Decorative Art on Sale

Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945) a superb quality oil on canvas titled "Spring Love" depicting a standing young maiden holding a wicker basket filled with fresh flower as she is bei...

This antique print depicts traditional summer and winter dwellings of the indigenous peoples of Kamchatka, Russia. The engraving shows a group of thatched structures set against a mo...

Golden wall plaque made after the model that decorates the facade of the revue theater “Folies Bergère” in Paris. This meter-high relief dates from 1926, by the French architect and ...

Bedside depicting the Madonna, bas-relief on a 925 thousandth silver plate (the most valuable), made with artisanal procedures. Italy, 1990. Wooden frame.

Silver colored wall plaque made after the model that decorates the facade of the revue theater “Folies Bergère” in Paris. This meter-high relief dates from 1926, by the French archit...

Circa 19th century cast iron medallion / wall plaque depicting a portrait of King Charles IV of Spain and his family. The group portrait shows King Charles IV, Queen Maria Luisa of P...

Antique print titled 'De Kessel (moderne)'. Coats of arms / family crest of the 'De Kessel' family. This print originates from 'Complement au nobiliaire des Pays-Bas et du comte de B...

Antique print titled 'Nice, vue prise de la hauteur de l'ancien Château'. Original antique print of the city of Nice, France. This print originates from 'Nice Et Savoie, Sites Pittor...

Decorative ceramic tile by Antoni Gaudi, inspired by the marigold and dianthus motifs on the decorative ceramic tiles he designed for the facade of Casa Vicens, which constitute some...

Set of eight antique mycology prints depicting various fungi / mushrooms. These prints originate from 'Flore mycologique illustrée: les champignons des Alpes-Maritimes' by J.B. Barla.

A gorgeous vintage Neoclassical style wall plate from Mont Saint Michel featuring stylized dolphins, birds, swags, and a center crest France, Circa 1960s Measures: 10"W x .75"D x 1...

Untitled print, Section IV, plate IV. This chromolithograph depicts a beautiful Japanese box. Detailed information about this print is available on request. This print originates ...

Resin Relief "La Danse" by Maurice Picot Bring the timeless elegance and artistic flair of the renowned French revue theater Folies Bergère into your home with this exquisite reprod...

An 18th century Italian Venetian-style wall mirror with original silvered patina.

Antique costume print titled 'Kranzjungfer (Schäppelmeiggi) aus Montafun, Voralberg'. Old print showing a woman in winter costume from Montafon. This print originates from 'Blätter f...

Set of six antique mycology prints depicting various fungi / mushrooms. These prints originate from 'Flore mycologique illustrée: les champignons des Alpes-Maritimes' by J.B. Barla.

Introducing our exquisite Suzani Hand Embroidered 100% Silk Wall Hanging, a captivating piece that seamlessly blends artistry and functionality. This stunning decor item doubles as b...

Antique print titled 'Nice, Nizza'. View of the city of Nice, France. This print originates from 'Italy, Classical, Historical and Picturesque' by Camillo Mapei. Artists and Engra...

Antique print titled 'Larus Marinus'. The great black-backed gull (Larus marinus), mistakenly called greater black-backed gull by some, is the largest member of the gull family. It b...

A fine oil on canvas painting in the manner of Georges Roualt's "le Vieux Roi or The Old King". This painting is marked on the back indicating that ...

Set of six original antique mycology prints. It shows many mushrooms and other fungus. These prints originate from 'Cryptogamen-Flora, Enthaltung die Abbildung und Beschreibung Vorzü...

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 Chinese Art deco rug, Room size, circa 1920 A one-of-a-kind antique Chinese Art deco oriental carpet, hand-knotted with medium thi...

Handmade Vintage from the 1960s Materials: wool, cotton Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments. Width: 13 inches Height: 17 inches ...

Architectural Capriccio of Roman Ancient Ruins with Figures. Italian, 18th century large painting in oil on canvas is from the school of Giovan...

A large French 19th century oil on canvas (laid down on a masonite) "Les progrès de l'amour dans le cœur d'une jeune fille" The Progress of Love: The Lover Crowned, after Jean-Honoré...

Finely worked in colored woolens and depicting hunters and two lovers, signed: 'J.V.D.VELDE' Date; c. 1950-70's A charming tapestry in very good condition and representative o...

A very large and impressive vintage pair of Maitland Smith hand painted art panels featuring a French Neoclassical / Renaissance eglomise style mo...

Antique print titled 'Die Schachspieler - Les Joueurs Déchecs - The Chess Club - Schaakspeler'. Original antique print of a chess game. Lithograph after Johann Peter Hasenclever...

Antique print titled 'Rough-Coated Collie'. Dog print of a rough collie. Originates from the 'Kennel Gazette'. Published circa 1890.

ABOUT An original rare Gay Olympic Games poster with "olympic" in the title. Unframed. CREATOR Designed and Illustrated by Robert Kalthoff. Printed ...

