Austrian Wall Decorations

This antique bird print shows the royal flycatcher with its fan shaped crest, the black and red broadbill and several colourful bee-eaters, on an original hand coloured plate from th...

This hand coloured copper engraving of termites and their towering mounds, with workers, soldiers, a winged adult and the grossly swollen egg laying queen, comes from the Vienna edit...

This hand coloured copper engraving of a gnat, with its head and feathered antennae greatly magnified, together with moths and a caterpillar, comes from the Vienna edition of Friedri...

This antique hoopoe print shows the hoopoe with its raised crest together with the European roller, two crossbills and the nightingale, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vi...

This antique moth print shows the garden tiger moth and the small emperor moth, together with what is probably the goat moth, each with its caterpillar and pupa, on an original hand ...

This hand coloured copper engraving of flying fishes, three with their long wing like pectoral fins spread and a brightly coloured fish at the top that appears to be a flying gurnard...

This hand coloured copper engraving shows two large moths, one with pale wings marbled in black and brown, the other with smoky blue grey forewings banded in black and a long coiled ...

This antique ibis print shows the scarlet ibis and other ibises, including the black faced ibis, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vienna edition...

This antique lark print shows eight ground dwelling songbirds, including an unmistakable crested lark, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vienna edition of Bertuch's Bilderb...

This antique bird print from the Vienna edition of Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows small exotic songbirds and a hummingbird arranged on a single flowering branch, an original hand coloure...

This hand coloured copper engraving shows two greatly magnified bristly larvae, several small moths and a magnified louse like insect, on a plate from the Vienna edition of Friedrich...

This hand coloured copper engraving of eight tropical reef fishes, angelfishes, butterflyfishes and a fish resembling the Moorish idol, comes from the Vienna edition of Friedrich Jus...

This hand coloured copper engraving of fishes of strange form, the scorpionfish, the chimaera or rabbitfish, a four spined boxfish and the lionfish, comes from the Vienna edition of ...

This antique insect print shows the walking leaf, the Chinese lantern fly and the small European lantern fly, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vienna edition of Bertuch's ...

This antique kingfisher print shows four brightly coloured kingfishers and a fifth, heavier billed bird on bare branches, an original hand coloured ...

This hand coloured copper engraving of hawk moths, with their caterpillars and pupae, comes from the Vienna edition of Friedrich Justin Bertuch's Bilderbuch, engraved by J. J. Schmuz...

This antique botanical print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows the rambutan, the hairy red tropical fruit of Southeast Asia, in a large and colourful single subject plate. The heading ...

This antique bird print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows the goldcrest and the firecrest, Europe's smallest birds, with three further songbirds. The heading reads Vögel CVI and the Vi...

This antique botanical print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows the caoutchouc or rubber tree beside the Arabian gum tree, two plants that supplied valuable trade goods around 1800. The...

This antique botanical print comes from the Vienna edition of Bertuch's Bilderbuch and shows two grasses in careful botanical detail under the heading Pflanzen CLVIII, with the Vienn...

This antique botanical print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows two medicinal plants of the old apothecary, the manna ash and sarsaparilla. The heading reads Pflanzen LXXXV and the plate carries the Vienna mark VIII.B.3 in the lower margin. Figure 1 is read as the manna ash, Fraxinus ornus, a branch with toothed pinnate leaves and dense sprays of creamy flowers, with a lump of the sweet dried sap, called manna, drawn at the foot as item a. Figure 2 is a sarsaparilla, Smilax, with a prickly climbing stem, broad heart shaped leaves with curved veins, clusters of dark berries, a flowering shoot and the long root used in medicine. Both drugs were imported in quantity around 1800, manna from Calabria and Sicily and sarsaparilla from Central and South America, and the plate shows children the living plants behind the jars on the apothecary shelf...

This antique botanical print comes from the Vienna edition of Bertuch's Bilderbuch and shows two flowering herbs under the heading Pflanzen XLV, with the Vienna mark IV.B.27. The spe...

This antique botanical print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows the cashew tree with its colourful cashew apples and kidney shaped nuts, beside a branch of acacia. The heading reads Pfl...

This antique botanical print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows the tamarind and the pistachio, two trees grown for their edible pods and nuts. The heading reads Pflanzen XVIII and the ...

This antique botanical print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows the spectacular flower head of a Brunsvigia, the candelabra lily of South Africa, probably Josephine's lily. The sheet is...

This antique botanical print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows two spice plants of the ginger family, zedoary or white turmeric and grains of paradise. The heading reads Pflanzen LXVII...

This antique botanical print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows a yucca in full flower, the plant known in gardens as Adam's needle. The heading reads Pflanzen CXIX and the Vienna mark ...

This antique botanical print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows the leaves of the acanthus, the plant whose deeply cut foliage inspired the Corinthian capital of classical architecture....

This antique botanical print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows two freshwater plants, the frogbit and the spiral tape grass Vallisneria. The heading reads Pflanzen CLVII and the Vienna...

This antique botanical print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows the mahogany tree and logwood, two West Indian trees prized in Europe for cabinet wood and dye. The heading reads Pflanze...

This antique botanical print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows two medicinal roots from tropical America, ipecacuanha and contrayerva. The heading reads Pflanzen CXXI and the Vienna ma...

