Pair of Alabaster Profile Portraits of Dante

Antique Beaded Religious Wall Hanging hand-made by Nuns at a Convent in Straussbourg, France in the Alsace Region of France on the German Border...

Happy and full of joy, this vintage woodcut of a seated little girl titled 'Wish'n Puff' is a complete delight. This charming hand-colored piece is signed by the artist Sister Mary C...

Vintage woodblock etchings by Juan Castells Marti. Newly framed with linen mats.

Striking pair of vintage decorative brass sconces are made from door escutcheons. They have been cleaned and polished with all new wiring. 8" dia

This pair of Mid Century​ Edward Wormley for Drexel 'Precedent Collection' lounge chairs are the perfect interpretation of modern design, while preserving cherished elements from the...

Showcase your flowers in our pair of intricately decorated Victorian porcelain mantel vases. They are meticulously adorned with 3 dimensional flowers, leaves and beaded accents and r...

This beautiful pair of Italian white Carrara marble profile busts of Virgil and Dante date from the mid-19th century. The sensitively carved pair of...

Mid-Century modern orange glass ceramic profile portrait of a young Dutch woman.

This is a resine profile of a man, very decorative wall hanging.

Artistically framed for display in a slight shadow frame with non-reflective pixie glass, these pair of embroidery art panels from Japan are dated circa 1910-1930s, end of Meiji to early Taisho period. This period was the peak of the Japanese oversea expositions, when all things Japonisme took Europe and America by storm and left long-lasting impact on western art and design. The influence, however, was clearly not one-directional; As when Japanese artists, artisans and dealers experienced western art, it in turn inspired and impacted on the aesthetics of the Japanese art made for the western tastes. An interesting crop of art forms quickly emerged with a particular outlook that bridged the east and west, with the fundamental techniques still rooted in Japanese traditions. These rare hyper-realistic embroidered portraits were such an example. They took the essential format of the western portrait that permeated the Victoria and Edwardian Society, but substituted with exotic Japanese subjects and executed in traditional embroidery techniques which had been perfected for centuries by the natives. The two portraits on offer, one an elder man with long white beards and a pair of round spectacles lighting a pipe, and the other a grinning man with a peasant attire, were both set in black background, stimulating an appearance of Classic western oil painting or perhaps even the photograph. The fine stiches were maneuvered into an impressively hyper-realistic imagery that was far removed from the traditional Japanese embroidery...

An important pair of large micromosaic plaques from The Vatican Studios of Rome Gold Gilt frames of portrait form enclose the plaques, which depict male and female Italian villagers...

A pair of framed silhouettes. Aristocrats.