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American Pickard Studio
American Pickard Studio decorated porcelain vase, hand-painted and artist signed by Louis Falatek using a Bavarian black, having a short flared neck drawn from shouldered swelling cylindrical walls, mounted with two detached angled side handles rising from the shoulders and returning to the lip. Above a wide band of acid-cut back sponged metallic-gold covering the lower walls, the upper walls are circumscribed by an artist signed scene depicting a lush garden flowering in shades of purple, pink, orange and yellow, overlooking the edge of a pale-blue lake with a light-purple forested shore in the distance. The neck and the handles are gilded.
Decorated by Pickard Studios in Chicago, Illinois, c. 1919-1922, using a Bavarian blank by Heinrich and Company in Selb, Germany. According to Alan Reed, the author of The Collector’s Encyclopedia of Pickard China, the artist Louis H. Falatek was born in the Hungarian portion of the Austrian Empire in 1894, emigrated to the United States at the age of 20 just prior to the start of World War I in 1914, and worked at Pickard Studios from 1912 to the early 1920s. Good overall condition. Measures 11 ¾" tall and 7" diameter. SOLD
European Marquetry Game Table
European marquetry game table, having an inlaid tilt-top decorated with a chessboard centering two square fields and six stars, skirted by a pierce-carved acanthus-scroll skirt, and supported on a richly carved acanthus-carved tripod base. Dating is late 19th to early 20th century. Poplar with sapwood and mahogany inlays to a fruitwood surfaced top. Measures 29” tall and 27.5” diameter. SOLD
French Legras Cameo Glass Vase
G2521. Art Nouveau French cameo acid-cut back glass vase, signed Legras, having a blown-molded ogee-molded form of light-peach colored glass, optic-molded with subtle internally rounded ribs, and decorated with an amethyst-purple stained vine against a frosted ground, wreathing a deeply crimped rim and trailing onto the lower walls with large palmate leaves. Attributed to Legras and Cie, glassworks of St. Denis in Paris, France, dating from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. Concave wheel-polished pontil. Good condition. Measures 4" tall and 5 1/8" diameter. SOLD
French St. Louis Cologne Bottles
G2509. Exceptional French St. Louis cranberry-red cased colorless wheel-cut Chair-cane pattern pair of leaded glass colognes with pattern-cut air-trap stoppers. SOLD. Pair only.
European Wheel-Cut Cased Glass Ewer
G2522. Bold European 19th century wheel-cut white cased gold-cranberry glass ewer, having a shouldered ovate body stepped above a wafered domed foot, with an annulated cylindrical neck and serpentine-shaped pouring lip drawn out from the top of the walls opposite to an applied “strap”-form colorless cased gold-ruby glass handle with returns at the shoulders and top of the neck. SOLD.
Rare Haviland French Limoges Feu de Four Painted Plate
C3662a. Rare Haviland French Limoges Feu de Four painted porcelain hand-painted dessert plate, Art Nouveau and Oriental influences, using the Marseilles shape, a shallow dished form sculpted with a pierced and molded border of conventionalized “C”-scrolls chained with scrolled leaf and floriforms which are embellished with pendant bellflowers and scrolling vines, underglaze printed in flowing cobalt-blue with a large off-center flowering foxglove plant overlying a watery shoreline with reeds, accented in overglaze grey and black on the flowering plant, and richly finished by hand with metallic-gold trimming the molded border and even edging the foot rim. SOLD.
Rare Haviland French Limoges Feu de Four Painted Plate
C3663b. Rare Haviland French Limoges Feu de Four painted porcelain hand-painted dessert plate, Art Nouveau and Oriental influences, using the Marseilles shape, a shallow dished form sculpted with a pierced and molded border of conventionalized “C”-scrolls chained with scrolled leaf and floriforms which are embellished with pendant bellflowers and scrolling vines, underglaze printed in flowing cobalt-blue with a large off-center flowering arrowhead plant overlying a watery shoreline with reeds, accented in overglaze grey and black on the flowering plant, and richly finished by hand with metallic-gold trimming the molded border and even edging the foot rim. SOLD.
