantry Box
Located in Niederdorfelden, Hessen
German painted wooden bride's box or container with tole painting made circa 1900.
Category
Early 1900s German Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Tin & Wood Open Touring Hill Climber Toy Car by Clark, circa 1903
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous early toy example by the Clark co. This hill climber works great, and is almost totally complete. It's missing it's passenger in the back. Cast iron...
Category
Early 1900s American Industrial Antique Folk Art
Materials
Iron, Tin
Peru Inca 1200 AD Lambayeque Pre-Columbian Blackware Ceramic Vase with Warrior
Located in Miami, FL
An Inca Peru pre-hispanic black ware huaco vessel, from Lambayeque.
Beautiful piece, created under the Inca culture between the 750 / 1375 AD at the Sican...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware
18th Century Swedish Wooden Bowl with Original Paint
Located in Boden, SE
A genuine 18th Century Swedish Folk Art Wooden bowl with lovely patina & original color from Burtrask Vasterbotten, Northern Sweden .
An antique and unique organic wooden bowl.
W...
Category
Late 18th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Opulent 18th Century Baroque Reliquary of Blood of Saint St. Francis '15th Cent'
Located in North Miami, FL
Opulent 18th century Baroque carved giltwood reliquary (a container for relics) monstrance with curled scroll design. It houses a first-class relic of the blood of the15th Century sa...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Rococo Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Oil Painting Miraculous Image of Insbruck Maria with Child After Cranach
Located in Berghuelen, DE
An antique oil painting depicting the holy Mother with Child named the Miraculous Image of Insbruck. Oil on canvas with pastell colors. Painted after a painting of Lucas Cranach whic...
Category
Early 18th Century German Early Victorian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Two Polychrome Roosters
Located in Greenwich, CT
A pair of Chinese export glazed ceramic roosters with polychrome plumage in pinks, greens and orange with and striking red crowns and wattles, perched on weathered green striated tre...
Category
Early 1900s English Chinese Export Antique Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
French Painted & Carved Floral Dressing Table, Circa 1790
Located in Charleston, SC
French hand painted flip top dressing table with floral paintings , ebonized string inlay, foliage border with swags, connecting cross stretchers , and terminating on tampered splay...
Category
1790s French Louis XVI Antique Folk Art
Materials
Paint, Wood
Antique Danish Wooden Mangle Board Wedding Love Gift with Horse Dated 1768
Located in Silkeborg, Silkeborg
Danish mangle board (clothing and bedding press) dated 1768.
Made of wood richly decorated with hand-carved geometric patterns and a horse as handle. With original brown, green and ...
Category
1760s Scandinavian Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Chinese Ming Dynasty Antique Sancai Glazed Attendants Tomb Figure Pair
Located in Forney, TX
A pair of large antique Chinese polychrome ceramic attendants, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
Outstanding 500+ year old Sancai glazed earthenware pottery tomb figures, exceptionally executed figural form, exquisitely detailed, one holding a teapot, the other holding a charger, rising on rare sculptural plinth...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Ming Antique Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Large Polychrome Fruitera Pedestal Dish, Cocle Culture, Panama
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Large Polychrome Fruitera Pedestal Dish, Cocle Culture, Panama
A large pedestal dish with two hammerhead shark-like sea creatures in plum, ochre and b...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Panamanian Tribal Antique Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
Rare Suite of Antique Royal Horse Artillery 1 Cannon, 1873-1901 Coat Buttons
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this very nice suite of antique military officer Royal Horse Artillery (1 Cannon - 1873-1901) 18mm ball button with Queen Victoria's Crown brass Mi...
Category
Early 1900s British High Victorian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Antique English Figural Staffordshire or Prattware Pottery Cradle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A good rare Prattware pottery model of a baby's cradle.
Decorated with orange and blue intersecting circles throughout the body and embellished ye...
Category
Late 18th Century English George III Antique Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Traditional Large Iron Hanging Pub Sign, The Boot
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Traditional large iron hanging pub sign. The Boot
This is a large and heavy piece dating from the beginning of the 20th Century, it is double sided though the paint on one side is...
