Burmese Bronze Disciple/Worshipper, AVA period, 18th Century, mounted, condition: good, size: H. 18.5cm x W. 3.5 cm x D. 5cm
Female portrait from the Court of Louis XV, by Antoine Coypel circa. 1715, oil on canvas, framed, 29” x 34”
Comment: One of the ‘great beauties’ from the Court of Louis XV. Louis XV was the grandson of Louis XIV, known as Louis the Great or the Sun King who reigned of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign. This painting is an example of the glorification of powerful and importance of women during the mid 18th Century in France...
18th century PONTE SALARO etching 12 x 9“ Italian
Beautiful piece that is well framed
18th Century Northern European Recumbent Carved Wood Sculpture Figure more information coming…..Berlin Estate
James Watson after Sir Joshua Reynolds Jemima Countess Cornwallis, mezzotint on laid paper 16x11.5 inch
lower center in plate: R. Sayer Excudit.; lower left in plate: Sr. Jos Reynolds Pinxt.; lower right in plate: Jos. Watson fecit.; lower center in plate: Published as the Act directs 20 April 1771
Hey beautiful work professionally framed in a museum quality Frame
Beautiful,Rare and important 1799 dated “privateers” gouache measuring 12x17”
The work has on its reverse a letter from a cabin boy written 50 years later.
Sir Isaac Newton PRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27[a]) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author (described in his time as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the greatest mathematicians, physicists, and most influential scientists of all time. He was a key figure in the philosophical revolution known as the Enlightenment...
Antique Two panel Japanese byobu screen depicting the first frost at waters edge.
Japanese herons and mandarin ducks contently rest and foliage with a light dusting of snow screen depicted on the late white plumb blossom tree. Three ducks rest and warm themselves beneath the near barren tree. A pair of Japanese herons are seem amoungst the water with sprouted bamboo and flowering water lilly. In Japan the white heron is known to be able to move between three elements air, earth and water...
A beautifu Eighteenth Century, hand colored Etching exotic monkey 10 x 8“ Frame size 16 x 14 framed and mat
According to Sotheby's London old master specialists, this painting is an ANTIQUE copy of the major museum work "Stormy Landscape with Philemon and Baucis" by artist SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS (1577-1640), one of the major figures in European art history. The original is presently in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria...
18th c English Caricature By James Gillray published by Ms Hannah Humphrey St James St Nov 4 1798.
Title "Gentle manners, with affections mild, in wit a man simply a child" good condition mat board and mounted to 18th c paper no apparent damage or foxing.
sight 10" by 7" mat 14" by 18"
A drawing with ink, pencil, watercolor and gouache on laid paper depicting a harbor scene very much in the manner of the French artist Claude Vernet (1714-1789). Perhaps there is a print source for this drawing. The work is signed in the lower right, “Tho. Ryves. 1770.” The most likely artist is either the father Thomas Ryves (1721-1788) or his son Thomas (born 1753) from the distinguished Dorset, England family...
A pen and ink with grey wash drawing on laid paper of mostly sail boats in what appears to be an estuary with a substantial building in the distance and an expansive sky framed in an older, probably early 20th century, mat and worn gilt frame. On the back of the drawing in pencil are various writings including, “Van de Velde” in the upper left corner. Though the writing is considerably later than the drawing it is a solid attribution to the Van de Velde family of painters...
An antique red chalk European drawing on laid paper, sheet 8 1/4" by 6 3/4" (15 3/4" by 12" in 20th century frame), unsigned, the subject an aristocratic woman formally dressed, with upswept hair of the period. One wonders if this might be Marie Antoinette herself, or someone else who might have been caught up in the 1789 storming of the Bastille and the infamous Reign of Terror. There is a watermark in the old paper. Taped at top edge only...
Italian lithograph titled TABULA VII showing an ancient mythology scene on fine laid paper with a strong impression
Also see #1181
This is a fragment of a larger 18th century European religious painting. The painting is very well painted in oil on wood with a gesso layer and depicts the thorn crowned head of Christ.
MEASUREMENTS: 19 cm x11 cm (7 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in).
CONDITION: The wood and the painting have been professionally conserved to protect from further deterioration.
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Eighteenth Century Floral Study Watercolor 12”x7” on fine French paper
Antique, 18th century, Greek Orthodox icon triptych, finely hand painted on wood panels. The center panel, with a niche carved as a raised arch, depicts finely hand-painted the Mother Of God, "HODEGETRIA," with silver painted nimbate and two Angels holding the Virgin's Crown of the Queen of Heaven, flanked by Greek letters "MP OY," an abbreviation of the Greek "Mater Theos" (the Mother of God).
The Theotokos is dressed in an embroidered maroon veil and holds Jesus with her left arm...