American Table Lamp
L177. American double-light electric table lamp, having eight caramel-slag glass panels fitted to a golden-brown bronze painted metal domed shade, supported by a matching painted metal base.
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American Rainaud Double-Light Electric Table Lamp
L178. American Rainaud double-light electric table lamp, having a domed shade fitted with seven caramel-slag glass panels in a dark-brown painted cast-metal frame accented with shades of green, supported by a columnar cast metal base painted to match the shade. SOLD
Japanese Cloisonne Vase
OR1. Japanese cloisonne enameled brass vase, drawing on the Chinese for the meiping shape, this vase is circumscribed by six shaped light-green beaded reserves against a sapphire-blue ground of scrolls, alternatively decorated with butterflies against a rust-red background sprinkled with aventurine or chrysanthemum-scroll against a black background. The waised foot is finished with black-scale underlined by light-green beading. The sapphire-blue scroll ground on the walls continues over the neck, sprinkled with white flowerheads, bordered by scaled bands in black, light-blue and light-green. Dating is late 19th to early 20th century. Good overall condition with a small dent at the bottom of the walls. Measures 7.75" tall and 3.5" diameter.
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American Cherry Corner Cupboard
American midAtlantic two-piece 16 light cherry corner cupboard, a triangular case with “cut” corners and conforming cove-molded cornice above a glazed upper cabinet with two hinged 8-light doors opening to three fixed shelves, above a long drawer with two “mushroom”-shaped knobs, over a lower cabinet fitted with a single fixed shelf behind two wooden fielded panel doors, on a molded serpentine-and-scallop bracket base.
Dating is c. 1820-1840. Poplar secondary wood. Older refinished surface with warm golden-red color. The interior has an old light-blue painted surface. Good overall condition. One pane of glass has an old break, the proper right door upper hinge has an old repair. Measures 86" tall, 52 ½" wide, and fits a 30 ½" wide corner.
$3,250.00
American Cherry Cupboard
American country cherry jelly cupboard, having a distinctive notched serpentine-shaped backpiece flanked by posts with acorn-finials, a rectangular overhanging top with molded frieze, set upon a case fitted with a pair of short dovetailed cock-beaded drawers flanked by turned half-pilasters, above a long cock-beaded recessed drawer over a cabinet with a fixed shelf enclosed by two hinged fielded panel doors, flanked by columns with spooled ring and rope turnings between distinctive four-part square blocks, above a cove-molded plinth on robust grooved ball-and-ring turned legs. Recessed panel sides. The drawers have their original press-molded glass pulls.
Dating is c. 1840-1850. Pine secondary wood. Mellow reddish-brown old surface. Measures 61 ¼" tall (HOA), 47 ½" wide and 23 ½" deep.
$1,175.00
American Mahogany Drawers
American Federal mahogany swell-front chest of drawers, probably Northern Virginia or Maryland, having a notched “D”-form top, overhanging a conforming case fitted with four graduated cock-beaded dovetailed drawers retaining their original silver-plated bale-pulls with oval back-plates, flanked by distinctive stiles carved with reeded ovals, raised on flared French feet with a modified serpentine-shaped valence.
Dating is c. 1810. Yellow pine secondary wood. Mellow dark reddish-brown older surface. Measures 40 ½" tall, 39 ½" wide and 22 ¼" deep.
$1,275.00
American Server
Bold American early 19th century server, cherry with tiger-maple and flame-figured mahogany, a double-tiered form, having a tall deeply scrolled serpentine-shaped back-piece, above a short case fitted with a bank of three dovetailed drawers, resting upon a deeper block-front flame-figured mahogany case with a remarkable tiger-maple top, fitted with a central drawer projecting with quartered roped pilasters between two small dovetailed drawers, supported by spiral-turned legs embellished with baluster-and ring turnings. Original brass drawer pulls.
