American show section TAAS  MIDDLE SIZE ONLY

 

AMERICAN PRIMITIVE GALLERY, Aarne Anton, New York City — Dancing couple in carved wood, expressive, delicately balanced form, New York State, early Twentieth Century, 7 inches tall.

 

AMERICAN PRIMITIVE GALLERY, Aarne Anton, New York City — Dog and cat andirons with wonderful expressions, bronze and iron, circa 1920, 9 inches high and 15 inches deep.

 

BRIAN CULLITY, Sagamore, Mass. — Chip-carved pantry box dating from the Nineteenth Century.

 

BRIAN CULLITY, Sagamore, Mass. — Continental powder horn with superb carved decoration, circa 1600–1650.

 

BRIAN CULLITY, Sagamore, Mass. — Pearlware pitcher with featheredge leaf decoration.

 

BRIAN CULLITY, Sagamore, Mass. — Redware creamer with two-color slip decoration, New York State, circa 1830.

 

CHERRY GALLERY, Pine Plains, N.Y. — Bentwood twig rocker with a mosaic twig seat, Pennsylvania, circa 1900.

 

CHERRY GALLERY, Pine Plains, N.Y. — Carved bear table lamp signed by Clement Dube, circa 1950.

 

CHERRY GALLERY, Pine Plains, N.Y. — Naïve hooked rug depicting a moose beside a stream, circa 1920.

 

CHERRY GALLERY, Pine Plains, N.Y. — Two moose in a landscape, signed Nichols, 1907, oil on canvas.

 

H.L. CHALFANT, West Chester, Penn. — A rare Chippendale spice box in walnut, Chester County, Penn., circa 1775.

 

H.L. CHALFANT, West Chester, Penn. — A rare Queen Anne slant front desk in walnut, Delaware Valley, circa 1740.

 

H.L. CHALFANT, West Chester, Penn. — This Queen Anne bonnet top high chest is of walnut, Boston, circa 1760.

 

H.L. CHALFANT, West Chester, Penn. — Very bold five-slat ladder back armchair, Pennsylvania, circa 1770.

 

M. FINKEL & DAUGHTER, Philadelphia — Chester County, Penn., crewelwork picture by Rebecca Webb of Kennett, dated 1787, 9½ by 8 inches sight. Other examples from the group are in the Metropolitan Museum and the Chester County Historical Society.

 

M. FINKEL & DAUGHTER, Philadelphia — Large and important Fitzwilliam, N.H., sampler by Betsey Fay, with watercolor paper face, pricked-paper sheep, and dated 1818. The sampler size is 21½ inches square and it was illustrated by Betty Ring in Girlhood Embroidery, Vol 1, fig 281.

 

M. FINKEL & DAUGHTER, Philadelphia — This is now the earliest known Newport, R.I., band sampler worked by Mary Akin, dated 1715. Mary Akin was born in 1700 to James and Eliphal (Sanford) Akin, early settlers of Newport. The sampler size is 19 by 8 inches and it is listed in the 1921 publication American Samplers by Bolton & Coe.

 

 

M. FINKEL & DAUGHTER, Philadelphia — An important “Fruit & Flower” sampler by Julia Ann Rue, Delaware or Maryland, dated 1825, sampler size 20 by 19 inches.

 

MARK & MARJORIE ALLEN ANTIQUES, Amherst, N.H. — A superb large brass trumpet candlestick, English, circa 1650.

 

MARK & MARJORIE ALLEN ANTIQUES, Amherst, N.H. — One from a set of four Philadelphia comb back Windsor side chairs attributed to Joseph Henzey.

 

MARK & MARJORIE ALLEN ANTIQUES, Amherst, N.H. — William Titcomb, “Ice Skating, Mt Chocoura, N.H.,” oil on canvas.

 

MARK & MARJORIE ALLEN ANTIQUES, Amherst, N.H. — A rare Bristol delft polychrome posset pot, circa 1705.

 

NATHAN LIVERANT and SON, Colchester, Conn. — Pair of child’s size fancy painted side chairs in apple green paint, New England, circa 1820–40.

 

NATHAN LIVERANT and SON, Colchester, Conn. — Portrait of Mr S. Tompkins, signed and dated on the back board, “W.M. Prior, 1852.” It is oil on artist board and is attributed to William Matthew Prior (1806–1873) of Boston.

 

RUSS & KAREN GOLDBERGER, Rye, N.Y. — Matched set of folk art crow decoys by Charles Perdew, Henry, Ill., circa 1920. Each is a three-piece hollow body with tack eyes, 16 inches long, excellent original condition, one crow with turned head. Perdew is known to be the most desirable crow decoy maker.

 

RUSS & KAREN GOLDBERGER, Rye, N.Y. — Patriotic rooster and chicken hooked rug with pinwheels, Pennsylvania, circa 1900, in excellent original condition. It is stretched and mounted for hanging.

 

RUSS & KAREN GOLDBERGER, Rye, N.Y. — Salmon and yellow painted fire helmet, New England, dated 1874. It is leather with brass plated eagle, excellent original condition, and measures 14 inches long, 10 inches wide and 9½ inches high.

 

RUSS & KAREN GOLDBERGER, Rye, N.Y. — Fancy cranberry red wall box with cutout curlicues, New England, circa 1840–50, measuring 17½ inches high, 11 inches wide and 5 inches deep. It is in pine with cut-nail construction, double canted candle box, untouched original condition with small hairline crack in one ear. The surface is the original dry cranberry red paint over a bittersweet base.

 

STEPHEN B. O’BRIEN, JR FINE ARTS, Boston — Surf scoter, circa 1880, from coastal Maine.

 

STEPHEN B. O’BRIEN, JR FINE ARTS, Boston — Tucker-head black duck by Albert Laing (1811–1886), Stratford, Conn., circa 1860.

 

THE HERRS, Lancaster, Penn. — An assortment of Pennsylvania German cookie cutters, part of a collection of rare and unusual forms, dating from the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth century.

 

THE HERRS, Lancaster, Penn. — Iron fish weathervane made by Eli F. Hoffstadt (1871–1931), circa 1910, Masonville, Lancaster County, Penn. It measures 35½ inches long and 10 inches high.

 

THE HERRS, Lancaster, Penn. — Pewter tankard marked by Henry Will working in New York City in 1761–75 and 1783–93 and in Albany, N.Y., 1775–83. It is in fine condition.

 

THE HERRS, Lancaster, Penn. — Running horse hooked rug, wool on burlap, Lancaster County, Penn., dating from the late Nineteenth Century.