Hand-Carved Furniture

19th century Spanish cupboard or buffet constructed from walnut. Features a two parts with four doors . This massive cabinet made in Spain features beautiful walnut grain and showcas...

A stunning 1930s French Art Deco writing desk sourced directly from Provence, France. Expertly handcrafted from solid oak, it features a rectangular top with a beveled edge. The desk...

A wonderful 20th century carved painted wooden Chinese horse purchased in 1985 from a prominent Hong Kong Gallery. A copy of the original receipt will be...

Vintage Italian Multi-Colored Geometric Design Empoli Glass Genie Decanter Bottles with Stoppers, and here is Individual Dimensions: Net Price for e...

Murano style tortoise brown and black signed art glass large vase. Stunning masterpiece of studio art glass hand-made with multicolored organic brown, beige and black, motif is not t...

A circa 1920 highly decorative water gilded Italian sunburst, hand carved wooden rays with a brass sun face to the centre. Original hanging hook to the rear. Width 55cm, Depth 5cm.

Antique French Black Forest Tantalus Liquor Box Glass Decanter Cavé à Liqueur. Create an elegant bar area with this outstanding carved Black F...

18th Century Swedish Rococo chair from Stockholm, Southern Sweden. A fantastic chair with nice proportions & curvy legs It comes from the upper class environment. Scraped by ha...

This quirky side table was carved from padauk wood in Ceylon in the 1950s. Please take a look at all the pictures to see the detail of the charmi...

These mid 18th Century English Harlequin Lancashire chairs are an amazing reflection of a time when craftsmanship was uniquely individual, resulting i...

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...

An Enameled Molded Porcelain Snuff Bottle. Imperial, Jingdezhen kilns, Qianlong four-character mark in iron red.  

Hand-carved during the early- to mid-1900’s, this pair of French Louis XVI style armchairs has beautiful blue silk upholstery on the seats and back rests. The upholstery has a moiré ...

Fantastic highly carved Gothic Oak hall bench with full lions and winged dragons on the back panel. Full body mythic lions make up the armrests while the back panel has swirling drag...

A French Louis XIX/XV Style Giltwood Carved 'Baroque Revival' Figural Queen-Size Bed with Cherubs. The tall ornately pierced carved headboard, crowned...

Splendid wall clock set in an elegant opening wooden case, with carved frame and golden tablet. The internal finishes of the clock are also in golden tablet and brass. The decoration...

This Indigenous American totem pole was done by the renowned master carver John T. Williams of the United States in approximately 1960 in his signa...

Masterfully carved Italian Vanitas / Memento Mori bust in solid marble from late 19th century. White Carrara marble skull combined with masterfully...

This antique console table and mirror set is unsigned, but presumed to have originated from France and date to approximately 1920 and ...

Midcentury amazing sculpture table lamp in wood and metal attributed to Aldo Tura for Macabo. Made in Italy in the 1950s. It depicts a bearded monk holding a stick (removable) in ...

19th century Anglo Indian hardwood three level server or shelf with pine cone finials. The shelves with galleries supported by hand carved posts with ...

Cult stool/ side table; a hand sculpted stone from a Mexican marble and Mexican onyx conglomerate, remits to primal sculptural-architectural language while displaying materials in a ...

Magnificent and very rare Gründerzeit wall cabinet handmade from European oak. Striking German design from the 1880s made with exquisite craftsmanship. Solid oak and original oak...

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An early 18th century Florentine ebonized wood aedicule case with gilt metal embellishments Ambit of Leonard van der Vinne Possibly first decade of the 18th century; Florence, Italy Approximate size: 83.5 (h) x 69 (w) x 23 (d) cm The cabinet’s centralized glass door is flanked by thick spiraling Solomonic columns surmounting a lower drawer. To the rear of the cabinet, the motif repeats in an eloquent display of perspectival treatment. The overall work is supported by a tiered base, elegantly conceived, and the cabinet is topped by a handsome pediment flanked by square plinths crested by gilt metal finials and an openwork frieze. The cabinet’s tempered and moderate form suggests an origin probably during the first decade or quarter of the 18th century. Although utilitarian in concept, the reserved and sublime expressiveness of this cabinet is managed with a quality and care respective of the influence of Florentine ebony cabinetry work conceived in the Galleria dei lavori or Grand Ducal Workshops of the 18th century Medici dynasty. In particular, its base mouldings echo a remarkable Night Clock...

Fantastic pair of Chinese carved rosewood sofas or benches featuring geometric armrests and gently curved spindle backs. Each bench has a spring cushion constructed in the frame for ...

A collection of slate animal grave markers, these appear to of all been from the same family/estate/property. Likely all working animals and much loved. All initialed and dated to...

This set of gorgeous Chinese Rosewood Carved Living room Chairs and table were made during early 20th century and still maintained its original condition, very smooth to touch, full ...

Beautiful weathered hand carved stone medieval statue depicting a Saint . Italy 16th century. Weathered, small losses and old repair. H:51cm W:18cm D:13cm

English Georgian Acanthus foliage medallion crest gilt wood & gesso scrolled foliage border two plate beveled wall mirror. Mirror retains the original beveled looking glass and wood ...

