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18th Century Gold Swedish Gustavian Pair of Gilded Wood Wall Glass Mirrors
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A gold, antique Swedish Gustavian pair of wall mirrors made of hand crafted gilded wood with its original mirrored glass, in good condition. The Scandinavian wall décor...
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18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique Decorative Art

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Glass, Giltwood, Mirror

Gweledva
Located in Montreal, QC
Leather wall art, made with relief and leather inlay, with a solid cherry wood frame. This atypical wall art, highlights the expertise of designers in the field of leather and wood,...
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2010s Canadian Arts and Crafts Decorative Art

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Leather, Wood

Sensual Original French Painting 1940s Reclining Nude Pin-Up Girl by Joan Mayor
Located in Tustin, CA
Exquisite and colorful original oil on canvas painting by 20th century French painter, Joan Mayor, from the 1940s, depicts a ravishing woman or pin-up girl ...
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Decorative Art

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Canvas, Paint

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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 two-tone gilt wood, gilt-patinated 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. Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Painting diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 55 1/8 inches (140 cm) Frame width: 46 inches (116.8 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 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...
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Early 1900s Italian Baroque Antique Decorative Art

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Canvas, Giltwood

Brutalist Bronzed Resin Wall Relief Sculpture, Style of Paul Evans, c 1970s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unique brutalist wall relief was sculpted with bronzed resin over wood, in the style of Paul Evans, circa 1970s. Incredible textures and col...
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1970s American Brutalist Vintage Decorative Art

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Resin, Wood

Original Louis Ritman Impressionist Still Life Oil Painting of Flowers in a Vase
By Louis Ritman
Located in Tustin, CA
Vividly colorful and classically composed, yet loosely painted, this original still life oil on canvas painting of flowers in a vase on a table is a fine example of the work of famous, listed, deceased American Impressionist painter, Louis Ritman...
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Early 20th Century French Other Decorative Art

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Canvas

Lotus Flower, Natural Wall Decoration and Installation
Located in Bilbao, PV
An organic modern wall decorative artwork handcrafted in Spain by Gabriela de Sagarminaga. We created it based on the idea of volume to add a touch of spatiality with its symmetrical...
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21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Organic Modern Decorative Art

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Natural Fiber, Birch

Pair Art Nouveau Bronze Relief Wall Plaques
Located in Kastrup, DK
Pair of fine Art Nouveau / Jugendstyl gilt bronze relief wall plaques, with wonderful details, mounted in walnut frames. The reliefs depict Diana, ...
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Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Decorative Art

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Bronze

Cyrk Mona Lisa Contorionist R1970s Polish Circus Poster, Urbaniec
Located in Bath, Somerset
Another wonderfully inventive, witty and well executed design by Maciej Urbaniec features on this original 1970s Polish CYRK (circus) poster. The ‘Cyrk” circus poster in Poland ap...
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20th Century Polish Decorative Art

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Paper

Sotheby's Art at Auction-1988-89 by Sally Liddell, 'Editor', Jasper Johns Cover
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's Art at Auction-1988-89 by Sally Liddell, (editor), Jasper Johns Cover. Harper & Row, NY. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Several hundred be...
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1980s American Vintage Decorative Art

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Paper

Royal Vienna & Haviland Limoges Porcelain Signed Plate Female Beauty, circa 1900
Located in Gardena, CA
Royal Vienna & Haviland Limoges Porcelain Signed Plate Female Beauty, circa 1900 Beautiful Hand Painted Women in Red White & With Auburn Flowing Hair &...
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19th Century Antique Decorative Art

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Porcelain

20th Century Light-Brown French Self-Portrait Oil Painting of Daniel Clesse
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A light-brown, vintage Mid-Century modern French self-portrait oil on cardboard painting of Daniel Clesse, in good condition. Signed on the lower right. Wear consistent with age and ...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art

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Wood

Antique Continental Italianate Framed Watercolor on Board Possibly Venice, Italy
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Stunning continental view possibly venice, Italy. Watercolour on Artists board, last quarter of the 19th century. Depicting Mountainous and Landscape views with three ladies...
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Late 19th Century Italian Victorian Antique Decorative Art

