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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Recognized Seller Listings
Italian, 18th Century Decorative Panel
By Bonzanigo
Located in New York, NY
A neoclassical painted and gilded overdoor panel in the manner of Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo, circa 1790.
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
An exceptional straw work diorama of an owl and kingfisher - Leverian Museum
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An exceptional straw work diorama of an owl and kingfisher, almost certainly by “Miss Gregg(e)” and part of the collection in the Leverian Museum, set in an oval glazed gilt case, s...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Straw
Spanish Catalan Faience Hunting Subject Tile Picture
Located in Downingtown, PA
Spanish Catalan Faience Hunting Subject Tile Picture
Late 18th Century
The framed picture depicts a huntsman firing his gun at a hare with his dog before him in a landscape with a h...
Category
Spanish Country Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Faience
Georgian Scalloped Hanging Salt Box
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine English or American mahogany scalloped wall hanging salt box, having large penny mounting plate over sloped lid, the box with deeply scalloped body and molded base, good old sur...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Mahogany
Edo Landscape Japanese Folding Screen
Located in Brescia, IT
Refined work by a painter from the first half of the 19th century, from the landscape of the "Rinpa" school by a painter from the end of the 18th century, the Rinpa school.
Six panels painted in ink on gold leaf and "gofun" on vegetable paper.
The flowers are made with the "gofun" technique, natural or pigmented white oyster powder.
Rinpa is one of the major historical schools of Japanese painting. The style was consolidated by the brothers Ogata Korin (1658–1716) and Ogata Kenzan (1663–1743).
This folding screen has a very clean design that leaves plenty of room for the beautiful golden landscape.
It comes flat and you can easily hang it with our hooks.
Lucio Morini...
Category
Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
George Edwards Set of Twelve Parrot Engravings with Chinoiserie Frames
Located in Downingtown, PA
George Edwards Set of Twelve Parrot Engravings with chinoiserie Frames,
Natural History of Birds,
Engraved by Georg Dionysius Ehret,
Mid-18th cent...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Two Ottoman Iznik Border Tiles, circa 1600
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Two ottoman iznik border tiles, circa 1600, each of rectangular form, the glazed fritware painted in underglaze turquoise, cobalt blue, black and terraco...
Category
Turkish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
18th Century Rotterdam Dutch Delft Tiles Framed Pictures of Rearing Horses
By Delft
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th Century Dutch Delft Manganese Tiles Pictures of Rearing Horses,
Rotterdam,
Circa 1780
The pair of framed manganese six-tile pictures each depict a...
Category
Dutch Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Delft
Large Picture containing Six Different Engravings of Grouping of Birds
Located in Downingtown, PA
Large Picture containing Six Different Engravings of Grouping of Birds,
Histoire Naturelle, Ornithologie by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon,...
Category
French Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Antique Engraving of a Tucano Mangiapepe by Saverio Manetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Antique engraving of a Tucano Mangiapepe,
by Saverio Manetti
Circa 1776
A fine hand colored engraving of a Tuscan Magpie by the Italian artist Saverio Manetti. Manetti drew his work predominantly from real specimens. The work was one of the largest ornithology undertakings to that point in time.
Dimensions: 25 inches high x 22 inches wide x 1 1/4 inches deep. (frame); (63.5cm high x 55.88cm). 18 x 14 in. (sheet)
Reference: Wikipedia
Manetti was born in Brozzi to Giovanni Bernardo and Maria Teresa Nesiscolt of Prague. His early studies were in Florence and later at Pisa where he studied botany under Pier Antonio Micheli. He graduated in medicine in 1745 and worked in Florence. In 1758 he joined the National Medical College where he studied anatomy under Antonio Cocchi (1695–1758), conducting the autopsy of Cocchi.
Manetti was Professor of Botany of the "Società Botanica Fiorentina", a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, a Fellow of the Royal Society, learned societies in Göttingen and Montpellier, an Accademico dell'Istituto di Bologna and he maintained scientific contacts with the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus and with the main scientific circles of the second half of the 18th century.
He was supervisor of the Orto Botanico di Firenze in Florence from 1749 to 1782 succeeding to Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti and Secretary of the Accademia dei Georgofili. With remarkable organizational effort, he secured the publication of Storia naturale degli uccelli, Natural History of the birds, a monumental work in five volumes illustrated with 600 hand-coloured engravings based on watercolor paintings.
The book was commissioned by Maria Luisa, Grand duchess of Tuscany and the first volume was dedicated to Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo. The third volume was dedicated to Ferdinando di Brobone and the fourth to Giorgio Nassau Clavering. The engravings were made by Tuscan abbot and engraver Lorenzo Lorenzi and Violante Vanni who had studied under British engraver Robert Strange...
Category
Italian Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
18th Century Dutch Delft Shaped Chinoiserie Polychrome Plaque
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch Delft shaped Chinoiserie Polychrome plaque,
Circa 1730-40
The shaped plaque has a raised molded border decorated with a series of alternating painted panels of flowers and Chinese auspicious objects. The central scene is painted with a slightly off-center table with a vase filled with flowers and a large parrot perched on the branches. Several flying bugs can be seen around the flowers. To the left is a gardener with two watering pots at his feet. The whole in a puce, yellow and green palette. The top is surmounted with a blue shell pierced with a suspension hole. The exterior rim of the plaque in blue.
