Catalog (393)

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Cloud Shadows, Bluemont, VA"

Oil on board, signed lower right and titled on the reverse

Painting: 10.25" x 16"
Frame: 14.5" x 20"

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 studied at the Corcoran ...

Unusual Rookwood potpourri with matt-glaze and pierced cover (hairline). Impressed Rookwood mark, 1929.

Height: 4”

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.

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

Length: 9"

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.

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Moonrise, Woodridge, D.C."

Oil on board, signed lower left and titled on the reverse

Painting: 9" x 12"
Frame: 16.5" x 19.5"

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 studied at the Corcoran Schoo...

Conrad Schwiering (American 1916-1986)

Jade Pool

Oil on artist board, signed lower right, titled on reverse and stamped with artist’s copyright mark and printed signature

Painting Size: 20” x 24"
Frame Size: 25 ” x 29”

Schwiering was born in Boulder, Colorado and grew up in Laramie, Wyoming where he developed his lifelong love for the western landscape. As a student at the University of Wyoming, he minored in art and studied under Robert Grahame and ...

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Cypresses, Cape Fear River, N. Car."

Oil on board, signed lower right, dated "(19)52" and titled on the reverse

Painting: 11" x 14"

Frame: 15.25" 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...

Fine Antique English Canterbury in Walnut, having four pierced partitions with “C” scroll carved decoration above a single drawer and raised on turned ball form feet with brass casters. Circa 1850-1870

Originally designed for sheet music, these are now used primarily as magazine racks. To see other examples, type "canterbury" into the search box.

Height: 20”
Width: 20.5”
Depth: 14.5”

Exceptional Regency bombé tea caddy in “tiger” tortoiseshell, having a pagoda shaped top opening to an interior with two lidded compartments. Circa 1800-20. (One back foot replaced.)
Dimensions: 7.5” x 4.75” x 6”

Rare Pair of Grand Tour Bronze Candlesticks, each having a single candlecup above a bronze urn with entwined snake-form handles, leafage decoration and mounted on a polished slate base. Circa 1860 (previously wired).

Height : 10.25”

John Hovannes (American, 1900-1973)

Mermaid

Stone sculpture, signed and dated "1962"

Height: 17.5" (with base)

(There are traces of red paint on the sides, perhaps a flaw in the stone)

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Hovannes, an Armenian, was born in Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey and initially educated there, probably escaping at the beginning of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). He studied at t...

August H.O. Rolle (American 1875-1941)

River Birches

Oil on Canvas, Signed lower right and titled and signed on reverse

Painting: 20" x 24"
Frame: 24" x 28"

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August Herman Olson Rolle, painter, printmaker and graphic artist, dabbled in many activitie...

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)

Alfred Wordsworth Thompson (American 1840-1896)

Lake Scene in Western Maryland

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right and dated “1861”

Painting Size: 8 ½”” x 16”
Frame Size: 12.5” x 20”

Thompson was a landscape, historical and portrait painter, born in Baltimore where he studied law with his father. In 1859 Thompson decided to become and artist and opened a studio in Baltimore. During the first year of the Civil War (1860) he worked as a combat artis...

James Francis O’Brien (American, 1917-1996)

Excavation Site, 16th & I Streets

Oil on canvas, located, inscribed and dated: “1958” on the reverse.

Painting size: 24” x 18”
Frame size: 29” x 23”

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Oval portrait miniature of a young woman; watercolor, signed indistinctly. She is wearing a lace and floral trimmed bonnet, braids coiled over her ears, pearls and a ruched off the shoulder rose dress, all typical of the 1840’s.

Frame: 5.5” x 4.75”

Antique English Plant Stand in mahogany, the circular top with molded lip on a reeded pedestal base with shaped tripod legs on slipper feet. Circa 1880.

h: 29.5 x dia: 11.75 in.