17th Century Italian Walnut Carving

Originally gilded. as notice some traces of gilt residue. From the collection of Verna Harrah. Harra's Casinos.

Late 17th century wood carving. C1690 carving of putti in a playing position on a original rocky base great patination and colour size 60cm...

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...

A large carved and polychrome painted tobacconist's figure almost certainly 17th or early 18th century For a related example see Edward H. Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. Page 412, plate 436. Originally this may well have been a tobacconist's shop window figure. For a similar, but slightly earlier unpainted example, see Sotheby's, The W. J. Shepherd collection of treen, 30th November 1983, Lot 393, illustrated in Pinto "Wooden Bygones of Smoking and Snuff Taking", plate 1. Carved wooden figures, often painted, were placed outside tobacconist's shops as signs from the 17th century onwards. The earliest of these figures is the 'black boy' or 'blackamoor'. 'At the sign of the black boy' or 'at the sign of the blackamoor' was a popular address for tobacconists since the early 17th century. The 17th century figures...

Beautifully carved and painted polychromatic religious figure that resembles St. Francis. Right hand is missing. Figure is bearded and is wearing a monk's cloak. St. Francis is the f...

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...