Giltwood Wall Decorations

The 1844 summer market in the town of Lengerich, in the western German province of Westphalia, is the subject of this antique KPM porcelain plaque...

An important Chinese 17th century early Qing Dynasty "Water and Land Ritual" painting, mineral pigment and ink on silk, mounted as a scroll, framed and glazed. The painting depicting groups of heavenly court officials and deities descending from the clouds to participate in the Liberation Rite of Land and Water. The figures all wear full, sumptuous robes, complete with hats indicating their station. The blue, green, red, black and white of the robes decorated with gilt dragon and geometric designs. This painting is interesting in that it incorporates Daosit deities and heavenly officials coming down to participate in the Buddhist rite. There are five distinct groups of figures, each with a small inscribed plaque. Some of the groups are identified as Tian Xian, or Heavenly Immortals. The group at the bottom left are identified as the Sanguan Dadi, or Three Great Emperor-Officials. The Emperor of Heaven is dressed in blue robes with gilt painted dragons. The Emperor of Water wears black robes. The Emperor of Earth wears yellow robes...

Set in the original carved gilt wood frame and painted in France circa 1860, the antique canvas depicts a pastoral scene with soldiers on horse-drawn carriage stopping in front of a ...

Three mounted and giltwood framed chromolithograph plates from L'Ornement Polychrome: Motifs de tous les styles, art ancien et asiatique, Moyen Age, Renaissance, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, by A. Racinet, 1869-1873. Published by Firmin-Didot, Paris. Specifically, the three framed plates are Middle Ages, Renaissance and 17th century. This reference work “created to render major services to our industrial arts” brings the archeological art...

An unusual pair of Italian made gilt wood wall shelves. The Louis XV style with a lattice work center with Demilune top and scrolling details. 11 inches wide, 10.5 inches tall, 6 in...

A French framed needlepoint tapestry from the 19th century, with ribbon and floral motifs. Set inside a simple yet elegant gilded frame with matting and gilt rim, this lovely horizon...

A large Impressionist style floral still life painting by American artist Rosetta Bohnert (1885-1980). Bouquet of bright yellow and orange zinnias and pink and white phlox in white pottery pitcher...

An English oil on canvas hunt painting from the 20th century depicting three dogs and their catch, in carved giltwood frame. This English oil on canvas hunt painting from the 20th ce...

Karl Viktor Mayr (Austrian, 1882-1974) a very fine Austrian oil on canvas "An Exotic Nude Girl" depicting a young semi-nude woman, revealing her breast...

This elegant antique painting was created in France circa 1830. Set in the original carved gilt wood frame, the hand painted canvas depicts two young beauties strolling bare foot on ...

Attributed to the renowned French Romantic painter, Eugène Isabey, this seaside painting (dated 1864) effectively uses dark and evocative tones of brown, gray, and beige to depict a ...

American Victorian Hudson River School style oil painting scene of a house by a stream with tree in foreground in a gold frame

A 19th Century KPM Plaque of Jan Hus at Constance Council, Originally By Karl Friedrich Lessing, with the Original Giltwood Frame. The plaque is expertly framed in a meticulously cr...

A fine French 19th century oil on artist panel titled "The Bather and her Maid" after François Lemoyne (1688-1737) depicting a standing nude maiden being assisted by her maid, within an ornate giltwood and gesso carved frame, Paris, circa 1860-1870. François Lemoyne or François Le Moine or Le Moyne...

Framed in a quality water gilded frame. Image of " False Bird Of Paradise". Signed lower right, Linda L. Broadfoot.

English Arts and Crafts gilt 3 fold screen with fretwork/spindle & ball design top and tapestry upholstered panels.

Decorate a study or office with this elegant antique painting. Set in a Newcomb-Macklin frame, and titled "The Golden Country", the artwork depicts a typical American rural scene with a peasant in a carriage pulled by his three horses. The canvas is signed by the artist in the lower right corner; Krawiec gained national acclaim for his vibrant views of the American Scene, painting in a Realist technique the unvarnished, everyday images of common Americans at work or at play. The painting is in excellent condition with rich colors, and set in a beautiful gilt N-M frame. Walter Krawiec...

