Hand-Carved Decorative Art

Wonderful pair of fan shaped late 18th century American Federal period lintels or over doors with exquisitely detailed carving. The distressed painted surface adds a lot of character...

Art panel hand carved by Nioi, Italy, 1974 in the Style of Nerone & Patuzzi Artwork, carved wall panel, assemblage, Nioi, Italy 1974. Masterpiece hand-carved panel, part of a s...

English fairground panel We share what we love, and we love this very well carved turn off the century fairground rounders panel/frieze, depicting a...

Giltwood Framed Limoges Enamel after François Boucher 'The Bird Catchers' France, Circa 1880s Framed in an elaborate hand carved pierced and giltwood t...

Burned, warped and as you can see in poor condition, but still can be displayed. Not falling apart. Measures: 34.5 x 18.5 in. approx. 3 lbs Each. I do not have any information ...

Decorate a ranch, hunting lodge or simply a man's office with this elegant antique wall decor. Crafted in France circa 1870, the hand carved artwork...

A large decorative and rare hand carved tribal war shield in traditional colors, made in Papua New Guinea in the late 19th century. Functional as beautiful ...

An original hand-carved and leaf gilded wall frieze as a giltwood porta Palme vase with handles. It comes from a private residence of Milan, where it was topped with a wall demilune...

American sampler under glass with the original gilt Birdseye maple molded edge frame, Early 19th Century. Signed by maker Mary Ann Browning, Age 12.

Perfect running and striking, late 1800s, partially ebonized antique wall clock. If you are looking for a stylish and stately wall clock then this tall antique specimen could be gracing the wall of your home or office space soon. All handcrafted in the late 1800s this work of time telling art is not only very beautiful, it is also guaranteed to be of a quality that you don't find anymore in this day and age. Both the clock case and movement (including the enameled dial face and pendulum) are of exceptional quality and beauty. The striking white and exceptionally clean, enameled dial face comes with perfectly contrasting black numerals which makes telling time from a distance easy as well. The original hands of this clock are of the kind of elegance that you would expect from a Victorian era clock. The beautiful antique movement is serviced and in perfect working order. The brass and equally gorgeous, enameled pendulum is another gracious feature that moves perfectly back and forth behind the original glass panel in the door. The eight day mechanism comes with the original key for winding it and she strikes the whole hours and once on the half hours. Have you also noticed the ebonized goddess sculpture on top, she is like the icing on the cake of this stately clock that will never fail to impress. If you like this great looking and perfect working antique clock...

This large cartouche panel was carved from wood and hand-painted with a central coat of arms in Italy during the 1700’s. Inspired by a 16th century French style shield, the escutcheo...

Traditional rustic wood carved and handprinted artwork from Spain, circa 1970 By unknown artist. In original condition, with minor wear consistent of age and use, preserving a ...

Pair of silhouettes portrays the 19th century Lady and Gentleman With his Hat. This pair has been well taken care of and has minor wear consistent with the age. Wall art Silhouette of a Lady and a Gentleman framed in possible hand carved pine wood or fruitwood Frame. Charming elegant profile depicts high status man at ease with himself ensured his place in hierarchy looking sharp and same goes for the Lady holding what appears to be a document. The subjects are dapperly dressed with his top hat in his hand, trimmed haircut, leather boots and the lady with a nice Hairdo and an elaborate dress. An original continental French or British silhouette in a period fruitwood light color frames and are beveled. Antique dealer Los Angeles West Hollywood La Cienega Melrose Ave. The watercolor and paper cut silhouettes...

Antique and unique wall coatrack with amazing alabaster carvings. It is not often that you find an antique that is not completely original, but where they have done a great job in creating a, so called, marriage that simply looks beautiful. This handcrafted wall coat rack was made around 1900-1910, but the exeptionally detailed, hand carved alabaster tiles date back to circa 1850-1870. These mis-Victorian works of beauty are hand-carved in deep relief and both the fruits in the vases as the scrolling leaf patterns in the center tile are among the most detailed we have ever seen. All three tiles have no breaks in them and only minor losses. So if you are looking for a unique antique wall rack...

