Fall 2021 Auction Highlights

Charles Marion Russell (American, 1864-1926), "Smoking with the Spirit," California Art Bronze Foundry, circa 1929. Bronze sculpture depicting a Native American Medicine Man seated on a naturalistic ground, smoking a long pipe with the skull of a buffalo. Signature "CM Russell" with a copyright symbol, skull mark, and California Art Bronze Foundry mark to base. Mounted on a later graduated oval wooden base. Sculpture: 4 1/2" H x 9" W x 5 1/2" D. Overall with base: 6 7/8" H x 10 5/8" W x 8 1/8" D. Note: According to the book "Charles M. Russell, Sculptor," by Rick Stewart, about a dozen lifetime castings of "Smoking with the Spirit of the Buffalo" (modeled in 1914) were produced by the B. Zoppo foundry, and a few were made the same year Russell died, in 1926, by Roman Bronze Works. In 1929, Russell's widow Nancy acquired the model for this work from Roman Bronze Works and had the California Art Bronze company produce an unknown number of casts. Stewart writes, "in his 1949 inventory of the Russell Bronzes, Homer Britzman maintained that a total of eighteen casts had been made of the subject. If this is accurate, it seems probable that Zoppo cast as many as twelve copies in 1916, per the original agreement. That would leave only six casts to be assigned to both Roman Bronze Works and California Art Bronze Foundry; currently, at least three Roman Bronze Works casts and two bearing the mark of the California Art Bronze Foundry are known… Besides an example in the Amon Carter Museum Collection, Roman Bronze Works Casts are in the collection of the Gilcrease Museum and the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. One California Art Bronze cast is in a private collection, and another was sold at Sotheby's on October 31, 1975." The sculpture being sold in this auction is believed to be the California Art Bronze casting in the private collection referred to in Stewart's book (page 203). It has been in the same family since being acquired directly from Nancy Russell in 1929.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Surface oxidation commensurate with age and old break to pipe. [See more photos →]

Large Famille Verte porcelain fish bowl, the exterior with molded and painted enameled vignettes depicting landscape scenes with calligraphy inscriptions and red seals on a foliate ground. The interior with painted enameled fish and foliate decoration. 18 3/4" H x 22 1/4" dia. Likely Qing Dynasty, 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of David Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with no cracks, chips or hairlines. The interior enamel decoration with some minor wear and losses. [See more photos →]

Civil War Era Tiffany & Co. Naval Presentation Sword, Belt, and Commendations, presented to U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold (1802-1867), 5 items total. 1st-2nd items: Tiffany & Co. sword with a German steel blade and etched scrolling foliate decorations, images of a naval engagement, a dolphin, and other maritime motifs, obverse, inscribed "U.S.N.", with the standing profile of a Naval Officer above "Tiffany/& Co./N.Y." within a masked riband, reverse. Ricasso stamped "Collins & Co.,/Hartford/Conn", obverse, dated "1861" to reverse. Gilt bronze hilt with eagle head quillon, pierced "U.S.N." lettering with oak leaves, and inscribed Robert Burns poem to guard reading "Affliction's Sons Are Brothers In Distress,/A Brother To Believe, How Exquisite The Bliss!". Scrolling oak leaf and acorn decoration to knuckle bow, the crowned head of Neptune, scrolling oak leaves and anchor to pommel, above a gilt brass grip wrapped in brass wire. Sterling silver scabbard with gilt brass mounts inscribed "Presented to/Captain Cadwalader Ringgold./of the Frigate Sabine by the/Battalion of U.S. Marines through his gallantry…/From the Wreck of the Transport/Governor/on the night of Nov. 2nd. 1861" with etched image of a naval engagement, the suspension mounts molded with anchors and scrolling oak leaves and acorns, the drag with the etched image of a dolphin entwined around a trident. Scabbard stamped "Tiffany & Co./Quality/925-1000/M" to reverse. Includes US Civil War Navy Officers Belt with two-piece interlocking gilt brass buckle depicting an eagle perched on an anchor, surrounded by thirteen stars, with an oak leaf and ribbon frame, with leather belt and brass mountings. All housed in a fitted wooden Tiffany and Company case with purple velvet and gilt stamp to interior. Blade length: 29". Overall length with scabbard: 37". Belt approximately: 42" L. Case: 4 1/4" H x 39 3/4" W x 6 3/4" D. 3rd-5th items: Three (3) ink on vellum scrolls issued in commendation for Ringgold, including one (1) from The City of New York, one (1) from the Legislature of the State of Maryland in General Assembly, and one (1) from the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, dated January 20 – March 13, 1862. All scrolls are trimmed in navy blue silk and wrapped around blue velvet covered wooden rods, two (2) with gilt metal handles. Ranging in size from 22 1/2" H x 18" W to 17" H x 26 1/4" W. Biography: "Cadwalader Ringgold (1802-1867) was an officer in the United States Navy who served in the United States Exploring Expedition, later headed an expedition to the Northwest and, after initially retiring, returned to service during the Civil War with the rank of captain. While in command of the frigate Sabine on November 1, 1861, he effected the rescue of a battalion of 400 Marines from Maryland whose transport steamer, Governor, was sinking during a severe storm near Port Royal, South Carolina. In February 1862, he was a part of the search and rescue of the ship of the line Vermont which had lost her rudder in a storm. For these rescues, Ringgold received commendations from the Maryland Legislature and the U.S. Congress, along with a gold medal from the Life Saving Benevolent Association. Promoted to commodore on July 16, 1862, he was sent (still on the Sabine), to cruise the Azores, Cape Verde Islands, the coast of Brazil and then back to New York in a search for the Confederate raider CSS Alabama from November 1862 to February 1863. In mid-1863, Ringgold's assignment was to search (again unsuccessfully) in the vicinity of Bermuda and then the New England coast for the bark CSS Tacony, another Confederate raider. For reasons of age, he was retired on August 20, 1864, and placed on the rear admiral (retired) list in 1866 (a promotion that was given to all commanders of squadrons). In retirement, he lived at 18 East Eighteenth Street (at Union Square) in New York City. Ringgold, who had never married, died of apoplexy (stroke) in New York on April 29, 1867." (source: Alan Fraser Houston, "Cadwalader Ringgold, U. S. Navy" article in California History magazine, Volume 79, Issue 4, Winter 2000, page 208).

PROVENANCE: Descended through the family of Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold.

CONDITION: Sword with areas of oxidation, primarily to tip of blade. Leather to belt is stiff with cracking, several areas of separation. Scrolls with overall legible condition with toning, foxing spots, areas of holes/insect damage, largest 1/4", cracking to seals. [See more photos →]

4.01 square emerald cut diamond, Clarity-VS2, Color-G, with GIA report 5222038169 dated September 27, 2021; measurements 9.21 x 8.81 x 5.85 mm. Depth: 66.4%; Table: 73%; Girdle: Very thin to Very thick; Culet: Medium; Polish: Very Good; Symmetry: Good; Fluorescence: None. Clarity Characteristics: Feather, Needle, Indented Natural, Natural, Extra Facet. Diamond is mounted in a four-prong 14K yellow gold mounting. The ring is marked “14K” and is size 5 3/4. Gross weight of the ring is 3.68 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: See description and GIA report number 5222038169. [See more photos →]

Ladies platinum engagement ring featuring a 4.00 carat rectangular modified brilliant diamond, Clarity-SI2, Color-H, measuring 9.45 x 8.78 x 6.30 mm. 71.7% Total Depth; 80% Table; ETN to THK Girdle. Good polish and symmetry and no flourescence. Clarity characteristics: crystal, feather, chip, natural, extra facet. Accented by 12 scrolled princess cut and 16 tapered baguette diamonds, approximately 1.68 carats, Clarity-VS2, Color-G. The diamonds are mounted in a custom platinum mounting marked “PLAT”, size 7 1/4. 5.68 total carat weight. Gross weight of the ring is 26.31 grams. GIA report 2225004988 dated September 3, 2021.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Nicole Maslanka, Atlanta, Georgia.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Chinese archaic style bronze lamp in the form of a recumbent ram. Hinged top to the back that opens for use as an oil vessel with a spout to one end used to empty leftover fuel back into the body. Underside with incised character marks. Fitted with a conforming carved and pierced hardwood stand with incised marks to the top. Included are the remnants of a Chinese export wax seal. Ram measures 3 1/4" H x 6 1/2" W x 3" D. Qing Dynasty, 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: Ram in overall good condition with old patina, some oxidation, and light general use wear. Stand with minor wear and scuffing. [See more photos →]

1st item: Asian bronze Buddha sculpture depicted seated in the Dharmachakra mudra atop a double lotus base, having tightly curled domed hair and elongated ear lobes. 13" H x 9" W. Late 19th/Early 20th century. 2nd item: Asian carved and red painted Buddha altar shrine or meditation table, comprised of a brass-trimmed platform with carved applied corner railing mounted onto a shaped plinth with a carved figural foo dog panel to the front and a graduated molded base, with gilt painted highlights throughout. 12 3/4" H x 17 1/4" W x 10" D.19th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition with some slight losses to lower edge of left base edge. 2nd item: Overall good condition with expected wear and light losses to paint. Structurally stable. [See more photos →]

Ladies platinum solitaire engagement ring featuring one old European cut 3.79 carat diamond, Clarity-SI1, color-L, Polish-Good, Symmetry-Very Good, Fluorescence-None. GIA report number 6223107536. The ring tests platinum and is size 6 3/4. Gross weight of the ring is 3.51 grams.

PROVENANCE: the Estate of Emilee Barnes Frincke, Knoxville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Diamond overall very good condition. Prongs on mount are thin. [See more photos →]

Rudolph Ingerle (American, 1879-1950), "Sundown on the Hollo", large oil on canvas landscape painting, bird's eye view of a mountain valley, likely the Smoky Mountains, in late afternoon sunlight. Birch trees bordered by evergreen trees stand in the foreground, overlooking a valley with winding river and cabins below, and sun-dappled mountains with profuse fall foliage in the background. Signed lower left "R. F. Ingerle". Housed in the original gilt carved and molded frame. Titled en verso upper left with old paper label with title, artist's biography, and awards; Chicago framing label stamp en verso of the frame. Sight: 37 1/4" H x 39 1/4" W. Framed: 43 1/2" H x 45 1/2" Q. Biography: Rudolph Ingerle, sometimes called 'The Painter of the Smokies', was born to a Moravian family, immigrated to the U.S. as a child and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He was an early founder of the Indiana School of Painting in Brown County and the Society of Ozark Painters. Ingerle first visited the Smoky Mountains in 1920 and fell in love with Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina. At that time, the natural beauty of the area was threatened by logging companies. Ingerle painted numerous landscapes there and is among the artists credited with raising awareness of the need for protection, which helped result in the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. When not painting in the mountains, Ingerle maintained a studio in Chicago from which he exhibited paintings in many major museums and galleries including the Art Institute of Chicago and the Pennsylvania Academy, and one man shows at the Mint Museum and Hickory Museum of Art during his lifetime. His work was featured in the 2006 Art of Tennessee exhibit at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and will also be featured in an upcoming exhibit on Smoky Mountain landscapes at the Tennessee State Museum.

CONDITION: Painting overall very good condition with some slackness to canvas noted at the corners. Light overall grime with very slight craquelure to upper left sky area. 1" x 3/4" area of inpainting over possible old repair, center. Areas of fluorescence to top of tree at center, largest 6 1/2" x 4", does not correspond to repair to canvas, possibly varnish layer. Light scattered expected wear to frame. [See more photos →]

Joseph (Jo) Davidson (New York/Paris, 1883-1952) patinated bronze sculpture depicting Russian dancer and arts patron Ida Rubinstein in her role as Cleopatra in the 1909 ballet by Michael Fokine. Signed and dated, JO DAVIDSON PARIS 1909 at the back of base. 11 1/8″ H x 11 1/4″ W x 5 1/2″ D. Note: This sculpture was inspired during Davidson’s studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts by witnessing Fokine’s production for the Ballet Russes in 1909 which celebrated the strikingly beautiful heiress, Ida Rubinstein (Russia, 1885-1960), and her flair for drama and mystery. Born to one of the richest families in Russia, she defied her family and class to perform in and eventually own her own ballet company. Rubinstein’s beauty, dramatic personality, and considerable fortune drew the attention of many visual artists of her time. (Source: “Dance and American Art: A Long Embrace” by Sharyn R. Udall). Artist Biography (adapted from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art): Joseph “Jo” Davidson was born in New York City and studied at the Art Students League before attending Yale University to study medicine. After working as a sculptor’s studio assistant, he traveled to Paris to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he met Gertrude Stein and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the latter of whom became Davidson’s patron. He exhibited widely after his return to the United States, including in the Armory Show of 1913, before and after serving as an artist-correspondent in World War I. During his lifetime, Davidson sculpted portraits of many of the most prominent American figures in the entertainment and political realms, such as James Joyce, Aldous Huxley, Gertrude Stein, Albert Einstein, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and many more.

PROVENANCE: Private Kentucky collection.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with minor wear to patina on high points including tip of nose and some folds of dress. Underside interior with scattered white chalk deposits [See more photos →]

Circle of Jean Francois Lagrenee (French, 1725-1805), monumental 18th century oil on canvas mythological painting titled Hercules Going to War, depicting the Roman god departing a marble portico with club in hand and cherub at his side, leaving behind three women (one likely Minerva) and a child. Sight: 93" H x 61 1/2" W. Frame: 99 1/2" H x 67 3/4" W. Note: this painting bears an old plaque attributing it to German painter Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779), however, we believe the theme and style are more closely related to that of Jean Francois Lagrenee. Provenance: the estate of David Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. This painting, and its companion in the next lot, depicting Hercules Returning from War, have been a focal point of two important Belle Meade mansions in Nashville. Most recently the centerpieces of David and Yvonne Caldwell's home, they were acquired approximately 30 years ago from James Fowler Sr. of Nashville. Fowler acquired the paintings more than 20 years before that time, when he purchased his own mansion in Belle Meade, formerly owned by Mrs. Sally Smith.

CONDITION: Relined, restored and revarnished approximately 60 years ago; craquelure and scattered inpainting throughout. Several repairs in the entablature area: 2" repair at cornice, 2" repair on upper column; 2" repair or area of overpaint to side along upper left edge of painting. Scattered areas of inpainting to sky up to 12"W (refer to blacklight photo). 2" repair to Hercules' bicep; scattered small spots of inpainting to Hercules' nose area. 2" area of inpainting and a 1/8" flake to Hercules' black robe. Other scattered spots of inpainting and restoration, refer to blacklight photo. [See more photos →]

Paul R. Evans II (American, 1931-1987) Cityscape console table from the PE 300 series manufactured by Directional Furniture, 1970s. Consisting of sculpted high relief sections of polished brass and walnut burlwood and finished on all sides. 28 1/2" H x 52 1/2" W x 11" D. . Biography: Sculptor and furniture designer Paul Evans studied at the Philadelphia Textile Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Craftsmen, and Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 1955 he opened a showroom with fellow designer Phillip Lloyd Powell in New Hope, PA. According to a Jacob Bernstein New York Times 2017 article, the pair would obtain wood from the reject pile of their neighbor, the woodworker and furniture designer George Nakashima. Evans started making copper chests and sculpted steel-front cabinets in the 1950s and had a two-man show in 1961 at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York (now the Museum of Arts & Design). He became a featured designer for the manufacturer Directional Furniture in 1964 and while working with the company, introduced several furniture lines, such as Argente series, Sculpted Bronze series, Sculptured and Painted Steel, Patchwork Copper, Pewter and Brass, and the Cityscape series (source: the New York Times).

PROVENANCE: Private Kentucky collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with general wear. Top with evidence of use-wear including some oxidation the brass, minor staining, light scratching to brass, chipping to wood edges and some wood shrinkage to veneer. Minor losses and chipping to wood along the base edge and some minor scattered bending to brass along the lower edge. [See more photos →]

Ladies 18K white gold pendant featuring a 2.42 carat round brilliant diamond, Clarity-SI1, Color-J, Cut Grade-Good, Polish-Good, Symmetry-Good, Fluorescence-None. GIA report number 5221107749. The pendant is marked "18K". 1.48 total grams.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Burton Harry Callicott (Tennessee/Indiana, 1907-2003) abstract oil on canvas painting titled "Recessional," horizontal stripes in shades of purple, green, pink, orange, and yellow. Signed and dated "Callicott '70" lower right. Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis, TN label, en verso. Housed in a wooden frame. Sight: 65" H x 49" W. Framed: 70 1/2" H x 50 1/2" W. Biography: "Born in 1907 in Terre Haute, Indiana, Burton Callicott spent much of his childhood and his seventy-year career as an artist and educator in Memphis. Callicott graduated in 1931 from the Cleveland School of Art, where he began an exploration of the use of light and dark that would follow him throughout his life. He is perhaps best known regionally for his set of three large murals in the Memphis Pink Palace Museum titled The Coming of De Soto. Completing his training in sculpture at the Cleveland School of Art in the midst of the Depression, Callicott returned to Memphis, where his mother and stepfather, Michael Abt, resided. The director of the western division of Tennessee's Federal Works of Art Project, Abt played a major role in launching Callicott's career. He put Callicott to work immediately on Memphis Cotton Carnival floats and displays for other Memphis festivals while also helping him secure a commission for a Public Works of Art Project mural in 1933. Installed in the Memphis Museum of Natural History (now the Memphis Pink Palace Museum), the three-panel mural depicts Hernando De Soto's arrival in West Tennessee. Another of Callicott's most recognized works, The Gleaners (1936), was completed during the early years of his career and received much attention at the 1939 New York World's Fair. These early projects set Callicott off on a long and successful career in Memphis. Callicott became a founding faculty member of the Memphis Academy of Art (now the Memphis College of Art) in 1937. Callicott became professor emeritus in 1978. Callicott's works have been exhibited at various museums across the state and region, including the Cheekwood Museum of Art and the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, the West Tennessee Regional Art Center in Humboldt, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Carroll Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University, the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia. Samples of his artwork are on permanent display at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and the Memphis Pink Palace Museum. The Tennessee Arts Commission chose to honor the work of Callicott in 2000 with a specialty license plate for which he designed a rainbow with the caption, "art is…a rainbow." Callicott continued to live in Memphis until his death in 2003". (source: "Burton Callicott" by Elizabeth H. Moore, originally published October 8, 2017, https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/burton-callicott/).

CONDITION: 1" diameter shallow dent with narrow line of paint loss, lower left quadrant; 2" diameter shallow dent with no paint loss lower right quadrant (both to lower center pink stripe). 13" L line of light buckling to upper left quadrant. Otherwise very good condition. [See more photos →]

Civil War era Confederate LeMat, Paris Revolver, .42 caliber for the 9 shot cylinder and .63 cal. for the grapeshot barrel, serial number 1519, all visible serial numbers matching, including on the loading lever. Top of barrel marked "Col Le Mat Bte s.g.d.g. Paris," right side of barrel marked "LM" with star, front of cylinder stamped with "B" inspector mark, left side of hammer stamped with "N" inspector mark. Two-piece checkered walnut grips, octagonal 9 shot barrel, round grapeshot barrel, iron furniture and mountings, fixed lanyard ring on the butt plate, standard front sight, loading lever, plunger, and extractor pin. Octagonal barrel: 6 1/2" L. Overall: 13" L.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with 10% blue remaining. Normal storage dings, light pepper pitting to iron. Old 3/4" x 1/4" area of loss to top of left grip. Action holds at full and half cock. Rifling visible to octagonal barrel. [See more photos →]

Harold Newton (American/Florida, 1934-1994) oil on board seascape depicting a Florida coastline with lighthouse at the edge of a beach, radiating light under an overcast sky. Signed "H. Newton" lower left. Gray/gold painted crown-molded wood frame. Sight: 23" H x 30" W. Framed: 27 1/2" H x 34" W. Note: The consignor commissioned the painting directly from the artist in Daytona Beach, Florida, circa 1980. A notarized statement from the consignor detailing the acquisition of this painting is available to the winning bidder. Note: Harold Newton was one of the Florida African-American painters known as the Highwaymen, which included Newton, James Gibson, and Alfred Hair. These mostly itinerant artists were influenced by Albert E Backus, the "dean of Florida landscape painting" and often sold their works from the trunks of their cars. The lighthouse is unusual subject matter for Newton, and it was painted by him at the request of the consignor.

PROVENANCE: Private Kentucky Collection.

CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. Tiny stain, lower right quadrant at water's edge. Some wear to frame and chip to interior of rabbet edge, left center. [See more photos →]

Letter, document and photograph archive of Sgt. Zebedee Culver, 19th Michigan Infantry, clerk at General Hospital No. 1 in Union-occupied Nashville, Tennessee, including rarely seen graphic carte-de-visite (CDV) and albumen images of injured soldiers from the Battle of Atlanta, with treatment notes, and a printed record of Gunshot Wounds and other Surgical Cases. Includes approximately 20 letters from Culver's service in Kentucky and Tennessee, 12 photographic images, 12 envelope covers, 4 reunion ribbons, 3 song/poem clippings, and Culver's 1865 School Teacher's certificate and 1881 pension document. Also included is a photocopy of the Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War listing Culver, and a reprint copy of "The Oklahoma Scout"  by Theodore Baughman, detailing his Civil War service with the 19th Michigan at the Battles of Resaca, New Hope Church, Peachtree Creek (in which Zebedee Culver also saw action) and other engagements. 4 of the period CDV images have information hand-written en verso including soldier's name and injury/treatment record, with all stating they were transferred to Nashville after being wounded in and around Atlanta between July 20-August 6, 1864. The soldiers are identified as Sebastian Langendorf (14th Ohio; "circular piece of bone removed an inch in diameter, exposing the brain"); Silas C. Bushing(?) ("Rebel," gunshot wound, gangrene); John A. Babb (amputation; gangrene, "arrested with bromine"); Janus Brithard (?) (gunshot wound, gangrene, "arrested with bromine"). Also included is a partially printed ledger recording the number and type of gunshot wounds treated at Hospital No. 1, compiled by A.A. Surgeon M.L. Herr, USA, under Surgeon USV in Charge, Dr. Bowman Bigelow (B.B.) Breed. One of the CDVs depicts an unidentified woman in dark dress with braided ornamentation, possibly a nurse. BACKGROUND: After the Union took control of Nashville in February of 1862, the city became the Army’s base of operations in the Western Theatre. It was the only southern state capital in Union hands and was strategically situated from a geographic standpoint. Northern troops anticipated Confederates would attempt to re-take the city, and established numerous fortifications and hospitals surrounding the Cumberland River. The Battle of Nashville took place December 15-16, 1864, resulting in a Union victory that many historians believe sealed the fate of the Confederacy. But the city remained otherwise relatively stable during the war, and a number of Federal hospitals were established, including General Hospital No. 1 on College Hill. It comprised a former church and a former gun factory, converted to house 936 beds, and was under the direction of Dr. B.B. Breed. ZEBEDEE CULVER of Quincy, Michigan, enlisted in Company C, 19th infantry, as Sergeant July 28, 1862 (age 22). Was taken prisoner at Thompson's Station, Tennessee on March 5, 1863 and exchanged on May 4, 1863. He participated in the battles of Resaca, Georgia and New Hope Church and was wounded in action at Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864. He was transferred to the Veteran's Reserve Corps March 15, 1865 and discharged for disability at Nashville, Tennessee June 6, 1865 from the 160th company, Second Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps. (Source: Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861-1865).Sgt. Culver's letters are all written to his brother, Ben, from various locations, mostly in Tennessee. He writes of camp and hospital conditions including a smallpox outbreak, speculation about developments in the war elsewhere, and news of fellow "boys from Quincy". Culver, who appears to have been well educated for his time, writes with skill, some humor, and fairly legible penmanship. Some of the highlights include: HEADQUARTERS OF COMPANY C,19th Michigan Infantry, Near Danville, KY, illegible date, 1862: letter describing terrible conditions of Confederate prisoners, and his thoughts on some of his superior officers including Major Shafter or Shafer ("as noble a man as ever lived") and a scathing description of "Doc Clarke": "While he was principal of the post hospital at Nicholasville [Camp Nelson, KY], he would have a post mortem examination of all that died. And one of our co said that he would take his oath that he saw old Doc Clarke take some of their intestines and throw them out of the window because they were beloated [sic] so that they could not get them back. And the dogs were seen eating them afterwards. Ben, if I ever have a good chance at the old son of a bitch, I will cripple him so that he will never feed my insides to the dogs. If I don't you can shoot me for a butternut hide. It makes me so mad to think about him that I can't half write." He describes singing with other soldiers ("there are 4 of us in here that can howl the notes a little and when we get engaged we make the old tent get right up and howl…and it serves to pass the time away pretty well").CAMP DICK ROBINSON (KY), Dec. 12, 1862 : Descriptive letter of arriving at the camp to find, among other things, "three thousand barrels of pork here that the rebels left and about an acre of old wagons all chopped to pieces… and a few old cannons, one of them is a brass 6 pound Spanish gun which was made in the year 1723 and was taken from the Mexicans by Taylor and was got by the rebels at the Gosport Navy Yard." Culver also mentions his negative reaction to "the President's message" (likely the Emancipation Proclamation) saying it "stinks of compromise," and that "the only [way] this rebellion is put down so that it will stay is at the point of the bayonet, the extermination of every rebel both North and South and the immediate death of slavery." GUY'S (sp?) GAP, TN, July 8, 1863 – "I feel tip top this morning because we have rec'd news that Grant has got Vicksburg. Lee is all cut to pieces. Bragg is demolished and secession received a clip that made its head ache for a long time. Hip Hip hurrah. The boys are all in tip top spirits but have lots to do, about half the reg't are at work on the railroad…. We had a pretty rough march from Franklin to this place. It rained all the time and we had to come over a dirt road through the cedar woods. And where there were no rocks the mud was up to the wagon axles. The morning after we got in Murfreesboro I woke up and found the water full 4 inches deep in our bed. Our rations all wet. Knapsacks and cartridge boxes full and if my head had not been up on a chunk of wood I expect I should have been full too. The only dry thing there was about me was the inside of my canteen… I had to hunt quite a spell for my gun. But finally found it all covered up in the mud and water. There were nearly five days that I did not have hardly a dry thread in my clothes or a good hour's sleep." MURFREESBORO, TN, July 26, 1863: a cartoon drawing of "Old Morgan in Ohio" and a reference to the landscape laid waste by troops fighting the Battles of Murfreesboro and Stones River: "You can't see anything for 4 miles around the city but old camp grounds. Houses, barns, fences, in fact everything has been torn down. I was in a house yesterday that cost at least estimate $25,000. And there was nothing left but the bare walls. I made use of a part of the railing around the front porch. The only thing I could get my hands on."MCMINNVILLE, TN, March 23, 1864: briefly describes a skirmish with Rebel guerillas near McMinnville. "I heard Rebel bullets whistling around my ears the other night. I was on picket and the…I was in charge of was attacked by 10 guerillas…They fired 7 shots at us and we fired 12 at them. We wounded one man and one horse. They did not touch one of us but some of those shots came mighty close to me I tell you." NASHVILLE, TN – U.S. General Hospital No. 1, Nov. 27, 1864: "They say old Hood is about giving us a call here in Nashville. If he does I may get another finger knocked out, for all that are able to use a gun will have to go out and meet him." NASHVILLE, TN – U.S. General Hospital No. 1, April 2, 1865: "About the hospital, things move on finely. We have got an excellent Surgeon in Charge [Dr. B.B. Breed] to put things through. He has started another library, a chapel, two reading rooms, two gardens and is now trying to get up a singing school. If he fails in that it will be his first failure in anything he has undertaken since he has been here. We have all the books and papers we can read. They are furnished by the U.S. Christian Commission free of charge."NASHVILLE, TN, April 4, 1865 – "We received the news at noon yesterday of the Fall of Richmond and Petersburg and you had better believe there was some hallowing and and big goings on. Old "Negley" [likely Fort Negley] let loose 100 "blanks". Also the State House garrison forts…Zollicoffer and a host of smaller fry which with the muskets of the different regts garrisoning the city made it sound like the 15th and 16th of December [the Battle of Nashville]". Letter goes on to describe festivities lasting into the night as well as reaction from Secessionists. NASHVILLE, TN – U.S. General Hospital No. 1 (on US Christian Commission stationery), April 21, 1865: "The news of the tragedy in Washington [Lincoln's Assassination] came like a thunderbolt here. We were in the midst of celebrating recent victories when the news came and the reverse of feeling was beyond conception. Even among the Secession sympathizers the President's loss was deplored, for they had come to the conclusion that the rebel cause had gone under and that Lincoln was their protector from punishment which they richly deserve and which now there is little prospect for them to escape. I will send a paper home containing the proceedings in the city on the day of the President's funeral. One of the city papers estimated that there were 50,000 persons present. But I think they have got full 30,000 too many. I have seen a great many men together when it was known exactly how many were present and I think 20,000 is a fair estimate…"

PROVENANCE: Private Michigan Collection.

CONDITION: All period items with light toning, wear, and handing grime/creases. CDVs: 3/4" loss to one albumen print, some minor corner losses and creases. Record of Gunshot Wounds: A few pages unbound at top. Some separations and a few fold lines, most notably on the April 4, 1865 letter. [See more photos →]

Circle of Jean Francois Lagrenee (French, 1725-1805), monumental 18th century mythological painting titled Hercules Returning From War, depicting the Roman god seated and relaxing in a landscape setting with women (one possibly Minerva) and a child, with cherub figures overhead and a lion laying at his feet. Molded parcel gilt frame. Sight: 93" H x 61 1/2" W. Frame: 99 1/2" H x 67 3/4" W. Note: this painting bears an old plaque attributing it to German painter Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779), however, we believe the theme and style are more closely related to that of French painter Jean Francois Lagrenee. Provenance: the estate of David Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee. This painting, and its companion in the previous lot, depicting Hercules Going to War, have been a focal point of two important Belle Meade mansions in Nashville. Most recently the centerpieces of David and Yvonne Caldwell's home, they were acquired approximately 30 years ago from James Fowler Sr. of Nashville. Fowler acquired the paintings more than 20 years before that time, when he purchased his own mansion in Belle Meade, formerly owned by Mrs. Sally Smith.

CONDITION: Overall good condition. Relined, restored and revarnished approximately 60 years ago; craquelure and scattered inpainting throughout. Repair or infill painting to chest and arm of baby, up to 4"L, and to legs of lower cherub; repair or infill painting to Hercules' chest (largest 2"), neck and cheek, and to Athena's hand. 2" dent upper right, sky area, no paint loss. [See more photos →]

Trumeau mirror framed with oil on canvas Indian scene in the manner of Thomas and William Daniell, featuring a river landscape with long boat containing numerous Indian figures, sailing by two ships bearing British flags. Overlooking the river is a terrace leading to two white-washed Georgian style buildings surrounded by trees. Below the painting are three mirrored panels, two having etched crown decorations. All housed within a Neoclassical bombe gilt carved frame with canted molding to top edge and rosette carved lower corners. Painting measures: 16 3/4" H x 43 1/8" W. 33 1/2" H x 50 3/4" W overall. Old Christie's Auction label en verso of each lower corner. English, late 18th to early 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Middle Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: Painting in overall good condition, light overall craquelure, a couple of minor flakes upper left margin, canvas relined. Mirror with some scattered losses to silvering and cracking lower left corner. Backing board possibly replaced, glass appears original. [See more photos →]

Qing Dynasty embroidered silk ceremonial or Court robe, elaborately embroidered with gold, silver and colored threads on a rose silk ground, housed in a custom shadowbox frame. Body and sleeves having embroidered five toed dragons chasing flaming pearls, along with bat, longevity, and magic fungus decoration along with other auspicious symbols; multi-colored wave decoration to lower edge. Pale blue silk lining with braided and brass knotted closures. Housed in a custom fiberglass frame with Asian style silver-gilt corners; interior features magnetic backing to display the robe in upright position. Robe approx. 50" H. Frame: 63" H x 48" W x 6" D. Late 19th/Early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: Silk background has faded to a light rose/pink on the front of the robe with minor fading verso. 3/4" dark pen mark and 1/16" dark stain to right side, near center edge; a few loose threads around center dragon motif; scattered minor pulls and subtle fraying at a couple of ends. [See more photos →]

1st item: Large cylindrical form blue and white Chinese porcelain covered jar with scenic mountain and figural landscape decoration. 14" H x 8 1/2" dia. Fitted with a hardwood stand. Late 19th to early 20th century. 2nd-3rd items: Pair of Chinese Famille Rose porcelain vases, each with polychrome decoration depicting a scholar with a young boy to one side and a bird perched in a flowering branch to the opposite side. Remaining sides with calligraphy poems and red seals. Bases with red four character mark. 11 1/8" H x 4 1/8" W. Late 19th/Early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: 1st item: Scattered glaze pops, chipping, and old putty repairs to lid. Scattered small chips to interior rim of jar. 2nd-3rd items: Both overall very good condition. Light wear to gilt and polychrome decoration. [See more photos →]

Kentucky cherry sugar press, consisting of an upper rectangular dovetailed well with an interior divider over a lower cupboard case with a medial molding and two post and panel cupboard doors, paneled sides. Case rests on tapered turned feet. Poplar secondary wood. 43 1/2" H x 33" W x 16 3/8" D. Circa 1825. By oral history, this press is from the home place of the James Nicholas Kirk family of Dexter, KY (Calloway County). The family moved to Maysville in 1899.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Donley and Eunice Hill, Andersonville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Older refinish. Some abrasions to the top including one burn mark. Interior with evidence of a previous chain for holding the top open, lower doors with new hinges. Minor insect to lower backboard. [See more photos →]

Helen La France (Kentucky, 1919-2020) large oil on canvas landscape painting depicting an African American congregation gathering for a Church Picnic, with automobiles parked in grassy areas aroung the church and a family driving a horse and buggy approaching lower left via a dirt road; a table is being prepared right mid-ground between two shade trees, while little girls play a circle game in the right foreground. Signed "Helen La France" lower right. Additionally titled en pen en verso on the canvas perimeter. Housed in a simple wood frame. Sight: 23 3/8" H x 35 3/8" W. Framed: 25 1/4" H x 37 1/8" W. Biography: "Self-taught African American artist Helen LaFrance was born on a Kentucky farm and began painting in her 40s. She is known for her "memory paintings" drawn from her recollections of life growing up in the rural South. Several museums and private collectors, including Oprah Winfrey, own examples of her work." (Source: "Helen LaFrance Folk Art Memories" by Kathy Moses). Helen LaFrance died November 22, 2020 in a Mayfield, Kentucky nursing home at the age of 101.

PROVENANCE: Private Washington, DC collection, acquired from Shelton Gallery, Tennessee circa 2000.

CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

James Lavadour (Oregon, B. 1951) oil on wood panel abstract landscape painting, titled "Stream", rendered in pale yellows, deep reds, and bright greens depicting a sun-dappled stream to the lower left and a mountain to the upper right under a clear sky. Signed "Lavadour", dated "'09", and titled with an additional printed label with artist, title, medium, dimensions, and numbering, en verso. Unframed. 36" H x 48" W. Biography (adapted from Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts): James Lavadour, a largely self-trained painter, grew up on the Umatilla Reservation near Pendleton, Oregon, and has been exhibited at The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the Eiteljorg Museum, Portland Art Museum, the Heard Museum, and the Institute of American Indian Art in Sante Fe among other. (https://crowsshadow.org/artist/james-lavadour/)

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Russell McAdoo, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

An American ebonized and marquetry inlaid Aesthetic Movement jardiniere, possibly Herter Brothers workshop. Comprised of a rectangular shaped planter with black metal liner, the exterior with stylized floral marquetry inlay and reeded corners above squared and carved tapering legs with carved and square capitals and repeating carved decoration to the lower legs and feet, all joined by a shaped and inlaid stretcher with parcel gilt highlights. 39 1/2" H x 44 1/4" W x 13 3/4" D. Late 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with expected general wear. Metal liner with expected wear and oxidation. Losses to corners of three feet. [See more photos →]

Ladies platinum eternity band featuring 19 emerald cut diamonds approximately 7.19 carats, Clartiy-SI1, Color-H. Marked "PT950" and "D719". The ring is size 7 1/2 and has a gross weight of 7.07 grams.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Nicole Maslanka, Atlanta, Georgia.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

2.01 carat Round Brilliant diamond, I color, SI2 clarity, with GIA report 1226070063 dated October 7, 2021, measurements 8.01 x 8.18 x 5.01mm. Depth: 61.9%; Table: 63%; Girdle: Very thin to thick, P 3.5%; Culet: None; Polish: Good; Symmetry: Fair; Fluorescence: None. Clarity Characteristics: Etch Channel, Feather, Crystal, Chip, Needle, Indented Natural, Natureal, Extra Facet. Clouds, pinpoints, and surface graining are not shown. Diamond is mounted in a four-prong 14K yellow gold mounting; together with a 14K ring enhancer featuring a notched center to wrap around the engagement ring with a high polish, ridged design along the shoulders and halfway down the shank. Size 7, 7.0 total grams.

CONDITION: See description and GIA report number 1226070063. [See more photos →]

Louis Agassiz Fuertes (American, 1874-1927) watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper depicting two birds perched on branches overlooking a wooded area; one bird holds a mouse in its claws. The sheet also includes pencil sketches in the right margin of two additional birds (one in flight, the other on a branch). Signed in pencil lower right of watercolor image and inscribed lower left "To my old friend 'Buck' Sept. 5, '04". Unframed. Sheet: 11 1/2" H x 9 1/2" W. Provenance: Private Middle Tennessee collection. Biography: Born in New York and inspired as a child by John Audubon's Birds of America, Louis Fuertes became a prominent American ornithologist, illustrator, and artist. His bird paintings and sketches were based on studies in nature and details from fresh specimens across America, Mexico, Colombia, Europe, and Africa. Fuertes was educated at Cornell and went on to illustrate numerous books and articles including for National Geographic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and his three-volume Birds of Massachusetts, and in 1899 he accompanied the Harriman Expedition to Alaska as a biological surveyor. His name is commemorated in two species, including an oriole he helped discover while on a collecting expedition with Frank Chapman, curator of the American Museum of Natural History. Fuertes was killed in a tragic car-train accident at the age of 53. The Wilson Ornithological Society instituted an award in his memory in 1947.

CONDITION: Toning; 1 spot of foxing upper right; tiny chip at upper left edge, overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Caio Fonseca (New York, b. 1959), "Pietrasanta P.09.30," oil and/or gouache on paper abstract painting featuring blue serpentine forms and lines, speckled in orange and red paint on a pale yellow field, with raised and incised lines throughout. Signed "Caio" lower right. Inscription en verso with artist name and date 2009, title, medium, and dimensions with Pamela Morgan framing label. Float mounted in a simple white wooden frame. Sight: 29 5/8" H x 41 5/8" W. Framed: 34 1/8" H x 46" W. Biography: Caio Fonseca was raised in New York City, but studied and practiced art in Barcelona until 1983 before moving to Pietrasanta; he now divides his practice between his studios in Pietrasanta and Manhattan. His work has been included in numerous public and private exhibitions and collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and more. (Adapted from the artist's website: http://www.caiofonseca.com/bio-cv)

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Russell McAdoo, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Edward Berge (American, 1876-1924) bronze titled "Duck Mother", depicting a young child holding a duckling, standing above and gazing downward at a mother duck with outstretched wings and an open beak, who is gazing upward at the child. Impressed signature "E. Berge" on the rear of the base together with an impressed circular foundry stamp reading "Roman Bronze Works, N.Y., B20". The sculpture is piped as a fountain. 21 1/2" H x 9 5/8" W. Biography: Sculptor Edward Henry Berge of Baltimore, Maryland, was known for his bronze monuments, garden figures, and fountains. He studied at the Maryland Institute and the Rinehart School in Baltimore and the Academie Julian in Paris, and his work was exhibited at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with oxidation and verdigris, particularly to lower third of the sculpture. A couple of minor abrasions noted to right side of body. [See more photos →]

Bill Sawyer (American/Tennessee, 1936-1920) oil on board painting titled "Flower Growing from a Tire". The painting depicts a young African American toddler sitting on the top step of a narrow red brick house with partially boarded window. In the foreground, a small group of flowers bloom in soil set into a planter fashioned from a tire. Signed "Bill Sawyer" lower right. Titled with a faintly visible inscription reading "from Bill Sawyer" en verso. Float mounted in a carved wooden frame with traces of gilt, an off white linen liner, and a white wooden fillet. Board: 16" H x 20" W. Framed: 22 3/4" H x 26 1/2" W. Biography: Bill Sawyer was a self-taught artist from Nashville. He is said to have taken up painting while stationed in France in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s. His first exhibition was in Nashville in May of 1959 and he went on to have one-man shows at Daniel Orr's Gallery in San Diego, the Little Gallery in Memphis, TN, and the Parthenon in Nashville. Joseph Patterson, then the president of the American Association of Museums, arranged for a show of Sawyer's work at the Durlacher Brothers Gallery in New York in 1964. Sawyer was the first untrained artist to have a one-man show at the gallery, and his second show there, in 1966, sold out. Shortly after this time, Sawyer traveled overseas. After his trip, for unknown reasons, Sawyer seems to have never painted again. He sought privacy, living quietly in Nashville, where he passed away in 2020. After 1966, his work went on to be exhibited at the Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, and in the Art of Tennessee exhibit at the Frist Museum (2006).

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with some scuffing and paint loss to the margin edges of the board. 2" x 1/2" area of surface scuffs to top left corner. [See more photos →]

Chinese black lacquer polychrome painted tall altar stand or table with red and gilt highlights and geometric carved fretwork. Consisting of a square top with polychrome and gilt-painted scenic landscape decoration having a fret-carved frieze, raised on complex geometric pierced carved bracketed legs terminating into a lower shelf raised on carved scrolled feet. Legs with gilt-painted fret and foliate decoration. The lower shelf with polychrome and gilt floral decoration. 35 3/4" H x 18" square. Early 20th century. Provenance: Collection of Thomas M. Alexander, Greeneville, TN, former U.S. Army Captain Airborne/Special Forces during the Late 1960s/Early 1970s in Vietnam. He became a Central Intelligence Agency Field Officer in Southeast Asia, beginning in the Early 1970s until his retirement in 1994.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with expected light use wear. Top with some infill/putty at one corner seam. Old repaired break to one foot. [See more photos →]

James Lavadour (Oregon, b. 1951) oil on wood panel abstract painting, titled "New Platform", rendered in shades of light blue, yellow, orange, and red with a single white fingerprint on a pale blue-green field to the right. Titled, signed, and dated "'12" with an additional printed label with artist, title, medium, dimensions, and numbering, en verso. Unframed. 32" H x 47 7/8" W. Biography (adapted from Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts): James Lavadour, a largely self-trained painter, grew up on the Umatilla Reservation near Pendleton, Oregon, and has been exhibited at The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the Eiteljorg Museum, Portland Art Museum, the Heard Museum, and the Institute of American Indian Art in Sante Fe among others. (https://crowsshadow.org/artist/james-lavadour/)

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Russell McAdoo, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with slight scattered wood shrinkage. [See more photos →]

Keith Shackleton (England, 1923-2015) oil on board painting depicting a seagull flying over turbulent waves. Signed "Keith Shackleton '79" lower right. Housed in a custom painted wood frame with a linen matte. Sight: 23 1/2" H x 35 1/4" W. Framed: 29 1/2" H x 41 1/2" W. Artist Biography: Keith Shackleton was born in England in 1923 and began traveling at a young age when his family moved to Australia. He later served in the Royal Air Force and painted scenes of war and the coastal naval forces. He continued to travel for work after the war, painting all throughout his life. Later, he gained recognition in Great Britain for his wildlife and nature scenes, but remained principally a marine painter. He served as president of the Royal Society of Marine Arts and the Society of Wildlife Artists, and was Chairman of the Artists' League of Britain.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: Overall excellent condition with very light craquelure in the sky portion of the work. Frame with paint loss. [See more photos →]

KENTUCKIANS TO ARMS! broadside, issued by Captain W. W. Cleaver, 6th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry, Company F, from the headquarters for the Confederate Army in Lebanon, KY, dated September 12, 1862, reading "I am authorized by the Confederate Government to raise a Company of Cavalry for the Southern Army, to serve three years or during the war, and I call upon Kentuckians to…drive out Lincoln's abolition minions of the North…and to-day the Abolition Army is skulking behind the walls of Washington, in full view of the victorious Southern Army. Horse, arms and full equipments furnished to all who chose to volunteer. W. W. Cleaver." Housed under glass in a wooden frame. Broadside: 11" H x 11 1/8" W. Framed: 16 1/2" H x 18 1/2" W.

CONDITION: Overall good, legible condition with some fading to lettering, foxing spots, areas of damp staining, largest 1 1/2" x 5 1/4", tears, largest 3/4" and areas of loss, largest 1/4", to center fold line. Broadside is loose, not adhered to board. [See more photos →]

Viennese parcel gilt silver, enamel, and crystal casket, rectangular form with carved rock crystal panels to the top, sides, and base depicting figures from Greek and Roman mythology and battle scenes, bordered by red-painted enamel plaques decorated with putti. Sides mounted with caryatid figures at each corner atop four caryatid griffin feet, joined by bands of foliate decoration; the lids with dimensional rosettes at each corner. Austrian Diana head hallmark to the inner box rim with maker’s initials IW or JW. 4″ H x 5 1/4″ W x 4 1/4″ D. Circa 1872-1922. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer’s famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Some wear to gilding and oxidation to silver. We have not attempted to clean the silver-gilt elements. Break to one petal of one flower on lid corner. [See more photos →]

Ladies 18K yellow gold Cartier quartz Caliber 83 wristwatch with Panthere bracelet having a double folding clasp. Cream dial with Roman numeral hour markers, blue steel sword-shaped hands, and date aperture to five. 18K yellow gold octagonal crown set with a sapphire cabochon. Watch and bracelet are marked "750", "Cartier", "Swiss made", together with the Cartier logo. 7" in circumference with a gross weight of 98.12 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Watch is running and keeping time. [See more photos →]

Large Reed and Barton Francis I Sterling Silver Flatware Service, 249 pieces total. Includes 30 knives (18 with New French Blades, ranging in size from 8 7/8" to 9 1/2", and 12 with modern blades, all 9" L); 12 steak knives; 16 dinner forks (7 3/4" L); 25 luncheon forks (7 1/8" L); 23 salad/dessert forks; 23 teaspoons; 12 iced tea spoons; 12 place/oval soup spoons (6 3/4" L); 10 dessert/oval soup spoons (7 1/4"L); 16 round bowl soup spoons; 16 ice cream forks; 12 cocktail forks; 16 flat handle butter spreaders; 7 demitasse spoons; 3 table/serving spoons; 1 fruit knives; 4 baby forks; 2 baby spoons; 2 youth knives; 1 youth fork; and 2 long handled infant feeding spoons. Also included is 1 sugar shell; 1 jelly server; 1 master butter knife; and 1 lemon fork. Some old Reed and Barton pictorial marks, some with script marks, all marked sterling. 286.09 oz total weighable silver.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of James W. Perkins, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with a few pieces monogrammed. [See more photos →]

Chinese gilt bronze Quan Yin depicted seated upon a naturalistic base in partial Padmasana (Lotus) position, holding a male child, her hands in karana mudra, with elongated ears; wearing a crown with central figure, veil, a robe, and necklace; a vase at her right and a bag or book to her left; all resting upon a tiered base with bracket feet and shaped skirt. Blue/lapiz residue to base as well a traces of polychrome paint to crown, robe, and base. 16 3/8 H x 7 1/2" W x 5" D. 19th century or earlier. Provenance: Collection of Thomas M. Alexander, Greeneville, TN, former U.S. Army Captain Airborne/Special Forces during the Late 1960s/Early 1970s in Vietnam. He became a Central Intelligence Agency Field Officer in Southeast Asia, beginning in the Early 1970s until his retirement in 1994.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with surface oxidation and losses to gilt; two small losses in base, largest measuring 5/8" x 3/8"; area of loss to bronze on bag/book, measuring 3/4" x 3/8". [See more photos →]

Antoine Blanchard (French, 1910-1988) oil on canvas Impressionistic painting, titled "Quai du Louvre" or "Paris", depicting Rue de Rivoli. The bustling Parisian street includes a lighted streetcar, horse-drawn buggies, and pedestrians traversing the wet road, a sparsely leaved tree to the left above a lighted kiosk, and the west end of the Louvre to the right under a cloudy gray sky. Signed "Antoine Blanchard" in black lower right. W. T. Burger Co. stamp with Burger label and label with artist biographical information, en verso. Housed in a painted wooden frame with foliate, bead and reel decorations and a gilt fillet. Sight: 12 7/8" H x 17 7/8" W. Frame: 19 1/8" H x 24 1/4" W. Biography: Antoine Blanchard began his study of fine arts in Rennes for three years and then studied at the School of Fine Arts in Paris for four years. He exclusively painted Parisian street scenes, depicting the city in all seasons but always in 1900. (Adapted from Dictionnaire Critique et Documentaire Des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs, New Edition, Volume II, by E. Benezit, published by Editions Grund, 1999, p. 374).

