Aubrey Beardsley Furniture

Antique 19th century Italian Floral Painted 3 panel folding floor screen / room divider. The screen has been expertly painted by an Italian sch...

This is an early 20th century French hand painted chinoiserie folding screen. It has three panels and looks wonderful mounted on a wall as well. The piece does show some age wear.

Nineteenth century Screen with grotesques Measures: (5) Oil on canvas, 158 x 185 cm The screen analyzed is made up of five panels, each divided into two panels decorated with elements of the natural world on the upper level and grotesque decorations on the lower level. The grotesque is a type of ornamentation often used in painting, sculpture and minor arts, for example in ceramics and tapestries, developed at the end of the 15th century. The five upper panels refer to as many famous Aesop's fables, i.e. the first panel depicts the fable of The frogs ask for a king, the second panel instead represents the roosters and the partridge, the third panel has as its protagonist the famous fable of the Hare and the tortoise, while the fourth The crow and the fox, while the last panel probably represents the episode of the Fox and the stork. The screen owes its name to its singular and ancient origin; after the discovery of these decorations in 1480 in Nero's Domus Aurea, a palace that had been buried for centuries, under the pretext of imitatio antiquitatis, they were re-proposed in contemporary palaces. The palace of Nero was visited by many explorers, who descended into it and had the impression of being inside a cave, which is why, as Benvenuto Cellini tells us, these particular decorations rediscovered there were called grotesque. The great success that the grotesques had is testified by Raphael's decorations in the Vatican...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Published by Hodder and Stoughton, New York Lond...

Fantastic leather four panel room divider hand painted and hand crafted screen from the latter part of the 19th century France. Hand painted cherubs with floral accents in outstandin...

This is an antique reference book, The Greyhound by Stonehenge. An English language, bound and illustrated guide to the breed, dating to the Victorian period, published 1875. Using ...

Majolica: A Complete History and Illustrated Survey, by Marilyn Karmason & Joan Stacke – Updated and Expanded edition, 2002. Out of Print. The first major work on the field, a com...

8-Panel Framed Porcelain Tile Screen, 19th Century Chinese Export

A 19th century studded leather three-sectional folding screen, or room divider, its decorative leather panels backed with canvas, and stretched over a hinged wooden frame. This unusu...

19th century French painted on canvas with antique wood frame six-panel musical theme screen. Painted on both sides in grey and yellow...Size H 6'1 each panel 24" ....W 144"

The Khmers History and Treasures of an Ancient Civilization by Stefano Vecchia. This is a history of the Khmers, the p...

This is a vintage copy of Yorkshire - Painted and Described by George Home. An English, illustrated county travel guide, this 3rd edition published in 1925. Born in London, Gordon H...