A fine and rare Pennsylvania Dutch Amish folk art candle box carved from a single piece of yellow pine (no joining at all). The interior hollowed and the interior sides hand planed. One side with bas relief carved hex motifs. The other side with the initials, IF and IB (if read left to right, though not sure of the intended order), likely of a married couple and with other carved and incised adornment including hearts. Fitted, sliding top (the only exception to it being wholly one piece)...
An antique 18th Century Pennsyivania wainut tilt top candle stand. The stand has a circular dish top which is hinged. When the top is tilted up it reveals a revolving bird cage feature which consists of four bobbin style spindles. The table top is supported by a hand turned solid walnut vasiform standard Beneath this are two graduated circular disks. The table stands on three cabriole legs which terminate in slippered snake feet...
A very unusual and rare Pair of antique, lightly Patinated, heavy Bronze table candle sticks adorned with Oak leaves and Acorns. Size: 24.5 cm (9.5"), 19th Century
Antique Black Lacquer Chinese Export Tea Caddy with paneled, cut corner hinged lid opening to a well , vignetts of figures in gardens, and raised on carved dragon form feet. Daoguang Period, Circa 1840
8" x 6" x 5.75" tall (cracks and minor losses to lacquer)
A wall plaque with dancing putti and flower garlands, possibly depicting Spring in a suite of the four seasons. Plaster, patinated and polished to look like terracotta, possibly English around 1800, likely a Grand Tour souvenir. Unmarked, the back with two copper rings for hanging. Width "11/ 28 and height "5 ½ / 14 cm. Condition: a few glaze flakes to the left side (cf. pics).
This is a very nice all original very small paint decorated box. It is all original and including the lock and key but the lock I think been disabled. The boards are thick for such a small box and the nails are also oversized for the box. It is the kind of thing that makes you smile...
Rare English Regency Tea Chest in rosewood, of sarcophagus form with a paneled lid opening to a fitted interior retaining a pair of Anglo-Irish cut glass tea caddies and sugar bowl and original felt lining under the lid, circa 1830.
Cut crystal containers were very expensive at this time, almost as expensive as silver. It is very unusual for tea chests to retain their original crystal fittings.
13" x 6.75" x 8" tall
Fine Pair of Red Ground Tea Caddies penned on all sides with Chinoiserie decoration. Circa 1820, probably English
3.25" x 4"x 4.5"tall
Provenance: From the Estate of Mario Buatta
Seven(7) pieces heavy weight Black Wrought Iron and Brass Japanese Tansu or Furniture Hardware, 2 handles with original nail(larger=3 3/8" wide inner measurement, 3 3/4" wide=outer, 1 3/4" high), (smaller=2 5/8" wide=outer measurement, 2 3/8" inner),1 1/4" high), corner(2" x 2" wide), round ring(1 3/4" diameter), small roung ring with flower shape back plate(ring=1 1/8" diameter, nail=1 1/2" deep), roung small nail(nail head=1/2" diameter, 1 1/2" deep), long brass piece(5 3/4" long, 1/2" wide).
DESCRIPTION: A Spanish carved oak buffet a deux corps (buffet or hutch with the top cabinet having a shallower depth than the bottom), 19th C. The carved cavetto molding crowns double lattice work cupboard doors with hand forged iron hinges which open to reveal two interior shelves. These are set on a base with a frieze drawer over double cupboard doors, also with iron hinges, each carved with a six point flower set within a circle...
Pair Chinese Huanghuali Half-Moon Tables Qing Dynasty 18th century / early 19th Century. Demi-lune top, shaped and carved protruding apron, four cabriole legs connected by a cracked ice stretcher base with scrolled feet. 33” high 42” wide
Circa 1820 enameled French chamber stick with hand painted pastoral and romantic scenes. From the Lumiere Collection of chamber sticks and lamps assembled over a 40 plus year period by Pete Macdonald.
Exceptional bombé tea caddy in “tiger” tortoiseshell, having a pagoda shaped top opening to an interior with two lidded compartments. Circa 1800-20. ProbablyDutch.
(One back foot replaced.)
Dimensions: 7.5” x 4.75” x 6”
An elegant French imported Louis XV Wooden Marquetry Desk with leather writing surface and Drawers. The shown Mirror can also be purchased. Please PM Messenger for details. Thank you.
