Catalog: Sold Items (584)

Georgian sterling silver teapot, London, 1784, by famous silversmith Robert Hennell. This pot has shaped sides with bright cut and beaded decoration to the cover and top portion. Wooden scroll handle and ebony finial. Condition: some old repairs to the underside seam on the bottom, minor dents at base of spout, a non-structural split in wooden handle. Clear hallmarks on base and with original assay office's silver testing scrape marks...

A Georgian sterling silver pap boat by famous female silversmith Hester Batemen, London, 1784. No repairs or dents. Fully hallmarked below top rim. Size: 4.5 inches length x 2.75 inches depth x 1 inch height. Pap boats were used for the feeding of infants and invalids.

Cesare A. Ricciardi (Italian/American, 1892-1973) oil on canvasboard marinescape of a Misty Morning in a New England harbor. Dated 1954. Size: 20 inches x 24 inches. Cesare Ricciardi emigrated from Italy to the United States as a young boy. His art studies began at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, but he eventually enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Thomas Anschutz, Cecilia Beaux, Hugh Breckenridge, Robert Henri and Leopold Seiffert...

A pair of Victorian garnet dangle earrings in gold filled settings. Each set with two seed pearls, surrounded with faceted garnet arabesque scroll motif. Circa 1850-1860. Bohemian, with European wires.. Size: 1.75 inches ht.

Louis Comfort Tiffany art glass bowl of lobed and paneled form, decorated in an iridescent finish, and with grape and vine motifs engraved on the top border and on its bottom. Signed: L.C.T. Favrile. Size: 7 5/8" diameter x 3 1/4" height. Circa 1900-1915. Condition: some discoloration to the interior of the bowl's base; no chips or cracks.

Carl Poul Petersen (Danish, 1895-1977) hand-hammered sterling silver pastry knife in Acorn pattern. Circa 1947. Size: 10 5/8 inches length. Weight: 4 troy ounces. Excellent condition with no monogram. Maker's stamp PP on reverse of handle, together with Canadian national sterling mark and words 'hand-made sterling.' Carl Petersen trained as an apprentice with Danish silversmith Georg Jensen, and married Jensen's daughter...

Arthur B. Wilder (1857-1959), pastel on paper, 9.5" x 11" (sight), unsigned but bearing on the reverse the Arthur Wilder estate's stamp #105 and with provenance from the estate of Wilder's granddaughter, Joan Pearsons. Condition: Very good, with some minor spotting in sky. This covered bridge was located on Route 4 at the west end of Woodstock, and was replaced by an iron bridge, which has just recently again been replaced...

Estate jewelry pin/brooch fashioned in the form of a grape leaf with cultured pearl grapes and enameled lady bug, set in 14kt yellow gold, with carved green hardstone leaf. Excellent condition. Size: 2.25" length x 1.5" ht.

New England folk art theorem with fruit painted on velvet. Circa 1830s. Attractively painted with grapes, peach, lemon, strawberries, pear, cherries, black currants and other fruit. Offered in its original pine frame and wavy glass. Found in a Dorset, Vermont residence. Excellent original condition. Size: 11 inches x 14 inches.

Figural cow creamer, 800 silver, German, late 19th century. This heavy silver creamer is fashioned in the form of a cow with horns and with a curled tail that serves as the handle. A hinged cover adorned with a fly on the cow's back is used to fill the creamer, and the cream is poured from the cow's mouth. Size: 3 3/4 inches ht. x 5 3/8 inches length x 2 inches depth. 4.76 troy ounces. Condition: one of the cow's legs is bent, but the creamer rests firmly on a table without any wobble...

British/American Light Dragoon flintlock pistol, of a type used in the American Revolutionary War. Circa 1770s-1780s. Original patina. Overall length: 10.75 inches. Unconverted flintlock mechanism, and retaining the ramrod.

Frederick Carder designed blue aurene iridescent glass compote by Steuben Glass Works, circa 1915. Signed 'Aurene' under base with production number 2642. Size: 8" high x 6 1/8" diameter. Excellent condition. A superb example of American art glass by one of the greatest glass designers.

A wonderfully ornate English sterling silver teapot, London, 1838, maker BD (possibly Benjamin Reese Dexter). Dating from the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign, this tea pot is embossed with scroll and acanthus leaf decoration on the compressed body & spout, and rests on four shell feet. The finial on the lid is in the form of a flower. All of the silver components are stamped with matching hallmarks. Size: 11.75" length x 6.75" diameter x 5.75" ht. Weight of silver: 23 troy ounces...

Pair of Knight's helmet sterling silver pepper casters by George Unite and Sons, Birmingham, 1881. These scarce pepper pots or shakers were created by the specialist silversmith firm of George Unite in 1881-1882. They are not weighted and are crafted in the form of a medieval knight's armored helmet with pierced and movable visor. Each pot is hallmarked on both the underside and on the outside of the base with a complete set of matching marks...

Georgian Hester Bateman silver soup ladle, London, 1789, in sterling silver. This Old English pattern ladle has a round bowl and is engraved in a feathered script on the handle with the initials 'REA' of the original owner. On the reverse of the handle is struck a full set of English assay marks, together with the 'HB' of Hester Bateman. Size: 14" length...

Steuben aurene hand-blown trumpet-form vase in iridescent blue glass, signed and numbered on the underside of base - Steuben aurene. Size: 5 1/2" high x 5 1/8" diameter. Age: early 20th century. Excellent condition.

Gilded iron Sunburst wall sconce, electrified with double back light. Early 20th century. Size: 22 inches in diameter.

Elgin 21 jewels gold filled men's open face pocket watch, engraved with railroad train scene. Date: 1898. Running condition.