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Period: 18th Century
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Edo Landscape Japanese Folding Screen
By Japanese Studio
Located in Brescia, IT
Refined work by a painter from the first half of the 19th century, from the landscape of the "Rinpa" school by a painter from the end of the 18th century, the Rinpa school.
Six panels painted in ink on gold leaf and "gofun" on vegetable paper.
The flowers are made with the "gofun" technique, natural or pigmented white oyster powder.
Rinpa is one of the major historical schools of Japanese painting. The style was consolidated by the brothers Ogata Korin (1658–1716) and Ogata Kenzan (1663–1743).
This folding screen has a very clean design that leaves plenty of room for the beautiful golden landscape.
It comes flat and you can easily hang it with our hooks.
Lucio Morini...
Category
Antique 18th Century Japanese Edo Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Georgian Mahogany Bachelor's Chest
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine George III mahogany bachelor's chest, the vividly grained top with thumb molded edge, over pull-out writing surface/brushing slide, over four graduated drawers and standing on f...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Mahogany
Blue and White Dutch Delft Five Piece Garniture Hand Painted 18th Century C-1760
Located in Katonah, NY
This exquisite blue and white Delft five-piece garniture from mid-18th century Holland, circa 1760, is a masterpiece. The hand-painted panels on the front and back of each jar are de...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Dutch Chinoiserie Jars
Materials
Delft
Chinese Export Porcelain Blue and White Porcelain After Maria Sybille Merian
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export porcelain blue and white porcelain plates,
After Maria Sybille Merian,
Pronk Workshop Design,
Dutch Market,
Circa 1740-45
A pair of blue and white plates with a design after Maria Sybille Merian, probably from the Pronk workshop. The Chinese export underglaze blue porcelain...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Georgian diamond and blue glass "memento mori" mourning ring, circa 1780
Located in Malmö, Skåne län
A Georgian diamond and blue glass ring, the oval shaped plaque with a diamond encrusted urn applied on blue glass background and surrounded by a rose-cut diamond-set frame, all set i...
Category
Antique 1780s European George III Cocktail Rings
Materials
Diamond, 18k Gold, Silver
Pair of French Louis XVI Giltwood Beige Upholstered Canapes / Settees
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of French Louis XVI (18th Century) canapes / Settees with a curved and carved giltwood frame with a circular panel in the backrest, which curves forward to create the Settee's a...
Category
Antique 18th Century French Louis XVI Sofas
Materials
Fabric, Upholstery, Wood, Giltwood
Antique Fire Grate or Fireplace Grate
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Very usable 18th century Dutch wrought iron fireplace basket or fire grate.
Great looking and very decorative piece.
Interior basket dimensions:
Width 21.6 in. / 55 cm.
Depth 10.2 ...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Materials
Wrought Iron
18th Century Dutch "Delft Dore" Chinoiserie Teapot & Cover
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch Delft Dore Chinoiserie teapot & cover,
Early 18th Century.
The circular Dutch Delft Dore large teapot is painted in with Chinoiserie scenes w...
Category
Antique Early 1700s Dutch Queen Anne Delft and Faience
Materials
Delft, Faience
Rare Georgian French Paste Necklace
Located in New York, NY
Late 18th Century, Georgian French Paste Necklace. Heavy sterling mounts set with pastes, quartz and gilt metal etched applications. Likely Frenc...
Category
Antique 1780s French Georgian Link Necklaces
Materials
Quartz, Gilt Metal, Sterling Silver
George III Mahogany Pembroke Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine George III mahogany Pembroke table in richly colored timber, the round top with simple edge over single drawer retaining origi...
Category
Antique 1780s English George III Drop-leaf and Pembroke Tables
Materials
Mahogany
George III Period Scottish Sterling Silver-Mounted Snuff Mull With Hinged Lid
Located in New York, NY
George III Period, sterling silver (unmarked, but tested)-mounted ram's horn snuff mull, Scotland, Ca. 1790-1810. There is a sterling silver disc on the top of the hinged lid that is...
