18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Period: 18th Century and Earlier

Published Papagayo Polychromed Rattling Tripod Bowl, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Papagayo polychrome pottery bowl, Mandador variety. Round bottomed bowl rests on three animal headed rattle legs. Exterior painted wide band with two stylized plumed serpents of jagu...

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Costa Rican Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Pottery

Published Papagayo Polychromed Rattling Tripod Bowl, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Pre-Columbian Rare Gold Veraguas/Diquis Supernatural Drummer Pink Tourmaline

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Natural pink tourmaline necklace (167 gms) with rare gold Veraguas/Diquis supernatural drummer. Very fine example of ancient, Precolumbian goldwork form Central America, either Costa Rica or Panama. 111 grams of blush pink gold made with “lost wax” technique. The music he plays is not for entertainment, but rather to create magic, casting a spell or summoning other supernatural beings. Healing was the most important function of shamans, both the mortal and the immortal kind. Such a magical pendant...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Gold

Pre-Columbian Rare Gold Veraguas/Diquis Supernatural Drummer Pink Tourmaline

18th Century Italian Gaming Board

Located in Greenwich, CT

Rare 18th century Italian gaming board "Nobilissimo Giuoco Della Mea" Or "The Nobel Game of Chance" in original paint and decoupage, (lacca povera) depicting a game which appears to be a board version of "Put and Take" with different characters representing either plus or minus points. Four corners with scalloped carved coin wells, the centre slightly dished for either a top or ball to roll within. Characters include: Scimmia/Monkey - put 6, Re/King - take 1, Vople/Wolf take 3 , Pascia/Lord - take two and so on. Other characters include, Cinese/Chinese, Colombo/Pidgeon, Crepascolo/Twilight, Armigero/Knight?, Gezelia/Gazelle, Adone/Adonis, Gonhiere/Gondolier, Araba Fenice/Arab Phoenix?, Vecchio/Old Man, Leone/Lion. A very similar game board is in the collection of the Medici Villa...

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Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Gesso, Poplar

18th Century Italian Gaming Board

Set of Five 18th Century Wooden Pigment Jars

Located in Vosselaar, BE

A set of 5 late 18th century wooden pigment jars. The softwood lidded jars are made in a baluster shape and decorated with the original black paint and hand painted color names in Du...

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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Set of Five 18th Century Wooden Pigment Jars

Pre-Columbian Nazca Cross-Patterned Textile, Peru, 300-600 AD, Ex-Sotheby's

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Complete Pre-Columbian Textile panel woven in plain weave with interlocking and alternating squares in bright shades, with elongated stepped diamonds, looped fringe on the short ends...

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Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Pre-Columbian Nazca Cross-Patterned Textile, Peru, 300-600 AD, Ex-Sotheby's

Pre-Columbian Gold Quimbaya Necklace with Six Frogs

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Gold Quimbaya necklace with beads in the shape of six frogs of delicate and slender shape with a beautiful gold color and patina, very nice expression with two narrow lines on the ba...

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Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Pre-Columbian Gold Quimbaya Necklace with Six Frogs

18th Century Naive Landscape

Located in Montreal, QC

An 18th century naive landscape, in the middle ground is a neoclassical structure and round tower, the forerground with an extensive landscape depictin...

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Unknown Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Paint

18th Century Naive Landscape

Pre-Columbian Multi-Color Chancay Textile, Cubist Animals, Peru 1100-1400 AD

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Magnificent Pre-Columbian multi-color Chancay textile with animal figures in cubist form. The Chancay are known more for their textiles than for their ceramics. Textiles from elite Chancay tombs include elaborate gauzes, embroidery, painted plain weave and tapestry, and three-dimensional fibre...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Textile

Pre-Columbian Multi-Color Chancay Textile, Cubist Animals, Peru 1100-1400 AD

Ancient American "Human Effigy" Stone Pipe, Woodland Period

Located in South Burlington, VT

Early American Pre-Historic Human Effigy stone pipe, woodland period, 2500 BP Formerly in the Harold French collection, Amboy, Indiana (photo) All st...

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American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Stone

Ancient American "Human Effigy" Stone Pipe, Woodland Period

Exquisite 18th Century French Oil on Canvas

Located in Stockbridge, GA

Exquisite 18th century French oil on canvas. There is a note at the back of the painting saying... "Oil on canvas given to me by my ...

