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Technique: Painted
Five Mid 20th C Fairground Oil on Board Mythical Folk Art Portraits of Kings
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A fabulous collection of original fairground or theatre art portraits of mythical kings in a classical backdrop. To adorn a ride or production, my gut is fairground and likely used a...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Glass, Giltwood
1920s Steaks & Chops Hand Painted Wood Sign • Early American Folk Art Signage
Located in Lancaster, PA
A bold and striking survivor from the early days roadside eateries, this original 1920's “STEAKS AND CHOPS” sign is hand-painted on wood with thick, period-correct lettering in butte...
Category
1920s American Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Rare Set of 19th Century Spongware Kitchen Organizer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rare set of late 19th century spongeware this complete set comes with 19 pieces. It is very difficult to find a complete set in such great condition. All items have been inspected an...
Category
Early 20th Century American Country Painted Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Early 20th Century English Folk Art Whirligig Figure
Located in London, GB
Early 20th century Folk Art whirligig figure
We are proud to offer a true example of an early 20th century whirligig figure. Hand carved from scrat...
Category
1920s British Folk Art Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pine, Paint
German Folk Art Naïve Military Painting, circa 1870
Located in London, GB
A wonderful example of a circa 1870 German Folk Art naïve military scene in townscape annotated to celebrate a soldier. In ceremonial regalia in watercolou...
Category
1870s German Folk Art Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Gilt Wood Frame George Braque Lithograph" Nature Morte a la Serviette"
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Elevate your art collection with this exquisite gilt wood-framed lithograph by the renowned artist George Braque titled "Nature Morte a la Serviette." This rare first edition lithogr...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Giltwood, Paper
Antique Toy Steamroller C1940 Style of Buddy L
By Buddy L. 1
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Large Steamroller toy from the forties. In the style of Buddy L. Repainted and some hardware replaced. In excellent vintage condition with minimal wear. Can be...
Category
1940s American Folk Art Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Steel
17th CENTURY MAJOLICA PLATE MONTELUPO
Located in Firenze, FI
Splendid polychrome majolica plate belonging to the Montelupo ceramic workshop. The enamel has also been applied to the rim, in an elegant aqua green, while the background is white d...
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Maiolica
Early 19th Century Swedish Bonad of The Nativity
Located in Pease pottage, West Sussex
Extraordinary 19th Century Swedish Bonad. The Nativity, The imagery capturing the Baby in a Manger in the stable, being overlooked by donkeys and angels. Primitive and exuberant colo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Swedish Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Paper
19th Century Decorated Sea Chest
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th Century Decorated Sea Chest, having a hinged lid with breadboard edges, above a dovetailed case with applied molding around base, the original wooden beckets with relief carved ...
Category
19th Century American Folk Art Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood
18th Century Italian Speckled Gold and Silver Leaf Tassel Ornaments 'Set of 5'
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th Century Italian hand-carved speckled gold and silver leaf tassel ornaments.
The tassels originally came from an Italian church in Tuscany and were used during feast days. These tassels were commonly used to adorn 18th and 19th century French and Italian chandeliers...
Category
18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Metal, Gold Leaf
19th Century Original Red Painted Fibre, Wood Bucket
By United Indurated Fibre Co.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century original red painted fibre wood bucket in good condition. Signed and dated United Indurated Fibre Co. and dated May 24th, 1886. There is wear ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Country Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Scrap Wood
Northwest Coast Native American Killer Whale Orca Mask, Wood, Red & Black Design
Located in Denver, CO
This intricately carved wooden mask hails from the Pacific Northwest Coast, showcasing a striking Native American Killer Whale (Orca) motif. Expertly crafted, the mask features bold ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Bentwood
Painting Cattle Carriage on an Alpine Lake, Oil on Canvas 19th century
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Painting Cattle Carriage on an Alpine Lake, Oil on Canvas 19th century
A lovely antique oil painting depicting a Tyrolian farmers family which loads their cattle heard onto a boat. The scene is located on an mountain lake in the Alpine landscape. Oil on canvas 1st half of the 19th century. Framed with vintage gilded frame, paint partly with craquelure. This painting will be a highlight in each rural decoration.
Alpine oil painting...
Category
Late 19th Century German Biedermeier Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Canvas
Unusual 19th Century Original Red Painted Storage Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fantastic original red painted storage box is made in the form of a old New England measure with a make do lid. The painted surface is undistu...
Category
Late 19th Century American Country Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Late 19th Century Quebec Paint Decorated Plant Stand, circa 1890
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Quebec paint decorated plant stand or bucket bench, circa 1890, pine slat construction with three shelves, fluted backsplash and apron, and deli...
