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Item Ships From: Italy
Persefone Gray Vase
By Stefania Boemi
Located in Milan, IT
Inspired by Greek mythology, this magnificent range of vases is entirely crafted by hand as in Sicilian tradition. The exquisite Persefone Vase features a matt gray...
Category
2010s Italian Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Eight Small Porcelain Mugs, Friars, Various Measures, Italian and German
Located in Roma, IT
Eight small porcelain mugs. Friars. Various measures, Italian and German.
A piece has some chipping
The largest piece is 19 cm tall,
the smallest 6 cm.
Category
20th Century European Other Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
Moorish Heads Vases Collection "Sciacca White", Set of 2, Handmade in Italy
By Mosche Bianche
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
This collection is a work of art that make a statement in modern décor and in the modern cultural art world. It can be used as a vase containing flowers, or as a beautiful centerpiec...
Category
2010s Italian Folk Art Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Art nouveau walking stick depicts the God Pan and the nymph Echo, Sweden 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Art Nouvea walking stick. The T-shaped 838/1000 silver knob is embossed and chiselled and depicts, on one side, the God of the woods, Pan, sitting on a rock playing the flute, while ...
Category
Early 20th Century Swedish Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Silver
20th Century Oil on Masonite Signed A. Corradi Landscape Italian Painting, 1950
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting from the mid-20th century. Oil painting on masonite depicting a countryside view, river landscape with boats and characters of good pictorial quality. Painting adorn...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Masonite
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Painting, 1720
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Ancient Italian painting from the first half of the 18th century. Oil on canvas framework, first canvas, depicting historical/biblical subject, King David brings the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem...
Category
1720s Italian Antique Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
The Wind, Original Marble Sculpture, 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
The Wind is an original marble sculpture made by Anonymous artist and realized in the 1920s.
A beautiful white marble sculpture representing a female portrait as the personificati...
Category
1920s Italian Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Marble
Contemporary Painterly Red Tuareg Moroccan Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A unique flat-weave with a very robust texture obtained by brocading a warp-faced fabric composed of very thick woolen light orange wefts. It is inspired by the reed carpets of the T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Moroccan Tribal Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Walking stick, matches candle holder, by Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, Belgium 1910.
By Gustave Serrurier-Bovy
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick with candle holder system, with black bovine horn tip. The cane is made of light colored Malacca (Rattan) wood. The handle is made of gilded brass, hexagonal in section...
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Folk art walking stick depicting a snake, USA 1800.
Located in Milan, IT
Folk art walking stick, L-shaped knob made of carved and painted cherry wood. Along the stem, obtained from the branch, a snake is carved which ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Vintage Toy, Military Toy Truck and Trailer
Located in Roma, IT
This military toy truck and trailer is a wind up toy truck with soldier and its own trailer.
Tin made. Dunlop balloon cord tyres.
Very good conditions...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Antique boxwood Art Nouveau corkscrew, France 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Art Nouveau corkscrew made of hand carved boxwood, depicting plant branches enveloping the knob with brass flowers at either end of the T. The corkscrew worm is made of iron ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Brass, Iron
Vintage Minimalist Anatolian Tulu Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Distinguished by a squarish format typical of yatak (bedding) rugs, this Tulu has a soft creamy yellow background randomly punctuated by small dots and by a larger one indicating the...
Category
1940s Turkish Tulu Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Rare Antique Ukrainian Pile Rug With Floral Garlands in the St. Petersburg Style
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare Ukrainian pile rug woven with a pattern characteristic of Aubusson and Savonnerie French carpets. Carpets such as this one were woven at a time when the classical French style was extremely in favour among the Russian aristocracy, who decorated their homes with period French furniture...
Category
1870s Ukrainian Bessarabian Antique Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
1931 Venetian Art Deco Game Table
Located in Mariano Del Friuli, GO
Rare Venetian Art Dèco rectangular game table made entirely of Walnut Feather and ebonized feet.
Used as a desk as it is finished on all four sides with drawer on one side.
Elegant, ...
