European Decorative Art

The very cool first-year-of-release UK Quad film poster for Don Siegel's Classic 1970s thriller movie Dirty Harry, starring Clint Eastwood in one of his mo...

The Polish film poster for Tootsie is undoubtedly the finest for the title. Highly inventive. From the film's first-year-of-release in Poland. Th...

A fine crisp impression of great rarity; it is particularly unusual to find a color engraving of this quality and condition in today’s print market. Rare engraving print by famed ar...

One of two UK Quad designs produced for the iconic film's first release, this being the by far rarer and most desirable vintage version. Wonderfully bright and colourful artwork. ...

King Solomon's Mines starring Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger is one of our favorite films of the 1950s. Worthy of its Oscar nomination for Best Picture,...

Extraordinary modernist item by Swedish Tilgmans Keramik. Fully glazed centerpiece or wall decoration depicting a green faced woman with long stemmed yellow and blue flowers on a striped dark blue background created with the sgraffito technique. Manufactured in 1957 by German/Swedish Paul Harald Tilgman in his workshop in a small town close to Gothenburg in Sweden. Blue patterned glaze on the sides and muted blue leaves on the milky white glazed base. Signed and dated on base. A rare and unique piece in beautiful condition! Sweden, 1957. About Tilgmans Keramik: Paul Harald “Harry” Tilgmann was born in Dresden, Germany in 1904 and emigrated to Sweden during WWII where he started Tilgmans Keramik (= Ceramics) in 1948 in the small town of Utbynäs close to Gothenburg. Tilgman had 16 employees working for him and when he hired the Polish refugee Marian Zawadzki (1912-1978) as artistic director in 1953, Tilgman Keramik started experimenting with the distinct sgraffito technique. The sgraffito technique consists of carving fine lines into the background of a design through a light coloured glaze down to a dark grey clay slip. This created a unique textured ground which has become a style associated with Tilgmans Keramik in particular. The decorative elements also appear to be outlined with a carved line and then hand painted with overglazes where birds, fish, flowers, butterflies and other animals were a common theme. This type of work was the most popular in Mid Century Sweden alongside Tilgmans small animal figurines...

Landscape painting by Italian painter Di Michele, Italy Representing an Italian Tuscany old village on the top of the hill, painted in a lovely combination of colors.

Mid-Century French Etching. Found in France. Numbered and Signed #25/75. Wonderful composition, etching has been cleaned and newly framed in conservation glass.

Mid-Century German Drosselbach wall art plaque, circa 1950-1960 very stylish Two crane birds Enamel on hard textured plaster.   

Very large great map of Paris in France.