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A Mid 19th Century English Spot Sampler
US$903.79
A very decorative and colourful mid 19th century spot-sampler most probably worked in a professional work shop and illustrating a diversity of various patterns in the Berlin style, including Bargello stitch-work with some interesting motives including a clown and a foxes head.
Provenance: Formerly part of an important English collection.
Date: 1860
Size: 37" x 10"
Country of origin: England
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A Rare Federal-Period Weather-House.
US$22,092.70 A Painted Folk-art Federal-period hygrometric architectural Weather-house with tall chimney stacks and a balustraded roof surmounted with urns. The house in completely untouched original condition, has painted brickwork and quoined corners with glass glazed arched windows. Within the two principal arches to the ground floor peg-doll male and female figures indicate levels of humidity, the male figure prominent when...
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Large 18th Century Slip-ware Dish.
US$5,154.96
An impressive 18th Century Slipware baking dish measuring over 18" in width, having a plain edge and being an orange/brown colour with buff coloured trailed and combed slip decoration in a lattice pattern, the glaze having been wiped at the edges.
Circa: 1770
Manufactured: England or Wales
Dimensions: Width 18" x Breadth 15" x Depth 3"
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An English Folk-Art Wool-work Picture.
US$1,941.48
An unusual wool-work picture depicting a gentleman standing before a red-brick house in a parkland setting (he being entirely stitched in silk) In the foreground a stream runs beneath a stone bridge before a formal rose-garden enclosed by iron railings. Within an antique Birds-eye Maple frame. Circa 1870. English.
Dimensions 25" wide x 18"high.
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Antique Welsh Sycamore Cricket-table.
US$7,364.23
A superb late 18th century Welsh cricket-table made of Sycamore and Ash having turned legs and turned top. The surface unmolested, having a lovely pale golden patina and displaying great antique character and remaining in good original condition.
Country of origin: Wales
Dimensions: Height 26" Diameter 20"
Date of manufacture: Circa 1780.
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A Ceremonial Sugar hammer (India 1780)
US$2,544.01 A Rare Ceremonial Brass Sugar Hammer, originally bejewelled (India 1780) This sugar hammer's handle is moulded in the form of a human arm terminating in a hand possibly holding a length of sugar cane, it's ring finger having an empty jewel setting. The wrist adorned with a rope-work bracelet, the elbow with a double rope work armlet, surmounted with...
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A Painted Child's Pull-along Crocodile.
US$1,874.53
A painted child's pull-along crocodile which when in motion has a gaping mouth and a wagging tail. Most probably made following the conclusion of the great-war, possibly by a returning service-man for his son.
Place of origin: England
Period: 1919
Medium: Painted wood
Measurements: Length 28" x Height 11" x Depth 7"
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A Naive Oil on Canvas 'A Prospect of Pennsylvania' Circa 1880 U.S.A.
US$3,882.96 This striking naive oil painting shows a small rural community in Pennsylvania towards the end of the 19th century possibly Amish / Mennonite. As an American landscape on original canvas it is a rare survivor of this particular genre of picture. One cannot help thinking that its purpose was to record the newly finished waterworks on which swim three...
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A Rare Documentary Flagon from Rye, Sussex. Inscribed Moses Roots - Sept.1846
US$5,154.96 Pottery flagons such as this were filled with beer or cider to quench the thirst of farm labourers in the fields. Though this particular example seems so elaborate that it must have had some commemorative meaning. There is another similar example with flattened sides, though without the green jewelling to the handle or the cream coloured piping, which is...
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Antique Treen Peaseware Spice-Jar.
US$783.29 A tiny antique Peaseware spice-jar turned in Maple. This superb example measures only two and three quarter inches high to the top of its finial and has a mellow colour and patina and remains in completely original untouched condition. The company that produced these treen items was founded by David Mills Pease (1815 - 1890) in the Eascade Valley...
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