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Folk Art For Sale
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Period: Early 1900s
Large 18th Century Italian Mirror
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
A fabulous bright gilt 18th Century Italian mirror within a bordered glass frame.
This mirror has had some minor restoration, commensurate with age.
Circa 1790.
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Folk Art
Materials
Giltwood, Mirror
18th Century Galician Brass Hanukkah Lamp Menorah
Located in New York, NY
Cast brass Hanukkah Lamp, Galicia, 18th century.
The backplate is cast and pierced featuring dense scrollwork. The side panels fitted with two servant lights, fronted by a row of eight oil fonts. Scholars theorize that these Polish Chanukah Lamps that bear two servant lights (as opposed to the singular servant light normally found on a Chanukah Lamp), served a purpose, having been used on one of the days that Chanukah fell on the Sabbath, as Sabbath Candlesticks.
This lamp was made by the technique known as "sand casting". This process begins with a wooden mold that was carved out to create negative space, which in turn is used to make the inverse form or shape to be used for the casting of metal. The mold is pressed into fine sand mixed with clay, then removed, and molten brass poured into the impression. When a mold wears out, a casting from that mold is often used as the mold for the next generation. Those later lamps...
Category
Mid-18th Century Polish Antique Folk Art
Materials
Brass
17th Century Italian Carving of Scholar
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Originally gilded. as notice some traces of gilt residue. From the collection of Verna Harrah. Harra's Casinos.
Category
Early 17th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Pre-Columbian Nazca Unku with Stepped “V” Design, Peru, 200-300 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete Nazca Unku in vibrant red with blue, green, yellow and white squares forming V design around the brown neck opening. The multicolor squares in stepped design make a diamond ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Textile
15th Century Oil Painting on Board
Located in Dallas, TX
This gorgeous Dutch painting features a woman with an infant and small child. Painting is from the 1450s.
Category
15th Century and Earlier European Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Circa 1907 riding Crop with Sterling Collar
Located in High Point, NC
Circa 1907 English riding crop made from hickory. The handle is made from horn, and is joined to the hickory shaft with a sterling collar. The collar...
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pre Columbian Inca Stone Canopa South Latin American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Inca Stone Canopa
A Inca stone Llama Canopa in dark basalt stone
Finely and realistically carved with old worn aged patina,
The Canopa is used to venerate the Pacha...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Magnificent Chimu Precolumbian Tapestry with 21 Multicolor Royal Attendants
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete and magnificent Chimu Pre-Columbian Tapestry with 21 multicolor Royal attendants and fringe. No restoration, professionally cleaned. Overal...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Tapestry
Set of Unknown Miniature Terracotta Heads
Located in Leuven , BE
This small head of a ceramic figure with a bird headdress is probably Pre-Columbian. It seems to originate from the territory of present-day Mexico. Fur...
Category
15th Century and Earlier South American Antique Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
Zeeland. Disputes over religion
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: HAC x VTIMVR x ILLO x NITIMVR x (rosette) x (mintmark Middelburg) x, Zeeland lion in waves with bundle of arrows, pointing at Jehovah in the clouds
Reverse: CALCVLVS * CAMER...
Category
1610s Dutch Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Pre-Columbian ceramics cup– Tiahuanaco Culture
Located in Madrid, ES
"Pre-Columbian Ceramics – Tiahuanaco Culture"
Material: ceramics
Origin: Southern Sierra of Peru, Lake Titicaca Plateau
Period: Boom Age (1 AD – 800 AD)
Dimensions: 24x20x17cm
Condit...
Category
15th Century and Earlier South American Tribal Antique Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
French Weathered Stone Statue of a Sleeping Putti, Baby Cherub with Wings
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
French weathered stone statue of a sleeping putti, baby cherub with wings
Sleeping in the sunshine with his head on his arms and dainty wings on h...
Category
Early 1900s Late Victorian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Cast Stone
Double Handled Earthenware Jug
Located in Long Island City, NY
This double handled earthenware jug of pottery has a narrow mouth and two handles.
Category
18th Century Antique Folk Art
Materials
Clay
Edward S. Curtis Original Signed and Stamped Silver Toned Platinum Print, 1906
Located in Studio City, CA
An original platinum print on textured paper by iconic American photographer Edward Curtis titled "The Piki Maker"
The print is hand-signed in ink, blind-stamped with Curtis' embos...
