Decorative Accessories Highlights

Tiffany Studios blown out glass and bronze oil lamp with original Favrile iridescent shade, c.1899. Bottom of base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK D436 / 7, with Tiffany Glass & Decorating Co, monogram. Exterior top of base also impressed D436. Base has cold patina finish and is fitted with a bronze collar having pierced decoration to top and a ring to hold the shade. Base 13 3/8″H. Gold iridescent shade with wave design, etched S4319. 9 3/4″ diameter. Height overall: 18 1/2″ (excluding chimney).

CONDITION: Some losses to bronze fitting around the bulb socket. Residue to crevices between bronze top of lamp base and body. Some small orange reside spots to a few sections of glass in base; these flake off but we have not attempted to clean the more persistent ones. Glass on base is otherwise in excellent condition, no damage. 1/4″ dark stain to bronze on foot, near power switch. Switch and socket added later. Formerly electrified; cord has been cut. Shade in overall excellent condition with a few scattered tiny imperfections in the making. Clear glass chimney is not original. [See more photos →]

French bronze and gilt bronze Spherical Weight or “Falling Ball” mantle clock, with barometer and thermometer. Top features a bronze standing lion figure atop a cover that lifts for the deposit of balls, over a decorative frieze and glass-sided rectangular case with bottom drawer for ball storage, atop four toupie feet. Dial with enameled floral decoration and colorless jewels above a wheeled barometer, also adorned with colorless jewels; a thermometer to the left and a rotating wheel mechanism that uses the gravity of falling balls to power the clock movement in the back. 22″ H x 10 3/4″ W x 6 1/8″ D. French, circa 1890. Condition: Overall very good condition, clock works functioning at time of inspection. [See more photos →]

Tiffany Studios “Lily Pad” Mirror, also known as the Pond Lily Mirror; beveled oval dressing mirror framed by sinuous intertwined bronze vines, supported on a lily pad base. Mirror tilts to reveal an engraved script monogram, “LC”, on reverse. Stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 899 on the back plate and “V” on underside. 19 13/8″ H x 15 1/2″ W x 11″ D. 15.9. Circa 1904. Provenance: Private collection, ex-Macklowe Gallery, New York. CONDITION: Warm rich green-brown patina with three tiny spots of bright green oxidation to lily pads at right hand side; oxidation verso; some minor dark spotting to edges of mirror under the glass. Rounded beveled edge to glass. [See more photos →]

Rare pair of American Federal Period Girandole Convex Looking Glasses, white pine (pinus strobus, by microanalysis) and composition ornament, with iron armature, gessoed and gilded; each convex mirror plate with ebonized surround, surmounted by a carved gilt eagle on plinth flanked by acanthus leaves, giltwood balls on metal chains suspended from the eagle’s mouth, two candle arms issuing from acanthus leaves at the lowermost edge of the mirror, with gilt brass or bronze candle cups and cut crystal drip pans. Approx. 40″ x 27″ x 10″. Circa 1810. Exhibited, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 2007, “For Work & For Play, A Selection of Neoclassical Furniture,” no. 46 (not in catalog). Provenance: Private collection until 2004; to Hirschl & Adler Galleries; to private Nashville collection, 2004 to present. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with some minor restoration to carved elements and gilded surface, including the gilt lacquered surface on the candle cups; light wear and shrinkage crazing to gilding; light clouding and oxidation to silvering. Glass drip pans and gilt brass bobeches are period-style replacements. Mirror 1 – Repaired breaks at drop, at front tip of eagle’s right wing, and tip of acanthus leaf at top right above mirror. Mirror 2- Re-gilding to area on eagle’s head. The rectangular metal plates (en verso) attaching candle arms to mirror appear replaced. [See more photos →]

A French restoration period gilt and patinated bronze French mantle clock, depicting the mythological Jason, capturing the Golden Fleece with the head of the slain hydra at his feet. Supporting the fleece is a patinated bronze tree rising from a rocky base. The ormolu clock face has a Roman numeral dial and is decorated with two Grecian figures. The rectangular verde antico-veneered base is supported on gilt bronze paw feet. 25″ H x 15 1/2″ x 7 1/7″ D. Circa 1820. Note: This clock is similar to a model signed by Lesieur now in the MusÈe de Malmaison (MM 40-47-470). There are other closely related models including one in the Spanish Royal Collection (see J. Ramon Colon de Carvajal, Catalogo de Relojes del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1987, p, 186, no. 166), three models signed by Choiselat, one by FeuchËre, one signed by Ledure and one signed by Lesieur Empire (see Sotheby’s lot 151, December 11, 1981, and lot 28, March 3, 2006). Condition: Clock is missing the original works. Sculptural elements are in very good overall condition. Some chips to the marble base. [See more photos →]

