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# 6091. A c. 1880 Chippendale style mahogany bedside night stand. Made by Sypher & Co. New York City. Low relief scalloped shell carvings on the capriole claw legs and pendant drop. Exceptional flame mahogany side panels. Ogee bracket feet. Rococo form brasses. Well carved fan over shell doors on chamber pot compartment. Fluted quarter corner columns. Condition: split top, lock missing, one small front leg partial bracket loss, one back leg partial replacement section. Refinished. Partial Sypher & Co. label on the underside. Sypher & Co. made the most important reproduction Colonial Revival furniture of the late 19th century and is represented in major museums and collection. "Sypher & Company emerged after 1866 as one of the first American dealers in antiques and objects d'art. There were interested in American colonial pieces and interiors, and they manufactured and sold carefully crafted reproductions; in addition they offered restoration and appraisal services, and advice on interior decorations. There main trade, however, was in furniture, silver, porcelain, and decorative items of all sorts, imported from Europe and the Orient, which were generally considered more desirable than American pieces. Fine tapestries and textiles were a specialty. Members of the firm would travel abroad and buy quantities of goods which they shipped to the United States and sold at their stores in New York, Newport and Chicago. Examples are displayed in museums such as the Metropolitan Museum, The Museum of the City of New York, The Gardner Museum, The Preservation Society of Newport and the Museum of the Art at RISD. Customers included U.S. Grant, John D. Rockerfeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and nearly every prominent New Yorker in the period from about 1880 to 1907. Size: 17" deep, 21.5" wide and 29.75" tall. Price: $1,650.00.
# 7067. A French Gilded Age (late 19th century) canape. Exotic in form, the size is 60" wide and 61" tall. Gilt wood. Condition: splits to various wood sections including the front carved base; minor wood losses. The upholstery has kitty tears and was much loved at one time by her. This is a very sturdy canape. Carved with banded decoration on the back side implying that this piece was used away from a wall. Questions and inquiries welcomed.
# 7066. A nine (9) piece French gilt wood drawing room suite comprised of a canape, four arm chairs and four side chairs. Late 19th century. The tapestry upholstery was made by the firm Braquenié Compagnie. Each piece nomogram with the signature of the firm. Braquenié was one of the most famous tapestry, rug and furniture fabric creators of the 19th century. Condition: scuffs to the carved wood gilt decorations; a 3" split to the seat of the canape; fading to the upholstery consistent with use and age. The furniture may be from the decorator Jules Allard who was commissioned to design and furnish many Newport "Cottages." Sold as a set. Price: Inquiries welcome.
# 5769. An American Gothic Revival Octagonal Library or Athenaeum Table. Circa 1845-50. Black Walnut. Size: 29.5" tall and 46.5" across and point to point is 50.5". "Library tables thus became an increasingly popular form during the Gothic Revival period. The pictured table is one of a group of octagonal examples that were probably made in New York about 1845-50. The most elaborate of these tables, which is now installed in The American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, came from the library of the Frederic Deming House in Newburgh, New York. That table uniquely features an unusually elaborate base and an inset circular specimen marble top, which may be original. . . all the other tables in this group are of essentially the same form, although they vary both in size and in the exact program of Gothic decoration." * Our table features 4 drawers with period Sandwich Glass pulls. The drawers are maple. This is the simplest form of this table, but it is still a rare form. Price: $5,500.00.
#269. A pair of Austrian Secession style tables in the Wiener Werkstatte style copying designs by Josef Hoffman. Inset with Zsolnay tiles (unmarked) made of eosin glazed pyrogranite originally used in the Turin Exhibition of 1911. Installed in the Water Court which was one of the most mystical rooms ever created for an international exhibition. The entire Hungarian Exhibition building was designed to reflect Hungary's' ancient past as well as its relationship to the early 20th century. Extremely sever in design yet very contemporary. These tiles were used in a low light level room such as the Water Court because of the ability of the metallic eosin glaze and decoration to reflect any indirect light. These large panels (app.20" square) set in series created an exciting and illuminating contrast to other design elements. Excellent photo documentation about this exhibition is pictured in a book titled: "Panorama: Architecture and Applied Arts in Hungary 1896-1916" which was a companion guide to an exhibition that took place in Kyoto (Sept.5-October 22, 1995) at the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art and in Tokyo (Jan.5-Feb.12,1996) at the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art. Tiles from the same exhibition (Turin/1911) were exhibited in the Japanese Museums. We brought these tiles back from Hungary 30 + years ago and had the tables custom made specifically for the tiles. The wood is chalked ebonized oak. Size of each table is 24" x 24" x 30" tall. Condition: edge flakes to the tiles and a corner chip to one of the glass tops. Price: $10,000.00 the pair.
