Fabric Decorative Art

First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame. Late 19th C. Turkey. Ready to go on a wall. Frame...

Imperial Majesty: 19th-Century Ming Dynasty Emperor Silk Painting This exquisite silk painting, dating back to the 19th century, depicts a majestic Ming Dynasty emperor in all his regalia. Hand-painted with meticulous detail and presented in a beautiful frame, this artwork showcases the rich tradition of Chinese silk painting. The vibrant colors and intricate brushwork capture the emperor's imperial stature and the grandeur of the Ming Dynasty. The painting's subject matter and artistic style make it a captivating addition to any collection. Dimensions: Framed measurements: 24 3/4" W x 31" H x 1 1/4" D Condition: Very good antique condition. This Antique Chinese Imperial Emperor Ancestral Painting...

The beautiful 1957 French Grande Funny Face, by the renowned Boris Grinson. Funny Face is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy. Directed by Stanley Donen and written by Leonard Gershe, containing assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin...

Mid-20th century man's ceremonial (cofradía) outfit, Chichicastenango, Guatemala. 25" (63.5 cm) shoulder to hem by 59" (274 cm) across shoulders It is rare to find a complete ceremonial cofradía outfit in such good condition. The blue zigzag embroidery at shoulders and cuffs is said to signify that the wearer was an astrologist or day-keeper of the ceremonial Maya calendar...

Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) circle of. 18th century old master painting, France. With great pride we offer an extremely rare masterpiece from the 18th century, France. This painting is unsigned as most of his works. It has no provenance, but carries with it all the earmarks of the great Rococo style school of Watteau. It pictures one of his famous outdoor parties with a group of frolicking young people. In the background is a reference to a swing, a favored subject in his paintings. The composition of the painting, colors, brushstrokes (especially in the fabric) is clearly Watteau’s studio. This large 18th century canvas...

First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame. Late 19th C. Tajikstan Ready to go on a wall. Fr...

First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame. Late 19th C. Tajikstan Ready to go on a wall. Fra...

Wonderful original French vintage Cognac Rouyer alcohol poster from 1945. Superb colours and stunning imagery. Rouyer Guillet was founded in 1701 by Philippe Guilletand, known as on...

Possibly late 18th century but most likely 19th century painted arched painted panel. Either a panel intended for a trumeau or to be inset into wall boiserie as a trumeau. The upper ...

Antique Persian Heriz Oriental Rug, Room size An antique Persian Heriz oriental rug, Size 11'9 x 9'8, circa 1920. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug features a central medallion on the coral field. The central field is enclosed within an outer border in navy tones with repeating geometric abstracts. The short wool pile is even throughout, and the rug is in excellent condition for its age and weaving style. A great value, and an excellent choice for an entry way, a foyer, a living space, a bedroom, or for use as wall decor or as a decorative accent! Bring this beautiful rug...

- Handspun and handwoven wool, henna dye, oil paint, big size - 2022 - Unique piece - Framing by Laetitia Verchere - Edition of 10. Dimensions: 11.8 x 11.8 in // 30 x 30 cm.

outstanding tapestry in wool and silk, Bruxelles, second half of the 17th century. Depicting a detailed scene of The Bull Hunting. On the background of the landscape the Monument of ...

First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame. E 20th Century. Uzbekistan Ready to go on a wall....

Charles Joshua Chaplin (French, 1825-1891) 'The Bird's Nest' A very fine and charming Rococo revival style oil on canvas depicting a young girl, dressed in 18th century costume and r...

A captivating and unconventional 1970s mixed-media painting signed “Rodriguez,” this work fuses painterly technique with tactile surface art. The “canvas” is faux leopard fur, its ve...

A finely embroidered silk civil rank badge panel presented with elaborate lattice mat and a wood frame circa mid to late 19th century (late Qing dynasty). The square rank badge is kn...

A typically colourful and fantastic design by Belinsky for the early 60s re-release for classic monster movie Creature from the Black Lagoon. The great artwork combined with the Fren...

Wonderfully quirky design by Jan Mlodozeniec features on this original Polish film poster for 1950s Ealing romp The Lavender Hill Mob. A very rare and highly collectible poster. The...

A silk civil rank badge panel beautifully framed in a gilt Baux bamboo carved wood frame circa Qing dynasty mid-19th century. The square rank badge is known in Chinese as Buzi which ...

First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame. Early 20th Century. Lebanon Ready to go on a wall....

The artwork by legendary poster artist Silvano "Nano" Campeggi on this 1966 re-release Italian locandina is simply stunning. Surely the best artwork of Paul Newman and Elizabeth Tayl...

Fantastic original first-year-of-release, country-of-origin UK Quad film poster for  Hammer Horror's The Satanic Rites of Dracula. Hammer's penultimate Dracula film and the last one ...

An early 20th century Beautiful Persian Kashan rug Measures: 4'5'' x 6'9''. .

Very Large Landscape Verdure Pastoral Oil on Canvas, Ch. Boulogne Cows Watering Verdure painting. Signed Artwork. The “Cows Watering by the River at Sunset” 4 feet height x 7 feet &...

A fine and large French 19th century old master school oil on canvas titled "Leda and The Swan" within a giltwood frame. Leda and the swan is a motif from Greek mythology, in which Z...

First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame. E 20th C. Uzbekistan. Ready to go on a wall. Fram...

Brutalist mixed metal wall sculpture by Henrik Horst, 1970's. In original condition with a great patina. There is some wear to the corners of the frame, consistent with its age and u...

