Chinese or Southeast Asian export silver box, hexagonal form with pierced decoration of birds and flowers within reserves. Stamped 925 with star mark to underside. 3 in. H x 8 in. W x 6 3/4 in. D. 15.53 oz troy. Early to mid 20th century. PROVENANCE: Private Chattanooga area collection. CONDITION: Excellent condition.
Lot 2: Chinese Export Silver Tray and Creamer
1st item: Chinese Export Silver Tray, circular form with scalloped, molded and beaded edge. The underside of the rim is stamped SILVER. The tray XRF tests 90% silver. 14 3/8 in. dia. 32.17 troy ounces. Early 20th century. 2nd item: Chinese export creamer by Hung Chong, operating in Canton and Shanghi, circa 1860 – 1930. […]
Lot 1: Chinese Export 3-Piece Silver Tea Set
Chinese Export 3-piece sterling silver tea set, attributed to Cumshing (Canton). Teapot, creamer, and sugar bowl, each with alternating repousse vignette decoration of figures engaged in various activities and flowering trees, on a diapered ground. All pieces with bamboo handles, and the teapot with a bamboo spout. All with maker’s mark CS and chopmarks on the base. Ranging in […]
Willie Betty Newman Landscape Painting
French Poplar Trees in the Mist, signed W. B. Newman. (Willie Betty Newman, 1863-1935). Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Newman attended the Cincinnati School of Art. The school awarded her a three year scholarship to the Academie Julian in Paris, where she studied under masters including William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Paul Laurens, Robert Fleury, and Benjamin […]
Tennessee mountain landscape by Louis E. Jones
Tennessee Impressionist mountain landscape by L.E. Jones (Louis Edward Jones, Tennessee, 1878-1958). Oil on canvas, signed lower right corner. Appears to be in the original frame. Jones was an Impressionist painter from Woodstock, New York and established the Cliff Dwellers studio in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Some minor losses to frame, painting overall in very good condition. […]
Lot 807: Large Atherton Furlong O/C, Lumberjacks w/ Oxen, 1893
Atherton Bernard Furlong (Canada/Maine, 1849-1919) oil on canvas painting with a team of oxen or cattle hitched to a cart filled with freshly-cut timber, 1893. They stand before a tall, dense forest while a logger or lumberjack at right carries an axe and a second figure tends to a steer. Signed and dated lower left. Housed in an […]
Lot 725: Chinese Archaic Ritual Bronze Vessel
Chinese archaic ritual bronze food vessel or Gui with relief decoration to the body and raised foot and animal mask handles. 3 3/8 in. H x 6 in. dia. Weight 1 lb, 11 3/4 oz. Possibly Zhou Dynasty. PROVENANCE: Private Tennessee collection, purchased from the estate of a retired NASA engineer in Huntsville, Alabama. CONDITION: Overall good […]
Lot 6: Pair of Chinese Bronze Beaker Vases
Pair of Chinese Qing Dynasty bronze beaker form vases, each with raised opposing dragon and phoenix decoration to the round centers and scrolling foliate, bead, and lappet decoration to the rims, mid-section, and base. Four character seal marks to each base. 12″ H. 18th century. CONDITION: Wear and oxidation, overall good condition. Both bases with minor […]
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