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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Ottoman Empire ‘18th Century or Earlier’ Pair of Turkish Bath Clogs with Inlay
Located in Chicago, IL
18th century or earlier, (Ottoman Empire) pair of Turkish bath clogs with mother-of-pearl inlay
these are a beautiful decorative object d' art whic...
Category
Turkish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Leather, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Chancay Large Standing Female Cuchimilco
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Cream slip pottery, classical type large standing female figure with arms raised. Dark chocolate painted details, geometric decorated headband. Scattered mineral deposits on the surface. Repaired from approximately twenty original pieces with restoration over the break lines.
Provenance: Private Danish...
Category
South American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
18th Century Old Masters Oil Painting Attributed to Claude Joseph Vernet, France
Located in Traversetolo, IT
18th century old masters oil painting attributed to Claude Joseph Vernet, France. View of a Mediterranean port at sunset. Great pi...
Category
French Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Tonga Pakipaki War Club, Polynesia, 18th Century
Located in Delft, NL
A Tonga Pakipaki war club, Polynesia, 18th century
An exceptional ironwood war club originating from Tonga, Polynesia. 18th century and hand carved with complex geometric patterns running the length of the shaft.
4 human and 1 botanical glyphs and a extra carving, see details in picture 2
The Tongan war club...
Category
Polynesian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Roman Bronze Hand Mirror with Beautiful Patina, circa 1st Century
Located in Austin, TX
A simple and elegant Roman bronze hand mirror, late Republic Period, circa 1st century, Italy.
The bronze mirror of simple form. The round face with a pierced border design. The openwork handle...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Abstract Paracas Precolumbian Textile, Peru, 1100-1400 AD, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Earth tones pre-Columbian textile fragment with abstract embroidered figures. This piece is framed in a black shadowbox.
It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts -- so the existence of these pieces after hundreds and thousands of years is exceptional. These textiles maintain their vibrant colors, natural threads, and their unique, historical designs.
Provenance: This textile comes from the collection Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart and former collection of the archaeologist Ferdinand Anton...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Chancay Large Standing Female Cuchimilco
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Large standing female figure with raised arms. Relief facial features, with red-orange and chocolate brown painted decoration, on a cream slip ground. Crossed straps on her chest, an...
Category
South American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Chancay Large Standing Female Figure
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Cream slip pottery, large standing female figure with arms raised. Nicely painted red and chocolate-brown face, with a finely detail geometric headband. Scattered mineral deposits on...
Category
South American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
18th Century Swedish Decorated Mangle Board
Located in Kramfors, SE
Folk art mangle board from northern Sweden. This is a typical proposal gift to the would-be bride from the groom. If he had the skill the groom would make...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Mid-18th Century Carved Wardrobe
Located in Albignasego, IT
Antique Tyrolean (Northern Italy) carved wardrobe, mid-18th century
Measures: H. 187cm, L. 156cm, P. 60cm
Wardrobe with two doors and two drawers, notched, in fir wood. The front is slightly convex, a typical process in the area of?? Origin of this wardrobe. The whole surface is embellished with carvings with baroque cartouche...
Category
Italian Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Fir
18th Century Original Red Painted Hutch Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fantastic all original red painted lift top table with shoe feet and early rose head nails. All original hardware and construction. Take notice to the very narrow seat base. Suc...
Category
American Country Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Huge 18th Century Heraldic Armorial Plaster Gesso Gilt Lion
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A large scale heraldic gilt lion off naive depiction, constructed around a pine carcass with a thick hessian and plaster/gesso skin.
The original gilt is beautifully faded, the pl...
Category
European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Gesso, Plaster
Two Carved Wood 18th Century Baroque Cupids, with Crown of Foliage
Located in Virum, DK
Two carved wood 18th century Baroque cupids. With crown of foliage.
Category
European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile, Stepped Zig-Zag Design, Nazca Peru 200-400 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete Pre-Columbian Nazca textile with stepped zig-zag design in yellow, ochre red, and brown/black shades with yellow fringes.
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Earthenware, Ceramic Bowl with Floral Decor, 18th Century
Located in Saarbruecken, DE
Antique 18th century ceramic bowl. Tin-glazed ceramics with slip painting in red, green and black. A special decor, adorned with floral details and two mythical birds. The decoration is reminiscent of Islamic ceramics...
Category
Unknown Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Rare English Georgian Oak Lemon Squeezer Crush with Base & Brass Insignia Plate
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Rare lemon squeezer from the Georgian period. A must have not to be seen again in remarkable original condition down to the hinge and with original insert,
circa 1790-1810.
