Painted Decorative Art

'Clementine', A Large Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque After Conrad Kiesel. In a fine pierced giltwood and composition frame. Inscribed 'nach C. Kiesel'...

Artist: Jean Carolus Painted: 1862 Medium: Oil on board Interior Scene Period: Romanticism Signed & Dated: Lower left J. Carolus 1862 Dimensions: H: 24 3/4 / 62.8 cm W: 18 3/4...

Late 19th century oil painting of Notre dame cathedral and Paris, seen from the seine river. With its original faux bamboo frame, signed "Rienzi".

An Italian 18th century rectangular ceiling panel re-purposed into a wall decoration. This large size Italian richly painted wood ceiling panel feat...

Two portraits of Japanese man and women in traditional costume painted on silk, circa 1920, in their original frames. Details show the exquisite tradit...

1990s Italian Venetian framed oil on canvas painting with craquelure.

19th century Spanish "Puente del Arzobispo" Madrid Hand Painted Earthenware dish.

A pair of Italian 19th century painted wood angel plaques. This pair of antique Italian plaques, perhaps originally used to decorate a chapel, feature a ...

Exquisite museum quality Japanese contemporary framed porcelain panel art work consisting of three pieces intricately hand-painted showcasing a wintry ...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original late 19th century extra large Flemish oil painting, signed A Apoeie depicting a nice nature scene in front of the sea. A ...

17th century, Roman School Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria Oil on canvas, 32 x 23 cm Frame cm 45 x 36 The saint is depicted in front of the Virgin holding the Child portrayed with the wedding ring in his hand, enriched with a precious stone. According to the Golden Legend, Catherine of Alexandria was a very beautiful young woman, the only daughter of the king of Costa, who had refused to marry the emperor Maxentius because she was a Christian and devoted to Christ. Maxentius, unable to convince her to sacrifice to idols, had sent to call the wisest men and fifty philosophers and orators who presented themselves and tried to divert her from faith in Christ. Catherine, however, played so well that she was able to convert them, arousing the anger of the emperor who condemned them to the stake. Catherine, however, who had criticized Maxentius for the new persecutions against the Christians, was sentenced to prison without food. Abandoned for twelve days, she was fed by a dove sent by God. Maxentius then decided to execute her with the torture of the toothed wheel become her attribute iconographic; but by divine intervention this broke and the young was saved. Finally, she was beheaded and milk flowed from her neck. Catherine’s princely status is witnessed here by her sumptuous dress. The iconography of the mystical marriage was born in the fifteenth century, probably because the traditional iconographic attribute, the wheel, was sometimes so small as to look like a ring, and refers to a vision that will always remain present in the mind and heart of the saint. In Heaven she appeared to her, among the Angels and Saints, Christ the Child, in the arms of the Virgin. He took a precious ring that the Virgin Mary handed to her and put it in her finger, saying "I, your Creator and Saviour, take you in marriage; confident that you will keep you pure until you celebrate your eternal wedding with me, in Paradise" When Catherine was laughing, she found in her finger the same ring that she had seen and had in Heaven, and she considered herself forever the bride of Christ. In this extraordinary episode we can see the heart of Catherine’s religious sense, and of all her spirituality. For her, Christ is like the bridegroom, with whom there is a relationship of intimacy, communion and fidelity; he is the beloved, whom she loves above all...

Wonderfully mellow and vibrant still life of fruit on platter and over flowing from woven basket and on a glass compote. Executed in the style of 18th. and 19th. century still life....

Painted canvas figuring birds in the middle of large foliage and flowery gilt scrolls. Brown background. The production time indicated is approximate. Please contact us for specific...

Painted canvas figuring two monkeys, one bird and one dragonfly on leaves and flowers of white iris, with gilt highlights. The background shows the raw linen. French contemporary wo...

Painted canvas figuring a side view Art Deco woman. She wears a brown-orange coat with large sleeves with geometrical white, black and gilt motifs. She ...

