Catalog: Antiques: Decorative Art (51)

Model of a Royal Carriage, realistically detailed with an ebonized carved wood and gilt decorated coach with one working door. Resting on a working metal suspension undercarriage and wheels, one removable trunk.

Late 19th/Early 20 C

H 13 in. x W 41 in. over all, coach 28 in. x D 9 in.

Carved Wooden Top Hat

(Early 20th C., some scratches

12.25” x 10” x 6.75” tall

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"

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

Height: 2.35”
Diameter: 4.5”

Exceptional Burled Walnut cave-à-liqueur having hinged top and front panel opening to an interior with removable tray fitted with gilt decanters and glasses. French, late 19th century.

Height: 10.5”
Width: 13”
Depth: 9.75”

Most likely French, 19th century, snuff/pill box, However, it clearly dates to the late nineteenth century. The lug and ribbed banding on the metal hinge, as well as the loose hand-painted nature of the lid identify this box as a nineteenth century creation.

Very good condition. Some loss to interior enamel and on the underside.

Rare antique Chinese Famille Rose covered mustard pot and under tray with typical painted decoration and applied bud form knob. Circa 1860 (minor wear to gilt decoration).**

Height: 3.75”
Dish Diameter: 5.5”

**See: Schiffer, Chinese Export Porcelain, illustration #404 for similar example.

Antique American Tea caddy in maple with pewter stringing and a pewter plaque with the word "tea", inside are two lidded compartments. Circa 1870.

Height: 3.75"
Length: 7.5"
Depth: 4.5"

Humorous Staffordshire Pottery "Admiral Nelson" Pitcher moulded in the form of Lord Nelson (but missing the wrong arm) with a rather strategically placed spout, and a Rockingham mottled brown glaze. Probably English, circa 1850.

8" x 4" x 9.5" tall

Antique oval pressed and engraved crystal dresser box with gilt metal mounts. Probably French, Circa 1900.

3.5" x 4.5" x 3.5” tall

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"

Most likely French, 19th century. A nineteenth-imitation of the extremely popular souvenir boxes made in Bilston at the end of the eighteenth century (see 5218-18). However, it clearly dates to the late nineteenth century. The lug and ribbed banding on the metal hinge, and the inferior quality of the painting identify this box as a nineteenth-century creation...

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...

Unusual metal mounted black glass dresser box with enameled decoration of flowers and a figure with bee. American, 1870-90.

Length: 4”
Width: 3”
Height: 5”

Antique Masonic Gold Presentation Cane, inscribed “Presented to. Worshipful Bro. John Lee, member of Lg. No. 382, Dec. 22, 1876” with a Rosewood Shaft

Length 34"

Antique English small barrel in lignum vitae with ivory stopper and later brass spout. Early-mid 19th century.

Length: 9"

Antique Handmade American Ship Model in a wood and glass case.
Circa 1900.

Length: 19”
Height: 14”
Depth: 7”

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...