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Place of Origin: British
19th Century Wooden Grinder Vessel Treen
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A 19th century English wooden grinder with metal and copper fitings. The upper part opening on a hing and reenforced with copper. The top lid and grindi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Ivory handle walking stick depicts the head of a monk, England 1880.
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: ivory knob. The handle depicts the head of a laughing monk. Bamboo wood cane, with silver eyelets for the through hole of the lace. Silver ring band. England circa 188...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Pair of Exceptional Yacht Cabin Lanterns by Davey & Co.
By Davey & Co.
Located in Norwell, MA
Pair of top quality Davey & Co. ships lanterns. With arched and vented tops, carry handles, beveled glass, hinged doors, burners, etc. Fitted with makers badges reading "Davey & Comp...
Category
Early 1900s Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Traditional English Painting Children Feeding Swans Richmond Park London
By English School
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1993, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - Feeding the Swans by the Pen Ponds - Richmond Park...
Category
Late 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Other
Rare Pair of Victorian Staffordshire Ceramic Recumbent Giraffe Figures
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Each with one leg bent, and nicely colored with dotted fur details slightly different from each other, circa 1860. Green double palm trees with red fruit form the supports at the bac...
Category
Early 19th Century Regency Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
19th Century Painting by Francis Philip Stephanoff of Pious Maidens
By Francis Philip Stephanoff
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful antique painting of "Pious Maidens" attributed to British Artist Francis Philip Stephanoff (1787-1860). Masterfully painted of two...
Category
1820s Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Unique 18th Century English Carved Panel of Two Kings
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unique carved Folk Art panel, dated 1768, depicting a double portrait of mythological kings, whimsically portrayed in miniature stature with protruding...
Category
1760s Folk Art Antique British Folk Art
19th Century Large Apothecary Chemist Carboy Pharmacy Shop Trade Sign
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A 19th century hand blown glass chemist window display carboy. Used as a symbol of the pharmacy from the 17th century to the early 20th century.
A rare example with a hollow cut ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Blown Glass
System walking stick with light, England 1920.
Located in Milan, IT
Gadget-System walking stick: a stick with light. The light is located in the plastic knob at the end of the knob. Activated by a rotating ring on the rod, the light (orange-red becau...
Category
Early 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Traditional English Painting Maritime Scene on River Medway, Kent, England
By English School
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1995, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - Misty Morning, River Medway, Kent. Finely detailed maritime scene...
Category
Late 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Other
19th Century English Quirky Country House Fire Escape
Located in London, GB
19th century English country house fire escape
We are proud to offer a rare example of a 19th century quirky county house fire escape, once of the Fasque House, Fettercaine Estate, ...
Category
1890s Early Victorian Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Untitled, Mix Media, 1968
Located in London, GB
Untitled, mix media, 1968
Additional information:
Style: mixed media
Label to verso
Dimensions: 23 x 28 cm
This work has been part of a private collec...
Category
20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Paper
A 19th Century White Hart
Located in Conwy, GB
A recumbent carved timber Stag or "Whte Hart".
The surface with a pleasing overall craquelure to the white painted tempera, raised on a patinated brass mount.
Circa 1850.
In man...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Fruitwood
John Charles Maggs Painting - English - W7910 SALE
Located in Shamokin Dam, PA
John Charles Maggs Painting - English - W7910
In excellent condition with no damage.
This is a John Charles Maggs Painting, circa 1850. Maggs (1819 - 1896) was a painter best known...
Category
1750s Adam Style Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
$990 Sale Price
44% Off
Traditional English Painting Cottage by the River Thames Near London
By English School
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1995, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - Cottage by the River...
Category
Late 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Other
Traditional English Painting Deer by a River in English Parkland
By English School
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1991, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - "Woodland Felicity" A pastoral scene of English parkland with deer resting on grass alongside a river, and a swan paddling close by.
Medium: oil on canvas laid to board, unframed
Painting : 9.75 x 8 inches
Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from a private UK collection of this artists work.
Condition: The painting is in overall very good and sound condition, please note the upper edge and left edge of the board are not cut quite straight. This would be disguised when framed.
Artist: Norman Arthur Olley was born in 1908 to a British Army family stationed in Lucknow, Bengal India. His mother died there in 1911, and his father in 1936.
