Catalog (815)

Continental Candle Stand in calamander, having a hexagonal top and pillar with three downswept legs with gilt metal mounts. Early 20th century

Height: 29 1/2”
Diameter: 17”

Unusually Tall Regency Brass and Iron Firefender, D-form with brass crest and foot rails, cross-hatched brass wire body and raised on three squashed ball feet. English or American, circa 1800.

Height: 17.5”
Length: 31.25”
Depth: 12”

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Old House, Bladensburg, MD"

Watercolor on paper, signed lower lright and dated "1941" and titled on the reverse

Painting: 9" x 12"
Frame: 16" x 18.5"

Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

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Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He stu...

Antique Continental Demilune carved and gilt wood wall bracket. Late 19th century.

Height: 11”
Width:12”

Fine Federal Pembroke Table in mahogany inlaid with ebony and satinwood stringing having two shaped drop leaves and a single drawer. and raised on string inlaid tapered legs. Massachusetts, Circa 1805 (minor patches to top and inlay; brasses replaced.)

Height: 28 in (71.1 cm);
Width: 21-1/4 in (54 cm);
Width when open: 41-1/2 in (105.4 cm);
Depth: 30-1/2 in (77.5 cm)

Travelers in an Alpine Landscape

Swiss or German School, circa 1860.

Oil on paper, with a gilt sand mat.

Painting Size: 6” x 4.5” Oval
Frame Size: 12.25 ” x 10.25”

F. Thierry (French, 19th Century)

Table Top Still Life with Fruit and Roses

Oil on canvas, signed lower right and dated "1887"

Painting: 16" x 21 ½”
Frame: 19 ½”x 24"

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"October on Surgarloaf Mountain, MD"

Oil on board, signed and dated l.l. , and titled and dated "1958" on the reverse

Provenance: Richard Brodnax Maclin
The Estate of a Toms River Collector

Exhibited: The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstowm MD: A Seasonal View - The Landscapes of Benson Bond Moore, September 1 - October 27, 1996

Painting: 18" x 14"
Frame: 25.5" x 21.5"...

Fine 18th Century English Serpentine Firefender, in brass with pierced work and applied bead decoration. Circa 1760.

Height: 6”
Width: 40”
Depth: 5”

Mario Zamora Alcantara
(Honduran, b. 1920) Kudu

Bronze sculpture, signed: “M. Zamora A.” and inscribed: “Mex 69 V-XV”.

Height: 23”
Length: 16.5”

Zamora Alcantara was born in Honduras but spent most of his life in Mexico. He studied at the Tegucigalpa School of Arts and Crafts (now the National School of Fine Arts) under the tutelage of Alfredo Ruiz Barrera. In 1944 he emigrated to Mexico where he was in the San Carlos Academy until 1948. He also studied ...

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”

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.

Set of antique English 3-tiered bedsteps in mahogany, the top two steps hinged, and opening to storage wells and the whole supported by turned legs. Circa 1800-1840.

Height: 25.5”
Width: 16.75”
Depth: 26.375”

Brass-Mounted Gonçalo Alves Collectors Cabinet

Workshop of George Bullock, circa 1815.

Having a moulded cornice above a central recessed section with shelves flanked to each side by rows of small drawers behind scrolling grille-inset doors with columnar uprights; the conforming base with four paneled doors, two with columnar uprights and raised on a platform base.

The inverted breakfront cabinet design in the French/Grecian manner was introduced by George Bullock in the early ...

Drawings

by Jean Émile Milo (Pseudonym of Émile Marcel Jen Ghislain Van Gindertael)

Ink and Wash on paper, signed and dated:(19)65

Paper size: 8" x 5.5"
Mat size:11.5" x 8.5"
Unframed, mounted on mats

Painter, post-cubist, abstract artist Milo was the younger brother of Roger Van Gindertael, who was an artist before becoming an historian and art critic. He was a student at the Académie de Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, and of Constant Montald at the Académie des Beaux-Arts o...

Trompe l’Oeil of Sketches & Letters Pinned to a Wall

English School, circa 1896.

Oil on canvas, signed indistinctly lower right.

Painting size: 13” x 19”
Frame size: 19.25” x 25.5”

Marvin Yates (American, b.1943)

The Old General Store

Watercolor on paper, signed lower right, matted, unframed. Store sign reads: "C.T. McGraw & Co. Inc./General Merchandise/& Cotton Buyers/ Braden, Tenn."

Provenance: Philip Desind Collection, Capricorn Galleries Bethesda, MD

Yates received his education from the Memphis Academy of Arts. He is a member of the Tennessee Watercolor Society, The American Watercolor Society, and co-founder of the Memphis Watercolor Society ...

Rosin-Salviati Murano glass bookends having a clear to rose sculpted glass top above a smoked glass rectangular base. Both signed, "Rosin-Salviati, Venezia", and one retaining its "Salviati & C.-Murano" gilt label. Loredano Rosin was a noted glass sculptor and was a master glassblower at Salviati & Co, Venice, Italy. Probably after a design by Luciano Caspari, Circa 1965-1970.

Height: 9"
Width: 9.75"
Depth: 3" (of base)

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