Metal bust of a cat with glass eyes, gray color metal with remnants of silver, mounted on a round green marble pedestal, bust has written information on back, but is only partial and not legible.
Measures 5 1/2" high and pedestal base is 3 3/8" in diameter.
Very fierce yet charming cat, very well sculpted with intense glass eyes, he is a wonderful desk companion.
The head is hollow and something rattles about when shaken.
Condition is good, he may have been silver plated at sometime, as ther...
This elegant 1930’s Art Deco bronze sculpture of a nude female seated on her leg that is folded, while the other leg extended, and she is resting her elbow on her knee and her face on her hand and her other hand stretched behind her near the signature L. Alliot. This beautiful sculpture is on a dark marble base. Condition: in good condition commiserate with its age.
Age: 1930’s
Size 21” wide x 11” x 10.5”
Weight: 20 Lbs.
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Mysterious pottery seated image of such an unknown noble character in the pose of gassho (worship with folded hands) with unidentified engravings at the back.
Acquired from a Japanese antique dealer but totally its detail unknown, though very fascinating somehow. H 11 x 7.5 x 4 cm (4.33 x 2.95 x 1.57 in)...
Japanese Print
Shiro Kasamatsu (1898-1991) – Evening Rain, Shinobazu Pond. Publisher : Watanabe Shozaburo. Size : Oban (10″x15″). Signed. Around 1940-1950. Framed.
Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. and Fondo Del Sol Museum, Washington DC. He is noted for his bold blending of indigenous African visual sensibilities and folk motifs with Western creative techniques...
Ohara Koson (1877-1945) Snow on Willow Bridge. A woodblock print, with gofun for the snow. With gofun paste for the flying snow and extensive embossing as snow banks, two women with umbrellas cross a bridge over the river Sumidagawa in a heavy snowfall. This print illustrates the famous Yanagibashi – Willow bridge. Signed and sealed Shoson, published by Watanabe Shozaburo, circa 1940 Vertical oban: 38.6 x 26.1 cm. Showa period, 20th century. Framed.
Japanese print YUHAN Ito (1867 – 1942) Itsukushima Shrine at Miyajima. Woodblock print with ink and color on paper. Vertical ôban. Around 1910. A good model published by Nishinomiya. Framed.
A scarce antique, late 18th or early 19th century, Ukrainian – Polish Large Icon of "The Mother of God of Pochayiv";
0” Почаївська ікона Пресвятої Богородиці " Matka Boska Poczajowska” “Чудотворна ікона Почаївської Божої Матері” ” Почаївська Ікона Божої Матері”.
The icon of Pochayiv Mother of God is venerated equally by Ukrainian Orthodox, Ukrainian Greek Catholic (Greco-Cat...
Contemporary hardwood console table. Made of naturally formed root wood. The back edge is flat but also finished so it can either sit flush against a wall or be left free standing. The natural finish of the wood is a light blond color with an attractive grain pattern.
Dimensions: 31 1/2" high x 59" long x 16 3/4" deep
Oversized Japanese woodblock print by Shufu Miyamoto (b. 1950) titled "Water Weeds at Hiroshima." The lower margin is pencil-titled in kanji and English, pencil-signed, and dated '84. It is numbered in pencil 5/150 at the lower left below the artist's red seal. Paper: 17 5/8" x 22 3/4" (image: 15 1/4" x 21 5/8"). Very good overall condition. There are some minor wrinkles in the paper at the margin edges and there is a small mark in the margin at the upper left corner.
19th C oil on canvas painting of young gypsy girl in original gold art deco frame. Unsigned, this was purchased in Europe by an antiques dealer. Ready to hang and enjoy!
Measures in Frame: 27.5" x 31.75"
Sight size: 19.5" x 31.75"
Eye-catching patinated bronze swan statue on a black marble base.. This curvilinear design is reminiscent of the Art Deco period. The edges of the marble base are beveled and the corners are rounded; it all feels very smooth. Unsigned, there was green felt on the bottom that was removed, but enough remains that it will protect a wood surface from scratching. In excellent condition, it measures 16.12ʺ long × 4.12ʺ deep × 11.75ʺ high.
1952 Gouache on paper in the manner of world famed Russian-French postwar modernist Abstract Painter SERGE POLIAKOFF (1900 - 1969), signed...
Hey, very unusual in modern royal portrait of Abraham Lincoln done circa 1970 from a student of Cornell University. The work on canvas measures 20 x 16” unsigned.
Antique 18th-century Russian Orthodox Icon of the Mother of God of Vladimir.The Most Holy Theotokos Vladimirskaya.
The icon is finely hand-painted in tempera on a wooden panel in the traditional Byzantine style.
The Mother of God is represented half-length, with the Christ Child sitting on her right arm, tenderly embracing her neck with both hands...
A very fine oil on canvas by Venetian Artist Vosteni. The work circa 1890 brings together Venetian Art and Japanisme by introducing a play of characters. Measuring 17” x 12.5”
An original painting by Mayumi Oda depicting a goddess holding an infant in one harm and a branch with pomegranates in the other. On her knee is a sleeping child. Painted in black ink on paper and signed in pencil along with a title "Hariti" and "for Yvonn and Bill".
Hārītī (in Japanese, Kishi-mojin) was once an ogress but was shown a better path by the Buddha. She is known as a protector of children and women in childbirth.
Dimensions: paper size: 17 1/8" high x 11" wide...
A print of a nude woman reclining in a garden. Around her grows the lush mint plants in the title. An etching printed in green ink on paper. Signed in pencil and 5/30 in series.
Dimensions: Paper size: 14 3/4" high x 11 1/4" wide. Size of art including signature: 6 1/4" high x 4 1/4" wide