Early 20th Century Wall Decorations

Set off five erotic colored 'pochoir' (French for stencil) lithographs. Printed with tempera ink. Depicting 'THE FIVE SENSES; See, Hear, Feel, Taste and Touch'. Signed by the Italian...

Majolica Palissy fishs wall Renoleau platter, circa 1880. 3 fishs and mussels.

Antique Vanity Fair Print 'Four-in-Hand' Baron Adolph Wilhelm Deichmann – 1903 This is an original Vanity Fair lithograph dated May 14, 1903, t...

In the art world, the name “Klimt” is inextricably linked with the period around 1900, Viennese Jugendstil and the Vienna Secession. Today, Gustav Klimt is considered one of the most...

This lithography “La Féérie des Heures - L'Arc-en-Ciel (The Enchantment of the Hours - The Rainbow) signed Henri Rivière and bears a red stamp at the bottom left. The work is authent...

French Faux Bamboo coat or purse rack, this piece is the perfect combination of utility and beauty. Crafted from warm, natural wood, it features three generously sized, rounded pegs ...

A fine antique German hand painted porcelain plaque. In the Royal Berlin (KPM) or Royal Vienna style. Depicting the Reclining Mary Magdalene Reading In the Wilderness after Pompeo Girolamo Batoni. Mounted in a contemporary black foliate frame. Simply a wonderful antique porcelain plaque...

This oil on canvas painting was created in Italy, circa 1920. Set inside the original carved gilt frame, this painting depicts a European city scene bustling with people walking down...

Monumental oil on canvas by caricaturist Georges Goursat, also known as SEM. Georges Goursat - 23 November 1863 - 26 November 1934 - was a French caricaturist and portraitist famous during the Belle Époque and Art Deco periods. This painting greeted visitors to the cellars...

Early 20th Century Set of Silk Embroidery of Peacock & Phoenix

Antique print titled 'CHARLOTTE- MARGUERITE DE MONTMORENCI' Original antique print of Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency. Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency (11 May 1594 – 2 Dec...

Antique bird print titled 'Anser Fabalis'. Old bird print depicting the taiga bean goose. This print originates from 'Svenska Foglar Efter Naturen Och Pa Stenritade' by Magnus von Wr...

Antique print titled 'The Music Lesson'. Original antique print on chine collé made after a painting by A. Watteau. This print originates from volume ...

Beautiful original plein air impressionistic and realistic style, oil on canvas painting, features a wooded landscape, with magnificent trees which dwarf a woman and child, who are w...

Original antique advertising poster featuring a great Art Deco design depicting a bell boy in uniform carrying various colourful boxes and a flower bouquet on a yellow background, dr...

Large antique print of the presentation of Mary. Published by Mosella-Verlag, 1913. This print originates from a series titled 'Kathol. Schulbibelwerk von Dr. Ecker'.

Antique print titled 'Englische Salonmoebel im Chippendale Karakter'. Lithograph of salon furniture. This print originates from 'Det Moderna Hemmet' by...

Thomas Taylor Ireland, RBA English, 1888 - 1921 A collection of five watercolor paintings of British Pubs. Signed TTI. The Cock and Rabbit of Buckinghamshire (featuring the puddin...

An early 20th century oil of Dutch pink boats and canal houses by the well listed Anglo-Dutch artist Nico Jungmann (1872-1935) This painting bears mannerisms of the Nieuwe Kunst styl...

German Majolica plate with morning glory on a yellow basket weave and a green border, circa 1900.

Title: Nature Morte A still life composition featuring vibrant flowers in a vase alongside a potted rubber plant. Oil on canvas, signed A.H. (1911-12). Exhibited at Ordrupgaard Museum, Denmark, in the "Astrid Holm...

Pair Great Black Forest Wall Sconces with Deer Horns, Germany ca. 1900 An antique pair of Black Forest sconces for candles. Each made of original deer horns which are mounted on a t...

Several pcs. exceptional antique wall tiles, Société des Pavillions, Florennes (S.A. des Pavillions). Beautiful quality. The dimensions per tile a...

Higgins and Bower Print on Canvass signed W M Chase. Higgins & Bowers used the Oleograph English technique, which involved photographing the original painting, then making a high qua...

An early-20th century French hand-painted plate by T & V, Limoges, France. Plates' design is beautiful fuchsia-purple and pink mum flowers and green leaves, finished with a gold gilt...

This handsome and affectionate portrait of a young man, his tousled blonde hair glinting in the light, was painted by the subject's father, the Swedish artist Ture Lennart Nyblom. The artist's brushstrokes are loose and confident, and he beautifully captures the ruddy complexion, blue jacket and white collar of his subject, Staffan. The youth's appearance suggests that he sat for his portrait in his school uniform...

Flowers artwork, oil painting, floral vase painting which represents Yellow Daisies. It also has a golden frame realised in the 1900s. Art Deco. Golden frame. This floral oil pain...

German Majolica Leaves & Flowers Plate Circa 1900.

Bohemian woman Budapest, Hungary 1925 by Bertha De Hellebranth. Fabulous period painting brings to life the bohemian intelligentsia of Europe in ...

Original antique World War One war bond poster for the National Loan / Prestito Nazionale featuring an image of a Bersaglieri soldier in military uniform s...

