Classical Decorative Art

Richly adorned wall and textile designs featuring mythological figures, foliage, and decorative elements in intricate, vibrant styles.

Orphrey; silk and metallic yarns on linen

Facade of the Rijksmuseum of art and history in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Rijksmuseum was founded in The Hague in 1800 and moved to Amsterdam in 1808. The current main building was designed by Pierre Cuypers and was originally opened in 1885. It was re-opened after renovation in 2013.

Coins and medals from the collections of Michał Józef Tyszkiewicz. Lemercier, Rose Joseph (Paryż ; zakład litograficzny ; 1827-post 1899), lithography atelier, Hauger, E. (fl. ca 1850), graphic artist, Wilczyński, Jan Kazimierz (1806-1885), publisher

Print made by James Basire, 1769-1822, British, Vol. 6, Plate XXXVII: The Coronation of Edward the Confessor. Warriors Flying for Refuge into a City, 1842. Hand colored engraving on smooth, moderately thick, white wove paper.

Renaissance art: painting. Painting on vellum by Giulio Clovio on the elevation of Gregory XIII to the Papal throne, 1573. With four evangelists in the centre, birds, flowers, cherubs, butterflies, dragon, key, mitre in the borders. Hand-finished chromolithograph by Pralon from Albert-Charles-Auguste Racinets LOrnement Polychrome, (Polychromatic Ornament), Firmin-Didot, Paris, 1869-73.

XIXe dynastie: Apis II, mort l'an 16 de Ramsès II. Mariette, Auguste, 1821-1881. Prints. 1857. General Research Division. Serapeum (aqqrah, Egypt)

Santa Cecelia Windows, Glenwood Mission Inn, Riverside, Calif. still image. Postcards. 1898 - 1931. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Hotels , California , Riverside, Mission Inn, Windows , California , Riverside

Design for one section of a ceiling painted with trees and lattices. Artist: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise (French, died 1897); Eugène-Pierre Gourdet (French, born Paris, 1820-1889). Dimensions: sheet: 10 11/16 x 8 9/16 in. (27.2 x 21.7 cm)image: 8 3/16 x 5 1/8 in. (20.8 x 13 cm). Date: second half 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Wish letter with decorative framework, widow C. Kok -van Kolm, 1800 - 1850 print Wish letter with unwritten cartouche within a decorative framework with above two performances of a village, in the middle acrobats, a fair at the bottom. Ca. 1800-1850. printer: Amsterdamprint maker: Netherlands paper acrobat ~ circus. pleasure fair and circus

Sampler; Embroidered by Mary Muro; silk embroidery on wool foundation; Overall: 48.9 x 33.3 cm (19 1/4 x 13 1/8 in.); Bequest of Rosalie Coe, from the collection inherited from her mother, Eva Johnston Coe; 1974-42-7

Restoration Drawing: Wall Decoration Over Doorway in Mission House. Dated: 1937. Dimensions: overall: 35.7 x 27.8 cm (14 1/16 x 10 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: Approx. 4'6" x 6'. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, pen and ink, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Geoffrey Holt.

Miniature from the Book of Revelation: alpha and omega, from the Book of Hours by Ferdinand I, Spain 11th Century.

Illustration 'Pastry seller' 1829, by Jean-Charles Develly (1783 - 1862); French illustrator and artist. A travelling baker has dropped a plate of pastries and savouries as children scramble to take the broken pieces for themselves

Drawing, Stained glass window: three part design; Designed by John C. Wolf; USA; brush and watercolor, graphite on illustration board; Mat: 45.7 × 35.7 cm (18 in. × 14 1/16 in.) (whole design): 27.9 × 8.3 cm (11 in. × 3 1/4 in.)

Italian ornament

In the evening, Antoon Derkinderen, 1897 print Print with title and caption, addition to 'De Kroniek'. Signed and dated. Amsterdam paper warming oneself at a fire (or hearth, stove, fire-pan, brazier) Netherlands

Jacob's dream, 16th century, (1849). Creator: Kellerhoven.

