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Astonishing Antique Persian Serapi King of Kings World Class Diamond Textile in Terracotta, Sunset-Clay & Indigo About: This is Without Question the most Exotic and Provoking Anti...

Exceptional Meadow by Gorham Sterling silver Flatware set - 176 Pieces including many fabulous serving pieces. This set includes: 12 Large Banquet Knives, 10 1/2" 12 Dinner Size For...

Sterling silver punch ladle with realistic 3D Satyr figure by Tiffany. It is monogrammed (see photo) and is in excellent condition. Satisfaction guaranteed!

Designed with an eye for balance and proportion, each piece of Tiffany & Co. flatware is a masterpiece of form and function. It is heavy, well balanced, and has wonderful, Colonial s...

Monumental Charles II by Lunt sterling silver flatware set dinner and luncheon size - 174 pieces. This set includes: 12 Dinner Knives, 9 3/4" 12 Dinner Forks, 7 1/2" 12 Luncheon...

Flowing scroll work follows the gently curved handles of this magnificent pattern. A true "American Classic", this pattern design is timeless. American Classic by Easterling sterlin...

Georgian Rose by Reed & Barton sterling silver dinner size flatware set - 76 pieces. This set includes: 12 dinner size knives, 9 5/8" 12 dinner size forks, 7 3/4" 12 salad forks, 6 ...

"Fear Not; Only Believe" is an original watercolor and gouache painting by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed and dated the artwork lower right. It depicts two people walking through...

"The Celebrated Clipper Ship Dreadnought" is an original hand-colored lithograph by Currier & Ives. It depicts a sailing ship. 13 1/4" x 17 1/2" art 19" x 23 1/2" frame Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...

Cordis by Tiffany & Co. Spectacular Cordis by Tiffany & Co. sterling silver 13-piece dresser set. The pieces in this set have a date mark for 1907-47. This set include 1 - Mirror: Measures 5 1/2" x 7 5/8". 1 - Hairbrush (with handle): Measures 3" x 9". 1 - Powder jar: Marked #7970-3567, measures 3 3/8" x 3 1/4" in diameter, and weighs 7.60 troy ounces. 1 - Powder jar (small): Marked #9726-9635, measures 1 1/4" x 2 3/4" in diameter, and weighs 3.22 troy ounces. 1 - Comb: Measures 8 1/4" x 1 3/4". 1 - Shoe horn: Marked #8686-4548, measures 8" x 1 1/2", and weighs 3.38 troy ounces. 1 - Dresser tray (small): Marked #8172-4991, measures 6 1/2" x 3 1/8" x 3/8", and weighs 2.78 troy ounces. 1 - Rotary phone dial...

Antique Staffordshire Lord Horatio Nelson Hand Painted Toby Jug Pitcher Figure This antique sculpted figural toby jug is modelled as Vice Admira...

"Boldest Native" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin. This piece features a pile of apples with abstract textures. The artist signed the piece lower right and titled it...

XY by Guy Degrenne An example of this pattern is pictured in the hardcover book “Flatware that's not flat: Design and Production of innovative Table cutlery, 1890-2015” By William P...

Exceptional "William & Mary" by CJ Vander (England) sterling silver dinner size flatware set - 52 pieces. This pattern is beautifully detailed on the back of the bowls. This set incl...

9.75 x 12.63 inches (sheet), 9 x 11.88 inches (block) Framed 20 x 17.25 in linoleum block print on laid paper Signed and titled to lower margin

RICK OWENS Drkshdw Wrapped “Robot” Denim Leather Moto Jacket Brand / Manufacturer: Drkshdw by Rick Owens Designer: Rick Owens Manufacturer Style Name: Wrapped Robot Jacket Style: M...

Old Newbury Crafters silver is genuinely hand-made and wonderfully heavy, the machine cannot match the quality, durability, look and feel of handmade silver. Superb 72 piece sterli...

With an asymmetrical design, this traditional, semi-antique Persian Lurestan in red, gold, green, and blue wool measures 3’5” x 4’11” and belongs to Orley Shabahang’s Antique collect...

Retro 14k yellow gold ring featuring a diamond bouquet of tulip flowers with emerald stems. There are 9 round diamonds of which 3 are round brilliant cuts and 6 are transitional to ...

Superb Onslow by Marshall Fields (retailer) English sterling silver flatware set of 55 pieces. This set includes: Ten dinner size knives, pistol grip, 9 5/8" Ten dinner size forks, ...

A pair of vintage 14K Yellow gold cuff links with oval cabochon green jadeite jade. GIA report #2239187968 states natural colored mottled green A jadeite jade measuring 14.30 x 10.40...

