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Period: Early 17th Century
Map of Warwickshire, England, Incl insets of Warwick and Coventry, c.1614
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'The Counti of Warwick the Shire Towne and Citie of Coventre described'. Map of Warwickshire, England. Includes inset town plans of Warwick and Coventry. This map ...
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Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
Early, Rare and Small Hand-Coloured Copper Engraving of Greece, ca. 1602
Located in Langweer, NL
Attractive minature map of Greece or 'Graecia"
Maker/Publisher: A. Ortelius/A. en F. Arsenius / M Coignet / J. van Keerbergen - 1601-1620
With a si...
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Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
Pair 17th Century Medical Anatomy Engravings by Francesco Valesio, 1627
Located in Rochester, NY
Two anatomical copper engravings by Francesco Valesio. From De humani corporis fabrica libri decem
Evangelista Deuchino, Venice: 1627. Laid paper.
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European Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
Early 17th Century French Landscape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early 17th century French landscape painting. Unframed.
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French Louis XIV Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Canvas, Paint
17th-Century Botanical Engravings of Mosses and Ferns By John Parkinson
By John Parkinson
Located in Downingtown, PA
John Parkinson was the last of the great English herbalists and one of the first of the great English botanists. Here the pair of prints show mosses and lichen and the other of ferns.
From: Paradisi in sole Paradisus Terrestris: or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers...
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English Jacobean Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
17th Century Jan Van De Velde Print "January" from the Months, 1618
Located in Cagliari, IT
Beautiful burin from the rare suite "The Months" performed by the artist and engraved by Claens Jansz Visscher (1587-19 June 1652).
Very fresh and well contrasted, laid paper with w...
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Dutch Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
Early 17th Century Roman School Praying Madonna Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
Roman school, late 16th-early 17th century Praying Madonna
Oil on canvas, 81 x 69 cm
Frame 83 x 95.5 cm
A divine whiteness reverberates with vibrant luster on the maphorion of the present Virgin. The palpable iridescence that structures the thin rosaceous garment, woven with the same fresh light, produces a slight rustle when she takes her hands off. The Madonna in fact takes a prayerful pose, opening her palms to underline her fervent ecstatic intention; the white neck is rendered with perishable fullness of pigments, like the hands, perfectly alive, and the very shiny eyes. With fine shrewdness the artist of the present styles the Virgin's hair with thin white ribbons, exacerbating the purity. An evocative light falls gently on the bust, a materialized sign of divine glory.
The present can be traced back to the late Mannerist climate that prevailed in the capital after the emanation of the Tridentine council (1545-1563). The late Mannerist licenses that can still be seen there, such as the intense lyricism in the stylistic code adopted by the artist, are innervated in the new basic catechetical intent, which at the end of the century produced a certain figurative rigorism. The present, however, still responds to that extraordinary Roman dynamism that raised the capital to a bulwark for the entire mannerist lesson, matched only by a second artistic center, the Florentine one. The engaging carriage of the Virgin reflects the contemporary examples of Giuseppe Valeriano (1542-1596), a Jesuit painter, returning in the Marriage of the Virgin of the Roman Church of Jesus, as well as in the Madonna of Sorrows in the Recanati Altarpiece, equal ardor. But it is in the Assumption of the Virgin painted in four hands with Scipione Pulzone...
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Italian Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Canvas
Flemish 16th century Madonna in a Rose Garden
Located in Seaford, GB
The Madonna and Child Oil Painting in a Rose Garden – Flemish (Ambrosius Benson School)
Late 16th Century/ Early 17th Century Flemish Oil Painting on Oak Panel
Artist & Background
This exquisite Flemish Renaissance Madonna and Child oil painting, titled Madonna and Child in a Rose Garden, is attributed to a follower of Ambrosius Benson (circa late 16th - early 17th century). Benson, originally from Lombardy, Italy, became a renowned master painter in Bruges, Flanders, in the early 1500s..