Large Chinese cinnabar lacquer covered box, circular form, the top having carved landscape decoration including a central pine tree, and the sides with carved crane and peach decoration. Raised six character Hsuan Te mark to base. Fitted with a carved hard wood stand. 12 1/4″ dia. x 6″ H. 8 1/2″ total height with stand. Late 19th century/Early 20th century. Note – a photograph of this lacquer covered box is pictured in a 1963 article on the Asian and American antiques of John and Amanda Gray, Chattanooga, TN. Provenance: Riceville, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. A couple areas of possible old repair to rim area of lower half. [See more photos →]

A large French porcelain clock in the style of Sevres, the horizontal dial spanning the exterior of an urn with hand painted floral decorated vignettes on a marbelized pink background. Mounted with gilt bronze serpent handles and swags around perimeter of base. Fitted with a stepped wooden pedestal base. Works marked ìCie LeRoy Parisî. 19 1/2″ H, not including wooden base. Mid 19th century. Provenance: purchased from J.B. Hudson Co. Antiques, Minneapolis, in the 1950s along with the garniture vases in lot #122. Condition: Clock missing pendulum, not tested for functionality. Crack to porcelain urn to left side of one vignette, approx. 2″. [See more photos →]

Charles Alexander Burnett (1769ñ1849, Alexandria, Virginia / Georgetown, District of Columbia) Federal coin silver tea and coffee service. The Neoclassical style, six-piece service includes coffee pot, tea pot, sugar bowl, waste bowl, creamer, and sugar tongs, all stamped C.A. BURNETT in rectangle. The five hollowware pieces are of rectangular form with gadroon and trellis borders, urn finials and stepped pedestal bases; the pots having angular handles with bone ferrules and the sugar bowl with C-scroll handles, the tongs with shell form grips, bright cut bell flowers and borders on the handles. Circa 1810. Coffee pot: 8 1/8″ H, tea pot: 8 5/8″ H, covered sugar: 8 1/2″ H, creamer: 6 3/8″ H, waste bowl: 5″ L, tongs: 6 1/4″ L. Script monogram “ACK” (H?) on tongs; other pieces with script monogram HPA. 113.585 oz troy total. Charles Burnett was one of the Federal period’s most prominent and prolific silversmiths. He was active in Fredericksburg from 1788-1793 and Alexandria from 1793 to 1796. From 1801-1806 he was in partnership with John E. Rigden in Georgetown. Burnett continued the shop in Georgetown on his own until about 1840, and he died in 1849. He counted a number of Washington, D.C. area politicians among his patrons, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Clay. Provenance: From the Estate of the Late Richard Harrison Doughty, Greeneville, Tennessee. Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear, commensurate with age. Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear, commensurate with age. [See more photos →]

2 items. 1st item: English George II sterling silver sauce boat, John Marshall and possibly George Washington association. Sauce or gravy boat of Rococo style design with scalloped rim, C scroll handle and three shell shaped feet with shell shoulders; the side engraved with coat of arms. Hallmarked on underside for Robert Innes, London, 1748-49 with additional engraved monogram letters D / R C. 5″ H x 4 3/8″ D x 8″ L. 11.170 troy ounces. Accompanying this lot is a copy of a 1973 letter written by Charles Boyd Coleman to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger, referring to a sauceboat given to John Marshall by George Washington which has descended in the Coleman family. An additional letter from Charles Boyd Coleman regarding the Marshall-Wythe-Blackstone ceremonies from September 25, 1954 lists a “Silver gravy boat engraved with modified version of Washington arms and given to Marshall we understand in appreciation for helping settle estate of father of George Washington.” (see attached scan). Note: Case wishes to thank Henry L.P. Beckwith, consultant to the Heraldry Society Community, for assistance in tentatively identifying the coat of arms as that of the Bassett Family (a report of his findings may be obtained by emailing us at info@caseantiques.com) . The Bassett family of Virginia and the Washington family were close friends and relations. Martha Washington’s niece, Fanny Bassett (1767-1796), daughter of Burwell Bassett and Anna Maria Dandridge, came to live at Mount Vernon around 1780, after the death of her mother, and was considered a daughter by Martha. Fanny married George Washington’s favorite nephew, George Augustine Washington (1759-1793), and the young couple made their home at Mount Vernon, helping to manage the plantation until their untimely deaths. George Washington was the executor for the will of George Augustine Washington (who was named after the father President Washington). 2nd item: Red velvet top coat remnant, purportedly belonging to George Washington, now sewn into the form of a sphere. Hand written note included with item states that it passed from “Cousin Lizzie, granddaughter of John Adams to his first —— grandmother Susan D H Boyd”. Provenance: The Estate of Charles Boyd Coleman, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Both items descended in the family of Annette Maria Dearborn Boyd, daughter of Greenleaf Dearborn (1786-1846) and great granddaughter of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829) on the side of her mother, Pamela Augusta Gilman (1802-1880). Annette was married to Charles Harrod Boyd and had four children, including Julia Wingate Boyd (wife of Lewis M. Coleman, Jr.). Lewis M. Coleman, Jr. was the son of CSA Lt. Colonel Lewis M. Coleman and Mary Ambler Marshall, granddaughter of John Marshall (1755-1835), fourth Chief Justice of the United States, a friend, attorney and biographer of George Washington. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall general surface wear, indentations to inside bowl at rear feet joint. 2nd item: As found condition. [See more photos →]