Category
European Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Oak
18th Century Northern Sweden Rustic Decorative Wooden Handled Barrels
Located in London, GB
18th century Swedish rustic barrels from the North of Sweden.
Extremely rare and their color is absolutely gorgeous.
Medium barrel 60 cm wide x 72 cm height
Small barrel...
Category
Swedish Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Vintage Portuguese Handcrafted Wooden Stand Cross with Gilt Bronze Christ
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Vintage handcrafted wooden stand cross with gilt bronze Christ and ornaments on a beautiful carved wooden base, Portugal, 1930-1939.
Measures: Height 19...
Category
Italian Gothic Revival Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Vivid Huari Pre-Columbian Textile, Peru, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Pre-Columbian textile fragment with wave like patterns woven in bright colors. Framed in a black shadow box.
It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts - so the existence of these pieces after hundreds and thousands of years is exceptional. These textiles maintain their vibrant colors, natural threads, and their unique, historical designs.
Provenance: This textile comes from the collection Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart and former collection of the archaeologist Ferdinand Anton...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Noh Edo Period Lion Mask II
Located in Pasadena, CA
This another superb example of an Edo Period early 18th century or earlier Lion Mask created for the Lion Dances of the Gion Matsuri Festival. The mask is i...
Category
Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Dutch 18th Century Gingerbread Wooden Mould
Located in Delft, NL
A Dutch 18th century gingerbread wooden mould
The mould is double-sided with 8 hand carved figures, including a crib, a four-poster bed, a fire basket...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Rare and Vibrant Painted Blanket Chest
Located in West Chester, PA
A rare and bright blanket chest in brilliant reds contrasted with blacks. The decoration is nicely painted with urns and flowers flanked by pillars and hearts on the corners. There i...
Category
American Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Exceptional Surinam-Themed Amsterdam Long-Case Clock
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Surinam-themed Amsterdam long-case clock
The Netherlands, 1746-1756, dial signed Nicolaas Weylandt/Amsterdam
The case of the clock is made of Rio palisander veneer and snakewood, with the arch showing a painted scene of the harbour of Paramaribo, Fort Zeelandia and Dutch ships in anchorage, the spandrels decorated with figural representations of the four continents, the centre of the dial painted with Mercury, the god of trade, seated on a bale signed VCS (Vereenigde Compagnie Suriname), and one of the barrels bearing the initials “RBS,” on the left the river god of the Surinam river, with a Dutch three-master in the background.
Measures: H 259 x W 60 x D 35 cm (case)
Diameter 32 cm (clock dial)
This exceptionally rare long-case clock probably was ordered by one of the many wealthy families living along the Amsterdam canals that owned or had shares in plantations in Surinam. It’s a successful marriage of
the work of an accomplished 18th century Amsterdam clockmaker, a Dutch cabinetmaker working with exotic tropical timbers, a woodcarver familiar with both Dutch Rococo design and Surinamese iconography, and
a painter with knowledge, whether first-
hand or through other visualisations, of the Paramaribo waterfront. In the production of this Gesamtkunstwerk, only the name of the clockmaker is known: Nicloaas Weylandt (circa 1700-1754), who had a business situated on the Nieuwendijk near the Haarlemmersluis in Amsterdam from 1742 until his death.
The case is made of imported timbers from Surinam; Rio-palisander and snakewood. A very similar clock-case, veneered in walnut,
is illustrated in J. Zeeman, De Nederlandse staande klok...
Category
Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Palisander
Important Lock in Sheet Steel from the 17th or 18th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Very large lock mechanism in forged iron and handcut, formerly painted black. All the elements are riveted, some rivets are extensions of the cups
This lock most likely comes from a church or castle door...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Hand Painted Italian Deruta Pottery Tureen
Located in Houston, TX
This hand painted Italian Deruta Pottery Tureen has a beautiful rich blue patina. It has suffered a few dings in its surface. However we do not ...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Late 17th Century Italian School Wooden Sculpture of Saint Anthony and the Child
Located in Leuven , BE
According to the legends, there are two Saint Anthony’s, they can easily be distinguished by their hair. This one is known as Saint Anthony of Padua, he is recognizable by his hair, ...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Bell of the Dutch Colonial VOC Fortress in Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Located in Amsterdam, NL
The bell of the VOC fortress in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, marked JAFFANAPATNAM Ao 1747 VOC
Cast in Jaffnapatnam or Colombo from Japanese copper, 1747
Measures: Height 44 x diameter 36...