French Majolica bird plate Keller & Guerin Saint Clement circa 1900.

Large Black Forest 8 Pointer Red Deer Trophy on Wooden Plaque 1917 An antique trophy of the 8-pointer red deer (Cervus elaphus) from Salem Castle in southern Germany. Shot by a memb...

Antique Indian Handmade Paisley Textile Shawl in Red and Brilliant Border. 19th Century Antique Indian Hand made Paisley Textile Shawl with Brilliant...

Four round plaster reliefs including Bertel Thorvaldsen motifs and biblical motifs. Circa 1900. In good condition with a few minor chips. Hanging attachments on the backs. Dimensions...

Terracotta Majolica Bird woodpecker Bavent Normandy. Height / 13 inches.

A tribal door from a Lopo Round hut from tribes people on the island of Timor, Indonesia. A Lopo house is a communal hut where the tribe convenes with a second story used to store gr...

Still life artwork, antique oil painting, Still life with fruit  proposed here is an oil painting on canvas of the Twentieth Century.  It also has an original Golden Frame. It is a composition with grape and fruit some vegetables and some tomatoes and some garlic, with a nice white ceramic vase nearby. Antique paintings on canvas, still life, Art Deco, signed DYF at the bottom right a French painter who was born in Paris but grew up in Normandy. DYF Marcel...

Original vintage opera music and dance advertising poster for the Coq d'Or chants ballets tableaux vivants Theatre d'Art Russe presente par Anatole Dolinoff / Golden Rooster songs ba...

Charming neoclassic yet naive mixed media collage using a sea fan and seashells as a bouquet in a watercolor classical urn with scholastic style notes. Presented under glass in a wor...

Original US lobby card for The Cameraman, 1928. This silent comedy was directed by Edward Sedgwick and an uncredited Buster Keaton. The film stars Keaton, Marceline Day and Harold G...

An antique Persian Heriz Karaja oriental rug, circa 1920, size 4'2 x 3'7. This handsome hand-knotted wool rug features a symmetrical series of central medallions on the uncluttered n...

Relief made of carved and gilded wood. Some chip and repairs. Differences in shade. Wear due to age and use.

This antique needlepoint tapestry was hand woven in France, circa 1920. Rectangular in shape, the colorful wall decor depicts a large central medallion framed by curling acanthus lea...

Italian painting from the first half of the 20th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a contemporary copy of the famous painting by Gino Piccioni, Nude on the Beach (Florence, Fr...

Very beautiful and fine Aubusson tapestry with a nice design of royal Court with knights, and very beautiful colors, entirely and finely handwoven with wool and silk, at the famous B...

Italian school early 20th century (year about 1910) Oil on canvas depicting gentleman with wooden frame finished in gold leaf.

Three narrow panels each approximately measures 15" x 48". Probably made as valences.

Each nicely framed with faux tortoise Flemish style frames with gilded inner border and each depicting animals including an elephant, lion, leopard and Hippo.

Rare set of three framed limited edition early 20th Century colour hand tinted prints by Cecil Aldin (1870-1935), depicting jump scenes from the Grand National: 'Valentines', 'The Ca...

Antique bird print titled 'Harelda Hyemalis'. Old bird print depicting a young female long-tailed duck. This print originates from 'Svenska Foglar Efter Naturen Och Pa Stenritade' by...

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 gilt wood 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. A retailer's label reads " Fred K/ Keer's Sons - Framers and Fine Art Dealers - 917 Broad St. Newark, N.J." - Another label from the gilder reads "Carlo Bartolini - Doratore e Verniciatori - Via Maggio 1924 - Firenze". Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Canvas diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 54 inches (137.2 cm) Frame width: 42 1/2 inches (108 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/2 inches (14 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...

Original antique movie poster for the Swedish release of a now lost romantic drama, the 1918 American silent film about World War One - The Greatest Thin...

Woven on the Jacquard ribbon looms of the renowned Neyret brothers Rothers weavers House in st Etienne France . This antique woven Stevengraph is based on the painting 'LES RAMEAUX' (The palm Sunday) by French artist , Elisabeth Sonrel...

Extraordinary in size and subject matter, this monumental bronze relief sculpture, dating from 1925, depicts four nude athletes receiving the victory laurel from a seated Benjamin Fr...

Pencil drawing depicting a single-seat biplane airplane fighter Hanriot HD 1, by Riccardo Cavigioli. Measure with frame cm 49 x 31 - inch19.3 x 11.8. Riccardo Cavigioli was born in ...

Antique English Framed Chromo Lithograph of Painting by Henry Holiday, Circa 1900's. Beautifully Painted: "The Meeting of Dante & Beatrice"

Decorative ceramic tile by Antoni Gaudi, inspired by the marigold and dianthus motifs on the decorative ceramic tiles he designed for the facade of Casa Vicens, which constitute some...

Here we present an unusual find of a french antique shop sign, circa 1920. Shaped steel, painted with applied lettering in french which reads 'antiques and secondhand goods'.  The d...

Early 20th century, good size Art Nouveau wall clock. This antique weather station hand carved and stunning Art Nouveau clock has a beautiful...

19th Century German Majolica Swan and cygnets Plate Circa 1900.