1st item: Japanese Imari porcelain charger having central blue and white foliate medallion; alternating vignettes of figural landscape and foliate, bird, and insect design; and concentric blue circles, birds, and flowering sakura or cherry blossom branches to underside. 18 5/8" dia. Meiji period. 2nd item: Kutani footed center bowl with polychrome enamel and parcel gilt […]
Lot 947: 2 American Crazy Quilts incl. Small Piece Quilt Top & Embroidered Velvet Quilt
Two (2) American crazy quilt textiles. 1st item: Hand-pieced crazy quilt top with 19" square blocks made from a variety of satin, silk, and challis fabrics including solids and prints, some with printed portraits, one piece hand-painted, and some with embroidery including the name "Emma", a flag, paisleys, flowers, and crosses. With pearl cotton embroidered […]
Lot 946: Pennsylvania Crazy Quilt C. 1890
Crazy quilt, likely Pennsylvania, made from wool, challis, solid, plaid, and printed fabrics, having embroidered imagery including a flag, house, purse, boot, flowers, horseshoe, scissors, and spectacles. Embroidered floral vine border on two sides. Bound with a separate binding made of pieced velvets to a maroon fabric backing. Place names embroidered on the quilt top […]
Lot 915: 3 Reticulated Porcelain Baskets, KPM & Meissen
Three (3) Continental hand-painted polychrome and parcel gilt porcelain pierced baskets, including KPM and Meissen. 1st item: KPM footed basket or bowl, the center decorated with a hand painted pair of birds upon a branch, with naturalistic branch handles that extend as feet, with molded flowering branches and floral sprays. Faint blue scepter maker's mark […]
Lot 913: 3 Capodimonte Ormolu Porcelain Dresser Boxes
Three (3) Capodimonte design gilt mounted porcelain boxes with bas relief designs, including one (1) attributed to Ernst Bohne Sons German casket form with classical vignette depicting the Greek god Hermes flanked by four figures in a landscape scene surrounded by scrolling foliate and mask designs to lid, fish and foliate forms with vignettes of […]
Lot 851: 19th C. O/C Portrait Painting of a Child with Rose Bush
Large 19th century full-length oil on canvas portrait painting of a child standing beside a rose bush with one hand extended as if to pluck a blossom; the child holds a sprig of flowers in the other hand and wears a white bonnet adorned with large blue flower and red shoes with blue ribbons. Unsigned. […]
Lot 579: Gustave Baumann Southwest Color Woodcut, Spring New Mexico, 1924
Gustave Baumann (Germany/New Mexico/California, 1881-1971) color block print on cream laid paper entitled "Spring New Mexico" depicting a Southwestern scene in which a Pueblo-style adobe building stands behind white and pink-flowered trees under a blue sky. The scene is enclosed in one of Baumann's signature decorative borders. Pencil titled lower left; numbered "No 7 of […]
Lot 493: Persian Sarouk Rug
Persian Sarouk carpet, possibly painted, wool on cotton. Center palmette medallion with floral sprays to each side and flowering urns to each corner, all on a red ground and within five borders. Woven in colors of red, blue, and cream.140" H x 109" W. Circa 1920's-1930's. PROVENANCE: The Estate of Peggy Lambert, Maryville, Tennessee. CONDITION: […]
Lot 420: Sterling Strauser O/B Painting, Floral Still Life
Sterling Strauser (Pennsylvania, 1907-1995) oil on board abstract expressionist still life painting depicting pink, blue, green, purple, and yellow flowers on a beige background, rendered in a thick impasto technique. Signed and dated "Strauser 1971" bottom right. Housed in a giltwood Rococo-style frame with a linen liner. Sight: 27 1/2" H x 21 1/2" W. […]
Lot 394: Flemish School O/C Still Life Painting, 18th Century
Flemish School oil on canvas panoramic still life painting depicting a large blue and white porcelain vase with flowers on the right side and a bundle of peaches and pears in the lower left quadrant portrayed prominently against a landscape background with trees and grassy hills under a hazy sky. Unframed. 29 1/4" H x […]
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