Category
Sri Lankan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Native America Ancient Hand Carved Stone Kachina Effigy Sculpture
Located in South Burlington, VT
From Native America Southwest comes this unique ancient hand carved stone "Kachina" sculpture, Chaco culture, Farmington, New Mexico region. ...
Category
American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Stone
15th Century Tribal Wood Panel with Mahakala, Tibet
Located in Point Richmond, CA
15th century tribal wood panel with Mahakala, Tibet
A dramatic wood panel from the front of an early Tibetan chest, with all the original mineral ...
Category
Tibetan Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Set of Three Italian Iron Trivets Antique Wrought Iron Rests from 1780
Located in Milan, IT
From Italy a unique set of five 18th and 19th century assorted Italian flat iron trivets used to place hot irons to protect the preservation of tables, cloth and from hot charcoal an...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Iron
African Bura Stone Funerary Marker
Located in Chicago, IL
This abstract stone sculpture is a funerary marker of the Bura people of the Niger/Mali region. Little is known about the Bura civilization (c. 200 to 1000 AD), but it shares many of...
Category
Nigerien Primitive Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Stone
18th-Century English Pottery Hearty Good Fellow Toby Jug
Located in Downingtown, PA
English pottery hearty good fellow pearlware toby jug
circa 1800
An unusual variation on the hearty good fellow standing toby jug, The base in white with the Toby figure standing, supporting a large white jug under his right arm, and holding a pipe with his left hand across his chest with his head turned slightly to the left. He has a bright blue jacket and yellow pantaloons with an orange waistcoat. He has a brown tricorn hat...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
German 16th-17th Century Brass Baptismal Basin, Probably Nuremberg
Located in Virum, DK
A German 16th-17th century embossed and chiseled brass baptismal basin adorned with Virgin Mary standing on a crescent moon and (unreadable) text, probably Nuremberg. The basin featu...
Category
German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Brass
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
Polish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Carved Candle Stick
Located in Dallas, TX
18th century carved candle stick.
Category
Italian Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Paint, Wood
South Indian Bronze Dancers Ritual Breast Plate on Stand
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A rare and wonderful antique South Indian bronze breast plate mounted on a purpose made display stand believed to date from the 17th or 18th century. The...
Category
Indian Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Watercolor of a Great Sword Duel in Germany
Located in Wiscasset, ME
A truly rare and remarkable scene of hundreds of swordsmen meeting in a towns square. The circle is closed around the two in the duel, each of whom have drawn blood. German school 18...
Category
German Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Paint, Paper
Native America Ancient Hand Carved Stone Pipe Idol Sculpture
Located in South Burlington, VT
From Native America and a collection dating to 1951, comes this unique old hand carved stone human effigy pipe figure idol , likely Hopewell culture with its bun head and ear spool...
Category
American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Dutch Folk Art Trade Sign
Located in Greenwich, CT
An 18th century trade sign from a Dutch West Indies shipping merchant. The carved and polychromed sign depicts a winged-foot mercury surrounded by ga...
Category
Dutch Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Ecuadorian Carved Skull Shaped Whistle
Located in London, GB
This unique and amazing Ecuadorian primitive piece is a whistle carved in a skull form, and dates to the formative stage from the woodland period. It measures 2 in – 5 cm wide, 2 ½ i...
Category
Ecuadorean Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Clay
18th Century Galician Brass Hanukkah Lamp Menorah
Located in New York, NY
The backplate is cast with two rampant Lions of Judah flanking a topped crown cartouche with the Temple Menorah inside, the side panels fitted with two servant lights, fronted by a r...
Category
Polish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Pair of 17th Century Engravings of Swedish Kings Karl X & Karl XI
Located in Miami, FL
A pair of fine engravings of two Swedish monarchs by Samuel Blessendorf for Puffendorf’s History of Sweden, in antique birch frames, 1663 and 1696.
Engravings of Swedish King Karl X Gustav (b. 1622 - d. 1660) dated 1663 and his successor, King Karl XI (b. 1655 - d. 1697) from 1696 by Samuel Blessendorf, a Prussian enamel painter and engraver, born in Berlin in 1670. He designed and engraved these portraits for Puffendorf’s History of Sweden by Freiherr Samuel von Pufendorf (1632-1694), Historiographer to King Karl X of Sweden.
