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1st group: 3 Chinese Imperial Style Yellow Cups or beakers, tall cylindrical form, decorated with green dragons chasing flaming pearls amid clouds. Apocryphal K'ang Hsi marks incised to underside of 2 cups, one cup with with green leaf design incised and painted on underside. All 4-1/2"H. Republic Period. 2nd group: Pair of Chinese Export Mandarin […]

Rookwood standard glaze vase decorated with monochrome trailing green/gray leaves on an ivory background, marks for 1935, shape #892C. 9"H. Provenance: the collection of Stephen and Lisa Steiner Small, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: Scattered glaze imperfections.

Middle Tennessee walnut Hepplewhite sugar chest with extensive restorations. Sugar chest consisting of a dovetailed top case with an open well above a dovetailed lower drawer, supported by square tapered legs. Poplar secondary. 34" H x 22"W x 15 5/8" D. Circa 1820. Note within states Annette Anderson Sneed of Nashville, TN acquired this in […]

Middle Tennessee plantation or postmaster desk, walnut with poplar secondary wood. Flat top section with triple panel hinged fall front, opens to provide writing surface and reveals an interior fitted with two banks each with 10 small pigeonholes, flanking a bank of three short drawers over an open compartment, with shelved compartments on each side. […]

Middle Tennessee cherry drop leaf table with tapered legs, possibly Davidson Co. Older surface with figured cherry top, two interior swing legs. 28 1/2" H x 44 1/2" D x 58 1/4" W. Circa 1820. Note within states belonged to Annette Anderson Sneed of Nashville (descended from James Sneed of Nashville). CONDITION: Overall very good […]

Sybil Gibson (Alabama, 1908-1995), two pastel on paper works: a landscape with colored trees and white fence, and a portrait of a woman wearing a flowered hat and green dress. Both signed botttom right, Sybil Gibson, and housed in wood frames. Each measures 15 3/4" H x 11 3/4" W sight, 19 1/2" H x […]

Folk art pastel on paper portrait of a man, manner of Micah Williams (American, 1782-1837), depicting a dark-haired man in blue coat with plaid vest and black cravat. Unsigned. Portrait has illegible watermark at left edge. 17-1/2" x 14-1/3". Circa 1835. Provenance: A Nashville, Tennessee estate. CONDITION: 6" water stain to lowermost edge, crease to […]

Impressionist oil on wood panel still life of jumbled table objects, attr. Ralph Wormeley Curtis (American, 1854-1922). Unsigned with name plate attached to lower central frame. Hirschl & Adler Galleries Inc. label en verso (#APG 1412OD.05) with remnants of other, earlier label. Later giltwood frame with linen liner. 5-1/2" x 9" sight, 11" x 14-1/4" […]

David Davidovich Burliuk (Russian, 1882-1967), oil on board still life painting, depicts vase of flowers set against a darkening sky, with choppy sea in the background. Signed "Burliuk" lower right. Unframed. 16" x 12". Provenance: ex-Lyzon Gallery, Nashville. Biography: Born into a privileged class of Russian Society, David Burliuk became a central figure in the […]

After Jorg Sigman (Germany, 1527-1601), classical style bronzed plaster bas relief parade shield, decorated with scenes from Roman mythology and centered by a mask of Medusa's head. The center has raised lettering: "Georgius Sigman Aurifex Perfecit Anno Domani MDLII" along with other Latin inscriptions. 24" diameter. This shield, possibly made by the Caproni Brothers of […]