American Furniture & Decorative Arts

564. 
     

     Four Wrought Iron Hearth Trivets, late 18th/early 19th century, ht. 1
     7/8-4, dia. 6 1/2-10 in.
     $300-500

     
     


565. 
     

     Brass Pepper Pot, Tin Sugar Shaker, Strainer, and Cup, 19th
     century, ht. 2 1/2-5 in.
     $100-150

     
     


566. 
     

     Seven Hearth-related Implements, 18th-19th century, a pair of
     short belted brass ball-top andirons on baluster-form plinths, cabriole
     legs and slipper feet with conforming ball log stops, a large brass
     cooking pot, a brass chestnut roaster with hinged lid, an iron-handled
     brass skimmer, a polychrome-painted wood bellows decorated with
     a compote of fruit, a brass and iron trivet with pierced handhold and
     cabriole legs, andiron ht. 14 1/2, wd. 10 1/4, dp. 17 3/4; pot ht. 10 3/4,
     implement lg. 18 1/2-26 1/2 in.
     $300-500

     
     


567. 
     

     Cast and Wrought Iron Long Handled Hearth Waffle Iron, “E.B.
     BERLIN, CT.,” early 19th century, lg. 26 1/4, wd. 6 1/8 in.
     $100-150

     
     


568. 
     

     Six Early Hearth Related Articles, late 18th to 19th century, four
     wrought iron items: an iron hand hook or pot lifter with engraved “B”
     on the handle; a rotating hearth toaster, a hearth shovel, and a toddy
     or mulling iron, together with a tin and wire apple roaster, and an oak
     and tin foot-warmer ornamented with punched tin heart motifs, (hearth
     shovel edges trimmed), ht. 5-5 7/8, lg. 7-36 in.
     $200-300

     
     

569.

Four Pewter Teapots and Two Pewter Coffeepots, Roswell Gleason,

Dorchester, Massachusetts (1821-1871), a tapered oval eight-panel

teapot on foliate feet, and a baluster-form teapot with make-do tin

base, each with wooden scroll handle, and a lighthouse-form coffeepot

all impressed “Roswell Gleason”; and a bulbous teapot, a short

lighthouse-form teapot and a baluster-form coffeepot, each with hollow

pewter handle and marked “R. GLEASON,” (minor wear), ht. 7-11 1/4

in.

$600-800

570.

Group of Early Wrought Iron Hardware, England or America, 17th

and 18th century, four Suffolk latches: one arrowhead-type, two with

pointed cusps, and one with bean design with thumb-press, all with

tooled center lines on handles, and a single thumb-press and a door

hook fastener.

$600-800

571.

Pair of Cast Iron Ram’s Head Architectural Brackets, America, 19th

century, cast as rectangular plinths with anthemion border and shell

motif over a ram’s head, painted black, with stands, overall ht. 25, wd.

11 1/2, dp. 7 7/8 in.

$1,500-2,500

572.

American School, 19th Century

Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Fancy Ruffled Bonnet, c. 1835.

Unsigned. Oil on canvas, 31 3/4 x 26 in., in a period flame mahogany

veneer frame. Condition: Good, minor retouch and craquelure.

$2,000-3,000

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