Category
1890s Canadian Folk Art Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Seated "Cat with a Bow" Still Bank, American, circa 1922
By Grey Iron Casting Company
Located in Incline Village, NV
"Cat with a Bow Seated" cast iron still bank is a difficult bank to acquire and is listed in Andy Moore's "The Penny Bank Book" as #364 and rated a "D" (A to F rarity scale--A most c...
Category
1920s American Folk Art Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Set of Six Matching 19th Century Sponge Ware Luncheon Plates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These amazing hand-painted and glazed American sponge ware plates are a perfect matched set. They are in pristine condition.
Category
Late 19th Century American Country Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Late 19th Century English Folk Art Articulated Jig Doll
Located in London, GB
Late 19th century English Jig Doll
A wonderful example of a late 19th century English jig doll called porkpie. A fully articulated hand carved feature. With amazing leather handcrafted boots and wearing a porkpie hat. A lovely example with wear and patination in all the right areas. Jig dolls are traditional wooden or tin-plate toys for adults or children. They are dolls with loose limbs that step dance...
Category
1890s British Victorian Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Leather, Pine, Paint
19th Century Spongeware Serving Platter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wonderful 19th century deep blue sponge serving platter in pristine condition. The dark blue is fantastic.
Category
Early 19th Century American Country Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Vintage Hungarian Folk Portrait Oil Painting in Rustic Frame
Located in Northport, MI
A delightful vintage Hungarian oil on canvas painting depicting a mustachioed gentleman in traditional dress, clutching a pipe and wearing a dark alpine hat adorned with a red blosso...
Category
1930s Hungarian Folk Art Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Unique Hand Decorated "Romantic Family" Arts & Crafts Wood Settle Rhode Island
Located in South Burlington, VT
From an important thirty year old New England collection of hand decorated pyrography Arts & Crafts furnishings.
Unique work of art with a Rhode Island origin.
A romantic compositio...
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Monumental Oil Painting of Horses
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large oil painting is like a mural. It is large and very graphic. It is
Signed by Linda and dated 1979. It has to minor old tiny repairs.
It has a nice clear coat of artist v...
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Painted Folk Art
Materials
Paint, Canvas
Monumental Modern , Surrealist Oil Painting by Barton Lidice Benes
By Barton Lidice Benes
Located in Buffalo, NY
Barton Lidice Benes (November 16, 1942 – Hackensack, New Jersey – May 30, 2012 – New York) was an artist who lived and worked in New York City. He studied at Pratt Institute, Brookly...
Category
1970s American Folk Art Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Antique Oil Painting Farm Girl on a Flower Meadow by M. E. Ummenhofer
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique oil painting farm girl on a flower meadow by M. E. Ummenhofer
An impressive antique oil painting depicting a farm girl on a summerly flower ...
Category
Late 19th Century German Biedermeier Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Mid Century Tin Litho Mechanical Clockwork Windup Toy Skier Girl by Chein C1945
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous working tin Litho toy skier by the Chein toy co. C1945. In excellent vintage condition with minimal wear.
Category
1940s American Industrial Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Tin
Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Painting by Walangkura Napanangka
Located in Atlanta, GA
A striking abstract painting by Australian Aboriginal painter Walangkura Napanangka (1940-2014), one of the matching pair painted in 2007 in Alice Spring. Entitled "Kutungka", acrylic on Belgium linen, inscribed on reverse with gallery catalog no.
"Kutungka" depicts the landscape of a country where an old woman named "Kutungka" travelled from Malparingya to Kaltarra in Western Desert during the Dreamtime creation. The highly abstract forms are the dreamtime memory of the land features, such as rock piles and waterholes.
Provenance: Grasstree Gallery, Australia.
It comes with a COA from the gallery as well as progressive photos taken during the creation of this painting by the artist in 2007.
Brief biography From Australian Art Gallery artist...
Category
Early 2000s Australian Modern Painted Folk Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Wood
Tin Litho Penny Toys Stake & Tanker Truck and a Sedan by Meier
Located in Port Jervis, NY
3 fabulous tin Litho Penny Toys vehicles. A stake truck, a tanker truck and a sedan car. All in excellent vintage condition with minimal wear.
Category
1930s Spanish Industrial Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Metal
African Nafana Bedu Large Moon Plank Zoomorphic Geometric Wood Sculpure Mask
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, quite large and heavy, colorful Bedu plank mask by the Nafana (Senufo) tribe who reside in the central north-west of Ghana and the north-east of...
Category
20th Century Ghanaian Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
18th Century American Pine Decorated Blanket Chest
Located in Nantucket, MA
18th century American pine decorated blanket chest, probably from New England, circa 1770 having a dovetailed case on wide bracket feet, the li...
Category
Late 18th Century American Chippendale Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pine
African Nigerian Igbo Wood Carved Maiden Spirit Mask Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
A finely carved mask from the early to mid-1900s made by the Igo People of Southeastern Nigeria.
