Twenty (20) assorted Tartan Ware items, including napkin rings and boxes. 1st – 11th items: Eleven (11) Scottish tartanware napkin rings with black painted edges, including two (2) Buchanon, two (2) Leslie, two (2) Macklin, one (1) Rob Roy, one (1) McPherson, one (1) Robertson, one (1) Stuart, and one (1) illegibly marked. All marked […]
Lot 116: Grand Tour Neoclassical Bronze Figural Inkstand
Italian Grand Tour Neoclassical bronze figural inkstand, finely cast with Aesthetic movement designs, surmounted by a sculpture depicting a male classical figure wearing a toga, flanked by two cut glass inkwells with bronze lids, having a shaped front gallery for pens and other writing instruments, contains an internal bell. 11 1/2" H x 17" W […]
Lot 117: Tiffany Desk Set, Ninth Century Pattern w/ Frames, Brochure
Eleven (11) piece Tiffany Studios gilt bronze desk set in the Ninth or 9th Century pattern, accented with Favrile blue and green glass cabochons, comprising ten (10) articles: two frames (#1697 and 1632), a letter rack (1625), pair of two blotter ends (1623), pen tray (1626), rocker blotter (1628), inkwell (1621), stamp box (1624), magnifying […]
Lot 114: Engraved Tortoiseshell Silver Mounted Casket
Engraved tortoiseshell silver-mounted casket, likely Spanish colonial, comprised of a domed top with engraved silver mounts throughout, consisting of a lock and a hasp, a shaped handle on the lid, corner mounts and floral medallions, one on each side. Additional engraved decoration to the front and back depicting ovals and thistle. 7 1/4" H x […]
Lot 115: 5 Small Vertu Boxes: Pique Tortoise, Sterling Silver, Burlwood
5 small antique objets de vertu including 1 Sterling silver oblong snuff box with engraved dog and eel or snake decoration, hallmarked for Samuel Pemberton, Birmingham, 1806-1807;1 pique tortoiseshell oblong coin purse with silver and gilt inlaid geometric decoration; 1 tortoiseshell navette shaped needle case or toothpick box with inlaid dot decoration and navette shaped […]
Lot 112: 6 Columbian Exposition Cold Painted Bronze Matador Items, Bergmann & Columbus Matchbox
1st – 5th items: European cold painted bronze Matador or Toreadore desk set after Franz Bergmann, consisting of five (5) pieces, including an inkstand having a figural bull inkwell together with a matador or toreador, a pair of figural toreador candleholders, a chamberstick with a kneeling figural toreador, and a figural picadore bell. All items […]
Lot 113: 3 Burlwood Veneer Boxes & 1 Inlaid Box. 4 items
Grouping of four (4) European boxes including two (2) English burlwood veneer tea caddies with domed tops, two inner compartments and brass mounts; one (1) English burlwood veneer tea caddy with domed top having a brass shield and three interior compartments; and one (1) small Continental round mixed woods box with inlay to the lid […]
Lot 110: Pair French Neoclassical Ormolu Urns
Pair of Neoclassical or Empire style gilt bronze urns, campana form, each with flaring rim, acanthus leaf accents, garland and mask decoration to the body, supported by four winged caryatids mounted on gilt bronze plinths with figural, satyr mask, and cabochon decorations. Unsigned. 10 5/8" H x 6 1/4" W x 6 1/4" D. Likely […]
Lot 111: Pair E. Bouret Neoclassical Figural Candelabra
Pair (2) Eutrope Bouret (France, 1833-1906) Neoclassical gilt bronze figural candelabra depicting barefooted women dressed in belted togas and headpieces, holding a feather fan in one hand, and raising a torch in the other which contains a five-armed candelabra. Shaft and arms with sheaf-of-wheat foliate accents terminating in bobeches with swag decoration; surmounted by spherical, […]
Lot 109: Group of TN Coin Silver Flatware including Calhoun Ladle
Eight (8) pieces coin silver flatware attributed to Tennessee makers and/or retailers. 1st item: Soup or punch ladle with beading and tracery design to handle, stamped JP Patent 1855 (likely the Oriental Pattern by John Polhemus) with incuse stamp W.H. CALHOUN for retailer William Henry Calhoun, working Nashville, 1835-d. 1865. 2nd-7th items: Six (6) teaspoons […]