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Item Ships From: USA
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Luyanda Zindela - “The first time I felt at home in this city was when.."
Located in Capetown, ZA
Forming part of Luyanda Zindela’s ongoing series, Abangani bami / Izithombe zami (My friends / Images of me), these new works chronicle ordinary, intimate moments between the artist ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary African USA - Folk Art
Materials
Acrylic, Pine
Antique Persian Baluch Bagface, Late 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Persian Baluch Bagface Rug, Late 19th Century
Additional information:
Dimension: 2'9" W x 3'0" L
Origin: Persia
Period: Late 19th Century
Condition: Good condition with a s...
Category
Late 19th Century Persian Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Antique Persian Afshar Bagface, c. 1900
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Persian Afshar Bagface Bag, c. 1900
This highly graphic Afshar bag face draws a large central indigo-blue hexagon against a complimentary contrasting terra cotta field. Both...
Category
19th Century Persian Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Red Afshar Sumak Salt Bag, Late 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Red Afshar Sumak Salt Bag, Late 19th Century
A central white diamond is highlighted in white cotton on this Afshar salt bag. Throughout the field, geometric scarab-like elements ar...
Category
Late 19th Century Persian Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
George Ohr (Potter) "Bag Shaped" ceramic Savings Coin Bank Circa 1885
By George Ohr
Located in Incline Village, NV
Very rare item by famous and world renowned, avant garde "Mad Potter of Biloxi" George Ohr; known for creating many of his pieces with an abstract design, incorporating sexual and e...
Category
1880s American Victorian Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Clay
Patrick Bongoy - Desert Flower
Located in Capetown, ZA
In its usual form, rubber is inert and impermeable, absorbent of almost all light and colour. Patrick Bongoy’s studio operates like a factory in reverse, transforming stockpiles of t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary USA - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Double Sided Sign circa 1950
Located in Culver City, CA
Double Sided Sign
England circa 1950
Hand painted sign with ebonised frame.
25.5”w x 1.75”d x 16.5”h
Category
1950s English Modern Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Unusual Primitive 19th Century Swedish Chair
Located in Mjöhult, SE
Unusual primitive and sculptural early 19th century Swedish / Scandinavian folk art chair. Ca 1800 Sweden.
Category
Early 19th Century Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Pine
Rare Gold Ashanti Royal Bracelet from Jacaranda Tribal
Located in New York, NY
This magnificent gold bracelet was made for Ashanti royalty.
The Ashanti Kingdom's wealth was significantly based on gold-mining and trading in gold, as well as agriculture. The ki...
Category
Early 20th Century Ghanaian USA - Folk Art
Materials
Gold
British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship at Sea
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship at Sea,
Circa 1870
The sailor's woolwork or woolie depicts a port side view of the Royal Navy frigate under full sail and flying the Whi...
Category
1870s English Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Two Polychrome Roosters
Located in Greenwich, CT
A pair of Chinese export glazed ceramic roosters with polychrome plumage in pinks, greens and orange with and striking red crowns and wattles, perched on weathered green striated tre...
Category
Early 1900s English Chinese Export Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Relief Carved and Painted Frigate
Located in Greenwich, CT
A rare relief carved and painted sailing ship on heavy board depicting a three-masted 26 gun third-class US naval frigate under partially reefed sail nearing a point of land with a l...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Miniature Model Wooden Canoe, American Circa 1950's
Located in Incline Village, NV
While this model canoe might have been used as a salesman sample, whereby merchants, carried it from town to town to encourage sales, it was more than likely used as a demonstration ...
Category
1950s Folk Art Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
19thC Nautical Six Spoke Solid Brass Yacht Steering Wheel. American, Circa 1870
Located in Incline Village, NV
This 19th century American solid brass ship steering wheel was, more than likely, from a yacht. Fishing and commercial boats were more inclin...
Category
1870s American Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Brass
British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship at Sea
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship at Sea,
Circa 1870
The sailor's woolwork or woolie depicts a port side view of the Royal Navy frigate under full sail and flying the Whi...
Category
1860s English Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Very Rare Large Victorian Hand Carved Salesman Sample Skiff Boat American C 1865
Located in Incline Village, NV
Very rare large size salesman sample skiff boat, circa 1865; hand carved out of a single piece of wood (perhaps maple) with Victorian period black print stenciling to the side in inc...
Category
1860s American Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Battleship Coming Into Port
Located in Downingtown, PA
Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Second Rate Battleship Coming into Port,
Circa 1865
The British sailor's woolwork has a dramatic view of a Royal Navy Second Rate Battleship coming i...
Category
1860s English Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Sheep Sculpture, Italy circa 1840
Located in Culver City, CA
Italy circa 1840
Weathered marble sculpture of a sheep on a pedestal.
