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Exceptional Arts & Crafts painted leather necessaire with tooled, painted and gilt decoration of birds and blossoms, opening to an interior complete with almost all of its original fittings including bottles and trays with fire gilt lids, brushes, combs, buttonhook, etc. French, c. 1870-1880.

Height: 8”
Length: 11.25”
Width: 12.5”

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"Autumn Woods, Bluemont, VA"

$2350. Oil on Canvasboard, signed lr, and titled on the reverse

Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

Painting: 12" x 9"
Frame: 19.5" x 16.5"

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

MATCHED PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY CANED LIBRARY ARM CHAIRS, both with curved rectangular backs, padded seat, and arms with reeded, disengaged colonettes in reeded frames on similarly turned legs with brass casters. Upholstered in green brocade. English Regency, circa 1800 (one with brass fittings in handholds for a bookrest and with small break to caning under the arm.)

h:36.25 w:28 d:31 in.

Carved Wooden Top Hat

(Early 20th C., some scratches

12.25” x 10” x 6.75” tall

Rare Small Dutch Marquetry Collectors Cabinet in rosewood and ebony with elaborately fitted interior with hidden drawers. 18th/19th Century

19.75"x14.5"x 6.25" deep

Léon Pilet (French 1840-1916 )

Pandora

Gilt Bronze, signed

Pilet was known for his beautifully detailed sculptures in bronze of allegorical, historical and classical figures, as well as busts of his contemporaries. He studied with A. Toussaint in Paris and exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1861-1914 where he garnered numerous awards. Pilet was also a noted sculptor of medallions.

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Antique Gilt Silver and Green Chalcedony Mounted Crystal and Mahogany Umbrella Handle in the Secessionist taste. European, Circa 1900, now mounted on a carved wood base.

Height: 13"

Antique American Tea caddy in maple with pewter stringing and a pewter plaque with the word "tea", inside are two lidded compartments. Circa 1870.

Height: 3.75"
Length: 7.5"
Depth: 4.5"

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

Kitchen Still Life

Oil on canvas, signed, titled on reverse.

Painting size: 16” x 20”
Frame size: 21” x 25”

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Born in Newtonville, Massachusetts, O’Brie...

English, Bilston, late 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, the 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. This one reads "The Absent Not Forgotten."

Source:
Susan Benjamin. En...

Lily Gabriella Spandorf (American, 1915-2000)

Ford's Theatre, Washington D.C.

Watercolor on paper, signed lower right

Sight size: 17.25" x 23.25"
Frame size: 25.25" x 31.25"

Before making her home and career in Washington, DC, Spandorf was educated at the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna, Austria. However, once she settled in Washington, she became an active participant in the art community. She held memberships in the Washington Press Club and Artist’s Equit...

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

Hilltop

Oil on board, signed ll

Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

Painting: 10" x 14"
Frame: 17" x 20.75"

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Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art with Messer and Brooke , and also with W...

Most likely French, 19th century. A nineteenth-imitation of the extremely popular souvenir boxes made in Bilston at the end of the eighteenth century (see 5218-18). However, it clearly dates to the late nineteenth century. The lug and ribbed banding on the metal hinge, and the inferior quality of the painting identify this box as a nineteenth-century creation. It’s also important to note that the use of the French on the lid is not indicative of its origin, but rather another attempt at eight...

August H.O. Rolle (American 1875-1941)

Impressionist Landscape with Stream

Oil on Canvas Board, Signed lower right.

Provenance: From the Estate of a Toms River Collector

Painting: 8" x 10"
Frame: 13.5" x 15.25"

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August Herman Olson Rolle, painter, printmaker and grap...

Caroline van Hook Bean (American, 1879-1980)

View of the White House

Oil on canvas board, signed lower right and dated "(19)70"

Provenance: From the Estate of James Zwolenik, Washington, D.C.

Painting Size: 12" x 16"
Frame Size: 15.5"� x 19.5"�

Caroline van Hook Bean was born into a well-to-do family in Washington, DC. Her father, Tarleton H. Bean was a noted ichthyologist at the Smithsonian Museum. At the age of 14 she was sent to Paris for a year to...

Fine pair of antique Neoclassical giltwood mirrors with rectangular mirror plates within moulded frames above D-shaped shelves with foliate decorated supports. Mid 19th Century.

Height: 31”
Width: 17”

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

Drugstore on 14th Street

Oil on canvas, signed, inscribed on the reverse.

Painting size: 16” x 20”

Frame size: 21” x 25”

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Bor...

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

Bethesda Oriental Restaurant

Oil on canvas, signed, located, inscribed and dated: “1983” on the reverse.

Painting size: 24” x 20”
Frame size: 29” x 25”

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