Catalog (319)

Antique American Salt Glazed Crock with leafage decoration. Approximately a half gallon. Circa 1850-70. Unmarked.

Height: 8.25”

Antique French miniature prie-dieu in rosewood with fretwork top opening to a small compartment, turned supports and a base lined kneeler opening to reveal a hidden drawer. Circa 1870.

Height: 7.75”
Length: 6”
Depth: 5.5”

Antique American Mariners Telescope with leather covering, single draw, sunshade and sliding covers to both lenses; inscribed "R.A. Tibbets, Gloucester Mass., Day or Night" *

Circa 1830-40

Length Open: 38.25"
Length Closed: 20.75"

*Robert Abbot Tibbets, was a retailer of nautical equipment, watches/clocks, jewelry and silver. His shop was at 117 Front Street, since renamed Main Str...

Antique Brass 6-draw Spyglass, with ring turned body and sunshade and eyepiece slide. Provenance: The Harry Z. Isaacs Collection from Historic Long Branch Estate, Virginia. Probably English, circa 1870.

Length Open: 5.25"
Length Closed: 17.25"

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 building in 1811 with the consultation of U.S. Capitol Architect Benjamin Henry L...

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. Usually oval in shape, but also circular and rectangular, their decoration reflected the popular styles of the day. For example, by the 1790s Neoclassical style swags, doves, hearts, and borders were the most commonly used decoration of the day.

Allover cracking. Small losses to the lid, one side and the bottom.

Susan B...

Large Georgian Pierced Brass Fire Fender, having a bowed front, urn and “Prince of Wales” feather design and fine "bright-cut" engraving. English, Circa 1750. Please note that each end has been extended by 4" to fit a larger fireplace.

Length: 60" Depth at Center: 12"

These early brass fenders are typically very heavy and carefully made. They had little functional use but were strictly for adornment.

Pair of Northern Bobwhites (Colinus Virginianus). Native to the Eastern US and Mexico, these ground dwelling gamebirds of the quail family are extensively hunted and can be found year round in grasslands, open woodlands and wood edges. They are noted for their loud call announcing their name (bob-WHITE, bob-bob-WHITE).

Dimensions of the Case:8.25" x 8.25" x 13"

Pair of antique clear molded glass four light candelabra with hexagonal base, faceted pillar, three scrolling arms and bobeches hung with cut crystal lozenges and elongated faceted drop prisms. Circa 1900.

Height: 20.5”

Antique Chinese bottle form sang-de-boeuf vase, Guangxu-Xuantong Period (1875-1911), now mounted as a lamp.

Height: 13” to lip

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”

English Regency Decanter Set in mahogany with brass mounted lid, brass knobs and escutcheon; opening to an interior fitted with six gilt decorated square glass decanters, the velvet lined lid fitted to hold two gilt decorated cordial glasses; the whole raised on two brass and two wood feet. Circa 1820. (One glass, one decanter and two stoppers have been replaced.)

9.5”W x 6.5”D x 8.25”H

Remarkable Antique English Tunbridge ware Dresser Chest or Jewelry Box in olivewood with tesselated mosaic inlaid decoration, having a stepped lid with inlaid castle and floral decoration, two cabinet doors with "Tumbling Blocks" pattern opening to four small band inlaid drawers, the sides decorated with a tesselated mosaic "deer in a forest" design and the whole raised on ebonized ball form feet. Circa 1840-60.

10.25" x 8" x 10.25 tall

George II Tea Caddy with Hidden Drawer; rectangular with stepped hinged top surmounted by a brass carrying handle, brass escutcheon and sliding side panel revealing a hidden drawer (slight warp to lid). Circa 1740.

One of the rarest of this form of tea caddy, the concealed drawer would have held your silver teaspoons.

Height: 6”
Length: 9”
Depth: 6”

For other examples of this form, type "10145" or "10261" into the search box.

Fine Napoleon III “Boulle” marquetry lap desk with extensive brass and tortoiseshell inlay, the lids opening to a three-tiered letter holder and a fitted interior with wells and a sloped writing surface. French, Circa 1860-1870.

Height: 8”
Width: 12.75”
Depth: 9.5”

Neo-Classical ormolu mounted dressing table in mahogany having a rectangular top with two incurved small drawers and an elevating cheval mirror above a frieze drawer and two cabriole legs ending in hoof form feet on an incurved platform base. Probably Baltic, circa 1830-1840.

Height: 38” (closed)
Height: 59.75” (open)
Width: 37.25”
Depth: 16.25”

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 Brass or Bronze Iota (an ablutions pot) having incised and inlaid copper checkerboard and leafage decoration. This type of metalware is known as Ganga-Jumna. Ganga meaning Ganges river, and Jumna meaning Jumna River. It is Brass and Copper because it reflects the color of the two rivers mentioned. 18th-19th C. probably from Moradabad in northern India.

Diameter: 4”

Antique Chinese Blue and White Pottery Bowls (18th and 19th Century)

This type of Chinese ceramic was exported primarily to the Southeast Asian market from the port of Swatow, hence it is known as “Chinese Swatow”

Offering Bowls $35. each

Rice Bowls (largest) $30. each

Sauce Bowls (Smallest) $20. each

**Please Note: As these are all different and have various flaws, we will not ship.