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Technique: Painted
1960s Glazed Painted Tile of Two Horses Rearing
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1960s Glazed Painted Tile of Two Horses Rearing
Raised surface
Bright blues, bright greens, dark blue
Crackle in glaze
Slight chips on edge (as shown in pictures)
Wood stand not in...
Category
1960s Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Tribal wooden Dance Shield, from the Tutsi tribe, Rwanda
By Tutsi People
Located in Bilzen, BE
A early 20th century wooden dancing shield of the Tutsi, Rwanda, painted with earth pigments
The shield is in good condition with traces of tribal use
Straight line height 30 cm, wid...
Category
Early 20th Century Rwandan Tribal Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood
19th C Original Grain Painted Glass Front Cabinet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 19thc grain painted cabinet with a original wavy glass front door and shelf's in the interior. The cabinet door is in fine condition. This i...
Category
Late 19th Century American Adirondack Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pine
"Magic Mouse" Mechanical Bank, Japan, circa 1964
Located in Incline Village, NV
For the mechanical bank and toy enthusiast, listed is a tin, lithographed and painted, all original 1960s mechanical bank made by the Yone Company of Japan (see image of logo on side panel). The company was founded in 1950 and is typical of the post war companies who produced outstanding children's toys. The action is unique, clever, and encourages saving money. With the bank wound (attached key wind on the underneath (see image); place a penny on the spot provided on top of the bank. The mouse dashes out of the grey shoe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Folk Art Painted Folk Art
Materials
Tin
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
Early 18th Century American Adirondack Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Karaoke Sister Singers Unique Painting Self Taught Folk Artist Gloria Laposka
Located in South Burlington, VT
"Karaoke Singers At A Night Club" Vibrant Colored Hand Painting
Unique Oil Painting by Self Taught Outsider Surrealist Folk Artist Gloria Antoinette Laposka (1922-2015)
Said Lapo...
Category
Late 20th Century American Folk Art Painted Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Original Painted Juggling Pins
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These original painted red and cranberry monumental juggling pins are in fantastic condition and very large scale. The patina is the very best.
Category
19th Century American Adirondack Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Bear Head Black Forest Hand Carved Folk Art Wooden Trophy, 19th Century
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A great looking hand carved original wooden Folk Art Bear head wall decoration. A great piece for a suitable ambiance in a trophy room or the office of a...
Category
Late 19th Century Austrian Black Forest Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Large Rocking Elephant In Fiberglass Painted By Hand With Inset Resin Jewels
Located in Roma, RM
Eye catching and whimsical, this very limited edition elephant rocker is a spectacular showpiece. Lifelike down to its most minute details, this exquisite piece is equally at home in a child's room, living room or entryway. Made in Germany, between 2000 and 2010, the meticulously detailed elephant is cast in fiberglass which was then been painted by hand. The saddle as well as its straps are also finely detailed. The saddle is gilded, the silver neck and rear saddle straps embellished have a raised scalloped cording painted in antique gold. Inset in each scallop is a large faceted resin jewel alternating red and green. The rendering of the elephant's skin is painstakingly detailed both in the cast of the fiberglass as well as the hand painting. The elephant is mounted on hand forged and hand painted cast iron...
Category
Early 2000s German Modern Painted Folk Art
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Paint
Vintage Japanese Fine Art Painting Water Lillies Asian Antiques 中国古董
Located in London, GB
A fine Japanese Fine Art drawing of water lilies by Toru Suzuki
Acrylic Crayon mixed media,
Beautiful and elegant example
Ex Gallery Kabtoya Tok...
Category
20th Century Japanese Painted Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
19-Drawer Hand Stenciled Apothecary
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Functional general store herb and spice apothecary drawers found in New Hampshire. All dovetailed and hand stenciled drawers with handwritten notes on the inside for measurements and pricing. Each drawer has a hand stenciled painted banner...
Category
19th Century American Folk Art Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Antique French Ceramic, Shoe With Mice, Circa 1900
Located in Greven, DE
Wonderful antique ceramic from France, around 1900.
Beautiful small ceramic in the shape of a shoe with two mice climbing on it.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
19th Century Sponge Ware Squatty Pottery Pitcher
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century sponge ware fat and round milk or water pitcher. The condition is mint. This was found in Pennsylvania.
Category
Late 19th Century American Country Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Fantastic 19th Century Hand Painted Enamel Basket
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine hand painted metal basket with the enamel green base. The condition is very good.
Category
Late 19th Century American Early Victorian Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Enamel
Hand Painted Middle Eastern Qajar Style Picture Photo Album
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique Middle Eastern Qajar early 1900s Persian style picture photo album, with hand painted miniature on the cover.
