Early 20th Century Folk Art Toleware Moon Carved Wooden Sun Trade Sign

A rather cheeky looking carved and stained wood devil mask, turn off the century in age. Possibly reference to the Hannya Noh Mask used within Japanese th...

A large carved and polychrome painted tobacconist's figure almost certainly 17th or early 18th century For a related example see Edward H. Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. Page 412, plate 436. Originally this may well have been a tobacconist's shop window figure. For a similar, but slightly earlier unpainted example, see Sotheby's, The W. J. Shepherd collection of treen, 30th November 1983, Lot 393, illustrated in Pinto "Wooden Bygones of Smoking and Snuff Taking", plate 1. Carved wooden figures, often painted, were placed outside tobacconist's shops as signs from the 17th century onwards. The earliest of these figures is the 'black boy' or 'blackamoor'. 'At the sign of the black boy' or 'at the sign of the blackamoor' was a popular address for tobacconists since the early 17th century. The 17th century figures...

A rare hand carved 19th century artists lay figure foot, with traces of its original painted surface. This would have been part of a full size mannequin with a ball joint in the heal...

A Mendi 'Compensation' or 'Revenge' Doll, traditionally made with pandanus leaves, bilum string, shells, wood, seeds and objets trouve with pigments. These dolls represent individua...

Beautiful wooden handcrafted Sun Face Wall Decoration Sculpture. Made in Germany by a wood worker in the 1930's or older. For safe and better shipping options the Sunbeams can be rem...

This large Sun face in gold leaf gilded wood is a burst of design and elegance.

A wonderfully detailed sun face mask carving by Hermann Reichegger, of the Ahrntal Valley Due to its remote geographical location, the Ahrntal valley remained a high valley untouc...

3-628 sun and moon hand painted wall panel.