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Staffordshire Pearlware Pottery Fox Hound Stirrup Cup
By Staffordshire
Located in Downingtown, PA
decoration.
The existence of poems like Sidney Lanier's "The Stirrup Cup" from 1877 highlights how deeply
Category
Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Poem
Materials
Pottery, Pearlware, Ceramic
Late 19th Century Persian Bakshaish Carpet with Traditional Style
Located in Dallas, TX
and encoded meaning. The allover pattern hums with rhythm and balance, a visual poem of geometry and
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Bakshaish Antique Poem
Materials
Wool
$4,928 Sale Price
20% Off
Set of 6 Antique Japanese Meiji Period Chawan Tea Bowls Porcelain Eggshell
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nice set of 6 tea bowls decorated with characters, poem and valuables. They are marked on
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Poem
Materials
Porcelain
$1,518 Sale Price / set
20% Off
"Orpheus Charming the Animals", Rare 1920s Print with Mythological Theme
Located in Philadelphia, PA
, having edited the Yale Literary Magazine in his youth, published a number of his own poems, and managed
Category
1920s American Art Deco Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Two English Antique ‘Milton’ Shields in the Style of Elkington
By Elkington
Co.
Located in London, GB
inspiration behind the design is John Milton’s poem ‘Paradise Lost’, first published in 1667, which recounts
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Poem
Materials
Resin
Late 19th Century Persian Sultanabad Carpet with Modern Style
Located in Dallas, TX
historical textile, it now becomes a relic of aesthetic endurance. This is not merely a rug, but a woven poem
Category
Late 19th Century Persian Sultanabad Antique Poem
Materials
Wool
$32,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Late 19th Century Antique French Aubusson Tapestry
Located in Dallas, TX
scene unfolds with the grace of an oil painting and the subtle complexity of a symphonic poem. At the
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Poem
Materials
Wool, Silk
$8,848 Sale Price
20% Off
Bimini Animal Martini Cocktail Glasses- Set of Four
By Bimini Glass
Located in Downingtown, PA
transformed simple glass tubes into delicate fantasies. The name itself, borrowed from a Heinrich Heine poem
Category
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Antique Poem
Materials
Glass
Antique 1828 Satirical Print When First I Saw Thee Graceful Move Hand-Colored
Located in Langweer, NL
rest.
The poem is a playful twist on the language of romance and passion, casting it in a light of
Category
1820s Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso – Elegant French 18th C "pocket" edition
Located in Middletown, NY
the author. 'Jerusalem Delivered' is an epic poem, first published in 1581, that tells a largely
Category
Late 18th Century French Antique Poem
Materials
Gold Leaf
Ancient Roman Coin 2nd Cent. AD Pendant w/rubies depicting Emperor Hadrian
Located in Roma, IT
refined aesthetic sense, was highly educated, and even left a collection of poems behind. Some of the
Category
15th Century and Earlier Italian Classical Roman Antique Poem
Materials
Sapphire, Silver
Vintage Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain, Round top glass Table
By Otherside Objects
Located in Birmingham, AL
hold scrolls of ancient scripture and poems written in Chinese calligraphy.
19th-century era
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Antique Poem
Materials
Ceramic
$1,125 Sale Price / set
25% Off
Swedish Royal 18th Century Wash stand with Chinese Water Cistern.
By Per Ljungs Art
Located in Stockholm, SE
, composer, musician, poet, and entertainer, Carl Mikael Bellman, at Drottningholm, recited a tribute poem to
Category
1770s Swedish Gustavian Antique Poem
Materials
Porcelain, Mahogany
Large Dehua Blanc de Chine European Figure and Lion Kangxi Period, 17th Century
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
write poems to entertain for fun.
Herein extracted a good line of the poem:
重译梯航神兽通, Re-run of the
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Poem
Materials
Porcelain
Susan, Lady Belasyse /// Memoirs of Count Grammont Royal Portrait Engraving Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
of the Stuart Restoration. Hamilton also wrote many letters, poems, and five tales.
Category
Early 1800s Romantic Antique Poem
Materials
Engraving, Intaglio
1920
s Persian Kerman Carpet with Traditional Style
Located in Dallas, TX
art and heritage. Each knot is a verse in a poem of elegance, forming a visual symphony across its
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Victorian Antique Poem
Materials
Wool
$7,728 Sale Price
20% Off
Annual Events for Young Murasaki (July) - Tales of Genji - Japanese Woodblock
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Soquel, CA
leaves, poems and wishes are written on five colored strips of paper, which are then hung on bamboo
Category
1850s Realist Antique Poem
Materials
Printer s Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
Les Malheurs des Immortels - Rare Book illustrated by Max Ernst - 1922
By Max Ernst
Located in Roma, IT
Les Malheurs des Immortels révélés par Paul Eluard et Max Ernst. Collection of poems and prints
Category
1920s Modern Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
1760 Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain
d
By John Milton
Located in Bath, GB
poems bound here in one volume.
A Baskerville edition.
Complete as two volumes bound in one.
