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Item Ships From: Europe
Ere Ibeji Female Commemorative Figure, Yoruba People, Nigeria, early 20th C
By Yoruba People
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Yoruba people have one of the highest incidents of twin births in the world. As a result, twin children are regarded as extraordinary, divine beings protected by Sango, the deity of ...
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerian Tribal Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Antique Industrial Art Deco Brass Internalite Ladies Illuminated Sign, c1920
Located in London, GB
A stunning illuminated 'Internalite' directional sign made in England by K.F.M Engineering. c.1930.
Wall mounted brass frame housing the internal illuminations above polished plat...
Category
Early 20th Century English Art Deco Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Wall Ceramic Dish by Jacques Poussine France 1970s
By Jacques Poussine
Located in HYÈRES, FR
Wall ceramic dish by Jacques Poussine & Pat Rowland.
Two position on the wall.
Abstract bird decoration.
France, 1970s
Category
1970s French Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
18th Century Folk Art Street Performance Figure
Located in London, GB
18th Century Folk Art Street Performance Figure.
An unusual and complete one-off piece of folk art, in the form of a hand carved begging figure. Recently uncovered from a personal ...
Category
1780s French Folk Art Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Folk Art Hand Made Simplex 1909 Model Car in Copper and Brass 1940s
Located in Tilburg, NL
Folk Art Hand Made Simplex 1909 Model Car in Copper and Brass, United States, 1940s.
This is really something very special. A one-off model car, made by a skilled craftsman around t...
Category
Early 20th Century North American American Craftsman Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Brass, Copper
Bronze Currency Bracelet/Manilla, Dogon People, Burkina Faso, 19th c. - No 3
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
19th-century bronze currency bracelet / Manilla in horseshoe form with fixed opening. Intricate graphical design with a lattice pattern. This type of bracelet was worn or used by the...
Category
Mid-19th Century Burkinabe Tribal Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Currency Bracelet/Manilla, Dogon People, Burkina Faso, 19th c. - No 2
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
19th-century bronze currency bracelet / Manilla in horseshoe form with fixed opening. Intricate graphical design with lines and accent points on the top and at both tips. This type o...
Category
Mid-19th Century Burkinabe Tribal Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Ibibio Anthropomorphic Standing Male Janus Figure, Nigeria
Located in Leuven , BE
This elaborate Janus statue is a rare example of an Ibibio free-standing figure to recall a well-defined ancestor in what seems a European outfit .The Ibibios lend supernatural power...
Category
20th Century Congolese Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Pre Columbian Maya Polychrome Pottery Bowl circa A.D. 550-950
Located in London, GB
Maya Poly-chrome painted pottery bowl
Guatemala/ central America late Classic period, circa A.D. 550-950,
A bowl of rounded bottom circular form, painted with a frieze of monkey...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Guatemalan Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
20th Century Oil on Board Italian Genre Scene Painting, 1970
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting from the second half of the 20th century. Oil painting on panel depicting a popular scene with characters, market view, of excellent pictorial quality. Framework of ...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Bronze Currency Bracelet/Manilla, Dogon People, Burkina Faso, 19th c. - No 4
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
19th-century bronze currency bracelet / Manilla in horseshoe form with fixed opening. Intricate graphical swirl design and tips are shaped with large flat ends with cross pattern des...
Category
Mid-19th Century Burkinabe Tribal Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Sculptural Pitcher by André Aleth Masson France 1950s
By André Aleth Masson
Located in HYÈRES, FR
Sculptural Pitcher by André Aleth Masson.
Beautiful Black Satin Ceramic.
Signed by the " Triskèle " and 3 Masson "
Category
1950s French Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Fabric Board by Verner Panton for Mira, 1970s
By Verner Panton
Located in Lasne, BE
Fabric painting by Verner Panton with a wooden card. Signed Verner Panton. Wear due to time and age.
Category
1970s Danish Space Age Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Bronze Statue of a Juju Man, Benin, 1930s
By People from Benin
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Statues of Juju Man or shamans were used for ceremonies connected with religious beliefs and magical practices. The general understanding of their meaning as including a supernatural...
