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Japanese Four-Panel Screen Four Fusuma
Sliding Doors
with Venerable Plum
Located in Hudson, NY
: Sekibi. Calligraphy is abstract prose about the nature and changing seasons. Partial translation, "Heaven
Category
Early 1800s Japanese Edo Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Bronze
Pair of 19th Century Mixed Metal Persian Islamic
Khorasan
Bird Incense Burners
Located in New York, NY
script used in Islamic calligraphy, is also prominently featured on the surface of the burners along with
Category
19th Century Persian Islamic Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Silver, Bronze
Pair of 19th Century Mixed Metal Persian Islamic
Khorasan
Bird Incense Burners
Located in New York, NY
script used in Islamic calligraphy, is also prominently featured on the surface of the burners along with
Category
19th Century Persian Islamic Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Silver, Bronze
Chinese Antique "Dragon
Phoenix" Engraved Stone Box
Located in South Burlington, VT
dragon and phoenix, imperial symbols and on the center lid calligraphy likely describing the person(s
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Limestone
Antique Indonesian Hand Carved Blanket Chest with Polychrome Design and Wheels
Located in Yonkers, NY
, and calligraphy. The underglaze patina presents red, blue, green and mustard highlights that
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Wood
Antique Indonesian Hand Carved Blanket Chest with Polychrome Decor and Wheels
Located in Yonkers, NY
, and calligraphy. The underglaze patina presents red, blue, green and mustard highlights that
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Wood
19th Century China Trade Seascape with a Junk
one of three
Located in Nantucket, MA
finely detailed oil on panel seascape with junk under sail, red pennant flying from mast, calligraphy on
Category
1830s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Other
Important 18th Century Chinese Coromandel Lacquer Screen
Located in Montreal, QC
, flowers and animals.
The screen is signed with incised signature in Chinese calligraphy, the back is
Category
1750s Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Wood
Antique 19" Japanese Meiji Imari Gilt Porcelain Charger Six Immortal Poets 1890
Located in Portland, OR
impressive & unusual charger depicts six immortal poets or scribes set in a landscape surround by calligraphy
Category
1890s Japanese Meiji Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Glass Curio Cabinet, Bone Inlaid Two-Tier Ming Style
Located in Somis, CA
, written in black ink calligraphy, on the back interior panels. The versatile cabinet consists of two
Category
19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Brass
Rare Bubblegum Pink Silver Wire Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Iris Flower Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
in the same technique. Marked with an etched Calligraphic symbol, on the bottom. Circa: late 19th
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Antique French Hand-Painted Butchers Shop Sign, Vintage Boucherie Price List
Located in Bristol, GB
, black and red calligraphy on an off-white background. The metal holders for the prices are present as
Category
Early 20th Century French Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metal
Antique Japanese Woodblock - Watanabe Seitei Shotei woodcut Pigeons and Ston
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Seitei studied calligraphy and nature drawing. In 1875, he began to design export-bound craft objects for
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Paper
Late 19th Century Antique Gold Turkish Oushak Rug
By Thomas Eakins
Located in Dallas, TX
warmth and welcome informality. The golden earthy hues and intricate Islamic calligraphy woven into the
Category
Late 19th Century Rustic Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Wool
Chinese Early 20th Century Elmwood Altar Coffer with Foliage-Carved Spandrels
Located in Yonkers, NY
medallion. Adorned with remnants of paper and calligraphy on the inside, these doors open to reveal an inner
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Brass
Chinese Scholars
Poetry Table, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
space to draft poetry or calligraphy paintings. In order to cultivate uncluttered and inspiring
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Stone
George I Period Chinoiserie Tall Case Clock, England c. 1720
Located in Atlanta, GA
directly above the dial: "Thomas Wentworth" and in a bold calligraphic script: "Sarum".
Category
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Calligraphy
Ottoman / Turkish Pillow Cover in Sarma Technique, late 19th / Early 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs.
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Ottoman / Turkish Pillow Cover in Sarma Technique, late 19th / Early 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs.
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Ottoman / Turkish Pillow Cover in Sarma Technique, late 19th / Early 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs.
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Ottoman / Turkish Pillow Cover in Sarma Technique, late 19th / Early 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs.
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Ottoman / Turkish Pillow Cover in Sarma Technique, late 19th / Early 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs.
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Ottoman / Turkish Pillow Cover in Sarma Technique, late 19th / Early 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs.
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Pair of Syrian Hand-Carved Mirrors with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay, circa 1900
Located in Atlanta, GA
abundance of volutes and surmounting a cartouche with Arabic calligraphy. Creating a pyramidal effect, four
Category
Early 20th Century Syrian Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Mirror, Wood, Mother-of-Pearl
Ottoman / Turkish Pillow Cover in Sarma Technique, late 19th / Early 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs.
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Ottoman / Turkish Pillow Cover in Sarma Technique, late 19th / Early 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs.
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Ottoman / Turkish Pillow Cover in Sarma Technique, late 19th / Early 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs.
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Ottoman / Turkish Pillow Cover in Sarma Technique, late 19th / Early 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs.
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Ottoman / Turkish Pillow Cover in Sarma Technique, late 19th / Early 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs.
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Large Pair Antique Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Baluster Vases.
Located in Vero Beach, FL
incorporated calligraphy into the pictorial decoration and it is considered a significant art form.
