16th Century Furniture

Good Condition, Original Design Modified.

A bowl made around the 16th century in Vietnam. In Japan, trade with Vietnam has been active since the Muromachi period (around the 16th century). Many Vietnamese bowls have also bee...

Oil on poplar panel portraying the Holy Family. Tuscany or Umbria, circa 1500-1520. The Holy Family is the name given to the family formed by Jesus of Nazareth...

Explore the timeless beauty of our intricately crafted sculpture featuring Mary adorned in a graceful mantle that elegantly envelops her form. This exquisite Virgin sculpture is meti...

A 16th Century, or earlier, Audubon tapestry is vibrant and in wonderful antique condition. Its original border is completely intact and designed with florals, foliage, and birds. Ta...

Ghostly Gargoyle or Water Spout fragment in Pierre de Bourgogne (Limestone). Mounted to the top of generally religious buildings to ensure water is taken away from the side of the bu...

A very nicely decorated Ming period Swatow or Zhangzhou porcelain dish with Chilong These small dishes would have been used for the Japanese tea ceremony meal, the Kaiseki. Kaiseki...

Wooden sculpture depicting Saint James the Greater. Saint James was an apostle of Jesus and witnessed with Peter the Transfiguration, the resurrection of Jairus' daughter and the ni...

A silver finger ring showcasing the excellence of Ottoman craftsmanship. The flat hoop remains undecorated, whilst the dome-shaped bezel features raised ropework borders and fine gra...

Unusual and Chinese Ming period Swatow Charger with beautiful scene of cranes. It is reverse decorated. The stand is not included. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pot...

A 16th Century French Renaissance Cavred Walnut Buffet Loire Valley Dimensions: H. 1m62; L. 1m02; P. 0.52m. (63.78 in. x 40.16 in x 20....

A late 16th century Renaissance richly carved walnut center table France, The Loire Valley area Dimensions: h. 33.46 in., w. 59.45 in., d. 36.22 in. Our remarquable table is a fabu...

Pair Of Istrian Stone Columns, Venice 16th Century

A bronze bowl shape vessel with fitted lid from Korean dated to 15-16th century (early Joseon Dynasty). In an elegant minimalistic form with thin wall and supported by a high foot ri...

16th Century Bust of Roman Emperor Julius Caesar in bronze with brown patina.

Important antique solid table from the 16th century. Characterized by a simple and rustic line in solid oak wood for the legs and a single walnut board for the top. These tables were...

Good Condition, Original Design Modified.

Unique and wonderful folk art coat of arms, Depicting a eagle holding a rabbit, two crosses and two castle's and on the top a grotesque head. This beautiful period piece is made out ...

Good Condition, Original Design Modified.

A very nicely decorated plate with a scene of an ancient coin and flowers. Late Ming Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Type: Plates Region of Origin: China Perio...

Probably Kirman, 16th/17th Century, Persia. Of Low rounded profile, on short a foot and with sloping rim, this Kirman lavender-blue dish with white slip decoration and stylized flora...

Oakwood Original lock and key   This beautiful and robust chest stands on square feet ending in flattened buns. The base presents plain mouldings. The facade is divided in four panel...

This is black glazed pottery made in Korea from around the 15th to 16th century. This era in Korea is called the Joseon Dynasty. This black glazed pottery was only produced for a sho...

The trapezoidal armchair is a typically French creation from the second half of the sixteenth century. Although the nineteenth century gave it the name of "caquetoire", it was descri...

A very nicely decorated plate with a scene of an ancient coin and flowers. Late Ming. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Type: Plates Region of Origin: China Coun...

A large Chinese Tang Dynasty Seated pottery figure  Tang Dynasty circa Circa AD 618 - 906 China, Finely sculpted Black earthenware sculpture of a court lady with remains of pigme...

Rare and impressive PERIOD Elizabethan dining table of substantial size. The top is made from four planks, and is banded at the ends to prevent shrinkage. The apron is hand carved ...

