Catalog: Antiques: Furnishings: Accessories (108)

Antique English Bagatelle Box in Mahogany with original wooden insert and later ball and cues, now mounted on a metal stand.

Circa 1840

Bagatelle was a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which was to get a number of balls past wooden pins into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties were incurred if the pegs are knocked over.

36" x 17.75" x 18.5" tall (closed)

Rare Chinese Export Roll Top Lap Desk, Asian Hardwoods with ebony and brass mounts having single lower drawer that when opened reveals a fitted interior, sloped writing surface and "pop-up" storage compartment with tambour doors. Circa 1830.

Length 19", Depth 15"

*See Crossman, The ChinaTrade, color plate 96 (page 248) for another example.

Antique Sheraton Tea Caddy in mahogany, the rectangular top opens to two compartments, with inlaid fan patterae on front and lid and herringbone stringing. English, circa 1780.

Provenance: The Cockrell Collection, Arlington Virginia

7.5" x 4.25" x 4.80" tall

Chinese Export Black Lacquer Tea Chest, rectangular with cut corners and lobbed body with gilt decoration of figures in courtyards; the stepped, hinged lid opening to two pewter lidded and engraved caddies and the whole raised on gilt dragon-form feet. Circa 1820 (wear to decoration). See our #581, #702. #703 for related examples. 9.75” x 7.25” x 6.75”

Rare English Regency Hawksbill and Greenback Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy with ivory and pewter stringing, having cut corners and a bowed front panel with pressed tortoise in concentric ovals with fan corners and central inlaid silver oval with leafage border; the bowed lid surmounted by a ball finial and the whole raised on ball feet. Circa 1800-15. (Key). Height, 6”; Length, 8”; Depth, 4.75.”

Rare Antique Chinese Export red lacquer melon-form tea caddy with six loebed sides, three gilt dragon paw feet, gilt decoration of figures in gardens on body and hinged lid with carved “stem,” opening to a similarly shaped tin liner. Circa 1825. Height, 5.5”; Diameter, 6.25” Gourds and mellons had a particular significance in Chinese culture.

See: ”Antique Boxes”by Clark and O’Kelly, figure #238 and our #620 for a similar example.

English Gilt Wood Mirror

Size: 31.5” x 26.5”

Fine 18th-century English carved and gilt wood mirror with corner rosettes and later, distressed mirror plate. Circa 1760-80.

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

Rare Red Lacquer Tea Chest of bombe shape with cut corners having a hinged steppedlid opening to two engraved pewter caddies,t he whole with gilt decoration and raised on dragon form feet.

Chinese,circa 1850

9.5" x 7"x 5.5" tall

Fine English Chippendale bombe-form tea chest in nicely figured mahogany veneer over deal, the stepped rectangular lid with brass carrying handle. Circa 1760. (key). (See Clark and O’Kelly, “Antique Boxes, Tea Caddies and Society”, Figure 304 for a related example.)

Height; 6”;
Length: 10.25”;
Depth:5.75"

Antique Italian Carved and Gilt Wood Mirror having openwork foliate decoration. Minor distress to the Plate. Circa 1860

Mirror: 18 ½” x 14 ½”
Frame: 28” x23”

Antique Renaissance Revival Desk Cabinet, ebonized with ormolu mounts, having a galleryed superstructure with a hinged door below, opening to a divider interior, and raised on flattened ball feet.

Probably French, circa 1870

Height: 24.75"
Width: 14.75"
Depth : 7.5"

Large Antique Anglo-Indian Brass Document Box having a stepped lid surmounted by a carrying handle and heavily incised with scrolling vine and floral decoration. Late 19th/early 20th Century $675. 16" x 11" x 4" tall

Antique Black Forest Tea Caddy in the form of a dog house with a mounted bronze of a dog, carved on all sides and back and with a trick latch to open. German, circa 1870 . 8.5" x 7.5" x 7" tall

Antique Carved And Gilt Wood Oval Mirror with foliate carved decoration. (Gilding darkened)

Mirror: 23" X 19.5"
Frame: 32" x 28.5"

**Please Note: This item is not currently on view in our gallery. Please call at least 48 hours in advance if you wish to see it.

Antique Sorrento-ware Book Form Trick Box; in olivewood, with a rectangular book form lid with marquetry inlay of a musician and dancing couple, the front with a hidden keyhole, and a hidden compartment in the base.

9.25" x 4.75" x 4.5" tall

Late 19th, early 20th C.

English Polychrome Painted Navette Form Tea Caddy, foil decorated and and having a hinged lid opening to a well with a 'floating lid'. Late 18th Century.

6.5" x 3.5" x 4.75"tall

Provenance: From the Estate of Mario Buatta

Rare American Federal tea caddy in nicely figured mahogany with three sides and stepped lid inlaid with banding and corner fan decoration; rectangular, with shaped skirt and French bracket feet and divided interior. Probably 1800. Provenance: The Cockrell Collection. See Montgomery, American Furniture, The Federal Period, #436-439 for other examples. Height, 9.25”; Length, 12”; Width, 6.5.”