Frederick Carl Smith

American (California / Washington DC) 1868-1955

“Bathers Amongst The Rocks in a Cove”
Oil on Canvas Affixed to Board

Signed 'F. Carl Smith' l.l., and titled indistinctly verso

Housed in the apparent original frame

Note: Founding Member of the Laguna Beach Art Association

 Image Size: 12” x 16”

Late Queen Anne / Early George I Carved Walnut Side Chair

England, c1710-1720

Of generous proportions, the highly figured walnut and walnut veneered side chair with

quite finely carved shells and exceptional C-scrolls to the front knees

George I/II Baluster Cordial or Gin Glass

England, c1730

 The flared trumpet bowl with solid base above a stem with teared central swelling

 and basal knop over a folded conical foot; good grey tone

Provenance: Jeffrey Rose Collection (sold Sotheby’s March 6, 1987, Lot 40);

James Hall Collection, with labels verso

5.25” High

SOLD

Elizabeth I Silver Seal Top Spoon

Thomas Benbowe (Crescent Enclosing a Pierced Mullet)

London, 1592

The finial prick-engraved (worn) TL over RH (?)

Marks good to excellent; traces of original gilding

6.25” Long / 1.2 oz.

SOLD

George II Cuban Mahogany Small Tripod Table

England, c1740

 21” High, the dished top 11” Diameter

  The tripod table evolved from the rudimentary candlestands coming into England c1680.  About 1725, the first tables seen on a straight shaft above cabriole legs are seen.  Note the remains of the 17th century platform still discernible where the legs meet the standard.  A table of the same form is illustrated and discussed in British Antique Furniture, Andrews, Figure #890.

Queen Anne / George I Oak & Walnut Chest of Drawers 

England, c1705-1725

A well-figured walnut fronted oak chest, the rectangular top above two short and three long

graduated fruitwood crossbanded drawers, d-form moldings and oak paneled sides, raised on

bracket feet, pegged top; keyhole escutcheons possibly original; excellent color and patination

34”High x 38” Wide x 21” Deep

SOLD

Associated Pair of Qingbai Porcelain Cups

China, Yuan Dynasty, 1279–1368

Each similarly molded pale blue-green qingbai-glazed deep round cup with open peony and foliate

decoration above upright lotus petals, scored rims to both the exterior and interior surfaces

2 .75” Diameter

SOLD

George III Silver Lemon (Punch) Strainer

William Plummer, London, 1769-70

Of nice heavy weight, a two-handled form with round shallow leaf-pierced bowl, the

shaped handles with foliate decoration; good marks, not pierced through

Note: William Plummer was a specialist in saw-cut wares, among which were

pierced cake baskets and strainers.  He was apprenticed to Edward Aldridge.

3.6 oz. /  8-1/8” Wide, the bowl 4-1/8” Diameter, 1” in depth

SOLD

Pair of Slip Cast Porcelain Standing Figural Salts

Attributed to Derby, but probably a small Staffordshire company        

The slip-cast figures modeled as a young boy & girl, each standing beside a rock and

supporting nautilus shell receivers; patch marks visible verso on each

Provenance: Catharine Gray, president of the Canadian 18^th Century English

Porcelain Club, together with Ms. Gray's research notes

5.5 Inches High

William III / Queen Anne Walnut Side Chair

England, c1700-1710

An early walnut side chair with a raised crestrail ending in applied decoration, above a

“bended” back and stiles,  the front cabrioles of quite fine form, curving over at the seat

juncture and ending in pad feet, the rear legs extending the fine sweep of the rake and

ending in block feet, the legs connected by block and turned stretchers

43” High x  23” Wide x  19” Deep

George I Pedestal (Silesian) Stem Wine, c1725   

George II Engraved Airtwist Ale Glass, c1750  

George II Baluster Wine, c1740

Very early 18th century English drinking glasses were quite heavy.  As the glasses became internationally popular,

a large tax was levied upon glass products by weight in 1746 - and additionally thereafter - usually to support a war. 

Among the most beautiful results of glassmakers' attempts to make glass both lighter and more decorative was to

lighten the stems by poking holes in them - first occurring as airtwist stems.  English lead glass cooled slowly, enabling the spirals to be turned with absolute precision.

William & Mary Trefid Sweetmeat Fork

England, c1690
 

The silver-gilt three-tine fork with a very nice French-forked terminal, the front and back

with engraved foliate decoration; unmarked as was often the case in early sweetmeat cutlery

4.12” Long

SOLD

Olive Parker Black

American (New York / Massachusetts)1868-1948

George III Mahogany Framed Sofa

England c. 1780

Pair of Delft Miniature Moon Flasks

The Netherlands, 19^th century

Pair of miniature Delft moon flasks, the fronts painted with Dutch scenes with boats

and villages and bearing conjoined monograms BMG, each verso with respectively

a lady within a landscape and a young man carrying a flag

6.75” High

Colin Campbell Cooper

American (New York / California) 1856-1937

"New York City Scene" - probably Columbus Circle, c1910

Oil on Board

Signed l.r. CCC, 

verso with initials CCC and stamp: The Colin Campbell Cooper Collection"    

Image size: 4.25" x 6.25"

The New York Times wrote in 1911 that “first and foremost in enthusiasm for the modern New York

of today, the city of towering skyscrapers and fevered street traffic, is Colin Campbell Cooper, who

may be considered the skyscraper artist par excellence of America…” Cooper was one of the first

painters to use skyscrapers as an integral part of his subject matter.

SOLD

George III Double Series Opaque Twist

Toasting or Wine Glass

   England, c1765 / Jacobite Interest

Drawn trumpet bowl over a narrow stem with a single thread surrounding a tightly

coiled multi-spiral core,  engraved with a jaybird in flight and fruiting grapevines

7.25" High

SOLD

collection of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony