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Model of a Royal Carriage, realistically detailed with an ebonized carved wood and gilt decorated coach with one working door. Resting on a working metal suspension undercarriage and wheels, one removable trunk.

Late 19th/Early 20 C

H 13 in. x W 41 in. over all, coach 28 in. x D 9 in.

New York City Hall, Oct. 1765 Site of Stamp Act Congress.

(American School, early- to mid- 20th Century)

Oil on canvas board, titled on reverse.

Painting: 11” x 14”
Frame: 15” x 18”

The strong linear forms and attention to architectural detail suggests that this painting is the work of a skilled illustrator.

Antique American Federal Octagonal Tea Caddy, in mahogany the hinged top with satinwood stringing and banding opens to an interior well with a “floating” lid. Circa 1800.

See #10802 for another caddy by the same unknown maker

Height: 5”
Width: 6.5”

Dirk Schäfer (Dutch, 1864-1941)

Chest Top Buddhist Shrine

Oil-on-canvas, signed and dated “1936” Upper right

Painting: 23 ½” x 20 ¼”
Frame: 30” x 25 ½”

Netherlands artist, Dirk Schäfer was born in The Hague in 1864. He studied at the Academy in the Hague under Fr. Becker from 1880-1886. He later worked in The Hague, Amsterdam and Voorburg, painting still lifes, genre scenes and portraits. He worked in many mediums including oil, pencil, pas...

Antique George II Style Footstool in mahogany, having a slip seat, carved apron, Chippendale cabriole legs with carved shells on the knees and with nicely defined ball and claw feet. Circa 1880. 26" x 19.75" x 20' tall

John Henry Smith (British, fl.1852-1893)

An Artist at Work

Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left and dated “1863”

Painting Size: 22.25” x 18”
Frame Size: 31.25 ” x 27.25”

This charming portrait of a young woman artist at work is a wonderful depiction of the painter and her tools. Her subject of a vase of flowers with fruit sits on a table to her right. The sturdy adjustable easel has a shelf where she has laid out her tubes of pigments. She is using a...

Charming Majolica Ceramic Face Jug in the form of a smiling man with a cap and ruffled collar. Circa 1880, incised “Majolica” with indecipherable maker’s mark on bottom. (Minor abrasions to ear, cheeks, nose and chin.)

Height: 8”

Rare antique British folding campaign desk in mahogany having hinged leather lined writing surface that folds for transport. Circa 1860-70.

Height: 29”
Length (open): 24”
Width: 24”

See British Campaign Furniture, Elegance Under Canvas,1740-1914 by Nicholas Brawer for similar examples.

Rare pair of Gothic Revival Sidechairs by the Green Family of Cabinetmakers, Alexandria Virginia; in walnut with leafage carved and shaped crest rails over turned spindles and with drop in seats, serpentine front seat rails and raised on saber legs . Circa 1850-70.

These chairs are very closely related to chairs (#14 & #15) in Oscar Fitzgerald's catalog: "The Green Family of Cabinetmakers: An Alexandria Institution, 1817-1887"

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Extremely Rare George III Tea Caddy in the shape of an urn-form knife box, in partridge wood with satnwood stringing, octagonal with pagoda shaped lid and acorn-form finial, urn-form body and turned socle with square plinth base having inlaid banding (lock replaced). Circa 1790. Provenance: The Terence J. Fox Collection of Tea Equipage, Formerly the Collection of Iroquois Brands, Ltd.. Height, 10.”

Late Federal Tripod Candlestand in Maple, having a rectangular top with cut corners, a turned vasiform pillar and raised on three downswept tapered legs. New England, 1790-1810.

Height: 29”
Length: 18”
Depth: 16”

Entering the Harbor

Attributed to Johannes Christiaan Schotel (Dutch, 1787-1838)

Charcoal and ink wash on paper.

A soldier turned artist, Schotel was skilled in both printmaking and painting. He studied under both Adriaan Meulemans and Martinus Schouman, eventually collaborating with Schouman.

Hs works are held in the permanent collections of museums throughout Holland. The Rijksmuseum and Scheepvaart Museum in Amsterdam, Dordrecht Museum and Boymans Museum in Rotterdam...

The Proclamation

Nina B. Garford (British, 19th- 20th century)

Watercolor on paper, signed lower left (below mat).

Sight size: 12.25” x 9”
Frame size: 20” x 17”

Garford, who worked in Exmouth, Devon, was primarily a miniature painter. She exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1906 to 1924 and is listed in The Dictionary of British Artists, 1880-1940 (Johnson and Greutzner, 1980).

In The Proclamation, Garford presents an Italian “town crier” ...

Hand colored etching by Boris O'Klein depicting dogs and cats in humorous situation. Signed lower right and titled lower left in pencil (in French). French, circa 1930. Provenance: from the collection of Alan Shephard, Jr.

Plate size: 6.75 x 17.25
Paper size: 8.5 x 19.5
UNFRAMED

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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...

Two 1/2 gallon stoneware jugs from Alexandria Virginia, made at the Wilkes Street Pottery by Benedict C. Milburn, circa 1865: One with his stamp and "Alexa" the other with the stamp of the merchant E.J. Miller who had a ceramics shop on lower King Street. Height of each: 8"

Rare set of English Regency bedsteps in mahogany with caned sides and back, having a turned gallery above three tooled leather treads, the first with tambour doors below, the second now with drawer below. Circa 1800-1815.

Height: 27” (top of top step)
Depth: 31.75”
Width: 20”

Antique English Pearlware Tea Caddy with blue and white chinoiserie decoration. Circa 1780-1800.