Exquisite and colorful original oil on canvas painting by 20th century French painter, Joan Mayor, from the 1940s, depicts a ravishing woman or pin-up girl ...

Antique print titled 'XVIIIth Century - XVIIIe Siecle - XVIIItes Jahrhundert'. Chromolithograph of XVIIIth Century ornaments and decorative arts. This print originates from 'l'Orneme...

Bjorn Wiinblad, Danish artist, has created this beautiful series for German art glass & porcelain makers Rosenthal for their Studio-Line art edition. This plate is the 1979 edition, ...

Antique bird print titled '1. Black-crested or green cardinal. 2. Red-crested cardinal. 3. Cardinal grosbeak or virginian nightinggale.' Old bird print depicting the black-crested or...

Beautiful tile mural with the "COWS" motif finely painted. Quantity: 32 tiles Tile mural size: 23.6"H X 47.2"W (60cm X 120cm) Tile size: 5.9"H X 5.9"W (15cm X 15cm) Origin: Portuga...

Suzani, a Central Asian term for a specific type of needlework, is also the broader name for the hugely popular decorative pieces of textile that feature this needlework in vivid col...

Step into a realm of extraordinary beauty with this gemstone artwork, a homage to the masterpiece "Summer" by Alphonse Mucha, transformed by a breathtaking mosaic of precious stones....

Great decorative piece by Art Deco artist Erté (1892-1990) 20th century. 1985 Production. Signed lower right, numbered 184/300 lower left. An elegant female figure in silver with ad...

Beautiful tile mural with the "WINE PRESS" motif finely painted. Quantity: 104 tiles Tile mural size: 47.2"H X 76.7"W (120cm X 195cm) Tile size: 5.9"W X 5.9"H (15cm X 15cm) Origin:...

Beautiful tile mural with the "Flower Vase" motif finely painted. Quantity: 80 tiles Tile mural size: 59"H X 47.2"W (150cm X 120cm) Tile size: 5.9"H X 5.9"W (15cm X 15cm) Origin...

Antique print titled 'Nice Vue Générale'. View of the city of Nice, France. Source unknown, to be determined. Artists and Engravers: Lithographed by Villain. Published by Victor D...

Handmade Vintage from the 1960s Materials: wool, cotton Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments. Width: 13 inches Height: 17 inches ...

Antique print titled 'XVIIIth Century - XVIIIe Siecle - XVIIItes et Jahrhundert'. Chromolithograph of XVIIIth Century ornaments and decorative arts. This print originates from 'l'Orn...

Sexy, large and impressive 1980s wall art attributed to Curtis Jere and made of brass, chrome and black metal sheets - as if bound together like a bow ...

Decorative hand-decorated vintage modern ceramic wall plate or centerpiece, designed by Italian artist Giovanni De Simone and produced by his workshop, note the worn manufacturer's ...

Wall Decoration with Marine Nautical Wall Plates, Terracotta, Ceramic, Glazed Set of four glazed ceramic wall plates with sailing ships and marine decorations, Spain, 1970s. Hand-painted terracotta wall...

Handmade Vintage from the 1960s Materials: wool, cotton Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments. Width: 13 inches Height: 17 inches ...

Antique print titled 'Eine Frau v. Chippaway im Winter'. Lithograph of an inhabitant of Chippewa. This print originates from 'Neuen Bildergalerie für die Jugend'. The Ojibwe, Oji...

Pair of antique hand carved walnut bas relief panels / wall plaques, showing Neoclassical female figures, one holding sheaves of wheat and the other ...

An eye catching classic Hermes silk scarf shown in an elegant custom gilt wood frame. Makes a graphic luxurious piece of art. The scarf is...

Antique print titled 'Mambrino bred by Lord Grosvenor'. Antique print of Mambrino, grey thoroughbred racehorse, foaled in 1768, bred by John Atkinson of Scholes at whose death became the property of Richard Grosvenor...

Antique bird print titled 'Tringa Maritima'. Old bird print depicting the Purple Sandpiper. This print originates from 'Svenska Foglar Efter Naturen O...

Hammered copper wall relief by W.R.E., 1969. This undulating artwork has a nice hammered texture and patina. Framed in rustic wood frame. Signed and...

Huge 17th C. Regal Flemish baroque Historical tapestry Royal court Antique LA CA . The period followed Renaissance and preceded Rococo and Neoclassical styles. The movement exuberant...

Antique costume print titled 'Perse - Homme du Peuple'. Original antique print of a Persian man. This print originates from 'Moeurs, usages et costumes de ...

American painting, Hudson river school, Oil on canvas.

Antique print titled 'Scolopax, Arquata, Numenius'. The Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata) is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae. It is one of the most widespread of the curlew...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...

Antique print titled 'Tracht der Indianer von Mechoacon' Original antique steel engraving showing the costumes of natives of Michoacan, Mexico...