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Period: 19th Century
19th Century Spongeware Butter Crock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This handmade and painted butter crock was found in Pennsylvania and is in good condition with the exception of the old repairs to the lid. The base has n...
Category
American Country Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Spinning Wheel, Walnut Wood, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Spinning wheel. Walnut wood carved and turned. XIX century.
Vertical spinning wheel made of carved walnut wood decorated with fine lines in certain areas and the use of balustrade...
Category
European Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Other
Antique Circa 1880 Pair of Super Rare Black Forest Hand Carved Dwarf Whip Hooks
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this exceptionally rare pair of stunning, original circa 1880 Swiss made Black Forest wood, whip hooks of two Dwarfs
These are a very very rare...
Category
Swiss Black Forest Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Swedish 19th Century Folk Art Oil Painting With Kids
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Swedish naive oil painting with the original frame, from the 2nd part of the 19th Century.
This folk art work on canvas represents kids and a dog playing by a courtyard, opening the...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Folk Art Reverse Glass Tinsel Painting - Original Frame - U.S. - Circa 1850's
Located in Chatham, ON
Exceptional Folk Art reverse painting on glass with foil/tinsel back (églomisé) - original hand made wood frame with carved and painted details - unsigned - United States - circa 185...
Category
American Folk Art Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Glass, Softwood, Paint
Miniature Salesman's Sample Victorian Bureau Chest, American, circa 1890
Located in Incline Village, NV
This late 19th century miniature 3-drawer dresser with original mirror mounted above, was likely used as a salesman's sample by an itinerant sales person who traveled the countryside promoting his articles, usually by seeking out merchants to take orders based on this scaled down miniature bureau, or by leaving it on display in a merchant's establishment to take orders from that merchant's customers.
This American bureau...
Category
American Victorian Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Oak
19th Century Native Chippewa Beaded Bandolier
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Chippewa bandolier bag with a pocket. Unique outer edging around center bag with bugle beads, and white and red bugle beads ending in white tuffs at bottom. Matching shoulder straps having bugle beads and green fringe at divide. Nice and visual vintage piece of Native American...
Category
American Native American Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Other
19th Century French Pottery Cider Bottle from Normandy
Located in Austin, TX
French pottery cider bottle from Normandy, end of 19th century.
13 bottles available, sold separately.
Different sizes.
Category
French Country Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Antoni Gaudi Decorative Ceramic Spanish Tile of Casa Vicens, circa 1888
By Antoni Gaudí
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Decorative ceramic tile by Antoni Gaudi, inspired by the marigold and dianthus motifs on the decorative ceramic tiles he designed for the facade of Casa Vicens, which constitute some...
Category
Spanish Jugendstil Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Swiss alp painted box
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Swiss alp painted box
Category
Swiss Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
19thc Oil Painting on Board of Wagons on the Dusty Trail
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19thc oil painting on Board Wagon Train on Dusty Trail. Great Scenery of the difficulties of a life left in the past when manual labor and travel was based...
Category
American Adirondack Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Fully Restored Victorian Rocking Horse
Located in London, GB
A beautiful, fully restored Victorian rocking horse complete with a studded leather saddle, blue saddle blanket and leather reins and stirrups....
Category
English High Victorian Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Pair of Late 19th Century Carved Peasants
Located in Charlottesville, VA
Peasant figures carved from wood. Great detail.
Category
French Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Sunshine Shadow Quilt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Antique Amish quilt from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in small one inch squares in wool and cotton. The piecework and quilting is very fine and g...
Category
American Adirondack Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Vernier Octant by John Todd, London
Located in Norwich, GB
Vernier Octant by John Todd, London, circa 1850.
An eleven inch radius vernier octant by John Todd with ebonised wooden frame with inset bone scale marked ...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Antique Sewan Kazak Rug Sevan Caucasian Carpet Late-19th Century Caucasus
Located in Tokyo, JP
This is a rare antique Sewan Kazak Rug from the Sewan / Sevan region in the southwest Caucasia.
