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Item Ships From: USA
Japanese Pair Vintage Gilt Pheasant Bird Sculptures, Signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
Beautiful pair (2) old Japanese vintage gilt pheasant bird sculptures. Marked Japan on bottoms. From our recent Japanese acquisitions in original condition with original attractive gilding present. Japan, an attractive and iconic pair (2) pheasant sculptures with original gilt patina. One is poised with vertical tail and thehy other in a seated horizontal position. The pheasant is considered Japan's national bird. This creative simple adaption makes a compelling contemporary pair of sculptures. Fine original used condition with original gold gilt patina appropriate to their age. Original gilt patina from age. Dimensions: 7 inches tall and 6.5 inches wide Photographed in natural day light. Quality: Excellent quality and fine craftsmanship by Japanese specialized artisans Provenance: authentic Japanese examples (see labels). Lifetime guarantee of authenticity. All of our Asian works of art come with our lifetime authenticity guarantee. About Japan's Green Pheasant In Japanese culture, the green pheasant is unofficially considered the national bird of the country owing to its references in ancient folk tales of Japan. The green pheasant was said to be a messenger of the Sun Goddess...
Category

Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa USA - Folk Art

Materials

Iron

Antique Branch Green Attributed Salt Glaze Stoneware Jug with Coggled Birds
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique American stoneware jug. Attributed to the Branch Green Pottery in Philadelphia, PA. Of ovoid form with an applied handle an...
Category

Early 19th Century American Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Stoneware

19Thc Original Blue Painted Butter Churn
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19Thc Original blue painted butter churn with amazing patina and all original metal bands in tack.The insert churn and paddle is inside the churn as well...
Category

19th Century American Adirondack Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Metal

Dog Nutcracker
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1163 Cast Aluminum dog nutcracker.
Category

1980s Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Aluminum

Canadian Goose Decoy on Rod Nails
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This hand carved & painted Canadian goose is on feet and old nails used for the feet.The carver signed the base of the decoy "Charlie Adams " in pencil. The condition is very good an...
Category

Early 20th Century American Adirondack USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Antique Black Americana Portrait American Lawyer, Signed 1862
Located in South Burlington, VT
Black Americana Antique Folk Art or Outsider Art Portrait Black American Lawyer, Signed June 10, 1862 This is an original historical and detailed hand incised work of art on wood p...
Category

19th Century American Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wood

19th Century Shaker Style Sugar Bucket from New England
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a Shaker style sugar bucket in fine condition with a minor age crack on the top but has been glued tight together long ago. The wire handle and co...
Category

Late 19th Century American Country Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Mid-Century Unusual Round Rope Mirror Adrien Audoux & Frida Minet
By Adrien Audoux and Frida Minnet
Located in Austin, TX
Unusual French round rope mirror Audoux Minet, circa 1960. Measures: width / 11.5 inches. height / 21 inches.  
Category

1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Rope, Mirror

19th C Sponge Pottery Butter Crocks -3
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Each crock measure approximately 6 inches in diameter x 3.5 inches in height.
Category

19th Century American Adirondack Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

Small Agua 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

Vintage Native American Navajo Sterling Silver & Blue Turquoise Concho Belt 1950
By Navajo
Located in Portland, OR
A very good Vintage sterling silver & blue turquoise Native American Navajo Concho belt, circa 1950. This very attractive Navajo belt is made up of oval silver discs with tooled & pr...
Category

1950s American Native American Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Sterling Silver

Leather Horse Animal Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful all leather horse animal sculpture, in the Ralph Lauren style, circa late-20th century. This hand-crafted piece is clad in a light ...
Category

Late 20th Century American American Classical USA - Folk Art

Materials

Leather

Norwegian Folk Costumes 'Norske Folkedragter' 1st Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Norwegian Folk Costumes (Norske Folkedragter) by Einar Lexow and Joh. F.L. Dreiers. Norsk Folkemuseum, 1913. 1st Ed hardcover. Norwegian traditional dress ...
Category

1910s Norwegian Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Paper

19Thc Decorated Cowden & Wilcox 3 Gal. Crock with Cherries
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This three gallon stone ware crock with decorated cherries is from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The maker is Cowden & Wilcox and is signed on the front abov...
Category

Early 19th Century American Adirondack Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

Early 20th C Old Hickory Hexagonal Shaped Dining Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early 20th C Old Hickory hexagonal shaped dining table. Made by Rustic Hickory Furniture Company, La Porte, Indiana. Circa 1915. It...
Category

