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The Vũng Tàu shipwreck is a shipwreck that was found in the South China Sea off the islands of Côn Đảo about 100 miles from Vũng Tàu, Vietnam in 1692. The wreck was of alorcha boat—a Chinese vessel with Portuguese influences that has been dated to about 1690. It was found by a fisherman who had picked up numerous pieces of porcelain from the wreck while fishing. Sverker Hallstrom identified the wreck and its cargo in 1990. Australian diver Michael Flecker took charge of the archaeologi...

William Aiken Walker (American, b. c.1838-1921)

Man in a Cottonfield

Oil on board, signed lower left.

$16,500. Painting Size: 8.25” x 4.25”
Frame Size: 12.5” x 8.5”

A lifelong artist, Walker exhibited his first painting at the age of twelve and continued to paint until his death 71 years later.

In the 1860’s Walker traveled to Dusseldorf for artistic training and remained for several years. Returning to Charleston, he joined the Confederate Ar...

Impressive large-scale Black Forest carved armchair in walnut with all over carved decoration of bark, branches, leaves and berries. Swiss. Circa 1870-1880. * Provenance: Anniee McCarthy, Newport, RI and NYC (label). Minor loss to tips of leaves on crestrail, caned seat was once over upholstered.

*See “History of Black Forest Furniture”

Height: 39.5”
Width: 25”
Depth: 24”

Most likely French, 19th century. The image of an Englishman hunting with a hound was a common image on enamel boxes, especially snuff boxes in the eighteenth century. However, it clearly dates to the late nineteenth century. The lug and ribbed banding on the metal hinge, as well as the completely hand painted nature of the lid identify this box as a nineteenth-century creation.

Damage to hinge. Lid does not close entirely. Loss to underside enamel.

Herbert Johnson Harvey (British, 1884-1928)

Confidences

Oil on panel, signed upper right and titled on frame. Provenance: Cotman Gallery, Birmingham.

Painting Size: 10.5” x 8.5”
Frame Size: 17.5” x 15.5”

Born the son of artist John Rabone Harvey, Herbert Johnson Harvey was a London based painter and etcher known for his portraits. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and the provinces.

Source:
Waters. Dictionary of British Artists Working 1...

Antique English Tea Chest in the Form of a Sideboard, in mahogany and deal, having a rectangular hinged top with shaped and carved backsplash which opens to a sugarbowl, the front with two cabinet doors opening to lidded tea caddies.

William Smee & Sons, London, published a catalog of furniture designs in 1850 which had sideboards of similar form. (See Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Designs by Edward Joy, pp 435-36.) 14"x5"x12.75"tall (key)

19th Century British School

"Warmiing Up" Jockey Galloping a Horse with a Plaited Mane

Oil on Canvas , signed"WV"

Painting: 16" x 24"
Frame: 20.75" x 28.5"

Antique Black Lacquer Chinese Export Tea Caddy with paneled, cut corner hinged lid opening to a well , vignetts of figures in gardens, and raised on carved dragon form feet. Daoguang Period, Circa 1840

8" x 6" x 5.75" tall (cracks and minor losses to lacquer)

Rare American Federal tea caddy in nicely figured mahogany with three sides and stepped lid inlaid with banding and corner fan decoration; rectangular, with shaped skirt and French bracket feet and divided interior. Probably 1800. Provenance: The Cockrell Collection. See Montgomery, American Furniture, The Federal Period, #436-439 for other examples. Height, 9.25”; Length, 12”; Width, 6.5.”

Benson Bond Moore (American,1882-1974)

Autumn in the Blue Ridge Mountains (near Emmittsburg, PA[sic]) 1955

Oil on board, signed lower left and dated “1955”. Titled on the reverse

Painting Size: 15.5” x 19.5”
Frame Size: 23.5” x 27.5”

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Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He studied...

John White (English, 1851-1933)

Woodland Fall Landscape

Oil on panel, signed in lower left corner, “JN White, R.I.”

Painting size: 6.75” x 10”
Frame size: 10.5” x 13.5”

Known for his rustic genre paintings and landscapes, White attended the Royal Scottish Academy. By 1877, he moved to Devon and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street and the New Watercolor Society.

On this landscape, Whit...

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 Continental Demilune carved and gilt wood wall bracket. Late 19th century.

Height: 11”
Width:12”

Claes Oldenberg by Barbara Rose [publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York] Softcover Cream vinyl wrappers with teal lettering. Pink and brown decorated endpapers. 221 pp. Fully illus [46] in color, many other bw. The famous "soft cover" catalog for the MoMA exhibition, September 25 - November 23, 1969. Accompanied by a 16-page checklist, laid in. VG+ Two clipped endpapers, Vinyl foam wraps beginning to pull away from endpapers.

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)

Fine Filigree Work Tea Caddy, Hexagonal, with kingwood banding and with all panels and lid decorated with rolled paper floral designs with traces of color and gilding: the front panel incorporates a central print of a boy playing a flute. English, Circa 1790.

Also known as “quill work” or “rolled or scrolled paper” tea caddies, these undecorated boxes would have been purchased from a cabinetmaker and decorated at home or in schools by ladies as a genteel amusement and to show thei...

#530 Antique Anglo-Indian Tea Chest, sandalwood overlaid with strips of elk horn. The box is rectangular with sloped sides. The elk horn on the top of the stepped, sloping lid arranged in a starburst pattern. The fitted interior is decorated with incised ivory panels, highlighted with lac, a similarly decorated pair of removable caddies and a circular cut crystal sugar bowl and a horn caddy spoon. (The squashed ball feet are later replacements. Lid lack support). Valtair, Vizagapatam, possi...

Fine George III Oval Brass Bound Peat Bucket with oak staves and brass banding, liner and loop handle. English, Circa 1780.

10" x 13"