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"La Lisette" Bronze by Joanny Durand
By Joanny Durand
Located in High Point, NC
, fairy tales and poems.
Category
1910s French Art Nouveau Antique Poem
Materials
Bronze
Bimini archer
By Bimini Glass
Located in London, GB
name Bimini was taken from a poem by Heinrich Haine, 1852, which refers to Bimini as a 'miracle island
Category
1920s Austrian Organic Modern Antique Poem
Materials
Blown Glass, Art Glass
$681 Sale Price
50% Off
Fine quality glass sculptural ballerina by Bimini
By Bimini Glass
Located in London, GB
poem by Heinrich Haine, 1852, which refers to Bimini as a 'miracle island ith the spring water of
Category
1920s Austrian Organic Modern Antique Poem
Materials
Art Glass
$650 Sale Price
50% Off
Sextus Tarquinius Raping Lucretia
By Georg Pencz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
also recounted in Shakespeare’s narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece." Courtesy Britannica
Category
16th Century Old Masters Antique Poem
Materials
Engraving
COTTON, Charles, The Wonders of The Peake, 1681, FIRST EDITION
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Cotton was one of the first landscape poems of a movement which only became significant under Queen Anne
Category
1680s British Antique Poem
Materials
Leather
Italian Statuary Marble Bust of Dante
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
poem ‘La Commedia’ (also known as ‘The Divine Comedy’) considered one of the world’s greatest works of
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Poem
Materials
Marble, Statuary Marble
Art Nouveau Female Nude William Shakespeare - "The Dryad Tree Forest of Arden"
Located in Miami, FL
Eaton, A Song for March, 1901, March and Winter illustrations for Frank Farrington's poem
Eaton was
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Poem
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Japanese porcelain bowl glazed in white and blue, 19th C
Located in Stockholm, SE
A rectangular Japanese porcelain bowl decorated in blue and white colours. Motives of a poem and a
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Poem
Materials
Porcelain
$806 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Wooden Dagger, Late 19th C
Located in Stockholm, SE
items are. There is a signature and a poem engraved on side. Comes from an old Swedish collection formed
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Poem
Materials
Boxwood
"The Outing Magazine" Last Rose of Summer Original Cover Illustration
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
moulded in his studio.
The depiction harks back to the 1805 poem by the Irish poet, Thomas Moore:
‘Tis
Category
1890s Antique Poem
Materials
Oil, Paper, Ink, Gouache, Board
Antique Poetry Book, Pleasures of Memory, Samuel Rogers, English, Georgian, 1803
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
throughout add visual interest to the poetry
Includes the titular poems in part 1 & 2, The Two Sisters and To
Category
Early 19th Century British Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Portrait of a Lady Sewing - British 19th century art Newlyn School oil painting
By Walter Langley
Located in Hagley, England
Women Must Weep (1883; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery) based on Charles Kingsley's poem The Three
Category
1890s Realist Antique Poem
Materials
Oil
G. A. Rochegrosse (1859-1938) , Study for "Le Cocher" original drawing
By Georges Antoine Rochegrosse
Located in Paris, FR
Heredia's poem "The Coachman", published in his collection of poems "Les Trophées" illustrated by
Category
1910s Symbolist Antique Poem
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Arles - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Elisee Maclet
By Élisée Maclet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Guicheteau and Jean Cottel in these words: "Maclet had returned to his first loves, to his first poems; but
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Antique Poem
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique 4 Vols, Waverley Novels, Walter Scott, Scottish, Literary Set, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
Midlothian, as well as narrative poems including The Lady of the Lake. This edition contains 30 of the titles
Category
Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
The Evening of Life - Interior Portrait - British 1906 Newlyn Sch oil painting
By Walter Langley
Located in Hagley, England
) based on Charles Kingsley's poem The Three Fishers (1851). Another is Between The Tides (1901
Category
Early 1900s Realist Antique Poem
Materials
Oil
$51,484 Sale Price
20% Off
1908 The Writings of George Eliot
Located in Bath, GB
plates.
XIX: The Poems. With frontispieces and two plates.
XX: Theophrastus Such. With frontispieces
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Mare and Foal in a Stable Interior, James Ward RA (1769 - 1859)
By James Ward
Located in GB
unfashionable at the time), and his works were sometime accompanied by lengthy explanations or poems.
