20th Century Decorative Art

A 19th century hammered brass dish of unusual size in the historical style representing a battle scene between Romans and Barbarians, in the middle fighting generals on horseback, th...

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...

An original British quad movie poster from 1982 featuring the double billing of Blazing Saddles (1974) and History of the World Part I (1981). Both films directed by Mel Brooks...

Dimensions - (Frame) H: 16 1/2 in W: 11 1/2 in D: 1 in (Plaque) H: 12 1/4 in W: 7 1/4 in This exquisite Antique Italian Early 20th Century Pietra Dura Inlaid Marble Plaque is a stu...

A charming Plat du Jour Rabbit chalk board. The rabbit sits with a cluster of colorful fruits and vegetable atop a tablecloth covered table all above the plat du jour chalk board. Th...

1970s Wall Organizer Utensils by Dorothee Becker for Ingo Maurer

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...

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...

Black ceramic majolica oval shaped wall plate with fishes and other sea creatures by Vallauris France. This eye-catching wall plate is ovally shaped into 8 points. It depicts a se...

The very rare first-year-of-release country-of-origin US 6 Sheet Film Poster for 60s classic Cool Hand Luke. Featuring a wonderful close-up of Paul Newman, this poster certainly does...

Oil on board Venetian Canal Scene looking towards the mouth of The Grand Canal with Della Salute to one side . Typical in the Grand Tour style of 18th ,19th and 20th centuries ..

Great image of medical interest. Unframed. Published, circa 1900. Free shipping

Judith Daner (1936-2023) designed these stunning Mid-Century Modernist enamel-on-copper artworks in the 1950s. The one-tile plaque is on the original structured wood frame. The abstr...

Set of 2 Wallplates with Hunting Scene Additional information: Dimensions: 34 W x 34 H cm Country of origin: France Condition: In good condition

Hang Loose! A fabulous original protest poster from the 1970s, printed by Vagabond Creations in Ohio, United States. Mona Lisa like you've never seen her before! This vintage poster...

A very groovy silkscreen print by artist Nadine Prado, circa 1974. A graphic and fun piece of geometric pop! Signed Nadine Prado, 74 and is an artist proof 6 out of 10. Newly framed in a mirror finish Larson Juhl...

Dorothy Clough (British, b.1930) was born and grew up in the United Kingdom and attended Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland between 1948-53. With the help of a travel scholarship, she moved to Sweden in 1954, receiving an internship at the Gefle Porcelain Factory and a year later was hired as a designer at the Upsala-Ekeby factory. She is very well known for her figurative work both of people and animals and was one of the representatives of the illustrious Swedish ceramic designs of the 20th Century. This stunning Swedish plaque...

Rendered with dramatic flair and architectural precision, this large-scale landscape painting by “Williams” captures the serene majesty of a tree grove at dusk. It unfolds in a richl...

SALVADOR DALI (Spanish, 1904-1989), Song of Songs, New York, Léon Amiel, 1970. The complete set of 6 signed original etchings with hand coloring and gilding on Johannot paper. All t...

Wonderful image by Arthur Rackham. It is one of the illustrations for Wagner's " The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie " Tipped in plate. On card Lithograph. Published 1910 The measurem...

Vintage Silver relief picture "Trieste - San Giusto", collection Alliani made in Italy in the 1970s. Sterling Silver 925 and gold. Sculpture relief picture has certification of authe...

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...

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...

One of the highlights of our new collection, the exceptionally rare first-year-of-release country-of-origin British UK Quad Style B film poster for James Bond classic Goldfinger. Th...

Great quality and condition midcentury wall coat rack. This beautifully designed, perfectly executed and highly practical midcentury coat rack could be the ideal piece to come home...

A domed, black & white enameled Art Nouveau advertising sign for Cabaret Fledermaus in Vienna. Artwork by Moriz Jung from the early 1900s, the production date is around the 1960s. Hi...

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 two-tone gilt wood, gilt-patinated 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. Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Painting diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 55 1/8 inches (140 cm) Frame width: 46 inches (116.8 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...

We adore Wieslaw Walkuski's wonderfully baroque design that features on this original first-year-of-release Polish film poster for Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast, the first Danish mo...