Dating is c. 1820-1830. Pine and basswood secondary woods. Possibly Ohio or New York. Measures 46 ½" tall (HOA), 38 ¼" wide and 19 ¼" deep.
$2,475.00
Mahogany Dresser
Mahogany serpentine-front chest of drawers, surfaced in bookpage matched flame-figured veneer with cross-banding and line-inlay, fitted with a pull-out tray surfaced in tooled leather above four drawers each having two brass laurel-wreath ring-pulls, above a serpentine-and-scallop valence, raised on two flared front feet.
Dating is from the first half of the 20th century. Oak secondary wood. Retains a warm dark-reddish brown surface. Measures 35" tall, 40" wide and 19 ½" deep.
$965.00
American Roll Top Desk
F282. American roll-top desk, crafted in quarter-sawn oak, having a paneled case with a finished back, having an upper case with a molded top above a serpentine-shaped slatted tambour lid enclosing a generous writing surface flanked by mail-slots and letter racks on either side, centering a large set of cubby-holes and drawers, supported on a twin pedestal base comprised of a long narrow molded drawer above a knee-hole recess, flanked by two cases each fitted with molded drawers stacked below a pull-out writing tablet, molded above a rounded base-board.
$1,895.00
Bohemian Chalice
Exceptional Bohemian wheel-cut opaline cased colorless glass chalice, having an opaline-cased-colorless Thousand Eye design with punties ornamenting a quatrefoil-form punty-cut bowl and a flattened conical foot, joined with a superb faceted double-baluster-form colorless enamel-twist stem decorated with nested opaline helixes. Dating is c. 1840-1880. Measures 10 ½" tall and 5" diameter.
$475.00
Bohemian Ruby Vase
Bohemian gilded and wheel-cut ruby-gold cased glass footed vase, a colloidial gold-based cranberry-red colored glass cased in colorless, blown with a graceful waisted neck drawn from an oviform, richly circumscribed in metallic-gold by honeysuckle foliage strewn upon a field of scrolls, bounded by a wide metallic-gold upper border wrapping over the inner surface and embellished in black accented with white by a lined foliate band of oval blossoms chained with leafy-branches, and a basal band of wheel-cut gold-lined flutes; supported by a colorless flattened conical foot reprising the design with a gilded honeysuckle and scroll field bounded by gold-lined flutes. Wheel-polished bottom.
Dating is late 19th century. Good overall condition with minimal wear to the gold. Measures 8 ½" tall and 4" diameter.
$465.00
Bohemian Vases
Rare pair of late 19th Century Bohemian painted opaline glass portrait vases, signed by Josef Ahne, and decorated with contemplative reserves of young women, accompanied by flowering vines, and trimmed in gold.
The noted Bohemian glass-painter, Josef Ahne (1830-1909) was born in Nový Oldřřhov. At age 11, Ahne became an apprentice to Emanuel Hess, with whom he worked until 1848. For the next three years, Ahne worked under Ignaz Ulmann in the studio of Lammel-Halzel. Ahne worked at the Allmann glass refinery between 1857 and 1860 when he opened his own studio in Steinschonau, Bohemia. Ahne was an accomplished painter, specializing in figural compositions based on German and Italian artists. He received a medal at the Vienna Universal Exhibition of 1873, as well as a bronze medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878. Images of these two medals are transfer-printed in sepia on the bottom of each vase.
