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Rare pottery soup tureen, ladle and undertray by William Brownfield & Son, Cobridge England, 1871-1891 with various impressed and underglaze marks.

Diameter of undertray: 14.25”

Exceptional Pair of Italian Bronze and Ormolu 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. 5" x 5" x 13"tall

Fine bombé black lacquer tea caddy with Chinoiserie decoration, fitted interior and later squashed ball feet. English, Circa 1870.

13" x 6.75" x 7.5" tall

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”

Antique English Papier Mache Tazza with circular foot and scalloped rim and gilt and silvered Japonisme decoration of figures in a landscape on a black lacquer ground.. Circa 1870.

Diameter: 13.5"
Height: 2.25"

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”

Antique American Pine Piggin with brass banding. A piggin is a wooden bucket with a stave extended above the top to act as a handle. Late 19th century.

Height: 12”/15”
Diameter: 8.75”/10.25”

Set of Four Hammered and Silvered Bronze Arts and Crafts Candlesticks, Early 20th Century, Unmarked. 13" high.

Large Blue Willow Cake Plate by Copeland; circular with gilt rim and typical blue willow transfer decoration, raised on a circular, fluted pillar and a similarly decorated base. Impressed marks under plate. English, circa 1881.

Height to rim: 6.5” Diameter: 17.5”

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”

18th-century English Transferware Patch Box; Now known as Royal Leamington Spa, the town of Leamington began its prodigious spa industry in 1784 when it began building baths around its salt springs. Consequently, the image on this patch box displays a Classical figure holding a caduceus, a symbol of the medical community dating back the sixteenth century. Thus, it is safe to say that this could have been produced no earlier than the last quarter of the eighteenth century. In addition, this box...

Antique English D-form brass firefender with rounded mid-rib flanked by openwork bands with grape and leaf decoration. English, circa 1800-1830 (one foot replaced).

Length: 35”
Depth: 11.25”
Height: 8.5”

Pair of Wedgwood Commemorative Plates of Longfellow’s Home, Portland Maine. Circa 1950.

Diameter: 9.25"

Antique Brass and Wire Nursery Fireplace Fender having a brass toprail and crosshatched wire body. These taller firefenders were to keep the baby out, rather than to keep the sparks in. American Circa 1800.

34" x14" x 18.25" tall

Fine Antique Chinese Blue Glazed Baluster Form Vase, late 18th/ early 19th Century now mounted as a lamp with later wood base

Height: 18.5” to rim
Base : 7" x 7”

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”

Antique English Ebonized Wood Inkstand, in walnut, rectangular with rounded corners, wells for pens and inks, a single shallow drawer and an ebonized carrying handle. Circa 1830-40 (caps to inkwells replaced).

*From the Estate of Joseph Stanley, New Hope, PA

Height: 6”
Length: 10”
Depth: 6”

Fine Large Brass and Iron Fireplace Trivit, having a pierced top, sides with pierced pinwheel pinwheel designs and cabriole front legs. English, late 18th/early 19th C.

Height: 13”
Width: 16.5”
Depth: 12.25”