Category
18th Century Antique Poem
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,572 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Bronze Bust of Homer
Located in Dublin 8, IE
author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Category
19th Century European Neoclassical Antique Poem
Materials
Bronze
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
s "Zapolya, a Christmas Tale" in Fine Leather Binding
Located in Middletown, NY
and bright. fine.
An elegant copy of Coleridge's Christmas dramatic poem modeled after
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Poem
Materials
Gold Leaf
Engraving of Julius Ceasar
s Ruins and Skeleton: A Charpentier Vanitas, 1757
Located in Langweer, NL
foxing and other stains, yet retains its profound impact and historical significance.
The poem beneath
Category
1750s Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Japanese Rinpa Lacquer Box, "Irises at Yatsuhashi", by Santo Kyosui, Edo Period
Located in Austin, TX
-zagging eight plank-bridges. It is here that Ariwara no Narihira composes his famous poem lamenting his
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Poem
Materials
Copper, Pewter
The Convent Boat - British Victorian Pre-Raphaelite art religious oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
illustrated Keats's poem The Eve of St. Agnes. Hughes's version of the latter is in the form of a secular
Category
1880s Pre-Raphaelite Antique Poem
Materials
Oil
Augis French More Than Yesterday 18K Yellow Gold Love Charm 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
Echo et Narcisse - Lithograph by Auguste Roubille - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
).
Three Lithographs print on paper, cm 20x15 cad. Signed in plate. The artwork is part of the Poem of Paul
Category
1910s Modern Antique Poem
Materials
Lithograph
Statue d
Homme d
État
By Auguste Louis Lepère
Located in Middletown, NY
the edition that was published to include the poem of the same title by François Coppé. In very good
Category
Late 19th Century French School Antique Poem
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
Paul Revere Coffee Pot
By Paul Revere
Located in New Orleans, LA
in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, which tells of how he
Category
18th Century American Antique Poem
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,285,000
The Golden Book of Swinburne
s Lyrics
Located in Middletown, NY
poems have many common motifs, such as the ocean, time, and death.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles: The
Category
Early 20th Century English Antique Poem
Materials
Gold Leaf
Polychromed Statue representing Sint Alexis of Edessa. Flemish school, Belgium
Located in Leuven , BE
recounted in a French poem, la Vie de saint Alexis, believed to date from the early or mid-11th century
Category
16th Century Belgian Antique Poem
Materials
Wood
Pair of Vases with Wisteria Flowers
Goldfish on Green Cloisonné Enamel Meiji
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
represents love and longevity, and we often see them used in art, poems, family crests, and formal kimonos
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Poem
Materials
Bronze
$2,230 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Prayer for Those in Peril at Sea, 19th Century English Oil Painting
By William Gale (British)
Located in London, GB
from a poem written by William Whiting in 1860. Whiting, originally from Winchester, was a student who
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Antique Poem
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dans les champs - Neo Impressionist Riverscape Oil by Leo Marie Gausson
By Léo Gausson
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
moved in literary circles and associated particularly with Gustave Kahn and Adolphe Retté, whose poems
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Antique Poem
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Robert Burns Tam O
Shanter Staffordshire Figure Decorative Scottish Antiques
Located in London, GB
Johnny from the world famous poem by Robert Burns,
Period Victorian: These figures were made from
Category
1880s British Antique Poem
Materials
Pottery
Desbarbieux, Original Vintage Poster, Black Cat, Chat Noir, Ball of Wool, 1922
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
, it offered literary texts, poems, advertisements and stories in images without captions. It was
Category
1920s French Art Deco Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Symphony in White No. 2, The Little White Girl
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Academy the next year. The original frame carried a poem written by Whistler's friend Algernon Charles
Category
1920s Pre-Raphaelite Antique Poem
Materials
Mezzotint
(after) Samuel Palmer - "The Brothers discovering the Palace of Comus"
By Samuel Palmer (b.1805)
Located in Henderson, NV
Milton, and executed a suite of watercolors which were made into photo-engravings for "The Shorter Poems
Category
1880s Realist Antique Poem
Materials
Photogravure
(after) Samuel Palmer - "The Brothers under the Vine"
By Samuel Palmer (b.1805)
Located in Henderson, NV
Milton, and executed a suite of watercolors which were made into photo-engravings for "The Shorter Poems
Category
1880s Realist Antique Poem
Materials
Photogravure
Vintage Chinese 1930s Advertisement Poster
Located in Chicago, IL
the son is dressed in European attire. A poem is drawn at the top of the poster and the artist’s name
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
Fuji and Clouds Kyotoware Dish
Located in Hudson, NY
a poem. Cloud design around the edges, and feet on the bottom. Poem loosely translates to:
Whose
Category
1920s Japanese Antique Poem
Materials
Ceramic
DOVES PRESS - Lucrece - Shakespeare
s The Rape of Lucrece - LIMITED EDITION
Located in Middletown, NY
narrative poem about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia, is printed from the Text of the First Edition
Category
Early 20th Century English Antique Poem
Materials
Leather, Paper
Grand Tour Neoclassical Bronze of “The Dying Gaul”
Located in Palm Springs, CA
was one such visitor, commemorating the statue in his poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage:
I see before
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Antique Poem
Materials
Bronze
Rare Chinese Porcelain Ming Period Kosometsuke Plates Boat
Fisher, ca1600-1660
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
lake. Above the fisherman calligraphy is also painted, probably a story or poem.