Fantastic country-of-origin British film poster for The Beatle's much-loved classic Yellow Submarine. Featuring the iconic and colourfully psychedelic Edelmann artwork. A very rare and highly collectible poster. A must for any fan of the Fab Four...

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...

Anni Albers, Camino Real Screen-print Abstraction. Circa 1967-1969. Anni Albers (1899-1994), an artist who played an active part in 20th century modernism yet who has long been overs...

A long, rectangular vintage wall mount Hellenistic relief fragment molded in plaster from the Athenian Agora depicting the senate and ancient Greek warriors, in good condition. Not r...

The Sting 1973 Polish A1 Film Poster, Procka We adore the Polish film poster for Paul Newman and Robert Redford classic grifters caper The Sting. Sumptuou...

Great image of medical interest. Unframed. Published, circa 1900.

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...

Wall Panel / Headboard in Walnut, Spain, 1940s This architectural wall panel features beautifully handcarved foliage details thorough. To be used as wall decoration or headboard. Te...

A green-grey, vintage Mid-Century Modern French "Udile" oil on wood painting of a landscape, painted by Daniel Clesse in good condition. The painting depicts colorful nature of a for...

Beautiful custom framed Swedish antique herbarium floral specimens, collected 1912. Handwritten names in lovely Latin script. Specimens include chive blossom flowers and bird vetch. ...

Large oval Majolica Palissy wall platter Vallauris, circa 1950. Large fishes, lobster, seaweeds, shells. From Provence. Measures: Length / 22.5 inches on 9 inches, height / 2.5 inche...

A small ceramic decorative chinoiserie plate. Decorated in a bright blue, this plate features chrysanthemums in yellow, red, and pink among lush green leaves. A hanger has been appli...

A polychrome glazed pottery wall plaque decorated with several fish, created by Helmut Schaffenacker of Ulm in the 1950s. Helmut Schaffenacker was a renowned German ceramist known fo...

Wonderful image by Edmund Dulac Tipped in plate onto paper Lithograph. Published C.1930 The measurement given is the paper size not the actual coloured printed image. Free ship...

Stunning original French vintage advertisement poster for Relsky Vodka, circa 1925. In this large size this original Resky Vodka poster by the infamous ar...

You can always count on Polish posters to throw up some extraordinarily original artwork. Often challenging, confrontational and, invariably, original... and the Polish poster for 70...

A fan mirror / wall sculpture, late 20th century. Owing to Hollywood Regency, postmodern, and chinoiserie sensibilities, this piece brings at once to any interior glamour and camp.

Bronze wall decoration representing an eagle with wide open wings made of bronze. There is signature JP at the back of both wings. France, circa 1900.

Porcelain Oyster Botanical Plate Limoges, circa 1900.

This signed work in ceramic features a beautifully rendered face with nice use of color. Glazed finish with an imprinted signature, which sadly we cannot make out as the artist is cl...

Amazing Czech film poster from 1971 for Disney Classic Dumbo. Very charming pink elephant artwork. A very rare vintage movie poster, especially in this larger format. This vintage m...

Playful and whimsical, Capron’s art panels are the most sought after, as editions were small, and in some cases not more than a few, or by special commission. Some are rough and mat...

Great image of the solar system Unframed. Chromo-lithograph Published, C.1900 The measurement is the paper size of the print Free shipping.

Stunning design and top quality executed antique barometer. This late 19th-early 20th century, English manufactured wall barometer has everything that makes an antique worthwhile. F...

A very large and impressive vintage pair of Maitland Smith hand painted art panels featuring a French Neoclassical / Renaissance eglomise style mo...

Set of Three Antique Marksmen Target Plaques Germany 1930s A set of three antique honorary shooting targets. The wooden panels are decorated with colorful prints depicting a duck, a...

"Dayglo Square Float" wall mounted optical sculpture encased in acrylic by Leonard Janklow. Signed.

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...

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 collection of six framed silk embroidered Chinese panels. China, circa 1950. In excellent vintage condition. Dimensions 40cm x 60.5cm 4...

Hand-Colored Engraving of Marguerite de Valois, Sister of François I, ca. 1900 edition This hand-colored engraving portrays Marguerite de Valois (1492–1549), Duchess of Alençon and ...

Islamic Arabic calligraphy circular tray with silver overlay. Round Egyptian brass tray overlaid with metal silver and copper Islamic calligraphy ...