Dimensions: 8 7/8 inches high x 9 3/4 inches x 1/2 inch depth.
Provenance: B.F. Edwards Collection...
Category
Dutch Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Delft, Faience
Dutch Landscape, Follower of Jacob van Ruisdael, Indistinctly Signed, Ca. 1720
Located in CH
Dutch Landscape, Follower of Jacob van Ruisdael, Indistinctly Signed, Ca. 1720
This large oil on board landscape is painted by a Follower of Jaco...
Category
Dutch Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Dutch Delft Oval Blue & White Architectural Plaque, Three Porcelain Ash-Barrel
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch Delft Oval Blue & White Plaque,
Pieter Gerritsz Kam, (The Three Porcelain Ash-Barrels) factory), or his widow Maria van der Kloot,
Circa 1700-1710
...
Category
Dutch Queen Anne Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Delft, Faience
Antique Verdure Aubusson Tapestry with Birds
Located in New York, NY
French, 18th century Verdure Aubusson tapestry handwoven in wool with silk highlights framed with a complete floral border. Two birds wade ...
Category
French Aubusson Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Silk, Tapestry
18th Century George Edwards Engravings of a Woodpecker
Located in Downingtown, PA
George Edwards engravings of a bird,
Woodpecker, Picus Bengalensis,
#82,
1745
A George Edwards hand-colored engraving of a Woodpecker in a d...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Five Unusual Delft Blue and White Plates, circa 1750
Located in New York, NY
Factory mark of De Porceleyne Bijl Factory. Each painted with scenes of peasants drinking or dancing in a village setting.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Delft
Nicholas Pocock ‘The Glorious First of June’, Ink, Watercolour on Paper
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Nicholas Pocock: ‘The Glorious First of June’, ink, grey wash and watercolour on paper showing the battle formation of Admiral Lord Howe’s British flee...
Category
British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Early Georgian Needlework Picture
Located in Greenwich, CT
An George I English needlework picture depicting musicians, maidens, dogs and ducks in the grounds of an estate with detailed renderings of flora an...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Textile
Mid-18th Century Italian Silver Book Binding
Located in New York, NY
An 18th century Italian silver book binding. An impressively designed, this book binding is formed by two, nearly identical covers, each embossed w...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Silver
Dutch Faience Earthenware Mulberry Tile with Biblical Scene
Located in New York, NY
Dutch (possibly 18th century) faience earthenware square mulberry tile with Biblical scene.
Category
Dutch Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
Framed Group of 18th Century Bird Engravings by b Georges-Louis Leclerc
Located in Downingtown, PA
Charming Framed group of bird engravings,
Histoire Naturelle, Ornithologie by Georges-Louis Leclerc,
Circa 1780
The beautiful ornithological engravings are from Histoire Naturel...
Category
French Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
18th-century Johann Weinmann Engravings of Grapes, Set of Four
Located in Downingtown, PA
Johann Weinmann engravings of grapes,
Set of Four,
Circa 1740
Johann Weinmann engravings of grapes, each engraved by Seuter (S to the lower ri...
Category
German Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
18th century Engravings of Fish by Marcus Bloch
By Marcus Elieser Bloch
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th Century Engravings of Fish by Marcus Bloch,
A pair,
circa 1780.
A fine pair of prints of fish by Marcus Bloch with decoupage frame.
Dimensions: 13 3/4 inches x 20 inches wide....
Category
German Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
English Renaissance Framed Crest Embroidery
Located in New York, NY
English Renaissance embroidery of a crest having a crown top mounted on a red velvet background in an ebonized wood frame.
Category
English Northern Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Thread, Velvet, Wood
Thomas Whitcombe ‘Flora’
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Thomas Whitcombe: ‘Flora’, this oil on canvas shows the action, within a gilt frame with a panel reading ‘British Frigate “Flora”, 36 guns commanded b...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Pair of Very Early Temple Calligraphy Panels
Located in Hudson, NY
Pair of very early temple calligraphy panels. A pair of Edo period (17th century) carved wood panels that used to hang outside a temple. One plaque has evidence of a seal in the uppe...
Category
Japanese Edo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Silk, Wood
Large Delft Blue and White Charger, Late 17th Century
Located in New York, NY
Possible signature of Jan Jansz van der Laen.
Category
Danish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
17th-Century Botanical Engravings of Mosses and Ferns By John Parkinson
By John Parkinson
Located in Downingtown, PA
John Parkinson was the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists. Here the pair of prints show mosses and lichen and the other of ferns.
From: Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris: or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers...
Category
English Jacobean Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Francois Nicholas Martinet Bird Engraving, circa 1770
Located in Downingtown, PA
Francois Nicholas Martinet bird engraving,
circa 1770.
The framed Francois Martinet engraving is from Buffon's Historie Naturelle des Oiseaux displa...
Category
French Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
East India Company School Pictures of the Birds, India, 18th Century
Located in Downingtown, PA
East India Company School pictures of the birds,
Titled Muchrunga, Kouroo, Kanra, and Bilace.