20th Century American Adirondack USA - Folk Art

Materials

Hickory, Wood

"Maternidad" Oil on Canvas by Jesus Mariano Leuus, Mexico 65, Signed
By Jesus Leuus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Add a touch of warmth and beauty to your space with this exquisite oil on canvas painting titled "Maternidad" by renowned Mexican artist Jesus Mariano Leuus. This stunning piece feat...
Category

1960s Mexican Organic Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood

Authentic African Zebra Skin Drum
Located in Malibu, CA
Drum, African Tamtam Engoma from Uganda. The 50's 20th century African tribal drum. Made using a zebra skin, the drum has great sound. A multifunctional piece can also be used as an ...
Category

20th Century Ugandan Tribal USA - Folk Art

Materials

Zebra Hide, Hardwood

19Thc Folky American Indian Totem Pole
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This amazing antique American Indian totem pole came from a trading post in New Mexico originally.We obtained it from a Folk art collection in California....
Category

Late 19th Century American Adirondack Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Vintage "Pop Art" Tusker Beer Bottle Cap Folk Art Tray
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage "Pop Art" Tusker Beer Bottle Cap Folk Art Tray "Interesting pop-art Tray made from Tusker Beer Bottle Caps and Wire" "some rust, scrapes and disc...
Category

20th Century Kenyan Post-Modern USA - Folk Art

Materials

Metal

Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Studio Pottery Closed Form With Rattle Sculpture
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging wonderfully glazed closed-form sculpture with rattle by renowned Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu, famed for her use of color,...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern USA - Folk Art

Materials

Porcelain, Pottery

"Uncle Wiggly" Toy Rabbit Wind Up Toy Signed "Gene Rosch" by Chein Toy Co C.1938
By J. Chein & Co.
Located in Incline Village, NV
Dancing rabbit wind up toy, "Uncle Wiggly", was made by the Chein Toy Company, of New York City, circa 1938. It was designed, and the creation of foremost leading toy inventor Gene ...
Category

1930s American Folk Art Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Tin

Elva Nampeyo Signed Native American Indian Hopi Tewa Pueblo Pottery Bowl Vase
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully designed, large, hand-crafted Hopi-Tewa Pueblo/Hopi First Mesa pottery bowl by famed Native American potter/artist Elva Nampeyo (1926–1985) (also known as Elva Tewaguna...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Native American USA - Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

Rajasthani Indian Hand Painted Wood Jewelry Dowry Box
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Rajasthani Indian vaulted dowry jewelry box, hand painted with Indian lovers enjoying each other, while beautiful court musicians accompany them ...
Category

20th Century Indian Agra USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Peter Shire Exp Signed Post Modern Ceramic California Pottery Splatter Cup, 1979
By Peter Shire
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful work by famed Los Angeles (Echo Park), California-based artist Peter Shire who was a founding member (along with Italian designer Ettore Sottsass and others) of The Memph...
Category

1970s American Post-Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

Fon Carved Wood Ceremonial Seat with Multiple Figures, Benin, Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Fon carved heavy hard wood ceremonial seat with multiple figures, from Benin, Africa. Dark stained wood with worn areas from use, "U" shaped seat supported by four caryatid figures, ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Cameroonian Tribal USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Antique English Irish Setter Dog Figural Verdigris Bronze Figurine Sculpture
By Jennings Bros.
Located in San Diego, CA
Antique solid bronze with a verdigris finish Irish/English Setter hunting dog figurine or sculpture circa 1930s. I am not able to find a signature or makers mark. Great patina and co...
Category

Early 20th Century French USA - Folk Art

Materials

Bronze

Double Sided Vintage Marlboro Light Up Cigarette Pack, 1990s USA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is the perfect Americana statement piece to add interest to any interior. This incredible vintage advertising light up box by Marlboro is eye-catching showpiece. These lights we...
Category

1990s American USA - Folk Art

Materials

Steel

Mid-Century Rope Hook Coat Adrien Audoux & Frida Minet
By Adrien Audoux and Frida Minnet
Located in Austin, TX
French rope hook coat Audoux Minet, circa 1960. Measures: Height 8 inches , length 8 inches.
Category

1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Rope

Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Studio Pottery Closed Form With Rattle Sculpture
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging sumptuously glazed closed-form sculpture with rattle by renowned Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu, famed for her use of color,...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern USA - Folk Art

Materials

Porcelain, Pottery

Japanese Bamboo and Wicker Fruit Basket/Folk Art
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
8-265 handmade bamboo and wicker fruit basked with dark wicker woven bottom.
Category

1940s Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Bamboo

19Thc Schoharie County, New York Paint Decorated Blanket Chest
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Paint decorated blanket chest. Schoharie County, New York. Blue paint with yellow, red black and green. Painted initials E.M.D. on front. Dov...
Category

