Search Results for: Flow blue

1st item: Chinese carved celadon jade snuff bottle, gourd form with entwined flowers, leaves and vines, some russet inclusions. 3" H. 2nd item: Chinese green quartz carved snuff bottle with relief crane and lingzhi decoration. 2 3/4" H. 3rd item: Chinese smoky quartz carved snuff bottle with carved foo dog handles and a green stone […]

Continental School, 18th century, oil on canvas portrait painting of a gentleman, possibly a botanist. Subject is depicted seated in a chair, facing left, in period blue dress coat and powdered wig, holding a pink gillyflower or stock branch. Blue sky and clouds in background. Unsigned. Older gilt and gesso cove molded frame with ribbon […]

Antique Talish area rug, 86" x 43", plain navy blue center field, cream primary border with flower medallions, secondary colors of rust, taupe, green, blues, salmon, yellow and black. Southeast Caucasus, late 19th century. Provenance: the collection of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Slaymaker, Nashville, Tennessee. Purchased from Ro's Oriental Rugs, Nashville, TN in 1990. CONDITION: […]

1st item: 19th century gilt carved mirror with Neoclassical carved designs to the perimeter including an urn, bell flower garland and shell. 24 1/2" h X 16" w. 2nd item: Queen Anne reverse painted looking glass, with reverse painted landscape scene to the top. 17 1/2" H x 10" W. 18th century. 3rd item: 18th […]

Follower of Sir Peter (Pieter) Lely (1618-1680) oil on canvas portrait of woman, possibly the famous actress and mistress of King Charles II, Nell Gwynn (1650-1687), with swept back brown hair, wearing low white ruffle-collared blue dress, wrapped in pink shawl. Unsigned. Framed in older gilt gessoed frame with acanthus leaf decoration. Sight 13" H […]

Judge George T. Washington archive of political letters and ephemera, 27 items total, including letters from Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Warren Burger, and more. George Thomas Washington (1908-1971) was an American jurist who served as judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1949 to 1965. 1st item: TLS. One page typed […]

Two (2) Historical Staffordshire items. 1st item: Historical Staffordshire Erie Canal pearlware jug with blue transfer print landscape scenes. One side shows the "View of the Aqueduct Bridge at Rochester" and the reverse shows the "View of the Aqueduct Bridge at Little Falls", with bands of flowers on rim, base, and under spout. "Views of […]

Alfred Jacob Miller (Maryland, 1810-1874) oil on board portrait of an English nobleman, possibly Sir William Drummond Stewart. The subject is depicted standing against a red draped backdrop with his right hand resting on a round table and attired in a white Renaissance style costume with red sash and flowing blue robe, a sword fixed […]

Framed Chinese Qing Dynasty silk embroidered double panel with blue sash border, seamed at center, image in various shades and stitches of gold depicting two opposing five-toed dragons chasing a pearl and bats, magic fungus, fans, conch shells, various flowers and clouds surround them. The blue border is stitched with various figures in garden scenes […]