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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Giltwood, Wood

Exquisite 18th Century French Oil on Canvas

17th Century, Peruvian Huamanga Stone

Located in Mexico City, MX

It is a beautiful carved stone known as Huamanga stone, endemic of the Zone of Ayacucho, Viceroyalty of Peru. With a refined regional touch and loaded of pre-Columbian flavor as Chinese, It represents the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph and Jesus with God Father...

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Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Stone

17th Century, Peruvian Huamanga Stone

17th Century Primitive Religious Carving Oak Panel 1631

Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight

Primitive religious carving oak panel 1631 This rare piece comes from France, the somewhat Primitive carving shows the Madonna and Child sitting on the Devil who is depicted as a li...

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Medieval Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Oak

17th Century Primitive Religious Carving Oak Panel 1631

Elegant Terracotta Standing Court Dignitary, Tang Dynasty, EU Passport

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Elegant Standing Court Dignitary with joined hands in blue robes and a bird headdress. Polychrome Traces. When China was unified again, first briefly ...

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Chinese Tang Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Terracotta

Elegant Terracotta Standing Court Dignitary, Tang Dynasty, EU Passport

18th Century Hindu Deity Statue

Located in Pasadena, TX

18th century poly-chrome statue depicting Hindu Deity. This 18th century statue is made of painted clay, plaster and wood.

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Indian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Hardwood

18th Century Hindu Deity Statue

18th Century Mannekin Santibelli Saint

Located in Vosselaar, BE

Intriguing 18th century Italian Santibelli in walnut. These small saint figurines were created in the spirit of the 'chreche' figurines (depiction of t...

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Italian Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Walnut

18th Century Mannekin Santibelli Saint

Rare Late 18th Century French Hand-Carved Angel Wood Statue Articulated Arms

By Georgian House 1

Located in GB

We are delighted to offer for sale this exceptionally rare late 18th early 19th-century hand carved wood statue of an Angel with lovely movement and articulated arms A truly stunn...

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French French Provincial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Wood

Rare Late 18th Century French Hand-Carved Angel Wood Statue Articulated Arms

Engraved MARIA SYBILIA MERIAN - G. E. RUMPHIUS Sea Life Prints [Set of 7]

Located in Hawthorne, CA

Six exquisitely framed sea life prints engraved by Maria Sybilla Merian from G.E. Rumphius, Amsterdam, circa 1800. A unique set of seven beautifully et...

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Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Paper

Engraved MARIA SYBILIA MERIAN - G. E. RUMPHIUS Sea Life Prints [Set of 7]

16th Century Pair of Spanish Polychrome Wooden Footings with Medieval Scenes

Located in Marbella, ES

16th Century pair of Spanish wooden footings with medieval scenes of fantastic animals and floral motifs. Polychrome in dark colors on a vivid red background. Two pieces with grea...

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Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Wood

16th Century Pair of Spanish Polychrome Wooden Footings with Medieval Scenes

Pre-Columbian Ica Fringed Textile Panel, Ex Kate Kemper, Peru 800 to 1200 AD

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

A semi-ovoid rectangular panel with heavily fringed border having a very tightly woven multi-color geometric pattern consisting of two scroll devices containing multiple stylized zoo...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Textile

Pre-Columbian Ica Fringed Textile Panel, Ex Kate Kemper, Peru 800 to 1200 AD

Rare Pre-Columbian Inca Silver Mask with Gold Sequins

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

A rare, sheet silver human face mask with simple relief facial features including large, almond shaped eyes and downturned mouth. Classic stepped pyramid headdress with round, very t...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Silver

Rare Pre-Columbian Inca Silver Mask with Gold Sequins

Pre-Columbian Ceremonial Inca Tokapu of Multicolor Geometric Diamond Shapes

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Magnificent Ceremonial Inca Tokapu of Multicolor Geometric Diamond Shapes. Tokapu were textiles worn by the Inca elite consisting of geometric figures enclosed by rectangles or squa...

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Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Pre-Columbian Ceremonial Inca Tokapu of Multicolor Geometric Diamond Shapes

Pre-Columbian Chancay Painted Textile - Brown Fishes and Dots On Vertical Bands

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Chancay Painted Textile with Brown Fishes and Dots On Vertical Bands. Even though the piece is incomplete, the powerful design resembles an abstract modern painting by Henry Matisse...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Pre-Columbian Chancay Painted Textile - Brown Fishes and Dots On Vertical Bands

Extremely Rare Pre-Columbian Chimu Gauze Poncho Textile, Peru, 1000-1450 AD

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Chimu brown gauze shirt with multiple red and white fringe lines forming V designs like the one around the neck, with very rarely seen sleeves and border fringe in the same material.

