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Early Worcester tea cup, tea bowl and saucer in the style of Japanese Imari porcelains: underglaze blue and white decoration with overglaze red and gold enamel. Late 18th Century.

Saucer 4.75" diam.

Provenance: From the Cockrell Collection of Tea Equipage amd Export Porcelain.

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

Height: 5”

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

Antique French Tole Oil Lamp with yellow ground and black stencil decoration of Soldiers and Napoleon on Horseback. The burner is stamped "LUCHAIRE" for Leon Luchaire, Paris. Circa 1870, now wired for electricity.

Height to top of burner: : 9"

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.)

Fine George II Silver Tea Caddy, by Samuel Taylor, having a reverse pear-form body embossed with floral garlands centering a blank cartouche on each side, removable lid with shell-form finial. Marked on underside of base.

Samuel was the son of Thomas Taylor and started his apprenticeship with John Newton in 1737. His first marks was entered in 1744. Like his master, whose business he probably succeeded to, since Newton was finally in Maiden Lane, Taylor was a specialist in tea-caddies and sug...

Rare 18th century fruit wood apple shaped tea caddy, having a circular hinged lid with carved bone “stem”, opening to a tin-lined interior. Probably Continental, Circa 1760-80.

Height: 4.5"

Fine Antique Tea Caddy in Olivewood, inlaid on all sides and top with different scenes of peasants and with tumbridge type inlaid borders. Probably Italian, circa 1870.

Height: 4"
Width 5.25"
Depth 4.5" .

Fine Royal Vienna painted porcelain urn with cobalt ground and gilt decoration having painted panels depicting lovers in a landscape and a mythological figure on the reverse. Late 19th century. (Now wired as a lamp.Some wear to gilding.)

Height: 10.5”

Antique Japanese Satsuma Koro or Incense Burner, Hexagonal with Shi Shi form Handles and Finial, body with figural decoration and raised on three paw-form feet. Meiji Period (1867-1912) (minor loss to foo dog tails)

Height: 13"
Width: 10"

Fine English Chippendale bombe-form tea chest in nicely figured mahogany veneer over deal, the stepped rectangular lid with brass carrying handle. Circa 1760. (key). (See Clark and O’Kelly, “Antique Boxes, Tea Caddies and Society”, Figure 304 for a related example.)

Height; 6”;
Length: 10.25”;
Depth:5.75"

Fine toleware shaped box with attached undertray, the lid surmounted by a brass acorn form finial and the whole decorated with gilt scrolling vines with red flowers (some loss to decoration) Provenance: Ruthann Coggins Bardes, Greenwich, CT.

9.25” x 7” x 5.5” tall.

Antique Biedermeier Miniature Chest of Drawers, in satinwood with ebonized moldings and pulls; having a overhanging top drawer above three graduated drawers and raised on turned toupie feet.
19th Century.
Although often called salesman's samples, miniature pieces of furniture like this were probably the work of an apprentice cabinetmaker to show the master craftsman his ability.

Height: 10.5”
Length: 9”
Depth: 6.5”

Antique American Salt Glazed Crock with leafage decoration. Approximately a half gallon. Circa 1850-70. Unmarked.

Height: 8.25”

Large Regency Domed Top Decanter Box in mahogany, having a rounded top with double hinged lids with locks and a central divider over a carved and molded base and raised on small ogee bracket feet. Possibly a Ships Bottle-box. English, circa 1800. with four modern decanters with wooden ball stoppers

16.71" x 15.75" x 14.75" tall

Antique American Bradley & Hubbard oil lamp in brass, circa 1870, now wired for electricity.

Height: 21” (to top of shade)

Exceptional Sheraton Tea Chest in satinwood banded in rosewood and with ebony and boxwood stringing: having a rectangular hinged lid with silverplated pull opening to an interior with two fitted tea caddies with oval lids and similar inlaid decoration. English, circa 1790. 8" x 6" x 6" tall

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

length 8.75"
4.3 oz