13”w x 6”d x 11”h
Category
1840s Italian Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Stone, Marble
Kozak Saddlebags
Located in New York, NY
An old tribal bag, originally meant to be carried over the shoulder or the back of a donkey. A very nice example with lots of details.
Can be used in a variety of ways - wall hangin...
Category
1960s Turkish Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Brocade, Goat Hair, Wool
Torcida by Elena Rakochy
Located in Chicago, IL
Torcida by Elena Rakochy , Glazed Stoneware
Composed of Rounded, Flat and Hexagonal shaped elements juxtaposed with some twisted portions for a dynamic contrast.
Artist Bio and State...
Category
Early 2000s American USA - Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Katlego Tlabela - Blue Magic VI: Study
Located in Capetown, ZA
In Katlego Tlabela’s imagined and familiar paintings of domestic settings, he responds to South Africa’s persisting economic inequality with bolstered visual fantasies of self-determ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary USA - Folk Art
Materials
Other
Antique Leggings 1880s Southern Arapaho Plains Native American Hide Fringe Beads
By Native American Art
Located in Denver, CO
Museum quality Southern Arapaho (Hinono’ei) Native American Plains Indian leggings circa 1880s. Constructed of dyed native tanned hide with viridian green dye and ochre yellow embel...
Category
Late 19th Century American Native American Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Hide, Beads
Ayotunde Ojo - Reclining
Located in Capetown, ZA
Ayotunde Ojo’s presented works chronicle intimate, domestic snapshots of the every day. Working largely in the mode of self-portraiture, Ojo renders the body in moments of respite an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary African USA - Folk Art
Materials
Acrylic, Paint
Tony Gum - Cheese I
Located in Capetown, ZA
Forming part of the artist’s ground-breaking 2016 Milked In Africa series, Tony Gum’s featured portraits negotiate and interrogate the historical and ongoing commodification of Afric...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary USA - Folk Art
Materials
Other
Katlego Tlabela - Sundays Are For Lovers V
Located in Capetown, ZA
In Katlego Tlabela’s imagined and familiar paintings of domestic settings, he responds to South Africa’s persisting economic inequality with bolstered visual fantasies of self-determ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary USA - Folk Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Tony Gum - Milk Bags I
Located in Capetown, ZA
Forming part of the artist’s ground-breaking 2016 Milked In Africa series, Tony Gum’s featured portraits negotiate and interrogate the historical and ongoing commodification of Afric...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary USA - Folk Art
Materials
Other
Luyanda Zindela - Friday Evening
Located in Capetown, ZA
Zindela’s self-representation is both sentimentally personal and political, where Black kinship and being is captured as a form of resistance. “We are gradually refusing to present o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary USA - Folk Art
Materials
Acrylic, Pine
Double Sailor's Valentine of Sea Shells and Motto "Ever Thine"
Located in Downingtown, PA
Double Sailor's Valentine of Sea Shells and Motto "Ever Thine",
Barbados, West Indies,
Circa 1885
A double sailor's valentine with Spanish Cedar box...
Category
Early 20th Century Bajan Folk Art USA - Folk Art
Materials
Shell
Centre County Pennsylvania Blanket Chest with Salmon and Black Floral Decoration
Located in York County, PA
PAINTED, CENTRE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA BLANKET CHEST IN SALMON AND BLACK WITH FLORAL DECORATION, 3 DRAWERS, AND APPLIED, SPLAY FEET, circa 1815-1825
S...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Backgammon Set, Italy circa 1940
Located in Culver City, CA
Backgammon Set
Italy circa 1940
CLOSED: 22.75”w x 13.5”d x 5”h OPEN: 27”w x 22.5”d x 2.25”h
Category
20th Century Italian USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Grasshopper
Located in Greenwich, CT
A grasshopper weathervane with body of pitted iron rotating on vertical rod with N E W S directionals below, now on wooden box stand with one side removable. The grasshopper was the ...
Category
1930s English Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Totem Pole, "Shark Mother" Northwest Coast Carved Wood by Duane Pasco
By Duane Pasco
Located in Denver, CO
Totem Pole, carved wood, titled Shark Mother by Duane Pasco, vintage Northwest Coast art, circa 1965-1975. The design echoes a traditional Northwest Coast House Post, imagery includes a stylized Dogfish Shark (Squalidae) with a fetus in the womb - this alludes to the traditional Dogfish totem and the continuity of it's clan. Measure: 8' height.
Duane Pasco grew up in Alaska and Seattle, Washington. He began carving Northwest Coast Native...