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Textile

Extremely Rare Pre-Columbian Chimu Gauze Poncho Textile, Peru, 1000-1450 AD

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...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Gold

Pre-Columbian Chimu Gold Mask With Scar

Pre-Columbian Funerary Gold Mask with Royal Turquoise Beads in its Eyes

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

A high karat heavy sheet gold human face mask with large almond-shaped eyes and recessed pierced pupils. Multiple small perforations along the upper and lower edges for attachment. L...

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Ecuadorean Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Gold

Pre-Columbian Funerary Gold Mask with Royal Turquoise Beads in its Eyes

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...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Textile

Pre-Columbian Lambayeque Textile Ceremonial Panel

American "Human Effigy" Female Stone Sculpture, Tennessee, 1000 AD

Located in South Burlington, VT

A Native American Human Effigy female statue, Holliston Mills Site, Tennessee , sandstone, circa 1000 AD Dimensions: 11.75 inches tall and 3.75 inches width 5.75?D, fine quality All stone carvings from America's Prehistoric past are scarce. The majority of known carved stones come from the far western Mimbres, Hohokam or Casas cultures. This sculpture is unique. Quality: fine original condition with varigated patina as found. Notice the detail of the carved ear spools...

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American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Sandstone

American "Human Effigy" Female Stone Sculpture, Tennessee, 1000 AD

18th Century Shipwright's Tar Ladle

Located in Greenwich, CT

A sculptural 18th century shipwright's over-scale tar ladle having large bowl and long handle with shaped throat and retaining fantastic scumble surface from use. Treen

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Great Britain (UK) Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Wood

18th Century Shipwright's Tar Ladle

Finest Monumental Inca Royal Yupana

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Yupanas were used as calculators or abaci during the Inca Period. This is one of the finest and monumental an example of a Inca table Royal Stone Yupana or...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Stone

Finest Monumental Inca Royal Yupana

Vibrant Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile Poncho, Peru 200-600 AD, Ex Guillot-muñoz

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Magnificent Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile Poncho with a Geometric Step Design in Vibrant Ochre, Red, Green and Brown colors with its Original Fringes. Moun...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Textile

Vibrant Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile Poncho, Peru 200-600 AD, Ex Guillot-muñoz

Pre-Columbian Chimu Textile, Meander Design and Fringe, Peru circa 900 to 1300AD

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

A woven textile shirt of rectangular form having small rectangular panels on the front and back, all with fringed borders, and open head slit in center. Decorated with zigzag rows of...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Textile

Pre-Columbian Chimu Textile, Meander Design and Fringe, Peru circa 900 to 1300AD

Large Antique Temple Carving, Polychrome Buddhist Statue

Located in Chillerton, 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...

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Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Large Antique Temple Carving, Polychrome Buddhist Statue

Swedish Iron Weather-Vane with Dragon with Date 1704

Located in New York, NY

Swedish metal (iron) weather-vane of a dragon's head on sword shaped stem. The date "1704" is impressed on the dragon's head which most likely refers the age of the house o...

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Swedish Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Iron

Swedish Iron Weather-Vane with Dragon with Date 1704

Pre-Columbian Chuquibamba Banner, Peru 1000-1400 AD Ex Guillot-Muñoz

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Exceptional Banner of Pageantry with Multicolor Tapisserie Squares with 8 Weave Ornaments in Relief. On the inferior part the ornaments float with the wind. (2 are missing) Very good...

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Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Textile

Pre-Columbian Chuquibamba Banner, Peru 1000-1400 AD Ex Guillot-Muñoz

Pre-Columbian Multi-Color Diamond Shaped Nazca Unku Textile, Peru, 200-400 AD

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Very colorful complete Nazca unku in multi-color camelid wool with lozenge diamond and zig-zag design patterns. The beautiful blue and light pink color makes this textile very unique...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Textile

Pre-Columbian Multi-Color Diamond Shaped Nazca Unku Textile, Peru, 200-400 AD

Pre-Columbian Chimu Painting with 3 Warriors, Ex-Guillot Muñoz

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Chimu Painting with 3 Warriors. Part of a larger painting with 3 rectangles representing warriors with the characteristic Chimu Headdress. This one-of-a-kind painting is mounted and ...

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Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Pre-Columbian Chimu Painting with 3 Warriors, Ex-Guillot Muñoz

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...

