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Relief Carved and Painted Frigate
Located in Greenwich, CT
A rare relief carved and painted sailing ship on heavy board depicting a three-masted 26 gun third-class US naval frigate under partially reefed sail nearing a point of land with a l...
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Antique Mid-19th Century American Nautical Objects
Materials
Wood
Two Polychrome Roosters
Located in Greenwich, CT
A pair of Chinese export glazed ceramic roosters with polychrome plumage in pinks, greens and orange with and striking red crowns and wattles, perched on weathered green striated tre...
Category
Antique Early 1900s English Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Grasshopper
Located in Greenwich, CT
A grasshopper weathervane with body of pitted iron rotating on vertical rod with N E W S directionals below, now on wooden box stand with one side removable. The grasshopper was the ...
Category
Vintage 1930s English Weathervanes
Materials
Iron
Midsummer Night
Located in Greenwich, CT
An 18th century folk-art painting on board in wonderful colors including dusty blues and oranges, depicting finely attired characters in period costumes in a bacchanalian outdoor fes...
Category
Antique 1790s Italian Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Wood
English Banner Weathervane
Located in Greenwich, CT
Striking English copper weathervane having exceptional weathered surface in the form of a flying banner with spear finial, fleur-de-lis pointer and pierced decorated body. Great form...
Category
Antique 1860s Great Britain (UK) Folk Art Weathervanes
Materials
Copper
Massive Merchant Schooner Model
Located in Greenwich, CT
Impressive and rare example of a model English merchant sailing vessel, circa 1860, that plied the China Trade from England to Hong Kong. The ship has the sail rig of the Sandy Hook pilot boats...
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Antique 1860s English Sporting Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Linen, Wood
Scottish Arts and Crafts Brass Mirror
Located in Greenwich, CT
A Scottish Arts & Crafts rectangular brass mirror decorated with a hand-hammered celtic weave surrounded by simulated rope borders. Retaining original beveled plate glass. circa 1900.
Category
Antique Early 1900s Scottish Arts and Crafts Mirrors
Materials
Brass
Regency Cheval Mirror
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine English early 19th century mahogany cheval mirror, the original mercury glass plate with half round molded cross-grained frame, suspended from ribbe...
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Antique 1820s English Mirrors
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
Impressive Rooster Weathervane
Located in Greenwich, CT
Early 19th century full-bodied overscale copper weathervane of a rooster on a sphere in having wonderful form and personality, and showing superb color and verdigris patination. Fran...
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Antique Mid-19th Century French Weathervanes
Materials
Copper
Tradesign in the Form of a Brick Storehouse
Located in Greenwich, CT
An advertising device or tradesign in the form of a brick storehouse, with ten arched windows or pigeonholes to display merchandise, constructed as a roofed box mounted on wheels, fo...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Signs
Materials
Wood
Exceptional Pair of Dummy Boards
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine and rare pair of 18th Century English dummy boards depicting a Cavalier and his Lady, he with a Van Dyke mustache, sword and leather boots, she with ...
Category
Antique 18th Century English Georgian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pine, Paint
Swedish Folk Art Mural
Located in Greenwich, CT
Beautiful Swedish Folk Art mural (or bonad), also referred to as a kurbitz or kurbits, depicting King Herod and the three wise men dressed in 18th century...
Category
Antique 1820s Swedish Paintings
Materials
Linen
Swedish 19th C. Bonad Angel
Located in Greenwich, CT
A 19th century Swedish folk art painting on canvas, known as a bonad, depicting a woman, perhaps an angel, in very fine clothes in a paint decorated room with a small window, with a ...
Category
Antique 1830s Swedish Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Large Weathered Trade Sign "Carriage Shop"
Located in Greenwich, CT
A 12 foot long trade sign displaying the words Carriage Shop on one side and Horse Shoeing on the other. In weathered early hand painted lettering on wood, with molded edging on all ...
