Giltwood Furniture

Painting of a casual, abstract female body in oil on newspaper by Antonio Guanse, Paris 1963 The woman's body lolls casually under the artist's brushstrokes. The abstract depiction ...

A Large Continental Oil on Canvas "The Prohibited Reading " after Karel Ooms (Belgium, 1845-1900). This beautiful executed painting depicts a historical scene of an old man and a young woman who are huddled over a bible. The pair is gazing in apparent concern or alarm, over the old man's shoulder, towards something outside of the picture. The scene is likely set in the 16th or 17th century when Protestants were prosecuted, amongst others, for reading the bible in the vernacular, a practice prohibited by the Catholic Church at the time. Signed (l/r) A. Ribas 15-12-913. Within a giltwood carved frame. circa: Probably Belgium, 1913. Karel Ooms was born in Dessel on January 27, 1845 as the youngest son of a large peasant family. At school his extraordinary talent for drawing was discovered. When he was twelve his hometown provided financial support which allowed him to study at the Antwerp Academy of fine Arts. One of his teachers at the Academy was Nicaise de Keyser, one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting and a painter of mainly history paintings and portraits. After graduating from the Academy 1865 Karel Ooms was welcomed with pomp in his home town Dessel. He painted two altarpieces for the local church Saint Nicolas, to express his gratitude to his city. Karel Ooms settled as an independent artist in Antwerp around 1871. He quickly established a reputation as a portrait painter. In addition, he received commissions for religious paintings and history paintings. He gained particular recognition with two large paintings...

Antique Vanitas Oil Painting, Antique Memento Mori Oil Painting, Antique Skull Oil Painting, Gothic Antique Painting, 19th Century Vanitas Still Life Oil Painting. Early 19th Century French Vanitas Oil Painting on Canvas. The Old Master Vanitas Still Life Painting depicts a skull, book and rosary. Oil on canvas, lined. Unsigned. In gold gilt period frame. Very well painted, attractive & highly decorative Vanitas skull...

Triple Layered carved wood sunburst mirror, Spain, 1930s. The three layers of rays surounding the central round glass highlight its beauty. This wall mirror has a terrific aged pa...

A gorgeous 19th Century gilt finish hall or overmantle mirror, finely hand carved and of exceptional quality. The mirror glass plate of shaped, rectangular form is set within a gild...

Antique large quality gilt wall mirror overmantle from the 19th Century. Could be hung in portrait or landscape. An impressive find, that would look amazing in the right location....

A Fine Pair of French 19th/20th Century Louis XV-XVI Style 'Belle Époque' Giltwood Carved Bergères, attributed to Maison Jansen (House of Jansen). The recently upholstered and resto...

1950 Albert Eugene Gallatin Signed Abstract Oil Painting on Board Offered for sale is a nice Albert Gallatin (1882 - 1952) oil painting on board signed on verso September 1950. ...

Pair of circa late 19th century Spanish mirrors with mirror insets in frame. Sold individually. Measurements: Height:16.75" Width : 14" Depth: 3"

A sublimely elegant versatile antique French neoclassical folding screen having central panel with cresting of a garland with crimped ribbo...

Carlo Rampazzi Colombostile Eclectic Collection Inlay Chair, Made in Italy Offered for sale is an inlaid wood and giltwood upholstered club chair designed by Carlo Rampazzi from th...

A handsome and stately French Empire mirror with gilded hand carved detail.

A fine pair of late 19th century French Louis XVI giltwood carved bergeres .

Folk Art Wall Mirror, Hand-Painted Floral Motifs and Gilded Frame, Peru 1970s Add a touch of vibrant folk charm to your space with this 1970s Peruvian mirror. The wooden frame fea...

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Louis XV Style Carved Giltwood Armchair Fauteuil This elegant and regal armchair has a masterfully carved frame with acanthus and shell scro...

Having a jacard print needlepoint upholstered cushion trimmed in small nailheads atop a carved and shaped wooden frame that is lacquered and has giltwood details, the cabriole legs t...

17th Century Italian Baroque Architectural Bases Pair of Carved and Giltwood Elements featuring blue painting details, a pair of antique decorativ...

A fine English round or circular convex mirror featuring a Regency style design of a molded, ebonized frame with gilt accents around the circumference. Measures: Diameter is 18 1/2 ...

18th century Jesus Child Terracotta Sculpture an Italian Holy and devotional art polychromed figure  depicting Baby Jesus standing on an a carved and go...

This exquisite gilded wooden sunburst mirror, dating from the early 20th century, is a fine example of timeless craftsmanship and artistic elegance. The mirror is shaped as a radiant...

A vintage Louis XVI-style ebonized giltwood bergere armchair, with a square button-tufted back, and a comfortable large cushion base. DIMENSIONS 26ʺW × 21ʺD × 34.5ʺH. Previously u...

Pair of beautiful Regence style vitrines in gilded wood. Napoleon III period. c. 1890s sliding doors adjustable shelves. Provenance: jewelry store in Madrid. Dimensions: H226 x ...

English Regency gilt stenciled figural and floral ebonized dital harp signed by maker Edward Light. Retailed at Srohl Foley place London, Early 19th century.

Pair of Georgian Chinoiserie Style Carved Giltwood Mirrors  Italy, circa 1950s An exquisite pair of Georgian Chinoiserie Style Carved Giltwood Mirrors from Italy, circa 1950s. Each ...

