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Period: 20th Century
1940s/1950s Carnival Ride Panel - Monumental Hand Painted Metal Carousel Salvage
Located in Forney, TX
A rare, whimsical, and most impressive monumental scale midcentury American traveling carnival hand painted metal ride panel!
United States, circa 1940s/1950s, almost certainly fro...
Category
American Folk Art 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Art Deco Jug, Vase Boch La Louvière Ceramic with Floral Decor, R.Chevalier
Located in Antwerp, BE
Art deco vase with polychrome flower decor and gilding by Raymond Chevalier designer artist for Boch Frères, La Louvière. In a very good condition with light gold fading on the handl...
Category
Belgian Art Deco Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
$1,184 Sale Price
20% Off
A RUSTIC MODERN Ceramic BRITTANY WOMAN PORTRAIT, France 1970
Located in PARIS, FR
A beautiful figurative relief work, Modernist, Rustic-Modern, stylized representation of a woman wearing a stylized Breton headdress with large flowers, created in relief on a thick ...
Category
French Rustic Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Yahyali Kayseri Kilim Central Anatolia Old Rug Turkish Wool Carpet
Located in Tokyo, JP
This is an antique Central Anatolian Kilim from the Yahyali region in Kayseri with a rare and beautiful color composition.
The earliest recorded occupation of Kayseri dates back to ...
Category
Turkish Kilim 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Natural Fiber
$1,950 Sale Price
25% Off
African Art Makonde Mask For Belly and Fertility Beginning 20th Century
Located in Milano, MI
Makonde Body Mask For Fertility Early 1900s made by the Makonde people between Tanzania and Mozambique, this mask was part of the costume young dancers wore when participating in an ...
Category
Tanzanian Tribal 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Tutsi Archer Bracelet (arm Guard) Rwanda, Early 20th Century
By Tutsi People
Located in Bilzen, BE
Tutsi Archer’s Bracelet (Arm Guard)
Origin: Rwanda or Burundi, Great Lakes Region
Ethnic Group: Tutsi
Material: Carved hardwood with copper inlays
Dimensions: 17.5 x 21 cm diameter, ...
Category
Rwandan Tribal 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Copper
1960s Abstract Sculpture MCM Steel Brutalist Geometric Cubist Matthew Strumor
Located in Lake Worth, FL
1960s Abstract Sculpture believed to be by Matthew Strumor is a medium-sized metal artwork from the Post-War period. This handmade sculpture features a geometric cubist design in the...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Zabihi Collection Vintage Pictorial Horse Karabagh Rug
Located in New York, NY
One of a kind 2nd quarter of the 20th Century Karabagh runner with 4 large horses walking and colliding into one another
5' x 9'9''
Category
Persian Folk Art 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Vintage Hand Painted French Patisserie Sign c.1930-1940
Located in San Francisco, CA
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Vintage French wooden sign for "Boulangerie Pattisserie, Pain cuit au feu de bois." (Wood fire baked bread). Framed in steel.
CR...
Category
French Industrial 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Metal
$1,030 Sale Price
45% Off
Japan Tall Antique Hand Crafted Inari Fox Kitsune With Glass Eyes Inari Shrine
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japanese antique shinto shrine ceramic Inari fox guardian and Shinto Kami (god).
Rare glass eyes and remnant red (mouth) and white paint on its base still present and it holds the ...
Category
Japanese Taisho 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Pottery, Glass
Fair Play Basketball Scoreboard, 1980s USA
By Fair Play
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An authentic slice of American sports history, this massive original 1980s scoreboard was manufactured by Trans-Lux Fair-Play, a leader in athletic display technology. Bold in design...
Category
American Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Aluminum
African Gabon Kota Mahongwe Hongwe Bwete Reliquary Guardian Figure Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
A truly fantastic, engaging, and uniquely made African Kota Mahongwe Hongwe Reliquary Guardian Figure/ Sculpture made by the Kota (Bakota) pe...
