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Mid-century pottery table lamp by Mobach, The Netherlands. Beautiful large pottery table lamp made in the middle of the last century by th...

This is a wonderful pair of gilt neoclassic style footed lamps with graceful sculpted acanthus leaves and slim articulated legs that terminate in padded feet. The set are urn form wi...

Abstracted landscape by an unknown artist (20th Century). The landscape is made up of patches of color, reminiscent of viewing agricultural land f...

Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...

CHRISTOFFEL LUBIENIECKI (1659-1729) Pair of portraits of a gentleman and a lady, both in silk kimono, before a country house (circa 1680) Indistinctly signed “C.......” on a box under the man’s left hand Oil on canvas, 79.5 x 67 cm each Both sitters are portrayed wearing a silk “Japanese” coat. During the second half of the seventeenth the Japanese silk coat, an adapted Japanese kimono, became a real vogue in the Dutch elite. The exclusive Dutch trade contacts with Japan can explain the popularity of the kimono-style silk coats in the Netherlands. Everybody who could afford one, dressed in such a fashionable and comfortable coat and, like the present sitters, some proud owners had themselves portrayed in a “Japanese” coat often together with an oriental carpet to underline their standing and international connections. These portraits are the work of the Polish-born portraitist Christoffel Lubieniecki (also known as Lubienitski, Lubinitski or Lubiniecki) Lubieniecki was first trained in Hamburg under Julian Stuhr and after 1675 in Amsterdam under Adriaen Backer and Gerard de Lairesse. He specialized in landscapes, generally of an Italianate character, and in portraits. The loving execution of these contented burghers, enjoying the garden vistas of their country house, places him alongside Amsterdam portraitists such as Constantijn Netscher and Michiel van Musscher...

John Devoluy (1903-1982) Man with a yellow rose, 1950 c. Oil on canvas 28 3/4 x 24 inches l 73 x 61 cm With frame: 30 3/4 x 26 inches l 78 x 66 cm John Devoluy was born in 1903 and ...

RARE PAUL FRANKL! MID CENTURY BAMBOO TABLE LAMP BURLAP SHADE MID CENTURY PANACHE! Dimensions: 28" TALL 18" WIDE 18" DEEP This striking bamboo wicker table lamp is warm and inv...

William Sartain (Philadelphia, 1843 - 1924, New York) Summer Mist, circa 1880 Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm 55 x 63 cm with frame Signed lower right and titled on the reverse "Summer Mist...

Marine scene from the deck of a Maine estate (Foxhill). William Beebe considers himself a Creative Realist, using touches of impressionism to go beyond representation. This particula...

Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...

A pair of English new Classical Greek style Empire revival with small brass handles in the form of swans with gilt decoration mounted on 13.5cm shade wooden pedestal bases with a brass design base holder. Complete with original pleated lamp...