CONDITION: Painting in overall excellent condition. Frame with some dampstaining to right edge of the back and scattered abrasion to paint, largest measuring 1 3/8" H x 1/4" W. [See more photos →]

Three (3) religious gothic oil paintings on panel after Fra Angelico.1st item: Giltwood triptych attributed to Gustavo Sani Copio, depicting a crowned Madonna and Child in the central panel and flanked by two angels playing trumpets. All are attired in ornate clothing, with incised decoration. Housed in a double columnated gothic style frame with hinged doors, arches, and carved decoration. Open: 14" W x 24" H. Closed: 9 1/4" W x 24" H x 2 1/4" D. 2nd-3rd items: Pair of oil on panel icon paintings attributed to Signor Gustavo San, 1924, after Fra Angelico's "Madonna and Child" tabernacle (housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence Italy). Panels depict two winged angels with halos attired in ornate garments and playing trumpets on a gilt background. Unsigned. Attribution on label en verso. Housed in double columnated giltwood gothic style frames with arches and carved decoration. Sights: 4 1/2" W x 12 1/4" H. Framed: 8 3/4" W x 26" H x 2.5" D.

PROVENANCE: The collection of a Tennessee institution.

CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with some wear to frame including loose elements. The decoration flanking the central arch has been reattached. 2nd-3rd items: Overall good condition. Some paint loss and flaking to painting of angel with dark robe, especially in lower half. Some cracking to panel of angel with red robe on the right hand side. Overall wear and cracking to frames, parts of frames have some regilding. [See more photos →]

American Colonial oil on canvas three-quarters portrait of a young woman attributed to Robert Feke (Massachusetts/Rhode Island 1707-1751). Subject is depicted seated against a partial brown backdrop with a landscape vista visible to the right. She is attired in a low cut soft coral or pink satin dress trimmed with white muslin about the bodice and with white muslin undesleeves and draped with a blue satin wrap. The subject is holding a sprig of white flowers and roses in her delicately detailed left hand while her right hand cradles the flowers and rests in her lap. Her brown hair is upswept and is curled to one side. Unsigned. Inscription en verso reads "Portrait by FEKE Early American Painter". Housed in a late 19th/early 20th century carved wood frame. Sight: 37 1/8" H x 27 1/8" W. Framed: 40 3/4" H x 33" W. Note: This portrait is stylistically similar to another portrait painted by Feke of Miss Willamina Moore, featured on page 71 of the book "Library of American Art: Robert Feke, Colonial Portrait Painter" by Henry Wilder Foote. Both portraits depict the sitter posed and gazing slightly left or right with a similar landscape backdrop. Additionally, both are attired in nearly identical type dress and both have very detailed delicate hands which hold flowers. Finally, both subjects have large dark oval eyes which is a characteristic of Feke's work. See the similar portrait at this link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200963117/wilhelmina-bond.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Martha T. Daniel, Bristol, Tennessee. This painting was originally acquired by Peck Daniels, uncle of the consignor, who was a collector and dealer of 18th Century English and American antiques in Bristol, VA.

CONDITION: Canvas has been relined. Some minor inpainting noted to lower quadrant near flowers and some varnish run. Overall light craquelure with some light scratching noted to lower dress area, rubbing to canvas edges. [See more photos →]

Set of four (4) George III carved mahogany side chairs. Each with rocaille carved yoke-shaped top rails over elaborate pierced and carved splats, reeded and beaded stiles, slip seats with carved aprons, and front foliate carved cabriole legs terminating in acanthus scrolled feet and curved rear legs. 39" H x 22 1/4" W x 19 3/4" D. 18th century

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Barbara K. Lipman, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Scattered general use wear. A couple of chairs with possible repairs to splats near crests. Corner brackets supports for seats are late 19th/early 20th century replacements. A right carved return for one chair missing. One chair with loose back. Slip seats with non-matching upholstery. [See more photos →]

Helen La France (Kentucky, 1919-2020) oil on canvas landscape painting depicting an African American congregation gathering for a baptism, with automobiles and horse-drawn buggy parked in grassy areas around a church depicted next to a lone tree and congregants gathered around a river left midground to observe the baptisms. Signed "Helen La France" lower right and "River Baptism Shelton" on the back stretcher. Additionally titled en pen en verso on the canvas perimeter. Unframed. 22" H x 28" W. Biography: "Self-taught African American artist Helen LaFrance was born on a Kentucky farm and began painting in her 40s. She is known for her "memory paintings" drawn from her recollections of life growing up in the rural South. Several museums and private collectors, including Oprah Winfrey, own examples of her work." (Source: "Helen LaFrance Folk Art Memories" by Kathy Moses). Helen LaFrance died November 22, 2020 in a Mayfield, Kentucky nursing home at the age of 101.

CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Burton Harry Callicott (Tennessee/Indiana, 1907-2003) abstract oil on canvas painting titled "Antahkarana" featuring two triangular shapes with rounded edges, one outlined in cooler hues of the color spectrum, the other in warmer hues, both joined by a nearly transparent broad white line, against a gradient yellow and green background. Signed and dated "Callicott '92" lower right. Albers Fine Art Gallery, Memphis, TN label, en verso. Housed in a white wooden frame with gilt trim. Sight: 60" H x 44" W. Framed: 61 1/2" H x 45 1/2" W. Biography: "Born in 1907 in Terre Haute, Indiana, Burton Callicott spent much of his childhood and his seventy-year career as an artist and educator in Memphis. Callicott graduated in 1931 from the Cleveland School of Art, where he began an exploration of the use of light and dark that would follow him throughout his life. He is perhaps best known regionally for his set of three large murals in the Memphis Pink Palace Museum titled The Coming of De Soto. Completing his training in sculpture at the Cleveland School of Art in the midst of the Depression, Callicott returned to Memphis, where his mother and stepfather, Michael Abt, resided. The director of the western division of Tennessee's Federal Works of Art Project, Abt played a major role in launching Callicott's career. He put Callicott to work immediately on Memphis Cotton Carnival floats and displays for other Memphis festivals while also helping him secure a commission for a Public Works of Art Project mural in 1933. Installed in the Memphis Museum of Natural History (now the Memphis Pink Palace Museum), the three-panel mural depicts Hernando De Soto's arrival in West Tennessee. Another of Callicott's most recognized works, The Gleaners (1936), was completed during the early years of his career and received much attention at the 1939 New York World's Fair. These early projects set Callicott off on a long and successful career in Memphis. Callicott became a founding faculty member of the Memphis Academy of Art (now the Memphis College of Art) in 1937. Callicott became professor emeritus in 1978. Callicott's works have been exhibited at various museums across the state and region, including the Cheekwood Museum of Art and the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, the West Tennessee Regional Art Center in Humboldt, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Carroll Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University, the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia. Samples of his artwork are on permanent display at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and the Memphis Pink Palace Museum. The Tennessee Arts Commission chose to honor the work of Callicott in 2000 with a specialty license plate for which he designed a rainbow with the caption, "art is…a rainbow." Callicott continued to live in Memphis until his death in 2003". (source: "Burton Callicott" by Elizabeth H. Moore, originally published October 8, 2017, https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/burton-callicott/).

CONDITION: Overall very good condition, no damage. [See more photos →]

Large framed Carroll Cloar (American, 1913-1993) graphite on paper drawing, "The Epitaph of Ezekiel Polk," depicting a little girl standing beside a tomb with lengthy inscription. Signed lower left. Sight: 38 1/2" H x 27 1/2" W. Frame: 39 1/4" H x 28 1/4" W. Note: this work is a study for a painting by the same name, featured on p. 140 of "Hostile Butterflies and Other Paintings" (Memphis State University Press, 1977). It was acquired by the consignor from Guy Northrup, a writer and arts editor for the Memphis Commercial Appeal, who wrote the introduction for the book. Colonel Ezekiel Polk was a Revolutionary War veteran, signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration, and grandfather of President James K. Polk. After the war, Polk's atheist beliefs brought him increasing conflicts with his neighbors, and by 1790 he resettled his family in Tennessee. He was a pioneer of the area now known as Hardeman County. Polk is said to have written his own epitaph, which appears on his tomb. Biography: Caroll Cloar was known for incorporating nostalgic images from his Southern childhood, often merged with dreamlike motifs, into powerful magic realist scenes, and noted that literature, particularly by Southern Gothic writers such as William Faulkner or Eudora Welty, influenced his artistic approach. Cloar graduated from Southwestern College (now Rhodes College) in Memphis, Tennessee, and went on to study at the Memphis Adacemy of Arts under the artist George Oberteuffer. In 1936, he moved to New York to attend the Art Students League. There, Cloar's achievements earned him a McDowell fellowship which he used to travel across the American Southwest, West Coast, and Mexico. Cloar served with the Army Air Corps during World War II and upon his return, he was awarded a Guggenheim traveling scholarship to fund an extended sojourn to Central and South America. Two years later, several of his images were featured in a Life Magazine article titled 'Backwoods Boyhood,' and Cloar's career went on to receive additional national acclaim. By the mid-1950s, Cloar had settled permanently in Memphis, where he produced paintings, often executed in tempera and acrylic paints. His works are in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Brooks Museum of Art, and Library of Congress. In 1993, Cloar's painting, Faculty and Honor Students, Lewis Schoolhouse, was one of six paintings by American artist selected to commemorate the inauguration of President Clinton. (Source: The Johnson Collection/Memphis Brooks Museum of Art).

PROVENANCE: Private Memphis Collection, ex-Guy Northrup, Memphis, acquired directly from the artist.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with some light foxing and toning, sunning at edges. Adhered to support board along the left and right vertical edges of the paper, resulting in vertical lines of acid burn at the sides. [See more photos →]

Persian rug or carpet, Kerman or Kirman, Lavar design. Central red floral medallion or diamond field surrounding two shaped medallions to the interior flanked by two foliate spandrels in red and blue, with concentric foliate borders. Woven in colors of red, blue, green, and ivory. 11' 3" x 8' 8". 1st quarter 20th century.

PROVENANCE: the Estate of Emilee Barnes Frincke, Knoxville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with general overall wear. [See more photos →]

Elizabeth O'Neill Verner (South Carolina, 1883-1979) pastel on silk portrait depicting a Charleston flower vendor, seated with a bouquet of flowers in her hands while smoking a pipe. Faint, smeared signature lower right corner. Housed in an oak frame. Originally purchased from Knoke Galleries of Atlanta, Georgia, original gallery label included. Sight: 8 3/8" H x 7 3/4" W. Framed: 11 5/8" H x 11 1/8" W. Biography: "A native of Charleston, Elizabeth O'Neill Verner was an artist, teacher, and preservationist who became one of South Carolina's best known practitioners of the early twentieth century. Pastels and printmaking were her preferred media, and her images of residences, churches, and street scenes were widely recognized for their skill and authenticity, and for capturing the romantic sensibility of Charleston. She began her art training under the guidance of Alice Ravenel Huger Smith and then continued at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, beginning in 1901 for two years with noted instructor Thomas Anshutz. Following her time at the academy, she taught art in Aiken, South Carolina, before returning to Charleston. In 1907, she met and married E. Pettigrew Verner and raised their two children. She resumed her studies with Smith and turned her attention to depictions of her hometown, which she infused with the charm and local color that distinguishes Charleston. In land- and cityscapes, Verner often focused on the architecture and environment while deemphasizing any human presence. She eventually expanded her range to become an able portraitist and figurative painter." Source: The Johnson Collection.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition. Some light discoloration noted to silk. [See more photos →]

Pair of English sterling silver trays or salvers hallmarked for Paul Storr, London, 1808. Each of circular form with scalloped openwork rim in the manner of Paul de Lamerie, with foliate and shell engraved center featuring an engraved coat of arms depicting a lion and dog surmounted by a crown and reading “Nec Temere Nec Timide” (Neither random nor timidly). The crest is believed to be that of William Henry Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland, 1st Marquess of Cleveland, Baron Raby, 3rd Earl of Darlington, 5th Baron Barnard KG (1766–1842). The trays are raised on scrolled and pierced rocaille feet. Hallmarked to underside, with additional engraved leopard crest. 13 3/4″ dia. (33 cm). 86.90 total troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: Both trays in overall good condition with expected general use wear. One tray with a couple of old tears to the rim. One with possible repair to rim near one foot. [See more photos →]

Carl Sublett (Tennessee, 1919-2008), "Mountain Red," abstract watercolor on paper landscape painting suggesting the rock face of a mountain surrounded by a border rendered in shades of red, brown, yellow, blue, and green. Dated and signed "78 Sublett" lower right. Collector's Gallery, Nashville, TN label with The Framework, Nashville, TN black ink stamp, en verso. Float mounted and housed under glass in a carved giltwood frame. Sheet: 22 1/2" H x 30" W. Framed: 25 3/4" H x 33 1/4" W. Biography: Carl Sublett studied Art History at the American Academy in Florence, Italy, after serving as a sergeant in World War II. He moved to Knoxville in 1954 where he studied with Kermit Ewing and eventually became a Professor of Fine Art at the University of Tennessee. Sublett was a founding member of the art group, The Knoxville Seven, a progressive group working from 1955-1965, which produced some of the first abstract expressionist art in Tennessee. In 1982 he retired from teaching and in 1984, he opened the Sublett Gallery in Knoxville. In 1991, "The Unseen Carl Sublett" was the first exhibit at the new Knoxville Museum of Art (built on the site of the 1982 World's Fair). Sublett won numerous awards for his paintings and was a member of the National Academy of Design. His works are in the collections of the National Academy of Design, The Tennessee State Museum, and Cheekwood, Nashville. (Source: The Tennessee Arts Commission).

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with slight waviness to sheet. Not examined outside of frame. Frame with natural age shrinkage, minor areas of loss to gilt. [See more photos →]

Neoclassical French patinated and gilt bronze chime clock, the movement by Louis Moinet (1758-1853), the case likely by Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843), featuring a Roman goddess figure, probably Minerva, the goddess of Wisdom and War, leaning against a bronze plinth topped with books and decorated with a rooster and torches. The plinth is raised on a larger rectangular base with bas-relief ornamentation including a winged figure with tablet and cherub, a globe and other objects emblematic of learning and education. Silvered circular dial with Roman numerals and steel hands, enclosed in gilt anthemion banding. Works marked "L Moinet A. Paris". 22"H x 15"W x 6"D. Circa 1825. Note: Both Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe purchased clocks made by Louis Moinet. Jefferson's clock was used in the White House and now resides at Monticello; in 1817 Monroe commissioned the "Minerva" clock (somewhat similar to this one but entirely in gilt bronze), which has adorned the White House Blue Room for more than 2 centuries. Louis Moinet was an important horologist, scholar and inventory who served as President of the Chronometry Society in Paris and taught at the Academie des Beaux-Arts. He was secretary to the eminent clockmaker Abraham Louis Breguet and in 1851 presented a chronometer at the Great Exhibition of London. He and bronzier Pierre-Philippe Thomire produced a number of important clocks for world leaders in the first half of the 19th century, including Napoleon Bonaparte, George IV of England and Tsar Alexander of Russia.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Judge John Nixon, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Tiny scratch and small area of light discoloration to subject's hand. Wear/oxidation to dial. Key present. Escapement not visible. Works appear to be complete but not tested. [See more photos →]

Large William Lewis Lester (Texas, 1910-1991) oil on canvas Expressionist landscape painting, titled "Ship Channel", depicting a bird's eye view of a man-made waterway emptying into a body of water to the right with a tree line, road, and hills in the midground and a lock system with ships in the background below a blue sky. Signed, titled and dated 1959 en verso. Additional handwritten label with artist name, title, year, and Austin, TX and additional numbering, en verso. Housed and matted in a modern ebonized wooden frame with a white wooden fillet. Sight: 29 5/8" H x 43 3/4" W. Frame: 36" H x 50 1/8" W. Biography: William Lewis Lester was raised in Dallas, TX, and studied with Thomas Stell and Olin Travis at the Dallas Art Institute. He was an active member of the Dallas Artists League from its inception in 1932 where he exerted his influence during the Great Depression in the evolution of Texas Regionalists art. Lester was also a founding member of the Lone Star Printmakers who created and exhibited lithographic prints. He taught at the school of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (Dallas Museum of Art) as well as at the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also served as chairman from 1952-1954. Lester was highly influenced from the mid-1950s onwards by the striking color and compositions of Mexican artworks, particularly the works of Rufino Tamayo, which led his painting towards greater levels of abstraction. He has been exhibited at the Texas Centennial Exposition in Dallas, the Rockefeller Center, The New York World's Fair Exhibition, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pan American Union. His work is permanently exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Witte Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the American Embassy in Paris among many others. (Adapted from "Lester, William Lewis" by Earl D. Weed and Paul D. Lester, published Oct. 1, 1995 in the handbook of Dallas-Fort Worth; accessed 11/17/21 https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lester-william-lewis)

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Carl Klein, Brentwood, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Oil on canvas in overall very good condition with minute warping at the top and bottom edges, largest measuring 13" L. Frame with scattered surface scratches and some chips. [See more photos →]

124 pieces of sterling silver flatware including one hundred twelve (112) pieces Tiffany & Co. Faneuil pattern sterling flatware. Tiffany service includes 12 blunt dinner knives (10 1/4" L); 12 dinner forks (7 5/8" L); 20 salad forks (6 7/8" L); 20 place spoons (7 1/4" L); 12 round soup spoons (6 7/8" L); and 12 teaspoons (6" L). Tiffany pieces also include 10 blunt luncheon knives (9 1/4" L); 10 luncheon forks (7 1/8" L); 1 master butter knife (7 3/8" L); 2 ice cream spoons (5 3/4" L); and 1 small berry spoon (7 1/4" L). Also included are twelve (12) Concord Silver Co. salt spoons (2 1/4" L). All pieces with maker's marks and Sterling. American, mid-20th century. 159.615 total weighable troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: All pieces in overall good condition with minor surface scratches commensurate with age and manner of use. Concord Silver Co. sugar spoons monogrammed M. [See more photos →]

Monumental Helen La France (American/Kentucky, 1919-2020) double sided oil on canvas painting, depicting a horizontally oriented African landscape on one side and a vertically oriented Equestrian scene on the other. One side depicts a large African watering hole with various animals clustered around it, including elephants, lions, flamingos, rhinos, cheetahs, gazelles, zebras and giraffes. In the middle ground, human figures gather in a line headed by hunters with spears, and a cheetah pursues gazelles across rolling hills with a mountain in the distant background. Signed lower right "Helen LaFrance". The other side depicts a fox hunting scene, presumably in Kentucky, with a rider atop his horse and four hounds, with white picket fence against a background of pink, red and orange trees. Unsigned. Housed in a simple wood frame. Sight: 33 3/4" H x 81 3/4" W. Framed: 35 3/4" H x 83 3/4" W. Biography: "Self-taught African American artist Helen LaFrance was born on a Kentucky farm and began painting in her 40s. She is known for her "memory paintings", drawn from her recollections of life growing up in the rural South. Several museums and private collectors, including Oprah Winfrey, own examples of her work." (Source: "Helen LaFrance Folk Art Memories" by Kathy Moses). Helen Lafrance died November 22, 2020, in a Mayfield, Kentucky nursing home at the age of 101. Note: a similar, but smaller Helen LaFrance African scene was sold by this auction house Oct. 23, 2021. Both it, and this painting – along with the two LaFrance portraits in this sale – were acquired by the consignor directly from the artist, who was a personal friend and patron of Helen LaFrance.

PROVENANCE: Provenance: Private Kentucky collection.

CONDITION: African scene: Overall darkening to varnish layer, some blistering and drip to varnish. Paint flaking and losses to upper right margin and corner, largest 1 1/2". Lower margin with scattered minute losses/paint flakes. Equestrian scene: Raw canvas edge from reverse painting. Overall light grime, some dark spots and scratches in sky area. [See more photos →]

A CHRISTMAS CAROL, First Edition, Second Issue, by Charles Dickens, with illustrations by John Leech, published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1843. Hardcover 12mo, 166 gilt edged pages with hand colored frontispiece and three plates, four vignettes, and one double-sided back advertisement page, title page printed in red and blue, half-title in blue, rebound by Riviere and Son, London in red morocco leather with gilt stamped covers and spine, five raised hubs, dark green paper pastedowns and endpapers, ex libris plate to interior of front cover. Original brown cloth blindstamped and gilt titled covers and spine laid down to back matter pages. 6 1/2" H x 4 3/8" W x 3/4" D. Note: This copy includes the second issue points: Roman numerals with Staves in table of contents and numbers spelled out in chapter headings.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Covers in overall very good condition with wear to hinges, corners slightly bumped. Pages in overall good, legible condition with toning/acid burn, scattered foxing spots, scuffs, minor pencil marks, light handling wear. Plates are collated. Some pages unevenly cut. [See more photos →]

Antique Persian Farahan Sarouk rug, wool on wool, center shaped medallions on salmon, dark blue and red fields surrounded by floral or foliate designs with ivory medallions to the corners. Secondary colors of ivory, red, green, and dark blue. 134" H x 101 1/2" W. Circa 1920.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of David Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with expected general overall wear. [See more photos →]

Twelve (12) Brno armchairs, designed by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Brno for Knoll Industries, 10 in black leather and 2 in dark navy leather, all with leather arm pads. Eight (8) with Knoll Inc. labels to underside, two (2) with Knoll dust cloth covers, two (2) without labels. One navy chair stamped "Knoll Studio Mies van der Rohe" to the underside of one arm. Dimensions: 31 1/4" H x 22 3/4" W x D 19 1/4" D. All 20th century. Note: These were originally designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1930 for his Tugendhat House in Brno, Czech Republic.

PROVENANCE: The Guardsmark Collection, Lipman Holdings International, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All black chairs with scattered minor wear to leather and minor wear and scratches to polished chrome bases. Two navy chairs in very good condition. [See more photos →]

GREAT EXPECTATIONS, Vol. I-III, First Edition, Mixed Issue, by Charles Dickens, published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1861. Hardcover octavo, 1,039 top edge gilt pages, rebound by Riviere and Son, London in red morocco leather with gilt stamped covers and spine, five raised hubs, dark green paper pastedowns and endpapers, ex libris plate to interior of front cover. Original purple cloth blindstamped and gilt titled covers and spine laid down to back matter pages. Approximately 8" H x 5 1/4" W x 1 1/4" D. Note: Volume I includes the first issue point: "recal" mispelling to p. 84.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Covers in overall very good condition with wear/separations, largest 1/2", to hinges, corners slightly bumped. Pages in overall good, legible condition with toning/acid burn, scattered foxing spots, few creases, scuffs, minor pencil marks, light handling wear. Some pages unevenly cut. Volume III does not include publisher's catalogue. [See more photos →]

German sterling silver figure depicting a jousting knight on horseback having a carved face attired in full armor including a movable face shield and removable jousting lance atop a naturalistic oval-shaped plinth base. Marked along the base edge STERLING .925 GERMANY. 11 3/4" H x 11 1/2" W x 3 1/2" W. 59.800 troy ounces. Early 20th century. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with light wear. Very minor bending to tip of lance. [See more photos →]

Pierre Paulin (French, 1927-2009) for Artifort mid-century modern two-seat sofa or settee from the F260 series also known as ABCD. Wood frame on castors with shaped foam seat and “wave” back, with woven light beige upholstery. Settee retains the original Artifort and Turner Ltd. paper label to the base underside. 24″ H x 29″ D x 64 1/2″ W. Circa 1979.

PROVENANCE: The Guardsmark Collection, Lipman Holdings International, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Settee in the original upholstery. Some light staining and wear, overall structurally good condition. Dust cover with puncture near label. [See more photos →]

Seven (7) piece Gorham sterling silver tea service consisting of a hot water kettle on stand, teapot, coffee pot, covered sugar bowl with two handles, creamer with flared spout, and waste bowl together with matching sterling tray. All pieces with urn form bodies on pedestal feet having beaded decoration to shoulders and bases. Hot water kettle, teapot, and coffeepot with gooseneck spouts and hinged lids with flower bud finials. Coffeepot, teapot, and creamer with gilt wash interiors. Hot water kettle, creamer, covered sugar bowl, and waste bowl with Spaulding & Co. and Whiting Manufacturing Co. marks. Coffeepot with Whiting Manufacturing Co. mark. Teapot with Gorham, Spaulding & Co. and Whiting Manufacturing Co marks. Tray with Spaulding-Gorham, Inc., and Dominick and Haff marks. All pieces with sterling marks and script monogram CCMcB. Serving pieces range from 4 1/4" H x 4 3/8" dia. to 14 1/2" H x 9 1/2" W x 7 3/4" D. Tray: 25 1/4" W x 17 3/8" D. 243.91 total troy ounces. Circa 1919-1924.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Set in overall good condition with minor scattered spots of pitting. All pieces monogrammed. Handles slightly loose on hot water kettle, teapot, and coffeepot. Small dent to teapot, measuring 5/8" H x 1 1/8" W. Minor dent to rim of waste bowl. Tray with surface scratching. [See more photos →]

Nellie Augusta Knopf (American, 1875-1962) impressionist oil on board landscape painting depicting a mountain range with rock faces cast in contrasting light and shadow with grassy foothills below. Signed "N.A. Knopf." in lower middle. Housed in a carved giltwood frame with linen matte and giltwood liner. Sight: 9 7/8" H x 13 1/2" W. Framed: 20" H x 24 1/8" W. Biography: Born and raised in Chicago, Nellie Augusta Knopf became known for her mountain landscapes and seascapes. She graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago and also studied with Charles H. Woodbury in Ogunquit, Maine. For 43 years she taught and was Director of Art at Illinois Women's College, later MacMurray College.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with light craquelure, a couple of light inclusions in sky area. [See more photos →]

Harvey Joiner (Kentucky/Indiana, 1852-1932) oil on board landscape painting depicting sunlight breaking through a deserted road or path in a lush springtime forest setting. Signed "Harvey Joiner" lower left. Housed in a gilt carved rococo style frame with molded gilt wood liner, placard with artist name attached to lower margin of liner. Sight: 9 1/2" H x 19 1/2" W. Framed: 18 1/4" H x 27 1/4" W. Biography (from the Filson Historical Society): Born in Charlestown, Indiana, Harvey Joiner showed artistic capability at an early age. At 16, he worked on boats on the bayous of Louisiana, where he completed sketches of African-American culture. In the spring of 1874 he met a German portrait painter named Hoffman in St. Louis, and became his assistant and pupil. In later years Joiner became an itinerant painter, and eventually established a studio in Louisville, KY. He concentrated on portraits for the first twenty years of his career. Later he became famous for his woodland scenes, especially of beech trees, and exhibited all over the world. It is known that he exhibited in a private gallery in Denmark in 1923. Joiner's work is noted for its unique use of light and shadow, recalling the great French landscape artists of the 19th century.

CONDITION: Painting in overall very good condition. Frame with minor wear and some losses, primarily to lower left corner and minor rubbing to right margin of gilt liner. [See more photos →]

THE NOVELS OF THE BRONTE SISTERS, Vol. I-XII, The Thornton Edition, by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte and Elizabeth C. Gaskell, edited by Temple Scott, published by John Grant, Edinburgh, 1907. Hardcover octavos, 4,942 total top edge gilt pages with lithographic frontispieces and plates, rebound in three-quarter brown leather with marbled-paper sides, gilt tiliting to spines, five raised hubs, gilt dentelle with marbled paper pastedowns and end papers, ex libris plate to interior of front covers, brown grosgrain ribbon bookmarks. Approximately 8 1/2" H x 5 7/8" W x 1 1/4" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Covers in overall very good condition with wear to hinges, some rubbing to leather, corners slightly bumped. Pages in overall very good legible condition with toning, primarily to edges. [See more photos →]

Franklin Mint History of the United States First Edition sterling silver proof medal set, 200 medals total, numbered 7149, dated 1776-1975, issued circa 1968. Each with images of events from American history surrounded by text, stars, and year dates, obverse, explanatory text about each event, reverse. Sterling, copyright symbol, hallmarks, and number to bottom edges. Each coin housed in round plastic coin holders. All medals housed in display sleeves with silver metallic lettering, all sleeves housed in a wooden case. Medals: 45mm dia., 250 total troy ounces. Sleeves: 14" H x 11" W x 1/4" D. Case: 6 3/4" H x 15" W x 11 3/4" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of James W. Perkins, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All medals in uncirculated/proof condition. Does not include paperwork. Sleeves and case in overall good condition with light surface wear. [See more photos →]

Mid-Century Knoll Industries 2544 “Credenza 4 Position” designed by Florence Knoll Bassett circa 1954, manufactured in the 1960s. Rectangular cabinet or sideboard with Italian cremo marble top over four figured rosewood veneered hinged and locking doors with aluminum tab hardware. Chrome finished steel base and square tubular legs. 25 1/2″ H x 74 1/2″ W x 18″ D.

PROVENANCE: The Guardsmark Collection, Lipman Holdings International, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with general use wear. Original label and key not present. [See more photos →]

Antique Persian Tabriz rug or carpet, wool on cotton, the center with multiple foliate medallions within three foliate borders. Woven in colors of ivory, rust, blue and green. 124" H x 93" W. Late 19th/Early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Barbara K. Lipman, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Light scattered wear, some staining at borders. Overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Rand McNally & Company 18" Terrestrial floor globe with calibrated full brass meridian and horizon with applied paper calendar and zodiac. The horizon is raised on four supports turning on a pinion and is raised on a Classical Revival style mahogany base with lithographed horizon band, having a tapering square pedestal ending in four curved feet. Cartouche on side of globe reads "RAND MCNALLY & COMPANY/ TERRESTRIAL GLOBE/ 18 INCH/ Copyright by Rand McNally & Company, Chicago/ Made in U.S.A." with a color key (red, blue or black) below for Submarine Telegraph Cables, Mean Isothermal Lines for January and July, and The International Date Line. 55 1/4" total H x 24" W. American, Circa 1925.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Globe with general light wear and scattered small abrasion losses, handling grime/small stains, light fading/toning. Stand with scattered minor wear. [See more photos →]

George III brass mounted inlaid Balloon Chime Clock by Jabez Smith, London. Crossbanded satinwood case with urn finial having rams head masks at sides, over a pagoda top, inlaid medallion with incised floral decoration, and balloon shaped center enclosing a dial with Roman numerals and shaped pierced steel hands, signed Jabez Smith, Fenchurch Street, London. Raised on bronze leafy feet. Glass rear door enclosing time and strike brass works and pendulum with steel bell. Note: 'Watchmakers Clockmakers of the World' by Brian Loomes lists Jabez Smith as working in London from 1786-1795. Overall: 22 1/2" H x 12 1/2" W x 9" D. Circa 1790.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Some chipping to perimeter of dial; perimeter to glass cover is brittle, shrinkage cracks to veneer around floral medallion. Floral medallion likely not original. Crossbanded veneer exhibits some small chips, repairs, shrinkage and a few spots of lifting (primarily to rear). Rear door is loose on hinge. Some losses to paper lining of interior. Works appear to be complete and the pendulum appears to be the original. Not functioning at time of inspection, works need to be cleaned. [See more photos →]

Ladies 14K yellow gold featuring 17 old mine cut diamonds approximately 4.31 carats, Clarity-I1, Color-H. The brooch tests 14K and is 1 1/4" L. Gross weight of the brooch is 8.76 grams.

PROVENANCE: the Estate of Emilee Barnes Frincke, Knoxville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, First Edition, by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Hablot K. Brown (Phiz), published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1839. Hardcover octavo, 624 top edge gilt pages with frontispiece, title page, and thirty-nine plates, rebound by Riviere and Son, London in red morocco leather with gilt stamped covers and spine, five raised hubs, gilt dentelle with dark green paper pastedowns and endpapers, ex libris plate to interior of front cover. Includes a tipped-in one page bifolium ALS written by Dickens to front matter pages, written on Gads Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent stationary to Mrs. Macready, possibly Cecile Louise Frederica Spencer, the wife of English actor William Charles Macready (1793-1873), dated Tuesday, March 26, 1857, reading "My Dear Mrs. Macready Many thanks for your postscript to Macready's letter. I send him a few cheerful words enclosed, and ardently hope–and do believe–that I shall find greatly better yet by the time of my coming to Cheltenham. I know what…he has, and what love can do. Believe me always, Charles Dickens." with later pencil inscription reading "Nicholas Nickleby," lower left. No. 6 serial cover included in front matter pages, original black cloth blindstamped covers and spine laid down to back matter pages. 9 1/8" H x 6" W x 1 7/8" D. Note: Includes early issue point: "latter" instead of "letter" on the 6th to last line of p. 160.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Covers in overall very good condition with wear to hinges, corners slightly bumped. Pages in overall good, legible condition with toning/toning impressions, acid burn, scattered foxing spots, scuffs, creases, some minute tears to edges, few pencil marks, light handling wear. Dickens ALS is overall good, legible condition. Frontispiece is separated from binding. Plates are collated. Some pages unevenly cut. [See more photos →]

Ladies 18K yellow gold thick ribbed bangle bracelet by Micheletto with hidden clasp, folding safety and bright polish finish. Marked “750” and “Italy”. The bracelet is 7″ in circumference, approximately 5/8″ wide and has a weight of 103.8 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Meyer R. Wolfe (Tennessee/New York, 1897-1985), "Vanderbilt Clinic," 1939, American regional realist lithograph depicting a group of Black patients with weary expressions in a segregated waiting room at the Vanderbilt Medical Clinic in Nashville, Tennessee. A narrow doorway shows a white nurse, seated at a desk and reading, in an adjacent room. Titled and numbered "Ed 25" lower left. Signed and dated '39 lower right. Double matted and framed under glass in a giltwood frame. Sight: 13 5/8" H x 19" W. Framed: 18 1/4" H x 23 1/2" W. Note: this is perhaps the best recognized of a series of approximately 15 lithographs created by Wolfe depicting lives of African Americans in Nashville during the Jim Crow era, and speaks to healthcare challenges the artist observed facing many Black Nashvillians. There were 25 prints in the single edition; the stone plates used to create this and other prints in the series are no longer extant. This particular image, along with Wolfe's "Red Eye's Hall" and "Tuesday-Ophelia" from the same series, are among the labor related prints and drawings in the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection at the Library of Congress; "Vanderbilt Clinic" is also in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Art and Vanderbilt University. Biography: Meyer ("Mike") Wolfe was born into a Jewish Lithuanian immigrant family, the second of ten children. He was raised in a low-income, multiracial neighborhood of Nashville just north of the Tennessee State Capitol, where he observed the social and cultural lives of his African American friends. As a teen with an interest in drawing, he became a protege of Pulitzer Prize winning Nashville cartoonist Carey Orr. In 1917 he studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago and worked as an illustrator. In 1918 he moved to New York and met Ashcan School painter John Sloan, who became one of his most influential teachers. Wolfe traveled to Paris in 1926 to train at the Academie Julian in Paris. While overseas, he met (and later married) the fashion photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe. Meyer exhibited at the San Francisco Art Association, the New York 1939 World's Fair, and in Nashville, where he later returned to live. However, much of his later life was spent supporting and managing his wife's career, and as a result, many of Wolfe's paintings and prints were never publicly shown or sold. His narrative lithographs of African American life in Nashville during the 1930s are considered among his most important works and very rarely come on the market. His work is also held by the National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian Institution, the Tennessee State Museum, and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis. Sources: "Meyer Wolfe: The Star of All Things" (digital exhibit catalog for the 2021 exhibit at the Nashville Parthenon); Dr. Lawrence Wolfe; Robert Ikard, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Summer, 2007.

PROVENANCE: Collection of a retired physician, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition; not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Ladies 14K yellow gold charm bracelet featuring 47 charms. Of the charms, 1 is marked "18K", 29 are marked or test 14K, 7 are marked "10K", 2 are marked "sterling", and 8 are gold filled. The bracelet is 7" L and has a gross weight of 139.2 grams

PROVENANCE: The estate of Virginia Jared, Hillsboro, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Large Ron Williams (Tennessee, 1947-2016) oil on canvas landscape painting depicting a river winding through a valley, hills and a mountain range, likely the Great Smoky Mountains, visible in the background. Signed "Ron Williams" lower right. Housed in a molded giltwood frame with laurel leaf and reeded running patterns. Sight: 31 1/4" H x 38 1/2" W. Framed: 38 1/2" H x 45 1/2" W.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Bill Sawyer (North Carolina/Tennessee, 1936-2020) oil on board painting depicting an elderly man with downcast head, using crutches to walk down a deserted road. The sun is setting behind him, casting his shadow into the foreground. On his neck, he wears a sign reading “Jones Comas”. The painting is rendered with clean lines and mathematical linear perspective. Signed “Bill Sawyer” lower left. Housed in a painted frame with a linen matte. Sight: 17 3/4″ H x 13 1/2″ W. Framed: 25 1/2″ H x 21 1/4″ W. Biography: Bill Sawyer was a self-taught artist from Nashville. He is said to have taken up painting while stationed in France in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His first exhibition was in Nashville in May of 1959 and he went on to have one-man shows at Daniel Orr’s Gallery in San Diego, the Little Gallery in Memphis, TN, and the Parthenon in Nashville. Joseph Patterson, then the president of the American Association of Museums, arranged for a show of Sawyer’s work at the Durlacher Brothers Gallery in New York in 1964. Sawyer was the first untrained artist to have a one-man show at the gallery, and his second show there, in 1966, sold out. Shortly after this time, Sawyer traveled overseas. After his trip, for unknown reasons, Sawyer seems to have never painted again. He sought privacy, living quietly in Nashville, where he passed away in 2020. After 1966, his work went on to be exhibited at the Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, and in the Art of Tennessee exhibit at the Frist Museum (2006).

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with minor abrasions to frame. [See more photos →]

One hundred and fifty-nine (159) pieces of assorted sterling silver flatware, including Kirk Repousse pattern service for twelve and Tiffany & Co. 1st-150th items: One hundred and fifty (150) pieces Kirk Repousse pattern flatware, including 12 old French hollow dinner knives (9 3/4" L), 11 old French hollow luncheon knives (8 3/4"L), 1 new French hollow knife (9" L), 12 dinner forks (7 3/4" L), 12 luncheon forks (7 1/4" L), 12 salad forks (6 1/4" L), 12 oyster forks, 10 tablespoons (8 7/8" L), 14 teaspoons (5 3/4" L), 12 dessert spoons, 12 demitasse spoons, 12 ice cream forks, 12 butter spreaders, 1 letter opener, 1 pie server, 1 oversize salad serving spoon, 1 pierced serving spoon, 1 fish serving fork, and 1 pair of large sugar tongs. All pieces with maker's marks; some pieces monogrammed. 151st-159th items: Nine (9) Tiffany & Co. leaf iced tea stirrers (8 1/2" L). All pieces with maker's marks. 161.070 total weighable troy ounces. American, 20th century.

CONDITION: All items in overall very good condition with scattered use wear and some surface oxidation. Some pieces monogrammed. [See more photos →]

Chinese Qing ladies embroidered silk court robe having a dark blue ground, the body with embroidered flower, bat, and butterfly decoration, the lower edge with wave and flower designs. Sleeves with gold floral and butterfly cuffs. Pale blue silk lining with black knotted closure. 43 1/2" H x 51" W. Late 19th/Early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Judge John Nixon, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Some fading, fraying, and minor staining to interior lining, particularly at neck. [See more photos →]

1st item: Jean Francois Millet (French, 1814-1875), "The Sower," circa 1879, lithograph on thin laid paper after the original 1851 painting, depicting a young man sowing in a field while another man plows in the background behind a team of horses. Signed in the plate. Matted and framed under glass. Sheet: 8 78" H x 7" W. Sight: 8" H x 6 1/2" W. Framed: 14" H x 13 1/2" W. Ref. Robert J. Wickenden, THE ART AND ETCHINGS OF JEAN-FRANCOIS MILLET, p. 18. 2nd item: After Lucas Huygensz van Leyden (Dutch, c. 1490-1533), "St. Paul," etching on laid paper. Date unknown; originally printed 1510. The image depicts St. Paul standing and holding the Bible and a sword, with light radiating from his head. Signed with monogram in plate; matted and framed under glass in a narrow molded wood frame. Sheet: 4 7/8" H x 3" W. Framed: 11" H x 8 1/2" W.

PROVENANCE: Private Kentucky collection.

CONDITION: 1st item: toning throughout; 1/4" tear at right edge. Some faint wrinkling. Hinge mounted. 2nd item: Adhered to cardstock; cardstock hinge mounted to mat. Pencil inscriptions and mark lower left of cardstock. Acid burn and foxing, light fading. [See more photos →]

Scarce large Southern coin silver platter or tray, incuse stamp COIN and F.H. CLARK & CO. for Frederick Harvey Clark and company, working Memphis, TN c. 1840-1860. Oval form with anthemion banded rim, the center with engraved floral and anthemion decoration and side cartouches with landscape decoration, raised on four scrolled anthemion feet. 1 3/8"H x 18"W x 13"D. 45.06 oz troy.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Judge John Nixon, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with some light scratching and scattered dark spots to center. [See more photos →]

Charles Roger "Red" Grooms (Tennessee/New York, b. 1937), "Traffic," also called "Street Life," lithographed paper 3-D sculpture of the New York City intersection of Broadway at Canal Street, portraying a chaotic scene with streetwalkers, firefighters and fire engine, double decker tour bus, policeman, and vendors. Signed lower right in red marker and numbered 26/75. Approximately 20"H x 23"W x 8"D. Cased in clear acrylic/plexiglass case, 23 1/4"H x 28 1/2" W x 10"D. Circa 1999. Provenance: Private Nashville, TN collection.

CONDITION: Some light fading, overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Pair of German sterling silver medieval knight figures both depicted standing atop an octagonal plinth base wearing full armor including movable face shields covering carved faces and carrying various weapons. Both are marked on the underside edge of the base STERLING .925 GERMANY" together with an illegible hallmark. Ranging in size from 11 1/4" H x 4 1/4" W x 4 1/2" D to 11 1/2" H x 3 3/4" W x 3 1/2" D. Both early 20th century. 50.765 total troy ounces. Circa 1900. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Both figures in overall good condition with light expected wear. [See more photos →]

Alfred De Breanski, Sr. R.B. A. (United Kingdom/Scotland, 1852-1928) oil on canvas mountain landscape painting, titled "Derwentwater". Depicting Derwentwater lake (located in the Lake District National Park) at sunset, a group of cattle by a grove of trees drinking from the lake foreground, with some cattle, a lone figure and cottage visible mid-ground, all against wooded fells or hills in the background, with golden sunlight visible through the upper left sky. Signed "Alfred De Breanski" and dated "1876" lower left. Housed in a carved giltwood fluted cove frame with projecting shell and foliate corner elements, placard fixed to lower edge with painting title, artist information, and date. Sight: 19 3/8" H x 29 1/8" W. Framed: 28" H x 38" W. Originally purchased from Cider House Galleries, Bletchingley, Surrey, UK. Artist Biography: London-born painter Alfred De Breanski Sr. was a highly successful painter of mountain landscapes in the late 19th century, including Welsh, Scottish and Lake District scenes. He made his debut at the Royal Academy in 1872 and continued to exhibit there until 1918, exhibiting a total of 43 works. De Breanski also exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Many of his relatives were artists, including a brother, sister, and his wife as well as two of his sons.

PROVENANCE: The Edwin and Diana Hardison Collection

CONDITION: Light craquelure to upper left sky area. Small loss to canvas lower left corner, approx. 1/4". Scattered areas of inpainting to trees at center and sky, largest 1 1/2" x 1 3/4", primarily top left, does not correspond to repairs to canvas. [See more photos →]

229 pieces of Gorham Chantilly pattern sterling silver flatware. Includes: 17 New French dinner knives (9 5/8" L), 12 New French luncheon knives (8 7/8" L), 8 steak knives (9 3/8" L), 17 dinner forks (7 1/2" L), 12 luncheon forks (7" L), 12 salad forks (6 1/2" L), 7 fish forks (5 7/8" L), 12 ice cream forks (5 1/2" L), 12 oyster forks (5 1/2" L), 12 butter spreaders (5 7/8" L), 13 teaspoons (5 7/8" L), 8 continental teaspoons (5 3/4" L), 17 iced tea spoons (7 5/8" L), 20 fruit spoons (5 3/4" L), 12 dessert spoons (7" L), 12 demitasse spoons (4 1/8" L), 4 demitasse spoons with gilt wash (4 1/8" L), 3 serving spoons (8 1/2" L), 2 serving forks (8 1/2" L), 1 short handle pickle fork (5 3/4" L), 1 lemon fork (4 3/8" L), 2 sugar shell spoons (6" L), 1 pierced serving spoon (8 1/2" L), 1 pierced nut spoon (4 5/8" L), 1 cream ladle (5 1/8" L), 1 gravy ladle (6 3/4" L), 1 tomato server (7 5/8" L), 1 master butter knife (6 3/4" L), 1 large jelly server (6 1/8" L), 1 pie and cake server (10 3/8" L), 1 cheese knife (7 1/8" L), 1 salad serving spoon (11 3/4" L), 1 salad serving fork (11 5/8" L), 1 carving fork (8 5/8" L), and 1 carving knife (10 1/8" L). All with maker's mark and Sterling. Not monogrammed. Housed in a fitted wooden case having two hinged handles at the sides, three pull handles to drawer and lid and an inscribed shield to lid. 193.25 total weighable troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: the Estate of Emilee Barnes Frincke, Knoxville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items in overall very good condition with commensurate wear. Case not photographed but included in the lot. [See more photos →]

Ladies platinum line bracelet featuring 46 round brilliant diamonds approximately 5.52 carats total, Clarity-SI1, Color-G. Marked "10% irid 90% plat". The bracelet is 7" L and has a gross weight of 13.79 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

136 piece set of Gorham sterling silver flatware in the Strasbourg pattern, including 14 dinner forks (7 1/2" L), 12 dinner knives (9 1/2" L), 12 salad forks (6 3/8" L), 12 oval bowl soup spoons (6 3/4" L), 12 five o'clock teaspoons (5 3/4" L), 10 iced tea spoons, 10 ice cream forks, 10 fruit spoons, 10 oyster forks, 10 flat handle butter spreaders, 2 serving spoons, 2 flat handle master butter knives, 1 punch ladle, 1 set of asparagus tongs, 1 pierced serving spoon, 1 solid serving spoon, 1 shell serving spoon, 1 serving fork, 1 pierced vegetable serving fork, 1 pierced shell serving spoon, 1 pierced tomato server, 1 pastry server with stainless blade, 1 pie and cake server with stainless blade, 1 gravy ladle,1 cream ladle, 1 jelly server, 1 sugar shell spoon, 1 lemon fork, 1 olive and pickle fork, 1 master butter knife with saw edge, 1 bon bon spoon with pierced bowl, and 1 pair of sugar tongs. All pieces stamped with maker's mark and Sterling, none with monnograms. 180.38 total weighable troy ounces.

