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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 Chippendale Style Armchair in mahogany having a shaped and carved crestrail, pierced central splat, moulded arm rests, slip seat and champfered legs joined by an "H" stretcher. English, Late 19th Century.

Height: 37.5" Width: 25"

Banka Maruyama (Japanese, 1867-1942)

A Bamboo Grove

Watercolor on paper, signed.

Sheet Size: 20.5” x 13.5”
Sight Size: 19” x 13”
Frame Size: 25.75” x 19.5”

Banka Maruyama was a Japanese watercolor artist whose work spanned the Meiji, Taishō and Shōwa periods. Today, his work can be found in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

Frans Moormans (Dutch, 1831-1893)

The Return Home

Oil-on-panel, signed lower left

Painting Size: 15.5” x 18”
Frame Size: 26.5 ” x 30”

Moormans was a popular and well known artist of the 19th century specializing in portraits and interior genre scenes in the style of the 17th century Dutch artists such as Metsu and Vermeer. He was a student at l’Academie d’Anvers and a professor at l’Academie d’Amsterdam. He participated in numerous exhibition...

Native American Indian Bowl, possibly Zunni. Diameter: 7.75”

ENGLISH REGENCY MUSIC STAND in mahogany, Circa 1800-1820. having a rectangular adjustable slope top with a hinged bookrest, a pillar support ending in three reeded and splayed legs with brass castors and an adjustable height brass lined square wooden shaft inside the column, fixed by a brass thumbscrew.

Width 20 3/4"
Height: 36" when flat
41" to 58" when angled

Small Tumbridge Ware Trinket Box in Rosewood having a hinged lid inlayed with a display of roses depicted in micro mosaic, framed by bandings of contrasting light and dark wood and particularly well matched geometric micro mosaic.

4.35" x 2.8" x 1.5" tall

Newbold Hugh Trotter (American 1827-1898)

Coastal Landscape

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right and dated 1873; in original frame

Painting: 14” x 24”
Frame: 23 ½” x 33 ½”

Born in Philadelphia in 1827, Trotter worked for a machinist company and a dry goods company in Philadelphia and served in the Germantown Home Guards during the Civil War. It was not until he was 40 that Trotter turned to painting as a full time occupation.

Trotte...

Portrait of a Red Haired Gentleman

American School, early 19th Century

Oil on canvas with a pencil inscription lower left: “Jacob Lam...t, born: April 4th, 1798”.

Painting size: 18.25” x 13.75”
Frame size: 22.25” x 17.75”

Judging by the gentleman’s frock coat, collar and hair style, this was probably painted circa 1820.

After Henry Alken (British, 1785-1851)

Tandem

Handcolored engraving, first published London, 1878

Provenance: The Jockey Club, Washington, DC.

Sight Size: 12.5” x 15.5”
Frame: 25” x 21.5”

Fine Antique Japanese Kinrande Imari Porcelain Vase having a flared, scolloped rim, ribbed body and typical decoration with birds and blossoms. Circa 1870-1900. Now wired as a lamp with ribbed gilt wood base.

Height to rim: 14"

What we call Imari was made in the Japanese town of Arita and exported thru the port city of Imari.

Allegory of Sculpture and Architecture

French School (Early 18th Century)

Oil on canvas.

Painting size: 25” x 34”
Frame size: 30” x 39.25 ”

These sumptuous female figures serve as allegories for two prized arts in France at the turn of the 18th century. On the left is sculpture, signified by a chisel in her hands. She sits beside a pair of Roman busts, one overturned, the other sporting a helmet possibly representing Pallas Athene. On the right is ...

Jacque Villon (French 1875-1963)

Cubist Lithograph

Signed lower right and Numbered: 38/175

Sight Size: 15.5" x 12.75"
Sheet Size: 20.5" x 16.5"
Frame Size: 23.25" x 20

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Villon, born Gaston Emil Duchamp, changed his name...

James Francis O’Brien (American, 1917-1996)

Grocery Still Life

Oil on canvas, signed, titled and inscribed on the reverse.

Painting size: 16” x 20”
Frame size: 21” x 25”

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Continental Candle Stand in calamander, having a hexagonal top and pillar with three downswept legs with gilt metal mounts. Early 20th century

Height: 29 1/2”
Diameter: 17”

Antique Chinese "Souffle" glazed porcelain vase, late 18th/early 19th century, now wired as a lamp

Height: 14"

Bentwood Hat and Coat Rack (or Hall Tree) by the Thonet Furniture Company, in beechwood with original finish. Stamped "THONET" ,(Missing two hat racks)

Circa 1910

80” H x 22 ½”W x 22 ½”D

Michael Thonet (1796-1871) began making his iconic bentwood furniture when he discovered how to bend light, strong wood into graceful shapes using hot steam. In 1849, he opened his own shop with four of his sons and garnered numerous prizes for his designs. In 1853, Thonet transfer...

Rare pottery soup tureen, ladle and undertray by William Brownfield & Son, Cobridge England, 1871-1891 with various impressed and underglaze marks.

Diameter of undertray: 14.25”