Aesthetic Walnut Serving Cabinet, “Cherubs”, With 20 finely incised inlaid panels This is an original and beautiful hand crafted and hand incised walnut wood Aesthetic period 1890 cabinet replete with twenty (20) finely incised panels and original engraved gilt brass hardware.. Each panel in this unique work of art is painted using stains and oils...

Exhibiting a fine Native American Motif, Signed This is a one-of-a-kind original and beautiful hand incised broad top wooden end table -a unique creation- finished in attractive native American “Good Luck” symbols motif. This unique work of art is hand-finished while exuding graceful age. It is signed on bottom of one of its two drawers:...

David Rockefeller signed family trout and salmon fly fishing “Reel and Fly” collection. Provenance: David Rockefeller Estate Collection, sold at auction in Northeast Harbor, Maine Ringing Point, Seal Harbor, Maine Collection includes Five reels and 124 trout and salmon flies. I Rockefeller Signed Family “Fly Fishing Reel” Collection, 5 Reels A collection of three individually...

Early American Pre-Historic Human Effigy Stone Paint Pallet, Anasazi culture 900 AD All stone carvings from America’s Prehistoric southwest are scarce. The majority of known carved stones come from the Mimbres, Hohokam or Casas cultures. So examples of stone carvings from the Anasazi culture (circa 900–1300 AD) are rare especially human forms which are the...

  Charles H. F. Turner: Boston Etcher and Professional Pyrographer Charles Henry Francis Turner (1848-1908) , a Boston etcher and fine arts painter at the turn of the century, created some of the finest, most detailed pyrographic artworks. Because of his sojourn to France in the late l880’s, he specialized in European and French influenced...

              

Discovered in the estate of Walter Aigner, Taos, New Mexico, were this set of four (4) pyrography plaques featuring crosses.  Two are signed by J.W Fosdick.  They reportedly were commissioned for the Bishop’s House at 52 Williiams Street, Burlington, Vermont.

Part of an exquisite suite of three furniture scale works of art including this settle marked "LeRoy", a throne chair, and a four panel screen, the suite decended into the Smith family of Providence, Rhode Island and was originally acquired at auction in Warwick, RI sometime in the 1940’s.

          

       

            

                   

William Fuller Curtis was born in 1873 in New York, studied in Paris at the Julian Academy under Lefebvre and Fleury, and later returned to work in Washington D.C. His works are in many museums and private collections. He died in 1938.

Inscribed “This year mid summer he painted in new section of Yuan Ming Gardens”.  Panel depicts “LUK YU” a famous Tang Dynasty Tea master:  

  

                America’s earliest known dated pyrography panel   Provenance:  ex Carol and Richard Smyth collection, originally found in Pennsylvania, and featured in their book THE BURNING PASSION, p.7  Description in the Smyth book follows :  BEFORE: (refers to ealier time preceeding the invention of advanced platinum points and tools)...