A fine and large French 19th century oil on canvas "Mother and Child Crossing a Creek" by Alexandre Jacques Chantron (French 1842-1918). The impressive and finely executed artwork depicting a young joyous mother holding her child...

A Louis XVI Period Barometer & Thermometer Combination, originating in France & dating from the last quarter of the 18th century. The workings enclosed by a gilt-wood case with carve...

Decorate a wall with this colorful antique painting. Created in France, circa 1960 and signed in the lower right corner by French artist, Andre Vignoles, the oil on canvas is framed ...

The work is a round framed painting made of gilded wood, with an angel above the frame cin center. The frame is all made with very elegant, curv...

AMERICAN TONALIST Late 19th/early 20th century A Moonlit Nocturnal Landscape Oil on canvas Unsigned 20" H x 25 1/16" W x 7/8" D [frame] 15 1/4" H x 20 1/4" W [canvas] This late ...

This exquisite Dutch vertical format oil on canvas painting from the mid-19th century depicts sheep in fields and is attributed to Karel van Contich. Th...

These wonderful porcelain plaques were created in circa 1860 by the prestigious Konigliche Porzellan Manufaktur or KPM (German, founded in 1763). The plaques feature beautiful paintings based on works by the famous Seville-based Baroque artist, Bartolome Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1618-1682). One plaque is decorated after Murillo...

A charming and finely detailed Italian late 19th century Giltwood Centurion soldier wall decor. This female centurion soldier is adorned with a fish scale designed armor with impressive and richly carved bands and fish scale shoulder armor. She wears a Centurion helmet...

This oil on board pastoral painting of two cattle is signed and dated by the artist in the lower right corner “F.J. Dierckxsens 1858”. There is also a handwritten paper affixed to th...

American print of St. Michael's church on Meeting Street, Charleston, SC. matted under glass in gilt frame. Elizabeth O'Neil Verner, early 20th century.

Impressive Italian hand-colored classic motif print depicting lions, birds, griffins, swans, ruins, putti and strongmen. Raffaello Sanzio d'Urbino, also known as Raphael, designed t...

Hand-carved in France, circa 1850, this elegant etagere features elements inspired by nature, known as the Rocaille style. The opulent giltwood wall shelf...

Invite color into your home with this elegant pair of antique floral paintings. The artworks were crafted in France circa 1870, and are set in...

Antique Meissen porcelain plaque after Correggio German, 19th Century Measures: Frame: Height 43cm, width 50cm, depth 10cm Plaque: Height ...

With rich texture and striking presence, this 19th-century oil on canvas captures a noble bloodhound named “Odino,” painted in Leeds and identified on the reverse alongside the inscr...

France, circa 1900. An antique French school painting of a noble women on likely paper or animal bone. The painting is housed inside a bronze d'ore frame and accented by purple ena...

Pair of gilded Italian Rococo-style wall brackets (ca. 1950). Deeply carved in high relief with rocaille c scroll accents and acanthus leaf decoration supporting shallow shelf surfac...

JOHN MOGFORD, R.I. British, 1821-1885 "A Scottish Loch at Sunrise" Oil on canvas Signed lower right "John Mogford" Item # 109YWG10X A sweeping landscape view, this lovely scene ...

The Arabic numeral dial signed A.M. Blomberg, Stockholm, the case elaborately carved with opposing cornucopias, birds and branches, raised on a bracket decorated with shells and acan...

Decorate an office or den with this antique serene maritime landscape painting. Created in Holland circa 1895, and set in the original carved giltwood frame, the large painting is attributed to Herman Willem Koekkoek...

An exceptionally well painted antique oil on board painting by Belgian artist Felicien Rops whom lived and was active during the 19th century. The painting is a landscape scene depi...

Pair of rare 19th century Italian carved and gilt wood bat form wall brackets. Original gilding. As found. Rare and wonderful. Neoclassical and Gothic, in ...

A lovely and most elegant Italian 19th century Giltwood and Oil on canvas painting, circa 1840. This sensational and high quality painting depicts an European landscape with a waterf...