#6029. A pair of lacquered wood and hand painted chairs. Asian: Chinese or Japanese. From the estate of Mrs. Dorrance "Dodo" Hill Hamilton, from her home in Newport, Rhode Island. Size: the seat is 19" wide and 15" deep and is 19" tall. The back of the chairs are 35.75" tall. Condition: chips; cracks; the chairs are very sturdy. Dated prior to 1900. The underside are painted black. Price for the pair: $1,750.00.
#GAA. An American Gilded Age Armoire. Circa 1890-1905. Size: 22" deep x 51" wide and 85" tall. Condition: fitted with three custom shelves allowing space for hanging clothes and storing smaller items on shelves. Purchased in the 1950's from a Bellevue Avenue "Cottage" sale. There is a larger single drawer on the bottom. Condition: without issue. Painted gray. Price: $3,500.00.
# 5007. Pictured is one of a matched pair of Russian-Empire Style arm chairs. Size: the back is 39.5" tall; the chairs are 24" at the widest; the seat is 19" from the floor and are 20" deep. Circa 1895-1915. Parcel gilt and painted. We also have in inventory a matching console table. Price for the pair of chairs is $3,850.00.
#4332. A Kas: 18th century. Possibly German, Austrian or Swiss. . . maybe Tyrolean. Size: exterior dimensions: 22" deep x 80" tall and 70" wide. The interior is 19" deep with two bottom drawers. Original grain painted surface: folkloric in style. The lock appears to be period. Naturally is comes apart. . . . Price: $5,500.00.
# 5571. An American Walnut Easel. Documented from the firm of Kimbel and Cabus. Size: 88.5" tall x 26" x 28". Pictured on page (Fig.46) 75 in "Brooklyn Museum Modern Gothic The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82" Condition: scuffs consistent with use and age; original castors; painting braces probably replaced; decorative carved moulding arches below the lower spindles missing. Inquiries. . .
# 5322. A matched pair of carved wood finials. Size: base 8.75" and they are 25" tall. Condition: the flames were attached to another object and were used in an application that may have been part of a larger installation; minor losses consistent with use and age; probably predate 1900. Price: $2,500.00 the pair.
# 5648. A pair of 19th century English 'Dummy Boards'. Representing "The Royal Horse Artillery -1832" and "The 17th Lancers -1832". Size: 40" tall and 20.5" wide. Material painted wood and metal base applications. Condition, without issue. From the estate of a noted Newport, RI interior decorator who purchase these items in London and had them shipped to Newport over 40 years ago. Price: $3,850.00 the pair.
# 5499. A Russian Table and Chair. Late 19th century Russian "Art Furniture" Such pieces were made to be exhibited and sold abroad at international fairs and exhibitions. Russian pavilions were part of the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial, 1893 Colombian Exposition and the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. The "Old Moscow" style of this set is reminiscent of the Palekh School of decoration found on papier-mache lacquered boxes. Size: The table is 28" wide x 41" long x 29" tall. The chair is 16" x 17" wide x (the seat) 18" tall x (the back) 39" tall. Condition: this set, which could be as old as 140 years, needs a professional cleaning; scuffs consistent with use and age. Price for the two pieces is $1,750.00.
# 4815. Pair of Rosewood and parcel gilded Egyptian Revival armchairs with porcelain plaque inserts. Probably made by the NYC workshop of Pottier & Stymus between 1869-89.The Pottier & Stymus showroom was located at 632 Broadway and the decorating firm specialized in Egyptian Revival furnishings among other historical styles and continued until 1919. These chairs are from a local Newport Rhode Island estate on Bellevue Avenue and have had a recent museum quality restoration. Condition: carved initials on the back of one of the chairs (TR 1906) and a minor carved decoration was replaced and a there is a splice to one of the back legs. Price: $9,500.00 the pair.
