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Item Ships From: USA
Antique Folk Art Carnival Attraction Hand Painted Sign circa 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1677 Hand painted carnival sign world's tallest man and Tom tump
In a pediment frame
Category
1940s Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Hardwood, Paint
Folk Art Hand Made Paddle Wheel Ship Model
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3-427 Folk Art hand made paddle wheel ship model
Model was made by a 80 year old man from Long Island NY
Beautifully detailed
18" to top of mast.
Category
1950s North American Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Copper
Rainbow Mosaic Glass Disco Ball, 1970s USA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great vintage disco ball made of mosaic glass tiles. Rare example with rows of different colors of glass. Yellow, mirror, blue, red and green throug...
Category
1970s American Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Vintage Mexican 1950’s Pepsi Cola Bottle Cap Embossed Metal Sign
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare 1950’s. Mexican Pepsi Cola Soda Pop Bottle Cap Gas Embossed Metal Sign
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Sheet Metal
Soldier Carnival Shooting Gallery Targets
By King
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Early examples of 'King' soldier shooting gallery targets. Rare shape and extremely thick. King manufactured shooting galleries and targets thr...
Category
Early 20th Century American USA - Folk Art
Materials
Iron
19thc Wool Log Cabin Quilt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This wool log cabin quilt is in very good condition with a reversible one patch backing. This quilt was found and made in Pennsylvania.
Category
19th Century American Adirondack Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Pelican Copper Weathervane Mounted on Base
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Antique metal weathervane in the shape of a Pelican. The metal has developed a rich patina over time, with a mix of greenish oxidation and brown rust, indicative of age and exposure...
Category
1930s American Folk Art Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Copper, Iron
Antique French Art Nouveau Stained Leaded Glass Windows with Birds - a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique French Art Nouveau Stained Leaded Glass Windows with Birds in More Recent Wooden Frames - a Pair. Circa Early 20th Century. Measurements: 30" H x 25" W x 1" D. Stained Glass:...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Art Nouveau USA - Folk Art
Materials
Stained Glass, Wood
West Point Pennant with Striking Colors and Graphics, ca 1940-1950
Located in York County, PA
WEST POINT PENNANT WITH STRIKING COLOR & GRAPHICS, WWII ERA - 1950's
Triangular pennant, made for the United States Military Academy at West Point, with exceptional colors and graph...
Category
Mid-20th Century American USA - Folk Art
Materials
Felt
Antique French Toleware Cachepot or Planter Painted with a Don Quixote Scene
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Toleware cachepot or planter.
Decorated to both sides with a scene of Don Quixote and his companion Sancho riding atop a horse and ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Revival USA - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Vintage Marble Chess Set with Hand Carved Turquoise and White Onyx Pieces
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Marble Large Chess Set with hand carved Turquoise and White Onyx Pieces. 1950s.
Vintage mid 20th century Mexican stone marble chess set comple...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern USA - Folk Art
Materials
Onyx, Marble
19th Century French Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Pasadena, CA
This exquisite 19th Century French oil painting captures a romantic and serene moment of a couple strolling through a lush park. Rendered in rich, vibrant hues and masterfully painte...
Category
19th Century French Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Vintage 1940's PHILCO TV Kids Ride On Toy Truck
Located in San Diego, CA
1940's PHILCO Television metal Ride On Toy Truck.
Beautiful original distressed condition.
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Sheet Metal
Wooden Butter Churn with Additional Paddles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An original and used Wooden Butter Churn - Works like a charm - just add cream from the cows in your field.
A great decorative piece for the southern, or Ralph Lauren, Americana int...
Category
Late 19th Century American Colonial Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Mid-Century Modern Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, relatively large sumptuously glazed bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The high-fired porcelain bowl features a shifting earth tone...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern USA - Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain, Pottery
Early 20th Century Native American Black Pottery Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This Native American Indian pot or bowl has a very unusual geometric design. The condition is very good with wear consistent from age and use to the base.
Category
20th Century American Adirondack USA - Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Orlando Hand Bears attributed Portrait of a Boy Before a Landscape
By Orlando Hand Bears 1
Located in Sharon, CT
Perhaps the dropped hand is the most obvious of the Bears 'tells'. But just about every aspect of our painting is Bears, from the landscape background to the positioning of the subje...
Category
1830s American Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
19th C Rag Rug Runner Rug
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful antique 19th C rag rug Runner. The rug is in great condition. The rag runner is from the Trish Herr Collection in Lancaster County Pennsylva...