Ming dynasty, Tianqi
Category
17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Poem
Materials
Porcelain
$2,401 Sale Price
48% Off
Japanese Six-Panel Screen
Located in Stamford, CT
A six-panel Japanese paper screen with poems, autumn flowers, bamboo fence and Mandarin ducks
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
$19,900
Set of 4 Original Stipple Engravings-Italian Printmaker Angelo Zaffonato c.1800
Located in Southall, GB
signed in the lower centre with the title in the lower line and the title page has a inscribed poem.
They
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Poem
Materials
Giltwood, Paper
Antique Marbled Plaster Statue of Hebe
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
sculpture of Hebe, circa 1800, inspired sonnets and poems celebrating its beauty and grace. The artist
Category
Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Antique Poem
Materials
Plaster
"A Successful Man" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1919
By Charles Allen Winter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
, from book Poems of Optimism (1919).
Category
1910s Antique Poem
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique 1832 Sampler, Jane Peacock Age 8, Friendship
Located in Bridgeport, CT
By Jane Peacock age 8. With a Friendship poem along with embroidered birds, squirrels, and a
Category
19th Century American Folk Art Antique Poem
Materials
Fabric, Glass, Wood
French Painting Still Life 19th COUTY Artichokes Cherries Wine Plate
Located in PARIS, FR
wine) and the sweetness of Paradise and Religion (the cherry). We think of Baudelaire’s famous poem
Category
Late 19th Century French School Antique Poem
Materials
Oil
$2,563 Sale Price
20% Off
1829 Sampler Made by Elizabeth Ann Edmonds in Period Frame, English
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
stitched sampler on fine background. Exquisite tiny stitches present a religious poem & a cartouche signed
Category
1820s English Antique Poem
Materials
Linen, Silk
$480 Sale Price
36% Off
Small Matching Pair of Famille Rose Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Vases
Located in Norton, MA
Flowers with Poems describing the beautiful springtime, breezing day with birds singing, and flower
Category
1920s Chinese Other Antique Poem
Materials
Porcelain
Augis French Plus Qu’hier 18K Yellow Gold Love Charm 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
Portfolio L
Atelier - 10 Linocuts Russian
By Jean Pougny
Located in London, GB
Cardin and Bogratchew after Pougny's original designs.
The portfolio also includes a poem by Prevert
Category
1910s Antique Poem
Materials
Linocut, Stencil
Doris Leslie Blau Vintage Persian Tabriz Brown Handmade Wool Rug
Located in New York, NY
the gardens, borders, poems and prayers amalgamated within make it a remarkable specimen. It’s subtle
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Tabriz Antique Poem
Materials
Wool
Antique Novel, A Legend of Montrose, Sir Walter Scott, English, Victorian Book
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
as narrative poems including The Lady of the Lake. A Legend of Montrose is set in 17th century
Category
Late 19th Century British Victorian Antique Poem
Materials
Paper
A Ballad Upon a Wedding – Eric Ravilious engravings / Golden Cokerell Press
Located in Middletown, NY
colophon.
[Chanticleer 29]
A humorous and erotic poem that "celebrates the union of John Lord Lovelace and
Category
Early 20th Century English Antique Poem
Materials
Paper, Parchment Paper
LE PONT AU CHANGE
By Charles Meryon
Located in Portland, ME
, whimsical character. In 1854 Meryon wrote the poem "L'Esperance" to accompany the print and metaphorically
Category
1850s Realist Antique Poem
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
“The Radiant Christ” for Delineator Magazine
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Illustration for the poem “The Radiant Christ
Category
Early 1900s Antique Poem
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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