Category
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Ebony, Walnut
Iron and wood horse shaped food chopper, England, 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Iron and wood horse shaped food chopper.
The iron slab has been cut with a horse silouette, The superior and inferior edges have been slightly grinded, while the curved lower...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Shagreen etui case, London circa 1800.
Located in Milan, IT
A very fine English Etui Case with original period fitting. The etui is carved in fruitwood and covered in a dark grey shagreen (Pastinachus sephen, Forrskål 1775) covering. It opens by pushing the button on the side. Finished in silver, the inner grid shows a series of cut-out seats for the insertion of the fitting, which includes a pencil, one bodkin, an ear pick...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Decorative Vintage Plate, by Molaroni Pesaro, 20th Century
By Molaroni Pesaro
Located in Roma, IT
This vintage plate is an original decorative ceramic object realized in Italy during the 20th century by Molaroni Pesaro manufacture, Italy.
This very rare and colored ceramic pla...
Category
20th Century Italian Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Berber Henna-Dyed Woman's Ceremonial Head Scarf
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven wool veil used as a head cover in the wedding ceremony among the Ait Abdellah Berber people of the Moroccan Anti Atlas region. The pattern is obtained with the re...
Category
1930s Moroccan Tribal Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
African Textile Showa Kuba
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Rare vintage African Kuba Textile, suitable for a modern wall panel, on a long table ; perfect as headboard.
Handwoven and hand dyed raffia fabric.
An IDEA: use this item as backrest...
Category
Mid-20th Century Congolese Archaistic Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Raffia
Rare late 19th century cast brass "Jack Tar" umbrella and sailor stick holder.
Located in Milan, IT
Rare cast brass "Jack Tar" umbrella and sailor's staff holder, English manufacture datable to around the late from the 19th century.
The umbrella stand is depicted by a sailor Jac...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Moroccan Berber Miniature Prayer Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual Moroccan rug woven in the hooked technique using recycled industrial fibres on a plastic foundation. The directional character of the abstract pattern, which seem ...
Category
2010s Moroccan Islamic Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
Pond Model made in 1930 of a yacht used to navigate ponds
Located in Milan, IT
Model made in the 1930s of a yacht used for sailing in ponds. Original masts, rigging and sails, beautiful wooden hull with original paint, plumbed keel, wood and brass support tai...
Category
1930s Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Vintage Azilal Abstract Berber Moroccan Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Azilal weavings are certainly among the most abstract Berber rugs. This example depicts a pair of stylized trees flanking a central dark element - ...
Category
1970s Moroccan Tribal Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Ancient box with popular scene in inlaid wood
Located in Catania, IT
Ancient box with popular scene in inlaid wood. Product in good condition with small wear caused by years and use. Please view the attached images carefully
Category
1950s Italian Folk Art Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
21st Century Leather and Walnut Wood Backgammon Set Handcrafted in Italy
By Pinetti
Located in Bagnatica, Lombardia
Our backgammon set, a must of board games.
Expertly crafted with canaletto walnut wood and dressed on the outside with a textured calfskin leather covering, its interior delivers ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Early and Unusual Loop-Pile Beni Ouarain Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Beni Ouarain confederation is composed of seventeen tribes inhabiting the high mountain region of the northeastern Middle Atlas. Their rugs differ from other Berber weavings in t...
Category
1920s Moroccan Tribal Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Italian Folding Four-Panel Decorated Screen by Enzo Strada
By Enzo Strada
Located in Prato, IT
Mid-Century Modern Italian folding four-panel screen with bucolic transfer painting. 1960s
Each panel measures cm.53 x 3 x H 148.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Original Vintage Toy, Wind Up Jeep Car
Located in Roma, IT
This wind up jeep car is an original vintage metal toy.
Unknown manufacturer and age.
Functioning but lightly damaged mechanisms.
Not in p...
Category
Early 20th Century French Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Bronze sculpture "Girl on a Chair" by Spanish sculptor Juan Clara, 1920s
Located in Milano, IT
Bronze sculpture titled "Girl on a Chair" by Spanish sculptor Juan Clara, 1920s
Juan Clara's bronze sculpture Girl on a Stool captures the innocence and charm of childhood. This beau...