Category
Antique 1790s Scottish George III Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
George II Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine George II mahogany writing table, the leather-lined top with gilt tooling and banded edge, the edge with rich gadroon carving, over three drawers, standing on boldly carved...
Category
Antique 18th Century English George II Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany, Oak
Herding cattle through a wooded river landscape
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
James Stark (1794-1859)
Herding cattle through a wooded river landscape
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size 18 x 24 in
Framed Size 23 x 29 in
James Stark (1794-1859): A Pioneer in Landscape P...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Blue & White Delft Charger by De Klaauw (The Claw) Netherlands Ca. 1780
By The Claw
Located in Katonah, NY
This exceptional Dutch Delft blue and white charger was crafted by the De Klaauw (The Claw) factory circa 1780.
The entire surface is richly decorated in vibrant cobalt blue.
The cen...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Chinoiserie Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Materials
Delft
Tiffany Bracelet 18K Gold And Enamel 1960s Made In France
By Tiffany & Co.
Located in New York, NY
We offer a perfectly elegant 1960s Tiffany & Co. - Paris bangle bracelet of 18K gold segments with rich blue enameled details with a slight flexibility and hinged for easy on and off...
Category
Antique 1760s French Empire Bangles
Materials
18k Gold, Enamel
Set of 4 Louis XVI Wooden Seasonal Putti
Located in Queens, NY
Set of 4 French Louis XVI style (18th Cent) stripped wood life-size putti depicting the four seasons sitting on socle bases. (after the marble models by Camillo Rusconi)
Category
Antique 18th Century French Louis XVI Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
18th Century Swedish Rococo Side Chair
Located in Allerum, SE
Fine 18th century Swedish Rococo side chair, circa 1770. Original finish, leather upholstery later applied.
Category
Antique 18th Century Swedish Rococo Chairs
Materials
Wood
SSEF CERT PIGEON RED 2.50Ct Unheated Clean Burma Mogok Ruby Diamond Ring
Located in Warren, NJ
One of a kind! Rare!
This exquisite ring features an unheated Burma Mogok Red Ruby as its stunning centerpiece, accented with sparkling diamonds set in pl...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century American Cocktail Rings
Materials
Diamond, Ruby, Platinum
American Hepplewhite Chest of Drawers or Bureau in Mahogany, circa 1800
Located in Miami, FL
A Hepplewhite chest in mahogany with four graduated drawers with inlaid key plates and original pulls depicting cornucopias. Decorative elements include line inlays around drawers, b...
Category
Antique 1790s American Hepplewhite Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Mahogany
'Bacchus Cumampelo' — 18th Century Classical Italian Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, 'Bacchus Cumampelo', engraving, 1734, edition unknown. Signed 'Dom. Campiglia del.' in the plate, lower left. Engraving by Gabbugiani, after the original...
Category
1730s Realist Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving
Irish Georgian Mahogany Tea Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine Irish 18th century mahogany tea table, the well figured single plank top with dished edge over deeply scalloped apron and standing on graceful cabriole legs ending in well-forme...
Category
Antique 1740s Irish George II Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Mahogany
18th century oil sketches for a Baroque interior - a pair
Located in London, GB
A FEAST OF THE GODS WITH VENUS AND BACCHUS
Collections:
With Appleby Brothers, London, June 1957;
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1961;
John and Eileen Harris, acquired from the above, to 2015.
Literature:
Jacob Simon and Ellis Hillman, English Baroque Sketches: The Painted Interior in the Age of Thornhill, 1974, cat. no.12 (as by Louis Laguerre);
Elizabeth Einberg (ed.), Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting, 1700-1760, exh. cat., London (Tate Gallery), 1987, cat. no.10 (as by Louis Laguerre);
Tabitha Barber and Tim Bachelor, British Baroque: Power and Illusion, exh. cat., London (Tate Britain), 2020.
