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The DECOR pages at TheFROCK.com are a gallery of vintage and antique fine art and artifacts from the 17th through 20th centuries. It's a curated collection of rare pillows and paintings, boxes and jars, candlesticks and lamps, and all things decorative. As with any vintage and antique items, please expect age-appropriate wear including all the subtle signs of use and/or manmade irregularity that are the authentication and hallmarks of aged and hand-wrought wares. (See our Purchase/Policy page if you are unfamiliar with examples of age-appropriate wear on vintage and antique merchandise.)
Striking antique memorial watercolor of the french poet CLAUDE de LÕESTOILE (1597-1652). Fabric matted, antique wooden frame. Condition is excellent with separation in the frame decoration, though everything seems tight and secure. The framed measurement is about 25" by 21".
$8,980 / DE-004001
A big and magnificent masterful antique—probably 18th century—oil on canvas (reset to panel in the last hundred years) painting of The Repentant Magdalene, her mournful gaze beset with nearly glasslike tears. Ebonized wood frame dates later. Measures about 34" x 27" framed. Condition is excellent with age-appropriate wear.
$28,400 / DE-004003
Big and beautifully shaped antique porcelain box with a hinged lid that is magnificently hand painted in a complex landscape that features a horse and rider, a sailboat, and a cottage. Measures about 8" wide and 5.5" front to back, height is 2.75". French maker's marks at bottom. Condition is excellent with age appropriate wear to all surfaces.
$640 / DE-004004
Pair of pillows with antique—probably 18th to early 19th century—madder-red cotton textile depicting magnificent mythological beasts, each framed in striped silk taffeta and brush fringe trim. Measures 20.5 x 14.5 inches, plus fringe trim. Condition is excellent with a tiny darn and other age-appropriate wear.
$7,540 / DE-004005
Antique—18th century—oil on canvas portrait painting of a young man with mustache and impossibly porcelain skin. Good condition with age-appropriate wear including a few old reinforcements to the canvas verso and craquelure to the glossy paint. The gilt fillet is antique as well, and the outer wood frame dates later—it measures about 19” x 16.5” overall.
$18,950 / DE-004006
Norwich school shoreline scene with the antique nameplate of J.B. (John Berney) Crome, 1794-1842. In it, two figures atop a wood battlement or dam-like structure, and flying seagulls in a cloudy sky. Crome was the son of another famous landscape painter, his father John Crome ("Old Crome"). Young Crome was appointed landscape painter to the Duke of Essex, and served as vice president and then president of the Norwich Society of Artists. Excellent condition with age-appropriate wear, relined in antiquity. Antique frame has an outer measurement of about 19.5" x 17.5"
$18,950 / DE-004010
Magnificent and rare surrealist fantasy painting of an animal woman in jungle landscape by veteran Colombian actor and artist Frank Ramirez (1939-2015). Fully signed and dated 1975 (shortly after he appeared on Gunsmoke, Barnaby Jones, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show). Painting and wood frame are in excellent condition with only age appropriate wear. Measures 37" x 31" including the carved wood frame.
$26,880 / DE-004011
Antique hand-painted porcelain jewelry casket, dresser trinket box. Enamel figures in a castle landscape painted on all outer surfaces; well-patinated dark bronze hardware is a beautiful compliment to the lush blue and white scene. There's a dimple or two where the thick glaze didn’t quite fill, condition is excellent with only age appropriate wear. Hefty size, measures about 6” wide, front to back is 5.25”, and the height is 3”.
$740 / DE-004013
Haunting 19th C. oil portrait on hard wood, beautiful young woman or long-haired man in a heavy robe, in ornately carved antique gilt wood frame. Presumably French (the panel is stamped by Paul Foinet, a 19th century french artist supply). Excellent condition with age appropriate wear including small old retouches, the impressive frame has small losses. The framed measurement is about 25 x 19 inches.
$19,880 / DE-004014
Incredibly fine 17th century small oil on hard wood panel of three English hunters in green uniforms with hound and shield under the All Seeing Eye. The Latin words UNITAS BENEVOLENTIA ET CONCORDIA (Unity, Benevolence and Concord) snake across the foreground, variations of this motto have been associated with the Foresters, a fraternal society whose incarnations date back as far as the 13th century (mentioned by name in the King John MAGNA CARTA in 1219). Believed to date to the 1600s, the frame dates later and measures about 14" x 10.5". Excellent condition with age-appropriate wear.