Key Features of This Madonna and Child Painting:
Period & Style – Late 16th-century Flemish School, influenced by Gerard David and Leonardo da Vinci.
Medium – Oil on oak panel, a signature technique of Flemish masters.
Composition – The Virgin Mary and Christ Child are set in a serene rose garden, symbolising purity and divine love.
Influence – This artwork reflects both Netherlandish precision and Lombard artistic traditions.
Provenance & Demand: Benson’s followers were widely sought after, and his compositions commanded high market value among collectors.
Antique Hand-Carved Frame Old Master Madonna and Child Artwork
This painting is housed in an original 17th-century hand-carved wooden frame featuring a classic egg-and-dart motif.
Condition Report
Conservation Status: Professionally cleaned.
Historical Cracking: Some age-related panel cracks are common in antique oil paintings.
Restoration: Minor retouching to the Madonna’s face, enhancing original details.
Why Invest in Flemish Renaissance Art?
Historical Significance – Works by Ambrosius Benson’s followers remain highly collectable in the art market.
Museum-Quality Piece – Suitable for private collectors, investors, and art connoisseurs.
European Heritage – A fine example of an Old Master religious painting...
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Belgian Renaissance Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Oak, Paint
Original Antique Poster Norvege Norway Midnight Sun Stavkirke Church Travel Map
Located in London, GB
Original antique travel poster for Norway with French text The Land of the Midnight Sun / Norvege le Pays du Soleil de Minuit featuring great artwork by Othar Holmboe (1868-1928) dep...
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Norwegian Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
Antique Nativity Italian Painting
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Antique Nativity Christmas Italian oil painting on canvas, from first half 17th century. Anonymous painter (as usual at that time) and with an authe...
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Italian Archaistic Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Canvas
Spices of the Tropics: Cinnamon and Cassia in De Bry's 1601 Illustration
Located in Langweer, NL
Title: "Spices of the Tropics: Cinnamon and Cassia in De Bry's 1601 Illustration"
Description: This 1601 engraving by Theodore de Bry offers a detailed look at the spice-bearing tre...
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Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
Hampshire County, Britain/England: A Map from Camden's" Britannia" in 1607
By John Norden
Located in Alamo, CA
An early hand-colored map of Britain's Hampshire county, published in the 1607 edition of William Camden's great historical description of the British Isles, "Britannia". This map was drawn by cartographer John Norden (c. 1547-1625) and engraved by William Hole (active 1607-1624) and William Kip...
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English Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
Antique Map of the Region of Pavia, Lodi, Novara, Tortona & Alessandria, Italy
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Territorio di Pavia, Lodi, Novarra, Tortona, Alessandria e altri vicini dello Stato di Milano'. Original old map of the region of Pavia, Lodi, Novara, Tortona and...
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Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
Early 17th Century French Landscape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early 17th century French landscape painting. Unframed.
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French Louis XIV Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Canvas, Paint
The Spanish Grand Duke of Alba or Iron Duke in the Netherlands, 1618
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique portrait titled 'Ferdinando Alvares a Toledo (..)'.
Old portrait of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo y Pimentel or Ferdinandus Toletanus Dux Albanus (1507 - 1582), known as the Grand Duke of Alba...
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Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
Early Antique Map of the Dutch Provinces of Friesland and Groningen, 1604
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Frisiae Occidentalis.'
This attractive map shows the Dutch Provinces of Friesland and Groningen. Embellished with strapwork tit...
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Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
Early 17th Century French Landscape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early 17th century French landscape painting. Unframed.
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French Louis XIV Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
17th Century Jan Van De Velde Print "October" from the Months, 1618
Located in Cagliari, IT
Beautiful burin from the rare suite "The Months" performed by the artist and engraved by Claens Jansz Visscher (1587-19 June 1652).
Very fresh and well contrasted, laid paper with w...
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Dutch Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
Antique Map of the Moluccas by Porcacchi, 'circa 1620'
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Isole Molucche'. The map depicts the East Indies and Indochina, including modern-day Indonesia and the Philippines. The area covered stretches from the Bay of Bengal...
