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Folk Art For Sale
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19thC Nautical Six Spoke Solid Brass Yacht Steering Wheel. American, Circa 1870
Located in Incline Village, NV
This 19th century American solid brass ship steering wheel was, more than likely, from a yacht. Fishing and commercial boats were more inclin...
Category

1870s American Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Brass

Patrick Bongoy - Desert Flower
Located in Capetown, ZA
In its usual form, rubber is inert and impermeable, absorbent of almost all light and colour. Patrick Bongoy’s studio operates like a factory in reverse, transforming stockpiles of t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art

Materials

Metal

Dentzel Carved Ostrich Carousel Animal
By Dentzel Carousel Company
Located in West Chester, PA
Carved ostrich carousel animal. Made by Dentzel Carousel Company in Philadelphia., circa 1890-1900. Considered one of the hardest animals to carve bec...
Category

1890s American Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wood

18th Century German Pewter Passover Plate
Located in New York, NY
Pewter passover tray, Germany, 18th century. The outer rim has wriggle- work engraving of the order of the Seder service, along with a pair of birds fl...
Category

Late 18th Century German Antique Folk Art

Materials

Pewter

Miniature Model Wooden Canoe, American Circa 1950's
Located in Incline Village, NV
While this model canoe might have been used as a salesman sample, whereby merchants, carried it from town to town to encourage sales, it was more than likely used as a demonstration ...
Category

1950s Folk Art Vintage Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Contemporary unique pool table in American Walnut (customisable) by Tim Vranken
Located in 1204, CH
Tim Vranken is a Belgian furniture designer who focuses on solid, handmade furniture. Throughout his designs the use of pure materials and honest natural processes are paramount. The...
Category

2010s Folk Art

Materials

Leather, Fabric, Walnut

Fine and Rare Early 19th Century Carved Bootjack in the Form of a Pistol
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A fine and rare !9th Century hand carved antique treen bootjack, to remove riding boots, in the unusual form of a pistol. This is a rare find and unfolds to form a bootjack with be...
Category

19th Century Antique Folk Art

Materials

Beech

British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship at Sea
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship at Sea, Circa 1870 The sailor's woolwork or woolie depicts a port side view of the Royal Navy frigate under full sail and flying the Whi...
Category

1860s English Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wool

Kozak Saddlebags
Located in New York, NY
An old tribal bag, originally meant to be carried over the shoulder or the back of a donkey. A very nice example with lots of details. Can be used in a variety of ways - wall hangin...
Category

1960s Turkish Vintage Folk Art

Materials

Brocade, Goat Hair, Wool

Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Battleship Coming Into Port
Located in Downingtown, PA
Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Second Rate Battleship Coming into Port, Circa 1865 The British sailor's woolwork has a dramatic view of a Royal Navy Second Rate Battleship coming i...
Category

1860s English Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wool

Small Moroccan "Boucherouite" or Azilal Rug
Located in New York, NY
Small Moroccan "Boucherouite" or Azilal rug. A Moroccan rag rug, woven with cut-up pieces of fabric from old clothes, etc. - boucherouite means rag or t...
Category

Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Folk Art

Materials

Cotton

19th Century Pair Staffordshire Pottery Greyhounds
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th Century pair Staffordshire pottery pen stands in the form of resting greyhounds. The pair are poised with crossed paws laying on a cobalt blue scalloped pedestal with gold gilt ...
Category

19th Century English Antique Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

Sheep Sculpture, Italy circa 1840
Located in Culver City, CA
Italy circa 1840 Weathered marble sculpture of a sheep on a pedestal. 13”w x 6”d x 11”h
Category

1840s Italian Antique Folk Art

Materials

Stone, Marble

Antique Leggings 1880s Southern Arapaho Plains Native American Hide Fringe Beads
Located in Denver, CO
Museum quality Southern Arapaho (Hinono’ei) Native American Plains Indian leggings circa 1880s. Constructed of dyed native tanned hide with viridian green dye and ochre yellow embel...
Category

