Primitive Dug-Out Chair

Large primitive oval-shaped dug out bowl from Sweden dating to the mid-19th century. Traces of reddish oxblood color paint on bowl exterior. Interior of bowl is scrubbed leaving a darkened finish that highlights the beautiful wood grain of the fruitwood. Inscribed on bottom "PER SODERBERG...

Ocher color rustic Swedish wooden dug out bowl dating to 19th century. Wood plug repair and remnants of early paint. Note: When shipped, antique wood may shrink and/or split along i...

Trencher-shaped rustic Swedish pine dug out bowl hand-carved circa 1820-1859. Dry, pale light grayish brown color finish. Inscribed with a faint single runic character. Note: When s...

Primitive clay cooking bowl from Los Reyes Metzontla, Mexico. This vintage vessel is hand-sculpted, created and used circa 1950-1969 by the indigenous population of the isolated Mexi...

Napoleon III low squared-back chairs on casters circa 1860-1879. Turned and hand-carved ebonized legs on casters. Newly-covered in white ticking and burlap. Sold together and priced ...

Pair of Georgian corner chairs on casters. Hand-carved from mahogany and joined circa 1775-1795 in England. Tapered square legs. Newly-covered in white ticking. Sold together and pri...

A large, characterful 19th century vernacular chair, primitively constructed from heavily patinated elm with original woven rush seat. Irish, c. 1850.

19th century swedish pine dug out chair circa 1870. Traditional rustic piece of swedish furniture using a tree trunk to form a piece of furniture.  Hand crafted from a trunk to form...

Antique 19th C Chestnut & Oak Wood Primitive Small Bowed Windsor Arm Chair. Item features a unique cat eye shaped seat, pegged construction, completely handmade frame, very nice anti...

Koncz Vilmos (1932 – 2006). He started painting at the age of 30, using the following techniques: charcoal, pastel, oil. He has had solo exhibitions eight times in Budapest, and his works have been featured in seventeen group exhibitions worldwide. He was an experimental creator. Its more than 420 works include glass mosaics, terracotta, copper embossing and furniture carving. After his death, most of his oeuvre was “lost”. A decade and a half passed from painting to the first carvings. Middle Eastern and African culture had a major impact on his further artistic work. Traveled and created in Baghdad, Kuwait, Beirut and Tanzania. He became acquainted with the ancient folk art of the Makonde tribe, with carvings of ebony and ivory, which changed his creative career. When he made an authentic bracelet out of ivory, decorated with African motifs, the members of the tribe welcomed him among themselves. He became the tribe’s "Mister Vili." An exhibition of his painted paintings was held at the Kilimanjaro Hotel. He learned the machining of copper from the Arabs and the making of glass mosaics, and the tricks of jewelry making from the Hindus. He had forty large sculptures erected in various settlements of Hungary, mostly multi-field, made with a circular carving technique. Everything from ornaments on the table to the three-meter-high monument was found in his oeuvre. The Tiszakürt Arboretum also houses two wooden sculptures made of circular carvings: Tasso and the Tanzanian family tree. Donated works of his hometown: the 1956 headboard, the “Jászok” and “Kunok” (Old Hungarian Tribes), the “Flute”, the “Kolompolás” (Ringing the Bell) and the “Winged Altar”. In the 1980s, he also made carvings for the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden. His Ars Poetic was: “I do what I love, which drives from within, because I want to leave marks behind that I once existed and perhaps not uselessly” (2002). The term "Brutalist" originated from Le Corbusier’s Cité...

We are delighted to offer for sale this really quite lovely original circa 1820 Irish Famine rocking armchair in pine. A good looking and exceptionally...

highly decorative item, can be used as a log basket or as a stool ... or even as a small table ... great patina, dry wood ... chunky, sturdy ...