CONDITION: All pieces in overall good condition with light wear. [See more photos →]

Reynold Beal (Massachusetts, 1866/67-1951) watercolor on paper painting depicting a circus or carnival scene; children line up near several clowns, who appear distracted by female figures in the foreground. Three young men perch atop an electrical pole for a better view, while crowds below bustle around a carnival wagon and tents in the background. Signed and dated in red, "Reynolds Beal -1929-" lower center. Housed and matted under glass in a contemporary giltwood frame with basket weave design and a fluted giltwood fillet. Sight: 14 1/4" H x 18 1/2" W. Frame: 27 1/2" H x 32" W. Note: The elder brother of painter Gifford Beal, Reynolds was born in New York City. Beal painted the beaches in Provincetown, Key West, Rockport, Atlantic City and Wellfleet, circus scenes and carnivals. He used a variety of styles including Impressionism and Tonalism. As he got older, his work became more complex and vibrant. In addition to oils, he was admired as a watercolorist, and he and Gifford made Rockport, Massachusetts their home. Beal traveled widely. In November 1944, Reynolds and Gifford had a large joint exhibition at the Fitchburg Art Center (now Museum) in Fitchburg, MA, which included eighty-three oils, watercolors, and etchings that had been executed all over the world with subjects including Singapore, Trinidad, Samoa, China, Nassau, Egypt, Haiti, Cape Ann, Atlantic City, and Provincetown. By 1934, he was a participant in the Salmagundi Club, Lotus Club, Century Club, National Academy of Design, and the American Water Color Society. He was also a member of the Society of American Engravers and the National Arts Council. His progressive tenets marked him as a "modernist", and he helped found the Society of Independent Artists and the New Society of Artists, which consisted of fifty of the most important painters of the day, including George Bellows, Childe Hassam, John Sloan, William Glackens, and Maurice Prendergast.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition; not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Georgia Blizzard (also known as Georgia Michael, Virginia, 1919-2002) folk art pottery vase titled "Jacob's Well," rectangular form, with molded bibical scenes to each side, surmounted by a short, cylindrical neck with stipple decoration. Titled and signed "G. Blizzard" to underside of base. 8 3/4" H x 13 1/2" W x 7 1/4" D. Biography: Georgia Blizzard, also known as Georgia Michael, was born in Saltville, Virginia and lived in Chilhowie, Virginia. She had a mixed heritage including Apache and Irish ancestry. Her mother taught Blizzard and her sister how to create art using a pit-fire method. As a young girl, she began to make items from clay dug from a creek near her home. She continued to make items and "burn" them in a homemade "pit-fire" kiln on her property. During the Great Depression, she left school in order to be part of the National Youth Administration. She worked in a munitions factory in Bristol during World War II and after that, worked at a textile mill in Chilhowie until 1958. Blizzard contracted black lung and lost one of her lungs, and her husband was crippled in an accident in a coal mine and eventually their marriage failed; he subsequently died in 1954. Blizzard developed paranoid schizophrenia after these events and her art helped her deal with the feelings she needed to work through. She began making art for sale in the late 1950s and sold her pottery in her daughter Mary's shop on her property. In the early 1980s, her neighbor, Michael Martin, contacted a friend to take some of Blizzard's work to a gallery in Buckhead run by Judith Alexander, where Jonathan Williams discovered her work. Blizzard's works are on permanent display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg, VA and The High Museum in Atlanta. (source: "Self-Taught, Outsider and Folk Art: A Guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources", by Betty-Carol Sellen, and "The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 23: Folk Art", edited by Carol Crown, Cheryl Rivers, Charles Reagan Wilson). Purchased from G.H. Vander Elst Non Traditional Folk Art, Franklin, Tennessee.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with scattered firing flaws, fleabites, largest 1/4", primarily to corners and left and right edges. [See more photos →]

Two (2) cabinet card portrait prints of the Bedonkohe Apache leader Geronimo (1829-1909). 1st item: Cabinet card depicting Geronimo wearing a Western hat and black suit coat draped with a Native American blanket. Titled in the lower image margin "Geronimo" and "Copyright H.W. Wyman 1904 Colorado Springs, Colo." Additionally imprinted in the lower left legend "Murillo" and the lower right, "1314 Olive St. St. Louis". Signed by Geronimo in pencil, en verso along the lower edge. 6 1/2" H x 4 1/4" W. Note: This photo by Wyman was likely taken of Geronimo at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, and was likely developed and mounted for Geronimo by the St. Louis photography studio Murillo. Note: Family oral history states that this card was given by Geronimo to a Knoxville, TN family in gratitude for providing funds for him to set up a booth at the St. Louis World's Fair. 2nd item: Cabinet card depicting Geronimo seated wearing traditional Native American dress and horned hat with his right hand gripping a revolver in his belt, mounted on a cabinet card, by the photographer William E. Irwin. Photographer's imprint and the imprint "Chickasha, Ind. Ter." along the lower margin. Period writing, en verso reading "Gerinomore (sic) notorious (sic) out law now a Prisnor (sic) of War at Ft. Sill". Later added writing in pen. 7 3/8" H x 5 1/4" W. Late 19th century. Note: William E. Irwin was born in Red Oak, Missouri, in 1871. It is believed he learned photography in Indian Territory or Texas in the early 1890s. Irwin operated photography studios first in Chickasha, Indian Territory, and later in Silver City and Bisbee, Arizona, where he operated a studio from 1904 to 1922. In 1922 he opened a studio in Douglas, Arizona, which he operated until his death in 1935. (Source: Mautz, Carl. Biographies of Western Photographers. Nevada City, Calif.: Carl Mautz Publishing, 1997.)

CONDITION: 1st item: Photograph in overall good condition with some very minor losses to upper margin, lower left corner and above the right shoulder. Scattered minor losses to edge of card. 2nd item: Losses to upper left corner and wear to perimeter of card. Photo with very slight scattered losses along the perimeter, some to upper right corner. [See more photos →]

Carved black forest mirror, tombstone form, consisting of a dark hardwood frame with carved grape, leaf and vine decoration throughout, surrounding a conforming mirror. Overall: 59" H x 26 1/2" W. Mirror: 43 1/2" H x 17" W. Germany, late 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Overall good condition, light general wear, mirror likely not original. [See more photos →]

Paul Cornoyer (New York/Missouri, 1864-1923) oil on canvas impressionist street scene, possibly New York or Paris, depicting figures strolling along a street near a statue of a man on a pedestal, with trees and buildings in the background. Signed "Paul Cornoyer" lower right. Housed in a carved giltwood frame. Sight: 10 1/4" H x 7 3/8" W. Framed: 16 1/4" H x 13 3/8" W. Biography: Cornoyer studied at the School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, Missouri and the Academie Julien in Paris. By 1894 he had returned to St. Louis, and painted a mural depicting the birth of St. Louis for the Planters Hotel in that city. In 1899, William Merritt Chase encouraged him to come to New York City. There, Cornoyer became known for his Tonalist urban scenes, specializing in using blurred effects to depict scenes of city streets after a rainfall. Cornoyer taught at the Mechanics Institute in New York, and later was an instructor in Massachusetts, moving there in 1917. He painted and exhibited his works up until his death in 1923.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Judge John Nixon, Nashville, Tennessee. Purchased from Stanford Fine Art, Nashville, 2014. A copy of the receipt is available to the winning bidder.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Canvas has been relined, however, the original canvas edges have been preserved. Slight buckling to canvas, left side. Minor areas of inpainting to four corners, largest 2", top left in sky area. Scattered spots of wear and minor abrasions/ flaking to gilt on frame. [See more photos →]

Chinese Export porcelain snuff or paste box, cream pitchers, and cann (4 items). 1st item: Chinese Famille Rose export gilt bronze mounted porcelain paste or snuff box, round form with polychrome figural landscape decoration to the top and sides. Interior lid with flower decoration, base with purple bat mark. 1 3/8 ' H x 2 1/2" dia. 2nd item: Chinese export porcelain helmet form cream pitcher having detailed polychrome decoration of figures in a landscape, branch form handle and wide footed base, gilt highlights throughout. 4 3/4" H x 5 1/2" dia. 3rd item: Chinese Famille Rose export porcelain mug or cann with polychrome foliate and insect decoration, tapering round form with C-scroll handle. 3 7/8" H. 4th item: Chinese export porcelain cream pitcher with cypher and armorial decoration to the body and floral gilt decoration to the rim. 3 3/4" H. All items 18th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition with minor wear to decoration. 2nd item: Overall good condition with minor wear and losses to decoration. 3rd item: Minor scattered fleabites to handle and rim. 4th item: Very slight fleabites to rim, otherwise overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Middle Tennessee, likely Davidson County, inlaid Hepplewhite sugar chest, walnut primary, poplar secondary. Hinged top with cleated ends, over a vertical rectangular case with exposed dovetails, the front with string inlay outlining perimeter, single dovetailed drawer with string inlay and brass pulls, flanked by string inlaid stiles; barber pole inlay to lower edge of skirt; kite shaped inlaid escutcheons. Four squared and inlaid tapering legs with partially present cuff inlay. 36" H x 24" W x 15 1/2" D. Circa 1810. For related forms, both attributed to Davidson County, see The Art and Mystery of Tennessee Furniture, Plate X p. 74 and Fig. 141 p. 138.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Judge John Nixon, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Older refinished surface. Interior well missing original dividers and bottom board replaced. Hinges original. Drawer sides have been built up, some sun fading visible to front and one side of case. Brass pulls a later replacement. Back edge of top with an early replaced strip, approximately 1/8" width. Some string cuff inlay missing to feet. [See more photos →]

East Tennessee walnut pie safe, poplar secondary. Rectangular top over two dovetailed drawers with wood pulls, two cupboard doors each having four punched tins decorated with starburst circles and hearts in the corners, sides with three punched tins with similar decoration as the front, over a base with turned Sheraton feet. 49 1/2" H x 52" W x 16 3/4" D. Mid 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Donley and Eunice Hill, Andersonville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Older refinish with expected general use wear. Pulls are old but not original. [See more photos →]

English Regency period needlework and watercolor on silk landscape depicting the allegory of friendship. A young female holding a floral garland stands beside a stone architectural plinth supporting two love birds, next to a seated young girl adorning a lamb with a floral garland; a willow tree and cottage are shown in the mid-ground with a body of water and boats in the background. Both figures with hand-painted faces and hands, background hand-painted. Housed in an oval eglomise glass matte and carved gilt wood frame. Sight: 16 5/8" H x 19 1/2" W. Framed: 21 3/4" H x 24 1/2" W. Early 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Knoxville, TN collection.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Some minor spotting, very slight craquelure noted to watercolor background upper mid margin. [See more photos →]

Coca Cola advertising neon clock reading across the top DRINK COCA COLA /SIGN OF GOOD TASTE above a clock face with green numbers, a red center reading DRINK COCA COLA/ IN BOTTLES and bright yellow hands. Bears the original tag reading ELECTRIC NEON CLOCK CO/CLEVELAND, OHIO 93530. 30" H x 36" W. Mid 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Kentucky collection.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with minor oxidation to metal. [See more photos →]

Large Native American Cherokee double-woven rivercane storage basket with lid by Rowena Bradley (1922-2003), square form with walnut and bloodroot dyed weavers. Retains the original Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual tag. 13 1/2" H x 10" W. 20th century. Biography (courtesy of West Carolina University Hunter Library): "Rowena Bradley (1922-2003) was the third generation of known basket weavers in her family. Both her grandmother, Mary Dobson and her mother, Nancy Bradley were accomplished at making baskets. Bradley is often cited as one of only a handful of Cherokee basket weavers who carried on the complex double weave technique in the 1930s and 1940s. Her baskets won numerous awards at the annual Cherokee Indian Fairs and an exhibition of her work was held at Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual in Cherokee, North Carolina, in 1974." (https://www.wcu.edu/library/digitalcollections/cherokeetraditions/people/Baskets_RowenaBradley.html)

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with nice old patina. [See more photos →]

1st item: Cherokee single weave rivercane wastebasket by Edmund Youngbird (b. 1922) woven in the Chain and Diamond pattern with walnut and bloodroot dyed weavers. A 1976 note states that this basket won the 2nd Grand Prize of a four day festival held at the Qualla Arts & Crafts Center in Cherokee, NC. Basket retains the original Qualla Arts & Crafts tag. 12" H x 14 1/2" W. Note: Born in 1922, Youngbird learned to weave rivercane baskets from his grandmother. He is one of the few Cherokee male weavers. 2nd item: Cherokee single weave rivercane tray woven in the Eye of the Sacred Bird pattern with walnut and bloodroot dyed weavers. 4 1/4" H x 8 3/4" square. Both baskets 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Both baskets overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

A Chinese Export porcelain punch bowl with enameled decoration, including portraits of John Wilkes (1727- 1797) and Lord Mansfield, both within satirical coats of arms bearing the mottos ALWAYS READY IN A GOOD CAUSE and JUSTINE SANS PITIE with the title ARMS OF LIBERTY above the portrait of John Wilkes, who was a proponent of American rights. Sides and interior with additional decoration including floral sprays and patterned border. Base with Cohen & Cohen dealer label. 4 1/2" H x 10" dia. Circa 1770-1775. Note: Examples of this porcelain punch bowl were made and decorated in China around 1770 for export to Britain and its American colonies. The design on the exterior of the bowl was intended to poke fun at those who had opposed the English politician John Wilkes (1727-97), a proponent of English civil liberties, parliamentary reform, and American rights. Wilkes was elected to the House of Commons several times, but was repeatedly expelled for attacking King George III and his loyalists. American patriots, including Boston's Sons of Liberty, rallied to the cry of "Wilkes and Liberty!" and incorporated his name and likeness into broadsides, drinking bowls, cuff links, and other items (Courtesy of Museum of the American Revolution).

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Bowl in overall good condition with no chips or cracks. Examination under UV light reveals areas to exterior and interior that fluoresce, however, the glaze color and texture appears to be continuous throughout (please review UV photo). Some wear to enameled decoration. [See more photos →]

A complete set of 20 framed prints from the Henri Matisse "Jazz" Series portfolio, published by George Braziller for the Museum of Modern Art in 1983 (a facsimile of the 1947 Verve edition). Each matted and housed under glass in a metal frame. Sheet: 23 1/2" H x 15 1/4" W. Frame: 28 1/4" H x 20 1/4" W. Includes publisher's cloth-covered clamshell box, in gray paperboard slipcase, as issued. Measurements for the case: 16" L x 12" W x 1 1/2" D. Each interior page: 15 1/4" H x 11 3/4" W.

PROVENANCE: The Guardsmark Collection, Lipman Holdings International, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Luis Padilla (Honduras, b.1947) oil on canvas triptych with multicolored abstract Cubist style panels containing figures. One panel depicts a figure, possibly a knight, attired in a suit of armor standing prominently and holding a helmet. The second panel contains two figures, the larger with their face in profile and the smaller with an exposed rib cage, while an animal, probably a dog, with bared teeth stands between them. The final panel depicts two somber figures with intertwined bodies, possibly a mother with her child gripping onto her side. Signed and dated "L.H. Padilla '83" lower left or right. Housed in off white wooden frames. Sights ranging from 21 1/2" W x 45 1/2" H to 21 3/4" W x 46" H. Frames ranging from 22 7/8" W x 46 7/8" H to 231/2" W x 47" H.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with some very minor abrasions and minute areas of paint loss. Some wear to frames. [See more photos →]

Newcomb College matte glaze art pottery vase or cachepot with low relief trees, moss and full moon decoration in colors of blue, faint green and cream. Base with impressed Newcomb cipher, date code for 1927 (QG94), 26 and impressed initial mark for the decorator Anna Francis Simpson. 5 1/8" H x approx. 6" dia.

PROVENANCE: Private East Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Charles Dickens First Editions, including Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. 1st-3rd items: OLIVER TWIST, First Edition, Vol. I-III, by Charles Dickens, with illustrations by George Cruikshank, published by Richard Bentley, London, 1838. Hardcover octavos, 953 total top edge gilt pages with frontispieces and twenty-one plates, Dickens' name on title pages, Vol. III with "Church" plate facing p. 312, rebound by Riviere and Son, London in red morocco leather with gilt stamped covers and spine, five raised hubs, gilt dentelle with dark green paper pastedowns and endpapers, ex libris plate to interior of front cover. Vol. I & III with back advertisements, original reddish brown cloth blindstamped covers and spine laid down to back matter pages. Approximately 8 1/8" H x 5 1/4" W x 1" D. Note: Includes early issue points: Vol. III with "pilaster" unchanged to p. 164. 4th item: DAVID COPPERFIELD, First Edition, by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Hablot K. Brown (Phiz), published by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1850. Hardcover octavo, 624 top edge gilt pages with frontispiece, undated vignette title page, and thirty-eight plates, rebound by Riviere and Son, London in red morocco leather with gilt stamped covers and spine, five raised hubs, gilt dentelle with dark green paper pastedowns and endpapers, ex libris plate to interior of front cover. November No. 7 serial cover included in front matter pages, original olive green cloth blindstamped covers and spine laid down to back matter pages. 9" H x 6" W x 2" D. Note: Includes early issue point: "bnt." on p. 597, line 29.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Covers in overall very good condition with wear to hinges, corners slightly bumped. Pages in overall good, legible condition with toning/toning impressions, scattered foxing spots, scuffs, some minute tears to edges, few pencil marks, light handling wear. Some pages unevenly cut. Plates are collated. 1st-3rd items: Vol. I does not include list of illustrations. [See more photos →]

Chinese 3-panel hardwood table screen with three inset Famille Rose porcelain plaques with enameled decoration; the left plaque depicting a deer beneath a pine tree; the center plaque depicting a young beauty with a scholar or Shouxing, the God of Longevity, having inscription and seal upper left; and the right plaque depicting a crane resting in a pine tree, all resting on straight feet with pierced skirt. Screen (overall): 29 3/4" H x 36" W. Small plaques: 15" H x 3 7/8" W. Large plaque: 15" H x 9 3/8" W. Late 19th/Early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: Both screen and plaques overall very good condition with light wear. [See more photos →]

1st item: Russian enameled silver perfume bottle, flattened ovoid form and screw-on top with foliate and star designs in colors of blue, red, green, and white. Russian hallmarks to the base along with the initials ACM and the date 1892. 2 1/8" H. Late 19th century. 2nd item: Russian gilt silver and enamel bud vase or Kiddush cup, with scrolling enamel foliate decoration to the body with beaded rim, knop, and foot ring. No maker's marks found. 5 5/8" H. 3rd-4th items: Pair of Russian gilt silver and enamel salt cellars or master salts having lobed bodies, ruffled rims, and raised foot. Kokoshnik hallmarks and Cyrillic maker's marks to the bases. 1 1/2" H. 5th-7th items: Three (3) Russian gilt silver and enamel demitasse spoons, two with Kokoshnik marks, one unmarked. Ranging in size from 4" L to 4 1/4" L. Late 19th/Early 20th century. 8th item: Russian gilt silver and enamel scoop with maker's marks to the bowl interior and the original paper tag. 3 5/8" L. 9th-14th items: Set of six (6) Norwegian cobalt enamel and gilt silver demitasse spoons, two stamped 930S and with hallmark for Marius Hammer (1847-1927). 4 3/8" L. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with overall expected general light use wear. 2nd item: Some bending to one side of rim, overall light general wear. 3rd-4th items: Overall good condition. 5th-8th items: All overall good condition with light expected wear. 9th-14th items: Three (3) spoons with losses to enamel on the back of the bowl. [See more photos →]

Kentucky two piece walnut press or wall cupboard, poplar secondary. Upper section with ogee cornice above two paneled doors with kite inlaid escutcheon, lower section with mid-molding above two dovetailed drawers, two paneled doors with kite inlaid escutcheons, and bracket feet with shaped skirt and returns. 88 3/4" H x 44 1/2" W x 15" D. Circa 1815-1820.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Donley and Eunice Hill, Andersonville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Older refinish; replaced brasses, right cornice, and 1/2 of right foot return. Hinges not original with patches to doors in location of previous hinges. Evidence of former paint in the upper interior. Shrinkage to panels of lower doors. [See more photos →]

John Pasche (British, b. 1945) original gouache and charcoal on wove paper of the Rolling Stones iconic "Tongue and Lips" logo. Signed lower right. Unframed. 31" square. 21st century. Biography (adapted from artist's CV and Creative Review): John Pasche received a degree in Graphic Design from the Brighton College of Art before continuing his education at the Royal College of Art, where he obtained an MA and developed a fascination with Pop Art. It was there as a student in 1970 that Pasche first met Mick Jagger and designed the famous logo for the Rolling Stones. He was paid 50 GBPs. (Almost 30 years later, the V& A Museum bought Pasche's original artwork at auction for $92,500). Pasche has received numerous awards, including seven from Music Week for album, TV, and Point of Sale designs.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with very slight creasing to paper, lower left quadrant. [See more photos →]

Large Charles Krutch (Tennessee, 1849-1934) East Tennessee watercolor on paper depicting a verdant mountain landscape with a river and road visible in the foreground. Scene likely depicts the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Signed lower right in red "Krutch". Sight -19 7/8" W x 10 7/8" H. Framed – 28" W x 19 3/4"H. Biography (Courtesy Knoxville Museum of Art): Krutch is regarded as one of East Tennessee's first painters to specialize in scenes of the Smoky Mountains. Krutch earned the nickname "Corot of the South" for his soft, atmospheric watercolor and oil paintings of the mountain range that served as his sole focus.

CONDITION: Painting overall very good condition. Blue "stain" or dot in center sky likely in the making and not an imperfection. Frame with scattered minor abrasions. Watercolor is hinge mounted. [See more photos →]

Walnut sugar table attributed to Wythe County, Virginia, poplar secondary. Simple molded hinged square top over a plain square case with two interior dividers. Delicate ring turned and tapered legs are extensions of stiles. Retains the original lock. 27 3/4" H x 18 1/2" W x 16 7/8" D. Circa 1825.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Judge John Nixon, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Older surface. Top with staining and wear and wood shrinkage with left side strip edge replaced on top. [See more photos →]

Asian gilt bronze Gautama Buddha seated in dhyanasana position wearing a crown with his right hand raised and left hand in his lap, elongated earlobes, and adorned with a full-length robe, necklace, Ushnisha, and five-pointed crown with lotus or foliate blossoms at his sides. Traces of gilt and pigment visible to the back of robe. Contemporary black wood stand included. 10 1/2" H x 7 1/8" W x 5 3/8" D. 17th century. Provenance: Collection of Thomas M. Alexander, Greeneville, TN, former U.S. Army Captain Airborne/Special Forces during the Late 1960s/Early 1970s in Vietnam. He became a Central Intelligence Agency Field Officer in Southeast Asia, beginning in the Early 1970s until his retirement in 1994.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Overall oxidation, wear, and loss of gilt due to age. Losses at two points of crown, two fingers of one hand, and one foliate blossom. Areas of loss in bronze, largest at the figure's foot measuring 1" x 1/4". Old repair to back, measuring 3/4" x 1 7/8". [See more photos →]

Kentucky Sheraton cherry sugar chest, poplar secondary, in the old original surface. Rectangular form, post and panel construction, the hinged lid with breadboard ends, divided interior, and double ring turned legs. 32" H x 36" W x 19 3/4" D. Second quarter of the 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Donley and Eunice Hill, Andersonville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition, some areas of wood shrinkage and scattered wear, commensurate with age. [See more photos →]

Laurits Sorensen Enslew (Germany, 1867-1912) oil on board painting titled "Ecce Homo" depicting Christ's face with a meditative expression and bleeding from the crown of thorns around his forehead. ("Ecce Homo" refers to the words spoken by Pontius Pilate when presenting Christ to a hostile crowd, after being crowned and scourged, in the final moments before His crucifixion). The painting is rendered with heavy detail and dramatic tenebrism, effects that convey Christ's profound pain and suffering. Signed L. Sorensen-Enslew lower right. Housed in a wood frame with pilaster style details, titled in lower margin. Sight: 11 7/8" H x 10 1/2" W. Framed: 22 7/8" H x 18 1/2" W. Late 19th/early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Overall craquelure expected with age. Some minor abrasions and scratching, largest 2" on left hand side. Some inpainting to face visible under blacklight inspection. Frame with expected wear. [See more photos →]

Large Sterling Strauser oil on board impressionist still life painting, horizontal orientation, depicting a large vase of multicolored flowers on a pale green background. Signed lower left and dated '76. Patinated giltwood frame with beaded sight edge. Sight: 29 1/2" H x 48" W. Framed: 34" H x 52 1/2" W.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Painting is in overall very good condition with a few tiny errant paint specks lower left, around signature. Frame has several small edge chips. [See more photos →]

Civil War archive of seven (7) letters from Confederate States of America (CSA) Colonel John Amenas Fite (1832-1925), 7th Tennessee Infantry, Company B, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, plus one (1) photocopy of memoir (8 items total). The letters were written while he was a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island, Ohio, and dated July 23, 1863 to August 3, 1864. The autographed letters signed (ALS) are all one-page and written to various family members, including his brother Judge Samuel McClary Fite (1816-1875). 1st item: ALS from John A. Fite, Johnson's Island, OH, to his brother and sister, dated July 23, 1863. He begins his letter by detailing the events of his capture at Gettysburg and the status of a mutual friend, writing "…On the 3rd July 1863, at Gettysburg P.A. It was my misfortune with others of my regt. to be taken prisoners. I do not know who exactly of the Regt were taken or killed I have only seen a few of these Capt John Allen was wounded in the back of the head…". He mentions the conditions of the prison, stating "…This is [the] most pleasant prison by far I have seen…". John also writes of the unlikely possibility of being in involved in a prisoner exchange, writing "…All exchanges of officers has been stopped and here I expect likely to remain perhaps until the war is over…". 2nd item: ALS from John A. Fite, Johnson's Island, OH, to his brother, dated February 26, 1864. He begins the letter by acknowledging others that he has received from family members and stating that he is in good health and spirits. John also writes of his fellow prisoners, including Captain Allen, stating "…four hundred of my fellow prisoners from this place have been sent to Point Lookout, Md. They write back that they are very much pleased at the change among them was Capt Allen…". He ends the letter by detailing the guidelines of letters received by prisoners, writing "…Write only one page as we are not allowed to receive more…". 3rd item: ALS from John A. Fite, Johnson's Island, OH, to his brother Samuel McClary Fite, dated August 3, 1864. John addresses the subject of prisoner exchange again, writing "…It looks very much like we have settled down here for the war, as the subject of exchange seems to be forggotten[sic]…". He also mentions his health and the conditions of the prison in general, stating "…I have been quite unwell for the last two weeks, but I am now about well again. The health of this prison is not quite so good as it was for sometime past, but is still greatly better than it was last Winter & Fall. The principal complaint is Diarrhea very few deaths occur…". 4th-7th items: Four (4) ALS from John A. Fite, Johnson's Island, OH, including three (3) to his sister(s), dated March 1 and 6, and April 24, 1864, and one (1) to his brother, dated March 29, 1864. The letters primarily address correspondence that he has received from family members, or lack thereof, and his health. His letter dated May 20 does state that "…Capt Allen…[has] gone to Richmond on exchange…". 8th item: Photocopy of MEMOIRS OF COL. JOHN A. FITE 7TH TENN. INF. C.S.A. FEB.10, 1832-AUG. 23, 1925", 125 page typed document of John Fite's life, including his military career and time in Johnson's Island prison. Housed in a brown cardstock folder. Note: This archival material has been documented by the Tennessee State Library and Archives. (see: https://sos-tn-gov-files.tnsosfiles.com/forms/FITE-JAMES_FAMILY_PAPERS_1814-1879.pdf) and published in "Colonel John A. Fite's Letters From Prison" by Raymond D. White, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 2, Summer 1973, pp. 140-147 (8 pages). Biography: Col. John A. Fite, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, Tennessee, was born in 1832, in De Kalb County, a son of Jacob and Matilda (Baird) Fite. The father, of German origin, was born in North Carolina, and with his father came to Davidson County, then Smith County, and finally settled in De Kalb County, where he passed his days. Jacob married there, and was merchant at Alexandria as well as farmer. In 1846 he moved to nearby Lebanon, and died at the age of eighty-three. The mother, born in Hickman County, Tenn., died in 1876. Four of their eleven children were Dorcas R., widow of Leonard Scott; John A.; Dr. J. G. of Lebanon, and Edwin C. John, who went to Wilson County when he was fourteen years old and was educated in the university at Lebanon, and at Irving College. He began studying law at twenty-two, and in 1855 graduated from the law department of Cumberland University, and immediately began practice with his brother, Samuel, at Carthage. His brother was elected circuit judge in 1858, and he formed partnership with Hon. W. D. De Witt, now at Chattanooga. In 1861 John enlisted in Company A, Seventh Tennessee Regiment, Moore's Guards, was elected captain, and fought in Seven Pines; promoted major in 1862; he was in Mechanicsville (where he had two ribs broken), Chancellorsville, Cedar Run (where he received a wound in the leg), Fredericksburg and Gettysburg (where he was captured and taken to Fort McHenry), thence to Fort Delaware, thence to Johnson's Island, where he was retained for nineteen months, and paroled in February, 1865, but remained in North Carolina. After the war he resumed practice with his brother, and in 1871 was appointed clerk and master of chancery court holding it for over six years. In 1878 he and H. M. Hale became partners; in 1882 he was elected to the State Legislature to fill an unexpired term; and he was elected to his present position in 1886. December 29, 1866, he married Mary M., daughter of Leroy H. and Eliza Mitchell, and born in Smith County in 1841. Their two children are Bettie and Mattie. He was a Master Mason, and he and Mrs. Fite were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. For years he was one of the leading lawyers of Smith County bar.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items in overall good, legible condition with light toning, few areas of dampstaining, minor tears and areas of loss to edges of letters. The April 24 letter is separated at the center fold line. [See more photos →]

Ed (Eddy) Mumma (Florida/Ohio, 1908-1986) double-sided painting, house paint on board, both sides depicting women with pink or red skin and dark hair, rendered in broad brush strokes. Unsigned. Unframed. 16" H x 12" W.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with areas of loss, largest 1/2", primarily to tips of impasto. 3/4" square of unpainted area to lower left of woman with red skin. [See more photos →]

Pair ladies 18K yellow gold screwback snowflake earrings featuring 34 round brilliant diamonds approximately 3.54 carats total, Clarity-VS2, Color-G. Marked "18K". The earrings are 3/4 x 3/4" in size and have a gross weight of 8.47 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Both overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Ladies platinum engagement ring featuring a mine cut diamond approximately 1.10 carats, Clarity-VS2, Color-H, accented by 12 single cut diamonds approximately 0.12 carats, Clarity-SI2, Color-H. The ring is marked "10% irid 90% plat" and is size 4 1/2. Gross weight of the ring is 2.76 grams.

PROVENANCE: the Estate of Emilee Barnes Frincke, Knoxville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Ladies platinum Art Deco brooch featuring an old mine cut diamond approximately 0.56 carats, Clarity-SI1, Color-H, accented by 72 round brilliant diamonds approximately 2.20 carats, Clarity-VS2, Color-H, also 20 baguette natural sapphires. The brooch tests platinum and is 1 3/4" x 7/8" in size. Gross weight of the brooch is 10.29 grams.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Gaston Lachaise (American, 1882-1935) graphite on paper drawing of a nude, muscular man standing with fabric draped over one raised arm and the other arm bent as his hand rests on his hip. Signed "G Lachaise" lower left. Label en verso for the Museum of Modern Art, New York, identifying it as part of a circulating exhibit, along with a stamp for the Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville. Matted and framed under glass in a plain wood frame. Sight – 18 1/2"H x 11"W. Biography (from the Columbus Museum of Art): "Gaston Lachaise was born in Paris, France, the fourth child of an accomplished wood carver and cabinetmaker. At thirteen, he entered the ‚àö√¢cole Bernard Palissy studying drawing, carving and art history. Three years later, he went on to study at the ‚àö√¢cole de Beaux-Arts and his work was exhibited in four annual Paris Salons. Later he worked for the jeweler and glassmaker, Rene Lalique. By 1903, he had met Isabel Dutad Nagle, a married woman ten years his senior, and who would become the muse for his art. Lachaise used the funds he had saved from his work with Lalique to follow Nagle back to Boston in 1906. Marsden Hartley once wrote that Lachaise saw "the entire universe in the form of a woman." In 1912, he opened his own studio in New York, and in 1913 entered the Armory Show. He also apprenticed to the sculptor Paul Manship and worked with him on many garden sculptures as well as the J.P. Morgan Memorial at the Metropolitan Museum and on Rockefeller Center. By 1916, he had become an American citizen, and he finally married Isabel Nagel (now divorced from her first husband) in 1917. A year later, he had his first one-man show at the Stephan Bourgeois Gallery in New York. By 1927, he was producing his most mature work, which was mainly female torsos; but he also did head studies of John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. Lachaise had always admired Houdon's portraits and he grew to maturity in the time of Rodin in Paris, so this form of sculpture would have been familiar to him. Lachaise made portraits of many of the pacesetters of American intellectual society, including a number of the distinguished group surrounding The Dial magazine. The artist joined Kraushaar Galleries in New York in 1922. In 1925 Lachaise had a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1927, he exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz's The Intimate Gallery. In early 1935, Lachaise was honored with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, but many of his pieces were only in plaster, as he could not afford to have them cast in bronze. Many were cast again later for exhibitions at the Whitney, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. His pieces are owned by many museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, Detroit Institute of Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and the Columbus Museum. Lachaise died in 1935 of leukemia at the age of 53. He is acclaimed by many as one who helped prepare the next generation for an appreciation of non-objective sculpture."

CONDITION: Toning to paper and to matte. Not examined out of frame. [See more photos →]

Southern cherry harvest table, likely Kentucky. Consisting of a plain two-board rectangular top over a shaped apron and ring turned legs. 29 1/2" H x 71 3/4" L x 28 1/4" D. Third quarter of the 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Donley and Eunice Hill, Andersonville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with general use wear. Older refinish, stains, scratches, and one area of wood shrinkage noted to the top. [See more photos →]

Eight (8) Charles Dickens related books. 1st-2nd items: SKETCHES BY "BOZ," Vol. I-II, First Edition, by Charles Dickens, illustrated by George Cruikshank, published by John Macrone, London, 1836. Hardcover 12mos, 690 top edge gilt pages with fourteen plates. 3rd item: SKETCHES BY "BOZ," Second Series, First Edition, Second Issue, by Charles Dickens, illustrated by George Cruikshank, published by John Macrone, London, 1837. Hardcover 12mo, 377 top edge gilt pages with frontispiece, vignette, and eight plates, with the final catalogue of Macrone's publications dated December 1836. Note: Includes early issue points: Page vi is mis-numbered "viii"; the list of illustrations gives "Vauxhall Gardens by Day" twice by mistake and omits the final plate: "Mr. Minns and his Cousin." 4th-6th items: LIFE OF DICKENS, Vol. I-III, First Edition, by John Forster, published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1872-74. Hardcover octavos, 1,410 top edge gilt pages with index, three frontispieces with tissue paper guards, and additional illustrations in text, Vol. I and II with back advertisements. 7th-8th items: THE PLAYS AND POEMS OF CHARLES DICKENS, Vol. I & II, First Edition, numbered 40/150, edited, prefaced, and annotated by Richard Herne Sheperd, published by W. H. Allen, London, 1882. Hardcover octavos, 826 top edge gilt pages, including bibliography and index. All volumes rebound by Riviere and Son, London in red morocco leather with gilt stamped covers and spine, five raised hubs, gilt dentelle with dark green paper pastedowns and endpapers, ex libris plate to interior of front cover. Original cloth blindstamped covers and spines laid down to back matter pages. Ranging in size from 8 1/8" H x 5 1/4" W x 1 1/8" D to 11" H x 8" W x 2 1/4" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Covers in overall very good condition with wear to hinges, corners slightly bumped. Pages in overall good, legible condition with toning/toning impressions, acid burn, scattered foxing spots, scuffs, creases, few pencil marks, light handling wear. Some pages unevenly cut. 1st-2nd items: Pages 397 and 398 are not present to Vol. I. Does not include frontispieces. 1 1/4" x 1/2" area of ink staining to last page and back matter page. 3rd item: "Mr. Minns and his Cousin" plate is facing p. 263. [See more photos →]

MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, First Edition, Second Issue, by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Hablot K. Brown (Phiz), published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1844. Hardcover octavo, 624 top edge gilt pages with frontispiece, title page, and thirty-eight plates, errata page present, rebound by Riviere and Son, London in red morocco leather with gilt stamped covers and spine, five raised hubs, gilt dentelle with dark green paper pastedowns and endpapers, ex libris plate to interior of front cover. Includes a tipped-in one page bifolium ALS written by Dickens to front matter pages, addressed from 1 Devonshire Terrace, London, Dicken's place of residence from circa 1839-1851, possibly written to Stuart Grant, dated Monday, February 13, 1843, reading "My Dear Sir, Will you come and join our family dinner, tomorrow week, at six o'clock? Do not be alarmed at the length of this invitation, or consider it out of ceremony on that account. This week is always the busiest I have, in the month; am I am obliged to shut myself up for a fortnight in every four weeks. Always faithfully yours Charles Dickens P.C. Stuart Grant…". October 1843 No. 10 serial cover included in front matter pages, original dark blue cloth blindstamped covers and spine laid down to back matter pages. 9" H x 6" W x 1 7/8" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Covers in overall very good condition with wear to hinges, corners slightly bumped. Pages in overall good, legible condition with toning/toning impressions, acid burn, scattered foxing spots, scuffs, creases, some minute tears to edges, few pencil marks, light handling wear. Dickens ALS in overall very good, legible condition. 3/8" tear lower right of frontispiece (does not affect image). Plate titled "Mr. Pecksniff Discharges a Duty Which He Owes to Society" is bound facing p. 377, not p. 378 as indicated on the List of Plates, all other plates are collated. Some pages unevenly cut. [See more photos →]

Twelve (12) sterling silver mint julep cups or beakers, including 9 William Rogers Manufacturing Company and 3 International, each having tapering cylindrical sides, reeded rims, and foot rings. Maker's marks, Sterling, and numerals stamped to underside of bases. Not monogrammed. Approximately 3 7/8" H x 3 1/8" dia. 48.770 total troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of James W. Perkins, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with normal surface scratches. Two International cups with black permanent marker retail inscriptions to underside of bases. [See more photos →]

A TALE OF TWO CITIES, First Edition, First Issue, by Charles Dickens, with illustrations by H. K. Browne, published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1859. Hardcover octavo, 254 top edge gilt pages with frontispiece, vignette, and sixteen plates, with 32 page Chapman and Hall Catalogue of Books, November 1859, rebound by Riviere and Son, London in red morocco leather with gilt stamped covers and spine, five raised hubs, dark green paper pastedowns and endpapers, ex libris plate to interior of front cover. June No. 1 serial cover included in front matter pages, original red cloth blindstamped covers and spine laid down to back matter pages. 9" H x 6 1/8" W x 1 1/4" D. Note: This copy includes the first issue points: uncorrected pagination "113" on p. 213, the misspelling "affetcionately" on line 12, p. 134, and the signature "b" at the bottom of the list of plates page.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Covers in overall very good condition with wear to hinges, 1/2" surface scratch to title, corners slightly bumped. 1 1/4" tear, lower right of frontispiece (does not affect image), does not include tissue paper guard. Serial cover with few areas of dampstaining, 1/2" tear to lower left. Pages in overall good, legible condition with toning/toning impressions, scattered foxing spots, scuffs, some minute tears to edges, light handling wear. Some pages unevenly cut. Plates are collated. [See more photos →]

John Martin Tracy (American/Ohio, 1843-1893) oil on canvas genre painting of a cow and a calf standing outside the entrance of a barn with a hen and chicks at their feet. Signed "J. M. Tracy" lower right. Housed in a period gilt and gesso frame. Sight: 23 1/4" W x 15 1/2" H. Framed: 36 1/4" W x 28 1/2" H. Biography: J.M. Tracy was born near Rochester, Ohio, in 1843 and fought in the 19th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. After discharge he attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Over the next few years he worked in California, Chicago, St. Louis and again in Paris. He moved to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1881 and began to paint sporting subjects. He was often called upon to do portraits of dogs. Suffering from a lingering illness, he moved to the milder climate of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, in the late 1880s or early 90s, where he died at the age of 49. Provenance: The collection of Dr. Andrew Wilkerson.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with light craquelure, some light inpainting to cow's right hand side, see black light photos for reference, some abrasion and very inpainting to perimeter of work visible under black light inspection, not effecting subject matter. [See more photos →]

17th century German painted "Armada" or war chest with overall overlapping riveted iron strap fittings. The lid with a covered central keyhole, the front with a raised decorative false lock and two hasps, fitted with shaped iron carrying handles to each sides. Polychrome paint decoration throughout including a green painted ground with painted landscape decoration on the top and front panels and foliate decoration to the side panels and iron straps. The underside of the lid with decorative iron open work and raised lock cover. Fitted with an iron key. 16" H x 30" W x 16 1/4" D.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with wear and oxidation commensurate with age. Scattered losses to painted panels with more significant losses to the front four painted panels. Retains a working key; lock mechanism functional, however, requires considerable force to open. [See more photos →]

Five (5) Chinese carved jade and hardstone figural items, including one (1) jade with russet inclusions carving depicting a duck with its head turned backward holding a water lily plant in its beak; one (1) jade carving depicting two male figures standing in a narrow boat, one holding a large koi fish and the other depicted propelling the boat using a long oar, accompanied by a fitted carved lotus hardwood stand; one (1) jade carving depicting a pair of mirrored foo dogs; one (1) hardstone oval seal with carving depicting a male figure straddling a koi fish with surrounding waves; and one (1) hardstone teardrop-shaped seal with carving depicting a smiling Buddha figure with elongated ears dressed in a robe holding a necklace. Ranging in size from 1 1/4" H x 2 1/2" W x 3/4" D to 3 1/8" H x 4 1/4" W x 1 1/8" D. Early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: All pieces in overall good condition with minor surface scratches to hardstone seals; foo dogs having a small chip to surface, measuring 1/8" L. [See more photos →]

Theophile-Louis Deyrolle (French, 1844-1923) oil on canvas painting depicting townspeople gathered for a festival, likely a Cider Festival. Signed lower left. Housed in a carved rococo style giltwood frame with carved centers and corners. Sight: 23" H x 38" W. Framed: 30" H x 38" W. Biography: French painter and illustrator Theophile-Louis Deyrolle was educated at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts and was a student and studio assistant to William Bouguereau and Alexandre Cabanel. He co-founded an artist colony in Concarneau, and many of his paintings portray everyday life in Brittany. He also worked as a ceramicist to H.B. de Quimper, decorating plates and vases. (Source: Museum of Pont Aven; Concarneau et Ses Peintres website).

