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Pair of Sevres style porcelain jardinieres or cachepots, hand painted floral sprays on white ground with cobalt blue decoration and gilt highlights and trim, each with two short gilded handles on a round footed base. Overglaze interlaced L marks. 6″H. French, late 19th to early 20th century. Provenance: A private Belle Meade (Nashville, Tennessee) collection. […]

Group of sterling silver serving flatware including 6 pickle forks (6" L) with twist handles, marked sterling with illegible maker's stamp; one Whiting serving spoon (9 1/4" L), Lily of the Valley pattern; and one Wood & Hughes sterling silver soup ladle (12-1/4" L) , fiddle tipt handle with the Nashville retailer's mark of BH […]

Robert Birdwell (Tennessee, 20th century) abstract/figural oil on canvas, featuring geometric designs and male and female figures, each holding a bird-like creature. signed and dated lower right, "Birdwell '57". Stained molded frame. 29-3/4" x 23-1/2" sight, 39" x 33-1/2" framed. Biography (courtesy of Stephen Wicks, Curator – Knoxville Museum of Art): Birdwell was among the […]

William "Bill" Sawyer (American/Tennessee, b. 1936) oil on canvas panel urban streetscape, depicting a deserted residential street with small square gray buildings and a bicycle. Signed lower right. Weathered wood frame. 17-1/8" x 27-3/4" sight, 23-3/4" x 34-3/4" framed. Provenance: estate of Jean and Alven Ghertner, Nashville, TN. Biography: A self trained artist, Bill Sawyer […]

Donatus Buongiorno (Italian/American, 1865-1935), oil on canvas painting of four women with their market baskets, huddled together talking. Signed D. Buongiorno lower right. Molded giltwood frame, probably original. 12" x 9-1/2" canvas, 15-1/2" x 13" framed. Provenance: A private Belle Meade (Nashville) Tennessee collection. Biography: Donatus Buongiorno studied at the Roil institute of Fine Art […]

Peter Max (German/American, b. 1937) mixed media collage, colorful abstract of still life surrounded by swaths of color. Signed in lower middle MAX (painted in image). Framed under glass with white mat in an ebonized molded frame. 10-1/4" x 7-5/8" sight (irregular); 22-1/2" x 20-1/4" framed. Biography: Peter Max was born in Berlin but raised […]

Lorentz Kleiser (American, 1879-1963), oil on artist's board depicting a landscape with a flowering dogwood tree beside a pond or stream, surrounded by tall grasses. Signed with artist's monogram lower right. Molded giltwood frame. 19-1/2" x 15-1/2" sight, 21-1/2" x 17-1/2" framed. Provenance: private Nashville, Tennessee collection. Condition: Painting is in excellent condition. Frame in […]

Lorentz Kleiser (1879-1963) oil on board fall landscape painting, signed with monogram lower left, also signed and titled en verso, NOVEMBER IN THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS. Also taped to the back is a typewritten note from the artist describing an incident that occurred while he was painting this scene en plein air. Painted and molded wood […]

David Burliuk (Russian/American, 1882-1967) oil on canvasboard farmyard scene, depicting cattle and ducks in middle foreground, man and barn at left, with small homes in background against a distant sky. Silver and giltwood molded frame. Signed Burliuk lower right. 9-3/4"H x 13-3/4" W sight, 14-1/4" x 18-3/4" framed. Provenance: estate of Jean and Alven Ghertner, […]