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Monumental 18th Century Aubusson Verdure Tapestry
By Aubusson Manufacture
Located in Miami, FL
elegant wading birds. The composition is framed by an intricately woven floral border that enhances the
Category
Antique 18th Century French Baroque Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
19th Century Flemish (Belgium) Pictorial Verdure Wool Tapestry Signed A.M.R.B.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
foreground, wading birds animate the landscape, a hallmark motif of Flemish verdure tapestries. The color
Category
Antique 19th Century Belgian Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Antique Bird Print of the Common Redshank by Sepp
Nozeman, 1797
Located in Langweer, NL
based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by
Category
Antique 18th Century Prints
Materials
Paper
$704 Sale Price
14% Off
Antique Bird Print of a Sanderling by Sepp
Nozeman, 1797
Located in Langweer, NL
: drieteenstrandloper) and the dunlin (Dutch: bonte strandloper). The sanderling (Calidris alba) is a small wading bird
Category
Antique 18th Century Prints
Materials
Paper
$404 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Bird Print of the Eurasian Woodcock by Sepp
Nozeman, 1797
Located in Langweer, NL
(Dutch: Houtsnip). The Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) is a medium-small wading bird found in
Category
Antique 18th Century Dutch Prints
Materials
Paper
Antique Bird Print of the Nest of a Spoonbill of the Ibis Family, 1789
Located in Langweer, NL
spoonbill (Dutch: lepelaar). The Eurasian spoonbill or common spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) is a wading
Category
Antique 18th Century Prints
Materials
Paper
Two Exotic Birds on Branches, Antique Bird Engraving by Schouman, c. 1760
Located in Langweer, NL
scanning for prey. The lower bird is a curlew-like wading bird, recognizable by its elongated body and
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Dutch Prints
Materials
Paper
Redshank and Greenshank in Winter Plumage, Antique Bird Lithograph c.1895
Located in Langweer, NL
chromolithograph, printed circa 1900, presents two beautifully illustrated wading birds: the Spotted Redshank
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Prints
Materials
Paper
Antique Bird Print of the Grey Heron by Naumann, circa 1895
Located in Langweer, NL
, showcasing the subtle gradations of grey, blue, and white that characterize this elegant wading bird
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Prints
Materials
Paper
Five wallpaper panels, China, 18th century
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
: butterflies, green parakeets, male and female pheasants, sparrows, and woodpeckers, while wading birds flutter
Category
Antique 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Wallpaper
Materials
Paper
Roseate Spoonbill /// John James Audubon Natural History Ornithology Water Bird
By John James Audubon
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae. It is a resident breeder in both South
Category
1840s Victorian Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Old Hand-Colored Bird Print a Banded Stilt and a Madagascar Jacana
Located in Langweer, NL
habitat.
The Banded Stilt, an elegant wading bird, is depicted with its slender build and distinctively
Category
Antique 1840s Prints
Materials
Paper
$133 Sale Price
20% Off
Spotted Redshank and Greenshank, Antique Shorebird Lithograph c.1895
Located in Langweer, NL
ornithological print depicts two closely related European wading birds: the Spotted Redshank (*Totanus fuscus
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Prints
Materials
Paper
Redshank and Marsh Sandpiper, Antique Shorebird Lithograph c.1895
Located in Langweer, NL
, printed around 1900, features two elegant wading birds common to European wetlands: the Common Redshank
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Prints
Materials
Paper
Ardea Stellaris Rufa – Eurasian Bittern from Nederlandsche Vogelen, 1809
By J.C. Sepp, M. Houttuyn
Located in Langweer, NL
warm browns, creams, and black, blending seamlessly into its wetland habitat. This wading bird inhabits
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Dutch Prints
Materials
Paper
$606 Sale Price
40% Off
Carved Glossy Ibis Sculpture
Located in North Palm Beach, FL
(Plegadis falcinellus) is a graceful wading bird known for its slender silhouette and subtly iridescent
Category
1990s Animal Sculptures
Materials
Hardwood
Crystal Claret Ewer, Wheel-Engraved Game Frieze, Possibly Val Saint-Lambert
By Val Saint Lambert
Located in Atlanta, GA
wading birds in reeds, all framed by a narrow beaded border. The long neck is plain and optically clear
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Aesthetic Movement Barware
Materials
Crystal
Ardea, Stellaris (Eurasian Bittern) /// Dutch Ornithology Bird Animal Engraving
By Cornelius Nozeman
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
for sale in Holland at this period.
The Eurasian bittern or great bittern is a wading bird in the
Category
1770s Old Masters Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
Arran skyline, Sannox, Isle of Arran, with snipes
Located in GB
snipes—small, agile wading birds—taking flight over the rugged terrain and river of Sannox on the Isle of
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$4,397 Sale Price
20% Off
Platalea Leucorodia (Spoonbill) /// Ornithology John Gould Animal Art Shorebird
By John Gould
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
". Gold gilded edges as issued.