CONDITION: Scattered craquelure, some flaking lower left quadrant with inpainting; repaired tear bottom edge, center with corresponding inpainting; some tiny flakes upper right quadrant near wagon wheel; some scattered inclusions, mostly in sky area. 1/4" scratch upper center, near frame. Scattered tiny spots of exfoliation to outer edges of painting. [See more photos →]

Large Tabriz Persian medallion carpet, wool on wool construction. Center with ivory, blue, and red medallions, foliate designs, and floral borders. 18' 10" L x 13' W.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: Overall poor condition with heavy wear, piling loss, and staining. [See more photos →]

Large English Elizabeth II rectangular sterling silver tray with molded and scalloped corners and two side handles. Hallmarked for London, Sterling, 1949, with maker's mark attributed to Peter Guille, Ltd. Measures 16" H x 22" W excluding handles; 26" W with handles. 110.4 total troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Excellent condition. No monograms. [See more photos →]

Jules Bathieu (Belgium, 1880-1920) oil on canvas genre painting depicting a group of sheep feeding on straw with a white hen in the foreground. Signed "J. Bathieu" lower left. An excerpt about the artist from E. Benezit Dictionnaire Des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs is taped en verso. Housed in a later giltwood Louis XIV frame. Sight: 17 1/2" H x 13" W. Framed: 27" H x 21 1/2" W.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with craquelure and a few flea bite losses in right lower quadrant, largest approximately 1 mm. Area of abrasion in the upper middle portion of the painting, approximately 1/2", not affecting subject matter. Frame in overall excellent condition with minor losses to gilt and expected wear. [See more photos →]

Pair of Delft blue and white tin glazed earthenware lions depicted with open mouths, seated on hind legs, and holding heraldic shields, each on square bases. Signed to underside "P V B 2", mark attributed to Paulus van der Bergh, also known as Paulus Verburg, working Holland, second half of the 18th century. 9 1/2" H x 10" W x 3 7/8" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with minor wear and losses to glaze, largest measuring 1/2" x 1/4". Loss to corner of one base. [See more photos →]

1st item: English Regency double compartment tortoiseshell tea caddy, comprised of a casket shaped top, sterling silver nameplate and line inlay to the top and base, bone inlay to lid edge, top base edge, and bone ball feet. The top interior lined with red satin, the inner compartments with mother of pearl knobs, the base with silver escutcheon. 5 3/4" H x 8 1/2" W x 4 5/8" D. 2nd item: English Regency tortoiseshell box with line inlay to the shaped top, the divided interior lined with red velvet, and the base with silver escutcheon. 1 3/4" H x 5" W x 3 1/4" D. 3rd & 4th items: Two (2) English tortoiseshell card holders, both with sterling silver nameplates, silver and bone line inlay, and hinged tops. 3 5/8" H x 2 5/8" W. All items 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition. Losses and wear to all corners, some hairlines to lid, body and base edge. 2nd item: Losses and wear to corners, fading to interior velvet, slight losses around hinges, otherwise overall good condition. 3rd & 4th items: Darker holder with loss to silver line inlay along one edge and wear to interior liner. Lighter holder in overall good condition with expected wear. [See more photos →]

Partial Civil War era album containing twenty-one (21) cartes-de-visite (CDVs), including Confederate military leaders. Includes photographic and lithographic images depicting: one (1) "Rebel Army of Virginia" composite image; one (1) General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) with facsimile signature; two (2) depicting General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (1824-1863) with one (1) Mexican War era image; one (1) General Ambrose Powell Hill Jr. (1825-1865); one (1) General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (1833-1864); one (1) General Lafayette McLaws (1821-1897); one (1) Brigadier General Bradley Tyler Johnson (1829-1903); one (1) Brigadier General James Jay Archer (1817-1864); one (1) Lieutenant General Wade Hampton III (1818-1902); one (1) Major General George Edward Pickett (1825-1875); one (1) Captain Harry Ward Gilmor (1838-1883); and more. CDVs with various studio marks, en verso. All housed in two (2) sections of E. Anthony cardstock gilt edged album sleeves. 5 1/2" H x 4" W x 5/8" D.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with foxing spots, toning. Sleeves with toning, foxing spots, acid burn, tears, largest, 1 1/2", pencil inscriptions. [See more photos →]

Garland and Minnie Adkins (Kentucky, 20th century) Folk Art green painted cabinet, having a floral design on the glass and pink and yellow paint droplets throughout. The cabinet has a hinged glass door and is adorned with twelve (12) small carved and painted animals including foxes, dogs, turkeys, and other creatures. A standing female figure is attached to the top and holds a possum with outstretched arms. Signed "MEA 1995" on top. 18 1/2" H x 14" W. Late 20th Century.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition, some pieces may have been re-glued. Scattered minute areas of paint loss to underside of cabinet. [See more photos →]

Kentucky or Middle Tennessee Sheraton walnut sugar chest, poplar secondary. Rectangular form, top with breadboard ends and molded edge above a divided conforming case with paneled sides, one lower dovetailed and scratch beaded drawer with wood pulls, case rests on turned Sheraton legs. Interior well reinforced on the sides with original flat panels to seal the interior well. Case and drawer with brass escutcheon. 34 1/8" H x 33 18" W x 18 1/8" D. Second quarter of the 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Donley and Eunice Hill, Andersonville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with older refinish of exterior and interior well. Some wood shrinkage and scattered staining to top. Area of loss to one rear foot turning. [See more photos →]

Forty (40) pieces Herend Apponyi, Chinese bouquet pattern porcelain dinner set, in rust with gilt highlights throughout, having scalloped edges. Includes: twelve (12) dinner plates; sixteen (16) salad plates; and twelve (12) dessert plates. All with blue Herend stamp marks and numbered on the bases. Ranging in size from 6" to 7 2/8" dia. Hungarian, 20th century.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with no visible chips, cracks, or repairs. [See more photos →]

Chinese carved gilt wood guardian depicted in seated position with one hand resting on the left thigh, the other raised with palm outwards, having elongated ears and hair in a bun, dressed in a flowing robe with armor pieces to one arm and leg. Paper scroll insert with Asian characters in red ink included. 9 3/4" H x 6 3/8" W x 3 1/2" D. 19th century. Provenance: Provenance: Collection of Thomas M. Alexander, Greeneville, TN, former U.S. Army Captain Airborne/Special Forces during the Late 1960s/Early 1970s in Vietnam. He became a Central Intelligence Agency Field Officer in Southeast Asia, beginning in the Early 1970s until his retirement in 1994.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Losses to fingers, foot, and earlobe as well as wear to gilt commensurate with age. Splits to wood, largest measuring 4 3/4" L. Lacking original base. [See more photos →]

Chinese silk four-sided or lobed panel embroidery depicting a central image of a dragon holding a pearl, surrounded by four additional dragons with pearls, with images of bats, clouds, flowers, and precious objects rendered in blue, off white, olive green, coral, and metallic threads on a blue ground, enclosed within an embroidered border, all sewn onto a off white linen backing. 42" H x 42 3/4" W. Late Qing Dynasty, late 19th/early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with light wear, staining, tears, largest 1/2". [See more photos →]

Kentucky Coin Silver Mint Julep Cup stamped A. BLANCHARD in rectangle for Asa Blanchard, working Lexington, KY, 1808-1838. Tapering cylindrical sides and reeded rim and foot ring, no monogram. 3 1/4"H, 5.94 oz troy.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Judge John Nixon, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Possible small interior repair at top of seam, not visible from exterior. Some light wear to ends of rectangle on mark. A few very tiny scattered dents and minor scratches. [See more photos →]

Gilt lacquer chinoiserie sewing box, filled with needlework implements. Rectangular case with canted corners, the lid and base decorated with gilt vignettes of figures engaged in various activities and Asian landscapes, amid scrolling foliate decoration. Raised on gilt and enameled winged dragon feet. Hinged lid opens to reveal various sewing implements in a removable fitted interior, including two lift top compartments decorated with Chinese figures in landscapes. Implements include thimble, thread holders, and bobbins, many with intricate carving, together with other various sewing tools. Box also contains a lower drawer fitted with a central decorated lift top compartment flanked by dividers. Two brass side handles. 6 1/4" H x 14 3/4" W x 10 3/8" D. Chinese, 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: Box in overall very good condition with scattered minor use wear, mainly to edges, old repair to left side of lower drawer. A few implements with minor damage, most overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Large set of 19th century Bohemian glass hunt theme dinnerware, all pieces of octagonal faceted form with etched Black Forest style designs of stags in landscapes, some pieces with additional grape and leaf motifs. Fifty-eight (58) pieces total, including twelve (12) goblets (6 3/4" H x 3 1/2" dia.); eight (8) glasses (4 1/2" H x 2 1/2" dia.); twelve (12) cordial glasses with stepped bases (3 3/8" H x 1 3/4" dia.); twelve (12) plates (6" dia.); and twelve (12) ramekin dishes (2 1/8" H x 4 3/8" dia.), plus two (2) cut glass candy dishes with square bases having square-cut design (5 1/2" H x 7 1/2" W x 5" D). Northern Europe, likely Bohemian, late 19th to early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: All pieces in overall good condition with scattered fleabites to rims and bases, largest measuring 1/4" H x 3/8" W. Some pieces with minor residue. [See more photos →]

18K yellow gold Tiffany & Company split-second Rattrapante chronograph open face pocket watch. Triple signed with numbers matching case and movement, Serial #6416, 1880 patent date. Movement marked "Tiffany & Co. New York, Adjusted, 6416, Patent 1880, Swiss. White enameled face, chapter ring with Arabic numbers, 48mm case.

CONDITION: Overall good condition, balance wheel moving at time of inspection. Case with light scratching and one minor ding to back. [See more photos →]

1st – 78th items: 78 pieces International Frontenac sterling silver flatware, including 12 dinner knives (9 7/8" L); 12 dinner forks (7 1/2" L); 6 salad forks (6 1/2" L); 9 teaspoons (5 7/8" L); 10 round bowl gumbo soup spoons; 6 tablespoons; 5 demitasse spoons; 1 sugar spoon; 1 jelly spoon; 1 berry/casserole spoon; 1 large meat serving fork; 2 piece carving knife and fork set; 1 master butter knife; 1 soup ladle; and 10 flat handle butter spreaders. 79th – 93rd items: 10 Whiting sterling silver pieces, 6 Lily pattern teaspoons (3 with retailer marks for Nagel and Meyer), 4 Violet pattern demitasse spoons, and 5 Wallace Violet pattern sterling silver orange spoons. Some pieces with script monograms, including "D", "L", or "G". Includes a fitted wooden case. Case: 3 3/4" H x 15" W x 11 3/4" D. Combined weight: 105.61 total weighable troy ounces.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with surface wear. Some spoons with minor bends to bowls. Carving set with scattered pepper pitting to stainless components. 1 dinner fork is broken, 1 dinner fork with repaired break at the end of handle below tines. [See more photos →]

Alexander Stuart (American, 1831-1898) oil on canvas marine or nautical painting of the ship S.S. City of Sydney, a Pacific Mail Steamship Company vessel which departed San Francisco for Manila in 1898 for service in the Spanish American War. The ship is depicted in calm waters with figures on board, with a coastline and several other boats in the background. Signed lower right and titled lower left. Housed in a molded giltwood frame. Sight: 17 1/2" H x 29 1/2" W. Framed: 22 1/4" H x 34 1/2" W. Artist biography: "Born in Scotland, Alexander Stuart became a painter of ship portraits who was listed in the census as living in New York in 1860. From 1863 to 1866, he served in the U.S. Navy and then spent the remainder of his life living along the Delaware River area near Philadelphia, Camden, Wilmington, etc. He worked for shipbuilders." Source: Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art."

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Relined. 3 1/2" and 1 1/2" repaired tears to sky, upper left quadrant with corresponding inpainting evident under UV inspection. 1/4" flake to cloud area near center. Frame shows wear and discoloration to gilding with several scattered losses. [See more photos →]

Howard Chesner Behrens (District Of Columbia/Illinois, 1933-2014) oil on canvas palette knife painting depicting the back of a young woman with long dark hair, standing on a beach in the surf, wearing a flowing white dress and holding a straw hat, before a shoreline with trees. Signed "BEHRENS" lower left. Housed in a white wood frame. Sight: 48 1/4" H x 48" W. Framed: 50" H x 49 3/4" W. Biography: Howard Behrens was born in Chicago and raised in Washington, DC. He earned his Masters Degree in Painting and Sculpture in 1964 from The University of Maryland, and was employed by the US Government Printing Office in Washington DC from 1964-1981 as their chief artist before setting out on his own to travel the world and paint. Behrens claimed that as an Expressionist, the only way to really capture what he was trying to convey in his paintings was to use a palette knife "for its boldness and control of color instead of a brush." Prior to his death in 2014, Behrens was represented by Wally Findlay Galleries and collected by such dignitaries as George and Barbara Bush. (Source: Askart).

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with craquelure, primarily to sky, top left, and woman's dress, center. Minute paint flake/loss to woman's hair. [See more photos →]

Kentucky coin silver sugar tongs, stamped A.F. Shepard in rectangle for Alpheus Xavier Francis Shepard, working Georgetown, prior to 1817-1831+, with fiddle handle monogrammed "C" and shell grips. 5 3/8" L. 1.05 oz troy.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Cora Jane Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

CONDITION: Excellent condition. Mongrammed. [See more photos →]

Pair (2) Delft polychrome pyramidal tulipieres or tulip vases with obelisk covers in the Cashmere palette, marked LVE on the base for Lambertus van Eenhoorn, the "De Metaale Pot" workshop, c. 1691-1724. Each having an obelisk cover with 8 small nozzles and mask on the front and back, mounted on a vase with lizard or chi-lung dragon handles and 10 nozzles. Marked VE )ligated) and "2" in blue to underside; old sales sticker for The Antique Company of New York on one. 12 3/4" H x 8 1/8" W x 3 3/8" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Each vase with restorations to one lizard head. One vase with restoration to two nozzles on obelisk and two nozzles on vase, possible restoration to 1 3/4" x 1 3/4" area of base (see UV light photo). Scattered tiny chips to nozzles, tips, and corners on all pieces; crazing to all pieces. [See more photos →]

William Henry Watson (United Kingdom, 1831-1921) large oil on canvas painting titled "Glen Finart, Argleshire" depicting a group of cows resting and grazing on a hilly landscape. The title refers to a glen in the highlands of Scotland near Loch Lamond, visible in the background beneath a hazy grey mist and a cloudy blue sky. Signed "W. Watson, 1896" lower right. Titled and attributed on plaque on lower area of frame and on canvas en verso. Housed in a carved Louis XIV style frame. Sight: 23" H x 35 1/4" W. Framed: 29 3/4" H x 41 1/2" W.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Overall craquelure with some light flaking and abrasion, one area in the sky in the upper left corner and one in the lower right corner, approximately 1/4". 2 areas on inpainting, one on the mountain landscape on the right side and another above the cows on the left side, visible under UV light inspection. Overall light wear to frame with loss of carved decoration, approximately 3 1/2". [See more photos →]

Fifty-eight (58) Baccarat, France Rose Tiente glass table service items. Includes two (2) decanters with two (2) stoppers; fifteen (15) goblets; sixteen (16) saucers; two (2) tazzas; two (2) candy bowls; sixteen (16) compotes of varying patterns; and three (3) salt cellars. Most items with "Baccarat Depose" stamps. Ranging in size from 3/4" H x 5 1/4" dia. to 11 1/2" H x 6 1/2" dia. Circa 1940s.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with surface wear, firing flaws, scattered fleabites, largest 1/4". [See more photos →]

Twenty-three (23) First Edition books by Mary Ann Evans, writing under the pen name George Eliot, 28 items total, majority published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1859-84. Includes: DANIEL DERONDA, Vol. I-IV, 1876; ADAM BEDE, Vol. I-III, 1859; ROMOLA, Vol. I-III, published by Smith, Elder, and Company, London, 1863; THE MILL ON THE FLOSS, Vol. I-III, 1860; FELIX HOLT, THE RADICAL, Vol. I-III, 1866; SILAS MARNER: THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE, 1861; THE LEGEND OF JUBAL AND OTHER POEMS, 1874; SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE, Vol. I-II, 1858; THE SPANISH GYPSY: A POEM, 1868; ESSAYS AND LEAVES FROM A NOTEBOOK, 1884 and IMPRESSIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS SUCH, 1879. Also includes GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE AS RELATED IN HER LETTERS AND JOURNALS, Vol. I-III, First Edition, by J.W. Cross, 1885; WISE, WITTY, AND TENDER SAYINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF GEORGE ELIOT, FIRST EDITION, by Alexander Main, 1872; and THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEORGE ELIOT: POEMS, Vol. I, published by Harper and Brothers, New York and London, undated. Hardcover, various sizes, top edge gilt pages, to most volumes rebound by Zaehnsdorf for A.C. McClurg and Company, Chicago, in blue leather with gilt-stamped covers and spines, five raised hubs, gilt dentelle with marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers, POEMS, Vol. I and SAYINGS rebound in three-quarter leather with marbled-paper sides, ex libris plate to interior of front covers, many with brown grosgrain ribbon bookmarks. Ranging in size from 6 5/8" H x 4 3/4" W x 1 1/8" D to 8 3/8" H x 5 3/4" W x 1 1/4" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Covers in overall good condition with wear to hinges, areas of loss, largest 1/2", to spines, corners bumped. Pages in overall good, legible condition with toning, scattered foxing spots, scuffs, creases, few pencil marks, light handling wear. Daniel Deronda Vol. I and Sayings covers are separated from binding. [See more photos →]

Dora Maar (France, 1907-1997) expressionist oil on canvas landscape painting depicting a willow tree on a hill beneath an overcast sky. Signed "Dora Maar" lower left. Old gallery label en verso for Ernest Brown and Phillips, Ltd. London. Housed in a distressed painted and parcel gilt wood frame. Sight: 19" H x 23 1/2" W. Framed: 24 3/4" H x 29 3/8" W. Biography: French photographer and Surrealist artist Dora Maar's career and work were overshadowed during her lifetime by her affair with Pablo Picasso, but in later years they began to be appreciated on their own merits. She was born Henrietta Theodora Markovitch (Markovic)and spent her childhood in Buenos Aires, where her father worked as an architect. She returned to Paris in 1926 and studied art at the Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs, the Ecole de Photographie, the Academie Julian, and the atelier of Andre Lhote. In the early 1930s she began to pursue a career in photography and adopted the professional name Dora Maar. She served as a still photographer on the set for Jean Renoir's film Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936). By 1935 Maar was associated with the Surrealist circle and had strong ties to Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, and Georges Bataille. She photographed many of the Surrealists and exhibited with them. Her work began to take on more of the absurdist and dreamlike qualities characteristic of Surrealism. Portrait of Ubu (1936; also called Pere Ubu), a monstrous close-up image by Maar of what may be an armadillo fetus (she would never confirm), became an icon of the movement. Maar and Picasso began a love affair in 1936. Picasso painted Maar numerous times (e.g., Dora Maar Seated [1937]; Weeping Woman [1937]; Weeping Woman in a Red Hat [1937]; Woman Seated in a Garden [1938]; Dora Maar in an Armchair [1939]). They separated completely in 1946, and although Maar continued to create art, she did not exhibit for nearly 25 years. She struggled with mental health and became a recluse. Over the years, as her main source of income, she sold what she owned that had been made by Picasso. Her work was reintroduced in 1990 with "Dora Maar: Oeuvres Anciennes," an exhibition of her photographs and paintings at Marcel Fleiss's Galerie 1900-2000 in Paris. A major exhibition followed in 1995 in Valencia, Spain. After her death in 1997, the contents of her homes in Paris and in Menerbes (France), which among other things included her own works and those by Picasso, were auctioned off. Since Maar's death, her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, and it has been the subject of solo exhibitions and new scholarship. In 2006 her home (the Dora Maar House) in Menerbes opened as a retreat for writers, scholars, and artists in a program administered by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. (source: Naomi Blumberg, "Dora Maar". Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Nov. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dora-Maar).

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Carl Klein, Brentwood, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Frame with wear and areas of loss, largest 3", to gilt. [See more photos →]

Helen La France (Kentucky, 1919-2020) oil on board painting, possibly a self-portrait depicting the artist in her mid-80's. The subject wears a black and white floral patterned dress with her hair braided over to one side, and looks directly and serenely at her viewers. Signed lower right "Helen La France" and dated "7-2004" lower left. Housed in an antique gilt carved and ebonized wood frame. Sight: 20 3/8" H x 15 3/8" W. Framed: 30 1/2" H x 25 1/2" W. Biography: Self-taught African American artist Helen LaFrance was born on a Kentucky farm and began painting in her 40s. She is known for her "memory paintings"–drawn from her recollections of life growing up in the rural South. Several museums and private collectors, including Oprah Winfrey, own examples of her work." (Source: "Helen LaFrance Folk Art Memories" by Kathy Moses). Helen Lafrance died November 22, 2020, in a Mayfield, Kentucky nursing home at the age of 101.

PROVENANCE: Provenance: Private Kentucky collection. The consignor was a friend and patron of the artist.

CONDITION: Painting in overall very good condition. Frame with some minor scattered abrasions and loss. [See more photos →]

East Tennessee (Sullivan County) cherry pie safe with walnut top, poplar secondary. Case attributed to John Wolfe (Piney Flats, 1810-1891). Rectangular top with rounded edges over three dovetailed drawers with wood pulls, two cupboard doors each having two punched tins decorated with urns and floral sprays, divided by a horizontal wood divider, paneled sides, over a base with shaped ogee molding and bold turned Sheraton feet. 50 7/8" H x 54 51/4" W x 18 1/2" D. Circa 1840-1870. Note: For a similar example see Williams and Harsh, "The Art and Mystery of Tennessee Furniture", fig. 189, p.163. Case Auctions sold a similar safe in our January 2020 auction, lot 363.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Donley and Eunice Hill, Andersonville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Older refinish with light general expected wear. Old insect damage evident on back top edge corner and older replaced strip below back edge of top. [See more photos →]

Pair of large French Sevres style bronze mounted lidded porcelain urns having fond jaune or yellow grounds with hand-painted landscape vignette decorations depicting lovers with putti, signed POITEVIN. Floral vignettes verso, floral band decoration to the lid and base, and gilt painted highlights throughout. Gilt bronze mounts throughout including an acorn finial to the lid, large ram's head mask handles, and an acanthus leaf stem and base. Blue Sevres style mark to the underside of each lid. 24" H x 13" W. 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: Both overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Governor of Tennessee Samuel Houston (1793-1863) signed land document, granting Andrew A. Brown twenty-five acres in Dixon County "…On the waters of the four mile fork of Jones Creek…," dated October 20, 1827. 15" H x 12" W. Note: Sam Houston's term as Tennessee governor lasted from 1827 until 1829, when he resigned and moved to Texas. Houston later became the President of Texas and its Governor. He is the only person in American History to be elected governor of two states by popular vote.

PROVENANCE: Private Middle Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with toning/acid burn, foxing spots, areas of dampstaining, largest 5 1/2" x 5 1/2". Tears, largest 2 1/2". Houston signature in overall good, legible condition, slightly affected by dampstaining. [See more photos →]

83 pieces Gorham Rose Tiara pattern sterling silver flatware in a contemporary Chinoiserie fitted case. Flatware includes 10 dinner knives (9" L); 10 dinner forks (7 1/2" L); 24 salad forks (6 7/8" L); 13 teaspoons (6 1/8" L); 3 tablespoons; 2 pierced tablespoons; 1 sugar shell spoon; 1 gravy ladle; 1 medium cold meat serving fork; 8 cocktail/seafood forks; 1 carving fork; 1 master butter knife; and 8 butter spreaders. Not monogrammed. Silver 83.780 total weighable troy ounces.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with normal surface wear. 3 dinner knives with loose handles. [See more photos →]

Two (2) English Regency style folding or collapsible library ladders, housed in brown leather studded cases with hook closures. Approx. 102" H. 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Barbara K. Lipman, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Both overall good condition with expected general use wear. One ladder has lighter colored rungs than the other. [See more photos →]

Ladies 19th century 14K yellow gold necklace featuring 25 natural emerald beads, accented by 55 irregular cultured pearls. The necklace tests 14K and is 65" L. Gross weight of the necklace is 51.75 grams.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Pakistani Peshwar Chobi rug, wool on wool, center with double medallion design on an ivory ground with foliate spandrels and foliate borders. 160 1/2" H x 121 1/2" W. Late 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Barbara K. Lipman, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with some scattered grime and light staining. [See more photos →]

Albert Julius Martin Larsen (Denmark/Sweden, 1885-1957) oil on canvas landscape painting depicting a moonlit, receding path lined by tall, groomed trees having sparse lower limbs with a small pond in the foreground which reflects the grey-blue sky and crescent moon of the background. Signed and dated lower left corner "Alb. Larsen. 1924.". Housed in a modern giltwood frame. M. Simonsen Frameworks Business sticker, en verso of frame. Sight: 16 7/8" H x 20 3/8" W. Frame: 22 1/8" H x 25 5/8" W.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Slight surface grime, scattered tack holes along edges, and two small holes at the tree line in canvas with corresponding old patch repairs en verso of canvas. Frame with scattered surface scratches and discoloration, some minor scattered losses to gilt. [See more photos →]

Set of fifteen (15) International Silver Company sterling silver water goblets, Lord Saybrook pattern. Maker's mark, Sterling, and P664, most with pattern name, stamped to underside of bases. Eight (8) with script monogram "C". 6 5/8" H x 3 1/2" dia. 84.655 total troy ounces.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with normal surface wear, scattered dents. One goblet with old repair primarily visible to underside of base. One goblet with "U" shaped dent to base, rendering it slightly unstable. [See more photos →]

Central Kentucky Sheraton cherry and poplar sugar chest. Rectangular top with ogee molded edge above a conforming case with kite inlaid escutcheon and reeded stiles, two dovetailed drawers with brass pulls, all resting on turned and reeded legs. 34 1/4" H x 35 1/4" W x 19 1/4" D. Circa 1825.

PROVENANCE: Mark Anthony Grant Estate, Clarksville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Older refinish with some shrinkage to sides of case. Replaced hinges with backboard having an approximately 1 1/2" strip replaced. Escutcheon replaced with shadow line of larger old escutcheon. Drawers with scattered insect damage. The strip on the bottom of case between the drawers has been replaced. [See more photos →]

Ladies platinum art deco bracelet featuring 185 diamonds (6 princess, 21 baguette, and 158 round brilliant) approximately 2.18 carats, Clarity-I1, Color-H. Marked "pt900". The bracelet is 6 1/2" L and has a gross weight of 33.85 grams.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Nicole Maslanka, Atlanta, Georgia.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Six (6) Neo-Classical sterling silver column style candlesticks, all with weighted bases, including one (1) Gorham, four (4) Tiffany and Company retailed, and 1 Mauser, all having Corinthian capitals with removable bobeches, stop-fluted shafts, and stepped square weighted bases. Gorham candlestick converts into a four-arm candelabra, both pieces with maker's marks, sterling, and numerals, bobeches stamped sterling. Tiffany and Company pieces hallmarked for Sheffield, England, 1958, with mark T & Co; retailed by Tiffany & Co. Additionally marked Sterling — Made in England with Crown hallmark to undersides of bases. Mauser candlestick with maker's mark, Sterling, and additional numerals to underside of base. Ranging from 6 1/2" H x 3 1/2" square to 18 3/8" H x 12" W x 12" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of James W. Perkins, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with normal surface wear. Gorham candlestick with repair to circumference of capital, one bobeche with 1/8" x 1/2" area of loss to base, one bobeche is stuck. Mauser candlestick column slightly off center, scattered dents to base. [See more photos →]

Labeled Mid Century Table Desk #2480 designed by Florence Knoll Bassett in 1961, manufactured 1970s, consisting of an oval, highly figured rosewood top and a chrome finished steel pedestal base. Underside frame with “Knoll International 320 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022″ label bearing the Knoll Industries trademark. 28 1/4″ H x 48″ W x 77 1/2” L.

PROVENANCE: The Guardsmark Collection, Lipman Holdings International, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with general use wear. Top with areas of sun fading. Lght scattered areas of scratching and one are of light pitting. Base with light overall general use wear. [See more photos →]

144 total pieces of flatware. Includes 137 pieces Gorham Fairfax pattern sterling silver flatware, service for twelve plus extras, including 12 dinner knives (9 1/8" L); 24 dinner forks (7 1/2" L); 12 salad forks (6 1/8" L); 24 teaspoons (5 3/4" L); 12 iced tea spoons; 12 oval soup spoons; 12 demitasse spoons; 3 table or serving spoons; 1 pierced tablespoon; 1 sugar spoon; 1 cream ladle; 1 gravy ladle; 1 jelly server; 1 bon bon spoon; 1 tomato server; 1 pickle fork; 1 serving fork; 2 cheese knives; 1 pie and cake server; 2 piece carving knife and fork set; 1 master butter knife; and 11 butter spreaders. All pieces with Art Deco style monogram "HBW". 138th-144th items: 7 assorted flatware pieces, including 4 Durgin Fairfax pattern sterling silver round bowl bouillon soup spoons, with retailer marks for Bailey, Banks, and Biddle Co., and 3 Simeon L. & George H. Rogers Company silverplated strawberry forks. All pieces with script monogram "B". Includes a black faux leather fitted case. Case: 3 1/4" H x 21 3/4" W x 12 3/4" D. Combined sterling weight: 129.390 total weighable troy ounces.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with light use wear, monograms to Fairfax pieces. 1 Rogers strawberry fork with 1/8" bend to tine. Case with wear, seam separations to zippers. [See more photos →]

Very Large Middle Tennessee split white oak rectangular form buttocks basket by Mary M. Davis (Cannon County, TN. 1928-2014). Ribbed construction with tightly woven wearers, a wide woven rim, and fixed handle, signed on the center inner rim. Additionally inscribed to interior base center "Mrs. Mary M. Davis 1986 Woodbury, TN I-1976. 335 East Main St. 37190. Took from 260 to 300 hours to make this basket." 21" H x 19" W.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Donley and Eunice Hill, Andersonville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall excellent condition with light surface grime and very light wear to weavers. [See more photos →]

Forty-six (46) pieces of Danish Anton Michelsen "Jul/Julen" or Christmas sterling silver gilt flatware. Includes twenty-three (23) spoon and fork pairs with matching designs from their year of production. Designs vary, many including enamel, figural, or crest decoration, all thematic to the Christmas season. Majority of sets are marked "Jul" or "Julen" with their year of production. All marked "A. Michelsen. Copenhagen" and "Sterling. Denmark." followed by a trademark symbol. Some with assorted hallmarks. Thirty Three (33) pieces maintain original plastic packaging, eight (8) pieces are still sealed. All pieces range from 6" L to 6 1/4" L. Ranging in dates from 1910-1939. 69.420 total troy ounces. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: All pieces in overall very good condition with minor enamel loss on a few pieces. [See more photos →]

Marguerite Stuber Pearson (Massachusetts, 1898-1978), "Sunlit Sail," impressionist oil on board maritime painting depicting sailboats in a harbor, houses visible on the opposite shore beneath a hazy blue sky. Signed "M.S. Pearson" lower left. Titled on exhibition label for the Rockport Art Association (undated; detached). Gilt placard with artist's name and dates affixed lower center of frame. Housed in a Louis XIII style giltwood frame. Sight: 7 1/2" H x 9 1/2" W. Framed: 15 1/4" H x 17 1/4" W x 2 1/2" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with craquelure. Exfoliation along left edge, with a couple of tiny flakes. A couple of other scattered tiny flakes. Frame with area of natural age shrinkage, largest 10", areas of loss to gilt, largest 2 3/4". [See more photos →]

Two (2) Suzy Suzac (France, 1936-2013) oil on canvas abstract paintings. 1st item: Abstract painting with a white background divided by a vertical red striation intersected by horizontal yellow striation, with the left half of the work filled with large dark brushstrokes. Signed "Suzac 71" lower right. Unframed. 29 1/2" H x 36" W. 2nd item: Abstract painting with a white background divided by a yellow vertical striation with each half containing serpentine figures and indiscernible forms rendered with large, loose brushstrokes. Signed "Suzac 71" lower right. Unframed. 39 1/2" H x 31 7/8" W.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Both items in overall good condition with light grime. 2nd item has one abrasion in large area of blue paint, approximately 11", may have been intentional by the artist's hand. [See more photos →]

Josean Dynasty small hexagonal lidded box, iron with silver inlay in an allover fret decoration, Shou (longevity) symbol to the lid, and character decoration to each side. Unmarked. 2" H x 3 1/4" W. 19th century.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with expected oxidation. Small indention with minor loss to one corner of lid. [See more photos →]

Grand Tour bronze equestrian sculpture depicting the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius on horseback, mounted atop a rouge marble oval plinth with Latin inscriptions and coat of arms. Modeled after the original on display in the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome. Sculpture is unsigned. Sculpture measures: 8 1/2" H x 8" W. Overall: 12" H x 8 1/2" W. 19th century. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Bronze in overall very good condition with old patina. Some minor chipping the top and lower edges of marble base. [See more photos →]

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, First Edition, First Printing, by Ernest Hemingway, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940. Hardcover octavo, 471 pages with "A" on copyright page, hardbound in publisher's tan cloth with red labels to spine and black lettering to front cover and spine, off white paper doublures and end papers, original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket with Hemingway's portrait, without the photographer's name, wrapped in mylar. 8 3/4" H x 6 1/4" W x 1 3/4" D. Provenance: Purchased from Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA in November 2001.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Dust jacket is price-clipped, slight wear/creases to edges with minor tears, largest 1/4", to spine. Cover is overall very good condition with corners slightly bumped. Acid burn to paper doublures, pencil inscription to front matter page, pages in overall very good, legible condition with light toning. [See more photos →]

California Mission Indian pictorial basket, large coiled bowl form comprised of juncus and sumac with ten (10) polychrome horse figures encircling the rim.16 1/4″ diameter x 5″ H. Circa 1915. Note: The term “Mission Indians” refers to members of a number of tribes of indigenous peoples of California who lived in Southern California and were forcibly relocated from their traditional homes to live and work at Franciscan missions in the Southern California region. Purchased from David Cook, Native American Trading Company, Denver, Colorado, 1985. Copy of original receipt is available to winning bidder.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Some light fading to horse figures, scattered losses to stitching throughout body and rim. [See more photos →]

Austrian school oil on canvas royal portrait of Maria Theresa, the Hapsburg Queen of Austria from 1740-1780. Subject is attired in an ornate blue gown with detailed lace decoration and a green fur cloak, holding a scepter on a pillow with crowned jewels and surrounded by red drapery, architectural forms and carved gilt furniture. Housed in a giltwood frame with acanthus leaf carving and fluted molding. Sight: 36" H X 31 1/2" W. Framed: 43 1/2" H x 39 1/2" W. European, late 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: Small areas of in-painting in upper right hand corner, visible under black light inspection. Largest area approximately 2.5" Some fleabite losses. Minor abrasions and significant losses to acanthus leaf carving on frame. [See more photos →]

Monumental Molaroni Pesaro Majolica Tray, exhibited at the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition. The oval ceramic platter, measuring 24" x 19", features a deep well with raised center and raised lion and human masks, separated by raised cartouches containing polychrome decorations emblematic of land, water, wind and fire; with a ruler and subjects at the center and a border decorated with cherubs and griffins, enclosed within an ovolo relief-decorated rim. Impressed Molaroni Pesaro mark en verso, along with a paper US Customs label designating this items for exhibit placement at the Tennessee Centennial Fine Arts building. Provenance: a Nashville, Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: Some dark scuff marks en verso, otherwise excellent condition with minimal crazing or wear and no damage. [See more photos →]

James Fairman (American, 1826-1904) large oil on canvas seascape painting of a boat heading across a stormy sea towards a walled city, possibly the Holy Land. Several figures in Orientalist clothing row and guide the boat, while others in Western style dress appear to be passengers. Signed "J. Fairman" lower left. Housed in a molded giltwood frame. Sight: 44 1/2" W x 32" H. Framed: 52 3/4" W x 39 7/8" H. Artist Biography: James Fairman was born in Scotland, and came to the United States as a child in 1832. He joined the National Academy of Design in 1842 and, during the American Civil War, served as a colonel. In 1871, he visited the Jerusalem and from that point, often painted scenes of the Holy Land and other ancient sites.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with grime with three areas of inpainting in the upper-middle sky visible under UV light inspection; largest approximately 4" H x 4" W; Possible overcleaning in right middle margin and left middle margin, with some minor and flea bite losses, largest 1/4". Frame with wear and several losses to gilt. [See more photos →]

Fifty-three (53) pieces Danish Anton Michelsen "Jul/Julen" or Christmas gilt sterling silver flatware. Includes twenty-one (21) spoon and fork pairs, three (3) spoon pairs with matching designs from their year of production, and five (5) single spoons. Designs vary; many including enamel and figural decoration, all thematic to the Christmas season. Majority of sets are marked "Jul" or "Julen" with their year of production. All marked "A. Michelsen. Copenhagen" and "Sterling. Denmark." followed by a trademark symbol. Some with assorted hallmarks. Thirty-eight (38) pieces maintain original plastic packaging, eight (8) pieces are still sealed. All range in size from 6" L to 6 1/2" L. 77.450 total troy ounces. Circa 1940-1973. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with some losses to enamel decoration. [See more photos →]

Mary Tillman Smith (American/Mississippi, 1904-1995) house paint on plywood plank painting in shades of pink and blue, depicting a figure with halo or corona, possibly the Virgin Mary. Signed en verso in marker: "Mary T. Smith". 34"H x 24"W. Circa 1970s. Provenance: Private Nashville collection; acquired mid 1980s. Biography: Mary Tillman was born into a farming family in Copiah County in Southern Mississippi, the third of thirteen children. Although highly intelligent, she suffered from an early age from a hearing impairment, which made oral communication difficult, and she found an outlet in art. After working as a domestic servant and enduring two unsuccessful marriages, she began filling her Hazelhurst, Mississippi yard with art in the 1970s, using found materials such as tin and plywood. Many of Smith's paintings exhibited an abstracted religious iconography inspired by her deep faith. She also produced many portraits of family and friends. After a stroke in 1985, she is said to have slowed down to "only" producing two pieces of work a day, and she is believed to have painted very few if any pieces between 1991 and her death in 1995, when she died at the age of 91. (Source: Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Maresca, Frank; Ricco, Roger, eds. (1993). American Self-Taught. New York: Alfred A. Knopf).

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. 3/4" loss to wood and paint at lower left corner. A couple of possible extraneous streaks center right, near edge. [See more photos →]

Pair of small Neoclassical style parcel gilt and polychrome painted pine console tables, each having a five sided top with polychrome paint simulating stone, over a conforming frieze with applied giltwood ribbon, swag and rosette carved moldings, supported on a single tapering square leg with fluting at top and gilt molded husk and leaf decoration on a square foot. Each 36" H x 22" W x 11" D. Italian, 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Barbara K. Lipman, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Wear, losses, and alligatoring to paint. One leg with loss to leaf carving near foot. Shrinkage splits to top of one table, largest measuring 15 1/2" L. [See more photos →]

Ladies Tiffany and Company 18K yellow gold flower brooch featuring 20 cabochon coral stones. The brooch is marked "Tiffany&Co", "18Kt", and "ITALY". The brooch is 2 1/4 x 1 1/3" in size and has a gross weight of 24.80 grams.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Virginia Jared, Hillsboro, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Ladies 14K white gold ring featuring 1 round brilliant diamond approximately 0.94 carats, Clarity-SI1, Color-I, accented by 2 round brilliant diamonds approximately 0.58 carats together, Clarity-VS2, Color-H, also accented by 24 single cut diamonds approximately 0.48 carats together, Clarity-SI1, Color-I. The ring tests 14K and has an expandible shank sizing it between 7 1/2 and 8 1/2. Gross weight of the ring is 6.03 grams.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Adelia Armstong Lutz (American, Tennessee, 1859-1931) oil on canvas still life painting depicting pink roses in a white porcelain vase on a tabletop, with one rose resting on the table in the foreground, rendered in loose brushstrokes. Signed "A.A. Lutz" and dated "1910" lower right. Housed in a rustic wood frame with gilt wood liner. Sight: 17 1/2" H x 11 3/8" W. Framed: 27" H x 20 5/8" W. Biography: Adelia Armstrong Lutz (1859-1931) was known for painting portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. She was born in Jefferson County, Tennessee. She studied art at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and abroad. Upon her return to Knoxville in 1887, she was a director of the Knoxville Art Club and co-organized the Nicholson Art League. She married John Edwin Lutz in 1885 and they built their home, "Westwood", on Knoxville's Kingston Pike in approximately 1890.

CONDITION: Painting under glass with some scattered light craquelure, some varnish run left mid and upper margin. Frame with minor abrasions and some seperation to seams. [See more photos →]

Pair of Italian Baroque gilt carved mirrors, the crests with heavily carved floral baskets within scrolling cartouches, the sides with scrolling and pierced foliate and leaf decoration above a foliate bottom border. Both fitted with central rectangular mirror plates and individual mirror plates within the carved frame. 48 1/2" H x 24" W. 18th century.

CONDITION: Some scattered wear and losses to frame and some old areas of repair. Losses to some of the individual mirror plates as well as some cracks and silvering. May have originally been attached to tables or larger objects. [See more photos →]

Sterling Strauser (Pennsylvania, 1907-1995) oil on board abstract still life painting depicting sunflowers, and other pink, blue, and yellow flowers in a blue vase, rendered in a thick impasto technique. Signed and dated "Strauser 1970" bottom right. Housed in a giltwood Rococo style frame. Sight:15 1/4" W x 19 1/4" H. Framed: 19 1/2" W x 23 1/2" H.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Oil painting in wear to frame including loss to gilt decoration, approximately 2". [See more photos →]

Three (3) Zsolnay porcelain ormolu mounted cachepots or jardinieres. Includes one large oval centerpiece and two smaller round side urns, the white porcelain crackle glaze bodies all decorated with hand painted cranberry colored flowers, green foliage and gilt trim, mounted with a pierced and molded gilt bronze rim, handles with dragon or serpent heads, and base with four mask form feet. All include metal liners are stamped with blue Zsolnay "Five Churches and Family Initials" maker's marks to underside. Centerpiece with additional old paper number label to underside. Largest urn measures 16 1/4" H x 21" W x 11" D. Side urns measure 14 1/8" H x 14 3/8" W x 9 1/4" D. Hungarian, 1878-1880.

PROVENANCE: The collection of Dr. Andrew Wilkerson, by descent from the estate of Vernon and Vicki Meche, Iron City, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All pieces in overall very good condition with minor wear to surface of porcelain bases, crazing. Some scattered green oxidation to bronze mounts. Metal inserts with exfoliation of paint; one insert for urn missing one handle. [See more photos →]

Attributed to Pietro Fragiacomo (Italian, 1856-1922) oil on board painting depicting a solitary figure rowing a small boat near the edge of a body of water as dusk descends on the horizon. Other boats and several buildings on the shore are visible in the background. Signed lower right. Housed in a wide gilded oak frame. Sight: 7" H x 19" W. Frame: 15" H x 27" W. Artist biography (source: Askart; the Fondazione Carlplo): Pietro Fragiacomo is known for his seascapes and cityscapes of Venice, often depicted at night. He lived most of his life in Venice, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1887, first exhibited at the Esposizione di Venezia. In 1889, he won a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1889 in Paris. He also exhibited and won prizes at the Munich International Exhibition. He won the Prinze Umberto prize at the Milan Triennale of 1891 and was a regular participant from 1895-1922 at the Venice Biennale, which displayed a solo show of his work in 1910 and a posthumous retrospective in 1924.

PROVENANCE: Private Kentucky collection.

CONDITION: Grime throughout; a small amount of gilt from the frame has been deposited on the lower left edge of the painting; otherwise very good condition. [See more photos →]

Two (2) American School, 19th-century oil on canvas portrait paintings. 1st item: Painting depicing a young female in three-quarter view with upswept brown hair attired in a black dress with a gilt brooch and a pink satin stole with floral patterns, against a draped curtain backdrop with partial landscape view beyond. Unsigned. Housed in a molded giltwood frame with foliate carved corners. Sight: 29 1/2" H x 24 1/4" W. Framed: 38 1/2" H x 33 1/4" W. Circa 1840. 2nd item: Painting depicting a young man in three-quarter view with brown hair, attired in a collared white shirt with black necktie, a cream damask waistcoat and black suit, resting his arm on a scroll carved ledge, against a dark background. Unsigned. Housed in a molded giltwood frame with foliate carved corners. Dated 1839 in pencil, en verso of stretcher. Sight: 28 3/4" H x 24 3/4" W. Framed: 37" H x 32 1/2" W.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Judge John Nixon, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: 1st item: Overall surface grime and craquelure with scattered tiny flakes, mostly to background. Portions of canvas discolored and fluoresce under UV inspection, including to the background, subject's left shoulder, and the lower half of her face. Canvas has been relined. Frame with discoloration and losses to gilt, largest measuring 1/2" H x 7/8" W. 2nd item: Overall surface grime and craquelure with scattered errant white paint, largest measuring 1 1/4" L. Tear to canvas upper right quadrant, background, measuring 1/2" H x 3/8" W. Minute portion of canvas at the subject's hairline fluoresces under UV light inspection. Canvas has been relined. Frame with discoloration and wear to outer edge. [See more photos →]

Bound Volume of EXTRA CHRISTMAS NUMBERS, printed in HOUSEHOLD WORDS or ALL THE YEAR ROUND weekly magazines, edited by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1850-58, and Chapman and Hall, London, 1859-67. Hardcover octavo, eighteen bound issues of magazines, ranging from 24 to 48 pages each, 1863-67 issues include original blue front and back wrappers, 1864 issue with additional back advertisement page, rebound by Riviere and Son, London in red morocco leather with gilt stamped covers and spine, five raised hubs, gilt dentelle with dark green paper pastedowns and endpapers, ex libris plate to interior of front cover. Includes a tipped-in one page bifolium ALS written by Dickens to front matter pages, written on Office of All the Year Round, No. 26, Wellington Street, Strand, London stationary to Mr. Charles (William Charles Mark) Kent (1823-1902) an English poet, biographer, and journalist who was a friend of Dickens and a contributor to both of his weekly magazines, dated Wednesday, July 24, 1861, reading "My Dear Sir You can leave the London Bridge Terminus of the North Kent Railway, for Higham, either at 12:20 or 2:20 on Saturday, You can return at night at half past 9. Tell me which train you come [b]y and I will be at the Station to drive you up [to our] house. Address me at Gad's Hill. Ever faithfully yours CD. Mr. Charles Kent…" also includes a tipped in envelope addressed by Dickens to Kent's residence in Kenginston, monogrammed "CD" lower left, postmarked July 24, 1861, London with a red Queen Victoria red one penny stamp. 9 7/8" H x 6 7/8" W x 1 3/4" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Covers in overall very good condition with wear to hinges, corners slightly bumped. Pages in overall good, legible condition with toning/toning impressions, acid burn, scattered foxing spots, scuffs, creases, some minute tears to edges, few pencil marks, light handling wear. Dickens ALS in overall good, legible condition. Some pages unevenly cut. [See more photos →]

William Nowland Van Powell (Tennessee, 1904-1973) oil on canvas maritime painting, depicting the Revolutionary War 32-gun frigate USS Randolph at sea, flying the flag of the United States Continental Navy. Titled on front of painted wood frame along with statistics for the ship including measurements, name of builders Wharton & Humphreys, and line from the Declaration of Independence, WE MUTUALLY PLEDGE TO EACH OTHER OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES AND OUR SACRED HONOR. Signed lower right with initials WNVP and date 1971. Cardboard placard en verso reads RANDAHL PHILADELPHIA. Sight – 30" H x 18" W. Frame 24 1/2" H x 36 1/2" W. Biography: Memphis, Tennessee architect and artist, Nowland Van Powell (1904-1977) retired from architecture in the 1970s and began to paint full-time. He is known for his paintings of ships and naval battles as well as painting Christmas cards for Vice President Spiro Agnew and family in 1971. Van Powell was the author of The American Navies of the Revolutionary War, a collection of his paintings with descriptive artist notes, which was published in 1974 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

PROVENANCE: Private West TN collection acquired from the Wilson family, the Memphis-based founders of Holiday Inn. Van Powell's ship paintings were displayed in the lobby of the Holiday Inn in Washington, DC; this painting is believed to have been among them.

CONDITION: Painting has a couple of scratches to right center edge crossing the bowsprit with small area of touchup visible under blacklight; additional minor areas that flouresce under UV inspection at three corners, not indicative of inpainting. Some minor wear and scattered chipping to back and sides of frame. [See more photos →]

Ladies platinum ring featuring 5 natural emerald cut sapphires accented by 30 round brilliant diamonds approximately 1.60 carats, Clarity-SI1, Color-G. Marked "PLAT". The ring is size 6 1/2 and has a gross weight of 10.63 grams.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Nicole Maslanka, Atlanta, Georgia.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Ladies 14K slide bracelet including 14 charms featuring different gemstones. The gemstones include diamond, topaz, opal, tanzanite, citrine, sapphire, ruby, emerald, pearl, almandine garnet, grossular garnet, and spessartine garnet. Each of the slides and the bracelet are marked "14K" and the bracelet is 7 1/2" L. Gross weight of the bracelet is 45.71 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private East Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: The spessartine garnet has a chip on the crown of the stone, otherwise overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Colt Model 1873 Single Action Army Revolver, .45 caliber, serial number 151420, all visible serial serial numbers matching. Top of barrel marked Colt's PT F.A. MFG. Co. Hartford.CT. U. S. A.", "45 Colt" to left side of barrel, left side of frame marked "PAT. Sept. 19. 1871. July 2. 72. Jan. 19. 75." with Colt logo, inside loading gate marked "826". Colt checkered hard rubber stocks, round barrel, iron mounted, checkered hammer, standard front sight. Barrel length: 4 3/4". Overall length: 10". Serial number corresponds to year 1893.

