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Antique Chinese Qing Dynasty Cloisonne Censer Ding Lidded Incense Burner 1870
Located in Portland, OR
from the mouths of grotesques, the censer is set upon the original carved hardwood stand, the interior
Category
1870s Chinese Qing Antique Grotesque
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Antique Edwardian Sterling Silver Fruit Dishes
By Walker
Hall
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
incorporates a protruding handpiece, ornamented with an embossed grotesque mask design.
These exceptional
Category
Early 1900s English Edwardian Antique Grotesque
Materials
Sterling Silver
$2,734 / set
MID-19th CENTURY EBONIZED WOOD COFFEE TABLE WITH INLAYS
Located in Firenze, FI
top is distinguished by fillets and carved details that recall vegetal and grotesque motifs, inspired
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Grotesque
Materials
Harewood
Christ on the Cold Stone – After Jan Gossaert (Mabuse)
Located in Stockholm, SE
, mocking figures lean in—each rendered with individualized, almost grotesque features—enhancing the
Category
16th Century Old Masters Antique Grotesque
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Ensemble de salon en bois sculpté – Circa 1880
Located in NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, FR
patiné, finement sculpté de masques grotesques, comprenant :
Un canapé
Une paire de fauteuils à dossier
Category
1880s British Colonial Antique Grotesque
Materials
Wood
Monumental George Sharp for J.E. Caldwell
Co. Classical Coin Silver Ladle
By George Sharp, J.E. Caldwell
Co.
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
introspection. Her stylized appearance draws from Renaissance grotesques and ancient coin portraiture.
Of
Category
19th Century American American Classical Antique Grotesque
Materials
Silver
Alabaster Art Deco Pendant Natural Lantern Early 20th Century France
Located in Mombuey, Zamora
by 3 bronze pieces, shaped like grotesque heads
These lamps or pendant were hung to enhance and
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Antique Grotesque
Materials
Alabaster, Bronze
$1,299 Sale Price
44% Off
Dual Sized Antique Portrait And Fashion Collage
Located in Bridgeport, CT
figures, grotesque faces, fashion portraits and caricatures. The black and white art are adhered to a
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique Grotesque
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Pair of French Renaissance S-tyle Ormolu Wall Mirrors with Candelabra
Located in London, GB
set with a host of motifs, including busts, masks, and grotesques. A male face on each centres the
Category
19th Century French Renaissance Antique Grotesque
Materials
Ormolu
Pair Bronze Busts: "The Fallen King
Laughing Revolutionary, After Carpeaux
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
. His expression borders on grotesque, exaggerating the vulnerability of an infantilized monarch. This
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Grotesque
Materials
Bronze
Antique Reclaimed Neo-Gothic Carved Tan Marble Mantel
Located in New York, NY
delicate foliate carvings and topped with a sculpted keystone—perhaps a leafy boss or subtle grotesque
Category
Early 20th Century Gothic Antique Grotesque
Materials
Marble
Hand Painted Terracotta Plaque, Longpark, Torquay, Basket of Flowers
Located in Cotignac, FR
dragons, some with two or three twisted handles, also other grotesque animal forms were made. Still others
Category
Early 20th Century Antique Grotesque
Materials
Terracotta, Oil
Study for a Hunting Scene, a red chalk sketch attributed to Karel du Jardin
Located in PARIS, FR
with picturesque characters, travelers, and shepherds, often represented in a grotesque manner, in the
Category
1650s Old Masters Antique Grotesque
Materials
Chalk, Ink, Laid Paper
French Gothic Revival Bronze Drapery Tiebacks, Dragon Form Rocaille Base C. 1850
By Henri Picard, Ferdinand Barbedienne, Edward F. Caldwell
Co.
Located in Atlanta, GA
incised, batlike wings, recalling grotesques from medieval cathedrals and bestiaries. From beneath the
Category
Mid-19th Century French Gothic Revival Antique Grotesque
Materials
Bronze
$1,516 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Palazzo Sacchetti Walnut Cassone Inlaid Engraved Fruitwood Marquetry, 17th C
Located in London, GB
flanked by grotesques and scrolling foliage, the sides with a scrolled boss and gadrooned frieze on giant
Category
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Grotesque
Materials
Walnut, Fruitwood
Pair of Italian Painted and Giltwood Stands, circa 1780
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Italian giltwood and painted stands. Each carved scrolls, borders and grotesques
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Grotesque
Materials
Walnut
Baroque Allegory of Fire with Underworld Imagery
Demons – Optical Perspective
Located in Langweer, NL
scene is set within a monstrous red cavern, which forms a grotesque open mouth complete with blazing
Category
1760s Antique Grotesque
Materials
Paper
18th Century Italian Ebonized Inlaid Collectors Cabinet
Located in Houston, TX
overall with the "Berainesque" style of light arabesques and playful grotesques including rinceaux, female
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Grotesque
Materials
Wood
Early 16th century. The Agony in the Garden. Southern German school.
