Monumental carved wooden bowl with one-inch deep edge. 7 1/2″ H x 22 3/4″ diameter x 23″ diameter. American, late 19th century/early 20th century. CONDITION: Scattered dark surface stains. 7 1/2″ L crack from rim into interior. Minor scattered rim chips/abrasions.
Lot 225: American Folk Art Carving, Cock Fighting
American folk art carving depicting two men watching a cock fight. Signed NUMA with gallery label, underside of base. 11" H x 11 1/2" W x 7 3/4" D. American, 20th century. CONDITION: Overall very good condition. Few natural age cracks to wood.
Lot 223: Seymour Etienne Bottex Haitian Painting
Seymour Etienne Bottex (Haiti, 1922-2016) acrylic on masonite board painting depicting a Haitian woman in a red dress and blue head scarf with a platter of fruit and hanging fish on her head. Signed with location “S.E. Bottex Cap-Haitien”, lower right. Inscribed “T. Scarpa” en verso. Float mounted in a contemporary wooden frame. Board – […]
Lot 222: Deland Watercolor Landscape
American School watercolor on paper, rural landscape with dirt road leading past trees to the left and farmstead at right background. Signed in red, Deland, lower right. Likely original carved and molded worn gilt frame. Sight – 12" H x 22" W. Framed – 17 1/4" H x 27 1/4" W. late 19th century. CONDITION: […]
Lot 220: 5 Medical Books, 3 Percivall Pott, 2 Curtis
Group of five (5) 18th/19th c. medical books. Book 1: A Treatise on the Hydrocele, or, Watry Rupture, and other Diseases of the Testicle, It's Coats and Vessels; (Illustrated with Cases.) The Third Edition, Improved with Very Considerable ADDITIONS. London: Printed for L. Hawes, W. Clarke and R. Collins, 1773. 8 1/4" H x 5 […]
Lot 221: Dressmaker's Model Doll and Small China Doll
Two (2) early dolls. 1st item: Small papier mache doll, possibly a dressmaker's model, the brunette painted head with center part and sausage curls, blue painted eyes and painted features. Kid leather body and papier mache limbs; early handmade cotton clothes in the 1850s-60s style and painted shoes. 9 3/8" H. Possibly European, second half […]
Lot 219: Catlin's Notes in Europe 2 vols
Catlin, George. CATLIN'S NOTES OF EIGHT YEARS' TRAVELS AND RESIDENCE IN EUROPE, with His North American Indian Collection: with Anecdotes and Incidents of the Travels and Adventures of Three Different Parties of American Indians Whom He Introduced to the Courts of England, France and Belgium. In Two Volumes Octavo. New York: Burgess, Stringer, & Co., […]
Lot 217: 2 18th Cent. Irish Last Will & Testaments
Two (2) 18th Cent. Irish Last Will and Testaments, including George Evans, 3rd Baron Carbery. 1st item: Copy of the Last Will and Testament of George Evans, 3rd Baron Carbery (d. 1783). Seven single-sided sheets bound at top left corner with additional cover sheet. George's wife, Elizabeth Lady Carbery is the primary benefactor. He also […]
Lot 218: 3 Engravings, Piranesi and Earlom
Three (3) engravings, including Piranesi and Earlom. 1st-2nd items: Two (2) after Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italy, 1720-1778) copper plate engravings titled "Dimostrazione in Grande di Alcune delle Parti del Primordine del Serraglio delle Fiere fabbricato da Domiziano", Vol. IV. Plate LV, and "Dimostrazione in Grande delle Parti del Second Ordine del Teatro di Marcello", Vol. […]
Lot 214: George Washington & Lafayette Colored Lithograph
Colored lithograph after the painting titled “Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon”, 1784 by Rossiter and Mignot. Published by J. McClure, New York. Engraved by Thomas Oldham Barlow. Historical genre scene depicting George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette standing on the piazza of Mount Vernon together with other members of the Washington family. Published […]