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Oil on canvas portrait of a standing child in lace dress with wide blue sash, signed "G. Holthaus", and additionally notated below, "Pinxt", lower right, housed in an elaborate Aesthetic Movement gesso frame with basketweave and floral molding, having projecting corners with applied gilt flowers. Circa 1880. Sight – 29 1/2" x 24 5/8". Framed […]

After Jean Baptiste Clevinger, patinated bronze sculpture depicting Leda and the Swan, signed lower right front, mounted on stepped oval black and white marble base. Plaque mounted on front with title "Swan Lady". Sculpture: 16" H x 29 1/2" W x 10" D, base: 1 1/2" H x 32" W x 14" D. 123.7 lbs. […]

1st item: Dale Bratcher (Kentucky, 1932-2015) watercolor on paper titled "Winter Thaw", depicting a a winter landscape. Signed "Dale Bratcher" lower right. Two exhibition labels, one for "Watercolor U.S.A. 1974" and one for "Central South Art Exhibition 1975", affixed top left en verso. Housed in a wormy chestnut frame. Sight – 17 1/4" H x […]

1st item: Oil on canvas landscape, laid down on board, depicting fishing boats in an Italian harbor at sunset, a figure with net walking on the beach in the right foreground. Signed "C. Montagi" or "Montasi" lower left. Sight – 6 1/2" H x 9" W. Framed – 10" H x 12 1/2" W. 2nd […]

J.D. Kestner, "Gibson Girl" Doll, with bisque shoulder head marked "172" and "7", with upturned chin, blue sleep eyes, painted lower lashes, kid leather joined body with bisque hands and forearms and hinged joints at hip, knees, and elbows. Original upswept blonde mohair wig. Sticker "1352" on right leg. 20" L. Wearing an antique, possibly […]

Group of three Moroccan handwoven tribal rugs. 1st item: Moroccan handwoven rug, wool on wool, 100" L x 41 1/2" W, three medallions, center medallion with lion figure, red field, secondary colors of ivory, orange, green, grey and black. Marrakesh, Morroco rug label on back. 2nd item: Moroccan handwoven rug, wool on wool, 75" L […]

Two scarce Southern books. Item 1: Williams, A. J. Confederate History of Polk Co, Tenn. 1860-1866 "The Confederate County of East Tennessee". Nashville: McQuiddy Printing Co. 1923. 32 page pamphlet. 7 1/2" H x 5 1/4" W x 1/8" D. Item 2: Lester, J. C. and D. L. Wilson. Ku Klux Klan, Its Origin, Growth […]

Michaux, F. A. TRAVELS TO THE WESTWARD OF THE ALLEGANY MOUNTAINS, IN THE STATES OF OHIO, KENTUCKY, AND TENNESSEE, IN THE YEAR 1802, Containing accounts relative to the present state of agriculture, and the natural productions…. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1805. Folded map present before title page. 96pp. This is the abridgment of the […]

Ramsey, J. G. M. The Annals of Tennessee to the end of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising its Settlement, as the Watauga Association, from 1796 to 1777; a Part of North-Carolina, from 1777 to 1784; the State of Franklin, from 1784 to 1788; a Part of North Carolina, from 1788 to 1790; the Territory of the […]

1st-4th items: Four poetry broadsides of "Mountain Mystery" signed by Robert Penn Warren, published by Palaemon Press, Winston-Salem, 1981. Numbered 81, 87, 89, and 90 out of a limited edition of 126. Signed lower right under poem.Three unframed, one housed in contemporary black frame. Edition information and number cut from lower section of framed poem, […]