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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.)

Antique Wedgwood Blue Jasperware Tea Caddy, rectangular with sloped shoulders, blue ground and applied garlands and portrait profile busts. Impressed marks: “Wedgwood” & “Made in England” (after 1908)

Height: 6”
Length: 3.75”
Depth: 2.75”

Antique Tunbridge Ware Trinket Box in Rosewood having a hinged lid inlaid with a floral spray taken from Berlin woolwork patterns, framed by bandings of tessellated mosaic marquetry. Circa 1840.

6.5" x 4" x 2" tall

Patent Model for an Improvement Air Engines by Dana Bickford retaining the original Patent Tag dated June 6th, 1865 and with a Certificate of Authenticity and copies of the Patent Application.

Height: 6.75”
Length: 8”
Depth: 4.5”

Antique Ottoman Bronze Shot Box which would have been suspended with a leather strap and used to carry ammunition. 18th Century, probably Turkish

2.75" x 1.25" x 3" tall

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”

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”

Fine English Regency Break-Fronted Tea Caddy in “tiger” tortoiseshell having a pagoda shaped top opening to two lidded compartments, a shaped front and bun form feet. Circa 1815. Repairs-mostly to back.

Height: 5.5”; Width: 8”; Depth: 5.25”

Exceptional antique French pierced and gilt metal inkstand with over-all Gothic arch decoration; the rectangular top opening to a fitted interior with two removable pen wells and four crystal inkwells (one repaired). Circa 1840-1860.

Length: 12”
Depth: 5”
Height: 3”

Fine Antique English Bottle Form Porcelain Vase with painted and gilt floral decoration and openwork neck. Probably Royal Worcester. (now wired as a lamp with an openwork brass base).

Height to top of neck: 15.25"

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 French Straw Work Souvenir Box, Circa 1900 (minor losses).

8" x 4.5" x 3.25 tall

Fine Antique Five Light Bronze Figural Candelabrum, having a circular marble base with applied grapeleaf decoration, and a standing classical figure supporting five scrolled candlearms. Probably French, Circa 1870. (Repair and chips to base)

Height: 30.5” to top of finial
Diameter of Base : 7.25”

Candelabrum such as this with a large marble base were oftentimes used with a tall wooden torchere which would raise the candles above eye-level and throw a more even lig...

Antique Continental Carved and Gilt Wood Oval Mirror, having openwork foliate and shell form decoration. Probably French, late 19th Century Frame Size" 45" x 25.5" Plate Size: 22" x 16"

Antique Biedermeier Miniature Chest of Drawers, in satinwood with ebonized moldings and pulls; having a overhanging top drawer above three graduated drawers and raised on turned toupie feet.
19th Century.
Although often called salesman's samples, miniature pieces of furniture like this were probably the work of an apprentice cabinetmaker to show the master craftsman his ability.

Height: 10.5”
Length: 9”
Depth: 6.5”

Antique Benningtonware covered teapot with moulded decoration of ‘Rebecca at the Well’. American, circa 1880. (minor chips to spout).

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

Antique Scottish transfer decorated pitcher and bowl in the Etruscan pattern by Lockhart and Arthur, Glasgow, 1855-1864. (chip and cracks to bowl).

Height: 13.5”
Diameter: 14”