A wonderful French Art Deco cocktail pick set featuring a Scottie dog (Scottish terrier) carved from Indonesian Macassar ebony. The severely linear carving of the dog is nicely accented by the natural markings of the wood. The dog has inlaid white eyes. The set is completed with eleven cocktail picks topped with colorful orbs. This set could certainly be used for olives or cherries in a cocktail, but could also be used as food picks for hors d'oeuvres.
Three(3) Chinese Fabric covered Storage Boxes, 2 long blue fabric boxes(13 1/2" x 4 3/8" x 3 7/8" high, 1 pink box(11 1/4" x 4" x 4" high), lined white fabric, and in good condition.
Antique blue opaline glass vase with a gilt ormolu top border and a family crest. In very good condition, no breaks or cracks. This vase is approximately 6-1/2" high.
An unusual French Art Deco cocktail pick set featuring a stylized snail carved from beautifully-grained macassar ebony. The snail has a very unusual streamline aerodynamic appearance and colorful phenolic ornaments on the antennae. The set is completed with an ebony and bakelite "basket" holding chrome cocktail picks with multicolored phenolic heads.
- Origin: France, ca. 1935.
- Condition: excellent, all original.
- Dimensions: 6" x 2-1/4" x 3-3/4" high.
Outstanding quality best describes this 1960's sterling silver gold gilt with fire enamels on guilloche table pill box. Handmade by Italian silversmith Renato Salimbeni, even the bottom is intricately engraved. Fully hallmarked. Measures 2.5" long, 1.75" wide, and 0.75" high. Salimbeni Renato was active between 1963 and 1971
1940’s French ormolu filigree gold gilt display box casket with putti, angels. An unusual shaped round casket that tapers down to rest on 4 delicate feet. Featuring pinkish amber beveled glass panels with 6 oval side panels flanked on each side with standing putti, arms raised. A nice larger size measuring 7.5” diameter x 5.25" high, it is in near perfect original condition with just few age spots on the lining.
Antique English Tea Chest in the Form of a Sideboard, in mahogany and deal, having a rectangular hinged top with shaped and carved backsplash which opens to a sugarbowl, the front with two cabinet doors opening to lidded tea caddies.
William Smee & Sons, London, published a catalog of furniture designs in 1850 which had sideboards of similar form. (See Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Designs by Edward Joy, pp 435-36.)
14"x5"x12.75"tall (key)
A very handsome Art Deco champagne and cocktail stirrer set of imposing size. Each stirrer has a torpedo-shaped finial complete with fins. The stirrers would be inserted with finial down for aerating a glass of champagne or with the thin end down for stirring a cocktail. The underside of the base is stamped the hallmark of B. Borhmann, a silverplate manufacturer in Frankfurt Germany until the mid-1920s...
Made in Portugal Ceramic framed hand painted round Mirror, 16" diameter, 1 1/2" deep, 1 3/4" wide frame, hand painted bird, little houses with fence, very charming scenery. The condition is good.
Stunning heavy solid red resin Chinese child with straw hat reding a book white sitting on top of a resting water buffalo. Great detail. There is a baby water buffalo near to it's mother. It is intended to give aesthetic pleasure and an expression of good wishes to the beholder concerning the recipients longevity
8" wide x 4.5" deep x 6.25" tall
An Italian Majolica Hand Painted Basket on a Pedestal Base, with an Inset of a Classical Painting of Women. From the 1920's. Dimensions; 11" wide x 8.5" high x 5" deep. Excellent condition.
A French Art Deco cocktail pick set in the form a wishing well. A water bucket hangs from the winch and six red bakelite-topped cocktail picks are stored in the well itself. The The whole is set on a Macassar ebony base. Sets such as this were used on bar and café counters to serve cocktail garnishes, canapés or even escargot.
Small Japanese vanity tansu with seven drawers and two sliding doors, the front done in a variety of hardwoods, panels in gorgeous dark Jichimu (chickenwing wood) framed in rosewood, another set of sliding doors done in Keyaki wood, with brass handles and a beautiful lacquered black interior. Taisho period (1912-1926)
Size: 13.5" height, 13.5" width, 9.5" depth
Five(5) Chinese blue Fabric Covered Storage Boxes - 2 sections inside - 3" high, 7" wide, 4" deep.
A rare carved bone abacus with integral reverse glass painting depicting four boys, in a garden setting, peering into a large fish bowl.
There is an added inscritpion carved into one side recording that this item was given as a gift in Hong Kong in 1953.
Condition; very good - no damages or losses.
11.5cm (4.5 inches) long; 5.5cm (2.2 inches) wide; 1.5cm deep.
骨质婴戏图算盘 1953年或更早
算盘主框架和算盘珠为骨质,背面为玻璃内画4个男...
Spring Blossom Vase from the Qin Dynasty, hand enameled decor. Photo of signature included.
This is a pretty robins egg blue and gold enameled brass compact-shaped hinged double picture frame. The cover depicting a gold butterfly over a leafy branch. When open it holds two vintage pictures Measurements: 3" square closed. Excellent condition; may need cleaning.
A beautiful pair of Louis the 16th style vase lamps with original shades…. price is for the pair