Exhibited:
Twickenham, Marble Hill House, English Baroque Sketches: The Painted Interior in the Age of Thornhill, 1974, no.12 (as by Louis Laguerre);
London, Tate Gallery, Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting, 1700-1760, 1987, no.10 (as by Louis Laguerre);
London, Tate Britain, British Baroque: Power and Illusion, cat. no 92, 2020.
CUPID AND PSYCHE BEFORE JUPITER
Collections:
With Appleby Brothers, London, June 1957;
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1961;
Anthony Hobson, acquired from the above, to 2015.
These recently re-united paintings are the most ambitious surviving baroque ceiling sketches made in Britain in the early eighteenth century. From the Restoration until the rise of Palladianism in the 1720s decorative history painting formed the preeminent artistic discipline in Britain. It was a field dominated by Continental artists including the Italian Antonio Verrio and the Frenchmen Louis Laguerre and Louis Chéron...
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Neo-Classic Inlaid Marquetry Single Drawer Centre Table
By Giuseppe Maggiolini
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Neo-Classic (18th Century) walnut and lemonwood single drawer rectangular centre table with ornate inlaid patterns along the borders and legs with a mythological Griffin moti...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Center Tables
Materials
Wood
Pair of Italian Demilune Marble Top Consoles
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine pair of northern Italian, probably Turin, neoclassical console tables, the original shaped marble tops over carved apron, the legs with lion mask carvings over turned and stop f...
Category
Antique 1770s Console Tables
Materials
Marble
Blue and White Delft Charger hand Painted 18th Century Netherlands Circa 1760
Located in Katonah, NY
This pair of mid-18th-century Dutch Delft chargers is handpainted in several shades of cobalt blue.
The viewer is drawn to the lovely scene in the center of each charger, which shows...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Dutch Chinoiserie Delft and Faience
Materials
Delft
Late 18th Century Portrait Miniature Ring Of A Lady
Located in Firenze, IT
Georgian portrait miniature ring, set with glass on top, all within a setting of 18kt gold.
The portrait of an elegant woman in full-length bust.
Neoclassical portrait rings of this ...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century British Neoclassical Engagement Rings
Materials
18k Gold, Yellow Gold
18th century allegorical painting of The Triumph of Beauty
Located in London, GB
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1800, no. 93
What was happening in British history painting in around 1800? In recent discussions of the emergence of a British School of history painting following the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, this is a question which is rarely posed and one which is not easily answered. Examination of surviving Royal Academy exhibition catalogues reveals a profusion of artists’ names and titles, few of which remain immediately recognizable, whilst endeavours to explain the impact of exhibition culture on painting - such as the 2001 Courtauld show Art on the Line - have tended to focus on the first and second generation of Royal Academician, rather than young or aspiring artists in the early nineteenth century. This makes the discovery and identification of the work under discussion of exceptional importance in making sense of currents in English painting around 1800. Executed by Edward Dayes...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chinese Export Porcelain Oval Famille Rose Dish
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Chinese Export porcelain dish in the famille rose palette is painted on the border with meandering vines and flowers which surrounds a central panel decorated with vases and pots of flowers...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Platters and Serveware
Materials
Porcelain
Early Oak Paneled Back Settle Bench
Located in Greenwich, CT
A tall bench or settle in oak with the back consisting of horizontal panel spanning the width of the back over three vertical rectangular panels, constructed in traditional floating ...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century English Jacobean Benches
Materials
Oak
Pair of Italian Rococo Console Tables
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine pair of 18th century Italian rococo console tables, the faux painted wood tops imitating Sienna marble with scalloped sides and molde...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Rococo Console Tables
Materials
Silver Leaf
Eighteenth-century Grand Tour marble bust of Faustina the Younger
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated: ‘F. Harwood Fecit 1764’
Collections:
Probably commissioned by Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743-1827);
Probably by descent at Gordon Castle, Banffshire to c.1948;
Possibly acquired by Bert Crowther of Syon Lodge, Middlesex;
Jacques Hollander (1940-2004);
Christie’s, 5 December 2013, lot 101;
Private collection;
Sotheby’s, 2 July 2019, lot 106
Literature:
John Preston Neale, Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen, in England, Wales and Scotland, London, 1822, vol.I, unpaginated.
