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Antique Refracting Brass and Mahogany 4-draw Telescope with a Brass Tripod Tablestand, and having slides to cover both lens and eyepiece. English, late 19th C.

Provenance: The Harry Z. Isaacs Collection from Historic Long Branch Estate, Virginia and James Kennedy Antiques., Ltd., Durham NC.

Length Open: 36"
Height with Stand: 15.5"

Long Branch was built on property surveyed by a young George Washington for Lord Fairfax. In 1788, Robert Carter Burwell inherited the land and began...

Exceptional Steeple Top Tea Caddy in Coromandle with brass strapping, having a rectangular, pointed top opening to a fitted interior with two similarly shaped lids marked: "Black" and "Green". English, circa 1860.

10" x 5.75" x 7.5 tall

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

Charming Majolica Ceramic Face Jug in the form of a smiling man with a cap and ruffled collar. Circa 1880, incised “Majolica” with indecipherable maker’s mark on bottom. (Minor abrasions to ear, cheeks, nose and chin.)

Height: 8”

Exceptional English Victorian dome top tea caddy in burled walnut with engraved brass strapwork and carrying handles, opening to a fitted interior with two removable canisters and original crystal sugar bowl (chip to foot). Circa 1845.

Provenance: from the Estate of Aaron Gordon.

Height: 7.5”
Length: 12.5”

English, Bilston, 18th century, patch box. These memento boxes were popular at the end of the eighteenth century and frequently given as tokens of friendship and love. They were also purchased as souvenirs while traveling. They frequently started with the phrase “A trifle from...” as seen on this box. Usually oval in shape, but also circular and rectangular, their decoration reflected the popular styles of the day. However, this box is particularly unusual in its mention of Blockley. Fou...

Most likely French, 19th century. A nineteenth-imitation of the extremely popular souvenir boxes made in Bilston at the end of the eighteenth century (see 5218-18). However, it clearly dates to the late nineteenth century. The lug and ribbed banding on the metal hinge, and the inferior quality of the painting identify this box as a nineteenth-century creation. It’s also important to note that the use of the French on the lid is not indicative of its origin, but rather another attempt at eight...

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.

Length: 6.75”
Width: 10”
Height: 5”

Large Rookwood Arts & Crafts Pottery Console Bowl with brown matt glaze, stamped with the Rookwood mark for 1921, model #2530.

Diameter: 11.5"

Fine English Regency tea chest of sarcophagus form in rosewood, banded and inlaid with brass; the rectangular, canted lid opens to a fitted interior with two lidded tea caddies ad a later sugar bowl. Circa 1810-15.

Height: 6"
Length: 13"
Depth: 6.5"

Unusually large pair of antique English brass candlesticks, having beehive turned shafts and square, cut corner bases. Circa 1870, now wired as bouillotte lamps.

Height: 15”

Antique Staffordshire Pitcher and Bowl by William Alsager Adderly & Co., Longton, England with neoclassical style transfer decoration with swags and fleur-de-lis in the "Sheraton" pattern. Circa 1900.

Bowl Diameter:16.5"
Pitcher Height: 14"

Fine Antique Chinese Blue Glazed Baluster Form Vase, late 18th/ early 19th Century now mounted as a lamp with later wood base

Height: 18.5” to rim
Base : 7" x 7”

Antique Japanese Imari Porcelain Bowl with French Ormolu Mounts; hand-painted with foliate decorations and vignettes of Phoenix birds and figures in a garden. Late 19th Century.

Width at Handles: 16.5"
Diameter of Bowl"11.25"
Height at Handles: 13.5"

Parian bust of Juliet, impressed “J&TB” for James and Thomas Bevington, potters in Hanley, England. They used this mark from 1863-1876.
Height: 6.5"

Modernist Italian Vase by Raymor with brown and orange body and leafage designs. Bottom retains the Raymor sticker.

Height: 12”

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Exceptional English Regency tea chest in rosewood with brass inlay, feet and carrying handles and retaining its original cut crystal caddies and sugar bowl and its tooled leather lining and tufted felt under the lid. Circa 1810. (minor chip to sugar bowl, 1 stopper)

See Antique Boxes by Clarke and O’Kelly, fig. 355 for a similar example.

Dimensions: 13” x 6.5” x 7.5”

Carved wood folk art plaque of a bear catching a salmon. American, late 19th/early 20th century.

Dimensions: 16” x 18”