Late 19th Century American Native American Antique Folk Art

Materials

Hide, Beads

Torcida by Elena Rakochy
Located in Chicago, IL
Torcida by Elena Rakochy , Glazed Stoneware Composed of Rounded, Flat and Hexagonal shaped elements juxtaposed with some twisted portions for a dynamic contrast. Artist Bio and State...
Category

Early 2000s American Folk Art

Materials

Stoneware

Very Rare Large Victorian Hand Carved Salesman Sample Skiff Boat American C 1865
Located in Incline Village, NV
Very rare large size salesman sample skiff boat, circa 1865; hand carved out of a single piece of wood (perhaps maple) with Victorian period black print stenciling to the side in inc...
Category

1860s American Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Katlego Tlabela - Sundays Are For Lovers V
Located in Capetown, ZA
In Katlego Tlabela’s imagined and familiar paintings of domestic settings, he responds to South Africa’s persisting economic inequality with bolstered visual fantasies of self-determ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art

Materials

Linen, Acrylic

Tony Gum - Cheese I
Located in Capetown, ZA
Forming part of the artist’s ground-breaking 2016 Milked In Africa series, Tony Gum’s featured portraits negotiate and interrogate the historical and ongoing commodification of Afric...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art

Materials

Other

Ayotunde Ojo - Reclining
Located in Capetown, ZA
Ayotunde Ojo’s presented works chronicle intimate, domestic snapshots of the every day. Working largely in the mode of self-portraiture, Ojo renders the body in moments of respite an...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary African Folk Art

Materials

Acrylic, Paint

Ayotunde Ojo - Waiting
Located in Capetown, ZA
Ayotunde Ojo’s presented works chronicle intimate, domestic snapshots of the every day. Working largely in the mode of self-portraiture, Ojo renders the body in moments of respite an...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art

Materials

Paint, Acrylic

Katlego Tlabela - Blue Magic VI: Study
Located in Capetown, ZA
In Katlego Tlabela’s imagined and familiar paintings of domestic settings, he responds to South Africa’s persisting economic inequality with bolstered visual fantasies of self-determ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art

Materials

Other

Jozua Gerrard - Spiralling Enquiry
Located in Capetown, ZA
Jozua Gerrard’s lone figures hint at a listless malaise and sense of dissonance, each captured in moments of intimate contemplation in a sparsely decorated domestic setting. Ruminati...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary African Folk Art

Materials

Enamel

Tony Gum - Milk Bags I
Located in Capetown, ZA
Forming part of the artist’s ground-breaking 2016 Milked In Africa series, Tony Gum’s featured portraits negotiate and interrogate the historical and ongoing commodification of Afric...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art

Materials

Other

Luyanda Zindela - “The first time I felt at home in this city was when.."
Located in Capetown, ZA
Forming part of Luyanda Zindela’s ongoing series, Abangani bami / Izithombe zami (My friends / Images of me), these new works chronicle ordinary, intimate moments between the artist ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary African Folk Art

Materials

Acrylic, Pine

Luyanda Zindela - Friday Evening
Located in Capetown, ZA
Zindela’s self-representation is both sentimentally personal and political, where Black kinship and being is captured as a form of resistance. “We are gradually refusing to present o...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art

Materials

Acrylic, Pine

Holdcroft Majolica Figure of a Little Girl and Dog, English, ca. 1880--12.5 ins.
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Joseph Holdcroft Majolica Figure of a Little Girl and Dog, English, ca. 1880. Good condition with two small chips (pictured) to the rear pedesta...
Category

19th Century English Antique Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic

Double Sailor's Valentine of Sea Shells and Motto "Ever Thine"
Located in Downingtown, PA
Double Sailor's Valentine of Sea Shells and Motto "Ever Thine", Barbados, West Indies, Circa 1885 A double sailor's valentine with Spanish Cedar box...
Category

