Antique Chinese Hong-Mu Dressing Box, rectangular with rounded edges and having a hinged lid opening to a mirror and removable tray, also having silvered mounts. Circa 1830. Provenance: From the Estate of Joseph Stanley.
Antique American miniature tole document box with domed lid and band of floral decoration (losses), either for a doll or child. Circa 1840. Provenance: Estate of Ruthann Coggins Bardes,
Greewich, CT.
Antique English Regency “tiger” tortoiseshell tea caddy having a bowed front, a hinged, pagoda form top opening to a two lidded compartments and raised on later ivory ball feet. Circa 1800. (Old repairs.)
Fine antique English traveling desk in coromandel with brass straps and carrying handles; the fall front transforms into a double hinged writing surface with spring loaded pen and ink drawer behind; the slightly domed top opens to reveal a fitted oak interior of letter racks and three small drawers. Circa 1860-1880.
Fine Filigree Work Tea Caddy, Hexagonal, with kingwood banding and with all panels and lid decorated with rolled paper floral designs with traces of color and gilding: the front panel incorporates a central print of a boy playing a flute. English, Circa 1790.
Also known as “quill work” or “rolled or scrolled paper” tea caddies, these undecorated boxes would have been purchased from a cabinetmaker and decorated at h ...click for details
Two Antique English papier mâché shoe form match safes (or ‘vesta cases’) with handpainted decoration, oval hinged lids, and ‘strike’ on bottom of shoe. Circa 1870.
Antique American shaped tole box with gilt foliate decoration on front and polychrome peacock and floral decoration on hinged lid. Circa 1850-1870. Provenance: Estate of Ruthann Coggins Bardes, Greewich, CT.
Fine English Regency Break-Fronted Tea Caddy in “tiger” tortoiseshell having a pagoda shaped top opening to two lidded compartments, a shaped front and bun form feet. Circa 1815.
Repairs-mostly to back.
Small English Regency blonde tortoise shell tea caddy with pewter stringing; rectangular with stepped lid inlaid with a mother-of-pearl floral spray, opening to two lidded shell veneered compartments with ivory finials and the whole raised on brass ball feet. Circa 1800-1820.
