Antique English tooled and gilt leather jewelry box with brass mounts having domed rectangular lid with egyptian motif decorated handle opening to a fitted felt lined interior with lift-out tray. Circa 1880.
Two Antique English papier mâché shoe form match safes (or ‘vesta case’), one with hand painted decoration with a butterfly, the other with inlaid piqué work, oval hinged lid, and ‘strike’ on bottom of shoe. Circa 1870.
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.
Antique carved and
inlaid wood jewelry box;
rectangular with cut
corner, having a carved
and shaped lid with an
oval beveled mirror
inside. American,
circa 1850-60.
Exceptional bombé English Regency tortoiseshell tea caddy; the top panel and front panel elaborately inlaid with delicate scrolling vine and flower engraved mother of pearl; with silver escutcheon; on original ivory bun feet; having two interior compartments with tortoiseshell lids, which appear to retain remnants of the original tea pewter lining. Circa 1830.
Extremely Rare George III Tea Caddy in the shape of an urn-form knife box, in partridge wood with satnwood stringing, octagonal with pagoda shaped lid and acorn-form finial, urn-form body and turned socle with square plinth base having inlaid banding (lock replaced). Circa 1790. Provenance: The Terence J. Fox Collection of Tea Equipage, Formerly the Collection of Iroquois Brands, Ltd.. Height, 10.”
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.
Rare 18th century Pear-form Tea Caddy in fruitwood,
having a hinged lid opening
to a foil lined interior, steel escutcheons and a replaced
carved wood stem. English
or Continental.
Circa 1780.
Rare antique tabletop dumbwaiter in mahogany, having three circular moulded edge graduated tiers supported by ring turned pillars and circular stepped base. English or American, late 18th/early 19th century.
This form is usually a free standing piece of dining room furniture that was placed next to the host's chair and carried desserts, silver, cheeses, drinks and glasses. The servants could then be excused and y ...click for details
