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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”

Unusual Victorian Black Lacquer Drinks Table, having a reticulated papier mache top (now enclosed) with a polychromed scene of a fantastic landscape on a gilt decorated tripod stand with a turned pillar, scrolled legs and a plinth base supported by ball feet. English, circa 1860-70.

h:24 w:18 in.

Shore Scene with Figures

American or English School, late 19th Century

Ink wash and gouache on toned paper, retaining a partial inscription on the reverse: “original sketch...de San Filippo”.

Sight size: 9.5” x 13.5”
Frame size: 19.75” x 23.75”

Extremely Rare George III Tea Caddy in the shape of an urn-form knife box, in partridge wood with satnwood stringing, octagonal with pagoda shaped lid and acorn-form finial, urn-form body and turned socle with square plinth base having inlaid banding (lock replaced). Circa 1790. Provenance: The Terence J. Fox Collection of Tea Equipage, Formerly the Collection of Iroquois Brands, Ltd.. Height, 10.”

Alexandria, VA had a thriving salt-glazed stoneware industry throughout most of the 19th Century. Many pieces are marked with the makers name and "ALEXa" or "DC/ALEXa". Some common makers were John Swann, B.C. Milburne, H.C. Smith and E.J.Miller (a retailer). We are always interested in purchasing examples of Alexandria stoneware. If you have something you would like to sell, please send us a photo including the makers mark, size, condition and the price (we do not make offers).

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. In addition, the later attribution is confirmed by the milled metal banding, the lug on the hinge, and the inferior qu...

Rookwood pottery globular vase with celedon glaze and moulded butterfly decoration. Base impressed with Rookwood logo, dated 1944, pattern #6509. (Overall crazing and a hairline.)

Height: 4.5”

Large Japanese Imari Style Porcelain Lamp of baluster form , having a ribbed body and painted with typical Imari colors of blossoms and branches. 20th Century Height to rim: 18"

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

Dimensions: 8.25" x 7"

Antique Brass or Bronze Iota (an ablutions pot) having incised and inlaid copper checkerboard and leafage decoration. This type of metalware is known as Ganga-Jumna. Ganga meaning Ganges river, and Jumna meaning Jumna River. It is Brass and Copper because it reflects the color of the two rivers mentioned. 18th-19th C. probably from Moradabad in northern India.

Diameter: 4”

"Black Mountain"
Adolph Arthur Dehn (American, 1895-1963)
Lithograph on paper, 1946, ed. 250, pencil signed. Lumdsdaine/O'Connor 410.
Condition: very good, hinge mark upper right, unframed

Image size: 8.75" x 13"
Sheet size" 12" x 17" **For other mid-20th Century artwork in our inventory, type “modern” into the search box.

Dehn was a talented painter, illustrator and printmaker. He also taught and wrote two instructional books on artistic technique. As a pr...

Le Chateau d’Amboise, Loire Valley

Louis Courtin (French, 19th/20th century)

Oil on canvas, signed lower left and titled on the reverse.

Painting size: 18.25” x 21.75”
Frame size: 21.5” x 25.5”

The royal Château at Amboise is a château located in Amboise, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. Confiscated by the monarchy in the 15th century, it became a favoured royal residence and was extensively rebuilt. King Charles VIII...

Important Antique English Gilt Wood and Composition Girandole Mirror, the oval mirror plate within a leaf carved surround and within mirrored borders with crossed vine-form decoration. The cresting and pendant formed with scrolling leaf and paterae and the pendant with three vine and floral decorated candlearms. Early 19th century.

Height: 64", Width: 38", Depth: 12"

American or English School, circa 1845-1850

Portrait of a Young Woman with Kashmir Shawl

Oil on canvas.

Painting size: 30” x 25”
Frame size: 35” x 30”

French School, Mid 18th Century

The Hurdy Gurdy Player

Oil on canvas

Painting Size: 12.25” x 10.5”
Frame Size: 22.25” x 20.25”

This charming moonlit scene with peasants around a campfire and its monochromatic harmony place it in a tradition of genre painting that goes all the way back to Brueghel. Stylistically it is reminiscent of the early work of Antoine Watteau when he chose as his subject the life of ordinary folk rather than the fêtes galant...

Children by a Stream

Frank James Turner (English, fl. 1863-1875 )

Oil on artist board in arched panel frame, signed.

Turner was best known for his rustic and country subjects. He exhibited at both the British Institution and Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street.

Turner is listed in the Dictionary of British Art, Vol. IV, Victorian Painters by Wood.

Sight size: 22” x 8”
Frame size: 29.5” x 16”

Theodore Hermann William Koppen (German, 1828-1903)

California Condors, Morro Bay

Oil on canvas, signed and dated: “1893”.

Painting size: 21.5” x 29.5”
Frame size: 30.25” x 38.75”

Koppen was born in Brake, Germany and died in Nymphenbourg. He was known for his paintings of marine and historical scenes, as well as portraits.

He is listed in Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs by Bénézit.

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