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Antique Japanese blue and white porcelain ovoid vase with hand painted bird and floral decoration. Late 19th century.

Height: 14.5”

Charming Rockingham Ware pitcher in the form of a seated dog. American, circa 1860-80.

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

Height: 8.75”

See: Collectors Guide to Yellow Ware, Book III by Lisa McAllister, page 103 for another example of this pitcher.

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

Dimensions: 16” x 18”

Antique brass and wire D-form fire fender. Circa 1830-1850. English or American.

Length: 31.5” Depth: 11.5” Height: 12”

Pair of Small Scale 18th C. English Classical brass candlesticks with simple a straight turned shaft on a square plinth. The beading around the base has been worn away with years of polishing. C. 1780

Height: 5.75”

Large antique English brass candlestick with ring turned shaft and rectangular rounded corner base. Circa 1860, now wired as a lamp.

Height: 22” (to shade)

Small Pair of Bronze and Slate 'Grand Tour' Candlesticks with naturalistic decoration of leafage and bugs. Italian, late 19th Century.

Height: 3.75"

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”

PAIR OF FRENCH TWO-LIGHT GILT AND PATINATED BRONZE CANDELABRA in fin de siecle style with bronze putti holding floral cornucopia ending in classic candle cups decorated with ribbons and garlands, on white marble bases with gilt ornaments and raised on toupie feet, Late 19th Century

h: 12.25 x w: 8 in

Large American book-form box in maple extensively inlaid on all sides with various woods, late 19th century.

Length: 11.75”
Width: 9”
Height: 4.75”

Antique American Bradley & Hubbard oil lamp in brass, circa 1870, now wired for electricity.

Height: 21” (to top of shade)

Exceptional pair of antique French Gilt Bronze Fireplace Chenet in the form of Dionysian children seated on a plinth and eating grapes, and with foliate and cyma curved decoration. 18th/19th Century. Each Approx.: 12.5" x 12.5" x 5.5 deep

Humorous Staffordshire Pottery "Admiral Nelson" Pitcher moulded in the form of Lord Nelson (but missing the wrong arm) with a rather strategically placed spout, and a Rockingham mottled brown glaze. Probably English, circa 1850.

8" x 4" x 9.5" tall

Rare Staffordshire child’s mug, creamware with green transfer decoration of sign language alphabet. Early 1800’s (small hole in bottom).

Diameter: 2.75”

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.

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Fine Russian Polychrome Lacquer 'Fairy Tale' Box depicting a scene from a story by Alexander Pushkin "The Demons", signed and dated: "1969" Probably from the village of Palekh

7" x 4" x 1.75"

Antique Sheraton Tea Caddy in mahogany, the rectangular top opens to two compartments, with inlaid fan patterae on front and lid and herringbone stringing. English, circa 1780.

Provenance: The Cockrell Collection, Arlington Virginia

7.5" x 4.25" x 4.80" tall

Fine pair of Antique Charles X style Candelabra in ormolu,each with four scrolling candlearms (now electrified) and foliate decoration on the circular base and shaft.French, circa 1870-80

height of candelabra: 19"
Overall Height:28.5"