Helen Storey Antiques

Two Panels of 18th Century French Silk

Helen — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:18:19 +0000

Two stunning panels of 18th century boldly striped silk, lined with linen.

17th C. Italian Silk Embroidered Textile

Helen — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:41:05 +0000

Italian Silk Embroidered Linen Panel, 17th C. Horizontal rectangle centered with basket of exotic fruits flanked by parrots, foliage, and flowers.

Charming Pair of Louis XV Fauteuils

Helen — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:23:25 +0000

A fine pair of Louis XV Fauteuils, c. 1780. Finely carved fruitwood having later blue and white paint decoration.

Charming and Small Louis XVI Carved Chest

Helen — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:02:25 +0000

A charming, rare, small Louis XVI Oak Commode Chest. Three three long drawers decoratively relief carved with swagged garlands hung from ribbon bows, beaded borders and rings of beading to the centers encircling the ornately cast brass escutcheons. The divides with further carving and flanked by ribbon-bound reeding running down the sides to the square tapering stop-fluted legs.

Gorgeous 18th Century Swedish Regence Mirror

Helen — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:43:26 +0000

A Swedish Regence Giltwood Mirror, mid 18th century, with lovely thick original gilding.

George III Cumberland-Action Dining Table

Helen — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:32:08 +0000

An important and lovely George III Cumberland-action figured mahogany Drop Leaf Dining Table, oval double drop leaf on frame with six legs, four turned columns and reeded cabriole legs opening to support.

17th c. Needlework of Parrot on Woven Silk

Helen — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:37:48 +0000

A 17th century needlework, probably continental, with gold silk and wool threads on what appears to be woven silk depicting a parrot in green, teal, blue, and reds, surroun-ed by flowering branches and three larger flowers at the base, two being tulips. 11 ½” h. x 9″ w. (sight), 14 ¾ x 12 3/8″ (frame).

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 Copper Engraving Dressage after Abraham van Diepenbeeck

Helen — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:21:24 +0000

Le Seigneur Charles Vicsount de Mansfield l’Ene Et le Seigneur Henry Cavendish le Cadet. [Pl. 42] London: J. Brindley, 1743. Copper engraving after Abraham van Diepenbeeck with later professional hand-coloring. Plate mark: 15 1/4 x 20 3/8 inches. Sheet size: 17 1/8 x 21 5/8 inches.

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. Italian Velvet & Gold Room Screen

Helen — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:09:11 +0000

18th c. Softpaste Bow Coffeepot

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

18th c. Softpace Bow Coffeepot