19th Century Decorative Art

The antique print titled 'View of the Tuileries and Bridge' presents a picturesque view of the Tuileries Palace, a historic royal and imperial palace situated on the right bank of th...

A blue-brown, antique Swedish oil on canvas painting of a sunny day at the Piazza Barberini, in Rome, Italy painted by Gustaf Wilhelm Palm in a hand carved original gilded wooden fra...

19th-Century Victorian Majolica aqua oyster plate signed Minton.

Antique print titled 'Indigène du Chili. Above is an indigenous Chilean man, and below an anchor used by the Talcahuano indians. This print originates from...

Chromolithograph titled 'Barnum'. Lithograph of P. T. Barnum. Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman, businessman, and politician, remembered for ...

French Majolica flowers tile, circa 1890. 6' by 6".

Period Napoleon III furnishings are typically very versatile items, due to the fact that they incorporate elements from preceding styles, allowing these “Second Empire” pieces to be ...

Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax" Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson. Published by Ackermann, 1820 Unframed.    

Great city plan of Dublin Published circa 1880 Unframed Free shipping. .

Rare collection of 35 plaster casts from XIX century, as Grand Tour Souvenir. I found them like this: You can put them in frame according to the size...

Antique print titled 'Das Katzengeschlecht'. Steel engraving with nine illustrations of various lions and leopards. Published circa 1860.

Original Landscape Painting on board by Olive Parker Black, American, circa late 19th - early 20th Century. It measures 14" width x 10.5" height framed. O...

Original antique print titled 'Der Löwe und die Löwin mit ihren Jungen (..)'. Original antique print of a lion, lioness and lion cubs. Published by Karl Jose...

British Sailor's Woolwork or Woolie, The Gwen, Circa 1875 The small British sailor's woolie depicts a starboard view of the brigantine Gwen sailing on a calm blue sea and flying...

Antique book printing / engraving plate - featuring stems of Geranium and Currant plants with titles - unsigned - walnut frame - country of origin unknown - 19th century. Excellent antique condition - no loss - no damage - no restoration - oxidation of the metal plate in areas - signs of age and use. Printing plate...

Antique print titled 'Trout Fishing'. Original antique print of trout fishing. Published circa 1860.

19th Century Spanish set of four hand-painted framed tiles. The frame measures 37x36cm.

19th century K'o-ssu ("cut silk") rank badge depicting a silver pheasant. The Chinese tradition of wearing rank badges (buzi), also known as Mandarin squares...

Great image by Thomas Rowlandson from the "Tour of Dr Syntax" Etching and aquatint after a drawing by Rowlandson. Published by Ackermann, dated 1820 Unframed.

Great image of an egret Drawn and engraved by William Daniell Aquatint engraving on fine Japan paper Published by Cadell & Davies 1812 Unfr...

Antique botany print titled 'Viscaria alpina'. Old botanical print depicting the Viscaria alpina or Alpine catchfly. This print originates from 'Atlas der Alpenflora' by E. Palla. ...

Antique print titled 'Perdrix Gambra'. Original old bird print of a Barbary partridge. The Barbary partridge (Alectoris barbara) is a gamebird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae) of...

Antique print titled 'La reine de Madagascar se rendant à la promenade. (D'après une photographie communiquée par M. Lambert, duc d'Emyrne'. This print shows the queen of Madagascar,...

Originally used in the kitchen of a French chateau, this late nineteenth century copper repousse tart pan features a crowned frogmouth helmet above two quartered shields. The helmet ...

Large antique mezzotint of three women in Gothic pointed arches, most likely also including St. Helena with a cross. Signed L. Dantras. Blindstamp "...

Antique print titled 'The Elton Pear'. This print originates from 'Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London' published circa 1835. In Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London we find some of the most beautifully illustrated and vibrant botanical and fruit prints...

Add some color to your kitchen wall or dining room shelf with this beautiful antique Majolica wall platter. Crafted in France, circa 1880, the plate features sculptural fruit motif in high relief which includes a pair of pears hanging from tree branches covered with green leaves. The colorful hand-painted faience round plate with pink flowers...

