Tri-State Area

Handwoven in a wool flatweave, this 12x20 antique Aubusson rug is a rare masterpiece unveiling from our European rug collection—believed to originate from France. On the design: ...

Chinese Silk Embroidery From Mid 19th Century ( 5" x 3' - 13 x 92 cm )    

Author: BURNEY, Fanny - Madame D'arblay. Title: Diary and Letters of Madame D'arblay. Publisher: London: for Henry Colburn, 1854. Description: NEW EDITION. 7 vols., 6-11/16...

Mid 19th Century American Ingrain Carpet ( 8' 2'' x 12' 9'' - 250 x 390 cm )

19th Century American Hooked Rug ( 4'6" x 7' - 137 x 213 )

Author: SURTEES, Robert Smith. Title: Handley Cross; or Mr. Jorrocks's Hunt. Publsiher: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853-54. First Illustrated Edition In The Original 17 Parts, 17 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech...

Mid 19th Century French Louis Philippe Aubusson Carpet 11' 6" x 14' 8" - 351 x 447

This is a lovely antique 19th century ivory and Beige Round Floral French Aubusson rug from the 1850s and handwoven in France. It is in excellent condition given its age and measures...

Doccia white porcelain caryatid sculpture. A Doccia neoclassical model of a caryatid with one hand outstretched. Italy, circa 1770s Dimension: 2" ...

This 10x13 antique Agra rug is an extremely rare and exciting new addition to our collection of Indian rugs—hand-knotted in wool and believed to originate in the second half of the 1...

Late 18th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 5' x 8'1'' - 152 x 246 )

Antique Persian Moud rug 5' 9''x 7' 9''.

Mid 19th Century American Ingrain Carpet ( 12' 6" x 13' 4" - 381 x 406 cm )

Thomas Dub pair of Austrian, continental (0.812) silver candlesticks, in a curvilinear design, beautifully adorned with stylized geometric motifs from 1858. They measure 12'' in diam...

19th century French Sèvres-style porcelain gilt bronze mounted covered decorative urns / vases with gilt gold painted scene design details. Each urn is in good condition with wear co...

A lambrequin above and a mountain / wave border below frame a salmon field displaying auspicious and Buddhist symbols including a lion dog, deer, conch shell, cloud bands, cloud knot...

Fine English mid-19th century oar armchair with bobbin turnings, the rails with pyramid finials over open back with arched slats and bobbin spindles, th...

