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Nice small pair of antique French ormolu candelabra with rose colored marble bases, now wired as Bouillotte lamps. Circa 1880.

Height: 17”
Height of Candlearms: 5.75”

Rare antique Chinese Famille Rose covered mustard pot and under tray with typical painted decoration and applied bud form knob. Circa 1860 (minor wear to gilt decoration).**

Height: 3.75”
Dish Diameter: 5.5”

**See: Schiffer, Chinese Export Porcelain, illustration #404 for similar example.

Antique English Pearlware Tea Caddy with blue and white chinoiserie decoration. Circa 1780-1800.

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”

Fine pair of American Federal ball topped andirons in brass with turned, vasiform shafts, spurred cabriole legs and slipper feet. (Iron log rests replaced).

Boston, circa 1800. (see Schiffer, The Brass Book, pp. 57-58 for similar examples)

Height: 12”
Depth: 15.5”

Antique Spode Pottery Transfer Decorated Ceramic Wine Cooler,* oval with applied handles, ribbed body and rope turned rim, the whole with yellow and blue transfer decoration. English, circa 1810. (two tiny chips, numerous frits)

*Originally designed as a footbath, these large basins are today used as wine coolers.

18.5" x 12" x 8" tall

Rare Staffordshire child’s mug, creamware with green transfer decoration of sign language alphabet. Early 1800’s (small hole in bottom).

Diameter: 2.75”

Antique Japanese blue and white porcelain ovoid vase with hand painted bird and floral decoration. Late 19th century.

Height: 14.5”

Large American book-form box in maple extensively inlaid on all sides with various woods, late 19th century.

Length: 11.75”
Width: 9”
Height: 4.75”

Rare Signed American Tea Caddy in mahogany, of rectangular form with a sloped lid opening to a divided interior and retaining a paper label with makers name and a date of 1863.

8.5" x 4.5" x 5.75" tall

Antique cased wooden model of the sail & steamship “St. Oliv”, with two masts and two funnels, painted wood and metal with rigging and heavy paper sails. Probably English, circa 1870-1880.

Case Dimensions:
Height: 19.5”
Length: 30.5”
Width: 8”

Rare antique tabletop dumbwaiter in mahogany, having three circular moulded edge graduated tiers supported by ring turned pillars and circular stepped base. English or American, late 18th/early 19th century.

This form is usually a free standing piece of dining room furniture that was placed next to the host's chair and carried desserts, silver, cheeses, drinks and glasses. The servants could then be excused and you could discuss things in private - hence the name "Dumbwaiter" This rare tab...

Pair of 18th Century Irish Silver Berry Spoons, the bowls with a gold wash, Michael Keating, Dublin 1796

length 8.75"
4.3 oz

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”

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

Height: 13” to lip

Fine Antique Grand Tour Souvenir Column, having a square marble base and turned marble shaft with laurel leaf decorated gilt metal base and a Corinthian capital. Circa 1830-50.

Height 14.25"
Base 4.5" x 4.5"
(once mounted as a whale oil-lamp, then electrified)

English Regency tortoise tea caddy with pewter stringing and serpentine front with pagoda-form lid opening to an interior with two compartments with shell veneered lids, the whole raised on stained squashed ball feet.

6.75” x 4.5”x 5.

**Regarding the Sale of Items Incorporating Materials from Endangered Species: An export license issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be required for the export of this item from the U.S. Prospective purchasers are responsible for obtainin...

Pair of antique painted porcelain plaques of flowers, probably European, late 19th century, with gilt frames.

Plaque: 8 x 6”
Frame: 10 x 8.25”