Condition
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Porcelain
Oxford University, 1893 Christ Church Double Rowing Team Photograph
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
left. The original 'Gillman & Co.' mount is with arched window cutout, college crest, calligraphic
Category
1890s English Sporting Art Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Wood
Chinese Qing Foo Dog Porcelain Table Lamps in Iron Red
Located in Astoria, NY
smaller ones. On the back side are rows of Chinese calligraphy, usually a poem and name of the maker. The
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Porcelain
Two Japanese Antique Hand-Painted "Iris, Maple
Deer" Bowls Mint, Signed Boxed
Located in South Burlington, VT
. Finely painted details. Notice each master painted design includes extensive calligraphy writing on the
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Ceramic
Qing Dynasty Chinese Porcelain Foo Dog Vase, 19th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
calligraphic information dating its production and indicating the maker as well. ( Some opinion was given that
Category
1870s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Lamp in Pink Family Style Porcelain, circa 1880
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
branch with calligraphy tools and on the other side an outdoor scene showing vases filled with bunch of
Category
Late 19th Century European Chinoiserie Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Porcelain
Savona - Maiolica Pharmacy Jug / Wet Drug Jar - 17th century
By Savona (Levantino Family)
Located in DELFT, NL
17th century production, consistent with the banded decoration with a "calligraphic naturalistic" motif
Category
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Earthenware, Faience, Maiolica
Chinese blue and white brush washer Qing Dynasty 19C Wang Xizhi
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
.
Measure: 14cm diameter.
This plate illustrates the story of Wang Xizhi (??303?–?361), the calligraphy
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Porcelain
Qing Pair of RED CHINESE BASQUETS in rattan , bamboo wood , bronze
Located in Valladolid, ES
written "1829" in Chinese calligraphy. For a better support of this, bronze elements are used, worked and
Category
1820s Chinese Qing Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Bronze
Chinese Petite Tea Tray, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
brushwork of Chinese calligraphy. The original iron staples can be seen on the corners of the tray, which
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Rustic Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Pine
China Important Stone Buddhist Memorial Pillar "Chuang" Tang Dynasty, 618-907
Located in South Burlington, VT
calligraphy is 15 inches wide and 56 inches length and large rubbing is 28 inches wide and 56 inches length
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Tang Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Limestone
Antique Silk Velvet Ottoman Violet Sarma Pillow Cover, L 19th C/ E 20th C
Located in Istanbul, TR
. Common motifs included floral patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Restauration Gold Boxe in Rocaille Style
By Louis-François Tronquoy 1
Located in Paris, FR
bearing a monogram in gothic calligraphy. A raised button serves to open the box. The body of the box also
Category
1830s French Restauration Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Gold
Moroccan Moorish Inlaid Hexagonal Table or Stand
Located in Barcelona, ES
is detailed by Arabic calligraphy writing.
The top stands up on a base with 6 carved legs joined
Category
Late 19th Century Moroccan Moorish Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Wood, Fruitwood, Mahogany, Walnut, Burl
Chinese Blue and White Small Zhangzhou Porcelain Vase Made circa 1590
Located in Katonah, NY
calligraphic style.
Zhangzhou ware dates to the late Ming dynasty (circa late 16th century to mid-17th century
Category
16th Century Chinese Ming Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Porcelain
Late 19th c. Chinese Painting of a Junk at Sail.
Located in Hudson, NY
ready to hang. The paintings stretcher has as seen in photo 6 Chinese calligraphy inked on. The image
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Wood
Rare Victorian Pearl Diamond Souvenir Ambigram Ring
Located in Idar-Oberstein, DE
peculiarity in this ring is that the word is written in such a calligraphic way that it forms an ambigram and
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Victorian Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Diamond, Pearl
Mourning on the dead Christ, Oil On Paper On Canvas , 16th Century
Located in Milan, IT
mercator da Milano" appears on the back of the canvas in 16th century calligraphy. Underneath, a clover
Category
16th Century Other Art Style Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Oil
19th Century Chinese Exceptional Solid Silver Tea Service, Hong Kong, circa 1890
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
round form resting on a spreading base, decorated with Chinese calligraphy, the body finely and
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Silver
Antique Silk Velvet Ottoman Violet Sarma Pillow Cover, L 19th C/ E 20th C
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Islamic Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Antique Silk Velvet Ottoman Sarma Pillow Cover, L 19th Century
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Islamic Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Antique Silk Velvet Ottoman Sarma Pillow Cover, L 19th C. / E 20th Century
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Islamic Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Antique Silk Velvet Ottoman Sarma Pillow Cover, Late 19th Century
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Islamic Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Antique Silk Velvet Ottoman Sarma Pillow Cover, Late 19th Century
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Islamic Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Antique Silk Velvet Ottoman Sarma Pillow Cover, L 19th Century / E 20th Century
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Islamic Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Antique Silk Velvet Ottoman Sarma Pillow Cover, L 19th Century
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Islamic Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Antique Silk Velvet Ottoman Violet Sarma Pillow Cover, L 19th C/ E 20th C
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Islamic Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
Antique Silk Velvet Ottoman Violet Sarma Pillow Cover, L 19th C / E 20th C
Located in Istanbul, TR
patterns, geometric shapes, and calligraphic scripts, often combined to create complex and layered designs
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Antique Calligraphy
Materials
Metallic Thread
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Antique Calligraphy For Sale on 1stDibs
At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal piece of antique calligraphy for your home. Was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, metal and paper. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect item from our selection of antique calligraphy — we have versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A choice in our collection of antique calligraphy is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Folk Art, Art Deco and Arts and Crafts styles are sought with frequency. You’ll likely find more than one object in our assortment of antique calligraphy that is appealing in its simplicity, but Emad Al-Molk Qazvini Hasani, J.
L. Lobmeyr Company and J.
L. Lobmeyr produced versions that are worth a look.
How Much is a Antique Calligraphy?
The average selling price for a piece of antique calligraphy at 1stDibs is $1,600, while they’re typically $100 on the low end and $25,000 for the highest priced.
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