This is another handsome example of the “Sewan” Ka...
Category
Caucasian Oushak Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Natural Fiber, Organic Material
19th Century Brass Locomotive Bell
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Brass locomotive bell complete with original cast iron yoke and cast iron mounting base to go on the engine. 24"H x 24" x 15". These bells were first i...
Category
American Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Brass, Iron
Antique Candle Stick With Real Chamois Horn, 19th Century
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique Candle Stick With Real Chamois Horn, 19th century
A Victorian candle holder, made of horns from the chamois and the deer. The spout and b...
Category
German Rustic Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Antler, Wood
19th Century Hand Forged Bear Trap
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Hand forged bear trap with extra-large pan, serrated jaws attached by rivets. Unique chain attachment opposite the pan toggle. From the patina and wear this one appears to have been "a found" piece from the early 19th or 18th century.
Period: First half 19th century or 19th century
Size: 9" jaws; overall 6" x 32" x 12" H
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Category
American Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Early 19th Century Oil Painting of Jesus on Copper Panel
Located in Braintree, GB
Early 19th Century Oil Painting of Jesus on Copper Panel.
Presented is an early 19th-century artwork, meticulously rendered with oil on a copp...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Copper
19th Century Original Mustard Painted Furkins / Buckets, Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These two 19th century original painted handled buckets of furkins without lids. The condition are very good with amazing grungy untouched surface. Both buckets are tight and strong....
Category
American Country Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Important Folk Art Trade Sign
Located in Greenwich, CT
A mid 19th Century folk art trade sign of demilune form, depicting a Native American chief holding a peace pipe and tomahawk wearing a headdress of white and red feathers, wearing a decorated tunic, supported by “s” scrolls, possibly a cover for a paddle boat wheel...
Category
American Folk Art Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
19Thc Wool Log Cabin Quilt From Pennsylvania
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19Thc Wool log cabin quilt or barn raising in fine condition. The backing is in a early brown calico fabric.This was found in Lancaster County,Pennsylvania. The quilt dates from the ...
Category
American Adirondack Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wool
19th Century Native American Ball Head War Club
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Ball headed war club of walnut with carved panther effigy. The panther is rare and a powerful warrior symbol that has different interpretations "He ...
Category
American Native American Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Other
19Thc Amazing Applique from Pennsylvania
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19Thc applique quilt with fine detailed work and fine piecework. The outer borders are amazing.
Category
American Adirondack Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
Dutch Hindeloopen square footstove, 1837
Located in Delft, NL
Dutch Hindeloopen square footstove, 1837
Square stove, decorated with carvings of 4 x Turkish knots and fitted with a swing brass handle. The foot stove was carried to the church at...
Category
Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Oak
Large Antique East African Carved Wood & Bronze Antelope Deer Folk Art Sculpture
Located in Forney, TX
A large, rare, and most impressive antique hand carved and painted wood and metal stylized antelope African folk art sculpture with beautifully aged distressed patina.
Handmade in East Africa, dating to around the late 19th / early 20th century, possibly earlier, this scarce, one-of-a-kind, museum quality work, features a richly detailed patinated bronze head and tail with etched textural elements, tall ears and faux ringed...
Category
African Folk Art Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Rustic Antique Wooden Carved Burmese Puppet Head
Located in Stockbridge, GB
Antique Burmese Carved Puppet Head- A
A decorative carved wood and painted Burmese puppet head with glass eyes. Believed to be from the 19th century. It ...
Category
Burmese Rustic Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Teak
Chinese Folk Carved Panel, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Dated to the 19th century, this flat wooden panel is curiously etched with geometric patterns, simple leaf motifs, and a triangle-work border. Its original use remains unknown - perh...
