Skip to main content

Antique Grotesque

to
127
868
562
870
391
315
251
251
151
145
110
73
59
57
56
52
48
44
40
27
26
25
24
20
18
16
12
8
7
7
6
6
6
5
4
4
4
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
34
28
12
9
8
Sort By
Martin Brothers Vase decorated with Fish
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Martin Brothers Miniature Vase decorated with Grotesque Fish
Category

Early 1900s British Antique Grotesque

Italian Mid-18th Century Giltwood Console Table Made in Rome
Located in London, Middlesex
inverted baluster supports with beaded collar and acanthus scrolls, decorated with grotesque masks and husk
Category

1740s Italian Baroque Antique Grotesque

Materials

Giltwood

Pair of 19th Century Andirons
Located in London, GB
Unusual Medieval Grotesque inspired andirons with finely chased fantastical masks around the cups.
Category

Late 19th Century French Gothic Revival Antique Grotesque

Materials

Iron

Martin Brothers Miniature Jug
By Martin Brothers
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Martin Brothers Miniature Jug decorated with Grotesque Fish.
Category

Early 20th Century British Arts and Crafts Antique Grotesque

Martin Brothers Vase
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Martin Brothers Square section Vase decorated in relief with Grotesque Fish
Category

Early 20th Century British Antique Grotesque

Russian Crystal and Gilt Bronze Eight-Light Chandelier
Located in Hilversum, NL
With blue corona, overall decorated with gilt bronze swans necks, palmettes and grotesque masks.
Category

Late 18th Century Russian Louis XVI Antique Grotesque

Materials

Crystal, Bronze

Martin Brothers Bird
By Robert Wallace Martin
Located in Chipping Campden, GB
5129 Robert Wallace Martin for the Martin Brothers. A Grotesque Bird with a “Knowing
Category

Early 1900s English Arts and Crafts Antique Grotesque

Materials

Pottery

Italian Patinated Bronze Wine Urn, Dark Brown, 19th century
Located in London, GB
A magnificent bronze urn and lid with scroll handle and spout supported by "grotesque" and stylized
Category

Mid-19th Century English Antique Grotesque

Materials

Bronze

Martin Brothers Triple Bird Group
By Martin Brothers
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Martin Brothers "Tobacco Jar" Modelled as a Grotesque Triple Bird Group MARTIN BROTHERS (1873
Category

19th Century British Antique Grotesque

Early 18th Century Pair of Napolitan Sculptures Made of Polychromed Wood
Located in Lisbon, PT
Early 18th century pair of polychrome and carved wood representing grotesque attendants of the
Category

18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Grotesque

Italian Walnut Table Lamp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
18th century walnut architectural element, scrolling scale carved volute with applied grotesque
Category

Early 20th Century Italian Antique Grotesque

Materials

Walnut

Large Antique Royal Worcester Blush Ivory Porcelain Vase and Cover
By Royal Worcester
Located in Antrim, GB
mask and grotesque scroll handles, conforming cover, raised on a shaped foot, gilt highlights, puce
Category

1890s English Rococo Antique Grotesque

Materials

Ceramic

Victorian Sterling Silver Table Mirror by William Comyns, London, 1890
By William Comyns Sons 1
Located in Pasadena, CA
wrapped wood back with hinged Stand. Depicting foliage and grotesques, the top centered by a Rococo
Category

1890s English Victorian Antique Grotesque

Materials

Sterling Silver

Rare Martin Brothers Double Bird Group
By Martin Brothers
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Rare Martin Brothers Double Bird Group. Tobacco jar with detachable heads modelled as two Grotesque
Category

1910s British Antique Grotesque

Garden Cartouche Poseidon
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Extremely detailed carving of Poseidon surrounded by two Dauphins grotesques. Formerly used as
Category

19th Century Italian Antique Grotesque

Pair of French 19th Century Bronze Sconce with Mirrors
Located in Charleston, SC
Pair of excellent French bronze sconce with grotesque characters and dolphin. The pair have been
Category

19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Grotesque

Materials

Crystal, Bronze

An Aubusson Verdure Entre Fenetre Tapestry
Located in Madrid, ES
with grotesques.
Category

18th Century and Earlier French Antique Grotesque

Materials

Wool

"Portents", Plate 41 from Rouault s Miserere
By Georges Rouault
Located in New York, NY
van Gogh. His characterizations of overemphasized grotesque figures inspired the Expressionist
Category

1920s Fauvist Antique Grotesque

Materials

Etching

Pair of 19th Century French Brass Candlesticks
Located in Raalte, NL
A pair of two beautiful French openworked brass candlesticks with grotesque heads all around, the
Category

19th Century French Antique Grotesque

Materials

Brass

Carved Giltwood, Verre Eglomise, Pastiglia Crushed Stone Work Casket, C. 1725
Located in London, GB
This extraordinary casket with its complex series of grotesque sea creatures, shells and star
Category