Category
Antique 1870s American Signs
Materials
Wood
Exceptional 19th C. Chahut Carousel Horse with Original Paint
Located in Greenwich, CT
An exceptional carousel horse in original paint depicted chahut (prancing). Expressive face and features including eyes and blinkers, mane, saddle and chest harness and hooves. Weath...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
Georgiana's Companion
Located in Greenwich, CT
Georgiana's companion, Horatio. Striking sitting dog - stylized and charming in black and white. Horatio has curly hair - exactly 23. Horatio sit. Horatio stand later.
Category
Antique 19th Century English Animal Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Dutch Folk Art Trade Sign
Located in Greenwich, CT
An 18th century trade sign from a Dutch West Indies shipping merchant. The carved and polychromed sign depicts a winged-foot mercury surrounded by ga...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Dutch Folk Art Signs
Materials
Wood
Swedish Burl Bowl of Sculptural Form
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine early 19th century Swedish root burl bowl retaining traces of original mustard and ox blood read paint and having lovely organic form with excellent patina.
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Decorative Bowls
Materials
Burl
Carved Bantam Wearing a Crown
Located in Greenwich, CT
An early 19th century French carved bantam sporting a crown, well carved in pine. Good detailing to face, plumage, tail feathers and feet. Possibly originally from a ring toss game...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Folk Art Sculptures
Materials
Pine
Sculptural Downton Abbey Laundry Pincers
Located in Greenwich, CT
A pair of over-scale laundry pincers used at the turn of the century by a laundress in a great country house like that depicted in Downton Abbey for remo...
Category
Antique Early 1900s English More Folk Art
Materials
Sycamore
Napoleonic Folk Art Calligraphy Drawing
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unique pen and ink Folk Art drawing with calligraphy boarder depicting Napoleon triumphant in Russia (a French fantasy) with a French flag flying over a Russian palace surrounded by ...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Folk Art Political and Patriotic Memorabilia
Materials
Pen, Paper, Giltwood
Wonderful Scottish Folk Art Tea Caddy
Located in Greenwich, CT
Most unusual early 19th century Scottish carved Folk Art tea caddy, the lid with foliate carving and knob finial, the body taking its design from the more hi style sarcophagus form b...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Scottish Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Birch
18th Century Italian Gaming Board
Located in Greenwich, CT
Rare 18th century Italian gaming board "Nobilissimo Giuoco Della Mea" Or "The Nobel Game of Chance" in original paint and decoupage, (lacca povera) depicting a game which appears to be a board version of "Put and Take" with different characters representing either plus or minus points. Four corners with scalloped carved coin wells, the centre slightly dished for either a top or ball to roll within.
Characters include:
Scimmia/Monkey - put 6, Re/King - take 1, Vople/Wolf take 3 , Pascia/Lord - take two and so on. Other characters include, Cinese/Chinese, Colombo/Pidgeon, Crepascolo/Twilight, Armigero/Knight?, Gezelia/Gazelle, Adone/Adonis, Gonhiere/Gondolier, Araba Fenice/Arab Phoenix?, Vecchio/Old Man, Leone/Lion.
A very similar game board is in the collection of the Medici Villa...
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Antique Early 18th Century Italian Baroque Game Boards
Materials
Gesso, Poplar
Ivory Coast Hand Spun Cotton Natural Indigo Cloth
Located in Greenwich, CT
Ivory Coast hand spun cotton natural indigo cloth, circa 1930-1950.
Category
Vintage 1940s Ivorian Tribal Quilts and Blankets
Materials
Cotton
Collection of 19th Century Graphic Games
Located in Greenwich, CT
Charming group of three 19th century games comprising a dartboard, star ring toss and bagatelle boards, all in original paint and possessing both whimsy and good graphic design.
S...
Category
Antique Early 1900s European Folk Art Game Boards
Materials
Wood
Collection of Three Swedish Baskets
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine group of three Swedish 19th and early 20th century folk art baskets, the first with polychrome decoration on a coiled willow body and having barley twist handle, the second with blue and red paint with floral decoration on a reeded body, the last of cylindrical form and having a woven snowflake pattern.
Although priced as a collection, we would be willing to separate them.
