Antique Persian Isfahan vase rug, wool and silk, the cream silk background with a profusely flowering vase within three primary foliate borders. Woven in colors of red, blue, pink, green, and cream. 6ft 7in x 4ft 6in. Late 19th/early 20th century. PROVENANCE: Private Des Moines, Iowa collection. CONDITION: Heavy pile loss/deterioration to the cream silk […]
Lot 714: Antique Turkmen Yomud or Yomut Main Carpet
Antique Turkman Yomud or Yomut main carpet, wool on wool. Central rust field with three rows of eleven guls alternating with two rows of stylized flowers, within three primary borders. Woven in rust, blue, salmon, and cream colors. 7ft 1 in x 3 ft 4in. Circa 1880’s. PROVENANCE: Private Des Moines, Iowa collection. CONDITION: Slightly […]
Lot 481: Pati Bannister O/B Girl in Wicker Chair
Pati Bannister (Mississippi, 1929-2013) oil on board painting of a young blue-eyed girl with a flower garland in her brown hair seated in a wicker chair on the porch of a Victorian house and a grassy field intersected by a dirt pathway in the background. Signed BANNISTER and dated ’80 lower right. Housed in a […]
Lot 462: 2 Meissen Porcelain Figural Groups
1st item: German Meissen porcelain polychrome decorated figural group depicting a shepherd and shepherdess embracing with a sheep resting on the shepherdess’s knee, and raised on a naturalistic ground. Base impressed A 41. and 162 together with the Meissen blue crossed swords mark. Late 19th century. 2nd item: German Meissen porcelain polychrome decorated figural group […]
Lot 310: Antique Beshir Torba Turkmen Rug
Antique Beshir Torba Turkmen rug, wool on wool, the brick red center with stylized floral and medallion designs within a large primary floral border, lower elem border with stylized flowers. Woven in red, blue, gold, and cream colors. 6ft 2in x 3ft 3in. Circa 1870’s. PROVENANCE: Private Des Moines, Iowa collection. CONDITION: Uneven pile wear, […]
Lot 301: Antique Iranian Isfahan Area Rug
Antique Iranian Isfahan area rug, wool on cotton, overall cream field, the center with flowering vase and bird designs within three primary borders including a bird and foliate border. Woven in red, pink, blue, green, gold, and cream colors. 7ft 1in x 5ft. Circa 1920’s. PROVENANCE: Private Des Moines, Iowa collection. CONDITION: Overall very good […]
Lot 297: Persian Pictorial Tree of Life Rug
Persian, likely Isphahan, Tree of Life pictorial rug, central gold ground with a flowering tree and birds, flanking dogs and deer below, all within four borders including a bird and flower border. Wool on cotton construction, woven in colors of gold, blue, red, and brown. 5ft 5in x 3ft 6in. 1st Qtr. 20th century. PROVENANCE: […]
Lot 257: Caroline Wills 1836 Sampler, possibly Southern
American schoolgirl needlework embroidered sampler dated 1836 by Caroline Wills (b. 1824 – d. Knoxville, TN 1857), silk on linen, featuring a simple blue geometric border enclosing 5 alphabets in a variety of stitches including Queen’s, eyelet, box and cross, above a signature, CAROLINE WILLS SAMPLER WROUGHT AD 1836, over a flowering bush flanked by […]
Lot 222: Watercolor Painting made in Gallatin, TN 1830s
Circa 1832 Sumner County Tennessee schoolgirl Theorem by Catherine Hassel of Gallatin. The watercolor on paper image, possibly emblematic of Harvest or national Bounty, features a young woman seated on a wall in a lush garden, holding a basket overflowing with grapes in one hand and raising a goblet in the other hand towards a […]
Lot 168: John Kelly Fitzpatrick O/C Landscape Painting
John Kelly Fitzpatrick (American/Alabama, 1888-1953) oil on canvas Spring Landscape painting depicting a large brick antebellum home as viewed from the rear side, with chimneys rising amid flowering trees and the green grass below partially covered in blue flowers. The painting has descended in the family of the artist’s first cousin, and is thought to […]
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