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A Fine Sword of Justice
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Summer 2001
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The cruciform hilt of cast gilt bronze, the original grip covered with ray-skin. The large pear-shaped pommel with facets and lobes. The superb broad double-edged blade is etched and gilded with foliage and strapwork...
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A Sichuan Pottery Figure of an Entertainer
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Summer 2001
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The Chinese shuochangyong (talking and singing figures) entertainers would have been part of an ensemble that included actors, musicians, and dancers...
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A Very Fine and Rare Sheraton Mahogany Server
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Summer 2001
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This table exhibits the elegant, slender proportions, tall stance, and serpentine-shaped top seen on the finest Federal furniture made in Portsmouth, New Hampshire...
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Armorial Plate: Okeover Quarterly Impaling Nichol
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Summer 2001
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We are pleased to report the sale of a plate from the celebrated Chinese export porcelain service made for Leake Okeover, Esquire, and his wife, Mary Nichol...
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Polychrome Charger of a Figure on Horseback
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Summer 2001
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This rare polychrome charger was purchased from a private collection in Amsterdam. It depicts a boy on a spotted horse, supposedly representing William III as a child...
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Rare Set of Six George II Carved Walnut Side Chairs
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Summer 2001
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These chairs are in exceptional condition and strike a wonderful balance between form and ornament. Sets of English carved walnut chairs...
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Seated Woman with Flowers
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Summer 2001
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By far the most popular object in our booth at the Philadelphia Antiques Show, this life-size garden statuary of a seated woman was purchased by the end of opening night...
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View of the Schuylkill County Almshouse Property, PA
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Summer 2001
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The nineteenth-century itinerant artist Charles Hofmann, was known to have been a frequent visitor and patient of almshouses, which served as shelter for the sick and destitute. According to Tom Armstrong, author of American Folk Painters...
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A George II Giltwood and Chinese Reverse-Painted Overmantel Mirror
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Early Spring 2001
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Designed in the Chinese rococo style that was popularized in Thomas Chippendale’s The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director, first published in 1754...
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A Magnificent Pair of Bronze Seated Dogs
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Early Spring 2001
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A recent discovery, these statues are
the only known examples of their type.
In virtually perfect condition, they sit upright...
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