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Scheier Art pottery plate by Edwin and Mary Scheier in a mat mauve glaze with stylized decoration of two faces. Mint condition. Circa 1950. Size: 7 1/8 inches in diameter. Signed on the underside with an incised Scheier mark. Scheier Pottery was the result of a collaboration by the husband/wife team of ceramicists, Edwin Scheier and Mary Goldsmith. Edwin was responsible for the sculpture and design, while Mary 'threw' the pots. The couple met at a WPA project at the Big Stone Gap Federal Ar...

Arthur B. Wilder (American, 1857-1949) still life painting of Fruit and Berries in a Basket. Dated 1941. Oil on artist board. Painting size: 20 inches x 24 inches. This primitive still life portrait of fruit and berries displayed on a table, with a china cupboard partially visible in the background, was probably executed in the artist's home, Wayside, in the hills outside Woodstock, Vermont. Arthur Wilder was a long-time manager of the old Woodstock Inn and was also an artist who studied at...

Jacques Villon (French, 1875-1963) original, signed silkscreen print - Petite Peinture Cubiste (Little Cubist Painting). Sheet size: 25 inches x 19 inches. Image size: 18.5 inches x 12.5 inches. Circa 1953. "Petite Peinture Cubiste" was originally painted by Jacques Villon in 1921. This silkscreen was printed in 1953, in a limited edition of 300 prints, in Paris, by Wilfredo Arcay, and was issued in the folio, Edition Art D'Aujourd'hui: Maitres de L'Art Abstrait (Art of Today: Masters of Ab...

English dognose table spoon, London, circa 1702, by Henry Greene. Britannia standard (95.84% pure silver). Length - 8 inches. Good condition, with no dents or repairs, or wear to bowl. Maker's mark is worn but can be positively identified as that of specialist spoonmaker Henry Greene; date letter rubbed and only faintly discernible (possibly 1702); lion's head erased and Britannia figure hallmarks are legible. The back of the handle retains the shaded block initials N over LM for the origina...

"Last of Winter" landscape painting by Harold Kloongian, 1980, oil on canvas board, 16 inches x 20 inches. Signed lower right, and titled, dated and signed on verso. Excellent condition. In this painting, Kloongian captures a rural Vermont farm house and barn in a golden light at the end of a sunny day in late winter. Harold Kloongian is a Massachusetts painter. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and at the Art Institute of Boston, as well as with the notable artists...

Scandinavian Kraka glass vase by Orrefors, designed by Sven Palmquist. Circa 1959. Number 411. A hand blown vase in clear and blue glass with controlled bubbles. Excellent condition. Size: 9 inches ht. x 4.25 inches width. Signed on the underside.

Sikes Hydrometer by Husbands and Clarke, Bristol, England in its original mahogany box. 19th century. The Sikes Hydrometer was used to determine the alcohol content of spirits in determining its proof. This set includes a brass float, thermometer, and 10 weights used to measure the specific gravity of the liquid (labeled 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, plus the calibration cap weight). Each weight is stamped with a serial number that matches the one on the float, #15867 (the #20 weight i...

Theodore 'Ted' Kautzky (Hungarian/American, 1896-1953) original watercolor painting titled 'Toward Mount Washington, New Hampshire.' Painting size: 22 inches x 30 inches. Circa 1930s. Excellent condition. This early work depicts Mount Washington as it is seen when enveloped by clouds on a day in early winter. Kautzky had a preference for atmospheric vistas, with reflecting water and stark silhouetted trees. Ted Kautzky was an architect, watercolorist, teacher and author of books on paint...

"Nude" by Israel Doskow (Russian/American, born 1881), edition 1/50, etching on paper, image size: 7 5/8" x 8 7/8". Offered framed using archival materials. Israel Doskow was a painter, illustrator and printmaker known for his landscape and marine subjects. He studied at the Penn. Academy of Fine Arts & at the Art Students League in NYC. He was a member of the Rockport school of artists, the Salmagundi Club, NYC, and the Society of Independent Artists. This print depicts a young nude woman ...

Kenneth Frazier (American, 1867-1949) landscape painting titled "Autumn" in Garrison NY. Oil on canvas, dated 1930, initialed by artist in lower right 'KF'. Size: 25 inches x 30 inches. Kenneth Frazier was a New York artist who worked in a variety of styles: Art Nouveau, Impressionist & Realist. He was an illustrator, as well as a figure, portrait and landscape painter, and worked in both oil and watercolor. He was born in Paris, France, in 1867, to American parents, but grew up in the Unit...

Abraham Rosenthal (Russian/American, 1886-1963) oil on artist board painting of Rockport Harbor. Size: 16 inches x 20 inches. Abraham Rosenthal was a Russian born, American painter who lived in New York and Rockport, Massachusetts. He studied at the Art Students League, Cooper's Union, and was a student of Emile A. Gruppe. He was a member of the Rockport Art Association. Condition is excellent; offered in a gilt wood frame. Signed lower right.

Arthur B. Wilder (American, 1857-1949) painting of Cows in a Pasture with apple trees and house. Oil on wood panel. Signed lower left, dated 1887 and titled "Bristol - Tenn. & Va." Condition: very good with a couple of light scratches in the grassy foreground. Offered in a Victorian walnut frame with gilt liner. Painting size: 16.5 inches x 22 inches. Arthur Wilder was a native of Vermont, and he developed an interest in drawing at an early age. He enrolled at the prestigious Art Students ...

Florentine Italian rococo style coffee table with marble top. Circa 1920s-40s. This coffee table has a green painted finish with carved and gilded shell and acanthus decorative motifs and supports a rectangular off-white marble top with light brown veining and molded edges. Size: 60 inches in length x 20 inches width x 15.5 inches height. Nice condition (no chips or cracks to the marble), some minor flaking to some of the green painted surface.

Rare Native American carved steatite two-bear effigy pipe. Great Lakes region. Circa 1850. A museum quality pipe with traces of red and black paint still evident. Excellent condition. Size: 10 7/8 inches length x 3 3/4 inches ht.

Northern Plains Indian pipe carved from red catlinite and black steatite stone with a pewter or lead geometric inlay. The vertical pipe bowl is round and tapered, while the pipe stem is of faceted, octagonal form. Circa 1870s. Excellent original condition, no chips or cracks. Size: 7.75 inches length x 3.5 inches ht. x 1.25" diameter pipe bowl.

Gilded sterling silver and blue enamel sauce ladle by David Andersen, the noted Norwegian silversmith and designer. Stamped on the reverse of the twisted handle '925' and with the mark used by David Andersen from 1924-1939. Size: 5.75 inches length. Condition: excellent, with no damage.

A rare Channel Islands sterling silver trefid table spoon by silversmith Thomas David Mauger, of Jersey (active 1730-1796). Circa 1740. Engraved with original owner's initials "ILC" in shaded block letters on the reverse of the notched trefid handle. There is a worn ribbed rat tail to the reverse of the shallow bowl. Size: 7 1/8 inches length. Condition: Some tip wear to bowl and also a repair to a split in the bowl' rim. Wear to rat tail. Stamped on the stem with the maker's mark only, ...

Arts and Crafts oak lamp table by L & JG Stickley. Circa 1912. Original dark brown finish and bearing a decal under the top that reads "Work of L & JG Stickley." The table has four square legs with crossed stretchers and a lower square shelf; the top is square with canted corners. Size: 30 inches x 30 inches x 29 inches ht. Good antique condition.