Hannah Maria Hudson (British, c.1810-1865) - Portrait of Mrs. S.A. Butterfield. Oil on canvas. Dated February 1835. Size: 18 inches x 14 inches. Stenciled signature, title and date to the reverse of canvas. An attractive small work by the British female portrait artist, Hannah Maria Hudson. The sitter is identified on the reverse of the canvas. She is wearing a lace bonnet and a black dress, draped with a green shawl, and adorned with a pearl brooch...
World War II era Hamilton Navigator's chronograph watch, Model 23, housed in an original U.S. Army metal canister carrying case with round viewing window, manufactured by George H. Adamson, of Tecumseh, Michigan. Circa 1942-1943. This watch was used by the U.S. Army Air Corps as a navigation watch and bomb timer. It comes in its protective metal canister with spring cushion support mechanism...
Genuine Gustav Stickley signed mission bookcase. Circa 1907-1912. Made from solid oak and retaining the original finish and hardware (including original key). Branded black mark on back side. Dimensions: 47.75 inches width x 56 inches height x 13 inches depth. Condition: excellent original surface, with some water staining on top surface and slight ding to plywood back.
All Items : Archives : Furnishings : Furniture : American : Pre 1920
item #1377257
(stock #39B78-3535)
Arts and Crafts oak foot stool by Gustav Stickley. Circa 1918. Size: 20 inches length x 14 inches x 16 inches ht. Conjoined decal. Original finish, replaced leather. Good condition. An attractive stool by the pre-eminent American manufacturer of Arts and Crafts furniture, and retaining the original colored Stickley decal.
Middle Eastern painting of a mosque with arabs filling water jars from a well, by Gustav Adolph Hensel (German/American, 1874-1953), oil on canvas, circa 1920s, 12" x 14". Gustav Adolph "Dolph" Hensel was born in Germany and came to the U.S. in 1906. He was a Lutheran minister who settled in Wisconsin and later moved to San Francisco, where he was pastor of St. John's Reform Church until 1922. Hensel was also an artist who mainly painted portraits and religious genre...
Arts and Crafts pottery vase by Grueby. A tall vase decorated in a curdled dark green matte glaze. Circa 1900-1909. Size: 7 3/4 inches ht. Excellent condition, with a manufacturing glaze bubble in the making. Retaining the original Grueby paper printed label on the underside of the base.
Grueby art pottery vase with matte oatmeal glaze. Globular form with six vertical panels. Circa 1900-1909. Size: 3 7/8 inches in diameter x 2 3/4 inches height. Mint condition. Impressed on base with manufacturer's circular mark.
Grueby bulbous body art pottery vase with leaf and bud decoration in a cucumber green glaze by Wilhelmina Post. Impressed manufacturer's mark on underside. Mint condition. Size: 7 7/8" high x 5" diameter.
Rare sterling silver spectacles in a green shagreen eye glasses case with silver mounts. Circa 1790-1800. The silver eyeglasses are unmarked, but are probably English, with folding frames. The shagreen (shark skin) case is in excellent condition with unmarked silver mounts and a working push-button catch. Size: 5 1/4" ht. x 2" width x 5/8" depth. Shagreen was made from the skin of the dogfish, a variety of shark, and was filed smooth and then applied like leather over a wooden case...
Georgian physician's blood letting set including a silver mounted green shagreen case with hinged top, complete with its four original thumb lancets, each with a triangular steel blade housed in hinged tortoiseshell protective guards. Circa 1790. Three of the steel blades are stamped with the cutler's mark of a crown with a six pointed star below, while the fourth blade is stamped SARLING. The set is in remarkable condition, with the only the catch for the lid closure being missing...
An English antique staddle stone for your garden. This mushroom shaped stone was originally a support for an English granary building, which served to elevate the structure above ground level, allowing for air circulation and preventing rodents from getting into the granary. Most of these stones date from the 18th or early 19th century. It consists of a vertical base that supports a dome-shaped cap stone. Size: approx. 25" ht. x 18" diameter...
Gorham sterling silver five-piece tea and coffee service in the Plymouth pattern. Date code for 1958. Included are teapot, coffee pot, covered sugar bowl, creamer, and waste bowl. This set has received little use and retains its original paper labels. No monogram. Size of coffee pot: 9.5 inches high, 2 3/8 pint capacity. Teapot: 7.25 inches high, 2 pint capacity. Excellent condition, with no dings or repairs, requiring just a polish or buffing.
Rare Gorham Arts & Crafts sterling silver sauce gravy ladle in a hammered surface and with mixed metals design on the handle of two cherries, leaf and twig in bronze, and with a second leaf in gilded silver. Circa 1885. Excellent condition. Marks: stamped with the Gorham logo (lion, anchor, G) "sterling & other metals", and with the name of the retailer George H. Ford. Size: 6" length.
Antique Jabot sword pin replica of a Regulation 1821 Model U.S. Infantry Officer's sword, unmarked but testing as 14K gold, with white enamel, four round diamonds and a detailed eagle head pommel. Circa 1850-1860s. Size: 4 inches length. Weight: 3.9 dwt./6 grams. Excellent condition.
"Northern Vermont" - by Gianni Cilfone (Italian/American, 1908-1992), oil on canvas. Circa 1944. Canvas size: 22 in. x 25 in. Offered in the original frame, with paper exhibition label affixed to stretcher - 'Bethel Inn Exhibition 1944.' Titled: Northern Vermont. Original condition with some craquelure. Gianni Cilfone was brought to the U.S.A. by his parents when he was only five. He later attended the Art Institute of Chicago and also studied under noted painters Hugh Breckenridge and John F....
Georg Jensen, Denmark, sterling silver sauce boat with matching ladle. Designed by Georg Jensen in 1912 with blossom and leaf motifs. Stamped on underside of foot with Georg Jensen marks for 1915-1932 and also struck on the side of the body with English import marks for George Stockwell, 1928. Excellent condition. Size: 8 inches length x 5 inches height x 3.75 inches depth. Ladle measures 8 inches in length.
Georg Jensen, Denmark, sterling silver pedestal bowl with blossom ladle. Designed by Johan Rohde. Circa 1920. Size: 4 inches ht. x 5.25 inches diameter. Ladle - 6 1/8 inches. Excellent condition with hammered surface.