- MEZZOTINT AFTER GEORGE CALEB BINGHAM
''STUMP SPEAKING''George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879)Stump Speaking (Circa 1856.)The stipple and line aquatint engraving after the original painting by George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879)...
[more like this] - THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743-1826): SEA LETTER
FOR THE SCHOONER FANNY & CATHERINESigned by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, June 7, 1804.
33 x 28 1/2 in. (Framed).
Note on the reverse from Bauman Rare Books: The printed...
[more like this] - YELLOWLEGSGeorge H. Boyd (1873-1941)
Seabrook,
NH, c. 1910
11 in. long
A classic Boyd yellowlegs decoy with tight stippled paint.
In original paint with moderate gunning wear, including age lines in breast, touch-up to...
[more like this] - PRINTS OF 5 CIVIL WAR GENERALSFive 19th
century prints of Civil War Union and Confederate Generals. 1st item: Robert E. Lee "likeness from an approved photograph", Johnson Fry & Co. Publishers. New York. Lithograph...
[more like this] - AL COLE (1944-2009) HAMATSA CROOKED
BEAR MASKThis is an outstanding and large Crooked Bear Mask signed and carved by Al Cole (1944-2009) of the Nuxalk (Bella Coola) Kwakwaka'wakw from the 20th Century. The Crooked...
[more like this] - GROUP OF 6 COLIMA REDWARE FIGURESPre-Columbian,
West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE; Coahuayana Valley type, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A wonderful ensemble of 6 pottery figures: 2 archaic "gingerbread"...
[more like this] - HOHOKAM RED-ON-BUFF HEMISPHERICAL BOWLNative
American, Southwestern United States, Arizona, Hohokam culture, ca. 1100 to 1400 CE. A lovely red of buff hand-built pottery bowl with a very broad, deep interior and round...
[more like this] - HUGE 10TH C. BYZANTINE BRONZE PROCESSIONAL
CROSSAncient Near East, Holy Land, Byzantine Empire, ca. 10th to 12th century CE. A gorgeous cast-bronze processional cross with flaring arms that terminate in pairs of circular...
[more like this] - GREEK CYPRIOT POTTERY AMPHORA BULL'S
EYE MOTIFGreece, Cyprus, Cypro-Geometric Period, ca. 900 to 750 BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery amphora of petite size with a piriform body, a cylindrical neck, and an everted...
[more like this] - COSTA RICAN NICOYA POTTERY DOUBLE HEADED
BIRD OCARINA**First Time At Auction**
Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya / Guanacaste, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A fantastical ocarina in the form of a double headed bird- the brownware...
[more like this] - CHIMU POTTERY FIGURAL VESSELS W/ ZOOMORPHIC
MOTIFSPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A fantastic pair of Chimu artifacts: a grayware jar in the form of a figure bound by a coiled snake...
[more like this] - FIVE JAMES HEATH FEMALE PORTRAIT ENGRAVINGS,
1798 James Heath (English 1757-1834), group of five three-quarter unframed portraits of ladies including "Miss (Mary) Lepell afterwards Lady Hervey" and "The hon'ble Mrs....
[more like this] - SIX JAMES HEATH MALE PORTRAIT ENGRAVINGS,
1798 James Heath (English 1757-1834), group of six three-quarter unframed portraits of gentlemen including Thomas Grey after John Giles Eccardt (German-British 1720-1779)...
[more like this] - POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH WITH
PORTRAIT OF AN EXOTIC WOMAN MID-19TH CENTURY LENGTH 5.75". PORTRAIT OF AN EXOTIC WOMAN, Mid-19th Century, Three-quarter profile of a woman with pink lips and cheeks wearing...
[more like this] - SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH DEPICTING HOPE
AND BRITANNIA, ATTRIBUTED TO THE BRITANNIA ENGRAVER MID-19TH CENTURY LENGTH 5.25". AND BRITANNIA, ATTRIBUTED TO THE BRITANNIA ENGRAVER, Mid-19th Century, Obverse depicts...
[more like this] - POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALEBONE BUSK
MID-19TH CENTURY LENGTH 13.25"., Mid-19th Century, Depicts six finely detailed vignettes, one of a farmer beneath a towering tree in a flower meadow, one of a large bird...
[more like this] - AN ANTIQUE STERLING SILVER SPECTACLE
CASE AND SHOE HORN Both early 20th century, first the spectacle case by Watrous Manufacturing Co., early 20th century, model number 663, oval form with a fabric lined interior,...
[more like this] - STERLING SILVER JULEP CUP WITH HORSE
MOTIF, GALMER OF NEW YORK New York, the chased profiles of nine repoussé horses within a stippled ground, 24KT gold plating to interior, marked to foot ring, no monogram,...