1720s Sicilian Antique Grotesque

English 19th Century Ebonized Carved Oak Glazed Bookcase Large Greenman
Located in Newcastle upon Tyne, GB
doors - enclosed adjustable shelving - flanked by carved fruits and surmounted by grotesque animal masks
Category

19th Century English Victorian Antique Grotesque

Materials

Glass, Oak

Antique French Housekeepers Cupboard
Located in Cheltenham, GB
meticulous 19th-century carving, featuring deep and crisp embellishments of festoons and intriguing grotesque
Category

Early 18th Century French Rococo Revival Antique Grotesque

Materials

Oak

Fontana Grotto
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Very elaborate Italian wall fountain with a central Dauphin grotesque, shell basin sitting on a
Category

19th Century Italian Antique Grotesque

An Unusual, Bold And Dramatic Mirror
Located in New York, NY
carving of the frame to either side is a grotesque human half-face, which – when seen from 45 degrees is
Category

18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Grotesque

Materials

Giltwood

A Vienna enamel silver-gilt plateau and its twelve glasses representing the year
Located in Paris, FR
torches in the clouds around a central medallion depicting an allegorical scene on a grotesques background
Category

19th Century French Antique Grotesque

Materials

Enamel

Italian Rococo Giltwood Mirror
Located in Long Island City, NY
goddess, possibly Diana, the bottom surmounted with a carved giltwood Grotesque mask head
Category

Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Grotesque

Pair of Lime Wood Carved Italian Hall Chairs
Located in Norwich, Norfolk
Pair of lime wood carved Italian hall chairs. The top featuring a rather grotesque carved mask
Category

1880s Italian George III Antique Grotesque

Materials

Hardwood

Vase with Sea Monster Art Nouveau Ceramics Amphora Bohemia, circa 1900
Located in Vienna, AT
monsters. Grotesque ceramics, such as the products of the Martin Brothers from London or the Amphora
Category

Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Grotesque

Materials

Ceramic

Napoleon III Period Boulle Inkwell with Tortoise Shell Inlay
Located in Charleston, SC
, grotesques figures as feet and inkwell covers.
Category

1860s French Napoleon III Antique Grotesque

Materials

Brass, Bronze

Blue Cachepot, Manufacture of Sarreguemines, France, End of the 19th Century
By Sarreguemines
Located in Paris, FR
this ceramic are in the shape of two grotesque human heads.  
Category

Late 19th Century European Art Nouveau Antique Grotesque

Materials

Ceramic

Four Petite Italian 18th Century Giltwood Mirrors
Located in Armadale, Victoria
grotesque mask issuing vine leaves over arched and tapered frame with guilloche moulding, a classical
Category

18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Grotesque

Materials

Wood

Georgian Style Armchair
Located in Stamford, CT
A Georgian style carved walnut open armchair with grotesque carvings to the arms and knees with a
Category

19th Century English Antique Grotesque

Materials

Walnut

Martin Brothers Clock
By Martin Brothers
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Martin Brothers Clock decorated with a Swallow and Flanked by Two Grotesque Dragons. The clock
Category

Late 19th Century British Antique Grotesque

Antique Royal Vienna Scenic Porcelain Plate Signed K.Weh
By Royal Vienna Porcelain
Located in Vilnius, LT
Grotesque pattern laid on purple red and rose red ground and painted in golden color. Material is porcelain
Category

Late 19th Century Austrian Victorian Antique Grotesque

Materials

Porcelain

McKenney Co. Combination Gas/Electric Light Fixture
By Mckenney Co.
Located in Vancouver, BC
features "grotesque" sirens. Fitted with period acid etched shades. Measurements: 36" L x 25" W.  
Category

Early 20th Century American Renaissance Revival Antique Grotesque

Materials

Brass, Ormolu

19th Century Terra Cotta Copy of Renaissance Urn
Located in New York, NY
A Terra Cotta Copy of a High Renaissance Urn with Decorative Banding and Addorsed Grotesque
Category

19th Century Italian Antique Grotesque

Materials

Terracotta

PAIR OF ROMAN ROCOCO PERIOD GILTWOOD MIRRORS
Located in San Francisco, CA
scrolling foliate carving with flowerheads, the bottom centered by a carved grotesque issuing original twin
Category

18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Grotesque

Materials

Giltwood, Glass

Brass Toasting Fork Decorated with Lincoln Imp
Located in East Geelong, VIC
condition. C1920. The Lincoln Imp is a carved grotesque on a wall inside Lincoln Cathedral, and is now a
Category

1920s English Gothic Revival Antique Grotesque

Materials

Brass

Pair of Carved Rococo Girandoles
Located in Monza, IT
, opposite at the bottom a grotesque figure that holds an iron cast support for the original candles arms
Category

Early 18th Century Italian Rococo Antique Grotesque

Materials

Wood

Marquetry inlaid walnut commodino
Located in San Francisco, CA
with grotesque masks within foliage above a conforming case enclosing a drawer and panel door, raised
Category