Freiherr Samuel von Pufendorf (b 1632 – d 1694) was a German jurist, political philosopher, economist and historian. He was born Samuel Pufendorf and ennobled in 1684 when he was made a baron by Charles XI of Sweden a few months before his death at age 62. Among his achievements are his commentaries and revisions of the natural law theories of Thomas Hobbes...
Category
Swedish Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier 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
French Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Spanish 16th Century Saint John The Baptist Fresco
Located in Atlanta, GA
A wonderful 16th century fresco of a very young Saint John the Baptist retrieved then transferred to canvas. Stunning wear and patina, very soft...
Category
Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Kuba Mask African Bwoom Tribal Congo in Wood, Vibrates Vegetables, Animal Hair
Located in Milano, IT
The African Kuba Bwoom tribal mask is the oldest known mask, the Kuba bwoom mask. The materials used for the realization of the Mask are: Wood, colors and vibrates plants, caures, beads, animal hair. In dance it expresses exuberance and joy. The style is similar to that of the middle Kasai. This mask is a helmet with animal hair, carved with a very wide forehead and hollow cheeks that are announced by motifs or dashes and beads. The mouth of the mask is very pronounced carved in wood and then applied on the mask. To distinguish the forehead in different areas are used black and white beads to draw attention to other aspects of the face such as the nose and chin. The entire edge of the chin is surrounded by beads of various colors. The person wearing the mask cannot look because there are no holes for the eyes present; the mask must create the feeling of being blind. Some masks similar to the bwoom mask include the funny mask, the ram mask and initiation masks such as Nnup.
The real Kuba masks...
Category
Congolese Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Animal Skin, Organic Material, Wood
Striped Inca Pre-Columbian Textile, Peru, circa 1400-1532 AD, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Earth tones adorn this striped pattern pre-Columbian textile.
It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Textile
18th Century Polish Brass Hanukkah Lamp Modeled after Synagogue Facade
Located in New York, NY
The brass freestanding back-walled Hanukkah lamp consists of eight oil containers, a parapet, back, and sidewalls.
Eight triangular spouted oil containers are fastened to the back w...
Category
Polish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Brass
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
Polish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Brass
1600s-1700s Eastern Ball Headed Club
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Eastern ball headed club of walnut burl with panther effigy over ball. High polished use. Scalloped handle at base. Original drops missing. The panthe...
Category
American Native American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Square Belgium 18th Century Baroque Oak And Iron Casket
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Square Belgium 18th century Baroque oak and iron casket.
Category
Belgian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Brass, Iron
Small Swedish 18th Century Primitive Rococo Folk Art Armchair
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
An 18th century Rococo Folk Art armchair from the typical main Swedish folk art category furniture
Category
Swedish Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
18th Century Wooden Torah Pointer from Alsace
Located in New York, NY
Rare Alsace carved wooden Torah Pointer (YAD), 18th century.
The body of the pointer is engraved in its first part with a decoration of palmettes and stripes. It then continues with...
Category
German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Walnut
Danish 18th Century Brass And Wood Nutcracker
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Danish 18th Century brass and wood nutcracker.
Category
Danish Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Brass
French 18th Century Tabernacle Cabinet
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very lovely mid-18th century French tabernacle display cabinet wonderfully constructed from painted walnut. A wonderful conversation piece to displ...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Walnut
An Intriguing 18th Century Carved Burl Wood Treen Figure, Continental Circa 1740
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A most fascinating and intriguing hand carved objet d'art of a treen figure in burl wood, exhibiting wonderful form, grain, colour and patina. The underside bearing remnants of an ol...
Category
European Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Burl
African Black Stone Palette Dish Bowl Ashtray Relief Sculpture
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Native carved blackened stone artifact, weighs 2 lbs 12 oz. Age is unknown, estate purchase.
Category
Puerto Rican Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Cast Stone
Large Antique English Staffordshire or Prattware Pottery Model of a Cradle
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A late 18th or early 19th century English Prattware baby's cradle in a rare large size.
Decorated with an overall basket weave pattern and a yello...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Striped Inca Pre-Columbian Textile, Peru, circa 1400-1532 AD, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Earth tones adorn this striped pattern pre-Columbian textile. These piece is mounted on a black shadowbox frame.
It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts -- so the existence of these pieces after hundreds and thousands of years is exceptional. These textiles maintain their vibrant colors, natural threads, and their unique, historical designs.
Provenance: This textile comes from the collection Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart and former collection of the archaeologist Ferdinand Anton...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Textile
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