Jules Salles-Wagner (French, 1814-1898) A Large and Impressive French, 19th century oil on canvas "The Water Carrier" depicting a standing and posing young peasant girl holding twin-...

Pair of French gilt wood and gesso decorative carved foliage and gadrooned hanging wall brackets, Early 19th century.

A pair of American horizontal oil on canvas paintings from the late 19th century, depicting horse races and set inside giltwood frames. This captivating pair of late 19th-century Ame...

An early 20th century hand painted Thangka of buddha on a coral background with the artist signature and hand print on the back. The later gilt wo...

A beautiful and very high quality English 18th century oil on canvas painting named Rosewood Castle, N. Wales by Julius Caesar Ibbetson circa 1781. The wonderfully executed painting depicts washerwomen cleaning clothes in the river near a Bridge at Rosewell Castle, North Wales. In the background is a beautiful blue sky with clouds...

A Pair of French 19th Century Oil on Canvas "Allegory of Fortune and Virtue". The old-master style oval canvas' depicting Fortune as a classical seated elegantly dressed maiden tossi...

Oil painting on wood attributed to Jules Dupré (1811-1889), a French artist famous for his dramatic paintings of forests around Paris and one of the leaders of the Barbizon School of...

"HEN AND CHICKS" (1867) BY ANDREA CHERUBINI (ITALIAN, 1833-1905) In oil on canvas, signed lower left "A Cherubini 1867, Roma" Item # 007NKJ21H An exqu...

A 19th Century portrait by Italian artist Fausto Giusto (1867 Naples-1941 Zurich) after a Renaissance painting by Titian entitled "La Bella". An exceptionally detailed portrait by a ...