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Canvas, Giltwood

Japanese Showa Two Panel Screen Embroidered Silk Gilt Boxes
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Charming Japanese Showa period two-panel folding byobu screen featuring an embroidered silk picture of beautiful gift boxes. Stunning pattern of Hanaguruma (flower cart) laden with d...
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20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Block Print in Unique Samuel Peck Co. Negative Printing Contact Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Discover a unique blend of art and history with this captivating block print of an animal. Set against a soothing green matte, this vintage piece stands as an intriguing dialogue bet...
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Late 19th Century Unknown Folk Art Antique Decorative Art

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Wood, Paper

Banana Pendant by Sofia Alvarado
Located in Geneve, CH
Banana pendant by Sofia Alvarado Dimensions: D 200 x H 3 cm Materials: Embroidered blackout fabrics, Macrame / lacquered metal stand. One of a Kind. FI is an ornamental artist ...
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2010s Panamanian Post-Modern Decorative Art

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Metal

in Between Letters Small Installation by Tero Kuitunen
Located in Geneve, CH
In between letters small installation by Tero Kuitunen Material: ceramic objects, pigment and wood Dimensions: D 11 x H 20cm Size customizable. Handbuild ceramic letters that w...
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2010s Finnish Post-Modern Decorative Art

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Ceramic, Wood

in Between Letters Large Installation by Tero Kuitunen
Located in Geneve, CH
In between letters large installation by Tero Kuitunen Material: ceramic objects, pigment and wood Dimensions: D 22 x H 30cm Size customizable. Handbuild ceramic letters that w...
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2010s Finnish Post-Modern Decorative Art

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Ceramic, Wood

French Green-white-black Art Nouveau Poster Advertising with Cancan Dance, 1980s
Located in Salzburg, AT
Advertising poster for an event featuring "cancan dancers" with printed event information and a well-staged dancer in motion with her petticoat billowing....
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1980s French Art Deco Vintage Decorative Art

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Gold Leaf

20th Century, Spanish Painting Orientalist School "Audience at the Alhambra"
Located in Marbella, ES
Spanish Orientalist school, 20th century. "Audience in the Alhambra". Oil on canvas. Measurements: 31,5 x 23 cm; 47 x 39 x 39 x cm (frame). Orientalism was born in the 19th centu...
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Early 20th Century Spanish Decorative Art

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Canvas

18th Century Gold French Gilded Wood Barometer, Antique Parisian Thermometer
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A rare antique finely worked French barometer with lyre shaped crest thermometer above a large hexagonal framed barometer. The Parisian décor piece is m...
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Late 18th Century French Empire Antique Decorative Art

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Giltwood

Art at Auction The Year at Sotheby's & Parke-Bernet 1970-71, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby's & Parke-Bernet 1970-71. By Philip and Annamaria MacDonald. Viking Press, NY, 1970. Numerous color photos of important lots from all of Sotheby's...
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1970s American Vintage Decorative Art

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Paper

20th Century Provencal Landscape Oil Painting by Eugène Colignon
By Eugène Colignon
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A dark-green, yellow antique French Provencal landscape oil on canvas painting, portraying a sunny day in a small town, most likely in Provence, painted by Eugène Colignon in a handc...
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Early 20th Century Belgian Decorative Art

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Canvas, Wood

Decorative Wall of Hand Painted Artisanal Tiles with Circus from the 20th
Located in Madrid, ES
Large mural of artisanal tiles of the 20th Century impressive mural of tiles of the 20th Century made in an artisan way with hand-painted and fire-fired tiles. Measures 280 x 155 cm.
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1970s Vintage Decorative Art

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Ceramic

19th Century Antique Chinese 3d Wood Carving Panel
Located in Pomona, CA
Look at this Chinese antique wood carving panel, it has very deep 3D carving works of Chinese folks art - deer and immortal holding a glossy ganoderma- meani...
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19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Decorative Art

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Wood

"VORTEX" Marquetry Artwork by Emma Wood
Located in Nr Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
This recent artwork from the w o o d p o p studio is an example of the type of modern marquetry that w o o d p o p is becoming synonymous with. Since its inception 10 years ago - the studio has specialised in marquetry and inlay work; meticulous art-forms where pieces of wood veneer are inlaid to create decorative designs or pictures. Emma Wood, who founded the studio 10...
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2010s Welsh Decorative Art