Unknown architect, window for the house of the architect association in Berlin. Monthly competition January 1881 (2nd competition) (01.1881): View. Tusche watercolor on the box, 47.7 x 23 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Fenster für das Haus des Architekten-Vereins zu Berlin. Monatskonkurrenz Januar 1881 (2. Wettbewerb)

Sampler (USA); Embroidered by Louisa Ann Price (American); wool embroidery on linen foundation

PORTADA DEL LIBRO "LAS CORTES DE CASTILLA Y LEON 1188-1988 "- MINIATURA DEL ORDENAMIENTO DE ALCALA DE HENARES LA ORIGINAL ESTA EN EL E. Location: SENADO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. ALFONSO XI EL JUSTICIERO.

Panel with Heraldic Shield of Johnson. Culture: British. Dimensions: 14- 3/4, 12-3/4 in. Date: ca. 1500. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Wrought iron tomb, Bad Groenenbach, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

This 1776 colored copper engraving and etching by Giovanni Volpato presents Raphael's Vatican Loggias, showing frescoed ceilings and architectural decoration.

Textile Fragment. Spain, 1500-1550. Textiles; textile lengths. Silk damask

Costumes of the 13th century. A prince and two knights swearing allegiance to a king, the investiture of a knight, a wedding ceremony, and a king with crown over chainmail armour. From a manuscript in Metz library. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C.R. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.

Allegorical representation in memory of the memorable revolution in November 1813, Christianus Hendricus Hein, 1863 print Amidst the Netherlands Lion and six female personifications are the busts of William I, Willem II and Willem III. At the top is the Dutch virgin with freedom hat and shield for three orange flags, flanked by four Dutch flags and two blue -white flags. Printer: HaarlemPublisher: Kampen paper Freedom, Liberty; 'Libertà' (Ripa). personifications of countries, nations, states, districts, etc.. flag, colours (as symbol of the state, etc.)

Stove tile 18th century Russian Between 1716 and 1727 Alexander Menshikov set up several faience workshops in Strelna on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg to produce tiles in the Dutch style to embellish the interiors of his palace-the city's first stone building-and other newly constructed residences.. Stove tile 192922

American 20th Century, Drawing for Plate 15 From the Portfolio Folk Art of Rural Pennsylvania, c 1939 Drawing for Plate 15: From the Portfolio Folk Art of Rural Pennsylvania

PETRARCH (1304-1374). Italian humanist and poet. 'Sonnets, Poems and Triumphsa'. Miniature depicting the Triumph of Fame (15th c.). Renaissance art. Quattrocento. Florentine school. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library.

Design for the painted decoration of a ceiling. Artist: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise (French, died 1897); Eugène-Pierre Gourdet (French, born Paris, 1820-1889). Dimensions: sheet: 4 7/16 x 8 3/4 in. (11.3 x 22.2 cm). Date: second half 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The life of Columbus in pictures, including 'The first return to Spain,' 'The reception at court,' and 'Columbus and his brother in chains.' Published in 1892 by L. Prang & Co., Boston

Panel with Heraldic Shield of Johnson ca. 1500 British. Panel with Heraldic Shield of Johnson. British. ca. 1500. Stained Glass. Glass-Stained

15th century damascened iron clock. The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance by Paul Lacroix, 1874

Carpet frieze in the Church of St. Nicholas Mokrinskoy at Jaroslaw, Russia, (1928). Detail of decoration in a church which may now be in Poland, 'Built 1665-1672'. After W. Souslov. Plate XLIII, fig 98, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928

Diebitsch Carl von (1819-1869), ornamentation (without dat.): Cut detailed detail, floral ornament also on the back. Pencil watercolor on the box, 22.1 x 24.8 cm (including scan edges) Diebitsch Carl von (1819-1869): Ornamentik

Egyptian decorations featuring feather, palm leaf, and lotus designs. Fan made of feathers 1, feather horse headdress 2,3, leaf fans 4-6, royal headdress 7,8, lotus design 9,10, officer insignia 11,12, lotus vases 13-15, rudders 16,18, and papyrus boats 19,20. Chromolithograph by Francis Bedford from Owen Jones' The Grammar of Ornament, Quaritch, London, 1868.

Portfolio dated 1902 Georg Hulbe German. Portfolio 210313

Fourth design for marble decoration in the Dutch Supreme Court in The Hague, draughtsman: Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, c. 1868 - c. 1938, pencil, brush, h 850 mm × w 400 mm

Sea and Sun; Mer et Soleil. Max Ernst (1891-1976). Oil and collage on canvas. Executed circa 1931. 40.5 x 33cm.