Norman married in Gravesend Kent in 1937, and at the beginning of the war in 1939 he was an aircraft sheet metal worker.
He and his wife to Surrey in the late 1940's -early 1950's where he was a long term member of the Thames Valley Arts Club and where he regularly exhibited his work. In 1951 his painting "View from Richmond Park" was held in high regard at a very well attended exhibition in Esher, Surrey.
The East Molesey area was one of his favourite areas to paint, a 1953 Art...
Category
Late 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Other
English ceremonial horn from the Ancient Order of Foresters, circa 1870
Located in Central England, GB
This most eye catching piece of British history is a very rare example. It would once have belonged to one of the three hundred or so lodges of the Ancient Order of Foresters which w...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Horn
Antique Hand Carved Oak Wood Bust or Sculpture of a Religious Monk or Friar
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This well executed hand carved bust is unsigned, but believed to have been done in England in circa 1900 in the period Edwardian style. The sculpture is composed of solid oak and dep...
Category
Early 20th Century Edwardian British Folk Art
Materials
Oak
Rare Napoleonic POW Dominos Casket
Located in London, GB
Rare Napoleonic POW dominos casket
We are proud to offer a rare example of a late 19th century Napoleonic prisoner of war (POW) hand carved set of domi...
Category
1880s Early Victorian Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Bone
Tom Brittain Original Signed Sepia Etching Victorian House
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Tom Brittain Original Signed Sepia Etching Ltd Edition A/P (Artist Proof) Victorian House
Tom Brittain's original signed sepia etching of a Victorian house is a piece of artwork that...
Category
Late 20th Century Victorian British Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Traditional English Painting South Devon Farmyard Chickens at Aveton Gifford
By English School
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1996, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - South Devon farmstead at Aveton Gifford, England
Ave...
Category
Late 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Other
Oversized Metal Key Trade Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Massive metal bit-key trade sign from the UK. Marked BOLTON, 1925. Great patina to metal. Well made and in very good condition. Cool oversized piece.
...
Category
1970s Vintage British Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Cutter Sailing Lighthouse Spirit of Alfred Wallis
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Cutter in full sail with one man visible on board riding a wave past a lighthouse
Oil on cardboard
Characterful naive picture in the spirit of Alfred Wallis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mid-Century Modern British Folk Art
Materials
Other
1850's "Portrait of a Scottish Gentleman" Original Painting Unknown Artist
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This is a traditional oil portrait painting of a bearded man, likely from the 19th century based on the style and attire. The subject is depicted from the chest up, wearing formal da...
Category
1850s Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Paint
Traditional English Painting Chalk Church from Fulborough Marshes in Kent
By English School
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), c.1990, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - Chalk Church from Fulborough Marshes near Gravesend, K...
Category
Late 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Other
Large Shepherds Walking Stick with Two Spaniel Dogs Heads
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely vintage style double headed Spaniel dog shepherds walking stick
This one is very decorative and functional, it’s a wonderful height ...
Category
20th Century Victorian British Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Hand Woven Red/Pink Modern Blanket, Double Sided Patterned Bed Throw Woven in UK
By Custhom
Located in London, GB
For this woven blanket We work closely with a 300 year old mill in Sudbury, Essex, UK. We have the utmost respect for their approach to making fabrics, their knowledge and experience...
Category
2010s Modern British Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
$275 Sale Price
20% Off
Six Foot Carved Wood Tuna Fish
Located in Norwell, MA
Finely carved tuna fish trade sign with pickled finish. Carved from solid timber with fins, gills, eyes and snout. Fitted with hanging hooks.
Overal...
Category
2010s British Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Traditional English Painting Church and Figures at Altarnun, Cornish School
By English School
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1995, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - Church and Village at Altarnun. Cornwall. Church of St N...
Category
Late 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Other
Monumental Portrait of Lt. General Hay MacDowall by Sir Henry Raeburn, 1805–1815
By Sir Henry Raeburn
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An extraordinary and monumental oil on canvas portrait by renowned Scottish artist Sir Henry Raeburn (1756–1823), depicting Lieutenant General Hay MacDowall in full military regalia....
