- CHINESE EXPORT CARVED HARDWOOD AND UPHOLSTERED
PARLOR SETComprising:
A pair of armchairs, 45 3/4 x 28 1/2 x 31 in., height of seat 14 1/2 in.
A settee, 36 x 6 ft. 5 in. x 28 in.
For a similar example see Doyle New York,...
[more like this] - PAUL BOUGH TRAVIS (AMERICAN, 1891-1975)
AFRICAN WATERHO...Paul Bough Travis (American, 1891-1975) African Waterhole, 1956 Watercolor on paper Signed and dated lower edge 19 in. h. x 25 in. w., paper 22 in. h. x...
[more like this] - MENDE SANDE SOCIETY HELMET MASKMende
Sande Society helmet mask from Sierra Leone; measures approximately 17" tall; please refer to photographs for condition.
The masks of the Sande society provide a unique example...
[more like this] - VAI SANDE SOCIETY HELMET MASKVai Sande
Society Helmet mask from Liberia (Sierra Leone) with small head and wicker head piece; measures approximately 16" tall; please refer to photographs for condition.
The masks...
[more like this] - C. BOSSERON CHAMBERS ESCAMILLO CARMEN
PAINTINGCharles Bosseron Chambers (American, 1880-1964). Oil on canvas painting depicting a portrait of Escamillo from Bizet's Opera "Carmen," ca. 1920s. This dramatic portrait,...
[more like this] - CHIEF SITTING BULL'S C. SHARPS 1859
PEPPERBOXThis historic and important lot includes the C. Sharps four-barrel derringer circa 1859-1862 owned by Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Sitting Bull marked in Togia language as...
[more like this] - OGLALA SIOUX CRAZY HORSE OWNED COLT
1860 ARMYThe lot features a truly phenomenal, iconic and important Colt Model 1860 Army 44 caliber percussion revolver owned and marked in Togia language by Crazy Horse an...
[more like this] - CA. 1775- RARE LENAPE BALL HEAD WAR
CLUBThis is a phenomenally rare and historically important early Lenape-Delaware ball head war club collected in the late-1700s in Coshocton, Ohio. This is rare and early...
[more like this] - MOCHE POTTERY LIZARD STIRRUP VESSEL,
TL TESTEDPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A delightful bi-chrome stirrup vessel in the form of an iguana. The stirrup rises from the lizard's back,...
[more like this] - 19TH C. TONGAN WOVEN TOHI HOHOKO GENEALOGY
ROPEPolynesia, Tonga, ca. 19th century CE. An incredibly rare example of a woven genealogy rope, known as a Tohi Hohoko (literally, "genealogy book"), both an exquisite piece...
[more like this] - PORTFOLIO OF 10 FSA PHOTOS W/ COVER
(1930S)Arthur Rothstein (American, 1915-1985). A portfolio of 10 FSA (Farm Security Administration) photographs with images by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and...
[more like this] - WILLIAM RICE WOODBLOCK - "MOONLIGHT
EUCALYPTUS TREES"**First Time At Auction**
William Seltzer Rice (American, 1873-1963). "Moonlight Eucalyptus Trees" color woodblock, ca. 1920. Signed and titled in pencil...
[more like this] - EXCEPTIONAL MAYA POTTERY SEATED SCRIBE,
EX-SCHMITT**Originally Listed At $18000**
Pre-Columbian, Mayan territories, Highlands, ca. 600 to 900 CE. In a word - breathtaking! Important, large and literally beyond...
[more like this] - AN IMPORTANT NEW ENGLAND SHERATON SIDEBOARDAN
IMPORTANT NEW ENGLAND SHERATON SIDEBOARD
American, New York, early 19th century, flamed mahogany and satinwood. A fine Classical Period (1790-1830) form having vertical crossband...
[more like this] - Y RARE AND IMPORTANT FRENCH GOTHIC IVORY
COMPOSITE CASKET
CIRCA 1330 the panels intricately carved in bas-relief to include scenes from the Medieval tales Queste del Saint Graal and Tristan & Isolde, with later brass...
[more like this] - Y JEREMIAH MEYER (ANGLO-GERMAN 1735-1789)
PORTRAIT
MINIATURE OF A LADY oval, painted in watercolour and body colour on ivory, the sitter a young lady with grey coiffured hair in a white flounced chemise with green edging and...
[more like this] - 2 IMPORTANT SOCIETY OF ETCHERS WORKS
BY ROBERT LAWSON AND LESTER HORNSBY: We offer ''We Fix Flats'' an etching by Robert Lawson depicting Pegasus being shod in the deep forest by a grouping of elves which was...
[more like this] - Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890-1978)/Chiquita
(1923/4)/signed in pencil/etching, 16.5cm x 13.25cm/Note: Brockhurst attended Birmingham School of Art, winning prizes which enabled him to travel widely in Europe, where...
[more like this] - WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799) SIGNED
MEMBERSHIP CERTIFICATE OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATIWASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799) signed membership certificate of the Society of the Cincinnati, engraved broadside on...