Samuel Kirk & Son repousse sterling silver tea service, 6 pieces, comprised of a swing kettle on stand with burner, coffee pot, tea pot, creamer, covered sugar bowl with lion mask and ring handles and tea strainer. Each piece of baluster form with flared lip, and footed base, all with chased and engraved floral repousse decoration in high relief and feathered edges, the domed covers with figural grapevine cluster finials. Kettle, tea and coffee pot with carved ivory insulators, sugar bowl with lion mask handles. Each piece marked on the base “S. Kirk & Son Co., 925/1000”. Kettle – 15″ H x 11″ W. Coffee pot – 11 1/2″ H. Teapot – 9″ H. Sugar bowl – 7 1/2″ H. Creamer – 8 1/2″ H. 199.50 total troy ounces. Circa 1907. Provenance: Baltimore estates of Virginia Howard Miller (c. 1880-1946) and Hugh Purviance King (1873-1966) passed down to present Living Estate of Virginia Johnston, Chattanooga, TN. CONDITION: Coffee pot handle loose, pins missing. Otherwise all pieces very good condition. [See more photos →]

Four (4) blown, cut and engraved glass tumblers, 18th century. Each decorated with swags and stars and an oval cartouche with the initials JM for Jacob Motte (1700-1770), Charleston, South Carolina city treasurer and wealthy land owner, or his son Jacob Motte II (1730-1781). 2 1/2″ H, 2 3/8″ diam. at top. Possibly Irish, exported for use in America, c. 1760.
PROVENANCE: By descent in the historic Pinckney family of Runnymede Plantation, South Carolina. Note: Jacob Motte Jr.”s wife was Rebecca Brewton, sister of Frances Brewton Pinckney (wife of Col. Charles Pinckney).

CONDITION: 1 with small internal scratch-like flaw; a couple of scattered tiny fleabites to feet, a few scattered tiny bubbles/flaws in the making; 1 with two tiny flakes (1/4″ and 1/16″ to underside). [See more photos →]

Francis Watkins (1723 -1791) brass reflecting telescope with a 23 1/2" primary tube, 4 1/2" eyepiece extension tube, and 9" sighting tube with crosshairs; sliding screw rod focusing apparatus attaches to a polished speculum secondary mirror; adjusts with brass vertical adjustment gear wheel and thumbscrews; raised on an octagonal baluster column supported by three folding legs. Inscribed "Fra. Watkins Charing Cross London." Overall 28" length, 21 1/2" height (measured while horizontal). Historical Note: Francis Watkins'' telescopes are associated with 18th c. British explorer James Cook, who in 1769 took an 18" Watkins telescope on his voyage to the Pacific to make astronomical observations including the Transit of Venus from Tahiti. Watkins apprenticed as an optician, eventually opening his own business in 1747 in London at 5 Charing Cross. Under the sign "Isaac Newton''s Head" he produced various instruments with ground glass lenses. According to a 1763 advertisement, these included "Reading Glasses, [a] Great Variety of single, double and Solar Microscopes, Reflecting and Refracting Telescopes, of all Lengths and Sizes; Opera Glasses, Concave and Convex Mirrors of all Sizes, Book and Box Cameras of all Dimensions, all Sorts of Barometers and Thermometers, also Hydrometers, Hydrostatic Balances, air Pumps, and all other Optical and Philosophical Instruments."

CONDITION: Excellent overall condition, functions smoothly; small 1/4" indentation to bottom of main tube; rear primary mirror dirty with disuse obscuring clear viewing. [See more photos →]

Large set Gorham sterling silver 1888 Versailles pattern, 196 pieces: 12 dinner knives, 12 dinner forks, 12 luncheon knives, 12 luncheon forks, 12 salad forks, 13 teaspoons, 12 table spoons, 12 cream soup spoons, 12 bouillon spoons, 12 fruit spoons, 12 ice cream forks, 12 ice cream/oyster spoons, 12 seafood forks, 12 butter spreaders, 12 demi-tasse spoons, 1 sugar tongs, 1 pastry server, 1 asparagus server, 1 cake serving fork, 1 fish server, 1 cream ladle, 1 rice/potato spoon, 6 serving spoons. 224.69 weighable oz troy. Collection includes several of the original felt rolls from the Gorham retail store in NYC. Condition: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) enameled earthenware with engobe and paraffin decoration titled “Centaur au Visages”. Signed and numbered “Madoura Plein Feu Edition Picasso, 80/125 R. 153″ underside of base. 10″ H x 9 1/2″ W x 7 1/2” D. Includes copy of 1997 French purchase receipt from Galerie Madoura, Vallauris, France. Provenance: Private Collection of a Retired Sculptor and Art Collector, Middle Tennessee. CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Classical gilt and patinated bronze mantel clock with “bust a l’antique” of George Washington by Louis Mallet, circa 1820. Comprised of a plinth form base with gilt acanthus leaf and laural wreath mounts, white enamel dial having a gilt bezel with Roman numeral chapter ring and signed “Ls. Mallet/ H. DE M.D. D’Orleans/No. 1078″, all surmounted by a patinated bronze bust of George Washington. 18 1/2″ H x 7 5/8″ W x 7 5/8” D. 19.8 lbs. Note: Mallet was clockmaker to the Duke of Orleans in Paris from the late 18th century until 1824 and carried the title of “Horloger de M. Le Duc d’Orleans”. (Source: Brian Loomes, “Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World,” London 2006, p. 503). His firm produced several different versions of clocks featuring figures of George Washington for the American market. (Ref. Thomas B. Allen, “A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America”, University of North Carolina Press, 2008, pp. 74-78). CONDITION: 4 small hairlines to dial area between “7” and “8”, largest is 3/4″ L; a few tiny dark spots of oxidation to lower front edge of bust (chest area), overall good condition. A couple of screws appear to be replaced in the clockworks. [See more photos →]