This marble copy of an ancient bust in the Musei Capitolini usually identified as Faustina the Younger, the daughter of Antoninus Pius and future wife of Marcus Aurelius, was made in Florence by Francis Harwood in 1764. Harwood was one of the most prolific suppliers of decorative marbles for the Grand Tour market and this finely worked example demonstrates the quality of luxury goods available to travellers to Italy. So often anonymous, this unusually signed and dated example, raises questions about the status of marble copies in the period and of sculptors such as Harwood who are known principally for ornamental work.
Harwood’s origins remain obscure. He is documented living in Palazzo Zuccari with Joshua Reynolds and the Irish sculptor Simon Vierpyl at Easter 1752, he had certainly settled permanently in Florence by the following year, when he is recorded working with Joseph Wilton. He was admitted to the Florentine Academy on 12 January 1755 (as pittore Inglese, although he was described as scultore in the matriculation account). After Wilson returned to England in 1755 Harwood appears to have worked in a studio near SS. Annunziata with Giovanni Battista Piamontini who had made life-size copies of The Wrestlers and The Listening Slave for Joseph Leeson in 1754. In 1758 both sculptors were contracted to make a statue and a trophy to complete the decoration of the Porta San Gallo, Harwood completing a statue of Equality, installed the following year.
By 1760 Harwood was on the brink of his most productive period as a sculptor, producing copies of celebrated antiquities for the ever-increasing audience of Grand Tour travellers and for the domestic market in London. In 1761 Harwood met the young architect James Adam who was in Italy specifically to make contact with suppliers for Robert Adam’s burgeoning practice back in Britain. The Adams offered a remarkably cohesive design package to their clients, encompassing not just architecture, but fixtures, fittings and furniture as well. Harwood was able to supply the brothers with marbles for their new interiors. At Syon, for example, Harwood produced a full-size copy of Michelangelo’s Bacchus for the new dining room the Adams had designed for Hugh Smythson, 1st Duke of Northumberland.
Harwood seems to have also specialised in producing sets of library busts. In 1758 Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton, a distinguished traveller commissioned a set of busts which remain in situ at Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire. It is perhaps no coincidence that the Adam brothers were producing designs for new interiors at Castle Ashby at this date. The set included representations of: Cicero, Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Faustina the Younger, Sappho, Seneca and Homer. Each of these busts Harwood seems to have replicated for multiple patrons, another Adam patron, Thomas Dundas...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Georgian Scalloped Hanging Salt Box
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine English or American mahogany scalloped wall hanging salt box, having large penny mounting plate over sloped lid, the box with deeply scalloped body and molded base, good old sur...
Category
Antique 1770s English Georgian Decorative Art
Materials
Mahogany
Nightstand Vanity Table Gustavian Swedish Mahogany Brass Lining, Sweden
Located in New York, NY
Nightstand vanity table Gustavian Swedish mahogany brass lining, Sweden. Nightstand made in Sweden during the Gustavian period 1790-1810. Made in mah...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century European Gustavian Night Stands
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Dutch Delft Jar Hand-Painted by De Bloempot
By Delft
Located in Katonah, NY
This lovely 18th-century Delft jar was made in the factory of De Bloempot in Delft, The Netherlands, circa 1780.
The design features a gentleman with a top hat and a walking stick standing at the side of a river.
He looks across at the buildings of a Dutch village.
Above and below, the scene is framed by two large molded flowers.
The cover has a traditional Dutch Delft bird...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Delft and Faience
Materials
Delft
18kt Gold Silver and Steel Italian Crest Men's Ring
Located in Firenze, IT
Antique steel italian family crest mounted in 18kt gold and silver ring.
Size : 9
Weight: 27,22gr.
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Signet Rings
Materials
18k Gold, Rose Gold, Silver, Steel, Gold
Beautiful Lot of Reclaimed Antique Carrara Marble Floor Tiles
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Beautiful Lot Of Reclaimed Antique Carrara Marble Floor Tiles.
