19th Century Italian screen, wall panel, oil on canvas

Original 19th Century rare child’s carousel horse, the most wonderful original patina, original paint, glass eyes, (one eye has a small chip) original horse bit, finely carved head, ...

Antique French birdcage, original paint, ready to hang or freestanding. The door opens to display inside. The below height does not include any chain, there is approx 12 inches of ol...

19th Century carved wooden Swedish column, original paint, lovely deep carving to both sides, a heavy solid column with a strong base, the carving is offset on both sides. The top is...

A beautiful and very high quality French 19th century cast iron statue of a young boy dancing and skipping while playing the flutes, signed by the famous A. Durenne sommevoire. Excep...

Late 19th Century / early 20th Century pair of antique French panels, oil on wood, pretty detail, soft colour tones. Worn fabric on the back. A very pretty decorative pair of wall panels...

Late 18th Century - early 19th Century hand painted French paper panel, I have five available, they are sold and priced individually. They was part...

Nineteenth century Screen with grotesques Measures: (5) Oil on canvas, 158 x 185 cm The screen analyzed is made up of five panels, each divided into two panels decorated with elements of the natural world on the upper level and grotesque decorations on the lower level. The grotesque is a type of ornamentation often used in painting, sculpture and minor arts, for example in ceramics and tapestries, developed at the end of the 15th century. The five upper panels refer to as many famous Aesop's fables, i.e. the first panel depicts the fable of The frogs ask for a king, the second panel instead represents the roosters and the partridge, the third panel has as its protagonist the famous fable of the Hare and the tortoise, while the fourth The crow and the fox, while the last panel probably represents the episode of the Fox and the stork. The screen owes its name to its singular and ancient origin; after the discovery of these decorations in 1480 in Nero's Domus Aurea, a palace that had been buried for centuries, under the pretext of imitatio antiquitatis, they were re-proposed in contemporary palaces. The palace of Nero was visited by many explorers, who descended into it and had the impression of being inside a cave, which is why, as Benvenuto Cellini tells us, these particular decorations rediscovered there were called grotesque. The great success that the grotesques had is testified by Raphael's decorations in the Vatican...

Four screen rectangular paravent. The panels are painted on wood . The upper part is in the shape of a gendarme’s hat. Each panel is richly painted with floral decor, galantes, cost...

Early 19th century French six-panel painted screen. Beautifully hand painted.

A colorful floral tropical still life with island background by English artist Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898). Beardsley was born in Brighton, Englan...

A lovely 19th century Italian neoclassical oil on leather folding screen room divider. Born in Italy, circa 1860, featuring patinated brass hinged three panel wooden frame wrapped in leather canvas hand painted with fantastical classical design depicting grotesque arabesque motif including putti cherub medzallions, floral wreaths, trailing foliage and ribbons on a pale olive green ground, accented by bronze stud tack trim sides and shaped top. Dimensions: (approx) 73" High, 66.5" Wide, 1" Deep Each panel: 22.25 Wide Folded closed: 3" Deep Detailed Condition Report: In overall great antique condition. Beautifully aged distressed patina. Wear consistent with age and use, retaining original antique character...

A lovely 19th Century French giltwood folding screen painted in the Chinoiserie style and backed in silk.