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Orientalist Portrait of an Arab Man Half-length, turned to the left, oval, Jean-Horace Vernet (French 1789-1863) Circa 1830s Watercolor heightened with touches of white on paper Sign...

Aquatint with hand coloring in oil color on smooth wove paper, 10 5/8 x 7 3/8 inches (270 x 187 mm), full margins. Laid down to a support, as issued. Moderate toning and surface soil...

FACTORY / HOUSE: Moricand & Degrance, Geneve STYLE / REFERENCE: Open Faced Pocket Watch METAL / MATERIAL: 18Kt. Yellow Gold & Enamel CIRCA / YEAR: 1830's / 40's DIMENSIONS / SIZE: Diameter 42mm MOVEMENT / CALIBER: Key Winding / Verge Fuzee DIAL / HANDS: Breguet Engine Turned with Kiln Fired Enameled Numbers WARRANTY: 18 months on the movement LIFETIME SERVICE COMMITMENT This beautiful hand made watch dates from the 1830's or 40's. The watch was made in Geneva, Switzerland by one of the finest team of craftsmen's in the entire country at the time. The workmanship is of the highest quality. The case work is chased and repousse...

English Regency mahogany armchair, bowed crest rail with arched edge above the rope carved lumbar rail. The sweeping back legs, beaut...

The top of this English William IV console table has the original finish and patina. The frieze has a medallion and leaf spear carved in high relief...

Pair of French Old Paris unmarked urns are made of hard paste porcelain with polychrome and gold leaf. The pedestal bases are attached with an iron bolt. These classical form urns ar...

This empire period Old Paris tea caddy, canister or jar from the 1830's is sure to delight. It was likely designed and sold as a tea canister, but a lidd...

Napoleon III style, sometimes referred to as The Second Empire style, was greatly influenced by the Neoclassical aspects of the Louis XVI period. This giltwood barometer from Paris w...

Aquatint with hand coloring in oil color on smooth wove paper, 10 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches (266 × 370 mm), full margins. Moderate mat tone, scattered spots of light brown discoloration in...

The top of this table has bread board ends. The base is faux painted. It has two working drawers on each end.

A fine example of an 8-day tall clock in mahogany case made by Thomas Pringle, Scottish clockmaker, active 1830-1836. This beautiful tall case clock features a swan’s neck split pediment with foliate carved decoration, gilt foliate rosettes, and a center eagle finial on the hood, with an arched glass...

A wonderful form carved Classical Empire cellarette in mahogany with gadrooned edges, hinged top, zinc lined interior, and small brass decorative...

William Joseph Shayer, senior was a self-taught artist, who began by painting decorations on rush-bottom chairs, and moved on to painting carriages in the town of Guildford, after which he started doing a heraldic painting...

Circular hinged top with sunburst inlay creating a star. Fluted columnar support joining an octagonal plinth base.

A rare cut steel and porcelain pendant and earrings in the striking design of bullets and bows with rose cut steel sparkles was made in the early 19th c...

A pair of heavy finely cast iron rain hoppers in the form of classical urns with flared mouths, curved waists and gadrooning to rims and bodies. Attractive...

Louis Philippe marble top console table, this mahogany table has a beautifully veined sienna marble top above vertically veneered frieze with...

Rectangular top with inset blue leather with tooled edge over a frieze with drawers at each end raised on a trestle base with turned medial stretcher.

Mahogany faux bamboo bow front table, the one drawer has oval brass pulls ( hand made but not original) , the top has a nice warm color and patina, the...

An early 19th century rustic vernacular cricket table with red wash having a round top with three spoke shaved pole legs fixed to a hewn underside block and joined by a "T" stretcher...

Shaped paper mache tray mounted on a butterfly hinged tilt top support, based on the French Vendange table mechanism. The black tray has a double...

The round mirror plate within a foliate brass repousse inset ebonized wood frame, with gilt and beaded inner slips.

Regency grain painted cabinet, with all over faux bois painting that is designed to simulate rosewood. The arched back has a narrow shelf supported by tur...

Author: COWPER, William. Title: The Works of William Cowper, comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. Publisher: London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1835. Description...

beautifully painted with a young girl standing near a stream and holding a rope attached to a cow, a tree in the background under a partly clouded sky, clearly a case of bovine affec...

