Rococo style clock with inlaid floral marquetry case having gilt brass mounts, including a wave finial, scroll feet, and double horse head ornament on the central glass door; gilt dial with enamel letters, signed Lauris and "Made in Italy". Brass time and strike movement and pendulum. 17-1/2"H. Also included is a matching marquetry inlaid wall […]
Lot 258: French Gilt Bronze and Enamel Clock
Louis XVI style Vincenti & Cie mottled grey marble mantel clock with gilt bronze and champleve enamel decoration; the fluted marble with gilt grape leaf and acanthus leaf decoration, the front with floral enamel decoration including blue and white Classical portrait profile plaque. Maker's mark and 9274 on clock works. 20 1/4" H x 12 […]
Lot 259: Tiffany 3-piece Garniture Set
Three-piece Tiffany Egyptian revival champleve gilt bronze garniture set with mantle clock and pair of urns. The mantle clock of gilt bronze and beveled glass with center urn finial with champleve lid, the case with four fluted columns with champleve finials and half-columns on turned bases and two larger side columns with champleve finials and […]
Lot 256: Miniature portraits, clock, and textile, 4 items
Four European decorative items. 1st item: Oval European miniature portrait on ivory depicting a Victorian lady with pink cap. Inscription en verso reads " Mrs. Johnson". Housed in a bone and ebony frame. Miniature measures: 3 1/4" H x 2 1/2" W. Overall: 5 3/4" H x 4 3/4" W. Late 19th century. 2nd item: […]
Lot 254: Ralph Ray Watercolor of Turkey
Ralph Ray Jr. (American, NC, 1920-1952) watercolor depicting a turkey in a natural setting. Signed and dated 1947 lower right. Housed in a contemporary wooden frame. Sight – 11 1/4" H x 15 1/4" W. Framed – 20 1/4" H x 24" W. A biography of the artist, "The Life and Art of Ralph Ray, […]
Lot 255: 2 Sybil Gibson Works
Sybil Gibson (Alabama, 1908-1995), two pastel on paper works: a landscape with colored trees and white fence, and a portrait of a woman wearing a flowered hat and green dress. Both signed botttom right, Sybil Gibson, and housed in wood frames. Each measures 15 3/4" H x 11 3/4" W sight, 19 1/2" H x […]
Lot 252: F. Bernard, Oil Portrait Young Woman
Francois Bernard (Also known as Francisco Bernard, France/Louisiana, 1812-1875, active New Orleans ca. 1856 – 1875) oil on canvas oval half-portrait of a seated young woman with brown hair and wearing a burgundy dress with gold brooch and white lace collar and cuffs, signed and dated "Bernard 1860" at lower right. Period carved giltwood frame […]
Lot 253: South Carolina Portrait of a Lady
South Carolina school, manner of Thomas Sully, oil on panel half-length portrait of a woman with brown eyes and brown curls, depicted in a Romantic pose with her waist and head slightly turned and gazing to the left, resting her chin against her right hand, her right elbow atop her left wrist. Although wearing a […]
Lot 250: Oil on Board Landscape, Willison
Thomas Jefferson Willison (KY/OH, 1864 – 1940) oil on board landscape of mountainous rock formations in the background with a stream and vegetation undergrowth in the foreground, signed "T. Willison" lower left. Housed in a gilt and wood framed. Sight – 9 1/4" H x 14 1/8" W. Framed – 11 1/2" H x 16 […]
Lot 251: Alexander Drysdale Louisiana Landscape
Alexander John Drysdale (American/Louisiana, 1870-1934) oil wash on paper of a Louisiana Bayou landscape. Housed in the original carved gilt wood frame with the frame shop label, W.E. Seebold of Southern Artists Supply House 119 Carondelet St, New Orleans, LA. Pencil signature added at later date bottom right, spelled incorrectly "Drydale" (Drysdale). Sight – 13 […]