Category
Gabonese 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Brass, Copper
Diorama nautico raffigurante il mezzo scafo Rosina Siele Trapani Sicilia 1908
Located in Milan, IT
Diorama nautico raffigurante il mezzo scafo in navigazione a vele spiegate del veliero trapanese Rosina Siele varato nel 1908 e alloggiato nella sua originale teca in legno e vet...
Category
Antique 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Pair of Gold Mexican Indian Weaving Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair Beautiful Gold Mexican Indian weaving pillows. Gold Linen Backing with Zippered Casing. Feather and Down Inserts.
Category
North American Native American 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Feathers, Down, Linen
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Beatrice Wood Signed Iridescent Luster Glaze California Studio Pottery Face Vase
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful gem of a piece by famed American/California ceramicist Beatrice Wood featuring her highly coveted iridescent luster glaze and highly desi...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware
Original Vintage Set of 7 Mexican Children Wrestling Masks
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer this Original Vintage Set of 7 Mexican Children Wrestling Masks.
Found from an old factory that manufactured masks for wrestling shows for the Arena Mexico. Made from fantas...
Category
Mexican Folk Art Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Fabric
Weighted Resin Chess Set Game in Jointed Wood Box 9.5cm Kings, Ca 1930s
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good and complete English resin moulded "weighted" chess set game of 32 pieces, in a jointed pine box, all dating to the early/ mid 20th century, Circa 1930's.
The chess p...
Category
British Medieval 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Resin, Pine
Mud Cloth
Bogolanfini
, Mali, Bamana People, Mid-20th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A mud cloth (Bogolanfini),
Mali, Bamana People
mid-20th century.
Hand woven 'discharge dyed' cotton
Approximately 71 x 52 in. (180cm. x 132cm.)
A dazzling geometric pattern...
Category
Malian Tribal 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Fabric
Ceramic Abstract Wall Sculpture Perignem, Belgium
Located in Antwerp, BE
Beautiful colorful ceramic wall sculpture in organic nature details with abstract mushrooms and mosses designed by Paul Vermeire for Perignem,Belgium, 1960s.
Paul Vermeire was a Belgian artist who lived and worked in Ostend. His oeuvre exists out of ceramics, paintings and drawings. He experimented with differed materials and techniques. At the back of the multicolored sculpture...
Category
Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
$757 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Olympia SM3 Typewriter, 1953, AZERTY Keyboard, Germany - 2Y525
Located in Bordeaux, FR
This vintage Olympia SM3 typewriter from 1953 is a beautiful example of mid-century German engineering. Manufactured in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, it features an AZERTY keyboard layout,...
Category
Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Very Large Powerful Dan Guere We Mask Tubular Eyes Ivory Coast Africa ex Fearing
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Very large powerful Dan Guere or We mask from the Ivory Coast Africa ex Fearing collection.
Strong mask with projecting tubular eyes, projecting carved wood tusks over forehead, lar...
Category
Ivorian Tribal 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
African Wood Female Bust Figurative Sculpture Mandinka Woman
Located in London, GB
The African wood female bust figurative sculpture of a Mandinka woman is a striking piece of art that encapsulates the cultural heritage and craftsmanship of West Africa. Hand-carved...
Category
Gambian Tribal 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Antique Leather Photo Album With Music Box, Early 20th Century
Located in Greven, DE
Unique antique photo album with a music box, which starts to play when opening the closure.
Category
Unknown 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Leather, Paper
Monumental Sponge Ware Pottery Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This huge signed Roseville sponge ware pottery mixing bowl is in pristine condition. These large size bowls are super rare and in fine condition is even be...
Category
American Adirondack 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Sailors Valentine
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Charming vintage sailors valentine ambitiously handcrafted in exotic organic seashells with a center heart motif surrounded by star form compartments. Presented under glass in an oct...
Category
American Victorian 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Shell, Organic Material, Mahogany
Hand Made Wooden Dairy Farm Bull Wall Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large hand made bull sculpture came out of a dairy farm from the Midwest.
