Continental US - Decorative Art

An antique map featuring Fairfield, Connecticut, framed in rich burlwood, behind glass and ready to hang, early to mid 20th century. Featuring tones of rose, butter, and mint - a lov...

a late 19th-century Turkish Hereke worn rug in moss green and raspberry tones Details rug no. 31621 size 5' 2" x 8' 1" (157 x 246 cm)

THE RED DOT. A framed abstract silkscreen printed on the reverse of a sheet of glass. This process makes the image perfect and seamless.

Introduce a captivating artistic element to your space with this Vintage Boho DeGavarie Original Collage. Perfect for American-style interiors, this collage features a dynamic mix of...

A stylish Art Deco French Longwy majolica fish plate, circa 1930. Maker's mark on reverse. It's a rare color, white with lovely soft purple lilac accents, and it displays beautifully...

A stylish Art Deco French Longwy majolica fish plate, circa 1930. Maker's mark on reverse. It's a rare color, white with lovely soft purple lilac accents, and it displays beautifully...

A stunning piece of functional art, this Hermès ‘The Three Graces’ Zoom 45 Silk Scarf was designed by Alice Shirley and issued in 2020. The vibrant giraffe motif, set against a bold ...

A stylish Art Deco French Longwy majolica fish plate, circa 1930. Maker's mark on reverse. It's a rare color, white with lovely soft purple lilac accents, and it displays beautifully...

Leonardo Nierman signed and number serigraph published by Merrill Chase Galleries the frame its in good condition nicely frame with gold leaf finish some...

A large fragment of antique pre-Columbia textile panel from Chimu or Chancay culture located in Central and Northern Coast of nowadays Peru. Chancay culture thrived in the late Inter...

An Italian carved and gilt wood wall plaque from the 18th century. This antique wall ornament from Italy is a nicely sized piece at roughly four ...

American School, 20th Century, Artist Unknown, (American, 20th Century) Patriotic Jazz Band, signed indistinctly, watercolor on paper 14.5 by 16.25 in., overall, 20 by 22 in. Condit...

Beautiful Pair Of Chinese Famille Rose hand painted porcelain Plaques Depicting Immortals In Rosewood Frames. Measure 14.5" in width and 14.5" in height.

A stunning vintage Hong Kong brass tray, made in the 1940s. Handcrafted and hammered by hand, this unique treasure boasts a rich patina that tells stor...

A gorgeous pair of 19th-Century Japanese Meiji Period Imari porcelain chargers with hand painted floral decorations in the traditional Imari colors. These fine large plates have love...

American sampler under glass with the original gilt Birdseye maple frame, Early 19th Century. Alphabet and Numerals. Signed by maker Maria Nuttall Age 7.

A stunning German 19th century Neo-Classical st. Mettlach porcelain charger. The most elegant and wonderfully executed charger displays intricately detailed personages all draped in fine flowing period attire. At the center is a beautiful seated maiden with a gentleman placing her shoes on her feet while surrounded by lovely younger maidens to the right, a gentleman and lady...

A pair of raised relief plaques. Depicting two of the four seasons

Majolica Art Nouveau asparagus plate with mums signed Keller et Guerin Saint Clement. 9 inches diameter. Every important French manufactures produced at the end of the 19th Century a...

Dive into the depths of abstraction with this mesmerizing 20th Century Belgian Artwork by Rene Berdal. Enveloped in a sleek metal frame, this piece captivates with its geometric expl...

Majolica asparagus plate signed Clairefontaine, circa 1880. Diameter / 9.5 inches.

French early 20th century decorative screen. Custom made wood framed metal screen with geometric repeating pattern from top to bottom. Can be used as a partition or room divider. Pr...

Wood sculpture mounted on custom metal stand. In my organic, contemporary, vintage and mid-century modern style. Curated for our one of a kind line, Le Monde. Exclusive to Brendan B...

Sotheby's Art at Auction, 1994-95: The Art Market Review 1st Ed. Published by Sotheby Parke Bernet, NY, 1996. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Numerou...

Created in London, this coat is the absolute form of vintage luxury. Presented in the form of high-quality materials and craftsmanship, but without ostentatious logos or branding. Ra...

Attractive framed painting signed by the artist. Great home or office decoration. (Please confirm item location - NY or NJ - with dealer).  

Pair Antique English wedgwood porcelain plaques, "The Dancing Hours."

An early 20th-century pair of Persian Sarouk Jozan Rugs. $ 1,500 each if purchased individually. Details rug no. j4476 size 1' 7" x 2' 6" (48 x 76 cm) rug type Sarouk

Majolica asparagus plate signed Clairefontaine, circa 1880. Diameter / 9.5 inches.

Set of 6 small blue & white small plates dragons signed Sarreguemines. Measure: 6 inches diameter.