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Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
Framed 17th Century Map of Cumberland, England by John Speed, 1610
By John Speed
Located in Middleburg, VA
A fascinating and richly detailed antique map of Cumberland County in northwest England, drawn and published by the celebrated English cartographer John Spe...
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English British Colonial Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Copper, Gold Leaf
Antique Print of the Ruins of the Roman Fortress Brittenburg, The Netherlands
Located in Langweer, NL
The ruins of the Roman fortress Brittenburg near Katwijk, The Netherlands. Made by 'Ludovico Guicciardini' after an anonymous artist. Lodovico Guicciardini (19 August 1521-22 March 1...
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Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
Early 17th Century Flemish Tapestry Panel Depicting Mercury
Located in Milan, IT
A very fine tapestry panel, originally part of the top section of a border, depicting at its center the head of Mercury, the Roman God of Commerce. The winged head is flanked by a pa...
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Belgian Baroque Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
Antique Portrait of Anne of Denmark, attributed to a Follower of Paul van Somer
Located in Braintree, GB
This exquisite portrait, rendered in oil on copper, presents a three-quarter-length depiction of Anne of Denmark (1574-1619), the esteemed queen consort of King James VI and I. Anne,...
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European Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Copper
C. 1625 After Antoine de Pluvinel, "Henry IV, Mounted", Hand Colored Engraving
Located in Morristown, NJ
Early 17th century, French hand colored equestrian engraving. After Antoine de Pluvinel (French, 1552-1620), "Henry IV, Mounted", figure 42 from "L'Instruction du Roy en l'Exercice de Monter a Cheval", c. 1625, matted and framed under UF-3 plexiglass (blocks approx. 97% of UV) , gallery label verso. Figures from this publication have sold at Christie's. Those were not hand colored.
A highly detailed engraving with the French King Henry 1V the central figure. Mounted on horseback, Le Roy (the King) is watched by no less than 10 courtiers some of whom are mounted on horseback, all of which are named in the engraving.
Antoine de Pluvinel (1552, Crest, Dauphine - 24 August 1620) was the first of the French riding masters, and has had great influence on modern dressage. He wrote L’Instruction du Roy en L'exercice de Monter à Cheval ("instruction of the King in the art of riding"), was tutor to King Louis XIII, and is credited with the invention of using two pillars, as well as using shoulder-in to increase suppleness.
In 1594, Pluvinel founded the "Academie d'Equitation" near what is now Place des Pyramides. There, the French nobility was trained not only in horsemanship, but also in all the accomplishments (dancing, fashionable dressing, etc.) It can be said that Pluvinel's influence on the aristocracy lasted from the late 16th century to the 17th century. Richelieu, the future Prime Minister of King Louis XIII attended the Academie; so did William, Duke of Cavendish.
Pluvinel's book was published posthumously by the Flemish engraver Crispijn van de Passe II and the royal valet de chambre...
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French Baroque Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Plexiglass, Boxwood, Paint, Paper
Antique Japanese Hanging Scroll Attributed to Iwasa Matabei
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique ink and color on paper hanging scroll (kakejiku) with brocade border. It appears to be a fragment of a larger hand scroll depicting a procession of a lord with his entoura...
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Japanese Japonisme Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Silk, Paper
Bargello Flamestitch Silk Embroidery Florence Spetchley Park Bed Curtains Pair
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Spetchley park, Bargello, silk, bed curtains adapted into wall hangings in the 19th century
• The use of silk, patterning and size suggests that these striking Bargello hangings were almost certainly conceived as bed curtains. In the Green Chamber at Parham House the State Bed is hung with Bargello curtains, pelmets and valences c1620. Like the Parham bed curtains, the Spetchley Park bed curtains have two horizontal pattern repeats in each drop. Needless to say, surviving bed curtains from this period are exceptionally rare as they had value as hangings and for upholstering domestic objects when removed from the bed.