Made from planks and carved and painted on one side.
This item is very strong and sturdy.
Large and has grea...
Category
American Adirondack 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
$2,316 Sale Price
20% Off
Monumental Antique Folk Art Carnival Double Target Game Board
Located in Hopewell, NJ
A rare monumental fairground double target game board inscribed “ 3 Darts for 2d and Score 25 or Over”. Hand painted wood and wire. A wonderful collectors item.
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Category
American Folk Art Antique 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Pair of Rope Ship Wheel Sconce Adrien Audoux
Frida Minet
Located in Austin, TX
Original pair of rope ship wheel sconces Audoux Minet, circa 1960.
Nautical.
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Rope
Rare 19th century fairground Bayol carousel horse
Located in London, GB
Rare 19th century fairground Bayol carousel horse
Dimensions: H 47” x W 29” x D 9”
Weight: 20kg
Date: Late 19th Century
Origin: EU
Material: Pine and metal
Info: This item does no...
Category
German Victorian Antique 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Japanese Art Deco Sculpture Lioness and Gazelle
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3-541 Japanese Art Deco Folk Art hand carved sculpture of a lioness and its gazelle prey.
Category
Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Ebony
Vintage American Wind Up Tin Toy "Milton Berle" Crazy Car by Marx Toy Co C.1952
Located in Incline Village, NV
The "Milton Berle" car is one of a series of "Crazy Cars" manufactured by the Louis Marx Toy Company of New York City; this one being one of the more prolific examples, owing to the ...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Tin
Folk Art Bull Wall Sculpture
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1870 Hand crafted Folk Art Bull sculpture hand crafted from natural materials
Has a pocket measuring 8x7.5" 12" deep
Category
Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Rattan, Twig
Vintage Native American Navajo Cuff bracelet Silver Turquoise Old Pawn jewellery
Located in London, GB
Fine Vintage Native American Navajo bracelet Silver Turquoise jewellery
Fine floral silver work with large turquoise cabochon
Circa 1950`s
Category
American 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Bicycle Model Midcentury Design "Itera" Plastic for Volvo, Sweden
By Volvo
Located in Antwerp, BE
In the current period where the bicycle is undergoing major development and provides a sporty displacement
is this very original green rare designed Volvo seventies bike a really collector's item.
In response to the 1974 oil crisis, a small group of Swedish engineers obtained government funding to develop a bicycle completely composed of fiber-reinforced composite plastics (FRP).
By 1980, the Itera Development Center AB was designing, producing, and marketing injection molded plastic bicycles to a seemingly interested market. The first bicycles were delivered in 1982, the problems with quality assurance and design began stacking up against the company.This bike is in a Vintage original condition.
The Itera bicycle...
Category
Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Metal, Chrome
$3,884 Sale Price
20% Off
Gorgeous Mid Century Danish Styled Teak Sailboat Sculpture 1960
By Kay Bojesen
Located in Peoria, AZ
Immaculate!
Danish Modern
Teak Sail boat Sculpture
With Removable/Articulating Sails
Circa 1960
Here is a simply fabulous Danish Modern teak sai...
Category
Danish Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Teak
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
French Framed Oil Painting Featuring a Mediterranean Harbour Scene
Located in Austin, TX
A fine French oil painting on canvas of a Mediterranean harbour scene, featuring a view of sailboats and a picturesque town in an Impressionist style, signed in bottom right facing c...
Category
French 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Laura Andreson Signed Glazed Mid-Century Modern California Studio Pottery Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully crafted and beautifully glazed bowl by renowned American California master potter Laura Andreson. This bowl features a deep, mesmerizing, rich purple/blue glaze. Gorgeo...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware
Amish Lancaster Co. , Pa. Bars Quilt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This amazing early Amish Lancaster County, Pennsylvania all wool bars quilt is in fine condition.Note the red & blue bars is quite rare and not typical Amish colors.Very fine and int...