A light-grey, white antique Swedish Gustavian wall mirror made of hand carved pinewood with its original mirrored glass, in good conditio...

Eugenio Zampighi (Italian, 1859-1944) A fine and charming Italian 19th/20th century oil on canvas Titled "A Joyous Family" depicting an interior scene of a seated joyous mother with her smiling toddler child on her lap, as her young daughter amuses them while holding a small kitten picked-up from the cat...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely hand carved solid burr oak wall panel, circa 1780 depicting drunk friends of a large scale A very well made and decorative piece, it...

19th Century French painted silk of mother of pearl fan, shadow-box framed antique ladies fan, made of mother of pearl with gold leaf on the outer ...

A rectangular, vintage Mid-Century Modern Danish wall mirror with its original mirrored glass, made of hand crafted Oakwood in good condition. Wear consistent with age and use, circa...

A grey, oval vintage Mid-Century Modern Italian wall mirror with its original mirrored glass, made of hand carved wood in good condition. Wear consistent with age and use, circa 1940...

This French copper bassinoire, or bed warmer, has a wooden handle and was produced in the 1700’s. Hot coals would be placed into a bassinoire’s vented receptacle, and the user would pass the device under the covers, warming the bed. Copper was the preferred metal, as it is an excellent heat conductor. The handle was almost always wooden, allowing the bassinoire to be held safely. A wood handle (approximately 26 inches in length) has been nailed into the end of a copper vessel. The container opens via a flip top that has a beaded edge and a rolled lip. The middle portion of the lid is raised and embellished with a floral wreath and lobed protuberances. The center of the wreath has a scaled mythical creature with a long, tasseled tail and curved beak. The areas between the protrusions are adorned with floral and foliate engravings as well as birds. The top is pierced with sporadically placed vent holes. European winters could be particularly brutal. Bassinoires were essential tools for keeping warm at night. Today, bassinoires are used mainly as decorative elements. Our 18th century French copper...

19th century Meiji period charger with cockerel beautifully realised in layers of carved shell, mother of pearl and bone to stand in high relief against the black lacquered ground. P...

This ornate, antique paper hand fan was crafted in France, circa 1850. the one side showing a candlelit interior where Gallant scene on the reverse with a box but no glass of box. Se...

A gold, antique Swedish Gustavian wall mirror made of hand carved gilded Pinewood with its original mirrored glass, in good condition. Th...

Decorate a dining room or living room with this elegant pair of antique wall carvings. Hand carved in Italy circa 1970 and almost 3 feet tall, eac...

O/5834 - Pair of thin antique wooden friezes with golden berries. It's not easy to find these antique friezes because they are always broken or w...

A 19th century Italian reliquary with silver thread double-headed eagle and foliage and floral motif on a red silk background.  Inscriptions with sev...

Remarkable Chinese honorary plaque featuring a large four character inscription and intricately carved geometric wan fret border with bats on all four corners and center. Traces of green lacquer pigment color still remain on borders with blue and red on the center and gilt decoration on the bats. The panel has additional smaller inscriptions all around the sides and bottom. Highly unusual and rare antique piece from Guangx period. The sign was constructed using forged...

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...

Large handcrafted decorative Indian Mughal Moorish brass tray. Embossed and hammered with floral and mystique animal scenes with Arabic script etched. Large decorative hanging...

From Italy, Marche central region, a polychrome carved holy water font mid-18th century, a shaped panel with carved and gilt scrolls and acanthus leaf details. A green edge decoratio...

19th century French painted paper and mother of pearl fan, shadow-box framed antique ladies fan, made of mother of pearl with a hand embellished re...

Early 16th century carved oak fragment of Gothic tracery likely from a choir screen or other decorative element from the interior of a cathedral or chapel. Very fine organic carving ...

Amazing pair of baroque cornucopias, with painted glass, s. XVIII, Spanish origin, Andalusian school (Córdoba) Outstanding pair of Cornucopias in carved wood and gilwood decorated w...

