Fine 18th and 19th Century Furniture, Paintings and Accessories
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All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Chinese Export : Pre 1800 item #1387047
STUDIO ANTIQUES & FINE ART, INC.
On Monday January 3, 1752, the Dutch East India Company, (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) ship Geldermalsen, struck a reef on her return journey to the Netherlands and sank in the South China Sea...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Ceramics : Chinese Export : Pre 1700 item #1387050
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The Vũng Tàu shipwreck is a shipwreck that was found in the South China Sea off the islands of Côn Đảo about 100 miles from Vũng Tàu, Vietnam in 1692. The wreck was of alorcha boat—a Chinese vessel with Portuguese influences that has been dated to about 1690. It was found by a fisherman who had picked up numerous pieces of porcelain from the wreck while fishing. Sverker Hallstrom identified the wreck and its cargo in 1990...
All Items : Antiques : Decorative Art : Metals : Silver : Pre 1800 item #1486180 (stock #RNT-811)
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$21,500.00
Antique English Silver Tea Caddy and Sugar Bowl in Shagreen Case by Samuel Taylor, London, 1758-59. The covered sugar bowl and tea canister were crafted by the prominent tea canister specialist and renowned Georgian silversmith Samuel Taylor. The box fittings are by another silversmith, probably J...
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Furniture : American : Early : Pre 1800 item #1214268 (stock #10381)
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$18,500.00
Rare Chester County Pennsylvania Spice Chest in walnut having a moulded cornice above a raised panel door opening to an arrangement of ten small drawers (one replaced) and raised on straight bracket feet. Secondary woods include: poplar, oak, walnut and beech. There is a faint inscription on one of the bottom drawers. Pennsylvania, circa 1760-80.

Spice boxes or chests were a status symbol in colonial America. Only a household that was well furnished and fairly prosperous had a spice box...

All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Pre 1800 item #1485894 (stock #RMT-561)
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$14,500.00
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.”
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Furniture : English : Georgian : Pre 1800 item #1447989 (stock #11026)
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$11,500.00
Exceptional George III Serpentine Chest of Drawers or Commode in the French Manner having a moulded edge serpentine top with overhanging sides above two over three conforming drawers, rounded front corners and bold bracket feet. The drawer sides and bottoms are mahogany which is unusual since it was the most expensive wood during the 18th Century. Brass pulls may be original, escutcheons replaced...
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Furniture : English : Georgian : Pre 1837 VR item #1486164 (stock #11246)
STUDIO ANTIQUES & FINE ART, INC.
$11,500.00
LATE GEORGE III W.&T.M. BARDIN 18-INCH TERRESTRIAL GLOBE ON STAND 
additions to 1807, dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks, the globe in etched brass frame resting on a corona with months and zodiac on turned support with tapering downswept legs with brass casters

Dimensions: Height: 41 in. (104.1 cm.), Diameter: 24 in. (61 cm.)

This terrestrial globe is supported on a wooden tri-pod pedestal, surrounded by a wooden horizon circle, and it is equipped with a brass meridian ...

All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1900 item #1485885 (stock #RMT-637)
STUDIO ANTIQUES & FINE ART, INC.
$8,500.00
French Boulle Style Tea Caddy, rectangular with cut-corners and slightly domed lid with all sides and two interior lids extensively inlaid with engraved brass and red and black colored lacquer simulating tortoise-shell in the 17th century manner. Circa 1850.

Provenance: The Cockrell Collection. (Key). (See our #555 for a related example with blue lacquer ground.) See Clark & O’Kelly, p. 109-10 for related boxes. Height, 4.5”; Length, 8.75”; Depth, 4.5.”

All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1800 item #1485883 (stock #RMT-573)
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$8,500.00
#573 English octagonal ivory tea caddy with fluted ivory panels with tortoise shell stringing and banding, having a pyramidal lid with silver finial opening to a lidded compartment. Circa 1790. Height, 5”; Length, 4.25”; Depth, 3.25.”

**Regarding the Sale of Items Incorporating Materials from Endangered Species: An export license issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be required for the export of this pre-CITES item from the U.S...

All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1837 VR item #1485889 (stock #RMT-530)
STUDIO ANTIQUES & FINE ART, INC.
$8,500.00
#530 Antique Anglo-Indian Tea Chest, sandalwood overlaid with strips of elk horn. The box is rectangular with sloped sides. The elk horn on the top of the stepped, sloping lid arranged in a starburst pattern. The fitted interior is decorated with incised ivory panels, highlighted with lac, a similarly decorated pair of removable caddies and a circular cut crystal sugar bowl and a horn caddy spoon. (The squashed ball feet are later replacements. Lid lack support)...
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1837 VR item #1485882 (stock #RMT-585)
STUDIO ANTIQUES & FINE ART, INC.
$8,500.00
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.”
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Furniture : English : Georgian : Pre 1800 item #508866 (stock #9004)
STUDIO ANTIQUES & FINE ART, INC.
$7,250.00
Exceptional George III bachelor’s chest in nicely figured mahogany with good color and patina, having a rectangular, cross banded top above an oak brushing slide and four graduated drawers flanked by canted, reeded corners and raised on straight bracket feet. English, circa 1780 (brasses replaced).

Length: 33.75”
Depth: 19.75”
Height: 32.5”

**Please note: This item is not currently on view in our gallery...

All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Frames : Pre 1837 VR item #1485887 (stock #RMT-741)
STUDIO ANTIQUES & FINE ART, INC.
$6,850.00
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.

All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1900 item #1485921 (stock #RMT-699)
STUDIO ANTIQUES & FINE ART, INC.
$6,500.00
#699 Antique Scottish Penwork Tea Chest in Maple with all over decoration of leaves and acorns and a central paterae on the stepped lid of a mother with two children. Inside are two removable lidded tea caddies with penwork leaf and grape decoration and the underside of the lid has a faux coral design.

Attributed to Charles Stiven of Selkirk

See: “Antique Boxes” by Clarke & O’Kelly pages 126-130 for other examples and our #704, #528 and #700...

All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1837 VR item #827449 (stock #9796)
STUDIO ANTIQUES & FINE ART, INC.
$4,650.00
Exceptional bombé tea caddy in “tiger” tortoiseshell, having a pagoda shaped top opening to an interior with two lidded compartments. Circa 1800-20. ProbablyDutch.
(One back foot replaced.)
Dimensions: 7.5” x 4.75” x 6”
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1800 item #1476602 (stock #11234)
STUDIO ANTIQUES & FINE ART, INC.
$4,650.00
Rare True Pair of 18th Century English Tea Caddies in harewood, of oval form with satinwood and ebony stringings and bandings. The hinged lids with a finely enlaid paterae of flowers in an urn and opening to a interior with "floating lids".
Circa 1790

Provenance: From the Estate of Edward Bridgeforth, Winchester,VA

Most single compartment tea caddies were originally one of a pair; one for green tea and one for black tea...

All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1900 item #1392211 (stock #RMT-824)
STUDIO ANTIQUES & FINE ART, INC.
$4,650.00
Exceptional Napoleon III Tea Chest, ebonized with extensive ormolu mounts; rectangular with cut corners, having a stepped hinged lid with a small compartment surmounted by a figure of a boy holding a tray and opening to a fitted interior with a well, two gilt crystal caddies and a sugarbowl...
All Items : Antiques : Furnishings : Accessories : Boxes : Pre 1837 VR item #1485892 (stock #RMT-701)
STUDIO ANTIQUES & FINE ART, INC.
$4,500.00
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”