Nigerian Wall-mounted Sculptures

Victorian Taxidermy Diorama with Partridge, Germany ca. 1900 An antique diorama with a taxidermied partridge (Perdix perdix) sitting in a handpainted landscape. Mounted in an eboniz...

A pair of beautiful Baroque style polychrome carved wood wall decors depicting deer and ibex figures. Painted in brown, green, red, and golden c...

[English Gentlemen], from Vanity Fair twelve chromolithographs, on wove papers. Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son., with various dates from 1875 to 1897. Eight are by Spy, two are by Ape, one by "T" and one by Lib. Professionally framed with black and gilt frames and beige silk mats, with margins, apparently in excellent condition, not examined out of the frames. Titles comprise: "Accrington", June 11, 1892, "Newcastle Upon Tyne" July 18, 1893, "A New Peer", October 5, 1878, "South Bucks", June 4, 1896, "South Kensington", September 2, 1897, "Lord Salisbury's Manners", July 13, 1893, "The Blister", August 4, 1888, "A Postmaster General", April 30, 1892, "Sir James Miller", September 6, 1890, "Sol", October 28, 1897, "A Young Man" September 11, 1875, and "A Naturalist", September 9, 1882. Vanity Fair was a weekly magazine published in London, founded & edited by Thomas Gibson Bowles. His aim was to expose to contemporary vanities of Victorian society. From 1868 to 1914, full page colour lithographs appeared in most weekly issues, frequently lampooning or lauding their subjects which included artists, athletes, royalty, politicians, scientists, authors, actors, sportsmen, lawyers, diplomats, soldiers, clergy, scholars and other celebrities of the day - mostly British, but also many other internationally significant personalities. Over 2,300 of these colour cartoons were printed, and they are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine, forming a pictorial record of many of the most significant public figures of the period. They are renowned throughout the world and highly collectible and recognisable. Famous artists contributed to Vanity Fair, typically under pen names. The best remembered today is Leslie Ward (1851-1922), who signed his works as "Spy", and whose caricatures account for well over half of those featured in Vanity Fair. So famous have these fabulous prints become, Vanity Fair caricatures today often are referred to simply as "Spy Cartoons...

Rare antique jugendstil screen / room divider in glass & metal. This fine European folding screen will complementary many modern interior style...

Large decorative Bacchus cast wall sculpture Bacchus, being the Roman god of agriculture, wine and fertility.

Beautiful wall art, wall hanging, tattered and very old, origin unknown.

1412 Art Nouveau style sculptural Wall panel with 3D foliage and daffodils.

Set of 18th century Spanish wood panels with fine hand carved details throughout. The center panel has a shield that is draped with carved tassels. Crossed swords are in the center with fleur-de-lis throughout. The hat with tassels is the emblem of a Cardinal. It is known as a galero. When a Cardinal dies, his galero is hung from the ceiling of the cathedral. The three pieces were probably part of an antique cathedral.

Very unusual and adorable hand carved and hand painted wall hanging deer head with genuine antlers mounted on a carved wooden plaque. The wooden plaque depicts green leaves and red f...

This wall sculpture was designed by Curtis Jere and produced for Artisan House, in USA in 1991. It is made of black painted metal and represents a jazz band. Curtis Jeré was the shar...

Stylish and quality handcrafted, early 1900s crucifix. This very good quality crucifix comes with an incredibly detailed corpus and head of Christ and a striking, solid oak wooden c...

Incredible arched antique handmade wood industrial foundry patterns. These were created to make the sand cast molds for casting iron sewage grates. There are five patterns in this gr...