Category
1930s Beninese Tribal Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Swiss alp painted cupboard dated 1732
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Swiss alp painted cupboard dated 1732 nice floral motif
Category
1730s Swiss Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Swedish 19th Century Folk Art Oil Painting With Kids
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Swedish naive oil painting with the original frame, from the 2nd part of the 19th Century.
This folk art work on canvas represents kids and a dog playing by a courtyard, opening the...
Category
Late 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Vintage Illuminated Letter E , 1980s
Located in Kojetice, CZ
This vintage industrial illuminated letter V was made in Italy during the 1980s and comes from an old advertising banner. It features a vhite metal body and a white plexiglass cover....
Category
1980s Italian Industrial Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Bronze Headdress "God of Thunder" - Protection, Yoruba People, 1930s
By Yoruba People
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Forged bronze headdress or kind of crown/tiara "God of Thunder" which was used for protection. The size is slightly changeable, as the headdress bronze band is open on one side. Yoru...
Category
1930s Beninese Tribal Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
A Ceramic Mask by Marino Le Vaucour Vallauris France 1960s
By Le Vaucour
Located in HYÈRES, FR
An African Ceramic Mask by Marino Le Vaucour.
Vallauris, France 1960s
Signed.
Size is just for the mask.
Category
1960s French Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Set of 27 Framed Grand Tour Giovanni Liberotti Intaglios 19th C
Located in London, GB
An elegant brass frame enclosing twenty-seven Grand Tour Giovanni Liberotti intaglios dating from the early 19th Century.
The oval shaped plaster intaglios feature subjects from Cla...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Other
White Ceramic Pitcher by Pol Chambost France 1970s
By Pol Chambost
Located in HYÈRES, FR
Pitcher by Pol Chambost
Not signed
Model : 1038
In white satin.
Elegant line for this sculpture pitcher.
Category
1970s French Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Bronze Currency Bracelet/Manilla, Dogon People, Burkina Faso, 19th Century
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
19th-century bronze currency bracelet / Manilla in horseshoe form with fixed opening. Intricate graphical swirl design and tips are shaped with large flat ends with 5 beads on each s...
Category
Mid-19th Century Burkinabe Tribal Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Standing Carved Wooden Figural Spoon, Yoruba People, 1960s
By Yoruba People
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Large carved wooden spoon in the shape of a standing female figure, with a round bowl over her head, Yoruba People, circa 1960s.
The numbers are the inventory numbers from Penn Stat...
Category
1960s Nigerian Tribal Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
20th Century Oil on Masonite Italian Still Life with Flowers Painting, 1950s
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great Italian painting from the mid-20th century. Oil on masonite artwork depicting a pleasant still life with flowers, of good pictorial quality. Wood and plaster frame, carved and ...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Masonite
20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Interior Scene with Musician Painting, 1920s
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Great Italian painting from the early 20th century. Framework oil on canvas, in first canvas, depicting an interior scene with musician of good pictorial quality. Great impact framew...
Category
1920s Italian Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Bronze Currency Bracelet/Manilla, Beri People, Sudan, 19th Century - No 1
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Early to mid-19th-century bronze currency bracelet / Manilla in circle form. Intricate graphical geometrical. This type of bracelet was worn/used by the Zaghawa People also called Bé...
Category
Mid-19th Century Sudanese Tribal Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Currency Bracelet/Manilla, Beri People, Sudan, 19th Century - No 2
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Early to mid-19th-century bronze currency bracelet / Manilla in circle form. Intricate graphical geometrical. This type of bracelet was worn/used by the Zaghawa People also called Bé...
Category
Mid-19th Century Sudanese Tribal Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Carved Wooden Statue of a Ju Ju Man, Egba People, Abeokuta, 1940s
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Tall hand-carved wooden statue of a Ju Ju Man crafted by the Egba People in Abeokuta, Ogun State (part of Nigeria), circa 1940s.
The pupils are made from nails, which intensifies the...