Prawdziwy Wizerunek Laskawego , Obrazy Nays: MARYI Pan: Szkapl: , u WW. OO. Karm: Bosych w , Lublinie.. Filipowicz, Jan Józef (ca 1710-ca 1767-1770), graphic artist

Hans Anton von Werner (1881-1921, as an architect): Bromley Palace; St. Chapelle, Paris

Frieze, Pierre Jacquemart, Block-printed on handmade paper, Two repeats of design of caryatids on round pedestals holding up the lower ends of lambrequins. The fabric panel is held up by a wavy rod supported by the female figures heads. Across top, simulated molding of interlaced ogives. Printed in grays, violets and black., France, 1795-1801, Wallcoverings, Frieze

Le Villaige de Brimeu. Dated: c. 1597. Dimensions: overall: 51.2 x 40.3 cm (20 3/16 x 15 7/8 in.). Medium: gouache and watercolor on vellum. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Adrien Montigny.

Pompeian ornament

Cross. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 50 x 36.4 cm (19 11/16 x 14 5/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 15"long; 6"wide. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Carl O'Bergh.

Copper engraving by Giovanni Volpato depicting Raphael's loggias in the Vatican at Pilastro VII B, showing children playing with a river god, created in 1776 and colored.

Wall painting of Iphigenia from the tablinum of the House of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus. Chromolithograph by Victor Steeger after an illustration by Geremia Discanno from Emile Presuhns Les Plus Belles Peintures de Pompei (The Most Beautiful Paintings of Pompeii), Leipzig, 1881.

Design for a business card from bookstore Léon Curmer in Paris. Address in a frame with leaf refrences, flowers and grape roses.

Valentine 1850-1870 Anonymous. Valentine. Anonymous. 1850-1870. Cameo-embossed, open-work lace paper, chromolithography, colored paper

Sampler (USA); Embroidered by Olive Bosworth (American); silk embroidery on linen foundation; 1975-86-4

Drawing, Design for Painted Decoration of a Wall; Austria; brush and gouache, watercolor, graphite on paper; 32.1 x 26.8 cm (12 5/8 x 10 9/16 in.)

Oudinot, Eugène Stanislas (n.1827-04-06-D.1889-11-22), Study of stained glass for the Saint-Joseph church: Saint Paul, Jesus Christ, Saint Peter (Main title), 1868. Aquarelle , graphite pencil and black ink on laid paper. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Children playing among trellises. Giulio Romano (Italian, 1492/99-1546) (designed after) draughtsman Pannemaker, Wilhelm de (Netherlandish (before 1600) - Flanders, act. 1535-1578) (workshop) weaver c. 1550-1570 Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Flemish Weaving Center: Brussels Ownership History: Galerie Ruf, Rastatt in 1983. Germany, Rastatt, Galerie Ruf. Inscriptions: City mark on lower guard, left seen in GCPA 0237403 At top, boys picking grapes from trees; boys playing & gathering grapes (foreground); landscape with buildings (background) (BRD) garland of grape leaves & masks Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0237389-0237413

Flora Merchant, Stern Carving Spread Eagle, 1935 1942 Stern Carving: Spread Eagle

Detail of mural paintings in the Church of St. George, Oberzell, Reichenau, Germany, (1928). Top left and right '...ornament bands framing or separating the chief paintings in the nave'; bottom left: 'remnants of a mural painting in the eastern choir arch'; bottom right: 'painted capital', all dating from c1000 AD. After R. Borrmann. Plate LII, figs 111, 112, 115 and 116, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928

Close-up of traditional painted azulejo wall tiles, Lisbon, Portugal, Europe

Sidewall, Block printed on handmade paper, Horizontal rectangle, with portion of circular motif. An oak wreath, on dark blue field, surrounds a circular medallion with gray frame containing seated female figure; she leans upon a staff surmounted by a Liberty Cap, and holds in her right hand a small figure of Victory proffering a wreath. Around part of the circumference of the medallion is the motto: 'Unite Indivisibilite de la Republique.' Designed for the French Revolution. The seated female figure is presumably Marianne or Liberty., Paris, France, 1792-93, Wallcoverings, Sidewall