Category
Chinese Qing Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Collection of Three Miniature 19th C Hiney Baskets
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Collection of super rare miniature 19th C hiney or buttocks baskets in mint condition. These hand made and tightly woven baskets come from a folk art collection in Pennsylvania. Its ...
Category
American Adirondack Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Hemp
Spanish hand painted Retablo Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Retablo is a devotional painting, especially a small popular or folk art one using iconography derived from traditional Catholic church art. Depicting a Saint and a child painted o...
Category
American Adirondack Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Tin
French 19th Century Portrait of a Flower Girl
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A heartwarming, late 19th century French oil-on-linen portrait of a young girl bearing a garland of pink flowers, painted in a technique of folk art naivete for emotional, rather tha...
Category
French Folk Art Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Foil
Quilled Sioux Native Authentic Child's Dress
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Lakota Sioux child's dress quilled on buffalo hide; collected and entered into the Maryland Academy of Art and Science prior to 1880. It was deaccessioned...
Category
American Native American Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Other
Georgian Pontypool Welsh Attributed Toleware Black Japanned Bread Basket
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine quality large Georgian toleware black japanned bread basket with floral and a bird design probably Pontypool, Wales and dating from aroun...
Category
Welsh Georgian Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Sheet Metal
J. Alden Weir Hand Made Studio Sign Branchville Connecticut
Located in Garnerville, NY
Recently purchased from a multi-generational Ridgefield, CT estate of the former President of Ridgefield Savings Bank. Our esteemed and avid collector found time in his off hours in Post World War II Connecticut to scour the countryside for just about anything that struck his fancy. He had an enormous passion for model trains, porcelain figurines and pattern Depression Era glass...
Category
American Late Victorian Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Iron
19th Century American Potato Flask
Located in Chicago, IL
This mid-19th century American Rockinghamware stoneware flask is a delightful nod to whimsy and practicality. Shaped like a humble potato, it’s a rare ...
Category
American Folk Art Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
19th C Original Painted Game Board
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th C original painted game board. Nice original Salmon and black paint.
Category
North American Folk Art Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Rustic Tramp Art Mirror with Double Frame, Notch Cut Carved, Austria, ca. 1880
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
Exceptional Tramp Art wall mirror from the late 19th centuryin Austria. This lovely rustic wall mirror from the period around 1890 convinces with its great design concept: the dark s...
Category
Austrian Rustic Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Mirror, Softwood
19th Century Ship’s Figural Transom Carving
Located in Nantucket, MA
Very Scarce Ship’s Figural Transom Carving, Early to Mid 19th Century, a hand carved and hand painted figural plaque of an elegant woman in blue dress with...
Category
American Folk Art Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Outstanding Large Oak Carved Eagle Grasping Shield & Three Arrows
Located in Stamford, CT
Outstanding large oak carved eagle grasping shield with three arrows in his talons; most probably by a Philadelphia carver. Found in East Boothbay, Maine at collector's home. Arrows ...
Category
American Federal Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Oak
19th Century Swedish Folk Art Bentwood Box with Original Paint Swedish Antiques
Located in Boden, SE
19th Century Swedish Bentwood box from Jämtland, Northern Sweden.
It has untouched original painting with a nicely painted leaf loop on the lid.
...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Antique Scottish Tapestry Needlepoint Scotland Mourning 1860
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Amazing antique Scottish tapestry in gilt frame tat measures almost six feet wide - 180 CM
The subject is based on the famous oil painting 'Scotland ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Other
18th Century Swedish Folk Art Wooden Cheese Board from Northern Sweden
Located in Boden, SE
18th century Swedish Folk Art Wooden cheese board from, Northern Sweden
A tray with lovely patina.
It has owner marks SOS on the side of the board.
A large farmers Cheese board o...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Swiss Alp Painted Pine Trunk
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Swiss alp painted pine trunk ,from Rougemont village , the inside of the trunk was painted later and a part of the foot are missing, see photo
Category
Swiss Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Late 19th Century "9-Spot" Dominoe Game 55 Piece Set in Jointed Hardwood Box
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a rare and original '9 Spot' Dominoe game of 55 individual dominoes, coming complete with its jointed wooden box or case.