Category
Early 1900s American Native American Antique Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Pre-Columbian Lambayeque Textile Ceremonial Panel
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Impressive pre-columbian Lambayeque textile ceremonial panel. Lambayeque, Peru. Mint condition. Museum piece. Ex. Sotheby’s, New York.
The Lambayeque civilization (aka Sicán) flou...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Small Pre-Columbian Figurine – Ritual Stone Amulet
Located in Madrid, ES
An expressive and finely carved miniature Pre-Columbian figurine, measuring just 4 cm in height, yet rich in symbolic character and presence. Crafted from stone, the figure depicts a...
Category
15th Century and Earlier South American Tribal Antique Folk Art
Materials
Stone
18th Century Primitive Folk Art Baroque Era Unique Pine Cabinet Chimney Cupboard
Located in Zagreb, HR
Stunning sculptural piece of furniture, a rustic wabi sabi folk art primitive cabinet, "chimney cupboard", from the 18th century.
One of a kind antique rustic piece with loads of...
Category
18th Century European Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wrought Iron
Prehistoric Casas Grandes Pottery Jar
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Prehistoric Casas Grandes pottery jar. In as found unrestored condition. This item is guaranteed to be of the time period and condition as described, has been exported legally and is...
Category
15th Century and Earlier American Antique Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre-Columbian Alabaster Sculpture – Inca Llama-Shaped Canopa
Located in Madrid, ES
Pre-Columbian alabaster sculpture – Inca Llama-shaped canopa
Dimensions: 5 x 5 x 1 cm
Small pre-Columbian ritual canopy carved in alabaster, representing a llama, a sacred animal in...
Category
16th Century Peruvian Tribal Antique Folk Art
Materials
Alabaster
Pre-Columbian Alabaster Sculpture – Inca Llama-Shaped Canopa
Located in Madrid, ES
Pre-Columbian alabaster sculpture – Inca Llama-shaped canopa
Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 3 cm
Small pre-Columbian ritual canopy carved in alabaster, representing a llama, a sacred animal in...
Category
16th Century Peruvian Tribal Antique Folk Art
Materials
Alabaster
AR Stater Lucania, Metapontum
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head of Demeter left, wearing barley wreath
Reverse: ΜΕΤA, ear of barley, pitchfork above leaf in left field
Weight: 7.84 g
Grade: About extremely fine
Reference: SNG ANS 4...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Greek Classical Greek Antique Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Vintage Carousel Horse
Located in Napa, CA
Vintage Carousel Horse believed to be from the 18th century with wonderful worn distress finish.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Antique Folk Art
18th Century Polish Brass Hanukkah Lamp
Located in New York, NY
The backplate is cast and featuring a deer in the center surrounded by open scrollwork. The side panels fitted with two servant lights, fronted by a row of eight oil fonts. Scholars theorize that these Polish Chanukah lamps that bear two servant lights (as opposed to the singular servant light normally found on a Hanukkah Lamp...
Category
Mid-17th Century Polish Antique Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Oil on Canvas of Diana, Goddess of the Hunt
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Oil on canvas of the classical figure Diana holding a bow in a landscape setting with a putti and dogs in vivid colors.
French School
18th century
Category
18th Century European Baroque Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Antique Navajo Weaving Circa 1910
By Navajo
Located in Hudson, NY
Circa 1900, Navajo weaving, likely Ganado, with a very simple and modern design. Nice mottling of the natural colors. This is a very bold weaving, likely a double saddle blanket. Thi...
Category
Early 1900s American Native American Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Magnificent 18th-Century Brazilian Shrine - Minas Gerais Colonial Cabinet
Located in Rio De Janeiro, BR
Magnificent 18th-Century Brazilian Shrine - Minas Gerais Colonial Devotional Cabinet
A rare and evocative piece of Brazilian colonial history, this 18th-century wooden shrine from M...