Category
1960s American Native American Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
48 Star Antique American Flag, with Hand-Crocheted Stars, ca 1917-1918
Located in York County, PA
48 STARFISH-LIKE, NEEDLEWORK EXECUTED STARS ON A HAND-CROCHETED ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG FROM THE EARLIEST PART OF THE 48 STAR ERA, 1912-WWI (U.S. INVOLVEMENT 1917-18) OR EVEN PRIOR TO ...
Category
Early 20th Century American USA - Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
Small Moroccan "Boucherouite" or Azilal Rug
Located in New York, NY
Small Moroccan "Boucherouite" or Azilal rug. A Moroccan rag rug, woven with cut-up pieces of fabric from old clothes, etc. - boucherouite means rag or t...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal USA - Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship,
The sailor's woolwork or woolie depicts a starboard view of a Second-Rate Royal Navy Ship with three masts. T...
Category
1870s English Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Late 19th Century Flat Bottom Toy Noah's Ark with 34 Figures. German Circa 1880
Located in Incline Village, NV
Offered for sale is a very traditional Folk Art item; a handcrafted Noah's Ark toy with 34 hand-painted and hand-carved animals (includes Noah and Naamah). The flat bottom ark indica...
Category
1880s German Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
British Sailor's Naive Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship H.M.S. St George
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship H.M.S. St George,
Circa 1860
A naive sailor's woolie with a Portside view of the H.M.S St. George, named below on a red banner, th...
Category
Mid-19th Century Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Vintage Pueblo Native American Old Pawn Ingot Silver Bracelet, Turquoise c. 1915
By Native American Art
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage Southwestern Native American Pueblo Old Pawn cuff bracelet, circa 1915. Stamped ingot silver with a turquoise cabochon. The inner bracelet circumference measures approximatel...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American USA - Folk Art
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Silver
19th Century Swedish Folk Art Root Wood Bowl
Located in Mjöhult, SE
Fine organic Mid-19th Century Swedish Folk Art root wood bowl, circa 1820.
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
San Francisco Trolley Toy Friction Car. Japan, circa 1950s
Located in Incline Village, NV
San Francisco trolley toy Friction cable car; made of all tin; important to note because this was the first of it's kind having been made in the 1950s. They were all tin (no plastic); 7 1/4" long (not shorter); green (not red or multi-clored); "Bay and Taylor St" placard; #504" and most importantly the figures are actual FIGURES made of formed pressed steel and then hand painted and lithographed. Cheaper later models were simply lithographed into the flat sheet steel. Also, my example works (see video). It is a friction toy...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Folk Art USA - Folk Art
Materials
Tin
Antique Beaded Child's Dress & Leggings, Sioux (Plains Indian) circa 1900, blue
Located in Denver, CO
Sioux child's dress with matching leggings. Created by hand with native tanned hide and beaded with glass trade beads in blue, white, red, pink and green. Pictorial design elements i...
Category
Late 19th Century American Native American Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Hide, Beads
British Sailor's Large Woolwork Woolie of a Sailing Ship
Located in Katonah, NY
This large 19th century sailor's Woolie of a British line-of-battle ship, circa 1840is
is hand embroidered with woolen yarn. It depicts a British naval ship under full sail with can...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Texas Centennial Exposition Pennant, ca 1936
Located in York County, PA
TEXAS CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION PENNANT, CELEBRATING 100-YEARS OF TEXAS INDEPENDENCE FROM MEXICO AND ITS ESTABLISHMENT AS AN INDEPENDENT NATION
While most states celebrate anniversaries of statehood, Texas and Hawaii are the only two that previously existed as independent nations. Spain claimed ownership of a significant portion of modern-day Texas in 1519, as an extension of Mexico. France claimed ownership for a 5-year period, from 1685-1690, returning to Spanish rule thereafter. In 1821, Mexico declared its independence, taking Texas with it, maintaining control until 1836, when it became the Republic of Texas, declaring its own independence, following the Texas Revolution...
Category
1930s American Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Felt
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
Early 19th Century American Double Sided Games Board
Located in Incline Village, NV
Very early American wooden games board; probably the oldest I have handled, this dates to about circa 1835 and exhibits the markings of a typical cottage industry type manufacture (not unlike very early Noah's Arks). Obviously entirely hand crafted; measurements are not exactly square (left to right; top to bottom), probably made of a local soft wood, and hand painted with squares not perfectly delineated. Black light and "loop" inspection reveals age crazing and original paint that, in conjunction with original wear and no attempt to touch up, dates it to the early 19th century. Most definitely American, as the last thing an English immigrant would have brought to America at that time would have been a game.