Elegant, vintage Italian hand rolled silk scarf by Chanel, circa 1970s. The scarf appears to have never been used and is in excellent condition with vibrant colors. It measures 86 ...

First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame. Early 19th C. India Ready to go on a wall. Framed...

A French blue, green abstract portrait of books, oil on wood in canvas by Daniel Clesse, painted in France, signed and dated in 1964. Measures: Without the frame: 18" H x 21.5" W x ...

Paradise Garden Silk Rug by PERSIAN SIGNATURE, Persian Carpet This decorative silk wall rug is a hand-finished Persian design featuring a vibrant Tree of Life filled with exotic bird...

Utterly charming alternative artwork by Polish School of Posters artist Liliana Baczewska features on the Polish poster of the Disney classic, 101 Dalmatians (101 Dalmatynczykow). We...

We adore this original first-year-of-release country-of-origin poster for Jean-Luc Godard's seminal New Wave classic A Bout de Souffle (Breathless). Arguably one of the best films ev...

The first-year-of-release, country-of-original US 1/2 Sheet Style B film poster for Billy Wilder's screwball comedy Some Like it Hot starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lem...

Stunning original Cote d'Azur 1968 SNCF French Railways Travel poster designed by Bernard Villemot. The SNCF (Société nationale des chemins de fer français) is France's national state-owned railway company and was founded...

An early 60s re-release French film poster for the 1954 American classic monster movie Creature from the Black Lagoon. The film's plot follows a group of scientists who encounter a p...

Enormous contemporary oil on canvas of horses. This item has recently been reframed ,see all photos. Can be hung horizontally or vertically ...

Outstanding Tom Chantrell artwork for “Dracula A.D.1972” makes this country-of-origin first-year-of-release, UK Quad film poster from 1972, a real favourite for many Hammer poster co...

Suzani, a Central Asian term for a specific type of needlework, is also the broader name for the hugely popular decorative pieces of textile that feature this needlework in vivid col...

First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame. Late 19th C. Uzbekistan Ready to go on a wall. Fr...

A rare pair of finely embroidered silk civil rank badge panel framed in a black carved wood frame circa late Qing dynasty (mid-late 19th century). The square rank badge is known in C...

A Tibetan Tiger rug, hand knotted in Nepal. This traditional Tiger rug design is typically found on antique rugs called Khaden. It describes a small sized rug of about 3 x 6 ft that...

Painting of a stylized oriental camel by Fabbriziani and Calandra from the 1970-ies Italy. On satin in a kind of silkscreen in limited edition, wooden frame gilded. The black camel i...

An outstanding and grand scale oil on canvas painting of a nude male. Entitled "La Vittoria Della Verita' Sull'Insidia" - "The Victory Of Truth Over The Trap"..... Expertly executed ...

A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. A retailer's label reads " Fred K/ Keer's Sons - Framers and Fine Art Dealers - 917 Broad St. Newark, N.J." - Another label from the gilder reads "Carlo Bartolini - Doratore e Verniciatori - Via Maggio 1924 - Firenze". Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Canvas diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 54 inches (137.2 cm) Frame width: 42 1/2 inches (108 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

This stunning 19th-century French decorative fan is a testament to exquisite craftsmanship and artistic elegance. The fan leaf is meticulously hand-painted on vellum or silk, featuri...

Wonderfully illustrated first-year-of-release country-of-origin poster for classic Japanese horror Yokai Monsters/100 Monsters (Yôkai hyakumonogatari). A very rare poster in wodner...

Wall Sculpture #765 by Karen Gayle Tinney Six panel wall sculpture. Hand formed ceramic pieces in unglazed beige stoneware with white, tan, and gray cotton fringe. Hanging wires are...

A vibrantly colored Tibetan Thangka of a multi armed Deity, Tibet Circa 1900, framed in a gold tone frame under glass, Measures: 28 inches tall, 30.75 inches wide.

First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame. Late 19th C. India. Ready to go on a wall. Framed...

A fine silk kesi civil rank badge panel (known in Chinese as Buzi) framed and glazed. The fourth rank panel feature borders of fret archaic key and are cente...

Based in Chicago, IL, contemporary artist Michael Thompson creates unique kites, collages and mixed media works assembled from material fragments of past and present collected in his...

First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame. 19th C. India Ready to go on a wall. Framed Item ...

Original vintage French Porto Ramos advertising poster from circa 1920. Founded by Adriano Ramos Pinto in 1880, Casa Ramos Pinto soon made itself known for its innovative and pioneer...

Another wonderfully inventive, witty and well executed design by Maciej Urbaniec features on this original 1970s Polish CYRK (circus) poster. The ‘Cyrk” circus poster in Poland appe...

Suzani, a Central Asian term for a specific type of needlework, is also the broader name for the hugely popular decorative pieces of textile that feature this needlework in vivid col...

Ha! I told you chains of green kryptonite could not hold me! Fabulous original 1960s Superman poster - Printed by G & F Posters NYC official licensees Copyright National Periodical ...

Arguably one of the most iconic Polish film posters. Bold, striking, confrontational and about as avant-garde a design as you could ever get. The end of the Second World War marked the dawn of a new period in the development of Polish poster art, which became known as the Polish School of Posters...

First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame. Late 19th C. Uzbekistan Ready to go on a wall. Fr...

Sheep Tapestry designed by Studio Ahead. The tapestry is made of custom cream merino wool felt from Northern California sheep. The fluid shapes are inspired by the smooth lines of stones and pieces of driftwood found on Muir Beach...