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Place of Origin: British
Folk Art Sign-Maker's Sample Board in Original Paint
Located in Greenwich, CT
A Folk Art two-sided sign maker's sample board in original paint, one side having square color samples with various border treatments, each panel numbered (one through 25), the other...
Category
Late 18th Century Folk Art Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Antique Oil Landscape with Church in White and Gold Frame
Located in Madison, MS
A lovely 20th century oil painting of an English landscape with a church in the background. The contrast of the muted colors of the painting and the bright white frame really make th...
Category
20th Century Victorian British Folk Art
Materials
Paint
$660 Sale Price
20% Off
Sonia Lewis Studio Ceramic Craquelure Glazed Miniature Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning studio ceramic porcelain squat shaped miniature rounded vase decorated in a brown stained craquelure glazed finish on a white ground by renowned Cambridgeshire based potte...
Category
20th Century Modern British Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
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 matte pink glazes by Katerina Evangelidou (Greek, c.1960). The four sided vase has two erupting vertical sea...
Category
20th Century Modern British Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Vintage Shop Counter Display, English, Plaster, Decorative Figure, Art Deco
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage shop counter display character. An English, plasterwork decorative retail figure, dating to the Art Deco period, circa ...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco British Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
Eric James Mellon Studio Pottery Experimental Glazed Cup, 2006
By Eric James Mellon 1
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine stoneware cup decorated in experimental glazes by renowned ceramic artist Eric James Mellon (British, 1925-2014) and dated 2006. Trained at the Central School of Arts and...
Category
Early 2000s Modern British Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
English Pub Sign, "Fountain Head"
Located in Austin, TX
An authentic English pub sign (one-sided) featuring a painting of a Classical urn or fountainhead spouting cascades of water in a park setting, entitled: Worth Brewery - The Crickete...
Category
20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Arts & Crafts Edwardian Hand-Crafted Patinated Copper Lidded Communion Chalice
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish Arts & Crafts with Gothic elements Edwardian hand crafted patinated copper lidded communion chalice dating from the early 20th Century...
Category
Early 1900s Arts and Crafts Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Copper
Late 17th/Early 18th Century Polychrome Tobacconist Figure Sign Folk Art Carving
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A large carved and polychrome painted tobacconist's figure almost certainly 17th or early 18th century
For a related example see Edward H. Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. Page 412, plate 436.
Originally this may well have been a tobacconist's shop window figure. For a similar, but slightly earlier unpainted example, see Sotheby's, The W. J. Shepherd collection of treen, 30th November 1983, Lot 393, illustrated in Pinto "Wooden Bygones of Smoking and Snuff Taking", plate 1.
Carved wooden figures, often painted, were placed outside tobacconist's shops as signs from the 17th century onwards. The earliest of these figures is the 'black boy' or 'blackamoor'. 'At the sign of the black boy' or 'at the sign of the blackamoor' was a popular address for tobacconists since the early 17th century. The 17th century figures...
Category
17th Century Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Unusual Unique Abstract Crucifix Sculpture Formed from 15th Century Nails
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An unusual and unique hand crafted English abstract sculptural crucifix made from 15th century hand wrought iron nails recovered during the restoration of an ancient East...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern British Folk Art
Materials
Wrought Iron
Horse & Rider Hand Hooked Rug Mounted & Framed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine hand hooked horse & rider rug is in a black frame and mounted ready to hang in your home. It is wired for hanging and in pristine condition. Its been prof. cleaned.
Category
1930s Adirondack Vintage British Folk Art
Materials
Wool
$2,316 Sale Price
20% Off
Victorian "9-Spot" Dominoe Game 55 Piece Set in Jointed Hardwood Box, 19th C.
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a rare and original '9 Spot' Dominoe game of 55 individual dominoes, coming complete with its jointed wooden box or case.
Dominoe sets are normally six-spot sets giving a to...
Category
Late 19th Century Late Victorian Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Bone, Wood
$381 Sale Price
26% Off
Original Peter Howson Figurative Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Edinburgh, GB
An original oil on canvas by the renowned artist Peter Howson OBE. The painting is entitled 'Towards Heaven' and was painted in 2000, signed lower right.
Peter Howson OBE, was born ...
Category
Early 2000s Other British Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Brutalist Mid-Century Yellow & Green Streak Glazed Studio Pottery Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish mid-century studio pottery vase in the brutalist style decorated with yellow and green streaked glazes. The heavily made stoneware vase stands on a narrow flat round b...