CONDITION: Overall good condition. Light pepper pitting, storage dings to iron. General wear to stocks, linear surface scratches to bottom of butt stock. Action holds at half and full cock. Visible rifling to barrel. Nipple and screw below barrel are buggered. [See more photos →]

Two (2) advertising stoneware whiskey jugs. 1st item: Jack Daniel's two-gallon jug with cream slip and cobalt stencil reading JACK DANIEL'S OLD TIME DISTILLERY LYNCHBURG, TENN, 11 3/8"H x 7" dia. Circa 1870-1875. 2nd item: Georgia whiskey jug with Albany and cream slip with cobalt stencil reading POTTS-THOMPSON LIQUOR CO. DISTILLERS ATLANTA, GA with "3" denoting capacity stamped to upper shoulder, 14 1/8" H x 10 3/4" dia. Circa 1880-1906.

CONDITION: Both pieces in overall good condition with crazing and light staining, scattered wear, and some losses to glaze, largest measuring 3/4" x 1/4" to the shoulder of Potts-Thompson jug near the handle. Jack Daniel jug with 3/4" area chip to base. Potts-Thompson jug with chips to rim, largest measuring 3/8" x 3/4", and small flake to shoulder. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Charles Dickens Novels, including The Pickwick Papers, Little Dorrit, and Bleak House. 1st item: THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, First Edition, by Charles Dickens, illustrated by R. Seymour and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1837. Hardcover octavo, 609 top gilt edge pages with frontispiece, vignette, and forty-one plates. 1836 No. 12 serial cover included in front matter pages. Note: This volume includes early issue point: "S. Veller" uncorrected on p. 342, line 5. 2nd item: LITTLE DORRIT, First Edition, by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1857. Hardcover octavo, 625 top edge gilt pages, with frontispiece, vignette, and thirty-eight plates. January No. 2 serial cover included in front matter pages. Note: This volume includes early issue point: signature BB2 misprinted as "B2" on page 371, "William" instead of "Frederick" on page 317, line 27, and the name "Rigaud" appears instead of "Blandois" on pages 469, 470, 472, and 473, includes errata on p. 467. 3rd item: BLEAK HOUSE, First Edition, by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), published by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1853. Hardcover octavo, 624 top edge gilt pages with frontispiece, vignette, and thirty-eight plates. July No. 5 serial cover included in front matter pages. Note: This volume includes first issue points: "elgble" on page 19 line 6, "chair" on page 209, line 23, and "counsinship" on page 275 line 22. All rebound by Riviere and Son, London in red morocco leather with gilt stamped covers and spine, five raised hubs, gilt dentelle with dark green paper pastedowns and endpapers, ex libris plate to interior of front cover. Original cloth blindstamped covers and spine laid down to back matter pages. All approximately 9 1/8" H x 6" W x 1 7/8" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Covers in overall very good condition with wear to hinges, corners slightly bumped. Pages in overall good, legible condition with toning/toning impressions, scattered foxing spots, scuffs, some minute tears to edges, few pencil marks, light handling wear. Some pages unevenly cut. Plates are collated. 1st item: 3/4" tear to lower left of magazine serial cover. [See more photos →]

Native American double weave lidded rivercane basket by Rowena Bradley (1922-2003), rectangular lidded form woven in the "Eye of the Sacred Bird" pattern with dyed walnut weavers. 6 3/4" H x 8 1/2" W x 6 3/8" D. 20th century. Note: This basket was purchased in 1991 from Rowena Bradley at the Frank McClung Museum located in Knoxville, TN.

CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Pair of Knoll International mid-century emerald green upholstered Suzanne Series armless lounge chairs, designed by Kazuhide Takamaha for Knoll in 1965. Both chairs retain the original paper Knoll label. 26 1/2″ H x 29″ W x 34″ D. Circa 1980s.

PROVENANCE: The Guardsmark Collection, Lipman Holdings International, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Both with the original emerald green upholstery, with overall general light use wear and light grime. [See more photos →]

Early Warren County, Kentucky cherry corner cupboard, one-piece construction, poplar secondary. Cavetto molded cornice and canted sides with reeded panels, flanking two paneled upper doors enclosing four shelves, above one central dovetailed drawer flanked by panels with incised fylfot or pinwheel decoration, two lower paneled doors, and bracket feet. 85 1/2" H x 48 1/2" W x 24 3/4" D. Circa 1800-1810. Originally purchased in 1995, Bud Greenup Auction of the estate of Loraine "Cricket" Dunn. A copy of that auction catalog is available to the winning bidder.

PROVENANCE: Mark Anthony Grant Estate, Clarksville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Refinished surface with replaced hinges. Interior of drawers have been painted or stained. 1 1/2" left front facing replaced on left foot. 1/2" strip replacement to outside edge of right lower door stile. [See more photos →]

Franklin Mint Rembrandt's Genius sterling silver medal proof set, 50 medals total, issued circa 1973. Each depicting the paintings of Old Master artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Netherlands/Holland, 1606-1669), obverse; title, facsimile of Rembrandt's signature, and date, surrounded by a decorative border, reverse. Sterling, copyright symbol, hallmarks, and number to bottom edges. Includes one (1) certificate of authenticity, one (1) Rembrandt information book, one (1) pair of "special gloves", one (1) Lumaviewer with one (1) information booklet, one (1) round plastic slab, and one (1) pair of plastic holders. All medals, paper work, and accessories housed in fitted shelves within a wooden case having a gilt metal placard to lid. Medals: 51mm dia., 104 total troy ounces. Case: 8 7/8" H x 17 3/4" W x 11 1/2" D.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: All items in overall very good, uncirculated condition with some scattered minute surface scratches. [See more photos →]

Two (2) oil on board landscape paintings. attributed to Jules Desire Lubin (France, b. 1854) or Jean Lubin (French, 19th c.). 1st item: Oil on board painting depicting two figures on a rural road with a village in the background. Inscribed lower right: "a l'ami J. Camille Chaigneau. J Lubin, 1895". Housed in a carved, giltwood frame. Sight: 7 1/4" H x 10" W. Framed: 14" H x 16 1/2" W. 2nd item: Oil on board painting depicting two figures in a heavily wooded landscape, walking across a bridge and pausing to peer over the side. Signed "Jean Lubin, A. 1875" lower right. Housed in a carved, giltwood frame with bead course and egg and dart decoration. Sight: 21" H x 14 1/4" W. Framed: 30 1/2" H x 23 3/4" W. Note: These paintings were a gift from the artist Jean or Jules Lubin to his friend, the French writer and mysticist Mr. J. Camille Chaigneau. They descended to Chaigneau's granddaughter, Vicki Rideaux Meche.

PROVENANCE: The collection of Dr. Andrew Wilkerson, by descent from the estate of Vernon and Vicki Meche, Iron City, Tennessee.

CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition with some abrasion to perimeter. Signature/Inscription possibly added later. 2nd item: Craquelure and light inpainting throughout including one significant area above bridge on right hand side, approximately 1". Painting has been relined. Signature possibly added later. [See more photos →]

Native American Chitimacha double weave rivercane lidded trinket basket, meandering or alligator entrails design to the body with a background design of diagonal dyed red and dark brown weavers. 6" H x 4 1/2" square. 20th century.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

1st item: Cherokee rivercane "purse" basket woven in a geometric pattern with walnut and bloodroot weavers having two wood handles attached to the rim. 7 1/2" H x 11 1/8" W x 6 3/4" D. Note: Hand written note attributes the basket to Mollie Lossiah. 2nd item: Cherokee double weave rivercane storage basket, woven by Rowena Bradley (1922-2003). Small round form with squared base woven in the Flowing Water 2 pattern with walnut and bloodroot dyed weavers. Retains the original Qualla Arts tag. 4" H x 6" dia. 3rd item: Cherokee lidded honeysuckle and white oak sewing basket by Lucy Nola George (1897-1978), with walnut dyed weavers. Retains the original Qualla Arts tag. 9" H x 10 1/2" dia. All baskets 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private East Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: All baskets in overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Pair of German gilt sterling silver figures including a knight depicted standing in full armor with sword, dagger and heraldry shield, and a medieval lady depicted standing with armorial shield, crown and carved hands. Both with carved faces. Each with a pierced octagonal base marked .925 and additional German hallmarks. 8 7/8" H and 9 "H. 38.920 total troy ounces. Circa 1900. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Both figures are in overall good condition with wear to gilt finish, grime to carved elements. [See more photos →]

Exhibited North Carolina watercolor landscape on paper by Charles Krutch (Charles Krutch, Tennessee, 1849-1934) depicting a landscape with a stream or river and large rocks in the foreground, a wide lush green valley and tree covered rolling hills to the center, with distant mountains visible in the background. Pen inscription en verso identifies the scene as "Old Fields of the Toe – near Linville, NC" and identifies the artist ""Unsigned Krutch Watercolor". Unsigned label en verso reads "The Dulin Gallery of Art on loan from Mr. Charles Krutch". Housed in a dark wood frame with ebonized sight edge. Sight: 7 5/8" H x 9 5/8" W. Framed: 13 3/8" H x 15 3/8" W. Artist Biography (Courtesy Knoxville Museum of Art): Krutch is regarded as one of East Tennessee's first painters to specialize in scenes of the Smoky Mountains. Krutch earned the nickname "Corot of the South" for his soft, atmospheric watercolor and oil paintings of the mountain range that served as his sole focus. Totally untrained as an artist, he often applied thick layers of oil paint with brushes as well as his fingers. Krutch's goal was to capture the changing "moods" of the mountains. Note: Before its founding, the town Newland, NC and the surrounding area, now Avery County, was known as "Old Fields of Toe". It was an early muster ground in the campaign against Indians and before the Battle of Kings Mountain. On November 9, 1783, the land was granted to Colonel Waightstill Avery. Toe refers to the name of the river that runs through the area. Avery County borders North East Tennessee.

CONDITION: Scattered foxing to sky area and lower right corner. Frame with scattered losses. [See more photos →]

101 pieces S. Kirk and Son Mayflower pattern sterling silver flatware, including 12 dinner knives (1: 9 5/8" L, 11: 8 7/8" L); 11 dinner forks (7 3/8" L); 12 salad forks (6 1/2" L); 9 teaspoons (6" L); 6 five o'clock teaspoons (5 5/8" L); 12 demitasse spoons; 12 round bowl cream soup spoons; 12 oyster forks; 1 tomato server; 1 serving spoon; 1 serving fork; 1 pair of sugar tongs; 1 pie server; and 10 flat handle butter spreaders. Most pieces monogrammed with script "H" or "GFH". 95.410 total weighable troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of F. Hamilton Hazlehurst, longtime chair of the Vanderbilt University Art Department.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with normal surface scratches, monograms. [See more photos →]

Assembled group of ten (10) Chinese enameled cloisonne snuff bottles with cloisonne lids including one (1) double circular form bottle with bird and flowering branch decoration; two (2) shield forms, one (1) having crane decoration and one (1) having precious object decoration; one (1) baluster form with flowering vase decoration; one (1) square form with precious object decoration; two (2) oval bottles with floral and bird designs on blue or yellow grounds and metal spoons; one (1) circular bottle and floral designs on a light blue ground with metal spoon; one (1) circular bottle and landscape scenes depicting deer with mountains in the background along with floral designs with wooden spoon; and one (1) rectangular bottle with dragon and floral designs and wooden spoon. The shield form bottles and square bottle are marked on the base. Ranging in size from 2 5/8" H to 3 1/2" H. Late 19th/Early 20th century.

CONDITION: All bottles in overall good condition. Some with surface grime and tarnish; scattered minute pepper pitting to enamel. [See more photos →]

Pair of Neoclassical or Empire style gilt bronze campana form urns with flaring rims, classical figural decoration to the body and mask handles, mounted on gilt bronze plinths with applied torch and laurel wreath decoration. Unmarked. 14 3/4" H x 7" dia. Continental, Late 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Barbara K. Lipman, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Both overall good condition with some light scattered oxidation, primarily to the interiors. [See more photos →]

Francis Focer Brown (Indiana/New Jersey, 1891-1971) oil on board Fauvist style painting depicting a group of farmhouses and trees, likely an Indiana landscape, rendered in shades of pink, red and blue, in broad brush strokes. Signed "Francis F Brown" lower center. Artist's name additionally en verso of board. Housed in a Louis XIII style giltwood frame. Sight: 18 1/2" H x 23 1/2" W. Framed: 23 1/2" H x 28 1/4" W. Artist biography: Francis Focer Brown was an Indiana impressionist known for his experimentation with the Fauvist and Expressionist movements. His work, often rendered in bold colors or with nearly formless subject matter, has been compared to that of Charles Burchfield and Vincent Van Gogh. A graduate of the John Herron Art Institute and Ohio State University, Brown studied with members of the Hoosier Salon and exhibited at the Salon, winning several prizes from the 1920s through the 1960s. He also exhibited at the Richmond Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Cincinnati Museum of Art, and led the Fine Arts Department at what is now Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Carl Klein, Brentwood, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with minor areas of paint flakes, loss, largest 1/4", primarily to lower right. [See more photos →]

Kentucky coin silver gravy ladle with scarce Harrodsburg mark for William M. Sharrard, working Harrodsburg c. 1859, and Henderson, Louisville, and Princeton 1855-1879+. Fiddle swell pattern with tipt end and pointed fins, no monogram. 6 1/2" L. 1.43 oz troy.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Cora Jane Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

CONDITION: Excellent condition; residue on tipt end and minor wear to Harrodsburg mark. [See more photos →]

Large Delft blue and white tin-glazed earthenware footed punch bowl with flaring rim, band of flower and scroll decoration to interior, the exterior with foliate scroll, cartouche, floral and feather decoration. 13" diameter x 7" H. Dutch, circa 1720. Purchased from Deanne Levison American Antiques, 1989. A copy of the original purchase receipt is available to the winning bidder.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Area of old repair to portion of rim. Scattered minor fleabites to rim and losses to glaze. Base with one shallow chip. [See more photos →]

George III-style inlaid mahogany three-pedestal dining table with ebonized line inlaid top. Comprised of one (1) center section, two (2) leaves, and two (2) rounded ends, supported on three pedestals having ring-turned standards, outswept reeded sabre legs, brass-capped paw feet, and casters. 32 3/4" H x 52" W. Center measures 45 1/4" L. Two leaves measure 20" L. Two ends measure 45" L. 175 1/4" (14.5 feet) total L. Late 19th to early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with general use wear including minor scattered wear and abrasions to the top and the top sides, and wear to edges of leaves near peg holes. One of the ends with diagonal split to one corner. One of the leaves with diagonal splits to two corners near connecting pegs. Pedestals with later-added metal braces. Some original hardware to connect the top to the base is absent. [See more photos →]

Carl Sublett (Tennessee, 1919-2008) watercolor on paper landscape painting titled "The Red Door" depicting a large red house with a red door. Dated and signed "80 Sublett" lower right. The Collector's Gallery, Nashville, TN label en verso. Float mounted and housed under glass in a giltwood frame. Sight: 17 1/2" H x 22 3/4" W. Framed: 25 1/2" H x 29" W. Biography: Carl Sublett studied Art History at the American Academy in Florence, Italy, after serving as a sergeant in World War II. He moved to Knoxville in 1954 where he studied with Kermit Ewing and eventually became a Professor of Fine Art at the University of Tennessee. Sublett was a founding member of the art group, The Knoxville Seven, a progressive group working from 1955-1965, which produced some of the first abstract expressionist art in Tennessee. In 1982 he retired from teaching and in 1984, he opened the Sublett Gallery in Knoxville. In 1991, "The Unseen Carl Sublett" was the first exhibit at the new Knoxville Museum of Art (built on the site of the 1982 World's Fair). Sublett won numerous awards for his paintings and was a member of the National Academy of Design. His works are in the collections of the National Academy of Design, The Tennessee State Museum, and Cheekwood, Nashville. (Source: The Tennessee Arts Commission).

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with slight waviness to sheet. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Four (4) After Play, multi-signed baseballs. 1st item: 1961 New York Yankees team multi-signed baseball, including Mickey Charles Mantle (1931-1995), nicknamed "The Commerce Comet" and "The Mick"; Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (1925-2015); and twenty-one (21) additional signatures, twenty-three (23) signature total. Housed in a plastic holder and mounted to a wooden plaque with a team photo, a Topps card, and a black acrylic placard. 2nd item: 1953 New York Yankees team multi-signed baseball, including Mickey Mantle with fifteen (15) additional signatures, sixteen (16) signatures total. Housed in a plastic holder and mounted to a wooden plaque with a team photo and a black acrylic placard. 3rd item: "500 Home Run Club" multi-signed baseball, including Mickey Mantle; Theodore Samuel Williams (1918-2002); Henry Louis Aaron (1934-2021), nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank"; Willie Howard Mays, Jr. (b. 1931), nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid" and "Buck"; Reginald Martinez Jackson (b. 1946); and six (6) additional signatures, eleven (11) total signatures. Includes one (1) The Score Board, Inc., Cherry Hill, NJ, certificate of authenticity, n.d. Housed in a wooden holder. 4th item: "Yankee Greats 1976-1981" multi-signed baseball, including Reggie Jackson and twelve (12) additional signatures, thirteen (13) signatures total. Housed in a wooden holder. Holders/plaques ranging in size from 3 3/4" H x 3 1/8" W to 13" H x 20" W.

CONDITION: All baseballs are after play signed, not graded. Some plastic cases with breaks. [See more photos →]

English Regency silver mounted and inlaid tortoise shell tea caddy with double compartments. Slightly domed sarcophagus form hinged top having line inlay and a central inset silver medallion engraved with star and bar crest, over a bombe form body with silver escutcheon and line inlaid edges, quarter round molded base and four wooden ball feet. Interior fitted with two compartments having lids with bone knobs. Silver is not hallmarked. 6" H x 7" W x 4 3/4" D. Early 19th century.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with expected age resulting in minor losses and cracking to tortoise shell on side panels and right side back panel. Veneer patches at hinges and area of replaced line inlay to lid edge (see area above one hinge). [See more photos →]

Casper Hjalmar Amundsen (American, 1911-2001), also known as "Cappy" or John J. Enwright, oil on canvas painting depicting several sailboats and rowboats moored along two piers with dock houses, an additional building with wooden buoys hanging on the wall in the right foreground, and a low hill across the bay beneath a cloud filled blue sky in the background. Signed "J. J. Enwright" lower right. Stamped copyright information, en verso of canvas. Two Young Fine Arts labels, en verso of frame. Housed in a fluted wooden frame. Sight: 23 1/2" H x 35 1/2" W. Frame: 30 1/2" H x 42 3/8" W. Biography (Source: "Cappy: The Life and Art of C. Hjalmar Amundsen", by Terry Wallace): Casper "Cappy" Hjalmar Amundsen was born in New York City to the artist, Casper Emerson, Jr., and grew up learning drawing and painting in his father's studio. He attended the Blair Academy and the Grand Central School of Art. In 1932, Cappy, along with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Beaufort Delaney and others, founded the Washington Square Outdoor Art Show. Amundsen later traveled via yawl along the eastern seaboard working as a commercial fisherman to support himself for. During this time, he developed skill as a painter and. Amundsen has operated under more than twenty pseudonyms, including Hjalmar, I. Emerson, Hjalmar Emerson Amundsen, C. Hjalmar Amundsen, J. J. Enwright, William Ward, Jr., F. H. McKay, W. Hughes, Sven Sagg, and many others. The multiple signatures were probably a marketing ploy to enable Amundsen to place different prices on his works, sometimes executed in differing styles, when displaying them in his usual outdoor/street art shows such as the Washing Square Art Show.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Carl Klein, Brentwood, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

English longcase clock with swimming swan automaton dial, John Chambley of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, circa 1790. Mahogany and mahogany veneers with pine and oak secondary. Hood with a broken arch pediment, brass rosettes, and brass finials, and arched door flanked by fluted columns; finely grained veneered waist door with scalloped top flanked by fluted columns, above a box base with chamfered sides and applied square molding with curved corners, all raised on ogee bracket feet. Painted metal dial with swimming swan automaton in the arch, shell painted spandrels, Roman numerals and subsidiary seconds dial and calendar aperture, signed John Chambley Wolverhampton on face and stamped FRANCIS on backplate. Brass 8 day works and pendulum, iron weights. Pendulum and weights appear to be original. Dimensions overall: 93" H, 23" W, 9 2/8" D.

PROVENANCE: Mark Anthony Grant Estate, Clarksville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: CONDITION: Works appear to be original. Missing suspension string for pendulum. Not functional at time of inspection, needs to be cleaned. Glass is likely a replacement. 4 1/2" vertical veneer patch to beveled side of base, possible keystone shaped veneer patch to center of hood door at top of arch. Small veneer patch to hood door below clock face. Loss to left side swan's neck pediment. Some possible repainting to dial; background is crazed with one area of instability near center, close to flaking off. Small area (about 2"L) of wood loss to top of hood on one side. Shrinkage cracks to door and one side below hood. Left front foot with loss of height. Veneer patch to side of waist at lock strike (lock strike appears replaced). Replaced strip to back side of hood. Scattered scratches, wear and abrasions to case.  [See more photos →]

Chinese School, mid 19th century oil on canvas maritime or nautical painting of a clipper ship, sailing off the coast of a Chinese port. Sailors are visible of the deck of the ship, with harbor buildings in the background, surrounded by mountains. Unsigned. Housed in a carved and painted black frame with gilt rabbet edge. Sight: 24″ W x 18 1/4″ H. Framed: 28″ W x 23″ H.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Relined, with craquelure and discoloration throughout, some abrasions causing varnish and paint loss to surface, largest 3″. Some very light scattered inpainting throughout, see blacklight photos for reference. Frame is heavily worn with losses to paint, gilt, and carving and has been repaired. Painting is loose in frame. [See more photos →]

Persian Bijar carpet, wool on wool, central foliate diamond design on a dark blue field with ivory spandrels having small floral medallions, all within concentric borders including one large floral border. Woven in colors of blue, red, gold and ivory. 201" H x 95 1/2" W. Late 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall heavy use wear with abrash lines and piling repairs, scattered stains, losses to borders. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Small Peti Clements (Alabama, 1911-1999) Black Americana folk art acrylic on board paintings, including one (1) "The Twins", one (1) titled "Bound for the Promised Land", and one (1) titled "Welcome Home", each depicting African African figures engaged in various scenes of everyday life in the rural south. All signed "Peti Clements", lower left or right. Additionally signed with titles and dates, en verso of frame. All housed in wooden frames. Sights ranging from 3 1/2" H x 4 1/2" W to 4 1/2" H x 6 1/2" W. Frames ranging from 5 3/4" H x 6 3/4" W to 7" H x 9 1/4" W. All items circa 1983. Note: Peti Clements was a female African American folk artist. She was raised on a rural Alabama farm and many of her paintings depict scenes of her early everyday life. Her work is represented in the permanent collection of the Tennessee Valley Art Museum, Tuscumbia, AL.

PROVENANCE: Private Alabama collection.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Seven (7) Chinese Export Famille Rose porcelain plates with assorted polychrome enamel foliate decorations to centers and rims. Includes two (2) matching plates with pink diapered borders and foliate vignettes to rims, one (1) having a handwritten paper label to underside. Ranging in size from 8 5/8" to 9 1/2" dia.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with minor losses to polychrome and gilt decorations, firing flaws, fleabites/losses, largest 3/4", to rims. Two plates with hairlines, largest 4 1/2", extending across the center. [See more photos →]

Group of nineteen (19) Herend porcelain animal figurines with fishnet, polychrome, and parcel-gilt decorations, including one (1) red fox, two (2) pairs of red foxes playing, one (1) pair of red bunnies, one (1) white bunny, one (1) yellow bunny, one (1) pink bunny, two (2) blue bunnies, one (1) pair of blue bunnies, one (1) pair of blue and green koalas, one (1) red cat, one (1) yellow cat, one (1) black cat, one (1) black cat on a white yarn ball, one (1) pink cat on a blue yarn ball, one (1) green cat on a red yarn ball, and two (2) blue cats on red yarn balls. All pieces having stamped Herend mark with additional numbers to underside. Ranging in size from 1 5/8" H x 1" W x 1 1/4" D to 6 3/4" H x 4 5/8" W x 3 5/8" D. Mid/late 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: All pieces in excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Paul Jacoulet (Japan/France, 1902-1960) ukiyo-e woodblock color prints. 1st-2nd items: Pair of prints titled "Les Deux Adversaires, Coree" depicting two young men with roosters about to engage in a fight, said to personify the conflict between North Korea (left) and South Korea (right), and convey the artist's sympathies towards the South. Both feature printed dedications en verso to President Harry S. Truman dated 1951. Both with metallic leaf decoration; both signed "Paul Jacoulet" and stamped with a red mark in lower corners, and titled in lower margins. Housed in contemporary metallic frames with bamboo decoration. Sights: 11" W x 15 1/4". Framed: 16" W x 20 1/2" H. 3rd and 4th items: Pair of portraits of bride and groom, the subjects both attired in colorful, ornately patterned clothing and decorative hats, in interior settings. Both signed "Paul Jacoulet" and stamped with a red owl mark. Both housed in black acrylic frames with silk liners under plexiglass. Sights: 11 3/4" W x 15 1/2" H. Framed: 17 1/4" W x 20 1/2" H. Artist Biography: Paul Jacoulet was born in Paris in 1896, but lived in Japan most of his life. Jacoulet became known for his 166 printed woodcuts of native peoples from Asia and the South Seas, which he rendered in the ukiyo-e tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking. Each print is said to have involved as many as 300 pressings of handmade paper against up to sixty carved cherry wood blocks. He often used precious metals, powdered stones and colored mica to add texture to his works. Source: The University of Florida, Geo. A. Smathers Libraries.

CONDITION: 1st-2nd items in overall excellent condition with light wear to frames. 3rd-4th items in overall excellent condition. [See more photos →]

American Classical ham or mixing table, possibly Anthony Quervelle, Philadelphia, or Baltimore; mahogany with flame mahogany veneers, poplar secondary. Rectangular ogee molded top above an applied scrolled decorative frieze, single trapezoidal form paneled cabinet door opening to three shelves and paneled sides, on a flaring and molded base with front scrolled feet and rear turned feet with applied castors. 44" H x 33" W x 18" D. Circa 1840. Purchased from Polk Place Antiques, Nashville, 2017. Copy of receipt available to the winning bidder.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with French polish. While most of these forms had marble tops, this wood top appears to be very early and may be original. Some small losses and repair to veneer on the molded base. Some age shrinkage to top with putty infill. Repair strip along the left side of the door's stile. Early replaced strip to back edge of top. [See more photos →]

New England Hepplewhite mahogany and flame mahogany inlaid server or serving table, pine secondary. Comprised of an overhanging molded top above two full length dovetailed drawers with line inlay and finely figured veneers, oval brass pulls, and pull out slide having brass pulls between the drawers. Tall tapering Hepplewhite legs with line inlay are extensions of stiles. Appears to have a museum accession number on the back corner, "117.1920". 38 1/2" H x 31 3/4" W x 19 1/2" D. First quarter of the 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Patricia Kiegel, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Refinished. Top with expected general wear, top and sides with areas of wood shrinkage. One drawer with minor buildup of drawer sides and reinforcement of drawer supports. Pulls appear old but not original. [See more photos →]

Four (4) painted toleware items. Includes: two (2) lighthouse form coffee pots, one (1) with hinged dome lid with brass mushroom finial, gooseneck spout and molded base rim, and one (1) with hinged domed lid with trefoil finial and gooseneck spout, labeled "1818" under lid; one (1) covered syrup/creamer jug with hinged lid; and one (1) mug. All with C-scroll handles and tapered bodies with polychrome fruit and foliage designs. Ranging in size from 4 5/8" H x 4 3/8" W x 3 1/4" D to 10 5/8" H x 8 1/5" W x 6 1/4" D. American, 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Patricia Kiegel, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall general use wear with fading of the painted designs, some abrasions to lacquer on body, largest 1/2" H x 3/8" W, and wear to bases. [See more photos →]

John Julius Wilnoty (1940-2016) small Cherokee red steatite sculpture of a seated figure with long hair, wrapped in traditional clothing with a carved geometric pattern. Signed on underside of base "JJW". 2 3/4" H x 2" W x 2" D.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with some very light surface wear. [See more photos →]

Veryl Goodnight (Colorado/New Mexico, b. 1947) cold painted bronze sculpture, titled "Prairie Picnic", depicting a barefoot young woman in a short-sleeved dress and pinafore seated on a tree stump, extending her hand towards two large raccoons. Signed, dated, and numbered "Veryl Goodnight 1990 (copyright) 18/35" back lower left on the base. Mounted to a wooden base. Sculpture: 13 3/4" H x 25 3/4" W x 16 1/4" D. Overall: 15 3/8" H x 27 1/4" W x 17 /4" D. Biography: Veryl Goodnight began her career as a wildlife painter and began sculpting to educate herself about anatomy. Her work has been featured in major American art shows and exhibits including a 40 year retrospective at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her most famous sculpture is "The Day the Wall Came Down," a seven-ton sculpture depicting five horses jumping over the fallen Berlin Wall, the US Air Force delivered the monument to Germany in 1998, and a sister casting is installed at the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Texas. Professional organizations include Membership in the National Sculpture Society, Society of Animal Artists, and the Northwest Rendezvous. (Source: artist's website).

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

1st item: Chinese embroidered red silk Kesi or ladies shawl, comprised of three light gold silk shaped cartouche panels with bird and flowering branch decoration on a red silk ground with gilt embroidered floral, bird, and insect decoration throughout. Bordered along the lower edge with mirror trim above a blue border with floral vignette and gilt embroidered decoration and silk knotted fringe. 82" W X 22 1/5" H. Late 19th century. 2nd item: Chinese blue silk men's robe, with embroidered designs including dragons chasing the flaming pearl, bats, and auspicious symbols above a wave, water, and striped lower border. 55" H x 71 1/2" W. Late 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Judge John Nixon, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: 1st item: Scattered fraying and shattering to silk including along the upper edge with significant losses to upper left edge, approx 4" L x 2" W. Some fraying and losses to gilt threads and a few losses to mirror trim, mostly to upper left edge. Overall grime with some light scattered staining. 2nd item: Scattered fraying and shattering to silk, primarily to both seams of sleeves and around the collar and neck area. Robe toggles or closures missing. Some fading to the blue robe ground. Overall light grime and some light staining. [See more photos →]

Ladies 14K yellow gold 22mm chain style bracelet. The bracelet is marked "14K" and is 7" L. Gross weight of the bracelet is 47.68 grams.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Virginia Jared, Hillsboro, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

An assembled group of five (5) boxes, most English, including: one (1) round blond hardwood tobacco box in form of a barrel with ebonized reeded trim and ball feet. 8" H x 5 1/2" dia. ; one (1) octagonal mixed woods tobacco box with pagoda style lid and ebonized finial, base and feet. 8 3/4" H x 6 1/4" dia.; one (1) octagonal mahogany tea caddy or tobacco box with line inlay to the top. 5 5/8" H x 6 3/8" dia.; one (1) coromandel dome top box with brass mounts and handle and white satin lining, 6 1/4" H X 8 3/4" W; and one (1) sarcophagus form rosewood tea caddy with scrolling foliate marquetry inlay, wood handles and bun feet with fitted interior, including two inlaid lidded compartments and open center for mixing bowl. 7 3/4" H x 13" W x 6 7/8" D. All 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: All boxes in overall good condition with light scattered general wear. 1st box with minor losses to ebonized trim. 2nd box with some scattered wood shrinkage, mostly to the top. 3rd box lid does not sit flush, some looseness to hinges. [See more photos →]

Louis John Endres (Ohio/Europe,1896-1989) impressionistic oil on masonite board painting titled "A Farm" depicting a group of small farm houses in a field surrounded by trees, a figure in pink visible behind the building on the right. Signed and dated "L. Endres '25" lower right. Titled, en verso. Housed in a carved wooden frame. Sight: 11" H x 14 7/8" W. Framed: 17" H x 20 3/4" W.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of F. Hamilton Hazlehurst, longtime chair of the Vanderbilt University Art Department.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Louis Edward Jones (Tennessee, 1878-1958) oil on canvas board painting depicting a group of trees at the base of a mountain, likely part of the Great Smoky Mountains range, beneath a cloudy grey sky. Unsigned. Housed in a grey painted wooden frame with an off-white wooden sight edge. Sight: 11 1/2" H x 13 1/2" W. Framed: 15" H x 17" W. Note: Jones was an Impressionist painter from Woodstock, New York, and established the Cliff Dwellers studio in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with few abrasions, largest 1/2", primarily to center-right and lower left. Small areas of surface grime or inclusions, top left in sky. [See more photos →]

A MAP OF THE TENNASSEE[sic] GOVERNMENT FORMERLY PART OF NORTH CAROLINA TAKEN CHIEFLY FROM SURVEYS BY GENL. D. SMITH & OTHERS, drawn by Daniel Smith, engraved by Joseph T. Scott, for "General Atlas For Carey's Edition Of Guthrie's Geography Improved" published by Matthew Carey, Philadelphia, 1795. Copper plate engraving of Tennessee depicting early towns, including Knoxville and Clarksville, rivers and other bodies of water, mountains, forts, and other points of interest including Cherokee Towns such as Nickajack and Crow Town, Ross's Ironworks, and notations regarding the land. Title, lower right, scale of miles, lower left. "Lon. W. from Philada", top right above map. Map surrounded by scale notations and line border. Housed and double matted under glass in a black wooden frame with gilt trim. Image: 9 1/2" H x 20 3/8" W. Sight: 10 1/4" H x 21" W. Framed: 17 1/2" H x 27 1/2" W.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with toning/toning impressions, scattered areas of acid burn, largest 1/4", primarily to top right and lower left. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Adelia Armstong Lutz (American, Tennessee, 1859-1931) oil on academy board. Possibly a self-portrait. The painting depicts the artist wearing a dress with large pink rose pinned to the front, rendered in loose, impressionistic brushstrokes. Signed "A.A. Lutz" and dated "1929" lower right. Housed in a wood lattice-style frame with carved stylized foliate corners. Sight: 191/2" H x 15 1/2" W. Framed: 28" H x 24" W. Biography: Adelia Armstrong Lutz (1859-1931) was known for painting portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. She was born in Jefferson County, Tennessee. She studied art at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and abroad. Upon her return to Knoxville in 1887, she was a director of the Knoxville Art Club and co-organized the Nicholson Art League. She married John Edwin Lutz in 1885 and they built their home, "Westwood", on Knoxville's Kingston Pike in approximately 1890.

CONDITION: Scratch above the subject's head and to her right eye. Scattered pinprick areas of paint loss to body and lower right corner. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Scott County, Virginia baskets signed by Jesse Jones (b. 1907), including a huge buttocks basket form. Baskets consisting of white oak, rib-type split construction with handles secured by nails at the rim. Both signed in pencil "Jesse Jones" on the handle. The large basket is additionally dated "1986" and the small basket is dated "7-83". Large basket: 26 1/2" H x 36" W x 35" D. Smaller basket: 9 1/4" H x 10 1/4" W x 11" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Donley and Eunice Hill, Andersonville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Small basket with stain to the base, large basket with wear to the handle, otherwise both baskets overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Southern Agricultural premium coin silver pitcher or ewer, likely Kentucky; pear shaped form with molded rim and acanthus overlaid double C scroll handle, raised on a circular rib-molded foot. Engraved inscription SOUTHWESTERN AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL ASSOCIATION 1855 to body underneath spout. No maker's mark; this particular agricultural association is typically associated with Louisville, KY. 10" H. 14.27 total troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Cora Jane Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

CONDITION: Overall excellent condition, few if any small scratches or tiny dents. [See more photos →]

Chinese export silver tea caddy in a quatrefoil form with lid, decorated with repousse scenes of figures, dogs, and birds in landscape settings on of the four sides of the body and repousse foliate designs on the shoulder and lid. Unidentified maker's marks in Chinese characters on underside. Tests sterling. 5" H x 3 1/2" W x 3 1/8" D. Weight: 8.730 troy ounces. Qing Dynasty, Late 19th/ early 20th century. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with expected surface oxidation. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Winnie the Pooh books, including one (1) First Edition. 1st item: Winnie the Pooh, First Edition, by Alan Alexander Milne with illustrations by Ernest Howard Shepard, published by Methuen and Company, Ltd. London, 1926. Hardcover octavo, 158 top edge gilt pages with illustrations, hardbound in green cloth with stamped gilt pictorial front cover and gilt lettering to spine, pictorial off white paper pastedowns and endpapers. Ex libris plate and black ink stamp to front matter page. 7 3/4" H x 5 1/4" W x 3/4" D. 2nd item: Winnie the Pooh, by Alan Alexander Milne with illustrations by Ernest Howard Shepard, published by E. P. Dutton and Company, Boston, 1926. Octavo, 158 pages with illustrations, hardbound in green cloth with stamped gilt pictorial front cover, pictorial off white paper pastedowns and endpapers. 7 7/8" H x 5 1/2" W x 3/4" D. 3rd item: NOW WE ARE SIX, by Alan Alexander Milne with illustrations by Ernest Howard Shepard, published by E. P. Dutton and Company, Boston, 1927. Octavo, 103 pages with illustrations, hardbound in orange cloth with stamped gilt pictorial front cover and gilt lettering to spine, pictorial off white paper pastedowns and endpapers. 7 3/4" H x 5 1/2" W x 5/8" D.

CONDITION: Books do not include dust jackets. 1st item: Overall good condition with normal shelf wear, areas of loss/rubbing, largest 7/8", to edges of covers, corners bumped. Pages with light toning, scattered minute foxing spots, few minor areas of dampstaining, scuffs, few pencil inscriptions to end papers, handling wear. Small sections of middle pages, primarily to page 65, are starting to become separated from spine. 2nd-3rd items: Both with wear/fraying/losses to spines and covers, corners bumped. 2nd item with front cover and first few pages loose from binding, toning, general handling wear to pages. 3rd item with majority of pages separated from binding, tears, pencil inscriptions, areas of loss to pages, front end paper is not present, majority of page 63 and 64 is not present. [See more photos →]

Arnold Marc Gorter (Netherlands, 1866-1933) oil on canvas impressionistic landscape painting depicting a river with a man rowing a boat surrounded by trees and autumn foliage overhead with cows grazing in a bright green pasture in the background. Signed "A M Gorter" lower left. Housed in a molded giltwood frame with carved corner decoration. Sight: 14 3/4" H x 19 3/4" W. Frame: 21" H x 25 3/4" W. Artist Biography: Arnold Marc Gorter was a student of the National Academy in Amsterdam, but traveled to Germany and France to paint, finding great success. He painted vast landscapes in the manner of the French Barbizon School, many of which were accepted into French annual Salons (adapted courtesy of askArt).

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with grime and light craquelure. Painting has been conserved by Cumberland Art Conservation in Nashville, TN in 1998, was varnished with Acryloid B-72, information about conservation en verso. Contemporary frame. [See more photos →]

1st item: Native American Cherokee double rivercane basket by Eva Wolfe (1922-2004). Low square form woven in the "Flowing Water 2" pattern with walnut and bloodroot dyed weavers Retains the original Qualla Arts & Crafts tag. 3 3/4" H x 9" square. Note: This is one of several baskets exhibited in December of 1969 by the US Department of Interior and the Qualla Arts & Crafts Mutual Inc. of Cherokee, NC. It is listed as #3 in the exhibition booklet which is included with this lot. 2nd item: Native American Cherokee rivercane market basket with handle, diagonal walnut and bloodroot dyed weavers. 14 5/8" H. 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition. 2nd item: Scattered losses to weavers of rim and to one corner. Unknown white substance to corner and handle. [See more photos →]

14K gold pocket watch made by the Rockford Watch Company of Rockford, Illinois. Double sunk enameled dial with Arabic numerals and secondary dial marked Rockford, 21 jewel movement marked "RWC, RG and numbered 546684". Front interior case marked "Keystone, 14K and 5229482". Interior movement cover marked Guaranteed 14K, .585 fine, The R.W.C. Co., and 5229482". The exterior movement cover with presentation inscription reading "J. Will Taylor from The National Bank of LaFollette, 12. 25. 13". Size 16s, produced Circa 1899. 103.5 total gross weight. Note: James Willis (J. Will) Taylor (1880-1939) from Union County, TN was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the ten succeeding Congresses serving from March 4, 1919, until his death in 1939.

PROVENANCE: Private East Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: Watch runs at time of inspection. Porcelain dial with breaks near edges – more conspicuous at the 7 and 11 o'clock positions. General expected wear with engraved initials to front and back case along with engraved presentation inscription. [See more photos →]

British, possibly Irish Hepplewhite server or huntboard, European hardwood and softwoods. Rectangular top with molded edge and breadboard ends, over two scratch beaded and dovetailed drawers with batwing brasses and medial molding over slightly tapered square legs with fretwork corner returns. Dimensions: 37" H x 43 1/4" W x 18 5/8" D. Late 18th/Early 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Refinished surface, top with wear losses and abrasions. Case above drawers with losses and wear. Wood shrinkage and wear to drawer fronts. Left interior split drawer bottom. [See more photos →]

Set of twelve (12) Gorham sterling silver water goblets with gilt wash to interiors. Maker's marks, Sterling, and 272 stamped to the underside of bases. Not monogrammed. 6 1/2" H x 3 1/2" dia. 71.875 total troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: The Estates of Daniel and Patricia Burton, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with normal surface wear. One goblet with 1" dent to body, one goblet with 1" dent to rim. [See more photos →]

Grade Riverside Maximus American Waltham Watch Company pocket watch 23 jewels, 14K gold hunting case, and size 16s. The watch is marked "14K" and ".585 fine". The year of production was 1903 and the serial number 13006140. Gross weight of the watch is 101.5 grams.

CONDITION: Very small chip to crystal. Watch is functional at the time of inspection. Overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Chinese items, including red silk embroidered panels and a reverse glass figural landscape painting. 1st & 2nd items: Two (2) embroidered red silk rectangular panels, each depicting several figures, likely courtiers, in a landscape setting with temple structures, engaged in various activities surrounded by bats and butterflies, all sewn onto a gold silk backing. Unmarked. Sewn band to top of each panel, likely for hanging, visible en verso. 89" H x 33 1/2" W. 3rd item: Reverse glass figural landscape painting depicting a tiger with a female figure in its mouth being chased by a male figure with an axe in his hand while four more figures look on in the foreground with mountains rising in the background. Chinese characters lower right corner. Handwritten inscription LEWIN and affixed Edward Butler gallery paper label, en verso. Housed in an ebonized wood frame. Sight: 19 3/8" H x 13 1/8" W. Frame: 22 3/8" H x 16 1/8" W. All items late 19th/early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: 1st & 2nd items: Varying degrees of staining, fading, fraying, largest 8 1/2". 3rd item: Scattered exfoliation of reverse painting on figures and landscape. Frame with scattered surface scratches. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Peti Clements (Alabama, 1911-1999) Black Americana acrylic landscape paintings. 1st item: Acrylic on board painting titled "Come Up and See Me Sometime" depicting a village scene with African American adults and children working and playing along a road leading to a house and General Store. Signed "Peti Clements" lower right. Title, dated "1981" and artist name en verso. Housed in a wooden frame. Sight: 10 3/4" H x 14 1/4" W. Framed: 15" H x 19" W. 2nd item: Acrylic on canvas painting titled "Quilting Bee" depicting an interior genre scene with three women quilting and younger children playing and eating around a hearth. Signed "Peti Clements" lower right. Title, dated "1986", and artist name in pencil en verso. Housed in a wooden frame with a linen liner. Sight: 7 1/2" H x 9 1/2" W. Framed: 12" H x 14" W. Note: Peti Clements was a female African American folk artist. She was raised on a rural Alabama farm and many of her paintings depict scenes of her early everyday life. Her work is represented in the permanent collection of the Tennessee Valley Art Museum, Tuscumbia, AL.

PROVENANCE: Private Alabama collection.

CONDITION: Both items in overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Ten (10) Montblanc, Germany Meisterstuck writing instruments, including: one (1) fountain pen with a 14 karat yellow gold nib; two (2) ballpoint pens, one (1) numbered II1112489 and one (1) IG107531; two (2) rollerball pens, one (1) No 161 numbered XG1602271; one (1) No. 166 document marker, numbered XG1154015; and four (4) mechanical pencils, one (1) numbered EI1096332, one (1) numbered VG1587044, and one (1) numbered VG158771, nine (9) instruments with precious black resin barrels and caps, one (1) ball point pen with sterling silver pinstripe barrel and cap, all with gold tone bands and clips, white star logos to top of caps. All with "GERMANY" stamped to clip bands, some with numbers, all with "- MONTBLANC – MEISTERSTUCK -," two (2) with gold stickers to barrels, "4810 M 14K MONTBLANC 585" to stamped to fountain pen nib. Includes one (1) Stand is marked Montblanc Meisterstuck No. 149, comprised of black resin with gold plated name plate (not monogrammed) and having a threaded pen holder. Also includes one (1) original document marker box and outer box, and two (2) associated boxes and paperwork for LeGrand rollerball pens (not believed to be original to pens). Instruments ranging in size from 5 1/4" to 5 3/4" L. Stand: 3 1/4" H x 4 3/4" W x 3 1/4" D. Boxes ranging in size from 1 1/4" H x 8" W x 3 1/8" D to 1 1/2" H x 9" W x 3 5/8" D.

CONDITION: All items in overall good, gently used condition with surface scratches. Nib has been inked. Needs to be cleaned. Most instruments need replacement cartridges or lead. Dents to bottom of sterling silver pen barrel. Stand name plate is not monogrammed, pen holder slightly loose. General wear to boxes. [See more photos →]

Henry Gasser (New Jersey, 1909-1981) watercolor on paper painting titled "Oil Well Outskirts" depicting a row of homes along a street with figures, and a group of oil well towers in the background under a grey sky. Signed "H. Gasser, Oklahoma" lower right. Housed in a custom wood frame with a mat under plexiglass. Sight: 14 1/2" H x 21" W. Framed: 27" H x 33 1/2" W. Artist biography: Henry Gasser was born in Newark, NJ. in 1909 and is known for painting everyday subjects he found where he lived and traveled including street scenes, parks, old homes, harbors, and villages, working in both oil and watercolor. He studied at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, the Grand Central School of Art, and the Students League of New York, and his art has been exhibited in over fifty museum collections and numerous private collections. (Courtesy of Askart, adapted from Blake Benton Fine Art).

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Painting and frame in overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Pair of oil on board equestrian hunt paintings, including one (1) depicting a male and female standing in a wooded landscape with their horses and dog, and one (1) depicting a male atop his horse in a wood landscape with his groom holding the horse reigns and another riding approaching in the distance. Both unsigned but attributed to the school of John Nost Sartorius (English, 1759-1828). Very faint illegible retailer stamp en verso of canvas. Housed in matching painted and carved wood frames. Sight: 13" H x 16 3/4" W. Framed: 17" H x 20 3/4" W.

PROVENANCE: Private Knoxville, TN collection.