Middle Eastern scrapbook is hand painted with 22-karat gold, wi...
Category
Late 19th Century Asian Moorish Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Original Bavarian Tyrolian Folk Art Painting, Signed and Dated
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Original Bavarian Tyrolian Folk Art painting, signed and dated
This charming folk painting is executed in oil on artist board. A beautiful and rus...
Category
1940s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Other
Cast Iron Cow Doorstop with Original Paint
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iron Cow doorstop in pasture. This cow doorstop has amazing wear to the iron and paint. Great Patina. Time has treated this doorstop with the right kind of lo...
Category
Early 20th Century American Country Painted Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Pastel Signed and Dated 1929 Horse Head Profile
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Signed and dated by Datroll 1929 pastel water color on paper and in vintage original frame. The condition is very good.
Category
1920s American Adirondack Vintage Painted Folk Art
Georgian Portrait Painting Of A Gentleman
Located in Ongar, GB
A nice quality Georgian oil on canvas portrait painting of a gentleman.
Wear to the canvas which you can see in the pictures.
Please contact us directly for a worldwide shipping qu...
Category
18th Century British Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
John Cole Rye Pottery Brown Glazed Studio Pottery Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Early Rye Pottery individual brown glazed studio pottery vase by John Cole (British, 1908-88) and made around 1947. The heavily made stoneware vase is of w...
Category
1940s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Indonesian 'Wayang Kulit" Shadow Puppet, Java, Indonesia, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This flat shadow puppet was crafted on the island of Java by a puppet artist using buffalo hide and mounted on bamboo sticks. It was used in Wayang puppet...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Painted Folk Art
Materials
Leather, Wood
Earnest Eve, Portrait, Carved Porcelain Wall Sculpture.
By Alex Hodge
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Hodge poetic porcelain plates examine and reimagine the history of art in a way that values women not only in body, but in wholeness, power, and love. Focusing on the narrative qua...
Category
2010s American Modern Painted Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
18th Century oil on board of lady attributed to Balthasar Denner
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Here we have a oil on board attributed to denner circa 1730. Depicting a typical subject of his, showing the face in high detail. Would benefit from a professional clean. Which we co...
Category
Mid-18th Century German Renaissance Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Pennsylvania 1854 Fraktur
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Birth announcement for Daniel Konig, Allentown PA 1854. Nicely framed and matted. Condition consistent with age. Overall size 23" by 27" Image size 16' by 13.5".
Category
1850s American American Colonial Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Antique Indian Hand Painted Brass Figural Gauri Head Sculpture Pair
Located in Forney, TX
A pair of antique Indian hand-painted figural brass head religious sculptures.
Hand-crafted in the Maharashtra or Karnataka region of India in the late 19th / early 20th century, d...
Category
Late 19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Brass
John Brewster attributed Portrait of Dr.Jostan Osgood (1742-1812)
Located in Sharon, CT
Identity of the sitter ( Dr.Jostan Osgood 1742-1812) given on an old label on back.
Unique to Brewsters' paintings is an air of silence and stillness. He also
captures the spirit an...
Category
Early 19th Century American Folk Art Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Hopi Tasaf Katsina, c. 1940s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tasaf Katsina
Hopi
1940s
10 inches H. x 4.50 inches W. x 3.75 inches D.
Cottonwood root, mineral pigments, dyed horsehair, feathers.
Very good original condition overall.
An wonderful example of the Hopi Tasaf Katsina circa early to mid 1940s.
Katsina dolls...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Native American Painted Folk Art
Materials
Other
19th C Original Paint Decorated Tall Blanket Chest
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th C Original paint decorated design and wonderful undisturbed surface.This tall blanket chest is in fine condition and came from a private estate...
Category
Early 19th Century American Adirondack Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Three Vintage Behind Glass Paintings with Biedermeier Scenes
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Three Vintage Behind Glass Paintings with Biedermeier Scenes
A set of three behind glass paintings depicting scenes from the Biedermeier period. Handpainted in Germany ca. 1950s and...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Country Painted Folk Art
Materials
Glass, Wood
Native American Black & White Cloud Pattern Mimbre Pottery Bowl
Located in New York, NY
Signed Native American Mimbre white pottery bowl with black cloud pattern on bowl interior. Painted black line rim all around top rim edge.
Hand crafted by Pablo Lopez, Central Mexic...
Category
20th Century Mexican Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Important Oceanic Carved Asmat Tribal Sago Bowl Serving Platter after War Shield
Located in Forney, TX
A rare and important Oceanic Papuan Asmat tribal carved ancestral sago bowl (also known as a platter, serving shield and tray) crafted in the likes of the...
