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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Pre Columbian Maya Polychrome Pottery Bowl circa A.D. 550-950
Located in London, GB
Maya Poly-chrome painted pottery bowl
Guatemala/ central America late Classic period, circa A.D. 550-950,
A bowl of rounded bottom circular form, painted with a frieze of monkey...
Category
Guatemalan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre Columbian Narino Carchi Coquero Coca chewer Figure Columbia
Located in London, GB
A hand modelled statue of a male coca chewer figure , known as a Coquero, wearing a sash sitting upon a bench, the coca quid in his right cheek, with black negative resist design
Pr...
Category
Colombian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Still Life Painting, 1720
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the early 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a fabulous still life with flowers and a view in the background (right) of excellent pictorial q...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
AR drachm Mithradates I, Hekatompylos
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head left in bashlyk
Reverse: archer seated right on omphalos, three line legend, H
Not known to Sellwood, unpublished coin of Hekatompylos mint
Weight: 3.95 g
Grade: Abou...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR Denarius Vespasian (69-79)
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: IMP CAESAR VESPAS AVG COS V TR P P P, laureate head right
Reverse: AVGVSTAE – PACI, Victory standing right, holding shouldered palm frond with her left hand and a wreath in ...
Category
Greek Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR Denarius Gordian III (238-244)
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right
Reverse: SALVS AVGVSTI, Salus feeding snake on her arm from patera
Gewicht: 3.41 g
Kwaliteit: Prachti...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Antique Italian Copper Wine pitcher 18th Century Venetian Venice European
Located in London, GB
Antique Italian Copper Wine pitcher 18th Century Venetian Venice European
A fine example of Italian copperwork from the 1700s, with fine embossed decoration including Fish, Leav...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Copper
AR Drachm Bagadat, kingdom of Persis, Persepolis
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head right, with mustache and earring, wearing diadem and kyrbasia
Reverse: fire temple of Ahura-Mazda, above, half-figure of Ahura-Mazda, to inner left, Baydād (Bagadat) st...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Mythological Antique Painting, 1670
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the second half of the 17th century. Oil on canvas artwork of great pictorial quality depicting a mythological subject, infant Zeus and the goat Amalthe...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
AR Denarius F. Fabius Labeo INCUSE
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: helmeted head of Roma right; X (mark of value) below chin
Reverse: incuse
Weight: 3.84 g
Grade: Very Fine
Mint: Rome
Reference: Crawford 273/1; Sydenham 532
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR Denarius P. Clodius M.f. Turrinus
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: P CLODIVS / M F., laureate head of Apollo right; lyre to left
Reverse: Diana Lucifera standing right, bow and quiver over her shoulder, holding torches
BEAUTIFUL TONING
W...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Religious Painting Saint Francis, 1770
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting from 18th century. Oil painting on canvas, already backed again, depicting a subject of sacred art, Saint Francis of good pictorial quality. Large impact painting, a...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
40 stuiver siege coin Breda
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: .BREDA . OBSESSA . 1625, coat of arms of prince Maurits, value above, rosette underneath, left and right city crest
Reverse: blank
RARE
During the Eighty Years' War, Breda...
Category
Dutch Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Capture of Grave by Prince Maurits
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: MAVRITIVS. PR. AVR. CO. NASS. CAT. MARC. VER. ET. VLIS, armoured bust right, ÆT 34 on arm, underneath G.V.B.F.
Reverse: TANDEM. FIT. SVRCVLVS. ARBOR, young orange tree sprou...
Category
Dutch Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Southern Netherlands. Medal of the Holy Sacrament of the Miracle of Brussels
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: SACRAMENTVM . MI – RACVLOSVM . BRVXELLE, cross with the Holy Hosts, carried by God the Father
Reverse: dito
VERY RARE, only 2 known specimens (1 in the KBR in Brussels and ...
Category
Belgian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR Denarius Julia Paula, wife of Elagabalus (219-220)
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: IVLIA PAVLA AVG, draped bust right, showing later coiffure with small bun
Reverse: CONCORDIA, Concordia seated left, holding patera, star in left field
Beautifully detaile...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
1/4 daalder siege coin in tin Alkmaar
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: castle between 7 – 3
Reverse: blank
VERY RARE
Weight: 9.86 g
Diameter: 25.0 mm
Grade: Very Fine
Reference: vG. 49; CNM 2.01.5
After the fall of Haarlem, Don Frederik turn...
Category
Dutch Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Tin
N.d. Marriage Hessel van Hermane & Anna van Lyauckema
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: H ✶ VAN ✶ – HERMANA ✶, crowned coat of arms with lion crest
Reverse: ✶ A ✶ VAN ✶ – ✶ LYAUCKEMA ✶, crowned diamond-shaped coat of arms
Earliest known Dutch wedding medal and...
