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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Antique 18th Century French Neoclassical Hera's Chariot Hand Fan Shadowbox
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique 18th century French Louis XVI / Neoclassical painted boudoir hand fan. White sticks pierced with foliate / floral designs as well as trumpets and sheets of music; gilded acce...
Category
Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
Materials
Silk, Paint
Original Pre Colombian Copper Tumi Tool
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Ancient pre Colombian surgical copper tumi tool, processionally mounted on silk Matt with decorative quality vintage frame .
Original cloth encrustation and wrapping patterns visible...
Category
Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
Materials
Copper
Pair of shadowboxed Chinese Imari plates, c. 1740-60
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Pair of Chinese export porcelain plates decorated in the the Imari taste. The plates are decorated in cobalt underglaze blue and oxide red with gilt highlights. The asymmetrical desi...
Category
Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Framed Chinese armorial export octagonal dinner plate, c. 1780
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Chinese famille rose porcelain armorial plate mounted in a shadow box. The plate features a rounded octagonal form with chamfered corners, and decorated in the French taste (Compagni...
Category
Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Framed Chinese export octagonal plate, c. 1750-1800
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Famille rose Chinese export porcelain armorial plate of octagonal form decorated with sparsely placed sprays of flowers and buds. The cavetto is decorated with a large armorial withi...
Category
Chinese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century French Devotional Shadow Box with Nevers Glass Figures
By Nevers
Located in Basildon, GB
A shadowbox frame, densely filled with scrolls and ornaments of rolled paper, gilt and pigmented, the central medallion showing the kneeling figure of a Benedictine monk, a dog and a...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Pre Colombian Antique Peruvian Textile Fragment
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Museum quality handwoven textile fragment, featuring human , king or Martian motif professionally mounted on silk matte , in very decorative vintage wood frame as shadows box The tex...
Category
Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
Materials
Wool, Natural Fiber, Glass, Wood
Rare Anthropological Diorama of Carib Indigenous by Hendrik Schouten
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Hendrik Samuel Schouten (1785-1840)
A unique diorama depicting Carib Indigenous at the river side
Wood, paint on paper, twigs and dried moss
Measures: H. 51 x W. 69.5 x D. 20 cm
Note:
This is the only known diorama by Hendrik Schouten. He became a planter and inherited the Jagtlust plantation from his grandfather Samuel Loske. His older brother Gerrit Schouten...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
Materials
Twig, Wood, Giltwood, Paint, Paper
Pre Colombian Proto Nazca Peruvian Textile Fragment
Located in Delray Beach, FL
A Proto-Nazca textile fragment from Southern Peru circa 100BC-200AD. The linked munecas ("dolls" in Spanish) figures were woven with fibers likely from llama and it was used to be t...
Category
Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
Materials
Wool, Natural Fiber, Glass, Wood
Pre Colombian Antique Peruvian Textile Fragment
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Museum quality handwoven textile fragment, featuring human , or Martian motif professionally mounted on cotton matte , in very decorative wood frame as shadows box . The textile date...
Category
Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
Materials
Wool, Natural Fiber, Glass, Wood
Pre Colombian Antique Peruvian Textile Fragment
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Museum quality handwoven textile fragment, featuring human faces ,or geometric motifs , professionally mounted on cotton matte , in very decorative wood frame as shadows box . The t...
Category
Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
Materials
Wool, Natural Fiber, Glass, Wood
Group of Three Framed Pre-Columbian Textile Fragments
Located in Atlanta, GA
Three textile fragment framed in Lucite shadow boxes, from pre-Columbian Peru, likely Chancay Culture in the central coastal region circa 14-15th century. With different weaving tech...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
Materials
Wool, Natural Fiber
Two Framed Pre-Columbian Textile and Tools
Located in Atlanta, GA
Two antique textile fragments and two painted textile tools spindle needle framed in a pair matching Lucite shadow boxes. The textiles were li...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
Materials
Wool, Alpaca, Wood
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Vintage Gujarat Saurashta Ethnic Beaded Textile India Framed
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Telescopic Fan of Gilt Decorated Black Lacquer Stays
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Chinese telescopic fan of gilt decorated black lacquer stays with paper painted in gauche in the Mandarin palette. Archival mount in a shadow box frame.
China, made for the Western ...
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Materials
Enamel
H 19 in W 25 in D 2.75 in
Pair Of Antique Suzani Wall Hanging
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Exceptional antique intricate hand embroidery Suzani textile, professionally mounted on hand painted wood shadow box , to make beautiful objects of art for wall hanging.
Even though ...
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Materials
Wool, Cotton, Glass, Wood
Pair of Framed Antique Intaglios
Located in East Hampton, NY
Pair of Antique intaglios newly framed on camouflage burlap.
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Burlap, Glass, Plaster, Wood
Sea Life and Shell Diorama /Shadow Box
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Materials
Shell
Original Butterfly Art by Nadine Kalachnikoff
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Original butterfly art depicting different sizes of Monarch butterflies in a lucite shadow box by Nadine Kalachnikoff.
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Materials
Paper
Mid 19th Century Chinese Telescopic Canton Fan with Carved Bone Stays
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Chinese telescopic Canton fan of carved bone stays supporting a scenic decorated paper in gouache in the Mandarin palette. Archival mount in a shadow box fr...
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Materials
Bone, Paper
Framed Pair of Early 20th Century French Duck Decoys
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Once perched at the water’s edge, this pair of early 20th-century French duck decoy silhouettes has swapped the marsh for a more refined setting. Cut from wood and painted black, the...
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Set of '15' 19th Century Framed Botanical Specimens
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Framed Pre-Columbian Antique Textile
Located in Atlanta, GA
A small piece of Pre-Columbian antique textile fragment in a Lucite shadow box. Attributed to the Tiahuanaco or Tiwanaku culture, based in the city o...
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Framed Antique Coptic Textile Fragment
Located in Atlanta, GA
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Egyptian Archaistic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
Materials
Wood, Wool
Framed Collection of Twenty-Eight Native American Arrowheads
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Located in Chicago, IL
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Located in Milford, NH
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Shadow Boxes
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H 22 in W 26 in D 1.75 in
Antique Pair of Framed Grand Tour Wax Seals, Early 18th Century
Located in London, GB
A pair of giltwood frames each enclosing a colletion of wax seals relating to the German industrialist Krupp family and dating from the 18th Century.
The two sets comprising seve...
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Group of Five Life Size Carved and Painted Japanese Kabuki Theatre Masks
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