Early 20th Century Decorative Art

Great map of North Island, New Zealand Original color. Good condition / minor foxing to right edge Published by Alexander Gross Unframed.

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

an early 20th century East Turkestan Khotan Pictorial rug Measures: 5'8'' x 8'8''.

A later and large execution of ‘Spring ‘ of the Four Seasons series by Francois Boucher in the Rococo taste , the originals around 1755. (and for Madame Pompadour). A Shepherd conver...

Sometimes an unfinished form can leave a stronger impression than a completed object. This is the skeletal frame of an old Japanese kasa hat, thought to have been made in the Taisho ...

1960s pair of sconces made of chrome white a large blown glass globe. Each sconce is compose by a large chrome cylinder extended by a smaller chrome cylinder which contains the bulb...

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

LARGE and Absolutely incredible Park Bei Lu, by Paul Klee, Large Scale Mosaic tile art piece. Mosaic is framed. Bold lines and colors, this piece combi...

Wonderful image by E.J Detmold Tipped in plate. On paper Lithograph. Published C.1920 The measurement given is the paper size not the actual printed image.

Wonderful image of Anne Hathaway's Cottage Tipped in plate. On card Lithograph. Published C.1920 The measurement given is the card size not the actual printed image.

A collection of 35 Swedish decorative antique leather-bound library books from the from the 1920s-1940s. The books are wrapped in leather-bound covers, comprised of a selection of wa...

Large French Majolica Fish Platter Fives Lille Circa 1900. 15 by 6.3 inches.

French Majolica Asparagus Plate signed Sarreguemines circa 1900.

Wonderful image by E.J Detmold Tipped in plate. On paper Lithograph. Published C.1920 The measurement given is the paper size not the actual printed image.

Wonderful image by E.J Detmold Tipped in plate. On paper Lithograph. Published C.1920 The measurement given is the paper size not the actual printed image.

Rare print titled 'Joan of Arc in Prison'. Original antique print on chine collé made after a painting by P. Delaroche. This print originates from volume 3 of the series 'The Wallace...

Antique Miniature Portrait of Louis XVI — This finely rendered miniature depicts King Louis XVI of France, presented with the dignified composure befitting his royal station. The por...

Lovely German Majolica cat with her kitten plate, circa 1900.

French Faience Octogonal Plate Fleur-De-Lis Circa 1900. coat of arms on the center "Pau" city in South of France.

This rare and decorative early 20th-century Arts & Crafts wall barometer and thermometer is a striking testament to Dutch craftsmanship. Hand-carved from a single solid piece of rich...

Large Terracotta Majolica Cicada Bavent Normandy. Height / 9.5 inches.

French Majolica Starfish Oyster Plate signed Digoin Sarreguemines Circa 1920.

Antique Miniature Portrait of a Noblewoman -This finely painted miniature captures the quiet elegance and poise of a noblewoman, rendered with delicate brushwork that emphasizes soft...

Majolica Daisies Wall Pocket signed Keller & Guerin Saint Clement.

Great map of Egypt Unframed Original color By John Bartholomew and Co. Edinburgh Geographical Institute Published, circa 1920 Free shipping.  

Antique bird print of a purple heron. This print originates from 'Les Chiens. Le Gibier et ses Ennemis' by P. Mahler. Saint-Étienne, Mimard & Blachon, 190...

Winter Landscape Snow Scene Country Road Painting Oil on Canvas Framed Argnegger . Late 19th-early 20th century winter landscape / snow scene, by...

Antique Collection of Six Roe Deer Trophies on Turned Plaques, Germany ca. 1900s A great collection of six antique roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) antler trophies, shot arround 1900,...

Set of four original antique chromolithographs of various green / white grape varieties titled 'Faphly - Cannon Hall Muscat - Buccleuch - Ximenès Jumbon'....

Beautiful custom framed antique Swedish herbarium floral specimens, collected circa 1911. Handwritten names in lovely Latin script. Specimens include zigzag clover, milkwort, and mor...

Rustic faience grapes plate signed Villeroy & Boch, circa 1900.