These large tiles come from a well sized entrance of a canal house in the city center of Amsterdam.
The have a love...
Category
Antique 18th Century Dutch Flooring
Materials
Carrara Marble
Solid oak refectory table - UK, Late 18th century
Located in London, GB
Rich with honest character, this antique oak refectory table seats eight. The cleated plank tabletop is raised on four chamfered square legs, granted further structural integrity by ...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century British Dining Room Tables
Materials
Oak
French Provincial 6-Fold Screen with Painted Pastoral Scene
Located in Queens, NY
French Provincial (18th century) 6 fold screen with painted scenes of rustic countryside with farm house.
Category
Antique 18th Century French Country Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
18thC.Georgian Washstand and Six Piece "Mason's Ironstone" Toiletry Set
By Mason's Ironstone
Located in Incline Village, NV
This hard to find ensemble consists of a uniquely configured 18th century Georgian night cupboard circa 1770, and a six piece Victorian Mason's Ironstone toiletry set for washing and toiletry needs, circa 1835. The washstand conveniently accommodates all of the pieces from the Mason's set in their appropriate compartments as if it was specifically made for the grouping (see images). The Georgian washstand...
Category
Antique 1770s English Georgian Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Ironstone, Hardwood
French Louis XVI Barometer
Located in Queens, NY
French Louis XVI (18th Century) barometer with original scientific illustrations and mercury vial framed with gilt foliate carvings & ebonized ...
Category
Antique 18th Century French Louis XVI Scientific Instruments
Materials
Giltwood, Glass
18th Century Cannon Foundry Engraving from Diderot’s Encyclopédie, circa 1770
Located in Langweer, NL
18th Century Cannon Foundry Engraving from Diderot’s Encyclopédie, circa 1770
This fine 18th-century engraving, titled Fonte des Canons, origin...
Category
Antique 1770s Prints
Materials
Paper
Antique Limestone Trumeau Fireplace Mantelpiece
Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland
Very happy to be offering this rustic limestone trumeau fireplace mantel from the countryside of France.
This lovely seized mantel works as a show st...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century French Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Stone, Limestone
George III silver tea caddy
By Charles Aldridge & Henry Green
Located in London, GB
Classic late 18th century silver tea caddy of oblong form, and featuring delicately hand engraved bands and swags around the sides, and ...
Category
Antique 18th Century British George III Tea Caddies
Materials
Sterling Silver
Antique Giardinetti Ring 1ct Emerald Diamond Ruby 14K Gold SilverØ 2.5US/4gr
Located in SE
Ca. middle/late 18th. century ring, 14K Rose Gold band with a 'Giardinetto' (small garden) openwork crown with Silver and Yellow Gold top. Array of foiled back natural Emerald, natur...
Category
Antique 1780s European Romantic Cluster Rings
Materials
Ruby, Emerald, Diamond, Silver, 14k Gold
Antique Blue and White Delft Plate English Chinoiserie, Hand-Painted, Ca. 1760
Located in Katonah, NY
This stunning blue and white Delft dish was hand painted in England around 1760.
It features a charming chinoiserie scene, where an Oriental figure is pointing towards a vase while t...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Chinoiserie Delft and Faience
Materials
Delft
Irish Rustic Stick Back Windsor
Located in Greenwich, CT
Early 19th century Irish rustic Windsor stick armchair, the primitive crest rail over spoke-shaved spindles, the plank seat supported by four splayed pole legs, the whole retaining o...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Irish Rustic Windsor Chairs
Materials
Ash, Sycamore
Rare Georgian Italian Table Cut Ruby Gold Ring
Located in Firenze, IT
Late-1700s (Georgian era) Italian gold ring with table cut rubies in closed setting. This beautiful example is completely original, it features a lov...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Italian Georgian Cluster Rings
Materials
Ruby, Gold
Antique Swedish Gustavian /Empire Crystal Chandelier w/ Gilt Bronze & Ten Lights
Located in Miami, FL
A very fine and large-scale Antique Gustavian or Karl Johan Empire crystal chandelier with gilt bronze armature featuring a center ring with thinly pressed rosettes and foliage betwe...