Located in Firenze, IT
focuses on the grotesque-looking soldiers in contemporary dress (one with a striking scorpion on his
Category
18th Century and Earlier Northern Renaissance Antique Grotesque
Materials
Wood, Oil, Board
$9,382 Sale Price
34% Off
A Fine Pair of 19th Century Candelabra After Claude-Michel Clodion
By Claude Michel Clodion
Located in Long Island City, NY
Clodion
Each vase of tapering form applied with two grotesque masks hung with laurel garlands above a
Category
19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Grotesque
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
French Victorian Gilt Brass 12-Light Chandelier with Sculptural Green Man Motif
Located in Madrid, ES
compelling - all twelve socket arms issue forth from the mouths of twelve grotesque faces encircling the
Category
Late 19th Century French Late Victorian Antique Grotesque
Materials
Brass
Antique Silk Hereke Runner Rug, Lustrous Rust with Pictorials - Rug
Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
beauty. Keen eyes for detail may particularly admire a marriage of grotesque and hellenistic imagery
Category
1920s Turkish Antique Grotesque
Materials
Silk
Antique Enamelled Glass Decanter
Glasses By J
L Lobmeyr, Vienna Late 19th.C
By J.L Lobmeyr
Located in Bristol, GB
Venetian grotesques and polychrome decorative ornaments in the Renaissance style.
Each piece is signed
Category
1870s Austrian Renaissance Antique Grotesque
Materials
Enamel
Pair of French Late 18th Century Paris Porcelain Cachepots with Floral Décor
Located in Atlanta, GA
out beautifully on the white ground. Accented with gilt details and presenting grotesque handles, this
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Grotesque
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Antique Gothic Revival Medieval / Chimera Sculpture Wall Bracket or Shelf
Located in Lisse, NL
bracket. The grotesque creature with figure is one of the best Gothic carvings you will ever see. Its
Category
Mid-19th Century French Gothic Revival Antique Grotesque
Materials
Metal
Early 19th Century French Gothic Revival Monks Bench – Louis XVIII Period
Located in Alton, GB
use of mythological creatures and grotesques speaks to a long-standing European tradition of warding
Category
Early 19th Century French Gothic Revival Antique Grotesque
Materials
Chestnut
Pair of Louis XVI Gilt-Bronze Mounted Chinese Porcelain Vases
Located in Miami, US
adorned with scrolled handles that terminate in grotesque masks, showcasing the intricate craftsmanship of
Category
Late 17th Century French Antique Grotesque
Materials
Porcelain
Gothic Decorative Art Prints: Stained Glass, Sculpture and Textile Motifs 1887
Located in Langweer, NL
ornament. It includes carved capitals, foliage designs, grotesques, and ecclesiastical busts, illustrating
Category
1880s Antique Grotesque
Materials
Paper
Italian Renaissance Stained Glass Design Print from Ornamentenschatz, 1887
Located in Langweer, NL
graces and attendants in a lush landscape, flanked by cherubs holding garlands, grotesques, caryatids
Category
1880s Antique Grotesque
Materials
Paper
Wiese Carnelian Intaglio Gold Cufflinks, circa 1925
By Jules
Louis Wiese
Located in London, GB
archaeology to inspire him. He frequently employed grotesque beasts and gargoyles, ecclesiastic detailing and
Category
1920s French Greek Revival Antique Grotesque
Materials
Carnelian, 18k Gold
Pair Of French 19th Century Louis XVI St. Ormolu Sconces
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
beautiful five arm sconce is centered by a richly chased and wonderfully detailed grotesque mask containing
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Grotesque
Materials
Ormolu
An Extremely Fine Rosewood and Brass Inlaid Writing Table Attributed To Gillows
By Gillows of Lancaster
London
Located in Benington, Herts
. Whoever did design and execute these wonderful panels of grotesques, somewhat in the style of the great
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Grotesque
Materials
Brass
Set of Four German Renaissance Prints by H. Dolmetsch, Ornamentenschatz, c. 1887
Located in Langweer, NL
grotesques that were used in fine German book printing and manuscript illumination.