Category
Mid-18th Century Brazilian Other Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Austrian in the Manner of Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Moneys Riding on Dogs
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A charming Austrian cold painted bronze depicting three monkeys riding on the back of three running dogs in the manner of Franz Xaver Bergman (Austrian, 1861-1936) and dating from ar...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Swiss alp painted cupboard dated 1732
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Swiss alp painted cupboard dated 1732 nice floral motif
Category
1730s Swiss Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
A Pair Of French Carved Giltwood Reclining Lion Sculptures, Florentine, With Pad
Located in Dallas, TX
A Pair Of 17th Century Carved Giltwood Reclining Lion Sculptures, Florentine, With Padded Rests On Backs. 17th Century
Category
17th Century French Renaissance Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Collection of Kriss Handles, Java, Indonesia, Late 18th / Early 19th Century
Located in NICE, FR
A set of thirteen kriss handles originating from Java, Indonesia, dating from the late 18th to early 19th century.
Beautiful aged patina in dark or amber tones. Exquisite carving wo...
Category
1790s Indonesian Tribal Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Fray Antonio de San Pedro by Manuel de Arellano, XVII Century
By Manuel de Arellano
Located in Mexico, DF
XVII century Mexican Painting by Arellano. "EL BENERABLE SIERVO D DIOS Fray Antonio de S. Pedro de la Sagrada Religion N. S. de la Merced"
Signed: Arellano fecit
Category
17th Century North American Spanish Colonial Antique Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Masterpiece Complete Chimu Shirt with Feathered Motif
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
An intact shirt with motif of rows of feathers in several shades of mustard yellow on a red ground, depicted as they would have been attached in rows in an actual feather textile.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Textile
French Faience Heart Secouette Flask / Hand Warmer HB Quimper, Circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
French Faience Heart Secouette Flask / Hand Warmer HB Quimper, Circa 1900.
Douardenez.
Category
Early 1900s French Rustic Antique Folk Art
Materials
Faience
A Colima Shark Effigy Vessel
Located in Stamford, CT
A Colima shark effigy vessel. Mexico. 1st Century BC - 2nd Century AD.
On stand : 7.5" h
Category
15th Century and Earlier Mexican Primitive Antique Folk Art
Materials
Clay
18thc Hand Carved Rooster Sculpture on Stand
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine folk art 18thc hand carved rooster ,sculpture sits on a board /stand.This fine sculpture has a wonderful red wash painted surface & several shrinkage cracks from natural ag...
Category
Late 18th Century American Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Pre Columbian Lambayeque Stirrup whistle Vessel South Latin American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Sican Lambayeque Stirrup whistle Vessel
A most interesting stirrup whistle vessel of a man seated on top of a raft of storage vessel, ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Palace Size True Kelleh Nomadic Karabagh Caucasian or Southwest Persian Rug
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Kelleh Palace Size True Nomadic Karabagh Rug
About: What an incredible piece this is. You simply won't find another like this; rare size antique rug that is an in-between size of an...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Chiseled Bronzw Processional Cross Cap of the "Christ of the Agony", Spain, 17th
Located in Madrid, ES
Processional cross cap of the "Christ of the Agony". This Christ belonged to the parish of San Pedro de Ariznoa located in the town of Vergara in Guipuzcua. The piece is handcrafted ...
Category
17th Century Spanish Rococo Antique Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Early Swedish Folk Art Cabinet, Sweden 1790’s
Located in Valby, 84
Step back in time with this exceptional Swedish Folk Art Cabinet from the late 18th century. Crafted circa 1790, this piece showcases the exquisite craftsmanship and rich cultural he...
Category
1790s Swedish Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Antique French Limestone Medicine Bowl
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Designed and produces, 18th century
Limestone
Measures: 8" height, 14.5" diameter
Provenance: Flea Market Paris.
Category
Early 18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Folk Art
Materials
Limestone
18th Century Folk Art Shelf With Heart And Pineapple Carvings
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Beautiful folk art "Love" Shelf. An old tradition where the man had to make a gift for the fiancee, mostly the items were made in wood with birds or hearts and painted nicely.
Category
Late 18th Century Danish Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Pre Columbian Chorrera swimmer Vessel South American art
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Chorrera swimmer Vessel
Chorrera Culture Circa BC 800-400 Ecuador.
A rectangular vessel surmounted by a recumbent personage in swimming pose with coffee bean eyes h...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre-Columbian Chimu Gold Mask With Scar
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A large sheet gold mask depicting a stylized human face having an individually fashioned and applied nose. Large low relief repousse eyes and rectangular mou...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Gold
1940s half hull of a British schooner oak wood.