Category
19th Century American Adirondack Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Antique Applique Quilt with Swag Border
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This amazing autumn leaf applique quilt is in pristine condition and has a very unusual swag border. It comes to us from Southern Ohio from the family -mother that made the quilt. Th...
Category
20th Century American Adirondack USA - Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
Printed Linen Kerchief of George Washington, ca 1806, Germantown, PA
Located in York County, PA
Extraordinarily early (1806) printed linen kerchief glorifying George Washington, Germantown print works, Germantown, Pennsylvania
Printed in sepia ink on coarse, white linen, this patriotic kerchief shows a standing portrait of George Washington, above which is a swag valance and the words “The Effect of Principle, Behold the Man”. The portrait is based on a mezzotint after Gilbert Stuart’s very famous painting of Washington in his later years. Stuart painted it in oil on canvas for a wealthy merchant by the name of William Constable, who commissioned the work for Alexander Hamilton.
The kerchief is interesting because it is both American-made and documented. This is exceptionally unusual for any printed textile of the 19th century or prior and the earlier the time period the more unlikely an object is to be identified. This kerchief and a companion piece entitled “The Love of Truth Mark the Boy” (also glorifying Washington through the fabled story of the cherry tree), were made ca 1806 by Germantown Print Works in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
To the left of Washington's image is a portion of his infamous farewell address to his troops at the end of the Revolutionary War. To the right is a short excerpt from his eulogy. Below these are three images. In the center is a square-rigged tall ship with “Commercial Union” above it, flanked by the American eagle on the left and the British lion...
Category
Early 19th Century American Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Linen
Cast Iron Horse Doorstop Signed Hunter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cast iron horse doorstop Signed Hunter.
Copyright 1949. VA Metal Crafters, Waynesboro, VA.
Category
20th Century American American Classical USA - Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Modern Oil on Canvas Cubist “Boy with Rooster” Painting
Located in San Marino, CA
A modern cubist style painting in the manner of Vicente Manansala (1910-1981) of the Philippines. Heavy texture, paint on canvas. 36" x 36" fr...
Category
20th Century Philippine Modern USA - Folk Art
19th Century Boxed Ships Compass
Located in Norwell, MA
19th century ships compass set into a dovetailed box with sliding lid. Brass bowl compass with gimbaled. Weight is 9 pounds.
Category
1890s Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Sea Grass Basket
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This funky sea grass basket is handwoven and in good condition. It retains its old surface.
Category
1920s American Adirondack Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
British Sailor's Woolwork of a Ship in Dramatic Seas off a Coastline
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of a Ship in Rough Seas,
Circa 1875
The British sailor's woolie depicts a starboard view of a three-masted ship under sail in extremely rough weather as th...
Category
1870s English Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
"William Tell" Mechanical Toy Savings Bank. American, Circa 1896 (All Original)
By J. & E. Steven's Company
Located in Incline Village, NV
"William Tell" mechanical bank was patented and manufactured in 1896 by the J. & E. Steven's Company in Cromwell, Connecticut (please see image of the underneath with patent informat...
Category
1890s American Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Peter Voulkos Signed Mid-Century Modern California Studio Pottery Plate Charger
By Peter Voulkos
Located in Studio City, CA
A fantastic, freeform, large, heavy plate/ charger by American master potter Peter Voulkos who is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic pottery pieces and sculptures. Very unique and scarce work with rare use of color. Very hard to come by. One of our personal favorites along with the Chawan tea bowl.
Signed on base and dated (1961) by Voulkos. This was made during one of his most magical and experimental phases.
From of Private Collection, New York.
Voulkos is widely considered to be the most important and impactful ceramist of the modern era. He won the Rodin Museum Prize at the first Paris Biennale in 1959 and was the winner of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1984. Voulkos received the College Art Association’s Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1997. He was made an honorary member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 2001. He also received six honorary
doctorate degrees as well as three National Endowment for the Arts awards.
His work can be found in many prominent collections and museums including:
Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Albany Mall, Albany, New York
American Museum of Ceramic Art...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Pomo Coiled and Feather Basket
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pomo Tribal Group
Northwestern California
1910 - 1920
Willow, woven fibers, Mallard Duck feathers, Meadowlark feathers, and Quail topknot feathers.
