Antique French Brass Perfume Box with openwork engraved brass body and domed top opening to a felt lined interior with three gilt cut crystal bottles and stoppers. Circa 1830-50.
Rare labeled American brass and wire D-form fire fender with cross-hatched wire and a brass top rail stamped: “Howard & Morse, Manuf’rs, N.Y.” John Wilson Howard and David R. Morse were wireworkers and lantern makers in NYC in the last half of the 19th century.
Fine Scrolled Paper Tea
Caddy, hexagonal, with zebra striped inlaid banding and
green, blue and gilt colored quillwork decoration. The hinged top with silver knop opens to an interior with a “floating” lid. Circa 1790.
Fine Antique Chinese Export Black Lacquer Tea Chest having a lobed, stepped top and conforming case wtih gilt decoration of flowers and figures in gardens; the interior with two engraved pewter tea caddies and th whole raised on paw form feet. Circa 1840. Condition of the case is very good, interior caddies are badly dented.
Exceptional English paper filigree or quillwork tea caddy; octagonal with pyramidal lid, crushed abalone shell ground and rolled paper floral decoration, circa1790-1810. Provenance: The Cockrell Collection. Height, 5.5”; Length, 5.5”.
Exceptional Adam decorated dressing mirror, in mahogany extensively handpainted with swags of flowers and a central cartouche of a seated couple with a lyre; having an oval mirror plate above a serpentine fronted chest with three drawers raised on ogee
bracket feet. English, circa 1770-90.
Exceptional Antique French Marquetry Tea Caddy with amboyna, kingwood,
rosewood and brass wire
inlays; the shaped top opening
to two lidded compartments with second “floating” lids. Circa 1870.
Exceptional Antique English Amboyna Wood Tea Chest, rectangular with hinged lid opening to a fitted interior with two lidded, removable tea caddies and space for a sugar bowl; the chest now mounted on a stand. Provenance: From the Estate of Joseph Stanley, New Hope, PA.