Blown-molded from opaline-glass to suggest porcelain, each vase has a graceful baluster-shape, springing from a low round waisted foot, richly adorned in an impressionistic romantic style with a large oval reserve against a pale green etheral ground with two blue-birds cavorting in flight amongst others on the reverse, narrowly bordered in metallic-gold, crisply edged in dark-brown, and finished with a vine circumscribing the waisted foot bearing tiny pink flowers and small light-brown leaves. The reserves are symmetrically composed, influenced by the Italian Old Master painting, each featuring a young contemplative woman in a long robe, barefoot, wearing a head-band securing long blonde hair gathered upon her head, holding a small dark-brown earthenware vessel in a small clearing with a low earthen embankment, amongst flowering plants and low vegetation receding into a grey background, and mantled by a pair of flowering branches which is repeated in shadow on the reverse.
One scene depicts a young woman, facing toward the left in three-quarter perspective, holding her hand to her face deep in thought, gazing down at a small footed cup balanced in her lap with her other hand. She sits on a grassy embankment, beside a pond with a dragonfly hovering above flowering lily pads and grasses on the bank, accompanied by maiden-hair fern behind her and a low dark-brown fern in the near right foreground. She wears a sleeveless long white robe belted in yellow-gold, with a rose-pink cloth apron bordered in Greek-key. Above are two tulip-tree branches flowering in yellow-and-orange.
The reserve on the other vase depicts a young woman also standing in three-quarter perspective in front of a grassy embankment on the right, gazing down full of thought into the depths of a footed double-handled vase which she holds to her breast, flanked by hosta-type plants and a butterfly hovering above a fern behind her, and by white-flowering wild-flowers in the foreground. She wears a white robe trimmed with gold Greek-key, belted in magenta patterned with gold Greek-key, and a light-blue apron. Above are two apple-tree branches flowering in pink.
Dating is c. 1880. Good condition. Each vase measures 14" tall and 6 ½" diameter. (SM)
$1,695.00 pair.
Chinese Kang Cabinet
Chinese pine kang cabinet, fitted with small drawers and panels flanking a small compartment enclosed by doors, carved in relief with auspicious emblems including those from the Pa pao and deer. Original brass hardware including flower-basket drop-pulls for the drawers. The end panels are removable and conceal hidden compartments. Nineteenth century. Good overall condition. Older golden colored surface. Measures 20" tall x 52" long x 17 ½" deep.
$1,895.00
Japanese 19th Century Candle
Japanese 19th century candle-lantern in pine, having a square base with blown-out walls, fitted with a small drawer, mounted with an arched superstructure comprised of two posts mortised on trefoil-bases which are fitted with a hand-carved pronged candle cup centered in a square framed shade covered in rice-paper with black calligraphy. Good overall condition. Measures 33" tall with a 12 ½" square shade. (IM) $985.00
Hungarian Genre Painting
F194. Hungarian genre painting, by Andor G. Hovarth (1876-1966), oil on canvas, depicting a man enjoying a drink and a pipe seated at a table, mounted in a modern dark-gold gilded gesso wooden frame. $295.00.
Bronze Warriors
Pair of Classical Revival bronze-patinated spelter female warriors with spears, each striding bare-chested upon a rectangular plinth, holding a spear aloft with one hand and wielding a small shaped shield with the other, wearing a Greco-Roman style helmet and a short belted skirt buckled with a lion’s head. The bronze patination has light wear and the spears have minor rust. Weighted rectangular bases. Early 20th century.
$265.00 each. Pair only.
American Gorham Sterling Silver Round Tray
M2065. Fine American Gorham silver round serving tray, a shallow round dish circumscribed by 24 radiating swirled serpentine-shaped ribs sculpting the rim. Made by Gorham Corporation in 1953, design #778. The reverse is stamped with the name of the manufacturer, "GORHAM," stacked above a three-part trademark composed of a ship's anchor in a shield flanked on the left by a right-side profiled lion passant in a shield and on the right by the initial of the manufacturer in Gothic font "G," over an indication of a 92.5% silver standard, the design number "778," and a date mark comprised of the numeral "3" in a shield. Measures 12" diameter and 1.5" tall. Good overall condition with minor table wear. (KA)
$765.00