Category
1940s African Tribal Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Solid Brass Currency Bracelet/Manilla, Gurma People, Burkina Faso, Early 20th C
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Early 20th-century brass currency bracelet / Manilla in horseshoe form with fixed opening. Hand-stamped and shaped graphical motives and the ti...
Category
Early 20th Century Burkinabe Tribal Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Brass
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Religious Painting Christ Ecce Homo, 1670
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 17th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject, Ecce Homo, of good pictorial quality. Painting adorned with a splendid 20th centu...
Category
1670s Italian Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Tribal Raffia Hat from Africa
Located in Schellebelle, BE
Exceptional Tribal Art piece, an African ceremonial hat made out of
hand-woven Raffia,the raffia has a nice warm and natural Brown color and has hand-painted African decorations and ...
Category
1990s Congolese Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Raffia
Early 20th century oriental bamboo 2 seat child carriage
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Unusual possibly chinese bamboo 2 seater children's carriage circa 1900.
Made from shaped bamboo, bound in the traditional way with additional iron work supports.
Backs of seats fli...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Bamboo, Cane
Long Vintage South West Native American Silver Turquoise ring Navajo
Located in London, GB
Long Vintage South West Native American Silver l Turquoise ring Navajo
Condition: Fine
Category
20th Century American Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Mattia Traverso 20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Signed Painting Popular Scene
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting from the first half of the 20th century. Oil painting on canvas, first canvas, depicting tavern in eighteenth-century style with characters and horses. Very pleasant...
Category
1920s Italian Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Tall Carved Wooden Oracle or Divination Tapper "Iroke Ifa", Yoruba People, 1930s
By Yoruba People
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Tall hand-carved wooden oracle or divination tapper "Iroke Ifa" statue, showing a kneeling woman holding her breasts. Yoruba, Nigeria, circa 1930s.
Yoruba belief specifies that each ...
Category
1930s Nigerian Tribal Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Hand Carved Nupe Stool with 8 Legs, Nigeria, 1950s
By Nupe
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A hand-carved wooden "Nupe stool", made by the Nupe People, a tribe who lives by the Niger River in Nigeria.
This kind of 8-legged stool was used during important meetings or market...
Category
1950s Nigerian Tribal Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Early 20th century decorative dutch working windmill
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Early 20th century decorative dutch working windmill circa 1920.
We are pleased to offer this delightful scale model of a dutch windmill. This could have only been commissioned for...
Category
Early 20th Century Dutch Folk Art Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Birch, Walnut
Owl bird scarer, decoy
Located in Maidstone, GB
A very unusual large owl bird scarer, the wings open up by lifting a lever on the back, the centre of the chest opens with a screw, most likely so a sound box could of been put insid...
Category
20th Century Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Rubber
17th Century Oil on Canvas Venetian Biblical Painting The repudiation of Vasti
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Ancient Italian painting from the second half of the 17th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting biblical subject The repudiation of Vasti by Paolo Veronese. Painting of particul...
Category
1670s Italian Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Remo Testa 20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Signed Seascape Painting, 1950
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting from the mid-20th century. Artwork oil on canvas, glued on cardboard, depicting Seascape with boats and fishermen at dawn, in impressionist style, of good pictorial ...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Greek orthodox icon (1800) painted on wooden pannel
Located in Oostende, BE
Greek orthodox icon (painted around the year 1800).
At the top: "Mother of God of the Unfading Flower”
Left bottom: Saint George
Middle: The Mother of God in Paradise
Right: Saint ...
Category
Early 1800s Greek Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
African Tribal Art Fine Baule figure
Located in London, GB
A fine Baule female figure
Standing leaning forward with serene expression with hands on abdomen
Period: early 20th century
Condition: Old Insect holes and minor damage
Measures: H ...
Category
Early 20th Century Ivorian Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Antique Asian Ethnographic Tribal silver gilt coral necklace Vintage Jewelry
Located in London, GB
Nice Vintage central Asian silver gilt coral and gemstone beaded necklace
A necklace of silver beads with high quality antique red coral amethyst and gemstones
Period: early /...