CONDITION: Both paintings relined, with overall darkening to varnish and some light grime. Both frames with scattered light wear, one with losses to upper left corner. [See more photos →]

Arthur Parton (New York/Pennsylvania/United Kingdom, 1842-1914) impressionistic oil on canvas painting depicting cherry trees blossoming in a spring landscape setting. Signed "Arthur Parton" lower left. Housed in a giltwood frame with a lamb's tongue running pattern. Sight: 27 3/8" H x 35 3/4" W. Framed: 34" H x 42 1/4" W. Biography: Arthur Parton was born in Hudson, New York and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under William Trost Richards, who continued to influence Parton's work throughout his career. He first exhibited in 1862 in Philadelphia and later exhibited regularly at the National Academy of Design in New York City and at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. He was known as a Hudson River School painter though he also painted landscape scenes of England and Scotland.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Carl Klein, Brentwood, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with craquelure, scattered areas of paint loss, largest 1/2", primarily to edges of canvas. One 6" area of inpainting intented to cover a "V" shaped surface scratch, lower left, two areas of inpainting, largest 2", top right edge of canvas. Frame with minor abrasions. [See more photos →]

Ladies 14K rose gold ring featuring an oval cut natural orange sapphire approximately 12.98 carats. The ring tests 14K and is size 7 1/2. Gross weight of the ring is 7.47 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private East Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Grouping of five (5) proof sets, including silver and gold coins. 1st item: Wildlife Mint, Inc., Migratory Bird Stamps silver proof boxed set, 48 rounds total, numbered 182, dated 1934-1982. Number and purity to bottom edges. All housed in a fitted wooden box. Coins: 35.5mm dia., .9999 purity, 48.525 total troy ounces. Box: 2 3/4″ H x 17″ W x 13″ dia. 2nd-3rd items: Two (2) United States Mint World War II 1991-1995 50th Anniversary commemorative proof sets, 5 coins total, including one (1) three-coin set containing one (1) gold five dollar, one (1) silver dollar, and one (1) clad half dollar; and one (1) two-coin set cointaining one (1) silver dollar and one (1) clad half dollar. Each coin is encased in a round acrylic coin holder and housed in a fitted blue velvet case with original boxes and certificates of authenticity. Silver dollars: 38.10mm dia., .900 purity, approximately 2.215 total troy ounces. Gold five dollar: 21.59mm dia., .900 purity, approximately 11.4 grams. 4th item: 1969 Franklin Mint Numismatica Italiana Republique Tunisienne silver proof set, 10 Dinar coins total. All housed in a fitted faux red leather case with a Franklin Mint inspection slip. Coins: 40mm dia., .925 purity, 6.810 total troy ounces. Case: 3/4″ H x 10 3/4″ W x 5 1/4″ D. 5th item: 1987 United States Mint Constitution Bicentennial silver dollar. Coin is encased in a round acrylic coin holder and housed in a fitted blue velvet case with original box and certificate of authenticity. 38.10mm dia., .900 purity, approximately 1.095 total troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of James W. Perkins, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items in uncirculated/proof condition. Boxes and cases with light wear. 1st & 4th items: Coins with toning. [See more photos →]

Three (3) lithographs: LE VIEUX ROI, MATERNITE, AND PRAYER OF JOB. 1st item: Pablo Picasso, LE VIEUX ROI (The Old King), 1959. Dated in the stone "6/1/59"; stamped signature in red lower right; likely from the unnumbered edition of 1000. Ref. Bloch 869, Mourlot 317. Matted under glass in black wood frame. Sheet: 26 3/8" H x 20 1/4" W. Frame: 33 1/4" H x 27 1/4" W. 2nd item: Pablo Picasso, MATERNITE. Signed in the stone upper right. Matted under glass in parcel gilt frame. Sheet: 24 1/2" H x 18 1/2" W. Frame: 29" H x 25" W. 3rd item: Marc Chagall, PRAYER OF JOB. Appears unsigned. Gallery label, en verso for Ferdinand Roten Galleries, Baltimore. Matted under glass in black frame. Sight: 13 1/2" H x 10" W. Frame: 16" H x 12 1/4" W.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Barbara K. Lipman, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: 1st item: Adhered to backing across the top and in a couple of spots near center, otherwise good condition. 2nd item: Formerly hinge mounted; light toning, several spots of light handing grime. 3rd item: Overall good condition, crooked mounting. All frames with some wear, small losses and/or abrasions. [See more photos →]

Ladies 14K yellow gold fashion omega necklace. The necklace is marked "14K" and "Italy". The necklace is 18" L and has a weight of 53.21 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private East Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

American School oil on canvas oval portrait painting depicting a young woman, possibly Lucy McClung's mother, with dark hair curled in ringlets, attired in a white gown with lace and bead decoration and a pleated skirt, and wearing a bracelet on her right wrist. She stands in front of a plain backdrop next to a pink rose resting on a table. Unsigned. Housed in a period Louis XV style giltwood and gesso frame. Sight: 35" H x 28" W. Framed: 49" H x 37 1/2" W. Late 19th century.

PROVENANCE: the Estate of Emilee Barnes Frincke, Knoxville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall light craquelure and some flea-bite losses. Small area of inpainting on sitter's forehead, visible under UV inspection. See black light photos for reference. Frame with cracking and repaired breaks. [See more photos →]

Sheraton sugar chest, desk form, Kentucky or Southern Ohio, cherry primary, poplar secondary. Hinged slant front having breadboard ends and inlaid oval reserve of figured walnut, over four false drawers with barber pole inlaid edges, small round brass knobs and diamond shaped inlaid escutcheons. Stiles with lopers, extending into tapered turned feet. Plain sides and back. Interior fitted with three cockbeaded dovetailed drawers with round brass pulls and sliding door exposing a storage well beneath. Restorations. 24" H x 27 1/2" W x 18 5/8" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Modification and alterations possible with lack of age to false "drawer fronts" and unusual lopers design and location in the stiles. Older refinishing. Circular stain and sun fading to top, minor scattered wood shrinkage. Repair or restoration to rear section of top. Key not present. Molding along top edge of door replaced. Scattered surface scratches. Scattered small losses to inlay. [See more photos →]

Tage Kluwer (Denmark, 1910-1965) oil on canvas landscape painting depicting a bisected scene of a flat yellow-green field with two rectangular bushes in the foreground in the lower half and a hazy blue sky in the background in the upper half. Signed, dated, and numbered, en verso of canvas, "No. 5. Tage Kluwer, June '48". Housed in a modern giltwood frame. Sight: 19 1/4" H x 32 1/8" W. Frame: 23 1/2" H x 36 1/4" W.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with minor surface grime. Frame with scattered spots of discoloration and loss to gilt measuring 1/4" H x 3/8" W. [See more photos →]

1st item: Cotton red and green floral applique quilt attributed to Rachel Roess of Pennsylvania. The center panel contains an intricately engineered four-leafed plant surrounded by four fylfots expressing good luck, constructed with double green, cheddar yellow, and turkey red fabrics on an embroidered ivory ground with tiny applique touches to the geese, birds, and floral displays. The deep swag border is an original design as well as the quilt's edge, cut to echo the border. Approximately 90" x 88". Circa 1860's. 2nd-3rd items: Cabinet card photograph of Rachel Roess, taken by South Oil City, PA photographer J.W. Sires, and a 1946 photograph of Rachel Roess's direct descendants Lillian Roess Brecht, Elizabeth Brecht McKee, and Katherine (Kitty) McKee, who have all owned this quilt. Note: The quilt was washed in 2001 and was believed by the family to be about 100 years old at that time, however, the style and fabrics are more frequently associated with the 1860s or 70s. Provenance: by descent to Katherine McKee of Nashville (age 85 in 2021), from her mother Elizabeth Brecht McKee (born 1900), from her mother Lillian Elizabeth Roess Brecht (1876-1959), from her mother Rachel Aggers Roess, maker of this quilt. Rachel Roess was born in Chartiers Township, PA in 1844 and died in Oil City, PA 1925, where her husband worked in the oil business.

CONDITION: Expected fabric wear and fading for a quilt of this age. Thinning of the Double Green and Turkey Red fabrics with cotton batting coming through in places. Staining and spotting evident in white cloth. Turkey Red binding is weak and pulling away in spots. [See more photos →]

Miniature watercolor portrait depicting a dark-haired man with sideburns in a blue coat. Housed under glass in an oval gold metal frame, frame is unmarked but tests 10K, with elaborate hairwork en verso. Hairwork features seed pearl and gold strands and a conjoined gilt monogram GB. Overall: 3" H x 2 1/4" W. Likely American, circa 1800.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Some gold filigree strands in hairwork have possibly come detached; otherwise excellent condition. [See more photos →]

Pair of antique eyeglasses or spectacles with Kentucky coin silver frames, the exterior of ends stamped CALVERT, attributed to T.C. Calvert, working Lexington c. 1850-1899+. 5 3/8" W. Note: more Kentucky coin silver will be offered on Day 2 of this auction.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Cora Jane Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

1st & 2nd items: Pair of Chamberlain's Worcester Carnatic service botanical plates, both having shaped underglaze blue borders with enameled and gilt floral decoration and cartouches with Arabic inscriptions and central hand painted flower decoration including Scotch Broom and Blue & White Flax. Red maker's stamp and flower title en verso of each plate. 10" dia. and 10 1/2" x 8 1/2". English, 1st Qtr. 19th century. Note: In 1820, two magnificent services were made for His Highness Willajah Nabob Auzum Jar of the Carnatic, Madras. All pieces were decorated with copies of Botanical illustrations taken from Curtis's Botanical magazine (Source: https://www.museumofroyalworcester.org/). 3rd item: Polish (Warsaw /Belvedere) faience dated Imari plate from the Sultan Abdul Hamid I service. Center with a hand-painted jardiniere of flowers on a fenced terrace encircled by a blue ground band with six panels divided by gilt trellis ornament, four of the panels with a Turkish inscription, all within a blue ground rim having shaped cartouche decoration depicting birds and a butterfly among flowering shrubs and chrysanthemums. The Turkish inscriptions read: This plate is sent as a present/and as a sign of frienship/as a token of good relations with the Emperor/The Sultan a Khalif of the House of Asman". The rim underside with trailing flowering branches and a diaper border, gilt-line rim. 9 3/4" dia. 3rd Qtr. 18th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Knoxville, TN collection.

CONDITION: 1st & 2nd items: Both plates with old repairs to rim, overall light craquelure and some scattered staining. Oval plate with additional hairline visible en verso. 3rd item: 2" Hairline to rim, overall light craquelure. [See more photos →]

Hippolyte Francois Moreau (French, 1832-1927) bronze sculpture titled "Consolation" depicting an older female protectively embracing a younger female, both holding a flower basket and standing on a circular naturalistic base. Signed on the base "Hte. Moreau". 22" H x 10 3/4" W x 8" dia. 47.6 lbs. Biography: Hippolyte Francois Moreau was the son of prominent sculptor Jean-Batiste Moreau, and grew up learning from his father. He was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1889 and 1917. (Adapted from AskArt and the E. Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Desinateurs, et Graveurs).

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Light wear to patina to areas where the sculpture was handled over time, commensurate for age. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Mark Scearce "Presidential" sterling silver Kentucky julep cups with molded and beaded rims, stamped MARK J. SCEARCE SHELBYVILLE KENTUCKY / STERLING, one (1) with mark "RMN" for the Richard Milhous Nixon Presidency (1969-1974), and one (1) with mark "GRF" for the Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. Presidency (1974-1977). Not monogrammed. 3 3/4" H. Combined weight: 9.47 total troy ounces.

CONDITION: Both items in overall very good condition with normal surface scratches, primarily above the base. [See more photos →]

69 pieces Stieff Williamsburg Queen Anne pattern sterling silver flatware, including 8 dinner knives (9 1/4" L); 8 steak knives (8 7/8" L); 10 dinner forks (7 3/4" L); 8 salad forks (6 1/2" L); 9 teaspoons (5 3/4" L); 9 dessert/oval soup spoons; 6 iced tea spoons; 1 medium cold meat serving fork; 2 piece large roast carving fork and knife set; and 8 butter spreaders. Not monogrammed. 65.540 total weighable troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with normal surface wear. 2 teaspoons with disposal damage to handles, 1 dessert/oval soup spoon with disposal damage to bowl. [See more photos →]

66 pieces Kirk Repousse pattern sterling silver flatware, plus additional ladle, 67 items total, including 8 dinner knives (8 7/8" L); 8 dinner forks (7 1/4" L); 8 salad forks (6 1/4" L); 8 teaspoons (5 7/8" L); 8 place/oval soup spoons; 1 round bowl gumbo soup spoon; 1 tablespoon; 1 pierced tablespoon; 1 serving spoon; 1 gravy ladle; 1 cream ladle; 8 ice cream forks; 1 casserole spoon; 1 pie server; 1 cheese server; 1 nut cracker; and 8 flat handle butter spreaders. Also includes 1 Bouquet Plate ladle having a sterling silver repousse floral pattern handle. Not monogrammed. Includes a fitted wooden case. Case: 3" H x 14 3/4" W x 11 1/4" D. 67.910 total weighable troy ounces.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with normal surface wear. Cream ladle with 1/2" scratch to bottom of bowl. Serving spoon with dents, largest 1/8", to bowl. Nut cracker with pitting to stainless grip. Bouquet plate ladle with repair to handle join. [See more photos →]

Two (2) small Peti Clements (Alabama, 1911-1999) Black Americana folk art acrylic on board paintings, both titled "Going Home". 1st item. Painting depicting a group of African American figures going home at the end of a day of work in the field with bags full of cotton towards their homes. Signed "Peti Clements" lower right. Titled and dated, "1984" en verso. Housed in a carved wood frame with a linen liner. Sight: 4 1/2" H x 6 1/2" W. Framed: 13 1/4" H x 15 1/4" W. 2nd item: Painting depicting African American figures loading cotton onto a wagon led by two horses in a field, with three young children walking hand in hand and a dog in the foreground. Signed "Peti Clements" lower right. Title, dated "1985", and artist name in pencil en verso. Housed in a wood frame with a linen liner. Sight: 7 1/2" H x 9 1/2" W. Framed: 16 1/4" H x 18 1/4" W. Note: Peti Clements was a female African American folk artist. She was raised on a rural Alabama farm and many of her paintings depict scenes of her early everyday life. Her work is represented in the permanent collection of the Tennessee Valley Art Museum, Tuscumbia, AL.

PROVENANCE: Private Alabama collection.

CONDITION: Both items in overall good condition. Frames with very light areas of abrasions. [See more photos →]

William Dickey King (American/New York, 1925-2015) large contemporary abstract aluminum puzzle sculpture titled "The Test". Composed of multiple interlocking pieces, the sculpture depicts a crouching male figure balancing a female figure on one arm. Signed and dated on the outer right leg/thigh area. 58 1/4" H x 44 1/2" W. 1972. Biography: William Dickey King was known for his modernist figural sculptors and as an art instructor. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and attended the University of Florida, the Cooper Union School and the Accademia dei Belli Arte in Rome as a Fulbright Scholar. King eventually established his studio in New York City and taught at schools including the Brooklyn Museum School, UC-Berkeley, The Art Students League and the University of Pennsylvania. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington. (Source: the New York Times Obituary, the Smithsonian American Art Museum).

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with some light scattered oxidation, primarily to the back. [See more photos →]

Tiffany Studios "Wild Carrot" tall bronze candlestick with base having wild carrot or Queen Anne's lace bloom designs in relief, stem with receptacle-shaped top, and a conical favrile glass topper. Marked "Tiffany Studios New York/5/3/26157" to the underside of stand. 20 1/4" H x 8" dia. First quarter of the 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of F. Hamilton Hazlehurst, longtime chair of the Vanderbilt University Art Department.

CONDITION: Stand in overall very good condition with surface oxidation. Glass topper with scattered hairlines, largest measuring approximately 6" L, and loss to rim measuring 1/2" H x 1 3/8" W. [See more photos →]

Four (4) glass newel posts or finials, including one (1) spherical red glass finial with a honeycomb design, 7 1/2" H x 3 7/8" dia.; two (2) acorn clear crystal finials with facet cuts, ranging from 8 1/2" H x 3 1/2" dia. to 9" H x 3 1/2" dia.; and one (1) acorn clear crystal finial with bullicante design, 6 3/4" H x 3 1/2" dia.; all mounted on round brass socles. French, late 19th/early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with scratches to one facet cut acorn finial and chip to finial tip, small defect at the base of the red glass finial. Socles with expected minor abrasion. [See more photos →]

Ladies 18K yellow gold mesh style ring. Marked "18K" and "Italy". The ring is size 6 3/4 and has a gross weight of 18.16 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

1st item: Ladies 14K yellow gold bracelet featuring an old mine cut diamond approximately 0.07 carats, Clarity-SI1, Color-H, accented by blue and white enamel. Marked "14K". The bracelet is 7" L and has a gross weight of 13.51 grams. 2nd item: Ladies 14K yellow gold wire and rope style bracelet. Marked "14K". The bracelet is 7" L and has a gross weight of 29.15 grams. Gross weight of the lot is 42.66 grams.

CONDITION: Both items overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Helen La France (Kentucky, 1919-2020) oil on board portrait painting depicting Cornell Jones (1923-1998) from Mayfield, Kentucky. Depicted as a middle-aged male, his hair parted to one side, sporting a pencil mustache and attired in a pale yellow suit. Signed "Helen La France" lower right and dated "'89". Pen notes en verso identifying the sitter along with a quote from the artist "ALWAYS dressed nice". Housed in a molded Chinese-style wood frame with brass corner elements. Sight: 22 1/4" H x 18 3/4" W. Framed: 26 1/2" H x 22 1/2" W. Note: In 1973, Cornell Jones became the first African American elected to the Mayfield, Kentucky City Council, and the first African American councilman in Graves County. He was re-elected to a third term in 1977. Jones was also a former president of the Mayfield NAACP Branch and was a WWII Army veteran. Cornell Jones was born in Paris, TN, the son of Velma L. Jones Blythe and James Provine. For more see "Mayor, 45 councilmen are black city officials," in 1978 Kentucky Directory of Black Elected Officials, Fifth Report by the Commission on Human Rights, p. 2; and Papers of the NAACP, Selected Branch Files, 1956-1965: Series A: The South, Jones, Cornell 7:0035 (Courtesy: http://nkaa.uky.edu/). Biography: "Self-taught African American artist Helen LaFrance was born on a Kentucky farm and began painting in her 40s. She is known for her "memory paintings" – Drawn from her recollections of life growing up in the rural South. Several museums and private collectors, including Oprah Winfrey, own examples of her work." (Source: "Helen LaFrance Folk Art Memories" by Kathy Moses). Helen Lafrance died November 22, 2020 in a Mayfield, Kentucky nursing home at the age of 101.

PROVENANCE: Provenance: Private Kentucky collection. The consignor was a friend and patron of the artist.

CONDITION: Painting overall good condition. Very slight abrasions to lower left corner. Frame with minor abrasions. Pen notes en verso. [See more photos →]

6 pieces of Kentucky coin silver marked for Asa Blanchard, working Lexington circa 1808-1838 plus 1 other spoon, possibly by Blanchard, 7 items total. 1st item: Cream ladle with plain fiddle handle monogrammed TAP(?), incuse stamp BLANCHARD. 5 7/8" L. 2nd through 6th items: 2 dessert spoons and 3 teaspoons, all with plain fiddle handles, three having various monograms, all with A. BLANCHARD or BLANCHARD marks in rectangles on backs (marks used post-1820; ref. Marquis Boultinghouse, SILVERSMITHS OF KENTUCKY, P. 299). 7th item: Teaspoon with worn mark A-, possibly the mark used by Blanchard prior to 1820, similar in form to the other spoons in this lot. Pieces range in size from 5" to 7". Combined weight: 4.42 oz troy. Note: more Kentucky coin silver will be offered on Day 2 of this auction.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Cora Jane Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

CONDITION: Ladle with a few small dents to bowl. Repair to the teaspoon marked BLANCHARD. All spoons with small dents to bowls, one with light pitting to bowl. Wear to tips of bowls and some scratching. [See more photos →]

1906 Vacheron & Constantin Milan Grand Prix 14K pocket watch, Ref. #340168, 46mm, triple marked, lever set with winding knob, foliate engraved initials to case front. Movement signed Vacheron & Constantin Geneve and numbered #340168; case cover marked V&C with other hallmarks and .585 and numbered #207286; handpainted enameled dial with Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds at six, gilt hands, and signed Vacheron & Constantin Geneve. Retains the original red leather case together with a presentation note reading "Given to Dr. Harry Christian Schmeisser (1885 – 1964) in 1906 for his 21st birthday for not drinking or smoking." The weight of the watch is 98.7 grams.

PROVENANCE: A Memphis, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Dial with minor scratch, case worn and dented, movement in need of service. Retains the original red leather case. [See more photos →]

German Meissen polychrome and parcel gilt figural depicting a trio of putti dressed in colored togas and laurel wreath crowns holding or playing a flute, harp, or trumpet. Books, a violin, and a music score atop a classically styled stand are in front of the figures, all standing on naturalistic rocks with base having fluted and acanthus patterns. Blue Meissen underglaze mark to base along with parcel gilt 51. 8 3/4" H x 7 5/8" W x 4 1/4" D. Late 19th/early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with scattered losses to finger tip of one putto, end of flute, violin bridge, and leaf tip on one laurel wreath crown. [See more photos →]

Robert Berks (American, 1922-2011) bronzed clay or plaster bust depicting President Abraham Lincoln. Signed BERKS (with copyright) and dated "58". Mounted onto a brown stone base. Bust measures 11 1/2" H x approx. 6" W. Overall: 16 1/2" H. Note: Robert Berks was known for his highly textured sculptures of American political figures including John and Robert Kennedy. He created the Lincoln bust in the Kentucky Capitol dome in Frankfort.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Barbara K. Lipman, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Some chipping to front of hair and to lower right rear. Some chipping noted to left rear vertical edge. [See more photos →]

After Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (French, 1835-1885), likely by Jules Desire Lubin (French, b. 1854) or Jean Lubin (French, mid-19th century), oil on board Impressionist painting depicting a French soldier in military uniform, standing with rifle strapped to his shoulder and trumpet in his right hand. Other soldiers stand in the background, under a grove of trees with tall grasses and a cloudy blue sky. Signed and dated lower right, "A de Neuville 1878" with additional inscription "D'apres" (after) above the signature and "J. Lubin" below. The Neuville signature is likely spurious. Housed in a molded and textured giltwood frame with foliate and cartouche motifs. Sight: 17 1/2" H x 9 1/74" W. Framed: 21 3/4" H x 13 1/2" W. Note: These paintings were a gift from the artist Jean or Jules Lubin to his friend, the French writer and mysticist Mr. J. Camille Chaigneau. They descended to Chaigneau's granddaughter, Vicki Rideaux Meche.

PROVENANCE: The collection of Dr. Andrew Wilkerson, by descent from the estate of Vernon and Vicki Meche, Iron City, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with slight warping and seam apparent in the board at the subject's left side measuring 15 1/2" L. Inpainting along this seam apparent under UV inspection. [See more photos →]

Two (2) small oil on canvas paintings depicting Paris street scenes, possibly Paul Cornoyer (New York/Missouri, 1864-1923). One oil painting with figures in black cluster near a monument with buildings in the background. The other depicts figures walking along a Paris street with turn of the century automobiles and buildings in the background. Unsigned. The paintings measure 8 1/4" x 6 1/4" and 7 7/8" x 6 1/4" and are unframed. Note: both paintings were previously mounted in a frame having a placard for Paul Cornoyer.

PROVENANCE: Private Kentucky collection.

CONDITION: Both canvases have been cut down and one has been mounted to cardstock. Fraying and wear to paint at edges, largest area of loss 1/4" w. Overall grime and some small scattered inclusions. [See more photos →]

One hundred and nine (109) piece Mottahedeh porcelain dinnerware set in the Lowestoft Rose pattern, including thirteen (13) dinner plates (10 1/8" dia.); twelve (12) large rim soup bowls (10" dia.); thirteen (13) salad plates (8 5/8" dia.); thirteen (13) bread and butter plates (7" dia.); sixteen (16) flat cups with C-shaped handles (2 1/8" H) with sixteen (16) saucers (5 3/4" dia.); twelve (12) flat demitasse cups with C-shaped handles (2 1/8" H) with twelve (12) saucers (4 1/2" dia.); one (1) sugar bowl with lid and two C-shaped handles (4 1/2" H x 6 3/8" W x 3 7/8" D); and one (1) creamer with C-shaped handle (3 3/4" H x 5 3/4" W x 3 5/8" D). All with Vista Alegre Portugal mark to underside. Late 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: All items in overall very good condition with minor wear to glaze. [See more photos →]

Middle Tennessee cherry press, two-part construction, poplar secondary. Top section with ogee cornice transitioning to a plain frieze over rectangular paneled doors. Lower section with heavy ogee mid-molding and one long center drawer flanked by two smaller candle drawers, all dovetailed and cockbeaded. Lower paneled doors and paneled sides transitioning to a shaped skirt with returns. 94" H x 44 1/2" W x 20" D. 19th century with later restorations.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Donley and Eunice Hill, Andersonville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Refinished surface, restorations and repairs. Skirt and turned feet are later replacements. Drawers likely disassembled and refurnished and cockbeading added. Patches to inner corners of upper doors. Repair to right upper door lower hinge. Repairs to stile of right lower door, some shelves replaced and side returns on the cornice have been replaced. Hardware not original. [See more photos →]

34 star personal or parade flag, ca. 1861-1863, plus important book on the exploration and mapping of the U.S.-Mexican border from Texas to California, both owned by U.S. Washington Territory Indian Agent, Westley B. Gosnell. 1st item: Personal or parade flag, printed cotton or muslin with 34 stars commemorating Kansas statehood, 9" x 5". Note: The 34-star flag became official on July 4, 1861, when Kansas gained statehood. The Civil War was already underway, with several Southern states having seceded from the Union. Abraham Lincoln, however, refused to recognize the right of those states to dissolve their ties with the United States, and would not authorize the elimination of any stars on the new flag. On his way to Washington for his inauguration, president-elect Lincoln raised the new flag over Independence Hall on George Washington's birthday in a gesture of national unity. 2nd item: REPORT ON THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO BOUNDARY SURVEY MADE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, WILLIAM H. EMORY, Vol. 1, published Washington, 1857, printed by Cornelius Wendell. Includes "Map of the United States and Their Territories Between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean and Part of Mexico" (tears and repairs at fold lines), numerous black and white landscape views of the American Southwest, several colored lithograph plates, fold out chart of Meteorological Observations, and several plates depicting native fossils and shells. Inscribed in pen inside front cover: "W.B. Gosnell, Olympia May 13, 1858." Book – 11" x 9 1/2". History: Wesley (also spelled Westley) B. Gosnall was appointed Indian Agent for the Washington Territory by Gov. Isaac Stevens and Special Indian Agent by President James Buchanan from approximately 1851-1865 and served several terms. He was noted for speaking several Native American dialects and for being well-liked by the tribes. He went on to serve as a Lewis County Commissioner in Washington State, and a school director and clerk. He also became a member of the state legislature and helped make many of the territory's early laws.

CONDITION: Flag: Scattered spotting, small stains left border, fraying at edges. Book: spine and map are detached; plate of Papagos torn; considerable toning, spotting, and some chipping and damp staining to other interior pages. Map with considerable chipping, tears and some taped repair at fold lines. [See more photos →]

Bronze mid 20th century expressionist sculpture depicting a man and woman standing and embracing, atop a square base. Signed with monogram AB on base and numbered 2/15. 19 1/2" H.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

86 pieces Gorham Princess Patricia sterling silver flatware, 93 items total, including 16 dinner knives (8: 8 1/2" L, 8: 9 1/2" L); 16 dinner forks (8 – 7 1/4" L, 7 3/4" L); 8 salad forks (6 1/2" L); 6 five o'clock teaspoons (5 1/2" L); 8 iced tea spoons; 3 dessert/oval soup spoons; 5 round bowl bullion soup spoons; 3 round bowl gumbo soup spoons; 8 demitasse spoons; 8 cocktail/seafood forks; and 5 flat handle butter spreaders. Also includes 5 Webster Company sterling silver stirrers and 2 piece Community Silver carving knife and fork set. Not monogrammed. Includes a fitted wooden case. Case: 5 1/2" H x 16" W x 12" D. 74.160 total weighable troy ounces.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with normal surface wear. 1 Webster stirrer with bends to handle. Community carving knife with discoloration to top of handle join. [See more photos →]

Seventy-five (75) pieces of assorted sterling silver flatware, including Gorham, Towle, and R. Wallace & Sons. 1st-60th items: Sixty (60) sterling flatware pieces, including 10 Gorham items, 7 forks, 2 spoons, and 1 shell ladle; fourteen (14) Towle forks; ten (10) R. Wallace & Sons items, 8 spoons and 2 forks; seven (7) Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. items, 6 spoons and 1 fork; three (3) International Silver items, 2 spoons and 1 pair of tongs; one (1) Kirk Repousse spoon; one (1) Tiffany spoon; two (2) Baker-Manchester serving pieces; two (2) Bailey & Co. spoons; two (2) Whiting items, 1 spoon and 1 fork; two (2) Webster items, 1 ladle and 1 fork; one (1) Mechanics spoon; one (1) Roden Bros. fork; one (1) Wood & Hughes butter spreader; one (1) Wm Rogers fork; one (1) Alvin fork; and one (1) Hayden Bros. spoon. All pieces with maker's marks. American, 20th century. 61st-75th items: Fifteen (15) sterling flatware pieces, including two (2) forks, one (1) carving knife and one (1) carving fork, one (1) pie server, seven (7) spoons, one (1) butter spreader, one (1) ladle, and one (1) butter pick. Some pieces marked "800" or Sterling. American & European, 20th century. 76.030 total weighable troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Camille Gift, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with general use wear and some minor bending; some pieces with minor repairs. [See more photos →]

Sterling Strauser (Pennsylvania, 1907-1995) oil on board still life painting depicting a vase of flowers against a brown background, rendered in a heavy impasto technique. Signed "Strauser" lower left. Housed in a giltwood frame with pierced corners and centers. Sight: 9 1/4" H x 7 1/4" W. Framed: 13" H x 11" W.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of David Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Frame with areas of loss, largest 1/2", to gilt, areas of natural age shrinkage. [See more photos →]

Colt Model 1851 London Navy Percussion Revolver, .36 caliber, serial number 15025, all visible serial numbers matching. Top of barrel marked "Address. Col. Colt. London", left side of frame marked "Colt Patent", English proof marks, including "V" with crown and "CP" with crown, left side of barrel lug and breech end of the cylinder over each chamber. Octagonal barrel, walnut stocks, iron furniture, checkered hammer, brass bead front sight. Barrel length: 7 1/2". Overall length: 13". Manufactured circa 1853-57.

CONDITION: Most metal reblued, sights refinished. Metal with light pepper pitting. Walnut stocks with few storage dings, largest 1/4". Backstrap is raised, indicating that the stocks may have been sanded down. Action holds at half and full cock. Engraving is not visible to cylinder. [See more photos →]

European, likely English, gentlemen's gun cane or swagger stick, .42 caliber, breech load with drop down trigger. Comprised of a brass handle and tapered and segmented wood veneer shaft, fitted with a wood ferrule cap. Unmarked. 23 1/2" L. 2nd half 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The collection of Dr. Andrew Wilkerson, by descent from the estate of Vernon and Vicki Meche, Iron City, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition. Not tested for functionality. [See more photos →]

Harold Harrington Betts (American, 1881-1951) oil on canvas painting, possibly an illustration, depicting a hunter with a rifle over his shoulder, accompanied by three dogs, walking at dusk or dawn along a street into the light of an open barn door. Footprints are visible in the snow beneath the subjects' feet, and faint smoke billows upwards through the door, while light glows from a handful of nearby buildings and from the tips of mountains in the background. Signed "H. H. Betts" lower left. Unframed. A handwritten card en verso with artist information, stating the painting was purchased from art dealer Woody Straub Aug. 7, 1997. 34" H x 39" W.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Carl Klein, Brentwood, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with slight abrasion to paint surface at the center-right edge measuring 3/4" H x 2 1/2" W. [See more photos →]

Two (2) coin silver julep cups, both marked POINDEXTER in rectangles for William A. Poindexter, active Lexington, Kentucky, 1818-1859, including one (1) extra large cup (4 1/4" H), and one (1) of standard size (3 1/2" H). Both with reeded rims; standard sized cup is monogrammed MEM or MEH. Combined weight: 11.51 oz troy. Note: more Kentucky coin silver will be offered on Day 2 of this auction.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Cora Jane Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

CONDITION: Larger cup has shallow dents measuring up to 3/4" and some slight denting to foot ring; both overall very good condition with minimal scratching. Old Sotheby's sticker adhered to exterior of monogrammed cup. [See more photos →]

Five (5) Jane Austen novels, including one (1) PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, one (1) SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, one (1) MANSFIELD PARK, one (1) EMMA, and one (1) NORTHANGER ABBEY and PERSUASION, published by George Routledge and Sons, Limited, London, Manchester, and New York, printed by Woodfall and Kinder, London, ca. 1890-92. Hardcover 12mos, 2,098 total top gilt edged pages, four with frontispieces, uniformly rebound in three-quarter navy blue leather with marbled-paper sides, gilt lettering to spines, five raised hubs, marbled endpapers. Approximately 7 5/8" H x 5 1/2" W x 1 1/9" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Covers in overall good condition with scuffs, normal shelf wear, minor losses to edges of leather and paper, largest 3/4", corners bumped. Majority of pages in overall good condition with light toning, first few and last pages, including frontispieces, with toning/acid burn, pencil inscriptions from previous owners including two with inscriptions dated "1895." All volumes with "Estes & Lauriat, Boston" retailer stamps to front endpapers, visible top left en verso. Does not include advertisements. NORTHANGER ABBEY and PERSUASION volume does not include frontispiece. Three volumes with intact red grosgrain ribbon bookmarks. Two volumes with deckled edges. [See more photos →]

Circa 1900 Jack Daniels stoneware whiskey jug from Nashville Tennessee retailer W.T. and C.D. Gunter, with albany slip top and handle, the lower buff colored body stenciled in cobalt: W. T. & C. D. GUNTER, LIQUOR DEALERS Jack Daniel No. 7 Whiskey. 205 BROAD ST. NASHVILLE. – – TENNESSEE". 9 1/4" H x 5 1/2" dia. Provenance: private Nashville, TN collection.

CONDITION: Crazing, especially to lower two-thirds of jug, 1/2" chip to shoulder. Hairline extending from 1" chip at lower rim up to shoulder (beneath handle); a few other smaller shallow chips to lower edge, shoulder, and above "W.T." [See more photos →]

Joseph Vincent Nicholas Francis Weiss (English/French, 1859-1919), known as Jose Weiss, oil on canvas landscape painting depicting boats moored along the bank of the River Arun adjacent to the village of Bury in West Sussex. The steeple of the church of St. John the Evangelist and a tall tree rise above the village skyline into a pink-hued sky spotted with small, darkening clouds. Signed "Jose Weiss" lower right. Housed in a mirrored wooden frame with applied rosettes and a reed fillet. Sight: 23 1/2" H x 39 5/8" W. Framed: 31" H x 47 1/8" W. Biography (adapted from Odon Wagner Gallery): Joseph Vincent Nicholas Francis Weiss, also remembered as a pioneer of aviation, was born in Paris, France. He later emigrated to England. He lived in Houghton for the rest of his life, becoming a prolific painter of English landscapes, particularly the Sussex countryside, in the Barbizon school style. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and garnered support from patrons in England and, especially, in the United States. His works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Falmouth Art Gallery, the Southampton Art Gallery, and the Kirklees Museum.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with surface grime and four small tack holes to each corner. Frame with scattered errant paint and some surface wear. [See more photos →]

Ladies Italian 14K yellow gold double link style bracelet. Marked "14K" and "FCL". The bracelet is 7" L and has a weight of 38.61 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Peter B. West (Ohio, 1837-1913) oil on canvas paintings. 1st item: Painting depicting two dogs, one brown (laying) and one black and white (seated), harnessed to a green wooden cart on two wheels containing straw and three jugs with a blue-green pigeon in the foreground catching the attention of the brown dog and an archway in the background. 2nd item: Painting depicting two dogs, one white with black spots (laying) and one brown and white (standing), harnessed to a green wooden cart on two wheels containing an upturned basket and foliage with a green bowl in front of the brown dog and a tan wall in the background. Both signed and dated, lower left corner, “P B West 1883.” Printed label on both with artist biographical information and pencil inscriptions, en verso. Both housed in matching modeled giltwood frames with acanthus leaf design. Sights: 13 1/2” H x 17 1 /2” W. Framed: 24” H x 28” W x 2 3/4” D.

CONDITION: Both in overall good condition with craquelure and some missing portions on gilt wood frames, largest 1/8” H x 1/2” W. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Astral oil lamps, each having a three-sided foliate-decorated gilt brass or bronze repousse base, and fitted with frosted and etched glass shade with cut glass prisms. Both lamps unmarked and converted to electricity. 23 1/4" H and 25" H (w/ shades). Third quarter of the 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Mark Anthony Grant Estate, Clarksville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Both lamps overall good condition. Not tested for functionality. Tallest lamp missing three prisims. [See more photos →]

Ladies European 14K yellow gold brooch, the center featuring a painted portrait of a young female on enamel, accented by 52 rose-cut diamonds approximately 1.21 carats, Clarity-I1, Color-K, as well as 6 cultured pearls. Marked on the clasp, possibly French. The brooch tests 14K and is 1 1/4" L. Gross weight of the brooch is 9.97 grams.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Large Continental Overmantel or Trumeau mirror. Upper section with an oil on canvas landscape depicting multiple figures in the foreground; a villa, body of water, and structures on top of a rocky cliff mid-ground; and rolling hills and mountains in the background; all within a carved gilt rococo style surround. Lower section with mirror having gilt carved shell and reeded molded surround. Both sections mounted onto a large green painted wooden support having a gilt cornice and giltwood molded reserves at each side with rococo ornaments at top and carved gilt urns to the lower sections. 72" H x 47" W. Late 18th/early 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Barbara K. Lipman, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Some overall grime, minute scattered losses, and craquelure to canvas. Mirror with some scattered losses to silvering. Frame with overall scattered general wear, heavier wear along the base. Back of mirror having contemporary corner supports at base. [See more photos →]

Fifty-two (52) pieces Herend Apponyi, Chinese bouquet pattern porcelain tea set, in rust with gilt highlights throughout. Includes one (1) coffee pot; one (1) teapot; one (1) creamer; one (1) sugar bowl with lid; twelve (12) teacups with twelve (12) saucers; and twelve (12) demitasse cups with twelve (12) saucers. All with blue Herend stamp marks and numbered on the bases. Ranging in size from 2 3/8" H x 3" W x 2 3/8" D to 10 1/8" H x 7 1/2" W x 3 3/4" D. Hungarian, 20th century.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with no visible chips or cracks. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Gilbert Gaul (American, 1855-1919) World War I impressionist battlefield paintings, including one (1) oil on canvas scene depicting Red Cross nurses helping to carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher and one (1) oil on canvas scene depicting three Red Cross nurses standing in a field. Both are unframed and unsigned. 13 3/4" H x 10 1/4" W and 11 3/4" H x 16" W. Both early 20th century. Note: Although both paintings are unsigned, included are two authentication letters by John Reeves and David Saltzman, attesting that these paintings, and the others in this series (sold in our past two auctions), were painted by Gilbert Gaul. A hand written note included with the series of paintings state that the paintings were done "on the battlefields of France during the World War". Copies of the authenticity letters are available to the winning bidder of this lot. Biography: New Jersey born artist Gilbert Gaul studied art with Lemuel E. Wilmarth at the school of the National Academy of Design from 1872 to 1876, and privately with the noted genre painter, J. G. Brown. He continued his training at the Art Students League during 1875 and 1876. Gaul first exhibited his work at the National Academy in 1877. In 1881, he inherited a farm in Van Buren County, Tennessee, from his mother's family, and lived there four years to fulfill terms of the bequest. In 1885, he returned to New York though he also continued to spend time at the farm in Tennessee. Gaul gained acclaim for his illustration art and portrayals of Civil War scenes. He became a regular exhibitor at the National Academy annuals between 1877 and 1902; in 1882, he was accorded the status of full academician-the youngest artist to attain the honor. He exhibited at the 1889 Paris Exposition; the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago; and the 1902 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, where he was awarded medals. In 1876 Gaul made his first trip to the American West, an area for which he developed a particular affinity. He made numerous western trips in subsequent years, photographing and rendering scenes of Native Americans and the frontier, which he would later work up into paintings in his studios in New York or Tennessee. In 1890, he worked for the United States census on reservations in North Dakota. He also visited Mexico, the West Indies, Panama, and Nicaragua. An account of his travels was published in Century Magazine in 1892. In 1904, he returned to Tennessee and settled in Nashville. The decreasing interest in Civil War subjects resulted in financial hardship for Gaul. He gave private art lessons, and taught at the Watkins Institute, Nashville, and at Cumberland Female College, in McMinnville. He also spent time in Charleston, South Carolina. By 1910, he had moved to Ridgefield, New Jersey, where he continued to paint and live out his remaining years. (source: The Johnson Collection).

CONDITION: Both paintings overall good condition with light grime. [See more photos →]

French Louis XVI style carved and painted urn stand or pedestal. Comprised of a ribbon and laurel swagged frieze atop square carved capitals and ribbed urn center, resting on tapering acanthus leaf legs, terminating in stacked paw feet. 19" H x 22" dia. Late 19th/Early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of David Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with expected general wear and minor paint losses. Likely had a marble inset top or other inset top, now absent. [See more photos →]

French Louis Philippe gilt overmantel mirror. Carved shell and foliate top crest, with ovolo and bead molded surround, and carved foliate ornaments to the lower corners. 51 1/4" H x 47" W x 2 1/4" D. Late19th century.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: Overall good condition. Glass likely original with some scattered minor losses to silvering. Some breaks to the garlands of crest, frame with some scattered minor losses to gilding, cracks with old repairs, possible areas of regilding. [See more photos →]

Lloyd Branson (American, Tennessee, 1861-1925) oil on board portrait depicting Mrs. Walter Thurman Lay (Christine Godfrey Lay), a member of the family that founded Lay Packing Company, Knoxville, TN in 1907. Portrait depicts a woman with brown hair with a pearl drop necklace, wearing a black pleated organdy and white lace dress, holding a spray of pink flowers and seated on a garden bench in a garden of flowering shrubs. Portrait is signed and dated "Branson 1917" lower right. Likely the original frame. Black and white photograph of the subject signed by Branson also included with the portrait. Sight: 16 1/2" H x 13 1/2" W. Framed: 20 3/4" H x 17 3/4" W. Note: Subject is the consignor's grandmother. Biography (courtesy James A. Hoobler, Tennessee State Museum): Enoch Lloyd Branson was best known for his Southern portraits and depictions of East Tennessee history. He moved to New York in 1873 to study at the National Academy of Design, where he won a first prize in 1875. In a partnership with Frank McCrary from 1885 to 1903, Branson became a leader in the East Tennessee arts community. He was a mentor to Catherine Wiley and is credited with discovering Beauford Delaney. Provenance: Descendant of W. T. Lay, Knoxville, TN, patron of Lloyd Branson.

CONDITION: Overall surface grime, a few scattered pinprick losses to paint. Two 1" area of inpainting, lower left, 4 1/4" x 1/2" area of bench at lower right fluoresces, does not correspond to repair to board. Minor scattered losses to frame, primarily to corners. [See more photos →]

74 pieces Sterling silver flatware, including 72 pieces Towle Candlelight Pattern: 12 dinner knives (4 – 8 1/2" L, 4 – 8 3/4" L, 4 – 9 1/2" L); 12 dinner forks (7 1/4" L); 12 salad forks (6 3/8" L); 18 teaspoons (6" L); 8 round bowl cream soup spoons; 1 dessert/oval soup spoon; 1 sugar spoon; 1 cream ladle; 1 cocktail/seafood fork; 1 pie and cake server; and 5 butter spreaders. Also includes Saart Brothers sterling silver 2-piece baby fork and spoon set. Includes a fitted wooden case. Case: 5 1/4" H x 14 1/2" W x 11 1/4" D. Combined weight: 61.420 total weighable troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Patricia Kiegel, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with normal surface wear. 4 of the cream soup spoons have an Art Deco style monogram "E." [See more photos →]

Jimmie Lee Sudduth (Alabama, 1910-2007) mud and paint on board outsider art bust portrait of a woman in a button-down blouse, executed in shades of red, pink, and gray, with painted red border. Signed center left side. 48" H x 24" W. Provenance: private Middle Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: Wood frame added to verso for hanging. Some scattered grime/staining, particularly to the upper left quadrant, possibly in the making. [See more photos →]

Ladies love token bangle bracelet containing seven (7) $1 gold coins, six (6) $3 gold coins, and three (3) other charms. The coins have all been modified with various engravings. The coins are gold, the bracelet and other charms are not. Gross weight of the bracelet is 34.84 grams.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Virginia Jared, Hillsboro, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

5-Gallon salt-glazed stoneware pottery cobalt decorated jug stamped E.W. HALE / BOSTON / 5 with elaborate cobalt slip floral basket or urn decoration to one side of the body. 18" H x approx. 11 1/2' dia. Last quarter 19th century. Note: Hale was a grocer in Boston in the late 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Mark Anthony Grant Estate, Clarksville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with glaze flakes to the rim edge, a few voids to the cobalt decoration (possibly in the making), tight hairline to base of handle. [See more photos →]

Assembled group of thirty-eight (38) Native American sterling silver jewelry items, including seven (7) rings, one (1) marked JROYBAL, one (1) marked MM, one (1) marked Cortez H.; six (6) pairs of earrings, one (1) marked SR for Sam Roanhorse, one (1) marked RU, one (1) marked QT; six (6) pendants, one (1) marked J. Dabbs; nine (9) bangle bracelets, one (1) marked Delbert Secatero, one (1) marked W. Long, one (1) marked CJ for Corbet Joe, one (1) marked WW for Wilbur Wauneka, one (1) marked Tahe, one (1) marked DT for Duane Tawahangva; three (3) belt buckles, one (1) marked JF for Jeanne & Felix Tsinijinnie; three (3) brooches, one (1) marked FJ for Felix Joe, one (1) marked PTG Phillip Guerro; one (1) money clip; one (1) necklace marked RB for Richard Begay; one (1) squash blossom necklace marked W; one (1) bolo tie. The items in this lot contain turquoise, coral, onyx, agate, malachite, lapis lazuli, or a combination of these stones. Gross weight of the lot is 625 grams.

CONDITION: All items overall good condition with expected general wear. [See more photos →]

Gold pocket watch chain comprised of alternating 14K yellow gold links and 22K yellow gold nuggets. The chain also has an attached fob made of a 14K bar with 22K nuggets on the front of the bar. The chain and fob test 14K and 22K and the chain is 13" L. Weight of the chain is 22.82 grams.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

1st item: Aesthetic Movement sterling silver ladle, attributed to Whiting, with figural fly or bee and leaf decoration to end of handle, the bowl with gilding to interior and matte exterior surface, illegible monogram, and figural leaf design at the handle terminus. Marked STERLING with no maker's marks. 8 1/2" L. 2nd item: Rare pair of Gorham Sterling Silver Asparagus tongs, patent date 1870, with old lion anchor G mark, decorative claw and pierced blade, no monograms. 12" L. Combined weight: 9.23 oz troy.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Camille Gift, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Both items excellent condition, no damage. [See more photos →]

After Fra Angelico (Italian, 1395-1455) religious icon painting, tempura on incised gilt wooden panel, depicting a choir of angels playing trumpets, praying, or in "sacra conversazione". Housed in a carved giltwood frame with decoration including three putti and rays that expand outward in a sun-like manner. Sight: 12 1/2" dia. Frame: 25" H x 23" W. Italian, early 19th/late18th century. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with wood shrinkage noted to panel, largest approximately 5". Some exfoliation to tempura paint. Gilt and material loss to interior portion of the frame. The putti on the frame and rays had some regilding. The exterior portion of the frame exhibits significant cracks and repaired breaks, largest 4 1/4". [See more photos →]

French School sanguine or red chalk drawing on laid paper depicting three figures seated on the ground, one with lute behind him, and a fourth figure standing and reading from a sheet of paper with his back to the viewer. Unsigned. "Manet" printed stamped in black uppercase letters lower left. Housed under glass in a beige mat in a narrow giltwood frame. Sight: 7 1/2" H x 9 1/2" W. Frame: 13 1/4" H x 20" W. 18th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of F. Hamilton Hazlehurst, longtime chair of the Vanderbilt University Art Department.

CONDITION: Two spots of foxing, right side of image, center, and general toning. Not examined out of frame. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Asian porcelain figures. 1st item: Chinese blanc de chine porcelain figure depicting Guanyin (Kuan Yin), the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Unmarked. Fitted with a conforming carved hardwood stand. 8 1/2" H. 2nd item: Japanese Satsuma earthenware figure depicting Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Mercy and Compassion, seated and holding a lotus blossom. Red six character mark to the base together with red seal. 7 1/4" H. Both items Late 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition. 2nd item: One very slight fleabite to front left base, overall craquelure to the glaze. [See more photos →]

108 pieces of sterling and coin silver flatware. Includes: 11 sterling teaspoons with three letter monograms, and 2 sterling salt spoons with gilt wash in the King pattern by S. Kirk & Sons; 6 sterling dinner forks with marks for Oskamp Nolting & Company, Cincinnati, OH.; 4 sterling teaspoons by Gorham, monogramed B, marked "E.F. Waits"; 4 sterling forks and 4 sterling teaspoons in the Louis XV pattern by Whiting Manufacturing Co, incised "Bessie R. W."; 4 sterling teaspoons in the Fleur De Lis pattern by Alvin; 6 sterling demitasse spoons with gold wash in the Strasbourg pattern by Gorham; 4 sterling demitasse spoons in the Wellington pattern by Durgin; 5 sterling ice cream spoons with gilt wash by Watson; 1 fork and 1 teaspoon in the Ivy pattern by Whiting Manufacturing Co.; 1 coin silver fork and 1 coin silver salad fork, 1 with marks for Robert Rait; 16 assorted souvenir spoons, including 11 sterling silver, 1 coin silver, and 4 silverplate; 3 sterling pickle forks including Mexican silver; 1 sterling International oyster fork; 1 pair of Gorham sterling tongs; 29 pieces of assorted American sterling; 2 pieces of unmarked silver, tests sterling; and 2 spoons marked .800. Combined sterling weight: 63.358 total troy ounces. Combined coin silver weight: 2.16 total troy ounces. .800 weight: .795 total troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: the Estate of Emilee Barnes Frincke, Knoxville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with expected wear. [See more photos →]

Persian Heriz rug or carpet, wool on wool, Central medallion with palmettes on a foliate ground within a red shaped ground, dark blue ground foliate border. Woven in colors of red, blue, salmon, green and ivory. 96 1/2″ x 134″. Circa 1920-1930.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Overall good condition, overall general wear, fringe loss, losses to edges and minor scattered staining. [See more photos →]

Published Civil War archive of seven (7) letters from Confederate States of America (CSA) Colonel John Amenas Fite (1832-1925), 7th Tennessee Infantry, Company B, captured at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, while he was a prisoner of war at Johnson's Island, Ohio, dated May 20, 1864, to January 29, 1865. The autographed letters signed (ALS) are all one page and written to various family members, including his brother Judge Samuel McClary Fite (1816-1875). 1st item: ALS from John A. Fite, Johnson's Island, OH, to his sister Kate, dated September 8, 1864. He writes of significant changes that have occurred in the prison, stating "…formerly we could write each day now we write our letter on only Monday and Thursday…we have not been restricted in the number we receive. Our living is also materially changed. We are not prohibbited[sic] from receiving provisions from [anyone] living within the U.S. Military lines and cannot purchase from sutler's store. In short we are [dependent] upon Government rations…". 2nd-3rd items: Two (2) ALS, one-page handwritten letter from John A. Fite, Johnson's Island, OH, to his brother Samuel McClary Fite, dated October 16 and December 21, 1864. His October 16 letter addresses his disappointment in the lack of letters from family members and "…[dispairs] of getting out [of prison] during the war…". He requests for books and socks to be sent to him and provides specific instructions on how they should be packaged. He also remarks upon how much weight he has lost since first coming to Johnson's Island. John's December 21 letter again references his desire for receiving books stating that any are fine to send, as long as they "…do not in any way refer to the military or Naval service [etc.]…". He also mentions that "…I am now convinced I am here for good, only knows how long, perhaps till Gabriel shall blow may be only for life…". 3rd-7th items: Four (4) ALS from John A. Fite, Johnson's Island, OH, including two (2) to his sister(s), dated May 20, and August 27, 1864, and two (2) to his brother(s), dated October 27, 1864, and January 29, 1865. The letters primarily address correspondence that he has received from family members, or lack thereof, and his health. His letter dated May 20 does state that "…Capt Allen…[has] gone to Richmond on exchange…". Note: This archival material has been documented by the Department of State of Tennessee Library and Archives. (see: https://sos-tn-gov-files.tnsosfiles.com/forms/FITE-JAMES_FAMILY_PAPERS_1811st-1879.pdf). Note: His letters were also published in "Colonel John A. Fite's Letters From Prison" by Raymond D. White, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 2, Summer 1973, pp. 140-147 (8 pages). Biography: Col. John A. Fite, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, Tennessee, was born in 1832, in De Kalb County, a son of Jacob and Matilda (Baird) Fite. The father, of German origin, was born in North Carolina, and with his father came to Davidson County, then Smith County, and finally settled in De Kalb County, where he passed his days. Jacob married there and was a merchant at Alexandria as well as a farmer. In 1846 he moved to near Lebanon and died at the age of eighty-three. The mother, born in Hickman County, Tenn., died in 1876. Four of their eleven children were Dorcas R., widow of Leonard Scott; John A.; Dr. J. G. of Lebanon, and Edwin C. John went to Wilson County when he was fourteen years old and was educated in the university at Lebanon, and at Irving College. He began studying law at twenty-two, and in 1855 graduated from the law department of Cumberland University, and immediately began practice with his brother, Samuel, at Carthage. His brother was elected circuit judge in 1858, and he formed a partnership with Hon. W. D. De Witt, now at Chattanooga. In 1861 John enlisted in Company A, Seventh Tennessee Regiment, Moore's Guards, and was elected captain and fought in Seven Pines; promoted major in 1862; he was in Mechanicsville (where he had two ribs broken), Chancellorsville, Cedar Run (where he received a wound in the leg), Fredericksburg and Gettysburg (where he was captured and taken to Fort McHenry), thence to Fort Delaware, thence to Johnson's Island, where he was retained for nineteen months, and paroled in February 1865, but remained in North Carolina. After the war, he resumed practice with his brother, and in 1871 was appointed clerk and master of chancery court holding it for over six years. In 1878 he and H. M. Hale became partners, and in 1882 he was elected to the State Legislature to fill an unexpired term and elected to his present position in 1886. December 29, 1866, he married Mary M., daughter of Leroy H. and Eliza Mitchell, and was born in Smith County in 1841. Their two children are Bettie and Mattie. He was a Master Mason and he and Mrs. Fite were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. For years he was one of the leading lawyers of Smith County bar.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items in overall good, legible condition with light toning, few areas of dampstaining, minor tears and areas of loss to edges of letters. [See more photos →]

Miniature Classical chest of drawers, possibly a jewelry chest, attributed to New England, cherry, mahogany and bird's eye maple primary, white pine secondary. Hinged mahogany lid with maple crossbanding lifts to reveal a rectangular well, above four dovetailed drawers with bird's eye maple fronts and gilt brass lion mask pulls, flanked by fully turned columns, double recessed and beaded side panels and ball feet. 19" H x 15" W x 8 1/2" D. Circa 1830. Purchased from Polk Place Antiques, Nashville, TN.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with light general wear, one piece of side bead missing. [See more photos →]

Caucasian style rug from Northwest Persia, wool on wool, dark blue field with multiple medallions and four narrow geometric borders. 5' 7" x 10' 10". Early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with general wear, abrash and piling losses to center and borders, losses to ends/fringe. [See more photos →]

Large French Louis XVI style bronze mounted porcelain jardiniere, possibly Old Paris, deep oval porcelain bowl having a white ground with hand painted birds, butterflies, and flower decoration to the body and pink rim with gilt trim. Neoclassical style gilt bronze footed base stamped MOURLOT 43. 12 1/8" H x 17 5/8" W x 12" D. French, mid to late 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Minor spots of oxidation to bronze. Some wear to pink paint at foot ring. Museum accession numbers to the underside of the jardiniere. [See more photos →]

Two (2) coin silver mint julep cups attributed to William and Archibald Cooper, and George Williams, both of whom worked in Louisville, Kentucky and other cities. 1st item: Coin Silver julep cup marked W. & A. COOPER in rectangle for William and Archibald Cooper, working Cincinnati 1836-37, Louisville 1837-1846, and possibly Frankfort, c. 1842. Monogrammed J.B. Castleman. 3 5/8" H. 2nd item: Coin silver julep cup with incuse mark WILLIAMS, attributed to George Williams, working c. 1847-1867 in Aurora, Indiana; Louisville, KY; and Seymour, Indiana. 3 1/2" H. Combined weight 7.5 oz troy.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Cora Jane Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

CONDITION: Both with scattered small dents and some scratching, persistent dark mark around circumference of Cooper cup from having been wrapped in rubber band. Overall good condition. [See more photos →]

Pair of Chinese embroidered silk textiles, rectangular form on cream grounds, one (1) depicting females in an outdoor setting engaging in various activities within a floral border, and one (1) depicting flowering vases and cranes within a floral border. 25″ H x 13″ W. 1st Qtr. 20th century.

CONDITION: Both overall good condition with light wear. [See more photos →]

New with Tag Chanel black quilted calfskin leather and pony hair drawstring tote bag, medium, including dual woven-in leather chain straps and gunmetal-tone hardware. Drawstring closure with dual double "C" logo accents opens to a black fabric lined interior with one zip pocket with double "C" logo rectangular pull, interior gunmetal-tone label stamped "CHANEL (REGISTERED) MADE IN ITALY", to zip pocket. Hologram sticker reads: 10758092, lower left of interior. Includes Chanel dustbag, authentication card with matching serial number, two Chanel booklets, and Chanel price tag. 12" H x 14 1/2" W x 7" D. Overall with straps: 19" H. Serial number corresponds to years 2005-2006.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Mrs. Tracy W. Herold, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: New with Tag condition. [See more photos →]

56 pieces Lunt William and Mary or Treasure pattern sterling silver flatware, including 8 dinner knives (2: 9 1/8" L, 6: 9 3/4" L); 8 dinner forks (7 1/8" L); 8 salad forks (6" L); 2 teaspoons (6" L); 8 five o'clock teaspoons (5 3/4" L); 6 round bowl gumbo soup spoons; 6 iced teaspoons; 1 tablespoon; 1 sugar spoon; 2 piece baby fork and spoon set; 1 cream ladle; 1 master butter knife; and 4 flat handle butter spreaders. Not monogrammed. 51.280 total weighable troy ounces.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with normal surface wear. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Charles Dickens First Edition Novels, including Our Mutual Friend and Master Humphrey's Clock, 5 items total. 1st-2nd items: OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, Vol. I-II, First Edition, by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Marcus Stone, published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1865. Hardcover octavos, 629 total top edge gilt pages with frontispieces and thirty-eight plates. 3rd-5th items: MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, Vol. I-III, First Edition, by Charles Dickens, illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), published by Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. Hardcover octavos, 1,038 total gilt edge pages with frontispieces and additional illustrations in the text. All volumes rebound by Riviere and Son, London in red morocco leather with gilt stamped covers and spine, five raised hubs, gilt dentelle with dark green paper pastedowns and endpapers, ex libris plate to interior of front cover. Serial covers included in front matter pages. Original cloth blindstamped covers and spines laid down to back matter pages. Ranging in size from 9" H x 6" W x 1 1/4" D to 10 1/4" H x 7" W x 1" D.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Covers in overall very good condition with wear to hinges, corners slightly bumped. Pages in overall good, legible condition with toning/toning impressions, acid burn, scattered foxing spots, scuffs, creases, few pencil marks, light handling wear. Some pages unevenly cut. Plate are collated, however, some are facing slightly different pages. [See more photos →]

Johan Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (Denmark, 1858-1912) oil on canvas portrait of Friedrich Nietzche (1844-1900). The philosopher is depicted as a brown-haired, mustached gentleman in a dark brown or black suit coat and white shirt, resting his face on his partially open left hand with a bas-relief classical side portrait in the background. Signed and dated "Gudmundsen-Holmgreen 1899" in orange above the subject's shoulder at the lower right. Handwritten label "Gudmundsen-Holmgreen" and additional numbered sticker, en verso of canvas. Housed in a modern ebonized wood frame with chrome painted filet with tulip carved decoration. Sight: 21 5/8" H x 16 1/2" W. Frame: 30 7/8" H x 25 3/4" W.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with scattered abrasion to paint concentrated to right border. Two small pinholes to lower-left corner. Signature and date partially obscured by frame; canvas has been restretched. Frame with overall craquelure and minor scattered surface scratches. [See more photos →]

Samuel Armour (Massachusetts, 1890-1964) large impressionistic oil on canvas landscape depicting trees in a field with brightly colored autumn foliage. Signed "S. E. Armour" lower right. Housed in an early 20th-century American giltwood frame with carved corner ornamentation. Sight: 40 1/8" W x 34 7/8"H. Framed: 46 1/4" W x 40 1/2" H.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Carl Klein, Brentwood, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with light grime. Frame with light gilt loss expected with wear. [See more photos →]

Five (5) pieces of Southwestern Native American Pottery. 1st item: Louis Naranjo (Cochiti, 1932-1997) and Virginia Naranjo (Cochiti, b. 1932) hand-painted polychrome pottery figure attired in a ceremonial garb and headdress holding a child, playing a drum in their lap. Signed "Louis & Virginia Naranjo, Cochita, N.M." on underside. 6 1/4" H x 3 3/4" W x 4 1/2" D. 2nd item: Seferina Ortiz (Cochiti, 1931-2007) hand-painted polychrome pottery figure of a woman holding three children in her arms, and two around her feet. Signed "Seferina Ortiz, Cochiti, N.M." on underside. 5 1/2" H x 4" W x 5" D. 3rd-5th items: Terry Tapia (Tesuque, b. 1959) Southwestern hand-painted polychrome pottery items, including one (1) assembled sculpture with of a circle of animals with hand-painted geometric designs including birds, turtles, squirrels, and turkeys, sitting below a tree filled with with owls, birds, and a nest, and with a miniature vase adhered behind the tree; one (1) figure of a turkey; and one (1) miniature vase with geometric decoration. All signed "Terry Tapia" or "Terry Tapia, Tesuque Pueblo" to underside of base. Assembled sculpture: 5 1/4" H x 8 1/2 W x 10 1/2" D. Turkey: 5 1/4" H x 4 1/2" W x 5 3/4" D. Vase: 1 3/4" H x 2" W.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with light grime and surface wear. 5th item with some assembled pieces re-adhered. Sculpture is very fragile. [See more photos →]

Set of four (4) Scott County, Virginia graduated baskets signed by Jesse Jones (b. 1907) including one (1) miniature. All buttocks style consist of white oak, rib-type split construction with handles secured by nails at the rim. All signed in pencil "Jesse Jones" on the handle, two (2) dated circa 1980. Ranging in size from 5" H x 5 1/2" W to 12" H x 12 1/2" W. 20th century. Biography: Jesse Jones was a mountain basket weaver who lived in the isolated mountains of Scott County, VA. His work is featured in the book BASKETS AND BASKET MAKERS IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIA, written by John Rice Irwin (1982).

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Donley and Eunice Hill, Andersonville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All four baskets in overall good condition with light wear to handles, surface grime, and light wear to weavers. [See more photos →]

Alphonse Palumbo (Italy/New York, 1890-1947) oil on canvas cityscape painting depicting the Manhattan skyline with a park landscape in the foreground, possibly Central Park, conveying the artist's perspective of the city from where he may have painted. The work is rendered in warm and cool shades, creating contrast with both color and light and sense of movement with windblown trees and smoke rising from the buildings. Signed "A. Palumbo" lower right. Housed in a giltwood frame. Sight: 26 7/8" H x 30 1/4" W. Framed: 32" H x 36" W.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Carl Klein, Brentwood, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with light grime. [See more photos →]

Emile Galle (French, 1846-1904) cameo glass ewer or bottle, matte moss green ground with carved green and white enameled flowering yarrow and painted fern decoration to the body and stopper. Signed along the lower body "Galle". Underside of stopper etched "7" and "7" etched along the inner rim. 12" H. Late 19th/early 20th century.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with no chips or cracks. Minor scattered losses to enameled flower and painted fern decoration and some white residue noted to inside of bottle. Minor scratching to upper and underside of base. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Joseph Delaney (Tennessee/New York, 1904-1991) ink on paper drawings depicting male subjects in suits, including two (2) bust portraits and one (1) full-length portrait. Unsigned. All items unframed. Ranging in size from 16 1/4" H x 14" W to 24" H x 18" W.

PROVENANCE: The Estates of Ogust and Lois Imogene Delaney, Knoxville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with toning, areas of dampstaining, tears, largest 2", and areas of loss, largest 16 1/4" x 2 1/2" (does not affect overall image), to edges of sheets. [See more photos →]

Ladies platinum diamond ring featuring a Euro cut diamond approximately 0.37 carats, Clarity-SI2, color-G, accented by 8 mine cut diamonds approximately 1.16 carats total, Clarity-SI2, Color-I. The ring is marked "10%irid 90%plat" and is size 6 1/4. Gross weight of the ring is 4.21 grams.

PROVENANCE: the Estate of Emilee Barnes Frincke, Knoxville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

New with Tag Chanel cream leather luxe ligne bowler bag, medium, including dual woven-in leather chain straps and silver-tone hardware. Stitched double "C" logo to exterior of bag with embedded chain trim, zip top with double "C" logo pull opens to a silver metallic lined interior with two slip pockets and one zip pocket with double "C" logo rectangular pull, stamped "CHANEL (REGISTERED) MADE IN ITALY" to zip pocket. Hologram sticker reads: 11402894, lower left of zip pocket. Includes Chanel dustbag, authentication card with matching serial number, and Chanel price tag. 6 3/4" H x 13 1/4" W x 6 1/2" D. Overall with straps: 14" H. Serial number corresponds to years 2006-2008.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Mrs. Tracy W. Herold, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: New with tag condition with few scattered minute, inconspicious stains, primarily to bottom. Exterior logo pull retains original paper wrapping. [See more photos →]

Herend Queen Victoria Green Border pattern hand-painted porcelain tureen and undertray, the tureen and lid with branch form handles and applied roses, gilt highlights throughout. Both with blue Herend stamp mark and numbered on the base. Tureen with lid: 10 1/2" H x 14 3/4" W x 9 3/4" D. Undertray: 1 1/4" H x 13 1/2" W x 9 1/2" D. 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private East Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: All items in overall very good condition. Underplate with minute areas of loss to polychrome decorations. [See more photos →]

Pierre Alechinsky (Belgium/France, b. 1927) Expressionist color lithograph titled "Exprmntl", numbered "II/X". Depicts twenty-six squares surrounded by a black line border, each with various abstract images rendered in shades of red, yellow, black, brown, and moss green, surrounding a central square light brown panel. Titled, in pencil, center of panel, numbered with additional inscription reading "nous la lettre" in pencil, lower left of panel, signed and dated "Alechinsky 1967", in pencil, lower right of panel. Float mounted and housed under plexiglass in a silver metal frame. Sheet: 35 3/8" H x 25" W. Framed: 43 5/8" H x 31 3/4" W.

PROVENANCE: The Guardsmark Collection, Lipman Holdings International, Memphis, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with scattered minute foxing spots, light toning, primarily to top edges of sheet. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

John Gray (United Kingdom, 20th century) oil on canvas portrait of a King Charles Spaniel standing in front of a dark backdrop with trees and shrubbery. Signed "John Gray" lower right. Housed in a contemporary molded gilt wood frame. Sight: 16 3/4" H x 19 1/2" W. Framed: 26 1/2" H x 30 1/2" W. Early 20th century.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Arthur Franklyn Musgrave (Massachusetts, 1878-1969) gouache on paper impressionistic springtime landscape depicting a sun-dappled white house with green door and roof, partially shaded by a large tree to the right. Wildflowers and tall grass fill the foreground with a flowered field in the background at the left side under a clear blue sky. Unsigned. Fragment of label with artist name and possible title "Provincetown" en verso. Housed under glass in a carved Newcomb-Macklin style giltwood frame with fluted giltwood fillet and cream matte. Sight: 14 1/2" H x 19 1/2" W. Frame: 26 1/4" H x 31 1/4" W. Biography: Arthur Franklyn Musgrave was a landscape and wildlife painter. He studied at the Newlyn School of Art in Cornwall under Stanhope Forbes and exhibited at the Society of Washington Artists, 1932; the Royal Academy London; and the Corcoran Gallery Biennial,1928, among other places.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with scattered craquelure, particularly to white paint. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Assembled grouping of English Derby porcelain dinnerware, Imari Tree pattern, 28 total pieces. Includes sixteen (16) plates (8" dia.), four (4) shell form dishes (10" x 9 5/8"), one (1) leaf or heart form dish (8" x 9 3/4"), two (2) sauce tureens with underplates (tureens 7" H x 6" W, underplates 7 5/8" dia.), three (3) lozenge shaped dishes (8 1/2" H x 11" W & 8 3/4" H x 11 1/2" W) and one (1) footed rectangular serving dish with scrolled handles (4 1/2" H x 11 3/4" W x 9" D) All with early 19th century red Derby marks, circa 1820.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of David Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: One luncheon plate with hairlines to center base, in the making. One shell form dish with hairlines to base. One sauce tureen with several hairlines, the other with one hairline, crazing and staining, one sauce tureen lid with fleabite to opening, one underplate with very minor firing flaws to rim. One small lozenge dish with chip to underside of rim, large lozenge dish with some crazing to top. [See more photos →]

Continental School, possibly French, oil on canvas painting depicting a young man with shoulder-length, powdered hair and brown eyes dressed in a formal or court ensemble consisting of a white undershirt with a buttoned collar, a wheat-colored vest, and a red jacket with blue lining. The subject is holding a brown ring in one hand and resting the other on the back of a black and white dog, seated upon a surface with a brown cloth covering. Unsigned. Housed in a molded giltwood frame with foliate decoration. Sight: 33 7/8" H x 25 3/4" W. Framed: 40" H x 32" W. 18th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with very light scattered exfoliation and some inpainting to boy's coat, dog, wig, and face, largest area 3" on right hand side. Painting has been relined. [See more photos →]

Ladies 18K yellow gold dome ring with all-over beaded design. Marked "Nino" and "18K". The ring is size 6 3/4 and has a gross weight of 27.19 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Michael Shane Neal (Tennessee, b. 1968) oil on canvas portrait painting depicting a gentleman with a mustache and monocle attired in a blue pin striped suit, a vest, and red tie, in front of a plain backdrop, rendered in a light impasto technique. Subject is possibly Paul Curtis of Nashville. Signed and dated "Michael Shane Neal, 1998" lower right. Housed in a carved giltwood frame. Sight: 30" H by 23 1/2" W. Framed: 39 1/2" H x 32 1/2" W. Biography: Nashville native Michael Shane Neal is known for his portraits of a number of high profile American subjects including U.S. Senators and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He is a protege of the presidential portraitist Everett Raymond Kinstler. Neal received his B. A. from David Lipscomb University and also studied at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottsdale Artist School, and the Lyme Academy of Art. He is an exhibiting member of the National Arts Club of New York City, the Allied Artists of America, and the Portrait Society of America. He also serves on the Board of directors of the Portrait Society of America. (Source: Portraits, Inc. and the artist's website). Note: Paul Nixon Curtis of Nashville, TN served during WWII under General George Patton, assigned to the 26th Infantry Division. He was taken as a prisoner of war during the Battle of the Bulge. He was awarded a Purple Heart, Infantry Badge, and Bronze star, among others. After his service, Curtis worked for the Railway Postal Service, the Highway Postal Service, and the US Post office. (Source: Paul Nixon Curtis Obituary)

CONDITION: Excellent condition. [See more photos →]

76 pieces of assorted English, American, and Japanese sterling silver items, including: 1 George III stuffing spoon, hallmarked for Emmanuel Levy, London, 1807; 22 Gorham pieces including 12 Lancaster pattern berry forks, Zodiac Taurus pattern youth fork and spoon set (2 pcs),  Luxembourg pattern child's fork and knife set (2 pcs), 1 Strasbourg pattern large ladle, 1 Etruscan pattern flat handle butter spreader, 1 Regent pattern egg spoon, 1 Domestic pattern cream ladle, 1 serving spoon, and 1 flat handle butter spreader; 3 Kirk Repousse pattern items (1 bon bon spoon, 1 cheese server, and 1 lemon fork); 3 Kirk Chrysanthemum pattern items (2 short handle olive spoons and 1 short hadle olive/pickle fork); 5 Shiebler pieces including 4 Flora pattern teaspoons and 1 baby food pusher; 4 Lunt Chippendale pattern items ( 1 bon bon spoon, 1 lemon fork, 1 cream ladle, and 1 jelly server); 4 International Northern Lights pattern demitasse spoons; 2 Whiting pieces including 1 Hyperion pattern small berry/casserole spoon and 1 Heraldic pattern demitasse spoon with gilt wash to bowl;  1 Towle Paul Revere pattern master salt spoon, 1 Towle Dorothy Bradford pattern Spartanburg, SC souvenir five o'clock teaspoon; 1 J.E. Caldwell Daughters of the American Revolution souvenir demitasse spoon; 1 Dominick and Haff Pointed Antique sugar shell spoon; 1 Culman Diamond Head and Surf Boats Hawaii souvenir teaspoon; 1 Mechanics dessert/oval soup spoon; 8 Japanese salt spoons; and 18 other assorted pieces marked "sterling" including 12 spoons, 2 forks, 1 cream ladle, 1 cheese server, 1 child's knife, and 1 serving utensil. All items marked or tested Sterling, many with monograms, inscriptions, or retailer marks. Ranging in size from 2 7/8" to 12 1/2" L. Combined weight: 46.895 total weighable troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of F. Hamilton Hazlehurst, longtime chair of the Vanderbilt University Art Department.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with normal surface wear, bends, and dents. Some items with minor repairs to handles. Some pieces monogrammed. [See more photos →]

Kentucky coin silver cup and flatware marked for George Stewart, working Lexington, 1843 to circa 1852, 24 items total. 1st item: Coin silver mug with double C scroll handle and repousse floral decoration with cartouche enclosing a monogram ISAAC Mc POLK. Stamped GEO W. STEWART in rectangle with incuse stamp LEXINGTON KY below, and another name in rectangle, rubbed (illegible). 4" H including handle. 2nd-5th items: 4 Fiddle handle tablespoons stamped GEO W STEWART in rectangle. 6th-24th items: 2 fiddle handle tablespoons, 10 shell handle teaspoons, 6 fiddle handle teaspoons, and 1 fiddle thread pattern fork, all with incuse stamps G.W. STEWART LEX KY. Combined weight: 27.7 troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Cora Jane Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

CONDITION: 1st item: Monogram and third mark worn, otherwise very good condition. Other items: Wear to ends of bowls on some spoons and tips of fork, overall very good condition. Most items monogrammed. [See more photos →]

Pair of Edwin E. Codman (American, 1876-1955) bronze sculptures, one depicting a charging bull and the other depicting a bear with one raised front leg. Both with incised artist's signature on the naturalistic base and Gorham foundry mark with edition number on the base edge. 3 1/2" H x 7 3/4" L x 2 1/2" W and 3 3/4" H x 5 1/2" L x 2 3/4" W. Both 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of David Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Both bronzes in overall good condition with old patina and natural expected wear. [See more photos →]

Nine (9) Herend hand-painted porcelain animal figurines, most with fishnet decorations and gilt highlights throughout, including two (2) pink rabbits; one (1) green elephant; one (1) green elephant perched atop a red ball with stars; one (1) green rabbit; one (1) green owl; one (1) black cat; and two (2) grasshoppers on naturalistic grounds. All items with blue Herend stamp mark and numbered on the base. Ranging in size from 1 5/8" H x 7/8" W x 1" D to 3 1/2" H x 3" W x 1 5/8" D. All pieces second half of 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private East Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: All pieces in overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Set of twelve (12) Manchester sterling silver sherbets. Maker's marks, Sterling, and 813 stamped to underside of bases. Monogrammed with script "H". 3 3/4" H x 3 3/4" dia. 46.165 total troy ounces.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with light use wear, few minor bends to rims. [See more photos →]

American School, second quarter 19th century, miniature watercolor portrait depicting a man with reddish brown curly hair and sideburns, possibly including some strands of human hair. Subject is depicted wearing a dark coat, tie, and white shirt, with watch fob, set against a deep blue background. Housed under glass in a rose gold colored case. Overall: 3 1/8" H x 2 1/2" W (not including hanger).

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Portrait excellent condition with minor oxidation to the case. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Kentucky coin silver mint julep cups, including 1 cup with triple reeded and molded rims stamped CALVERT for T.G. Calvert (working Lexington c. 1840-1850), 3 7/8" H; and 1 cup with molded rims, incuse mark FLETCHER & BENNETT LOUISVILLE KY (working c. 1854-1875) plus illegible third mark, 3 1/2" H. Combined weight 7.9 oz troy. Note: more Kentucky coin silver will be offered on Day 2 of this auction.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Cora Jane Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

CONDITION: Fletcher & Bennett cup has shallow horizontal dent to side, about 1" W. Otherwise both items very good condition. [See more photos →]

Archaistic pottery censer in the Chinese Song/Yuan style, cylindrical form with tripod base, deep green iridescent glaze and incised decoration to the body including unusual arched windows with characters along with additional auspicious symbol and geometric elements. Fitted with a conforming carved wood cover having jui-head decoration and carved blue lace quartz berry finial and a fitted hardwood stand. 9 1/2" H (with lid and without stand) x 9" dia. 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The collection of a Tennessee institution.

CONDITION: Old loss to foot with hardwood stand constructed to accomodate this loss. Hairline emanating from rim down into the body with spidering. One area of loss to body. Minor splitting to wood of lid. Early 20th century damage label affixed to body. [See more photos →]

Group of Scottish style sterling silver agate jewelry items including two (2) link style bracelets; eight (8) brooches, including one (1) with early 20th century Birmingham hallmarks; two (2) Celtic style pins, both with late 20th century Edinburgh hallmarks; and one (1) charm. Each of these pieces contains various forms of agate and tests sterling. The gross weight of the lot is 151.9 grams.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Patricia Kiegel, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

After Rosa Marie (Rosalie) Bonheur (United States/France, 1822-1899), two (2) bronze sculptures depicting bulls on naturalistic bases. Bull with head turned to the left signed "R. Bonheur" to left side of base (6" H x 9 1/2" W); Bull with upturned head signed "Rosa B" to left side of base, inscribed "Modele" to underside of base (5 3/4" H x 8 1/4" W). Late 19th/early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The collection of Dr. Andrew Wilkerson, by descent from the estate of Vernon and Vicki Meche, Iron City, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Both items in overall very good condition. One with minor areas of oxidation to base. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Chinese Famille Rose porcelain vases having flaring rims, long necks with gilded bat shape handles, and tapering bodies with figural landscapes to one side and Chinese inscriptions, likely poems, to the other. Export wax seal remnants to the rims; two with Chinese seal forms in red to underside. All approximately 9" H x 4" dia. Late 19th/early 20th century. Provenance: Collection of Thomas M. Alexander, Greenville, TN, former U.S. Army Captain Airborne/Special Forces during the Late 1960s/Early 1970s in Vietnam. He became a Central Intelligence Agency Field Officer in Southeast Asia, beginning in the Early 1970s until his retirement in 1994.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with wear to gilt handles. [See more photos →]

Set of twelve (12) Wallace sterling silver sherbets. Maker's marks, Sterling, and 2843 stamped to underside of bases. Not monogrammed. 4 5/8" H x 4" dia. 45.965 total troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: The Estates of Daniel and Patricia Burton, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with normal surface wear. [See more photos →]

Ladies 14K yellow gold cocktail ring featuring triangular pear shaped topaz approximately 22×18 mm. accented by 43 round brilliant diamonds approximately 0.86 carats, Clarity-SI1, Color-J. The ring tests 14K and is size 5 3/4. Gross weight of the ring is 19.00 grams.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Howard & Co. sterling silver water pitcher, bulbous form with repousse foliate scrolls design throughout and C-shaped handle. Stamped to underside "Howard & Co./New York/1900/Sterling/4 pts.". 10" H x 8 7/8" W x 6" D. 38.155 total weighable troy ounces. American, late 19th to early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of F. Hamilton Hazlehurst, longtime chair of the Vanderbilt University Art Department.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with scattered minor surface scratches. [See more photos →]

Ladies 18K yellow gold oval link bracelet. The bracelet is marked "750" and "2W". The bracelet is 6 1/2" L and has a gross weight of 23.62 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

1st item: French pocket aneroid barometer, by Jules Richard, #234, comprised of a white enameled dial marked with barometric range from 71-80 inches of mercury, lower dial edge marked "JR, Barometre, Brevete, SGDG". Works marked "Richard A Paris, #234" together with the Jules Richard hallmark. Housed in a sterling silver case with checkered engraving, Minerva head hallmark and maker's mark "AR" marked to the inside of the case. Stem additionally marked 234. 2 1/4" dia. 3.425 gross troy ounces. Late 19th/Early 20th century. 2nd item: French pocket aneroid barometer, comprised of a partially silvered dial with center opening to reveal works, marked with barometric range from 59-80 inches of mercury. Additionally marked along the top edge TEMPETE PLUE VARIABLE BEAU AND TRES-SEC and along the lower edge "Barometre Aneroide'. Housed in a .800 silver case, not marked but tests as .800. Back with engraved checkered design and monogram C P. Retains the original winding key and original leather storage case. 2 1/4" dia. Gross weight 3.230 total troy ounces. Late 19th century.

CONDITION: Cases with expected wear, light scratching, minor scattered denting. Barometers functioning at time of inspection. [See more photos →]

Carl Sublett (Tennessee, 1919-2008) watercolor on paper landscape painting, titled "Slope", depicting a rustic white house set behind a group of trees on a hill. Signed "Sublett" lower right. The Collector's Gallery, Nashville, TN label with date "Dec. 1973" en verso. Double matted and housed under glass in a wormy wood frame. Sight: 16 1/4" H x 22 1/4" W. Framed: 24" H x 30" W. Biography: Carl Sublett studied Art History at the American Academy in Florence, Italy, after serving as a sergeant in World War II. He moved to Knoxville in 1954 where he studied with Kermit Ewing and eventually became a Professor of Fine Art at the University of Tennessee. Sublett was a founding member of the art group, The Knoxville Seven, a progressive group working from 1955-1965, which produced some of the first abstract expressionist art in Tennessee. In 1982 he retired from teaching and in 1984, he opened the Sublett Gallery in Knoxville. In 1991, "The Unseen Carl Sublett" was the first exhibit at the new Knoxville Museum of Art (built on the site of the 1982 World's Fair). Sublett won numerous awards for his paintings and was a member of the National Academy of Design. His works are in the collections of the National Academy of Design, The Tennessee State Museum, and Cheekwood, Nashville. (Source: The Tennessee Arts Commission).

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with foxing spots, largest 1/2", primarily to top left. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Edmund Darch Lewis (Pennsylvania, 1835-1910) oil on canvas impressionistic painting depicting a peasant woman collecting water from a pond in a forest setting. The road behind her leads to a light-filled clearing. Signed "E.D. Lewis" lower left. Housed in a molded giltwood frame with guilloche, reeded, and bead course running patterns. Sight: 8 1/4" H x 6 3/4" W. Framed: 12 1/2" H x 11 1/4" W.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with light craquelure. [See more photos →]

Miniature watercolor portrait titled JOHN WATSON ~ TAKEN 1837 AGE 8 YEARS, depicting the profile of a young boy in a chair, holding a toy ship. Unsigned. Housed in a rectangular gold frame. 3" H x 2 3/4" W. Likely 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee. By oral history, this was acquired from collector Edward Grosvenor Paine.

CONDITION: Overall excellent condition. A couple of fine, tiny spots to subject's hand and a couple of miniscule light flecks to hair area. [See more photos →]

1st-18th items: Eighteen (18) associated porcelain items with turquoise and gilt enameled rims, including nine (9) armorial dinner plates, each having a central polychrome and gilt coat of arms decoration above the motto "PERSEVERE"; and a nine (9) piece dessert service, including one (1) compote, two (2) tazzas, and six (6) dessert plates, each having a central turquoise enamel and gilt monogram "RDR". All items with impressed Royal Worcester stamps to underside of bases. Three (3) armorial plates with Phillips, London retailer stamps to underside of bases. Plates ranging in size from 9 1/4" to 10" dia. Tazzas: 2 1/4" H x 9 1/2" dia. Compote: 4 1/2" H x 9 1/2" dia. 19th item: English Jasperware oval porcelain lidded trinket box with white slip acanthus leaves and Greek key designs applied in relief on a moss green ground. Gilding to lower rim, two rings at sides, the rim of lid, and finial handle. 5 1/2" H x 5 1/4" W x 3 5/8" D. All items English, most late 19th century (one dessert plate with a later 20th century mark).

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Turquoise rimmed dinnerware: All items in overall good condition with expected losses to gilt and enamel, crazing, scattered firing flaws. Compote with repaired breaks to base. Six plates and one tazza with hairlines, largest 10". Some Royal Worcester stamps area faint, difficult to see. Jasperware box: Overall good condition with minute surface grime, some losses to gilt, and minor flaws in the making. Gilt remnants of mark to underside. [See more photos →]

Ladies 14K yellow gold 3mm rope chain with a simple 14K bezel containing a 1908 $5 Indian head gold piece. The necklace is marked "14K" and is 18" L. The bezel tests 14K. Gross weight of the necklace, bezel, and coin is 24.79 grams.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Virginia Jared, Hillsboro, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Diminutive benchmade inlaid cherry corner cupboard, one-piece construction, poplar secondary. Arched pediment with flame finial above two string inlaid paneled doors, opening to reveal two scalloped shelves and one plain shelf, above three molded dovetailed medial drawers with string inlay. Lower case with two line inlaid paneled doors opening to one scalloped shelf, the whole resting on shaped bracket feet, extensions of stiles, with a band of contrasting inlay at skirt. 87 1/2" H x 42 1/2" W x19 7/8" D. Kentucky, early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Mark Anthony Grant Estate, Clarksville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Refinished surface, hardware missing on lower doors, some staining to interior shelving. [See more photos →]

Graphically strong pieced Southern quilt made of cotton cloth in Oxblood brown,dark blue, and orange solid colors in the “Seven Stars” pattern (in reference to the star cluster “The Seven Pleiades” in the constellation Taurus). Quilting is by the piece. Quilting knots are visible on back. Initials “B. S.” embroidered in a corner on back. 72″ H x 89″ W. Circa 1890. Note: Oxblood brown, dark blue, and orange colors are typically found in Carolina and Georgia quilts of the late 1800s. Dark quilting thread used over dark pieced area is a regional characteristic. Another similar example of this sewing is seen in the “Slashed Star” pattern quilt, also included in this sale.

CONDITION: Very good condition overall. Appears unwashed; colors not faded; seams are secure.Tiny bite out of the binding. Backing has scattered discoloration, including along fold lines, and scattered minor spotting. [See more photos →]

Associated set of three (3) Kentucky coin silver julep cups, all with incuse marks H. HUDSON LOUISVILLE for Henry Hudson, working Louisville, circa 1841-1856. All with molded rim and foot ring but with slight variations and differing sizes (ranging from 3" to 3 5/8" H). 1 monogrammed BUCK PARK, the others not monogrammed. 11.25 oz troy combined weight. Note: more Kentucky coin silver will be offered on Day 2 of this auction.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Cora Jane Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

CONDITION: Larger unmonogrammed cup has a 1/4" tear to rim extending into body; other cups have small dents and some scratches but are of overall good condition. [See more photos →]

English George I triple cased verge fusee pocket watch, works by William Kipling (active 1705-1750, London). Outer case comprised of tortoiseshell, middle case comprised of gold wash silver metal, and inner case of silver metal. Watch is key wound with a porcelain face having black markers, painted floral decoration and marked “William Kipling London”. Verge fusee movement signed “Wm. Kipling London” and numbered 13775. Hallmarked on inner case. 1st half 18th century.

CONDITION: Watch runs when wound, retains a winding key. Overall good condition with signs of general use wear; minute hairline to porcelain face measuring approximately 1/2″. Outer case with general expected use wear. [See more photos →]

Assembled group of thirty-two (32) Native American sterling silver jewelry, including eighteen (18) rings, one (1) marked AW for Anita Whitegoat, one (1) marked LM, one (1) marked M Davis, two (2) marked NC, one (1) marked RVT, and one (1) marked RY; six (6) pendants, one (1) marked Phy and one (1) marked TG for Teddy Goodluck; three (3) bangle bracelets; two (2) brooches; one (1) necklace marked NJ for Nila Cook Johnson; one (1) belt buckle marked FC for Fredrick Chavez; and one (1) watch band marked Victor. Each item in this lot contains turquoise, coral, onyx, agate, or a combination of these stones. Gross weight of the lot is 462.5 grams.

CONDITION: All items overall good condition with expected general wear. [See more photos →]

English Regency or American Classical Center Table, mahogany and mahogany veneers with oak secondary wood; circular black marble top with molded edge over a hexagonal baluster form pedestal and tripodal plinth base with carved volutes and demi-rosettes at ends, raised on ball feet. Dimensions: H: 27 3/4 inches x 38 1/4 diameter. 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of David B. Person, Holly Springs, Mississippi.

CONDITION: Some surface wear, scratches and some minor stains to marble; repairs to veneer around circumference of top and minor repair to base and pedestal. [See more photos →]

American school, second quarter 19th century, oil on canvas portrait depicting a dark haired gentleman attired in a black dress coat with white shirt and black necktie, seated at a desk writing with a white feather quill pen. Plain brown background. Unsigned with illegible inscriptions on frame in verso. Housed in a carved giltwood frame. Sight: 29 1/2" H x 24" W. Frame: 32 1/2" H x 27" W. 19th Century.

PROVENANCE: Private Middle Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: Overall light craquelure. Wax lining. Some filling to paint loss in the perimeter of the work, largest area approximately 3". Significant inpainting to the subject's clothing and elsewhere, visible under UV light inspection (see photos). Stretcher lines visible from front of canvas with some abrasion. Scattered minor flea bite losses. Frame with age cracks and minor losses to gilt. [See more photos →]

Axel Soeborg (Denmark, 1872-1939) oil on canvas self portrait painting depicting the artist illuminated by candle light holding his painter's palette with a candle resting upon it and two brushes. The artist is dressed in a brown jacket and hat with a canvas visible to the right background. Signed and dated lower right, "A. 27". Housed in a molded giltwood frame. Old paper labels, en verso of stretcher, "No. 66" and "5-1927 Axel Soesborg for Arbejder (illegible)", stamped "43". Printout of artist's information in Danish taped, en verso of stretcher. Sight: 14 1/4" H x 16 5/8" W. Frame: 19 3/8" H x 21 7/8" W.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Canvas has been relined; edges of lining canvas apparent in frame. A portion of original canvas lifting from lining canvas along left border, measuring 2 3/4" L. Very minor craquelure. Frame with minor losses to gilt, largest measuring 1/4" H x 1/8" W along with minor dent to lower outer edge, measuring 3/8" H x 5/8" W. [See more photos →]

Large Persian Serab runner, wool on wool with six central medallions on an ivory ground within three concentric borders. Woven in colors of rust, ivory, blue, green, and tan/light gold. 10'8" H x 3'3" W. Early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with general wear and some losses to ends/fringe. [See more photos →]

Persian Serab runner rug, wool on wool, four central medallions and three narrow borders, in colors of blue, green, red, rust and ivory. 126″ x 37″. Early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with some loss to piling around borders, fringe loss to ends. [See more photos →]

Thirty (30) pieces of assorted sterling silver flatware. 1st-25th items: Twenty-five (25) pieces Wallace Grande Baroque pattern flatware, including 3 European modern knives (9" L), 1 carving knife (12 1/8" L), 1 carving fork (9 1/2" L), 3 forks (7 1/2" L), 3 salad forks (6 5/8" L), 2 oyster forks (5 3/8" L), 3 individual butter spreaders (6 3/8" L), 3 youth five-o-clock spoons (5 3/4" L), 2 teaspoons (6 1/4" L), 2 round bowl soup spoons (6 1/8" L), 1 cream ladle (5 3/4" L), and 1 demitasse spoon (4 1/8" L). 26th-30th items: Five (5) Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. tablespoons (7 7/8" L) with monogram. All pieces stamped with maker's marks and Sterling. 33.490 total weighable troy ounces. American, 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Patricia Kiegel, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All pieces in overall very good condition with minor use wear. Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. spoons monogrammed. [See more photos →]

Southeast Asian carved giltwood and polychrome sculpture of the Buddha standing in the Mandalay style with a top knot and elongated earlobes and hands; mirrored accents to headdress, flowing robes, and lotus form pedestal; all mounted on a wooden base. Sculpture: 21 3/4" H x 8 3/4" W 3 1/4" D. Overall with base: 25 3/4" H. Late 19th/Early 20th century. Provenance: Collection of Thomas M. Alexander, Greeneville, TN, former U.S. Army Captain Airborne/Special Forces during the Late 1960s/Early 1970s in Vietnam. He became a Central Intelligence Agency Field Officer in Southeast Asia, beginning in the Early 1970s until his retirement in 1994.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with areas of natural age shrinkage, largest 4 1/2". Scattered areas of loss, largest 3/4" x 3/4", to headdress. 4 5/8" area of repair to left side of robe and hand. [See more photos →]

Werner Wildner (Nashville, Tennessee, 1925-2004) surrealist oil on panel still life painting titled "October Leaf" depicting an upright leaf behind a nest filled with eggs and surrounded by feathers on a wooden table against a black background. Signed with a monogram "W." lower right. Handwritten label with title and additional information, en verso. Housed in a black painted wooden frame with dark gilt trim and a giltwood fillet. Sight: 9 1/2" H x 7 1/2" W. Framed: 16" H x 14 1/4" W. Biography: Wildner was born in Germany but moved to Detroit with his family as a child and then, as a teenager, to Nashville. He served in the Army in 1944 and went on to study art briefly at the Meinzinger Art School in Detroit. He returned to Nashville to practice commercial art, but by the mid-1950s had decided to pursue his own art career. Whimsical animals and fantastical, often grotesque creatures were a recurring theme of his work. Wildner met with critical and commercial success after a 1962 exhibit of his art at the Nashville site now known as Cheekwood. However, the death of his parents and collapse of his marriage in the 1970's led him to become reclusive in the last two decades of his life. (source: Askart).