An English Bureau Roll Top Secretary, done in the French taste, Regency period 1800-1820, a very rare piece in Rosewood and Mahogany, complete with its original roll-top. Trimmed in brass and satinwood stringing, brass gallery, secret drawers,original caster legs, and more. Width 40”, depth 22”, height 40”
A possible Dutch or English early 18th century chamber stick with its snuffer measuring about 4.75”x5.75” pewter
A rare crusie lamp with hanger, dating from the 1st quarter of the 19th century or earlier. The bowls of these lamps were filled with fish oil or mutton fat with wicks of peeled rushes. Crusie lamps were the precursors to Betty lamps and were generally made of iron or tin. To find one made of brass, and with its original hanger, is extremely uncommon.
The condition of the lamp and hanger is quite good, with normal evidence of wear...
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.
Delightful English Very early Sheffield tea pot with basket and stand circa 1790-1810, 15” high
A beautiful English circa 1820 chamber stick brass with a bowl shape base measuring 4.74”x4.75”
Rare English Regency Hawksbill and Greenback Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy with ivory and pewter stringing, having cut corners and a bowed front panel with pressed tortoise in concentric ovals with fan corners and central inlaid silver oval with leafage border; the bowed lid surmounted by a ball finial and the whole raised on ball feet. Circa 1800-15. (Key). Height, 6”; Length, 8”; Depth, 4.75.”
An early 19th century lacquered papier maché snuff box. Germany (Brunswick), Stockmann type, the inside of the lid with impressed maker’s mark M.A.A. On the lid a “portrait” of a lady generously décolleté, with a tiara and pearl necklace, an opulent and luxurious mock fiancé that many a gentleman of the period liked to show his friends when bringing out his snuff box. Diameter "3½/ 9 cm, height "¾ / 2 cm. Condition: small damage to the lady’s neck (cf. photos), otherwise fine.
A magnificent amd rare Chinese export tureen amd under plate in the FIor Canton style,
English George III Mahogany Bureau Bookcase with broken Arch Pediment, Ca. 1800, 92" high, 42" wide-bottom section, 45" wide-top section, include crown and feet, 16" deep-bottom section, 13" deep-top glass door section, broken Arch Pediment with Pierced and foliage carved swan's neck Pediment, Satinwood inlaid band on molded cornice above two(2) glazed doors and four(4) removable shelves in upper section...
Antique Tunbridge Ware Dome Top Box,
in satinwood, inlaid with other exotic woods in a leaf and berry pattern.
English, Circa 1830
Height: 3.5”
Width: 7.5”
Depth: 4.5”
(Some warp to lid)
Pair English Regency Mahogany Side Chairs, with Feather back splat, straight tapered legs with pad feet, Ca. 1830, 34 1/2" high overall, 19 1/2" seat height, 19" wide-front part of seat, new upholstered seat, very clean ready to use them in your home.
From the Lumiere Collection by Galerie L'Enfant. American pewter chamber stick, with adjustable candle lever and everted lip drip pan, circa 1825.
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”
Rare George III Wine Stand in mahogany having a circular top with molded lip on a shaped pedestal with tripod legs on slipper feet. English, circa 1760.
*Most tables of this form described as "wine tables" are actually candlestands...
An imported gilded French Louis XVI Wooden Console with a genuine Marble Top and a matching Mirror. It is possible to only buy one. PM Messenger for details please.
A classical mahogany card table. Hepplewhite manner square tapered legs and wood inlaid fine lines and decoration. Probably American Federal and likely mid Atlantic to Southern. Acquired in Virginia. Ca 1800. Good, conserved condition. Height 28 inches, width 35 inches, depth 17 3/4 inches.
Early federal period (circa 1790) carved mahogany lift-top men's dressing table from Salem, Massachusetts.
American Federal period mahogany lolling chair. Sparse, fine line inlay decoration. Late 18th century. Good condition. Seat height a little low from wear to legs. Seat height about 15 inches. Back height about 40 inches. Width roughly 24 inches.
Venetian Cassone Chest Eighteenth Century , more information coming soon….
Chinese Ming Dynasty Porcelain figure of an attendant measuring 18 inches
Rose quartz carnelian seal fob / stamp: an intaglio of three fleurs de lys under a royal crown, the French pre-revolutionary official seal, c 1790 or earlier. Width "4/5/ 2 cm. Condition: fine.