16/17thC Korean Baby Buddha pointing to heaven and earth. It is dated to the 16C. Great condition only condition issue is the loss of one index finger, which is common for this form ...

Large Silver “Jambiya” or Curved Dagger With Its Sheath. These are often Extremely well Crafted with Extraordinary inlaid Silver Designs accentuated with “Neillo”. This Inlaid Handl...

A historic medieval antique hand colored woodcut titled “Maximillian Pageant” by Hans Burgkmair. Posthumous print, circa 1580. Hans Burgkmair crea...

Pair of 17th Century Gilt silver framed saints. Silver saints are draped in period clothing and holding a book, against a red fabric background with ...

Small Silver “Jambiya” or Curved Dagger With Its Sheath. These are often Extremely well Crafted with Extraordinary inlaid Silver Designs accentuated with “Neillo”. This Inlaid Handl...

Slightly lobed dish with flared rim with blue decoration under cover of two deers. Tiny chips on the border (usual for porcelain from this period), otherwise perfect condition ! Chin...

Woodcut print on paper, a reproduction of an original 1510 artwork titled Beheading of John the Baptist by Albrecht Durer, 1471 to 1528, a German painter and printmaker of the Northern Renaissance. The print depicts an executioner holding the head of St. John, which Salome waits to receive on a plate. Monogram AD...

Spanish Renaissance casket, 16th century In carved, polychrome and gilded wood decorated with a vase with horns of plenty, heads of cherubs and fruits. In the lock a shield with two ...

Japanese Buddhist assembled wood sculpture of Kannon-Bosatsu (Avalokitesvara), the God of Compassion, standing male figure with abundant cloak draper...

16th century Brussels tapestry The Story of David Brabant, 16th Century Monogram at the bottom left. 320 x 250 cm This splendid Brussels tapestry, crafted from wool and silk during ...

In a realm where time stands still, there exists a 16th-century masterpiece, a sculpture of unparalleled beauty that transports you to the heart of the Ming dynasty. Here, in a place...

The very expressive Virgin, in a strictly upright posture, carries the child Jesus on her (damaged) left arm. In her right hand, she holds the shaft of a scepter. She looks at the ob...

A very nice and rare bowl with central scene of a bird in a landscape. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Region of Origin: China Period: 17th century Ming (1368 ...

In the heart of ancient China, within the resplendent Ming dynasty, a masterpiece was cast in bronze, a testament to a culture steeped in mysticism and spirituality. This Taoist bron...

SMALL TUSCANY TABLE FROM THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD ORIGIN : FLORENCE, ITALY PERIOD : 16th CENTURY Height: 69,4 cm Length: 59,4 cm Depth: 51 cm ...

Original Pierre Jeanneret v-leg sofa set with 2 armchairs in black hide (Admn.(L.)031) Swiss-born architect and furniture designer Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1...

A very nice and rare bowl with central scene of a bird in a landscape. Great piece; In good condition. Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Region of Origin: China ...

Majestic and Large Chinese Ming period Swatow Charger with beautiful scene of a landscape with pagodes and Fenghuang/Phoenixes. The stand is not included. Additional information: Ma...

A collection of three bronze bowls from Korean dated to 14-17th century (late Goryeo to early Joseon Dynasty). It consists of an early example with a slight curvy wall and a high foo...

Beautiful dish in blue and white. This is a Jingdezhen made dish made for the Japanese market. Kosometsuke. Central scene of Liu Hai and the toad. No mark Ad...

