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1863 The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
By Charles Kingsley
Located in Bath, GB
, Kingsley had second thoughts regarding the inclusion of the poem, and had the leaf removed, but not before
Category
1860s British Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
American Impressionist oil painting of a canyon in Palm Springs, California
Located in Colfax, CA
his first book of poems in 1910. After a trip to Germany, Earle settled in Los Angeles in 1915. In Los
Category
1920s American Impressionist Antique Poem
Materials
Oil
1926-1927 The Complete Writings of Robert Burns
By Robert Burns
Located in Bath, GB
, poems, essays and lyrics of Rabbie Burns.
With an introduction from John Buchan to volume I
Category
1920s American Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Shakespeare. A LEAF FROM EACH OF THE FOUR FOLIOS - 1623 - 1632 - 1663 - 1685
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
included an additional encomium by the young John Milton, his first published poem in English, and
Category
1620s British Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Utagawa Kuniyoshi Signed Japanese Woodblock Print Saigyo-Hoshi (The Monk Saigyo)
By Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Located in Studio City, CA
isshu no uchi 百人一首之内 (One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets)." This work features the Buddhist monk
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
17th Century Italian Religious Painting Credited to Luciano Borzone
Located in Roma, IT
Zeneize", a collection of poems in the Ligurian language by Gian Giacomo Cavalli, which also includes two
Category
Mid-17th Century Baroque Antique Poem
Materials
Canvas, Oil
BLAIR - Blake. The Grave. 1808 FIRST EDITION A SUBSCRIBERS COPY UNCUT IN BOARDS
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: BLAIR, Robert (William Blake).
TITLE: The Grave, A Poem.
PUBLISHER: London, T. Bensley
Category
Early 1800s British Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Glass sculpture by Bimini
By Bimini Glass
Located in London, GB
had paper labels which have disappeared.
The name Bimini was taken from a poem by Heinrich Haine, 1852
Category
1920s Organic Modern Antique Poem
Materials
Art Glass
$800 Sale Price
20% Off
Speaking bud Vase
By Émile Gallé
Located in PARIS, FR
Speaking bud Vase with a Victor Hugo's poem
by Émile GALLE (1846-1904)
Rare speaking onion-shaped
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Antique Poem
Materials
Blown Glass
$16,983
Antique Bronzed Terracotta Bust of Dante on Italian Marquina Marble Column
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
lived on throughout the centuries, his epic poem ‘La Commedia’ (also known as ‘The Divine Comedy
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Poem
Materials
Marble
Augis French More Than Yesterday 18K Yellow Gold Diamond Love Charm Pendant
By A. Augis
Located in London, GB
qu'hier, moins que demain" ("More than yesterday, less than tomorrow") - a line taken from the love poem
Category
1910s French Antique Poem
Materials
Diamond, Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Allegory Poetry Trémolières Paint 18th Century OIl on canvas Old master France
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
sheet of paper and a voluminous book of poems.
The learned subject illustrated and the peculiar
Category
18th Century Old Masters Antique Poem
Materials
Oil
$10,499 Sale Price
20% Off
Anight My Shallop, 20th Century Watercolour Illustration
By Norman Ault
Located in London, GB
an an illustration in Mary Macleod's 'The Children's Poets' for the poem 'Recollections of the
Category
1910s Antique Poem
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Paper
Modernist Drawing, Portrait of a Man
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Surfside, FL
echoed the lines of Walt Whitman in her essay I See America Dancing, writing, "When I read this poem of
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Poem
Materials
Paper, Ink
Verse 1 through Verse 60
Located in Fairlawn, OH
the first 60 verses of the epic Persian poem
“The masnavi of Leyli va Majnun (4,600 lines) is the
Category
Early 1600s Other Art Style Antique Poem
Materials
Pigment
Self portrait, near the slipway Raie of the old harbour of Rosmeur at Douarnenez
Located in Stamford, GB
illustration of several local poems and tales in the first decades of the 20th century, the evidence pointed to
Category
Early 20th Century Antique Poem
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ogata Kenzan Signed Japanese Edo Pottery Hand Painted Tea Plate Tray With Box
Located in Studio City, CA
his Eggplant painting with written poem (”Ripen! Eggplants, Grow and grow, eggplants, Ripen! Eggplants
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Poem
Materials
Pottery, Paint
Late 19th Century Alabaster and Bronze Bust Dante Alighieri on a Marble Base
Located in Stamford, CT
.
