Antique Italian 15th Century Carved Wood Hand-Painted Madonna Statue Vecchietta 1460 Recently Added Smithsonian Collection accession number 2004

Smithsonian Collection accession number 2004

Important Impressionist Original Oil Painting Landscape of Hong Kong circa 1950s

Some paintings were also made in other Rocky Mountain states

This finely carved and upholstered serpentine shaped chair/sofa for two people

The chest comes from the time shortly after the English Interregnum (The English Commonwealth shortly after the Civil War)

Antique Italian 15th Century Carved Wood Hand-Painted Madonna Statue Vecchietta 1460 Recently Added Smithsonian Collection accession number 2004An important Italian Renaissance carved walnut & polychrome statue of The Madonna, Siena, by Lorenzo di Pietro (1420 1480) also known as Vecchietta, the statue circa 1460. This very beautiful Sienese carved Virgin from the late 1400s was a devotional object, it depicts the Virgin Mary kneeling in adoration. The figure is deftly and sensitively carved from limewood and gesso and is archetypical of the Sienese school of carving; depicting a graceful,