ESTC
Category
1760s European Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Bain-Froid Chevrier; Chevrier
s Cold-Bath Establishment, "School Baths", Paris
By Charles Meryon
Located in Middletown, NY
poem. Two minor edge tears at the right sheet edge, one measuring approximately 1-inch, the other
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Antique Poem
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Engraving
Old Master Allegorical oil painting of “Erminia and The Shepherds”
By Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Il Guercino)
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
depicted in the paining is drawn from “Jerusalem Delivered” (1581), an epic poem about the Crusades by
Category
17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Poem
Materials
Canvas
A Regency Period Irish Chimneypiece Carved in White Statuary Marble
Located in London, GB
Pegasus.
The central tablet depicts a scene from Lord Byron's poem 'Mazeppa', published in 1819, where
Category
19th Century Irish Regency Antique Poem
Materials
Marble, Statuary Marble
Portrait of Fingal / Finn MacCool - A moving portrait of an Irish literary hero
Located in Middletown, NY
transformed into the character "Fingal" in James Macpherson's poem cycle Ossian (1760), which Macpherson
Category
Early 19th Century French School Antique Poem
Materials
Handmade Paper, Chalk, Graphite
ROGANEAU Early 20th century Symbolist painting French Wolves Acropolis Athens
Located in PARIS, FR
Ancient Poems by André Chénier. Or “The Poet” or “Eloge de l’Italie” (to illustrate Bucoliques et
Category
Late 19th Century Symbolist Antique Poem
Materials
Oil
Antique Woodblock Print, Chikanobu Five Festivals, 1893
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
the 7th day of the 7th month when poems are written on colored papers and hung on freshly cut bamboo
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
1900
s Gold Turkish Medallion Oushak Rug with Traditional Style
Located in Dallas, TX
knotted wool antique Turkish Oushak rug unfurls like a page from an epic poem—each thread a stanza of
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Bohemian Antique Poem
Materials
Wool
$13,440 Sale Price
25% Off
The Great Republic by the Master Historians, Edited by Charles Morris, 4 Vols
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
stories, poems, and serial novels in Beadle's Saturday Journal. He wrote several textbooks, including The
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Poem
Materials
Leather, Paper
Hudibras Confronts Sidrophel and Whacum, Engraving by Cook after Hogarth, 1802
Located in Langweer, NL
series of twelve illustrations created for Samuel Butler's satirical poem, "Hudibras." Samuel Butler
Category
Early 1800s Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
$418 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Art Nouveau 1910s Punch Bowl or Champaign Cooler, Rhine Valleys Chateau
By Kaiserzinn, Hugo Leven
Located in Andernach, DE
way around the ''hull'' of this vessel and which goes back to Romanticism and published as a poem by H
Category
Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Antique Poem
Materials
Pewter
$632 Sale Price
43% Off
Set of 11 Antique Japanese Meiji Period Chawan Tea Bowls Porcelain Eggshell
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nice set of 11 tea bowls decorated with characters, poem and valuables. They are marked on
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Poem
Materials
Porcelain
$1,366 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Bimini Martini Cocktail Glasses with Animals- Set of Four
By Bimini Glass
Located in Downingtown, PA
of lamp-blowing. Lampl named the company after the fictional, idyllic island of "Bimini" from a poem
Category
1920s Austrian Art Deco Antique Poem
Materials
Blown Glass
pair of Italian 19th century Alabaster and Verde Ranocchia marble busts
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Porta Palio.
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) was an Italian Renaissance poet best known for his epic poem
Category
19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Poem
Materials
Marble
Antique Wedgwood Basalt Bust of Homer
By Wedgwood
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
have penned the two of ancient Greece’s most epic poems: the Iliad and the Odyssey. Scholars are
Category
Mid-19th Century English Grand Tour Antique Poem
Materials
Stone
Augis French Plus Qu’Hier More Than Yesterday 18K Yellow Gold Love Medal Pendant
By A. Augis
Located in London, GB
, moins que demain" ("More than yesterday, less than tomorrow") - a line taken from the love poem written
Category
1910s French Antique Poem
Materials
Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Wunderkammer, The Dance of the Skeletons, by Tanomura Chokunyu (1814-1909)
Located in PARIS, FR
string instrument. Above the scene, a poem accompanies the artist’s signature and seals.
Tanomura
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
$1,710 Sale Price
20% Off
EARLY 19th CENTURY PAINTING ALLEGORY OF SPRING
Located in Firenze, FI
century. Also noteworthy on the back is the presence of a poem in English, attributable to the Irish poet
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Poem
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Ponti sull’Oceano-Versi Liberi e Parole... - Rare Book by Luciano Folgore - 1914
Located in Roma, IT
First edition of one of the most important volumes of the Futurist literature. Collection of poems
Category
1910s Modern Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Late 19th Century Turkish Oushak Gallery Carpet Runner with Modern Style
Located in Dallas, TX
emblem of prosperity and life. Each blossom, palmette, and rosette is a verse from an unspoken poem
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Spanish Colonial Antique Poem
Materials
Wool
1900
s Antique Ivory Turkish Oushak Rug with Modern Mediterranean Style
Located in Dallas, TX
poem in wool—a place where design meets meaning.
