1st item: Sevres Chateau De St. Cloud marked candy dish with double "L" and crown emblem to center of bowl and foliate intertwining garland on a light pink ground with gilt accents, mounted with gilt bronze scrolling handles and feet and foliate rim and garland. Stamped with blue double "L" and crown marked dated 1847, […]
Lot 856: 5 Continental Porcelain Items Incl Armorial Dishes, Needle Case, and 2 Perfume Bottles
1st-3rd items: Three (3) small European porcelain items, including one (1) needle case with painted vignettes depicting pastoral landscape scenes with figures, surrounded by cartouche decoration, with a hinged lid, brass mounts, and additional landscape scenes to the top and underside; one (1) perfume bottle with a hand-painted frieze depicting a harbor scene with figures, […]
Lot 802: Three (3) George Cress W/C Small Abstract Expressionist Landscapes
Three (3) George Ayers Cress (American/Tennessee, 1921-2008) watercolor on paper abstract landscape paintings 1st item: Watercolor landscape painting depicting a rocky coastline with verdant foliage under a yellow sky, laid down on thick paper backing. Sight: 9" H x 11 1/2" W. Paper backing: 15" x 17 1/2" W. Museum accession number penciled en verso. […]
Lot 275: 3 Blue & Gilt Porcelain Items, incl. French Sevres Bronze Mounted Urn
Three (3) blue porcelain items with gilt accents. 1st item: Sevres lidded centerpiece urn having hand-painted vignettes depicting musicians and architecture in a pastoral landscape to lid, the whole decorated with gilt highlights on a blue ground, and interior bowl with floral bouquet. Mounted with scrolled bronze decoration to base, handles, pierced rim, and topped […]
Lot 269: Pair of Austrian Hand-Painted Porcelain Plaques, Mythological Scenes
Pair of hand-painted porcelain plaques depicting mythological scenes, possibly of the Greek myth of Psyche. Each plaque depicts two figures attired in traditional clothing in a pastoral landscape with Athenian pottery and still-life details in the foreground. Each stamped en verso "K / 380" and one inscribed in German "Stehenk Psyche../Schafer" en verso, possibly describing […]
Lot 261: 22 Pcs. KPM Gilt Porcelain, incl. Cabinet Plates of Berlin
Assembled set of twenty-two (22) KPM porcelain parcel gilt items. 1st-7th items: Seven (7) cabinet plates with polychrome painted vignettes to well, including six (6) small plates depicting landmarks of Berlin, labeled with location and impressed with eagle mark to undersides (7" dia.); one (1) cabinet plate with a pastoral landscape scene, inscribed with artist's […]
Lot 164: Thomas Campbell O/C Mountain Painting w/ Farmhouse, Poss. East, TN
Thomas Campbell (Born in England, active Tennessee, 1834-1914) oil on canvas East Tennessee mountain landscape painting depicting a farmhouse and barn situated in the foreground with another house in the background along a mountain ridge. Signed "T. Campbell" lower right. Old label for E.H. Friedrich's Artist Materials affixed en verso of stretcher. Housed in a […]
Lot 158: Alan Shuptrine Southern Watercolor Painting, Five O'Clock Shadow
Alan Shuptrine (Tennessee, b. 1963), "Five O'Clock Shadow," watercolor pastoral painting depicting a flock of sheep grazing on a gentle hill. A tree or building, out of the viewer's sight, casts a shadow over the lower portion of the scene, providing an opportunity for the artist to explore the interplay of light and shadow on […]
Lot 115: Fan Leaf Design after Guido Reni, Aurora
Pencil and watercolor fan design drawing on very thin vellum with image after the Guido Reni (Italy, 1575-1642) original ceiling fresco "The Triumph of Apollo led by the Aurora" from the garden house adjacent to the Palazzo Rosigliosi in Rome, Italy. In this design, the image depicts the chariot flying over a European pastoral landscape […]
Summer 2023 Auction Preview
Below is an early preview of the July 8th & 9th auction to take place at our Knoxville, Tennessee headquarters. In-person bidding plus phone, absentee, and internet bidding will be available. Over 1,200+ lots of fine art, antiques, and jewelry from fine Southeastern estates and collections including the collection of Jo Ann Cline Yates of […]
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