Luigi Lucioni (Italian/American, 1900-1988) - September Ascension, an early landscape painting of a panoramic view of the Green Mountains in the environs of Manchester, VT, with scattered rain showers mixing with patches of sunshine in the distance. Oil on artist board, 5" x 8", signed and dated 1944 in lower right...
Luigi Lucioni (Italian/American, 1900-1988) - 'October Sparkle,' original watercolor painting on paper, dated 1953. Size: 7 inches x 9 inches. Signed and dated in the lower right. Also, retaining on the reverse of the frame, the original Associated American Artists label giving the title, October Sparkle, together with the original asking price of $100. There is a personalized inscription from the artist which reads: "For Dorothy, Until the green one comes along .....
Luigi Lucioni (Italian/American, 1900-1988) watercolor painting of Washington Square, New York City, as viewed from the window of the artist's studio. Image size: 17.25" x 13.5". Signed and dated 1940 in lower right and with a presentation and the artist's initial 'L' in the lower left. Very good condition. Offered in a contemporary frame.
Mexican 4-piece matching coffee service with sterling silver tray by Maciel. Circa 1950. Dimensions: 21 inches x 15 inches tray weighs 51.1 troy ozs./898 grams; coffee pot measures 9.5 inches ht. and weighs 28.8 troy ozs./898 grams; covered sugar bowl - 5.5 inches ht. and weighs 9.9 troy ozs./309 grams; creamer - 5.25 inches ht. and weighs 9.1 troy ozs./283 grams Total weight: 99.13 troy ounces/ 3,083 grams. Excellent condition with no monograms or dents or repairs...
A large English majolica pitcher decorated with two pink wild roses on green leaf stems placed on a brown tree bark background, with twig handle. Circa 1880. Unmarked but possibly by Holdcroft. The interior with a light green glaze. Excellent condition with no chips, cracks or repairs. There is a pin head size burst glaze bubble on handle thumb rest and some minor crazing on base. The condition of this pitcher is about as close to 'mint' as one could find in majolica. Size: 8" ht...
A French Manche a Gigot bone holder used to secure a leg of lamb or mutton while carving. The handle bears the French guarantee mark of the first silver standard (.950) and the holder, with its crown shaped terminal and trefoil screw, is of silverplated steel. Circa 1860-80. Excellent condition. Length: 8 3/8 inches.
Art pottery vase with flaring rim by Marblehead Pottery, c.1920-40. Size: 5 inches ht. x 8.25 inches diameter. Mat blue glaze. Mint condition. Impressed manufacturer's stamp to underside of base.
Marblehead Pottery vase with impressed band of blue leaf and berry decoration. Early 20th century. Size: 3.5" ht. Mint condition. Impressed manufacturer's mark on underside of base. Decorated Marblehead art pottery is scarce, and this diminutive example is in perfect condition.
Six large chocolate spoons, plus long handled chocolate muddler in Gorham's Marguerite pattern, sterling silver, patented 1901, engraved with initial W. Condition: very good, no dents, but with a couple of black spots in the bowls. Unusual to find a set that includes the large muddler.
Marguerite Elizabeth Kumm (American, 1902-1992) painting of two seated dancers in black dresses. Oil on canvasboard. Circa 1930. Size: 19.75 inches x 15.75 inches. Unsigned, but with pencil inscription on reverse,"M.E.Kumm" and with provenance from the artist's estate, and then deaccessioned by Georgetown University in 1996. Excellent condition. Offered in a gilt wood frame.
"Pung and Chow" - by Marguerite Kirmse (British/American, 1885-1954), original signed etching on wove paper. Date: 1923. Image size: 6 in. x 8.5 in. Artist's proof ltd. edition print. Pencil signed and titled by the artist in the lower margin. Offered in the original frame with gallery label of Arthur H. Harlow & Co., Rare Etchings and Engravings, 712 Fifth Ave., New York. An etching of two Pekingese dogs, Pung and Chow. Kirmse is best known for her drawings and etchings of dogs.
"Perdue Who" oil on artist board painting of a Rooster by Marieluise Hutchinson, a contemporary, self-taught artist from Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts and Cushing, Maine. She is known for her portrayals of rural American life in New England. She is a member of the Copley Society of Boston.
Marion Huse (American, 1896-1967) oil on canvas - Haying in Vermont. Size: 22 inches x 30 inches. Circa 1950s. Incised signature in lower left corner. Sympathetically framed in an antique, flat profile 4 inches wide dark oak frame. Excellent condition...
Marion Huse (American, 1896-1967) painting of a Tugboat in a Harbor, oil on masonite, 9 inches x 10 inches. Circa 1920s-30s. Marion Huse was a Massachusetts and Vermont painter and printmaker who worked in a variety of styles, from realism to abstraction. Her subjects included portraits, landscapes and floral still life. Born in Lynn, Mass., she studied in Boston at the New School of Design and then in Pittsburgh at the Carnegie Institute...
Gilt silver and plique a jour enamel hors d'oeuvre fork by the famous Norwegian silversmith Marius Hammer. Circa 1890-1930. Size: 4.5 inch length. Condition: some minor lines and nicks in the enamel. This small two-tined fork has a twisted gilt silver stem, with a finial decorated in shaded, translucent enamels in the form of red berries and leaves that shade from blue to green. Hallmarked on the tines with the initials of Marius Hammer and the .900 silver standard.
Mark A. Tougias (American, 1957 - present) painting titled 'Stowe View' (Vermont). Oil on canvas. Size: 16 inches x 20 inches. Signed in lower left and titled on reverse. Offered in a contemporary gilt wood frame. Excellent condition. Mark Tougias was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1957. He is self-taught and is known for his plein air landscapes of the New England countryside and for his tonal styles...
Vermont Summer Road by Mark Tougias, oil on canvas, 24 inches x 30 inches. Signed in lower right. A beautiful impressionist rendering of a country road in East Arlington, VT, with dappled sunlight filtering through the overhanging trees and a mist shrouded barn in the distance. Mark Tougias is known for his tonalist landscape paintings of Vermont and upstate New York. He is largely self-taught, but he has been a member of the Boston Copley Society, Gloucester's North Shore Art's Association, ...
A Mary Azarian hand signed colored wood block print of a Cottage and Herb Garden. Dated 1992. Sheet size: 15.25 inches. x 11 inches. Signed in lower right 'MA92.' Mary Azarian is a famous Vermont printmaker and illustrator of children's books. Best known for her wood-cut prints, she was awarded the 1999 Caldecott Medal for her illustration of the picture book, "Snowflake Bentley."