An original color lithograph by Jules Cheret numbered 52 of three dancers. 31 5/8" x 23 3/4" art 37 1/2" x 29 5/8" framed Jules Chéret (31 May 1836 – 23 September 1932) was a Frenc...

c.1940s-1950s Brown Red Plastic Abstract Sculpted (Carved Wood Look) Chain Necklace Bracelet Set Circa: 1940s-1950s: Style: Chain bracelet and necklace set Color(s): Chain: shades of brown; links: red Unmarked Material (feel of): Plastic Additional Details / Inclusions: One of a kind 1940s-1950s brown and red chain necklace and bracelet set. Sculpted abstract-shaped brown plastic necklace...

"Final Spring" is an original color lithograph by Michael Knigin. The artist signed and titled in the lower center of image. This piece is an artist's proof and features a brightly c...

Masonic 10k Yellow Gold Men's Ring .85ct Genuine Natural Diamond Eagle (#J4838) 10k yellow gold Masonic ring with applied white gold featuring a round brilliant cut diamond weighing...

King Edward Gold by Gorham sterling silver Vermeil dinner size flatware set - 42 pieces. This set includes: Eight dinner size knives, 9 5/8", eight dinner size forks, 7 3/4", eig...

Rare unique Mid-Century Modern circa 1955 "Avanti" by Celsa, of Mexico, sterling silver Flatware set, 49 pieces. Celsa had a retail store on 57th Street in New...

"La Naissance D'Eve" is an original color lithograph from the "Je Reve (I Dream)" portfolio by Andre Masson. The artist signed the piece lower right in pencil and wrote the edition n...

Striking tones of taupe, gold, red, blue, and orange highlight the splendidly striated field of this neutral brown Persian Gabbeh area rug in wool that measures approximately 4' x 7'...

This Chinesco bowl was from a pre-Columbian society from around 300 BCE. It features abstract, geometric designs in red and black. The diameter is 8".

Floral massively heavy vintage Silverplated Flatware set, made in China - 41 pieces. This set includes: 12 Knives, 9" 7 Forks, 8" 9 T...

The present work, drawn with black Conté crayon on a calendar sheet, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a rhythmic vision of an urban lakefront. The beach scene is dominated by...

Rippling gently across a lake’s surface before colliding with the shoreline and stylized plant motifs, this hand-knotted carpet, titled Reflections, measures 4’11” x 6’8” and belongs...

"Bee Keeper" is an original black conte crayon drawing by Sylvia Spicuzza. The artist signed this piece lower right. This drawing depicts abstrac...

Lily of the valley by Gorham Sterling Silver Flatware set - 64 pieces. This set includes: 8 Knives, 8 7/8" 8 Forks, 7 1/4" 8 Salad Forks, 6 1/2" 8 Teaspoons, 5 7/8" 8 Cream Soup Sp...

King Edward by Gorham sterling silver dinner size flatware set - 67 pieces. This set includes: 12 dinner size knives, 9 3/4" 12 dinner size forks, 7 3/4" 12 salad forks, 6 1/4" 12 t...

Art Deco platinum filigree ring featuring an European cut diamond weighing 1.31cts with GIA report. GIA report #2221447074 states Q-R color and I1 clarity. ...

"Double Opinion" is an original oil pastel drawing on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. It depicts a confused and wide-eyed face with two mout...

Old Brocade by Towle sterling silver flatware set of 24 pieces. Great starter set! This set includes: Six knives, 8 3/4", six forks, 7 1/4", six...

"Umbrella Drawing II" is an original oil pastel drawing on paper by Tom Shelton. The artist signed the piece lower right. It depicts four leaning red umbrellas. 23" x 25" art Tom ...

Superb dinner size Georg Jensen sterling silver cutlery set in the "Old Danish" pattern, designed by Harald Nielsen-40 total pieces. This s...

'Famine' is an original springstone sculpture signed by the Zimbabwean artist Rangarirai Makunde. The sculpture presents a solitary figure who stands facing directly forward. He hold...

Lovely Queen's Lace by International sterling silver flatware set of 32 pieces. This set includes: Eight knives, 9 1/8". Eight forks, 7 1/4". Eight salad forks, 6 1/2". Eight teaspo...

