This is an original and beautiful 25 inch by 45 inch hand-painted and hand incised wood framed work of art -and containing a wonderful hand hammered copper repousse panel of the iconic Bethlehem Shephard Boy Flute Player. It was created by one of America’s important turn of the last century arts and crafts artisans, William...

This is a unique and original beautifully hand-incised hand painted settle or bench signed and dated 1905 . This unique work of art is hand-incised using a pyrographic (pyrography) wood burned technique and then hand stained/painted on front with images of four children, tulips, pretzels, a windmill and even a stein- a family celebration! Original...

Pre-Columbian, Hispaniola, Arawak Peoples, Taino Native Indians, 1000 to 1500 CE. This is a fine and important Taino Cacique Chief’s hand carved hard wood seat -Duho- an ancestor ceremonial sculpture from the Arawak Peoples of the Greater Antilles Islands. It is at least 500 years old and comes from an important Florida collection having originally...

Early American Pre-Historic Human Effigy stone pipe, woodland period, 2500 BP Formerly in the Harold French collection, Amboy, Indiana (photo) All stone carvings from America’s early history are scarce. Human effigy stone carvings such as this pipe example rarely come on to the market and are considered to be desirable. This pipe is likely unique...

Native America, an ancient hand carved stone head head effigy, Yokuts People, Collected Private ranch 1960, Tulare Lake Basin, San Joaquin Valley, Kettleman City, CA, 7″ diameter granite, Circa 1000-1500 AD,  

Part of an exquisite suite of three furniture scale works of art including this settle marked "LeRoy", a throne chair, and a four panel screen, the suite decended into the Smith family of Providence, Rhode Island and was originally acquired at auction in Warwick, RI sometime in the 1940’s.

Part of an exquisite suite of three furniture scale works of art including this throne chair, a settle, and a four panel screen, the settle marked "LeRoy", the suite decended into the Smith family of Providence, Rhode Island and was originally acquired at auction in Warwick, RI sometime in the 1940’s.

       

            

            

   

William Fuller Curtis was born in 1873 in New York, studied in Paris at the Julian Academy under Lefebvre and Fleury, and later returned to work in Washington D.C. His works are in many museums and private collections. He died in 1938.