Italian inlaid wood marquetry collectors cabinet with multiple drawers and lion head pull. Circa 1830s.

a painting is worth a thousand words, but this finely painted work depicts a village with steepled buildings with a fast moving cloudy sky at dusk with a solitary figure at the foreg...

A well carved protective dog snarling on a gilded pillow with tassels.

This small Biedermeier dresser dates back to around 1830. The four drawer commode has a very pretty walnut veneer on top, sides and front. I...

American portrait miniature by Thomas Story Officer, Woman in a White Gown, Signed "T.S. Officer, Pinxt", The 1830s The American portrait miniature signed by Thomas Story Officer depicts a beautiful young woman, her red hair “Coeffure a la Chinoise”, sitting in a red chair confidently looking out towards the painter and us, the viewers.  She wears a white dress with a pin in the center of her chest.  Based on her style of dress and her hair, we believe this was painted while Officer was in Philadelphia. It is signed to the lower right "T.S. Officer, Pinxt" along at edge. The reverse has a small oval glass Dimensions: 3 inches high x 2 3/16 inches wide x 1/4 inch deep Reference: Thomas S. Officer: Miniature and Portrait Painter, Gardner Library,  Author: Merri Lou Schaumann. Born in Carlisle in 1810, this gifted artist trained in Philadelphia, traveled extensively and won awards for his paintings. In 1872, James Miller McKim wrote a series of reminiscences for the Carlisle Herald newspaper about the places and people of Carlisle in an earlier day. He wrote that “David Smith, a boot and shoemaker, had two sons… one of whom early developed a taste for art and finally devoted himself to miniature painting as a profession. He was a contemporary, and for a while, a rival of Mr. Thomas Officer, though I believe he never reached the celebrity attained by that gifted young artist. Mr. Officer, by the way, was one of the last miniature painters of any eminence produced by this country, the daguerreotype and photographer having come in to sweep away the entire profession.” Thomas Story Officer was born in Carlisle on August 15, 1810, to cabinetmaker John Officer and his second wife Margaret. He trained in Philadelphia with the well-known portrait painter Thomas Sully and began his career there in the 1830s. Officer left Philadelphia occasionally to paint portraits in Mobile, Alabama in 1837, in Richmond, Virginia in 1845, and in New York City from 1846-1849 where he became a member of the National Academy of Design. In 1842, Officer intended to travel to Mexico and needed a passport. He asked Attorney Charles B. Penrose, formerly of Carlisle, to write a letter of recommendation for him. In his letter to Fletcher Webster, Esq., Penrose wrote, “This will be handed to you by Thomas S. Officer, Esq., a friend of mine, and a native artist of Pennsylvania, who is a gentleman of great talents and respectability. Intending to visit Mexico, he wishes to procure passports at the State Department…”  Officer was issued a passport in July 1842. He was described as 30 years old, 5’ 11” with a “full and round forehead, bluish-gray eyes, an ordinary nose, medium mouth, ordinary chin, sallow complexion with an oval face and brown hair.” Officer went to Mexico and later to Australia. In 1854, he opened a studio in Sandridge, Australia, and while there he “entered several oil portraits in the 1854 Melbourne Exhibition preparatory to sending them to the 1855 Paris Exhibition.” Officer left Australia, and in 1855 he settled in San Francisco where he would spend the last years of his life. He set up a portrait painting department in James Johnson’s photographic gallery in San Francisco. In 1857, Officer received a bronze medal for his oil portraits exhibited at The First Industrial Exhibition of the Mechanics’ Institute of San Francisco, as well as awards at several other exhibits in 1858. A short piece in the San Francisco newspaper, Alta, on October 30, 1859, read, “Mr. Thomas S. Officer, the talented portrait painter, lies near to death’s door and is in pecuniary distress. Out of the many to whose pleasure he has contributed by his gay, social manners, as well as by his pleasing artistic productions, may there not be found someone who will extend a helping hand?”  Officer died on December 8, 1859. Almost an entire column in the January 18, 1860 edition of the Carlisle Herald, was devoted to a very long and informative obituary of Officer taken from the Alta, California newspaper. Officer was buried in the now defunct Lone Mountain Cemetery in San Francisco. In 2014, the Cumberland County Historical Society received a bequest of a portrait painted by Thomas Officer from the estate of historian John J. Snyder, Jr. It joined a miniature portrait already a part of the Society’s museum collection in Carlisle, not far from where Officer was born. Notes: The May 28, 1834 edition of the Carlisle Weekly Herald reported that Thomas S. Officer had "...within the last few weeks, taken the portraits of several gentlemen of this borough...Mr. O. is principally self-taught, and although young, already evinced a degree of taste, judgment, and talent..." A short biography of Officer can also be found in Early American Portrait Painters in Miniature by Theodore Bolton, published by F. F. Sherman (New York, 1921). The entire book is one line  Bio. of Officer on page 117. See Officer’s portrait...

