Search Results for: ivory

Two 20th century Persian Turkoman area rugs with ivory field and secondary colors of red, brown, and blue colors, 80" x 60" and 64" x 42". Condition: Wear to edges and some staining.

Four Chinese decorative arts books. 1st item: David S. Howard, A TALE OF THREE CITIES: CANTON, SHANGHAI & HONG KONG, THREE CENTURIES OF SINO-BRITISH TRADE IN THE DECORATIVE ARTS (Sotheby's, 1997). 269 pp, blue cloth boards with dust jacket. Furniture, silver, porcelain, ivory and textiles from 1997 exhibition displaying records of the East India Company […]

Six (6) miscellaneous desk items including an ivory letter opener, bronze Chinese knife money, ivory cigarette holder, ivory weekly pocket calendar, horse and dog figural pipe with the original case, and a patinated metal tiger (6" H x 12 58" L). All items late 19th/early 20th century. Condition: All items good condition with expected wear.

Includes five colored animal engravings of quadrupeds Weibl Hippotamus v. Gordon, Der Tiger, Der Urson, and Der Pasan. Each has Buff n.d.Vier printed in lower left margin. Hinge mounted in ivory mats with gold highlights. 5-3/4" x 3-1/4" sight, 9-3/4" x 7" matted. Circa 1790. Together with a colored engraving of Hylobates Syndactyla (The Siamang) […]

Pang Tseng Ying (Chinese, 1916-1997), two paintings, gouache and/or watercolor with gilt highlights on paper. One depicts figures in an abstract landscape, the other abstract faces and foliage. Each signed lower right and framed in identical molded giltwood and painted frames with ivory/black mats. Sight 15" x 11", framed 19" x 23". Biography: Pang Tseng […]

Three miniature portraits. 1st item: Carved Ivory profile portrait of Louis XIV with traces of paint highlights. Possibly 17th century. Housed in shadowbox frame. Carving: 3-1/8" x 2-1/4", Frame: 5-3/4" H x 5-1/4"W x 3/4"D. 2nd item: Wax profile portrait of French military officer signed on the sleeve, Petit, and identified as Horatio Veyoll and […]

1st item: Watercolor on ivory portrait of a man in powdered wig, signed at right in script "David" possibly after Jacques Louis David (French, 1748-1825). Housed in an oval gilded frame inset into an ebonized wood frame. Sight 3" x 2-3/8", Framed 6-1/2" x 5-1/2". 2nd item: Watercolor on ivory portrait of a man with […]

4 French Miniature Portraits. 1st item: Portrait of Napoleon on ivory, signed DeLaroche, 19th century, in gilt-colored filigree frame: 6 x 4-3/4. 2nd item: Oil on copper miniature of Queen Mary Stuart, unsigned, early 18th c., in heavily gilt carved frame: 9 x 7-1/2. 3rd item: Ornately decorated hinged bone box with center miniature on […]

Fourteen pieces assorted silverplated flatware, most Victorian and Edwardian, including two boxed fish serving knife and fork sets, both with carved bone or ivory handles and elaborately engraved silverplated blades. One has pierced blades and is marked MB&S, the other has Aesthetic style decoration on the blades and stenciled monograms on handles and is unmarked. […]

Aesthetic movement style cabinet with ebonized primary wood and veneered maple inserts surrounded with simulated ivory inlay. The top is edged with gilt-brass beaded molding over a large central door with silk lining under a brass screen, flanked by mirrored panels. The front features four projecting sections, each adorned with columns with Corinthian gilt brass […]