Located in Milan, IT
1940s half hull of a British schooner oak wood.
Good condition. board measures 58 x 10 x 17 cm -22.8x3.95x6.7 inches.
The half-hull, used to design boats, was the tool for shipwri...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Petite African Redware Vessel
Located in Chicago, IL
This petite hand-formed vessel bears a richly textured surface of worn red clay slip and dark smoke marks. Likely intended for everyday use, the simple bottle-form vessel reflects th...
Category
15th Century and Earlier African Primitive Antique Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
Antique Italian Wooden Club from the Vatican, 18 th Century
Located in Schellebelle, BE
Exceptional wooden club from Italy,The Vatican,18 th Century
Used by the Guardians of The Pope to protect and as a Ceremonial object,
Good, great old patin...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Fruitwood
English Newlyn Attributed Arts & Crafts Hand Beaten Copper Plaque with Heron
By Newlyn Industrial School
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish English Arts & Crafts hand-crafted beaten copper plaque or dish with a heron attributed to renowned Cornish workshop Newlyn and dating from around 1900. The dish is ha...
Category
Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Folk Art
Materials
Copper
Antique Carved Lion Figure, English, Giltwood, Decorative Ornament, Mid Georgian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique carved lion figure. An English, giltwood decorative desk or mantle ornament, dating to the mid Georgian period, circa 1750.
Charm...
Category
Mid-18th Century British Georgian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Giltwood
Zenith Leather Cowboy Cuffs
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Zenith, Co 4-leaf clover leather and stud cowboy/cowgirl cuffs (not maker marked).
PERIOD: Early 20th Century
ORIGIN: Colorado, United States
SIZE: 6 1/4" x 3 3/4" Dia
Family Owned...
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Folk Art
Materials
Leather
Pre-Columbian Chancay Painted Panel with Two Figures Side by Side
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Chancay painted panel with two figurines side by side. This is a complete panel with two rectangular box-headed personages on a busily packed background of geometric motifs of circle...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Large Antique Temple Carving, Polychrome Buddhist Statue
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Large antique temple carving, polychrome Buddhist statue.
This wonderful carving, is the top part of larger piece, the paint is a dusty slightly c...
Category
Early 1700s Folk Art Antique Folk Art
A pair of late 19th Century polychrome painted wooden Indian figures
Located in London, GB
A pair of late 19th Century polychrome painted wooden Indian figures.
It’s likely that these figures were brought back to Britain from India as ...
Category
Early 1900s Indian Folk Art Antique Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Large Antique Americana Carved Elm Burl Bowl with Handles
Located in Atlanta, GA
A massive Americana bowl hand-carved from Elm wood (with some possible burl pattern in the wood) circa 18th century. The bowl was from Northeastern part or Eastern Woodlands of the U...
Category
18th Century American American Colonial Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Flemish Oil Painting Floral Still Life Antique Art 1900
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Stunning work of art in the form of an antique Flemish still life Good size at four feet tall - 121 CM
Such a vivid piece with the colourful flowers overflowing from the campana urn
...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Folk Art
Materials
Tapestry
Antique hardwood carved Goddes statue from India, 18th century
Located in Bilzen, BE
An antique carved hardwood statue depicting a goddes with child on her arm
The statue has a very rich aged using patina and traces
This statue is dating from the 18th century but pro...
Category
18th Century Indian Tribal Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Pre-Columbian Chimu Multicolor Banner with Geometric Designs
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Beautiful and Impressive Fragment of a Multicolor Banner with Ocher, Red and Purple with Geometric Designs with Birds and Mythic Creatures in Horizontal Bands.
This piece is accomp...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Folk Art
Sconce Wall Iron Hood Vernacular Folk Baroque 17 Century
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Extremely rare survival of a 17th century vernacular iron wall sconce
Unusually incorporating a hood to protect against fire and reflect the heat back into the room so it does not r...
Category
17th Century English Baroque Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wrought Iron
Carved Statue of a Saint
Located in Round Top, TX
Carved statue of a saint with original patina.
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Folk Art
Materials
Wood
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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