Category
Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Promotional Medal University of Utrecht
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: ME DOCTARVM PRAEMIA FRONTIVM DIS MISCENT SVPERIS, under a radiant sun, three angels on clouds hold a wreath above a doctoral candidate, turned to the left, with gown and boo...
Category
Dutch Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Death of Princess Anne, wife of William IV
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: ANNA D.G. M.B.R.P. GUB. ET TUT: WIL: V.A.P.N. MDCCIX. O. MDCCLIX. XII. IAN:, bust of princess Anna with diadem right, above her head a wreath of stars
Reverse: HE U QUO VOTA...
Category
Dutch Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
N.d. Charles V dedication medal on his crowning and the planned Imperial
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: crowned and armoured bust right with order chain of the Golden Fleece
Reverse: blank
After H. Krafft, after a design by A. Dürer
OLD SILVER CAST
EXTREMELY RARE
Four ...
Category
German Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Princess Carolina 5 years old
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: W. C. H. FRISO & ANNA D.G. PRINCIPLES ARAVS. &c, bust of Stadtholder William IV (in armour and with the Order of Saint George of the Garter on a ribbon) and Princess Anna (w...
Category
Dutch Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
The four Jorissen brothers 332 years old Together
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: OPRECHTE DANKBAARHEIT – WORD GOD HIER TOEGEWEIT, brothers behind burning altar under beaming cloud with the name of God in Hebrew
Reverse: DRIE EEUWEN TEIDS, EN TWEENDERTIG ...
Category
Dutch Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR Tetradrachm Attica, Athens
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with olive leaves over visor and spiral palmette
Reverse: owl standing right with head fa...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR Stater Agathokles, Sicily, Syracuse
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: helmeted head of Athena right
Reverse: Pegasos flying left, triskeles below
VERY RARE
Beautiful toning
Weight: 6.80 g
Grade: Good Extremely Fine
Reference: Pegasi 19 va...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR Stater Lucania, Metapontum
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head of Demeter left, wearing barley wreath
Reverse: ΜΕΤA, ear of barley, pitchfork above leaf in left field
Weight: 7.84 g
Grade: About extremely fine
Reference: SNG ANS 4...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Antique Original French advertising poster Curacao Mirabelle
Located in London, GB
Antique Original French advertising poster Curacao Mirabelle
Hand coloured Lithographic print
Framed in a simple photo frame gold with plexiglass
Condition : Good, minor damages ...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paper
AR Stater Lucania, Herakleia
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: [HPAKLHIWN], head of Athena right, wearing crested Athenian helmet ornamented with Skylla; behind, K
Reverse: HPAKLHIWN, Herakles, naked, standing facing, holding club and b...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
18th Century Folk Art Street Performance Figure
Located in London, GB
18th Century Folk Art Street Performance Figure.
An unusual and complete one-off piece of folk art, in the form of a hand carved begging figure. Recently uncovered from a personal ...
Category
French Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
1770 Green Floral Painted Wardrobe
Located in Albignasego, IT
Tyrolean Blue-Green wardrobe dated 1770
Period: 1770 (dated)
Origin: Tyrol
Essence: Fir
Measures:
Height: 196cm
Width: 147 cm (160 cm at the frames)
De...
Category
Austrian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Fir
Swiss alp painted cupboard dated 1732
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Swiss alp painted cupboard dated 1732 nice floral motif
Category
Swiss Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
17th Century Oil on Canvas Venetian Biblical Painting The repudiation of Vasti
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Ancient Italian painting from the second half of the 17th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting biblical subject The repudiation of Vasti by Paolo Veronese. Painting of particul...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Religious Painting Christ Ecce Homo, 1670
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 17th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject, Ecce Homo, of good pictorial quality. Painting adorned with a splendid 20th centu...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Religious Painting Holy Family, 1760
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject, Holy Family of good pictorial quality. Painting adorned with a modern frame in wo...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Annamese stoneware with underglaze blue, Hoi An hoard, late 15th century
Located in seoul, KR
Decorated with floral and foliate reserves and clouds; lappets at base and leaves at neck.
Dates : 15th century Le Dynasty
Region : North Annam
Type : Yuhuchun Vase
Found/Acquired : Southeast Asia , South China Sea, Hoi An Ship
Reference :
1) Art Gallery of Greater Victoria - A vase from the wreck of the Hoi An
2) Butterfield Treasures Hoi An Hoard...
Category
Chinese Ming Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Pre Columbian Colima Dog Ancient West Mexico Latin American Antiques Art
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Colima Dog Ancient West Mexico
Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima Ancient Mexico C 200 BC –400 AD
A attractive seated Colima dog v...
Category
Mexican Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
18th Century German Baroque Architectural Putti Bust Wall Shelf Carving
Located in Forney, TX
A finely carved Baroque period architectural element, now fashioned as a sculptural bracket shelf.
Hand-crafted by a master-artisan in the 18th century, originally part of a corbel...
