- David Cox, the Elder (1783 - 1859, UK)
David Cox, the Elder (1783 - 1859, UK) framed and matted black chalk drawing of a cottage by a stream, probably N. Wales, with a Martyn Gregory, London gallery label.
7.75" x 11" ss / 15" x 17.5" oa
Condition: Good, not examined out of frame.
- Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815, Italy/UK)
Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815, Italy/UK) framed and matted black and red chalk scene titled "The Father's Grave" with a Martyn Gregory Gallery, London label Provenance: Lady Cunliffe Lister and Exhibited in the City of Bradford 1925.
11.5" x 14" ss / 20.25" x 26" oa
Condition: Some discoloration to matting, wrinkled at top. Not examined out of frame.
- EPHRATA MARTYRS MIRROR, PUBLISHED 1748Ephrata
EPHRATA MARTYRS MIRROR, PUBLISHED 1748Ephrata Martyrs Mirror, published 1748 , with fraktur frontispiece inscribed Jacob Langenecker (1741-1820). Provenance: A New Jersey Collection.
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Condition:
Front board detached but present. Back board attached but barely, about to separate. Pages with some stains, foxing, overall toning. First couple pages are coming loose. Overall binding is tight.
- KENNETH RILEY, VICTORIO oil on canvas
32
KENNETH RILEY, VICTORIO oil on canvas
32 x 40 in
Victorio (Bidu-ya, Beduiat; ca. 1825-October 14, 1880) The warrior Victorio, one of the greatest Apache military strategists of all time.Born in New Mexico around 1809, Victorio grew up during a period of intense hostility between the native Apache Native Americans of the southwest and encroaching Mexican and American settlers. Determined to resist the loss of his homeland, Victorio began leading his small band of warriors on a long series of devastating raids against Mexican and American settlers and their communities in the 1850s.After more than a decade of evading the best efforts of the Mexican and American armies to capture him, the U.S. Army managed to convince Victorio to accept resettlement of his people on an inhospitable patch of sunburnt land near San Carlos, Arizona, in 1869. But with summer temperatures reaching 110 degrees on the San Carlos reservation (an area also known as Hell's Forty Acres) and farming nearly impossible, Victorio decided the new reservation was unacceptable and moved his followers to more pleasant grounds at Ojo Caliente (Warm Springs), thus again becoming an outlaw in the eyes of the United States. In 1878, the U.S. Army attempted to force the Apaches back to the San Carlos reservation, but Victorio eluded capture, disappearing into the desert with 150 braves. Surviving by raiding the towns and farms of Chihuahua, Mexico, Victorio and his men began to ambush U.S. troops as well as Mexican or American sheepherders.In 1880, a combined force of U.S. and Mexican troops finally succeeded in tracking down Apache and his warriors, surrounding them in the Tres Castillos Mountains of Mexico, just south of El Paso, Texas. Having sent the American troops away, the Mexican soldiers proceeded to kill all but 17 of the trapped Apaches, though the exact manner of Victorio's death remains unclear. Some claimed a Native American scout employed by the Mexican army killed the famous warrior. But according to the Apache, Victorio took his own life rather than surrender to the Mexicans. Regardless of how it happened, Victorio's death made him a martyr to the Apache people and strengthened the resolve of other warriors to continue the fight. The last of the great Apache warriors, Geronimo, would not surrender until 1886.
- 5 DECORATIVE EUROPEAN ITEMS, INCL. ECCLESIASTICALFive
5 DECORATIVE EUROPEAN ITEMS, INCL. ECCLESIASTICALFive (5) European decorative items, including three (3) Ecclesiastical items. 1st-2nd items: Two (2) Spanish Santos colonial carved and polychrome painted female figures including one (1) possibly depicting the Virgin Mary with prayerful hands, and ornately decorated garment and crown sitting on a contemporary wood base: 9 1/8" H x 2 3/4" W x 2 5/8" D, and one (1) figure of Saint Lucy dressed in an ornately gilt decorated classical garment, holding eyeballs on a plate and an empty hand which would have held a martyr's palm or sword, crowned with a later unmarked silver crown. 9 3/4" H x 4" W x 3 1/4" D. Both 19th century or earlier. 3rd item: Miniature porcelain hand-painted plaque depicting a Madonna and Child interior scene, with gilt crowns and two saints present at their sides. Housed in a leather and wood hinged arched shrine box decorated with gilt Florentine fleur de lis, stars, and a seraph. Sticker en verso reads "A. M. Stocker & Sohn/Devotionalien/Borgo Nuovo 99-100 + Roma". Italian, 20th century. 4th item: Continental gilt and gesso mirror, likely French, with applied shell, floral and scroll cartouche pediment, and additional foliate decorations to each side. 20" H x 13 3/4" W. 19th Century. 5th item: Italian gilt and gesso wall shelf with applied swag decorations. Stamped "Made In Italy" to the underside of shelf. 3 1/2" H x 9" W x 4" D. 20th Century.
The Collection of Michael and Peggy Mahoney, by descent from the historic homes of Clarkland Farm at Bryan's Station and Cherrycote, Lexington, Kentucky.
