Painted Bedpost Doll Form and Carved Wood Doll Bust, 19th
century, the bedpost doll with carved facial features, nail head earrings;
the doll bust with carved and painted features, and wearing a pink silk
bonnet, (imperfections), ht. 7, 4 1/4 in.
$500-700
Pair of Tin and Blown Colorless Glass Hanging Light Smoke
Deflectors, late 18th/early 19th century, dia. 5 in.
$150-250
Battersea Enameled Brass Candlestick, England, mid-18th century,
with petal-form bobeches and base with mid-swelling on shaft, painted
white with painted polychrome floral decoration, (old paint touch-ups),
ht. 9 1/4 in.
$400-600
Fish-form Paperweight and Pocketknife and a Miniature Pressed
Tin ABC Plate, 19th century, gilt-bronze paperweight with inset glass
eyes, a brass and steel folding pocketknife, the brass portion with
stippled details; the plate centered with a steam locomotive in relief, dia.
2 3/4, 2 1/2, 1 1/2 in.
$400-600
Four Tin Cookie Cutters, late 19th/early 20th century, two bird-form, a
horse, and a rooster, dia. 4 3/4-5 1/2 in.
$300-500
Nine Miniature Metal Household Items, America, late 19th/early 20th
century, four green and cream painted tin containers: wash tub, sitz
bath, bucket, and watering can; and five blue-green graniteware items:
roasting pan, two-handled pot, mug, spatula, and strainer, (minor wear),
dia. 1 5/8-5 1/8 in.
$500-700
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Six Assorted Small Ceramic Items, 19th century, a red-transfer-
decorated yellow-glazed child’s mug titled “Flying a Kite,” three white
graduated nursing spoons, a miniature divided dish, and a miniature
yellowware bowl with a white band, ht. 1 1/8-2 1/4 in.
$500-700367.
Embroidered Silk and Watercolor on Paper “Memento Mori”
Reticule, America, first quarter 19th century, round pouch of ivory silk
with silk embroidered flowers, the sides gathered around two paper
reserves painted with watercolor pictures, one side depicting a young
woman in a landscape seated beneath a weeping willow tree holding
a flower sprig and a basket containing two doves on her lap, the other
reserve depicting a garden cemetery with an urn-topped monument
inscribed “Memento Mori,” beneath a weeping willow tree, (fraying,
stains, and losses to silk, minor toning and foxing to reserves), dia.
approx. 7 in.
$1,500-1,800368.
Painted Theorem on Velvet Fan, America, 19th century, the fan
painted with stenciled fruit, with gold foil edge and turned mahogany
handle, (toning, small loss to handle and foil edge), ht. 13 3/4, wd. 9
5/8 in.
$800-1,000369.
Copper Plate Printed Washington Memorial Handkerchief Panel,
early 19th century, four panels printed in brown on white cotton, two
of each motif: “The Love of Truth Mark the Boy” and “The Effect of
Principle/Behold the Man,” (toning), 22 1/4 x 23 in.
$500-700370.
Small Silk Needlework Picture of a House, probably New England,
early 19th century, fully worked with silk threads on a linen ground,
depicting a colonial-style house on a fence-lined lane with trees and
small house in the distance, (toning, fading, scattered stitch losses), 7 x
8 3/4 in., in a period molded giltwood frame.
$400-60084 additional information and photos at http://www.skinnerinc.com