Category
Early 20th Century Southeast Asian Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Vintage Native American Plains beaded Blanket Rug Interior design collectibles
Located in London, GB
Large Vintage Native American beaded Blanket
Fine large wool blanket with finely executed beadwork strip on buckskin with satin detail
...
Category
1970s American Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Satin, Beads
Antique French plinth, column, table
Located in Maidstone, GB
Unusual 19th Century French table – plinth, original paint, strong and sound, a good size top to display a statue, big lamp etc, 18.75 inches x 18.75 inches on the top.
The 16th Cent...
Category
19th Century French Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Religious Painting Holy Family, 1760
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject, Holy Family of good pictorial quality. Painting adorned with a modern frame in wo...
Category
1760s Italian Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Silver gilt handle walking stick depicting an hunting scene, Germany 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: handle, made out of silver gilt representing an hunting scene, with hunter and dogs. Ebony wood shaft. Metal ferrule. Germany circa 1890.
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Metal, Silver
Antoni Gaudi Decorative Ceramic Spanish Tile of Casa Vicens
By Antoni Gaudí
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Spanish Jugendstil Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Terracotta Object
Located in Schellebelle, BE
Exceptional Terracotta Object in a nice and warm Earth Colored Brown,
refined and simple design with South American motives,
very decorative object to be used in different parts of y...
Category
1970s French Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
Exceptional Wooden Heart
Located in Schellebelle, BE
Exceptional Wooden Heart made out of different layers of Wood,
refined and elegant design, very decorative object,
from an unknown Belgian Artist,from around 1980,
nice and warm colo...
Category
1980s Belgian Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Plywood
Pre Columbian Colima Dog Ancient West Mexico Latin American Antiques Art
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Colima Dog Ancient West Mexico
Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima Ancient Mexico C 200 BC –400 AD
A attractive seated Colima dog v...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Mexican Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Yoruba Ibeji pair
Located in London, GB
Ibeji pair
Ajasse
Nigeria
Wood, beads, pigment, offering remains
26.5cm and 25cm
ex Beatrice Leutert and Marcel Plüss collection, Thurgau, Switzerland
Category
Early 20th Century Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Carved Wooden Statue of a Dancer "Queen Dancer", Egba People, Abeokuta, 1950s
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A tall hand-carved statue of a dancer "Queen Dancer" crafted by the Egba People, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, circa 1950s.
The statue is hand-carved in a rather rough way, not very...
Category
1950s Nigerian Tribal Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
1850 Mexican Colonial Style Oil on Copper Religious Painting
Located in Marbella, ES
Antique 1850 Mexican colonial style oil on copper religious painting.
Category
Mid-19th Century Mexican Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Copper
Guro 'Kyasa' mask
Located in London, GB
Guro mask 'kyasa'
Ivory Coast
Wood, paint, metal, hide
38cm
Provenance:
Peter Peretti (1945-2022) London, United Kingdom
Acquired in Paris in the mid 1960s
Category
Mid-20th Century African Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Bronze Dan Bell, Cote d'Ivoire, 1960s
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Bronze Dan (also called Yakuba) bell, Cote d'Ivoire, circa 1960s.
This Dan bell is made from the lost-wax process. It has a looped handle and stylized designs on the bell and around ...
Category
1960s Ivorian Tribal Vintage Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Large floor vase in green glazed ceramic by Patrick Crulis, 2022
By Patrick Crulis
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Large floor vase in green glazed ceramic by Patrick Crulis. 2022.
Unique piece.
H : 29.9’ x 15.7’ x 14.2’ inches.
Approximate sizes.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
African Tribal Art Fine Zulu Neck Rest Head Rest South Africa
Located in London, GB
A fine Zulu head rest neck rest South Africa
Raised on central pillars with geometric lozenge shaped carving all over.
Measures: 22 x 14 x 5 cm approx.
Period Early 20th century
Ex U...
Category
19th Century Zimbabwean Antique Europe - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
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