Kangxi underglaze blue and white porcelain tea canister of ovoid form, decorated with four deer frolicking in a rocky landscape; having a later silver plated collar and cover.  Chinese, late 17th cent.  H. 6 ¼ inches, W. 4 ½ inches.

Louis XVI mahogany commode, beneath a white marble top with projecting rounded corners, having three drawers, fitted with brass ring handles; the corners having engaged fluted columns, the sides paneled; raised on tapered legs.  French, late 18th cent.  H. 34 inches, W. 27 inches, D. 18 ¼ inches.

Beard, James Henry (American 1811-1893), Cat Family at Home.  Oil on canvas, depicting a mother cat and three new born kittens gathered in a mound beside her on the edge of a carpet, with a step and heavy drapery behind.  Signed in the lower right "Jas H Beard N.A."  17 3/4 x 23 7/8 inches.  Condition: Re-lined and on original stretcher, with minor inpainting and some craquelure.  NB: Beard was an honorary member of the National Academy of Design 1848-60 and a full member 1872-93.

William IV circular rosewood table, having a white marble top inlaid with a scagliola compass rose in red, brown and green, centering a scagliola exotic bird, supported by a tripod base, having a flaring, hexagonal column with partie and contre-partie seaweed inlay, terminating in Baroque Revival inwardly curving legs.  English, ca. 1835.  H. 30 ¼ inches, Dia. 22 inches.

Sebah, Pascal (Turkish 1823-1886), Pompey's Pillar.  Albumen photograph recording Pompey's Pillar in Alexandria, Egypt, with a man in European dress standing in the middle ground.  Inscribed in the photographic plate l.r., "No3 Colonne de Pompee/----d'Egypt" and l.l., "P. Sebah Phot"  Mounted on thin card stock with title in pen, probably removed from an album.  10 1/4 x 8 inches.  Good condition, though the plate was damaged prior to printing, creating  a web of crazing in the lower left.  NB: Sebah was one of the major photographers of the Middle East working in the second half of the 19th century.  Pompey's Pillar is a Roman Triumphal Column erected in 297 A.D. to commemorate Diocletian's triumph over Alexandrian rebels.

Red glass claret jug, having internal vertical ribs, the hinged gilt bronze top in the form of a rooster’s head with open beak and with red glass eyes and nostrils; having a clear glass handle and rudimentary “wings”; and supported on clear glass rooster legs with spurs and modified claws; and a gilt bronze rooster’s tail.  French, ca. 1880.  H. 14 inches.  Condition: chips to claws, some wear to gilding.  Provenance: Ex collection Melvin P. Billups (b. 1879), who donated a 3,000 piece collection of ancient to modern glass to the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Pair of Carron Iron Works cast iron andirons, in the form of youthful herms with naked torsos narrowing to rectangular plinths decorated with military trophies, and supported by dolphin feet.  Scottish, ca. 1815.  H. 17 inches.  Condition: pitting throughout, the feet considerably rusted, most of each dog being a replacement.  Provenance: the Cocke family of “Bremo,” in Fluvanna County, Virginia, completed in 1819 by Gen. John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866); by descent to Betty Page Cocke (d. 1973) of Charlottesville.  Also a cast iron fire back, centering a large scallop shell resting on a ribbon bow, and surrounded by a decorative border of shells and Rococo cabochons.  American, ca. 1850.  H. 30 inches, W. 27 ¼ inches.  American, ca. 1850.  Condition: small breaks and losses at the edges

A water glass and a white wine glass from a large set of brilliant cut Libbey glass stemware, with intricate cuts, some minute, in a pattern of vertically organized starbursts within an overall design of alternating wide and narrow pointed arches; the bowl being supported by a faceted boss above a hexagonal stem, flaring into a broad foot with a petal edge and a faceted base; the tapering stem of the wine glass being unusually elongated and heavy.  The center of each bowl acid etched  “Libbey” above a saber.  Ohio, ca. 1906.  H. of water glass: 6 ¼ inches, Dia. 3 1/8 inches ; H. of wine glass: 7 ¼ inches, Dia. 2 3/8 inches.  Provenance: from a set of sixty pieces (water, red and white wine, champagne and liqueur),being  a wedding present at the 1907 marriage of Jane Tarleton Billups to Edward Lafayette Russell in Mobile, Alabama.

