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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Scandinavian 18th Century Folk Art Hat Or Wick Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Large Danish wooden hat or wig box of wood with original painting.
Category
Danish Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Japanese Wood Block Prints "Four Seasons of Tokyo" Uchida Wood Block Printing Co
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Uchida Wood Block Printing Co., Ltd:
"Four Seasons of Tokyo", Kyoto, Uchida Wood Block Printing Co., Ltd, undated but ca. 1960, folio of four woodblock prints in a presentation folde...
Category
Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
$1,030 Sale Price
20% Off
Unique 18th Century English Carved Panel of Two Kings
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unique carved Folk Art panel, dated 1768, depicting a double portrait of mythological kings, whimsically portrayed in miniature stature with protruding...
Category
English Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
18th Century French or Italian Santo Nativity Figure
Located in Nantucket, MA
18th century French or Italian Santo Nativity figure, a hand carved and painted fruitwood figure for a Christmas Creche or Krippe. Excellent and delicate details to the head and hands. The half figure stands on a dowel set into platform base, dressed in original fine linen robe...
Category
Italian Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Linen, Fruitwood
18th Century Carved And Painted Wooden Crucifix From France
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
An early 18th Century antique hand carved and polychromed hand painted table crucifix from France with its original patina preserved.
This crucifix could possible date back as early ...
Category
French Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Fruitwood
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Scandinavian 18th Century Brass Nutcracker with Wooden Handles
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Late 18th century brass nutcracker, probably from Denmark.
The brass cracker top glows and is balanced by the brass ends with petite ball tips. Strong warm wooden handles are the p...
Category
Scandinavian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Brass
18th Century Folk Art Shelf With Heart And Pineapple Carvings
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Beautiful folk art "Love" Shelf. An old tradition where the man had to make a gift for the fiancee, mostly the items were made in wood with birds or hearts and painted nicely.
Category
Danish Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
$780 Sale Price
35% Off
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...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Norwegian Baroque Box, Carved Mythical Creatures + Figurative Scenes, Circa 1740
Located in New York, NY
Very special Baroque box with carved decorations of mythical creatures and figurative scenes
Carved monogrammed initials "HPP" + Family Crest, origin: Gudbrandsdal, Norway, circa 174...
Category
Norwegian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Softwood
XL Late 18th Century Transylvanian Coffer
Located in London, GB
An exceptional heavily patinated hewn beech coffer from Transylvania.
Hand carved klan markings to front.
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We offer free shipping to the USA/Canada through Fedex with this item.
Category
Romanian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Beech
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
British Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Giltwood
18th Century Swedish Antique Folk Art Iron Stick
Located in Boden, SE
An old antique swedish 18th century iron candlestick .
Very charming and solid.
The candlestick is called "Stumpastake" in swedish.
These were good when you wanted to take advanta...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Iron
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
Primitive carved sandstone
Located in Miami, FL
Archaïque polished probably ritual stone ring from Central America or Caraïbe island .
Face carved and polished sandstone or granite.
Category
Unknown Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Sandstone
First half of the 18th century, Castelli Manufacture, Liberation from chains
Located in Milan, IT
First half of the 18th century, Castelli Manufacture
Liberation from chains
Majolica, 21 x 15 cm
Framed, 38 x 37 cm
Example of the ceramic manufacturing tradition of Castelli, a...
Category
Italian Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
18th Century Zinc Chapeau Bicorne Sign
Located in Brecht, BE
An item for the zinc collectioneur or someone who loves items that are quirky and rare to find.
This is a French enseigne/sign, from the very short period in French history "incroya...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Zinc
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.
Category
American Adirondack Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Mortar carved in a probably very old trunk
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Mortar carved in a probably very old trunk
Category
African Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Pre-Columbian ceramics cup– Tiahuanaco Culture
Located in Madrid, ES
"Pre-Columbian Ceramics – Tiahuanaco Culture"
Material: ceramics
Origin: Southern Sierra of Peru, Lake Titicaca Plateau
Period: Boom Age (1 AD – 800 AD)
Dimensions: 24x20x17cm
Condit...
Category
South American Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
A Roman bronze foot
Located in UTRECHT, UT
With square fitting, hollow at the top for attachment to furniture, one large paw on round base sprouting into lion’s head with visible teeth.
9,5 cm (h)
Ex German private property...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
$4,019
Fine Indo-Portuguese Ebony Corpus
Located in Kent, Dover
A fine 18th century Indo-Portuguese corpus, carved out of solid ebony. In very good condition with a good patina.
