Early 20th Century Wall Decorations

Magnificent Chinese scroll ancestor painting showing patriarch and matriarch of a high ranking status civil official. This unusual scroll depicts the dignitary couple seated below a ...

Rare and stunning work of lighting art in the manner of Loys Lucha. The glass shande is marked with initials of the artist (picture 3 and 4). If you are passionate about early 20th century decorative art then you will love this striking pendant. What you are seeing here is a one of a kind, hand painted and enameled pendant. With early 20th century lighting being one of our specialities, we too were thrilled when we first saw this amazing design. The combination of the vibrant colors and the unique and artistic motifs in this hand painted glass shade...

Beautiful image by Greuze Photogravure On good quality wove paper Published by Hutchinson & Co. , London. 1912 The measurement is the paper size Unframed

Print depicting the head of a Pointer dog with the pheasant in his mouth by B. Riab (1898-1975) solid cherry wood frame, polished and beeswaxed. Usa circa 1920.

Lovely image by Beatrix Potter Rescued from an early edition of " The Tale of Two Bad Mice " Possibly a 1st edition from 1904 The measurement given is the paper size not the actua...

An exquisite Japanese embroidery piece circa end of 19th-early 20th century of Meiji period. The silk panel depicts an idyllic water scenery, in which three mandarin ducks swim in th...

A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved two-tone gilt wood, gilt-patinated and gesso frame, 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 Painting diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 55 1/8 inches (140 cm) Frame width: 46 inches (116.8 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...

Antique map of Illinois ( Southern part ) Published By A & C Black. 1903 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

A beautiful set of five antique wooden & iron hand made garden tools. These would be ideal for an installation on a large wall on custom wall mounts. They would add the perfect dose ...

According to a bio written by Alex Bialy, "Daniel Schmidt adopted the name Dan Smith by 1890, when he began his career as a staff reporting artist for Leslie...

This is a printmaking called Hanga in Japanese. This Hanga was made around 1900s in Japan. As this is made with a paper and getting damaged, there is a new paper sticked on the back....

Large Aubusson style european made tapestry with an orientalist 19th century scene depicting an Arabian sultan and other figures and Middle Eastern Moorish architecture in the background. Probably a scene in North Africa, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia or Egypt with a sultan well dress sitting and an old man and women around him. Great textile to use as a wall tapestry decoration. Unframed antique Belgian or French machine made tapestry depicting a Moorish Islamic scene, typical of late 18th century and early 19th century after the Orientalist scenes. This is an authentic example of French or Belgian made tapestries...

A skilfully rendered oil painting on board by Austrian artist Adolph Reich skifully expresses the careful consideration and focus of a vintner or distiller as they study and are abou...

Designer: Wanda S. Neumann Manufacturer: Wanda S. Neumann Materials: Oil On Canvas, Wood Frame Style: California Realism

A brilliant example of California Impressionist painting, this view of the East Bay hills shimmering in pink, purple, jade and periw...

A large and stunning example of Wilhelm Hunt Diederich's work at the height of the Art Deco era, this drawing depicts a herald on horseback, his trumpet raised high, with an attenuat...

Interno di Chiesa, opera italiana dell'artista lombardo Achille Cattaneo, Dipinto ad olio su tela dei primi decenni del 1900, firmato in basso a sinistra, A.Cattaneo da Achille Catt...

Francis De Erdely (Hungarian/American, 1904-1959) “Mexican Shark Fishermen” water color and Pencil on Paper within a pine frame and protective glass, circa 1930. Signed: ‘De Erdely’...

Original antique drink advertising poster for bottled mineral water from Vilajuiga Spain proclaiming its medicinal health benefits - Agua de Vilajuiga / ...

An early 20th century collector caliber Persian Souf carpet handwoven in the Jozan Region. Measures: 2'3" x 2'7" Souf rugs are very rare technique foun...

A gorgeous Italian Grand Tour framed drawing under glass of a Roman male bust statue Italy, Early 20th Century Pencil drawing on paper, with a newe...

Auguste Renoir etching, Le Chapeau Epingle "Pinning the Hat", third version from the original 1894 etching. This is an etching of the artist Man...

Stunning pair of distressed antique Chinese hand painted wooden panels having red backgrounds and figural decoration of warriors on horseback in black, white and green.

French Majolica oyster plate Orchies, circa 1910.

Lofty pair of Anglo Indian watercolors on paper of a man and a woman riding elephants in fancy saddles or howdahs. Presented under glass in a mahogany frame.

Very nice French vintage tapestry with beautiful design of shepherdesses in the countryside and beautiful colours, woven on mechanical jacquard looms with wool and cotton. ✨✨✨ "Exper...

Edward S Curtis (1868-1952) Title: Kutenai Girls Plate: 253 Portfolio: Volume 16 Printer: John Andrew & Son Medium: Photogravure Date: 1910 Dimension...

A massive Japanese embordered tapestry professionally displayed in a custom acrylic shadow box. The fine work of textile art is dated to 1890-1920s, late Meiji (1868-1912) or possibl...

French Faience plate signed Saint Clement Circa 1900. Decorated with cornucopia and coat of arms with Fleur de lis on the center.

Title: Antique Horse Portrait Etching – Signed Original German Etching A finely executed antique etching of a horse’s head in profile, signed by the artist at lower right and marked...