Stanley Woodward (American 1890-1970).  Oil on artist board, signed in the lower right, “Stanley Woodward” and titled in pencil in the upper left on the rear, “Surf at Loblolly Cove.”  20 inches x 24 inches.  NB: Loblolly Cove is in Rockport, Massachusetts, where Woodward often painted.  There is a pencil note on the back in the upper left that says, “0350 FOR 1949 EXHIB. The silver gilt frame and narrow painted liner are original to the painting.

Anthony Rasch silver teapot of squared form, raised on bird claw feet, decorated with die stamped bands of laurel leaves and anthemia; having an eagle head spout, a curved handle with ivory insulator rings and terminating in bearded masks, and a hinged lid with a bouquet of roses finial.  Marked on the base "ANTy. Rasch."  The base also engraved “Henry Tucker born/ July 25 1815.”  Philadelphia, ca. 1815.  H. 7 ¼ Inches, L. 11 ¼ inches.  29 troy oz.

Derby polychrome porcelain figural candlestick, highlighted with gilding, depicting Neptune standing in a dramatic contrapposto pose, beside a dolphin spewing water, and holding a second, smaller dolphin also spewing water, the applied water jets hiding a small cup intended to hold a bolt for a candle cup (now missing); all raised on a mounded, pierced rockery base, thickly encrusted with moss, coral and shells.  The base with the telltale Derby patch marks.   English, ca. 1760-65.  Condition: numerous chips to water jets, small chips to seaweed and coral.  Provenance: Ex Colin Harper Collection of Shells in Pottery and Porcelain, sold Phillips, London, Jan. 1990.  NB: Neptune is inspired by a Baroque bronze bust by Michel Anguier (1612-1686).

White alabaster bust of Napoleon as First Consul, supported on a grey and white alabaster circular socle.  French or Italian, early 19th cent.  H. 11 ¾ inches.  Condition: large chip to body, repaired socle.

Part of a collection of English and Continental porcelain, mostly late 18th/early 19th cent.
Top shelf, L to R:  Derby teapot, decorated with swags of wheat.  English, ca. 1800;  Darte Frères cabinet plate, having a richly gilt cobalt blue border, the center decorated with a scene from the Commedia dell’Arte.  Paris, ca. 1820;  Breakfast cup and saucer, having rich bands of polychrome and gilt decoration.  Bohemian, ca. 1815;  Plates from a Worcester Flight, Barr & Barr dessert service, having a pink and gilt border, the center painted with shells.  English, ca. 1815;  A group of Nymphenburg glazed white figures depicting the Classical gods as children, after Franz Anton Bustelli (1723-1763).  German, early 20th cent., after 18th cent. originals;  Coffee pot with matte decoration in imitation of textile.  Continental, ca. 1820;  Darte Ainé cabinet plate, the center decorated with a bird.  Paris, ca. 1815;  Breakfast cup and saucer, shell form.  Paris, ca. 1810;  Teapot, having gilt decoration on a simulated stone ground.  Paris, ca. 1815.
Bottom shelf, L to R:  Teacup and saucer with gilt and bronzed decoration.  Paris, ca. 1825;  Berlin cabaret in the Pompeian taste, decorated in orange, turquoise and silver.  German, ca. 1810;  Pair of Derby dinner plates decorated after Sèvres with roses and oeils de perdrix.  English, ca. 1790;  Nymphenburg rectangular, shouldered tea canister, the Chinoiserie decoration executed outside the factory in gilt and purpur camaieu.  German, ca. 1775;  Worcester Flight & Barr fluted vase-shaped tea canister, with a reserve of fancy birds.  English, ca. 1785;  Marcolini Meissen miniature coffee pot with a hunting scene reserve.  German, ca. 1780.

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