This antique botanical print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows the common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca, with its rounded pink flower cluster, split seed pod and silky seeds. The heading...

This antique bird print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows six falcons and hawks, the birds of the falconer. The heading reads Vögel LXI and the Vienna mark VIII.B.20 is engraved at low...

This antique bird print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows jacanas, the long toed lily trotters of tropical wetlands, together with other small wading birds. The heading reads Vögel LIX...

This antique bird print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows six eagles and large birds of prey, among them the white headed bald eagle of North America. The heading reads Vögel V and the plate is inscribed as drawn and engraved by Jacob Xaver Schmuzer above the Vienna mark I.B.34. Figure 1 is a great dark eagle with wings raised and beak open on a rocky outcrop, figure 2 another large brown eagle, figure 3 the bald eagle with its white head and yellow bill, figure 4 a heavy eagle with a pale bill and figure 5 and 6 smaller raptors on branches. The eagle plates...

This antique snake print shows four serpents in colourful coils of black, blue, lilac and yellow, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vienna edition of Bertuch's Bilderbuch h...

This antique bird print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows swallows, swifts and a nightjar, the birds that hunt insects on the wing. The heading reads Vögel XXIX and the plate is signed...

This antique monkey print shows three primates, a long armed ape that is probably a gibbon and two monkeys, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vienna edition of Bertuch's Bi...

This antique bird print shows a large kingfisher and a mandarin duck drake, together with a slender green bird, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vienna edition of Bertuch'...

This antique snake print shows two serpents in long winding curves, one blotched in brown and one grey with a brightly marked head, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vienna...

This antique bird print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows five brightly coloured small songbirds, including the Java sparrow. The heading reads Vögel LXXIII and the Vienna mark X.B.31 ...

This antique rattlesnake print shows a coiled rattlesnake with its rattle raised, a separate study of the rattle and a second dark snake, on an original hand coloured plate from the ...

This antique botanical print from Bertuch's Bilderbuch shows two Asian spice plants, cassia cinnamon and galangal. The heading reads Pflanzen XCI, the Weimar plate of foreign spices,...

This antique mammal print shows the cross fox and the spotted hyena, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vienna edition of Bertuch's Bilderbuch headed Vierfuessige Thiere LXX...

This antique lizard print shows a monitor lizard, a basilisk and the flying dragon lizard, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vienna edition of Bertuch's Bilderbuch headed A...

This antique snake print shows two serpents in looping coils, one boldly patterned in purple, yellow and pale blue and the other in soft green, on an original hand coloured plate fro...

This antique snake print shows a black snake coiled round a young tree and a pale snake rising upright beside it, with a tiny hummingbird perched above, on an original hand coloured ...

This antique crocodile print shows a crocodile seen from above with its jaws open, together with a detailed study of its skull, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vienna edi...

This antique snake print shows three slender serpents stretched across the page in graceful loops, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vienna edition of Bertuch's Bilderbuch ...

This antique snake print shows four intertwined serpents in red, black, yellow and speckled pink, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vienna edition of Bertuch's Bilderbuch h...

This antique elephant seal print shows elephant seals resting on a rocky shore, with more seals in the surf and on the rocks beyond, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vienn...

This antique frog print shows four frogs seen from above, including a marbled pink tree frog and a blue frog with dark stripes, on an original hand coloured plate from the Vienna edi...

A beautiful antique late 18th century floral still life painting on porcelain attributed to Johann Baptist Drechsler (1756-1811) for the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory, circa 1780. Dr...

Carl Auböck Model #4086 Nickel Hook Designed in the 1950s, this versatile and Minimalist Viennese hook is executed in brushed nickel by Werkstätte Carl Auböck, Austria. Produced b...

Mid-19th Century Biedermeier Genre Painting “The Surprise,” Oil on Tin A charming mid-19th-century Continental genre painting, likely German or Austrian, executed in oil on tin and ...

1x Herta Baller hook vienna around 1950s Original condition

3 Asymetric Wall Hooks by Hertha Baller Austria, 1950s Original condition

An exceptional and most decorative Austrian 19th century patinated bronze, giltwood and Ebony wall plaque signed K. Sterrer. The striking wall decor is centered by the wonderfully executed patinated bronze plaque depicting a handsome sculptor in his atelier draped in a flowing garment working on a bust of a woman resting on a stool while holding his hammer and chisel. He is standing on a wall bracket like element with an impressive open winged eagle above an acorn finial, a tied carpenter's square and a tied bell hammer with a caliper and fine foliate branches at his feet. In the background is a beautiful maiden also draped in a wonderful flowing garment siting with her legs crossed on the plinth of a capital where another maiden, possibly a statue, is standing with a globe and sextant in her hand with plaques, busts, wings and curtains above. The plaque is set within an elegant mottled giltwood frame with beautiful richly carved wrap around berried laurel bands with a fine angled ebonized Fruitwood border. All original gilt and patina throughout. Karl Sterrer...

Large Antique Entomology Poster – Dragonflies, Crickets, Flies & Mole Crickets, 65x84 cm This impressive large-format antique entomology poster depicts a wide range of insects in fi...

This graceful Austrian painting by Hans Zatzka (Austrian 1859-1945) depicts the delicate image of a young lady resting her arms on top of a bowl of fruit. ...