Category
American Adirondack Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wool
$10,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Toshiko Takaezu Signed Japanese Shigaraki Ware Pottery Chawan Yunomi Tea Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely beautiful and extremely rare Shigarakai Yaki Ware Chawan tea bowl / Yunomi cup by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The work features a gorgeous dripped glaze over a anagama kiln fired Shigaraki clay body. It is a unique and one-of-a-kind work with a very Wabi-Sabi feel to it.
The piece is signed on the base with her traditional "TT" mark / monogram.
Shigaraki Ware pottery comes from Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The kiln there is one of six ancient kilns in Japan (along with Echizen ware, Seto ware, Bizen ware, Tamba ware, and Tokoname ware).
In 1993, Toshiko was invited to Japan by Shiro Otani to work with the quartz rich clay and local artists/potters at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park. In 1995 she made the journey there to work in master Japanese ceramicist Shiho Kanzaki's studio in Shigaraki,. We believe this work was likely created at this time. It appears few pieces that she made during this particular visit exists today as we have only seen one other work - another Chawan - that she created during this trip (The works were fired in Kanzaki's anagama kiln in February 1996 and subsequently shipped back to Toshiko in New Jersey).
This particular work also encompasses the Japanese Wabi-Sabi aesthetic - the appreciation of beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete in nature and embraces the principles of asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and the appreciation of both natural objects and the forces of nature upon them.
Would be a great addition to any collectors of Toshiko's work or Japanese/Hawaiian pottery...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Mid-Century Modern Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, sumptuously glazed, spectacular bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The high-fired porcelain bowl features a shifting earth toned dr...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain, Pottery
Mexican Dia De Los Muertos Day of the Dead La Catrina Folk Art Figure Sculpture
Located in Studio City, CA
A quite wonderful Mexican Day of the Dead (Dia De Los Muertos festival held throughout Mexico) La Catrina symbolic skeleton figure.
La Catrina is the festival’s most recognizable image/figure. She is the model of a high-society woman who has met Death, her maker. She represents something between the fear induced by her skeletal form and the revelry exhibited by the comical way she is typically portrayed, making her a perfect symbol of the Mexican holiday. She often appears in paintings, window displays, and costumes all around Mexico during the Day of the Dead festivities.
La Catrina was originally conceived in the early 1900s by newspaper illustrator and printmaker José Guadalupe Posada...
Category
Mexican Folk Art 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Textile, Wood, Paper
Toshiko Takaezu Signed Mid-Century Modern Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging relatively large sumptuously glazed bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The high-fired stoneware bowl features a v...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Pottery, Stoneware
1940s Coney Island Amusement Park Kiddie Car Fire Engine in Original Condition
By Pinto Brothers Mfg.
Located in Savannah, GA
Produced by Pinto Bros Mfg of Coney Island, New York, this all-original 1940s firetruck was part of a circular ride at the famed Coney Island Amusement Park. Featuring lucky Number 4...
Category
American Industrial Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Metal
$975 Sale Price
50% Off
Hand Carved Wood Monkey Cane Walking Stick Handle with Piercing Blue Eyes
Located in Studio City, CA
A fantastic and wonderfully hand carved piece. This mischievous looking monkey has beautiful blue glass inset eyes. Would be the crown jewel of any walking cane collection once attac...
Category
20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Glass, Wood
Blue Man by Virginia Cohn Parkum (1943-2025)
Located in Southampton, NJ
Abstract Painting of Man in Blue by Artist, Virginia Cohn Parkum(1943-2025) of Harrisburg Pennsylvania.
Acylic on Canvas in vibrant bold colors.
Signed VC Parkum
Parkum has been feat...
Category
American Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage Signed Native American Navajo SS
Turquoise Concho Belt by Jimmy Herald
By Navajo
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine vintage Navajo belt.
By Jimmy Herald.
Consisting of a leather belt with sterling silver 'conchos' (shells) and turquoise accents. The slides are copper backed and there are ...
