Catalog (153)

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 Antique English Bottle Form Porcelain Vase with painted and gilt floral decoration and openwork neck. Probably Royal Worcester. (now wired as a lamp with an openwork brass base).

Height to top of neck: 15.25"

Fine Antique Japanese Black Lacquer Tea Caddy, rectangular with rounded corners with polychrome and gilt decoration of figures engaged in various tasks. Circa 1870.

6.75" x 5" x 4" tall

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”

Exceptional English Domed Top Tea caddy in harewood with satinwood stringing and brass carrying handles and interior fitted with compartments for teas and sugar bowl. Circa 1800.

Height: 6.75"
Length: 12"
Width: 5. 75"

Pair of Aynsley Fruit Decorated Covered Urns by Paul English, (former Royal Worcester artist); twin handled vases of shouldered baluster form with covers, decorated with original hand painted fruit designs, signed. {Modern}

Height: 9”
Width (at handles); 5”

English mahogany tea chest of simple rectangular form. The beauty of this chest lies in its interior with its two silver plate tea canisters and matching silver plate sugar canister. Circa 1825.

Height: 6.25”
Length: 9.75”
Depth: 6.75”

Original patent model for a sliding door lock and latch by E.G. Kehoe in brass, retaining its original Patent Office Tag dated November 15, 1870, Patent No. 109,220. Together with a Certificate of Authenticity from the United States Patent Model Foundation.

The passage of the Patent Act of 1790 required that every application include a miniature working model of their idea. Over the next 90 years more than 200,000 models were submitted, until lack of storage space and fires finally forced...

Antique oval pressed and engraved crystal dresser box with gilt metal mounts. Probably French, Circa 1900.

3.5" x 4.5" x 3.5” tall

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"

Rare antique Chinese Famille Rose covered mustard pot and under tray with typical painted decoration and applied bud form knob. Circa 1860 (minor wear to gilt decoration).**

Height: 3.75”
Dish Diameter: 5.5”

**See: Schiffer, Chinese Export Porcelain, illustration #404 for similar example.

Rookwood pottery rectangular dresser box with celedon glaze and lid with impressed flower decoration. Base and lid with impressed logo, dated 1948, pattern #6556. (Minor crazing to base.)

Length: 4.75”
Depth: 3.5”

Antique Brass or Bronze Iota (an ablutions pot) having incised and inlaid copper checkerboard and leafage decoration. This type of metalware is known as Ganga-Jumna. Ganga meaning Ganges river, and Jumna meaning Jumna River. It is Brass and Copper because it reflects the color of the two rivers mentioned. 18th-19th C. probably from Moradabad in northern India.

Diameter: 4”

18th Century Iron Money Box with a clever mechanism that uses gravity to block the slot if the box is inverted. Probably European.

7.25” x 5" x 4.5" tall

Rare Chinese Export Roll Top Lap Desk, Asian Hardwoods with ebony and brass mounts having single lower drawer that when opened reveals a fitted interior, sloped writing surface and "pop-up" storage compartment with tambour doors. Circa 1830.

Length 19", Depth 15"

*See Crossman, The ChinaTrade, color plate 96 (page 248) for another example.

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

Height: 4.5”

Good pair of antique brass push-up candlesticks having vasiform shafts and circular, ring turned bases. English, circa 1830-50.

Height: 10.5”

Antique English Polychrome Porcelain Tea Caddy with ribbed body and decoration with floral motif. Circa 1790. Provenance: From the Estate of Baroness Rengers, Alexandria, VA.