USA, 1970s Driftwood bas relief mounted on a wooden board. Purchased from the estate of the artist on Lake Michigan. Great detail to this piece, plainly composed of pieces found whil...

International code of signals pennant, number 2. Triangular blue stitched linen panel with white circle in center. Matted and framed. Approximately 20" x 33.5".

German Majolica Bird Plate, circa 1900.

Represented by Tuleste Factory Tone plane III by Facture Resin, Aluminum, Wood W 40 × H 60 × D 1.75 in W101.6 × H152.4 × D 4.45cm A large nude rectangular wall object features six...

Colorful horse rider stained glass window. (Please confirm item location - NY or NJ - with dealer).  

French Majolica Faience Trompe L'oeil Eggplant Platter Circa 1900.

Stellar mid-19th-century Turkish Herekeh Rug. 2' x 4' The Middle East is historically known as a source of beautiful, elegant rugs, and Turkey is one of the most well-renowned sources of those rugs. Of particular interest are the Hereke rugs made in the small coastal town of Hereke, Turkey. Antique Hereke rugs...

Amaizing Marquetry Materials: wood and iron Country: France We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982.If you have any questions we ar...

vibrant beauty of Haiti with this stunning original acrylic painting titled "Parrots in the Jungle," signed by the talented artist P.T. Donald. This exquisite piece is a true testa...

A very large and impressive vintage Fire Engine Co No. 29 ad sign. Hand painted on wood, originating from Dayton, Ohio and recently displayed at T...

Vintage cast iron wall art featuring a variety of symbols and shapes. This art would make a great addition to any home. Please confirm it...

A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular 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 (all high quality gilt is original) 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 Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 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...

Wood Framed Arts & Craft leather pyrography, carving, branding from the Cabeza Maya King of Palenque Art. Marked by Artist on the reverse. In good vintage condition with some minor...

German majolica aqua plate with birds swallow & insect circa 1900.

Vibrant and surreal artwork by Mariu Suarez. Signed with handwritten postcard added. Please confirm location NY or NJ

This vibrant 20th Century Belgian artwork by René Berdal, beautifully framed in metal, presents a delightful array of daisies set against a striking red background. The painting capt...

A very fine and Rare Russian mid-19th century Baroque style polychromed and gilded Religious Orthodox Christian Icon on a wooden panel with fi...

Mexican Wall Plaque Brass enameled on wood lacquer wall hanging, circa 1970's.

19th Century English Majolica Begonia Leaves Plate.   

Inscribed on back 'The Gwynant in Wales', also impressed 'Copeland'. Signed in front lower left 'W Yale' (William Yale b. 1843). Size of plaque 16 x 24.

The versatility of our butterfly composition explains why this fanciful grouping is a favorite among designers. We made envisioning how these whimsical butterflies enhance a space ea...

Folk Art Shabbat table cover, Jerusalem, circa 1900. Embroidered at the four corners with the holy places for Jews in Israel, and with the wailing wall at the center. The Hebrew rectangular text is a traditional song sung by Jews every Friday night upon returning home from synagogue prayer. It signals the arrival of the Jewish Sabbath, welcoming the angels who accompany a person home on the eve of the Sabbath. The words to the song translate as follows: Peace be with you, ministering angels, messengers of the Most High, Messengers of the King of Kings, the Holy One, Blessed be He. Come in peace, messengers of peace, messengers of the Most High, Messengers of the King of Kings, the Holy One, Blessed be He. Bless me with peace, messengers of peace, messengers of the Most High, Messengers of the King of Kings, the Holy One, Blessed be He. Go in peace, messengers of peace, messengers of the Most High, Messengers of the King of Kings, the Holy One, Blessed be He. The Hebrew text around the Wailing Wall scene...

Colorful Majolica asparagus and artichoke plate Salins, circa 1890.  

A later and large execution of ‘Spring ‘ of the Four Seasons series by Francois Boucher in the Rococo taste , the originals around 1755. (and for Madame Pompadour). A Shepherd conver...

Majolica oyster plate Sarreguemines Digoin , circa 1920. 6 shells and space for the lemon on the center.

Marked mystic seaport Member's Edition #136/736 on the frame's plaque. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the ship. Includes a framed swatch of the sh...

A striking set of six Italian early 19th century Neo-Classical st. architectural engravings after Giovanni Ottaviani. Each beautiful and most decorative rectangular engraving depicts...

Folk Art printing press or letter block collage art. Interesting assortment of vintage printing blocks arranged in a whimsical visual pleasing manor in hea...

This finely detailed original etching by George Cuit (British, 1779–c.1840), titled The Abbey Gate, City of Chester, dates to 1810, offers a rare and atmospheric glimpse into early 1...

I corresponded with Don in Kansas City and he identified it as his work from the early 80's. He shifted to furniture making in the 90's and has prominently exhibited at the Grovewood Gallery at the Grove Park...