Catalog (529)

Helen Sewell Rennie (American,1906-1989)

"Eilean Donan"

Oil on canvas, signed.

Painting Size: 28” x 28”
Frame Size: 29.25” x 29.25”

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Rennie (born in 1906) was a painter and graphic designer who worked in Maine and Washington D.C. She exhibited at the Franz Bader Gallery, Capricorn Gallery, the Bridge Gallery (1965) and the Museum of Modern Art (1956). Her...

Fine antique French pedestal form sander in ormolu with removable reservoir for the sand used to dry the ink when writing with a quill pen. Mid-19th century.

Height: 4”
Width: 3.75:

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"A Potomac Vista"

Oil on board, signed and dated "1952"lower left and titled on the reverse

Painting: 9" x 6.75"

Frame: 11" x 9"

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...

Sketch of a Skye Terrier

by Edward F.D. Pritchard (British 1809-1905)

Ink on paper, signed. Paper Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (Unframed)

Pritchard was a marine, landscape and architectural painter living in Bristol and London, who exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, the Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street and elsewhere. He is listed in The Dictionary of Victorian Painters by Christopher Wood, and Benezit, E., Dictonnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Gr...

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Autumn on the Patuxent"

Oil on Board, signed lr, and titled and located "at Seven Gabels Near Cedar Point, MD. October 18, 1950" on the reverse

Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

Painting: 8" x 10"
Frame: 13.35" x 15.25"

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Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teac...

Antique Rosewood Tea Caddy inlaid with brass stars and opening to two lidded compartments.

Circa1850, probably French.

7.5" x 4.25" x 4.5" tall

Exceptional George III Painted Satinwood Pembroke Table, in the manner of Robert Adam; having rectangular top and two drop leaves, with a central painted patterae of children with dogs and a border decorated with ribbon and foliage. Below is a single drawer and the whole is raised on straight, tapered legs with painted floral decoration. English, circa 1780.(slight warp to leaves

Height: 27”
Length: 38.5” (open)
Length: 19” (closed)
Width: 31”

Exceptional Sheraton Tea Chest in satinwood banded in rosewood and with ebony and boxwood stringing: having a rectangular hinged lid with silverplated pull opening to an interior with two fitted tea caddies with oval lids and similar inlaid decoration. English, circa 1790. 8" x 6" x 6" tall

Original patent model for a fruit drier by David Lippy, painted wood and tin, retaining the original patent office tag dated July 4th, 1865, Patent No. 48,570.

Length: 10”
Depth: 9.5”
Height: 11.5”

Fine George III Book Form Desk Box in mahogany with satinwood stringing and rosewood banding with two inlaid oval shell form patterae on the top and two small drawers that form the faux spine. Provenance: Arthur Vernay, New York. (drawer interiors re-built) English, Circa 1790. 10.25" x 8.25" x 3.5" tall

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Late Afternoon Near Harrisonville, PA"

Watercolor on paper, signed lower left and titled on a label on the reverse

Sight Size: 9.5" x 12"
Frame: 20.5" x 23"

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 s...

Donald Roy Purdy (American, b. 1924)

Breton Woman in a Garden

Oil on masonite, signed.

Painting size: 24” x 30”
Frame size: 31” x 37”(minor losses to frame)

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Purdy received his education from The University of Connecticut and Boston University. He has held memberships in the American Federation of Artists, Allied Artists of America and Silvermine Guild Arti...

Rare Blue Willow Creamer and Cover in the shape of a cow standing on a grassy knoll with stenciled blue willow decoration.

English, circa 1840.

Evelyn Hoffer Floyd (American, 1919 - 2003)

Magpie on a Branch

Oil on Porcelain, signed lower right

Frame: 13 ½” x 11 ½”

Floyd, a notable porcelain artist in Alexandria, learned to paint on porcelain in the early 1970’s and taught her craft in workshops for the Fairfax County Adult Education program.

She was a Pennsylvania native who attended a business college before moving to Washington in 1941 to work as a secretary in the Pentagon.

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18th-century English Transferware Patch Box; Now known as Royal Leamington Spa, the town of Leamington began its prodigious spa industry in 1784 when it began building baths around its salt springs. Consequently, the image on this patch box displays a Classical figure holding a caduceus, a symbol of the medical community dating back the sixteenth century. Thus, it is safe to say that this could have been produced no earlier than the last quarter of the eighteenth century. In addition, this box...

Antique American Federal Octagonal Tea Caddy, in mahogany the hinged top with satinwood stringing and banding opens to an interior well with a “floating” lid. Circa 1800.

See #10802 for another caddy by the same unknown maker

Height: 5”
Width: 6.5”

Krishna Reddy (Indian-American, born 1925)

The Vision

Limited Edition metal clad resin sculpture. Signed and dated: "1969"

10.5" x 14" x 3" deep

Reddy was born in India where he received his Fine Arts diploma. In 1947 he participated in the “Quit India” movement by painting hundreds of posters and surreptitiously pasting them on walls and buildings. He attended the Slade School of Arts in London and then studied in Paris at Atelier 17. While in Paris he met the...

Exceptional Chinese Export Black Lacquer Jewelry Chest with raised and gilt Chinoiserie decoration: having a hinged top upper compartment above two doors revealing an arrangement of small drawers and below a larger shallow drawer. 19th century.

14.75" x 8.5" x17.5"high.