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18th c. Four-Panel Spanish Screen

Helen — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:26:05 +0000

A fine four-panel screen of 18th century Spanish textile of silk velvet and silver thread, backed by gold silk (c. 1920). From the NY estate of Martha Baird Rockefeller, 2nd wife and widow of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

18th c. Italian Gilt Corner Table~ Pastoral Top

Helen — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:18:12 +0000

An Italian Giltwood and Polychrome-painted Corner table or console, late 18th Century. The fan-shaped top with an applied watercolor, gouache and chalk-heightened panel signed indistinctly E.C.S. and dated 1791 and depicting a Classical scene of women dancing in a ring around a Goddess with attendant musicians, temples and outbuildings beyond in a pastoral landscape over a guilloché-carved frieze and fluted circular tapering legs headed with leafy sprays on flowerhead-carved knob feet, regilt, top likely associated.

18th c. Softpaste Bow Coffeepot

Helen — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:01:56 +0000

18th c. Softpace Bow Coffeepot

18th c. Irish Games Table

Helen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:58:06 +0000

An outstanding games table, Irish or English, c. 1740 (George II), extremely dense Cuban mahogany, shaped, folding-top over playing surface installed with counter wells, above conforming blocked facade with single drawer, on graceful cabriole legs with pad feet. All measurements are when table is closed.

19th c. New Orleans Planter

Helen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:45:10 +0000

19th century planter found in New Orleans.

19th c. Painted Leather Six-Panel Screen

Helen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:43:37 +0000

Continental painted leather six-panel screen, 19th century screen, the painting refreshed or possibly later, domed panel with topnailed surround, embellished with birds, leaves and flowers.

19th c. French Tole Peinte Basket with Piercing

Helen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:36:04 +0000

A lovely French Tole Peinte basket with piercing, ring handles, and on brass paw feet.

19th c. Papier Mache Tray on Stand

Helen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:34:00 +0000

An early 19th century papier mache tray on a later custom stand. Chinese Export or English. The tray with an outstanding painting of the Harbor of St. Petersburg, Russia.

1789 Table Plateau, France, George Washington

Helen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:31:29 +0000

A four-section silver plate and mirrored glass table plateau. French, c. 1789, with two D-ended sections and two square sections, all with a cast column and swag gallery, the sections containing mirrored glass with original wood base, unmarked. An identical plateau was purchased by George Washington while president and then moved it to Mount Vernon, where it is in the collection today. See Cadou, The George Washington Collection, 140-141. Plating worn off in general, otherwise in very good condition. 59 ¾ l. x 20 5/8 w.

American Federal Cellarette ~c.1780

Helen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:28:27 +0000

A fine American Federal string and barber-pole inlaid white pine and mahogany veneer cellarette above a faux drawer on square tapered legs, likely Southern or mid-Atlantic, c. 1780. Some repairs, missing bottle dividers (though were clearly once there), stand possibly later.

American Painted Hanging Dish Shelf ~18th c.

Helen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:24:23 +0000

A very early American painted hanging dish shelf, 18th century, Southern Pine with original green paint , likely Southern. Ex- Emma Reichart folk art collection.

Boucher School Reclining Venus with Cupid c.1760

Helen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:13:04 +0000

School of Francois Boucher, c. 1760, Reclining Venus with Cupid, white and black chalk on brown paper.