A stunning pair of excellent quality bronze Pixiu wealth dragon mythical creatures with visually striking scattered verdigris bluish green patina! Well known in Chinese culture and...

A magnificent Qing Dynasty (1636-1912) Chinese temple altar pagoda now fashioned as a monumental one-of-a-kind sculptural floor lamp! Exquisitely hand-crafted in China in the 19th c...

Highly decorative and quality carved, winged eagle table lamp on a column. All handcrafted out of natural materials, this rare eagle table lamp is a marvelous work of art in the day...

Introduce warmth and elegance to your space with this stunning antique marble fireplace from Provence. The combining shades of grey-blue, bleu-Turquin, and reddish-pink, Fleur-de-Pêc...

A vintage Mid-Century modern Italian pair of bed side tables made of hand crafted polished, partly veneered Mahogany, designed by Paolo Buffa in good condition. The nightstands are c...

A sophisticated Venetian modern design vertical picture frame in thick blown Murano glass worked in a luscious emerald jewel green color, by Barovier & Toso, signed piece. The elegan...

A Dutch walnut wall mirror from the 19th century with hand-carved décor, protruding corners and brown patina. This exquisite Dutch walnut wall mirror from the 19th century captures t...

Beautiful decorative tinned copper hand-hammered Indo-Persian box with lid. Probably used as a tea caddy or tobacco storage. Nice Middle Eastern Arabian Moorish style hand chiseled copper...

Hand carved presentation plates in Statuary marble. Multiple use as plates, platters and placers. The precious white Statuary marble has always been the one preferred by sculptors a...

Vintage small storage or trinket box features rounded, biomorphic shape and simple, but elegant construction. The box is hand carved of solid zebra wood; the storage compartment slid...

Large rustic bench from Spain, early 20th century, originally used as a butcher’s table for processing swine. If one can overlook the macabre history of the piece, there is organic b...

This rare French bergère chair dates from the late 18th century, during the elegant transitional period between the Louis XVI and Directoire styles. Crafted from solid beechwood, the...

A lovely 18K yellow gold vintage floral brooch realistically modeled as lily of the valley, set with frosted carved rock crystal flowers, each suspending a sparkling full round cut diamond, mounted on an 18k yellow gold stem and a carved jade leaf...

Rare set of sculptures composed by a set of the four female figures representing The Arts. Music, Painting , Architecture ,Sculpture. Measures: Height cm 150 Very good original con...

Vase in Stoneware, in a brown color. With leaves decor pattern. French Riviera, it has been made in France circa 1960.

Antique French Terracotta Planter Anduze Color cachepot jardinière Urn Pot LA CA . Beautiful Handmade 19th Century Earthen-ware terracotta Glazed Anduze From ...

Early 20th century, antique vanity or entrance console, entry mirror on a hand carved walnut frame, with a gold leaf surface finish. Venetian Baroque cabinet in walnut and burl walnu...

A lovely Federal card table in fine mahogany with hinged rectangular top pivoting and opening to a square supported by a turned column with tobacco leaf carvings over a round base with carved knurling reminiscent of pineapples. Four "C" shaped legs are reeded and rest on brass lion claw...

Antique 19th Century Intricately Carved Anglo-Indian Side Table. A beautiful finely carved British Colonial wooden occasional side table from India. Antique fine quality pierced an...

The shape of the inactive Tronador volcano reminded us of the pyramid shaped idea of our boxes that make up this collection. With a rectangular or square base, the box is a reflectio...

Late 18th Century, an original Directoire settee from France, in good condition. The hand scraped wood frame of the French period canape has the original patina. Hand crafted in Beechwood with a gracious flower décor, rosettes. A continuous Greek Meander...

Swedish early 20th century carved birch pedestal desk circa 1900. Elegant Scandinavian pedestal desk comprising of 3 sections. Slightly over-sailing writing surface with 3 drawers b...

This elegant, antique marble and bronze "Selette" was crafted in France, circa 1890. The heavy pedestal sits on a thick sturdy square plinth embellished with a bronze scrolled mount ...

Beautiful handcrafted piece with nice patina. This antique table has all the character a piece of this nature should. Constructed out of solid wood with a plank top, bobbin turned le...

A vintage Mid-Century Modern Italian writing, office table with a large top, made of hand crafted polished Rosewood, designed by Ico Parisi and produced by MIM Roma, in good conditio...

A circa 1950's French carved alabaster light fixture with 3 Edison interior lights and patinated bronze chain and canopy. Measurements: Diameter: 24.5" Present drop: 24" (adjustable)

Add a touch of Africa to your bookshelf with these vintage ebony figurative bust bookends. These bookends are hand carved from hardwood ebony and feature intricate tribal patterns an...

A fine pair of cabriolet armchairs, Louis XVI period, late 18th century production circa 1780. Beautiful model showing a shield-shaped backrest, carefully sculpted and lacquered. All...

An Italian 1940's walnut wall-mount console table with cabriole fluted legs ending in brass scrolled sabot, supporting as stunning onyx top. Of very elegant proportions and a beautif...

This exquisite Louis XV-style fireplace mantel is a stunning example of 18th-century French craftsmanship, masterfully carved in rare veined Rosso Levanto marble. The serpentine line...