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Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Pre-Columbian Chimu Multicolor Banner with Geometric Designs

Pre-Columbian Inca Complete Uncu Textile, Peru 1300-1500 AD, Ex Guillot-Muñoz

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Inca Complete Uncu of beautiful geometric composition with serpent form in red, purple and yellow. This beautiful poncho of a geometric composition has only some worn out sections on...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Textile

Pre-Columbian Inca Complete Uncu Textile, Peru 1300-1500 AD, Ex Guillot-Muñoz

Pre-Columbian Nazca Unku with Stepped Zig-Zag Design, Peru 200-300 AD

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Complete Nazca unku with white, red, green, black and yellow step zig-zag design with red bottom with fringe and maroon upper part and beige trim around the arm and neck openings ...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Textile

Pre-Columbian Nazca Unku with Stepped Zig-Zag Design, Peru 200-300 AD

French Painted & Carved Floral Dressing Table, Circa 1790

Located in Hollywood, 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...

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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Paint, Wood

French Painted & Carved Floral Dressing Table, Circa 1790

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

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North American Spanish Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Canvas

Fray Antonio de San Pedro by Manuel de Arellano, XVII Century

Published Pre-Columbian Chancay Gauze Panel with Zoomorphs, Ex-Kate Kemper

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

A white gauze, triangular panel decorated with a wide band composed of four zoomorphs with curled tails. Upper and lower border having a geometric pattern with upper triangular portion with zoomorphs. Overall excellent condition. Kate Kemper, of London and Switzerland (1908-2004) was an early collector of Andean art, forming an important collection of ceramics and textiles after...

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Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Published Pre-Columbian Chancay Gauze Panel with Zoomorphs, Ex-Kate Kemper

Pre-Columbian Nazca Checkerboard Cushma 200-400 AD Ex Guillot-Muñoz

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Impressive Nazca Cushma of checker works design composed of a red and yellow cross over the green background. A true collector's piece. Provenance: From the Collection of Guill...

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Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Pre-Columbian Nazca Checkerboard Cushma 200-400 AD Ex Guillot-Muñoz

9th Century Silver Processional Priest's Hats, Chimu Culture, Peru

Located in Point Richmond, CA

9th century silver processional priest's hats, Chimu culture, Peru. These silver hats were originally covered with fabric, as can be seen in the remaining surface pattern. The hol...

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Peruvian Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Silver

9th Century Silver Processional Priest's Hats, Chimu Culture, Peru

Pietro da Cortona 1630 Fresco Study, Antique Louis XIII Frame

By Pietro da Cortona

Located in Grenoble, FR

Pierre de Cortonne (in Italian: Pietro da Cortona, whose real name is Pietro Berrettini) (Cortona, November 1, 1596 - Rome, May 16, 1669) is a painter and Italian architect of Bar...

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Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Giltwood, Paint

Pietro da Cortona 1630 Fresco Study, Antique Louis XIII Frame

Pre-Columbian Mantle Kilim Type Tapisserie Multicolor Designs - Nazca 200-600 AD

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Beautiful Pre-columbian Mantle with a Central Kilim Type Tapisserie of Multicolor Designs with Priests Upraising their Arms Toward the Skies. It is surrounded by 2 Long Red Plain Cot...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Textile

Pre-Columbian Mantle Kilim Type Tapisserie Multicolor Designs - Nazca 200-600 AD

Pre-Columbian Chancay Gauze Textile with 12 Animals, Ex-Kate Kemper

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Large, rectangular section of loosely woven cotton in an open, net pattern weave. Bears three complete selvedges and has 12 square sections, each containing a horned animal with curled tail surrounded by a meandering, geometric border. Excellent condition. Backed on black cotton. Kate Kemper, of London and Switzerland (1908-2004) was an early collector of Andean art, forming an important collection of ceramics and textiles after visiting Peru. Her comprehensive collection was formed in Europe and exhibited in various museums including Ancient Peruvian...

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Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Pre-Columbian Chancay Gauze Textile with 12 Animals, Ex-Kate Kemper

Nok Terracotta Standing Dignitary Figure, TL Tested, Nigeria Africa 500-100 BC

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

Nok Terracotta Standing Dignitary Figure in Royal Pose. I-II Century AD. Certificate of Authenticity with TL Test and Passport from Europe. Museum Piece...