When closed, or in the folding position, the board game simulates and is made to look like two books resting side by side (see images), and thusly, was made to sit on a book shelf, either horizontally or vertically; and to be pulled out to play games when desired, which would have been either the game of checkers (draughts), chess, or backgammon. The board opens up to a two sided game option. On one side is the proverbial 64 square (English/ American version) of chess or checkers; and on the other side is a backgammon board. Both sides are hand painted in gold and black, with a rust colored border around the checkerboard. The interior backgammon play area is also black and gold with the same color rust area to the central part. Nail hinges in the center frame, pivot the two sides to open, while a leather covering borders the edge trim, which is 50% lacking on the hinge side. I state the condition to be good, considering it's age, it's use, and the fact that it is still very "usable" and, if taken care of, will probably continue to be so for nearly another 200 years!
The checkers, (12) black pieces and (12) yellow (the correct numbers) are hand carved in wood and hand painted. The backgammon pieces (stored in period wooden box) contain 14 yellow hand painted and carved pieces and (13) black ones. (15) of each color are used to play backgammon (simply use the checkers, which are just about the same size (see images) to make up the difference. Most antique game boards...
Category
1830s American Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Mid-century Modern Articulated Wood Artist Hand Model
Located in Downingtown, PA
Articulated Wood Artist Hand Model,
1950s-1970
The beautifully carved light wood hand is articulated at the wrist and the base of each finger while the forefinger and thumb are also...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Folk Art USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
English Sailor's Woolwork of a Second Rate Battleship with White Ensign
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Sailor's Woolwork of a Battleship,
Circa 1865-75.
The sailor's woolie depicts a starboard side view of a second rate battleship flying the White ensign under sail. White se...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Equestrian Circus Poster by Ringling Bros Ca. 1971 Featuring "Miss Helen Girard"
Located in Incline Village, NV
There is a lot going on in this equestrian themed, bright and colorful circus poster portraying famous early 20th century circus performer "Miss Helen Girard". She is in a horse draw...
Category
1970s American Folk Art Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Antique Hand Painted Portrait Young Girl England C-1840
Located in Katonah, NY
This lovely portrait of young Mary Jane Cotteril was made in England circa 1840. Her pose is straightforward, and her hair, styled in elegant ringlets, frames her youthful face, addi...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Paper
Mid-century Modern Articulated Wood Artist Hand Model
Located in Downingtown, PA
Articulated Wood Artist Hand Model,
1950s
The carved light wood hand is articulated at the wrist and the base of each finger while the forefinger and thumb are also articulated at t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Belgian Folk Art USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Antique Navajo Rug, Early 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Handwoven Navajo Rug, Early 20th Century
Additional Information:
Dimensions: 6'3" W x 10'10" L
Origin: North America
Period: Early 20th Century
Rug ID: 05734
Category
Early 20th Century American USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Antique Greek Pair of Silk/Metal Thread Embroideries, 18th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Greek Pair Silk/Metal Thread Embroideries, 18th Century
Additional Information:
Dimensions: 0'11" L x 0'6" W
Origin: Greece
Period: 18th Cen...
Category
18th Century Greek Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Teec Nos Pos Navajo Rug by Ruth Yabeny, 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Teec Nos Pos Navajo Rug by Ruth Yabeny, 20th Century
By most accounts, the Navajo are the most prolific Native American weavers. While the indigenous peoples...
Category
20th Century American USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Antique Persian Shahsevan Sumak Bagface, 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Shahsevan Sumak Bagface, 19th Century
Against a deep modulated indigo ground, rows of delicate flowering shrubs are elegantly drawn in the field of this Northwest Persian su...
Category
19th Century Persian Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Large Italian Painting of a Merchant Ship "The Venetian Workers' Society Offers"
Located in Katonah, NY
A unique work of art, this charming painting was hand painted in Italy in the mid-19th century.
Created to promote The Venetian Workers' Society, this large hand-painted oil paintin...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Folk Art Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Glass, Wood
Antique Bakhtiari Sumak Bagface, 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Persia Bakhtiari Sumak Bagface, 19th Century
Flat woven bags executed in various sumak techniques were crucial items for Persian and Caucasian nomads as they traveled with t...
Category
19th Century Persian Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Antique Persian Shahsevan Sumak Bagface, 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Persian Shahsevan Sumak Bagface, 19th Century
Using a saturated and subtly modulated medium-blue ground this large Shahsevan sumak bag face draws a creative reinterpretation...
Category
19th Century Persian Antique USA - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Vintage Child's Toy Tin Large Spinning Top by Chein Company, American, Ca. 1950
By J. Chein & Co.
Located in Incline Village, NV
Highly colorful and completely operational hard to find LARGE tin child's toy spinning top made by the J. Chein Company, Harrison, New Jersey, Circa 1950. It works great and is in co...
Category
1950s American Folk Art Vintage USA - Folk Art
Materials
Tin
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