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Two Florentine Mosaic or pietra dura pictures, multicolored marble inlaid on a slate base, signed M— on front and etched in slate en verso: Mauro Bini Firenze. 1st item: an abstract geometric design, 8-3/4" x 11-1/2" sight, 15-3/8" x 17-5/8" framed. 2nd item: Figures of two fashionable women in summer dresses. 8-3/8" x 6-1/8" sight, […]

Grouping of 3 Middle Tennsessee pottery items. Item 1: Nashville Tennessee advertising liquor jug, domed brown-glazed top with handle and stoneware base, stamped in blue: THE ARCADE GROCERY CO. WHISKEYS, BRANDIES AND WINES, 405 AND 407 BROAD ST. NASHVILLE, – TENN. 11-1/2"H x 8" Diameter. Early 20th century. Item 2: Middle Tennessee storage jar with […]

Three green glass club shape decanters and stoppers in a papier mache brass mounted trefoil shaped stand. Bottles measure 9-1/2", 9" and 8-1/2". Tallest bottle has a gilded RUM label and gilding at neck. (The two other bottles lack gilding). Each bottle has a lozenge shaped stopper with gilded chain border and initials R B […]

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 […]