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Cartouche-shaped black marble plaque inset with oval micromosaic panels depicting Roman archaeological scenes (clockwise from upper left): the Coliseum, the Temple of Hercules, the Roman Forum and the Pantheon. Those four panels surround the Doves of Pliny, an image often used in micromosaics, which comes from a Roman floor mosaic at Hadrian’s villa in Tivoli and is believed to be a copy of a lost ancient Greek mosaic at Pergamon described by Pliny the elder.

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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...

Good pair of antique brass push-up candlesticks having vasiform shafts and circular, ring turned bases. English, circa 1830-50.

Height: 10.5”

Antique Italian Openwork Carved and Gilt Mirror; rectangular with scrolling leafage openwork decoration. Late 19th Century

Plate: 21.5 x 17.25"
Frame: 29" x 33"

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Fine antique French rouge marble standish with ormolu inkwells and feet. Circa 1850-70.

Length: 13.75”
Width: 7.75”
Height: 2.5” (of base)

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”

Important French Gilt Pier Mirror, with bevelled glass central panel surrounded by two flanking bevelled panels and surmounted by three smaller panels; framed in gilt carved wood and gesso with repeating laurel leaf motif, scrolls, acanthus leaves, sprays of flowers and shield crest. Early 19th century.

Height: 79”
Width: 50”

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 Japanese Kutani vase with handpainted decoration of figures on a balcony and birds on branches, late 19th century, now wired as a lamp.

Height: 10.5” (vase & base)

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”

Fine antique Chinese sang-de-boeuf gourd form vase, 19th century, now wired as a lamp.

Height of vase: 13.5”

Rare English Regency pressed tortoiseshell tea caddy with engraved mother-of-pearl floral and leaf swags, silver plated ball form feet and two interior compartments with tortoiseshell lids which appear to retain remnants of the original tea pewter lining. Circa 1800-1820. (Minor repairs to the tortoise, replaced hinges)

5.75W” x 4.25D x 6H”

Fine small pair of antique French ormolu and marble candelabra, circa 1870, now wired as lamps.

Height: 8.25” (to candlecup)

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

Large antique Imari vase with ribbed body and painted butterfly and floral decoration. Circa 1860-80. (Repair to bottom.)

Height: 18"

Rare 18th century fruit wood tea caddy in the form of a large apple, having a circular hinged lid with carved “stem” opening to a tin-lined interior; lock and escutcheon are original, hinge is replaced (repair to lid). Probably Continental, circa 1760-80.

Height: 4.5”
Diameter: 4.5”

Fine antique French pedestal form sander in ormolu with removable reservoir for the sand used to dry the ink when writing with a quill pen. Mid-19th century.

Height: 4”
Width: 3.75:

Fine Pair of French Five Light Sconces (Bras de Lumiere) in Ormolu, each having a pierced foliate form backplate with a cyma shaped arm with five foliate form branches. Circa 1870. (once wired for electricity)

Spread: 16"
Depth: 10"
Height (overall): 17"