English Delft polychrome tankard, unsigned. This 9½” tankard sports a four-color design of stylized flowers and urns, a hinged pewter cover having a shell-form thumb tab and a green dot-dash design on the handle. The tankard is in very good condition, with a small, hard-to-see hairline radiating up from the bottom, the expected wear to the rim below the cover and flakes to the base rim glaze. 18th century.
Item No. 240281
Price: $875.
Comb-back Windsor rocker, Stephen Tracy. The chair sports an old refinish with traces of old paint and a nicely shaped chestnut seat. It is signed underneath, “S. Tracy”. Stephen Tracy was a nephew of Ebenezer Tracy, the prolific Connecticut chairmaker. The chair is in good condition, with an old repair to the center rail and some minor inactive worm damage under the seat. Circa 1800-1820, CT or NH.
Provenance: Nathan Liverant and Son Antiques, Colchester, CT.
Dimensions: 40¾” high; 15” seat height.
Item No. 240287
Price: $975.
Sale Price: $575. (Firm)
A hard-to-find matched set of seven 9-spindle bow-back Windsor chairs. The chairs sport a 19th century red paint over the original red, bold bulbous turnings and well-formed saddle seats. They are tight, in good condition and ready for everyday use, with well-worn paint and butterfly repairs underneath two seats. 18th century, New York.
Provenance: Wayne Pratt, Woodbury, CT.
Dimensions: 36” high; 17½” seat height.
Item No. 240297
Price: $6,900.
Sewer tile frog. This molded frog has incised features and is in excellent condition, with no chips or cracks. 19th century.
Item No. 240262
Price: $295.
Pair of portraits of a sea captain and his wife, o/c, unsigned. The captain is shown holding a spyglass. His wife is holding a bouquet of flowers. Behind her are flowers in a window box and a window looking out at mountains in the background.
A brass plaque affixed to one frame attributes the portraits to George Kennedy, (1818-1870), but experts who have subsequently examined the portraits have attributed them instead to Daniel G. Lamont, (1817-1883). The portraits are in good condition with some repair. Mid-19th century.
Provenance: Peter Tillou
Dimensions: 39” x 31½”; Viewed Area: 33½” x 26”
Price: $23,000.
Reproduction colonial style two-tier tin chandelier, copper. The chandelier has 14 arms, is not electrified, and is in very good condition. It was made by Jerry Martin, a Pennsylvania blacksmith, and hung in our living room for many years. 20th century.
Dimensions: 31” wide x 28” high
Item No. 130051
Price: $2,500.
Naïve portrait of a boy and girl. The children are dressed in brightly colored clothing. The boy is holding a whip and the girl is holding a doll in one hand and the doll’s bonnet in the other. The portrait is very attractively framed and is in very good condition, marred only by some spotting near the boy’s hat. Mid-19th century, American School.
Provenance: Christie’s, New York, June 16, 1999, Lot 90. (Sold for $8,275.)
Dimensions: 37” x 32”; Viewed Area: 30” x 25”
Item No. 240248
Price: $3,900.
Twenty-drawer painted apothecary, pine. The apothecary sports original paint decoration and painted labels. The hardware has been replaced and the base has been added. A few of the drawer fronts exhibit some damage. As is so often the case, the apothecary was cut down from a larger unit. Late 19th century, New England.
Dimensions: 50” wide x 11½” deep x 28½” high.
Item No. 240184
Price: $2,900.
Sale Price: $2,350. (Firm)
Still life with fruit, o/c, unsigned. The still life depicts a variety of fruit on a metal tray resting on a server. It is framed in a nice old original painted frame. The painting is in good condition, unlined, with minor restoration. The frame is missing the brass rosette on the upper right corner. 19th century.
Dimensions: 25½” x 31½”; Viewed Area: 20” x 26”
Item No. 240204
Price: $1,075.
Decorated oval pantry box, maple. The box sports a fingered lid with a pinwheel decoration surrounded by a ring of half-circles. The inside of the lid has a penned inscription that includes the name, “Phebe Connor (?)”and the date, “March 2, 1828”. The box is in very good condition, with minor damage to the lid.
Dimensions: 12” long x 8” wide x 5¼” high.
Item No. 240208
Price: $975.
Sale Price: $495. (Firm)
