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A beautiful and striking tall pair of brass push-up pulpit candlesticks with dish bases. Made in England, c1820. These elegant sticks have sets of scribed lines at intervals along the column, and wonderfully crafted joinings.
Excellent condition, with fully working slides. 17 1/2 inches tall, and a base diameter of 6 5/8 inches.
A charmingly done 18th century English porcelain Dr. Wall First Period Worcester coffee, cup painted in vibrant enamels with a loose bouquet of flowers within a red edged gilt cartouche flanked by sprigs of flowers. The rim is also gilded, with an interior gilt border with iron-red decorative devices issuing. Grooved loop handle.
The cup is 2 5/8 inches tall, and 2 3/8 inches in diameter. It is in superb condition, with ...click for details
An English 18th century porcelain pickle dish made at the Limehouse Manufactory, in perfect condition. This exceptionally rare piece is molded in the form of a scallop shell, and is painted in blue with a Chinese vase containing two feathers. The vase is in front of a partially unrolled scroll, with an insect to the right and three flocks of birds in the distance. The border has three feathers entwined with ribbons, while the reverse has two branches of leaves. ...click for details
A Samuel Gilbody of Liverpool porcelain small mug or coffee can with a flattened round loop handle and a flat unglazed base. Painted in famille rose colors with stylized peonies and a prunus bough issuing from a jardiniere. There are sacred Chinese scrolls and a larger peony spray to the right. The interior of the rim has a diaper border with prunus blossoms.
A similar mug was sold during the Watney Collection auctions ...click for details
A beautifully rendered watercolor and pencil portrait of a woman done by Jane Anthony Davis, more commonly known as J.A. Davis. The sitter, as was usual with Davis' portraits, is dressed in black, with color being reserved for decorative objects, such as books, flowers, or jewelry, as in this case. What is highly unusual is that Davis signed very few of her works, and on this piece, on the cardboard insert behind the painting, is written "Caroline Mathilda Brown Wife of Nicholas Brown&q ...click for details
A beautiful and stately lead metal English Georgian two knop wine goblet with an MSAT (multiple-spiral air twist) stem. The large pointed round funnel bowl sits atop the stem which has an inverted baluster shoulder knop and a medial knop.
This impressive glass is 8 3/8 inches tall, and has a bowl diameter of 3 13/16 inches. The conical foot, which has a rough, snapped pontil, is a large 3 5/8 inches in diameter. Althou ...click for details
An elegant and tall opaque twist English toasting glass. The flared trumpet bowl leads into a double series opaque twist (DSOT) stem with a central gauze surrounded by two heavy spiral threads. Conical foot with rough, snapped pontil. The lead metal is of good color, and there are nice striations and tool marks.
The glass is 7 3/8 inches tall, with a bowl diameter of 2 7/16 inches and a foot diameter of 3 1/16 inches. N ...click for details
An 18th century beautiful and uncommon Dr. Wall Worcester coffee cup of fluted French shape with a classical urn, swags, grapes and other fruit hand painted on it. The colors are vibrant, and the condition is excellent, with no chips, cracks, or restoration. The gilding is also in wonderful shape, with only a few scattered traces of loss on the rim, visible only under magnification. The cup is 2 5/8 inches tall, with a diameter of 2 3/8 inches.
A wonderful and rare southern folk art small watercolor on paper portrait of a gentleman, identified as Mr. Bunning on the reverse, along with the date of 1824. Examples of southern folk art are quite uncommon and highly sought after. This fine example was found in Florida, and the presence of a palm tree and water in the background, along with a classical style column, indicates that it was done, in fact, somewhere along the southeastern coast of the U.S ...click for details
A rare and early baluster champagne glass featuring an everted lip cup bowl over a hollow inverted baluster knop. Finishing the stem is a basal knop over a high domed and folded foot. The height of this gem is 4 1/4 inches, and it has no condition issues whatsoever.
Although this type form was also made slightly later, the thinly blown dark metal strongly suggests a late 17th century date.
