European Decorative Art

"The Hare Hunt": 18th-Century Spanish Catalan Faience Tile Picture (Barcelona) A spirited and charming late 18th-century Spanish faience (tin-glazed earthenware) tile panel, origin...

Wonderful print of St Susanna of Eleutheropolis Illuminated Chromolithograph Published circa 1880 Unframed. Free shipping The measurement is the paper size

Small Majolica sunflower plate Villeroy & Boch, circa 1900. Diameter / 6.6 inches.

Nice stoneware wall plaque relief of a fish and a snail in bright colors by Tilgmans Pottery Sweden. At the front there are the initials of the maker dp which stands for Danny Petru...

Sensational image by Gustave Doré Woodcut engraving Published C.1880 Unframed. Free shipping

Fantastic first-year-of-release UK Quad film poster for bonafide classic To Kill a Mockingbird. A rare poster in exceptional condition.  This original vintage movie poster has been...

Ceramic wall relief signed Muresa, trademark created by Spanish ceramists Andrés Galdeano and Angel Grávalos in 1960's. Glazed ceramic with a lacquered wooden frame. Only the ceramic...

Large French Mid-Century Blue Flower Plate signed Charolles. 9 inches diameter.

French Majolica ducklings with frog plate Sarreguemines, circa 1890.

Mid-Century German Studio Pottery Wall Plaque Plate by Heinz Theo Dietz, 1960s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1960 to 1969 This piece has an attribution mark. Additional informa...

Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Relief Tile Plaque "Sailing" by Helmut Schaffenacker The plaque is impressed on reverse: "Schaffenacker Ulm/De Made in Germany handgeformt"

Beautiful tile mural with the "GENTLEMAN" motif finely painted. Tile mural size: 91.45"H X 59"W (232.5cm X 150cm) Tile size: 5.9"H X 5.9"W (15cm X 15cm) Origin: Portugal Productio...

Beautiful first-year-of-release Italian 2 Foglio film poster for Jean-Luc Godard's seminal New Wave crime drama A bout de Souffle (Breathless). Arguably one of the best films ever ma...

Olle Kåks, Composition, 1974 Lithography Number 29/250 The work signed by the artist's signature, date and an individual number (pencil) Working dimensions 67/53 The work is framed ...

Elegant hand-watercolored print representing a sheffield candle holder with a Sea-shell hand-colored in light grey nuance, Image reproduced from ancient and famous illustrations. Images that representing the movement called Objets de Curiosité...

Vintage Ceramic Jeziorna Polish Pottery Plate Bolesławiec 1960s Poland. Vintage handcrafted ceramic pottery decorative wall plate. Gorgeous carved and hand-painted pottery plate with...

Antique map of Mississippi Published By A & C Black. 1903 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

Simply stunning and original, LUIGI BRUSOTTI produced by Fontana Arte ca. 1940. Mirrored crystal, shaped and decorated with a figure of the Madonna with engraved angels, wooden suppo...

Fabulous original Cote d'Azur 1962 Travel poster designed by Bernard Thonus. Published by the Ministry of Transport and Publich Works in France. A lovely design with wonderful brig...

Beautiful tile mural with the "SHIPS" motif finely painted. Quantity: 66 tiles Tile mural size: 64.9"W X 35.4"H (165cm X 90cm) Tile size: 5.9"W X 5.9"H (15cm X 15cm) Origin: Portu...

Wonderful image by Harry Clarke Originally an illustration from " Tales of Mystery And Imagination " By Edgar Allan Poe. Published by Tudor Publishing Co., New York. 1935 Unframed...

19th century English blue and white "Wild Rose" plate. The plate are decorated with wild roses on the border, the central pattern is a rural landscape, bridge and river.

Sotheby's Art at Auction - The Art Market in Review 1993-1994 by Sotheby's. Hightlights: "The Property of a Lady" by Ian Fleming a James Bond short story (commissioned by Sotheby's in 1963), Klimt (Dame mit Facher), David Smith (Cubi V), Harry Winston diamond necklace...

Majolica flowers and butterfly plate Wasmuel circa 1890.

Vintage French Aubusson Tapestry Rug Art Nouveau Bold Square 9x9 8'5" x 9'4" 256cm x 285cm "A rare, magnificent vintage French Aubusson tapestry with unique Art Nouveau design, i...

French Majolica bird swallow plate signed Sarreguemines, circa 1880.

Great image of snakes. Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames. Lithograph after Cpt. Brown with original hand color. Publishe...

Colorful Palissy wall platter signed Hippolyte Boulenger Choisy le Roi, circa 1880. Decorated with fishs,snake, snail,bugs,shells,mussel and lea...

The PETALO wall art piece is a composition of 33 petal-shaped glass pieces assembled in groups of 3 pieces that form a clover. There are 3 color palettes available and other combina...

Superb first-year-of-release country-of-origin French Double Grande film poster for La Femme et le Pantin.Wonderfuldesign by Yves Thos looks amazing on the massive scale of the doubl...

Mid-century French Faience oyster plate signed Quimper.

