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"SUMMER STOCK"

    

 

Herein is a partial selection of new stock acquired over the summer months.

  

Some selections have arrived, and already available for sale.

Others are incoming - or awaiting release with the November Christmas Catalogs,

which will feature the ‘illustrated’ adventures and engravings of Lewis Carroll’s :

'Alice in Wonderland'

'Alice Through the Looking Glass'

 'The Walrus and The Carpenter'

'Curiouser & Curiouser'

(The above catalogs are now online. Please click to view.)

Also, please inquire, as wished. 

 

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CERAMICS, GLASS & ACCESSORIES :

 

 

Kangxi Chinese Imari Fluted &Scalloped Dish
Incised Johanneum Inventory Number N=z68

China, c1710-20 / 12" Diameter
From the Japanese Palace of Augustus the Strong, Dresden
SOLD

 

 

Good George II Cruciform Carafe-Form Decanter

England, c1740
Molded base and flattered concave sides

with long tapering and stopperless neck with applied engrailed rings

9.5" High

SOLD

 

 

Pair Mid-18th Century Cut Glass Candlesticks
The Netherlands / 7.5" High
Each with knopped and faceted shafts above a domed flaring foot
SOLD

 

 

Fine & Scarce Chinese Export Pseudo Tobacco Leaf Teapot & Cover
China, c1765 / 5.5" High / An Early Example of the Genre
Featuring bold overlapping tropical foliage and tree squirrels in pursuit of peaches
SOLD

 

 

Two First Period Worcester Escallop Shell Moulded Pickle Dishes,

England, c1755-60

"Two Peony Rock Bird Pattern" / 3-7/8" & 4.25"

SOLD

 

 

Good Early George III Pedestal Stam Sweetmeat Glass

England, c1760

 The ogee bowl with dentelated rim above a pedestal (Silesian) stem

above a basal know and domed folded foot

5.75" High

SOLD

 

 
19th Century Carved Treen Hand-Form Nutcracker

 English or Continental / Likely Elmwood / 7.25” Long

The carved hand grasping a nut shell, issuing from a band of upright leaves

SOLD

 

 


 

FINE ART :

 

 

Diminutive 19th Century Japanese 6-Fold Screen
Of table top size, painted in ink and color on gilt paper,
depicting a pair of blue shishi dogs siding colorful peonies
18.75" High x 36" Wide
SOLD

 

 

Norwood Creech
Arkansas / Tennessee / Contemporary
"In the Shade,

Adamson Road, Poinsett County, Arkansas"
Charcoal & Oil on Canvas / 20" x 30" Image Size

Literature : Delta Made Catalog, Volume 2, 2016 / 2017, p. 11

In Stock - Linked

 

 


 

FURNITURE :

 

 

George II Carved Upholstered Mahogany Side Chair

England, c1740
The upholstered back with serpentine crestrail,
the four legs cabriole raised on inset castors,

the front knees nicely carved with scrolling foliate border returns

and descending to energetic and well carved ball and claw feet
23.5" Wide

In Stock - Linked


 

 Early George III Scottish Carved Mahogany Open Armchair

Edinburgh (likely), Scotland, c1765

Concave crestrail carved with tight paperscroll suspending a draped fringed cloth & tassels,

the pierced splat centering an interlaced knot within a band of stylized & pierced flowerheads,

in the manner of Alexander Peter

38" high x 17.5" Wide x 25" Deep / Seat Height, 18"

In Stock - Linked

 

 
Good George III Inlaid Mahogany Stick Barometer

London, 1770 / 43.5" High

The signed silvered register with vernier sliding scale behind hinged glazed door,

the mercury thermometer also behind a further hinged glazed trunk door

In Stock - Linked

 

 

Delightful Victorian Carved Mahogany and Brass Door Porter
19th Century / 26.25" High
A quite large and substantial door porter -
as needed to hold open the heavy doors of important manor homes -
formed as a coiled mythical "chimera", monogrammed shield RC on the breast
SOLD

 


 

SILVER :

 

 

Fine 17th Century Silver-Mounted Lignum Vitae Carved Goblet
Complex engine turning throughout, and with spiral stem
The silver rim mounted Sheffield, 1911, EWO & Co.
4.25" Wide High x 3-78" Wide
SOLD

 

 

 

Late 17th Century Silver Counter Box
Mark FS, attr. Francis Servant I or II (T. Kent, West Country Spoons)
West Country (Bideford / Barnstable) from c1685
The lift-off cover engraved with a six-petaled rose,
the base engraved with initials AV / 1.5" High
SOLD

 

 

Charles II / James II Silver Lace Back & Front Trefid Spoon
Thomas Allen, London, c1680-88
The terminal with foilate scrolls to the front,
the verso scratch engraved 1688 over *M*S*;
The bowl with rattail attachment and foliate scrolling verso
8" Long / 2.75" Long, the Bowl / 2.4 oz.
SOLD

 

 

Early 18th Century 'Britannia Standard Silver', Tortoiseshell,

& Mother of Pearl Tobacco Box

Thomas Roberts, London, c1705-1730
A very fine box, oval with stand-away hinge, the cover and base of tortoiseshell
A similar box is in the Fitzwilliam, Catalogue Number : H. 24, p. 136.
A further marked Roberts box resides in the Fitzwilliam, Number : M.90-1961
3.25" Wide

SOLD

 


 

Early 18th Century Engraved Silver Snuff Box

England, Unmarked, c1720-1725

The lift-off cover engraved with 6 draped figures and accompanied by a hound,

all dancing within classical ruins; heavy gauge silver

2-5/8" Long / 2.2oz.

In Stock - Linked

 

 

George III Silver Tobacco Box
Benjamin Beardsmore, Kettinsall, 1795
The slightly domed and hinged cover engraved with
the arms and motto of the family of Molyneux :
'Stat fortuna domus virtute'
(Sir Capel Molyneux, the 3rd Baronet of Castle Dillon,
County of Armagh, 1717 - 1797)
3" Wide x 1' High / 3.5 oz.

SOLD

 

 

George III Silver-Mounted Coconut Cup
Josiah Snatt, London 1813
The coconut cup with scalloped silver rim crested with a lion rampant,
above a scalloped and fluted base mount descending to a pedestal foot;
the rim and foot marked
5-7/8" High / 4' Wide (Bowl) / 3.5" Wide (Base) / 7.2 oz. ovcerall
In Stock - Linked

SOLD

 

 

Early Victorian Silver Melon-Form Nutmeg Grater

John Taylor & John Perry, Birmingham, 1844

The interior fitted with a blue steel grater;

Engraved to the cover :

E.L. Porter. From G.W.H and Aug't 27th 1835

1.5" Long /. .9 oz

In Stock - Linked

 

 


 

Please Inquire

 

Note :

Do not hesitate to inquire about any stock listed above.

We do not price a purchase until it arrives and we can examine it more closely.

 

 901-761-1163 (gallery) /  901-827-4668 (cell)

 


 

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