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...

Cuadro de aves en lago con flores pintado a mano sobre lienzo años 1970.

Painted porcelain plate figuring a fisherwoman near a lake in the middle of nature. She holds a fishing rod under her arm and tries to hung an insect on the hook. She wears a pink, o...

A reclaimed hand painted double sided English pub sign named ’The Pier’. Salvaged from a pub in Devon, this sign is a display of English heritage, evoking the story of pub goers and ...

A neoclassical painted and gilded overdoor panel in the manner of Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo, circa 1790.

19th century oil portrait of a young man Original oil on canvas. Dimensions: 27.5" wide x 39.25" high. Signed lower left "Samuel"

Vintage black porcelain decorative wall plate with 24k gold hand painted Greek warriors on horse chariot 1970's. Hand made in Greece decorative black and gold wall plate depicting Greek Mythology. Porcelain black glazed with 24k. gilt gold, backside indicates, "hand-made in Greece, and below that 24k Gold, and next to this is a Greek Key boxed...

Herend Hungary Porcelain "Indian Basket" wall decoration plate Herend Hungary porcelain plate for as decoration to hang on the wall, with openwork edge Beautiful hand painted pla...

The Perfect Point by Ernest H Hart (1910 - ). Original framed oil on board 18" x 24". Connecticut Illustrator. From the archives of the Shaw Barton Calendar Co used for an early calendar print. English Pointer and English Setter on point, one leg raised... sure a hunter someplace behind them. Great match to one we have by Ole Larsen made for the publication (O525). Period: 20th century Origin: Connecticut Size: 18" x 24", frame 29" x 22" Ernest Huntley Hart 'Ernest H. Hart': An American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and author, Ernest Huntley Hart perused his art studies at the Art Students League in New York. He was a member of the Association of Connecticut Artists and the Association of American Artists. During the 'American Depression Era', Ernest Hart...

Painted canvas figuring a side view Art Deco woman. She wears a long black dress with white collar, sleeves and ornamentation. She wears ...

Ceramic wall mask by Goldscheider. Vienna, circa 1950.

A blue-grey, white vintage Russian, French oil on canvas painting, portraying a cloudy day of the Notre Dame Cathedral from across the Seine river in Paris, painted by Vladimir Volod...

A pair of italian free form dishes from 1950's signed Man. Hand painted glazed ceramic. They can be used as a dish or tray or as wall decoration.

French large Camaïeu Bleu Grisaille painting. The colour is treated in a monochromatic way. Tableau Grisaille painting in shades of Camaïeu blue evoking ...

Painted canvas figuring birds : bullfinches and hoopoes, in the middle of large foliage and flowery silvered scrolls. Brown background. Linen raw canvas hand painted with natural ...

Set of four antique 19th century Italian oil on wood marina landscape paintings with painted wooden frames Measures with frame: 34 x 44 x 3cm.

This is a small cup for drinking sake. It is called Ochoko in Japanese. It was made in showa era around 1960s. It is made with porcelain and all hand painted. This is Kutani ware. ...

A good antique Italian Grand Tour miniature hand-painted portrait on a porcelain plaque of Beatrice Cenci after the original by Guido Reni (1575-1642), the painting in a gilt brass micro mosaic frame...

Léa Lafugie is a painter who has travelled extensively throughout Asia. She is renowned for her portraits. She studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, then at the Ecole de...

A later and large execution of ‘Spring ‘ of the Four Seasons series by Francois Boucher in the Rococo taste , the originals around 1755. (and for Madame Pompadour). A Shepherd conver...

This 17th century panel painting is a depiction of a praying Franciscan monk, or of Saint Francis. The grey-brown habit, the skull and the book are ...

Egyptian Figures’ by Jeet Chhabda. Original collage on canvas. Signed and dated to reverse by artist 1979. Original stretcher and frame. Additional information: H 76.5 cm (H 30 i...

