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Item Ships From: California
20th Century Original Painted Machine Quilting Street Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This double sided sheet metal with iron frame sandwich board reads : WE DO MACHINE QUILTING and it is on both sides. This is a all original painted doub...
Category
20th Century American Rustic California - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Prestige Basket, Tanzania
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Prestige open top basket
Sukuma People (?) Tanzania
Circa 1900
Coiled and woven basketry, natural fibers and dye
8 x 6 1/2 inches (21 x 16.5 cm)
Provenance: ex private collection U...
Category
Early 1900s Tanzanian Tribal Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Japanese Signed Showa Hand Carved Wood Noh Theater Mask of Buddhist Monk Shunkan
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully carved, wonderfully crafted, highly engaging mask made for Japanese Noh theatre.
The mask is handcrafted and hand carved from natural wood and is signed and sealed b...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa California - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Early Wide Ruins Navajo Woven Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This pillow was constructed from a wide ruins Navajo weaving and dates to the early 1920s. The weaving shows an intricate pattern of triangles bordered in r...
Category
Early 20th Century American California - Folk Art
Materials
Down
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Two Tribal Bronze Konga Anklet Leg Band
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
An early 20th century antique African tribal leg band (ankle bracelet),
These leg bands were both currency and status symbols for the Mongo tribe of northwest Congo.
They were ma...
Category
Early 20th Century Congolese Folk Art California - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze
$1,850 / set
American Copper and Brass Sulky Driver Weather Vane
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A dynamic American copper and brass weather vane depicting a trotting horse pulling a sulky with driver. The horse is shown in full stride, with fin...
Category
Early 20th Century North American Folk Art California - Folk Art
Materials
Copper, Iron
Pair of Geometric Navajo Pillows
By Navajo Indian Saddle Blanket Pillows
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Beautiful Geometric Navajo Pillows. Off white, taupe and red. Zipper casing. Down & feather fill.
Category
20th Century Adirondack California - Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Down, Feathers
Mid-20th Century Tribal Tapa Cloth, Fiji
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Tapa cloth made from mulberry fiber with natural pigments, Fiji, mid-20th century.
Category
Mid-20th Century Fijian Tribal California - Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber
Wooden Gingerbread Mold
Located in Vista, CA
Wooden gingerbread mold (seated man).
Category
Mid-19th Century European Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Vintage Wind-Up Motorcycle Tin Toy by Marx Toy Company
By Marx Toy Co.
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage wind-up motorcycle tin toy by Marx Toy Company, circa late 1930s. This rare piece is in good vintage working condition with good lithography and minimal rust; it measures 8....
Category
Early 20th Century American California - Folk Art
Materials
Metal, Tin
Geometric Navajo Indian Weaving Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is interesting and very colorful. We have one other similar pattern like this pillow. So you could have a pair if need be. Condition is good.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Adirondack California - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
Early Sunshine Studios American Side Show Electric Chair Banner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Early example of American sideshow banner art. Painted at the Sunshine Studio in Witchita, Kansas by Geo Bellis. Signed by artist on front and studio name on front and back. This ban...
Category
1930s American Folk Art Vintage California - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Navajo Indian Crystal Trading Post Weaving
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This Navajo Indian weaving , Crystal trading Post is in fine condition ,really mint condition.Very unusual color combo.
Category
20th Century American Adirondack California - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
$1,516 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Swiss Two Sided Train Signal Sign
Located in San Diego, CA
Super cool and hard to find vintage Swiss two sided train signal sign, circa 1940s. The sign is made of metal and painted yellow with the number "5" in bl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swiss California - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
Australian indigenous Aboriginal Art Original Gracie Morton Pwerle Dot Painting
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, unique, and quite engaging original dot painting by senior Alyawarr indigenous Australian Aboriginal artist Gracie Morton Pwerle (1956-2024). Gracie began her painting...
Category
2010s Australian Folk Art California - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
15th Century or Earlier Redware Tangas, Marajoara Culture, Marajo Island, Brazil
Located in Point Richmond, CA
15th Century or Earlier Redware Tangas, Marajoara culture, Marajo Island, Brazil
Tangas are thin concave triangular ceramic pubic covers found in burial mounds associated with fem...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Brazilian Tribal Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware
Handpainted Moroccan Folk Art Decorative Wall Sconce
By Berber Tribes of Morocco
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
African Tribal Art parchment wall shade sconce featuring a large curved hide form stitched on iron and hand painted surface.
These Moroccan Art pieces could be used as wall lamp sha...
Category
20th Century Moroccan Folk Art California - Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Pair of White Plaster Textured Wall Mexican Masks
Located in Pasadena, CA
A pair of modern sculptural wall masks in textured white composite. One features geometric carved patterns, while the other incorporates abstract leaf motifs, combining organic forms...