Alfred S. Wall (American, 1825-1896) Untitled (Building the Railroad), 1859 Oil on canvas 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches Signed and dated lower left For Christmas, 2008, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette featured Alfred Wall's painting, Old Saw Mill from the collection of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, PA. It was painted in 1851 in the town of Lilly, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny Mountains. The newspaper description stated that "though the saw mill is long gone, it still conveys all the warmth and coziness of this time of year. The article, written by Patricia Lowry, continued: At first glance, Alfred S. Wall's painting of a saw mill in snowy woods triggers nostalgia for the coziness of a log cabin, the smell of a wood-burning fire and the warming of chilled hands and feet beside it. But as sentimental as it seems on the surface, Mr. Wall's painting has a deeper and unexpected context. This is more than a painting about sled-riding children and early industry planted in the middle of virgin forest. Intended or not, this is a painting about conquering the great divide of the Allegheny Mountains. For the third consecutive year, the Post-Gazette features a winter-scene painting on the cover of the Christmas Day newspaper. This year's painting, Old Saw Mill, was selected by co-publisher and editor-in-chief John Robinson Block and executive editor David Shribman during a visit to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. Mr. Wall, listed as a portrait painter in the 1850 census, was about 26 when he painted Old Saw Mill in 1851. The self-taught artist was born in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, to William and Lucy Wall, who'd emigrated from England around 1820. An artistic sensibility ran in the family: William was a sculptor who carved ornate tombstones here; Alfred's children, A. Bryan and Bessie, were landscape painters, as was Alfred's older brother, William Coventry Wall. For more than a century the Walls formed a prominent art dynasty in Pittsburgh, and Alfred, eventually a partner in the city's most prestigious art gallery, was well known as a painter, dealer and restorer. In Old Saw Mill, two wood cutters, each holding an axe, meet outside the mill; one points in the direction of the forest. On the other side of the stream, one child pulls another down the hillside on a sled. Just behind the hill's slope, the roof of a building appears, perhaps the home of the sawyer. The luminous, late afternoon light comes from the northwest, casting lengthening shadows on the snow under a darkening sky. The saw mill in "Old Saw Mill" likely would have been impossible to track down had Mr. Wall, presumably, not written on the back of the painting: "old saw mill near Jct. 4, Portage RR, Pa." "There was no Junction 4," said Mike Garcia, park ranger at the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, about 90 miles east of Pittsburgh near Gallitzen, Cambria County. "But there was an Inclined Plane No. 4 at Lilly, and there was a saw mill there." In fact, there were at least six saw mills at Lilly over the years, said longtime resident Jim Salony, president of the Lilly-Washington Historical Society. But when he saw an image of the painting, Mr. Salony had no trouble coming up with a location. While there are no known photographs of the saw mill, he believes it stood near the intersection of Portage and Washington streets, next to Bear Rock Run. Mr. Salony, retired academic dean at Mount Aloysius College, didn't know exactly when the mill was torn down, but it's been gone since at least the late 1800s. He was pleased to learn of the painting, even though that knowledge came too late for inclusion in a new book about Lilly, The Spirit of a Community, for which he served as primary author and editor. It runs to more than 700 pages. For a little town -- population 869 last year -- Lilly has a lot of history. Nestled in a bowl on the western slope of the Allegheny Mountains about 3 miles south of Cresson, Lilly was first settled in 1806 by Joseph Meyer and his family, who named their 332-acre land patent Dundee. Although the Meyers had left by 1811, other settlers followed, but the community didn't flourish until the 1830s, when the Allegheny Portage Railroad began its 23-year-run through the town. For 200 years the Alleghenies had stood as an impediment to trade and travel between Pittsburgh and the east. A canal from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh would change that and compete with New York's Erie Canal. But a portage railroad would have to be built, on which teams of horses would lead the canal boats over the mountains. Engineer Sylvester Welch began his surveying from the small settlement at Lilly. The railroad would require 10 inclined planes, some quite steep, between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown. To build it, trees had to be cut along a 120-foot-wide right-of-way for 36 miles, along which track and engine houses had to be built. William Brown, who owned the saw mill on Bear Rock Run, built at least one of the engine houses at Inclined Plane No. 4; an 1834 contract also included fencing the dwelling lots at the head and foot of the plane. Lilly is located at what was the foot of Inclined Plane No. 4., giving the community one of its early informal names, Foot of Four. Named in 1883 for Richard Lilly, who'd completed the grist mill there, Lilly had another early name: Hemlock, so dubbed by a Portage Railroad traveler who smelled the bark stripped from the trees at the saw mill. Because there isn't another Allegheny Portage Railroad location like it, where a cut in the mountains opens into a bowl, Mr. Salony thinks it was Lilly that Charles Dickens wrote about following his trip from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh on the Pennsylvania Canal in late March 1842, describing what he saw after emerging from "the bottom of the cut": "It was very pretty while traveling, to look down into a valley full of light and softness, catching glimpses through the tree-tops of scattered cabins; children running to the doors; dogs bursting out to bark, who we could see without hearing; terrified pigs scampering homeward; families sitting out in their rude gardens; cows gazing upward with a stupid indifference; men in their shirt-sleeves looking on at their unfinished houses, planning out to-morrow's work; and we riding onward, high above them, like a whirlwind." To get to Lilly, Mr. Wall may have taken the Pennsylvania Canal from his home in Allegheny City, now the North Side. He'd married young, at 21, to Sarah Carr in 1846, the same year he began his career as an artist. By 1880 they were living in a brick townhouse at 104 (later 814) Arch St., now demolished. Across the river in Pittsburgh he shared a studio at 67 Fourth Ave. with his brother William; they later moved to Burke's Building, today the city's oldest office building at 209-211 Fourth. But often they worked outdoors, sometimes as part of the colony of artists that grew up around painter George Hetzel beginning in the late 1860s at Scalp Level...

Unique Three Legged table

Mid 19th Century N.W. Persian Carpet with Mina Khani Pattern ( 5'4 x 11' x 163 x 335 )

Mid-19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 6'9" x 9'6" - 205 x 290 )

This vintage tribal flatweave rug was handmade in Turkey. The Mid-Century Modern Collection is skillfully sourced by N A S I R I and exclusive to our showroom. These flatweaves embod...