Border, Block-printed on handmade paper, Blue and white drapery intertwine about gold-colored rod and pass through ring and clasp of stylized acanthus leaves, also gold-colored. Same style acanthus leaf forms upper border. Trompe l'oeil., France, 1825-35, Wallcoverings, Border

Five activities of doctors, pharmacists and barbers, anonymous, c. 1700 - c. 1790 Five glasses with images of the work of doctors, pharmacists and barbers in a wooden stress. The glass on the far left: a man reads a book. The glass to the right: a man grinds something with auger. The middle glass: a standing man shaves another man who sits and has tied a white sheet. The glass to the right: a standing man holds the hand of a sitting woman with his left hand, and has a filled cup in the air in his right hand. The glass on the far right: a running man, both hands stabbed and an unrecognizable object in the left hand, is followed by a boy. Netherlands oak (wood). glass Five glasses with images of the work of doctors, pharmacists and barbers in a wooden stress. The glass on the far left: a man reads a book. The glass to the right: a man grinds something with auger. The middle glass: a standing man shaves another man who sits and has tied a white sheet. The glass to the right: a standing ma

Cover with a flower and bird motif. Lemercier, Rose Joseph (Paryż ; zakład litograficzny ; 1827-post 1899), lithography atelier, Hauger, E. (fl. ca 1850), graphic artist, Wilczyński, Jan Kazimierz (1806-1885), publisher

Sampler. Culture: British or Scottish. Dimensions: H. 13 1/4 x W. 16 5/8 inches (33.7 x 42.2 cm). Date: 1801. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Nohl Maximilian (1830-1863), S. Alessio, Rome. Ceiling jewelry (January 19, 1859): View. Pencil watercolor on the box, 30.6 x 23.7 cm (including scan edges) Nohl Maximilian (1830-1863): S. Alessio, Rom. Deckenschmuck

Armario, 1784. Castell de Peralada.

The coat of arms of Maria Magdalena Stavenisse, wife of Jacob de Witte, with the coat of arms of her four grandparents, Anonymous, c. 1750 - c. 1799

Sidewall (probably England); block-printed; 59.5 x 49 cm (23 7/16 x 19 5/16 in.)

Transport. 18th century. Hot-air balloon flight. Engraving, 19th century. France.

Calendarblad February with UIL, Theo van Hoytema, 1907 print In the ornament edge owls. At the top of the leaf a crack line. Print Maker: The Haterinter: Amsterdampublisher: The Hague paper February ~ other concepts. owls

Design elements from manuscripts of the 16th century. Taken from Grandes Arabesques from du Cerceau by Jacques Androuet, and armorial shield from Chateau dAnet. Chromolithograph designed and lithographed by Ernst Guillot from Elements d'Ornementation du XVIe Siecle, Elements of Ornament of the 16th century, Renouard, Paris, 1890.

Design for window in Amsterdam's Lyceum. .

Relief on the outer wall, Alte Post old post office, Melk, Wachau, Mostviertel district, Lower Austria, Austria, Europe

Plate 15: From the Portfolio "Folk Art of Rural Pennsylvania". Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 46.3 x 35.4 cm (18 1/4 x 13 15/16 in.). Medium: screenprint on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: American 20th Century.

Design elements from the 16th century. Cartouche by an anonymous master from the School Fontainebleau, and elements from du Cerceau by Jacques Androuet. Chromolithograph designed and lithographed by Ernst Guillot from Elements d'Ornementation du XVIe Siecle, Elements of Ornament of the 16th century, Renouard, Paris, 1890.

Reproduction of decorated objects, from The Houses and Monuments of Pompeii, by Fausto and Felice Niccolini, Volume III, Art in Pompeii, Plate XVI, 1854-1896.

