Future Features: September Catalog sneak peak
A selection of items to be featured in our September catalog
September 20, 2016
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Northwest Coast mask, British Columbia, c 1880, depicting a wolf or bear, 9" long
1907 St Gaudens $20 gold coin, MS63, high relief, flat edge, PCGS # 9135.62/4532317
Jason Seley, 1919-1983, welded automobile parts sculpture, student of Zadkine at the Arts Students League in New York and eventually became dean of the college of Architecture, Arts and Planning at Cornell University. Sculpture has the raised weld signature SELEY and probably dates from the 1960's or 70's.
French gilt bronze and crystal open tantalus, the ornate fire gilt frame fitted with scalloped faceted crystal panels for bottom, back, and hinged top, holding 3 gilt decorated crystal decanters and 12 liqueur glasses, 9 with handles, back stamped "BREVETE / SGDG", 17" h, 17" w, 11 1/2" d, second half 19th c.
EF Caldwell & Co gilt bronze humidor with carved ivory panel in lid depicting a mythological scene, the bronze body decorated on all sides with mythological scenes, dehumidifying panel inside, signed "EF Caldwell & Co, New York" inside lid, c 1895-1910, 6-7/8" x 5-1/8", 2" high, lined in mahogany. Cannot be shipped to CA, NY, NJ, or out of the US.
3 pc French Louis XIV style Tiffany & Co, New York bronze clock set, the lyre shaped case with inset beveled glass panels, the case with ornate C-scroll and shell motifs, lion head and ring handles, all on paw feet, 20-1/2" h, with a pr bronze candlesticks by Alphonse Giroux, Paris, pierced pelican decoration aorund base, pierced foliate stems with ladies heads 9-7/8 "tall, the bronze pendulum with ladies head, late 19th c, back plate of movement marked Tiffany & Co / New York
3 pc French bronze and cloisonne Japy Freres Chinese style clock set, the ball encased movement hanging as a gong from a frame with bronze Chinese elements and cloisonne columns, with foodog supports, the clock 15-1/2" tall, with a pair of matching candlesticks, 12-1/4" h
Pair of Mintons Louis Solon Decorated Pate-sur-Pate Vases, England, late 19th century, with looped handles with enameled salmon, turquoise, and black enameled decoration with gilt highlights, green and salmon enameled foliate decoration to neck and socle, dark green ground with white slip cherub builder and engineer figures designing and building a playhouse, the second vase showing them playing in the structure and the structure collpased on the cherubs. Marked with gold globe & Mintons mark, c
Pair of Mintons Louis Solon Decorated Pate-sur-Pate Vases and Covers, England, late 19th century, each with gilded wreath-form handles adorned with ribbons, gold fish scale borders to neck and socle, dark teal blue ground with white slip allegorical figures holding shields against Cupids arrows being fired by winged cherubs, with gold globe & Mintons /England mark, c 1891-1912, 15-1/2" h
Mintons pate sur pate tile, white on peacock blue, by Louis Solon, depicting a seated woman with cherub crawling up a floral stem, with stamped MINTONS mark, 7 3/4" x 7"
Mintons pate sur pate tile, white on peacock blue, by Louis Solon, depicting a seated woman with cherub on her knee, spider web behind them, with stamped MINTONS mark, 7-3/4" x 7"
D(ominique) Alonzo, French, early 20th c, bronze, marble and carved ivory sculpture, c 1900-1910, Lady with Book Descending Steps
KPM porcelain plaque, Jesus in the Temple", by Heinrich Hoffman, 12" x 15", impressed KPM, various paper labels verso
Pr Meissen lidded sucres, floral and gilt decoration, lady head handles, turquoise serpent on each triangualr base, repair to ocrner of one base, 10-1/2" h, probably late 18th c
3-Piece cast iron Victorian garden furniture set, fern & blackberry design, settee 54" w x 33" h, armchairs 24" w x 32" h
Pr Meissen groupings of Neptune and Amphitrite, second half of 19th Century, Each modeled in three parts, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised No. 1 or No. 2.
Pr Meissen groupings of Neptune and Amphitrite, second half of 19th Century, Each modeled in three parts, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue, incised No. 1 or No. 2.
Franklin Library 25th Anniversary Edition, Great Books of the Western World, 95 of 96 volumes, only missing Volume 6, Gibbon
KPM porcelain lidded ewer, the body with hand painted cherub and bird decoration
Pair of cast iron Victorian urns by JW Fiske, NY, Aesthetic style, each with double applied handles, 37" dia x 38" h to top of handle, 27" h to top of rim, 18" square at base, signed on base, minor repair to applied decoration