California Indian baskets are often considered the best in North America, and Pomo baskets...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American USA - Folk Art
Materials
Other
Ancient Coptic Textile with Classical Figures
Located in Spring Valley, NY
Finely woven of wool and linen, this large, ancient, museum level Coptic textile depicts figures derived from classical antiquity, some playing musical ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Egyptian Classical Roman Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Linen
Massive Merchant Schooner Model
Located in Greenwich, CT
Impressive and rare example of a model English merchant sailing vessel, circa 1860, that plied the China Trade from England to Hong Kong. The ship has the sail rig of the Sandy Hook pilot boats...
Category
1860s English Sporting Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Linen, Wood
Large Early 20th Century Brass Eagle on Branch Standing Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fantastic large brass sculpture of an eagle with the wings spread on a tree branch. This full body eagle and branch has a wonderful worn patina....
Category
Early 20th Century American Adirondack USA - Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Vintage Hand Cranked Wooden Toy w Pull String
Located in Pasadena, TX
Vintage Hand Cranked Wooden Toy w Pull String beautifully crafted vintage wooden toy features a classic hand-crank mechanism paired with a pull str...
Category
Late 20th Century USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
18th Century European Carved Pine Trunk
Located in San Francisco, CA
18th century European carved pine trunk
Brilliant antique trunk / blanket chest from Europe. This can also be used as a toy chest, games chest, linen chest, etc.
The chest meas...
Category
Late 18th Century British Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Hupa/Yurok Basketry Bowl
By Native American Art
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Hupa/Yurok polychrome basketry bowl/ Twined basket with stacked linear motifs in red and brown. 5.5" H x 9.5" D
Family Owned & Operated
Cisco’s Gallery deals in the rare, exceptiona...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American USA - Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Lucie Rie Signed Stamped Yellow Speckle Glazed British Pottery Bowl, circa 1950s
By Lucie Rie
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous earth-toned, yellow, green, brown speckle glazed ceramic footed bowl by famed Austrian-born British potter Lucie Rie.
The bowl is signed with Lucie Rie's impressed seal on the base.
A rare and unique work. Simply a must for any collector of Rie's work or a beautiful stand-alone piece sure to light up any setting.
Dame Lucie Rie...
Category
1950s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Roman Micro-Mosaic Portrait of a Bull
Located in Middleburg, VA
Roman Micro-Mosaic Portrait of a Bull. Originally part of a ceramic floor. Made in Italy, circa 200 AD.
A rare and evocative Roman micro-mosaic fragment depicting a recumbent bull, ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Stone
African Zebra Drum Table with Three Zebra Legs from Ghana
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is the piece that makes for a great conversation and adds depth to many interiors. Authentic zebra skin table in very good condition and ready for any room; 34" diameter - makes...
Category
20th Century Ghanaian Rustic USA - Folk Art
Materials
Zebra Hide, Wood
1850s Corner Cupboard Rustic Farm House Pine Cabinet
Located in Newfoundland, PA
This is a spectacular primitive corner cupboard. Layers and layers of paint on this piece. Four shelves on top and two on the bottom. Wonderful coloring on this! You don't find these...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Primitive Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Pine
American Folk Art Painting Signed J.W. Fosdick 1903
Located in South Burlington, VT
American Folk Art Pyrography At Its Finest
This is an original and beautiful 23 inch by 19.25 inch hand-painted and hand incised work of art on board of ...
Category
Early 1900s American Arts and Crafts Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Australian Indigenous Signed Aboriginal Art Flower Tree Landscape Bark Painting
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, unique, and very engaging original indigenous Australian Aboriginal painting featuring a flowering tree in a landscape along a pathway with geometrical designs. The pai...
Category
20th Century Australian Folk Art USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
A rare reproduction of the Coca Cola umbrella girls in a rustic red frame
Located in Houston, TX
A rare reproduction of the Coca Cola umbrella girls in a rustic red frame. Festoon art is originally designed in 1918. Frame has some wear but overall in good condition.
27” H x 33...
Category
1970s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Large 1810 Half Hull Sailing Ship Model with Rare Bowsprit
Located in Hollywood, FL
This is a very unique large 1810 half Hull Sailing Ship model with rare bowsprit.
I'm told its very very rare to find one of these with a Bowsprit Mermaid.
Category
1810s American American Colonial Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Vintage Carnival Midway Wood Ring Toss Game
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Great vintage carnival midway ring toss game. Perfect wall art. Wood with original park paint surface. These appear to be one of a kind carny made pieces for...
Category
1950s Folk Art Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Large Vintage Decorative Wooden Ceiling Fan
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Large French black-painted wooden ceiling fan.
