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Pair of Chinese Famille Rose lidded porcelain bowls, the exterior with dragon chasing the flaming pearl decoration, a yellow ground multi-color fret border to the rim and wave border to the base. Both with seven red character marks to the base reading "Jiangxi Province Zhang Guangshun Produce". One bowl measures slightly larger. 1 7/8" H […]

1st & 2nd items: Pair of Chinese porcelain Late Republic Famille Rose hat stands with quatrefoil piercings, landscape, flowering branch, and bird decoration along with poem inscriptions. Red seal form mark to bases. 10 3/4" H. 2nd item: Chinese Famille Rose ginger jar form vase with vignette decoration depicting 3 beauties and birds perched on […]

1st item: Chinese Famille Jaune saucer with enameled decoration including central longevity symbol and fret border. Red Kuang Hsu character mark en verso. 6 1/2" dia. 20th century. 2nd item: Chinese Famille Rose vase, yellow ground with cartouche decoration including figures and birds perched atop flowering branches. 10" H. 20th century. 3rd item: Chinese doucai […]

Green, white and lavender jade carved boulder snuff bottle, flattened shouldered form, with low relief carved gingko branch design and green jade stopper lid. 2" H. Chinese, 20th century. Provenance: The living estate of Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Caldwell, Nashville, TN. CONDITION: Very good condition. Stopper lacks spoon.

Three (3) Civil War era documents, including a Tennessee 1865 Franchise Act broadside, Civil War Surgeon letter from Nashville, and an 1858 slavery related pamphlet. 1st item: Broadside copy of "An Act to Limit the Elective Franchise", William Heiskell, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, Samuel Ramsey Rodgers, Speaker of the Tennessee Senate, passed […]

1st item: Hopkins, Luther W. FROM BULL RUN TO APPOMATTOX, A BOY'S VIEW. Baltimore: Fleet-McGinley, (1908). Second Edition 1911 (Preface to Second Edition; precedes Table of Contents). Added chapters, corrections and improved maps. 311, [1], two plates, [1]pp. Illustrated with photographs and maps. 7 7/8" H x 5 5/8" W x 1 1/4" D. 2nd […]

1st item: Confederate States of America Oath of Allegiance, Department of East Tennessee, Office Provost Marshal. Inscribed "Greeneville Augt. 26th" with printed "1863", top right, by order of John E. Toole, Colonel and Provost Marshal, signed by J.N.L. Daniel, Captain and Assistant Provost Marshal, lower right. Reads "Upon endorsed pledge of loyalty to the Confederate […]

Cassilly Adams (American, 1843-1921) Civil War era watercolor on paper painting of the navy vessel upon which he was stationed: the U.S.S. Osage. The Osage is depicted patrolling the Mississippi River, with hills and trees in the background. Figures and cannons are visible on deck, along with an American flag. Titled beneath the image and […]

Archive of 5 Letters and Documents with signatures / autographs of Confederate Generals Alexander P. Stewart, Joseph Wheeler, and William Bate (all post-war), related to John Berrien Lindsley, prominent Nashville Tennessee author and educator. 1st item: Autographed letter, signed, former Confederate General Alexander Peter Stewart to Lindsley on lined paper, dated Aug. 24, 1886, Oxford […]

Jefferson Davis letter to Nashville author, doctor, minister and educator Dr. John Berrien Lindsley with good retrospective content regarding the American Civil War and mention of Nashville war hero Col. Randal McGavock. In this 1 1/2 page letter and enclosed small note dated March 11, 1887 from Davis's home, Beauvoir, the former president of the […]