Category
North American Native American 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Aydin Kilim Rug Wool Old Vintage Western Anatolian Turkish Carpet
Located in Tokyo, JP
This is Western Anatolian Antique Kilim from the Aydin region with a rare and beautiful color composition.
This highly collectible antique kilim has wonderful special colors and tex...
Category
Turkish Kilim 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Natural Fiber
$21,000 Sale Price
25% Off
A pair of Tutsi Prestige baskets, Rwanda, mid 20th century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Pair of Inkangara Prestige Baskets
Rwanda or Burundi, Tutsi and Hutu peoples
20th century (1960s/1970s)
Left H 13 ins (33 cm); D 7 ins (17.5 cm)
Right H 13.5 ins (34...
Category
Rwandan Tribal Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
20th Century Tribal Kina Shell Pectoral Necklace by Unknown Jeweler
Located in Point Richmond, CA
20th Century Tribal Kina Shell Pectoral Necklace by unknown jeweler
Kina shells were traditionally worn in the western highlands of Papua New Guinea as pectorals, either with a fibe...
Category
American Tribal 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Shell
1950s Folk Art Sculpture Group Of Drunk Swedes At Bar Scene
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
1950s Folk Art wood carving of a group of drunk Swedes at a bar scene with fish and alcohol fermentation.
Category
Swedish Folk Art 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Pine
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
Blue Lady Ema with Handbag Eva Fritz-Lindner, 1970
Located in South Burlington, VT
Blue lady with her handbag- mastertwork from Eva Fritz-Lindner.
A serene tall handmade and hand painted sculpture of a lady carrying her handbag named EMA - a friend of the artist- e handcrafted and hand painted in beautiful blue colors. On bottom atelier mark i 3 D and with tree (black brush mark). Ema was the late Eva Fritz-Lindner's (1933-2017) good friend.
Designer/maker: Eva Fritz-Lindner with stamp i3D, circa 1960-1970.
Glaze: Light and dark blue matte colors are bright and vivid and the hand painting only adds to the charm; light original glaze crazing appropriate for age.
Additional comments: Most of her larger sculptures were likely produced in less than 100 copies based upon research and all were hand painted individually by this artist ensuring each work of art was indeed unique.
Dimensions: 12.5 inches high.
Handmade / handarbeit and hand glazed, few survive.
Provenance: Old German collection.
About the artist:
The bold folk art sculptress and ceramist Eva Fritz-Lindner (1933-2017) studied at the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden and Darmstadt and was a master student in the sculptor class by Erich Kuhn.
From 1955 she worked as a master designer at the Staatliche Majolika-Manufaktur Karlsruhe where she created and designed several hundred highly regarded ceramic folk art animal sculptures and unique wall and garden works of art inspired by nature and possibly the local zoo at Karlsruhe. Owls and family concepts were a particular specialty. During this time she created designs for building and garden ceramics, vessels and small sculptures. Since 1964, the sculptress worked as a freelance artist in her own studio in Karlsruhe-Durlach. The artist designed important works in the field of building ceramics, including wall designs in mosaic, in Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden, Schwäbisch Gmünd and Göppingen. Of particular note, she created enormous scale owl sculptures for the palace gardens in Karlsruhe in 1967 (see photo).
In 1962, Eva Fritz-Lindner was awarded the silver medal at the Prague International Ceramic Exhibition.
The artists' ceramics are owned and located in the Hetjens-Museum Düsseldorf, in the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
$384 Sale Price
74% Off
Vintage Wooden Indian Toy Horse on Wheels
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage wooden Indian toy horse on wheels, circa 1970s. The piece has a latch in the front that allows you to rotate the top portion open to a hidden sto...
Category
Indian 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Antique Persian Bidjar Rug
Located in New York, NY
An antique Persian Bidjar rug from the early 20th century. The wine red small Herati pattern field is overlaid by a light blue involute Herati medallion which, in turn, is centered b...