Scarce, soulful, and undeniably prestigious, this
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Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Antique Poem
Materials
Wool
$11,199 Sale Price
20% Off
Claire de Lune - Moonlight - British 1916 Impressionist landscape oil painting
By Joseph Vickers De Ville
Located in Hagley, England
Moonlight, is also a poem written by French poet Paul Verlaine in 1869. It is the inspiration for the third
Category
1910s Impressionist Antique Poem
Materials
Oil
Antique George III period mahogany serpentine chest of drawers
Located in London, GB
the serpentine base mirrors the carving on the top edge of the chest. To complete the poem in
Category
Mid-18th Century English Chippendale Antique Poem
Materials
Mahogany
The Catch, 1920s, French Women Artists, UNUSUAL STORY, Thorwald Helleson
By Hélène Marie Marguerite Perdriat
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
from the Breton coast, and she wrote poems. She painted animals, ships, and sailors, but always return
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Poem
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harvest Time - British Victorian exhibited art figurative landscape oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
a poem by James Thomson. It is a beautiful landscape populated with several groups of people
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique Poem
Materials
Oil
The Nude - Lithograph - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
poem in French on the rear.
Good conditions.
Category
1920s Modern Antique Poem
Materials
Lithograph
Late 19th Century Antique Turkish Oushak Rug with Time-Softened Colors
Located in Dallas, TX
a verse from a visual poem composed in wool, its meter dictated by hand and loom, and its rhyme
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Oushak Antique Poem
Materials
Wool
Original Antique Poster Danny Gurtler Munchner Hof Cabaret Artist Munich Theatre
By Georges Rogier
Located in London, GB
revolutionary poem by Georg Herwegh (1817-1875) in red between two decorative boxes below - Alle Rader stehen
Category
Early 1900s German Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Sarah Whitehead; The Bank Nun, or the Lady in Black – English School, 19th Cent.
Located in Middletown, NY
poem New Year Letter by W. H. Auden.
Category
Early 19th Century English School Antique Poem
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Lithograph
Fine quality glass sculpture by Bimini
By Bimini Glass
Located in London, GB
finer and generally had paper labels which have disappeared.
The name Bimini was taken from a poem by
Category
1920s Austrian Organic Modern Antique Poem
Materials
Art Glass
$932 Sale Price
20% Off
Odes and Sonnets Illustrades
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
original binding.
I kept it for me for long time: now it's for another reader, lover of poems.
Category
Mid-19th Century English Other Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
$285 Sale Price
20% Off
Late 19th Century Antique Turkish Oushak Rug with Modern Style
Located in Dallas, TX
visual poem with the same grace and majesty that a carved stone arch might frame a garden vista. Here
Category
Late 19th Century Turkish Spanish Colonial Antique Poem
Materials
Wool
$19,600 Sale Price
21% Off
Augis French Plus Qu’Hier More Than Yesterday 18K Yellow Gold Love Medal Pendant
By A. Augis
Located in London, GB
, moins que demain" ("More than yesterday, less than tomorrow") - a line taken from the love poem written
Category
1920s French Antique Poem
Materials
Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
The Hound
By Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
it appear as if it was painted just recently. The painting is accompanied by an original poem by C.D
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Antique Poem
Materials
Oil
Antique 18th c Kangxi Imari Barber Surgeon Basin Ca 1710 China Porcelain Chinese
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
remained in high demand as late as 1727, when John Gay
penned his poem, The Goat Without a Beard:
His pole
Category
17th Century Chinese Qing Antique Poem
Materials
Porcelain
Seated Figure
— American Expressionism
By Max Weber
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
, ten of Weber’s poems with ten woodcuts were published in the Yiddish literary journal 'Schriften
Category
1920s Expressionist Antique Poem
Materials
Woodcut
Antique American Marine Seascape Oil Painting Crashing Surf Atlantic Coast Maine
By Frederick Judd Waugh
Located in Portland, OR
short poem in Pamela Colman Smith’s short-lived periodical The Green Sheaf; a fairy tale in The English
Category
1910s Realist Antique Poem
Materials
Oil, Panel
William Shakespeare 15 Volumes Limited Edition Number 77
By William Shakespeare
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Shakespeare's plays and poems, making it a must-have for any library.
Regarded as the greatest writer in the
Category
Early 20th Century English Victorian Antique Poem
Materials
Leather, Paper
Mother Love (Madonna and Child) — American Expressionism
By Max Weber
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
, ten of Weber’s poems with ten woodcuts were published in the Yiddish literary journal 'Schriften
Category
1920s Expressionist Antique Poem
Materials
Woodcut
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With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the antique poem you’re looking for. Each antique poem for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using ceramic, paper and animal skin. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect antique poem — we have versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. An antique poem made by Victorian designers — as well as those associated with Art Deco — is very popular. You’ll likely find more than one antique poem that is appealing in its simplicity, but Choisy-le-Roi, Felicia Hemans and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi produced versions that are worth a look.
How Much is a Antique Poem?
The average selling price for an antique poem at 1stDibs is $2,046, while they’re typically $119 on the low end and $30,000 for the highest priced.