European Furniture & Decorative Arts - Skinner

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Georgian-style Mahogany Library Chair, the armrest supports and
legs foliate-carved, with claw-and-ball feet, seat ht. 18 in.
$700-900
248.
Seventy-one-piece English Ironstone Partial Dinner Service, with
a polychrome pattern of phoenixes on a rock with flowering foliage,
comprising twenty-four plates, approx. dia. 9 1/2; nineteen shallow
bowls, approx. dia. 9 1/2; seventeen plates, dia. 8; two gilded and
shaped single-handled dishes, lg. 9 1/2 and 11 1/4; two gilded
double-handled dishes, lg. 11; six oval platters, lg. 10 to 18 1/2; and a
creamer, ht. 4 in.
$600-800
249.
School of Cornelis Troost (Dutch, 1697-1750)
Skaters on a Frozen Canal
Inscribed “C. Troost/1742” l.r., with a label from Georges Mayer, Paris,
on the frame backing.
Watercolor and gouache on blue/gray laid paper, 10 1/8 x 13 1/8 in.,
framed.
Condition: Scattered pinholes, paper residue to the reverse.
$2,500-3,000
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250.
Sang de Boeuf Vase Mounted as a Lamp Base, baluster-form, with
carved wood stand, vase ht. 9 3/4 in.
$150-200
251.
Three Portrait Miniatures on Ivory, an oval format of an elderly man
with lock of hair in glass window on the reverse, ht. 2 3/8; a circular
portrait, likely of Empress Josephine, signed “ Roberts,” in leather case,
dia. 1 5/8; and an oval portrait of a young woman backed by motherof-pearl,
in a fitted case with hinged doors, ht. 3 in.
$300-500
252.
Chinese Export Porcelain Rose Medallion Lamp Base, figural
reserves to neck, body with alternating panels of birds and butterflies
among flowers and figural scenes, vase ht. 8 1/2 in.
$100-150
253.
Three Charles II-style Carved Chairs, 19th/20th century, an armchair
and two side chairs, each with crest of two putti centering a crown,
backs carved with scrolling foliage and flowerheads, barley-twist stiles,
and caned back and seat; the armchair with armrests carved with
further foliage and barley-twist stretchers, the side chairs with front
stretcher carved with further crown, seat ht. to 17 in.
$300-500
254.
Louis XV Tulipwood Veneered Bureau Plat, France, 18th century, the
leather writing surface inset on rectangular top with serpentine edges,
over single drawer and shaped apron, on cabriole legs ending in reeded
hoof feet, ht. 27 1/2, wd. 32 3/4, dp. 23 1/8 in.
$600-800
255.
Three Wedgwood Earthenware Dishes, England, 19th century, oval
queen’s ware dish decorated with infants in a landscape, artist signed
DM, lg. 9 3/8; and two glazed drabware plates with floral motifs, dia. 9
5/8 in.; impressed marks.
$200-400
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Carved Carnelian Figure of a Cat, possibly Russia, early to mid-20th
century, the bobtailed feline modeled seated, unsigned, ht. 3 3/4 in.
$400-600
257.
Three Small Continental Coral Carvings, late 19th/early 20th century,
comprising two standing nudes, one a woman with a basket of flowers,
ht. 2 7/8, the other Leda and the Swan, ht. 3 3/4, and the third a figure
of a hunchbacked violinist, ht. 2 1/2 in.
$500-700
258.
Wedgwood Black Basalt Wine Ewer, England, 19th century, modeled
with a figure of Bacchus seated atop the shoulder and holding the
horns of a ram’s head below the spout, fruiting grapevine festoons to
either side, impressed mark, ht. 15 1/4 in.
$1,000-1,500