A 19th century Tunbridge Ware inlaid roses box. This 6 x 2" Tunbridge ware box has a central panel of inlaid small squares of wood arranged in a roses pattern. This box is composed of various woods and it is well-constructed. It is unsigned and it has a (replaced) velvet liner...
Large Antique Anglo-Indian Brass Document Box having a stepped lid surmounted by a carrying handle and heavily incised with scrolling vine and floral decoration. Late 19th/early 20th Century
$675.
16" x 11" x 4" tall
Well made old storage basket, circa 1950s, acquired in Lombok, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia in the 1980s this has been in storage since then. This has a slight trapezoidal shape to the lid and body. Excellent condition- no damage. Top- W: 24cm/9.5in x 21.5cm/8.4in and H: 9.5cm/3.8in.
An 18th century cashier’s fob seal / stamp, made of steel with an engraved beehive surrounded by keys. This pictograph tells you to keep your fingers away: in the emblem books of the time the beehive used to be accompanied by a Latin sentence meaning “not for you”. The fob model as such is typically English. Width "4/5 / 2.1 cm and height "1 / 2.5 cm. Condition: fine. Price: $140, including worldwide registered / trackable shipping
Stunning Victorian bronze picture frame, the border inset with gold velvet completely encrusted with gold thread embroidery of twining vines and flowers. The easel back is covered in gold moire silk.
Origin: probably French, ca. 1890. Condition: excellent; some staining on the back side. Size: outer--2.5"x3.25"; sight--1.5"x2.25".
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”
Antique English Bagatelle Box in Mahogany with original wooden insert and later ball and cues, now mounted on a metal stand.
Circa 1840
Bagatelle was a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which was to get a number of balls past wooden pins into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties were incurred if the pegs are knocked over.
36" x 17.75" x 18.5" tall (closed)
Two(2) pieces of 19th Century nicely polished Steeple Brass top and Steel Fire Place Tools, consisting of Tongs or Log Holder and Shovel, average 35" high,
Antique Regency Penwork Decorated Tea Caddy of sarcophagus form having a stepped lid opening to two lidded compartments and Chinoiserie penwork decoration. English, circa 1815.
8" x 4.5" x 5.25"
(losses to the decoration)
Antique Tunbridge Ware Dome Top Box,
in satinwood, inlaid with other exotic woods in a leaf and berry pattern.
Circa 1830.
Height: 3.5”
Width: 7.5”
Depth: 4.5”
(warp to lid)
#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)...
This and the other listing of Black Ship Imari we have in stock is from a Collection purchased originally by the owners ancestors when Japan was open to the west during the Grant administration in the 1870s. Imari ware (Japanese: 伊万里焼, Hepburn: Imari-yaki) is a Western term for a brightly-coloured style of Arita ware (有田焼, Arita-yaki) Japanese export porcelain made in the area of Arita, in the former Hizen Province, northwestern Kyūshū...
Prussian imperial Two-part dish in the Jugendstil style, the German equivalent of Art Nouveau style. Hand painted decorative medallions.This dish has the signature designating it was originally made for the King of Prussia, circa 1895.
Unusual pair of black lacquer small traveling hinged boxes. Each box is the same size with three individually sized drawers located behind the hinged front door. All original hand forged iron hardware. Side handles swivel up allowing insert of a hardwood pole for ease of carrying them about.
Age: Early Meiji period (1868 - 1912)
Dimensions: 7 3/4" wide x 12 1/2" deep x 11" high Each
Federal 19th Century polished Brass and Steel Fire Place Tongs or Log Holder, Ca. 1830, 26" high, Brass handle and Steel Tongs, nicely clean and polished, ready to use in your home.
A beautiful 19th Century cloisonné Charger in blue with flying cranes 18 inch diameter, Japanese Meiji period
An original 19th Century molded leather hide hat box. Round base with single hinged back conical pointed lid. forged brass front clasp that helps to latch the line securely closed. Original warm burgandy tones.
19th Century C. 1930's
Dimensions: 14" high x 11 1/2" wide
Antique Hepplewhite Tea Caddy in mahogany with a fan inlay on the top and swag inlay on front.Having a hinged lid opening to two compartments for black and green tea, and raised on later ivory ball form feet.
English,Circa 1790
8" x 5" x 5.75" tall