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Most likely French, 19th century. The image of an Englishman hunting with a hound was a common image on enamel boxes, especially snuff boxes in the eighteenth century. However, it clearly dates to the late nineteenth century. The lug and ribbed banding on the metal hinge, as well as the completely hand painted nature of the lid identify this box as a nineteenth-century creation.

Damage to hinge. Lid does not close entirely. Loss to underside enamel.

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

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”

Charming Antique French Marble and Ormoly Standish with a young bacchante reclining and reading a book. Circa 1860-70.

Dimensions: 8.25" x 7"

Carved Wooden Top Hat

(Early 20th C., some scratches

12.25” x 10” x 6.75” tall

Antique Sheraton Tea Caddy in mahogany, the rectangular top opens to two compartments, with inlaid fan patterae on front and lid and herringbone stringing. English, circa 1780.

Provenance: The Cockrell Collection, Arlington Virginia

7.5" x 4.25" x 4.80" tall

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)

Large Georgian Tea Chest in nicely figured mahogany; rectangular with quarter column corners, having a stepped lid surmounted by a brass carrying handle and opening to a fitted interior retainiing two tin tea caddies and a sugar box and the whole raised on ogee bracket feet. English, Circa1780.

11.75" x 7.5" x 6.5" tall

Antique German blue and white porcelain ribbed tea caddy, late 18th/early 19th c. with a Hochst Porcelain mark on the base.

4.25” x 2.25” x 1.75”

Rare Ashworth Porcelain Trivit, square, with Imari style decoration, squashed bun feet and an impressed mark dating to 1862-80. Made by G.L. Ashworth and Bro., Hanley, England

Height: 10”
Length: 10”

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 Tunbridge Ware Trinket Box in Rosewood having a hinged lid inlaid with a floral spray taken from Berlin woolwork patterns, framed by bandings of tessellated mosaic marquetry. Circa 1840.

6.5" x 4" x 2" tall

Antique French Straw Work Souvenir Box, Circa 1900 (minor losses).

8" x 4.5" x 3.25 tall

Antique English Desktop Cabinet, having a central panel door, inlaid with an oval patera and striped stringing, and flanked by six small drawers. Predominantly 18th Century.

Height: 12”
Length: 14.5”
Depth: 10.5”

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"

English mahogany tea chest of simple rectangular form. The beauty of this chest lies in its interior with its two silver plate tea canisters and matching silver plate sugar canister. Circa 1825.

Height: 6.25”
Length: 9.75”
Depth: 6.75”

Antique French Tea Chest with Porcelain Caddies and Sugar Bowl, rectangular top inlaid with brass and tortoiseshell ,opening to a fitted interior with floral and putti decorated bottles. Circa 1870. (Sugar bowl repaired )

Height: 5”
Length: 9.35”
Depth: 4.85”

Rookwood pottery rectangular dresser box with celedon glaze and lid with impressed flower decoration. Base and lid with impressed logo, dated 1948, pattern #6556. (Minor crazing to base.)

Length: 4.75”
Depth: 3.5”