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Antique Foliate Carved Gilt Wood and gesso mirror with bevelled glass. Circa 1870

Mirror: 23 ½” x 23 ½”
Frame: 30” x 30”

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”

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

Fine 18th Century English Bow Front Firefender, in brass with pierced and engraved decoration. Circa 1760

Height: 5”
Width: 45.5”
Depth: 9”

Antique Brass or Bronze Iota (an ablutions pot) having incised and inlaid copper checkerboard and leafage decoration. This type of metalware is known as Ganga-Jumna. Ganga meaning Ganges river, and Jumna meaning Jumna River. It is Brass and Copper because it reflects the color of the two rivers mentioned. 18th-19th C. probably from Moradabad in northern India.

Diameter: 4”

Fine Antique French Inkwell or Standish in Ormolu; having a hinged lid and circular stepped body with applied cast floral decoration, and raised on three toupie feet. Circa 1850.

Diameter; 4.25" Height: 3.25" SAFA/9533

Fine Anglo-Indian glove box, rectangular with cut corners, each face and lid decorated with finely carved sandalwood panels, “Sadeli” work and ebony and ivory banding. (Warp to lid.) Bombay, 1870-1880.

Length: 11.25” Depth: 4.5” Height: 2.25”

The History of Virginia

by John Burke

Volumes 1 and 2 (of 4), printed for the author by Dickson & Pescud, Petersburg, Virginia, 1804 and 1805. Re-bound in blue cloth. Minor toning and foxing.

A rare early history of Virginia through 1710.

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

Dimensions: 16” x 18”

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”

Large antique pressed glass oil lamp, probably Baccarat, late 19th century, now electrified (minor repair to reservoir).

Height: 14”

* Does not include shade.

Exceptional Regency bombé tea caddy in “tiger” tortoiseshell, having a pagoda shaped top opening to an interior with two lidded compartments. Circa 1800-20. (One back foot replaced.)
Dimensions: 7.5” x 4.75” x 6”

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”

Rare George III 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 (patch above keyhole, lacks interior dividers).

One of the rarest of this form of tea caddy, the concealed drawer would have held your silver teaspoons.

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Height: 6”
Length: 9”
Depth: 5.25” ...

Antique Refracting Brass and Mahogany 4-draw Telescope with a Brass Tripod Tablestand, and having slides to cover both lens and eyepiece. English, late 19th C.

Provenance: The Harry Z. Isaacs Collection from Historic Long Branch Estate, Virginia and James Kennedy Antiques., Ltd., Durham NC.

Length Open: 36"
Height with Stand: 15.5"

Long Branch was built on property surveyed by a young George Washington for Lord Fairfax. In 1788, Robert Carter Burwell inherited the land and began...

Rare Rockingham hound handled pitcher with molded scenes of stag and boar hunts and a grapevine design decorating the neck. Attributed to the Salamander Works, Woodbridge, New Jersey, 1840-50.

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

Height:11.25”

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"

Antique Staffordshire Pitcher and Bowl by William Alsager Adderly & Co., Longton, England with neoclassical style transfer decoration with swags and fleur-de-lis in the "Sheraton" pattern. Circa 1900.

Bowl Diameter:16.5"
Pitcher Height: 14"