Stunning pair of distressed antique Chinese hand painted wooden panels having red backgrounds and figural decoration of warriors on horseback in black, white and green.

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

Antique Casted Bronze Cattle Bell Made in Switzerland ca. 1900s An antique cast bronze cattle bell, made in Switzerland around 1900. The bell comes with its original brown leather s...

Amaizing Marquetry Country: France We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982.If you have any questions we are at your disposal. Pushin...

A striking oil on board painting depicting a country forest scene by French painter, Marcelle Papillaud. Marcelle PAPILLAUD was born in 1888, she painted numerous works of art that...

Antique Black Forest Roe Deer Trophy on Carved Plaque, Bavaria 1900s Item e7321 A large antique roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) trophy on a wooden carved plaque. The trophy was shot i...

Sensational image by Frederick Simpson Coburn In the style of one of my favourite artists, Goya Photogravure Limited edition of 300. This is No. 84 From The Complete Works of Edg...

Small German Majolica apple plate, circa 1900. Measure: 7.3" diameter.

Colored Etching Venice Italy Doges Palace, Colored Etching manner of Canaletto by Hungarian Artist Bela Szikiay, Pencil Signed, circa 1930. Sign...

Set of 3 antique gun prints. Chromolithographs originating from 'Les Chiens. Le Gibier et ses Ennemis' illustrated by P. Mahler.

Italian Hand-Colored Engraving of the Grand Canal, Venice, in the Manner of Giuseppe Vasi, Framed A finely detailed Italian architectural engraving depicting an elegant Venetian wat...

This beautifully framed set of early 20th-century Catalan tiles showcases the exquisite craftsmanship and vibrant artistry of the period. Created by an unknown artist and manufacture...

Majolica Shell Dish Keller & Guerin Saint Clement Circa 1900. Decorated with a flower.  

Antique Persian Iznik Qajar Style Ceramic Pottery Tile Green Couple Embrace C1. Item features original crackle glazed finish, heavy ceramic pottery construction, very impressive deta...

Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854-1941) "Theatre du Chatelet" watercolor and gouache on paper signed 'E Galien Laloue' lower left, within a giltwood and gesso c...

A set comprising two butterfly-shaped wall sculptures dating from around 1900. Crafted from hammered and chased wood, the raw aesthetic of the pieces is truly appealing. Beautiful pa...

A rare women’s ceremonial dance skirt from the Kuba people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. With a strong artistic textile tradition, the Kuba people i...

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...

Antique Chamois Trophy on Carved Plaque, Germany ca. 1900 Antique chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) trophy mounted on a wooden carved plaque. The trophy was shot arround 1900 in Germany...

A deep porcelain plate with pink roses and a gilded leaf border, Bohemia, circa 1900. A rich Teal blue ground fading towards the center which shows a hand-painted bouquet of pink an...

French Majolica Faience Trompe L'oeil Eggplant Platter Circa 1900.

Beautiful and highly decorative pair of wooden painter’s palettes, France, circa 1900–1920. Each palette displays a superb, authentic patina with traces of original pigments, bearing...

A rare antique French faience Quimper star shaped plate, circa 1920. Maker's mark on reverse. This charming plate is decorated with a hand painted Breton musician surrounded by geome...

French Majolica orchid plate signed Keller and Guerin saint clement, circa 1900.

An expressive wooden form with a strong sculptural presence. Its dark, timeworn surface reveals natural textures and cracks, evoking the quiet beauty of age and material transformati...

An Arts and Crafts copper plate with a pie crust edge and floral decoration to the centre.

Asian textile picture of a crocheted bamboo jacket on linen, Myanmar 1900-1920 The finely assembled object made of small bamboo sticks has become a loose jacket. The edges are hemm...

Antique Chamois Trophy on Carved Plaque, Germany ca. 1900 Antique chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) trophy mounted on a wooden carved plaque. The trophy was shot arround 1900 in Germany...

A very attractive early 20th century French fashion plate which was published by La Mode Illustrée. La Mode Illustrée was published in Paris in the 1...