Category
Mid-20th Century Brutalist British Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
English Edwardian Riding Crop, Circa 1900
Located in High Point, NC
English Edwardian riding crop made from hickory. The handle is made from bone and is cross hatched in design for easier gripping to the rider. The horn is attached to the handle wi...
Category
Early 1900s Edwardian Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Bone, Leather, Hickory
Antique English Stafforshire Pearlware Figure of Andromache & Hector's Urn
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique pearlware figurine.
Depicting Andromache embracing (and weeping over) Hector's urn that is supported by a plinth.
Decorated in polychrome.
Simply a wonderful ear...
Category
Early 19th Century Georgian Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Pearlware
18th Century English Wood Carved Standing Chinese Attendant with Lotus Bowl
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
18th century English wood carved standing Chinese attendant with lotus bowl, The well carved and decorated figure with glass eyes, holding a 10 inch...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinoiserie Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Gesso, Glass, Wood, Paint
Alexander Lauder Sgraffito Art Pottery Handled Bird Vase
By Alexander Lauder Barum
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning three handled art pottery sgraffito pattern vase decorated with two birds perched on oak tree branches by Alexander Lauder, Barnstaple dating from around 1890. This qualit...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Ivory handle walking stick depicting a dog’s head, England 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: carved ivory knob depicting a dog's head with an open mouth. Eyes in glass paste. Brass ring. Bamboo wood shaft. Brass ferrule. England circa 1890.
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Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Ann & John Farquharson Studio Pottery Sculptural Bison Figure
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish sculptural Studio Pottery of a bison made by Ann & John Farquharson and dating to the later 20th or early 21st century. The standing figure is hand formed with piped clay t...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern British Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
David Leach Feather Design Grey Glazed Studio Pottery Bowl
By David Leach
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A large and stylish studio pottery bowl decorated with an abstract feather patterned design in a grey powdered glaze by David Leach (1911-2005) and probably dating from his early day...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage British Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
19th Century Scale Boat Hull Model & Line Plans Naval Sailor Maritime Folk Art
Located in Lowestoft, GB
An interesting scale model hull of a vessel with its original line plans. The boat has its original painted exterior, and appears to be complete.
The plans are dated but unfortunate...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Hardwood
Antique English Dark Oak Barrel with Brass Bands
Located in Troy, MI
Circa early 1900s English barrel is just over 14” tall. Made of dark oak with four polished brass bands. Unknown maker. We may have similar barrels in various sizes and styles availa...
Category
Early 20th Century Rustic British Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Large 19th Century Flo Blue Soup Bowls in Watteau Pattern or Doulton
By Watteau Doulton
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Set of five flo blue soup bowls signed Watteau Doulton and in pristine condition. These English bowls are nice generous sizes.
Category
Mid-19th Century American Classical Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
$796 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Wedgwood Ceramic Jug, with Hunting Scenes, England 1940s
Located in Milan, IT
The jug is made of fine pottery with a cream colored glaze cover. The flared body shows elements in relief in the first elevation. Then a central band wit...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
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 Edwardian Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century English Folk Art Gentleman’s Cane
Located in London, GB
19th Century English Folk Art Gentleman’s Cane
A rare and quite special example of a 19th Century folk art English gentleman’s walking cane with a h...
Category
1850s Folk Art Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Edwardian Shell Valentine- Anchor-shaped Diorama-Ships off Dover & its Cliffs
Located in Downingtown, PA
Edwardian Shell Valentine- Anchor-shaped Diorama-Ships off Coast
A large Edwardian shellwork diorama with bevelled glass in the form of an anchor. The diorama features a chromolitho...
Category
Early 1900s Edwardian Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Shell
Barbara Davidson Scottish Studio Pottery Abstract Decorated Shallow Dish
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish Scottish studio pottery shallow dish decorated with abstract designs by Barbara Davidson and dating from the early 1970's. The small ro...
Category
1970s Modern Vintage British Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Antique Wool Winder Stand, English, Walnut, Adjustable Yarn Swift, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique wool winder stand. An English, walnut adjustable yarn swift, dating to the early Victorian period, circa 1850.
Fascinating ear...