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Nigerian Primitive Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Terracotta

Nok Terracotta Standing Dignitary Figure, TL Tested, Nigeria Africa 500-100 BC

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 ...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Textile

Pre-Columbian Nazca Unku with Stepped “V” Design, Peru, 200-300 AD

Pre-Columbian Chancay Gauze Panel with Figures, Ex-Kate Kemper Estate

Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon

A large, rectangular panel composed of a large diamond pattern grid, each grid contains a stylized human figure with arms raised. A few very minor imperfections, overall excellent condition. Backed and stretched on a brown linen, it has been stabilized and sealed in a very thick and rigid plexiglass. Estate of Miss Kate Kemper, London. Kate Kemper, of London and Switzerland (1908-2004) was an early collector of Andean art, forming an important collection of ceramics and textiles after...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Cotton

Pre-Columbian Chancay Gauze Panel with Figures, Ex-Kate Kemper Estate

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...

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Tapestry

Magnificent Chimu Precolumbian Tapestry with 21 Multicolor Royal Attendants

Early 18th Century Wooden Folk Art Ink Sander

Located in Copenhagen, K

Very lovely wooden ink sander with small carvings all around it.

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Danish Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Early 18th Century Wooden Folk Art Ink Sander

Rare Norwegian Carved Tankard Featuring Gnomes, Mid-18th Century

Located in Wiscasset, ME

The entire tankard is surrounded by a family of gnomes. Early peg construction, in excellent overall condition. Fair bet that you'll never see another one like this!

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Norwegian Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Rare Norwegian Carved Tankard Featuring Gnomes, Mid-18th Century

Ancient American "Human Effigy" Stone Paint Pallet, Anasazi Culture 900 AD

Located in South Burlington, VT

Early American Pre-Historic Human Effigy Stone Paint Pallet, Anasazi culture 900 AD All stone carvings from America's Prehistoric southwest are scarce. The majority of known carved stones come from the Mimbres, Hohokam or Casas cultures. So examples of stone carvings from the Anasazi culture (circa 900–1300 AD) are rare especially human forms which are the rarest and some consider most desirable. This pallet is likely unique. The distinguishing characteristic of our paint pallet from the Anasazi culture is its creation from red sandstone- a material that was not used by the Mimbres, Hohokam or Casas cultures. Dimensions: 9.25 inches tall, 4.87 inches wide Quality: it exhibits no less than seven distinct pigment colors on the surface. The obverse has a distinctive head with three dimensional eyes and nose; there are four horizontal bands of color: red, white, dark red/white and black. The center of the pallet has a distinctive white pigment and the border is executed in both red and black. There are two well-defined legs, one red and the other black, which terminate in distinctive feet. On the reverse we find in the center seven clearly defined concentric painted rings, each a different color. Provenance: old New England collection Lifetime guarantee of authenticity: All of our works of art come with our lifetime authenticity guarantee. Our gallery has been dealing in authentic Native...

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American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Sandstone

Ancient American "Human Effigy" Stone Paint Pallet, Anasazi Culture 900 AD

Early 19th Century Hand-Carved and Painted Shovel

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This fine original red painted hand-carved pine shovel was found in New England. The patina is the best. Condition is very good and it does have a lot of nice age wear.

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American Adirondack Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Pine

Early 19th Century Hand-Carved and Painted Shovel

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.

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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

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Textile

Masterpiece Complete Chimu Shirt with Feathered Motif

18th Century Wooden Dairy Bowls

Located in Copenhagen, K

Very nice hand-carved 18th century dairy bowls made out of the rootwood. Some are later painted and som of them stamped with years and name.

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Danish Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Wood

18th Century Wooden Dairy Bowls

African Currency, Thoung Knife

Located in Dallas, TX

Most forms were developed from traditional metal objects that were already in use such as weapons, tools, bracelets and anklets. While some continued to be functional for work or dec...

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African Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art

Materials

Metal

African Currency, Thoung Knife

A Giant Wedding Cake Has Us Looking at Portuguese Tiles in a New Light

At Waddesdon Manor, artist Joana Vasconcelos has installed a three-tiered patisserie inspired by the narrative tile work of her homeland. We take a look at the cake sculpture and how Portuguese tiles have been used in architecture from the 17th century to today.

Why Jules Chéret Was the King of the Modern Poster

The streets of fin-de-siècle Paris were set aglow with colorful poster ads, thanks to the printing techniques invented by Jules Chéret. Now, the Milwaukee Art Museum is celebrating this undersung talent in America's first solo show dedicated his exuberant works.

Why the American Flag Has Had So Many Different Star Patterns

Expert Jeff Bridgman explains the history and meaning behind the twinkling constellations that have graced Old Glory.

Peggy Guggenheim Loved Modernism, but She Also Collected Tribal Art

The iconoclastic style setter displayed African and Oceanic art, as well as works by indigenous peoples of the Americas, alongside pieces by such major modernists as Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock.