Royal Crown Derby English porcelain hand painted covered urn, squat form having two reticulated handles with floral design and the body with an Aesthetic Movement geometric design in colors of pink, blue, green, silver and gold. Base numbered 534. 11 1/4" H x 13" W x 11" D. Late 19th century. CONDITION: Urn overall very […]
Lot 142: Religious Painted Framed Plaque
Gothic framed Royal Vienna plaque of Madonna and child with a silver gothic foliate surround. Plaque with beehive stamp verso lower left and numbers "84 859". 3 7/8" x 3 1/4" plaque, 9 3/8" x 6 1/4". Late 19th/Early 20th century. Germany. Provenance – Robert C. and Cora Reid Greene Estate, Phenix City, Alabama. CONDITION: […]
Lot 141: KPM Porcelain Plaque, St. John
Hand-painted KPM Berlin porcelain plaque depicting the Apostle St. John gazing downward at large open book. Signed "Wagner", right center edge. Impressed marks, including KPM sceptre, plus old paper label on back of plaque (See photo). Newer gilt molded and pierced rectangular frame, made in Italy: 16" x 13 7/8", Plaque sight: 6 3/4" x […]
Lot 139: Miniature Coronation Painting, signed
European miniature watercolor on ivory court scene depicting the crowning of a queen, with court officials present and angels embracing above, signed Aubrey lower right (possibly Louis Francois Aubry, French, 1767-1851). Ivory backed with copper and leather sheet. The leather sheet has the date "1823" inscribed on the margin. Housed under glass in a gilt […]
Lot 140: KPM Porcelain Plaque, 3 Fates
KPM porcelain plaque depicting The Three Fates, after a painting by Friedrich Paul Thumann (German, 1834-1908): "Clotho" the spinner, "Lachesis" the caster of lots, and "Atropos" the inevitable – "the cutter of the thread of life". Impressed KPM mark with scepter en verso. 9 3/4" H x 7 1/8" W sight, 16 3/8" H x […]
Lot 137: Red Grooms Study for Carousel & Redsville, plus 2 other artworks
Red Grooms (American/Tennessee, 1937- ), paintings of the Red Grooms Fox Trot carousel and fantasy theme park "Redsville", plus two other Nashville/Grooms related works. The Carousel and Redsville works are concept illustrations, designed as overlays to be used in presentations to the city of Nashville circa 1994 and are mixed media (paint and colored marker […]
Lot 138: George Cress (TN) cubist oil
George Ayers Cress (Alabama-Tennessee, 1921-2008) oil on board painting; abstract, Cubist-inspired landscape comprised of green, taupe, grey, yellow and black geometrics. Signed and dated "George Kress 1955" lower right. Chattanooga art shop label en verso notes the painting was varnished in 1964. 23" x 17" sight, 30" x 24" in weathered gray-painted wood frame. Biography […]
Lot 135: Beauford Delaney portrait of Delia Delaney
Beauford Delaney (American, 1901 – 1979) oil on canvas of his mother, Delia Delaney. Subject attired in green with a white collar, yellow background. Signed lower right corner, “Beauford Delaney 1963” (or 1964). Executed in Paris, Beauford painted this oil on canvas of his mother from memory. Author David Leeming writes, “Beauford Delaney’s early life […]
Lot 133: 2 Werner Wildner Gnome Drawings
Werner Wildner (Nashville, Tennessee 1924-2004), two graphite drawings with watercolor, both signed lower left "W", matted and framed in matching narrow molded wood frames. One depicts a gnome holding a spear and dead game (6-3/4" x 6" sight, 15" x 13" framed). The other depicts a gnome ascending a hill with the aid of a […]
Lot 134: William Edmondson Bird Sculpture
William Edmondson (American/Tennessee, c. 1884-1951) carved limestone sculpture of a bird with chiseled side and tailfeathers, perched and extended slightly forward, as if peering and poised to fly downward. Rectangular hardwood base retains label from its exhibition at William Edmondson: A Retrospective, Tennessee State Museum, 1981, #46; also exhibited "Will Edmondson's Mirkels", Cheekwood, 1964 #17. […]