# 6058. An English Egyptian Revival Secretary. Circa 1815. Size: 45" wide x 22" deep and 94" tall. The glass enclosed upper section has 4 shelves. A writing and cubby hole unit pulls out underneath the upper section. The two doors below reveal a storage area with one shelf. Condition: some loose moldings and one piece of molding on the right lower door is missing and must be milled. The surface is original. The glass appears to be original; one upper left "L" shaped section has a break. Price: $3,500.00.
#5572. An American Modern Gothic side chair made by the firm of Anthony Kimbel and Joseph Cabus. Circa 1875. Walnut; mortise and tenon construction; pierced quatrefoils in the back. The firm exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876 and had a large display of Modern Gothic furniture. The Cooper Hewitt Museum has in their collection a Kimbel and Cabus catalogue and this chair is pictured in the catalogue. Detailed information about the firm is noted in the book: "In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement" (1896) pages 446-447 plus copies of steel engravings are pictured on pages 154-155. An identical chair is on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in gallery 743. Condition: restored. Size: 35.5" high, 16.75" wide and 18" deep. The seat is 17" high. Price: $2,750.00.
#5411. An ebonized side chair attributed to either the firm of Pottier & Stymus or Herter Bros. Circa 1880. H.34.5", W.17.5", D.16.5". Incised numbers on the underside: " 48372". Design elements in this chair are similar in spirit to one pictured in an article written by Brian J. Lang The Art of Seating 200 Years of American Design an exhibition at the Colombia Museum of Art, South Carolina. "For their more elaborate chair commissions, the Herter Brothers utilized a basic frame design, which could be embellished in any number of stylistic variations. This formula is perfectly illustrated in their circa 1880 side chair which incorporates a variety of artistic styles drawn from the Romanesque, Anglo-Japanese and Reform Gothic design vocabularies. This chair made of ebonized cherry with detailed inlay features a colonnade of Moorish or Romanesque-style arches..." Price: $2,500.00.
# 1895. A Russian or Baltic Neo-Classical Mirror or looking glass. c. 1835-1845. Size: 21.5" x 55" {glass size 16.5" x 28"}. Mahogany with painted and inlaid woods / applied gilt bronze mounts. Condition: the back wood cover for the mirror is gone, the mirror is naturally distressed because of its age. We believe that the glass is period. Scuffs consistent with use and age; minor splits to the wood. From a Newport Rhode Island Estate. Price: $1,500.00.
#6021. A pair of American Rococo side chairs; rosewood circa 1850's. Made by the firm of Meeks (NYC) "The Hawkins Pattern" Condition: replaced fabric, original finish. From a Newport, RI home. In the family for generations. Condition: without issue. Price: $3,850.00 the pair.
# 6033. An English Late Regency Chess table. Circa 1830. Rosewood, cast bronze with ormolu surface and a porcelain game top. Size: 21" diameter and 30.5" tall to the top of the bronze gallery. Condition: excellent. Price: $8,500.00.
# 5727. A rare American Modern Gothic shaving stand. Circa 1870-75. Size: 19.5" wide x 15.5" deep and the stand is 40" tall to the ceramic top and 70.5" tall to the top of the stand. There are two drawers: the upper on locks (no key) and the one below it does not lock. The mirror and hardware appear to be original. Condition: excellent. Price: $2,500.00.
# 5503. A Beaux Arts Herter Bros. rosewood three panel folding screen, circa 1895, with pastoral panels created by the firm of William Baumgarten & Company. William Baumgarten was the managing director of Herter Bros. prior to 1891 but left and started his own company after securing the manufacturing rights to produce Gobelins tapestries in the U.S. (active between 1893-1910). The marriage of Baumgarten and Herter Bros. in this screen results in this magnificent three panel rosewood screen. The firm of Baumgarten was located at 321 5th Avenue in New York City. When these tapestries were woven, the cost per section was between $500.00 and $1,000.00 which translates in today's dollars between $11,000.00 and $22,000.00 each. Examples of Baumgarten tapestries can be seen in museums including The Metropolitan Museum in New York. Size: 76.5" tall and 90" wide. Each rosewood panel is signed "Herter Bros" on the underside. Condition: Splits to the beige velvet panel on the back side and a split to the Aubusson panel on the right side. Scuffs and mars to the rosewood frame consistent with use and age. Price: $14,500.00.