Antique French giltwood wall mirror, Louis XVI period, circa 1780. Antique gilded wood frame with pearl decoration, period gilding with weathered patina. Frame width: 4 cm / 1.57 in....

A Fine French whimsical Belle Époque grape-vines gilt-metal, gilt-brass and giltwood console and mirror with fifteen floral lights. The ornately decorated domed floral paneled mirror...

A Dutch / English engraver born in Amsterdam and settled in London in the late 1680s. These engravings are from his most important work " Brittania Illustrata , a series of etchings ...

Antique Regency Style Giltwood Chandelier

An exceptional museum-calibre Swedish circa 1800 late Gustavian period armchair of neoclassical form by Swedish royal cabinetmaker Ephraim Ståhl (1768 -1820), the giltwood frame in o...

This late nineteenth century French Louis XVI style gilt wood bench features hand carved detailing of beading, crossed ribbons, and rais-de-coeur around its caned seat. Rosettes ador...

Fabulous mid-19th century Italian carved giltwood mirror, attributed to the piedmont region of Italy. Meticulously carved c...

These fine chairs have a domed and padded back surmounted By a floral crest, joined by padded arms to the like seat, raised Above a floral guilloche-carved apron on molded cabriole ...

the cartouche mirror plate within a conforming giltwood frame with floral crest above an openwork frame of acanthus and rocaille carving all flanked by the mythical Ho Ho bird with o...

Impressive well painted 19th century Russian oil on canvas of hunt scene or chase featuring troika pulled by 6 horses in full stride. Man armed w...

A Mid 20th Century Century Furniture Italian Tuscan Walnut and Brass Chest of Drawers by Century Furniture. Measures 36" in width, 19" in depth and 45.25" in height. Matching wall ha...

Arch shaped vintage Giltwood and beveled glass mirror with geometric architectural motif, Italy, circa 1970. Multiple panels of beveled glass are trimmed out with simple bands Giltwo...

A finely rendered heraldic watercolor on paper depicting an elaborate composite coat of arms, signed lower right “E. Wenzel” and likely executed in the late 19th century. The work pr...

A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. A retailer's label reads " Fred K/ Keer's Sons - Framers and Fine Art Dealers - 917 Broad St. Newark, N.J." - Another label from the gilder reads "Carlo Bartolini - Doratore e Verniciatori - Via Maggio 1924 - Firenze". Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Canvas diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 54 inches (137.2 cm) Frame width: 42 1/2 inches (108 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

Italian giltwood wall mirror with convex inset mirror. Diameter 73 cm.

Joseph H. Greenwood (Massachusetts, 1857-1927), "New England Landscape" - Oil on Board, 14.75" w x 12.25" h. Joseph Greenwood, renowned for his evoc...

This is a pair of Hollywood Regency Era carved Giltwood mirror with Rococo styling. I love the carved giltwood shell pediment and the free form carved frame. The finish is a deep bro...

This rare frame is of rectangular form with an arched top, the top and sides surmounted by angel masks, leaf and floral forms, scrolls and a shell-form finial, the sides and bottom are adorned with scrollwork and stylized shell-form carved feet, the frame retains two antique mirror...

Huge Burton-Ching 18th C Style Charles II Black Chinoiserie Regency Mirror.

Exquisite pair of hand carved Ganesha gilded framed doorway or room dividers these are finished front and back with stunning detail they also stand on t...

A hand-painted Egyptian sphinx statue rendered in radiant gold with black accents. The sphinx, a mythical creature symbolizing strength and wisdom, is depicted in a classic pose, wit...

A giltwood and carved French Louis XV style settee in original gilt finish, circa 1900.

A black ink and sepia wash drawing by French artist Jean-Baptiste Le Prince of a classical scene of Roman soldiers with camel signed and dated lower left. T...

An exceptionally fine quality example of an elaborately framed English Still Life of fruits Oil Painting on canvas, in the style of Oliver Clare or Eloise Harriet Stannard, second qu...

This is a wonderful early Italian carved giltwood mirror. It has carved Ho Ho birds flanking each size giving it majestic Chinese Chippendale styling. It is unmarked.

French Modern Carved Gilt & Silver Wood Mirror France, Late 20th Century A substantial hand carved work, the continuous surround, with pierced gi...

PRESENTING A LOVELY 19 century English Baroque Gilt Floral Wall Mirror. English, circa 1840. In classic ‘Baroque’ style with scrolling acanthu...

A beautiful example of a hand made girandole banjo clock by well known Weymouth, Massachusetts clockmaker Elmer O. Stennes (1911-1975), with a signed circular face with brass ball s...

Beautiful French 19th century mirror.

A set of two Japanese paintings, each with a hand gilt background depicting a Japanese Magnolia painted sans traverse across the two panels. The originals Japanese, circa 1900. Di...

Japanese Buddhist assembled wood sculpture of Kannon-Bosatsu (Avalokitesvara), the God of Compassion, standing male figure with abundant cloak draper...

This extraordinary and finely carved five piece suite comprising of one sofa, two armchairs and two single chairs with original gilding. It's part of an eleven piece s salon set pub...

This magnificent English Regency giltwood convex girandole mirror, circa 1800, featuring displayed eagle with hanging tassels, opposing dolphins and six candle arms with gilt foliage...

Exuberant Portuguese polycromed stately headboard. This headboard probably came from one of the great houses in Portugal. Although very old, the painting as well as the gilding is st...

Add luxurious elegant sophistication and opulence with this visually striking Belle Époque period (1871-1914) freestanding carved gilt wood French fireplace screen. Late 19th / earl...