1st item: Small French Louis XVI style oval table with inlaid white marble top having a gilt bronze gallery above a conforming frieze with single parquetry inlaid dovetailed drawer, resting on tall tapering legs with gilt bronze caps and a kidney shaped parquetry inlaid undertier, also with gilt bronze gallery. Feet with gilt bronze mounts. […]
Lot 538: Franz Hermle Louis XV Style Tall Case Clock
Louis XV style ormolu-mounted marquetry tall case clock, after Jean-Henri Riesener, made by Franz Hermle & Son. Comprised of mahogany and other mixed woods, three ormolu cherubs in clouds hanging garland around the engraved gilt dial with black Roman numerals on white enamel plaques, tapering case with gilt mounts throughout including a sun or Apollo […]
Lot 539: Pair of French Louis XV Style Fauteuils or Armchairs
Pair of French Louis XV style carved gilt Fauteuils or Armchairs, with foliate and acanthus carved top rails, arms, knees, and seats, resting on cabriole legs terminating into scroll feet. Both with Aubusson style needlework upholstery. 36.5" H X 25" W X 20.5" D. 19th century. PROVENANCE: The Estate of Margaret Harold Roberts, Lookout Mountain, […]
Lot 536: American Aesthetic Movement Fern Stand, Eagle Finials
American Aesthetic Movement ebonized and gilt fern stand, possibly Killian Brothers, New York. Comprised of a circular top supported by three shaped legs terminating into shaped paw slipper feet with gilt bronze eagle finials centered by a turned urn finial. Eagles with bronze chain mounts and repeating chain mounts to the base. 38 1/2" H […]
Lot 537: Pair Louis XV Style Bronze Chenets & French Rococo Style Bronze Clock
1st & 2nd items: Pair of Louis XV style gilt bronze fireplace andirons or chenets featuring cherubs resting scrolls atop dolphin bases. 19" H x 15 1/2" W. 20th century. 2nd item: French Rococo style gilt bronze mantle clock with floral and scroll decoration, the dial having blue and white enameled Roman numerals inside cartouches […]
Lot 535: American Classical Mahogany Two Drawer Table
American Classical mahogany two drawer rectangular dressing table or bureau, with mahogany and mahogany veneer, poplar and white pine secondary. Plain top over two dovetailed drawers with brass pulls, elaborately carved and turned acanthus legs ending in brass capped feet. 29 3/4" H x 32" W x 21 1/2" D. Second quarter of the 19th […]
Lot 534: American Mahogany Block Front Chippendale Desk
New England Chippendale mahogany blocked and shell carved slant front desk, white pine and poplar secondary. Consisting of a fall front lid resting on two pull out slides, a fitted interior with four shaped pigeonholes above four drawers to each side with central bank of four drawers, the top drawer with urn carving, four graduated […]
Lot 533: New England Federal Inlaid Card Table
Federal mahogany demilune card table with mixed secondary woods. Rectangular hinged top with cut corners and inlaid at the edge, central shell flanked by shaped string inlay on the skirt, diamond and tombstone line inlay on the stiles, and line and banded inlay on the tall tapering legs. 28 3/4" H x 36 1/2" W […]
Lot 532: Southern Walnut Bookcase Desk, possibly Southwest Virginia
Southern, possibly Southwest Virgina, desk and bookcase, walnut primary, pine secondary, constructed in two sections. The upper section with a projecting cornice over two glazed doors opening to reveal four shelves; the lower section with a slant lid having battened ends. Slant front lid opens onto two pull-out slides to reveal an interior fitted with […]
Lot 531: Early Georgia Folk Art Fiddle w/ Period Notes
Early Georgia folk art carved fiddle, entered into the 1860 Cotton Planters' Convention, together with an 1860 handwritten note reading "Georgia made Fiddle. Manufacture by W. Richard Jones, Columbus, Ga, Age 15 years, Implements, pocket knife, chisel and gimlet. His first attempt at the mechanical arts". An additional Cotton Planters Convention tag fragment accompanies the […]