Agbogho, or "maiden spirit" are worn strictly by m...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nigerian Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Vintage German Plate Hand-Painted Triangular Dish Catchall 1950s
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Original German vintage hand-painted "Handgemalt" small triangular shape ceramic plate.
Ivory grey with a hand-painted scene of a couple with a dog, trees, birds, in Yellow, blue, gr...
Category
20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Painted Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Modernist Folk Art George Nelson/ Calder Style Kinetic Sculptural Weathervane
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist Folk Art George Nelson / Calder Style Kinetic Sculptural Weathervane .. Amazing design,, Retains original finish ,paint. Great color / patina..Pictures do it no justice,
Category
1930s American Folk Art Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Moroccan Ceramic Lidded Urn with Arabic Calligraphy Black Writing, Fez
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large Moroccan glazed royal blue ceramic urn with lid from Fez.
Vintage Moorish style ceramic handcrafted and hand painted with Arabic calligraphy w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Moroccan Moorish Painted Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Large 19th Century Spongeware Mush Cup and Saucer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These large oversize cup and saucer sets are very hard to find in good condition. There are so few out there that did not get damaged.
Category
Late 19th Century American Country Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Rare Set of Six Matching 19th Century Sponge Ware Dinner Plates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is like a collectors dream! Set of six matching blue and white 19th century sponge ware dinner plates. The entire group are in pristine condition. The sponge pattern is on both ...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Country Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
19th Century Sponge Ware Miniature Cream Pitcher
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine small wonder is in mint condition and color is key on this piece. This could be used for cream or any dressings. It is quite rare to see or find the miniature pieces as the...
Category
Late 19th Century American Country Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Swedish Floral Organic Modern Ceramic Wall Plate / Centerpiece, 1950s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Vintage handmade fully glazed Swedish midcentury modern wall platter / centrepiece with organic, floral decor depicting a gazelle with a direct gaze surrounded by vegetation in brown, ochre, green, white and bright pink colors on a striped dark blue background created with the experimental sgraffito technique that Tilgmans became famous for. Designed and handpainted in the late 1950s by Eivor Lang and manufactured by German/Finnish Paul Harald Tilgman in his workshop in the small town of Kortedala close to Gothenburg, Sweden. Milky white glaze on the base and sides with curved, muted green decor framing the image along the edge. Three holes for hanging - two in use with metal wire. Signed under base. An handpainted piece in beautiful condition.
Paul Harald “Harry” Tilgmann was born in Dresden, Germany in 1904 and emigrated to Sweden during WWII where he started Tilgmans Keramik (= Ceramics) in 1948 in the small town of Utbynäs close to Gothenburg. Tilgman had 16 employees working for him and when he hired the Polish refugee Marian Zawadzki (1912-1978) as artistic director in 1953, Tilgman Keramik started experimenting with the distinct sgraffito technique. The sgraffito technique consists of carving fine lines into the background of a design through a light colored glaze down to a dark grey clay slip. This created a unique textured ground which has become a style associated with Tilgmans Keramik in particular. The decorative elements also appear to be outlined with a carved line and then hand painted with overglazes where birds, fish, flowers, butterflies and other animals were a common theme. This type of work was the most popular in midcentury Sweden alongside Tilgmans small animal figurines...
Category
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Pottery
Antique English Tole Tray with Orientalist Painting
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Lofty 19th century English oval tole tray with two cut out handles featuring a colorful orientalist oil painting complete with figures in a boat architecture and tropical setting ins...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Portrait of baby / young child -Painting - Oil on canva - Framed - 19th France.
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Nice portrait of baby / young child dating from the end of the 19th century.
Beautiful quality of execution;
The face of the child is very fine and pleasant. The subject is well trea...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
American Oval Timber Trade Sign with Two Masted Ship and Rope Boarder. C. 1850
Located in Charleston, SC
American oval hand carved timber trade sign with a centered two masted ship, rope border, upper painted banner "The London and New York Trading Company"...
Category
1850s American American Empire Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Rope, Wood, Paint
19th Century German Carved Wooden Deers Head
Located in London, GB
19th century carved wooden deer’s head
We are proud to offer a delightful example of a 19th century hand carved German deer’s head. This ite...
Category
1880s German Victorian Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pine, Paint
Parchment Moroccan African Art Wall Curved Sconce
Located in North Hollywood, CA
African Tribal Art parchment wall shade sconce featuring a large curved hide form stitched on iron and hand painted surface.
These Moroccan Art pieces could be used as wall lamp shade...
Category
20th Century Moroccan Arts and Crafts Painted Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Cast Iron Hand Painted Duck / Garden Ornament
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This cool folky duck is in original old painted surface and in very good condition.Found in New England and in undisturbed surface.Great as a door stop or garden ornament.
