Category: Decorative Arts

Art and Decoration Crepe and Tissue Paper

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Boston, New York, etc., Dennison Manufacturing Co. : 1905

Seller ID: 003157

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 22 by 15 cm. 104 pp. Many illustrations of quirky and unsual crepe paper concoctions for cotillions, parade floats, electric shades, hats, ice cups -- there is apparently little that crepe paper couldn't ornament! Fun and informative manual and trade catalogue. Soiling to the cover. Text block detached from wraps.
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Chief Paints. Color Styles and Painting Guide for Beautifying and Protecting Your Home

Price: $600.00

Seller ID: 003343

Binding: Full Leather. Spiral Spine.

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa late 1940s. Folio, 43 by 33 cm. 59 pp. Missing only one paint strip, of 215. Many color illustrations of house exteriors and interiors, working in the activities of the wholesome American nuclear family ideal of the period, with attractive young parents and their small children. Homes are generally modest but handsome suburban clapboard colonials, with modern, southern plantation and ranch houses also shown. The illustrations are uniformly pleasing, and their interest lies in their sociological content as well. The catalogue is chock-full of explanatory material on all the p...
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Eighteenth Century Gouache French Fan Design Depicting Monastery on Island

Price: $275.00

Seller ID: 004334

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

N.d., mid-18th Century almost certainly, a hand-colored design on a thin paper which was meant to have been folded and attached to the spokes of a fan but wasn't. The paper is a half-circle, with the length 54 cm, the height, 27 cm. The image is relatively small, measuring about 24 by 7 cm. The imagery is a pleasant body of water, a swath of grass on its far bank, and a small complex of buildings which to us looks as if it might be a monastery since there are three towers, but one can interpret the buildings as just a small hamlet as well. Some light soiling at the edges. The paper itself...
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Eighteenth Century Gouache French Fan Design of a Bucolic Island Setting, Shepherdess in the Foreground by Gabled Cottage, Castles in the Distance

Price: $275.00

Seller ID: 004336

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

N.d., mid-18th Century almost certainly, a hand-colored design on thin paper which was meant to have been folded and attached to the spokes of a fan but wasn't. The paper is a half-circle, with the length 54 cm, the height, 29 cm. The image is dominated by blue and a tenebrous palette and is not large, measuring a 25 by 10 cm, in a crescent shape, with a light blue field extending beyond. The paper has a few small tears and light soiling, but it can be mounted and matted very handsomely.
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Eighteenth Century Gouache French Fan Design of a Bucolic Island Setting, Young Fisherman, Maiden, Gondolas, Tower in Distance

Price: $395.00

Seller ID: 004337

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

N.d., mid-18th Century almost certainly, a hand-colored design on thin paper which was meant to have been folded and attached to the spokes of a fan but wasn't. The paper is a half-circle, with the length 54 cm, the height, 29 cm. The image is dominated by blues and greens, and it would take up most of the fan. Light soiling. Easily attractively mounted and matted.
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Eighteenth Century Gouache French Fan Design of a Bucolic Scene of Dancers, Two Young Women and a Child Onlookers, Columns in the Background and a Watery Foreground

Price: $400.00

Seller ID: 004342

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

N.d., mid-18th Century almost certainly, a hand-colored design on thin paper which was meant to have been folded and attached to the spokes of a fan but wasn't. The paper is a half-circle, with the length 54 cm, the height, 28 cm. The picture would take up most of the fan. Light flattened creasing, light soiling. Small repaired closed tear. Easily attractively mounted and matted.
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Eighteenth Century Gouache French Fan Design of a Bucolic Scene of Picnickers, with Italianate farmhouses Dotting the Background

Price: $395.00

Seller ID: 004340

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

N.d., mid-18th Century almost certainly, a hand-colored design on thin paper which was meant to have been folded and attached to the spokes of a fan but wasn't. The paper is a half-circle, with the length 54 cm, the height, 29 cm. The image has water and bush in the foreground. With a blue-ish palette that brings to mind Willow-ware and Spode. The picture would take up most of the fan. Light soiling and some minor creasing. Easily attractively mounted and matted.
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Eighteenth Century Gouache French Fan Design of a Bucolic Scene with a Peasant Woman Feeding Chickens