Category
Indian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ebony
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
$1,920 Sale Price
20% Off
17th Century Oil on Canvas Flemish Interior Scene Painting, 1660
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Flemish painting from the 17th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a tavern interior scene with characters of excellent pictorial quality. Refined painting, for antique ...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Collection of 5 Antique Wrought Iron Eel Forks
Located in Søborg, DK
A collection of 5 wrought iron eel forks from the 18th century.
Extremely decorative and each one unique.
Each one is a work of art.
Sizes vary from 37 cm to 42 cm.
Would look am...
Category
Danish Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wrought Iron
$600 Sale Price / set
20% Off
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...
Category
Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Swiss alp calendar dated 1797
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Swiss alp calendar
Category
Swiss Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paper
Swiss Alp Wood Mortar
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Swiss alp wood mortar.
Category
Swiss Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
18th Century Original Red Painted Trestle Table from New England
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This very folky and all original red painted and wood pegged 18thc trestle table with a worn painted plank top.The base contains rose head nails and early peg base.The shoe feet. are...
Category
American Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pine
18th Century Swedish Wooden Bowl
Located in Boden, SE
18th Century Swedish wooden bowl with nice patina from Northern Sweden.
You can see the use of time.
The bowl has ownershipmarking below.
Drycra...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pine
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
Original 18th Century Tyrolean Spinning Wheel in Walnut, Still Working
Located in Vigonza, Padua
A museum tool, made entirely by hand that recalls the peasant culture of the past.
Category
Austrian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Walnut
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...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Antique Wrought Iron Eel Fork Mounted on to a Basalt Rock
Located in Søborg, DK
A wrought iron eel fork from the 18th century.
Extremely decorative and a functional piece of art.
Who ever made this made an extra effort to not just make ...
Category
Danish Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wrought Iron
$580 Sale Price / set
20% Off
18thc Hand Carved Rooster Sculpture on Stand
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine folk art 18thc hand carved rooster ,sculpture sits on a board /stand.This fine sculpture has a wonderful red wash painted surface & several shrinkage cracks from natural ag...
Category
American Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Christ on the cross Iron High period - 16th century
Located in Saint ouen, FR
Christ on the cross
Iron
High period - 16th century
Historical piece
h 57 x l 34 cms
Réf pm / 12
1900 euros
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Dutch 18th Century Gingerbread Wooden Mold
Located in Delft, NL
A Dutch 18th century gingerbread wooden mold
The mold is double-sided with 8 hand carved figures, including a crib, a four-poster bed, a fire basket, high chair for children, etc. ...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Antique Stone Carving of a Claw
Located in Washington, DC
Ancient Stone Carving Fragment of a Claw. France, circa 15th Century.
Category
French Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Miniature Portrait of a Sleepy Eyed Man, Circle Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
By Christian Wilhelm Dietrich
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Miniature portrait of a sleepy eyed man, circle Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich
Germany 18th century, inscribed on back, refer to ph...
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Glass, Wood
$1,500 Sale Price
25% Off
Set of Three Italian Iron Trivets Antique Wrought Iron Rests from 1780
Located in Milano, MI
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
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Painting Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great Italian painting from the first half of the 18th century. Oil artwork on canvas depicting a religious subject, the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, of good pictorial quality. Altar...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
$18,896 Sale Price
20% Off
Prehistoric Casas Grandes Jar
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Pre-Columbian, Northern Mexico, Casas Grandes, ca. 1100 to 1200 CE. A delightful coil-made and hand-painted pottery vessel of figural form, all enveloped in beige slip beneath red an...
Category
American Native American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Polychrome wooden statue depicting Guanyin Bodhisattva, Ming, 16th century
Located in Milano, IT
In a realm where time stands still, there exists a 16th-century masterpiece, a sculpture of unparalleled beauty that transports you to the heart of the Ming dynasty. Here, in a place of reverence and artistry, sits the Chinese Bodhisattva Guanyin, the embodiment of compassion, enshrined in a form of breathtaking elegance.
Guanyin's divine presence is unveiled as he is seated in padmasana, the lotus position, a symbol of purity and enlightenment. His regal robes...
Category
Chinese Ming Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Petite African Redware Vessel
Located in Chicago, IL
This petite hand-formed vessel bears a richly textured surface of worn red clay slip and dark smoke marks. Likely intended for everyday use, the simple bottle-form vessel reflects th...
Category
African Primitive Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
1641. Marriage of William of Orange and Princess Mary
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: albionum genuit / rex me summusque / monarcha Carolus / et sponsam me iubet / esse tuam / princeps me Henricus / genuit fortissimus / heros nassoviæ, et / sponsum me iubet /...
