Decorative Art on Sale

Antique print titled 'Cheval Navarin'. The Cheval Navarrin, also called Navarin, Navarrois, Tarbais, Tarbésan or Bigourdin, is an extinct breed of light saddle-horse from south-weste...

Antique bird print of various birds including the lark, winter wren, goldcrest, yellow wagtail and white wagtail. This print originates from 'De Vogelwerel...

This original antique print shows aphid and other insects. Originates from Bertuch's 'Bilderbuch für Kinder'. In 1790 Friedrich Justin Bertuch started his biggest book-project eve...

Antique costume print titled 'Girl from the neighbourhood of Mons'. Old costume print depicting a Girl from the neighbourhood of Mons, Bergen, Belgium. This print originates from 'Th...

Antique print titled 'Physeter'. Physeter is a genus of toothed whales. There is only one living species in this genus: the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus...

Set of two handcoloured stipple engravings of illustrations by George Brookshaw. It shows Peach varieties Chancellor, blossom, Catherine and Old Newington and Peach varieties Duke of...

Moses and the bronze serpent depicted in low relief carving in Italian Marmo Ross di Verona. Handcrafted replica of a Tau Cross XIII century artifac...

Simple and elegant antique friezes in gilded wood, to hang on the wall next to some photos, or under some anonymous lamp: to enrich it. Or simply...

Antique print titled 'Bewohner von der insel Timor, Habitans de l'isle Timor'. This print depicts natives from Timor, Indonesia. Originates from 'Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des ...

Original antique bird print of a lesser spotted woodpecker. This print originates from "A History of British Birds", by The Rev. F. O. Morris B.A. Published circa 1880. Thin passep...

Antique print titled 'Das Kloster'. Lithograph, on chine collé, depicting travellers halting at a convent. Artists and Engravers: Published after a painting by P. Wouwerman. C...

Antique Indian Agra Oriental Rug, size 9'4" H x 7'8" An antique Indian Agra Oriental Rug, size 9'4" H x 7'8" W, in Room size, circa 1890. This fine floral wool rug features a centr...

Antique lithograph of Christiansborg Slot, Denmark. Published by Baerentzen & Co, c. 1850.

Antique print of the state carriage of George III. This print originates from 'The Costume of Great Britain' by William Henry Pyne. Artists and ...

Large antique print with two religious engravings. The upper image depicts Joseph interpreting Pharaoh's dream. The lower image depicts the Nativity of Christ. This print originates from a work illustrating the complete series of Vatican frescos painted...

Antique print titled 'The Knife-Grinder of Teniers'. Old print of knife sharpening. This print originates from 'One Hundred and Fifty Wood Cuts selected from the Penny Magazine'. Ar...

Sprawling green meadows, crystalline waters, and classical architecture define this set of sumptuous nineteenth-century oil paintings, hailing from Italy. Comparable in size and styl...

Antique print titled 'Cattleya Trianae Superba'. Cattleya trianae, also known as Flor de Mayo ("May flower") or "Christmas orchid", is a plant of the family Orchidaceae. It grows a...

Long rare Italian frieze in gilded wood, like a stylized flower with leaves. Perfect on wall: if You hang a fabric fan on it, it can also be an a...

This original antique print shows three animals: Caribou or Reindeer. One is white. They live in Scandinavia, Greenland en the north of Russia, Alaska and Canada. Originates from ...

Large lithograph on chine collé of William II of Württemberg. William II was the last King of Württemberg. He ruled from 6 October 1891 until the dissolution of the kingdom on 30 Nov...

Antique print of plum varieties titled 'Monsieur - Impériale violette'. This print originates from 'Le Jardin fruitier, contenant l'histoire, la description, la culture et les usages...

Antique print titled 'Cattle Viehstück'. Original antique print of a woman with a dog and cattle. Engraved by T. Heawood after H. Roos. Published by A.H. Payne, circa 1850.

A fine and large French 19th century oil on canvas "Mother and Child Crossing a Creek" by Alexandre Jacques Chantron (French 1842-1918). The impressive and finely executed artwork depicting a young joyous mother holding her child...

This print originates from Anton Seder’s The Plant in Art and Trade, published in 1890 by Gerlach & Schenk, in Vienna. The designs Seder produced for The P...

Antique print titled 'Capra Aegagrus, le Paseng ou Bouc Sauvage'. Original antique print of a wild goat. This print originates from 'Illustrations de La Ménagerie du Muséum National ...

Handcolored botanical illustration drawn by G. Reid and engraved on steel by Weddell from John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill's "Medical Botany: ...

A Glimpse into French Romanticism: 19th-Century Oil Painting This captivating oil on canvas painting captures the essence of the French Romantic movement in the late 19th century. ...

Vintage Art, possibly circa 1850s. Dimensions. 22 1/2 W ; 1 D ; 22 1/2 H.

Original antique print of Hindu (Brahman) weapons. This print originates from 'Costume Antico e Moderno: Palestine, China, India, Oceania' by Ferrario. Published 1831.