Set of four (4) George III sterling candlesticks, impressed marks for William Cafe, working 1758-1766, London, with half-fluted Corinthian columns, base with incised family crest, swag and shell decoration over gadroon border and concave square base. Each with removable sterling hallmarked bobeches. Date mark slightly illegible, possibly 1763. 13 1/2″ H x 5 3/8″ square base, 105.12 total oz troy. CONDITION: Very good condition. [See more photos →]

1st item: Braunschweig Stobwasser black papier mache snuff box with painted Neoclassical decoration to lid of the Three Graces, identified as being after Angelica Kaufmann (Swiss, 1741-1807) by an inscription on underside of lid; inscribed on base for Stobwasser Factory and numbered 6703. 5/8" H x 3 3/4" dia. 2nd item: Black lacquer snuff box with hand painted deer hunting scene with riders, dogs, and a buck in a dense forest to lid. Laid paper note lining the box, handwritten in Dutch and German, identifies the decoration as after Johan Elias Ridinger (German, 1698-1769), along with another inscription translating to "Snuff box / Owned by: Oberamtmann H. Jager, City of Zorbig / built the first Tobacco factory in Prussia under Fr. Wilhelm III. 1" H x 4 1/2" dia. Both German, late 18th or early 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Private West Tennessee Collection.

CONDITION: 1st item: Condition is very good with some miniscule scattered paint loss and craquelure, especially along upper right edge. Minor scuffs to the bottom and interior. 2nd item: Condition is good with a hairline crack running around perimeter and pigment loss due to flaking in upper left, along with craquelure throughout. Minor cracking and abrasions with pigment loss on bottom and sides of box. [See more photos →]

Three-piece Tiffany Egyptian revival champleve gilt bronze garniture set with mantle clock and pair of urns. The mantle clock of gilt bronze and beveled glass with center urn finial with champleve lid, the case with four fluted columns with champleve finials and half-columns on turned bases and two larger side columns with champleve finials and columns on square bases. Clock face marked Tiffany & Co. with Arabic numerals and champleve center with rhinestone border. Pendulum with hand-painted portrait miniature of woman in 18th century style dress and framed in two rows of rhinestones and champleve border. The clock works by Japy Freres, marked “Made in France 11658411”, “A1 Tiffany & Co”. Retains key. 14 3/4″ H x 9″ W x 5 3/4″ D. Each urn with opposing cupid masks and decorated with bands of champleve and applied champleve plaque and mounted on square base with four turned supports with champleve finials and bands of champleve on three sides, turned feet with impressed numbers “2 or 3″ on base. 9 3/4″ H x 4 3/4″ W x 4 3/4” D each. Late 19th/Early 20th century. CONDITION: Wear to gilding and champleve decoration, possible areas of old regilding. Scratches on interior bronze base of clock. All rhinestones present, some with discoloration. [See more photos →]

Tiffany Studios “turtleback” table or desk lamp, comprised of two favrile turtleback panels of green, gold, brown and blue iridescent glass, in a verdigris bronze frame with rope and bead decoration over a single socket, shade is mounted within two bronze curved arms leading to base with stylized leaf design and green art glass cabochon jewels around base edge. Marked on underside base, TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/D545 and with the Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company monogram. 14″ H x 8 3/8″ W. Circa 1892-1900. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Base and glass appear to be in excellent condition. Older wiring with some fraying to cord. Bronze fatigue crack visible to both arms near mounts to shade (appears stable). [See more photos →]

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) unglazed ceramic plate titled “Visage” by Madoura Pottery. Stamped en verso “Madoura Plein Feu/Empreinte originale de Picasso”. Inscribed en verso “A102″ and numbered in black marker 20/100. 14 1/2” dia. Circa 1965. Provenance: Property of a private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with minor area of yellowing bottom left rim edge. Possible minor errant pencil marks lower rim below nose. No cracks or chips. [See more photos →]

