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FinePair of Italian Grand Tour Bronze Candlesticks with nicely detailed foliate decoration and with good patina and fine castings. Having a removable ormolu drip pan above a bronze candle cup and supported by a turned and foliate decorated column with a tripartite scrolling ormolu base and mounted on a tripartite bronze plinth. These would have been brought home as a souvenir by someone who had made the Grand Tour. Italy, circa 1870. Height: 11.25"

Erdmann Schultz (German 1810 - after 1841)

Still Life with Fruit and Flowers

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left on the tabletop edge

Painting: 15 ¾” x 19”
Frame: 20 ¼” x 23 ¾”

Born in and active in Berlin, Schultz is noted for his realistically executed sill lifes of fruit and flowers. He was a student of Völker in Berlin, but soon eclipsed his master in talent.

Sources:
Benezit, E. Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateu...

American School, early 20th century

Hills & Valley

Watercolor on paper (laid down), signed: “H.C.K.” and dated: “1918”.

Painting size: 21.5” x 30”
Unframed

Antique German blue and white porcelain ribbed tea caddy, late 18th/early 19th c. with a Hochst Porcelain mark on the base.

4.25” x 2.25” x 1.75”

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.

Original Patent Model for a Warming Device by G.W. Smith, retaining the original Patent Tag dated August 31st, 1858 and including a Certificate of Authenticity.

Height: 12”
Length: 12”
Depth: 10”

We oftentimes have a selection of antique opera glasses. They are usually French with Mother of Pearl or Abalone Shell and are in good condition and good working order.

American School , Late 19th century

Still Life with Oranges

Oil on artist board, signed lower right with initials “G.R.C.”

Painting Size size: 12” x 9”
Frame size: 16” x 13”

Antique Refracting Brass and Mahogany 4-draw Telescope with a Brass Tripod Tablestand, and having slides to cover both lens and eyepiece. English, late 19th C.

Provenance: The Harry Z. Isaacs Collection from Historic Long Branch Estate, Virginia and James Kennedy Antiques., Ltd., Durham NC.

Length Open: 36"
Height with Stand: 15.5"

Long Branch was built on property surveyed by a young George Washington for Lord Fairfax. In 1788, Robert Carter Burwell inherited the land and began...

Hendricks A Hallett (American, 1847-1921)

Off Penobscot Bay

Watercolor on paper, signed lower left and retaining a paper label reading: "Off, Penobscot Bay, H.A. Hallett"

(very minor foxing/toning) Sight Size: 13.25” x 19.25”
Frame: 22.75? x 28.75”

Hallett was known primarily for his paintings of ships, historical marine events and seascapes. Many of his marine paintings are of Boston Harbor and the shoreline of Mt. Desert. Maine. He and his wife Flore...

Boy with Bubble

F.W. Searle (British, active late 19th century)

Watercolor on paper, signed lower left corner.

Painting size: 9.5” x 6.25”
Frame size: 14.775”x 12”

This painting of a boy playing with a soap bubble, pipe and bowl at the ready, is possibly a copy of a figure from a 17th-century Dutch genre scene. The painter obviously had a sophisticated understanding of color and effectively captures the intensity of a young person fully engaged w...

Pastoral Alpine Landscape

Swiss School (Late 19th century)

Oil-on-tin.

Painting Size: 15.25” x 12.25”
Frame Size: 19.75” x 17”

Aristide Maillol (French, 1861-1944)

Bringing Farm Products to Town

Woodcut in sepia with monogram stamp. Illustration for “Les Georgiques” by Virgil, 1937-1943, published by Phillipe Gonin, Paris. Reference: Rewald, John. The Woodcuts of Aristide Maillol. (1939).

Image size: 5.75” x 6.75”
Sheet size: 13.25” x 10”

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Maillol was a gifted artist and ...

Charles F. Tredupp, Jr (American 1864-1936) (Attrib. To)

Woodland Stream by Moonlight

Oil on canvas, in an ornate gold leaf frame.

Painting: 5 ¼” x 4”
Frame: 11” x 9 ¾”

Tredupp came to the United States from Germany with his artist father in 1888, settling in Milwaukee where he spent the remainder of his life. There he shared a studio with his father. The two painted landscapes and marines in an identical style, often nighttime scenes. ...

Edgar Nye (American, 1879-1943)

Hillside Landscape

Watercolor on paper, signed lower right

Painting size: 11.5” x 17” Unframed

Nye lived, worked and taught in Washington, DC for 58 years. While he may have been born in Richmond, VA, his love for the city earned him the distinction of a "native" son.

Nye was educated in public schools before entering the Corcoran School of Art at age 13. He studied there for eight years before setting off on the requisite Euro...

Antique American Tea caddy in maple with pewter stringing and a pewter plaque with the word "tea", inside are two lidded compartments. Circa 1870.

Height: 3.75"
Length: 7.5"
Depth: 4.5"

Dodge MacKnight (American 1860-1950)

The Canyon

Watercolor on paper, signed lower left

Sheet Size 15.5" x 22"
Mat size: 19.5 x 26.5" (unframed)

Dodge MacKnight began his career as a painter of theatre scenery. From 1883-1891 he traveled to Europe to study at Fernan & Cormon in Paris and exhibited at the Paris Salon (1885-87) and at John S. Sargent’s Studio, London (1890). He became a friend of Van Gogh’s in Arles. Working primarily in watercolors, his work...

Antique English Papier Mache Tazza with circular foot and scalloped rim and gilt and silvered Japonisme decoration of figures in a landscape on a black lacquer ground.. Circa 1870.

Diameter: 13.5"
Height: 2.25"