# 4951. A Settee in Maple; circa 1885-1905, design attributed to Francis Bacon and made by the A.H. Davenport Co. of Boston (Cambridge). Size 50" wide x 35" tall at the back by 22" deep with the seat 17" high. The design reflects the Colonial and Romanesque Revivals in a highly severe and sophisticated manner. Francis Bacon first designed furniture for the prestigious NYC decorating firm of HERTER BROS. that had decorated the mansion of William H. Vanderbilt among many others of that category. By 1883 Bacon became associated with the celebrated Boston architect H.H. Richardson who popularized the Romanesque Revival style in America. By 1885 Bacon had become the principal designer for the A.H. Davenport Furniture Company. The Davenport Company made pieces for the White House in 1902; commissioned by McKim, Mead & White, selected by President and Mrs. Roosevelt. This settee very much shows the influence of Herter Brothers chic elegance and the American Romanesque Revival adaptation of H.H. Richardson. Minor old insect damage to the back right leg does not lesson the strength of this very practical piece of seating which only requires the changing of the (original) upholstery. Normal wear and left back top rail veneer repair. Price: $1,750.00.
# 5220. A pair of fine late 18th early 19th century Bilbao Mirrors. Size: 15" wide and 32" tall. Condition: the gesso/wire decoration is in excellent condition and the gilding appears to be intact; the mirror/glass is appropriately distressed because of age (when these mirrors were first used, people with powdered wigs were looking at their reflections); the marble columns and framing may have had some restoration over the years, but there are no apparent serious problems. These mirrors are more commonly seen in finer New England 18th century homes. It is rare to find a pair in such nice condition. A similar pair are on exhibit at at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, (G328). Literature: In The Looking Glass in America, 1700-1825, by Helen Comstock, a pair of similar Bilbao mirrors are illustrated, p. 80, fig. 53. Comstock writes, "Bilbao mirrors reached America about 1790-1810 in some thus far unexplored phase of [America's] trade with Europe. They take their name from Bilbao (formerly sometimes written Bilboa), a port in northwestern Spain near the French border that was frequented by American merchant ships in the 18th century. Note: A similar pair of mirrors sold at Skinners Auctions for almost $22,000.00 in the Fall of 2010 with labels reading: "Bernard Cermenati, Carver, Gilder, Picture Frame and Looking Glass Manufacturer, No. 10 State Street - Newburyport." Our mirrors are unlabeled. Price: $15,000.00 the pair.
# 5123. A single American parlor chair. Circa 1876. Mahogany. In the Japanesque / Aesthetic style. Size: the back is 30" tall; the seat is 14" tall; the seat is 21" across and 19" deep. There is no evidence that there were castors on this chair. Very good original condition with minor scuffs; no repairs or breaks. All four legs are carved with paws. The oriental carved fret work panels are inset into the frame. Probably New York City. This chair has been re-upholstered in an oriental style covering. Price: $1,200.00.
#5083. A Console Table. Baroque, circa 1675-1725. "Torchiere - Candelabra Stand - Palace piece, Probably Austrian. The figure "Pan" stands in a glade of flowers, in front of foliage which supports the back; he holds a fancy marble top. 37" tall x 16.5" deep x 28" wide. Some 19th century reinforcements plus the top may be 19th century as well. Worm hold damage to the entire console; loss of one finger and repair to adjoining finger. Old patina to the surface. From an old Boston Estate of note. Price: $38,500.00.
# 4875x. A pair (2) of "American Renaissance" Style 19th century dining side chair. Mahogany. Of the finest carving consistent with workmanship of Herter Bros. of New York City. Size: 38" tall with the seat 19" wide, deep and tall. Condition: original finish to the carved wood surface; re-upholstered at some time in the past. These chairs relates to The Crawford Library Table pictured on page 266 of "Art & Enterprise" American Decorative Arts, 1825-1917 The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection published in 1999. As described, the library table " was found in Newport in the early 1980's, where it was reported to have come from a member of the Vanderbilt family." Price: $7,500.00 for the pair.
