A few examples of appraisal values for
SOUTHERN BELLE

• EARLY AMERICAN QUILT SOUTHERN
  EARLY AMERICAN QUILT SOUTHERN BELLE'SSewn to depict southern belle's in various colors. 81'' L x 68'' W. Early 20th century. Light staining on backing. Private collection Metamora Mi.
• Overbeck art pottery figure of a
  Overbeck art pottery figure of a Southern Belle. Incised Overbeck monogram on base. 7"H. The back of her skirt with large repair and small chip to her bonnet.
• ANTEBELLUM SOUTHERN PORTRAIT OF A
  ANTEBELLUM SOUTHERN PORTRAIT OF A DEMURE YOUNG LADY IN ORIGINAL FRAME, CA 1840 She is depicted in neoclassical robe, with flowers gathered in the front, a blue and white stoneware water jug looped over her right elbow, a garden behind having a brooding large statue of a lion. Oval image in rectangular gilt frame with spandrel. OS: 27 1/2" x 22", SS: 23" x 18", cleaned, fine condition.
• SOUTHERN SCHOOL FOLK ART PORTRAIT
  SOUTHERN SCHOOL FOLK ART PORTRAIT OF A GIRL A Confident Young Girl with brown eyes and curly brown hair, oil on canvas, unsigned, ca. 1860, in salmon velvet frogging trimmed dress with lace knickers, seated in a crimson draped balloon back armchair, one arm resting on a floral tablecloth, broad brimmed straw hat dangled by ribbon from her hand, unframed, 30" x 25 1/2". Cleaned and relined, fine overall craquelure.
• Southern Civil War ballad, "The
  Southern Civil War ballad, "The Southern Girl's Song/Air Bonny Blue Flag", 57 lines in six verses, hand written in brown ink on lined paper, signed "…Ada L. Wiseman, July 6, 1863 and since old Abe's blockade/we southern girls can be content/with goods that's southern made", (Adelaide Lucinda Wiseman, born 1838, Yancey County, North Carolina), 11 x 14-1/2 in., with assorted Wiseman family photos, records and clippings. Folds, separations, stains, small losses. Brunk Auctions, January 8-9, 2005, Lot 1002B; Collection of H. Donald Nelson, Williamsburg, Virginia.
• SOUTH CAROLINA PORTRAIT OF A
  SOUTH CAROLINA PORTRAIT OF A LADYSouth Carolina school, manner of Thomas Sully, oil on panel half-length portrait of a woman with brown eyes and brown curls, depicted in a Romantic pose with her waist and head slightly turned and gazing to the left, resting her chin against her right hand, her right elbow atop her left wrist. Although wearing a gold dress, her arms are bare; a red drape sits across right arm and shoulder. The panel on which the image is painted appears to be mahogany and there is an unusual wooden grid brace across the back, presumably to allow for shrinkage and expansion and prevent warping. Antique, but not original, giltwood frame with Janneau's Art Store, Charleston, framing label en verso. 25-1/2" x 20" sight, 30-1/2" x 25-1/4" framed. Circa 1830. Provenance: the family of Dr. William Davis Melton, of Columbia, South Carolina, who was from 1922-1926 the president of South Carolina University (now called the University of South Carolina). The painting hung in the President's House on Pendleton Street until his death in 1926, and then descended to his daughter Henrietta Melton Durham; it was purchased from her estate by her niece Anne Ford Melton Kimzey of Signal Mountain, Tenn. and displayed there for several years before being acquired by the current consignor. It is thought to depict a family member, possibly Dr. Melton's grandmother, Cynthia Jane Miller (b. 1810). Condition: Extensive inpainting including facial area about 25%.
• SOUTHERN SCHOOL, 19TH C. PORTRAIT
  SOUTHERN SCHOOL, 19TH C. PORTRAIT OF A LADYSouthern School, oil on canvas portrait of a lady. The subject, a woman in a silver lace trimmed dress, is depicted seated and holding a locket containing a portrait of a man; she is flanked by columns, with red drape, potted plant and cloudy sky in the background. Unsigned. Housed in a Rococo Revival style giltwood and composition frame with applied foliate moldings. Sight - 22 1/4" H x 15 1/2" W. Framed - 32" H x 25 1/2" W. Circa 1850. Provenance: Property of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Condition: Blacklight indicates inpainting to majority of facial area, area on left side collar and tops of the subject's forearms. Losses to frame, especially lower left corner. Oil on canvas appears to be laid on board.