"American Bald Eagle Flying Through Silver Clouds Between Heaven and Earth" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett, signed on the lower left center. It incorporates watercolor, ink, iridescent acrylic, rubber stamps, collage, and oil pencil. This piece depicts a surrealist landscape. A cow with an cowl perched on its back stands in the lower left corner, and tracks lead away from it across the bottom of the picture. A small turtle approaches a pond in the lower right. In the center register of the image, two leaves have been collaged into an abstractly-drawn forest. The eagle of the title is shown in several stages of its flight through the blue and yellow sky. Art size: 7 15/16" x 9 1/2" Frame size: 15 1/4" x 16 1/8" David Barnett, an artist, collector, appraiser and gallerist has been passionate about art from the early age of five. David’s career as an art dealer began at age nineteen when, as a fine arts student, he sponsored an exhibition of work by fellow student artists. In 1966, he opened his first gallery in a converted basement apartment at Wisconsin Avenue and 21st Street. David’s talents for recognizing undervalued artists and for meeting the needs of art lovers, art collectors and artists have created a vibrant, flourishing gallery and collection of over 6,000 works of art. David was born and raised in Wisconsin. He has been painting in watercolors, acrylics, oil pastels as well as fine art photography. David has more than 10 different series he has developed over the years. They include Abstract, Surrealism, Morph Dog, Up North Birch Bark, Impressions of Mexico City, Southwest, Fireworks, Famous Artist Paying Homage and Garden Panorama. Influential artists include Vermeer, Miro, Kandinsky, Chagall, Nolde and Klee. David has been featured in many magazines, newspapers and public television programs regarding his beautiful gallery, collection and knowledge and passion of fine art. David also has work in the permanent collection Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona. Exhibits “Morph Dog Series”, David Barnett Gallery, 1996 “Renewal", Art Escape Gallery, Thiensville, WI, 2003 “Recent Watercolors", David Barnett Gallery, 2003, Lora D. Art Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2004 “Group Show”, Broden Gallery Ltd., Madison, WI, May-June 2004 "Homage to Kandinsky", David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2014 Collections Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ Private collections throughout the United States and around the world including collections in Wisconsin, Maryland, New York, Washington D.C., Arizona, Illinois, Florida, Kentucky. International collections in Brazil, Singapore and Hong Kong. Articles Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Barnett Gives His Work an Exhibit" by James Auer, November 1996 Exclusively Yours...

This formal antique Persian Bidjar carpet in red with accents of blue and gold measures approximately 4' x 6'. To craft this carpet, the weaver utilized traditional Persian handknott...

Nocturne by Gorham sterling silver flatware set, 38 pieces. This pattern has a great look! This set includes: 8 knives, 9" 8 regular forks, 7 1/4" 8 salad forks, 6 5/8" 8 teaspoons,...

Blossom by Georg Jensen Spectacular Blossom by Georg Jensen sterling silver oval tray marked #2P. This piece measures 3/8" (h) x10 1/8" (l) x 6 1/2 (w) and weighs 12.24 troy ounce...

Beautiful Earthy & Cool Antique Caucasian Wide Gallery Runner Cashew, Camel, Ice Blue, Espresso About: What a color palette!! Yummy floppy textile given it's wool pile woven on w...

Orange blossom by Wallace. Orange blossom by Wallace sterling tea tray with delicate floral border. It has a "NHR" monogram (can be removed upon re...

'Footballer (Soccer Player)' is an original opal serpentine sculpture signed by the Zimbabwean artist Canaan Musiyiwa Ngandu. The sculpture presents an abstract figure in Ngandu's qu...

GEORGE & MARTHA BY WESTMORLAND sterling silver Flatware set - 38 Pieces. This set includes: 8 KNIVES, 8 3/4" 8 FORKS, 7" 8 SALAD FORKS, 6" 8 TEASPOONS, 6" 1 GRAVY LADLE, 7 1/4" 1 S...

McQ by Alexander McQueen c.2012 X-ray print leggings. Elastic waist band. Black and white abstract x-ray print. Marked Fabric Content: "80% Polyester, 20% Elastane". Marked Size: "38...

21 Foot Long Botanical Beauty! Narrow Stair Runner in Unique Softer Hues About: Vintage runner for your stairs; look how narrow this piece is!! That is magical, as typically the lo...

Austrian 800 silver Alfred Pollack flatware set - massive 115 pieces. This set includes: 12 dinner knives, 10", 12 dinner forks, 8 1/4", 12 regular knives, 8 1/2", 12 regular fo...

"Confused Abstract" is an original oil pastel on grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It features an abstract design in yellow, pink, red, green, ...

Alternative sizes and media available: 16 x 16 16 x 20 16 x 24 20 x 20 20 x 30 28 x 28 28 x 35 30 x 45 40 x 40 40 x 50 40 x 60 Matte photo paper or canvas available on...

'Sapphire Sea Spruce' is an excellent example of the paintings of Daniel Klewer, coming from his series 'Linear Tactility.' The paintings in this series all share a consistent, linea...

Superb handmade "Windsor" by Old Newbury Crafters sterling silver flatware set, 51 pieces. This set includes: 12 regular knives, 8 3/4" 12 regular forks, 3-tine, 7" 12 salad forks, ...

Damask Rose by Oneida sterling silver flatware set, 37 piece set. This set includes: eight knives, 8 7/8", eight forks, 7 1/8", eight salad forks, 6 1/...

New in factory sleeves "Country Manor" by Towle sterling silver 32 piece flatware set. This set includes: Eight knives, modern blades, 9 1/8" Ei...