Category
Early 19th Century Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Traditional English Painting English Farmyard Scene in Kent Farmer & Pigs
By English School
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1994, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - Contentment, an English Farmyard Scene in Kent depic...
Category
Late 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Other
Lavender Hares Fur Glazed Porcelain Studio Vase in the Style of Berndt Friberg
By Berndt Friberg
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine quality studio porcelain vase decorated in satin lavender hares fur glazes signed ST and in the style of Berndt Friberg dating from the 20th century. The small sized tall...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern British Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Toy Car, Military Wind Up Tri-Ang Tiger Tank, Lines Bros Ltd., 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
This Military Wind up tri-ang tiger tank is a vintage toy representing a First World War tank.
Part of the toys produced by the famous Lines Bros Ltd.
M...
Category
Early 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Metal
$325 Sale Price
30% Off
19th Century Staffordshire Cottage with Swans
Located in High Point, NC
19th century Staffordshire cottage from England with swans flanking the front door and a cobalt room with flocking detail. Lovely form.
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
1940's Folk Art John Carr's Jacquard Puppets The Turnip's, Scarecrow & Gardener
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A charming collection of hand crafted puppets by John Carr, (William & His Turnips) depicting a scare crow, a gardener with a hoe and 12 turnips.
Develope...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Fabric, Pine
Ship in bottle diorama "Seamaid" English circa 1920
Located in Central England, GB
This is a very fine example of the art of building a model ship in a glass bottle. It is constructed in a large rectangular whiskey bottle. The ship is a three masted barque named Se...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art British Folk Art
Materials
Fabric, Glass
$1,376 / item
British Royal Navy Mast Crown
Located in Norwell, MA
Painted metal mast crown from a British Royal Navy fighting ship. Quite rare to find, especially in this size. With a surround of sail and stern segment...
Category
1940s Vintage British Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Traditional English Painting the Italian Lake, Hever Castle, Kent England
By English School
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley (British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), dated 1991, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - The Italian Lake at Hever Castle...
Category
Late 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Other
Hand Carved Grain Shovel 19th century, brown color from England
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Hand Carved Grain Shovel 19th century, brown color from England
Category
20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Wood
$333 Sale Price
20% Off
Pearlware Bear Jug and Cover, English, Early 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
Napoleonic Bear Baiting Jug and Cover, Probably Scottish,
Category
Mid-19th Century Regency Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Circa 1940s English Showman's Mini Rollercoaster Travelling Fairground Circus
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A wonderful period showman's mini rollercoaster, constructed in pine with its original steps and single ride on cart. Typical of the travelling fairground community, the coaster has ...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Early Watercolor View of a Sailor with Pet Bird, circa 1800
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique watercolor view of a sailor with pet bird, circa 1800, a lovely detailed painting of a sailor seated in rough chair, tenderly spoon feeding a finch pe...
Category
Early 1800s Folk Art Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Late 19th Century Carved and Painted Figural Bust, England
Located in San Francisco, CA
Possibly from a ship, this rare antique late 19th Century English bust is carved and painted, representing a branch of the military. Portrayed in dress or formal uniform. Interesting...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Traditional English Painting Thatched Cottage Wrotham Hill, Kent, with Figures
By English School
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), undated, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - Yew Tree Cottage at Wrotham Hill in Kent, England
A del...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Other
Hand Study in Plaster on Oak Plinth Base, Early 20th Century
Located in Faversham, GB
Anatomical plaster study of a man’s hand, sitting on an oak plinth base. With wonderful definition to the fingers and palm.
British, early 20th cent...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco British Folk Art
Materials
Marble
$304 Sale Price
20% Off
Victorian Antique Brass and Cast Iron Umbrella Stand Valet
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Victorian 19th century brass umbrella stand or stick stand.
Antique brass top divided into three sections to hold either walking sticks or umbrellas.
Umbrella brass valet rack with 3 sections and hunter green iron tray and supported upon a tubular frame cast iron face...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Monumental Cobblers Boot Trade Sign
Located in Staffordshire, GB
Monumental Cobblers Boot Trade Sign.
Provenance: By Repute Crosby Cobblers - Liverpool Est 1841
Originally hung outside the cobblers in Crosby, Liverpool. Hand forged metal strap work and solid brass laces...
