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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...

American School (Mid 19th Century)

The Good Companion: A Young Girl and Her Dog Carrying a Basket in a Snowy Forest

Oil on canvas, unsigned. The canvas retaining a stencil reading “*** Nelson, Artists Colorman and Picture Framer”, probably Robert Nelson of New York (1844)

Painting Size: 20” x 24”
Frame Size: 27” x 31”

Large Carved White Marble Bust of a Classical Woman

Signed with a Monogram, early 20th Century

10" x 14" x 17" tall

Benson B. Moore (American 1882-1973)

"Wood Interior, Near Manassas, VA"

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left; titled and dated “Oct.1953” on reverse

Painting Size: 12” x 9”
Frame Size: 17.5 ” x 14.5”

** For other paintings by artists from Maryland, Virginia or Washington DC, type “local” into the search box.

Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art with Messer and ...

Lady in a Garden

William B. Bennett (British, fl. 1900-1913)

Watercolor on paper, signed and dated: “1906”

. Provenance: Taggart, Jorgensen & Putman, Washington, DC.

A painter of landscape and genre scenes, Bennett exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1900 to 1913. He made his home in Bushey, Hertford-shire. Bennett is listed in the Dictionary of British Art, Vol. IV, Victorian Painters by Wood.

Sight size: 20” x 14.5”
Frame size: 30” x 23.5”...

Celine Marie Tabary (French, b. 1908)

Chateau d’Ohlain (Pas de Calais)

Watercolor on paper, signed and titled (from a portfolio of the artists drawings and watercolors).

Painting size: 12.25” x 15.25”
Unframed

**Please note: This item is not currently on view in our gallery. If you would like to see it, please call at least 48 hours in advance.

**For other mid-20th Century artwork in our inventory, type “modern” into the search box.

Born in ...

Rare large pair of antique Italian Sorrento-ware fret carved hanging corner shelves, in olivewood, each with openwork foliate decorated sides, surrounding marquetry roundels depicting various tradesmen. Mid-19th century.

Height: 31”
Width: 15” (max.)
Depth: 10.5” (to corner)

Antique American Gilded Wood and Gesso Mirror. The thick turned columns of the frame with applied gesso decoration, were popular in the late Empire period, 1830-1850. Probably Philadelphia. There is a similar labeled example in The Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum.

Plate: 23 ½” x 13 ½”
Frame:31 ¾” x 21 ¾”

Sept Dialogues de Betes

by Colette Willy

Printed in Paris, 1927, inscribed and signed

Now quarterbound in black leather with gilt and raised spine, marbled boards and endpapers and gilt top edge, several pages uncut.

Mireille

by Frederic Mistral

Edition du Centenaire, illustrated by Frederic Montenard, Paris, 1930, with later half blue Morocco binding with a six panel tooled spine having a tooled gilt decoration of a bee, marbled boards and original wraps bound in.

Wonderful Folk Art Hanging Bracket "ANTIQUES" Sign in the style of Maxfield Parrish; painted wrought iron depicting a Gentleman and Lady at Tea. Provenance: from an antiques store in North Adams, MA, circa 1900.

Main Sign 25.5" x 32"
Bracket: 19" x 45.5"

From A. Gilbert Smith:
It is very reminiscent of a two sided sign executed by Parrish for a friend titled: The Tea Tray. Although Parrish designed the ornate iron g...

Fine American Federal candlestand in maple, having a rectangular cut- corner top above a vasiform pillar and raised on three downswept tapered legs. Circa 1790.

Length: 17”
Width: 15.75”
Height: 28”

Antique English papier mâche lap desk in black lacquer decorated with gilt stencil and inlaid with abalone shell, having a shaped top opening to a fitted interior with writing slope and wells for pens and inkwell. Circa 1860.

Length: 12.5”
Width: 10.5”
Height: 3.5”

A Rare Stoneware Wine Flask (called a “Schraubflasche” in German), cylindrical with a pewter screw top, sloped shoulder and white glazed body with applied silvered decoration of a scrolling branch with leaves and berries. Silvered underglazed mark on base.

Probably German, 18th Century (chip to base)

Height: 5.25"
Diameter: 3"

Antique Chinese Blue and White Pottery Bowls (18th and 19th Century)

This type of Chinese ceramic was exported primarily to the Southeast Asian market from the port of Swatow, hence it is known as “Chinese Swatow”

Offering Bowls $35. each

Rice Bowls (largest) $30. each

Sauce Bowls (Smallest) $20. each

**Please Note: As these are all different and have various flaws, we will not ship.

Charly Léonard (French, 1894-1953)

Courtyard in Fontarrabie, Spain

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left, located ”Fontarabie” (sic) and dated “1926

Painting: 20” x 23 ½”

Frame: 29” x 33”

Fontarrabie is the French name for the Spanish town of Hondarribia. a coastal town in Basque country Spain, on the French border.

Léonard was a painter of figures, interiors, landscapes and still lifes. He was a student of Alfred Bastien at the Acad�...

Labeled American carved wood frame with campo and gilt decoration. Label reads in part “John E. Walker...473 Sixth Avenue.” Walker was at this address from 1873-1886. (Minor losses.)

Outer: 25” x 32”
Inner: 17” x 24”
Rabbit: 18” x 25”

Southern Artist, Unknown (Mid 19th Century)

Southern Sunset: Cabin in the Woods With Figure

Oil on canvas, unsigned.

Painting Size: 15.5” x 13.25”
Frame Size: 18.5” x 16.75”