Size listed is for handled coiled basket...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Swedish Folk Art Decorative Baskets
Materials
Reed, Willow, Birch
Hand Painted Wall Panel
Located in Greenwich, CT
A folk art wall panel hand painted by an itinerant artist in Sweden in 1837 (dated), depicting the nativity, with the three kings on horseback paying homage to Mary seated on a thron...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Swedish Paintings
Materials
Paper
Folk Art Root Carving Man and Dog
Located in Greenwich, CT
Wonderful English 19th century Folk Art sculpture of a man being greeted by his dog, the figure wearing a tall Cornish hat hugging and being hugged by his adoring four legged friend,...
Category
Antique 1820s Great Britain (UK) Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings
Yoruba Indigo Cloth
Located in Greenwich, CT
Hand dyed Yoruba (Nigeria) cloth from the Esie area, 1950s.
Category
Vintage 1950s Nigerian Tribal Art
Materials
Cotton
Fine Shaped Burl Tabletop with Compass Star Inlay
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine English early 19th Century solid burl yewwood tabletop with molded edge and scalloped sides with mahogany and sycamore compass star inlay, the who...
Category
Antique 1830s English William IV Game Boards
Materials
Yew
Rare Early 19th Century Artist's Mannequin
Located in Greenwich, CT
Early 19th century carved walnut artist's model, unusually carved with full head of curly hair and mustachioed face, the limbs articulated and possessing good rich patination.
Category
Antique 1820s European Folk Art Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Walnut
Folk Art Sign-Maker's Sample Board in Original Paint
Located in Greenwich, CT
A Folk Art two-sided sign maker's sample board in original paint, one side having square color samples with various border treatments, each panel numbered (one through 25), the other...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
18th Century Shipwright's Tar Ladle
Located in Greenwich, CT
A sculptural 18th century shipwright's over-scale tar ladle having large bowl and long handle with shaped throat and retaining fantastic scumble surface from use.
Treen
Category
Antique 1770s Great Britain (UK) Nautical Objects
Materials
Wood
Unique 18th Century English Carved Panel of Two Kings
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unique carved Folk Art panel, dated 1768, depicting a double portrait of mythological kings, whimsically portrayed in miniature stature with protruding beards and chests, from an 18t...
Category
Antique 1760s English Folk Art Wall-mounted Sculptures
Early 19th Century Swedish Turned "Dummy" Keg
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unusual Swedish 19th Century turned burl birch "dummy" keg, having turned rings imitating willow bands, bone inlaid roundel and stopper and brass carrying rings, the whole turned fro...
Category
Antique 19th Century Swedish Vases and Vessels
Materials
Brass
19th Century French Rooster Weathervane
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine French full bodied gilt copper rooster weathervane, with expressive face, fully formed tail and fantastic verdigris surface, on contemporary cast iron base
Category
Antique 19th Century French Weathervanes
Materials
Copper, Iron
Yoruba (Nigeria) Early 20th Century Cloth
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine early 20th Century hand spun indigo cotton and Trans-Sahara silk cloth.
Category
Early 20th Century Nigerian Tribal Quilts and Blankets
Materials
Cotton, Silk
19th Century Tobacconist’s Trade Sign
Located in Greenwich, CT
English carved and polychrome decorated wood tobacconist’s trade sign in the form of a “Turk” wearing a distinctive headdress and dressed in a long robe, this advertising figure rela...
Category
Antique 19th Century British Folk Art Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Important Folk Art Trade Sign
Located in Greenwich, CT
A mid 19th Century folk art trade sign of demilune form, depicting a Native American chief holding a peace pipe and tomahawk wearing a headdress of white and red feathers, wearing a decorated tunic, supported by “s” scrolls, possibly a cover for a paddle boat wheel...
Category
Antique 19th Century American Folk Art Signs
Materials
Wood
18th C Catalan Money Box
Located in Greenwich, CT
18th C Catalan wall-hanging money box having original powdery blue paint with original lock plate.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Spanish Painted Furniture
Materials
Wood
16th-17th Century Bellarmine Jug
Located in Greenwich, CT
Lovely late 16th or early 17th century Westphalian salt glazed stoneware jug of the "bellarmine" type. Also known as Greybeards or Bartmann jugs, these v...
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