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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.)
Masterful and truly mysterious 20th century surrealist painting, oil (I believe) on stretched canvas. The unexplained goings-on appear to me to be a monastic interior with a grotesque guest, the flowering fiend has left a cluster of nearly trompe l'oeil droplets on the wall. It is dated ('84), signed and inscribed on back, though I can not make the signature. This measures about 22.5" wide and tall, including the gilt wood frame. Condition is excellent with age appropriate wear.
$15,850 / DE-005003
Antique or near antique, incredibly charming pair of puppy dog pillows with chenille (silk, I believe) fronts and mismatched make-due floral cotton backs (one back with button detail). Condition is excellent with age appropriate wear throughout. They each measure about 19" by 16".
$1,650 / DE-005004
Huge and heavy, old—antique or near-antique Art Nouveau to Hollywood Regency eras—glossy black egg-shaped storage centerpiece cradled in beautifully formed Art Nouveau bronze flowers and vines. Measures almost 15" to the top of the lid's finial, and about 7.5" wide across the mouth. Condition is excellent with only age appropriate wear, a terribly impressive object.
$3,850 / DE-005005
Large antique—probably 18th century—oil painting of a semi-bare breasted Cleopatra (I believe) in a decadent lair. Masterfully painted on canvas that appears to have been relined in the early 20th century. The stretched canvas is housed in an antique gilt wood frame that I assume dates to the painting's reline. The framed measurement is about 36.5" by 26.5". Painting is in excellent condition with age-appropriate wear, the frame is lovely too with minor losses and retouches throughout.
$29,880 / DE-005006
Deeply moving 18th century oil on canvas portrait of a pious nun. Gilt wood frame is antique, though likely dates later than the painting, it has minimal losses including a thin shard from the outer edge. Framed measurement of about 29"x24.5". A spectacular painting, searing in its simplicity, one of the most emotionally taut portraits I've seen.
$35,850 / DE-005007
19th century German jasperware covered urn with spectacular winged gryphon creatures in high relief amid a wealth of decoration. The bowl urn rests on three large lion paws. The spire finial was once reset (slightly offset), and there are small losses here and there. It stands 9" in total height and 5 3/8" without the lid. The base measures 3 5/8" x 4 7/16". Marked on the base with the numbers 2870 and 20. It may be the most impressively decorated jasperware we've seen.
$3,980 / DE-005008
Antique 19th century oil on canvas painting of a beautifully colored landscape under a cloudy blue sky. The grassy basin is lightly populated by men, women, and horses. Antique ornate wood frame is believed to be original. Measures about 28.5" x21.75" framed. Painting is in excellent condition with age appropriate wear, the frame is strong too with a variety of age-appropriate flaws to its decorations including scuffs and scrapes, fractures and fissures, tarnish and discolors, losses and retouches throughout. Indistinctly signed, and a sticker at back suggests it's from 1898 Switzerland.
$15,980 / DE-005010
Antique, probably 1700s Georgian era, oil portrait painting on board of a woman with mask in gilt wood frame. Measures 30.5" x 26.5" framed, and the board is about 26.5" x 22.5". Condition is good with age appropriate wear that includes small scuffs and scrapes and losses and retouches to both painting and frame. Beautiful porcelain-quality countenance with an uncommon masquerade motif.
$35,880 / DE-005011
Gilded and heavily hand-painted, French porcelain trinket box with five individual landscapes painted throughout. Maker's marks on lid interior. Measures about 5” wide, 3.75” front to back, and about 2.25”tall. Condition is excellent with appropriate tarnish and aging and wear throughout.
$725 / DE-005013
Masterful 19th century oil on canvas, French Revolution prison scene. Signed "F Lyons", or similar. Heavy and sturdy carved gilt wood frame has small losses and is likely remoulded at corners. Outer frame measures approximately 31"x27". Condition is excellent with craqueleur and small losses and other age-appropriate wear throughout. Sticker at back reads "Depositories—High Harrogate".
$35,880 / DE-005014
Big, antique—likely 17th century, hand-carved wooden bust. The statuesque sculpture is masterfully formed from every angle, with striking success in its depiction of anatomy and flesh. The wood is beautifully grained and stained, with all the natural chinks and crannies and crevices that are the hallmarks of centuries-old wood. Impressive size, it stands about 19" tall and 13" wide. Condition is excellent with age-appropriate wear.
$16,980 / DE-005015
Antique heraldic armorial cabinet plate, handpainted gryphon-type black birds flanking a shield and crown. Big, it measures over a foot diameter. Condition is good with sporadic discolors, small points of glaze loss along the piecrust edges, and crazing throughout; other age-appropriate wear may include glaze craquelure, discolor, and discreet surface abrasions with small paint losses and/or rubbing of gilded details.
$490 / DE-005016
Antique, probably 16th or early 17th century, oil on heavy wood panel (the wood's unpolished texture reads through the paint), portrait painting of a noble woman in headwear and an Elizabethan style ruff. The edges of the wood panel show evidence of an old frame liner, the antique painting is currently housed in a custom contemporary wood frame, the framed measurement is about 26 x 21 inches. Condition is excellent. Striking imagery, stunning quality.
$39,880 / DE-005017
19th or early 20th century ecclesiastic pillow with padded Sacred Heart atop a beaded radial. The iconography centers a magnificent luminous antique silk textile, with corners and backs upholstered in a velvety antique chenille with corded edges. Measures about 19” wide and 14” tall. Condition is excellent with age-appropriate wear.
$2,150 / DE-005018
Antique heavy metal (gilt bronze, I believe) winged putto child with beast feet and a big curling serpentine dragon tail. Measures almost 7" tall. Marker's mark "A. PANDIANI - MILANO" (Antonio Pandiani, 1838-1928) at bottom. Condition is excellent with patina and gilt loss and other age appropriate wear.
$1,200 / DE-005019
An imposing pair of 19th century black metal mantle urns with endlessly decorative serpentine bronze handles and basalt (or similar) bases. Condition is good with small dings, dents, discolors, scuffs, scrapes, and losses throughout. They measure a foot tall, and about 7.5" across their widest.
$4,850 / DE-005020
Beautifully painted, glazed and gilded large antique capodimonte porcelain urn with high-relief mythological figures throughout, and a pair of spectacular winged devil handles. Crown-over-N maker's mark at bottom. The item's age is made evident by the corrosion of the hardware seen from the urn's underside in the last photo. Measures 11" tall and 8.5" at widest. Excellent condition with age appropriate wear.
$3,300 / DE-005021
Sevres marked, antique hand-painted French porcelain jewelry casket, dresser trinket box. Heavily gilded, with a putto pair beautifully painted across the lid. Outwardly hooked wreath handle, maker's mark at bottom. Measures 6" wide, 3.75" front to back, 1.25" tall. Condition is excellent with minor losses to paint, gilt, and glaze, and other age appropriate wear.
$550 / DE-005025
Aesthetic movement or similar, likely French c. 1880, unsigned opaline vase with applied hand-blown green snake and gilt and enamel painted egyptian motif. Please disregard the reflections of our umbrella lamps. Condition is excellent with age-appropriate wear, including rubbing of gilt, a small area of overpainting on the rim and small spot of roughness below rim that appears to be factory. Measures 11" tall and 16.25" body circumference.
$1,480 / DE-005026