Pier Francesco Cittadini (Milan, 1616-Bologna, 1681) "Jacob and his family go to Egypt" Oil on canvas, cm 109 x 190 (canvas only) The valuable painting, made in oil on canvas, depicts Jacob and his family go to Egypt and we believe it can be, given the high quality painting, autograph work of Italian Pier Francesco Cittadini (Italy Milan, 1616 - Bologna, 1681) made after 1647. The work, in excellent condition is accompanied by a coeval frame in wood finely carved and golden. The scene depicted, which was confused with the Flight to Egypt in the past years, is instead identified with the biblical episode of Jacob’s journey. In the foreground, reading the painting from left to right, we see a caravan composed of animals, including donkeys, dromedaries, goats, dogs and horses and people, women, men and slaves, who carry on their journey along the banks of a river, following a path that to the right, would seem to lead to the through of a bridge. In addition to the watercourse is described an environment characterized by large rocks and impervious come far to cover the entire verticality of the canvas. On the left, in the distance, we see the tail of the caravan that runs along the steep path. Large trees enliven and harmonize the environment, as well as white and grey clouds characterize the predominantly clear sky and illuminated on the right by sunlight. The story is told in the Bible, Book of Genesis, 30, 25, passage in which is described the flight of Jacob from Haran after the contrasts with Laban, father of his wife Rachel. Jacob is the third great patriarch of the Bible. From his descendants originate the twelve generations of the people of Israel. He is the son of Isaac and Rebekah, who led him to flee from the wrath of Esau to Haran to seek refuge from his brother, Laban. At his uncle’s house Jacob met his daughter Rachel. As soon as he saw his cousin, Jacob was taken. Jacob will stay seven years in the service of Laban to marry his beloved Rachel. But Laban, with a deception, will give him in marriage first Lia, the least beautiful eldest daughter, and only after another seven years the splendid Rachel. From his first wife he will have several children, while Rachel will give birth to the beloved son, Joseph, who will become viceroy of Egypt. After years of service, Jacob asked to be paid with every dark-coloured garment among the sheep and every spotted and dotted garment among the goats. Laban accepted and sent away from his sons all the leaders of that kind. So Jacob took fresh branches of poplar, almond and plane tree, and flayed them, and put them in the troughs. The optical suggestion induced the goats and the sheep to conceive and give birth to dark, striped and dotted garments. He also ensured that all the strongest and healthiest leaders of the flock of Laban would drink near the barked branches, thus assuring a genetic superiority to his part of the flock. His flocks grew numerous and strong and he became richer than his relative, arousing envy. It was clear that Laban would not respect him much longer. At the suggestion of the Lord, Jacob decided to return to Canaan. Trying to avoid any possible dispute, he left with his family while Laban was absent for shearing sheep. But when, three days later, his uncle returned home, he became angry, feeling offended because Jacob had gone secretly and had not allowed him to greet his daughters and grandchildren. In addition, his teraphim, statuettes, or idols, which depicted the family deities, had disappeared. After 7 days of pursuit, Laban and his men reached Jacob’s group on Mount Gilead, in the mountainous region west of the Euphrates River, where his uncle and grandson had a stormy conversation. The younger man was outraged at being accused of stealing idols and told Labano to rummage through his family’s tents at will. Neither of them could know or even imagine that it was Rachel who took the idols and hid them in the saddle of the camel. During the search, she sat down firmly on the saddle, apologizing for not being able to get up, «because I usually have what happens to women» (Gen 31:35). So the loot wasn’t discovered. The author of this work was inspired by the composition of an engraving by Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) of circa 1647. The engraving by Stefano della Bella bears the title "Iacob sur ses vieux jours quitte sans fascherie pour voir son filz Ioseph, sa terre et sa patrie" and is signed on the bottom left "Stef. of the Beautiful In. et fe." while on the right it is declared "Cum privil. Regis", that is with license of the king. Stefano Della Bella (Italy - Florence, May 18, 1610-Florence, July 12, 1664) was born in a family of painters, sculptors and goldsmiths and was left early orphan of his father sculptor, he dedicated himself first to the art of goldsmith at the school of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Gasparo Mola, then turning his attention to drawing and engraving. He soon began drawing figures and copying the etchings of Jacques Callot, which inspired his early works. Under the protection of the Medici, in particular of Don Lorenzo, cadet son of Grand Duke Ferdinand I, Della Bella has the opportunity to make study trips to Rome, where he stayed from 1633-1636; In Rome he met French engravers and publishers of prints such as Israël Henriet and François Langlois, who influenced his decision to move to Paris in 1639, four years after the death of Callot. In Paris he soon reached, thanks to the engravings commissioned by Cardinal Richelieu, the success also worldly; he frequented courtiers, theatre artists and writers, while refusing too oppressive honors. In 1646-1647 he continued his travels in the Netherlands to Amsterdam, Antwerp and Dordrecht. He returned to Florence in 1650 and resumed working under the protection of the Medici court, working for his patrons. In 1656 he became a member of the Academy of Apatists. The painting object of this study is reasonably attributable to Pier Francesco Cittadini, or Pierfrancesco Cittadini, called the Milanese or the Franceschino (Italy - Milan, 1616-Bologna, 1681) as some exemplary stylistic comparisons proposed to follow can prove. Pier Francesco Cittadini was an Italian baroque painter, mainly active in Bologna. His artistic training first took place with the painter Daniele Crespi...

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...

Italian Neoclassic (18th Century) gilt carved wood and metal wall plaque with a centered column and capital with an eminating scroll and cornicopia design Fair Condition...

A beautiful pair of small Italian gold gilt wall shelf bracket with bow motif and acanthus leaf design, circa mid-20th century, Italy. Hand carved and ...

Magnificent and enormous pair of 17th century Italian Baroque period carved giltwood putti wall figures. The pair maintained its original gilding and co...

Decorate a study, office or den with this beautiful and colorful antique oil on canvas painting! Painted in France circa 1890, the artwork is set in a 19th century carved gilt wood f...

Invite color into your home with this large pair of antique, floral paintings. The artworks were crafted in France circa 1870, and are set in carved gilt frames. Each canvas features...

'Esther' A Fine Berlin (KPM) Porcelain Plaque, After Hering Levanon. In a carved giltwood and composition frame. Signed 'Wagner', impressed sceptre mark, KPM, letter C, numeral 3...

'Erblüth' a large and very fine Berlin (KPM) Porcelain plaque, after Angelo Asti. In a giltwood and composition shadow box frame. Signed 'Weigel', impr...