• The Spetchley Park bed curtains are really beautiful and luxurious. They were made as elite objects and have not lost their gravitas or their character and charm.
• The Spetchley Park bed curtains were adapted into wall hangings in the 19th century. They are versatile and could easily be reinstated as curtains or panels within larger curtains.
• Bargello work has a classic timeless quality to it and blends with most decorative schemes whether period or contemporary
Each panel is made from two sections of bargello. The step (pattern) comprising two rows of short vertical stitches over two threads of graduating numbers of stitches up and down with two rows of long vertical stiches over six threads of graduating numbers of stitches up and down. Worked in graduating shades of blue, green, brown, red, tan and ivory silks on a hessian ground. The four edges of each hanging are faced with a 19th century, dusky pink fan...
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Italian Baroque Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Silk
Daniel Cletcher 17th Century Painting Oil on Wood Panel 1628 Den Haag Flemish
Located in Münster, DE
A landscape with nymphs and satyrs revelling by a stream , 1628
Daniël Cletcher, Den Haag 1599
Died: Den Haag buried on 1632-11-25
Father: Thomas Cletcher sr. (? - ca. 1655)
Mother...
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Dutch Baroque Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Wood
Antique Portrait of Philip of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein by Van Meteren, 1618
Located in Chonburi, TH
This antique portrait engraving of Philip of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, created by the renowned engraver Emanuel van Meteren in 1618, is a remarkable piece of historical artwork. Van Mete...
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Dutch Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
1600s Paintings of French Nobility
Located in Cesena, FC
1600s Paintings of French Nobility
1600s Portraits of Nobility:
Seventeenth-century Paintings
Size: 18.5 x 14.6 inches
French Artist
Featured here are six oval paintings depicting ...
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French Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Canvas, Wood, Paint
Madonna Enthroned with the Child Christ, 17th Century, Gold Gilded on Wood Panel
Located in North Miami, FL
17th Century Italian polychromed and gold gilded on wood panel Sienese style painting of the Madonna Enthroned with the child and two adoring angels behind them. The halos are beautifully adorned with punch work. She is framed by a hand-carved gold gilded and velvet lined frame and sitting on a hand-carved matching base. The piece is mounted on a Lucite panel and framed with a contemporary hand-finished wood molding.
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Italian Renaissance Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Gold Leaf
16th-17th Century Gentleman’s Portrait Oil on Canvas by Francesco Zucco
Located in Milan, IT
Francesco Zucco (circa 1575-1627)
Gentleman’s portrait
Measures: Oil on canvas, cm 120 x 140
The painting analyzed here belongs to the pictorial production of Francesco Zucc...
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Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Canvas
Countye of Monmouth, Dated 1610
By John Speed
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
The countye of Monmouth with the situation of the townshire described Anno, 1610
The reverse with Monmouthshire, Chapter VI and an alphabetical list of towns.
In a beautiful Flemish oak polished and gilded frame
Cartographer: John Speed...
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English Baroque Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
17th Century Holy Family with Bird Oil on Glass Follower of Simon Vouet
By Simon Vouet 1
Located in Milan, IT
Follower of Simon Vouet (Paris, 1590 - 1649)
The Holy Family with bird
Oil on glass, cm 20.5 x 23.5; with frame cm 27.5 x 29.5
The small painting examined, made on glass and...
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Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Glass
17th Century Traditional French Aubusson Style Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Secaucus, NJ
Hand woven recreation of the classic French flat-weave Aubusson rugs that have been found in the finest homes and palaces since the late 17th century. Size 11' 11" x 18' 2".
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Chinese Aubusson Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Wool
Japanese Six Panel Screen, Morning Glories on a Bamboo Arbor
Located in Hudson, NY
Very early painting of a gold arbor with morning glories, the mulberry paper almost appears polished. Please see close-up photos to show staining from use over the many years (on the...
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Japanese Antique Early 17th Century Wall Decorations
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Paper
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