Category
1980s Mexican Vintage California - Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
19th Century Barber
s Pole Hand Carved Hand Painted
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th century barber's pole hand carved hand painted
Antique barber's pole
5.5" diameter x 42" high
The support measures 9" wide x 34" high
Good antique condition
The...
Category
Late 19th Century American Folk Art Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Dora De Larios Signed Mexican American California Studio Pottery Sculpture Bowl
By Dora De Larios
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully designed and gorgeously executed sculpture/footed bowl by famed Mexican-American California studio art potter Dora De Larios featuring and Pacific West Coast oceanic de...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern California - Folk Art
Materials
Stoneware
Antique Persian Shahsevan Sumak Bagface, 19th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Persian Shahsevan Sumak Bagface, 19th Century
Using a saturated and subtly modulated medium-blue ground this large Shahsevan sumak bag face draws a creative reinterpretation...
Category
19th Century Persian Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Pictorial Indian Weaving Pillows with Birds
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This fun group of weaving pillows have the initial E on them and are all have cotton linen backings. Down and feather fill. Sold as a group of three.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Adirondack California - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
$780 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Wood and Brass Antique 19th Century Middle Eastern Camel Seat Saddle
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Antique, 19th century Asian Middle Eastern collector two person wooden camel saddle with ornate brass mountings and iron reinforcements.
19th Century Midd...
Category
Late 19th Century Egyptian Arts and Crafts Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Brass, Iron
Group of Three Folky Wood Carnival Milk Bottles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These folky handmade Carnival knock down milk bottles are in good condition. These bottles are hand turned with a nice mellow patina. These bottles are us...
Category
Late 19th Century American Folk Art Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
$956 Sale Price / set
20% Off
After Jean Louis Grégoire Spelter Figure "Boy Playing Pipe"
By Jean Louis Grégoire
Located in Los Angeles, CA
After Jean Louis Grégoire (France, 1840-1890) A Charming French 19th-20th Century Patinated Spelter Figure of "The Animal Charmer", depicting a sta...
Category
Early 1900s French Folk Art Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Marble, Spelter
$4,685 Sale Price
27% Off
Late 19th Century Original Painted Tin Tulips in Basket Planter
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is the most unusual metal Folk Art arrangement of flowers in a urn in the form of a basket planter. The condition is very good. Great look on a mantel or bookshelf. Wonderful ol...
Category
Late 19th Century American Country Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
$1,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Moroccan Berber Tuareg Metal Tribal Flask Overlay
By Berber Tribes of Morocco
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Great decorative Moroccan Berber Tuareg metal brass powder flask. African decorative brass with front richly decorated with Moorish embossed brass ocverlay. Moroccan tribal powder fl...
Category
20th Century Moroccan Folk Art California - Folk Art
Materials
Brass
Monumental Portrait of Lt. General Hay MacDowall by Sir Henry Raeburn, 1805–1815
By Sir Henry Raeburn
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An extraordinary and monumental oil on canvas portrait by renowned Scottish artist Sir Henry Raeburn (1756–1823), depicting Lieutenant General Hay MacDowall in full military regalia....
Category
Early 19th Century Scottish Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Canvas
Moroccan Moorish Ceramic Bowl Adorned with Silver Filigree from Fez
By Berber Tribes of Morocco
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Handcrafted Moorish Moroccan polychrome decorative ceramic Bowl, dish from Fez.
Bleu de Fez, very nice designs hand painted by artist in Fez.
Geometrical and floral Moorish design...
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Moorish California - Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Antique French Flag with Fleur-de-Lis c.1800
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
An original vintage fabric French flag mounted on a 19th century flag pole topped with a primitive, hand carved fleur-de-lis. Brass grommets.
CREATOR Unknown. Made in Fr...
Category
Early 19th Century French Provincial Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Brass
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century Polychromed Santo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning polychromed wood santo from the early 1700s. Likely from a Roman Catholic Church. Very good condition considering age. Huge amount of presence. Beautiful religious artifact.
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
19th Century Sponge Ware Butter Crocks / Collection of Four
Located in Los Angeles, CA
These 19th century sponge ware pottery butter crocks measures 6 x 4 and are all in good condition. Each one is slightly different from the next. So nice to see a grouping on a kitche...
Category
19th Century American Other Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
$1,356 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Late 19th-Early 20th Century Tribal Mask, West Nepal
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Late 19th-early 20th century Tribal mask, West Nepal
A mask from West Nepal with a rather heart shaped facial plane. There are three large iron staples, two of which may have secure...
Category
Late 19th Century Nepalese Tribal Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Italian Murano Art Glass Paperweight Lily Flower with Curled Stem Sculpture 1980
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Italian Murano Art Glass Lily Flower with Curled Stem Paperweight.
VIntage Murano Italian Art Glass Flower Sculpture Decorative Object, 1980s.
