Catalog: Antiques: Furnishings (142)

French Boulle Style Tea Caddy, rectangular with cut-corners and slightly domed lid with all sides and two interior lids extensively inlaid with engraved brass and red and black colored lacquer simulating tortoise-shell in the 17th century manner. Circa 1850.

Provenance: The Cockrell Collection. (Key). (See our #555 for a related example with blue lacquer ground.) See Clark & O’Kelly, p. 109-10 for related boxes. Height, 4.5”; Length, 8.75”; Depth, 4.5.”

Antique English Regency style child's high chair in mahogany with caned seat and back, with a replaced adjustable footrest, turned cross stretcher and detachable turned leg stand. The stand can then serve as a small table when used with the chair.Late 19th century.

Height: 36”
Width: 17”
Depth: 14.5”

Large Antique Chinese Black Lacquer Tea Caddy, rectangular with hinged lid opening to an engraved pewter (pac-tung) liner ; the whole decorated with figures in gardens and with brass carrying handles.

Circa 1860. 13.5" x 11" x 8.5" tall (minor losses, filled crack in lid)

Fine Antique Japanese Black Lacquer Tea Caddy, rectangular with rounded corners with polychrome and gilt decoration of figures engaged in various tasks. Circa 1870.

6.75" x 5" x 4" tall

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.

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"

Unusual Late Victorian Tea Chest in the form of a Sideboard, in mahogany with cross-hatched inlaid panels and carved bandings and skirt, the shaped top opening to two lidded tea caddies and a sugarbowl.

English, circa 1870.

22" x 8" x 6.5" tall

Tunbridge Ware Trinket Box in rosewood having sides decorated in a band of Berlin woolwork floral pattern with a veneered lid and raised on bun feet.

5.5" x 3.5" x 2.25" tall

Small antique Chinese black lacquer tea caddy with gilt decoration of figures in landscapes. Circa 1880.

Length: 6”
Width: 4”
Height: 3.25”

Very Rare Set of Paint Decorated Glass Tea Caddies and a Sugarbowl, rectangular with sloped shoulders, the sugarbowl surmounted by a flower form glass urn. It is our belief that this was for a small sugarloaf from which chunks would have been cut (with sugar nips) and added to the sugarbowl. Minor Losses to Decoration

Caddies : 6.25"tall x 2.25"deep
Sugar: 10" tall x 2.5" deep

Antique Chinese Painted and Inlaid Wood Tea Shipping Containers, having sliding lids and fronts decorated with figures in gardens and inlaid mother of pearl. (minor losses) Largest: 12" x 12" x 11.75"

Antique Victorian Brass and Oak Magazine Rack

English , circa 1880

14" x 5.5" x 13"tall

Antique Continental Demilune carved and gilt wood wall bracket. Late 19th century.

Height: 11”
Width:12”

Antique American traveling box constructed with strips of alternating light and dark woods; with sliding lid opening to a fitted interior. Ca. 1840.

Length: 8” Depth: 4.5” Height: 2.35”

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"

Exceptional English Burled Walnut Sewing Box with extensive inlay having hinged top opening to a paper lined well and a single fitted drawer below.

12" x 9" x 6.5"

Antique Anglo-Indian carved sandlewood box with nail decoration, ivory banding, velvet lining and paw form ivory feet. Circa 1875.

6" x 4.5"x 2.5" tall

Exceptional Pair of Italian Bronze and Ormolu 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. 5" x 5" x 13"tall