Category
20th Century Papua New Guinean Tribal Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Vintage European Folk Art Cockerel, Early 20th Century
Located in Chappaqua, NY
Vintage European Folk Art Cockerel, early 20th Century. Rustic and hand-carved with original paint.
Category
Early 20th Century European Folk Art Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood
20thc Signed Cow Oil Painting Listed Artist
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Late 20thc oil painting on board by listed artist C. Wood a California artist. Fantastic workmanship. Lives in Los Alamos, California. She is an amazing lis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Adirondack Painted Folk Art
Materials
Acrylic
Peru Folk Art Pottery Clay Wicker Zoomorphic Bird Quinua Harvest Vase Sculpture
Located in Forney, TX
A rare and exceptional vintage Peruvian folk art pottery harvest vase.
Hand-crafted in Peru, most likely Ayacucho region / Quinua, the South American primitive executed in distinct...
Category
20th Century Peruvian Folk Art Painted Folk Art
Materials
Clay, Pottery, Terracotta, Wicker
Signed and Dated Hand-Painted Tile Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amazing signed Parkinson Studio - 1990 Pamela J Brown this hand-painted horse head is on tile and original black painted wood frame.
Category
1990s American Adirondack Painted Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
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
Early 18th Century French Baroque Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Fruitwood
Vintage Early 20th Century Oil Painting on Canvas Landscape and Cattle. c.1910
Located in London, GB
A charming early 20th century landscape oil painting. c.1910
Very skilfully painted landscape scene focusing on a herd of cattle.
Some very minor damage to the edges as pictured.
Category
Mid-20th Century English Painted Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Moroccan Ceramic Vase with Arabic Black Calligraphy Writing Moorish Glazed Fez
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large Moroccan glazed ceramic vase from Fez.
Moorish Granada style ceramic handcrafted and hand painted with Arabic calligraphy writing.
This kind of art writing looks calligraphic i...
Category
20th Century Moroccan Islamic Painted Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Yupik Yup'ik Native American Alaska Carved Polychrome Wood Anthropomorphic Mask
Located in Studio City, CA
A fantastic and somewhat playful mask by the Yup'ik (Yupik) aboriginal, indigenous people of South-Western & South Central Alaska. The Yup'ik people, who are related to the Inuit peoples, have a long history of ceremonial mask making. Yup'ik masks were originally and specifically designed by Shamans and made to be worn by these spiritual leaders in Winter tribal dances and sacred ceremonies. Traditionally, the masks were destroyed or discarded after use in these ceremonies. Very few of these masks survived. After Christian contact in the late 19th century, masked dancing was suppressed and the tradition all but died out. As more outsiders settled in Alaska at the turn of the century, masks were made by the Yup'ik people to sell or trade for necessary goods. It is likely that this mask was created some years later for this purpose.
In the 20th century, Yup'ik mask had a profound influence on many renowned surrealist artists including, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Leonora Carrington, Victor Brauner, and most notably Andre Breton who was an avid collector of Yup'ik masks.
This fantastic anthropomorphic mask is carved of lighter wood, hand painted and decorated with pigment, and held together with natural fiber. The mask seems to represent some sort of smiling, benevolent spirit or character with its four eyes, bird beak, and cat-like ears.
The mask is from a French collection. We were told that this mask, as well as others in the collection we have listed, was acquired originally in the 1950s-1960s in Alaska and the Yukon territory in Canada but as we have no way to verify or authenticate this. Please note we are listing the masks as decorative and not as actual tribal artifacts...
Category
20th Century American Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paint, Natural Fiber
Late 18th Century Naive American School Gouache Marine, Estate Scene Maritime
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A late 18th/early 19th century gouache on paper landscape, an unusual composition with passing ships two large naval, small rowing and sail boats centred by a large country estate.
It has the feel of being American in origins, but we could be wrong. Some creasing lines are apparent, but apart fro that is good untouched condition, housed in a period maple and gilt slip frame and glazed.
Provence By descent from Douglas Shepherd (1922-1989), a designer and architect working on public houses for the brewery firm Ind Coope. He was heavily influenced by and was a serious collector of Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau, including leading designers and artists such as Charles Ashlee and Jessie M King...
Category
Late 18th Century American Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Paper
20Thc Folk Art Cow Sign W/ Original Chain
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early 20thc folky hand made cow trade sign.This full body cow hanging trade sign is double sided and has the original metal chain.The cow is hand carved & painted wood.
Category
1940s American Adirondack Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Large 19th C Italian Venetian Oil Painting w/ Murano Beads & St. Mark’s Lion
Located in Katonah, NY
A Venetian Work of Art: Mid-19th Century Hand-Painted Artwork with Murano Glass Beads
This extraordinary piece of art, created in Venice, Italy, during the mid-19th century, is both ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Glass, Wood
19th Century Folk Art Oil Painting of a Girl Holding Wheat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine Folk Art painting of a girl holding wheat in a field painted on board. It is unsigned and on board newly framed. The condition is very good.
