Catalog (309)

Antique French miniature prie-dieu in rosewood with fretwork top opening to a small compartment, turned supports and a base lined kneeler opening to reveal a hidden drawer. Circa 1870.

Height: 7.75”
Length: 6”
Depth: 5.5”

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

Diameter: 2.75”

Parian bust of Juliet, impressed “J&TB” for James and Thomas Bevington, potters in Hanley, England. They used this mark from 1863-1876.
Height: 6.5"

Fine pair of antique cut crystal urns with crosshatching above diamond cutting, the lower section with Gothic arches, a faceted stem and circular base. (Slight yellow cast to glass.) Mid-19th Century.

Height: 7”
Diameter: 5.5’

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”

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.

Fine Large Edwardian Serving Tray in mahogany and satinwood; oval with brass hand-holds and scalloped bellflower inlay and central shell inlaid pattera. Circa 1890. Provenance: From the Estate of Joseph Stanley.

Length: 27” Width: 18”

A fine and unusual late 19th century European colored biscuit-ware plaque depicting an allegorical female figure holding an oil lamp.

Provenance: The Cloisters Collection Museum, Baltimore, MD

(minor losses to floral border and one decorative element missing from surround.)

14" x 16.5"

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Pair of Aynsley Fruit Decorated Covered Urns by Paul English, (former Royal Worcester artist); twin handled vases of shouldered baluster form with covers, decorated with original hand painted fruit designs, signed. {Modern}

Height: 9”
Width (at handles); 5”

Anglo Indian ebony box carved with overall floral motifs; having a central oval miniature on ivory of the Taj Mahal. From the town of Nagina in the Bijnor District. See: Furniture from British India by Jaffir, pp. 264-66. Circa 1870.

Height: 3.25”
Length: 7”
Depth: 4.5”

Antique English Polychrome Porcelain Tea Caddy with ribbed body and decoration with floral motif. Circa 1790. Provenance: From the Estate of Baroness Rengers, Alexandria, VA.

Antique English Tunbridge Tea Caddy, with the lid inlaid with the "Tumbling Blocks" pattern. It is unusual to have the tumbling blocks in a variety of exotic wood samples. Made in Tunbridge Wells, circa 1860.

5.25" x 4.25"x 4.25

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"

Charming Rockingham Ware pitcher in the form of a seated dog. American, circa 1860-80.

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

Height: 8.75”

See: Collectors Guide to Yellow Ware, Book III by Lisa McAllister, page 103 for another example of this pitcher.

Fine antique Chinese bottle-form porcelain vase with sang-de-boeuf glaze. Circa 1760-1840, now wired as a lamp.

Height: 15”

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 Japanese Imari Porcelain Bowl with French Ormolu Mounts; hand-painted with foliate decorations and vignettes of Phoenix birds and figures in a garden. Late 19th Century.

Width at Handles: 16.5"
Diameter of Bowl"11.25"
Height at Handles: 13.5"