Catalog: Antiques: Furnishings: Furniture (124)

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”

Striking Art Noveau Terra-cotta Pottery Pedestal by Bretby Art Pottery, England, having a circular top with floral relief border above a stylized pillar with tendrils and flowers and a conical base with faux cabochon mounts. (Top and base extensively repaired).

Height: 30"
Diameter of Base: 12.75"
Diameter of Top: 11"

American Wrought Iron Dictionary or Music Stand, with three scrolling legs supporting a twist turned pillar and an angled book rest. Early 20th C.

Height: 41.5”

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...

Unusual Antique Green Marble Pedestal, in the form of two columns with a rectangular stepped plinth base and a rotating top for viewing sculpture. The form is reminiscent of Grand Tour memorabilia.

Height: 43.75”
Base: 8.75” x 15.25”
Top: 8” x 14.75”

**plese note: because of the weight, the pedestal is currently in four pieces. It will need to be assembled and glued together for stability

Very Rare Antique Venetian Gondola Chair, in walnut with gilt cast iron dolphin form base, caned seat and back and carved armrests. Italian, late 18th / early 19th Century.

21.5" x 33" tall

Fine antique English supper table in mahogany, having a circular, carved tilt top above a turned pillar and raised on cabriole legs with acanthus carved knees and pad feet. Circa 1840-60.

Diameter: 34”
Height, open: 28”

Antique American painted tole tray with cut corners and handholds and with gilt stencil decorations on the gallery of leaves and flowers. Mid-19th century, now mounted on a custom stand.

Height: 22”
Width: 18.5”
Length: 26.5”

Rare pair of Gothic Revival Sidechairs by the Green Family of Cabinetmakers, Alexandria Virginia; in walnut with leafage carved and shaped crest rails over turned spindles and with drop in seats, serpentine front seat rails and raised on saber legs.
Circa 1850-70.

These chairs are very closely related to a chair (#14) in Oscar Fitzgerald's catalog: "The Green Family of Cabinetmakers: An Alexandria Institution, 1817-1887" which descended in the Tucker family of Alexandria.

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Rare Antique Chinese Painted Red Leather Trunk, having brass tack decoration and painted floral banding. Circa 1840. (Loss to paint decoration on lid. Minor buckling to leather on reverse, normal wear)

19.5" x 15" x 12.5" tall

Set of three Chinese export gilt black lacquer nesting tables; each shaped rectangular top was minutely hand painted with figures in a garden courtyard, accented by flowers in the corners. All three tables are raised on pierced urn-form supports and splayed legs joined by a bow stretcher. Late 19th Century (minor wear to painted decoration-see photos) Largest - 17" x 11" x 26.5" tall

Rare pair of colonial carved ebony sidechairs, having pierced crestrail above an oval upholstered back, with reeded tapered legs and pierced skirt. Probably Anglo-Indian, mid-19th century.

Height: 41”
Width: 20.75”

Exceptional Antique Eglomise Lacemakers Box on later Stand; rectangular with lid and sides with gilt decoration against a white ground and the lid with a painted scene of a thatched farmhouse, opening to fitted interior with removable tray and lacemakers spindle/roller. 19th Century (minor paint losses)

Box: 13.25" x 11" x 4.5"
With stand: 30.25" tall

Antique Biedermeier Miniature Chest of Drawers, in satinwood with ebonized moldings and pulls; having a overhanging top drawer above three graduated drawers and raised on turned toupie feet.
19th Century.
Although often called salesman's samples, miniature pieces of furniture like this were probably the work of an apprentice cabinetmaker to show the master craftsman his ability.

Height: 10.5”
Length: 9”
Depth: 6.5”

Rare pair of Gothic Revival Sidechairs by the Green Family of Cabinetmakers, Alexandria Virginia; in walnut with leafage carved and shaped crest rails over turned spindles and with drop in seats, serpentine front seat rails and raised on saber legs ...

Rare American Papier Mache Music Stand by Charles Chinnock , British/American (active 1862-1884), having a shaped adjustable top with painted and mother of pearl inlaid scene of fishermen outside castle walls, a later removable bookrest and an adjustable height pillar and base with stencil and gilt decoration. Retaining a stamped metal patent plaque. Some wear to stencil decoratiion

Top; 16.25" x 13.25"
Table Height: 29"
Max. Height 48.5"

Antique Chippendale style chest on chest in mahogany having a cove molded cornice with rosewood inlay above a series of graduated drawers with line inlay; the top case with canted, fluted corners, the bottom case raised on ogee molded feet. English, circa 1840.

*Provenance: From the Estate of Marshall Coyne, Washington D.C.

Height: 72”
Width: 42”
Depth: 21”

Fine Antique English Spider Leg Drop Leaf Table in mahogany, having rectangular top with two drop leaves and raised on turned legs joined by similarly turned stretchers. Circa 1790.

Height: 28"
Length: 30"
Width closed: 12"
Width open: 35"