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Charming American Miniature Blanket Chest in chestnut, having a hinged moulded edge top opening to a well, a single lower drawer and raised on straight bracket feet. Note the fine dovetail work on the sides.

American 1780-1800.

Many miniatures are labeled as "salesman's samples" but many were the work of apprentices to show their skills to the master craftsman.

12.5 x 7" x 8.5" tall
(one back foot ended out)

Rare Chinese export carved wood tea caddy in the form of an eggplant with leaf form screw lid. Early 19th century.

Height: 4.5”

Large Antique Chinese Black Lacquer Tea Caddy, rectangular with hinged lid opening to an engraved pewter (pac-tung) liner ; the whole decorated with figures in gardens and with brass carrying handles.

Circa 1860. 13.5" x 11" x 8.5" tall (minor losses, filled crack in lid)

Rare 18th century fruit wood apple shaped tea caddy, having a circular hinged lid with carved bone “stem”, opening to a tin-lined interior. Probably Continental, Circa 1760-80.

Height: 4.5"

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”

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"A Potomac Vista"

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

Painting: 9" x 6.75"

Frame: 11" x 9"

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 C...

English Polychrome Painted Navette Form Tea Caddy decorated with gilt powdered ground and vingnettes of frollicking putti

Late 18th Century

Provenance: From the Estate of Mario Buatta

The Scottish Traveler

British School, Circa 1870

Charming Genre Scene showing a traveler beseiged by begging children. The Victorians loved this type of painting that "tells a story", Note how the little girl staring straight out pulls you into the picture

Ptg: 27" x 33"
Frame: 32.5" x 38.5"

Antique American Sailors Cane Handle with ivory handle, hallmarked gold collar and shark’s vertebra shaft. Circa 1860, now mounted on a wood base.

Overall height: 12"

Morpheus

By Lisa Scheer

Brushed Copper with brown patina

signed: "L.. Scheer" and numbered: "2/4" and titled.

h: 14.25" x l: 35"x d :17"

Lisa Scheer is a sculptor from Washington, D.C and a professor at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Scheer has her BA from Bennington College and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University. She has exhibited her sculpture widely including one-person exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, the American Institute...

Antique Victorian Brass and Oak Magazine Rack

English , circa 1880

14" x 5.5" x 13"tall

Wonderful Victorian Church Form Whimsey in mahogany, having two drawers and a small well beneath the steeple.

English or American, circa 1870.

10" x 6"x 16"tall

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...

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Autumn, Near Luray Virginia"

$4500. Oil on Board, signed and dated l.r., and titled and dated "1951" on the reverse.

Painting: 16" x 20"
Frame: 23.5 x 27.5"

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Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

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

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Near Waynesville, N. Car."

Oil on board, signed lower left and titled and dated "1954" on the reverse

Painting: 5" x 12"
Frame: 12.5" x 19.75

" Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

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Fine Large Pair of Regency Wood and Brass Candlesticks with fluted shafts and turned, circular bases. English, 1800-1820

Height: 21.5"

Harriette F A Sutcliffe (British, fl.1881 - 1922)

Beauty and the Beast

Oil on canvas, signed with monogram and titled on the reverse

Exhibited: The Royal Academy, 1899

Miss Suitcliff was a Hampstead painter of genre and portraits who exhibited at the royal academy from 1881-1899 and elsewhere.

Source:

Christopher Wood, The Dictionary of Victorian Painters

Painting Size: 16" x 20" Frame Size: 24" x 28"

Mother and Children

by: Timoleon Mari Lobrichon (French, 1831- 1914)

Painter, born in Cornod, April 26,1931 and died in Paris in January 1914. A student of Picot, he debuted at the Paris Salon in 1859 and won a medal in 1860 and was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1882, Lobrichon is often celebrated for his portraits of children. He also exhibited in Germany and Melbourne. Museums that hold his works are in Amsterdam,Besancon and Limoges.
Taken from: Benezit, "Dictionnai...