Early 19th Century American Country Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Vintage Hand Painted French Patisserie Sign c.1930-1940
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT Vintage French wooden sign for "Boulangerie Pattisserie, Pain cuit au feu de bois." (Wood fire baked bread). Framed in steel. CR...
Category

Early 20th Century French Industrial USA - Folk Art

Materials

Metal

Schoharie County, New York State Blanket Chest
Located in York County, PA
Painted Schoharie County, New York blanket chest, decorated with a beautifully embellished yellow urn of flowers on a blue ground. This is traditional fashi...
Category

1820s American Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wood

19Thc Hand Carved Cow Butter Stamp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine and folky hand carved cow butter stamp is in fine condition.This comes from a private folk art collection and was purchased in Pennsylvania.
Category

1860s American Adirondack Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Early 20Thc Wool Amish Diamond In Square
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fine hand crafted & quilted all wool Amish diamond in a square from Lancaster County,Pennsylvania. is in amazing colors .This fine 1930's all wool Amish quilt has little minor...
Category

19th Century American Adirondack Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wool

Thai Asian Large Carved Wood Gilt Lacquer Kneeling Praying Temple Shrine Figure
Located in Studio City, CA
Truly, a wonderful piece. We gravitated towards it upon first sight. Very well done, beautiful detail and coloring. Quite unusual and rare in this pose. Very well preserved. We have ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Thai USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

large African Dahomey Anti-Colonial Folk Tapestry, Benin framed
By People from Benin
Located in Farmingdale, NJ
African Dahomey Anti-Colonial Folk Tapestry, Benin, cotton applique, mid 20th c.
Category

Mid-20th Century African Tribal USA - Folk Art

Materials

Cotton

19th C Bronze Horse Bookends, Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair 19th C bronze Horse bookends Measure 2 deep x 4.5 high x 5wide.
Category

19th Century American Country Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Bronze

Japanese Signed Hand Carved Wood Noh Theater Mask of Doji, Early Showa Period
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, wonderfully crafted, alluring mask made for Japanese Noh theatre. The mask is handcrafted and hand-carved from natural wood and is signed by the maker. This mask is of the immortal character Doji who symbolizes perpetual and eternal youth ("doji" literally translates as "child") in the Noh theater world. He is portrayed as a handsome male...
Category

Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wood

1960’s Vintage Beaded Bag
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Funky lady beg beautifully made of colourful cluster of beads, with motifs of flower and leafs, on old velvet background. This bag was not made to store any items as you see in the ...
Category

1960s Unknown Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Velvet, Beads

Margaret Tafoya Santa Clara Native American Carved Blackware Pottery Vase
By Margaret Tafoya
Located in Chalk Hill, PA
A beautiful earthenware vessel by Margaret Tafoya (1904-2001), a renowned master potter from the Santa Clara Pueblo. Margaret Tafoya's work is revered by collectors of Native America...
Category

20th Century American Native American USA - Folk Art

Materials

Earthenware

Colorful Painted Sheet Metal Game Wheel ca 1890-1910
Located in York County, PA
COLORFUL PAINTED SHEET METAL GAME WHEEL ON A SHAPED WOODEN FRAME WITH A NICKLE-PLATED SPINNER, circa 1890-1910 Red, black, white, and green game whee...
Category

Late 19th Century North American Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Peter Voulkos Signed Mid-Century Modern Stoneware Pottery Vase, circa 1950s
By Peter Voulkos
Located in Studio City, CA
A fantastic early work (circa early 1950s) by Master Greek-American potter Peter Voulkos. Signed on base with incised signature by Voulkos. Voulkos is widely considered to be the most important and impactful ceramists 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

1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Stoneware

Framed Early 20th Century American Canada Goose Decoy
Located in Chicago, IL
This framed American 1940s Canada Goose decoy is a striking piece of functional folk art, beautifully preserved and presented. Originally crafted from waxed cardboard, the decoy was ...
Category

1940s American Country Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Paper

19th C Pineapple Log Cabin Quilt from New England
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 19th C cotton pineapple log cabin was found in New England and in very good condition. The quilt is made up of very interesting calico prints. The backing is a cream colored cot...
Category

Late 19th Century American Adirondack Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Cotton

Eagle Weathervane, ca 1852-1870, Waltham Massachusetts
Located in York County, PA
Eagle weathervane in a beautiful form with great folk presence, possibly made by A.L. JEWELL & CO. (1852-1867) or its predecessor, Cushing & White / ...
Category