Spoonbills are a genus, Platalea, of large, long-legged wading birds. The
Category
1860s Victorian Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Scarlet Ibis
Glossy Ibis – Antique hand-coloured lithograph, c.1828
Located in Langweer, NL
early 19th-century ornithological print depicts two striking wading birds: the Scarlet Ibis (Le Courlis
Category
Antique 1820s French Prints
Materials
Paper
Hand-Colored Engraving of Plovers and Lapwings from Histoire Naturelle, 1790
Located in Langweer, NL
(Plover) family, which are wading birds typically found near water.
Birds Depicted (Translation and
Category
Antique 1790s Prints
Materials
Paper
$123 Sale Price
20% Off
Elegant Avian Diversity: Illustrations from Buffon
s Ornithology, c.1780
Located in Langweer, NL
. Le Héron (The Heron) – A tall wading bird with gray plumage, long legs, and a pointed beak, shown
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Prints
Materials
Paper
$599 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Life-Sized Spoonbill Print – Dutch Ornithology by Sepp and Nozeman, 1789
Located in Langweer, NL
spoonbill is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family (Threskiornithidae) found across Europe, Asia
Category
Antique 18th Century Dutch Prints
Materials
Paper
$1,761 Sale Price
20% Off
Seasonal Plumage of the Sanderling: Selby
s Ornithological Study, 1826
Located in Langweer, NL
showcases the Sanderling, a small wading bird, captured in meticulous detail by Prideaux John Selby. Plate
Category
Antique 1820s Prints
Materials
Paper
$1,142 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Verdure Aubusson Tapestry with Birds
Located in New York, NY
complete floral border. Two birds wade aside a winding stream in this scenic landscape with an ancient town
Category
Antique 18th Century French Aubusson Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk, Tapestry
Camargue Watercolor of Thatched Cottage with Storks and Marshland
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
create a scene rich in regional character.
Elegant Wading Storks: These iconic birds are synonymous with
Category
Late 20th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
DUSK
By Frank W. Benson
Located in Portland, ME
with a gun and brace of birds wading to shore as evening falls, is an early Benson print (with the
Category
1910s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Iridescent Majesty: Vintage Print of The Northern Lapwing by Von Wright, 1929
Located in Langweer, NL
bird’s readiness to wade through its typical wetland habitats.
The artist, Magnus von Wright, has
Category
20th Century Swedish Prints
Materials
Paper
$209 Sale Price
20% Off
Stunning Italian Design Midcentury Modern Antonio Pavia Crane Table Lamp
By Antonio Pavia
Located in Lisse, NL
lamp with the large and long legged wading crane bird sculpture is even more impressive in real life
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Floor Lamps
Materials
Metal
Little Stint – Antique Dutch Ornithology Print by Sepp and Nozeman, circa 1797
Located in Langweer, NL
here in two poses—one bird wading on a rocky shoreline and another depicted mid-flight with wings
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Dutch Prints
Materials
Paper
Fornasetti Tray with Motives of Wading Birds
By Fornasetti
Located in Nice, FR
Tray by Piero Fornasetti in metal with decor of wading birds. Glass track on the front. Target
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Platters and Serveware
Pair of French Wading Bird Sculptures
Located in London, GB
Weathered, Lichen Patinated Cast Stone and Metal Wire.
French, c.1930
12" high x 7" wide x 4" deep
Category
Vintage 1930s French Animal Sculptures
$2,000 / set
17th Century Flemish Verdure Tapestry
Located in London, GB
With a castle in a wooded landscape surrounded by wild animals, including deer and wading birds in
Category
Antique Late 17th Century Belgian Louis XIV Tapestries
Materials
Silk, Wool
Tapestry / tapestry with the motif of birds at the pond, height 212 X 122 cm
Located in STRAČOV, CZ
with the motif of wading birds with a plume in the view between flowers of a pond and a medieval thing
Category
Early 20th Century French Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Linen, Silk
Charles Catteau and Leon Delfant Art Deco Vase
By Charles Catteau for Boch Freres
Located in Atlanta, GA
Fantasie. Vase depicts a polychrome design with wading birds and a floral motif on an brick red background
Category
Vintage 1930s French Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Fine Pastel Titled The Blue Lagoon
Located in Leicester, GB
shallow waters edge.
Ibises are a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae that
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Robert William Wood Original Painting Oil On Canvas Signed Seascape Water Art
By Robert William Wood
Located in Bloomington, MN
depiction of wading birds amongst the rocky shore of a calm sea, which is saturated with the exquisite color
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Heron Boehm Wading Bird Series
Located in Toledo, OH
Boehm blue heron figurine. Standing with foot raised. Made in the USA and part of the Wading Bird
Category
20th Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
English 19th Century Stone Wading Bird
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A reconstituted stone representation of a Heron or wading bird from the end of the 19th century
Category
Antique 19th Century English Garden Ornaments
Wading Birds Console, Alain Chervet style, circa 1970
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Wading birds console in brass and glass, circa 1970, in the style of Alain Chervet
Category
Vintage 1970s French Console Tables
Materials
Brass
A Group of Four Wading Birds.