Price: $325.00

Seller ID: 004341

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

N.d., mid-18th Century almost certainly, a hand-colored design on thin paper which was meant to have been folded and attached to the spokes of a fan but wasn't. The paper is a half-circle, with the length 54 cm, the height, 29 cm. The image has water and bush in the foreground, a tower in the background. The picture is mid-sized -- the fan would have had a moderate sized border. Light soiling and some minor creasing. Easily attractively mounted and matted.
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Eighteenth Century Gouache French Fan Design of a Bucolic Setting, with Peasants, a Peacock and Other Fowl, and a Brick Ruin by Water

Price: $400.00

Seller ID: 004335

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

N.d., mid-18th Century almost certainly, a hand-colored design on vellum which was meant to have been folded and attached to the spokes of a fan but wasn't. The paper is a half-circle, with the length 52.5 cm, the height, 29 cm. The image is richly colored, with the dominance of deep blues and greens, and the scene evokes the pastoral fantasy so infectious to the aristocracy during the reign of Louis XV. The image itself would have filled out the fan. The vellum has many a flattened crease, and there is light soiling, and perhaps a touch of fading of the gouache paint on the image. Still,...
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Eleven Miscellaneous Plates from "Dekorative Vorbilder. Eine Sammlung"

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Stuttgart, Julius Hoffmann

Seller ID: 006748

Binding: NA

Condition: Good

1899 to perhaps 1910. (We have in addition the title page/cover from 1899/1900 and one text page that followed from that issue.) Folio, 35 by 25. Seven plates feature photographs of furniture mostly, but also ceramics, metalwork and jewelry, and four of the plates, all of these from 1899/1900, are engravings of ornament. The photographic plates are the more interesting, in our view, as they generally present Art Nouveau or Jugendstil design contemporaneous with its conception. These plates are also on a glossy white card, which is well preserved, while the ornament plates are on a more aci...
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Music Box Cigarette Dispenser with Decoration of Two Shelves Lined with Books

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Japan,

Seller ID: 004352

Binding: NA

Condition: Fine

Fifties Modern kitsch, once known as "Japanese junk". 12 cm tall, 11.5 cm wide, 11 cm deep, it passes as a wooden cube, with a lit cigarette painted onto the lower front, and two shelves of dollhouse sized wooden books above. When one presses a button, up pops a terrier who dispenses with a cigarette. One loads the contraption with cigarettes by lifting a front lid atop. A fun piece that goes perfectly with Fifties Modern, the rage in the vintage and antique decorating world.
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Stillehre und Geschichte des Mobelbaues

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Vienna, : 1924

Seller ID: 003077

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A well-done and decorative student notebook, and really compendium, on the topic of cabinet or furniture-making. The notebook is written in a neat hand, with many illustrations of Renaissance and Gothic style furniture and ornament, and Tirolese style figures in as well. The most memorable illustration, though, is of a domed baroque church and monumental column and staircase in front of it. Measuring 20 by 16.5 cm, the notebook runs for about 100 pages, after which the leaves are blank. With also a homemade dust jacket.
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Wiener Chinasilber Werke. Wolkenstein & Glckselig Wien VI., Brgerspitalgasse 8

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Wien, Printed by Gesellschaft fr graphische Industrie

Seller ID: 007017

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1920. 4to. 30.5 by 23 cm. 40 pp. Catalogue contains silver tableware, silverware boxes, silver corks, tongs, coffeepots, goblets, candlestick holders, trays, wine cooler stands, etageres, credenzas, clocks, candlelabras, etc. etc. There is more than a single style or aesthetic on display but dominating is a sleeker, simpler look one would associate with Art Deco, and thus we would date this catalogue to about 1920. Scarce, with no institutional copies located on OCLC First Search. Condition: separation from the wraps, or a crack, between pages 2 and 3. Light wear, and light s...
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[Trade Catalogue] Olson Rugs

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Chicago, : 1932

Seller ID: 003972

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. 19 by 15 cm. 48 pp., including wraps, and with inserts for ordering, etc. Most pages with color illustrations of rugs and interiors where rugs are laid, capturing well period style.
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[Trade Catalogue] Patons & Baldwins Ltd. Turkey Rug Wool Carpets

Price: $850.00

Publisher: Alloa and Halifax, Patons & Baldwins.