[more like this] - 1874 NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY RECEIPTReceipt
given to Mary R. Ashford in 1874 by the New York Historical Society for a manuscript -- a deed of gift dated 1721 of lots around King George, Princes and Frankfort Streets....
[more like this] - CHARLES MERRICK (CHILI/CHILE) CAPPS,
KANSAS, ILLINOIS (1898 - 1981), SUNLIT TOWERS, ETCHING, 6 1/2"H X 9"W (PLATE), 14 7/8"H X 16 7/8"W (FRAME)Charles Merrick (Chili/Chile) Capps, Kansas, Illinois, (1898 - 1981)...
[more like this] - RACHEL V. HARTLEY, NEW YORK (1884-1955),
UNTITLED, 1932, OIL ON BOARD, 19 1/2"H X 23 1/4"W (SIGHT), 28"H X 31"W (FRAME).Rachel V. Hartley, New York, (1884-1955) untitled, 1932, oil on board Signed and dated lower...
[more like this] - MARGARET MAY DASHIELL, VIRGINIA, LOUISIANA
(1869 - 1958), MASQUERADE, MARDI GRAS REVELERS, OIL ON BOARD, 27"H X 34 3/4"W (SIGHT), 29 1/4"H X 37"W (FRAME)Margaret May Dashiell, Virginia, Louisiana, (1869 - 1958) masquerade,...
[more like this] - PROVIDENCE MARINE SOCIETY CERTIFICATE
OFMembership Circa 1832. It is signed by the engraver William Hamlin (1772-1869), as well as the artist Thomas Young (active 1817-1840), Engraved, hand colored, and printed...
[more like this] - Y PHOEBE ANNA TRAQUAIR (SCOTTISH 1852-1936)
FAN,
'THE ISLAND OF THE FAY' watercolour on silk and with ivory sticks, capped with silvered metal, inscribed, signed and dated THE ISLAND OF THE FAY/ PHOEBE A. TRAQUAIR/ 1889,...
[more like this] - C.F.A. VOYSEY (1857-1941)
ORIGINAL DESIGN
FOR A NEEDLEWORK Watercolour on graph paper, signed, dated and inscribed lower right C.F.A. VOYSEY/ ARCHITECT/ 11 MELINA PLACE/ GROVE END ROAD/ ST JOHNS WOOD, NW/ SEPT. 1891,...
[more like this] - Y IMPORTANT GEORGIAN DOLL'S HOUSE, 'THE
EVANS BABY HOUSE'
18TH CENTURY, WITH LATER ADAPTATIONS AND CONTENTS modelled as a three-storeyed Georgian town house, of ochre and red painted pine and other timber, the hinged...
[more like this] - THE ANSON SERVICE -AN IMPORTANT GEORGE
II SERVING DISH Paul de Lamerie, London 1747, of scalloped oval outline with cast gadrooned border and foliate detail at intervals, armorial engraved to the raised rim, engraved...
[more like this] - MARY IRELAND (1891-C.1980)
‘ENCHANTMENT’
TRIPTYCH, DATED 1933 appliqué ‘fabric mosaic panel’, painted silk, with applied signature to left-hand panel MARY IRELANDCentral image 32cm x 36.5cm; Side panels each...
[more like this] - ? FINE AND RARE CERAMIC 'SYDNEY COVE
MEDALLION' BY JOSIAH WEDGWOOD
THE ORIGINAL ISSUE, 1789 modelled from dark brown unglazed earthenware, with crisply moulded decoration depicting a female figure, emblematic...
[more like this] - [Mardi Gras] an important society scrapbook
compiled by Emma Mumford of Baltimore Maryland 1875-1878 containing the Rex 1875 Invitation and Lady's Admit Card "Persian and Egyptian" with inscription noting the ball being...
[more like this] - Kentucky State Agricultural Society
Coin Silver Award Pitcher New York NY ca 1850 a coin silver presentation pitcher with chased and repoussé landscapes tobacco plants a cabin figures smoking and handling tobacco...
[more like this] - American Colonial silver spoons by Alexander
Crouckeshanks Boston circa 1768 pair teaspoons one reduced in size and engraved No. 6 and the other engraved with initial D and No. 2; marked: AC spaced by pellet and with...
[more like this] - An Antique Sierra Leone Carved Stone
Figure 19th c. or earlier probably Sherbro finely carved male figure in a seated position with elbows resting on upturned knees the chin resting on upraised joined hands large...
[more like this] - Thomas Jefferson Miniature Portrait
by William Russell Birch William Russell Birch (English 1755-1834) enamel on copper portrait of Thomas Jefferson unsigned with?Jefferson?written on verso; 1.5 x 1 in. Frame...
[more like this] - A Sowei Headdress Mende Tribe Sierra
Leone Carved wood headdress the only African mask known to be worn by women. It is worn by an elder. The rim of the wooden headdress rests on her shoulders and a black costume...
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