|
SUBCATEGORIES Featured Items (2) A 20th Century Bizen Kogo Depicting A Reclining Sage or Monk
Lacquer Named Kabuki Actor Portrait Box, Daihachi Role
Shops Active In This Category
Spoils of Time (7)
MAIN CATEGORIES
|
Antique Regency Music or Reading Stand in mahogany, having an adjustable sloped top
above, supported by a turned shaft with adjustable height and ending in three down swept legs with replaced ebonized ball form feet.
English, circa 1810 Height closed: 29.5", raised:42.5" Top:12"x 15" (minor scratches to top) Benson Bond Moore
(American 1882-1974)
"A Maryland Farm, Autumn" Oil on masonite, signed lower left and titled on the reverse
Painting: 14" x 18" " Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector ** For other painting by artists from Maryland, Virginia or Washington DC, click on the "Regional Artists" button on our homepage Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art with Messer and Brooke , and also with Weyl . He continued his studies in drawing at the Linthicum Institute under Ballenger and learned painting conservation from his father. Active in professional societies, he was a member and officer of the Landscape Club of Washington. He was also a longtime member of the Society of Washington Artists. He exhibited with both groups from as early as 1915 and continued through the 1930's. His work was also shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. As an artist, he became well known and honored for his local scenes, many of which are in major public collections. His works are held by the National Museum of American Art; Historical Society of Washington, DC; Library of Congress; The White House; Bibliothèque National de Paris; Cosmos Club; National Museum of American History; the Houston Museum of Fine Art and the Los Angeles Museum of Art. Over his life, he was honored with numerous awards for his work.
Sources: Follower of Barend Cornelius Koekkoek
(Dutch, 1803-1862)
Landscape with Farmhouse and Sheep Oil on canvas, signed lower left.
Painting Size: 11” x 14” Koekkoek was a student of his father the artist Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek and of Schelfhout Van Os at the Academy of Amsterdam. He married the daughter of the painter J.A. Daiwaille. In 1845 the Dutch king commissioned numerous paintings from Koekkoek. He travelled around Belgium and frequently visited the environs of the Rhine and the Moselle. In 1841 he founded an academy of drawing in Clèves where artists such as Frederick Kruseman, Lodewijk Kliejn and Johann Bernard Klombeck came under his tutelage and gave rise to the school of landscape painting referred to as 'Cleves Romanticism'. He took part in Paris exhibitions and won medals in 1840 and 1845. He was a member of the Academies of Petersburg and of Rotterdam. His paintings reveal his careful study of Dutch 17th century painters and the romantic tradition of the Dutch masters. Perhaps the artist of this painting studied at the Clèves academy as evidenced by his adherence to Koekkooek’s admonition to observe qualities of light and following Koekkoek’s example of painting rural environments with tiny figures.
Sources: Charles A. Watson (American, 1857-1923)
Moonlight on the Chesapeake Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Painting size: 12” x 10” ** For other paintings by artists from Maryland, Virginia, Washington DC or North Carolina, click on the “Regional Artists” button on our Homepage. 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: From the Estate of Antoinette Hughes, Catonsville, MD
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 George III Hanging Wall Shelves; of rectangular form with two upper shelves flanked by pierced and shaped sides over a base with two short drawers with brass bail pulls . English. circa 1780. (ink stains to some shelves)
h:30 w:26 d:6.50 in Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Painted Miniature Brooch
Oil-on-canvas, unsigned Mid 19th Century
Painting: 20 ¼” x 16 ½”
Benson Bond Moore
(American 1882-1974)
Old Willow in Winter, Anacostia Oil-on-artist board, signed lower right and titled on reverse
Painting: 11” 14” Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art with Messer and Brooke , and also with Weyl . He continued his studies in drawing at the Linthicum Institute under Ballenger and learned painting conservation from his father. Active in professional societies, he was a member and officer of the Landscape Club of Washington. He was also a longtime member of the Society of Washington Artists. He exhibited with both groups from as early as 1915 and continued through the 1930's. His work was also shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. As an artist, he became well known and honored for his local scenes, many of which are in major public collections. His works are held by the National Museum of American Art; Historical Society of Washington, DC; Library of Congress; The White House; Bibliothèque National de Paris; Cosmos Club; National Museum of American History and the Los Angeles Museum of Art. Over his life, he was honored with numerous awards for his work.
Sources: Venus at Her Bath
After a model (1757) by Christophe Gabriel Allegrain (French,1710 - 1795) Executed by Maison Susse Foundry after 1839 Bronze, 16" tall x 5" x5", stamped "Susse. fre. Edt." Known for their fine casting and patinas the Susse Foundry produced both antique bronzes and bronzes by contremporary 19th Century artists. *Please note: This is an original antique bronze, not a modern re-strike, and is so guaranteed. Arthur Heyer (German/Hungarian, 1872-1931)
White Cat in the Tall Grass Oil on canvas, signed lower right Painting Size: 16” x 20” Frame Size: 22.5 “ x 26.5” 11117 Heyer was born in Haarhausen, Germany and studied at the College of Applied Arts in Berlin. In 1896 he moved to the village of Rakospalota near Budapest where he lived until his death. He began his career painting landscapes but soon began depicting animals and had a particular fondness for cats and kittens.
