European Furniture & Decorative Arts - Skinner

216.
Dutch Four-piece Decorated Creamware Condiment Set, late 18th/
early 19th century, each with iron red enamel with foliate-framed titles
Sukker, Winegar, Olie, and Peber, ht. 5 3/4 to 6 1/4 in.
$400-600
217.
English Souvenir Sand Picture in a Bottle, by W. Carpenter, mid-
19th century, the tapered cylindrical bottle flaring out at base, filled with
pink, gray, black, and mustard-colored sand, depicting the Needles
Rocks, Alum Bay, at the Isle of Wight, bearing original paper label to
underside, ht. 4 7/8 in.
$200-300
218.
Continental School, 19th Century
A Conversation Portrait
Unsigned, with an inscribed label affixed to the reverse.
Oil on metal, 10 x 8 in., framed.
Condition: Minor surface imperfections and frame abrasions.
N.B. Eighteenth-century painters used the term “conversation” to
describe informal group portraits, often showing family and friends
enjoying a common activity, such a meal. These scenes are a form
of genre painting. The work at hand, showing a family at leisure in
a garden, is a later copy that depicts the costumes and setting of
18th-century examples.
$150-250
219.
Northwest Persian Rug, late 19th/early 20th century, (small areas of
wear, some selvage damage, end fraying), 6 ft. 4 in. x 4 ft. 9 in.
$700-900
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220.
Five Pierced Creamware Oval Dishes, England, c. 1800, one with
feather edge, the border with raised angels and foliage, lg. 10 1/8; one
with foliate festoons, lg. 9 1/4; together with three matching with foliate
festoons terminating at flower heads, lg. 9 3/4 in.
$500-700
221.
Marquetry-inlaid Dressing Table, late 19th century, the hinged
rectangular top with shaped front edge, the central panel lifting to
reveal a mirror and shallow compartment, the side panels enclosing
deep compartments, over slide-out writing surface and five drawers, on
slender cabriole legs with bronze-mounted feet, ht. 30 3/4, wd. 34 1/4,
dp. 21 1/8 in.
$700-900
222.
English Mahogany Tall Case Clock, 19th century, signed Geo
Jeffrey, Chatham, the hood with filet-ball finials, fret-carved crest, stopfluted
columns, and sound dampening fretwork, the face engraved
with arabesques and surrounded by ormolu mounts, the three-train
movement with strike/silent, the case with long door flanked by
engaged, brass-tipped pilasters, on paneled plinth, ht. 92 1/2, wd. 19
in.
$1,500-2,500
223.
Staffordshire Creamware Plate, England, 18th century, feather-edge
border to a scalloped rim, allover decorated with spots of blue, green,
and ochre to a sponged brown ground, dia. 9 1/2 in.
$400-600