A striking and extremely decorative Italian 19th century Neo-Classical st. giltwood wall decor. The unique wall decor displays circular fluted spears with ball reserves and impressiv...

Antique print titled 'Das edle Englische Pferd'. Original lithograph of an English horse. This print originates from 'Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der...

English blue & white plate rooster and cat Brown Westhead and Moore, circa 1890. Was sold in the Grand Depot 21 rue Drouot Paris. Fontaine /...

A fine matching pair of embroidered silk civil rank badge panels (known in Chinese as Buzi) unframed. The panels feature borders of fret archaic key a...

Set of two antique horse riding prints titled 'Officier de Cavalerie' and 'Cavalier'. The prints show a cavalry officer and a cavalry soldier. These prints originate from 'École de c...

Great image of a whaling scene Copper-plate engraving Published C.1800 Unframed.

Crafted in France in the 1800s, this high quality gilt bronze wall clock has elements in the style of Louis XVI. The white clock face with blue numbers re...

Wonderful Gothic architectural print. Steel engraving by R.P. Cuff after the original drawing by John Ruskin. Published circa 1880. On wove quality paper. Unframed.

Wonderful images of fossils and dinosaur bones. After Cpt. Brown Lithographs. Original hand color. Published 1847 Unframed. Free shipping.

Original antique print titled 'Die Löwin mit ihren Jungen (..)'. Original antique print of a lioness and her cubs. Published by Karl Joseph Brodtmann, circa 1830.

Lovely early 19th century "show towel" likely from Pennsylvania. Show towels were special towels with decorative accents stitched into the fabric - often di...

Great map of South Italy and Malta Drawn by Sidney Hall Steel engraving by G.Aikman Original color outline Published by A & C Black. 1847 Un...

Lovely French Majolica plate pink flowers on a blue basket weave, circa 1880 attributed to Salins.

Framed, signed and dated.

Antique print titled 'Ile Birara, Nouvelle-Irlande'. Jewellery, belts and other items from Birara Islands, New Ireland. Illustrated are a feather ornament,...

"An antique lithograph from 'Das Buch der Welt' by Carl Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1847. Showcasing an array of rodent species, this intricately detailed print features captivating illustra...

Great image of a kittiwake and a common tern Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames. Lithograph...

Original antique print of various corals. Red coral, Corallium rubrum 1, sea fan, Gorgonia antipathes 2, common white stone coral 3 and staghorn coral, Acropora florida 4. This print...

Large 19th century French Majolica Pigeon wall pocket. The pigeon have a pink ribbon and carry a white card.  

English Victorian Majolica plate Wedgwood Circa 1880. with vine leaves.

Great image of a Chinese actor in the San Francisco Theatre Woodcut engraving Text on verso Published circa 1890 Free shipping.

For zinc lovers, a mid 19th century zinc/metal hand painted flower crown.

Portuguese Palissy Majolica wall figure which features a lizard with it's tail curled over it's back. Colouration: green, grey, are predominant.

Great image of a Fieldfare Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames. Lithograph after Alexander Francis Lydon. Original h...

A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular 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 (all high quality gilt is original) 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 Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 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...

This delicate wooden birdcage was once home to the tiny pet bird of a Qing-dynasty aristocrat. Dated to the Mid-19th Century, the square cage is precisely assembled from thin bamboo ...

A large-scale photogravure of The Forum in Rome, in original faux grain painted frame. Showing the impressive ruins of the Temple of Saturn in cent...

Antique print titled 'Constructions temporaires pour des Réceptions et des Fêtes'. Print of Chinese temporary buildings for receptions and parties. This print originates from 'La Chi...

Antique print of various snakes including the buff striped keelback snake. This print originates from 'Bilderbuch fur Kinder' by F.J. Bertuch. Friedrich Joha...

Fabulous set of 8 microscopic rock samples Lithographs by J.W Watson after drawings by Ady. Published by Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1883 Unframed. The measurement given ...

Antique print titled 'Der ungehörnte Zebu (..) - Der Zebu'. Original antique print of zebu and horned zebu. This print originates from 'Naturhistorische Abbildungen der Saeugethiere'...