Decorative Art on Sale

Antique bird print titled 'Ural Owl'. Original old bird print of an ural owl. This print originates from 'A history of the birds of Europe...

Mid-Century Modern mosaic tableau wall piece. Abstract design of a figure in mosaic marble, shades of browns and greys. Sturdy wooden frame.

Handmade midcentury modern rectangular ceramic wall plaque with expressive white horse motif. Matte and shiny glaze in blue, white, yellow and light gray colors. Metal mount for wall...

Antique print titled 'Algen I'. Original antique print of various algae. This print originates from the 5th edition of Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, published 1893-1897. Meyers Konve...

Beautiful tile mural with the "COUNTRYSIDE" motif finely painted. Tile mural size: 47.2"H X 59"W (120cm X 150cm) Tile size: 5.9"H X 5.9"W (15cm X 15cm) Origin: Portugal Productio...

A rare and striking lampshade designed by German-born, California-based textile artist Maria Kipp, celebrated for her masterful use of handwoven fibers in postwar interiors. This pie...

Naval lithograph of Russian fleet arriving in Toulon, France, in 1893 This striking and historically rich lithograph titled Entrée de la Flotte Russe dans la Rade de Toulon captures...

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...

Antique print titled 'Bernadotte Crown Prince of Sweeden'. Rare, original antique print of Jean-Baptiste-Jules Bernadotte. In 1810, Jean-Baptiste-Jules Bernadotte, a celebrated marsh...

A rare and unusually large surviving group of Qajar dynasty tiles (19th century, Persia/Iran), richly decorated in cobalt blue, turquoise, ochre yellow, and manganese. The tiles depi...

Antique bird print titled 'Norwich Canaries 1. Variegated Yellow (Cayenne-Fed) 2. Evenly Marked Yellow (Cayenne-Fed) 3. Clear Buff (Cayenne-Fed)' Old bird print depicting the Norwich...

Antique print of a Suffolk Ox and Herefordshire Bull. This print originates from 'A History of the Earth and Animated Nature' by Oliver Goldsmith. P...

Small original antique print with two skulls. Source unknown, to be determined. Published circa 1790.

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...

Decorative print illustrating the lawes six-plumed bird of paradise and the six-plumed bird of paradise. This authentic print originates from 'birds of paradise and bower birds' by T...

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...

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...

Antique map of an hemisphere and several figures illustrating the position of the earth, moon and sun. Printed for Scherer's 'Atlas Novus' (1702-1710). Artists and Engravers: Heinrich Scherer (1628-1704) was a Professor of Hebrew, Mathematics and Ethics at the University of Dillingen until about 1680. Thereafter he obtained important positions as Official Tutor to the Royal Princes...

Antique print titled 'Iole Coupant l'habit d'Hercule envénimé par Dejanire'. Plate 23: Iole cutting Hercules' coat, envied by Deianira; after a drawing by Primaticcio, formerly belie...

1940's Asian Chinoiserie Hand Crafted Black Lacquered Hand Painted Decorative Wall Art.

Antique print titled 'Hercules cum Hesperide Beneuentanus'. Engraving with two scenes of Hercules in the Garden of Hesperides. This print originates from 'Nurnbergische Hesperides' b...

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 ...

Antique print titled 'Spain - Espagne - Spanien'. Chromolithograph of Spanish Costumes. This print originates from 'Le Costume Historique' by M.A. Raci...

AMBIANIC presents Vintage Fan Wall Art Decor Stamped People's Republic of China 20 h x 31.25 w x .5 d Preowned original vintage condition See images listed

Monumental Sailboat Painting by Lee Reynolds of Vanguard studios. Minimalist design of sailboats in muted cream and brown tones. Framed in a gun metal colored frame. White glove ship...

Original antique print of Ingush and other people. This print originates from 'Costume Antico e Moderno: Palestine, China, India, Oceania' by Ferrario. Published 1831.

Antique portrait titled 'Henry Prince of Wales Son of K. James I'. Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales KG (19 February 1594 – 6 November 1612), was the eldest son and heir apparent of James VI...

Vintage original advertisements for Warhol Queens at Leo Castelli gallery. Set of 3 circa 1985. Offset print on newspaper stock. Measures: 11 x 17 inches. Minor signs of handling; o...

Mid Century recycled artwork by Andre Pailler. France ca. 1970. Mixed media, black and blue grey paint. Recycled items, plexiglass, wood.  

Antique print titled '1. Strombus papilio 2. Pterocera scorpio (..)'. Old print of various conch shells. This print originates from 'Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier' by F.E...

Antique print titled 'Baccha Nalians'. Rare large-sized mezzotint made after the painting 'The March of Silenus' by Peter Paul Rubens. A drunken Silenus...