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Painting in overall very good condition. Frame with abrasions, minor areas of loss to paint and gilt. [See more photos →]

Southeast Asian gilt bronze Buddha or Bodhisattva, possibly Ming period, the subject depicted seated upon a dragon or foo dog with sash tied at his waist, a necklace with tassels, and an elaborate crown with lotus and foliate surround, resting upon a green polychrome base. Later ebonized wooden stand included. 9 1/2" H x 6" W x 3 1/2" D. 17th century or earlier. Provenance: Collection of Thomas M. Alexander, Greeneville, TN, former U.S. Army Captain Airborne/Special Forces during the Late 1960s/Early 1970s in Vietnam. He became a Central Intelligence Agency Field Officer in Southeast Asia, beginning in the early 1970s until his retirement in 1994.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Expected general age wear, oxidation, and some loss to gilt. Loss to bronze at base measuring 3/4" H x 2 1/8" W. [See more photos →]

Willem George Frederick Jansen (Netherlands, 1871-1949) oil on canvas impressionistic painting depicting a woman, attired in an apron and bonnet, tending to her vegetable garden with a dark forest under a blue sky in the background. Signed "W.G.F. Jansen" lower left wth artist's name on plaque, lower center. Housed in a gilt and gesso frame with floral carved corners. Sight: 17 1/4" H x 14 1/4" W. Framed: 25" H x 22" W. Provenance: The collection of Dr. Andrew Wilkerson.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with light craquelure and surface grime. [See more photos →]

Civil War Era CDV photograph album of KY interest with photos of Union Generals including future President James Garfield, plus a framed collection of 7 Confederate States of America (CSA) currency notes, 2 items total. 1st item: CDV album with small label inside cover for Webster & Bro. Photograph and Ambrotype Gallery, Louisville, KY. Contains 46 cartes-de-visite (CDVs) and 6 tintypes, 52 photographic images total. Five (5) CDVs depict men in Union uniforms, including one (1) of Major General James Abram Garfield (1831-1881), the 20th president of the United States, serving from March to September 1881; three (3) CDVs of Captain George W. Riley, 10th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (two depicting Riley in uniform and one depicting Riley in a three-piece suit), and one (1) CDV depicting two men, identified as James "Jim" Ewing and Andy, with studio marks for Charles C. Giers, Nashville TN, and ink inscriptions by Jim's grandson stating that he "…fought in the battle of Chickamauga at Chattanooga and was wounded there…" en verso. The majority of the images depict men, women, and children in 19th-century dress in studio settings, including one (1) CDV of a woman with D. Stuber, Louisville, KY studio marks, and a George Washington 2 cent Playing Cards US Inter. Rev. Blue US Postage Stamp en verso. The CDVs are housed in a brown embossed leather album with gilt titling to covers and spine with brass hardware, floral endpapers. 6 1/4" H x 5 1/4" W x 2 3/4" D. 2nd item: Framed collection of seven (7) currency notes, including one (1) 1864 $10 CSA note, one (1) 1864 State of Mississippi note, one (1) 1863 50 Cent State of North Carolina fractional note, one (1) 1864 $5 CSA note, one (1) 1863 $5 State of North Carolina note, one (1) 1862 $1 CSA note, and one (1) 1864 $20 CSA note. All mounted to a grey velvet mat and housed under glass in a silver metallic painted wooden frame. Sight: 24 1/2" H x 9 1/4" W. Framed: 26 1/2" H x 11 1/2" W.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: 1st item: All photographic images in overall good condition, one tintype with bends, creases. Most not examined outside of mats. Front matter page and sleeves with foxing spots, scuffs, tears, largest 2", general handling wear. Sleeve binding is separated from spine. Leather covers with rubbing, wear, bumped corners, one brass clasp is not present. Garfield CDV in overall good condition with 1/4" area of flaking, minute loss to top left corner (does not affect overall image). 2nd item: All notes are in circulated condition and pasted to mat. Frame with areas of loss, largest 7 3/4", to paint. [See more photos →]

French Empire figural gilt bronze mantle clock. Gilt bronze figural Grecian winged female figure, seated with a butterfly resting on one shoulder, holding up part of her dress. Circular gilt Roman numeral dial with hour and minute hands, having a naturalistic rocaille surround atop a rectangular plinth base, with applied plaque to the front and scrolling bracket feet. Works marked G. B. and "6." 18 1/2" H x 12 3/8" W x 4 1/2" D. 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: Overall good condition, former museum accession number painted en verso. Clock not tested for functionality. Possibly regilded. Works appear to be complete, need to be cleaned. [See more photos →]

Mogens Vantore (Denmark/France, 1895-1977) oil on canvas impressionist style painting depicting a rainy, residential street in Paris in winter rendered in cool blues and greens with a pair of figures walking in the midground flanked by rows of two and three-story buildings. A building with a red painted first story and street lamp is at the right foreground with a row of leafless trees and the Paris skyline with smokestacks in the background. Signed and titled "Vantore Paris" lower left. Illegible written inscription and additional numbering, en verso of canvas. Housed in a modern giltwood frame. Sight: 25" H x 31" W. Frame: 30 1/8" H x 36 1/8" W.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with surface grime and scattered minor abrasion to paint at borders, largest measuring 3/4" L. Frame with minor surface discoloration and some losses to gilt, largest measuring 1" H x 1/8" W. [See more photos →]

17th c. Delft blue and white tin-glazed earthenware charger with scalloped edges, foliate rim, and figural landscape depicting a kneeling gentleman presenting a lady with a bird's nest containing two birds. Stamped with maker's mark in blue with additional handwritten inscription to underside. 18 3/4" dia. Dutch, last quarter of the 17th century. Purchased from Jan Hunek Antik, Czech Republic, 1999 (copy of receipt available to winning bidder).

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with scattered craquelure and wear to glaze. [See more photos →]

Five (5) Delft tin-glazed blue and white earthenware garniture items with floral panel and relief foliate decorations including three (3) lidded urn-shaped jars with foo dog finials and two (2) octagonal vases. Ranging in size from 7 3/8" H x 4" W x 3 7/8" D to 11 1/4" H x 4 5/8" W x 3 7/8" D. Dutch, circa 1710. Purchased from Anthony Scornavacco Antiques, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1987. Copy of receipt available to the winning bidder.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition. Scattered wear and losses to glaze, largest measuring 1"H x 1 1/2" W. Lids with losses to inner rims. All items with areas of restoration that fluoresce under UV light (see UV light photo). [See more photos →]

Boch Freres Keramis Belgian Art Deco ceramic vase designed by Charles Catteau (Belgium/France, 1880-1966) depicting three antelopes and foliage in vibrant colors of blue, teal and green with black outlines on an off-white ground. Boch Freres Keramis and ".943" stamped in black and "1291" impressed on underside. 9 3/8" H x 8 1/2" W x 5 1/4" D. First half 20th century.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with minor wear to glaze. [See more photos →]

Assembled set of ten (10) sterling silver water goblets, including eight (8) Revere Silversmiths, one (1) Wallace, and one (1) Gorham. Maker's marks and Sterling, Wallace and Gorham goblets with additional numerals, stamped to underside of bases. Not monogrammed. Approximately 6 3/8" H x 3 3/8" dia. 46.58 total troy ounces.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with normal surface wear. One Revere goblet with ring of scratches to bottom of body above stem. Gorham goblet with dent, largest 3/4" to body and 1" dent to base. [See more photos →]

54 Pieces Assorted Silver Flatware, including Northern coin silver and English sterling silver. 1st-35th items: 36 American coin silver items, including 12 teaspoons with shell handles marked for Colton and Collins (working New York, NY 1825-35); 5 teaspoons marked for Boyd and Mulford (working Albany, NY 1832-42); 5 teaspoons marked for Jabez Gorham and Son (working Providence, RI circa 1841-50); 2 teaspoons marked for Harris and Wilcox (working Troy, NY 1847-53); 1 teaspoon marked for Joseph T. Rice (working Albany, NY, 1813-50); 1 teaspoon marked for Palmer and Bachelder (working Boston, MA 1850); 2 teaspoons and 1 tablespoon marked for Hotchkiss and Schreuder (working Palmyra, NY 1825-49, Syracuse, NY 1850-71); 1 teaspoon marked for Henry Raymond (working Albany, NY 1833-40); 1 salt spoon marked for David Hotchkiss (working Palmyra, NY 1825-40); 1 master butter knife and 1 master salt spoon, marked for Duhme and Company (working Cincinnati, OH 1844-96); and 3 teaspoons with illegible marks. 36th-39th items: 4 British sterling silver pieces, including 2 George IV English tablespoons with heraldic crests engraved to handles, marked for William Eaton, London, 1831, and 2 assorted teaspoons with lion passant and additional illegible marks. 40th-53rd items: 14 assorted sterling silver pieces, including 1 tablespoon marked for Porter Blanchard (working Gardner, MA ca. 1915-23; Burbank, Pacoima, and Calabasas, CA 1923-93); 1 dinner fork marked for George W. Webb (working Baltimore, MD 1830-90); 1 teaspoon and 2 salt spoons, unidentified makers; and 9 assorted sterling silver demitasse spoons, including 2 Spanish demitasse spoons with Don Quixote handles and 1 Dutch demitasse spoon with a tulip handle. Most monogrammed or inscribed. Ranging in size from 3 3/4" to 10" L. Combined weight coin silver: 19.67 total troy ounces. Combined weight sterling silver: 17.44 total troy ounces. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with light wear and scattered dents, primarily to spoon bowls. [See more photos →]

Bernard Buffet (France, 1928-1999) lithograph on Arches paper, titled "Papillion Vert" (Green Butterfly) depicting a butterfly with wings spread in saturated shade of green with heavy black outline and a black hatch pattern in the background. Labeled "E. A." lower left and signed "Bernard Buffet" lower right in pencil. Housed and canvas matted under glass in a modern giltwood frame. Placard with title and artist name affixed to matt lower center. Sight: 20 3/4" H x 28 5/8" W. Framed: 26" H x 33 3/4" W.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Not examined outside of the frame. [See more photos →]

Three (3) Kentucky and West Virginia salt-glazed stoneware jars. 1st item: Bierbower and Company, Maysville, KY cobalt decorated jar stenciled "Bierbower & Co./Stoves/Tinware (illegible)/39 Market St./Maysville, KY" around geometric designs to one side. 10" H x 5 7/8" dia. 2nd item: A. P. Donaghho, Parkersburg, WV cobalt decorated jar stenciled "A. P. Donnaghho/Parkersburg, W. V." to one side. 9 3/8" H x 6 3/4" dia. 3rd item: Phillip A. Huffman, Madison County, KY jar stamped "P. A. Huffman" to shoulder. 5 5/8" H x 6 1/8" dia. Late 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Donley and Eunice Hill, Andersonville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items in overall very good condition with Huffman jar having a couple of chips to rim edge, largest measuring 3/8" H x 1 3/8" W. [See more photos →]

Chinese Famille Rose porcelain table screen, comprised of a hardwood framed porcelain plaque with polychrome decoration depicting an emperor in the center holding a rui sceptre surronded by three figures, including the immortal Zhongli Quan, another immortal holding a scroll, and a female holding a circular fan, with a red bat to the lower left margin. Plaque is mounted onto a carved, pierced, and footed hardwood stand with rotating ball decoration. Plaque: 17" H x 12" W. Overall: 23 1/2" H x 13 1/2" W. Late 19th/Early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition. Some light craquelure to polychrome decoration. Some losses to glaze of emperor's badge and to one yellow lower section of robe. [See more photos →]

1st item: Georg Jensen sterling silver Cactus vase, design #572F by Gundorph Albertus. Marked on the base with date marks for 1945 to the present. 5 1/2" H x 2 1/4" dia. Likely Mid-Century. 4.960 troy ounces. 2nd item: Kalo hand wrought sterling silver stamp box with ebonized finial. Base stamped "Hand Wrought / Sterling / Kalo / SB2". 2 1/8" H x 2 1/8" dia. 2.775 troy ounces. 3rd-4th items: Pair (2) of Mexican modernist design sterling silver two-light candelabra, both marked on the base HECHO EN MEXICO D. F. .925 STERLING. 5 1/4" H X 7 3/4" L. 26.970 troy ounces. 34.700 total troy ounces. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition. 2nd item: Overall good condition with light wear. 3rd- 4th items: Both overall good condition with expected general wear. [See more photos →]

Oil on canvas cubist portrait depicting a seated woman attired in a white slip against an abstract background. The painting is rendered in fragmented blocks of color that give the painting a multidimensional perspective. Signed "Marcell, 37" lower left, possibly Marcell W Jensen (1911-1985). Housed in a contemporary giltwood frame. Sight: 38 7/8" H x 34 1/4" W. Framed: 42 1/2" H x 39" W.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Dr. Thomas Bechtel, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Overall heavy craquelure with some buckling to canvas and one area of paint loss, approximately 1". Painting is loose in frame. Some gilt loss and wear to frame. [See more photos →]

Ladies 18K yellow gold ring featuring a cabochon natural emerald approximately 2.55 carats, accented by 108 rose cut diamonds approximately 1.08 carats, Clarity-SI2, Color-H. The ring is marked "18kt" and is size 7 1/2. Gross weight of the ring is 7.32 grams.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Virginia Jared, Hillsboro, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Ladies 14K yellow gold featuring 2 round brilliant natural sapphires, accented by 12 rose cut diamonds approximately 2.76 carats together, Clarity-SI1, Color-H. The earrings test 14K and have a gross weight of 4.06 grams.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Four (4) wooden boxes, including burlwood and chinoiserie items. 1st item: Burlwood veneered mahogany doctor's travel or apothecary's chest having brass hardware and escutcheons. Lid opens to fitted insert with pencil labeling containing twenty-two labeled vials of various heights with cork stoppers, eight containing homeopathic pilules. Pin-latched lower drawer composed of five compartments, one with cardboard lid, which contains three labeled vials with cork stoppers containing tinctures. 5 1/2" H x 8 1/2" W x 6 3/8" D. English, mid-19th century. 2nd item: Chinoiserie lacquerware tea caddy with floral designs and armorial shield on hinged lid mounted on bracket feet. Composed of two fitted compartments containing pewter or Paktong square tea caddies with engraved foliate designs and outer and inner lids. Key included. Printed label for Camard-Dimer on underside. 5 1/4" H x 7 3/4" W x 5 1/8" D. French, 19th century. 3rd item: Cherry and walnut veneered tea caddy with brass hardware and two inner lids with finial handles. 5 1/8" H x 8" W x 4 7/8" D. Probably English, late 19th/early 20th century. 4th item: Mixed wood marquetry box with purple fabric lining. 3" H x 11" W x 4 1/4" D. Probably English, late 19th/early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of James W. Perkins, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: 1st item: Minor surface scratches along with scattered losses to veneer, largest measuring 1/4" H x 3" L. 2nd item: Surface grime and craquelure commensurate with age; scattered losses to lacquer 1/4" H x 3/4" W. Pewter with slight surface scratches. 3rd item: Overall good condition with scattered splitting to veneer, largest measuring 1/4" L. 4th item: Scattered surface scratches and losses to veneer, largest measuring 3/8" H x 1/4" W. Wooden escutcheon detached but included. [See more photos →]

Twelve (12) Henry Birks and Sons, Canada sterling silver bread and butter plates, all having molded rims. Maker's marks, Sterling, and 3151 stamped to underside of bases. Not monogrammed. Includes 12 original Birks light green drawstring storage bags. Plates: 3/8" H x 6 1/4" dia. Bags: 8 3/4" H x 7 1/4" W. 42.560 total troy ounces. 20th century. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with normal surface wear. Bags with light surface grime. [See more photos →]

Edwardian Sterling Silver Cow Creamer, hinged lid with bee decoration; marks to underside for London, Sterling, 1900. Maker's marks rubbed. 4" H x 7" L. 7.15 troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of James W. Perkins, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Maker's mark rubbed (on interior of lid and underside) otherwise excellent condition. No monograms. [See more photos →]

15 Star Parade Flag, commemorating Kentucky Statehood and/or the South in the Civil War, framed with a Civil War era envelope with printed flag decoration. The printed cotton flag measures 5 1/8" H x 7 3/4" W and features an unusual medallion configuration of large middle star in a circle of ten smaller stars, with four stars in each corner. Mounted and framed with a Civil War era envelope cover picturing a hog saddled with an American flag of similar configuration, stating WHOLE OR NONE, and measuring 3" H x 5 1/2" W. Both items housed together under glass in a whitewashed wooden frame, 15 3/4" H x 13 3/4" W. Note: Kentucky was admitted to the Union in 1792, as the 15th state. 15-star flags made prior to 1800 are extremely rare. This small parade flag in the unusual medallion configuration, which along with the envelope appears to date from the mid 19th century, may have been made in honor of the 15 states which seceded from the Union, leading to the Civil War. Note: For an identical example of the envelope, ref. Mastai, "The Stars and the Stripes," p. 151.

CONDITION: Flag and envelope have been adhered to backing. Header trimmed. Some pen writing en verso of flag. Possible tiny hole upper left of blue canton. Some color fading, including along crease lines at center and near fly end. Minimal fraying. Envelope in very good condition with toning, light grime. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Montblanc, Germany Philharmonia of the Nations Meisterstuck sets, including Mozart and Leonard Bernstein, 4 items total. 1st-3rd items: Three (3) piece Hommage a Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart miniature pen set, including one (1) fountain pen with 14 karat gold nib, numbered YI1007550, one (1) rollerball, numbered BK1173146, and one (1) mechanical pencil, numbered YI1243583. Each with black precious resin caps and barrels, gold plated bands, gold tone clips, and white star logo to top of caps. Stamped "MONTBLANC MEISTERSTUCK" to center bands, "GERMANY" and numbers to clip bands, "4810" with "M" and "14K MONTBLANC 585" to nib. Fountain pen: opened: 4 3/4" L, closed: 4 1/2" L. Rollerball: 4 1/4" L. Mechanical pencil: 4 3/8" L. 4th item: Leonard Bernstein Patron of Art fountain pen, 18 karat yellow gold medium nib, black precious resin barrel and screw on cap with gold plated bands and clip in the form of a treble clef, white star logo to top of cap. "I'VE JUST MET A GIRL NAMED MA-RI-A" with corresponding musical notes stamped to center bands, gold "M Germany" sticker to barrel, "MONTBLANC – PHILHARMONIA OF THE NATIONS -" stamped to barrel band, image of bird with "4810 750 M 18K MONTBLANC" stamped to nib. Opened: 6 1/2" L, closed: 5 3/4" L. Each set includes an original box with Philharmonia of the Nations, Justus Franz compact discs (CD), and booklets with blank warranties. Boxes approximately 2" H x 7" square.

PROVENANCE: Private Middle Tennessee Collection.

CONDITION: All items in overall good, gently used condition. Light surface scratches. Nibs have been inked. Need to be cleaned. Boxes with light surface wear. [See more photos →]

Two (2) Hester Bateman Georgian sterling silver hollowware items. 1st item: Sweetmeat or sugar basket with engraved ship crest, a beaded bail handle and rim, pierced border over a floral engraved oval body, and a cobalt glass insert. Hallmarked for Hester Bateman, London, 1787. 2nd item: Oval teapot with repousse fruit basket and cartouche designs to body and hinged lid. Hallmarked for Hester Bateman, London, 1782. Ranging in size from 3 3/4" H x 5 5/8" W x 3 3/4" D to 5 7/8" H x 9 3/4" W x 4 1/8" D. 20.510 total weighable troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with minor scattered surface scratches and shrinkage cracks to handle of teapot. Cracks do not extend to silver. [See more photos →]

Ten (10) Herend Queen Victoria pattern hand-painted porcelain table service items, including one (1) tureen and lid with green border (8 1/8" H x 11 1/2" W); one (1) oval serving platter with scalloped rim and green border (10 1/2" W); one (1) oval serving platter with scalloped rim and green border (9 3/4" W); two (2) triangular serving dishes with scalloped rims and green borders (9 1/2) W); one (1) square salad serving bowl with scalloped rim and green border (10 3/4" W); two (2) rectangular serving dishes with scalloped rims and green borders (7 1/4" W); one (1) shell-shaped dish with branch form handle and green border (6 3/4" W); and one (1) leaf-shaped dish with branch form handle (6" W), all with gilt highlights throughout. All items with blue Herend stamp mark and numbered on the base. 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private East Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: All items in overall very good condition with a few minimal losses to polychrome and gilt accents. [See more photos →]

Persian Qajar lacquered papier-mache painting depicting a royal hunting party. The central crowned figure slaughters a lion in a clearing, while another crowned figure takes aim at a large cat feasting on a deer. Other figures and hunting dogs attend the activity, and sparse trees, distant mountains, and a townscape appear in the background. Surrounded by a rose and lattice painted border. Unsigned. Framer's sticker labels, en verso. Housed under glass in a molded wooden frame with a gilt sight edge. Sight: 11 1/2" H x 18" W. Frame: 18 3/8" H x 24 7/8" W. 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Overall discoloration and craquelure to varnish layer. Scattered losses to edges largest measuring 1/4" H x 1 3/8" W. [See more photos →]

American coin silver cream jug and silver bowl, each with band of repousse floral decoration above a lobed round body and double C scroll handles, raised on a stepped circular foot with floral banding; the sugar bowl with repousse decoration to cover and a floral finial. Both marked F. MARQUAND in rectangles for Frederick Marquand, working New York, NY c. 1815 and Savannah, GA 1820-1828, along with multiple pseudohallmarks. Sugar bowl 9" H including lid; creamer 7 1/4" H. Combined weight: 41.38 oz troy.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Judge John Nixon, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition. Some small dents to widest portion of sugar bowl and to interior rim of sugar bowl, some minor possible denting at top of foot on creamer. No monograms. [See more photos →]

Washington Girard (Tennessee, 1873-1931) oil on canvas painting depicting beech trees surrounding a shaded pool of water in a dim forest setting. Signed "Washington Girard" lower left. Housed in a fluted giltwood frame. Sight: 16 1/2" H x 13 1/2" W. Framed: 20 3/4" H x 17 3/4" W. Biography: "William Washington "Wash" Girard was born on Sycamore Creek in Cheatham County, TN and after high school traveled to New York to study under marine painter Edward Moran. Following the death of his girlfriend, he returned to Nashville, where he continued painting and was a prolific writer. His paintings of beech trees, his favorite theme, were often small and painted on Sycamore Creek or Brown's Creek in the Nashville area. Not overly sentimental, these paintings were praised for their romanticism while remaining realistic." (source: Weesner, "William Washington Girard", Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Spring, 1986).

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with slight buckling to center right of canvas. Possible light scratch upper right quadrant. [See more photos →]

Hester Bateman English 18th century sterling silver teapot of ovoid form, rim and body with bright-cut diamond bands to top and base, central oval cartouche with armorial engraving, beaded base edge, ball feet, scrolled wooden handle, and silver finial. Base with maker's mark "HB", London hallmarks, and date letter for 1781. 5 1/2" H x 9 1/2" W. 14.64 troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga, TN collection.

CONDITION: Old repaired break to base of handle, old repair to end of spout. Wear to engraved decoration. [See more photos →]

Pair of Chinese bronze mounted cloisonne vases, possibly floor vases, baluster form having a turquoise ground with taotie mask and lappet decoration, each with gilt bronze medial band joining two figural foo lion side masks with ring handles. 24" H. Early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of David Caldwell, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition. Some minor scattered wear, light oxidation, minor pitting and minor dings along lower bodies of both. Oxidation to handles and medial band. Some fine cracking and minor losses to undersides. [See more photos →]

1st item: Ladies filigree 10K white gold brooch featuring an oval natural sapphire, accented by 12 bageutte sapphires. 4 round brilliant & 6 single cut diamonds approximately 0.60 carats, Clarity-SI1, Color-H. The brooch is marked "10K" and is 2" L. Gross weight of the brooch is 4.24 grams. 2nd item: Ladies filigree 14K yellow & white gold brooch featuring a step cut square natural sapphire, accented by 2 round natural sapphires. The brooch is marked "14K" and is 2 3/4" L. Gross weight of the brooch is 4.49 grams. Gross weight of the lot is 8.73 grams.

PROVENANCE: the Estate of Emilee Barnes Frincke, Knoxville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Both overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Native American Navajo Old Pawn leather and silver concho belt comprised of seven oval conchos and one larger rectangular buckle all shaped and stamped with inset turquoise on original leather belt, inscribed on underside of buckle "Pawn c. 1950-60", together with one additional leather strap without conchos. Belt with conchos: 40" L. Additional belt/strap: 43" L. Gross weight is 14.115 total troy ounces. Mid 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with general wear and some rust and oxidation to interior of conchos, some abrasion and cracking to turquoise stones, including center stone of buckle. [See more photos →]

36 pieces Kirk & Sons Repousse pattern sterling silver flatware, service for 6, including 6 dinner knives (8 3/4" L), 6 dinner forks (7 1/4" L), 6 salad forks (6 1/4" L), 6 teaspoons (5 7/8" L), 6 oval soup spoons (6 1/4" L), and 6 napkin rings. 34.61 total weighable troy ounces.

CONDITION: All items in overall excellent condition; all oval spoons in original sealed packaging. [See more photos →]

Group of seven (7) Navajo turquoise sterling silver jewelry pieces, including one (1) Concho belt comprised of 16 conchos each containing a turquoise stone; pair (2) of screw-back earrings marked sterling; one (1) ring containing 3 turquoise stones; one (1) bangle bracelet containing a turquoise stone; one (1) brooch containing 3 turquoise stones, marked "sterling" and "MP" with a bull hallmark; and one(1) bolo tie containing 4 turquoise stones. Gross weight of the lot is 209.3 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private East Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: Bolo tie has some damage to one end, remaining items overall good condition, [See more photos →]

Cornelius Hankins (Mississippi/Tennessee/Virginia, 1863-1946) oil on canvas vertically oriented still life painting depicting a branch with two bunches of purple grapes with both fresh green and dried brown leaves, against a reddish-brown background. Signed and dated "Cornelius Hankins 1899", lower right. Housed in a carved, fluted giltwood frame. Sight: 23 1/4" H x 15 1/8" W. Frame: 28 1/2" H x 20 1/4" W. Biography: Mississippi-born Cornelius Hankins studied art in Nashville in 1883 under Professor Edwin M. Gardner and with Robert Henri, leader of the Ashcan School in St. Louis, and William Merritt Chase in New York. He taught in Richmond, Virginia for about 5 years before returning to Nashville to teach at the Nashville School of Art. He painted a number of still lifes and landscapes, but made most of his income from portraits. He painted a number of prominent Southern subjects including Civil War officers and several governors. (Source: The Tennessee Encyclopedia).

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with scattered slight abrasions to paint surface on the left border. [See more photos →]

50 pieces assorted sterling silver items, including 1 E.H.H. Smith Silver Co. Art Nouveau hair comb and 1 brooch or pin, both with pierced scrolling foliate decorations, plus 48 pieces assorted flatware. Included are 8 Gorham pieces, including 2 Lancaster pattern salt spoons, 1 Chantilly pattern lemon fork, 1 Imperial Chrysanthemum pattern berry fork, 1 Baronial pattern teaspoon, 1 Poppy pattern teaspoon, 1 dinner fork, likely from the Mythologique pattern, and 1 World's Columbian Exposition souvenir spoon (held May 1-October 30, 1893); 7 Dominick and Haff pieces, including 6 Trianon Pierced pattern demitasse spoons with gilt wash to bowls, and 1 teaspoon; 6 Whiting pieces, including 2 Lily pattern pieces including 1 teaspoon and 1 dessert/oval soup spoon, 1 Heraldic pattern teaspoon, 1 Empire pattern dinner fork, 1 Damascus pattern dessert/oval soup spoon, and 1 demitasse spoon with gilt wash to bowl; 5 Alvin pieces, including 4 Majestic pattern five o'clock teaspoons, and 1 Old Orange Blossom teaspoon; 3 Wallace pieces, including 2 Louvre pattern five o'clock teaspoons, and 1 Rose pattern teaspoon; 3 Reed and Barton pieces, including 2 La Perle pattern teaspoons, and 1 La Comtesse pattern sugar shell spoon; 2 Watson Floral Series No. 4 pattern teaspoons, including 1 violet and 1 poppy; 2 International La Rochelle pattern round bowl gumbo soup spoons; 2 Durgin pieces, including 1 Iris pattern dessert/oval soup spoon, and 1 Madame Royale oyster fork; 2 Mechanics teaspoons; 1 Manchester Washington pattern small serving fork; 1 Towle serving spoon with engraved gilt wash bowl; 1 George W. Shiebler and Company Flora pattern Pond Lily sugar shell spoon; 1 R. Blackinton and Company short handle olive spoon; 2 German salt spoons with decorative cherub handles; and 2 pieces by unknown makers, including 1 fruit spoon and 1 cheese server. All items marked "Sterling" or "925/1000". Most items monogrammed or inscribed. Items ranging in size from 2 1/8" to 7 3/4" L. Combined weight: 39.155 total troy ounces. Most items late 19th to early 20th century. Provenance: The collection of Gary Glesser of Loudon, Tennessee, by descent from his grandparents, Captain Hoyt and Rachel Holton of Toledo, Ohio. Hoyt Holton became, at age 17, the youngest captain of a Great Lakes Freighter. In the 1960s, Captain Holton participated in a 26-day Admiral Byrd Society trip replicating the explorer's famous transpolar expedition, during which he met the Pope and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. Many items in the collection were brought back as souvenirs from that journey and other frequent voyages.

PROVENANCE: See description for provenance information.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with normal surface wear, scattered dents. Most items monogrammed or inscribed. [See more photos →]

Ladies 14K yellow gold ring featuring a freeform rough cut lapis lazuli approximately 19 x 17mm. Marked "14K". The ring is size 7 and has a gross weight of 13.34 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Grouping of twelve (12) assorted Native American jewelry items. 1st-2nd items: Two (2) Zuni jewelry items, both comprised of silver with multi stone channel inlay, including one (1) double sun face pendant or brooch and one (1) bird brooch. Unmarked. Ranging in size from 1 3/4" to 2 1/4" L. Note: Purchased by the consignor in Orange County, CA, circa 1960-70s. 3rd-5th items: Three (3) coral and silver jewelry items, including two (2) rings and one (1) cuff bracelet. One (1) ring with "W" stamp, other ring unmarked, cuff marked KYLP. Rings range from size 5 1/2 to 6 1/2, cuff is 2 1/2" L. Note: The cuff was purchased by the consignor in Orange County, CA, San Juan Capistrano. 6th-12th items: Assorted grouping of seven (7) necklaces, comprised of turquoise, coral, and shell beads. Most with silver clasps. Unmarked. Ranging in size from 18 1/4" to 32 3/4" L. Note: The turquoise, white, and black beaded necklace was purchased by the consignor from a Cherokee gift shop, circa 1980s, the remaining jewelry was purchased by the consignor in Laguna Beach, CA, circa 1970s.

PROVENANCE: Private East Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with general wear. Silver not tested for sterling. No metal is marked. [See more photos →]

American pieced cotton quilt, Sunburst pattern, comprised of lapis blue and red printed cotton with alternating medallions of brown and rose cotton chintz within ivory squares; embroidered ivory ground and backing. Approximately 114″ x 110″. Second quarter of the 19th century. Note: This pieced “Sunburst” pattern was popular in the Mid-Atlantic region in the first half of the 19th century. The quilt’s large size, dense quilting, and the imported print fabrics suggest it was made in the 1830s-1840s. It descended in the Hazlehurst family of Baltimore, Maryland.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of F. Hamilton Hazlehurst, longtime chair of the Vanderbilt University Art Department.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition for age. Sunburst blocks containing a chintz print with a brown background show consistent fabric loss with batting showing through. Those made of the Lapis Blue and Red prints and the strip borders do not show any fabric deterioration. Scattered dark and rust colored stains up to 1/2″; scattered areas of light grime and discoloration. [See more photos →]

Hermes Heure H wristwatch, quartz movement, silver dial, silver markers with Arabic numbers, original black leather Hermes strap, stainless steel watch case and pin buckle, back of case marked HH1.510 and Serial # 2219933 together with the Hermes logo. Additionally signed on the dial and pinbuckle. Retains the orginal box, original certificate/warranty, and instruction booklets. Overall: 15 3/4" L.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition, needs battery. [See more photos →]

THE CIVIL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, From Its Earliest Settlement Up To The Year 1796; Including the Boundries of the State, by John Haywood, printed by Heiskell and Brown, Knoxville, 1823. Hardcover octavo, 504 pages including Appendix, hardbound in brown leather with gilt lettering to spine. 8 3/4" H x 5 1/2" W x 1 3/4" D. Scarce.

PROVENANCE: Private Middle Tennessee collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition. Front cover and front matter page are separated from spine. Covers with wear, scuffs, areas of flaking and loss, largest 2 1/4". Pages with ink and pencil inscriptions, foxing spots, areas of dampstaining, tears, areas of loss, largest 3 1/2" x 2 1/2", to be expected from age. [See more photos →]

Set of twelve (12) Gorham sterling silver sherbets. Maker's marks, Sterling, and 9891 stamped to underside of bases. Not monogrammed. 4 1/2" H x 3 7/8" dia. 37.545 total troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: The Estates of Daniel and Patricia Burton, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with normal surface wear, few dents to interiors. Four with slightly bent stems. [See more photos →]

NGC graded 2001 $25 United States Half Ounce Gold Eagle coin, West Point mint, designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (New York/New Hampshire/Massachusetts/France, 1848-1907) and Miley Tucker-Frost (American, 20th-21st Century). Depicts Liberty holding a torch and olive branch, backed by the rays of the sun, the U.S. Capitol visible, 46 stars circle design, obverse; male bald eagle carrying an olive branch back to a nest occupied by his mate and their offspring, reverse. Reeded edge. Housed in a NGC (Numismatic Guaranty Corporation) slab. Coin: 27mm, 22 karat, 16.97 grams.

CONDITION: NGC graded PF 70 Ultra Cameo. [See more photos →]

Giovanni Antonio Canal, commonly known as Canaletto (Italian, 1697-1768), "La Torre de Malghera," etching on laid paper depicting the Tower of Malghera near Venice with gondoliers docked on shore and preparing their boats for travel. Inscribed and titled lower margin "A. Canal f., La Torre de Malghera., E4". Label en verso for Kennedy Galleries, NY. Housed in a giltwood frame with a linen mat. Sheet: 19" W x 13 1/4" H. Sight: 17" W x 12" H. Framed: 24 1/2" W x 21" H. Note: other examples depicting this important but no longer extant tower are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with repaired tear lower left corner, some creasing and light discoloration and toning. [See more photos →]

Six (6) piece Tiffany gilt bronze partial desk set in the Bookmark pattern including one (1) double compartment letter holder, one (1) notepad holder, one (1) inkwell with clear glass liner, one (1) pen tray and two (2) large blotter ends. All impressed with TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK and model numbers to base. Ranging in size from 2 3/8" H x 3" W x 3" D to 6 1/8" H x 9 3/8" W x 2 1/2" D. Circa 1900-1925.

PROVENANCE: Mark Anthony Grant Estate, Clarksville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with minor surface wear and oxidation. Letter rack slight bend to right front corner of base. Residue on back of notepad holder, measuring 1 1/8" x 1/2". [See more photos →]

Invitation to the January 20, 1961 inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, and rare 1961 Nashville Tennessean Special Train to the Inauguration Button. Invitation is embossed and stamped with a gilt seal. Comes with the original envelope addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Russell Speights, postmarked 30 December 1960 from Washington, D.C. A calendar of inaugural activities is also included. Invitation 8.5'' x 11.25''. Calendar 7.25'' x 10.5''. Button, 2 1/4" diameter. Note: Russell Speights of Nashville was Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer of the Tennessean Newspaper from 1948-1964 and attended the trip to the inauguration for which this button was made.

PROVENANCE: Provenance: by descent from the estates of Russell and Cornelia Speights, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items with slight toning and envelope shows tears at one edge. Invitation with some creasing near fold line. Calendar has some pencil inscriptions, erased. Button shows some grime. [See more photos →]

Four (4) Chinese watercolor and/or gouache paintings on silk with gilt highlights, depicting four of the Eight Immortals engaged in various activities. All with Chinese inscriptions. All appear to have been cut down from larger works and adhered to newer backings, then matted and framed under glass in giltwood frames with red accent paint. Two frames with Lyzon (Nashville) framer's stickers, en verso. Sights: 10 1/4" H x 7 3/8" W. Frames: 16 3/4" H x 13 3/4" W. Qing period, 18th century or earlier, with later framing.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Judge John Nixon, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: All items with some fraying along the edges, discoloration, and signs of creasing. All appear to have been cut down and adhered to newer backings, which have been taped to mattes. Some wear to gilt mattes. [See more photos →]

Four (4) English sterling silver hollowware pieces, including one (1) creamer with tall C-shaped handle, beaded rim, cabochon and foliate design, and plinth base, hallmarked for Hester Bateman, London, 1823, to underside of base; two (2) plates with scalloped rim, engraved crown and squirrel with motto "Tenebo" to the rim, and engraved bird above "Childs" to underside of rim, hallmarked for Charles Wright, London,1782, to underside of bases; and one (1) sugar bowl with ribbed body and two handles, hallmarked for William Hutton and Sons, Ltd., London, 1900. Ranging in size from 3" H x 5 1/2" W x 2 7/8" D to 9 5/8" dia. 41.725 total weighable troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Edith (Edie) M. Bass, Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the items from her estate in this auction were by descent from her parents, Walter Paul McBride and Claire Childs of Lake Forest, Illinois.

CONDITION: Creamer in overall good condition with minute surface scratches. Plates with surface scratches commensurate with manner of use. Sugar bowl with scattered surface pitting. [See more photos →]

1st item: Large watercolor on silk painting depicting a gray cat crouching beneath a flowering tree, watching two butterflies overhead, in a landscape with blossoming flowers Chinese inscription with two red seals upper right border. Mounted to cream colored silk backing. Ribbon handle affixed to top spindle. Old narrow label en verso at upper edge with Chinese inscription in black ink. Sight: 71 1/4" H x 18 1/2" W. Overall: 91 3/4" H x 21 7/8" W. 2nd item: Watercolor on silk painting depicting a warrior on horseback in red armor with birds in flight in the sky. Chinese inscription and red seal lower right corner. Mounted to brocade backing. Thread handle affixed to top spindle. Label with numbering on lower spindle. Sight: 40 1/4" H x 16 3/4" W. Overall: 70 3/4" H x 24 3/4" W. Late 19th/Early 20 century.

PROVENANCE: Estate of Judge John Nixon, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Both pieces with overall creasing, slight discoloration, some wear to edges, slight scattered separation of fabric layers, and water spots, en versos. 1st item with losses to silk border at top left corner. 2nd item with some scattered losses to material at edges. [See more photos →]

Ladies 14K yellow gold "poison" ring featuring a rounded rectangular black onyx approximately 16 x 10mm set into a hinged top covering a secret interior. Marked "14K" and "KC 3852" with an additional mark of a lion signet. The ring is size 6 3/4 and has a gross weight of 17.78 grams.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, Tennessee estate.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition. [See more photos →]

Collection of ten (10) brass candlesticks, including four pairs of eight (8) plus two (2) singular. One pair with round bases, two pairs with square bases having canted corners, one pair with square bases having rounded corners, one candlestick with petal form base, and one candlestick with a triangular footed base. Ranging in size from 3 1/2" to 9 1/2". English and Continental, late 18th to late 19th century.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with some tarnish, light denting, and warping to bobeches. Pair with square form has significant tarnish and one with cracked node as well as denting. [See more photos →]

A MAP OF THE TENNASSEE[sic] GOVERNMENT FROM THE LATEST SURVEYS, 1799, engraved for John Payne's NEW AND COMPLETE UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY, published by John Low, New York, 1799. This early copperplate engraved map of Tennessee depicts Knoxville, Nashville, and "Clerksville" (Clarksville); Memphis, which had not been founded yet, is in an area noted as "Light soil, long grass, little timber". Native American sites and villages such as Creeks Crossing Place and Cherokee are listed, along with Grandfather's Mountain, Great Iron Mountain, various rivers, and other geographical landmarks. Title, lower right, reference table and scale of miles, lower left. Surrounded by scale notations and a line border. Housed and matted under glass in a wooden frame. Image: 7" H x 15 1/8" W. Sight: 7 1/2" H x 15 1/2" W. Framed: 11 1/4" H x 19 1/4" W.

PROVENANCE: Private Nashville, TN Collection.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with areas of toning/toning impressions, acid burn, and scattered minute foxing spots to be expected from age. Not examined outside of frame. [See more photos →]

Four (4) sterling silver and turquoise jewelry items, including one (1) squash blossom necklace with six blossoms with leaf and turquoise stone set on a double row of beads and naja with incised lines and two leaves, 23" L; one (1) cuff bracelet with fern leaves set with five turquoise stones, stamped CA; one (1) pendant with turquoise stone flanked by two leaves, inscribed KALT-WP-1 4; and one (1) pair of screwback drop style earrings with turquoise stone and leaf. Silver and stone jewelry weighs 189.20 grams.

CONDITION: All pieces in overall very good condition with minute general wear. [See more photos →]

Salvatore Ferragamo Gancini mustard ostrich and calfskin leather shoulder bag, with dual braided top handles and gold tone hard ware. Cross over strap with turn-lock closure opens to reveal a khaki fabric interior lining with two slip pockets and one zip pocket with rectangular logo pull; mustard leather label stamped "Salvatore Ferragamo MADE IN ITALY BW-21 6446" to zip pocket. 10 1/2" H x 17 1/2" W x 4" D. Overall with straps: 17 1/4" H.

PROVENANCE: The estate of Mrs. Tracy W. Herold, Memphis, TN.

CONDITION: Overall very good, gently used condition. [See more photos →]

54 pieces assorted flatware including sterling and .800 silver. Includes twelve (12) sterling forks and six (6) sterling teaspoons in the Theseum pattern by International Silver Co; eleven (11) sterling teaspoons in the Virginia Pattern by Weidlich; three (3) fruit/orange spoons in the Hamilton pattern by Alvin marked "Klein & Son" en verso; fifteen (15) pieces of miscellaneous American sterling flatware including one (1) candle snuffer, one (1) baby food pusher, one (1) bottle opener, one (1) napkin ring and carving set; and five (5) miscellaneous spoons including one (1) with gilt wash. All marked "sterling" with assorted maker's marks. Also includes one (1) .800 Paris, France souvenir spoon (.36 oz troy) and one (1) Oneida Community silver-plated teaspoon. Combined sterling: 45.8 weighable troy ounces.

CONDITION: One broken knife with detached stainless steel blade and one broken sterling spoon. The rest with overall light wear. Some items monogrammed. [See more photos →]

Fourteen (14) pieces of assorted American sterling and coin silver flatware. 1st-10th items: Ten (10) sterling silver items, including 1 Gorham sterling spoon, monogrammed E, stamped with maker's mark and ST; 1 Abraham Van Nuys ladle, stamped with maker's mark; 5 spoons, stamped G 925/1000 S; 1 spoon, monogrammed AP, stamped Sterling; 1 shell spoon, stamped Sterling; and 1 master butter spreader, stamped Sterling. 11th-14th items: Four (4) coin silver items, including 1 W. C Byrd spoon, monogrammed Fannie, stamped with maker's mark and H & W; 1 spoon, stamped F T & Sons GS; 1 spoon with illegible stamp; and 1 fork, stamped Slater Bros. Ranging in size from 5 1/2" L to 15 1/2" L. 11.935 total weighable tory ounces sterling. 2.040 total weighable troy ounces coin. American, late 19th/early 20th century.

CONDITION: All pieces in overall good condition with scattered surface scratches commensurate with manner of use. [See more photos →]

Attributed to Alfred Edward Chalon (English, 1780-1860) miniature painting of a fox bounding through a meadow. Unsigned. Old label en verso reading, "Painted by Chalon for R. Bowes Yorks of Welham, 1840/ CND for H.N.D from Octavia George Thompson granddaughter of R. Bowes". Housed in an oak frame with a black varnish and an inner gold edge under glass. Sight: 1 3/4" H x 3" W. Framed: 3 1/2" H x 5 1/4" W.

PROVENANCE: The Estate of Raymond White, Nashville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with some areas of abrasion causing paint loss around perimeter. Chipping to corners of glass and losses to black varnish on frame. [See more photos →]

Nineteen (19) assorted American sterling silver hollowware table items, including: 2 Reed & Barton Windsor pattern miniature dishes with scalloped rims; 1 Gorham napkin ring; 1 Frank M. Whiting Co. miniature dish with beaded rim; 1 William Rogers & Sons small dish with reeded rim; 1 Frank Smith Silver Co. dish with scalloped rim; 2 Lunt Silversmith baby cups with repousse handles and gilt wash interiors; 1 Weidlich Sterling Spoon Co. baby cup; 2 Watrous Manufacturing Co. items with gilt wash interiors, 1 creamer and 1 two handled sugar bowl; 1 Meridian Brittania Co. basket with pierced rim; 1 Wilcox & Wagoner dish with pierced design; 1 Towle Silversmiths small bowl with pierced rim; 1 S. Kirk & Son circular dish; 1 candlestick with repousse body; 1 creamer with repousse body; 1 ovular bowl with scalloped rim; and 1 baby cup with gilt wash interior. Ranging in size from 1/2" H x 1 7/8" dia. to 1 3/4" H x 11 3/4" W x 7 7/8" D. Combined weight: 46.295 total troy ounces.

PROVENANCE: the Estate of Emilee Barnes Frincke, Knoxville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with scattered pitting and surface scratches. Gorham napkin ring and Weidlich baby cup with inscribed names. Small dish, creamer, sugar bowl, basket, pierced dish, small bowl, and circular dish are monogrammed. [See more photos →]

Northwest Persian village Malayer rug, wool on wool, central dark blue ground foliate diamond field flanked by blue ground foliate spandrels and foliate borders. 78 1/2″ H x 64 1/2″ W.1st Quarter 20th century.

PROVENANCE: the Estate of Emilee Barnes Frincke, Knoxville, Tennessee.

CONDITION: Overall good condition with some losses to pilling along borders and in center. [See more photos →]

Qing Famille Rose porcelain hexagonal form tea bowl or wine cup, the body with polychrome decoration of cockerel and chicken with chicks in a landscape setting amongst rocks, bamboo, and flowers, with butterflies overhead. The interior with bat, peach, bird, and floral polychrome decoration. Base with red six-character Daoguang seal mark to the base. 2 5/8″ H x 5 1/4″ dia. Chinese, 19th century.

PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned by the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation to benefit the acquisitions fund.

CONDITION: Overall very good condition with possible minor wear to polychrome decoration along the lower section of the bowl. [See more photos →]