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"Susan Vanseiver" Needlework Sampler
Lot: 536Sold for: $738$600"Susan Vanseiver" Needlework Sampler, England, 18th century, stitched with verse above a scene of a woman in a blue gown beneath a fruit tree with birds and sheep, all surrounded by a meandering more ...
Small Early Needlework Picture
Lot: 537Sold for: $5,843$4,750Small Early Needlework Picture, England, late 17th/early 18th century, depicting a potted flower with rabbits, birds, and shrubby landscape, in a molded walnut frame, ht. 10, wd. 10 in. more ...
Small Floral Needlework Picture
Lot: 538Sold for: $1,230$1,000Small Floral Needlework Picture, dated "1786," three flower blossoms issuing from a vase, initialed "RW," 7 x 7 in., framed. more ...
Needlework Picture
Lot: 539Sold for: $1,476$1,200Needlework Picture, New England, last half 18th century, showing a house flanked by trees and flowering stems, with a cow, deer, and a dog, and two groups of three people in conversation, more ...
Red-painted Pine Lidded Wood Box
Lot: 540Sold for: $554$450Red-painted Pine Lidded Wood Box, New England, late 18th century, with triangular cutout ends, ht. 25, wd. 24, dp. 18 in. more ...
Dark Brown-painted and Paint-decorated Oval-top Gate-leg Table
Lot: 541UnsoldDark Brown-painted and Paint-decorated Oval-top Gate-leg Table, Massachusetts, early 18th century, the drop-leaf top above a drawer and base of eight legs, two swing out to support the leaves, more ...
Red-painted Walnut Gate-leg Table
Lot: 542Sold for: $1,046$850Red-painted Walnut Gate-leg Table, probably Massachusetts, early 18th century, the top with rectangular drop-leaves above a boldly turned base with beaded skirt, old mellow surface to top, old red more ...
Queen Anne Maple Oval-top Tea Table
Lot: 543UnsoldQueen Anne Maple Oval-top Tea Table, New England, mid-18th century, with shaped skirt joining four tapering legs ending in pad feet, (losses to feet),ht. 25 1/2, wd. 32 1/2, dp. 27 1/2 in. more ...
Pine and Maple Oval-top Tea Table
Lot: 544Sold for: $1,107$900Pine and Maple Oval-top Tea Table, New England, 18th century, the top on a splayed base of straight beaded skirt and turned legs, ht. 25 3/4, wd. 31, dp. 21 1/2 in. more ...
Paint-decorated Pine Paneled Fireboard
Lot: 545Sold for: $86,100$70,000Paint-decorated Pine Paneled Fireboard, Maine, c. 1815-20, the single molded panel designed as two large trees surrounded by several smaller ones, all in exuberant red/brown paint on a cream ground, more ...
Paint-decorated Pine Fireboard
Lot: 546Sold for: $22,140$18,000Paint-decorated Pine Fireboard, attributed to Rufus Porter (1792-1884),c. 1825, with breadboard ends, painted with a sunset river landscape with a three-masted vessel, 35 x 46 in. Provenance: more ...
Bannister-back Armchair
Lot: 547Sold for: $185$150Bannister-back Armchair, probably Connecticut, with shaped crest joining turned stiles, above four split balusters, shaped arms with circular handholds, and boldly turned double front stretchers, more ...
Painted Dressing Table
Lot: 548UnsoldPainted Dressing Table, New England, mid to late 18th century, the rectangular top above a case of two drawers, the lower drawer with a three-drawer facade centering a fan, old grain-painted surface more ...
Child's Red-painted Potty Chair
Lot: 549UnsoldChild's Red-painted Potty Chair, late 18th century, with shaped sides and trapezoidal seat, ht. 24, seat ht. 8 3/4 in. Provenance: MacKay and Fields. more ...
Red-painted Step-back Cupboard
Lot: 550Sold for: $1,046$850Red-painted Step-back Cupboard, New England, late 18th century, in one piece, with upper and lower pairs of cupboard doors opening to shelves, old red paint, ht. 80, wd. 45, dp. 21 1/2 in. more ...
