Catalog: Sold Items (580)

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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...

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...

Rare dancing Harlequin candle snuffer cast in sterling silver, London, 1894-95, maker's mark 'M.F.' The harlequin figure is holding a pair of snake form rings above his head. Harlequin sugar tongs or nips are uncommon, however, the harlequin candle snuffers are extremely scarce. They are distinguished from the sugar nips by the fact that the leaf grips are flat and set slightly at an angle to properly extinguish the flame of a candle...

Harvard Yard, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts painting by Harold Broadfield Warren (American, 1859-1934). Dated 1902. Watercolor on paper. Size: 9 3/4 inches x 6 5/8 inches (sight). Signed and dated in lower left. A peaceful rendering of one of the College's halls of residence within 'Harvard Yard,' Harvard College, painted in 1902. Harold Broadfield Warren was a landscape painter, illustrator and craftsman. Born in Manchester, England, on Oct...

Harold von Schmidt (American, 1893-1982) painting for Saturday Evening Post magazine article. Oil on canvas. Size: 24 inches x 33 inches. Circa 1959. Signed in upper right...

Richard Hayley Lever (Australian/American, 1876-1958) small oil on canvas board titled, River Lea, England. Size: 10 inches x 8 inches. Dated on verso 1912. Signed in the lower left and titled on the reverse...

"The Greeting" by Helen Hyde (American, 1868-1919), color woodcut print on paper. Published 1910. Image size: 6 1/2 inches x 6 5/8 inches. Signed in pencil in lower right margin, 'No.3 Helen Hyde.' Helen Hyde was a pioneer of color woodblock printmaking in America. In 1899, she traveled to Japan where she remained for 15 years. There she studied with the master printmaker Kano Tomonobu. Her prints frequently portray women and children performing their activities of daily life. Condition i...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) - Yvette Guilbert. This colored lithograph is an original page from the weekly satirical newspaper "Le Rire", published in 1894. Toulouse-Lautrec produced 10 colored drawings for this humorous periodical over a period of three years, from 1894-1897. This illustration is of Yvette Guilbert, a music hall performer, who thrilled Parisian audiences with her audacious songs, curious smile and gestures with her long black gloves. She was one of his favorite th...

Early English piano-forte by Messr's. Bland and Weller, 23 Oxford Street, London. Circa 1790-1810. An early version of the piano in a decorative mahogany rectangular case adorned with chevron string inlay and hand painted with pink roses above the keyboard, being supported on a tapered leg stand. This instrument requires professional restoration to bring it back to a playable condition. In its present state, it is an attractive, decorative and historical example of the instrument maker's cra...

Herend porcelain cache pot in Rothschild Bird pattern. Mid 20th century. Size: 8 7/8 inches length x 5 3/4 inches ht. x 5 1/2 inches depth. Mint condition. Hand painted oval cache pot urn supported on gilded paw feet. #6455/RO.

Herend porcelain three-piece tea set, hand painted in the popular Rothschild bird pattern. 20th century. Size of teapot: 5.75 inches ht. x 9 inches across spout x 5.25 inches diameter. Excellent condition, with no damage or repairs. #665/RO, 1603/RO, 1642/RO. A wonderful set consisting of a globular teapot with bud finial to cover and tendril handle; covered sugar bowl with bud finial; and milk jug with tendril handle.

Old English tablespoon by England's most famous female silversmith, Hester Bateman. London. 1780. Original owner's engraved monogram in feathered script, 'JMA.' Very good condition with no repairs. Egg-shaped bowl retains its shape. Bottom marked with some compressing of hallmarks but still very legible. HB maker's mark is quite clear. 8 inch length.

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.