Category
Dutch Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
16th-17th Century Bellarmine Jug
Located in Greenwich, CT
Lovely late 16th or early 17th century Westphalian salt glazed stoneware jug of the "bellarmine" type. Also known as Greybeards or Bartmann jugs, these v...
Category
German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Diminutive 18th Century Chippendale Hand Mirror American
Located in Hudson, NY
A highly unusual and interesting Chippendale mirror. Frame is created from a single plank of mahogany. The glass is original and in exceptional condition. This is a definite one of a...
Category
American Chippendale Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Mirror, Mahogany, Pine
1698. Middelburg. Fat guild
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: DAT WELVAART EN SEGEN SY RYCK EN MILDE – ANNO, seated city maiden with horn of plenty and city coat of arms under which number 135 is engraved
Reverse: BY AL DE LEDEN VAN T ...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Copper
Pre-Columbian ceramics jar – Tiahuanaco Culture
Located in Madrid, ES
"Pre-Columbian Ceramics – Tiahuanaco Culture"
Material: Ceramic
Origin: Southern Sierra of Peru, Lake Titicaca Plateau
Period: Boom Age (1 AD – 800 AD)
Dimensions: 16 x 12 x 14 cm
Co...
Category
South American Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Casas Grandes Pottery Olla
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Prehistoric Casas Grandes pottery olla. Hand coiled and painted polychrome design. Restored. Two strap holes. Four geomorphic faces. Rim crack through one hole. Ex. Barnard. 6"D x 7"...
Category
American Native American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Late 18th century Decorative double sided Swedish Folk biblical wall hanging
Located in London, GB
A large size decorative Swedish folk art painted wall hanging-Bonad which may have been originally from a church.
Painted on canvas in natural pigments it depicts naive biblical them...
Category
Swedish Gustavian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Rare French 16th century primitive wool comb
Located in Meulebeke, BE
France / 16th century / wool comb / wood, metal / Rustic / Mid-century
A rare to find primitive wool comb from the 16th century.
Hand-crafted in France in wood with iron spikes.
This antique comb...
Category
French Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Pre-Columbian Warrior Banner, Chimu, Peru, circa 1100-1476 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Pre-Columbian ornamental banner with fringes composed of warriors/divinities holding figures in their hands, surrounded by geometric frets. Two-headed birds in alternating colors decorate the top and bottom of the banner. This one-of-a-kind tapestry has preserved its vibrant original colors and fibres. Professionally cleaned.
Provenance: Private European Collection
Textiles from elite Chimu tombs include elaborate gauzes, embroidery, painted plain weave and tapestry, and three-dimensional fibre sculptures. Among others, shades of yellow and brown, scarlet, white, lavender-blue and olive green were the colors used. Birds and a deity wearing a crescent-like headdress have been the most popular decorative motifs.
Many Chimu textiles...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
European Antique Artifact Hand Carved Wooden Foot
Located in Malibu, CA
Antique rare & ancient artifact, a foot, wearing a sandal, the bottom of the foot has been carved with the sandals bottom as well.
Category
European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Pre-Columbian ceramics cup– Tiahuanaco Culture
Located in Madrid, ES
"Pre-Columbian Ceramics – Tiahuanaco Culture"
Material: ceramics
Origin: Southern Sierra of Peru, Lake Titicaca Plateau
Period: Boom Age (1 AD – 800 AD)
Dimensions: 12 x 11 cm diamet...
Category
South American Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
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
English Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Gesso, Glass, Wood, Paint
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.
Category
Indian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Hardwood
Swedish Gustavian Two-Light Giltwood Wall Scones
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Swedish Gustavian two-light giltwood wall scones.
Category
Swedish Gustavian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique Ships Wheel, circa 1800
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1800, we offer this rare antique Ships Wheel. made in wood and forged steel. Very rare and ancient piece Ideal for the collector of antique nautical objects.
Category
Mexican Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
LATE 17th CENTURY CASTLES MAJOLICA PLAQUE
Located in Firenze, FI
Splendid polychrome majolica plaque, attributable to the renowned Castelli factory, located in Abruzzo (Central Italy), and dating back to around the end of the 17th century. The pla...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Maiolica
Rare Antique Statue of a Chinese Child Performing Tai Chi
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Rare Japanese antique statue of a Chinese child performing Tai chi capturing the pose in motion. Middle Edo period, circa 1750. Made from polychrome on carved ...
Category
Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Cypress
$2,880 Sale Price
20% Off
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