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) red earthenware with black paint titled “Yan Barbu”. Signed and numbered “Madoura Plein Feu Edition Picasso, 294/300 V. 104″ underside of base. 10 1/2″ H x 6 1/4″ W x 4” D. Mid 20th century. Includes copy of 1997 French purchase receipt from Galerie Madoura, Vallauris, France. Provenance: Private Collection of a Retired Sculptor and Art Collector, Middle Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Rene Lalique Art Deco Rinceaux chandelier or plafonnier, introduced 1926, amber frosted and clear glass shade, molded in a honey comb pattern. “R Lalique, France” signature engraved on the side. Suspends from ceiling on four silk-covered wire hanging cords, which appear original, and retains the original molded glass ceiling cap. 14 3/4″ D. CONDITION: No cracks or chips, but some general expected wear and some internal imperfections as made. [See more photos →]

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) white earthenware with multicolor paint titled “Visage Aux Cercles”. Dated on side of vessel. Signed and numbered “Madoura Plein Feu Edition Picasso, 243/500 R 140″ underside of base. 11 1/2″ H x 10 1/2″ W x 6 1/2” D. Includes copy of 1997 French purchase receipt from Galerie Madoura, Vallauris, France. Provenance: Private Collection of a Retired Sculptor and Art Collector, Middle Tennessee. CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Large and elaborate French patinated and gilt bronze figural clock, the top portion with bronze sculpture of two females in Classical style dress, holding hands, one with a musical instrument and the other holding a book (allegorical for art and literature); the base section modeled as a plinth with applied gilt bronze foliate and scroll ornamentation, surrounding an inset enameled dial marked Thomas Agnew & Sons, London. Works marked Deniere A Paris. 26 1/4″ H x 22″ W x 10″ D. 19th century. Condition: Overall very good condition, not tested for functionality. [See more photos →]

Chinese cloisonne garniture 3-piece set, all with floral design on black ground and gilt painted metal mounts. The center keywind clock with Asian numerals on enamel and gilt metal clock face, dragon finial, standing foo dogs on base. Clock works numbered 656 with no maker’s mark. 25″ H x 15″ W x 7 1/2″ D. Set also with coordinating pair 5-arm candelabra, 23 1/2″ H x 11 1/2″ D. Chinese, Late 19th/Early 20th century. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection. CONDITION: Regilded. Key to clock not present; clock not tested for functionality. [See more photos →]

Eugene Barillot (French, 1841-1900) ivory and gilt bronze nude sculpture titled “Odaliske”, depicting a partially nude female in Turkish style dress, alabaster base. Signed “Barillot, Paris” on the base and mounted on an alabaster base. 12″ H. Late 19th century. Provenance: Crossville, TN collection. Condition: One earring missing, otherwise very good condition. Condition: One earring missing, otherwise very good condition. [See more photos →]

Two Swiss gold and enamel Zarfs or cups, for the Turkish or Ottoman market, with hand painted porcelain inserts, each stamped with underglaze blue mark with eagle and cyrillic writing, similar to that used by Gardner Porcelain of Russia. The gold filigree and enamel frames feature decorative scalloped borders over floral vignettes, larger one is also adorned with seed pearls and figural leaves. Each raised on a tapering enameled stem and spreading, pierced enamel decorated foot. Each zarf also comes with its original protective silk-lined case. Small zarf – 2″H frame only, 2 3/4″ with insert. Large zarf – 2 3/8″ frame only, 2 3/4″ with cup. CONDITION: Each frame has some minor small areas of discoloration to filigree and about a half dozen tiny chips to enamel at upper rim. Smaller frame has a couple of miniscule chips to enameling on the foot. Floral vignettes are in excellent condition and there appear to be no breaks to the filigree or losses to seed pearls. Larger frame has some wear to green enamel on the leaves and some soft, clear sticky residue on the feet and interior of a putty used to hold it and the inner cup in place. This comes off, but we have not attempted to remove all of it to avoid risking damage. Smaller cup broken and poorly repaired; larger cup has significant hairline. Both cases have exterior wear and some staining to the interior linings, latch on larger case is broken. [See more photos →]

Bronze sculpture after John Talbott Donoghue (1853 – 1903) titled “The Young Sophocles Leading the Chorus of Victory after the Battle of Salamis”. Signed on base “J. Donoghue” with inscriptions on the sides of the base in Greek reading Sophocles and Salamis. Back of base marked “Modern Art Foundry, NY”. 44 1/2″ H x 26″ W x 14″ D. 20th century. Condition: Extensive verdigris patination from outdoor exposure. Some scratches on back of mounting. [See more photos →]

Pair of large bronze mounted French porcelain covered urns with cobalt backgrounds, the centers with handpainted decoration of landscapes to one side and seated courting figures on the other, signed L. Bertren. Underside of lids with blue Sevres style marks. 24 1/4″ H x 14 1/8″ W. Late 19th century. Provenance: Crossville, TN collection. Condition: Overall very good condition with moderate oxidation to bronze. Condition: Overall very good condition with moderate oxidation to bronze. [See more photos →]

French Empire period carved giltwood tripod stand with mottled green marble circular top framed by a band of guilloche molding, ribbed foliate drop with finial, three scrolled feet joined by carved giltwood laurel swags. 16″ H x 14 1/4″ top diameter x 21″ overall diameter. French, second quarter of the 19th century. Provenance: Private Knoxville, TN collection.. CONDITION: Some loss to gilding and chips to marble. [See more photos →]

Neoclassical style brass and crystal chandelier, formerly from the Tennessee Room at the Museum of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, D.C. Twelve-arm chandelier with notched cut glass arms and hanging cut glass prism garlands, the standard hung with six descending layers of spear-point prisms terminating with center-cut faceted ball. Three electric sockets face lower interior. 46 1/2″ H plus 2″ oval hook x 35″ diameter. French or English, late 19th to early 20th century. Provenance: Originally donated by the Tennessee State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution for use in the Museum of the DAR in Washington, D.C. in the early 1900s, this chandelier hung the Tennessee Period room for approximately a century and was recently deaccessioned as part of a renovation. Refer to photograph, courtesy the DAR Museum, showing it hanging in the Tennessee Room as it appeared several years ago. A video on the DAR Museum may be viewed via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB_29w4n4Y4. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with a few minor scattered chips and scuffs to prisms. Wiring tested for working condition. [See more photos →]

Texas horn armchair with cattle hide seat covering and glass ball casters. Unsigned, attributed to Charles Puppe of San Antonio, circa 1889. 37″ H x 31″ W x 21″ D. Note: information recently furnished to us by Alan Rogers of the National Texas Longhorn Museum suggests this chair was made by Charles Puppe, based on the arrangement and placement of the horns which is similar, but not identical to the No. 6 Chair by Wenzel Friedrich (1827-1902), also of San Antonio (to whom we initially attributed this chair). Friedrich and Puppe both used glass ball casters on the feet of their horn chairs, but the placement of the four longer horns making up the bottom back of the chair, with the middle two touching, suggests it was in fact made by Puppe; it is identical to a documented chair Puppe made in 1889 for rancher Dennis Martin O’Connor, who in turn gave it to President Benjamin Harrison. Charles Puppe had a shop at 229 Commerce Street in San Antonio. He first appears in city directories as a maker of horn chairs in 1885 and is listed as late as 1891. Provenance: A.R. Dickey Estate, Knoxville, TN. Condition: Overall very good condition with expected wear. Hide covering possibly not original. [See more photos →]

English Neoclassical style four-piece silverplated table plateau, oval form with mirrored surface surrounded by a reticulated gallery with floral scroll design; the sides with floral banding and fluted pilaster decoration, supported on six paw feet. Unmarked. 3 1/2" H x 62 3/4" L x 16 3/4" D. Late 19th to Early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Pia Stratton, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with minor surface scratching to mirrored tray. [See more photos →]

Max (Louis Octave Maxime) Le Verrier (France, 1891-1973) Art Deco patinated bronze figural lamp “Clarte” depicting a nude female in a verdigris patina with outstretched arms holding a globe lamp and mounted on a stepped black octagonal base. Signed on the back of the base “Le Verrier”. 24″ H x 14 1/2″ D. 20th century. Provenance: a Middle Tennessee estate, by descent from Thomas G.B. Wheelock. Note: Thomas G.B. Wheelock was known as an astute collector of African Art and co-author of the book “Land of the Flying Masks: Art & Culture in Burkina Faso”. He also inherited a sizeable collection of Asian, British, and military related antiques from his grandparents, Gilded Age tycoon George Briggs Buchanan of New York, and William and Margaret Wheelock, who owned a Scottish manor home known as Bunker Hill. (Margaret Carmichael Wheelock was also a founding partner of the fashion firm Farquharson & Wheelock in New York). See other related lots in this auction, including an archive containing receipts for furnishings for Bunker Hill. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Not tested for functionality. [See more photos →]

A Newcomb art pottery loving cup, 1907, decorated by Leona Nicholson (1847-1929) with a relief landscape of blue morning glories to the body. Base marked with the Newcomb cipher, decorator’s mark, registration # BU28, impressed JM for Joseph Meyer and impressed Q for clay color. 5 7/8″ H. Base dia. 6 1/2″. Provenance: The consignor’s grandmother acquired this piece directly from the artist who was married to her brother. Condition: One inside rim hairline approx. 1.5″ in length, possibly from firing process. [See more photos →]

An early Boneshaker bicycle, maker unknown. Third quarter of the 19th century. Red paint with black painted accents applied to the cast iron body with wooden spoke wheels. Replaced leather seat, original turned wooden handles, wrought-ironpedals. Bicycle in overall good condition. 62″ L x 52-1/2″ H. Front wheel dia – 33-3/4″. Rear wheel dia – 28-1/2″. Design invented in France by Michaux and brought to the US by Lallement. Provenance: East Tennessee collection. [See more photos →]

Large Sevres style porcelain jardiniere, comprised of three parts, including a jardiniere, bowl and stand. All pieces in the Rococo style with a cobalt ground and detailed gilt highlights throughout. The jardiniere with vignette scenes to each side, one depicting figures engaging in a picnic, the other depicting a landscape scene with a large manor house. Signed “Boltic” lower right of the picnic scene. Spurious Sevres mark to the base of the stand. 20″ H x 27″W x 13 1/4″ D. 19th century. Provenance: The Estate of Larry Casey, Jackson, Tennessee. CONDITION: Hairline crack to rim of jardiniere, just below one handle terminus, approx. 1 1/2″ L. Cracklure to interior glaze of jardiniere and bowl. Overall general light wear with a few minute fleabites to feet. [See more photos →]

Dresden porcelain demitasse service with pink ground and hand-painted decoration of children and cherubs making music, all with heavy gilt trim and gilded and white slip beading. Includes coffee pot, 7-1/4″H with dragon head spout, mask handle and serrated feet; similar creamer and sugar, 6 cups (2-1/8″) and saucers. Marked on bottoms with W in a shield and another mark of crowned R & C, partially painted over, with stamped mark “Secession” underneath. German, circa 1910-15. Condition: Sugar is missing lid. Few scattered spots of very light gilt wear, overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Cold painted bronze, depicting a partially nude reclining female, possibly Cleopatra, on a chaise lounge with a child servant waiting on her, holding a tray. Attributed to Franz Xavier Bergmann (1861-1936). Unsigned. 4″ H x 9-1/2″ L x 6-1/8″ W. Early 20th century. Provenance: Private Nashville, Tennessee collection. Condition: Missing figure on front side of sculpture marked by two holes. Light wear to highlights of bronze patina of reclining female. [See more photos →]

Set of Baccarat Gilded crystal bowls and stoppers, 25 total pieces, each with gilt foliate rococo decoration. Includes a pair of decanter stoppers; 14 finger bowls, each with cut starburst foot and underplates (including 5 extra underplates); and 4 shallow centerpiece bowls or tazzas with cut starburst foot, each fitted with a conforming figural cherub ormolu bronze stand stamped on the underside with the Baccarat roundel. All pieces monogrammed. Finger bowls measure 3″ H x 5 1/4″ dia. Underplates measure 8″ dia. Centerpiece bowls/tazzas measure 7 1/2″ dia. Cherub stands measure 3″ H. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Baltimore estates of Virginia Howard Miller (c. 1880-1946) and Hugh Purviance King (1873-1966) passed down to present Living Estate of Virginia Johnston, Chattanooga, TN. CONDITION: All pieces overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Three (3) early Continental brass candlesticks. 1st item: 16th century brass candlestick, round deep mid dip pan over a flaring vase, knopped stem and candle cup with vertical extacting holes. 7 1/4″H. 1″ area of pitting to base just under pan, 1/4″ area of pitting to stem. 2nd item: 17th century trumpet form candlestick with tapered and ringed circular base, round mid drip pan, extracting holes to candle socket. 7 1/4″H. Repair and scratching to drip pan where it joins the stem, small loss to foot ring. 3rd item: 17th century trumpet form candlestick with tapered and ringed post, circular mid drip plate and circular foot, 5 1/8″H. 1 1/2″ area of tight cracking and repair to mid drip plate. Provenance: The estate of Dr. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: All with general wear and small dents, see individual item descriptions. [See more photos →]

Herend Rothschild Bird Blue Border dinnerware including set 14 service plates, edges with blue fish scale border, marked on base 1527/RO EB A93, 11″ diameter, plus 14 Herend Rothschild Bird Blue Border dessert plates, edges with blue fish scale border, marked on base 1520/RO EB F93, 8-1/4″ dia. 28 items total, Hungarian, 20th century. CONDITION: All in excellent, as new, condition. [See more photos →]

Richard MacDonald (California, b. 1946) bronze sculpture titled “The Rose”, depicting a ballet dancer in costume, at the barre, adjusting a slipper. Signed, numbered and dated on the base “R. MacDonald- ’95-85/170”. Mounted on a rectangular stepped marble base. Sculpture – 18 1/8″ H x 13″ W. 20″ total H. 36 lbs. Provenance: Private Kentucky Collection. Biography: Richard MacDonald is a California-based contemporary figurative artist known for his bronze sculptures. He studied painting and illustration at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and worked as a commercial illustrator until his late thirties, when a fire destroyed his studio and its contents. He subsequently began sculpting, and within ten years was succeeding as a figurative sculptor. He is an award-winning fellow of the National Sculpture Society and member of Bohemian Club, Cosmos Club, and National Society of Illustrators. Many of his ballet sculptures, for which he is well known, were created during the time he spent as a visual artist in residence with the Royal Ballet. MacDonald also received the Medal of Honor from the United States Sports Academy and recognition by the United States Olympic Committee for his work commemorating athletes. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Italian Micromosaic circular plaque depicting St. Peter's Square, the Vatican, Rome, housed in original large and ornate ebonized wooden easel style frame. 13 5/8" square by 2 1/2" deep. Provenance: Private Holly Springs, MS collection. Miss Cornelia Crittenden Craft (1870-1953) of Holly Springs brought this plaque back from her Grand Tour in Europe in 1902-1903. Condition: Very good condition with all tesserae present, minimal fine age related cracking, possible small stain spot near dome which we have not attempted to clean. Not examined out of frame. Frame has a few scattered tiny edge chips, mostly to rear edge. Full split to back frame panel and easel back. [See more photos →]

Queen Louise of Prussia decorated vase, robin’s egg blue ground with fine hand-painted vignette of Queen Louise attired in her royal robe and second floral vignette on reverse. Elaborate gilt and enameled “Moriage” decoration. Marked “Nippon” onbottom. Very good condition with expected wear to gilding on rim and base. 13-3/4″ H x 5″ Japan, Early 20th century. [See more photos →]

Early boneshaker bicycle, by A. Dubois, St. Denis, France, with brass label. White painted cast iron body and wheels with pink and green painted turned wooden handles, pink painted original metal seat. Overall good condition with nut securinghandle bars missing. Contemporary re-paint. 64″ L x 51-1/2″ H. Front wheel 35″ dia. Rear wheel 31-3/4″ dia. Circa 1870. Provenance: East Tennessee collection. [See more photos →]

Large Native American Acoma Olla having polychrome stylized red and black geometric designs on white with checkerboard pattern around neck. Signed and numbered on the base. 10 1/4″ H. The diameter of the mouth is 5 1/4″. The circumference around the fullest point of the body is approx. 36 1/2″. Early 20th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with moderate wear to paint decoration. [See more photos →]

George III style paint decorated and parcel gilt credenza or cabinet, blockfront top with painted griffin and foliate decoration, over a conforming frieze with circle and rosette decoration. Front features two central doors with oval vignettes enclosing classical grisaille painted scenes of beauties with cherubs, after Angelica Kauffman; opening to reveal two interior shelves. The doors are flanked by two tapering columns with gilded ram’s head mask capitals, all atop a band of acanthus and bead molding and a plinth base. 38″ H x 78 3/4″ W x 13 1/4″ D. English or Continental late 19th century. CONDITION: Some losses to applied gilt decoration and some exfoliation on painted vignette panels. Overall general wear and paint loss, particularly to plinth base. [See more photos →]

James Tregent (British, Active 1770-1806) George III Bracket Clock from the estate of noted architect Clarence Mack (with accompanying photo). Clock with brass eight-day movement and bell chime, ebonized mahogany case with arched and paneled top, each mahogany panel raised on a brass plinth; the center one with brass bail handle. Tombstone-arch glass doors to front and back and arched windows to sides, all with brass rabbet edges, the back glass revealing ornate engraved decoration to movement back; all on brass base raised on brass ogee feet. Metal dial engraved “James Tregent / Leicest’r Square / London”, engraved chapter ring with Roman numerals and Arabic minutes numerals and date aperture, surmounted by chime/silent selector dial. Pendulum present. Keys included along with a 20th century list of dates the clock was cleaned, ranging from 1785-1985. 13″ H x 9″ W x 6 3/4″ D. Circa 1780. Provenance: the estate of Martha Dodge, Hendersonville, TN; the estate of Marvin Dodge (brother to Mrs. Dodge’s late husband, Robert), Palm Beach, Florida; the estate of Clarence Mack, Palm Beach, Florida. Marvin Dodge was the caretaker/companion of noted American architect Clarence Mack, and inherited several antiques (now in this auction) from him. A 1960s era photograph of the clock sitting on the mantel of Mr. Mack’s home in Palm Beach accompanies this lot. Biography: Clarence Mack, known for designing Georgian Revival homes in Ohio’s prestigious Shaker Heights and Lakewood areas, and later in Palm Beach, was born in 1888 and grew up on Cleveland’s west side and in Lakewood. Mack’s houses were all apparently built for speculation; he is said to have bought the property, designed each house and acted as contractor, furnished the houses with antiques purchased from his European travels, and lived in many of them before selling them. His business slowed with the advent of the Stock Market crash of 1929. He spent 5 years traveling around the world before settling in Palm Beach, Florida in 1935. He continued to design and build there until his retirement in 1962, his name becoming synonymous with the “Palm Beach Regency Style.” Never married, Mack died in Palm Beach in 1982. (sources: The Lakewood Historical Society and the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Case Western Reserve University.) CONDITION: One piece of side molding reglued. Possible early conversion to anchor escapement. Functionality has not been checked and is not guaranteed; the clock is offered “as is.” [See more photos →]

English Staffordshire polychrome pearlware jug, eagle perched on a cannon with the American flag inscribed, “Arms of the United States-E. Pluribus Unum” on the side and under the spout inscribed with “Free Trade and Sailors Rights”. 6 3/4″ H x 7 1/2″ W x 6 1/2″ D overall. Provenance: From the Robert Teitelman collection. Pictured, pre-restoration state, page 280 of “Success to America, Creamware for the American Market”. Circa 1800-1820. Private East Tennessee Collection. CONDITION: Some staining. Base with old restoration. [See more photos →]