Early 20th Century Bajan Folk Art Folk Art

Materials

Shell

Centre County Pennsylvania Blanket Chest with Salmon and Black Floral Decoration
Located in York County, PA
PAINTED, CENTRE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA BLANKET CHEST IN SALMON AND BLACK WITH FLORAL DECORATION, 3 DRAWERS, AND APPLIED, SPLAY FEET, circa 1815-1825 S...
Category

Mid-19th Century American Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Backgammon Set, Italy circa 1940
Located in Culver City, CA
Backgammon Set Italy circa 1940 CLOSED: 22.75”w x 13.5”d x 5”h OPEN: 27”w x 22.5”d x 2.25”h
Category

20th Century Italian Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Grasshopper
Located in Greenwich, CT
A grasshopper weathervane with body of pitted iron rotating on vertical rod with N E W S directionals below, now on wooden box stand with one side removable. The grasshopper was the ...
Category

1930s English Vintage Folk Art

Materials

Iron

Rare Double Face Vintage Moroccan Berber Open Field Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare Middle Atlas Berber rug from the Zemmour region, distinguished by the fact that it has pile on both sides- red in different gradations on the displayed side and orange in many...
Category

1970s Moroccan Tribal Vintage Folk Art

Materials

Wool

Rare Antique Ukrainian Pile Rug With Floral Garlands in the St. Petersburg Style
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare Ukrainian pile rug woven with a pattern characteristic of Aubusson and Savonnerie French carpets. Carpets such as this one were woven at a time when the classical French style was extremely in favour among the Russian aristocracy, who decorated their homes with period French furniture...
Category

1870s Ukrainian Bessarabian Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wool

Vintage Minimalist Anatolian Tulu Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Distinguished by a squarish format typical of yatak (bedding) rugs, this Tulu has a soft creamy yellow background randomly punctuated by small dots and by a larger one indicating the...
Category

1940s Turkish Tulu Vintage Folk Art

Materials

Wool

Antique Navajo Regional Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An antique Navajo rug from southwest America distinguished by an allover pattern of cruciform elements on a soft grey background. Rugs if this type have been collected for their auth...
Category

1920s American Navajo Vintage Folk Art

Materials

Wool

Small Turkish 'Cushion Cover' Rug
Located in New York, NY
Small Turkish 'cushion cover' rug. A small weaving rug from Central Turkey, probably meant for use as a cushion cover, an essential furnishing element in...
Category

Mid-20th Century Turkish Tribal Folk Art

Materials

Wool

48 Star Antique American Flag, with Hand-Crocheted Stars, ca 1917-1918
Located in York County, PA
48 STARFISH-LIKE, NEEDLEWORK EXECUTED STARS ON A HAND-CROCHETED ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG FROM THE EARLIEST PART OF THE 48 STAR ERA, 1912-WWI (U.S. INVOLVEMENT 1917-18) OR EVEN PRIOR TO ...
Category

Early 20th Century American Folk Art

Materials

Cotton

British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship, The sailor's woolwork or woolie depicts a starboard view of a Second-Rate Royal Navy Ship with three masts. T...
Category

1870s English Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wool

Schoharie County, New York State Blanket Chest
Located in York County, PA
Painted Schoharie County, New York blanket chest, decorated with a beautifully embellished yellow urn of flowers on a blue ground. This is traditional fashi...
Category

1820s American Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wood

British Sailor's Naive Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship H.M.S. St George
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship H.M.S. St George, Circa 1860 A naive sailor's woolie with a Portside view of the H.M.S St. George, named below on a red banner, th...
Category

Mid-19th Century Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wool

Four Meissen Porcelain Plaques Depicting the Four Seasons
Located in London, GB
This delicately detailed set of four allegorical porcelain plaques portrays family scenes within the theme of the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Spring can be ide...
Category

Early 19th Century German Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Metal

Rare and Vibrant Painted Blanket Chest
Located in West Chester, PA
A rare and bright blanket chest in brilliant reds contrasted with blacks. The decoration is nicely painted with urns and flowers flanked by pillars and hearts on the corners. There i...
Category