Beautiful blown art glass Murano lily...
Category
20th Century Italian Post-Modern California - Folk Art
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Vintage North African Art Wall Sconce Parchment
By Berber Tribes of Morocco
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
African Tribal Art parchment wall shade sconce featuring a large triangle hide form stitched on iron and hand painted surface.
These Moroccan Art pieces could be used as wall lamp s...
Category
20th Century Moroccan Folk Art California - Folk Art
Materials
Iron
Geometric Eye Dazzler Bolster Pillow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large eye dazzler bolster pillow has a black cotton linen backing. This brown and grey with black trim eye dazzler is in good condition.
Category
Early 20th Century American Navajo California - Folk Art
Materials
Wool
$775 Sale Price
20% Off
Mexican Vintage Ken Edwards Tonala Pottery Hand Painted Quail Bird
By Ken Edwards
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage Ken Edwards Mexican ceramic quail bird form Tonala Pottery.
Beautiful vintage Mexican hand made and hand painted TONALA Art Pottery.
Deco...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Folk Art California - Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Vintage French Provincial Rattan Handled Basket, 1950
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage rattan picnic basket, 1950s, France.
Mid-Century Modern vintage French Provincial rattan handled shopping basket, made out of woven rattan.
The...
Category
Mid-20th Century French French Provincial California - Folk Art
Materials
Rattan
Organic Modern Hand-Carved Wood Folk Art Ball Sphere
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Unique hand-carved folk art-style wood gazing ball. A friend of bookshelves and coffee tables. A lovely garden accent. An organic doorstop.
A compliment to any room-- great suppo...
Category
20th Century Organic Modern California - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
19th Century Gold Giltwood Carved Letters William Trade Sign
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Classic 19th century American wood trade sign with chunky hand carved and gold painted letters. Ready to display.
Category
Late 19th Century American Folk Art Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Giant Bayer Pill Pop Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Monumental vintage Bayer pill in cream plaster/ceramic. 7" diameter. Likely used as a store display. Whimsical desktop object or paperweight. Black felted bottom. Great piece of art ...
Category
1970s American Vintage California - Folk Art
Materials
Plaster, Paint
$750 / set
Antique Decorative Moroccan Arabian Jambiya
By Berber Tribes of Morocco
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Antique decorative Moroccan Arabian khoumaya or Jambiya, which is the name in Arabic Ornate with brass and silvered steel hammered element and wood handle. The decorative dagger is v...
Category
Mid-20th Century Moroccan Islamic California - Folk Art
Materials
Metal, Brass
Old Florida Antique Bronze and Copper Palm Tree Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
Incredibly detailed one of a kind Palm Tree sculpture. It is made from bronze and copper. Magnificent patina. It stands 34 inches high. The base is 9 inches wide and the trunk of tree measures 2 1/2 inches wide. In over 40 years of buying and collecting we have never seen another one. Most palm tree sculptures don't do justice to the actual palm tree. This captures the sway and curves of tree and the rungs. This came out of a 110 year old house in central Florida that still had no air condition. Could be considered a piece of Florida folk art.
Category
Early 20th Century American Folk Art California - Folk Art
Materials
Bronze, Copper
Late 19th-Early 20th Century Tribal Mask, West Nepal
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Late 19th-early 20th century Tribal mask, West Nepal
A large mask from West Nepal with a small grin and bared teeth surrounded with pink powder, faint traces of which can also be se...
Category
Late 19th Century Nepalese Tribal Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Stone Mortar and Pestle, Nigeria
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Stone mortar and pestle
Nigeria
20th century
Measures: Mortar: 21 x 15.5 x 2 in. / 53 x 39 x 5 cm
Height on custom display stand: 26...
Category
20th Century Nigerian Other California - Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Massive Hand Painted High School Track and Field Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage track and field sign from the early 1970s. Hand painted red sign with yellow lettering. Taken down from a California high school. Horizontal wo...
Category
1970s American Vintage California - Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Early 20 Century Chinese Hand Made Porcelain Pillow
Located in Pomona, CA
Look at this magnificent Chinese porcelain pillow. It was hand made and hand paint from China and has hand painted Chinese traditional folks a...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export California - Folk Art
Materials
Porcelain
$330 Sale Price
40% Off
Captain Crook McDonald
s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Captain Crook McDonald advertisement plastic sculpture,
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage California - Folk Art
$1,200 Sale Price
58% Off
Old Toraja Group of three Basketry Wrapped Coconut Containers, Indonesia
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Group of three pieces. Two old used finely wrapped basketry enclosed coconut containers and one cup from the island of Toraja, Indonesia. The tall one has a flat wood stopper with classic Toraja designs, Early to mid 20th century or earlier, with deep dark patina from traditional use. Evidence of wear and use, smaller container with carved wood top attached by string.
