Rare and exceptional Wythe County, Virginia side table with an elaborate carved skirt, dovetailed hidden drawer, hand planed bottom of drawer, on turned Sheraton feet. Original surface. Walnut primary, poplar secondary wood. This table relates to a group of similar tables from Wythe Co. and appears to be from the earliest period. Overall excellent condition, […]
Lot 145: 10 vol. Audubon Octavo Birds of America, Quadruped
Exceptional complete set of Audubon Octavo Birds and Quadrupeds (total 10 volumes). Includes the 7 volume – The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York: V. G. Audubon, Roe Lockwood & Son, 1860. The set also includes the 3 volume – The Quadrupeds of North America. New […]
Lot 64: Exceptional and rare Greene County, TN redware jar, marked, J.A. Lowe
Exceptional glazed and stamped redware jar by J. A. Lowe (John Alexander Lowe, 1833-1902), Greene County, Tennessee. A pottery site attributed to him has been located and excavated near the Harmon Cemetery. Hundreds of sherds were recovered from the site bearing the name J. A. Lowe. The 1860 census for Greene County shows Lowe as […]
Lot 233: Cameo brooch of Randal McGavock by Saulini 1851
Important cameo brooch portrait of Confederate Colonel Randal McGavock, former mayor of Nashville, killed in the Civil War at the Battle of Raymond, Mississippi in 1863. Randal McGavock references in his journals having this cameo made in Rome (“Pen and Sword, the Life and Journals of Randal McGavock” by Herschel Gower). Randal quotes in his […]
Lot 163: Large and Important East Tennessee Landscape by Thomas Campbell
An important panoramic East Tennessee landscape oil on canvas by Thomas Campbell (1834-1914, born in England, active Tennessee). Titled on back “Tenn Mill and Mine”, showing a mill in the foreground and a large factory complex in the background right. Provenance – Calderwood Lodge of Calderwood Dam, Tennessee. Condition – overall excellent condition, uncleaned surface, […]
Important Meissen female nude porcelain by Walter Schott.
Important Meissen female nude porcelain by Walter Schott, marked on the base with blue cross swords and incised in the base a cursive “F 68”. Additional number marking with only a “2” legible. This Meissen work, titled ” Nude Flora ” was modeled in 1897 and is pictured in Laurence Mitchell’s Meissen Collector’s Catalogue, p. […]
East Tennessee redware jar with sine wave incising. Attributed to Cain pottery. 19th century.
Lot 159: Monumental gilt plaster casting of horse of Helios for Nashville Parthenon
Monumental gilt plaster casting from one of the horses of Helios, the rising sun. The initial description stated this was one of the castings from the British Museum in London. Subsequent consultations with Wesley Paine, Director of The Parthenon, Nashville, indicates this is probably an interim cast made by Belle Kinney & Leopold Scholz as […]
Lot 160: An Important and rare portrait of William Walker, "The Grey Eyed Man of Destiny"
Important portrait of William Walker, “The Grey Eyed Man of Destiny”, by Nashville artist, George Dury (1817-1894). The painting is signed on the back, “Dury 1858”. Oil/gouache on paper. This painting had previously been attributed to artist Washington Cooper in John Edwin Woodrow’s book, “John Berrien Lindsley” (illustrated on page 85). William Walker was a […]
