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Architectural : Interior : Pre 1800
item #1317829
(stock #10520)
Exceptional pair of antique French Gilt Bronze Fireplace Chenet in the form of Dionysian children seated on a plinth and eating grapes, and with foliate and cyma curved decoration. 18th/19th Century.
Each Approx.: 12.5" x 12.5" x 5.5 deep
Architectural : Interior : Pre 1800
item #1364321
(stock #10865)
Rare George III Ambry in mahogany having an hinged arched top opening to a well and a paneled cabinet door flanked py pilasters, and the whole raised on ball feet. In Christian churches, items kept in an ambry include chalices and other vessels, as well as items for the reserved sacrament, the consecrated elements from the Eucharist.
English, circa 1760.
18" x 14" x 28" tall
Architectural : Interior : Pre 1837 VR
item #1485889
(stock #RMT-530)
#530 Antique Anglo-Indian Tea Chest, sandalwood overlaid with strips of elk horn. The box is rectangular with sloped sides. The elk horn on the top of the stepped, sloping lid arranged in a starburst pattern. The fitted interior is decorated with incised ivory panels, highlighted with lac, a similarly decorated pair of removable caddies and a circular cut crystal sugar bowl and a horn caddy spoon. (The squashed ball feet are later replacements. Lid lack support).
Valtair, Vizagapatam, possibly by Chinniah, ca. 1840-50. See: Furniture from British India and Ceylon by Amin Jaffer, #61 for a similar workbox. Exhibited: The 48th Washington Antiques Show, “Inside and Outside the Box.”
Height, 9”; Width, 14.75”; Depth, 8.5”.
Architectural : Interior : Pre 1837 VR
item #1485884
(stock #RMT-657)
Rare Child’s Miniature Tole Tea Caddy of Sarcophagus Form, having a shaped lid surmounted by a cast brass knop and with paw form feet: decorated with “smoke” graining and on the front a patera of polychrome flowers. American or English. Circa 1810. (Losses) Provenance: The Cockrell Collection. 3” x 2.25” x 3.5”
Architectural : Interior : Pre 1837 VR
item #1485887
(stock #RMT-741)
Rare Antique Chinese Export red lacquer melon-form tea caddy with six loebed sides, three gilt dragon paw feet, gilt decoration of figures in gardens on body and hinged lid with carved “stem,” opening to a similarly shaped tin liner. Circa 1825. Height, 5.5”; Diameter, 6.25” Gourds and mellons had a particular significance in Chinese culture.
See: ”Antique Boxes”by Clark and O’Kelly, figure #238 and our #620 for a similar example.
Architectural : Decorations : Pre 1837 VR
item #1463138
(stock #11198)
Rare Large Pair of Antique Wall Appliques, carved and gilt wood in the form of flowers in baskets.
French or Italian, 18th/19th Century 30"tall x 23"wide x 2''deep
Architectural : Interior : Pre 1837 VR
item #1460635
(stock #10876)
Rare English Regency Tea Chest in rosewood, of sarcophagus form with a paneled lid opening to a fitted interior retaining a pair of Anglo-Irish cut glass tea caddies and sugar bowl and original felt lining under the lid, circa 1830.
Cut crystal containers were very expensive at this time, almost as expensive as silver. It is very unusual for tea chests to retain their original crystal fittings. 13" x 6.75" x 8" tall
Architectural : Interior : Pre 1900
item #1482476
(stock #11244)
Charles A. Watson (American, 1857-1923)
"Sailing Off Virginia Coast" Oil on canvas, signed lower right and titled on a paper label on reverse (minor crackalure) Watson was born in Baltimore, MD. He studied with A. Castaigne, E.S. Whiteman and D. Woodward. A founding member of the Baltimore Charcoal Club, he was also a member of the Baltimore Watercolor Club. Watson exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition in 1906. He is noted for his Tonalist marine paintings where the softly dawnlit skies blend with the pale ocean waters, often with a bare outline of a sailboat.
Source:
Ptg, : 16" x 24"
Architectural : Interior : Pre 1837 VR
item #1460612
(stock #RMT-679)
Tea Chest in the Form of a Sideboard, in mahogany and deal, having a rectangular hinged top with shaped and carved backsplash, opening to a felt lined interior with two compartments for teaspoons and a moulded crystal sugarbowl. The front with a starburst pierced central panel flanked by hinged doors with applied plinth-form decoration and opening to foil lined drawers for green and black teas.
William Smee & Sons, London, published a catalog of furniture designs in 1850 which had sideboards of similar form. (See Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Designs by Edward Joy, pp 435-36.) Exhibited: The 48th Washington Antique Show, “Inside and Outside the Box”. English Circa 1840. 13.25” x 7” x 11.25” (Non-working key)
Architectural : Interior : Pre 1800
item #1472332
(stock #11224)
Rather whimsical Georgian III Tea Caddy in the form of two conjoined single caddies, rectangular, with hinged lid opening to two lidded compartments and the whole raised on ball form feet. Only the right hand escutcheon has a working lock.
English, circa 1790. 8' x 4.5" x 5.5" tall
Architectural : Interior : Pre 1900
item #1459547
(stock #11192)
Wonderful Victorian Church Form Whimsey in mahogany, having two drawers and a small well beneath the steeple.
English or American, circa 1870. 10" x 6"x 16"tall
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