This antique wrought iron candle sconce is made from decorative iron work from a Sicilian wedding cart. It most likely dates to sometime between 1890 and 1920.
Approx 34 cm Wide
and 28 cm Tall
Werner Schmutz (1910 Lindenthal bei Boll – 17.7.2003 Bern)
Swiss Folk Art Floral Composition
Dated on label on reverse – 1974
Beautiful large bouquet with roses, begonias, tulips and lilies of the valley.
Oil on Wood
Dimensions: 68 X 53 cm
The Swiss Artist Werner Schmutz was known as a painter of flowers and still lifes, as well as [...]
Cuzco School Painting
Madonna of the Miracles
Painting of crucifix on reverse.
The figure of the madonna is surrounded by three ex voto style scenes of miracles at which she appears to rescue or give solace to the victim.
The reverse is a dark and somewhat frighting vision of a cross, with a figure from a religious brotherhood in [...]