Hermann Dolmetsch (1838
Category
1880s Antique Grotesque
Materials
Paper
17th Century and later carved oak overmantle
Located in Martlesham, GB
intricate carved leaf and fluted decoration, carved figures and grotesque masks flanking each panel
Category
1680s British Jacobean Antique Grotesque
Materials
Oak
Chest. Carved wood, metal. Spanish school, 16th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
two grotesques facing each other or back to back, with a candlestick or central motif as the axis
Category
16th Century Spanish Renaissance Antique Grotesque
Materials
Metal, Other
19th Century Neo-Renaissance Cabinet Closet
Located in Berlin, DE
19th century Neo-Renaissance cabinet closet
Oak, solid. Richly carved, grotesque carved, two
Category
19th Century German Renaissance Revival Antique Grotesque
Materials
Oak
Italian Renaissance Decorative Prints – Architectural and Textile Designs, 1887
Located in Langweer, NL
creatures, arabesques, cherubs, masks, festoons, allegorical figures, grotesques, scrolling foliage, and
Category
1880s German Antique Grotesque
Materials
Paper
Vibrant Italian Renaissance Decorative Art Plates – Original Chromolithos, 1887
Located in Langweer, NL
creatures, arabesques, cherubs, masks, festoons, allegorical figures, grotesques, scrolling foliage, and
Category
1880s Antique Grotesque
Materials
Paper
Large German Early 20th Century Silver Nef by Berthold Müller
By Berthold Muller
Located in London, GB
crafted aquatic scene, crowned by a grotesque mask and flanked by finely detailed lion heads. Gunports and
Category
Early 20th Century German Antique Grotesque
Materials
Silver
Royal Worcester Rare Set Porcelain Winged Griffin Marbled Table Salts
By Royal Worcester
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
the upper bowl. Absolutely stunning and enhanced by the characterful and grotesque griffins. Each
Category
1860s English Gothic Revival Antique Grotesque
Materials
Porcelain
Burmese Carved Horned Figure Wall Plaque
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Burmese style (19th Century) carved and painted wall plaque of head of grotesque figure with
Category
19th Century Antique Grotesque
Materials
Wood
Original Poster John Heartfield’s Die Lehre des Wolfes political photomontage
Located in PARIS, FR
composition presents a grotesque anthropomorphic wolf, dressed in military regalia, addressing a group of farm
Category
Early 20th Century Antique Grotesque
Materials
Paper, Linen, Lithograph
Miss Whitehead - The Bank Nun
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
grotesque magnet for lingering Romantic-era anxieties about the circulation of paper credit, financial
Category
19th Century Antique Grotesque
Materials
Engraving
$104 Sale Price
20% Off
Rare 14th Century Limestone Pinnacle from Beverley Minster
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
of 3 pieces with weathered grotesques which together stand at an impressive 2.26m tall (7’41”).
It
Category
15th Century and Earlier English Medieval Antique Grotesque
Materials
Stone, Limestone
Pair of Late 19th Century Bronze and Griotte Uni Marble Ewers After Clodion
Located in Long Island City, NY
Each with fluted spreading neck fronted with a grotesque mask and a pair of entwined serpent handles
Category
19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Grotesque
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Continental Silver Gilt Salt Cellars
Located in New Orleans, LA
bold Mannerist style, distinguished by kneeling satyrs supporting grotesque masks at the corners of
Category
19th Century Unknown Renaissance Antique Grotesque
Materials
Silver
$28,850 / set
Rare Pair 19 C. French Ormolu Mounted Theodore Deck Faience Porcelain Lamps
By Theodore Deck
Located in New York, NY
extend from the upper shoulders of the vases. At the base of each handle, molded grotesque mask faces are
Category
1870s French Chinoiserie Antique Grotesque
Materials
Ormolu
Set of 4 Antique German Renaissance Design Prints by H. Dolmetsch, c.1887
Located in Langweer, NL
features calligraphic initials, decorative borders, grotesques, birds, floral scrolls, and fantastical
Category
1880s Antique Grotesque
Materials
Paper
19th Century Venetian Rococo Style Painted Cheval Mirror
Located in Chicago, IL
see a centered grotesque face biting a classic ribbon bow of blooming flower vines. On the bottom, on
Category
19th Century Italian Rococo Antique Grotesque
Materials
Wood
Cabinet, XVI-XVIIth century
Located in Milano, IT
according to the imagination of the time, and again from a grotesque mask. In the upper part there is
Category
16th Century Italian Other Antique Grotesque
Materials
Poplar, Walnut
$12,470
Fine Pair of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Seven-Light, Electrified Candelabras
By Claude Michel Clodion
Located in Long Island City, NY
Clodion
Each as a vase cast in high relief with a procession of putti, with a pair of grotesque mask
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Grotesque
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
An Elegant Nineteenth Century Italian Marble Chimneypiece
Located in London, GB
composition made famous by the so-called 'Marlborough Gem'. Flanking the central tablet are the grotesque
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Grotesque
Materials
Marble
Rare circa 1908 French satirical poster - The Masonic Bedbugs
Located in PARIS, FR
, visually depicting Freemasons as grotesque bedbugs with human heads.
Printed on blue paper with large
Category
Early 1900s Antique Grotesque
Materials
Linen, Paper, Lithograph
THOMIRE
Cie, Hunting-Themed Centerpiece
By Thomire
Cie.
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
, scrolls and palmettes reminiscent of Renaissance grotesques unfold, interspersed with still-life fruit
Category
Mid-19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Grotesque
Materials
Bronze
$64,135 / set
19th CenturyRenaissance Style Carved Walnut Antique Bench
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
decorations in Renaissance style with grotesque faces. Fantastic big paw feet. High and imposing backrest, the
Category
1880s Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Grotesque
Materials
Walnut
$5,700 Sale Price
20% Off
Georgian Silver Basket by Peter Archambo
By Peter Archambo
Located in New Orleans, LA
the Fenwick family.
The basket's body is shaped in an elegant oval form, raised on four grotesque
Category
18th Century English George II Antique Grotesque
Materials
Silver
Beverley Minster Rare 14th Century Limestone Pinnacle
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
grotesques which together stand at an impressive 2.26m tall (7'41").
It will make a unique feature of any
Category
15th Century and Earlier English Medieval Antique Grotesque
Materials
Stone, Limestone
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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.
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