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Antique English Regency Tole Samovar with Chinoiserie decoration of flowers and butterflies; having lion’s head handles, spigot from a lion’s head and brass lion paw feet. The hot water cylinder rests on a pierced warmer for coals. Circa 1820 (losses to decoration, lacking coal tray)
Height: 16.5”

FinePair 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"

Pair of small antique Peking enamel jardinières, rectangular and decorated with floral sprays and a scene of a figure in a boat; with carved hardwood stands. Circa 1900.

Height: 5” (with stand) Length: 5”

Depth: 3.75”

Antique English small barrel in lignum vitae with ivory stopper and later brass spout. Early-mid 19th century.

Length: 9"

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"

Antique European Porcelain Standish decorated with handpainted floral motif and brass mounts. Has the original porcelain and brass seal and wells for ink,stamps and pens. Probably French. 19th Century.

Height: 5”
Diameter: 6”

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”

Tall Antique Chinese Export Rose Medallion Vase of baluster form with applied salamander decoration and foo dog handles having ten painted panels with figural or bird and blossom decoration surrounded by floral decoration. Circa 1870. (tight star crack on bottom, chip under rim).

Height: 23"

Rare enamel stirrup cup in the form of a shell, the exterior with painted details in browns and greens, the interior a robin’s egg blue. Continental, early 19th century. (minor chips/scratches)

Height: 3”

Rookwood pottery rectangular dresser box with celedon glaze and lid with impressed flower decoration. Base and lid with impressed logo, dated 1948, pattern #6556. (Minor crazing to base.)

Length: 4.75”
Depth: 3.5”

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.

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"

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.

Original patent model for a fruit drier by David Lippy, painted wood and tin, retaining the original patent office tag dated July 4th, 1865, Patent No. 48,570.

Length: 10”
Depth: 9.5”
Height: 11.5”

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”

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

Height: 13” to lip

On Monday January 3, 1752, the Dutch East India Company, (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) ship Geldermalsen, struck a reef on her return journey to the Netherlands and sank in the South China Sea. Of the crew 32 survived and 80 went down with the ship and her cargo of tea, raw silk, textiles, dried wares, groceries, lacquer and porcelain. The "Nanking cargo" is the modern name given to the porcelain cargo.

 The cargo of Chinese porcelain was originally potted in Jingdezhen, Ji...

Rare Chinese export carved wood tea caddy in the form of an eggplant with leaf form screw lid. Early 19th century.

Height: 4.5”