Category
Early 1900s Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Alabaster Crucifixion from a Retable of the Passion
Located in London, GB
A Very Fine Carved Relief of the Crucifixion
Alabaster
Circa 1450 - 1470
Nottingham, Midlands, England
Size: 49.5cm high, 26.5cm wide, 5cm deep - 19½ ins high, 10½ ins wide, 2 ins ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier English Antique Folk Art
Materials
Alabaster
Vintage Turn of The Century Deer Horn Handle American Walking Stick Circa 1900
Located in Incline Village, NV
Desirable western themed walking stick with a deer horn, highly figured handle in natural bone colors, with original brown highlights to the boned recessed horizontal lines. This is ...
Category
Early 1900s American Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Bone
Antique Stag Horn Handle American Walking Stick Circa 1900
Located in Incline Village, NV
Highly figured stag horn handle, turn of the 19th century walking stick with a round walnut shaft in original finish and wide 1 3/16" silver banded collar wrapped around the upper sh...
Category
Early 1900s American Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
17th CENTURY MAJOLICA PLATE MONTELUPO
Located in Firenze, FI
Splendid polychrome majolica plate belonging to the Montelupo ceramic workshop. The enamel has also been applied to the rim, in an elegant aqua green, while the background is white d...
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Maiolica
Barons Delaware Boston Joined Chest of Drawers, US American Colonial
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A joined enclosed American walnut, white oak, pine, beech, maple, krappa (crabwood), and letterwood Boston chest of drawers with lidded top
Ipswich/Bosto...
Category
Mid-17th Century American American Colonial Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Antique Amish Dimond Quilt with Ex-Museum Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large Amish quilt of center diamond pattern made from a blush rose red and pine green chambray cotton and wool blend. The center diamond in the square pattern is supplemented with ...
Category
Early 1900s American Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Gothic sculpted panel in oak from the 16th century, Belgium
Located in Meulebeke, BE
Belgium / 16th century / wooden sculpted panel / oak / Gothic / Rustic / Antique
A panel in oak wood enriched with Gothic graphic carvings. Hand carved in Belgium in the 16th centur...
Category
16th Century Belgian Gothic Antique Folk Art
Materials
Oak
"Dancing Sailor" Antique Wind-Up Toy By "The Lehman Toy Company" Germany C. 1909
Located in Incline Village, NV
"Dancing Sailor" by Ernest Paul Lehman of Brandenburg, Germany; patented in 1903 (see image of marking) appears in post turn of the century Lehman Toy catalogues as item #535. After ...
Category
Early 1900s Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Tin
Rare Brazilian Colonial 18th Century Shrine
Located in Rio De Janeiro, BR
18th-Century Brazilian Devotional Shrine from Minas Gerais
A rare and historically significant 18th-century Brazilian devotional shrine from Minas Gerais, an exceptional piece of col...
Category
Mid-18th Century Brazilian Other Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Iroquois Storage Basket, Circa 1900
Located in Rochester, NY
Antique Iroquois hand woven splint lidded storage basket with big ring handles at both sides and contrasting natural and black stained design pat...
Category
Early 1900s American Native American Antique Folk Art
Materials
Reed
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Painting Sacking of the City, 1670
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great Italian painting from the second half of the 17th century. Oil artwork on canvas depicting the sacking of a seaside city by the Saracens, of good pictorial quality. We find cou...
Category
1670s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Antique Ships Wheel, circa 1800
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1800, we offer this rare antique Ships Wheel. made in wood and forged steel. Very rare and ancient piece Ideal for the collector of antique nautical objects.
Category
Mid-18th Century Mexican Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Framed Collection of Mesoamerican Pre-Classic Period Sculptures & Arrow Heads
Located in New York, NY
Incredible collection of pre-columbian clay sculptures / figures / statues / pottery, mounted and framed. The pieces date from the pre-classic (Formative) period of Meso-American cul...
Category
15th Century and Earlier North American Pre-Columbian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Hardwood, Precious Stone, Clay
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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