India, circa 1780-1820.
Could sell individually.
T...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Paint, Paper
Wax Portrait of Queen Charlotte of Great Britain, Attributed to John Flaxman
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wax portrait of Queen Charlotte of Great Britain,
Attributed to John Flaxman,
Late 18th century.
A large and rare portrait of Queen Charlotte, i...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Other
Exquisite Italian Silkwork Picture
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine Italian 18th century silkwork picture depicting Torquato Tasso, the great Italian Renaissance poet, finely wrought with hundreds of grey and w...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Silk
Antique Flemish Garden Landscape Tapestry
Located in New York, NY
17th Century Flemish Garden tapestry depicting a serene countryside landscape. Woven in wool and silk, this tapestry displays an exquisite sense of artistry and depth. Two charming animals are depicted in the foreground surrounded by lush foliage revealing a view towards the formal gardens...
Category
Belgian Aubusson Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Silk, Tapestry
Bacchus and Ariadne, early 18th Century mythological tapestry
Located in London, GB
Bacchus and Ariadne, early 18th Century mythological tapestry
Flemish, early 18th Century
Width 428cm, depth 276cm, height 2cm
The tapestry is rec...
Category
Dutch Classical Roman Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Tapestry
18th Century Italian Gaming Board
Located in Greenwich, CT
Rare 18th century Italian gaming board "Nobilissimo Giuoco Della Mea" Or "The Nobel Game of Chance" in original paint and decoupage, (lacca povera) depicting a game which appears to be a board version of "Put and Take" with different characters representing either plus or minus points. Four corners with scalloped carved coin wells, the centre slightly dished for either a top or ball to roll within.
Characters include:
Scimmia/Monkey - put 6, Re/King - take 1, Vople/Wolf take 3 , Pascia/Lord - take two and so on. Other characters include, Cinese/Chinese, Colombo/Pidgeon, Crepascolo/Twilight, Armigero/Knight?, Gezelia/Gazelle, Adone/Adonis, Gonhiere/Gondolier, Araba Fenice/Arab Phoenix?, Vecchio/Old Man, Leone/Lion.
A very similar game board is in the collection of the Medici Villa...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Gesso, Poplar
Antique Portuguese Textile
Located in Austin, TX
Exceptional antique Portuguese textile, Genoa velvet and intricate gold embroidery work. Length not including the hem is 102.5".
Category
Portuguese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Gold
Pair 18th Century English Creamware Wall Pockets Made circa 1790
Located in Katonah, NY
This pair of 18th-century English creamware wall pockets is hand-painted in the neoclassical style.
An identical pair can be found in the collection of The V & A Museum, item numb...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Antique 16th Century Pergola Tapestry with Vase of Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Antique pergola tapestry handwoven in wool and silk in Bruges, Belgium in the mid-16th Century.
Pergola tapestries are typified by a harmony between ...
Category
Belgian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Silk, Wool, Tapestry
Framed Italian Majolica Plaque, Castelli, circa 1750
Located in New York, NY
Framed Italian Majolica plaque, Castelli, circa 1750.
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
18th-Century Niccolò Gualtieri Pair of Engravings of Sea Shells
Located in Downingtown, PA
Framed copperplate engravings of sea shells,
Niccolo` Gualtieri (editor).
Giuseppe Menabuoni (1708-after 1745) (after).
Plates 30 and 31 from Index testarum conchyliorum quae ad...
Category
Italian Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Copper Engraving "Boxing Match in Hapaee from Cook's Voyages" after John Webber
By John Webber
Located in San Francisco, CA
J. Webber: A boxing match in Hapaee (Hawaii). An original copper plate engraving on paper depicting a boxing match as witnessed during Cook's third voyage...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
18th c. Italian Gilt Carved and Painted Wall Plaques
Located in New York, NY
Eighteenth century Italian Neoclassical wall plaques with white painted oval backs adorned with gilt carved helmets and laurel wreaths.
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
18th C Delft Tile Cat
Located in Greenwich, CT
Charmingly rendered 18th Century delft tile picture in manganese glaze, now framed and mounted in a contemporary setting.
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
Folk Art Sign-Maker's Sample Board in Original Paint
Located in Greenwich, CT
A Folk Art two-sided sign maker's sample board in original paint, one side having square color samples with various border treatments, each panel numbered (one through 25), the other...
Category
English Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
A Monumental Italian Neoclassic Triumphal Military Wall Plaque
Located in New York, NY
Roman fruitwood trophy wall plaque carved with the forms of armor, halberds, and other military regalia.
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Fruitwood
19th Century British Sailor's Woolwork of Riverscape
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of Riverscape,
Circa 1875
The unusual sailor's woolie depicts a riverscape probably in the Crimea region. The wool retains good color. It depicts a small ...
Category
English Folk Art Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
Wood sculptured Painted and gilt Overdoor Piece, Rococo, mid 18th Century
Located in Stockholm, SE
A rococo hand carved and painted overdoor piece, mid 18th century. Original condition and with fantastic feeling to it.
Category
European Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
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