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Rare set of four Rockingham ware furniture lifts, of typical lion’s paw form. Probably English, late 19th century. (very minor chips)

These were used to protect the feet of furniture where the floor was damp.

Provenance: Kay Fries, Alexandria, VA

Height: 3.75”

Fine Antique Japanese Kinrande Imari Porcelain Vase having a flared, scolloped rim, ribbed body and typical decoration with birds and blossoms. Circa 1870-1900. Now wired as a lamp with ribbed gilt wood base.

Height to rim: 14"

What we call Imari was made in the Japanese town of Arita and exported thru the port city of Imari.

Fine pair of 19th Century French five light crystal and ormolu sconces in the Louis XIV style, having an ormolu torch form backplate surmounted by a flaming urn, a central floral decorated support with four scrolling candle arms, extensively decorated with crystal swags and pendants. Circa 1860, now drilled and wired for electricity.

(Some crystals replaced.) 19"tall, 15"wide, 14" deep

Antique cased wooden model of the sail & steamship “St. Oliv”, with two masts and two funnels, painted wood and metal with rigging and heavy paper sails. Probably English, circa 1870-1880.

Case Dimensions:
Height: 19.5”
Length: 30.5”
Width: 8”

Fine antique French pedestal form sander in ormolu with removable reservoir for the sand used to dry the ink when writing with a quill pen. Mid-19th century.

Height: 4”
Width: 3.75:

Two 1/2 gallon stoneware jugs from Alexandria Virginia, made at the Wilkes Street Pottery by Benedict C. Milburn, circa 1865: One with his stamp and "Alexa" the other with the stamp of the merchant E.J. Miller who had a ceramics shop on lower King Street. Height of each: 8"

Antique English Sheffield plate cake basket of rectangular form with shaped rim with applied gadrooned edge and floral decorated handle. Mid 19th century.

Height: 3.5” (to rim)
Height: 9” (to handle)
Length: 12.625”
Width: 10.375”

Antique Japanese Satsuma Earthenware Covered Urn, Hexagonal with Foo Dog Handles and Finial, body with figural decoration and raised on three paw-form feet. Circa 1880 (minor losses to foo dog tails)

Height: 13"
Width: 10"

18th-century English Transferware Patch Box; Now known as Royal Leamington Spa, the town of Leamington began its prodigious spa industry in 1784 when it began building baths around its salt springs. Consequently, the image on this patch box displays a Classical figure holding a caduceus, a symbol of the medical community dating back the sixteenth century. Thus, it is safe to say that this could have been produced no earlier than the last quarter of the eighteenth century. In addition, this box...

Antique Charles X Style Cut Crystal Box, oval with alternating rounded and facet cut decoration, and mounted with ormolu bands and escutcheon. Circa 1900, Probably French.

6.25" x 4.75" x 5" tall

Antique English Tunbridge Tea Caddy, with the lid inlaid with the "Tumbling Blocks" pattern. It is unusual to have the tumbling blocks in a variety of exotic wood samples. Made in Tunbridge Wells, circa 1860.

5.25" x 4.25"x 4.25

Fine Antique English Carved Oak Letterbox with slotted, hinged top and carved on three sides and lid with cherubs, bowl, birds, figures and foliate decoration. Circa 1870.

H-9 1/2", L-13 1/2", D-7 ½”

Exceptional Pair of Italian Grand Tour Bronze 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. Height: 11.25"

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.

Length: 6.5”; Depth: 5”; Height: 2.75”

Fine Antique English Circular Wood Tray with brass handled and brass central inlaid medallion and an ebonized gallery. Now mounted on a stand with bamboo turned legs ending in brass feet. Circa 1870. Provenance: From the Estate of Joseph Stanley, New Hope, PA.

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.

Length: 3.25”

Fine Antique French Inkwell or Standish in Ormolu; having a hinged lid and circular stepped body with applied cast floral decoration, and raised on three toupie feet. Circa 1850.

Diameter; 4.25" Height: 3.25" SAFA/9533

Antique oval pressed and engraved crystal dresser box with gilt metal mounts. Probably French, Circa 1900.

3.5" x 4.5" x 3.5” tall