Queen Anne tilt-top candlestand, mahogany. The candlestand sports a shaped top and a turned post supported on cabriole legs ending in pad feet. It is in good condition with a very pleasing finish. Circa 1790-1800, New England.
Dimensions: 20” x 19½” top x 26¼” high.
Item No. 240044
Price: $950.
Paint decorated box. The box sports a flat, hinged lid and is decorated with large red swirls and dots on a yellow ground. It is in good condition with minor damage to the front of the lid where a latch had been attached and the expected wear and tear from age and usage. 19th century, New Hampshire.
Dimensions: 27½” wide x 13¾” deep x 11” high.
Item No. 240065
Price: $495.
Full-body molded copper gamecock weathervane. The gamecock has sheet copper tail feathers and zinc feet and is standing on a directional arrow with a zinc head and a sheet copper tail. It has a wonderful form and a beautifully sculpted tail, with excellent verdigris with traces of gilding. The weathervane is in very good condition, marred only by one bullet hole and minor damage to the feathered tail of the arrow. Late 19th century, probably New England.
Dimensions: 24¼” long x 18¼” high
Item No. 240063
Price: $5,300.
Assembled set of six fan-back Windsor side chairs. The chairs sport an old finish, with attractive seats and turnings. They are in good condition, ready to use, with minor scratches and repairs commensurate with their age and usage. Circa 1790-1800, possibly Southern New Hampshire.
Dimensions: 36” high, 17” seat height
Item No. 240059
Price: $2,300.
Painted lift-top blanket chest, poplar. The chest sports a molded top over two simulated and two real drawers, beautiful scalloped and cyma-curved apron and sides, original snipe hinges and old, probably original, red paint. The chest is in good condition, displaying only the wear associated with age and usage. Early 18th century, New England, (probably Connecticut).
Dimensions: 42¼” high x 39½” wide x 18¼” deep.
Item No. 240066
Price: $1,700.
Delft lobed polychrome charger, 13¼” diameter. The charger has 27 double lobes and is painted in yellow, blue and green. Queen Mary II is depicted between two tulips, along with the inscription “MR”. The border is decorated with tulips and other flowers. The color scheme of yellow, blue and green is frequently found on lobed dishes from the sixteen-nineties, especially with images of King William III and/or his wife, Queen Mary Stuart.
The charger is in very good condition considering it is over 300 years old. There are numerous glaze chips around the rim and one small, tight hairline. Circa 1690.
Item No. 240096
Price: $2,900.
Portraits of a man and his wife, oil on wooden panel, unsigned. The portraits have been identified as being painted by Ralph Curtis, (1808-1885), previously known as the “Long Neck Artist”. The paintings attributed to Curtis are all portraits and, with one exception, are painted on hand-hewn wooden panels. Most, like this pair, are unframed. Curtis was most active in New York State, where he was born and, later in his life, in the Midwest.
These portraits are in overall good condition, having been professionally conserved. There is minor scattered in-painting, mostly to the edges, and the woman has a little in-painting on her face along with an age crack on the bottom left. Circa 1830.
Dimensions: 30½” x 21¾” and 30½” x 20¾”
Item No. 240005
Price: $8,500.
Paint decorated box. The box sports a flat, hinged lid and is decorated with a black tree motif extending over the lid on a red ground. It is in good condition with a missing latch and the expected paint wear from age and usage. 19th century, New Hampshire.
Dimensions: 25” wide x 13¾” deep x 12¼” high
Item No. 240064
Price: $550.
Chimney cupboard, pine. The cupboard is a nice small size, with two paneled doors over a single paneled door opening onto five interior shelves. It is in very good condition with a soft old refinish and a nice honey patina. The cupboard will provide good storage in a spot with limited space. 19th century, New England.
Dimensions: 80” high x 31” wide x 12½” deep.
Item No. 240056
Price: $2,400.
Small red beehive bowl. The bowl was found in an 18th century Hudson Valley house and is in untouched condition.
Dimensions: 6¾” diameter x 1½” high
Item No. 230214
Price: $385.