1780s American Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Pine

Antique Beaded Child's Dress & Leggings, Sioux (Plains Indian) circa 1900, blue
Located in Denver, CO
Sioux child's dress with matching leggings. Created by hand with native tanned hide and beaded with glass trade beads in blue, white, red, pink and green. Pictorial design elements i...
Category

Late 19th Century American Native American Antique Folk Art

Materials

Hide, Beads

British Sailor's Large Woolwork Woolie of a Sailing Ship
Located in Katonah, NY
This large 19th century sailor's Woolie of a British line-of-battle ship, circa 1840is is hand embroidered with woolen yarn. It depicts a British naval ship under full sail with can...
Category

Mid-19th Century English Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wool

Texas Centennial Exposition Pennant, ca 1936
Located in York County, PA
TEXAS CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION PENNANT, CELEBRATING 100-YEARS OF TEXAS INDEPENDENCE FROM MEXICO AND ITS ESTABLISHMENT AS AN INDEPENDENT NATION While most states celebrate anniversaries of statehood, Texas and Hawaii are the only two that previously existed as independent nations. Spain claimed ownership of a significant portion of modern-day Texas in 1519, as an extension of Mexico. France claimed ownership for a 5-year period, from 1685-1690, returning to Spanish rule thereafter. In 1821, Mexico declared its independence, taking Texas with it, maintaining control until 1836, when it became the Republic of Texas, declaring its own independence, following the Texas Revolution...
Category

1930s American Vintage Folk Art

Materials

Felt

Moroccan "Boucherouite" Runner Rug
Located in New York, NY
Moroccan "Boucherouite" runner rug. A Moroccan rag rug, woven in rare runner format, entirely with cut-up pieces of fabric from old clothes, etc. - boucherouite means rag or torn clo...
Category

Late 20th Century Moroccan Tribal Folk Art

Materials

Cotton

Sculptural Italian Chess Set in the Style of Alberto Giacometti
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Chess set, brass, bronze, Italy, 1960s Wonderful, modernist chess set made in the style of Italian artist Alberto Giacometti. The exceptional game of chess has a stunning look. Each...
Category

1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Folk Art

Materials

Bronze, Brass

Antique Hand Painted Portrait Young Girl England C-1840
Located in Katonah, NY
This lovely portrait of young Mary Jane Cotteril was made in England circa 1840. Her pose is straightforward, and her hair, styled in elegant ringlets, frames her youthful face, addi...
Category

Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Folk Art

Materials

Paper

English Sailor's Woolwork of a Second Rate Battleship with White Ensign
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Sailor's Woolwork of a Battleship, Circa 1865-75. The sailor's woolie depicts a starboard side view of a second rate battleship flying the White ensign under sail. White se...
Category

Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wool

American American Painted Cast Iron "Old Salt" Maine Fisherman Doorstop
Located in Downingtown, PA
American Painted Cast Iron "Old Salt" Maine Fisherman Doorstop or Bookend, Hubley Manufacturing Company, The 1920s. The two larger figures depict an old salt fisherman standing ...
Category

Early 20th Century American Folk Art Folk Art

Materials

Iron

Mid-century Modern Articulated Wood Artist Hand Model
Located in Downingtown, PA
Articulated Wood Artist Hand Model, 1950s-1970 The beautifully carved light wood hand is articulated at the wrist and the base of each finger while the forefinger and thumb are also...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Folk Art

Materials

Wood

American Applique Picture of a Basket of Strawberries
Located in Downingtown, PA
American oval shadow box felt picture depicts strawberries in an openwork straw basket with the large long handle rising above. Within an oval gilt frame...
Category

Mid-19th Century American Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Felt

Mid-century Modern Articulated Wood Artist Hand Model
Located in Downingtown, PA
Articulated Wood Artist Hand Model, 1950s The carved light wood hand is articulated at the wrist and the base of each finger while the forefinger and thumb are also articulated at t...
Category