Category
Early 20th Century French Industrial USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Raul Coronel Signed Mid-Century Modern Large Heavy Ceramic Pottery Bowl, 1960s
By Raul Coronel
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully made and colored heavy bowl by Mexican born ceramic master Raul Coronel who played an important role in the American (he became a naturalized citizen) / California design movement of the 1950s-1970s alongside Peter Voulkos, Beatrice Wood, Gertrud & Otto Natzler, Otto & Vivika Heino, to name but a few.
This bowl features a deep oceanic green crackle glass...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware
Zabihi Collection Orange Dragon Vintage Tibetan Rug
Located in New York, NY
Colorful one-of-a-kind Tibetan rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century with a dragon motif on a bright orange field
Measures: 3'1'' x 5'9''.
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
18th Century Tall Butter Churn from New England
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This all original 18th century butter churn with the original lid and original hardware and cut nail construction. Take a close look at the fingers and early nails with the original ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Country Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Rope Table Adrien Audoux & Frida Minet
By Adrien Audoux and Frida Minnet
Located in Austin, TX
Small Mid-Century Rope Table Adrien Audoux & Frida Minet.
H / 12.5 inches , 13.5 by 13 inches.
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Rope, Rhodoid
Pablo Picasso Signed Madoura Ceramic Tile Plaque 'Tête Polychrome' Ramié 455
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, original hand painted ceramic tile plaque by famed artist Pablo Picasso titled "Tete Polychrome". The work features an abstract face w...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware, Pottery
Vintage Richard Rohac Austrian Vienna Bronze Asian Man w/Bamboo Figure Statue
By Richard Rohac
Located in San Diego, CA
Very tough to find Vienna bronze of an Asian man holding a piece of bamboo and is by Richard Rohac. The bronze figure dates from the lmid 1900's. Great detail and form. Made of solid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Austrian USA - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Indian India South East Asian Erotic Heavy Bronze Kama Sutra Figures Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, highly erotic, rather fascinating, and somewhat unique large pair of Indian (India) Kama Sutra bronze sculptural figures (The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism, and emotional fulfillment in life.) Nicely detailed with a gorgeous patina that is only acquired over time.
From an estate of a world traveler art and artifacts collector.
The sculpture is relatively heavy. Would be a great addition to any Indian/ South East Asian art...
Category
20th Century Indian USA - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
Kuba Dye-Resist Tcaka Textile
Located in Chicago, IL
Visually dynamic and highly textured, this raffia textile expresses the irregular, geometric patterns typical of Kuba textile art. Created by an artisan of the Kuba people of the Dem...
Category
20th Century Congolese Tribal USA - Folk Art
Materials
Raffia
Small Cairn Elemental Spinning Top in Oiled Walnut by Alvaro Uribe for Wooda
By Alvaro Uribe, Wooda
Located in Omro, WI
The initial inspiration for the elemental top collection by Alvaro Uribe for Wooda was Wooda’s iconic logo of a tree. We felt it captured the company’s synergy for working with wood ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern USA - Folk Art
Materials
Hardwood, Walnut
Large Antique Early American Banner Weathervane
Located in Forney, TX
A large and remarkable 4' long early PA American scrollwork bannerette weathervane / wind directional.
Pennsylvania, first half of the 19th century, cut sheet metal, copper tubing,...
Category
19th Century American Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Metal, Copper, Zinc
Ulo Tribal Akha Woman's Headdress with Framework of Bamboo and Beads
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Ulo Akha woman's Tribal headdress adorned with framework of bamboo, beads, pompons, seeds and other unique items. Immerse yourself in the rich cultural tapestry of Northern Thailan...
Category
Early 20th Century Thai Folk Art USA - Folk Art
Materials
Fabric, Bamboo, Beads
Antique Navajo Chief Blanket
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sometimes categorized as the fourth-phase chief blanket, this wonderful piece of Navajo textile art is well preserved and can be dated to 1890-1910. Wov...
Category
1890s American Navajo Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Tribal Ulo Akha Woman's Headdress with Framework of Bamboo and Beads
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Ulo Akha woman's Tribal headdress adorned with framework of bamboo, beads, pompons, seeds and other unique items. Experience a rich slice of the A...
Category
Early 20th Century Thai USA - Folk Art
Materials
Bamboo, Beads
Antique Swedish Country Pine Rocking Bassinet
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce late 18th / early 19th century Gustavian Period country Swedish farmhouse pine bassinet / cradle with beautifully aged character and warm patina.
Hand-crafted in Sweden, c...
Category
Late 18th Century Swedish Gustavian Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Pine
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