Dominoe sets are normally six-spot sets giving a to...
Category
English Late Victorian Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Bone, Wood
Outstanding quality antique Victorian Black Forest android barometer
Located in Ipswich, GB
Outstanding quality antique Victorian Black Forest android barometer having a quality antique Victorian Black Forest aneroid barometer with a outstanding quality highly carved oak ca...
Category
Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Brass
19th Century Native American Hidatsa Arikara Medicine Shirt
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Hidatsa Arikara medicine shirt worn by a warrior who deserved honors, pre-reservation. Horseshoes represent successful horse raids, and the six quilled eagle feathers signify war coups, scalps or battles. Would note, four real scalps possibly moved over from an earlier war shirt...
Category
American Native American Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Hide
Classical Walking Stick in Ebonized Walnut & Sterling Pommel w/ Heraldic Crest
Located in New York, NY
This Classical Walking Stick in Ebonized Walnut & Sterling Pommel W/ Heraldic Crest originates from France during the Late 19th Century. Features a elegant and timeless profile with ...
Category
French Late Victorian Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Sterling Silver
19th Century 39 Star American Flag, circa 1889
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century 39 Star American Flag, circa 1889, a printed linen ensign with 39 stars arranged in a wavy star pattern, with stripes in a very unus...
Category
American Federal Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Linen
Green painted Southern Yellow Pine 19th century carriage strong box forged iron
Located in Mobile, AL
Green folk painted Southern yellow pine carriage trunk or strong box. The size is just about perfect for liquor bottles, too. Dovetail construction with hand forged clasp and hinges. The original finish was likely brown and it looks like it got it's first coat...
Category
American Folk Art Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Paint-Decorated Game Wheel in Scarlet Red, Chrome Yellow and Black, Ca 1880
Located in York County, PA
American game wheel, made of wood, two-sided, with a fancy chrome spinner and long, metal pins. The polychrome-paint is simply a 10-out-of-10 in terms of color, graphics, and surface...
Category
American Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
19th Century folk art military painting
Located in London, GB
19th Century folk art military painting
19th Century piece of French folk-art militaria art, gouache on paper in its original frame in untouched condition.
Size in inches: H 12” ...
Category
French Folk Art Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Paper
19Thc Lift Top Table From New England
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 19thc New England bench / table in wonderful sturdy condition. The underside of the table top has fragments of old apple green paint. The table ...
Category
American Adirondack Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
19th Century Chippewa Beaded Bandolier
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Genuine Native American Chippewa floral beaded bandolier bag with full size pocket. Intermediate panel beaded on black velvet. Matching shoulder s...
Category
American Native American Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Beads
English Mocha Pottery Pearlware Earthworm Jug
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Mocha Pottery Pearlware Earthworm Jug,
Circa 1800-20
The pearlware mocha jug has three bands of blue slip and four of a white ground with two red-brown lines. The blue slip...
Category
English Folk Art Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Patinated Bronze School Bell or Town Crier Bell
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A wonderfully patinated school or town crier bell. While it works great, it would be a terrific decorative piece, especially on a console table with a story of primitive items and b...
Category
Early Victorian Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Bronze, Iron
Scandinavian Folk Art Wooden Lidded Tankard, 19th Century
Located in Bochum, NRW
19th century Norwegian wood tankard painted with initials and dated 1865.
Wooden Lidded Tankard, made of staves that are held together with split-branch ...
Category
Swedish Folk Art Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
19th Century Dairy Sorting Table with Tin Liner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 19th century pine sorting table has an old surface and a tin liner that is original. At one time the legs would fold up but has been made stationary and sturdy. It has all the o...
Category
American Adirondack Antique 19th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
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