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Walnut
Gothic Wood Panel, France, 1600s
Located in Meulebeke, BE
This charming iconic gothic panel has a beautifully carved geometric pattern decoration with a carved frame. The combination of the geometric architectural decoration with its beauti...
Category
French Gothic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
18th Century Serpent Door Knocker
Located in London, GB
18th Century Serpent Door Knocker
An unusual object in the form of a late 18th Century wrought iron door knocker in the shape of a serpent.
Dimensions in inches: H 16” x W 1.5” x...
Category
Unknown Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wrought Iron
AR Tetradrachm Attica, Athens
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with olive leaves over visor and spiral palmette
Reverse: owl standing right with head fa...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
12th/13th Century Thai Khmer Pottery Jar
Located in Austin, TX
A refined pottery vase boasting an elegant silhouette and intricate impressed and applied decoration. The lovely jar exhibits a flared and folded rim, a corseted neck, and a broad sh...
Category
Cambodian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
AR Drachm Attica, Athens
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and spiral palmette
Reverse: owl standing right with h...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Religious Painting, 1680
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 17th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject, Delivery of the rosary to Saint Dominic of Guzmán, of good pictorial quality.
Pai...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
AR Stater Thrace, Thasos
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: Silenus with nymph
Reverse: square incuse with four fields
AMAZING TONING AND HIGH RELIEF
Gewicht: 8.46 g
Kwaliteit: Prachtig
Referentie: HGC 331; Le Rider, Thasienne, Tf...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
AR Stater Lucania, Metapontum
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: ΜΕΤ, corn ear with eight grains
Reverse: corn ear with eight grains, all incuse
Weight: 7.77 g
Grade: Good very fine
Mint: Metapontum
Reference: HN Italy 1459; HGC 1, 1027
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Petite Neolithic Chinese Terracotta Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
This petite ceramic jar is believed to be a later example of Neolithic Chinese redware pottery of the Yangshao culture. Although its exact age is unknown, the jar was likely created ...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
Antique Stone Carving of a Claw
Located in Pittsburgh, PA
Ancient Stone Carving Fragment of a Claw. France, circa 15th Century.
Category
French Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Greek gold pendant with siren figurine, Hellenistic
Located in UTRECHT, UT
A gold pendant in the shape of a siren with a human head, hair parted and falling onto back, human upper body, wings on back, standing on drum-shaped pedestal, decorated with granule...
Category
Greek Classical Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Gold
Ancient Persian Khurasan Islamic Engraved Calligraphy Bronze Oil Lamp c.1200
Located in Portland, OR
A 12th Century Islamic bronze oil lamp, Eastern Persia, Khurasan.
The cast bronze body of compressed globular form, raised on a trumpet shaped foot, the...
Category
Persian Islamic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
A Roman bronze head attachment of a youth
Located in UTRECHT, UT
A finely detailed appliqué with the face of a youth, wavy hair framing the circular face, with well defined eyes, pierced for inlays.
5.5 cm (h)
Provenance:
Ex Jean-Phillipe Mari...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
An Egyptian wooden female offering bearer figure, Middle Kingdom
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Standing female wearing a tight fitting white dress and black tripartite wig, serene facial features with large painted eyes. Separately made arms attached with dowel to the shoulder...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Antique Silk Broadside An Elegiac Poem Death of President George Washington 1800
Located in Portland, OR
An important & rare antique American political printed silk broadside, an elegy on the death of President George Washington, dated 1800.
A poem on the Death of President George Was...
Category
Federal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silk
An Egyptian alabaster ribbed cup, New Kingdom, 18th dynasty
Located in UTRECHT, UT
The cup hand-carved from white alabaster with caramel and white veining throughout the composition. The cup stands upon a tapering base, and widens to form the ribbed, cylindrical cup.
Alabaster was a material prized by ancient sculptors...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Alabaster
A Roman bronze applique in the shape of a theatre mask
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Mask of a bearded deity, short beard and hair braided in the characteristic high hairstyle, with layered ringlets on either side.
4 cm (h)
Green patina
...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Painting Blind Belisarius, 1680
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting from the second half of the 17th century. Oil on canvas artwork of good pictorial quality depicting blind Belisarius asking for alms. Flavius Belisarius was one of t...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
A Roman terracotta red slip ware oil lamp with theatre masks
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Round body with plain nozzle, the discus decorated with three theatre masks, air hole in centre, the base with work shop mark in the form of a foot print
Loeschcke Typ VIII, Schulte...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
18th Century Italian Antique Oil on Canvas Saint Andrew Painting, 1730
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Modern carved and gilded wooden frame (bronze tint) of beautiful decoration. Framework oil on canvas depicting a religious subject, po...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
A Roman gold pendant with portrait cameo
Located in UTRECHT, UT
The loop attached to an oval fitting with radiant decoration. The cameo made of agate, showing the profile of a female bust with hair pinned up. The portrait in the style of Faustina...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Gold
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