Late 19th Century Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Metal

Large Antique East African Carved Wood & Bronze Antelope Deer Folk Art Sculpture
Located in Forney, TX
A large, rare, and most impressive antique hand carved and painted wood and metal stylized antelope African folk art sculpture with beautifully aged distressed patina. Handmade in East Africa, dating to around the late 19th / early 20th century, possibly earlier, this scarce, one-of-a-kind, museum quality work, features a richly detailed patinated bronze head and tail with etched textural elements, tall ears and faux ringed...
Category

Late 19th Century African Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Bronze

Large Vintage Fish Store Trade Sign Sculpture
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Striking large hanging fish sculpture, once used as a fish store trade sign. Material is painted hard composite, weighs about 25 lbs. Beautiful glass eyes. Heavy hanging chain inc...
Category

1950s American Folk Art Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Composition

French Majolica Oranges Wall Pocket Perret Gentil Menton circa 1890
By Eugène Perret Gentil 1
Located in Austin, TX
French majolica oranges wall pocket signed Perret Gentil Menton circa 1890.
Category

1890s French Rustic Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic

19th Century French Pottery Cider Bottle from Normandy
Located in Austin, TX
French pottery cider bottle from Normandy, end of 19th century. 13 Bottles available, sold separately. Different sizes.
Category

1880s French Country Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

Swiss Black Forest Carved Walnut Stag, Circa 1900
Located in Stamford, CT
Beautifully carved black forest stag with antlers. Clearly carved by a master craftsman, the stag shown in a naturalistic striding pose. The lovely grain of the black walnut adds ano...
Category

Early 20th Century Swiss Black Forest USA - Folk Art

Materials

Walnut

Antique Wire Fox Terrier Iron Door Stop, Hubley
Located in Riverdale, NY
Charming Iron Wire Haired Fox Terrier Door Stop with intact original paint attributed to Hubley circa 1910. Hard to find with original patinaed cold ...
Category

1910s American Folk Art Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Iron

Mexican Dia De Los Muertos Day of the Dead La Catrina Folk Art Figure Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
A quite wonderful Mexican Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos festival held throughout Mexico) La Catrina symbolic skeleton figure. La Catrina is the festival’s most recognizable image/figure. She is the model of a high-society woman who has met Death, her maker. She represents something between the fear induced by her skeletal form and the revelry exhibited by the comical way she is typically portrayed, making her a perfect symbol of the Mexican holiday. She often appears in paintings, window displays, and costumes all around Mexico during the Day of the Dead festivities. La Catrina was originally conceived in the early 1900s by newspaper illustrator and printmaker José Guadalupe Posada...
Category

20th Century Mexican Folk Art USA - Folk Art

Materials

Textile, Wood, Paper

19th C Coffee Grinder
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th C Coffee Grinder. Grinder is in good working condition.
Category

19th Century American Country Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Metal, Iron

American American Painted Cast Iron "Old Salt" Maine Fisherman Doorstop
By Hubley Manufacturing Company 2
Located in Downingtown, PA
American Painted Cast Iron "Old Salt" Maine Fisherman Doorstop or Bookend, Hubley Manufacturing Company, The 1920s. The two larger figures depict an old salt fisherman standing ...
Category

Early 20th Century American Folk Art USA - Folk Art

Materials

Iron

19th Century Swiss Black Forest Carving of a Stag and Tree Nut Dish
Located in Stamford, CT
Sweet little Black Forest carving of a stag standing near a pine tree next to a brass lined nut or candy dish. Some writing bottom front in white is too worn for me to make out, prob...
Category

Late 19th Century Swiss Black Forest Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Walnut

Ishihara Hideo Japanese Kokeshi Doll Sculptures Signed
Located in San Diego, CA
A pair of Kokeshi dolls by Hideo Ishihara (1925 - 1999). The title of this set is "Mitinoku Okako" or "Parent and Child". Hideo Ishihara came from a fam...
Category

1970s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Dan Mask Max Granick Provenance
By Dan People
Located in Sharon, CT
Purchased from the estate of Max Granick. Granick had a frame shop on 56st and in addition to being one of the great framers of midcentury NY was a partner with John Graham offering ...
Category

Early 20th Century Liberian Tribal USA - Folk Art

Materials

Aluminum

Dan Mask Max Granick Provenance
Dan Mask Max Granick Provenance
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Green Painted Pennsylvania Hanging Pie Safe, ca 1850-1880
Located in York County, PA
Pennsylvania hanging pie safe, in first surface green paint, with circular medallion and opposing fan decoration, circa 1850-1880 Pennsylvania hang...
Category

Mid-19th Century American Antique USA - Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging sumptuously glazed relatively large Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired bowl features a drip ...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern USA - Folk Art

Materials

Pottery, Stoneware

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