By Edward Lear
Located in London, London
‘the most remarkable bird drawings ever made’
LEAR, Edward.
A Group of Four Wading Birds.
Flamingo
Category
1830s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph
A Group of Four Wading Birds.
By Edward Lear
Located in London, London
“The most remarkable bird drawings ever made”
LEAR, Edward and John GOULD.
A Group of Four Wading
Category
1830s Naturalistic Animal Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Lithograph
Hand Carved Teak Sculpture of a Wading Bird, ca. 1960s
Located in Peabody, MA
Large table top sculpture of an elegant wading bird, heron or crane, hand carved with wire legs and
Category
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Collection of Early 20th Century Naive French Wading Bird Decoys
Located in Pease pottage, West Sussex
Primitive Collection of three French working wading bird decoys, a large curlew and a pair of
Category
Mid-20th Century French Decoys
Working Wading Bird Decoy
Located in Pease pottage, West Sussex
Working Sandpiper Shorebird decoy, carved wood in original paint. Glass eyes, later stand. Baie de Somme, France Circa 1950. Measurement includes stand.
Dimensions: 23cm x 28cm x 7cm.
Category
Vintage 1950s French Decoys
Materials
Wood
20th Century French Solid Silver Wading Bird With Articulated Wings c.1910
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early 20th Century Fench solid silver figure intricately modelled as a wading bird. This
Category
20th Century French Other Animal Sculptures
Materials
Silver
Antique Bird Print of The Woodcock Wading Bird in a Forrest, 1898
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique bird print titled 'Woodcock'.
Old bird print depicting the woodcock wading bird. This
Category
Antique 19th Century Prints
Materials
Paper
Monumental Shell Encrusted Burlap and Wire Wading Bird Sculptures, a Pair
Located in Topeka, KS
wading birds will be the center of attention no matter where you use them. Comprised of wire that has
Category
20th Century Folk Art Models and Miniatures
Materials
Wire
Old Hand-Colored Bird Print of the Male Ruff Wading Bird, a Sandpiper, ca.1738
Located in Langweer, NL
pugnax), amedium-sized wading bird that breeds in marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia . This
Category
Antique 1730s Prints
Materials
Paper
Vintage Cast Iron Spoon Bill Wading Bird Garden Ornament
Located in Mt Kisco, NY
standing happily on a "rock" platform this painted cast iron spoon bill is the perfect addition to a garden, or terrace.
Category
American Garden Ornaments
Monumental English Majolica Wading Birds in a Cattail Marsh Ewer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
wading in a marsh or pond with cattails and bulrushes. The handle is made of the long neck and head of a
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Pitchers
Materials
Earthenware
Antique Bohemian Etched Crystal Vase with Chateau, Stag, and Bird Motif - 1Y126
Located in Bordeaux, FR
chateau, a stag, a wading bird, and stylized elements. Dating back to the early 20th century, this piece
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Antiquities
Materials
Crystal
Pair of Antique Japanese Bronze Vases with Birds 19th-20th Century
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stylish pair of antique Japanese bronze vases, one moulded in relief with wading birds with birds
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Aubusson Tapestry
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
18th Century Aubusson Tapestry depicting a pair of wading birds beside a stream under a verdure
Category
Antique 18th Century Tapestries
Materials
Fabric
19th Century Aboriginal Parrying Shield
Located in Greenwich, CT
, scorpions, salamanders, snakes, platypus, wading birds and waterfowl, the reverse with dugout hand hold and
Category
Antique 19th Century Australian Tribal Art
Pair of Early 20th Century Working Decoys
Located in Pease pottage, West Sussex
Pair of very naïve working wading bird decoys, iron bill or nail beak, very distressed remnant
Category
Early 20th Century French Decoys
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Wading Birds For Sale on 1stDibs
There is a range of wading birds for sale on 1stDibs. The range of distinct wading birds — often made from paper, metal and ceramic — can elevate any home. Find 91 antique and vintage wading birds at 1stDibs now, or shop our selection of 5 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished furniture. Wading birds have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 21st Century. Art Deco, Victorian and Hollywood Regency wading birds are consistently popular styles. Wading birds have been a part of the life’s work for many furniture makers, but those produced by J.C. Sepp, M. Houttuyn and Cornelius NOZEMAN are consistently popular.
How Much are Wading Birds?
Wading birds can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price at 1stDibs is $1,600, while the lowest priced sells for $65 and the highest can go for as much as $65,000.