Early 1900s Decorative Art

Great images of medicinal plants Unframed. Published, circa 1900. Free shipping

French Porcelain Oyster Plate Limoges Circa 1900.

Antique map of Maryland And Delaware Published By A & C Black. 1903 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

Great image of medical interest. Unframed. Published, circa 1900.

Small Majolica water lily plate Villeroy & Boch, circa 1900. 6.5 inches diameter.   

Small Majolica water lily plate Villeroy & Boch, circa 1900. 6.5 inches diameter.   

Majolica dragonfly wall pocket by Fives Lille, circa 1900.   

Great image of mushrooms. Unframed. Published, circa 1900. Free shipping

Great image of aubergines Lithograph with original color. Published, circa 1900 Unframed.  

Great image of medical interest. Unframed. Published, circa 1900.

Lovely Majolica pink & purple cyclamens plate signed Schultz Cilli, circa 1900, Art Nouveau. Diameter / 6.7 inches.

French Majolica oyster plate signed Longchamp, circa 1900.

Majolica pink butterfly wall pocket signed Fives Lille, circa 1900.

Large German Majolica grape plate, circa 1900.

Large Majolica pink butterfly wall pocket signed Fives Lille, circa 1900.

A rare, domed, black and white enameled Art Nouveau advertising sign for Wiener Werkstätte, founded by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser and Fritz ...

Small German Majolica Flowers Plate circa 1900.

French Oyster Plate Porcelain Flowers Limoges circa 1900.

Great image of a colour chart Unframed. Chromo-lithograph Published, C.1900 The measurement is the paper size of the print Free shipping.

Great image of peaches Lithograph with original color. Published, circa 1900 Unframed.  

Great image of medical interest. Unframed. Published, circa 1900. Free shipping

From Japan, a large hand-painted Nippon porcelain cabinet or wall plate showing roses and gilded accents, circa 1900. Nippon porcelain was made in Japan from 1891 to 1921. Nippon is...

This is an antique marquetry landscape panel. An English, mahogany, oak and burr walnut decorative scene of Ben Lomond, dating to the Edwardian period, circa 1910. Fascinating woode...

Antique map of Indiana Published By A & C Black. 1903 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

Wonderful piece of green glass with an amazing bubbly interior. Most likely originally a doorstop or a paper weight Good condition. Free UK shipping

Great image of medical interest Unframed. Published, circa 1900.

Majolica Art Nouveau asparagus plate unsigned Keller et Guerin Saint Clement Every important French manufactures produced at the end of the 19th century asparagus and artichoke sets...

French Majolica strawberries plate Keller & Guerin Saint clement Circa 1900.

Majolica dragonfly wall signed pocket by Fives Lille, circa 1900.  

Sailing Ships at Sea, Signed Nielsen Two large very detailed richly rendered nautical paintings in gorgeous bronze patina gilded frames.

Majolica Daisies Wall Pocket signed Keller & Guerin Saint Clement.

Lovely image by Beatrix Potter Rescued from an early edition of " The Tale of Two Bad Mice " Possibly a 1st edition from 1904 The measurement given is the paper size not the actua...

Antique map of Colorado Published By A & C Black. 1903 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

Great image of medical interest. Unframed. Published, circa 1900. Free shipping

A rare, domed, black, white & blue enameled Art Nouveau advertising plate. Designed by Josef Hoffmann in 1905 for Wiener Werkstatte (founded by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser and Frit...

Small Majolica sunflower plate Villeroy & Boch, circa 1900. Diameter / 6.6 inches.

Majolica Art Nouveau asparagus plate with cyclamens signed Keller et Guerin Saint Clement. Every important French manufactures produced at the end of the 19th century asparagus and a...

Great image of plums Lithograph with original color. Published, circa 1900 Unframed.  

Antique map of Connecticut and Rhode Island Published By A & C Black. 1903 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

French Majolica bird plate Keller & Guerin Saint Clement circa 1900.

The mirror is made by F.C Mailand Hansen, a well known glazier from Copenhagen, Denmark. The mirror is dated to between 1900-1910. It is in neoclassical Revival style, and has an ama...

Great image of medical interest. Unframed. Published, circa 1900.

French Majolica oyster plate signed Longchamp, circa 1900.

Great image of medical interest. Unframed. Published, circa 1900.

French Oyster Plate Porcelain Flowers Limoges circa 1900.

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...

Great image of mushrooms. Unframed. Published, circa 1900.

Sensational image by Frederick Simpson Coburn In the style of one of my favourite artists, Goya Photogravure Limited edition of 300. This is No. 84 From The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe...

Majolica dragonfly wall pocket by Desvres, circa 1900.     

Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854-1941) "Theatre du Chatelet" watercolor and gouache on paper signed 'E Galien Laloue' lower left, within a giltwood and gesso c...

A good quality well executed Arts and Crafts copper wall plate with floral decoration around the centre.

Majolica corn Keller & Guerin Saint Clement Plate.   

French Majolica Faience Trompe L'oeil Pickles Plate, circa 1900

French Majolica Frog Wall Pocket Jerome Massier Fils Vallauris, circa 1900. The Massier are known for the quality of their unique enamels and paintings. The Massier family produced d...

Great images of apples and pears Lithographs with original color. Published, circa 1900 Unframed.  

A Tibetan, traditional hand-woven textile in silks. Framed behind glass, against a raw linen background.

Great image of medical interest. Unframed. Published, circa 1900. Free shipping .

An Arts and Crafts copper plate with a pie crust edge and floral decoration to the centre.