Catalog: Antiques (283)

Fine George III brass bound oval wine cooler in mahogany with brass carrying handles, removable tin liner and turned tapered legs with later brass castors. Retains a “British Antiques Dealers Association” sticker. Circa 1790.

Length: 24.5”
Width: 18.5”
Height: 22”

Exceptional George III Serpentine Chest of Drawers or Commode in the French Manner having a moulded edge serpentine top with overhanging sides above two over three conforming drawers, rounded front corners and bold bracket feet. The drawer sides and bottoms are mahogany which is unusual since it was the most expensive wood during the 18th Century. Brass pulls may be original, escutcheons replaced...

George III Bedside Table in mahogany, having a tray top with cut out hand holds, above a cabinet with a tambour door, and shallow drawer. Circa 1780.

Height: 29.5"
Width: 19.5"
Depth: 17"

Antique Ottoman Bronze Shot Box which would have been suspended with a leather strap and used to carry ammunition. 18th Century, probably Turkish

2.75" x 1.25" x 3" tall

Pair of 18th Century Irish Silver Berry Spoons, the bowls with a gold wash, Michael Keating, Dublin 1796

length 8.75"
4.3 oz

FinePair of Italian Grand Tour Bronze Candlesticks with nicely detailed foliate decoration and with good patina and fine castings. Having a removable ormolu drip pan above a bronze candle cup and supported by a turned and foliate decorated column with a tripartite scrolling ormolu base and mounted on a tripartite bronze plinth. These would have been brought home as a souvenir by someone who had made the Grand Tour. Italy, circa 1870. Height: 11.25"

Antique Japanese Imari oil lamp with vasiform body decorated with birds, bugs and blossoms and gilt metal fittings. Circa 1880, now wired for electricity.

Height of Vase: 13.5”

Exceptional George III Painted Satinwood Pembroke Table, in the manner of Robert Adam; having rectangular top and two drop leaves, with a central painted patterae of children with dogs and a border decorated with ribbon and foliage. Below is a single drawer and the whole is raised on straight, tapered legs with painted floral decoration. English, circa 1780.(slight warp to leaves

Height: 27”
Length: 38.5” (open)
Length: 19” (closed)
Width: 31”

Small Tumbridge Ware Trinket Box in Rosewood having a hinged lid inlayed with a display of roses depicted in micro mosaic, framed by bandings of contrasting light and dark wood and particularly well matched geometric micro mosaic.

4.35" x 2.8" x 1.5" tall

Antique English Lap Desk in walnut and rosewood, heavily inlaid with brass, having a rectangular top opening to a fitted interior with baize writing surface, pen and inkwells and hidden drawers. Now mounted on a stand. Circa 1860.

Length: 24”
Width: 19.75”
Height: 10.25”

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...

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...

Important Antique English Gilt Wood and Composition Girandole Mirror, the oval mirror plate within a leaf carved surround and within mirrored borders with crossed vine-form decoration. The cresting and pendant formed with scrolling leaf and paterae and the pendant with three vine and floral decorated candlearms. Early 19th century.

Height: 64", Width: 38", Depth: 12"

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

Height: 4.5”

Original Patent Model for a Warming Device by G.W. Smith, retaining the original Patent Tag dated August 31st, 1858 and including a Certificate of Authenticity.

Height: 12”
Length: 12”
Depth: 10”

Antique American Gilded Wood and Gesso Mirror. The thick turned columns of the frame with applied gesso decoration, were popular in the late Empire period, 1830-1850. Probably Philadelphia. There is a similar labeled example in The Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum.

Plate: 23 ½” x 13 ½”
Frame:31 ¾” x 21 ¾”

Fine pair of American Federal ball topped andirons in brass with turned, vasiform shafts, spurred cabriole legs and slipper feet. (Iron log rests replaced).

Boston, circa 1800. (see Schiffer, The Brass Book, pp. 57-58 for similar examples)

Height: 12”
Depth: 15.5”

Fine small French ormolu and marble candlestick with a fluted shaft above a circular beaded foot and white marble base with floral mounts. Mid-19th century, now wired as a lamp.

Height: 16" to top of shade