1st item: Folding backgammon board, comprised of a rectangular wooden case with inlaid scrolling decoration to the exterior and interior and brass hardware. Includes fifteen (15) white resin and fifteen (15) brown resin round pieces with two (2) brown resin dice and three (3) white resin dice, and two (2) faux brown leather felt-lined throwing […]
Lot 1029: 2 19th Cent. Mantle Clocks, C. & L.C. Ives, Seth Thomas
1st item: C. & L.C. Ives triple-decker Shelf Clock, Bristol, Connecticut. Late Classical style mahogany veneer case having a bonnet top with finials, a gilt painted wood clock face with Arabic numerals, above an eglomise painted portrait of a female, flanked by Corinthian columns, above a lower door with an eglomise painted landscape scene flanked […]
Lot 1028: Eli Terry & Son Carved Mantle Clock
Eli Terry & Son (Plymouth, Connecticut) carved mahogany mantle or shelf clock, having carved floral basket decoration to the top with carved columns and feet. White and gilt dial with Arabic numerals and gilt Federal shield decoration, the lower door with a print depicting George Washington standing in a hallway with other figures, including Martha […]
Lot 1027: 2 Framed English Silk Needleworks
Pair (2) of English needlework and watercolor on silk portraits depicting young women seated at the bases of trees, including one (1) portraying a barefoot woman a in a red and white shawl crafting a flower wreath from the surrounding foliage with a body of water and rolling hills to the left and one (1) […]
Lot 1026: 2 Persian Woven Velvet Textiles or Tapestries
Two (2) Persian woven velvet textiles, both in rich colors of red, green, and gold with all-over foliate designs. Both with fringe and one backed with green silk and one with lettering. 37" x 26" and 44 1/2" x 27". Late 19th/early 20th century. PROVENANCE: The collection of a Tennessee institution. CONDITION: Smaller textile with […]
Lot 1024: 2 Small Turkish Rugs or Weavings
1st item: Small Turkish wool on wool rug, with a large central medallion and geometric and floral borders. Woven in soft colors of taupe, ivory, salmon, and brown. 26 3/4" x 26 1/2". Early 20th century. 2nd item: Small Caucasian wool on wool rug, center green hooked medallion on red field atop a larger blue […]
Lot 1025: Framed Precolumbian Inca Weaving
Fragment of a pre-Columbian Incan tapestry featuring a band of woven figural designs on a dark red field, set in a double sided frame under double-sided glass. 1975 letter en verso from Maria Teresa O'Leary of Nuevo Mundo, Alexandria, Virginia, certifying the item is from the Peruvian Coast in the Incan period, 1000-1200 AD. Textile […]
Lot 1022: Pair of Cast Concrete Garden Urns
Pair of cast concrete garden urns, campana form, filled with various "fruits" and "flowers" partially painted green and mounted upon a square base. 21 1/2" H x 13 1/2" dia. Mid 20th century. CONDITION: Overall general wear, remnants of later added green paint.
Lot 1023: 3 Persian Rugs
1st item: Persian Soumak design carpet, wool on wool, central medallion design flanked by floral medallions to each corner, in colors of red, blue, ivory, and orange. 42" x 41". 2nd item: Kazak design carpet, wool on wool, central medallion design with multiple borders and striped ends, in colors of red, blue, ivory, green, coral, […]
Lot 1020: Kentucky Boot Scraper & TN Millstone, Clarkland Farm History
1st item: Wrought iron boot scraper designed with volute turned side rails and secured into a granite block. Scraper measures 11 1/2" H x 12 1/2" W. 19 1/2" H x 14 3/4" W x 11 1/2" D. History: Descended through the family of James Clark, the founder of Clarkland, by descent through his son […]