Seller ID: 003262

Binding: Full Leather binder

Condition: Very Good

A vast array of carpet designs, from the abstract or geometric to the figurative rendering of flowers and animals. N.d., circa 1900 to 1930. Oblong, 24 by 32 cm. Contains about 200 sheets, each with a large color rendering of a carpet pattern in addition to a color key and a description of the particular carpet including technical points regarding the carpet. Small sheets relating to variants of particular designs are also inserted in front of many of these larger leaves. Light wear.
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A History of English Wallpaper 1509 - 1914 With 70 Plates in Colour and 190 Illustrations in Half-Tone

By: Alan Victor Sugden and John Ludlam Edmondson

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York and London, Charles Scribner's Sons; B. T. Batsford Ltd. : 1925

Seller ID: 002224

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Folio, 13 by 10 inches. xiii, 281 pp. Lavish book on subject, with heavy paper, beautiful plates, 70 in color, with an extensive history that makes this work serve well as both a scholarly treatise on the subject and a pleasurable "coffee table" book as well, inviting casual dips into its pages. Minor scuffs on blue cloth. Otherwise tight and clean.
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A History of English Wallpaper 1509 - 1914 With 70 Plates in Colour and 190 Illustrations in Half-Tone

By: Alan Victor Sugden and John Ludlam Edmondson

Price: $650.00

Publisher: London, B. T. Batsford Ltd. : 1925

Seller ID: 005143

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Near Fine

Georgeous full vellum binding, with gilt lettering, and a special autographed copy, numbered 5 (of an unspecified number), signed by both authors and presented to "The Wall Paper Manufacturers Ltd". Folio, 33.5 by 26.5 cm, 13 by 10 inches. xiii, 281 pp. Lavish book on subject, with heavy paper, beautiful plates, 70 in color, with an extensive history that makes this work serve well as both a scholarly treatise on the subject and a pleasurable "coffee table" book as well, inviting casual dips into its pages. Minor soiling on the vellum, with also trivial rubbing of the gilt ...
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Histoire de L'Art Decoratif de XVI Siecle a Nos Jours

By: Arsene Alexandre

Price: $975.00

Publisher: Paris, Henri Laurens : 1892

Seller ID: 002189

Binding: Half Morocco, with slipcase

Condition: Fine

Heavy folio-sized, 40 by 32 cm, 15.5 by 12 inches. 15 lbs., with slipcase. vii, 336 pp, with 60 plates, 48 of which are color chromolithographs, and several of these are two paged. A magnificent survey of the decorative arts, touching on furniture, glass, porcelain, faience and ceramics, enamel, metalwork, fabric, etc. A truly magnificent and majesterial work, and this is a copy that is fully commensurate, with its half purple morocco over marbled boards, which are themselves unusually thick and substantial. Perhaps the one minor defect is that the spine leather has been sunned to a brown,...
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Faon-Zeitung fr Tpfer, Fayence-, Steingut-, Topfwaaren-, und Ofen-Fabrikanten. Monatliche Mustersammlung der modernsten und geschmackvollsten Formen von Topf- und Fayence-Geschirren, Oefen, Ofentafeln und Ornamenten aller Art.

By: Artists include Conrad Weissner, Conrad, Franz Fink, Carl Meyer, Friedrich Funk, Hugo Finck, etc.

Price: $5,000.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Bhme. Plates printed by Halle & Walther, Weimar. : 1845-1847

Seller ID: 006823

Binding: Contemporary Half Green Calf. Marbled paper

Condition: Very Good Minus

Complete three year run of Biedermeier period beautiful plate or illustration-oriented German decorative arts publication. Styles promoted include neo-classical, Greek and Gothic Revival -- in other words, the full range of styles associated with the Biedermeier period. While this was a German publication and Biedermeier was most tightly associated with the German-speaking world, the designs shown here are very much in keeping with the designs coming out of other parts of Europe and America. 4to. 28.5 by 19 cm. 108 plates, most of which are color plates, depicting ovens, urns, bowls, othe...
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Image for Foil-Sculpt Inc. Easy to Assemble, Simple Instructions Included, No Soldering or Gluing. This Kit Contains Everything You Need to Make a Metallic Sculpture

Foil-Sculpt Inc. Easy to Assemble, Simple Instructions Included, No Soldering or Gluing. This Kit Contains Everything You Need to Make a Metallic Sculpture

By: Friedle, William

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Funfoil : 1968-1970

Seller ID: 006911

Binding: NA

Condition: Unused

Most unusual do-it-yourself home craft. Box is 20 by 33 cm. With instructions and list of pieces on six panel fold-out, a larger sheet, and a card with a proposed design entitled "Sea Life". Basically a pre-fab version of tin foil sculpture, except the pieces here are a little stiffer. Believed scarce -- we could not locate other copies of this. Condition: Complete, we believe. Unusued, it would also seem, but some wear from the passage of time, to the outer box, and some tarnishing of the metal.
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Category: Decorative Arts