A pair of large-sized Italian carved wood sculptures of angels. 19th century or earlier. Each polychromed figure is made from gessoed wood and is life size. The wings are attached as separate parts, screwed onto the backs of the angels. Their backs are flattened. Each figure is bearing gilded and silvered garlands of flowers and fruits and has silvered and gilded wings and hair...
Georgian Old Sheffield plate silver chamberstick with original bobeche and snuffer. Silver fused to copper. Late 18th or early 19th century. Size: 5.75" diameter x 4" ht. Very good condition with no rosing. Date of 1715 is engraved inside the candle nozzle. This date is too early to be a date of manufacture, so was either added at a later date or commemorates an earlier date, such as a birth date.
Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (American, 1858-1923) painting after Titian of Virgin and Child with Saints, oil on canvas, dated 1881, 37" x 52" (49.5" x 64" frame size)...
Faiencerie de Gien French pottery jug executed in a turquoise glaze, hand pained with floral, bird and insect motifs. Circa: 1875. Size: 8.25" height x 6" diameter. Condition is excellent, with no chips, cracks or restoration. Gien printed tower mark under base.
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...
"Vermont Valley Farm - Winter" original painting by Aldro Thompson Hibbard (American, 1886-1972), signed lower right "A.T. Hibbard", oil on board, c.1950. Size: 8" x 10" and offered in what is probably the original gilt frame and under glass. This classic and colorful Vermont winter landscape shows a view of what is probably Glebe Mountain (now Magic Mountain) in the background...
S. Kirk & Son Co. oversize repousse sterling silver salad serving set with solid silver fork and spoon. Circa 1896. No monogram. Size: 9 1/8" length. Stamped: S. KIRK & SON CO. STERLING on reverse of stem. Condition: No dents, repairs or damage, only some surface scratching in bowl and on tines. Repousse decoration is crisp. Priced much below Replacements.com.
Walter Lofthouse Dean (American, 1854-1912), oil on canvas, circa 1880s, 18" x 24". This painting depicts a busy harbor, possibly Gloucester or even Boston, with numerous sailing vessels and a steam powered tugboat. Walter L Dean was a Massachusetts marine painter and an experienced sailor. He studied art in Boston and then in Paris at the Academie Julian with Lefebvre and Boulanger, in 1883. He maintained an art studio in E. Gloucester, Mass...
"Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1997. First edition. Inscribed by the author. Hard cover with dust jacket. Excellent condition. Size: 9.5 inches x 6.75 inches. Popular novel recently made into a movie. Photos have some reflections from the acetate covering; these are not markings on the dust jacket.
J. Pouyat, Limoges, France porcelain relish or condiment dish, decorated with rich gilding to the rococo rim and handles, and with a lustrous interior. There is a gilded original owner's initial "B" applied to one side, and the dish is signed on the under side by the decorator with the initials AB and dated 1933, together with the Pouyat stamp. Size: 10.5"L x 4"D x 3"H. Excellent condition, with no chips, cracks or repairs, and with no wear to the gilding.
Old Paris French porcelain coffee cup with saucer, decorated with portraits of classical scholars and philosophers. Circa: 1800-1825. Each side of the cup bears a round cartouche with a classical portrait in profile against a maroon ground, while the saucer has three cartouches with representations of the arts and sciences. Fully gilded interior. Excellent condition with the rich gilding intact. No chips, cracks or restoration. Unmarked.
Set of twelve Copeland's Spode porcelain dessert plates with pink glazed borders and floral bouquet centers (each plate is decorated with an individual floral arrangement). Pattern #4375. Made for retailer Tatman of Chicago, with date codes for 1927, and with one plate being a later replacement, bearing a date code for 1938 and signed by the artist P. Hall. Size: 9" diameter. Condition: excellent, except for a rim chip to the underside of the rim of one plate.
Landscape painting of a Vermont village in winter by Robert Shaw Wesson (American, 1902-1967), oil on canvas board, signed lower right. Circa 1950s. Original artist's frame. Size: 18" x 24". Robert Shaw Wesson was born in Worcester, MA, and studied under Jay Hall Connaway. He is best known for his winter landscapes of New England. This is a particularly pleasing example of his art and is undoubtedly of a Vermont village.
"Drake's Well" by Vincent Maragliotti (Italian/American, 1888-1978). Signed lower right and dated 1976. Oil on artist board. Size: 22" x 24", and offered in a modern gilt frame. This unusual painting was commissioned for Pennsylvania's Bicentennial exhibition, celebrating its historical events. Edwin Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859, in Titusville, PA, thus creating the future of oil prospecting...
Staffordshire pottery cottage bank, 19th century, with applied floral garland around door. Size: 4.5" ht. x 4.25" wide x 2.25" deep. Overall crazing to glaze, and a more pronounced craze line encircling one of the chimney bases, though it does not appear to be a crack. Some damage to two of the applied flowers surrounding the door.
"Hits and Misses" by Paul Brown. Derrydale Press. 1935. Limited edition, number 665 of 950 signed copies with illustrations by the author of polo playing. Hard cover. Some toning to cover and pages. Size: 11 inches x 8.5 inches.
"Women at Market" by Haitian artist Alberoi Bazile. Oil on masonite in hand carved Haitian frame. Circa 1974. Painting size: 24.25" x 28". Excellent original condition. Alberoi Bazile was born in Jacmel, Haiti in 1920 and was brother to the more famous painter, Castera Bazile. Alberoi was a member of the Centre D'Art and became a full time artist in 1963. Colorful depictions of women at the market, carrying baskets of vegetables and fruit on their heads, was a popular subject of his.
Antique hand carved wooden American eagle figure with gilded gesso finish, supported on a modern faux marble plinth. 19th century. Size: 13.75" overall height (10.25" ht. eagle alone) x 13.5" wide x 6" deep. There is minor flaking to the gilded surface and some chips at the tips of both wings.