Mid-20th Century Belgian Folk Art Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Late 19th Century Flat Bottom Toy Noah's Ark with 34 Figures. German Circa 1880
Located in Incline Village, NV
Offered for sale is a very traditional Folk Art item; a handcrafted Noah's Ark toy with 34 hand-painted and hand-carved animals (includes Noah and Naamah). The flat bottom ark indica...
Category

1880s German Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Vintage Pueblo Native American Old Pawn Ingot Silver Bracelet, Turquoise c. 1915
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage Southwestern Native American Pueblo Old Pawn cuff bracelet, circa 1915. Stamped ingot silver with a turquoise cabochon. The inner bracelet circumference measures approximatel...
Category

Early 20th Century American Native American Folk Art

Materials

Multi-gemstone, Silver

Antique Navajo Rug, Early 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Handwoven Navajo Rug, Early 20th Century Additional Information: Dimensions: 6'3" W x 10'10" L Origin: North America Period: Early 20th Century Rug ID: 05734
Category

Early 20th Century American Folk Art

Materials

Wool

San Francisco Trolley Toy Friction Car. Japan, circa 1950s
Located in Incline Village, NV
San Francisco trolley toy Friction cable car; made of all tin; important to note because this was the first of it's kind having been made in the 1950s. They were all tin (no plastic); 7 1/4" long (not shorter); green (not red or multi-clored); "Bay and Taylor St" placard; #504" and most importantly the figures are actual FIGURES made of formed pressed steel and then hand painted and lithographed. Cheaper later models were simply lithographed into the flat sheet steel. Also, my example works (see video). It is a friction toy...
Category

Mid-20th Century Japanese Folk Art Folk Art

Materials

Tin

A large Nelson commemorative armorial pier glass
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large Nelson commemorative armorial pier glass. This George III giltwood mirror has a rectangular glass plate below a shaped cornice with a central coat of arms for Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805) flanked by foliate tendrils on a painted black ground. The sides consist of paired tied-reed columns with palm frond capitals enclosing similar black painted panels of fruiting vine tendrils rising from classical vases. English, circa 1805. See Wick Antiques, Britain on the High Seas: From Nelson to Churchill, pp.76-77, for a very similar giltwood mirror from a group at Merton Place, the house in Surrey which the Admiral shared with his mistress Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815). They all featured his coat of arms surmounted by a baron’s coronet...
Category

Early 1800s English Antique Folk Art

Materials

Giltwood

Large Italian Painting of a Merchant Ship "The Venetian Workers' Society Offers"
Located in Katonah, NY
A unique work of art, this charming painting was hand painted in Italy in the mid-19th century. Created to promote The Venetian Workers' Society, this large hand-painted oil paintin...
Category

Late 19th Century Italian Folk Art Antique Folk Art

Materials

Glass, Wood

Vintage, New and Antique Folk Art

Folk art refers to a genre of art that shares the creator’s traditions, offering not just an artistic display but an opportunity to learn about a culture. Vintage, new and antique folk art typically reflects a heritage or location. It can include utilitarian objects and handmade art as diverse as weather vanes, portraiture and paintings, carnival art, quilts and duck decoys.

American folk art is frequently valued because of the traditional skills involved, like weaving, hand-carving wood and even stonework. Many folk artists are self-taught, while some train as apprentices within their community. By using available materials and taking a personal approach to their creations, artists ensure each piece is unique and conveys a story. Native American folk art includes functional objects reflecting their heritage, such as baskets, textiles and wooden pieces.

During the Great Depression, artistic materials in America were hard to come by, so artisans used discarded wood from cigar boxes and shipping crates to make highly stylized, notched pieces — most often picture frames and boxes — that are today sought after by collectors. This folk art style is called tramp art and was popular from roughly 1870 until the 1940s.

Folk art brings vibrant culture and traditions into your home. Browse an extensive collection of folk art on 1stDibs.

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