Though he died in 1321, Dante’s works have lived on throughout the centuries, his epic poem ‘La Commedia
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Poem
Materials
Alabaster, Marble, Bronze
A Greek marble funerary stele
Located in London, GB
, with five lines of a poem in Greek text inscribed below, reading: ‘Many forms of death and ends of life
Category
15th Century and Earlier Greek Antique Poem
Materials
Marble
Renaissance Gold and Agate Cameo Ring Depicting Homer
Located in Firenze, IT
famous Greek poems. Homer's iconography is recognizable by some details, starting from the headdress from
Category
16th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Poem
Materials
Agate, Gold, 18k Gold, Silver
Portrait Duchess Woman 17th Century Paint Van Gelder Oil on canvas Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
sumptuous wedding, which took place in Parma in 1648, was celebrated in the poems of the great poets of the
Category
17th Century Old Masters Antique Poem
Materials
Oil
$9,263 Sale Price
20% Off
Matching Pair of Lidded Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Vases Artist Signed 1922
Located in Norton, MA
Flowers with Poems describing the beautiful springtime, breezy day with birds singing, flower blossoms
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Other Antique Poem
Materials
Porcelain
Frau und Mädchen (Woman and Girl) /// Max Pechstein German Expressionist Litho
By Max Pechstein
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Samländischen Ode (The Samland Ode), an Expressionist lyric poem by Heinrich Lautensack with illustrations by
Category
1910s Expressionist Antique Poem
Materials
Lithograph
Triel-sur-Seine - Neo Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Leo Marie Gausson
By Léo Gausson
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
with Gustave Kahn and Adolphe Retté, whose poems he illustrated. He also played an active part in
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Antique Poem
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1855-92 The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson
By Alfred Tennyson
Located in Bath, GB
reign, securing great success during his lifetime. His poems still live on, with him becoming one of the
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
WILLIAM WILLIAMS AP CALEDFRYN 1837–1915 PORTRAITS MR JOHN
MRS DAVIES PAINTINGs
By William Williams
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
water painting on a subject taken from a Welsh poem at the Eisteddfod in Caernarvon (Carnarvon
Category
1870s English Victorian Antique Poem
Materials
Canvas
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Jaime Sabartes, from The Cheeks on Fire, 1925 (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
(Portrait of Jaime Sabartes), from the album Les joues en feu, poemes anciens et poemes inedits, 1917–1921
Category
1920s Modern Antique Poem
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Augis French More Than Yesterday 18K Yellow Gold Love Charm Pendant
By A. Augis
Located in London, GB
qu'hier, moins que demain" ("More than yesterday, less than tomorrow") - a line taken from the love poem
Category
1910s French Antique Poem
Materials
Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
ANTIQUE ViCTORIAN BRITISH ARMY HORSE MARTINGALE RIDING STIRRUP STAND
STIRRUPS
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
14th century Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as hony soyt qui mal pence, at the end
Category
19th Century European Victorian Antique Poem
Materials
Brass
"Porteuse d’Eau" A 19th Century French Orientalist Enamel Plaque
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
fascinations of the Orientalists was the Arab woman, called «oriental». Indeed, through the poems and wonderful
Category
1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Poem
Materials
Enamel
$2,612 Sale Price
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Pair of Illustrations from Robert Louis Stevenson
s A Child
s Garden of Verses
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
editor of Scribner's, Joseph H. Chapin, saw great success with the Maxfield Parrish-illustrated "Poems of
Category
Early 1900s Antique Poem
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Matching Pair of Famille Rose Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Vases, Signed
Located in Norton, MA
Poems describing the beautiful springtime, breezing day with birds singing, flower blossoms, and
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Other Antique Poem
Materials
Porcelain
Sailor’s Ball
By Margrete Levy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biehl's letters, Emil Aarestrup's poems and Ingemann's morning and evening songs.
Her paintings were
Category
1920s Art Deco Antique Poem
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1859 The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser
By Edmund Spenser
Located in Bath, GB
known for his epic poem and fantastical allegory 'The Faerie Queene', a work which celebrates the Tudor
Category
19th Century British Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Signed Vintage Jean Lurçat Tapestry “Peacock of the Future Cardon” - Rug
Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
stylized sunbursts and rich, organic patterns. Adding to its narrative is a gorgeous poem in French woven
Category
1650s French Antique Poem
Materials
Wool
Augis More Than Yesterday Heart 18K White Gold Ruby Love Charm Pendant
By A. Augis
Located in London, GB
love poem written by Rosemonde Gerard to her husband (the author of Cyrano) in 1889.
The word "plus
Category
1910s French Antique Poem
Materials
Ruby, Gold, 18k Gold, White Gold
"Summer" Surrealist Watercolor in the style of Paul Klee
Located in Pasadena, CA
elements of a visual poem.
Collector’s Note
This watercolor exemplifies the poetic potential of line and
Category
Early 20th Century Surrealist Antique Poem
Materials
Watercolor
Antique Poetry Book, Barrack Room Ballads, Rudyard Kipling, Literary Classic
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
completeness
Features 21 principal poems, alongside a gathering of further works
Written in Kipling’s
Category
1890s British Late Victorian Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Antique Anatolian Reyhanlı Kilim
Located in Sultanahmet, 34
visual poem born from the combination of craftsmanship and local narratives.
