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CLICK ON IMAGES FOR DETAIL 11-26-02B Chinese export botanical painting on pith (rice) paper centering on an elaborately constructed basket arranged with a bouquet of mixed flowers. These customarily were painted in groups of 12 as part of an album of floral still life or scenic gouaches made for the Wesern trade, during the first half of the 19th century. Attributed to the artist Sunqua, by author and China trade expert Carl Crossman. Matted with silk on museum mountings and framed under UV museum glass. See: "The China Trade", Carl Crossman, Pyne Press, Princeton, pp.100-1, 106. |
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11-13-2003 Original hand colored lithograph on paper of the multi colored Japanese Pheasant with accompanying notes by John Gould. The work was drawn on stone and hand colored by Jos. Wolf and Richter for the J. Gould edition "Birds of Asia", London, 1850-83. Framed in a faux rosewood ogee molding of the mid-1800s with museum mount and UV glass. 14.75" x 21-5/8" |
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11-30-2003 American impressionist oil on canvas early fall landscape with river. The artist executed a richly painted canvas within a narrowly limited palette which gives the work a distinctive unity. Signed, lower right: CW Svenson, New York, prior to 1918. Listed: WW. Canvas dimensions: 17" x 20.75" |
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1-17-2003B Anonymous American oil on canvas still life of a pineapple with terra cotta urn. Circa l880, framed in its original gilt gesso molding. |
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9-28-2004Y Framed Chinese genre scenes. The paintings are polychrome gouaches on pith (rice) paper and were originally presented in a 12-page book form with each page framed with blue silk ribbon. Typically they illustrated botanicals or genre scenes in polychrome gouaches. These pages have been mounted with archival eight-ply mat under UV glass and framed in a variant of parcel gilt molding of the period. China, for the western trade, circa 1835. |
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9-28-2004V Framed Chinese genre scenes. The paintings are polychrome gouaches on pith (rice) paper and were originally presented in a 12-page book form with each page framed with blue silk ribbon. Typically they illustrated botanicals or genre scenes in polychrome gouaches. These pages have been mounted with archival eight-ply mat under UV glass and framed in a variant of parcel gilt molding of the period. China, for the western trade, circa 1835. |
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5-14-2004B Naive oil on artist board of a hound seated before his dog house. The painting has been surface cleaned and framed in a gilded oak molding. Signed lower right and on the reverse: W.Felten. Circa l910 |
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10-26-2004d American oil on academy board. Summer landscape centering on the kitchen wing of a clapboard house. Anonymous. Midwestern, circa 1935. |
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2-6-2000A Pair of Continental hand colored copper plate engravings by C. Guttenberg, printed on laid paper, of scenes of the discovery-exploration of classical period Greek temple ruins in the South of Italy, circa 1775. Conservation museum mat. Framed in a gilt ogee molding. |
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9-28-2004R Framed Chinese genre scenes. The paintings are polychrome gouaches on pith (rice) paper and were originally presented in a 12 page book form with each page framed with blue silk ribbon. Typically they illustrated botanicals or genre scenes in polychrome gouaches. These pages have been mounted with archival eight-ply mat under UV glass and framed in a variant of parcel gilt molding of the period. China, for the western trade, circa 1835. |
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9-9-97U Pair of English hand-colored lithographs of game cocks, titled " War" and "Peace". Engraved by C. Turner after original paintings by B. Marshall. Published by W.C. Lee, London, England, circa 1790. Framed in period style moldings, museum French mats and UV museum glass |
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7-5-2000 Oil on canvas scene of a stag hunt in a wooded landscape, with dogs. Anonymous work, France, circa 1700. The canvas is framed in a 17th century style ebonized hard wood molding with pie crust carved back band and gilt bezel. |
