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Provincial slant-lid desk, mellow walnut. Amazing the legs have not broken in 230 years. Approx. 42" wide.

Charleston Chippendale Mahogany Antique Tea Table circa 1765. Rare small-scale tea table, approx. 28" diameter, attributed to Henry Burnett. The best carved base. Note: cleats were trimmed back with shrinkage to the top--they extended over the plane of the top. Top is approx. 25" one way and 26" against the grain of the single board pie crust top. In the opinion of my cabinetmakers, the top and base are original to one another. However, contrary opinion exists. I would have not ...

oil on canvas laid to panel, 24" x 32"--signed lower left and identified verso with date of 1937. Framed. Bio from ask art.com: A native of Woodsville, New Hampshire, Earle A. Titus was born on October 12, 1895, the son of Frank E. Titus and Nellie (King) Titus. After graduating from public schools in his hometown, he went to Boston, and studied at the New School of Design with John Douglas Connah and Vesper George, planning to enter the field of illustration. He subsequently did illustrati...

Rare diminutive Neo-Classical inlaid lady's desk with tambour cylinder section and fine inlay. Mirrored doors and writing section pulls out. 28" wide, 15" deep, 53" high.

Oil on paper, portrait of a yeshiva boy in Baltimore, monogrammed SB and dated 1903. Approx. 11" x 7.5" site size and about 17" x 14" framed. bio from ask art.com A native of Lithuania, Bernstein arrived penniless in the United States at the age of sixteen. He began to paint while employed as a clerk in a general store in West Virginia and later studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art and at the Art Students League in New York. While in Paris to complete his training at the Academie...

Italian 19th Century Classical Antique Mahogany Marble Top Console Table circa 1820. The console table has gilt-bronze mounts, a laminated marble top, and bears the label of the apparent maker in Florence. The console table measures 53.5" wide, 24" deep, and 36.5" high.

Some figures about 5" high.

Oil on canvas, 29" x 36"--circa 1845-55. I placed it in this circa 1865 American frame from my frame inventory. The frame is optional. Inpaint at the lower edge precisely where it may have been signed. Bio from ask art.com: Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer in American landscape, genre, and animal painting. He was one of the earliest Americans to rebel against painting only portraits, and as a result, became a pioneer of genre painting and landscape painting. Howev...

Oil on canvas, laid down on board at a later date, circa 1915. 20.5" x 15 3/8"

Prints of Hummingbirds by Gould and Richter. Antique Prints Hummingbirds by John Gould and H C Richter Gould maintained an obsessive fascination for Hummingbirds: "These wonderful works of creation… my thoughts are often directed to them in the day, and my night dreams have not infrequently carried me to their native forests in the distant country of America" During his lifetime he identified more than 400 species of Hummingbird, Linneaus, by comparison, having only identified 22. Gou...

Old bowl, old paint. 20" x 17"

Oil on canvas, 33" x 26" oil on canvas-signed upper right and bearing exhibition label of the Copley Society verso. Cleaned and restored--price pending frame. Coolidge was a Boston area artist of some note.

Having hard stone handle which seems to be a later addition and bronze cup. Approx. 7" long.

5" high.

Having old oak frame, note trout in relief. Approx. 45" x 12"

Steel engraving, lightly laid on blue backing. Site size, approx. 15 7/8" x 9 7/8"

Oil on canvas, approx. 14" x 24" signed and dated lower left. Bio from ask art.com: Landscape painter. Born in New York on Dec. 19, 1845. Bloomer came to California with his family in 1852 and settled in San Francisco. Having decided upon an art career, he became a pupil of Virgil Williams, Thomas Hill, and Stephen Shaw from 1868-73. The years 1874-79 were spent in Paris where he took over Whistler's old studio while studying with Duran and Pelouse. While there, his Old Bridge at Grez was pu...

Approx. 24" x 12"--having silver leaf eglomise panel with Eagle.