Category
Antique 1790s Swedish Gustavian Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Crystal, Brass
18th Century Danish Painted and Carved Baroque Armoire
Located in Greenwich, CT
An outstanding 18th Century Danish paint decorated and profusely carved kas or armoire, the double domed to with rich faux marble arched cove moldings, the front with two applied car...
Category
Antique 1740s Wardrobes and Armoires
Materials
Iron
Antique George II Chased Lidded Cup & Cover / Lidded Trophy, 1749
By William Cripps
Located in London, GB
A beautiful Antique Georgian solid Silver Lidded Cup covered in ornate floral chased designs. The Trophy has a shaped cartouche on the one side fille...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English George II Sterling Silver
Materials
Sterling Silver
Set of Four Original Antique Maps of Asia by Bolton & Seale, circa 1770
Located in Langweer, NL
Set of four antique maps of Asia:
1) Asia plate 6, Part of China, Tibet and Tartary
2) Asia plate 2, Japan, Corea, the Monguls and part of China
3) As...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Maps
Materials
Paper
Dutch Delft Dish Hand Painted Late 18th Century Circa 1780
Located in Katonah, NY
The center of this hand painted Dutch Delft plate shows a lovely garden with a pine tree and a large peony.
The scene continues onto the border, where we see three butterflies and mo...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Rococo Delft and Faience
Materials
Delft
Pair Blue and White Delft Mantle Jars Hand Painted Netherlands, Circa 1770
Located in Katonah, NY
This pair of Dutch Delft mantle jars features a charming rococo scene hand-painted in blue and white Delft. The jars depict a pair of cows resting in a fenced area, with a flock of b...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Dutch Rococo Jars
Materials
Delft
Van Cleef & Arpels Paris Modernist 36" Figaro Gold Link Necklace
By Van Cleef & Arpels
Located in Greenwich, CT
This ever popular and iconic Van Cleef & Arpels Paris modernist extra long 36" 'Figaro' link necklace symbolizes strength, unity, and the bond between loved ones. Wear it as one lon...
Category
Antique 1770s French Modernist Link Necklaces
Materials
Gold, 18k Gold
Antique 18kt Yellow Gold Wedding Band Ring
Located in Firenze, IT
This wedding band is composed of 2 rings that fit in each other and make one ring on your finger. The two rings fit together so perfectly that you are not able to tell that there are...
Category
Antique 1790s Italian Neoclassical Wedding Rings
Materials
18k Gold, Yellow Gold
George III Mahogany Architect’s Desk attr. Gillows of Lancaster circa 1790
Located in Shippensburg, PA
GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARCHITECT'S DESK IN MANNER OF GILLOWS OF LANCASTER
England, circa 1790 with alphabetized rent drawers interior unmarked
Item # 405KYH28Z
This remarkable architect's pedestal desk was almost certainly crafted by Gillows of Lancaster, London circa 1790. It features a rectangular top inlaid with maroon gilt-tooled leather bordered by a molded edge. Below this is situated a full-width frieze drawer which is decorated to appear as two false drawers over pedestals containing three graduated drawers on either side of an open kneehole. The desk stands on a molded plinth base fitted with casters.
The top drawer reveals a sliding gilt-tooled leather writing surface with a central panel that can be lifted on ratchet supports to hold and display documents. This surface slides back to uncover a lower compartment with an open storage area, flanked by three lidded compartments labeled alphabetically within oval reserves. The back of the desk is designed for a tidy appearance, making it suitable for placement in the center of a room, featuring two full-width faux drawers above faux cabinet doors in the pedestals.
