Six (6) Vale, North Carolina folk art pottery items with alkaline glazes, including Burlon Craig (Lincoln County, North Carolina, 1914-2002) and Charles Lisk (Catawba County, 20th-21st century). 1st item: One (1) large jar with brown alkaline glaze, having two lug handles and incised line around the shoulder. Signed "B. B. Craig" to underside. 15 3/4" […]
Lot 188: Matthew Daly O/C Western Landscape, Estes Park, Colorado
Matthew Andrew Daly (Ohio, 1860-1937), impressionistic oil on board landscape painting titled en verso "The Front Range- Este Park, Colorado" depicting the sun setting over a mountain range underneath a cloudy blue sky, with a sweeping valley, flowing river, and pine trees, foreground. Signed "MA. Daly" lower right. Titled, en verso. Housed in a giltwood […]
Lot 134: 3 Zsolnay Gilt Bronze Mounted Porcelain Jardinieres
Three (3) Zsolnay porcelain ormolu mounted cachepots or jardinieres. Includes one large oval centerpiece and two smaller round side urns, the white porcelain crackle glaze bodies all decorated with hand painted cranberry colored flowers, green foliage and gilt trim, mounted with a pierced and molded gilt bronze rim, handles with dragon or serpent heads, and […]
Lot 130: 3 Pc. Cloisonne and Ormolu Clock Garniture Set, Japy Freres
French gilt bronze and cloisonne clock garniture set in the Chinese taste, including Japy Freres clock flanked by a pair of covered urns. The cloisonne clock case decorated with scenes of birds on flowering branches, having a pagoda style top and gilt bronze fruit finial, gilt bronze columns with foliate finials flanking a gilt dial […]
Lot 48: Chinese Qing Silk Embroidery Panel, Dragons w/ Pearls
Chinese silk four-sided or lobed panel embroidery depicting a central image of a dragon holding a pearl, surrounded by four additional dragons with pearls, with images of bats, clouds, flowers, and precious objects rendered in blue, off white, olive green, coral, and metallic threads on a blue ground, enclosed within an embroidered border, all sewn […]
Lot 46: Chinese Silk Embroidered Court Coat with Mandarin Square
Chinese silk court robe, dark navy ground, the center with Mandarin rank badge depicting a paradise flycatcher above waves with flowering trees and peaches, the body with blue and white embroidered designs including butterflies, flowers, and fruit to the top, landscape decoration to the lower body including deer, crane, and trees, and floral decoration to […]
Lot 40: 2 Asian Porcelain Lamps, Clair de Lune and Tea Kettle
1st item: Chinese Clair de Lune porcelain vase, now mounted as a lamp. Bottle form with garlic bulb rim having raised paneled flowering branch and bird decoration. Base with blue six character mark (partially obsured by lamp mount) and paper label reading "Zing Hsiang Shing Porcelain Co. Shanghai, China". Mounted onto a circular carved wood […]
Lot 32: Pair of Kangxi Imari Armorial Plates for French Market, Corbeau
Two (2) Kangxi Imari armorial chargers for the French Market, octagonal form, each having a central coat-of-arms below a red banner reading "CORBEAU," with a wide border of four vignettes depicting cranes, flowering trees, and foo dogs or lions, surrounded by scrolling foliate decorations on a blue ground. Unsigned. 1 5/8" H x 10 1/2" […]
Lot 18: 2 Chinese Snuff Bottles, Porcelain and Peking Glass
1st item: Chinese Famille Rose porcelain snuff bottle, shield form with polycrome "thousand flowers" decoration to the body and blue sgraffito decoration to the sides; fitted with a blue hardstone stopper. The base with blue character marks. 2 1/2" H. 2nd item: Chinese Peking glass snuff bottle, baluster form, with a yellow ground having pink […]
Winter 2022 Auction Preview
Our next auction scheduled for January 29th and 30th in Knoxville will feature fine art, Southern furniture and decorative arts, silver, Native American, Mid-Century modern, Asian, jewelry, and historical ephemera from several Southern estates and fine collections. A few items from the upcoming auction are below. Watch for more items to be added to this […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 29
- 30
- 31
- 32
- 33
- …
- 73
- Next Page »