Antique print titled 'Egyptian - Egyptien - Aegyptisch'. Chromolithograph of Egyptian motifs from murals and reliefs and various objects ornaments. This print originates from 'l'Orne...

Original antique print of Jerusalem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. This print originates from 'Costume Antico e Moderno: Palestine, China, India,...

A superb pair of framed Grand Tour intaglios, circa 1820. These genuine plaster hand-carved intaglios are all gilt paper wrapped and numbered. They are custom framed on a gray linen ...

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...

Original antique print of hamsters and field rats. This print originates from 'Bilderbuch fur Kinder' by F.J. Bertuch. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and...

A Navajo sand painting mosaic art wall panel of the Navajo mythological Father Sky or Thunderbird created in the 1960s in a non traditional format...

1980s large abstract painting by NY artist Rowann Villency. With black lacquered frame and Lucite. Artwork measurements height 48'', width 36.75".

Antique print titled 'Australische Fauna'. Original antique lithograph of the fauna of Australia. It shows various animals including a kangaroo, emu, bird of paradise, kiwi and other...

Antique print titled 'Plate I Scales, Eggs, Probosces etc.'. Old chromolithograph depicting various scales, eggs and proboscis. This print was part of 'Lloyd's Natural History'. A...

Set of twelve antique astronomy prints. Published 1787-1797 for 'Encyclopaedia Britannica'. Engraved by A. Bell.

"Costume de Printemps – Elegant Early 19th-Century French Fashion Engraving" This finely detailed hand-colored engraving, titled Costume de Printemps, captures the refined eleganc...

Exceptional vintage framed Picasso print titled “Harlequin’s Family”. Features a wooden frame.  

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...

Antique animal print titled 'Een Ys-Beer'. Old print depicting a Polar Bear. Originates from 'Reizen Rondom de Waereld door James Cook (..)'. Artists and Engravers: Translated by...

Antique bird print titled 'Lap Owl'. Original old bird print of a lap owl. This print originates from 'A history of the birds of Europe,...

Beautiful cutout tile mural with the "ROMANTIC SCENE" motif finely painted. Tile mural size: 70.8"H X 59"W (180cm X 150cm) Tile size: 5.9"H X 5.9"W (15cm X 15cm) Origin:...

Antique print titled 'France XVIII-XIXth Cent - France XVIII-XIXe, Sele - Frankreich XVIII-XIXtes Jahr'. Chromolithograph of French 18th-19th century women's outfits. This print orig...

Etching Mark Catesby, Anas Bahamensis (The Ilathera Duck) Chrysanthemum &c T93. Wonderful print by the “Founder of American Ornithology”, Mark Catesby, from his 18th century monumental Natural History, the first natural history of American flora and fauna. A later small edition etching original hand coloring. Plate imprint on the paper. Later frame, back unopened. This is one of the finest natural science prints...

delightful Avallone Vietri round plate with 1950s central decoration

Beautiful tile mural with the "COWS" motif finely painted. Quantity: 32 tiles Tile mural size: 23.6"H X 47.2"W (60cm X 120cm) Tile size: 5.9"H X 5.9"W (15cm X 15cm) Origin: Portuga...

Original antique print of natives of Georgia and other people. This print originates from 'Costume Antico e Moderno: Palestine, China, India, Oceania' by Ferrario. Published 1831.

- Handspun and handwoven wool, oil paint - 2022 - Unique piece - Framing by Laetitia Verchere - Edition of 10. Dimensions: 25.2 x 25.2 in // 64 x 64 cm.

Antique print titled 'Arabisches Pferd'. Old print of an Arabian horse. Source unknown, to be determined. Published circa 1880.

Earl Daniels (1920-1999), California painter of landscapes, seascapes, coastal scenes, still- lives and abstracts, was born in New York City where he worked both as a commercial arti...

Hammered copper wall relief by W.R.E., 1969. This undulating artwork has a nice hammered texture and patina. Framed in rustic wood frame. Signed and...

This print originates from 'Naaukeurige beschryving der godtsdienst-plichten, kerk-zeden en gewoontens van alle volkeren der waereldt.', a Dutch edition or its French edition 'Ceremo...

Antique print of a landscape with cattle. Mezzotint with etched lines, printed in sepia. Engraved by Richard Earlom (1743 - 1822) after a sketch in the copy of Claude le Lorrain's 'L...

Original antique print of various sea shells and molluscs. This print originates from 'Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën' by F. Valentijn. François Valentyn or Valentijn (17 April 1666 – 6 A...

Antique bird print titled 'Belcian Canaries 1. Clear Yellow 2. Variecated Yellow 3. Clear Buff' Old bird print depicting the Clear Yellow, Variecated Yellow, Clear Buff Canaries. Thi...