Category
Persian Tribal 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wool
$2,700 Sale Price
20% Off
Very Large Vintage Japanese Ainu Hokkai Bear Carved Wood Sculpture
Located in Forney, TX
A rare large and most impressive rustic midcentury Japanese Ainu hand carved Ussuri Brown Bear sculpture.
Indigenous Ainu Peoples, probably Ashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, mid-20th century, anonymous artist.
This exceptional example of traditional Kibori Kuma (木彫り熊) was finely hand carved, chiseled, sculpted and painted from a massive block of solid Japanese hardwood, using old primitive techniques with customized knives and chisels, the artisan would sit on the hut floor, using their feet as a vice to hold the block of wood, carefully manipulating and turning, wood chips flying, skillfully carving to create this beautiful piece of art!
This massive scale realistic rendering showcases the artisan's exemplary skills, workmanship, and artistry, the bears aggressive naturalistic appearance comes to life, evoking power, strength, and natural bounty, lending to its fierce dramatic presence.
Modeled as a wild Ussuri brown bear standing on four legs, head slightly tilted up as if about to expel a ferocious roaring growl, having inset black glass eyes, mouth agape with jagged teeth exposed, the bold muscular body with distinct richly textured chip-carved fur, this sculpture captures the essence of Ainu reverence for nature, this sacred animal, and their deep connection to the land. No apparent signatures, typical of folk art work.
- DIMENSIONS: (approx)
19.5" Wide x 11.375" Tall x 13.25" Deep;
Wight: 18.75lbs
- HISTORY / BACKGROUND:
The Ainu are an aboriginal hunter/gatherer/fisher people who once inhabited many of the islands that bound the southern half of the Sea of Okhotsk north of the main Japanese island of Honshu and Southern Russia.
Their land was contested by the Japanese Empire and the USSR for centuries, with the Meiji era Japan colonisation of Hokkaido taking place in the 19th century.
Colonisation dispossessed the native Ainu people of their lands and property. Widespread discrimination enforced against them, including their forced relocation into mountain areas and the prohibition of the use of the Ainu language decimated their economy with the eventual aim of the extinction of Ainu culture and its replacement by Yamato Japanese culture.
The history of the Ainu bear...
Category
Japanese Black Forest 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Art Glass, Hardwood, Paint
Vintage Nupe Cast Bronze Purse Container Bells and Rings Early 20th Century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Nupe of Nigeria thinly cast hollow bronze purse or container, probably created by the lost wax process with attached bronze bells and rings. Hollow with fine overlaid designs...
Category
Nigerian Tribal 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Scandinavian Large Folk Art Carved Wood Bowl 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3-679 Scandinavian Folk Art bowl carved from a solid block of wood.
Category
Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Fruitwood
$375 Sale Price
44% Off
Early 20th Century
The Virginian
Cigar Store Indian
By Samuel Anderson Robb
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
An impressive early 20th-century carved and polychrome painted cigar store Indian standing approximately 6 feet tall to the tip of the feathers. The base features replacement boards—...
Category
Folk Art Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Gesso, Wood, Paint
Mid Century Large Motorized Hand Made Chris Craft Cabin Cruiser C1955
By Chris Craft Boats
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous and large cabin cruiser boat model with an untested motor and batteries. 41.5 inches long and sitting on a brand new custom made stand with a nautical theme. In very good vi...
Category
American Folk Art Vintage 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Vintage Large Glass Bowl with Symmetrical Design - 2Y444
Located in Bordeaux, FR
This vintage large glass bowl features a striking symmetrical design, making it a beautiful and functional addition to any home decor. Measuring 8.7 inches (22 cm) in diameter and 3....
Category
20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Glass
Set of Two Vintage Christmas Small Nutcrackers, Wood, Erzgebirge, Germany, 1970
Located in 05-080 Hornowek, PL
Wooden nutcrackers figure from the Erzgebirge. The region Erzgebirge formerly Eastern Germany is famous for this special kind of nutcrackers, where intricate carving has been their h...
Category
German Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Folk Art
Materials
Wood
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