Category
1920s Spanish Belle Époque Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
A group of five example of wooden articulated dummie’s hands. Italy, 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
A group of five samples of articulated hands for dummies, made in various types of wood: national walnut, chestnut, maple. Mounted on bases, made of cast iron and brass for the locki...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Brass, Iron
1925 Rare Rene Lalique Renaissance Blue Bracelet
By René Lalique
Located in Milan, IT
Rare blue bracelet R. Lalique, France 1925, signed by R. Lalique. The bracelet is in excellent condition.
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Glass
African Ethiopian Tribal Folk Art Painting 20th Century Battle Scene on Canvas
Located in Milano, MI
African Ethiopian painting imported to Italy by a diplomat during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, in the late 1930s. This tribal folk art painting depicts a battle scene and the canvas is mounted on a parallelogram-shaped frame.
It is a large battle painting...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ethiopian Folk Art Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Folk art carved walking stick depicting a German Shepherd dog, Germany 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
Folk art walking stick: carved wooden handle depicting a German Shepherd dog’s head, sulphur glass eyes, bone teeth. Hawthorn wood shaft and metal ferrule. Silver gilt ring. Germany ...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Antique Moroccan Berber Henna-Dyed Woman's Ceremonial Head Cover
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven wool veil used as a head scarf in the wedding ceremony among the Ait Abdallah Berber people of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas region. The pattern is obtained with the re...
Category
1930s Moroccan Tribal Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Walking stick, a boar’s head, by Joseph Ladislav Nēmec, Prague 1900.
By Josef Ladislav Némec
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: L-shaped silver handle, depicting a boar's head with Baltic amber acorns and embossed and carved leaves. Cabochon garnet stone eyes. Ebony wood shaft. Metal ferrule. S...
Category
Early 20th Century Czech Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Stone, Metal
Antique Moroccan Berber Henna-Dyed Woman's Ceremonial Cover with Graffiti Motifs
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven wool veil used as a head scarf in the wedding ceremony among the Ait Abdallah Berber people of the Moroccan Anti-Atlas region. The pattern is obtained with the re...
Category
1930s Moroccan Tribal Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
20th Century, Small Mayan Art Style Turquoise Censer, Colombia 1960
Located in Catania, IT
Amazing Turquese Stone Censer, in perfect condition. Incredible and suitable for decorating your home with style.
Category
1960s Colombian Pre-Columbian Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Precious Stone
Musidora Super Star Vase
By Stefania Boemi
Located in Milan, IT
Entirely handmade of terracotta, this anthropomorphic vase depicts Musidora (Greek word for "gift of the muses"), a young woman wearing a crown with her hair gathered in a soft turba...
Category
2010s Italian Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Vintage Toy, Wind Up Toy Musical Carousel, 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
This vintage wind up toy musical carousel is a mechanical toy representing a beautiful carousel with moving horses.
Made up in hand painted wood.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Vintage Toy, Wind up Locomotive Ingap 67001, Made by Ingap, 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
This wind up locomotive Ingap 67001 is a vintage toy representing a red mechanical locomotive.
Made in tin by Ingap, model n. 67001.
Probably made in 1920s.
3 wheels missing, me...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
21st Century Camel Leather and Walnut Wood Backgammon Set Handcrafted in Italy
By Pinetti
Located in Bagnatica, Lombardia
Our backgammon set, a must of board games.
Expertly crafted with canaletto walnut wood and dressed on the outside with a textured calfskin leather covering, its interior delivers ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Pair bookends on black marble base depicting brass sailboat
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of bookends on black marble base depicting brass sailboat.
English manufacture of the 1950s.
Measurements 13x9x16.5 cm - inches 5.1x3.6x6.5.
The last photo is the gift box.
Category
1950s Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Marble
Angola Chokwe Mask Revisited by Bomber Bax
Located in Milano, IT
Beautiful classic Chokwe mask genre that honours female founding ancestors. Such representations are particularly significant as the Chokwe trace the descent through the lines of their mothers. This is thought to be a dance mask with a net and wood hairstyle, from the Batshokwe people skilled in the art of carving and of very ancient origin belonging to the culture of the divine monarchy.