18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Grotesque

Pair of Regence Ormolu Chenets
Located in New York, NY
a shaped rectangular base cast with foliage, raised on scrolled feet cast with grotesque heads. Re
Category

18th Century and Earlier French Antique Grotesque

Materials

Bronze

18th Century Late Régence / Early Louis XV Period Commode
Located in Toorak, VIC
affixed by two decorative large mask motifs representing grotesque faces. The moldings introduce the
Category

18th Century French Louis XV Antique Grotesque

Materials

Bronze

19th century French Portico Clock set with Urns, Rosewood and Lemonwood Inlays
Located in Brussels, BE
. Grotesque style marquetry. Gilt bronze and dial in silvered bronze with roman numbers. Pendulum also in gilt
Category

1830s French Charles X Antique Grotesque

Materials

Other

Antique Ceramic Fireplace with Blue Decor on a White Background, 19th Century
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
on a white background. The decor is composed with landscapes, chimeras and grotesques. The fireplace
Category

Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Grotesque

Materials

Ceramic

William IV Library Chair, circa 1835
Located in London, GB
extensively carved, each with an acanthus scroll above a grotesque mask leading to further acanthus and reeded
Category

Mid-19th Century English Antique Grotesque

Early 19th Century Folk Art French Pipe
Located in Paris, FR
Unique heather carved pipe with bone details, featuring grotesque characters and fantasy animals
Category

Early 19th Century French Folk Art Antique Grotesque

Pair of Walnut Pedestals
Located in San Francisco, CA
high relief with an armorial cartouche beneath grotesque masks.
Category

19th Century Italian Antique Grotesque

Materials

Walnut

Antique French Carved and Parcel Gilt Long Stool, circa 1860
Located in Paddock Wood, Kent
decorated with scrolls and acanthus leaves, four grotesque masks, one on each corner and intricately pierced
Category

1860s French Other Antique Grotesque

Materials

Walnut

Antique Walnut Curule Chairs, circa 1880
Located in Paddock Wood, Kent
horizontal back and having carved acanthus leaves, then mounted with a cartouche and flanked by grotesque
Category

1880s French Renaissance Antique Grotesque

Materials

Walnut

Art Deco Chinoiserie Centre Table
Located in Sint-Kruis, BE
Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. This table combines Art Deco geometric patterns and Chinese grotesque and
Category

1920s Belgian Art Deco Antique Grotesque

Materials

Marble

Giltwood And Grey Painted Console D applique
Located in Palm Desert, CA
designs including small grotesque masks on the scrolled feet and below the central rocaille device
Category

18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Grotesque

Materials

Wood

Pair of French 18th Century Painted Panels from a Hotel Particulier in Lyon
Located in Coral Gables, FL
Beautifully painted on canvas, French neoclassical painted decor in the Raphaelesque grotesque
Category

18th Century and Earlier French Neoclassical Antique Grotesque

Fairyland Lustre Plaque Picnic by River, Wedgwood, circa 1925
By Wedgwood, Daisy Makeig-Jones
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
as grotesque and hostile. It is also worth noting that while they are called elves in the Völuspá
Category

1920s English Art Deco Antique Grotesque

Materials

Porcelain

Biedermeier Hall Mirror with Magnificent Pen Works
Located in Long Island City, NY
foliage as used in Normand's grotesque decorations and Hildebrandt's furniture for the Royal Castle in
Category

19th Century German Biedermeier Antique Grotesque

Portrait of a woman at the bistro with an Absinthe glass and cigarette
By André Devambez
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
, these guys are often decked out in grotesque hats, too big, too small, dented, or of incredible shape
Category

Early 1900s French School Antique Grotesque

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

18th Century Dutch Carved Oak Draw Leaf Table, Circa 1780
Located in Longdon, Tewkesbury
panelled top fitted with one drawer in the gadrooned frieze with four grotesque mask to the corners raised
Category

18th Century Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique Grotesque

Materials

Oak

Impressive Early 19th Century Carved Marble Tazza on Pedestal
Located in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire
trailing foliage incorporating a pair of grotesque masks with large acanthus leaves and a border of
Category

19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Grotesque

  • 1
  • ...
Get Updated with New Arrivals
Save "Antique Grotesque", and we’ll notify you when there are new listings in this category.

Antique Grotesque For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal antique grotesque for your home. An antique grotesque — often made from metal, wood and ceramic — can elevate any home. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect antique grotesque — we have versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. An antique grotesque, designed in the Art Nouveau, Folk Art or Baroque style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. Many designers have produced at least one well-made antique grotesque over the years, but those crafted by Martin Brothers, A. Clerissy and Burmantofts Pottery are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a Antique Grotesque?

Prices for an antique grotesque can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $56 and can go as high as $300,000, while the average can fetch as much as $2,655.