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At Auction August 2013 

 

 CHINESE PORCELAIN PUNCH BOWL – 19th c Rose Mandarin Service Bowl

 

with panels of court scenes, red-orange landscape medallions, gilt detailing, blue floral band interior, deep foot with gilt band. 5 1/4″ x 12 1/2″. Very good condition.   Estimate $   1,000-1,500

 

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Black-painted Child’s Slat-back Armchair

 

 probably Bergen County, New Jersey, late 18th century, the three arched slats joined by ring-turned stiles topped by urn finials, the knob handholds and vase- and ring-turned legs, old black paint, ht. 25 1/2, seat ht. 9 in. Estimate $250-350

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RARE EARLY AMERICAN TWO HANDLED SILVER CUP

 

 

Circa 1726, George Hanners, Sr. (1696-1740), Boston, Massachusetts. Of tapered cylindrical form with everted rim with C-scrolled handles with outturned thumb grips, beading, and C-scroll terminals, tapering to a molded foot. At the center of the base is the hallmark “GHANNERS” within a rectangle. The side engraved “The Gift of Coll. Eleazer Flegg/to the First Church in Woborn 1726”. Weight: 13.8 troy ounces. SIZE: 5″ H x 5″ D. PROVENANCE: Property of First Church, Congregational, Woburn, Massachusetts. Reference: On loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts circa 1910 for the exhibition of 1911. See “American church silver of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries” compiled by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, item number 546, p.63, and with illustration. CONDITION: Cup with very light surface scratches. Also with minor dimples commensurate with age. Engraving and hallmark remain clear. No restorations or damages noted. Very good overall. (8,000-10,000)

 

 

 

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 CONNECTICUT QUEEN ANNE CHERRY TEA TABLE

 

 
 WITH SHAPED TOP AND HEAVILY SCALLOPED APRON, WETHERSFIELD AREA.
Height 26 ¾ inches, top 31 x 21 ¾ inches. Provenance: Descended in the Johnston Family of Hartford, Connecticut and Muncie, Indiana; Tom Brown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Est. $30,000-$50,000
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

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CARVED EAGLE STERNBOARD BY LUCIEN GREEN

 

 
2nd half 19th century, Rockland, Maine. This fine gilt and painted carved pine stern board depicting a displayed eagle clutching scrolled arrows in its talons within a border of scrolling leaf tips. The artist’s signature in block letters “L GREEN”. SIZE: 16-1/2″ h x 83-1/2″ l. CONDITION: Structurally intact with dry crusty gilt and painted surfaces.  ($2,000-$3,000)
 

 

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RARE IRISH MAHOGANY ARCHITECT’S TABLE. Circa 1800

 

 

 retailer’s label “MILLER & BEATTY, LTD. HOUSE FURNISHERS, GRAFTON ST., DUBLIN” affixed beneath the table. This unusual table with hinged top tenting at the center, fitted with ratchet ends. When fully opened, a baise-lined hinged writing surface is exposed opening to a well. The top when fully extended further exposes a second storage well with hinge. All above a conforming apron fitted with candle slides, and single short pen and ink drawer, and a long drawer alternating with simulated drawers, joined to a short turned pedestal raised on a tripod base of three molded outswept legs terminating in ornate brass capped claw foot casters. SIZE: 29-1/2″ h x 35″ w x 35″ d. PROVENANCE: Collection and shop contents of Linda and the late Vito Peri (owners of the Blue Dolphin Antique Shop, Northport, Maine). CONDITION: Professionally repolished and restored. Restoration to hinge areas of interior well remain visible. Otherwise very good.  (3,000-5,000)
 
 

 

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