Category
1920s American Adirondack Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Pair of Swedish Painted Rococo Style Nightstands, Circa 1930's
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A pair of Rococo style light Gustavian grey-painted Swedish nightstands or night tables from the first half of the 20th Century. These Scandinavian have a charming patina have each ...
Category
1930s Swedish Rococo Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pine, Plywood
Uncle Sam Still Bank 'Composition, ' circa 1940
Located in Incline Village, NV
American manufacture; this colorful hand-painted still bank depicting Uncle Sam is all original with no repairs and no repaint. Fabulous crazing throughout indicative of original pai...
Category
1940s American Folk Art Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Composition
Pair of Parchment Moroccan African Art Wall Curved Sconce
Located in North Hollywood, CA
African Tribal Art parchment wall shade sconce featuring a large curved hide form stitched on iron and hand painted surface.
These Moroccan Art pieces could be used as wall lamp sha...
Category
20th Century Moroccan Arts and Crafts Painted Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Late 19th Century folk-art French officer painting
Located in London, GB
Late 19th Century folk-art French officer painting
A hand painted on paper folk art painting of a well-dressed French soldier, mounted in an ebonised gold ...
Category
1870s French Folk Art Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Spelter Still Bank "Girl By A Barrel", German, circa 1908
Located in Incline Village, NV
The term "spelter" refers to a zinc/lead metal compound used to pour and make castings. Because of the thinness of the castings there is great detail to the subject matter of these banks. Spelter banks...
Category
Early 1900s German Folk Art Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Spelter
19th Century wood Santos of a boy/child with glass eyes and articulated arms.
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This charming piece has been in my collection for over 40 years. The articulated arms and glass eyes contribute to its charm and personality. I have always felt it signified a sense ...
Category
Late 19th Century Mexican Spanish Colonial Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Fabric, Glass, Wood, Paint
Vintage North African Art Wall Sconce Parchment
Located in North Hollywood, CA
African Tribal Art parchment wall shade sconce featuring a large triangle hide form stitched on iron and hand painted surface.
These Moroccan Art pieces could be used as wall lamp s...
Category
20th Century Moroccan Folk Art Painted Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Swedish Black and Giltwood Hanging Planter, Gustavian Period Sweden, 1810
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Swedish black and giltwood ceiling hanging planter, Gustavian Period Sweden, 1810
The ceiling plater hangs with 3 black painted metal chains. The inside of the planter has a metal i...
Category
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Paint Decorated Santa Fe Bench
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A wonderful old bench with arched serpentine top and turned spindle back and supports. With a plain plank pine seat with nails, raised on turned legs w...
Category
Early 20th Century Rustic Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Hungarian Red Ware Folk Art Rooster - Lidded Jug/Teapot by Imre Szűcs
Located in Morristown, NJ
A Hungarian Folk Art Red Ware Rooster Lidded Jug/Teapot by Imre Szűcs. A black/brown based rooster decorated with white dots and green, yellow and red painted elements. The spout is...
Category
Late 20th Century Hungarian Folk Art Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
An ancient Papua wooden substitute headhunters's head
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Papua New Guinea, 18th-19th century
L. 22.5 x W. 18 cm (approx.)
Provenance:
Collected by Schulze-Westrum
Collection Rinck Hollnberger, Munich (purchased in the 1980s or 1990s)
For a comparable skull see the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The heads of humans and of animals such as crocodiles and pigs formerly played integral roles in the ceremonial life of Papuan Gulf peoples, who considered the heads to be vessels of life-giving supernatural power. Within men’s ceremonial houses, human skulls were displayed, together with sacred images such as spirit boards or gope, by the members of each clan in a specially constructed clan shrine. However, not all heads required the death of an enemy. In some areas, heads made from wood or other materials appear to have had powers equal to actual ones. In contrast to skulls, the facial features of wood heads were sometimes depicted as they appeared in life.
This example comes from the Wapo Creek area, where wood heads appear to have been used interchangeably with actual skulls. When headhunting was abolished by Australian colonial...
Category
19th Century Papua New Guinean Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Large Vintage Expressionist Landscape Painting Signed Enamel on Board
Located in Wilton, CT
Large expressionist landscape painting in enamel on board depicting grasses or flowers against a seaside sunset, circa 1980s-1990s. Well matched with a wide, white, wooden frame. Mea...
Category
Late 20th Century American Expressionist Painted Folk Art
Materials
Enamel
Painted Cupboard, 19th Century
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A attractive Primitive cupboard with original faux bois paintwork. This decorative technique was used to imitate more expensive woodspecies or, as in this case, for decoration and pr...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Softwood
18th Century Original Painting by John Nost Sartorius "Caring for the Horses "
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
John Nost Satorius, was an English painter of horses, horse-racing and hunting scenes. He is considered the best-known and prolific of the Sartorius family of artists.
Category
Late 18th Century European Sporting Art Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Paint
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