Catalog (310)

Fine Large Pair of Regency Wood and Brass Candlesticks with fluted shafts and turned, circular bases. English, 1800-1820

Height: 21.5"

Patent Model for an Improvement Air Engines by Dana Bickford retaining the original Patent Tag dated June 6th, 1865 and with a Certificate of Authenticity and copies of the Patent Application.

Height: 6.75”
Length: 8”
Depth: 4.5”

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.

Height: 12”
Length: 40.25”
Depth: 15”

Antique Spode Pottery Transfer Decorated Ceramic Wine Cooler,* oval with applied handles, ribbed body and rope turned rim, the whole with yellow and blue transfer decoration. English, circa 1810. (two tiny chips, numerous frits)

*Originally designed as a footbath, these large basins are today used as wine coolers.

18.5" x 12" x 8" tall

Antique French Tole Oil Lamp with yellow ground and black stencil decoration of Soldiers and Napoleon on Horseback. The burner is stamped "LUCHAIRE" for Leon Luchaire, Paris. Circa 1870, now wired for electricity.

Height to top of burner: : 9"

Early Staffordshire transfer decorated plate of Christ Church, Oxford by J & W Ridgway, circa 1814-30.

Provenance: Eveleth/ Summerford Estate, Washington, D.C.

Diameter: 9.75”

Antique Tunbridge Ware Trinket Box in Rosewood having a hinged lid inlaid with a floral spray taken from Berlin woolwork patterns, framed by bandings of tessellated mosaic marquetry. Circa 1840.

6.5" x 4" x 2" tall

Rare Large Pair of Antique Japanese Kutani Vases, of baluster form with white ground and typical coloration and with painted and gilt decoration of birds and blossoms. Meiji period (1868 - 1912). Marked on bases.

Height: 14.5”

Exceptional Pair of Italian Bronze and Ormolu Candlesticks with nicely detailed foliate decoration and with good patina and fine castings. Having a removable ormolu drip pan above a bronze candle cup and supported by a turned and foliate decorated column with a tripartite scrolling ormolu base and mounted on a tripartite bronze plinth. These would have been brought home as a souvenir by someone who had made the Grand Tour. Italy, circa 1870. 5" x 5" x 13"tall

Most likely French, 19th century. The image of an Englishman hunting with a hound was a common image on enamel boxes, especially snuff boxes of the eighteenth century. However, this box clearly dates to the late nineteenth century. The lug and ribbed banding on the metal hinge, as well as the completely hand painted nature of the lid identify this box as a nineteenth century creation.

Very good condition. Small scratch to lid.

Fine toleware shaped box with attached undertray, the lid surmounted by a brass acorn form finial and the whole decorated with gilt scrolling vines with red flowers (some loss to decoration) Provenance: Ruthann Coggins Bardes, Greenwich, CT.

9.25” x 7” x 5.5” tall.

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.

Height: 5.5”; Width: 8”; Depth: 5.25”

Exceptional English Domed Top Tea caddy in harewood with satinwood stringing and brass carrying handles and interior fitted with compartments for teas and sugar bowl. Circa 1800.

Height: 6.75"
Length: 12"
Width: 5. 75"

Antique Wedgwood Pitcher and Bowl in the Blue Willow Pattern. Pitcher has impressed Wedgwood Mark. (Star crack on bottom of pitcher, chip on handle.)

Fine Antique Chinese Famille Noire Porcelain Vase of baluster form decorated with palm trees, exotic bird and blossoms. Qing Dynasty, Circa 1870, now wired as a lamp.

Height to Rim: 13.5"

The Black Ground which gives Famille Noire its Western name is "Modi susancai"in Chinese

Fine George III Tea Caddy in tiger mahogany with satinwood stringing, octagonal, with ebony escutcheon. English, Circa 1790. Provenance: From the Estate of Joseph Stanley.

Length: 5.75” Depth: 3.25” Height: 4.5”

Pair of antique American cut crystal compotes, circular with escalloped rim and hexagonal foot with star cut base. Circa 1880.

Provenance: Eveleth/ Summerford Estate, Washington, D.C.

Height: 4”

Pair of late Federal ring turned brass andirons with spurred cabriole legs and ball feet. American, circa 1830.

Height: 15.5”