Catalog: Sold Items (584)

Unusual silver plated kerosene oil lamp with bright cut, hand engraved decoration. Wick adjustment knob marked The Silberlight Co., London, Manufactured in Germany. 19th century. There is a heart shaped maker's stamp on the cross shaped brace on the underside of the base. Size: 7 1/8 inches height x 4.5 inches diameter. Includes an amber glass ruffled chimney. Height including chimney is 10.5 inches...

A sculptured bronze match holder with striker modeled in the form of a fox caught in a trap. Continental origin. Mid to late 19th century. Size: 4.25 inches length x 2.25 inches height x 3 inches depth. Excellent as-found condition. The fox is standing amidst foliage by a tree stump (which serves as the match holder) with his left fore paw caught in a metal snare. His expression displays the distress caused by his predicament. The fox is cast separately and attached to the base.

Gilt silver and enamel bowl souvenir spoon with scene of Constantinople and with a portrait of a Femme Turc (Turkish woman) on the handle. Late 19th or early 20th century. 800 silver. Size: 5 inches length. Excellent condition.

A coin silver water pitcher or ewer of a classical design, by Baldwin Gardiner & Co. (working in New York from 1827-1847). Circa 1830. Size: 12.75 inches height. 36.5 troy ounces. A fabulous large-sized American water pitcher with a beaded, everted spout and adorned with bands of crisp acanthus decoration applied to the body and circular base. The maker's stamp, B. GARDINER NEW YORK, appears in two arched and opposing, serrated rectangles on the underside of the base...

Claude Francois Auguste de Mesgrigny (French, 1836-1884) landscape painting of man fishing in a pond. Oil on canvas. Painting size: 14 inches x 22.25 inches. Circa: early 1880s. Very good condition, having been professionally cleaned, and offered in the original carved, giltwood frame. Bearing the original gallery label of Noyes & Blakeslee Art Galleries, 127 Tremont St., Boston, MA...

Churchill Ettinger (American, 1903-1984) Vermont winter landscape with a skier, titled Blue Ribbon. Oil on artist board. Size: 9 inches x 12 inches. Circa 1950s. Signed by the artist on the reverse and titled, together with the artist's Weston, VT address. We believe that 'Blue Ribbon' refers to a ski trail by that name on Bromley Mountain. Condition is excellent. Churchill Ettinger was a noted sportsman, printmaker and painter...

Churchill Ettinger (American, 1903-1984) original watercolor painting titled "Powder at Diavolezza". Circa 1965. Size: 14 inches x 19.5 inches (sight). Churchill Ettinger is recognized for his many illustrations, etchings and paintings of sporting subjects. He studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League in New York City, and also taught at the New York School of Industrial Art...

Churchill Ettinger (American, 1903-1984) original watercolor painting of a solitary skier. Circa 1950s-60s. Size: 14 inches x 20.5 inches (sight). Churchill Ettinger is recognized for his many illustrations, etchings and paintings of sporting subjects. He studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League in New York City, and also taught at the New York School of Industrial Art...

Early American Chippendale period slant lid desk in maple. New England origin. Late 18th century. Size: 38 inches wide x 18 inches deep x 43 inches height. Writing surface - 31 inches ht. An attractive maple desk with some tiger graining to the slant front. Dovetailed construction visible on top corner joints; high French feet; four graduated drawers with replaced Chippendale style brasses. The interior reveals a combination of five pigeon holes and seven drawers.

Rare Yuan dynasty red lacquerware oval tray, Chinese, 14th century, carved with two three-toed dragons encircled by a border of crashing waves. Size: 8 3/8 inches x 6 3/4 inches x 1 inch deep. Condition: two spots where the lacquer is missing on the top of the rim, some old filler on the foot ring on the under side, some cracking to the lacquer and a few tiny spots of loss to the incised lacquer in the background...

Pair of Chinese yoke back arm chairs. Late 19th century. Shanxi province. Elmwood. Dimensions: 43.5 inches height x 25.25 inches width x 22 inches depth. Seat height is 19.5 inches. Each chair has a back splat with carved figural panels. Condition: repair to break on one arm, replaced glue blocks on undersides of seats, some scuffing to one side stretcher on base. Structurally sound.

Ornate large Georgian style Chinese rococo gilt wood pier mirror with three beveled glass mirror panels, adorned with carved shells, floral garlands and ho ho birds. Age: late 19th/early 20th century. Size: 7 feet ht. x 5' feet 10.5 inches wide. Condition: some minor loss at edges of frame and to birds' wings. Some cloudiness to mirror.

A Chinese export rose medallion porcelain vase of baluster form with four applied gilded lizard handles. Circa 1840-50s. The vase is decorated in polychrome enamels with two panels of courtesans with gilding in their hair and with two of butterflies and roses in a vase. Size: 10 inches height x 4.5 inches diameter. Condition: One of the lizard handles is missing a front leg and there is some minor wear to gilding on top rim (See photo details).

A Chinese Export porcelain soup plate made for the English market. Chia Ch'ing, c.1800. This plate is decorated with a double banded underglaze blue border with spearheads and diapers, and with a central family armorial, painted in polychrome enamels, of the arms of Thomas Snodgrass, who was in the service of the East India Company, of Madras and Blackheath in Kent. He was granted these arms in 1799. An example from this service is in the permanent collection of the Winterthur Museum, Delawa...

Very ornate Chinese Chippendale style gilt wood pier mirror with Chinamen figures holding parasols and pagoda shaped finials. Size: 69 inches ht. x 65 inches width. Early 20th century. If you want an elaborate large mirror that makes a statement, then this is it. Excellent condition.

A Chinese carved nephrite jade figure of a sleeping cat, on a red silk cord. Size: 2 in. length.

China Trade School painting of Fishermen on a River. Oil on canvas. Late 19th century. Size: 13 inches x 16 inches. Unsigned. In this painting, fisherman are casting their nets in a river along the banks of their village, while family members watch from the shore. Offered in an antique carved, gilt-wood frame. Original condition with some craquelure to the painted surface.

Vintage Ship's Bell brass clock by Chelsea mounted in its original mahogany wooden cradle. Made for Abercrombie and Fitch and so marked on the silvered dial. Eight-day movement, with key. Pre WWII origin. Size: 9.5 inches H x 8.5 inches W. Running condition. As found finish, ready for professional polishing, if so desired.