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Two Pair of Antique Opera Glasses , the one on the left (#8577)is brass and abalone shell and is French and the one on the right (#7845) is brass and mother of pearl, unmarked.

Antique Japanese Black Lacquer Tea Caddy, cylindrical with stencil and gilt figural decoration; the circular lid opening to a red lacquer interior. Circa 1870.

Height: 4.5"
Diameter: 3.25"

Antique Japanese Kutani vase with handpainted decoration of figures on a balcony and birds on branches, late 19th century, now wired as a lamp.

Height: 10.5” (vase & base)

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.

Antique American Gilded Wood and Gesso Mirror. The thick turned columns of the frame with applied gesso decoration, were popular in the late Empire period, 1830-1850. Probably Philadelphia. There is a similar labeled example in The Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum.

Plate: 23 ½” x 13 ½”
Frame:31 ¾” x 21 ¾”

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.

Wonderful iron and brass bound walnut bucket with ribbed body and applied carrying handles. Continental, 18th/19th century.

Height: 12”

Diameter: 10.25“

18th Century Iron Money Box with a clever mechanism that uses gravity to block the slot if the box is inverted. Probably European.

7.25” x 5" x 4.5" tall

Antique Roycroft bookend, hammered brass and bronze in the form of two books and a spray of berries.

Height: 6”
width: 4.75”

Exceptional late Regency sarcophagus form box in well figured mahogany with recessed brass handles and brass ball feet. English, circa 1820.

Height: 10.5”
Width: 12.25”
Depth: 10”

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

Height: 13” to lip

Antique English two bottle cruet set having a rosewood stand with satinwood stringing and turned ebony supports and handle. Circa 1840.

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

Height: 11.5”

Chinese porcelain tall jar with lid with prunus blossoms on branches against a blue background, a single pheasant on a branch. early 20th Century. Now drilled and wired as a lamp.

Height to top of jar lid: 12”
Height to top of lighting pole: 21”

Two 1/2 gallon stoneware jugs from Alexandria Virginia, made at the Wilkes Street Pottery by Benedict C. Milburn, circa 1865: One with his stamp and "Alexa" the other with the stamp of the merchant E.J. Miller who had a ceramics shop on lower King Street. Height of each: 8"

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”

Antique Continental Demilune carved and gilt wood wall bracket. Late 19th century.

Height: 11”
Width:12”

Rookwood matt glazed vase with relief decoration of cattails, with impressed mark dating it to 1926.

Height: 5”

Pair of antique American cut crystal compotes, circular with escalloped rim and hexagonal foot with star cut base. Circa 1880.

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

Height: 4”