An exceptional Indo-Portuguese colonial mother-of-pearl veneered casket with silver mounts India, Gujarat, 2nd half of the 16th century, the silver mounts Goa or probably Lisbon Measures: H. 16 x W. 24.6 x D. 16.1 cm An exceptional Gujarati casket with a rectangular box and truncated pyramidal lid (with slopes on each side and a flat top) made from exotic wood, probably teak (Tectona grandis), covered with a mother-of-pearl mosaic. The tesserae, cut from the shell of the green turban sea snail (Turbo marmoratus, a marine gastropod) in the shape of fish scales, are pinned to the wooden structure with silver ball-headed nails. The casket is set on bracket feet on the corners. The masterfully engraved decoration of the silver mounts follows the most refined and erudite Mannerist repertoire of rinceaux and ferroneries dating from the mid-16th century. The high quality and refinement of the silver mounts and, likewise, the silver nails that replaced the original brass pins used to hold the mother-of-pearl tesserae in place indicate the work of a silversmith probably working in Lisbon in the second half of the 16th century. The Indian origin of this production, namely from Cambay (Khambhat) and Surat in the present state of Gujarat in north India, is, as for the last three decades, consensual and fully demonstrated, not only by documentary and literary evidence - such as descriptions, travelogues and contemporary archival documentation - but also by the survival in situ of 16th-century wooden structures covered in mother-of-pearl tesserae. A fine example is a canopy decorating the tomb (dargah) of the Sufi saint, Sheik Salim Chisti (1478-1572) in Fatehpur Sikri in Agra district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, north India. This is an artistic production, geometric in character and Islamic in nature, where usually the mother-of-pearl tesserae form complex designs of fish scales or, similar to the dishes also made using the same technique, with the thin brass sheets and pins, stylized lotus flowers. The truncated pyramidal shape corresponds, like their contemporary tortoiseshell counterparts also made in Gujarat, to a piece of furniture used in the Indian subcontinent within the Islamic world prior to the arrival of the first Portuguese. This shape, in fact, is very old and peculiar to East-Asian caskets, chests or boxes used to contain and protect Buddhist texts, the sutras. A similar chest is the famous and large reliquary chest from Lisbon cathedral that once contained the relics of the city's patron saint, Saint Vincent. Both match in shape, having the same kind of socle or pedestal and bracket feet, and in their engraved silver mountings, featuring the same type of refined, erudite decoration. Their differences lie in the silver borders that frame the entire length of the edges of the chest (both the box and the lid), pinned with silver nails, and on the lock plate, shaped like a coat of arms in the Lisbon example. Given the exceptional dimensions of the reliquary casket...

An Ottoman Empire Damascus square tile, late 16th century, the glazed fritware body painted in underglaze green, blue, turquoise and black with four lobed medallions and four split p...

15-7-19-1-2 Typical late Ming landscape dish. A very nice example! Condition Overall condition A (Very good) rimfritting, filled chip and 2 hairlines. Size 160 mm Period...

This is a terracotta olive jar from central Spain. It has a wonderful aged patina with chalky painted finish. It makes a great statement as a sculpture in a room on a pedestal, alone...

Italian school table of the 16th century "Crucified Christ with the Virgin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene" Oil on board Period frame 16th century ( gold frame parts ) Measures: 41cm ...

Typical stool with backrest and curved legs in solid walnut wood with dark patina. This type of bench is used in guard posts, for this reason the seat is small and uncomfortable, to ...

This extremely rare unique ancient Wooden Box with Judaical Religious Items inside was found behind a stone wall in Vienna (Austria), most likely hidden before the World War II. The ...

Woodcut print on paper, a reproduction of an original 1511 artwork titled The Head of Saint John the Baptist Brought to Herod by Albrecht Durer, 1471 to ...

Most likely Ming 15th/16th Century, carved chicken bone jade figure of a standing Guanyin (Quanyin) holding a scroll in one hand, prayer beads in the other. Affixed to carved wood ba...

Friar armchair. Leather, walnut wood. Spain, 16th century. Armchair with arms and high back of the type known as “frailero”, which has studded leather on the seat and upper part of ...

A chinese porcelain table screen from the Ming period, 16/17th century. Decorated in High Relief With Shoulou on his crane and the Eight Immorta...