Decorative Arts
98 items found
[J. Brandt & Zoon]
Decorative leathers applied to modern furniture.
Amsterdam, J. Brandt & Zoon, ca. 1910-1916. Folio (37.0 x 30.0 cm). With 36 original photographs of furniture leather crafting such as, chairs, clocks and smoking stands, each with a handwritten caption, on 34 leaves. Original full leather, with gilt title and vignette on the front board. Marbled endpapers.
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[Japanese fabric design] Hasegawa, K.
Keikazuan. [Illustrated book of fabric designs in three volumes].
Kyoto, Keika Hasegawa, 1905. In three volumes. Large 8vo size (24.1 x 16.4 cm). 60 [20; 20; 20] folded leaves, each with two (recto, verso) or more hand-coloured illustrations, several heightened with silver. Original near uniform hand-coloured pictorial soft covers.
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[Japanese fabric design] Tsuji, S. (ed.)
Senshoku Taikan Ori no bu san [Great encyclopedia of dyeing and weaving].
Kyoto, Taisho, 1914. In two volumes (of ten). Large 8vo size (25.0 x 18.1 cm). 42 [21; 21] leporello "pages", each with pochoir illustrations, several heightened with silver, and either double-sized, covering two pages, one page sized, or smaller, with two or more on one page, for a total of 78 [39; 39] different designs. Original near uniform printed soft covers, heightened with silver and gold.
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Leonard, T.
Spotted Cat. [Original of a book front-cover illustration, signed by the artist].
Philadelphia, PA, The Artist, ca. 2005. A fine, original full-colour painting (16.5 x 20.3 cm, with a 3.8 cm white border). Acrylic on cardboard, by the American animal painter Tom Leonard.
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[Manetti, F. S]
Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo e adornata di figure intagliate in rame e miniate al naturale. Ornithologia methodice digesta atque iconibus aeneis ad vivum illuminatis ornate. [Two counterproofs in original water colouring, of Plate 37, Falco albanella torquata, and of Plate 48, Falco vulga barletto.]
[Florence, 1776]. Two single sheets (each 47.1 x 35.8 cm). Hand-coloured and captioned.
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Menzies, J. H.
Maori Patterns. Painted and Carved.
Christchurch, Smith and Antony, [1910]. Oblong folio (36.6 x 50.1 cm). Engraved title page in red and black; explanatory leaf; 28 plates. Original white linen boards with colour-printed title mounted. Preserved in protective clamshell box of blue half morocco over blue linen boards; "spine" with wavy giltlines and gilt title. Marbled inside.
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Nowack, H.
Das moderne Monogramm. 676 Entwürfe von Hans Nowack k.k. Professor an der Kunstgewerbl. Fachschule in Bozen.
Wien, Ferdinand Schenk, [1903]. Folio (37.0 x 29.5 cm). Pictorial title page and 26 woodcut plates printed in green. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Gilt title on the spine. Patterned endpapers. Top edge gilt. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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[Original drawings]
Mongolian horsemen with falcons, cats and rabbits. [Eight original paintings on silk].
Mongolia, mid to late 19th to early 20th century. Oblong (27 x 35 cm). Eight paintings on silk, each mounted on large, iridescent silk sheets, and framed behind glass. Early to mid-20th century black varnished, bevelled wooden frames, each measuring 38.0 x 47.5 cm.
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Petit and Bisiaux
Motifs de décorations. Première série de cinquante planches en couleurs extraites de Journal-Manuel de Peintures.
Paris, A. Morel, 1862. Royal Folio (52.1 x 36.2 cm). Half-title and title page; 50 fine chromolithographed plates on thick paper. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five raised gilt-stippled and gilt-bordered bands, gilt title. Marbled endpapers.
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[Raphael, Michelangelo]
Deux candélabres composés par Raphael Sanzio d'Urbin, et Michel-Ange Buonaroti; d'après le concours ouvert entr'eux, par les Papes Jules II et Léon X, environ l'an 1518. Dédiés au citoyen Chaptal, Ministre de l'Intérieur, membre de l'Institut national de France.
Paris, Joubert, 1803. Large Folio (59.5 x 41.5 cm). 4 pp. Four large, engraved plates. Later mottled half roan over paper boards resembling tree calf. Black morocco label with gilt title. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Sandier, A.
2800 formes de vases.
Paris, Librairie de l'Art Ancien et Moderne (Ancienne Librairie J. Rouam & Cie.), [1900-1901]. Title page in red and black, pp. 7-8; 116 plates on 115 sheets, containing nearly 2,800 shapes and individual designs. Quarter linen portfolio over pebbled boards. Front board with printed title.
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Séguy, E. A.
Prismes. 40 planches de dessins et coloris nouveaux.
Paris, Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, [1931]. Folio portfolio (33.5 x 25.5 cm). [iv] pp. (half-title and title page); 40 very fine full colour pochoir plates. The original publisher's full-colour pictorial portfolio.
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Teirich, V.
Ornamente aus der Blüthezeit Italienischer Renaissance (Intarsien). 25 Tafeln mit erklärendem Text.
Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1873. Imperial folio (60.5 x 43.7 cm). [iv], 12 pp. 25 chromolithographed plates. Black half morocco over black pebbled cloth. Spine with gilt decorations and title.
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[Trade Catalogue - Japanese Silk]
Well-known raw silk producers and their trade marks - Empire of Japan - Compiled for Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904.
Tokio [Tokyo], The Japan Sericultural Association, 1904. Folio (29.6 x 22.0 cm). Preliminary leaf, title page, (xiv [advertisements]), 166, 7, [ix] pp. 144 text illustrations (logos), of which 142 in colour - mostly in full colour chromolithography, a few partly printed in silver. Additional full-colour illustrations in the advertisement sections. Original multi-colour pochoir wrappers, with two silk ties. Printed erratum leaf tipped in.
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Veth, P. J. and A. De Grijs
Insulinde. Twaalf tafereelen uit Nederlandsch Indië, volgens teekeningen en studiën naar de natuur door A. de Grijs, geëtst door C. L. Van Kesteren met tekst van P. J. Veth, hoogleeraar te Leiden.
Amsterdam, S. Warendorf [or C. L. Van Kesteren], [1879-1882]. Folio (43.7 x 32.0 cm). Half-title, title page, text; 12 original etchings. Original light blue pictorial cloth with gilt title on spine. Floral patterned endpapers.
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[Wallpaper]
A collection of ten rolls of wallpaper, mainly borders, in late Jugendstil or early Art Deco "Amsterdamse School" style.
The Netherlands, unknown firm, ca. 1910. Various sizes. Height between 10 and 32 centimetres; five rolls, each with a length of more than 5 metres (547, 618, 621, 690 and 695 cm). Colour-printed and pochoir, some with additional hand-colouring.
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[Wallpaper] Paul Dumas
"P.D.". Échantillons de papier peint - Pochoir wallpaper samples [Chinoiserie].
[Paul Dumas, Paris, ca. 1930]. A fine set of three very large sheets (119 x 73 cm each) with pochoir designs with flowers and birds, for wallpaper or similar ornamental purposes.
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[Wallpaper] Paul Dumas
"P.D.". Échantillons de papier peint - Pochoir wallpaper samples [Flowers and birds].
[Paul Dumas, Paris, ca. 1930]. A fine set of three very large sheets (119 x 73 cm each) with pochoir designs with flowers and birds, for wallpaper or similar ornamental purposes.
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