The Batshokwe sculptors were the most famous in the region, masters in geometric decorations such as the depiction of scarifications and tooth deformations, the surfaces of their works were carefully smoothed and polished.
On the forehead of the mask, the classic chinge-lyengelye scarification is clearly visible, commonly interpreted as a variant of the Portuguese cross...
Category
Early 1900s Angolan Tribal Antique Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Antique Dance Chain, Europe, 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antique dance chain is a precious decorative object realized in the 18th century.
Precious antique dance chain with decorations. Includes original gre...
Category
18th Century European Antique Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Vintage Djebel Amour Saharan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare weaving attributed to the Djebel Amour tribe, located in Algeria close to the border with eastern Morocco along the Saharan Atlas. Although the tri...
Category
1950s Algerian Tribal Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Vintage Caucasian Floral Qarabagh Rug in the St. Petersburg Style
Located in Milan, IT
The floral ornamentation typical of French and English carpets of the 18th-19th century has influenced specific oriental carpet families. In the Caucasus this style became extremely ...
Category
1930s Russian Bessarabian Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Vintage Central Asian Felt Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Felts are among the first woolen structures made by mankind. Some of the earliest we know date from the 5th century B.C. and were found under ground in the frozen kurgans of Siberia....
Category
1930s Kyrgyzstani Tribal Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Tulu with Chequerboard Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The Tulu rugs represent one of the earliest forms of nomadic pile weaving, typically knotted with a medium-high pile as they were meant as bedding rugs for the tent. Woven in the Kar...
Category
1940s Turkish Tulu Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
VICTORY Solid Wood White and Red Chessboard with Chess in Maple and Mahogany
By Fratelli Boffi
Located in Lentate sul Seveso, Monza e Brianza
Embark on a bold journey with the Victory Chessboard—a modern marvel conceived by the visionary minds of Archer Humphryes Architects. This chessboard ...
Category
2010s Italian Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Mahogany, Maple, Oak
Early and Rare Abstract Rehamna Berber Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
The carpets of the Rehamna derive from the Haouz, a landscape of hills and plains situated between the Middle Atlas and the Atlantic ocean mostly inhabited by Arabic groups and arabi...
Category
1920s Moroccan Tribal Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Vintage Berber Moroccan Ourika Valley Eye Design Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with natural, undyed wool, flat-weaves such as the one illustrated here are characteristic of the Berber people located in the Ourika Valley, in the Moroccan High Atlas region....
Category
1940s Moroccan Tribal Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
An Austrian handbag decorated with petit point embroidery. Austria, 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Lady's arm bag with chain and sharp corner zip in golden brass. The hinge features a cloisonneé enamel decoration with stylized green and white flowers on a black background, adorned...
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Art nouveau walking stick: a woman with lilies, France 1900.
Located in Milan, IT
Art Nouveau walking stick. The L-shaped 800 silver knob is embossed and chiselled and depicts the face of a woman with long loose hair and two Iris flower...
Category
Early 20th Century French Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Metal, Silver
Dramatic Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, this represents 'art brut' within the domain of the textile arts. Weavings such as this ...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Folk Art Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
Silver walking stick with a rooster, France 1890.
Located in Milan, IT
Walking stick: silver handle depicting a rooster. Ebony shaft. Metal tip. France 1890 ca.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Metal, Silver
Outstanding Vintage Beni Mguild Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Beni Mguild tribe is located in the mountainous region of the Moroccan Middle Atlas. Together with the Beni Ouarain, they represent the earliest Berber presence in that region as...
Category
1950s Moroccan Tribal Vintage Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Early 20th century mahogany bollard with a pi shape used to stop a line
Located in Milan, IT
Early 20th century mahogany wood cleat or castanet in the shape of pi used to stop a line, from a fishing boat in northern France. Generally secured by strong through-bolting scre...
Category
Early 20th Century Italy - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
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