Hand-carved wooden medallion of sleeping goddess surrounded by putti in the manner of the Italian Renaissance. Image: 12.5" in diameter Frame: 18" H x 15" W.

O/6813 - This is an authentic antique "cartagloria", always sought after by collectors, here with a small mirror , probably placed some years ago in place of prayers. It's very beaut...

Pair 18th century French neoclassical hand-carved and painted wall sconces ~ Corbels were sculpted from solid oak and feature a timeless classical scroll festooned with acanthus flou...

Stunning design and top quality executed Arts & Crafts barometer. This early 1900s, hand carved out of one piece of nutwood, wall barometer has everything that makes an antique wort...

A fine pair of Victorian wooden doors from a horse-drawn hearse or funeral carriage with rectangle glass transoms at the top of each, featuring relief drapery carvings on each in old...

Three 18th century Italian silver leaf sunrays with Herkimer diamonds and baroque pearls. The sunrays were once used as part of a large sunburst or halo motif in an artistic depi...

Wall decoration stardust bronzed with all structure in hand-carved solid mahogany wood. Hand-crafted in bronzed finish. Measures: L 155 x D 26 x H 150cm, price: 10900,00€. Also ava...

Vortex, is a purely decorative piece, which originates from the curiosity as to what lies at the end of a black hole. It is one of the latest additions to the Celestial Series which ...

Absolutely charming, large wood carving of a young Bavarian girl and sunflower wall decoration This substantial wall hanging is two feet in length, ...

Pair of 18th century Irish Georgian sconces with agate coral and coordinating gold leaf baroque pearls. Fossil agate coral is Florida's state stone and is known for its unique formation that can take place over 20 million years. It's a natural gemstone that is created when Prehistoric coral is gradually replaced with agate. The pair is put together by Jean O'Reilly Barlow, the artist and creative director of Interi. The date of manufacture reflects when she created the pieces and the period shows that the pair of Irish Georgian wall brackets are originally 18th century. The pairs of Georgian sconces...

A gold-brown, antique Asian oversized wall mount decorative Buddha head in a very large scale. Handcrafted in tropical wood and gilded, in good condition. Wear consistent with age an...

A really gutsy and interesting early 17th century carved wood panel. If this kind of thing appeals to you, it does to me, than this is a compelling example of early carving and the p...

A special object, sculpture with charisma. Handmade by the German designer Eckehard Weimann, like all his organic furniture and objects, originally worked out...

Wood sculpture mounted on custom metal stand. In my organic, contemporary, vintage and mid-century modern style. Curated for our one of a kind line, Le Monde. Exclusive to Brendan B...

An antique pair of late 19th Century Parisian Karyatides sculpted in French Plaster on a black wooden base. The female figures serve as an architectural support, taking the place of ...

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...

Bronze wall decoration representing an eagle with wide open wings made of bronze. There is signature JP at the back of both wings. France, circa 1900.

Large handcrafted decorative Indian Mughal Moorish brass tray. Embossed and hammered with floral and mystique animal scenes with Arabic script etched. Large decorative hanging...

Beautifully hand carved and partially gilt vintage barometer. This rare Gothic barometer has the most striking design and a beautiful patina. All han...

Carved ebony abstract wood bust. In my organic, contemporary, vintage and mid-century modern style. Curated for our one of a kind line, Le Monde. Exclusiv...

Handmade Mid-Century Modern ceramic wall platter by Swedish Tilgmans in 1957. Hand painted floral decor in white, yellow, orange, rose, light blue and green colors on black base. Lig...

A large dark brown Italian ceiling panel made of hand carved walnut, enhanced with caryatid and acanthus scrolls, in good condition. The antique wall relief, décor represents the Rococo time period...

An antique marble relief wall hanging of a young child’s head in right-facing profile within an oak frame circa 1800. Dating from the Georgian er...

A striking oil on board painting depicting a country forest scene by French painter, Marcelle Papillaud. Marcelle PAPILLAUD was born in 1888, she painted numerous works of art that...