$17,450 / DE-004015
Antique pillow, needlepoint / petit point angel and blue floral brocade with plush fringe. Embroidered french text at bottom reads "La Mauvais Ange" ("The Evil Angel"). Measures 21.5 x 19 inches, including the antique brocade ruffle. Condition is good with age discolor and other age-appropriate wear.
$1,880 / DE-004017
Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene, 1935. Original oil on canvas by Alfons Graber (1901-1990). Huge size, almost 29x43" framed. The style is a combination of modern and old master technique; Graber often stated that his work was a fight between these two periods and referred to his work as neo-baroque (it is similar to, though darker than, his contemporary Marc Chagall.) Born in Switzerland, Graber spent his career in Austria and Germany. There is a museum of his work in Steinach am Brenner at the Swiss / Austrian border. This painting is signed and dated 1935, it is the best example of his work that I've ever seen on the market.
$29,550 / DE-004018
19th century Joseph Bartholomew Kidd (1808-1889) oil on canvas painting of fisherman at the shoreline in original gilt frame. Signed "J.B. Kidd R.S.A." (Royal Scottish Academy, where Kidd was a founding associate, and elected a full Academician in 1829 ). Both painting and frame are in good condition with only small, age-appropriate dings, dents, scrapes, and losses. Framed measurement is 18.25” tall by 25.5” wide.
$12,400 / DE-004019
Pair of big 19th century Victorian majolica figural urn vases, polychrome, high relief mythological putto figures and Boreas / North Wind faces, endlessly decorated. Deep, rich colors. They are maker marked (see photo). Condition is excellent with age appropriate wear including crazing to glaze, a light hairline, and light chipping to finish around the base rim, truly exceptional condition for majolica of this age and detail. Vases measure an impressive 15" tall.
$6,650 / DE-004020
Monumental Lucienne Berthon (1926-2012) signed oil on panel painting depicting the best example I've seen of her impossibly dramatic surreal landscapes. The work is signed at bottom front, and the frame is heavily inscribed by the artist, as is the back. Measures a big 40.75" x 32.75" framed. Condition is excellent with age appropriate wear.
$23,850 / DE-004022
Antique 19th century oil on wood panel painting of a kenneled dog with bowl by Belgian master animal painter Joost Vincent de Vos (1829 - 1875), signed lower right. Frame dates later, it measures 14.25 x 13 inches overall. Excellent conditional with craquelure and a thick varnish, the frame is excellent as well.
$18,650 / DE-004023
Big pillow with 19th century glass beaded ecclesiastic needlepoint of a chalice (or monstrance) surrounded by flowers, worked in wool gros point stitch, as is the colorful part of the motif¹s needlepoint border. The rest of the piece - which may appear as silvery grey in the photos - is completely beaded with silvery glass beads. This gives the piece an amazing textured and sparkling appearanc. Housed in a weighty, silvery gunmetal velvet with tassel fringe (all present). Velvet backed. Measures 119" square, excluding the tassel trims. Condition is excellent.
$2,380 / DE-004025
Antique (18th century, I believe) oil on canvas painting of classical figures—a well lit woman and a dimly lit man with battle helmet in lap—in Italian landscape. Painting is in good condition with small repairs visible from back, and other age-appropriate wear. The spectacular antique carved wood frame is good as well, with only minor cracks and losses of the infinitely ornate decoration. Measures about 19" x 21.75" framed.
$10,980 / DE-004026
Magnificent antique depiction of the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. Oil on stretched canvas. Frame appears of the period, it is solid wood, heavy and strong with handsomely weathered variations in the ebony stain and gilt finishes, it measures about 31" x 25". Excellent condition with a minute repair to the undetailed black of the canvas, and other age-appropriate wear. This beautifully preserved painting of an iconic scene in rare quality is unsigned, though it's certainly attributable by subject, age, quality, and style to the circle of Théodule Armand Ribot (French, 1839 -1916), or to the artist himself.
$38,550 / DE-004027
Antique French chinoiserie hand decorated trinket box depicting what appears to be a Chinese goddess floating in the clouds, a koi fish in hand. Maker's mark on bottom, alongside "Made in France". Measures about 5.75" wide X 3.5" deep X 1.25" tall. Condition is excellent with age-appropriate wear and tone to all surfaces.
$650 / DE-004028