Rare extra-large (cm 59 x 85) antique watercolour of capital from a collection of architectural details of Florence monuments painted in Italy in the middle of 19th Century. Black ma...

1970s Jaime Parlade Designer Hand Painting "Tigers" Oil on Canvas.

Acquired from the estate of a Dallas-based illustrator, this wonderfully painted gouche on corrugated paperboard maintains the perfect balance of casualness and luxuriousness that fe...

Oil on canvas; 12" x 24" each. Set of four trout still life on rocky beach - brown trout, rainbow trout, brook trout and cutthroat. North Idaho artist. Gre...

(1935 - ) Oil on canvas; 24" x 36". Fellows grew up in California where he worked as a cowboy and was an apprentice for four years to a saddle maker. He roped calves and steers on the rodeo circuit. Without formal art training he spent 10 years as a commercial artist and as an art director, later moving to Big Fork, MT to devote himself full time to painting. His studio contains a serious collection of early western guns, Plains Indian artifacts...

We are delighted to offer for sale this massive original late 19th century extra large Flemish oil painting, signed Q Jihuitog depicting a nice na...

Painted canvas figuring three black, white and red koi carps. Blue background with gilt flowers and branches. Linen raw canvas hand painted with natural pigments and gilt motifs realized with copper leaf. Canvas stretched thanks to two wood sticks and the lower one is removable, permitting to roll it for the shipping. French contemporary work. The carp is a symbol of perseverance and courage in Chinese culture because it tries to migrate upstream. A Chinese legend said that carps of the Yellow River capable to jump over the Dragon Door...

17th century Flemish Shool Antwerp, wild boar hunt in the style of Frans Snijders, oil on oak panel marked by Guilliam Gabron 1609-1662, Antwerp. The st...

Charming painting of 2 female farm labourers Unsigned. In the style of Jack Kampmann Oil on board. Possibly Faroe Islands Presented in an antique whi...

Ceramic wall plaque handmade by Danish artist Jørgen Finn Petersen in the 1960s. Square bowl shape making the item usable as a decorative dish or centerpiece as well as an art piece ...

1970s Jaime Parlade designer Hand Painting "Tigers" oil on canvas.

DRESDEN - Blue bird and floral porcelain plaque - beautiful and fine hand painting with a subtle shaded background - signed GP and dated lower right - impressed mark on the back side...

Embellish a wall or shelf with this elegant pair of antique, hand painted Majolica wall hanging plaques. Crafted in France, circa 1880, the ceram...

A stylish Burmantofts Faience art pottery wall plaque with rampant lions by Joseph Walmsley and dating from the latter 19th century. The circular plaque is hand painted with six ramp...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning original late 19th century Flemish oil painting, signed Demoen and with an exhibitio...

Painted canvas figuring birds in the middle of large foliage and flowery gilt scrolls. Brown background. Linen raw canvas hand painted with natural pigments and background silvered ...

In the 17th century landscape and peasants were a popular painting subject. The panel shows a scene next to a riverbank. The colors are very muted and mainly in shades of brown and g...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning Frederick Golden Short 1863 – 1936 oil painting which dated 1920 and signed of the Bluebell wood in New Forest This painting is o...

Hand-Painted Spanish Ceramic Tile Mural by Sevillarte, Signed by H. Carol C. — Floral Still Life, ca. Late 20th Century This stunning ceramic tile mural is a vivid testament to the ...

Painted canvas figuring a side view of a woman portrait in the Renaissance style. She wears a black dress with a gilt collar, belt with gilt flower motifs, grey sleeves adorned with...

Painted canvas representing an Art Deco style woman holding a circular fan in her left hand at the height of her neck. She looks towards her right. She has black hair in a high bun. ...

Large Roman marble vase printed on a hand press on 100% cotton engraving paper. Completely handpainted with a cream wash, pompeian red and blue highlights and details. Light brown ma...

1970s Jaime Parlade designer Hand Painting "Tigers" oil on canvas.