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Wood

Garment District NYC Scene by Matthew Popielarz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Garment district NYC scene by Matthew Popielarz on canvas.
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20th Century American Post-Modern Decorative Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

British Sailor's Large Woolwork of HMS Brunswick
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's large woolwork of HMS Brunswick, Circa 1865 The large sailor's woolwork depicts an image of a Royal Navy Second Rate Battleship. By repute she is the HMS Brunswick ...
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Mid-19th Century English Folk Art Antique Decorative Art

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Wool

19th Century Chinese Calligraphy Signboard
Located in Kastrup, DK
A Chinese Qing Dynasty period linden wood signboard with calligraphy with stunning age-related patina. The wood carved signboard showcases a pair of couple written by a younger juni...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Decorative Art

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Metal

Bespoke Custom Vintage Original Letters, Retro, Shop, Sign, Reclaimed, Signage
Located in Bath, Somerset
We're sure we don't need to spell it out how fantastic these vintage letters are! Most of them were salvaged from an old disused letter making factory in England along with some fab...
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20th Century British Decorative Art

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Metal

Decorative Wall of Hand Painted Artisanal Tiles from the 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Large mural of artisanal tiles of the 20th century impressive mural of tiles of the 20th century made in an artisan way with hand-painted and fire-fire...
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1970s Vintage Decorative Art

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Ceramic

Sotheby's Art At Auction 1998-1999 Edited by Emma Lawson, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Sotheby's Art At Auction 1998-1999 Edited by Emma Lawson. Sotheby's Publications London, 1998. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. This annual reference work provides a view of the ye...
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1990s English Decorative Art

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Paper

1970s Colourful Abstract Glazed Tiles in Aluminium Frame Signed Rachel Savir
Located in Melbourne, AU
An attractive abstract decorated tile artwork, framed in hardwood and brushed aluminium. Signed by Rachel Savir, ceramicist, active Israel 1970s. Bold c...
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1970s Israeli Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Art

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Aluminum

Antique hand carved Walnut Wall Plaque Fruits and Vegetables, Early 20th Century
Located in Barntrup, DE
Antique hand carved walnut wall plaque fruits and vegetables, Germany, early 20th century. This absolutely gorgeous masterfully carved wall decoration from the early 20th century fe...
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Early 20th Century German Black Forest Decorative Art

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Walnut

Mixed Media Collage by Chet Lamore, circa 1978
Located in Long Island City, NY
Untitled mixed media collage by Chet Lamore, circa 1978. Signed Lamore on the lower center.
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20th Century American Decorative Art

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Marble, Metal

Japanese Two-Panel Screen
Located in New York, NY
Edo Pariod Japanese two-panel screen depicting cranes on a willow branch. 3992
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19th Century Japanese Antique Decorative Art

William Hughes Still Life Fruits Oil on Board English Painting 1863 Gilt Frame  
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptionally fine quality example of a pair of framed Still Life of fruits Oil Paintings on Artists board by well documented English Artist William Hughes, third quarter of the Nineteenth Century. Complete with good giltwood frames, one is signed lower left W. Hughes and dated 1863  Both paintings with similar views depicting Still Life of fruits to include Apples, Pears and Black Grapes  Condition: Good condition recently professionally cleaned and ready to hang. Old trade label CHAS H WEST Framemakers in Primrose Hill, London.  Height: (entire including frame) 13.75" (35cm). Width: (entire including frame) 17.5” (44.5cm).   Location: Dublin City, Ireland.  Affordable fixed charge Worldwide Store to door shipping offered.  Provenance: Burling Paintings Art Gallery, Burlington Gardens, Mayfair, London.   William Hughes (1842-1901) was a still life painter, father of Sir Herbert Hughes-Stanton. He was a pupil of George Lance and W.H. Hunt.  Hughes exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1866 and 1901 as well as at the British Institute, Suffolk Street and the Grosvenor Gallery.   Titles at the R.A. include “The Baron’s Dessert” and “For the Feast of the Tournament”. A major work, a set of large bird paintings...
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Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Decorative Art