Category
Mid-19th Century Early Victorian Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Walnut
Sailor's Woolwork of HMS Reindeer Made by Henry Payn Hopper
Located in Downingtown, PA
Sailor's Woolwork of HMS Reindeer of a Large Size,
Made by Henry Payn Hopper,
Circa 1865-70
The large woolie depicts a starboard side view of the HMS Reindeer under steam and sail. ...
Category
1860s Folk Art Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century Apprentice Shoes
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century Apprentice Shoes
A rare and delightful pair of leather early 20th Century hand crafted apprentice shoes. One of the smallest examples we have seen to date.
...
Category
1930s Victorian Vintage British Folk Art
Materials
Leather
19th Century Regency Hand Blown Chemist Pharmacy Apothecary Display Carboy Sign
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A very early 19th century chemist display carboy, circa 1820 possibly earlier
The bulbous center sits on a stepped base with a swan like neck and a fine cut glass oversized stopp...
Category
Early 19th Century Regency Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Blown Glass, Cut Glass
$1,245 Sale Price
25% Off
Eric James Mellon Studio Pottery Experimental Glazed Cup 2006
By Eric James Mellon 1
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine stoneware cup decorated in experimental glazes by renowned ceramic artist Eric James Mellon (British, 1925-2014) and dated 2006.
Trained at the Central School of Arts...
Category
Early 2000s Modern British Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Hand Built Sculptural Wood Fired Gourd Shaped Signed Studio Pottery Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A truly wonderful design piece, and one of my favorite pieces, is this hand-built wood fired gourd shaped studio pottery bottle vase of sculptural form dating from the 20th century. ...
Category
20th Century Modern British Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
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 Victorian Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
$1,620 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Unusual Folk Art Chapel/Monument Model
Located in London, GB
19th Century Unusual Folk Art Chapel/Monument Model
An exceptionally well hand-crafted late 19th Century folk art model of a chapel or monument of sorts. With opening doors, hand pa...
Category
1880s Folk Art Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Arts & Crafts Copper Handled Chestnut Roaster c.1890
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish Arts & Crafts hand crafted handled copper chestnut roaster dating from around 1890. The chestnut roaster has a hammered and pier...
Category
1890s Arts and Crafts Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Copper
Brampton English Rare Large Salt Glazed Thatched Cottage Table Jug
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and unusual antique English large salt glazed stoneware jug modelled a a thatched cottage by Brampton and dating from around 1820. The six sided jug stands raised on a molded ...
Category
1820s George III Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Antique English Regency Toleware Footed Coal Box or Scuttle with Brass Handles
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This antique metal coal box or coal scuttle is presumably made in England during the 1820s in the Regency period and style. The box is constructed of th...
Category
Early 19th Century Regency Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Mark Griffiths Large Twin Handled Studio Pottery Vase with Grasses
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very stylish English large twin handled studio vase decorated with wheat like grass stems by Shropshire based potter Mark Griffiths (British b.1956) and dating from the 1970’s. The...
Category
20th Century Modern British Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Everidge Stevens Celtic Pottery Newlyn Blue Medallion Funnel Shaped Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish Cornish Celtic studio pottery vase decorated in the blue Medallion design by Everidge Stevens and Maggie Fisher and dating from around 1970. Made in Newlyn the vase of tall funnel or chimney shape has a wider rounded base and narrows slightly to a simple rounded open top. The lower body is decorated in matt black with a raised band separating the base from the continuous decorative pattern applied around the body with abstract incised lines decorated in mottled blue coloring with matt black around the upper rim. The vase has an incised D mark to the base along with an original Celtic Pottery...
Category
1970s Modern Vintage British Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
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 Georgian Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Giltwood
Tractor Seat Stool or Chair of Polished Steel from England
Located in Austin, TX
A handsome English tractor seat or chair of polished steel, attached to a revolving four-legged stool stand.
The seat has adjustable height of 16" to 26" by revolving the seat in cl...
Category
20th Century Industrial British Folk Art
Materials
Metal, Steel
Elsa Benattar Large Glazed Lidded Studio Pottery Bottle Shaped Ewer
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
From a very large collection of 20th and 21st century Studio Pottery we offer this large and stylish Studio Pottery streak tenmoku colored glaze lidded ewer by Elsa Benattar...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern British Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Country Stool with original Hand Painted Scene to top, English mid 19th Century
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is an English mid 19th century, country stool, with a chamfered rectangular Elm top having a hand painted, country scene on it. It has three turned oak legs that are pegged into...