Calendar July with three Kuifkippen, Theo Van Hoytema, 1909 print At the top of the leaf a crack line. print maker: The Hagueprinter: Amsterdampublisher: Amsterdam paper fowl (cock, hen, chicken, etc.). July ~ other concepts

Renaissance ornament

Fanière brothers, pendant frame (main title). Graphite, gouache on transparent vellum. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Framed together with 1962P57, 1962P58, 1962P60 and 1962P61. Decorated initial letter 'S' - Tobias and the Angel, 1530. Unknown Artist, North Italian School

Valentine - Love

Leopard, Beer and Wolf (Firapeel, Bruun and Isegrim), Bernard Willem Wierink, 1910 print paper fable of Reynard the Fox

Brass Plates on an unidentified tomb in the Pavement of the Middle Aisle near the Chancel from, Daniel Lysons, 1762-1834, British, between 1796 and 1811, Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 15 × 10 3/4 inches (38.1 × 27.3 cm), architectural subject, brass, church, memorial, plates, tomb, Church of St John the Baptist, England, Greater London, Hillingdon, London, United Kingdom

Mourningpicture. Subject: Wrentham Academy, AmericanHonorand: Azubah Day, American, 1758-1807

Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, Jerusalem, Plate 29, "Then the Divine Vision....", 1804 to 1820. Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper.

Bookplate of Jean F. Verster. Schöttelndreier, Frederik Willhelm (1868-1915), graphic artist

Fantasy Ceramics, Palace of Charles V Alcázar, Seville, Seville, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

Frame with initial M and monster from the Psalter of St. Louis, manuscript Latin 10.525. Detail of a painting of heralds blowing horns from Notre Dame de Paris, 13th century. Encadrement tire du Psautier de St. Louis, Bibl. Nat. Lat. 10.525, Detail de peinture de ND de Paris. Chromolithograph designed and lithographed by Ernst Guillot from his Ornementation des Manuscrits au Moyen-Age (Ornamentation from Manuscripts of the Middle Ages), Paris, 1897.

Fragment (From a Border) Made 1575-1625 Italy. Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in back and long-armed cross stitches .

Cover design for: De Architect, 1911, Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, 1911 print A bearded man and a naked child, standing by two columns. The man holds a ribbon weighted with a weight. There are a passer and a roll of paper at his feet. Under his arm is the word 'construction'. The child wraps a ribbon around one of the columns. Above his head is the word 'decoration'. Amsterdam paper architect at work. column, pillar ~ architecture. child. (showing oneself) undressed, quasi-nude

Chile and Argentina with the strait of Magellan. Date/Period: 1565 - 1575. Oil painting on wood. Height: 115 mm (4.52 in); Width: 38 mm (1.49 in). Author: EGNAZIO DANTI.

Memento mori, by Alexandrian workers, 1st Century, mosaic floor. Italy: Campania: Naples: National Archaeological Museum. Whole artwork. Floor mosaic floor light blue/azure background skull chiaroscuro/light and shade level white band/bandage scepter purple cloth knapsack/haversack brown mantle wheel memento mori allegory of Death

American Perfumer and Essential Oil Review, August 1910, Victorian Perfume & Fragrance Packaging

Zwerende hand, design for figure of the marble decoration in the Supreme Court in The Hague, draughtsman: Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, c. 1868 - c. 1938, cardboard, brush, brush, brush, h 1405 mm × w 1102 mm × h 1550 mm × w 1250 mm

Bookplate of Ludwik Feigel. Mękicki, Rudolf (1887-1942), graphic artist

Bordeaux, France , 1920-1921 - Charente, Gironde, Basse -Pyrénées, Hautes Pyrénées - Fernand Cuville (French - Bordeaux , France). Commemorative inscription, flower, commemoration, war monument, Registration , Information, First World War

Pair of Civil Rank Badges, 19th-20th century, 19 1/4 x 9 3/4in. (48.9 x 24.8cm), Silk, embroidery, metallic thread, China, 19th-20th century

Portada de la Guia CATALUÑA ILUSTRADA de Francisco Carreras Candí (Barcelona, 1862-1937; provincia de Gerona. Publicada en Barcelona en 1940.

Coloured illustration of playing cards portrait of Paris. Edited by Hector of Trois, mid 17th Century.

Vivatband, Vivat Emperor Franz Joseph, Otto Friedrich -, Draft

Email et peinture du XIIe. siècle.. Willemin, N. X. (Nicolas Xavier), 1763-1833. Prints. 1839. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Art , France , History

view 1.. Suffragette Banner - Birmingham: Justice & Liberty, 1910-1920. Showing skyline of Birmingham with the city's coat of arms surrounded by laurel leaves

Overview of Shell with Medici Coat of Arms 1719-1769 Flanders. Gouache, heightened with touches of gold paint, on ivory laid paper . Giuseppe Grisoni

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