Condition:
1st-2nd items: Both with overall wear and losses to paint decoration and chips/abrasions to wood. Madonna figure with some craquelure and termite damage, visible in crown area and folded hands. Saint Lucy has been re-adhered to base. Shrine in overall good condition with some light surface wear and scratching to plaque, surface wear to leather case and broken stand end verso. 4th-5th items: General wear, losses to gilt, natural age shrinkage. Mirror with repaired breaks, including two areas to pediment, largest 7", and 1" x 1" area to side foliate decoration, silvering to glass.
- THREE MASSACHUSETTS DECOYS LATE 20TH
THREE MASSACHUSETTS DECOYS LATE 20TH CENTURY LENGTHS FROM 14.5” TO 17”.THREE MASSACHUSETTS DECOYS, Late 20th Century, A Marty Collins canvasback drake, an Ed Owens black duck and a John Mulak goldeneye drake. Dimensions: Lengths from 14.5" to 17".
- SPANISH COLONIAL SCHOOL (EARLY 19TH
SPANISH COLONIAL SCHOOL (EARLY 19TH CENTURY), SAINT BARBARA Oil on panel, unsigned, the young saint depicted holding a tower aloft in one hand and a martyr's palm leaf in the other, presented in a later polychrome and gilt frame.
- A MARTYN LAWRENCE BULLARD BAR CABINET,
A MARTYN LAWRENCE BULLARD BAR CABINET, FOR FRONTGATEA Martyn Lawrence Bullard bar cabinet, for Frontgate, 2017 With MLB tag to inside of drawer The black lacquered bar cabinet with bookmatch veneered upper cabinet with gilt and lighted interior over a pull-out shelf and a three-drawer console finished with brass trim and gilt handles, electrified 66.125" H x 40.125" W x 21.125" D Provenance: Martyn Lawrence Bullard Private Collection, West Hollywood, CA Dimensions: 66.125" H x 40.125" W x 21.125" D Provenance: Martyn Lawrence Bullard Private Collection, West Hollywood, CA
- TWO SMALL EARLY OILS, THE FIRST A RETABLO,
TWO SMALL EARLY OILS, THE FIRST A RETABLO, OIL ON TIN, MEXICAN, 19TH C., DEPICTING "LA VIRGEN REFUGIO" (OUR LADY, REFUGE OF SINNERS)...Two small early oils, the first a retablo, oil on tin, Mexican, 19th C., depicting "La Virgen Refugio" (Our Lady, Refuge of Sinners), unframed, label verso reads "Santos Retablo, Spanish American, Our Lady of Sinners, very fine, had been kept under glass", scattered scratches and surface loss, 7" x 5"; the second an oval reverse painting on glass, Continental, 18th C., depicting a warrior saint/angel holding a martyr's palm and model of a city/church, in a period carved and gilt frame, very fragile with significant loss, overall: 9 3/4" h., both pieces sold as is.
- SPANISH SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY 19" x 13
SPANISH SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY 19" x 13 ½" Saint Nonnatus, 18th Century. Oil on unstretched canvas, partial signature lower right (which has been cut off at bottom), in a new black frame, overall, 22 ¾" x 17 ¼". He holds a monstrance and a martyr's palm branch.
- European painting, a martyr engulfed
European painting, a martyr engulfed in flames and gazing upward, signed lower right "Moro. M.A.", oil on tin, late 19th/early 20th century, 7-3/4 x 5-3/4 in.; carved and gilt wood Italian style frame. Abrasions; frame with abrasions, some losses at corners.
- A Continental Carved and Polychrome
A Continental Carved and Polychrome Decorated Figure of a Martyr depicting Isaac the standing figure draped in red and carrying a bundle of sticks set on a Rococo style giltwood base. Height 23 inches.
- FLEMISH CARVED AND PARTIALLY WHITE STAINED
FLEMISH CARVED AND PARTIALLY WHITE STAINED WALL CARVING OF A MARTYR The seminude long-haired figure with hands tethered to a branch on gadroon bracket. 28 1/2 x 9 x 1 1/4 in.
- Two Russian painted wooden icons, late
Two Russian painted wooden icons, late 19th century. The Saviour attends to the afflicted and a martyred disciple cradles a gilt casket. Largest: 18 1/4"H. Surface wear.
- COLLECTION OF 1950'S HOLLYWOOD AUTOGRAPHS:
COLLECTION OF 1950'S HOLLYWOOD AUTOGRAPHS: Reputedly acquired by a bellhop at the Hotel Fountainebleau in Miami and the Hotel San Juan in Puerto Rico during the 1950's-1960's. All are signed on photographs of varying sizes most dedicated to Julio. Highlighted autographs include Jack Benny Patty Page Jimmy Durante Sarah Vaughan Donald O'Connor Rosemary Clooney Frank Sinatra Tony Bennett 2 Connie Francis Johnny Ray Milton Berle Paul Anka Marty Allen Nancy Ames Mercedes Simone Liberace (signed George Liberace) Les Paul and Mary Ford Jerry Lewis The Four Aces Leslie Uggams Jerry Vale The Craddock Brothers and more unidentified. Photos have been in a 3 ring binder and several have been taped in.CONDITION: Photos and signatures may show signs of age fading or toning. Several photos have creases in the margins.