Category
Mid-19th Century Country Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Elm, Oak
$437 Sale Price
20% Off
Eric James Mellon Studio Pottery Experimental Glazed Cup, 2006
By Eric James Mellon 1
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine stoneware cup decorated in experimental glazes by renowned ceramic artist Eric James Mellon (British, 1925-2014) and dated 2006.
Trained at the Central School of Arts...
Category
Early 2000s Modern British Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Mary Rich Islamic Influence Gold Lustre Patterned Porcelain Studio Pottery Bowl
By Mary Rich
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish studio pottery porcelain miniature teapot with Islamic influence design in rich gilding on a green coloured ground by renowned potter Mary Rich (b.1940) and dating from the 20th Century. The small barrel...
Category
20th Century Modern British Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
Large Vintage Display Figure, English, Plaster, Decorative Ornament, Art Deco
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a large vintage display figure. An English, plasterwork decorative girl with duck ornament, dating to the Art Deco period, circa 1930.
A chaotic moment, with the unruly duck...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco British Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
Pair of Carved Wood Iron Ship Half Hull Models
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive pair of mirror image antique half hull models crafted in pine, paint decorated, and faithfully rendered in form to early iron ship hull de...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian British Folk Art
Materials
Mahogany, Pine
$5,950 / set
Early 20th Century City of Westminster London Antique Milk Glass Street Sign
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous early milk glass street sign from the City of Westminster London. Original wood frame in excellent vintage condition. A couple of cracks in the glass on right lower corner. ...
Category
1910s Industrial Vintage British Folk Art
Materials
Milk Glass, Hardwood
Painting Naive Oil Four Cornish Lugger Spirit of Alfred Wallis
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Lugger in full sail riding a wave past a lighthouse with land on the horizon.
Characterful naive picture in the spirit of Alfred Wallis.
Provenance: Pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Folk Art
Materials
Other
Pair of Arts & Crafts Drinking Horns, Late 19th Century
Located in Staffordshire, GB
Pair of Arts & Crafts drinking horns, late 19th century.
Decorative horns with riveted copper bands and tips.
Measures: H 22, D 3 cm, W 3 cm.
Category
Late 19th Century Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Horn
$381 Sale Price
20% Off
Traditional English Painting Bolton Castle in Yorkshire, 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 - Bolton Castle, Yorkshire, England. Cattle grazing the fields below the 14th Century medieval...
Category
Late 20th Century British Folk Art
Materials
Other
Matched Pair of Edwardian Milk Glass Shop Signs
Located in London, GB
Matched pair of Edwardian milk glass shop signs.
We share what we love, and we love this rare, matched pair of Edwardian milk glass shop signs. One stating “All kinds of repairs” ...
Category
1910s Edwardian Vintage British Folk Art
Materials
Milk Glass
Fine Shaped Burl Tabletop with Compass Star Inlay
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine English early 19th Century solid burl yewwood tabletop with molded edge and scalloped sides with mahogany and sycamore compass star inlay, the who...
Category
1830s William IV Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Yew
Early 20th Century oversized English Trebor sweet shop trade sign.
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century oversized English Trebor sweet shop trade sign.
A wonderful example of massive scale, Trebor Barley Sugar & Fruit Centres sweet jars. Bea...
Category
1920s Folk Art Vintage British Folk Art
Materials
Sheet Metal
Set of Twelve 19th Century Adams Rose Pattern Cups and Saucers
By Adams
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This amazing set of 19th century stick spatter, Adams Rose pattern cups and saucers is in fine condition and is service for twelve. Highly collectable in...
Category
Early 19th Century Country Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
$956 Sale Price / set
20% Off
English Staffordshire Ceramic Toby Jug Figure
Located in Bradenton, FL
English Staffordshire ceramic Toby Jug figure with jug in right hand and sitting on a barrel. "Hearty Good Fellow" type with polychrome underglaze colors, de...
Category
Late 19th Century Folk Art Antique British Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Espresso Leather Challenge Backgammon Board with Espresso Field
By Geoffrey Parker
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This custom leather backgammon board by Geoffrey Parker has an Espresso Field with Marine and Tornado White Points. The attention to detail, skill of hand inlaying and the use of spe...
Category
2010s British Folk Art
Materials
Brass, Chrome
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