Catalog: Antiques: Furnishings (142)

Antique Carved And Gilt Wood Oval Mirror with foliate carved decoration. (Gilding darkened)

Mirror: 23" X 19.5"
Frame: 32" x 28.5"

**Please Note: This item is not currently on view in our gallery. Please call at least 48 hours in advance if you wish to see it.

Antique Victorian Brass and Oak Magazine Rack

English , circa 1880

14" x 5.5" x 13"tall

Rare George III Tea Caddy with Hidden Drawer, rectangular with stepped hinged top surmounted by a brass carrying handle, brass escutcheon and sliding side panel revealing a hidden drawer (patch above keyhole, lacks interior dividers).

One of the rarest of this form of tea caddy, the concealed drawer would have held your silver teaspoons.

For other examples of this form, type "10261" or "10263" into the search box...

Antique Tunbridge Ware Dome Top Box, in satinwood, inlaid with other exotic woods in a leaf and berry pattern.

English, Circa 1830

Height: 3.5”
Width: 7.5”
Depth: 4.5”
(Some warp to lid)

Large Georgian Tea Chest in nicely figured mahogany; rectangular with quarter column corners, having a stepped lid surmounted by a brass carrying handle and opening to a fitted interior retainiing two tin tea caddies and a sugar box and the whole raised on ogee bracket feet. English, Circa1780.

11.75" x 7.5" x 6.5" tall

Unusual Late Victorian Tea Chest in the form of a Sideboard, in mahogany with cross-hatched inlaid panels and carved bandings and skirt, the shaped top opening to two lidded tea caddies and a sugarbowl.

English, circa 1870.

22" x 8" x 6.5" tall

Exceptional 18th Century Inlaid Sewing Box on later stand, having a rectangular hinged lid opening to a fitted interior, brass carrying handles and top and front with extensive exotic wood inlay and banding.

English, circa 1790

Box 14" x 12" x 6.5 "Overall Height: 30.5"

LATE GEORGE III W.&T.M. BARDIN 18-INCH TERRESTRIAL GLOBE ON STAND 
additions to 1807, dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks, the globe in etched brass frame resting on a corona with months and zodiac on turned support with tapering downswept legs with brass casters

Dimensions: Height: 41 in. (104.1 cm.), Diameter: 24 in. (61 cm.)

This terrestrial globe is supported on a wooden tri-pod pedestal, surrounded by a wooden horizon circle, and it is equipped with a brass meridian ...

Rare Chinese Export Roll Top Lap Desk, Asian Hardwoods with ebony and brass mounts having single lower drawer that when opened reveals a fitted interior, sloped writing surface and "pop-up" storage compartment with tambour doors. Circa 1830.

Length 19", Depth 15"

*See Crossman, The ChinaTrade, color plate 96 (page 248) for another example.

Fine Antique English Canterbury in Walnut, having four pierced partitions with “C” scroll carved decoration above a single drawer and raised on turned ball form feet with brass casters. Circa 1850-1870

Originally designed for sheet music, these are now used primarily as magazine racks. To see other examples, type "canterbury" into the search box.

Height: 20”
Width: 20.5”
Depth: 14.5”

Chinese Export Black Lacquer Tea Chest, rectangular with cut corners and lobbed body with gilt decoration of figures in courtyards; the stepped, hinged lid opening to two pewter lidded and engraved caddies and the whole raised on gilt dragon-form feet. Circa 1820 (wear to decoration). See our #581, #702. #703 for related examples. 9.75” x 7.25” x 6.75”

Wonderful Victorian Church Form Whimsey in mahogany, having two drawers and a small well beneath the steeple.

English or American, circa 1870.

10" x 6"x 16"tall

Antique Anglo Indian iron and brass bound walnut peat bucket with ribbed body and applied carrying handles. India,19th century.

Height: 12”

Diameter: 10.25“

English Gilt Wood Mirror

Size: 31.5” x 26.5”

Fine 18th-century English carved and gilt wood mirror with corner rosettes and later, distressed mirror plate. Circa 1760-80.

Antique Anglo-Indian carved sandlewood box with nail decoration, ivory banding, velvet lining and paw form ivory feet. Circa 1875.

6" x 4.5"x 2.5" tall

French Boulle Style Tea Caddy, rectangular with cut-corners and slightly domed lid with all sides and two interior lids extensively inlaid with engraved brass and red and black colored lacquer simulating tortoise-shell in the 17th century manner. Circa 1850.

Provenance: The Cockrell Collection. (Key). (See our #555 for a related example with blue lacquer ground.) See Clark & O’Kelly, p. 109-10 for related boxes. Height, 4.5”; Length, 8.75”; Depth, 4.5.”

Fine George III Oval Brass Bound Peat Bucket with mahogany staves and brass banding, liner and loop handle. English, Circa 1780. 13" x 10" x 12.5" (not including handle)

Antique American Wooden Book Form Bank, with coin slot below and hinged cover above.

Circa 1860-80

6.25 x 4.5"x 2"deep