• Fine Southern D
  Fine Southern D
• Southern School (19th Century)
  Southern School (19th Century) "Portrait of a Creole Woman", oil on canvas, 32" x 25-1/2". Presented in an antique parcel-gilt and ebonized frame.
• Southern watercolor, E. McIntire,
  Southern watercolor, E. McIntire, Southern genre scene with black figures around cabins, in cotton field, titled on mat "Cotton Field in South Carolina", watercolor and gouache on paper, inscribed verso "Mrs. Francis McIntire/38 S. Battery/Charleston, S.C. 29401", American School, 20th century, 8-1/2 x 11-3/8 in.; early 20th century inlaid wood frame. Small hole at edge lower left; frame with loss to wood at sight edge, abrasions.
• Southern Folk sculpture by L. Jones
  Southern Folk sculpture by L. Jones (Georgia 20th Century) STANDING FEMALE NUDE parcel-gilt painted carved wood H36 3/4'' W10'' Provenance: Glenville North Carolina collection. Estate of Edgar C. Jones Coral Gables Florida.
• Very Fine Southern D
  Very Fine Southern D
• 2 PC, CHARLESTON SWEETGRASS
  2 PC, CHARLESTON SWEETGRASS BASKET & DRINKS SERVER American/South Carolina, 20th/21st century. Group of two handmade sweetgrass crafts comprising oval handled basket and oval drinks tray woven of sweetgrass, pine needles, and palmetto. Apparently unsigned. Note: Sweetgrass baskets are a Charleston area tradition dating back to the beginning of rice cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Based in traditional African basketry, they were woven mostly by enslaved peoples as winnowing baskets to remove rice from it's chaff. The basket continues to be a cultural institution as Gullah descendents continue to harvest the materials, weave and sell the baskets in the Charleston City Market and along Highway 17 in Mt. Pleasant. Provenance: From the Lifetime Collection of Billy S. Arant, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Approx. w. 15" each
• Cissette Southern Belle Doll, 9
  Cissette Southern Belle Doll, 9 inches tall, all hard plastic, blonde original wig and green sleepy eyes, strung tight, original dress Estimate $50-125
• ANTE-BELLUM PORTRAIT OF A LADY Bust
  ANTE-BELLUM PORTRAIT OF A LADY Bust Portrait of a Kindly Looking Middle Aged Woman, oil on canvas, unsigned, circa 1855, her face framed by her black hair, wearing a lace bonnet and collar, having a cameo pendant on a blue ribbon, housed in what is probably the original lemon gold matched corner cove frame, OS: 31" x 27", SS: 25" x 21", cleaned relined with wax, single repaired tear, varnished.
• 3 PCS, CHARLESTON SWEETGRASS
  3 PCS, CHARLESTON SWEETGRASS BASKETS American/South Carolina, 20th/21st century. Group of three handmade woven baskets comprising handled basket, urn form and vase form woven of sweetgrass, pine needles, and palmetto. Apparently unsigned. Note: Sweetgrass baskets are a Charleston area tradition dating back to the beginning of rice cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Based in traditional African basketry, they were woven mostly by enslaved peoples as winnowing baskets to remove rice from it's chaff. The basket continues to be a cultural institution as Gullah descendents continue to harvest the materials, weave and sell the baskets in the Charleston City Market and along Highway 17 in Mt. Pleasant. Provenance: From the Lifetime Collection of Billy S. Arant, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Approx. h. largest 9"
• Overbeck Southern Belle figure.
  Overbeck Southern Belle figure. Marked with incised OBK. Couple of very minor nicks to the applied flowers. 4 3/4'' tall.
• Southern School (19th Century)
  Southern School (19th Century) "Portrait of a Young Girl in Blue", oil on canvas, 32" x 24". Presented in a giltwood frame.
• ANTEBELLUM BOSTON SCHOOL PORTRAIT
  ANTEBELLUM BOSTON SCHOOL PORTRAIT OF A LADY Circa 1850s Portrait of a Pleasant Middle Aged Lady with black hair and blue eyes, in beribboned bonnet and shawl collar, oil on canvas, unsigned, in the original magnificent gilt gesso oblong frame with oval spandrel, OS: 37" x 32", SS: 26" x 21" oval. Overall craquelure.
• ALICE SCOTT PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN
  ALICE SCOTT PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN EXHIBITED PAINTING South Carolina, Florida,1924-2005Depicts a woman with high cheek bones, large eyes lined with thick lashes, and dark curled hair gazing towards the viewer. Scott is best known for her depictions of African American subjects as well as landscapes, and still lifes. Scott took great interest in the Gullah culture, a group of African Americans who descended from enslaved peoples, who settled along the Southern Atlantic coast.
