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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

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.

Dirk Ocker (Dutch, 1882-1958)

Blossoms and Bugs
Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Ledge

Oil-on-canvas, signed on reverse

$2150 Painting: 20 ¼” x 17 ¾”
Frame: 26 ¾” x 23” SAFA/11078

Henry Arthur Elkins (American, 1847-1884)

Artists Falls Near North Conway, New Hampshire

Oil on canvas, signed lower right and located on the reverse.

Provenance: from the Collection of a direct descendant (for other paintings from this collection , type "Elkins" into the search box)

Painting size: 16” x 10”
Frame size: 21.25” x 15.25”

Born in Vershire, VT, Elkins moved to Chicago in 1856 and it was in the midwest that he gained his reputation as a ...

Newbold Hugh Trotter (American 1827-1898)

Coastal Landscape

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right and dated 1873; in original frame

Painting: 14” x 24”
Frame: 23 ½” x 33 ½”

Born in Philadelphia in 1827, Trotter worked for a machinist company and a dry goods company in Philadelphia and served in the Germantown Home Guards during the Civil War. It was not until he was 40 that Trotter turned to painting as a full time occupation.

Trotte...

THE Book on Alexandria Stoneware and Pottery - limited supply available

Antique Rosewood Tea Caddy inlaid with brass stars and opening to two lidded compartments.

Circa1850, probably French.

7.5" x 4.25" x 4.5" tall

On Monday January 3, 1752, the Dutch East India Company, (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) ship Geldermalsen, struck a reef on her return journey to the Netherlands and sank in the South China Sea. Of the crew 32 survived and 80 went down with the ship and her cargo of tea, raw silk, textiles, dried wares, groceries, lacquer and porcelain. The "Nanking cargo" is the modern name given to the porcelain cargo.

 The cargo of Chinese porcelain was originally potted in Jingdezhen, Ji...

Set of Four Hammered and Silvered Bronze Arts and Crafts Candlesticks, Early 20th Century, Unmarked. 13" high.

Paul Chidlaw (American 1900-1989)

View Across the River

Oil on board, signed lower right

Painting: 23 ½” x 31”

Frame: 27 ¾” x 35 ¼”

Chidlaw was an Ohio artist, where he studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He later studied at L’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In the early 1930’s Chidlaw traveled and studied in Europe and North Africa. Chidlaw returned to Cincinnati in 1935 where he had a studio and taught drawing and painting at va...

Benson Bond Moore (American,1882-1974)

Autumn in the Blue Ridge Mountains (near Emmittsburg, PA[sic]) 1955

Oil on board, signed lower left and dated “1955”. Titled on the reverse

Painting Size: 15.5” x 19.5”
Frame Size: 23.5” x 27.5”

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

William Aiken Walker (American 1838-1921 )

Couple in a Cottonfield

Oil- on panel, unsigned

Painting: 7 ¾” x 6 ½”

Frame: 10 ¼” x 9”

William Aiken Walker was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1839 to an Irish Protestant father and a mother of South Carolina background. Walker would grow up southerner through and through. He completed his first painting at age twelve and continued painting until his death in 1921 at age eighty-three.

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English mahogany tea chest of simple rectangular form. The beauty of this chest lies in its interior with its two silver plate tea canisters and matching silver plate sugar canister. Circa 1825.

Height: 6.25”
Length: 9.75”
Depth: 6.75”

Sept Dialogues de Betes

by Colette Willy

Printed in Paris, 1927, inscribed and signed

Now quarterbound in black leather with gilt and raised spine, marbled boards and endpapers and gilt top edge, several pages uncut.

We always have a good selection of 19th (and sometimes 18th) Century Brass Candlesticks in both pairs and singles. Many of the 19th C. examples have their original "push-up" mechanisms intact. Singles are usually $95-$145. and pairs usually $225-$385. The photographs show just some examples. To see what we have in stock, go back and type 'candlesticks' into the search box in the upper right. We have many more than are shown on the website.

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

Height: 4”

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...

Fine George III Oval Brass Bound Peat Bucket with oak staves and brass banding, liner and loop handle. English, Circa 1780.

10" x 13"