Eduardo León Garrido (Spanish, 1856-1949) A very Fine oil on panel "Dressing for the Ball" depicting 18th century interior scene of a young 'High Society' maiden getting dressed for ...

Antique Japanese Kurume Indigo-Dyed Double Ikat Futon Cover Kurume double-ikat weaving was established over 200 year ago on the southern island of Kyushu, and has long been celebrat...

Antique Embroidered Nomadic Herder’s Vest, Tibet A rare example of a herder’s vest from west Tibet. Composed of thick natural brown Tibetan sheep’s wool, heavily embroidered with na...

This exquisite Kalamkar (also known as Qalamkar or Ghalamkar) woodblock-printed textile from Isfahan, Iran, is a masterwork of precision, symbolism, and artistic heritage. Created en...

This early 20th century lattice window panel likely originated in a northern Chinese home with neutral and balanced interiors. The geometric lattice pattern is linear and open, and w...

A vibrant and wonderful collection of antique porcelain plates featuring 12 distinct Great Britain Castles which are labeled on the back of the plates ...

This is a pair of antique bird prints. An English, framed nature study, dating to the Edwardian period, circa 1910. Fascinating prints, with fine detail and appealing colour Display...

Botanical photogravures by Karl Blossfeldt (German, b. 1914 - d. 1932), "Urformen der Kunst", First Edition 1929, Berlin. Mounted in simple black frames. The frames are a perfect com...

A rare elephant folio of seven original hand signed lithographs by the Gertman artist Charlotte Berend – wife of Lovis Corinth Fritz Gurlitt press, Berlin 1919

Majolica Shell Dish Keller & Guerin Saint Clement Circa 1900. Decorated with a flower.  

This is a vintage peacock display panel. A Korean, framed silk cotton embroidery scene, dating to the Art Deco period, circa 1930. Colourful decorative scene with peacock interest ...

Original 1929 Barcelona International Exposition Poster – "Sobre El Arte en España" by F. Galí Rare original poster from the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, titled "Sobre E...

1930s Italian Signed Still Life Painting Still life with cactus Oil on canvas signed Piccari. On the back the artist's address Via Maddalena 2 Rom...

Splendid oil painting "Still Life" executed in the early 1900s.The manner in which this still life was executed shows a pictorial conception devoted to a total realism that takes int...

This set of early 20th century Indian hand-carved wood masala trays embodies the rich cultural heritage and artisanal craftsmanship of their origin. Originally used in kitchens to pr...

Early 20th century pair of Indonesian handmade textiles. Pictures with inlays.

Fencing Caricatures by Mich, Paris 1907 - Silhouettes and Caricatures Fencing Caricatures by Mich, from the 1907 Parisian publication *A nous touchés, Silhouettes et Caricatures du ...

Stylized, yes, but sensuous and powerful, this transitional Art Nouveau-Art Deco painting depicts King Herod whispering into the ear of Salome, calling upon her to deliver the head o...

This is a vintage bird wall panel. A Japanese, silk cotton embroidery display, dating to the Art Deco period, circa 1930. Charming Oriental taste wit...

A Chinese hand-painted fan with hand-painted calligraphy (with two different drawing on either side). The fan's frame is crafted from bamboo and also includes wood engravings. The ca...

Original vintage poster 'Campari Liquor Le Saint Bernard' by Leonetto Cappiello. Beautiful linen backed Campari Liquor poster from 1925 Artist Leonetto Cappiello Year 1925 Dim...

An oil on panel signed and dated in the lower left depicting two riders on horseback sharing a drink outside a country inn. The painting measures 17.75" x 21.75" including the frame...

A beautiful antique oil painting. Two cats looking at a butterfly. Beautifully executed by the artist. Nice use of colours. Painted on a walnut panel. No frame. The painting is signe...

Antique Vanity Fair Print 'A Judge' Rev. Cecil Legard – 1901 Dog Show Judge This is an original Vanity Fair lithograph dated July 11, 1901, fea...

An oil on artist board featuring an American clipper ship by Antonio Jacobsen. Signed and dated 1916 in the lower right corner. Measuring 23.5" x 35.5" including the frame. 1850 -...

Early 20th Century embroidery probably framed in the 1960s in a gilt faux bamboo frame. Embroidery on black silk background of flowers and wheat sheaths with two butterflies in fligh...

Great quality and condition wall key or brush cabinet from 1930. This Arts & Crafts style wall cabinet can be used for all kinds of purposes and the stunning, beveled mirror is a real bonus. The handcrafted artwork in the form of carefully hand-hammered style elements on the copper outside is very aesthetically pleasing and the patina too makes this cabinet an absolute joy to own and look at. The door still opens and closes perfectly and the patinated interior could not be in better condition either. If you are a collector of rare, timeless, good quality, artistic and practical Arts & Crafts pieces then this wall cabinet with mirror...

The image depicts an illustration of a bird titled "Tyto Alba Guttata," commonly known as the Barn Owl, from the Swedish work "Svenska fåglar" (Swedish Birds). The artist of this ill...

Beautiful image by Elisabeth Lebrun Photogravure Published by Connoisseur. C.1900 The measurement is the paper size Unframed

Majolica cherries plate Orchies, circa 1910.