KAKEBOTOKE OF TODAY

Japanesse bronze 'Kakebotoke' (lit. 'Hanging Buddha' / Ref. https://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/k/kakebotoke.htm) with such a lovely face. Showa-Heisei period, late 20th century. 13.7 x 7.5 x 2.7 cm (5.39 x 2.95 x 1.06in)...

This unusual shape gold hair (acicular) crystal snuff bottle is 2 ¾ inches tall, 1 inch wide (on the widest part) and 5/8 of an inch thick. The artist¡¯s name is TIAN CHANG. It depicts a school of goldfish swimming in a pond filled with water plants and an unknown plant above them. The artist TIAN CHANG did a wonderful job by painting nine goldfish in a tiny space. The crystal has some natural flaws and does not contain a lot gold hairs...

18th century PONTE SALARO etching 12 x 9“ Italian Beautiful piece that is well framed

A 9 layer Sri Cakra Yantra 31x31 cm 7.5 cm high. Metalic paint on wooden base. One of the protruding arms missing. repairs on reverse. Undated. Can be viewed in central London and shipped worldwide

A fine mixed media study drawing in charcoal and white gouache of a soldier seemingly leaning against a wagon wheel, 10 1/4" by 7 5/8" inside the present mat (the sheet only very slightly larger), and 22 1/2" by 18 1/2" in gold frame with hand drawn lines), titled "Bataille de l'Alma"on the mat, signed with an impressed/embossed signature "I PILS" at lower right. The drawing features a scene from the Crimean War (1854)...

This is an extremely detailed ink and watercolor drawing on paper, unsigned, of a public building that might have become a federal building like a post office, civic center, etc. It measures roughly 24" by 39" in an octagonal shape, and a ( basically, protective only) inexpensive frame comes with it. Upon close examination, above the main door, one can read "Independence/United States/Freeport Ill(inois)...

A fine example of the work of famous Mexican artist "CHUCHO" JESUS REYES FERREIRA (1882-1977), measuring 29" by 19" (36" by 26" in a circa mid-century frame with liner). This is an outstanding example of the work of this noted self-taught artist, created in a mix of gouache and oil and metallic gold paint on his delicate, typical crepe paper/tissue paper. The artist was born in Guadalajara in the later 19th century and achieved the age of 96 before passing in Mexico City...

Beautiful Bronze roundel of Franz Liszt by artist Ellen Rankin (Cropp) dated 1891 measuring 12” diameter Ellen Rankin Copp (August 4, 1853 – August 8, 1901), also called Ellen or Helen Houser Rankin, was an American sculptor. Her works were featured at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893...

LAYERED WOOD VASE

Vintage modern jar made of circumferential layers of many thin wooden board coated in the coloring of pale emerald blue, as a unique evolutionary form (style) of traditional Japanese steam bending wood craft called 'magewappa' (lit. 'bent-woodware'), Showa period, 20th century, Japan, approx. H 18cm (7.08in). The condition is as is as seen...

Richard Faralla american artist 1916-1996 1992 watercolor " The Great Mill Petaluma CA" 1992 Many original works by this artist are in the SF Museum of Modern art. Matted sight 7" by 4" matt 12" by 15"

An unusually fine watercolor and ink drawing of palms adjacent to what appear to be Mediterranean-architecture buildings in a landscape, signed at lower right with what appears to be "Ed. Gilmond" and dated there 1926. The artist is actually Belgium-born Edgar Gilmont (1887-1949). The drawing measures 20" by 15 1/2" inside the mat...

In the style of an artist like Stark Davis is this 15 1/2" by 19 1/2" gouache painting, gold paint used for the background to the parrot and vegetation, possibly oleander, the work signed at lower left "O. Schroeter". This is a work dating to about the late 1930's to about 1950, by listed artist OTTO FELIX SCHROETER (born circa 1880 in Germany, died circa 1965 in California)...

A watercolor and gouache painting of a creek lined by mature white birch trees, 14 1/2" by 21 1/2" in its thin strip frame, the work signed at lower left "A. ABRAMS". The eastern artist Raphael Senseman of New Jersey painted in much this same style, so much so that one is tempted to think that "A. Abrams" could be a pen name. The watercolor is fresh and in excellent condition.

By the celebrated and increasingly sought-after Wisconsin-associated artist LUCIA STERN (1895-1987), this is a fine modernist collage of actual threads of various colors criss-crossing a painting on canvas that is primarily in silver paint, with painted dots, circles rectangles and other geometric forms completing the composition, which measures 17" by 14" plus attractive narrow blond wood frame (no glass)...

Julien Lucien Crump,Outsider NAIVE Biblical Painting, mixed Media 47 x 42“ From the Philadelphia Inquirer the following, The Lucien Crump Art Gallery and Education Center closed its doors for the final time Friday after 40 years of serving Philadelphia as the first to feature works by African-American artists. The gallery’s namesake, who had a long career as an artist and educator, passed away at age 71 in 2006...

Indonesian drawing of three seated figures conversing at a marketplace, three white chickens offered up for sale, painted circa late 1950's or early 1960's I believe, apparently unsigned, 12" by 16 1/4" inside the mat, 17" by 21 1/4" as framed. There is an old Rotterdam, Netherlands framer's sticker on the reverse. The art somewhat reminds of the work of the important Dutch/Indonesian master artist Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978) but I do not believe the work by him...

This is an elegant work, the first impression being that of a Japanese panel with interlocking silvery metallic sheets as a background, and the natural world the theme; note the wonderful dragonflies and leaves and reeds and pebbles. The artist signed at lower right in red. Born in Holland on Oct. 3, 1898, HARMAN C. KOOPS was a veteran of WWI and by 1930 was working in Los Angeles. He died there on Aug. 31, 1957. According to the brief Hughes dictionary listing, he was a "highly skilled painte...

A beautifully executed mixed media drawing of famous Spirit Island, one of the most photographed places in the Canadian Rockies, at Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, signed at lower right by talented artist Don Slote and dated there 4/1972. The work, primarily in pastel, with some pencil, measures 12" by 15" (19 1/2" by 22 1/2" framed). Condition of frame and art is excellent and fresh, belying its fifty years. Compare to online images of beautiful Maligne Lake and Spirit Island,...