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 ...

Pair of Northern European mahogany and bronze mounted Neoclassical armchairs of great scale and design, early 19th Century and in the Neo-Grecian manner, the slightly scrolled back o...

Swedish drop-leaf dining table in early ocher paint. Circa 1820-1840. Good condition. Stable, sturdy and level. All legs, stretchers, top and base are original. The majority of paint...

19th Century hand painted and gilt gold porcelain decorative tableware pitcher with under-plate service by Giraud Limoges . The pieces are in great antique condition . Minor wear app...

Author: Dickens, Charles Title: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Publisher: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1839. Description: first edition bound from the parts. 1 v...

Typical form with bow back and pierced baluster splat, turned legs and crinoline stretcher.

A very beautiful pair of South German Biedermeier armchairs or bergères in fine walnut each with shaped, fan-carved crest rail above scrolled armrests terminating in out-scrolled fee...

Square newly upholstered in muslin seat with carved X form legs with scroll feet, turned stretcher.

A white with red English Nailsea glass flask. Nailsea blown glass very fine early 19th century 1830s.

A set of Two Danish Biedermeier side chairs with beautiful carved wood design. This pair of chairs has been newly reupholstered with grass green Knoll fabric. The chairs are as comfo...

"30 Hour Clock" is a wooden gears with original face, glass, and mirror manufactured by Jeromes & Darrow. The wood is a very rich color, which is highlighted ...

An early pair of original and classic Biedermeier three drawer chests in mahogany. We can add a small pull to the top drawer if so desir...

A fine single Biedermeier chest of drawers. Stained wood with fruitwood inlay details and escutcheons.

An unusual chair with arched back newly caned. The sides newly caned and the sides swing open to access easily. Raised on square section legs and very l...

This is a 100% original painted Swedish mora clock. New battery works have been installed. Original works are offered with the clock, but they do not work.

This original Biedermeier table dates back to around 1830. It comes from Southern Germany. The table stands on a hexagonal column which rest on a trefoi...

American Sheraton dropleaf mahogany two drawer worktable with birdseye maple drawer fronts and original mahogany turned knobs. This country table continues the Sheraton gestalt with ...

With tall scrolled sides with turned rails, upholstered seat raised on curule form legs.

19th century gilt bronze mounted hand painted and crafted porcelain pair decorative covered urn / vase. Each urn features decorated figural design with bronze side handles with Greek mythological scenes. Each one in great antique. Minor wear consistent with age. Undersigned with blue beehive mark...

Featured is a very handsome American Empire chest of drawers built from gorgeous flamed crotched mahogany. This is four drawers built with hand cut dovetails. Each drawer is fitted w...

Oil on canvas, inscribed on the stretcher bar reverse. The painting is presented in a flat black frame that complements it well. Horace Bundy was an it...

Carved of handsomely figured oak stained a rich deep brown; with spiral-fluted supports on turned round bases.

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William IV rosewood mirror, with nicely carved and shaped cornice, the original mirror glass surrounded by rosewood veneer, the sides with fluted p...

Rectangular paper mache tea tray table with a flat rim and rounded corners. The tray has a hand painted scroll work & floral border decoration and is mounted to a Jennings & Bettridge swivel brace ebonized wood stand...

A red English Nailsea glass pocket flask with white. Nailsea blown glass very fine early 19th century 1830s.

Biedermeier burl walnut armchair, circa 1835. With a nicely figuered burl walnut crest rail, ebonized wheat sheath back splat, s shaped arms resting on c scrolled arm supports on squ...

This set of five Coalport Porcelain dinner dishes was made in England circa 1830. In the center of each one is a bouquet of exquisite hand-painted flowers. The close-up images show...

English faux painted bamboo washstand, having the original mustard paint with gold and black cross banding on the drawers and legs. The lower shelf ha...

This English mahogany marble-top console table has octagonal shaped legs in the front, and flat legs in the rear with applied architectural pilasters...