Presenting an exceptional pair of early 19th-century Spanish military shoulder epaulettes, a testament to the artistry and opulence of the era. Crafted from meticulously tooled gold...

Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw. It shows Apple varieties, Malus domestica: Pomme d'Api, Padly's Pippin and Bigg's Nonsuch. This print originate...

Antique print titled 'Gentleman Commoner'. Portrait of a gentleman-commoner, made after a drawing by Thomas Uwins. This print originates from 'Ackermann's History of Oxford and Histo...

Antique lithograph of Thorvaldsens Museum, Denmark. Published by Baerentzen & Co, circa 1850.

Drawing framed, dated and signed.

Antique primitive watercolor and pencil portrait of a young boy in brown, holding a whip from the early part of the 19th century, circa 1830s; displayed in a birdseye maple wood fram...

Giltwood Framed Limoges Enamel after François Boucher 'The Bird Catchers' France, Circa 1880s Framed in an elaborate hand carved pierced and giltwood t...

Antique Indian Agra oriental rug, size 9'4" H x 8'0" An antique Indian Agra oriental rug, size 9'4" H x 8'0" W, in Room size, circa 1890. This fine floral wool rug features a cent...

A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame (all high quality gilt is original) which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting, circa 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm).   Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

Antique print titled 'Pigeons'. Print of pigeons. This print originates from 'Musée d'Histoire Naturelle' by M. Achille Comte. Artists and Engravers: Published by Gustave Havard. ...

Antique print titled 'Zomer- en Winter-Wooningen te Kamtschatka'. Antique print depicting summer and winter houses in Kamchatka, Russia. Originates from 'Reizen Rondom de Waereld doo...

This is a 19th century scene of a wild sea with a boat by the painter Emmanuel Joseph Lauret (1809-1882). A landscape artist of the 19th century...

Antique Indian Lahore Oriental Rug, size 12'2" H x 9'0" W An antique Indian Lahore Oriental Rug, size 12'2" H x 9'0" W, in Room size, circa 1890. This fine floral wool rug features...

Antique 19th century painting on silk depicting a Ming Dynasty Chinese emperor. Beautifully executed with great details. Hand-painted o...

Set of four antique prints depicting various ornaments. This set includes ornaments of the Antiquity, Renaissance, Middle Ages, 17th century, 18th century and Asia. Originating from ...

Antique Indian amritsar rug, Small size, circa 1890 A one-of-a-kind antique Indian Amritsar Oriental Carpet, hand-knotted with soft wool pile. This gorgeous carpet features a cent...

Antique print titled 'Vue du Fort Hollandais'. Lithograph of a Dutch fortress in Manado Bay. It shows various ships, including a rowing boat of Europeans under the Dutch flag, in Man...

Antique print titled 'Appareils de l'Olfaction, du Goût et de la Voix'. Color lithograph of human senses with superimposed flap. This print originates from 'Le Corps Humain' by G.A. ...

Antique print titled 'Doctor in Physic'. Portrait of Sir Christopher Pegge, in full dress, made after a drawing by Thomas Uwins. This print originates from 'Ackermann's History of Ox...

Italian ebonized frame, tortoiseshell and engraved bone, 19th century. Measures: 52 x 41cm 39.5 x 29.5cm Very good conditions.

Possibly late 18th century but most likely 19th century painted arched painted panel. Either a panel intended for a trumeau or to be inset into wall boiserie as a trumeau. The upper ...

Antique botany print titled 'Cypripedium Calceolus'. Hand colored engraving of cypripedium calceolus, a ladies-slipper orchid, and the type species of the genus Cypripedium. It is na...

Antique costume print titled 'Paysanne de Dachau'. Old print depicting a peasant woman from Dachau, Germany. This print originates from 'Costumes Moderne (Musée de Costumes). Art...

A pair of diminutive mahogany and satinwood inlaid framed panels. The wood panels with inlays of kings wood, tulip wood and satin wood with floral and in...

Antique costume print titled 'Mädchen von Orleans - Jeanne D'Ark. surnommée la Pucelle d'Orleans. 1430'. This print depicts Joan of Arc. Originates from a rare costume book titled 'Sammlung von Trachten bey verschiedenen ältern und neuern Völkern (..)'. Joan of Arc, a peasant girl living in medieval France, believed that God had chosen her to lead France to victory in its long-running war with England. With no military training, Joan convinced the embattled crown prince Charles of Valois to allow her to lead a French army to the besieged city of Orléans, where it achieved a momentous victory over the English and their French allies, the Burgundians. After seeing the prince crowned...

Antique print titled 'Plate DVIII Stenography'. Old print depicting various letters including Fabicius' reply to Pyrrhus and St. Paul's speech. This print originates from 'Encycloped...

Antique Indian Agra oriental rug, size 13'4"" H x 10'7"". An antique Indian Agra oriental rug, size 13'4"" H x 10'7"" W, in room size, circa 1890. This fine floral wool rug featur...

Antique botany print of Eucomis Comosa, also known as pineapple flower, pineapple lily or wine eucomis. This print originates from 'Curtis's botanical magazine'. Artists and Engr...