# 4835. A single parlor chair. c. 1860. American - Rococo Style. Ebonized wood with exceptional well cast furniture mounts. Consistent with production from the workshops of Auguste-Émile Ringuet-Leprince . Condition: reupholstered in the 1960's / the arms are slightly separated from the back caused by loose joints; original finish. Leon Marcotte was the son-in-law of Emmanuel Ringuet LePrince of Paris. This single chair is similar to a large impressive set made for Chateau-sur-mer of Bellevue Avenue / Newport Rhode Island. We quote information from the MET in New York about a similar chair that they have in their collection: "Armchair, 1843 Auguste-Émile Ringuet-Leprince (French, 1801–1886; firm active Paris, 1840–48) Ebonized fruitwood (apple or pear), beech, gilt bronze mounts, original upholstery; 38 1/2 x 23 1/4 x 26 1/8 in. (97.8 x 59.1 x 66.4 cm) Gift of Mrs. Douglas Williams, 1969 (69.262.3) In the 1840s, well-to-do New Yorkers preferred French furniture to that made in their native city. In 1844, Mrs. Samuel Jaudon of New York wrote to her friend Mrs. James C. Colles that "we on this side feel as if everything [is] so much handsomer, and better, and desirable that comes from Paris." Upon orders from New York clients, Parisian cabinetmaker and decorator Ringuet-Leprince shipped entire rooms of furniture, carpets, looking glasses, wallpapers, decorative objects, and sculpture. This armchair is part of a formal drawing room suite that was custom-made by Ringuet-Leprince as part of a suite for the above mentioned Colles family. The suite includes a pair of sofas, four armchairs, four side chairs, a firescreen, and a table. In 1850, the Colles' daughter, Frances, married John Taylor Johnston, a New York railroad executive who later served as the first president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1870 to 1889. The suite of furniture descended in the family, original upholstery intact, and, except for two armchairs, was given to the Museum in 1969." Price: $2,500.00.
# 3449. Pictured is an early 19th century {c. 1825} Viennese 'Eagle' clock. Three train silk escapement movement. In Vienna these are called "Adleruhr". This clock chimes every 15 minutes and must be wound every day {30 Hour movement}. Size: app. 27" x 27". Replaced pendulum. Carved wood. Original surface: very worn. Original enamel dial with chips and damage to the dial. In working condition. This is the standard clock that graced better homes in Vienna during the Biedermeier Era. An elegant and beautiful time piece. As with all of our items displayed on the Internet, detailed photos are available. Price: $15,000.00.
# 4581. A fine Aesthetic Era American Ebonized side Chair. Ebonized Cherry with inlaid back splat. SOLD.
# 5748. A pair of Italian (Naples) 18th century Neoclassical Petite Commodes Circa 1780. Size: 23.75" wide x 34.5" tall and 16.5" deep with the marble top extending 1.5" past the back of each commode. Extensive inlaid satinwood, boxwood, amaranth and ebony. Each commode is raised on tapered legs with a single door and drawer. This is matched pair of commodes with each door opening in the opposite direction. On either side of the door is a pair of fluted columns with Doric Capitols. The columns may have been gold gilt at one time. We know of no finer inlaid workmanship of Neapolitan marquetry in public or private collections of this era. Condition: the tops may or may not be original; considerable restoration to these commodes is necessary, though it has been over 100 years since any work has been done on these pieces. Attributed to the workshop of either Guiseppe Maggiolini (1738-1814) or Giovanni Maffezzoli (1776-1818) At the time when these commodes were created, Naples was the capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies under Bourbon rule. Classical - Etruscan - motifs were used in the decor on these pieces. Price: $12,500.00 the pair.
# 6064. An American Rosewood Secretary. Circa 1845-55. Size: 21" deep x 48" wide and 60.75" tall. Condition: missing the marble top; each side has a split in the veneer from the top to the bottom; there are several chips to the carved decorations and several small mouldings missing. This secretary has been in storage for over a half century. We made an attempt to purchase it in 1988 and finally acquired it recently. We have not been able to find a similar example online. Tender loving care will correct the flaws in this Rococo cabinet piece. Consistent with the craftsmanship of Meeks, John Henry Belter or Alexander Roux. Purchased from a Newport Rhode Island local auction in 1952. Price: $7,500.00.
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The Drawing Room is located at 152-154 Spring Street, Newport, Rhode Island 02840.We are open daily from 11 am to 5 pm and by appointment. If you have an interest in an item listed in this document or wish to purchase an item, please call us at 1-401-841-5060 ( cell: 401-261-3980). We have been located in Newport since 1985.
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