Mid 19th Century Persian Farahan Carpet 7'10" x 16'8" - 239 x 508

Mid 19th Century N.W. Persian Carpet 3' 3" x 16' 5"

Titled Perdrix au lézard. Inscribed Arson.

Mid 19th Century N.W. Persian Runner Carpet

Rare mid-19th century "Vierlander" armchair, Prussia 1850, with owner's name "Hinrich Eggers", constructed of inlaid fruitwoods and walnut, with turned bone finials, the central back...

Mid 19th Century N.W. Persian Karadagh Carpet

Pair of 1850s Italian gilt wood lamps. Wood is painted a light grey.

Pair of Gorham, coin silver open salt cellars, made circa 1855 to 1860, beautifully adorned with floral and cartouche motifs. They measure 2 1/2'' in diameter by 1 2/3'' in height, a...

Mid 19th Century Turkish Kula Rug ( 4'6" x 5' - 137 x 152 )

This antique 12x14 Kilim is an extremely rare Bessarabian flat weave in new additions to Rug & Kilim’s collection. Handwoven in wool, we believe it originates from Russia circa 1850-...

Mid 19th Century Caucasian Shirvan Carpet ( 3' x 9' - 91 x 274 )

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 8' x 9'4" - 245 x 285 )

Antique Persian N.W Rug, Size: 3'4" x20'6"

Persian Qajar period mirror stand made of engraved and gold damascened steel, with gold inlay and inscription on front. Iran : circa 1850. A similar exa...

Mid-19th Century N.E. Persian Herat Carpet ( 6'3" x 7'10" - 191 x 239 )

Mid-19th Century French Aubusson Carpet Louis Philippe Period 8'10" x 10'10" - 270 x 330

Antique Turkish Yuruk rug. Measures: 3'7" x 11'0".

Mid-19th Century Central Asian Beshir Gallery Carpet 6'7" x 21'4" -201 x 650

Mid-19th Century N. Chinese Mongolian Carpet ( 10'4" x 13'4" - 315 x 405 )

Rare and exceptional 19th century silver oil lamp supported by the figure of Mercury after the model by Giambologna, by the Italian silversmith, Angelo Giannotti (1824-1865) of Bolog...

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet, Size: 2' 8"x 12' 6"

3rd Quarter Of 18th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet With Grain of Rice Pattern ( 7' x 10' 2'' - 213 x 309 cm)

Italian Rococo (circa 1770) gilt wood console table with a floral filigree design and shaped top.

Late 19th Century NW Persian Carpet ( 3'8" x 14'8" - 112 x 448 cm )

A Magnificent pair of 19th century Louis XVI Style ormolu mounted chinese famille verte porcelain vases turned to lamps, the ormolu attributed to Henry Dasson. The ormolu mounted Chi...

Mid-19th Century N.W. Persian Bakshaiesh Paisley Carpet 4'10" x 7'8" - 147 x 235

Mid 19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 7'6" x 10'4" - 228 x 315 )

A Rare and Fine Quality Antique 19th Century KPM Painting on Porcelain Plaque after Gabriel Metsu’s ‘Lovers at Breakfast’ (Dated 1661), Metsu with his wife Isabella de Wolff in a Tav...

A very fine carved wood and ‘carton pierre’ mirror retaining its original gilding and original mirror plate. This mirror has been dry stripped and retain...

A most popular drawing master, Lesourd-Beauregard exhibited extensively at the Paris Salons, and was awarded a medal in 1842. He is famous for his in depth botanical studies done in...

19th Century Turkish Anatolian Melas Prayer Rug ( 4 x 6' - 122 x 183 )

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 5'9" x 9'2" - 175 x 280 )

Mid 19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Kang Carpet ( 7'2" x 13'2" - 218 x 402 )

Mid-19th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 5'2" x 10'2" - 157 x 310 )

Mid-19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 4'10" x 5'6" - 147 x 168 )

Mid 19th Century W. Persian Kurdish Shrub Runner Carpet 3' x 14'6'' - 90 x 443

Mid 19th Century N.W Persian Gallery Carpet ( 5'10" x 16'7" -178 x 505 )

A Victorian Cushion Amethyst and two Oval Topaz stones Brooch made in 18k Gold. There is no gold mark but it has been tested. The weight of the brooc...