Red-painted Pine One-piece Step-back Cupboard
Lot: 551Sold for: $1,845$1,500Red-painted Pine One-piece Step-back Cupboard, New England, late 18th/early 19th century, the open upper half above a projecting lower half with single door opening to two white-painted shelves, ht. more ...
Pine and Maple Oval-top Tap Table
Lot: 552Sold for: $1,722$1,400Pine and Maple Oval-top Tap Table, New England, 18th century, the overhanging top on a beaded skirt joining block-, vase-, and ring-turned legs and stretchers, ht. 25, wd. 33, dp. 22 1/2 in. more ...
Two Bannister-back Chairs
Lot: 553Sold for: $369$300Two Bannister-back Chairs, 18th century, one red-painted with a peaked crest, the other black-painted and gilt-striped with a shaped crest, ht. 42 3/4, 42 1/4, seat ht. 18, 15 3/4 in., more ...
Black-painted Turned Slat-back Armchair
Lot: 554Sold for: $215$175Black-painted Turned Slat-back Armchair, New England, mid-18th century, old surface, (imperfections),ht. 46, seat ht. 16 1/2 in. Provenance: The Collection of Enid and Alexander Fisher, more ...
Black-painted Slat-back Armchair
Lot: 555Sold for: $215$175Black-painted Slat-back Armchair, New England, 18th century, with four arched slats, and vase- and ring-turned arm supports, (rockers added but now gone),ht. 43, seat ht. 17 1/2 in. more ...
Queen Anne-style Tray-top Tea Table
Lot: 556Sold for: $2,829$2,300Queen Anne-style Tray-top Tea Table, the tray edge with cut corners, above a skirt with rolled shaped apron joining delicate cabriole legs ending in pad feet, ht. to top of tray 26 1/4, wd. 30, dp. more ...
Mahogany Veneer Scroll-frame Looking Glass
Lot: 557UnsoldMahogany Veneer Scroll-frame Looking Glass, England, late 18th/early 19th century, the cresting with cutout and gilt shell, gilt liner, ht. 40 1/8, wd. 20 3/4 in. more ...
Queen Anne Maple Chest on Frame
Lot: 558Sold for: $800$650Queen Anne Maple Chest on Frame, Massachusetts, mid-18th century, the projecting cornice above a case of two short thumb-molded drawers and four graduated drawers below, set into a valanced frame more ...
Tiger Maple Corner Chair
Lot: 559Sold for: $3,198$2,600Tiger Maple Corner Chair, mid-18th century, the shaped backrest and rounded handholds above three trumpet-turned supports and vasiform splats, on upholstered slip seat, shaped seat rails, and more ...
Brass Six-light Chandelier and Adjustable Trammel
Lot: 560Sold for: $3,075$2,500Brass Six-light Chandelier and Adjustable Trammel, Holland, 18th century, the nozzles and drip catchers on scrolled branches connected to the turned central body with brass hanging chain, the brass more ...
Brass Capstan Candlestick
Lot: 561Sold for: $400$325Brass Capstan Candlestick, Holland, 17th century, ht. 5 3/8 in. more ...
Pair of English Bell Metal Candlesticks
Lot: 562Sold for: $308$250Pair of English Bell Metal Candlesticks, c. 1740, with knopped stems and square bases with canted corners, ht. 6 3/4 in. Provenance: Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Blum, Willow Corners Antiques, Lisbon, more ...
English Brass Snuffer and Stand
Lot: 563Sold for: $861$700English Brass Snuffer and Stand, mid-18th century, the square base stand with canted corners holding a brass snuffer, ht. of stand 4 1/2 in. more ...
Pair of French Brass Candlesticks
Lot: 564Sold for: $677$550Pair of French Brass Candlesticks, c. 1680, with boldly knopped stems and round bases, ht. 6 1/2 in. Provenance: Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Blum, Willow Corners Antiques, Lisbon, Connecticut. more ...
Two 18th Century English Candlesticks
Lot: 565Sold for: $246$200Two 18th Century English Candlesticks, one with hexagonal base, the other with swirl base, ht. to 8 1/4 in. Provenance: Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Blum, Willow Corners Antiques, Lisbon, Connecticut. more ...