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Arts & Crafts period sterling silver necklace made by The Art Silver Shop of Chicago, circa 1920. Fourteen hand hammered silver oval links and one large central pendant with bezel set blue agate cabachon stone, surrounded by foliate shaped motifs. Signed Handmade SAS Sterling. 15" L overall. Provenance: a private Nashville, Tennessee collection. Condition: Excellent […]

Sterling Boyd Strauser (American, 1907-1995). Oil on canvas still Life with white lilies in a transparent vase, signed and dated lower left "Strauser 1961". Stained hand-carved wood frame. 30" x 23". Provenance: the estate of Helen B. Patterson, Gallatin, Tennessee, ex-Lyzon Gallery, Nashville. Biography (courtesy Askart/The Artists' Bluebook): Sterling Strauser was born in Bloomburg, Pennsylvania. […]

Sterling Strauser (American, 1907-1995), large oil on board painting of a female nude, signed and dated lower right "Strauser '75". Stained hardwood frame. 35-1/2" x 7-1/2" sight, 37-1/2" x 9-1/2" framed. Biography (courtesy Askart/The Artists' Bluebook): Sterling Strauser was born in Bloomburg, Pennsylvania. A self-taught artist, he began painting in 1926 in a near impressionist […]

Two bronze dog figures. 1st item: Bronze sculpture after Charles Valton (France, 1851-1918) titled "Passez au Large"depicting a chained bull mastiff in a menacing pose. Inscribed signature on the base "C. H. Valton". Mounted on a colored marble base. 9-7/8"H (10-1/2" with base) x 8 1/4" W x 4 1/2" D. 2nd item: A Jennings […]

1st item: Alfred Bayre, French (1839-1882) bronze sculpture depicting a sleeping mastiff, mounted on a oval rose marble base. Signed "Bayre" on the bronze base. 2 3/8" H (including base) x 8" L x 5" D. 2nd item: Cast iron dog mask of a labrador. 7" H x 6" W. Both items late 19th century. […]

Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926) bronze figural group, "Smoking with the Spirit of the Buffalo", depicting a Native American man with pipe and upturned gaze, sitting before a buffulo skull. Mounted on a black marble base. Impressed signature, "CM Russell" and the intials "RBW" for Roman Bronze Works. 5"H x 8 1/4" L. Provenance: Private Nashville, […]

Two Buck McCain (American, b. 1943) bronze sculptures. 1st item: Bronze sculpture titled "Prayer to the Healing Spirit"depicting a Native American on horseback gazing upward with a buffalo skull in his hands. Incised "McCain @ FM" on the base in the cast. 16 1/2" Hx 11" W x 4 1/2" D. 2nd item: Bronze scuplture […]

Ted Burnett (1908-1982, American/Tennessee) abstract painting, casein with mixed media, titled "Noisy Mixture" Signed "Burnett" lower right. Sight – 15 1/2" H x 20 1/2" W. Matted – 21 3/4" H x 28" W. Biography (Courtesy Village Fine Arts): Ted Burnett was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts […]

Juliette Marie Desport (Kentucky, 1895-1970) pastel on paper painting, titled lower left "Boxwood at the Old Stone Steps, Cheekwood, Nashville Tenn." Signed lower right and dated 1943. 8-1/2" x 11-1/2" sight, 16" x 20" framed. En verso is another pastel sketch, this one of a child's feet resting on a stone beside a fence, signed […]

4 Civil War Confederate Related Books. 1st & 2nd items: "Rise & Fall of Confederate Government", Volumes I & II, 1881, by Jefferson Davis. The first volume with frontispiece of Davis at age 32 and the second volume with a frontispiece of an elder Davis. Printed by D. Appelton and Company, New York. 9 3/8" […]