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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.

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. His shop was at 117 Front Street, since renamed Main Str...

Antique American Gilded Wood and Gesso Mirror. The thick turned columns of the frame with applied gesso decoration, were popular in the late Empire period, 1830-1850. Probably Philadelphia. There is a similar labeled example in The Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum.

Plate: 23 ½” x 13 ½”
Frame:31 ¾” x 21 ¾”

Antique Grand Tour Bronze Urn with a figural circular lid, tapering body with mythological relief figures of day and night, mask form handles and and a slate and red marble stepped circular base, Late 19th Century.

Unmarked. - 12 1/4 tall (small chips to base).

Rare Mahogany Brass Bound Bottle Cooler, late 18th C., with pierced handle and shaped rim, the sides with three brass bands and the top edge with a line of boxwood stringing. English, circa 1780. Originally with a tin liner.

Provenance: The Harry Z. Isaacs Collection from Historic Long Branch Estate, Virginia*

Length :16.25 in.
Height to Handles: 8.5"

*Long Branch was built on property surveyed by a young George Washington for Lord Fairfax. In 1788, Robert Carter Burwell inher...

Gondola on the Grand Canal, Venice

Solange Bertrand (French, 1913-)

Watercolor on paper, signed and dated “(19)55.”

Apparently in good condition (not examined out of the frame) .

Sight size: 10.5” x 14.25”
Frame size 16" x 19.5"

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Painter, sculptor and engraver Solange Bertrand was born in Montigny-les-Metz, France. She studied at the Ecole de...

Tall Antique Chinese Export Rose Medallion Vase of baluster form with applied salamander decoration and foo dog handles having ten painted panels with figural or bird and blossom decoration surrounded by floral decoration. Circa 1870. (tight star crack on bottom, chip under rim).

Height: 23"

Exceptional Sheraton Tea Chest in satinwood banded in rosewood and with ebony and boxwood stringing: having a rectangular hinged lid with silverplated pull opening to an interior with two fitted tea caddies with oval lids and similar inlaid decoration. English, circa 1790. 8" x 6" x 6" tall

Rare Pair of Regency Upholstered Footstools, of square inverted trapezoidal form with a rosewood base and carved mahogany scroll form feet. Circa 1800. (losses to needlework covering)

6.5" x 16.5" x 6.5" tall

Small Antique Domed Top Penwork Sewing Box, having a hooped handle above a domed lid decorated with a scene of abby ruins, canted sides, and a front panel with scrolled, foliate decoration. Circa 1800, probably English. (overall scratches)

4" tall without the handle, 6 1/4" with it up, 5 3/8 " deep and 5 1/2 "wide not including the handle

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Silver Lake, Wilson, NC

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

Oil on canvasboard, titled and dated: “1975” on the reverse.

Painting size: 12” x 16”
Frame size: 15.5” x 19.5”

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Parian bust of Juliet, impressed “J&TB” for James and Thomas Bevington, potters in Hanley, England. They used this mark from 1863-1876.
Height: 6.5"

Chickens in a Courtyard

Ernst Hawlicek (Austrian, 1888-1938)

Watercolor and gouache on paper, signed lower left.

Painting size: 20.75" x 14.25"
Frame size: 28.75" x 22.25"

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Autumn in Maryland"

Oil on board, signed lower left and titled and dated "Oct. 1952" on the reverse

Painting: 9" x 12"
Frame: 11.75" x 14.75"

SAFA/10979 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...

Girls Gathering Water

English, mid- to late- 19th century

Oil on artist’s board, retaining a Windsor & Newton supply dating ca. 1865-1890.

Painting size: 10” x 14”
Frame size: 13.75” x 17.75”

This quiet Victorian genre scene shows two young girls gathering water at a spring. The older girl gives a container to the younger one, steadying the load a moment to ensure that she can carry it. The little girl’s upright posture indicates that she is ...

ENGLISH REGENCY MUSIC STAND in mahogany, Circa 1800-1820. having a rectangular adjustable slope top with a hinged bookrest, a pillar support ending in three reeded and splayed legs with brass castors and an adjustable height brass lined square wooden shaft inside the column, fixed by a brass thumbscrew.

Width 20 3/4"
Height: 36" when flat
41" to 58" when angled

18th-century English Transferware Patch Box; Now known as Royal Leamington Spa, the town of Leamington began its prodigious spa industry in 1784 when it began building baths around its salt springs. Consequently, the image on this patch box displays a Classical figure holding a caduceus, a symbol of the medical community dating back the sixteenth century. Thus, it is safe to say that this could have been produced no earlier than the last quarter of the eighteenth century. In addition, this box...

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"A Maryland Farm, Autumn"

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

Painting: 14" x 18"
Frame: 19.75" x 23.75

" 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 Corcor...