• 2 PCS, CHARLESTON SWEETGRASS
  2 PCS, CHARLESTON SWEETGRASS BASKETS, FOLK ART American/South Carolina, 20th/21st century. Group of two handmade sweetgrass crafts comprising round handled basket and domed basket with attached lid woven of sweetgrass, pine needles, and palmetto. Apparently unsigned. Note: Sweetgrass baskets are a Charleston area tradition dating back to the beginning of rice cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Based in traditional African basketry, they were woven mostly by enslaved peoples as winnowing baskets to remove rice from it's chaff. The basket continues to be a cultural institution as Gullah descendents continue to harvest the materials, weave and sell the baskets in the Charleston City Market and along Highway 17 in Mt. Pleasant. Provenance: From the Lifetime Collection of Billy S. Arant, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Approx. h. tallest 12.5"
• 5 PCS, CHARLESTON SWEETGRASS
  5 PCS, CHARLESTON SWEETGRASS SERVING BASKETS American/South Carolina, 20th/21st century. Group of five handmade sweetgrass bread baskets woven of sweetgrass, pine needles, and palmetto. One labeled as being made by Charlotte Kennedy. Note: Sweetgrass baskets are a Charleston area tradition dating back to the beginning of rice cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Based in traditional African basketry, they were woven mostly by enslaved peoples as winnowing baskets to remove rice from it's chaff. The basket continues to be a cultural institution as Gullah descendents continue to harvest the materials, weave and sell the baskets in the Charleston City Market and along Highway 17 in Mt. Pleasant. Provenance: From the Lifetime Collection of Billy S. Arant, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Approx. w. largest 16"
• PORTRAIT OF A STYLISH AMERICAN
  PORTRAIT OF A STYLISH AMERICAN WOMAN, CIRCA 1875 An Intense Young Woman with her black hair pulled back into a snood, wearing a black velvet trimmed chocolate silk gown with Belgian lace collar and bell sleeves, pale blue ribbons dressing the lace, displaying a gold and coral brooch, ruby gold earrings, gold and tourmaline linked bracelet, and a fine long gold chain going to a waist pocket that probably holds pince-nez eyeglasses, oil on canvas, unsigned, unframed, 30" x 25". Fine condition.
• Ernest Lee South Carolina (20th
  Ernest Lee South Carolina (20th century) PAIR OUTSIDER ART WORKS: TOO BAD SONNY and PASTTIME IN DIXIE paint on fabric unframed signed & dated: lower left 1992 H38'' W28'' (2pcs) Provenance: Collection of Tom Wells Thomson Georgia. Back    Inquiry      Previous Item   Next Item © Charlton Hall Auctions.  Images descriptions and condition reports used on this site are original copyright material and are not to be reproduced without permission. For further information telephone 803.779.5678     © 2012 CHARLTON HALL GALLERIES INC.
• SOUTHERN SCHOOL O/C, AFRICAN
  SOUTHERN SCHOOL O/C, AFRICAN AMERICAN PORTRAITSouthern School, late 19th - early 20th century, impressionist style portrait of an African American woman wearing a turban and sitting in a chair, her hands folded holding a blanket or possibly a child. Possibly unfinished or a study for a larger painting. Oil on canvas board, unsigned. Stained wood frame. 19-1/2" x 13-1/2" sight, 22-1/2" x 16-1/2" framed. Condition: Four 1/8" flakes, two in background above subject's forehead, two on the subject's chest, 1-1/2" scratch above subject's forehead, 2-3 other scratches and abrasions to background area.
• Black Americana cloth doll, in
  Black Americana cloth doll, in its original outfit, with handwritten tag inscribed "Aunt Sophronia the original Praline Woman historic character of old New Orleans, LA, this doll is a duplicate of the one made for Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt and Cecil B DeMille, also winner of the first prize, San Francisco Worlds Fair", hand written inside petticoat "Mrs Jefferson Davis Weir New Orleans La", 12-1/2" h
• Geraldine Smith (American, b. 1947;
  Geraldine Smith (American, b. 1947; active Columbia, South Carolina), painted lamp and shade, the bulbous lamp body and shade painted with continuous scenes of rural life with churches, barns, cabins and people in South Carolina low country landscapes, signed and indistinctly dated on the shade "Sept 200?", h. 26", dia. 21". Geraldine Smith is a well-known painter of African-American rural life, primarily memories of her childhood on a tobacco farm in Trenton, North Carolina.
• Southern School (Early 20th
  Southern School (Early 20th Century) \"North Carolina Cabbage Woman\"\", oil on canvas, 14\" x 10\", pencil titled on stretcher. Presented in a carved giltwood frame.
