Catalog (370)

Alfred Wordsworth Thompson (American 1840-1896)

Lake Scene in Western Maryland

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right and dated “1861”

Painting Size: 8 ½”” x 16”
Frame Size: 12.5” x 20”

Thompson was a landscape, historical and portrait painter, born in Baltimore where he studied law with his father. In 1859 Thompson decided to become and artist and opened a studio in Baltimore. During the first year of the Civil War (1860) he worked as a combat artis...

Fine pair of Antique French Louis XVI style ormolu candlesticks with circular bases with laurel leaf decoration and tapered, fluted shafts with applied laurel swags. Late 19th-century, now wired as lamps.

Provenance: from the collection of Ron Van Swerengen

Height to Shade: 25.5”

Frederick Smallfield, (English, 1825-1915)

Genoese Flower Girl

Watercolor on paper, signed and titled on the reverse.

Painting size: 16” x 10”
Frame size: 26.75” x 20.5”

Smallfield was a painter of genre scenes in oil and watercolour. He was a student at the Royal Academy Schools in the late 1840s with the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but he was probably not close to them then, for he is not mentioned in their diaries. However by the late 1...

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Chesapeake Beach, MD"

Oil on masonite, signed lower left and dated "1958" and titled on the reverse

Painting: 20" x 24"

Frame: 26" x 30"

Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

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

Antique English Silver Tea Caddy and Sugar Bowl in Shagreen Case by Samuel Taylor, London, 1758-59. The covered sugar bowl and tea canister were crafted by the prominent tea canister specialist and renowned Georgian silversmith Samuel Taylor. The box fittings are by another silversmith, probably J. Wakelin (one hinge stamped IW). The caddy and sugarbowl are pyriform, the sides and covers repousse and chased with flowers and scrolls, each on a cast circular foot similarly decorated and with f...

Pair of miniature three drawer chests, in mahogany, circa 1860, probably desk top boxes. Dimensions :12 "x 12"x 9"deep

Carved Wooden Top Hat

(Early 20th C., some scratches

12.25” x 10” x 6.75” tall

View of the Capitol at Washington in 1892

Studio Antiques has found the original engraved copper printing plate of the “Capitol at Washington” done by Max Franke in 1892. We are offering a limited edition re-strike engraving of this print, handpulled from the original plate by master printmaker Roger Bailey. It will be limited to a numbered edition of only 350 and will not be republished. Each print comes with a “Certificate of Authenticity”

Lost for over a century, the...

Antique English Bagatelle Box in Mahogany with original wooden insert and later ball and cues, now mounted on a metal stand.

Circa 1840

Bagatelle was a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which was to get a number of balls past wooden pins into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties were incurred if the pegs are knocked over.

36" x 17.75" x 18.5" tall (closed)

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Anacostia Hills, MD"

Oil on board, signed lower left and titled on the reverse

Painting: 20" x 24"

Frame: 24.5" x 28.5"

Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

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

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

10" x 13"

Gold Presentation Walking Stick with touchmark “TD&V” and inscribed : “Presented to, Mayor Reno, by Members of City Council, Mch 15, ‘97” and with an ebonized wood shaft. Length:32.75"

Antique English Polychrome Porcelain Tea Caddy with ribbed body and decoration with floral motif. Circa 1790. Provenance: From the Estate of Baroness Rengers, Alexandria, VA.

Rare True Pair of 18th Century English Tea Caddies in harewood, of oval form with satinwood and ebony stringings and bandings. The hinged lids with a finely enlaid paterae of flowers in an urn and opening to a interior with "floating lids".
Circa 1790

Provenance: From the Estate of Edward Bridgeforth, Winchester,VA

Most single compartment tea caddies were originally one of a pair; one for green tea and one for black tea. It is extremely rare for both to survive together.

6.25...

Rare Pair of Regency Upholstered Footstools, of square inverted trapezoidal form with a rosewood base and carved mahogany scroll form feet. Circa 1800. (losses to needlework covering)

6.5" x 16.5" x 6.5" tall

Antique Pear Form Tea Caddy in fruitwood, turned in the form of a pear with iron escutcheon and stem.  Often made in suite with an apple form tea caddy for your green and black teas. You want to see a curved lockplate as many fruit form string holders are being passed off as tea caddies.  Probably German, Late 18th Century. 6.5” tall with stem

Jose Rico y Cejudo (Spanish, 1864-1939)

Classical Figure with a Lyre

Oil on Panel, signed and retaining a paper label on the reverse

Painting: 14.5" x 8.5"
Frame: 20.5" x 15"

Jose Rico y Cejudo was born n Seville, Spain on March 27, 1864. He was the student of M. Ussel and J. Garcia Ramos at the School of Fine Arts in Seville. Eduardo Cano also played a role in the education of Cejudo as Cejudo would often pay visits to the artist'a studio. In 1888 he received a...

Max Weyl (American, 1837-1914)

Springtime in Rock Creek NE

Oil-on-canvas, signedand dated 1902 lower right and titled and signed on the reverse

Ptg.: 18.5" x 24"
Frame: 24" x 30"

Max Weyl was born Dec. 1, 1837, in Germany and immigrated with his family to Williamsport, PA in 1853. At this time and after his arrival in Washington, DC in 1861, Weyl earned his living as an itinerant watch repairman. At the relatively young age of 24, he had saved enough mon...