Catalog (308)

Fine Antique French Inkwell or Standish in Ormolu; having a hinged lid and circular stepped body with applied cast floral decoration, and raised on three toupie feet. Circa 1850.

Diameter; 4.25" Height: 3.25" SAFA/9533

Fine Antique Japanese Black Lacquer Tea Caddy, rectangular with rounded corners with polychrome and gilt decoration of figures engaged in various tasks. Circa 1870.

6.75" x 5" x 4" tall

Rare Large Pair of Antique Japanese Kutani Vases, of baluster form with white ground and typical coloration and with painted and gilt decoration of birds and blossoms. Meiji period (1868 - 1912). Marked on bases.

Height: 14.5”

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”

Unusual Rookwood matt-glazes tazza, with impressed mark and date - 1906 (?).

Height: 2.35”
Diameter: 4.5”

Fine pair of 19th Century French five light crystal and ormolu sconces in the Louis XIV style, having an ormolu torch form backplate surmounted by a flaming urn, a central floral decorated support with four scrolling candle arms, extensively decorated with crystal swags and pendants. Circa 1860, now drilled and wired for electricity.

(Some crystals replaced.) 19"tall, 15"wide, 14" deep

Antique Gilt Silver and Green Chalcedony Mounted Crystal and Mahogany Umbrella Handle in the Secessionist taste. European, Circa 1900, now mounted on a carved wood base.

Height: 13"

Exceptional Silver Cane decorated with the face of Medusa and a coiled snake, Hallmarked with a "R" inside a square and the number "925" inside an oval. European, 20th Century.

Length: 36.5"
Handle: 4.5"

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

Height: 14.5”

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"

Does anyone recognize the symbol above her head? Send us an email.

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”

Fine pair of antique Neoclassical giltwood mirrors with rectangular mirror plates within moulded frames above D-shaped shelves with foliate decorated supports. Mid 19th Century.

Height: 31”
Width: 17”

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"

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"

American Arts & Crafts Brass Tea Caddy, octagonal with domed lid, hammered and engraved button decoration and raised on ball-and-claw feet. Circa 1900.

Height: 4.75”
Diameter (Top): 4.25”

Exceptional Arts & Crafts painted leather necessaire with tooled, painted and gilt decoration of birds and blossoms, opening to an interior complete with almost all of its original fittings including bottles and trays with fire gilt lids, brushes, combs, buttonhook, etc. French, c. 1870-1880.

Height: 8”
Length: 11.25”
Width: 12.5”

Important Antique English Gilt Wood and Composition Girandole Mirror, the oval mirror plate within a leaf carved surround and within mirrored borders with crossed vine-form decoration. The cresting and pendant formed with scrolling leaf and paterae and the pendant with three vine and floral decorated candlearms. Early 19th century.

Height: 64", Width: 38", Depth: 12"

Rare set of four Rockingham ware furniture lifts, of typical lion’s paw form. Probably English, late 19th century. (very minor chips)

These were used to protect the feet of furniture where the floor was damp.

Provenance: Kay Fries, Alexandria, VA

Height: 3.75”