Sources:
Painting: 15.25" x 19.75"
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
Lighting : Pre 1900
item #849917
(stock #9522)
Fine pair of Antique French Louis XVI style ormolu candlesticks with circular bases
with laurel leaf decoration and tapered, fluted shafts with applied laurel swags. Late 19th-century, now wired as lamps.
Provenance: from the collection of Ron Van Swerengen Height to Shade: 25.5”
Fine Antique English Canterbury in Walnut, having four pierced partitions with “C” scroll carved decoration above a single drawer and raised on turned ball form feet with brass casters.
Circa 1850-1870
Originally designed for sheet music, these are now used primarily as magazine racks. To see other examples, type "canterbury" into the search box. Height: 20” Benson Bond Moore (American,1882-1974)
Autumn in the Blue Ridge Mountains (near Emmittsburg, PA[sic]) 1955 Oil on board, signed lower left and dated “1955”. Titled on the reverse
Painting Size: 15.5” x 19.5” ** For other painting by artists from Maryland, Virginia or Washington DC, click on the "Regional Artists" button on our homepage Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art with Messer and Brooke , and also with Weyl . He continued his studies in drawing at the Linthicum Institute under Ballenger and learned painting conservation from his father. Active in professional societies, he was a member and officer of the Landscape Club of Washington. He was also a longtime member of the Society of Washington Artists. He exhibited with both groups from as early as 1915 and continued through the 1930's. His work was also shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. As an artist, he became well known and honored for his local scenes, many of which are in major public collections. His works are held by the National Museum of American Art; Historical Society of Washington, DC; Library of Congress; The White House; Bibliothèque National de Paris; Cosmos Club; National Museum of American History and the Los Angeles Museum of Art. Over his life, he was honored with numerous awards for his work.
Sources:
Consentino, Andrew and Glassie, Henry, The Capital Image, Painters in Washington, 1800-1915 John Henry Smith (British, fl.1852-1893)
An Artist at Work Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left and dated “1863”
Painting Size: 22.25” x 18” This charming portrait of a young woman artist at work is a wonderful depiction of the painter and her tools. Her subject of a vase of flowers with fruit sits on a table to her right. The sturdy adjustable easel has a shelf where she has laid out her tubes of pigments. She is using a mahl stick to create a bridge across the canvas which supports her painting hand to avoid touching the surface. An artist’s apron lays across her lap to protect her skirt. Her full concentration is on the canvas in front of her which is nearing completion. J. Henry Smith was a painter of genre, landscapes and animals, living in London, Brixton and South Lambeth who exhibited extensively from 1852-1893 at the royal Academy, the British Institution, the society of British Artists and elsewhere. Titles exhibited at the Royal Academy included “Where the Shoe Pinches” (1882) and “A Book is the Best Solitary Companion in the World” (1885).
Sources:
Prints : Pre 1920
item #1302113
(stock #10663)
Manuel Robbe (French, 1872-1936)
Nocturne (ou Le Flirt) Aquatint with etching in colors, circa 1906, on wove paper, signed in pencil in the image lower left. From the edition of about 100, with minor staining in the margins, not examined out of the frame.
Image Size: 13.5" x 17.5" Robbe was a painter of genre scenes, a watercolorist, pastellist, engraver, designer and illustrator. He studied both at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris where he was mentored in etching and aquatint methods by Eugene Delâtre. He exhibited in Paris regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français and was awarded a bronze medal in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Leaving that salon in 1905, Robbe became a member of the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He chiefly worked in the medium of colored aquatint engravings in which he had become quite accomplished. He was an innovator of the experimental “à la poupée” process of printing many colors from a single plate which gave his prints a startling subtlety, each print having its own uniqueness. Robbe’s favorite themes were of scenes of Paris life, scenes of streets animated by young parisiennes of the Belle Époque and young women and children engaging in the social activities of the day. His prints were designed to be framed and hung on the wall just like oil paintings.
Source: *Manuel Robbe's works are catalogued and described by a series of soft covered books published by Merrill Chase Galleries in 1978, 1979, and 1980. These books serve as the recognized catalogue raisonné for Robbe. Exceptional Pair of Italian Bronze and Ormolu Candlesticks with nicely detailed foliate decoration and with good patina and fine castings. Having a removable ormolu drip pan above a bronze candle cup and supported by a turned and foliate decorated column with a tripartite scrolling ormolu base and mounted on a tripartite bronze plinth. These would have been brought home as a souvenir by someone who had made the Grand Tour. Italy, circa 1870.
5" x 5" x 13"tall
Antique Dutch Turned Mahogany Peat Bucket having tapering staved sides with molded and ring turnings and with brass liner and carrying handle. Holland, circa 1820
Height to Rim: 12.5"
Diameter: 12.5"
|