- Period & Origin: Woven in
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Antique Poem
Materials
Wool
Edo-Period Actor Portrait with Umbrella – School of Katsukawa Shunshō, c.1780
Located in Langweer, NL
vertical poem in graceful calligraphy, a feature typical of refined actor portraits (yakusha-e) from the
Category
Late 18th Century Japanese Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
La Mort de Laurence – Romantic Lithograph from Lamartine
s Jocelyn, circa 1840
Located in Langweer, NL
Lamartine’s celebrated Romantic poem Jocelyn, first published in 1836. Rendered in soft monochrome tones, the
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Original lithographic poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Le Théâtre Libre
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in PARIS, FR
a quiet visual poem that mirrored the literary nature of the plays it advertised. Une Faillite (A
Category
1890s Antique Poem
Materials
Linen, Paper, Lithograph
Pair of Six Panel Japanese Edo Screens Chrysanthemums Along Fence
Located in Rio Vista, CA
-427) in one of his poems: "Plucking chrysanthemums beneath the eastern fence, leisurely I caught a
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Poem
Materials
Silver Leaf
1876 The Hunting of the Snark; Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves "Alice"
By Lewis Carroll
Located in Bath, GB
The first edition of beloved children's author Lewis Carroll's delightful nonsense poem, with the
Category
1870s British Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Early Depiction of Sati Ritual, Widow Burning on Pyre, Dutch Engraving c.1601
Located in Langweer, NL
’ faces.”
The poem, while poetic, reveals the era’s romanticized misunderstanding of the practice
Category
Early 17th Century Dutch Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Decorative Hand-Colored Portrait – Laure de Noves, “La Belle Laure”, c.1900
Located in Langweer, NL
of Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). His Canzoniere, a sequence of poems written in her honor, remains
Category
Early 20th Century French Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
ANTIQUE COPPER ARTS
CRAFTS SCOTTISH BURNS QUOTE FRAME WiTH H.J DOBSON PRINT
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
provide you with the exact price
A really good looking well made frame, it depicts a poem by Burns which
Category
Early 20th Century Scottish Arts and Crafts Antique Poem
Materials
Copper
ANTIQUE 1831 ORIGINAL WiLLIAM IV NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER DEPICTING A VERSE ON YOUTH
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
completed in 1835
The piece reads a poem which has a bit of hamlet about it, it reads as follows
"The
Category
1830s English William IV Antique Poem
Materials
Cotton
original woodcut
By Maurice de Vlaminck
Located in Henderson, NV
of 750 for the artist's own "Histoires & Poemes de mon epoque". Image size: 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches (132
Category
1920s Antique Poem
Materials
Woodcut
Japanese Edo Screen Portraits of the Thirty Six Immortal Poets
Located in Rio Vista, CA
immortals of poetry (Sanjurokkasen). Each portrait is accompanied by their poems. The poets are from the
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Poem
Materials
Wood, Paper
Antique Bronze Bust of Dante
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
.
Though he died in 1321, Dante’s works have lived on throughout the centuries, his epic poem ‘La Commedia
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Poem
Materials
Composition, Limestone, Bronze
1895 Meiji Japanese Screen Pair. Cherry Blossoms
Autumn Maples on Silver Leaf
Located in Kyoto, JP
to shape the modern Kyoto art world.
He passed away in 1906, leaving behind a poignant farewell poem
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Poem
Materials
Silver Leaf
Rare Original Antique Russian Avant Garde Cinema Poster Bograd Helen Of Troy
Located in London, GB
the German film director Manfred Noa (1893-1930), based on the ancient Greek poem Iliad by Homer, and
Category
1920s Russian Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Antique Neoclassical Tile by Minton Hollins
By Minton
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
from Shakespeare’s 1593 poem ‘Venus and Adonis’. Inspired by Greek mythology, the poem tells the story
Category
Late 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Poem
Materials
Clay
Minton Hollins 8-inch Neoclassical Tile
By Minton
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
from Shakespeare’s 1593 poem ‘Venus and Adonis’.
Inspired by Greek mythology, the poem tells the story
Category
Late 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Poem
Materials
Clay
Scholar
s Stone / “Scholar
s Rock” Lingbi (灵璧石), China, Qing Dynasty
Located in MOUGINS, FR
paint or compose poems, explains Christie's specialist Pola Antebi. Instead, he worked in the privacy of
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Poem
Materials
Stone
Description
Izumi Provinbce: Kuzunoha
, from the series
The Sixty-Odd Provinc
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
finds her farewell poem written on a shoji).
Condition
Period
19th century
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
$933 Sale Price
20% Off
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