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Canvas, Giltwood

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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...
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Early 1900s Italian Baroque Antique Decorative Art

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Canvas, Giltwood

Pair of Hands, they are work glove molds
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Pair of hands on ceramics. work glove molds They can be used as sculptures or also as coat racks. We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau ...
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1950s American Art Deco Vintage Decorative Art

Materials

Ceramic

Burning Bush by Paul Nelson, 12/65
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
USA, likely 1970s 'Burning Bush' original art signed Paul Nelson, 12/65, nicely matted and framed. Hand signed. Dimensions: 19" W x 25" H x 1.25" D
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1970s American Arts and Crafts Vintage Decorative Art

Materials

Wood, Paper

Carved Solid Teak Long Rectangle Wall Plaque Relief Sculpture Depicting Villager
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Large Carved Solid Teak Long Rectangle Wall Plaque Relief Sculpture Depicting Jangle Villagers.
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20th Century Unknown Decorative Art

Materials

Teak

French Black-White-red Art Déco Poster Advertising "Casino De Paris", 1980s
Located in Salzburg, AT
Advertising poster for the "Casino de paris" with printed event information and a well staged Art Déco dancer on a stool. The subject, the typeface an...
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Late 20th Century French Art Deco Decorative Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

19th Century Gilde Wood Fireplace
Located in Madrid, ES
Fireplace in gilded wood of the 19th century Elegant gilded wooden fireplace from the 19th century in the gothic style. Measures: 150x135x50 cm.
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1840s Antique Decorative Art

Materials

Giltwood

Mid-19th Century Chinese Calligraphy Sign Board
Located in Kastrup, DK
A Chinese Qing Dynasty period red lacquered signboard with calligraphy. The wood carved signboard showcases large carved Chinese characters with remnants of gold leaf, flanked wit...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Decorative Art

Materials

Metal

Oil on Canvas English School Marine Scene Eighteenth Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Oil on canvas English school marine scene eighteenth century On the back part it has a label with a note in ink: coast of Scarborough-England E...
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1750s Antique Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas

Tropical Depression Fabric Picture by Sofia Alvarado
Located in Geneve, CH
Tropical depression fabric picture by Sofia Alvarado Dimensions: D185 x W135 x H5 cm Materials: embroidered blackout fabrics / wood frame One of a Kind. FI is an ornamental art...
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2010s Panamanian Post-Modern Decorative Art

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Surreal Brutalist Sun Sculpture in Brass and Bronze by Emaus Benedictine Monks
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer this surreal brutalist sun sculpture in brass and bronze by Emaus Benedictine Monks, circa 1970. Emaus the name of the workshop of the Benedicti...
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1970s Mexican Brutalist Vintage Decorative Art

Materials

Brass

Edna Glaubman, Miami Florida Modern Artist Lithograph Titled "in Concert"
Located in Miami, FL
A wonderful piece of decorative art titled "in concert". Artist signature hand signed on the bottom right and signed in the plate. Limited Edition numbered 67/100. Edna Glaubman (1919-1986) influential American female artist who lived and worked in Miami from 1961 to 1986, and was part of the original Coconut Grove...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art

Materials

Paper

Vintage Decorative Asian Charger
Located in Denton, TX
Ceramic charger with bird and sun design embossed into lower front of the plate. Signed and stamped on the backside.
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20th Century Modern Decorative Art

Materials

Ceramic

Pair of Hands on Ceramics 'the Colonial Insulator Co' 11/1/2 Ind, Patent 22615
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Pair of hands on ceramics (the colonial insulator co) they are work glove molds 11/1/2 Ind . Patent 22615 Aug 1 1955 Jul 27 1955 Country: American They can be used as sculptures or ...
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1950s American Art Deco Vintage Decorative Art

Materials

Ceramic

Anthropomorphic Composition, Mixed Technique on Lacquered Wood Panel, circa 1970
Located in Mouscron, WHT
anthropomorphic composition. mixed technique on lacquered wood panel circa 1970.
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1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Decorative Art

Materials

Plastic, Wood

Original Oil Painting Titled " Le Reveil " by Paul Gaston Ambille
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Original oil painting by multi award winning artist, Paul Gaston Ambille. Born in 1930 and died in 2010. He studied at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris. His works are ve...
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20th Century French Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint

Pair of Spanish Corner Wall Consoles, Giltwood
Located in Barcelona, ES
Pair of carved gilt corner wall consoles or bracket shelves, Spain, 1930s. Finely carved pieces with foliage design and original gold leaf gilding. Beautiful patina. Great choice to ...
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20th Century Spanish Renaissance Revival Decorative Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Acrylic, Wool and Cotton Embroidery and Patchwork on Canvas by Ela Fidalgo
Located in Ibiza, Spain
De Ente Et Essentia VI, 2022, Ela Fidalgo Acrylic, wool and cotton embroidery and patchwork on canvas. Ela Fidalgo has developed her technique using embroidery, acrylic, fabrics, o...
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2010s Spanish Decorative Art

Materials

Wool, Cotton, Acrylic

19th Century French Pair of Decoratively Hand-Painted Wooden Wall Panels
Located in Atlanta, GA
French pair of carved-wood decorative wall panels from the 19th century. This antique pair of wall ornaments from France are each rectangular i...
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19th Century French Antique Decorative Art

Materials

Wood

Late 19th Century Majolica Plate with Publican Portrait, by J. Maresch Austria
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A large Austrian majolica plate, circa 1880-1890s. The plate represent a publican on a green background surrounded by grapes and leaves with a...
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Late 19th Century Austrian Late Victorian Antique Decorative Art

Materials

Ceramic, Majolica

Luster Medallion, Led Back-Lit, Light Satin Bronze with Frame
Located in Toronto, CA
The luster medallion is a hand-formed sheet of aluminum, carefully folded and bent to create a ripple effect on the surface. This piece makes a beautiful addition to walls that need ...
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2010s Canadian Decorative Art

Materials

Aluminum, Steel

Antique French Sevres Ormolu Gilt Bronze Framed Plaque Hand Painted Picture 19ct
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An imposing French sevres porcelain ormolu mounted hand painted framed plaque, depicting a romantic scene with a standing lady and a seated couple fishing, dressed in Eighteenth Century costumes beside a lake with a landscape background. late Nineteenth Century. Mounted within its original ormolu frame. This piece has been later professionally re-framed on an elegant gilt wood frame, the original woven fabric has also been replaced. This piece is not glazed. Condition: Good condition with no restoration to porcelain, no signature visible. Measures: height: (entire as shown on main image, an impressive) 17" (43.25cm). width: (entire as shown on main image) 13.75” (35cm). depth: (of frame) 1.25” (3cm). Location: Dublin City, Ireland. Affordable fixed charge Worldwide Store to door shipping offered...
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19th Century French Victorian Antique Decorative Art

Materials

Ormolu

Antique, New and Vintage Decorative Art

Antique, new and vintage decorative art is crucial to personalizing your interior.

Bringing art into your home will help you create a warm and welcoming atmosphere, whether you are expecting to regularly host guests for cocktails in your living room or you are inclined to soak up some “me time” on weekends by curling up with a book in your library. After all, a room isn’t quite complete until you hang some art on the walls.

Choosing a piece of art for your interior is a matter of finding something that resonates with you. You should also consider what will work with your current decor. Keep in mind that a wide range of objects counts as decorative art — antique and vintage prints, paintings, wall-mounted sculptures and more. There is so much to choose from! And art can feel as deeply personal with the vintage posters that promoted your favorite classic films as it can with framed photographs of your loved ones.

Decorative art can set the mood for a room and will typically make for great conversation. When you find wall decor and decorations that speak to you, why not introduce them into your space? It will give you and your guests the opportunity to meaningfully engage with the art every time you see it. You can play with different styles, eras and colors. Mix and match pieces to integrate a refreshing pop of color or create a theme by dedicating a room to a color palette or certain time period. A great way to tie your layout together is to choose wall art that complements your decor and color scheme.

Folk art is an interesting category for its wide range of works across various media and the array of textures it can offer. Paper art is another versatile option because it will be easy to find a home for portraits, collages, drawings and other works in your space. With decorative paper art, you can also get creative with how you arrange your wall art. There are plenty of options that include hanging the works salon-style.

On 1stDibs, find a constantly growing collection of antique and vintage decorative art today.

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