While the present example is not marked by Gillows, it is almost without question a product of their workshops and is firmly attributed to their design books. The alphabet inlaid drawers were inspired by designs popularized by Thomas Shearer’s The Cabinet Maker’s London Book of Prices (1788-1803). These were employed in designs published by Gillows, such as the 'bureau writing-table' with a double-ratcheted top made for the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1789 and a writing-table from 1794 (see Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, L. Boynton, ed., 1995, pl. 24 and 41). A similar design appears in the firm’s 1798 Estimate Sketch Book (p.1481), preserved in the Westminster City Library. The drawer design is further seen on pedestal desks stamped by Gillows, including the library table provided by the firm in 1778 to Denton Hall (see C. Gilbert, The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol.II, p.246, pl.449).
Gillows produced many variations of this desk style, including those with ratcheting tops for standing use, enclosed kneehole designs, various types of pulls, and subtle dimensional adjustments. Examples can be seen well into the George IV period and the influence of this form on later desks by Gillows can be seen as the tastes changed into the second half of the nineteenth century.
Sir Walter Scott acquired a similar desk from Gillows for his Edinburgh house in Castle Street in 1810, later moving it to his study at Abbotsford in 1826. In a letter to J.B. Morritt of Rokeby Hall, Yorkshire, dated May 1810, Scott wrote: ‘You know I fell in love with your Library table and now the The Lady [The Lady of the Lake] has put crowns into my purse I would willingly treat myself unto the like...’ On 9 August, Scott wrote again to Morritt: 'I must not omit to tell you that Gillows table has arrived and gives great satisfaction. Everyone that sees it likes it so much I dare say I shall have some commissions to send him. His bill did not much exceed yours being about £30 ready money’. The Gillow archives from 1810 record: ‘pack for W.Scott Esq., Castle Street, Edinburgh, case containing mahogany bureau writing table Double Elevating tops cupboard in center complete writing drawers’. (See C. Wainwright, The Romantic Interior, Fig 162 & 163).
A few open-market examples of nearly identical desks...
Category
Antique 18th Century English George III Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Rare English Queen Anne Antique Miniature Salesman Sample Tilt-Top Table
Located in Shippensburg, PA
A RARE AND FINE QUEEN ANNE MAHOGANY MINIATURE SALESMAN'S SAMPLE TILT-TOP CANDLESTAND
England, circa last quarter of the 18th century
Item # 403RPJ02P
An exceedingly fine and rare salesman's sample of a perfectly scaled-down tilting top candlestand, it is crafted from dense mahogany and retains a rather early finish. The surface glows brilliantly under the old oxidized shellac, this turning nearly black in some areas with rich ruby hues coming through as rubbing and handling have worn it. The table is an exact replica of what a client would expect to receive in full size, a piece that would likely have been created for salesmen to take to prospective buyers to showcase what their shops could achieve in wood. The table retains its original battens on the underside, these flanking the original latch and catch that allow the top to easily rotate for storage. It is raised on a turned column with a swollen vasiform baluster over the curvy cabriole legs.
Measurements: 12 1/2" H x 11 7/8" diameter
Condition Report:
Old finish with exceedingly fine silky surface patina throughout, old scuffs and abrasions that have oxidized, minor scars, a large stain (likely ink) to the top; old repaired break to one ankle; one screw missing from catch on underside of table; original hardware, original butterfly iron...
Category
Antique 18th Century English Queen Anne Models and Miniatures
Materials
Mahogany
Landscape with goatherds near a waterfall
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
George Smith of Chichester (1714-1776)
Landscape with goatherds near a waterfall
Oil on canvas
Signed 'Geo. Smith' lower left
Canvas Size 18 x 25 i...
Category
18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A view at Tivoli
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
John Rathbone (1750-1807)
View at Tivoli
Signed lower right
Oil on Canvas
Canvas size - 18 x 24 in
Framed size - 24 x 30 in
John Rathbone was born in Cheshire in 1750 and worked as ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Delft Blue and White Vase Hand Painted 18th Century circa 1780 Netherlands
Located in Katonah, NY
Made circa 1780, this 18th century Dutch Delft vase was hand painted with floral decoration of flowers and scrolling vines.
A beautiful deep cobalt blue covers most of the surface....
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Dutch Rococo Vases
Materials
Delft
