Catalog: Antiques (206)

5218-21: English, Bilston, late 18th century, patch box these memento boxes were popular at the end of the eighteenth century and frequently given as tokens of friendship and love. Usually oval in shape, but also circular and rectangular, there decoration reflected the popular styles of the day. For example, by the 1790s Neoclassical style swags, doves, hearts, and borders were the most commonly used decoration of the day. This box reads "Unity is the bond of society."

Rare 18th C. Dutch Childs Tea Caddy in dark tortoise shell with ivory banding and feet. Rectangular with a hinged translucent lid opening to a lidded compartment.

4" x 2.75" x3.25" tall

Part of a child's social education was learning about the 'Tea Ceremony'

Art Nouveau Vase by the Amphora Pottery, Turn Teplitz, Austria, decorated with moulded leaves with gilt stems, stamped base. Circa 1905-10, attributed to Paul Daschel.

Height 6.5"

French, 19th century, Samson. The crossed “S” marks on the interior lid of this nineteenth-century snuff box indicates that this was, in fact, a product of the Samson factory. Edmé Samson founded the House of Samson in 1845 to decorate porcelain. However, it was Edmé’s son, Emile, who expanded the firm to include the reproduction of eighteenth-century English enamels...

EARLY SEA CAPTAIN’s LONG GLASS. Especially nice hand-held telescope made by the London maker T. Lorkin, as beautifully engraved in script near the eyepiece, “T. Lorkin, London, Day or Night.” This fine, olde English example has an early form single draw with wooden barrel and brass fittings. The wooden barrel is turned of a single piece of solid mahogany. The all original four lens optics produce a highly magnified, upright image of surprising clarity...

Rare Child’s Miniature Tole Tea Caddy of Sarcophagus Form, having a shaped lid surmounted by a cast brass knop and with paw form feet: decorated with “smoke” graining and on the front a patera of polychrome flowers. American or English. Circa 1810. (Losses) Provenance: The Cockrell Collection. 3” x 2.25” x 3.5”

Fine English Regency tea chest of sarcophagus form in rosewood, banded and inlaid with brass; the rectangular, canted lid opens to a fitted interior with two lidded tea caddies ad a later sugar bowl. Circa 1810-15.

Height: 6"
Length: 13"
Depth: 6.5"

English Gilt Wood Mirror

Size: 31.5” x 26.5”

Fine 18th-century English carved and gilt wood mirror with corner rosettes and later, distressed mirror plate. Circa 1760-80.

Charming Victorian Bar Dispenser consisting of three metal bound miniature barrels with spigots and pails on a metal mounted stand Barrel are marked: Whiskey,Brandy Gin.

English,circa 1870-80

Each barrel 7.5"long, overall: 14" x 7" x 13"tall

(n.b. the dispensers are working, but are not very practical. Buy for decoration or amusement)

Antique Chinese Export Rouge Lacquer Tea Caddy with faux painted brass banding; rectangular with brass carrying handles and gilt decoration, the hinged lid opening to a large pewter removable box with hinged lid and engraved decoration of figures in a landscape. Circa 1870. (rubbing to painted banding)

11.5" x 7.75" x 5.5" tall

On Monday January 3, 1752, the Dutch East India Company, (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) ship Geldermalsen, struck a reef on her return journey to the Netherlands and sank in the South China Sea...

Rare Chester County Pennsylvania Spice Chest in walnut having a moulded cornice above a raised panel door opening to an arrangement of ten small drawers (one replaced) and raised on straight bracket feet. Secondary woods include: poplar, oak, walnut and beech. There is a faint inscription on one of the bottom drawers. Pennsylvania, circa 1760-80.

Spice boxes or chests were a status symbol in colonial America. Only a household that was well furnished and fairly prosperous had a spice box...

Antique Regency Sarcophagus Form Tea Chest in rosewood having a hinged lid inlaid with a classical scene with griffins flanking an urn and opening to a fitted interior with two removable lidded caddies and a later sugar bowl and spoon, and the whole mounted with brass lion and ring handles and feet.

English,Circa 1800

13" x 6.5" x 7.5" tall

Antique American Mariners Telescope with leather covering, single draw, sunshade and sliding covers to both lenses; inscribed "R.A. Tibbets, Gloucester Mass., Day or Night" *

Circa 1830-40

Length Open: 38.25"
Length Closed: 20.75"

*Robert Abbot Tibbets, was a retailer of nautical equipment, watches/clocks, jewelry and silver...

Exceptional Antique Eglomise Lacemakers Box on later Stand; rectangular with lid and sides with gilt decoration against a white ground and the lid with a painted scene of a thatched farmhouse, opening to fitted interior with removable tray and lacemakers spindle/roller. 19th Century (minor paint losses)

Box: 13.25" x 11" x 4.5"
With stand: 30.25" tall

French Boulle Style Tea Caddy, rectangular with cut-corners and slightly domed lid with all sides and two interior lids extensively inlaid with engraved brass and red and black colored lacquer simulating tortoise-shell in the 17th century manner. Circa 1850.

Provenance: The Cockrell Collection. (Key). (See our #555 for a related example with blue lacquer ground.) See Clark & O’Kelly, p. 109-10 for related boxes. Height, 4.5”; Length, 8.75”; Depth, 4.5.”

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...

Small antique Chinese black lacquer tea caddy with gilt decoration of figures in landscapes. Circa 1880.

Length: 6”
Width: 4”
Height: 3.25”