Category
Late 19th Century American Adirondack Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Paint, Canvas
'Boulder' Colorado Hand Painted Wood Road Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rustic hand painted Boulder road sign in black and white. Painted on a 3/4" thick plank of wood give this piece interesting character. Taken down from a nearby trail. Sign can...
Category
2010s American Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Early Swedish Folk Art Cabinet, Sweden 1790’s
Located in Valby, 84
Step back in time with this exceptional Swedish Folk Art Cabinet from the late 18th century. Crafted circa 1790, this piece showcases the exquisite craftsmanship and rich cultural he...
Category
1790s Swedish Folk Art Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Britt-Louise Sundell Gustavsberg Swedish Abstract Stylized Bird Pottery Plaque
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A large and heavily made Swedish mid-century pottery wall plaque in the form of an abstract stylized bird by Britt-Louise Sundell (1928-2011) for Gustavsberg and probably dating from...
Category
1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Antique Reverse Painted Glass Drink Coca Cola Sign Ice Cream Parlour circa 1920
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous 10 x 21 reverse painted glass Coca Cola sign from the twenties. In excellent vintage condition with a bit of fixing on the upper right corner. Made by the Price Bros. from C...
Category
1920s American Industrial Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Green Dolphin Inn Gathering Painting Outsider Folk Artist Gloria Laposka
Located in South Burlington, VT
A Gathering At The Green Dolphin Inn - Vibrant Colored Hand Painting
An oil painting on canvas panel by Self Taught Outsider Surrealist Folk Artist Gloria Antoinette Laposka (19...
Category
Late 20th Century American Folk Art Painted Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Signed Dated Patriotic American Flag Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Signed B. Donahue and dated 1969 Patriotic Flag painting.
On the left side a cemetery honoring fallen heroes in war. To the Right of the flag is a seemi...
Category
1960s American Adirondack Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Italian Midcentury Ceramic Modernist Collectors Vase by Art Rumi Orobico, 1950s
Located in Morazzone, Varese
Gorgeous and rare, unique ceramic vase hand painted and signed with N.D.R. by artist from Italian ceramic studio Orobico Arte Artigianato (ART RUMI) in the 1950s.
The vase is made of...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Early 20th Century Swedish Folk Art Painted Wooden Lunch Box, circa 1910
Located in Valby, 84
This early 20th-century Swedish allmoge wooden lunch box, dating to around 1910, is a fine example of traditional Scandinavian folk craftsmanship. Pai...
Category
1910s Swedish Folk Art Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Iron
19th Century Blanket Chest in Original Comb Painted Surface
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early finely paint decorated tall blanket chest is in fine condition. The tall lift top chest has two top false drawers and all original drawer...
Category
Early 19th Century American Country Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Austrian in the Manner of Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Moneys Riding on Dogs
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A charming Austrian cold painted bronze depicting three monkeys riding on the back of three running dogs in the manner of Franz Xaver Bergman (Austrian, 1861-1936) and dating from ar...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Dixieland Banjos Painting Self Taught Outsider Folk Artist Gloria Laposka
Located in South Burlington, VT
Dixieland Banjos
Unique Oil Painting by Self Taught Outsider Surrealist Folk Artist Gloria Laposka (1922-2015)
A unique and vibrant colored , hand painted oil on board Folk Art mas...
Category
Late 20th Century American Folk Art Painted Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Chinese Antique Washboard Hand Painted
Located in Somis, CA
A vernacular Chinese antique, this washboard is handcrafted from solid wood and adorned with hand-painted peony flowers. This double-sided piece showcases the beauty of rustic charm ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Painted Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Vintage Abstract Expressionist Oil Paintings on Masonite
By (after) Jackson Pollock
Located in New York, NY
Series of 5 abstract expressionist painting each on a Masonite board. These paintings were purchased from an estate in Westchester NY, they date from the 1960s or 1970s they are well...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Expressionist Painted Folk Art
Materials
Masonite
19th Century Slate Paint Decorated Game Board
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fantastic all original paint decorated game board is in fine condition with minor end chips or marks but does not detract from its amazing beauty and condition.
Category
Late 19th Century American Adirondack Antique Painted Folk Art
Materials
Slate
1960s Dutch Papier Mache Curious Grandpa Carnival Parade Head
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mid-Century unique and wonderfully fun large painted papier mache carnival head. This "Curious Grandpa" head resembles a man with white hair and curious facial expression, sadly the ...
Category
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Folk Art
Materials
Paper
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