True Arts & Crafts two-tone geometric pair of stained glass windows. Subtle workmanship which exudes simplified elegance. In very good or...

A rare and unusual framed WWI memorial pottery death plaque for Private Peter McEwan of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 14th Battalion dating from late 1917 or early 1918. Private Peter McEwan served in France and died on 26th November 1917. The rectangular tile shaped plaque is beautifully produced and is printed in colors adorned by two angels and reading HE DIED FOR KING AND COUNTRY...

Wonderful image by Harry Clarke Originally an illustration from " Tales of Mystery And Imagination " By Edgar Allan Poe. Lithograph. Tipped in plate on paper. Published by Tudor P...

Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Five-masted Ship under Steam, HMS Minotaur or HMS Agincourt, Minotaur Class Broadside Ironclad, circa 1880 The sailor's woolie depicts a portsi...

This hand-carved slate bas-relief from the 1970s features detailed floral motifs. The stone, with its characteristic texture and color, has been precisely worked, highlighting the ar...

A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular 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 (all high quality gilt is original) 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, circa 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 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...

19th Century Minton Pink Flowers Oyster Plate.

A pair of 17th century medieval style carved oak panels, sourced from an ex private collection of a 17th century manor in East Anglia. The pair showcase handcarved knights standing ...

A Dutch delft Porceleyne Fles tile "Oude delft ", 1906 A delft Porceleyne Fles tile of 21 cm high, 15 cm wide in a wooden frame. Image represents the "Oude delft " and was paint...

From King of the Jungle to King of the Circus - the original Lion King! Fabulous and rare first edition Polish cyrk (circus) poster by Hubert Hilscher featuring a spectacularly regal...

French Majolica bird with cherries aqua plate Sarreguemines, circa 1880. One chip on the back.

Beautiful pair of c. 1825 repoussé sheet-brass roundels depicting Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen's 'Day' and 'Night'. As opposites they represent the two halves of a day, and to...

Art Deco 1st floor sign vienna around 1920s Brass polished and stove enameled

Antique print titled 'To his Grace Chas' Howard Duke of Norfolk hereditary Earl Marshal of England, This View of Greystoke Castle, is inscribed by his Grace's most obedient Servants Thomas Hearne and William Byrne...

Pair of W.M.F. plaques signed Albert Mayer (1867-1944). Art Nouveau period, Germany, circa 1900.   

Beautiful tile mural with the "HANGING FOODS" motif finely painted. Quantity: 18 tiles Tile mural size: 17.7"H X 35.4"W (45cm X 90cm) Tile size: 5.9"H X 5.9"W (15cm X 15cm) Origin...

Great image of an American bison and Indian ox. Unframed. It gives you the option of perhaps making a set up using your own choice of frames. Lithograph after Cpt. Brown and Marech...

Antique map of Maine Published By A & C Black. 1903 Original colour Good condition Unframed. Free shipping

Pair of 1700s Italian Wall Decorative Panels, a pair of blue laquer vertical frieze dating back to late 18th century, with a stunning  hand-carved gilded relief  candelabra decoratio...

These are NINE Delft ceramic wall tiles, all with different blue and white hand painted patterns, made in the Netherlands, from the 19th Century to the 17th Century, but mainly 18th Century. Each tile is nominally slightly over 5 inches square.. All nine tiles are unique, being individually hand painted with different scenes and patterns featuring various scenes with buildings, trees, watersides, boats and one floral, with most having spider motif corners. They are all enamelled in cobalt blue, using different shades of blue, which varies slightly from tile to tile as expected:- please see the images. Two of the tiles have scenes within double blue circles. NOTES: The central floral pattern tile is slightly thicker and dates to the 17th C Seven Tiles are 18th Century and one is 19th Century ( blue tinged glaze) Overall a beautiful set of individual hand painted antique Delft tiles...

English ironstone platter circa 1890. Chinoiserie or Imari style, decorated with flowers.

19th Century Majolica flowers and butterfly plate Wasmuel.

Majolica dish leaf Villeroy & Boch, Circa 1890.

We love the design by Isolde Baumgart that features on this late 50s/early 60s German re-release poster for La Belle et la Bete. Very striking, beautiful poster. This vintage movie ...

Original Polish circus poster from 1979 featuring a wonderfully inventive and visually impactful elephant with butterfly wing ears design by Poli...

We love the wonderfully chic Art Deco design by Leon Benigni that features on this original 1929 Brides les Bains French Railway Travel Advertising Poster. Nestled in the valley of ...

Louis Vuitton Print from Paris, France framed in a vintage wooden black painted frame. The artwork features the iconic Louis Vuitton suitcases artistically stacked. Similar piece can...

The Polish poster for Jacques Demy’s 1961 classic romcom Lola. Another exceptionally cool Polish film poster which we think trumps all other versions. The end of the Second World Wa...

Beautiful tile mural with the "Floral" motif finely painted. Quantity: 35 tiles Tile mural size: 29.5"H X 41.3"W (75cm X 105cm) Tile size: 5.9"H X 5.9"W (15cm X 15cm) Origin: Po...