Last view...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indonesian Tribal California - Folk Art
Materials
Organic Material
Vintage Folk Art Doll / Oil Can with Articulating Arms
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage Folk Art doll with tin drum body (oil can) and articulating arms, circa 1950s. The piece is handmade with a doll head and arms and a tin...
Category
Early 20th Century American Primitive California - Folk Art
Materials
Tin
$950 Sale Price
24% Off
Conical Hat Mornington Island, Queensland Australia Woven Fiber on Stand
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early to mid-20th century woven fiber and palm leaf conical hat with two vertical painted stripes on the front, from Mornigton Island, Queensland, Austral...
Category
Mid-20th Century Australian Tribal California - Folk Art
Materials
Organic Material
$900 Sale Price
40% Off
Ceremonial dance MARKA mask, Mali circa 1930’s. Collection Agogue, Paris, France
Located in Encino, CA
Tribal Art - African Art
Ceremonial dance MARKA mask, Mali, Africa, circa 1930’s ,ex Jean Paul Agogue, Paris -France.
H.14" x W.5" x D.4" without the stand
...
Category
1930s Vintage California - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Deco Toy Horse on Wheels
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pull toy horse in original condition, functional.
Category
1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage California - Folk Art
Materials
Chrome
Beautiful Hand Sewn Amish Bridal Quilt in Excellent Condition
By Amish Quilts
Located in Larkspur, CA
Beautiful Hand Sewn cotton Amish Bridal quilt in excellent condition. Multiple stitching per inch.
Category
Early 20th Century American California - Folk Art
Materials
Cotton
1880s Odd Fellows Lodge Banner from Dakota
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Early 1880s Odd Fellows Lodge all-seeing eye banner from Centerville, Dakota. Excellent hand painting and lettering. Centerville was platted in 1883. Dakota became the states of North and South Dakota in 1889. The area is now part of the Sioux Falls...
Category
1880s American Folk Art Antique California - Folk Art
Materials
Silk
Yupik Yup
ik Native American Alaska Carved Polychrome Wood Anthropomorphic Mask
Located in Studio City, CA
A fantastic and somewhat playful mask by the Yup'ik (Yupik) aboriginal, indigenous people of South-Western & South Central Alaska. The Yup'ik people, who are related to the Inuit peoples, have a long history of ceremonial mask making. Yup'ik masks were originally and specifically designed by Shamans and made to be worn by these spiritual leaders in Winter tribal dances and sacred ceremonies. Traditionally, the masks were destroyed or discarded after use in these ceremonies. Very few of these masks survived. After Christian contact in the late 19th century, masked dancing was suppressed and the tradition all but died out. As more outsiders settled in Alaska at the turn of the century, masks were made by the Yup'ik people to sell or trade for necessary goods. It is likely that this mask was created some years later for this purpose.
In the 20th century, Yup'ik mask had a profound influence on many renowned surrealist artists including, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Leonora Carrington, Victor Brauner, and most notably Andre Breton who was an avid collector of Yup'ik masks.
This fantastic anthropomorphic mask is carved of lighter wood, hand painted and decorated with pigment, and held together with natural fiber. The mask seems to represent some sort of smiling, benevolent spirit or character with its four eyes, bird beak, and cat-like ears.
The mask is from a French collection. We were told that this mask, as well as others in the collection we have listed, was acquired originally in the 1950s-1960s in Alaska and the Yukon territory in Canada but as we have no way to verify or authenticate this. Please note we are listing the masks as decorative and not as actual tribal artifacts...
Category
20th Century American California - Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber, Wood, Paint
Early 20th Century Antique Chinese Gilt Carved Camphor Wood Toys
Located in Pomona, CA
Rare find antique Chinese gilt wooden carved adult toys. It is 100 percent hand made hand carved from Camphor wood with gilt painting on it. They are the couple of a man and a women....
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export California - Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Vintage Royal Typewriter - Black
Located in Los Angeles, CA
VINTAGE ROYAL TYPEWRITER - BLACK
Leather Case
13Wx13Hx13D
Category
Early 20th Century American California - Folk Art
Materials
Metal
Chinese Peking Opera Theatre Puppet Marionette Doll, Early 1900s
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful work complete with a unique wood-carved and hand painted face, a wonderfully fabulous hairdo, and an original textile garment.
From a group of 7 Chinese opera puppets, we acquired from a collector. Each puppet shows clear signs of previous stage use. Clearly original works.
Likely from the early 1900s.
Would make for a great addition to any Chinese artifacts...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing California - Folk Art
Materials
Textile, Wood, Paint
Early 1900s Embossed
Slow Children
Sign
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Extremely rare California ‘Slow Children' playing sign. Entire sign is embossed with an old-time child wearing knickerbocker trousers. From the early 1900s. Great piece of history. P...
Category
Early 20th Century American California - Folk Art
Materials
Steel
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