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English, most likely Bilston, eighteenth century. The elongated oval shape, all over floral decoration, and the unusual brown painted panels are not infrequent characteristics of Bilston’s “gingham finish” enamel boxes, hence the Bilston attribution.

Fine cracks to enamel, and small losses on both sides and back.

Source:

Susan Benjamin. English Enamel Boxes. (1976.)

Fine Pair of French Five Light Sconces (Bras de Lumiere) in Ormolu, each having a pierced foliate form backplate with a cyma shaped arm with five foliate form branches. Circa 1870. (once wired for electricity)

Spread: 16"
Depth: 10"
Height (overall): 17"

Antique Chinese Export Rouge Lacquer Tea Caddy with faux painted brass banding; rectangular with brass carrying handles and gilt decoration, the hinged lid opening to a large pewter removable box with hinged lid and engraved decoration of figures in a landscape. Circa 1870. (rubbing to painted banding)

11.5" x 7.75" x 5.5" tall

Antique American carved wood and gesso gold leaf mirror with foliate and beadwork decoration. Circa 1860-70 (mirror plate replaced, minor wear to gilding) Frame: 21" x 26.75"

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

Height: 21.5"

Antique American Late Federal Octagonal Tea Caddy in mahogany; the hinged top with satinwood stringing and banding opens to an interior well with a “floating” lid. Circa 1830 (see #5036 for another by the same unknown maker)

Height: 5”
Width: 6.5”

Fine Antique Tea Caddy in Olivewood, inlaid on all sides and top with different scenes of peasants and with tumbridge type inlaid borders. Probably Italian, circa 1870.

Height: 4"
Width 5.25"
Depth 4.5" .

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”

Original patent model for a sliding door lock and latch by E.G. Kehoe in brass, retaining its original Patent Office Tag dated November 15, 1870, Patent No. 109,220. Together with a Certificate of Authenticity from the United States Patent Model Foundation.

The passage of the Patent Act of 1790 required that every application include a miniature working model of their idea. Over the next 90 years more than 200,000 models were submitted, until lack of storage space and fires finally forced...

A Rare Stoneware Wine Flask (called a “Schraubflasche” in German), cylindrical with a pewter screw top, sloped shoulder and white glazed body with applied silvered decoration of a scrolling branch with leaves and berries. Silvered underglazed mark on base.

Probably German, 18th Century (chip to base)

Height: 5.25"
Diameter: 3"

American Arts & Crafts Brass Tea Caddy, octagonal with domed lid, hammered and engraved button decoration and raised on ball-and-claw feet. Circa 1900.

Height: 4.75”
Diameter (Top): 4.25”

Fine pair of antique Continental brass jardinieres, urn form, with repousse swag decoration, supported by plinth bases with repoussé grape leaf panels. Circa 1860-1880.

Height: 13”
Maximum Diameter: 8.5”

Antique English “Steeplechase” Pattern Pitcher, with a Rockingham glaze. Circa 1870-80. (small chip to spout)

Height: 8.25”

Antique Japanese Imari oil lamp with vasiform body decorated with birds, bugs and blossoms and gilt metal fittings. Circa 1880, now wired for electricity.

Height of Vase: 13.5”

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 Chinese White Ground Porcelain Vase, of baluster form, with painted decoration of figures and with applied foo dog handles and salamander decoration. Circa 1870, now wired as a lamp.

Height to rim: 14”

Extremely Rare George III Tea Caddy in the shape of an urn-form knife box, in partridge wood with satnwood stringing, octagonal with pagoda shaped lid and acorn-form finial, urn-form body and turned socle with square plinth base having inlaid banding (lock replaced). Circa 1790. Provenance: The Terence J. Fox Collection of Tea Equipage, Formerly the Collection of Iroquois Brands, Ltd.. Height, 10.”

Large American Folk Art Book-form Box, in maple extensively inlaid with various woods, late 19th century.

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