Category
Early 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Metal, Brass
English Country (20th Century) painted and carved wall plaque of golf sign.
Located in Queens, NY
English Country (20th Century) painted and carved wall plaque of golf sign.
Category
20th Century Country British Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Antique English Regency Period and Styled Hand Painted Toleware Tea Caddy
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique English toleware tea caddy dates to circa 1820 and done in the period Regency style. This tea caddy is constructed of tin with a cast i...
Category
Early 19th Century Regency Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Early 19th C George III Folk Art Shell Work China Man Sailor Maritime Naval
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A wonderfully detailed and intricately decorated early 19th century shell work figure.
Depicting a traditionally dressed Chinese gent, with his wispy beard, hat and holding his bask...
Category
Early 19th Century George III Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
George IV Painted Puzzle Jug, Dated 1823 with Initials JA
Located in Spencertown, NY
The puzzle jug consisting of a handle with pierced yellow painted decoration above and below the band of three spouts, floral painting on each side with int...
Category
1820s George IV Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Antique carpet beater, heart-shape, United Kingdom, late 1800s.
Located in Milan, IT
Antique carpet beater, to remove dust from carpets, heart-shaped in heavy twisted metal wire, with double connection (from and) through the mesh to obtai...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Pair of Scottish Ram in Polychrome Wood, 19 Century
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Superb pair of rams in polychrome carved wood from Scotland-19th century
Very elegant and unique pair of rams which are almost carved at life size which come from a Manor in Scotl...
Category
19th Century Folk Art Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Hardwood
Antique carpet beater, guitar-shape, United Kingdom, late 1800s.
Located in Milan, IT
Antique carpet beater, to remove dust from carpets, in the shape of a guitar in heavy twisted metal wire woven into a honeycomb, to obtain greater resist...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Early 19th Century Scottish Antique Glove Stretcher Tartan McPherson
Located in Stamford, CT
Early 19th century Scottish glove stretcher with a tartan McPherson colors. Tartan also called plaid which refers to Scottish clan colors. This is a rare piece from a private collect...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Traditional English Painting Portrait of Girl with Auburn Hair in Surrey England
By English School
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1994, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - "Imelda" Girl with Auburn Hair at All Saints Church...
Category
Late 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Other
Traditional English Painting Boys Fishing near Upnor in Kent
By English School
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1992, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - Boys Fishing a Stream near Upnor in Kent. Lovely pastora...
Category
Late 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Other
19th Century Traditional English Painting of an Artist Sketching in Yorkshire
By English School
Located in Cirencester, GB
Artist/ School: Norman A. Olley ( British, 20th Century, 1908-1996), 1995, signed to the front and inscribed verso
Title - "The Challenge", an Incident Occurring During a Sketching Tour at Farnham, Yorkshire in 1945. With a rather angry looking bull tethered in the pasture, below the artist, one can only imagine the incident!
Medium: watercolor with pen and ink on stiff watercolor paper, unframed
Painting : 9.5 x 13.5 inches
Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from a private UK collection of this artists work.
Condition: The painting is in overall very good and sound condition. We have measured to exclude the unpainted white edges.
Artist: Norman Arthur Olley was born in 1908 to a British Army family stationed in Lucknow, Bengal India. His mother died there in 1911, and his father in 1936.
Norman married in Gravesend Kent in 1937, and at the beginning of the war in 1939 he was an aircraft sheet metal worker.
He and his wife to Surrey in the late 1940's -early 1950's where he was a long term member of the Thames Valley Arts Club and where he regularly exhibited his work. In 1951 his painting "View from Richmond Park" was held in high regard at a very well attended exhibition in Esher, Surrey.
The East Molesey area was one of his favourite areas to paint, a 1953 Art...
Category
Late 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Other
English Pottery Pearlware Figures of Sailors
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Pottery Pearlware Sailor Figures,
Circa 1820.
A lovely pair of English pottery pearlware figure groups each depicting a sailor resting on his sea trunk...
Category
Early 19th Century Regency Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
$3,950 / set
Early 19th Primitive Naive Interior Scene Folk Art Military Wooden Leg Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A busy oil on canvas interior scene showing an exaggerated early 19th century social scene in the naïve self taught style.
A military/naval officer is showing off his wooden leg ...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Birdseye Maple
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