[more like this] - AFTER DANIEL HUNTINGTON (AMERICAN, 1816-1906),
LADY WASHINGTON'S RECEPTION Hand-colored stipple and line engraving, circa 1867, hand-coloring possibly later, sheet trimmed and with margin text to verso, framed....
[more like this] - VICTORIAN SILVER CRUET AND MUSTARD 19th
century, cruet stand appears unmarked (acid tested silver), with chased floral designs between beaded borders, raised on foliate scrolled feet and center stem with ring finial,...
[more like this] - COLLECTION OF 15 VARIOUS GERMAN AND
ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN CUPS AND SAUCERS FOR DISPLAY DIAMETER (OF BISCUIT DISH): 7 1/2 IN. (19.05 CM.) ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN CUPS AND SAUCERS FOR DISPLAY, including...
[more like this] - COBALT GLASS CHARGER WITH SILVERPLATED
ALLIGATOR SKIN CIGARETTE CASE ALLIGATOR SKIN CIGARETTE CASE, the charger with concentric ripples and raised on circular foot, dia: 14.75 in.; the cigarette case with stippled...
[more like this] - ALEXANDER HAY RICHIE AFTER DARLEY (SCOTTISH/AMERICAN,
1822-1895) FIRST BLOW FOR LIBERTY: TO THE MEMORY OF THE PATRIOTS OF 1775 STIPP...Unframed; Published by Mason Bros. 64 Nassau St. New York. Stipple and line engraving: 27...
[more like this] - POLYCHROME SCRIMSHAW WHALE'S TOOTH WITH
WHALING SCENE 19TH CENTURY LENGTH 6". WHALING SCENE, 19th Century, Obverse with a fine line border surrounding a whaling scene of a whaleship and two whaleboats in pursuit...
[more like this] - TWO SIGNED 19TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL
JEWELRY CASKETS The tallest a silverplated bronze jewelry casket, marked A. B. Paris to underside, oval form with bas relief Classical figural decoration against a stippled...
[more like this] - VICTORIAN BLACK FOREST WOODEN VANITY
BOX 8" x 8" x 4 ¾" Rectangular with serpentine outline vanity box, on four carved scroll legs, hinged lid with 3D carved bird on branches; interior reveals two small hinged...
[more like this] - VICTORIAN BLACK FOREST WOODEN VANITY
BOX 8" x 8" x 4 ¾" Rectangular with serpentine outline vanity box, on four carved scroll legs, hinged lid with 3D carved bird on branches; interior reveals two small hinged...
[more like this] - FREDDIE STYLES, ABSTRACT STUDY IN DARK
GREEN, 2003 Freddie Styles (American / Georgia b. 1944), "Untitled Abstract", 2003, depicting dark green color with underling brighter color stippling. and black lines, acrylic...
[more like this] - THREE CHINESE EXPORT SILVER DESK ACCOUTREMENTS,
MARK OF LUEN WO Qing dynasty, circa 1900, Shanghai, each with naturalistic Iris repousse motif on a stippled ground, including a rocker blotter (2 1/2 in.), rectangular lidded...
[more like this] - A CHINESE EXPORT SILVER BOX WITH DRAGONS,
MARK OF ZEE WO Qing dynasty, circa 1900, Shanghai, rectangular form, exterior with two chased repoussé sinuous Chinese dragons on a stippled ground, interior with thin cedar...
[more like this] - A Japanese Meiji Period silver box First
half 20th century with retailer's mark to base ''Samurai Shokai'' and further marked ''Yokohama 1000'' the hinged cover and sides decorated with applied dragons on a stippled...
[more like this] - Florentine Jewel Casket 18th centuryItalian
rectangular form with ebonized frame deeply carved mahogany side panels with griffin and scrollwork design against a stippled ground the hinged cover with carved and domed...
[more like this] - A Wakizashi Samurai Sword with Higo
Style Tosogu Mountings and Engraved Buddha's Prayer Blade ca. Mid. Edo Period With Unokubi Zukuri Kanmuri-otoshi Suguta (blade shape) Furisode Jiri Nakago (tip shape) O-Maru...
[more like this] - 1 piece. Aquatint, Stipple & Line,
Printed in Color and Finished by Hand. Thorton, Dr. Robert John. "Hyacinths" [Temple of Flora.] London, 1801. Second state. 21 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches (540 x 445 mm), margins....
[more like this] - Five Japanese tsuba : mokume tsuba ,
signed 2-7/8 x 2-3/4 in.; iron tsuba, etched and carved chrysanthemums, signed, 3 x 2-7/8 in.; kinko tsuba , net pattern, 3-1/8 in., loss to one line of inlay ; copper tsuba...
[more like this] - Gardner after Hamilton pair of stipple
engravings January and November overall 14 x 11in. Estimate ?100-150 Descriptions provided in both printed and on-line catalogue formats do not include condition reports....
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