• Twenty Books, Southern Decorative
  Twenty Books, Southern Decorative Arts The Charleston Renaissance Gallery, Palmetto and Magnolia; John Bivins, The Regional Arts of the Early South; Graham Hood, The Governor's Palace in Williamsburg; George Rogers, Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys; Beatrice Ravenel, Architects of Charleston; Tennessee State Museum, The Pottery of Charles F. Decker; Barry Huffman, Catawba Clay; McKissick Museum, I Made This Jar: The Life and Works of the Enslaved African American Potter, Dave; H. E. Comstock, Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley Region; Benjamin Caldwell, Tennessee Silversmiths; Newbern and Melchor, Classical Norfolk Furniture; Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Old Salem, 1972; Wallace Gusler, Furniture of Williamsburg and Eastern Virginia 1710-1790; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Art of Tennessee; Southern Perspective, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 2005, some water damage; Henry Greene, Furniture of the Georgia Piedmont Before 1830; Burroughs, Southern Antiques; Society of Colonial Dames, South Carolina Portraits; Chamberlain & Chamberlain, Southern Interiors; Duncan Phillips, American Etchers, Volume II, Alfred Hutty, spine torn and panels loose,
• ANTEBELLUM OVAL PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG
  ANTEBELLUM OVAL PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL IN A MAGNIFICENT FRAME Blue Eyed Blonde Girl in bottle curls, wearing a white dress with blue ribbon belt, leaning on a cranberry colored upholstered chair in a undefined, darkening landscape, back stenciled by "H.L. & G. Drake, Artist Depot, Troy, NY" (in business 1850-56). In a deep relief gilt gesso oval frame, OS: 34" x 29", SS: 23" x 19". Scratch at bottom, light craquelure, minor frame loss.
• Charleston, South Carolina
  Charleston, South Carolina needlework, kneeling hunter with dog before a cross, stitched at bottom "Worked by Elizabeth Malone at the Academy of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. Charleston S. Carolina", wool on canvas, circa 1860-1870, unframed, 17-1/2 x 20-3/4 in. Several horizontal splits in canvas, losses to wool, fading, grime. Private Collection, Charlotte, North Carolina.
• 19th century Charleston silhouette,
  19th century Charleston silhouette, profile of young man in detailed jacket, signed at bottom in ink "M. Beasley 1829 Charleston, S.C.", gouache on paper, 2-3/4 x 2-1/4 in.; painted gold frame. Toning, minor foxing; frame with abrasions. Label verso indicates silhouette was part of the Elizabeth L. Maurier Collection; The Estate of the Late Grace Shorter, South Salem, New York.
• 4 PCS, SWEETGRASS BASKETS,
  4 PCS, SWEETGRASS BASKETS, CHARLESTON CRAFTS American/South Carolina, 20th/21st century. Group of four handmade sweetgrass crafts comprising large urn shaped basket, covered urn with hole in lid, and two smaller baskets woven of sweetgrass, pine needles, and palmetto. One labeled as being made by Blanche Marsh. Note: Sweetgrass baskets are a Charleston area tradition dating back to the beginning of rice cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Based in traditional African basketry, they were woven mostly by enslaved peoples as winnowing baskets to remove rice from it's chaff. The basket continues to be a cultural institution as Gullah descendents continue to harvest the materials, weave and sell the baskets in the Charleston City Market and along Highway 17 in Mt. Pleasant. Provenance: From the Lifetime Collection of Billy S. Arant, Jr., Chattanooga, TN. Approx. h. tallest 11.75"
• Southern School 19th/20th c. "Black
  Southern School 19th/20th c. "Black Woman in a Tignon" watercolor unsigned sight 9 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in. matted and framed.
• Southern School 19th c. "The
  Southern School 19th c. "The Steamboat Bayou Belle on the Mississippi River probably decorated for the American Centennial of 1876" oil on canvas unsigned 24 in. x 36 in. original frame.
• 13 books, Southern history and
  13 books, Southern history and decorative arts: [Georgetown Rice Plantations], [The Mansions of Virginia], [Bluegrass Houses and Their Traditions], [Charleston Gardens], [Charleston Interiors], [Plantations of the Low Country], [Architecture of the Old South: South Carolina], [Architecture of the Old South: North Carolina], [Landmark Homes of Georgia], [Persons, Places and Happenings in Old Walhalla], two [Plantations of the Carolina Low Country], [The Early Architecture of Charleston]. Most with original dust jackets, some with minor chips and losses, most in good condition.