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Howard Weston Arnold (American, b. 1904)

Flowers in a Vase

Watercolor and gouache on paper, signed.

Painting Size: 12” x 10”
Frame Size: 21.25” x 18.5”

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Illustrator, designer, painter and educator, Arnold was born in Chicago, IL in 1904. He studied at Cooper Union Art School, Grand Central School, National Academy of Design, and New York Industrial Scho...

Augustus John: Fifty-Two Drawings

Signed, limited edition, with an introduction by Lord David Cecil. Published by George Rainbird, London (1957). Hardcover folio, 16.5 x 11.75 inches. Limited to 150 copies of which this is Number 107 with slipcase. Signed by Augustus John and Lord David Cecil and inscribed to the art collector Emily Chadbourne and signed a second time by Augustus John. The book was designed and produced by George Rainbird and Ruari McLean.The lithograph self-portrait w...

Auguste Marie Barreau (French, d.1922)

Young Woman in Grecian Dress

A gilt and patinated bronze statue, signed on the base and inscribed “Médaille d’Or à l’Exposition des Beaux Arts 1865” and “Acheté par l’État”.

Height: 24.5”

Born in France, Auguste Marie Barreau, was a sculptor active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français and the Exposition des Beaux Arts of 1865 where he won ...

Small George III Writing Table in mahogany with a rectangular, hinged ratcheting top, two candle slides and a removable book rest on a turned, adjustable height pedestal base with tripod legs and slipper feet ending in brass castors. English, circa 1760

h:29 w:22 d:18.75 in.

#530 Antique Anglo-Indian Tea Chest, sandalwood overlaid with strips of elk horn. The box is rectangular with sloped sides. The elk horn on the top of the stepped, sloping lid arranged in a starburst pattern. The fitted interior is decorated with incised ivory panels, highlighted with lac, a similarly decorated pair of removable caddies and a circular cut crystal sugar bowl and a horn caddy spoon. (The squashed ball feet are later replacements. Lid lack support). Valtair, Vizagapatam, possi...

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 Ashworth Porcelain Trivit, square, with Imari style decoration, squashed bun feet and an impressed mark dating to 1862-80. Made by G.L. Ashworth and Bro., Hanley, England

Height: 10”
Length: 10”

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

An Antique Cinnabar Chinese carved tea jar. Carved in high relief with figures in a garden landscape. Some carved flowers on the lid and shoulder of the jar.

5 6 7/8" x 1/4". Condition: VG, some age wear to the surface

Provenance: The Estate of Giraud V. Foster.

Large antique English brass candlestick with ring turned shaft and rectangular rounded corner base. Circa 1860, now wired as a lamp.

Height: 22” (to shade)

Rare Red Lacquer Tea Chest of bombe shape with cut corners having a hinged steppedlid opening to two engraved pewter caddies,t he whole with gilt decoration and raised on dragon form feet.

Chinese,circa 1850

9.5" x 7"x 5.5" tall

Portrait of the British Schooner "ESTHER"

Oil on canvas, 19th century Signed indistinctly lower right "Wm Mc *****" and dated

Painting: 21" x 28.5"
Frame: 27" x 34.25"

Ship portraits, such as this, were commissioned by the new owner often time itinerant artists who traveled around different boat builders looking for work. They documented exactly what the ship looked like with full sails, flags and rigging so if a boat was lost at sea the portrait could...

English, Bilston, 18th century, patch box. These memento boxes were popular at the end of the eighteenth century and frequently given as tokens of friendship and love. Usually oval in shape, but also circular and rectangular, their decoration reflected the popular styles of the day. For example, by the 1790s Neoclassical style swags, doves, hearts, and borders were the most commonly used decoration of the day.

Allover cracking. Small losses to the lid, one side and the bottom.

Susan B...

Fine 18th century English single compartment tea caddy in harewood, having hinged rectangular top with boxwood stringing and bone pull and escutcheon opening to an inner lid. Circa 1780.

Unusual Wood Tea Caddy or Tobacco Box in the form of a doghouse with brass nails and door surround and with a brass dog sitting outside. It opens by gently lowering the dog's hinged head which releases the peaked roof form lid which opens to a tin lined interior. The whole is mounted on a plinth base with brass beading. Circa 1870, probably Black Forest.

11.75" x 5.5" x 7" tall

Rare English Regency Hawksbill and Greenback Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy with ivory and pewter stringing, having cut corners and a bowed front panel with pressed tortoise in concentric ovals with fan corners and central inlaid silver oval with leafage border; the bowed lid surmounted by a ball finial and the whole raised on ball feet. Circa 1800-15. (Key). Height, 6”; Length, 8”; Depth, 4.75.”

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.

Rare Child's Jackfield Pottery Teapot

3.5" tall 5" max width