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Pair of George IV Old Sheffield Plate Wine Coolers, bearing the crest for Earl of Leicester, c1825
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PAIR GEORGE IV MELON FORM OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE WINE COOLERS
England, c1820-30, crested for Earl of Leicester
Of quite heavy weight, each ovoid melon-lobed body raised on a quatrefoil lobed foliate cast and chased base, and sided by two up-curving stem form handles issuing from acanthus leaves, below a straight neck crested on each side; the removable collar with cast floral and foliate rim a...
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Willliam III / Queen Anne Walnut Side Chair with Iberian Influences, 1700-1710
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WILLIAM III / QUEEN ANNE WALNUT SIDE CHAIR, England, c1700-1710
An early high-backed form having Iberian influence, the top rail with the rectangular convex cresting, surmounting a cyma-curved vasiform splat pierced at the top, above an upholstered stuff-over seat raised on front “hipped” cabriole legs with squared knees and ending in pad feet, well formed serpentine stretchers connecting to th...
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Geffroy Family Print-work Silk Embroidery, Mary Balch School
Amongst the excellent silk embroideries worked at the Balch School in Providence, Rhode Island is a group of print-work memorials, worked between 1810 and 1820. They feature elaborate monuments without figures and were all accomplished, according to Betty Ring, with "an infinite array of minute seed stitches which create the effect of an engraving." Examples are shown in Betty Ring's Let Virtue Be...
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Dutch Motif Sampler Initialed LVG
This outstanding sampler is one of the most beautifully worked Dutch samplers we have come across in years. The composition, which is centered on a carnation blossom and other sprigs emerging from a small cornucopia, is very pleasing and the many assorted motifs were meticulously worked in a good variety of stitches, most notably the solidly worked queen's stitched areas. As is typical of samplers...
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