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The Cobbs Auctioneers
Important Antique, Sporting and Fine Art Auction
Saturday January 8th 2005 at 11am in Historic Noone Falls Mill

 

    

Important Antique Furniture (American and Continental) ~ European, American and Sporting Art  ~ Oriental Ceramics ~ Oriental Rugs ~ Sterling and Coin Silver ~ Glass ~ Firearms ~ Ceramics ~ Antique Accessories ~ Decoys ~ Clocks ~ Warfield Bird Carvings

 

 

 

We have gathered for this important auction an Oriental and painting collection from NY state, items from an estate in Brookline, NH, furniture from a Mass estate, a Warfield bird collection from Pittsburgh, PA, a Roger T Peterson collection, various sporting items and an important group of fine art from various collectors and other sources.

Below is the abbreviated Text Description: the full lot listing is more detailed.

Antique American furniture: Important Federal Mahogany 3 pedestal banquet table with 2 leaves, 133" X 56" wide with David Sears (Boston) history; Newport Mah QA 3 shell carved balloon seat side chair w/ball & claw feet; Southern NE chest on scalloped frame in the old red paint; NE paint decorated one drawer blanket chest; Dunlap Federal inlaid candle stand; Southern walnut Hepp 4 drawer chest; NY "D" shaped Hepp & Vose school classical mah card tables; QA dish top mah candle stand; NH carved mah Federal settee; 2 Shaker side & #7 armchair; Windsor candle stand; sm pine QA chest of drawers; Hepp Shaped top 1 drawer stand; bow-back & set 4 birdcage windsors; Sheraton mah 4 drawer chest, carved dressing stand w/mirror and maple stand; W & M blanket chest; tiger maple Chipp D/L table; maple Sheraton tall post & green pt hired mans beds; set of 8 pt dec country dining chairs plus lots more.

English & Continental furniture: Important broken arch crest Mah glazed door Chipp secretary in as found condition; rosewood Regency brass inlaid card table; George III mah & Regency rosewood canterburys; George III mah kneehole desk, 6 dining chairs & demi-lune card table; Eng Mah dressing mirror; mah Hepp pole screen; Sheraton fruitwood server & bed steps; pr 19thC carved Chipp style armchairs, Sheraton inlaid satinwood vitrine cabinet & butlers tray; tall Adam Pier & Venetian mirrors; sm Cont ripple molded card table plus lots more.

Special: Important pair of scrolled 19thC copper corbels from a NY city building, great color; Fully restored NE one horse 19thC sleigh complete.

Custom Furniture: Set 10(2 arms) QA style dining chairs in L19thC paint decoration; Chipp style 3 part mah banquet table; set 5 heavily carved dining chairs w/1 arm chair; Cont style gilded wall table; 2 prs of Cont gilded & carved chairs, 17thC style oak settee; Hepp style mah inlaid corner cupboard, serp front sideboard & tip top stand; Chipp style pie crust top tea table, pt blue pencil post bed and pr Regency style wine stands.

Oriental rugs: Room size: 6 Heriz (in various sizes, some early), Early geometric design Kalim, E Kerman; Sarouk, Kashan, 2 Mashad, Tabriz, Spanish flat woven; Scatter: 3 good Sarouks; bag face plus more.

American Paintings: Important pr primitive portraits attr to Sheldon Peck; Ruth Wyman, Granville, NY portrait school of Asahal Powers; Bellows family, Walpole, NH 19thC portrait woman red dress; prim portrait of man, yellow vest; Important "Shower in the valley near Gorham, NH" by James Fairman; Benjamin Champney o/c near "lake in the clouds", NH; Edmund H Osthaus W/C 2 puppies & turtle; Lilla Cabot Perry family portrait; 2 Joseph Linden Smith portraits; Arthur B Wilder "From N Bridgewater, Vt"; very lg ptg of a Union officer sgned RMS in a great wide gilded frame & Ulysses S Grant portrait; other ptgs by Hugh Bolton Jones; Arthur D. Fuller: Everett Lloyd Bryant; William Blair Bruce; Harrison Bird Brown; Frank Henry Shapleigh; Giddings Hyde Ballou; Betty Lou Schlemm; Peter Bela Mayer; Gabriel Spat; Xavier J Barile; Thos L Lewis; Roger Deering; Jesse Freemont Snow Davis; D Jerome Elwell; Roger Deering; James Abbott McNeil Whistler Etching; Miniatures by J Dunbar Houghton; Ralph Heard; Arthur J Hammond; Julian O Davidson attr; 3 Scott Zuckerman Contemporary Sporting O/C; Henry Martin Gasser; Martha Washington rev ptg attr WM Prior; 4 African Amer boys eating watermelon H Dreyfuss; Lester A Avery; Ellen Goodale Henne; P Biella; old frames; lots of primitive and other paintings.

Continental and other paintings: Aloysius O’Kelly O/B "Wash Day in Britany"; lg O/C Sir Peter Lely, orig carved & gilded frame; Victor Charreton (Leon Jean Pierre) " La Cote d Azur"; Ernest Walbourn "Scottish Highlanders grazing"; 3 horse paintings by SR Wright; rare South American Old master school O/C; others by Edmond John Nieman; Portrait Lord Muncaster attr George Richmond; JT Boucaud; Mathlide Marguerite Hautrive; Henry H Schouten; Herman Johannes Van Der Weele; Gustave David; B Siebert; 17C style portraits; After Rembrant’s Polish Military costume; Marc Chagall & Salvadore Dali limited ed lithographs; Ernest De Nagy; Joseph de Alzibar; portrait Louis XVI; portrait Peter Paul Rubens attr Puccini; Gustave David; B Siebert; Claudio Rinaldi; various old master school; Royal Dragoon trade sign.

Oriental collection: Important seated Ming Shou figure, pale green glazed Shi-wan ware; pr Chinese intricately carved walnuts, Ming Shou figures; sm Kang Hsi rare yellow green reclining dog; sm jade rice bowl; 3 Netsuke stacked frogs; Japanese bronze Buddha; tortoise shell opium pipe; white Le T’ieh Kuai figure; Meiji red stoneware vase; Chinese Zixing brown stoneware water dropper, square & reticulated tea pots; B & W amphora vase, 2 prs HoHo boys & snuff; Archaic jade circle; Persian story done in 16 W/C; carved camphorwood trunk, rosewood marble top plant stand; 4 stacking lacquer dec tables; Jap block prints plus lots more.

Miscellaneous: Important slave needlepoint sampler along with her bill of sale in 1861, Charleston, SC; Extra lg Howard style regulator; Eli & Samuel Terry Pillar & scroll mantle clock; Shoenhuts Humpty Dumpty Circus w/orig boxes & tent; 2 third mod Brown Bess flint locks & rare American flint lock militia Musket; pr brass double lemon left & right with fence andirons; Eng Imari pattern barrel & well/tree platter; Silver: coin- S Kirk stuffing spoon, Eng gilt Tazza & Cont tazza w/putti, 800 tea set w/tray & flatware, Eng silver bullet form hot water, 900 silver tray, Gorham sterling Chipp style plates; 2 Waterford crystal & 1 brass chandeliers; Lalique vase; Coll of Steuben glass; 3 pairs Paris porcelain vases, tureen & pitcher; Worcester & other game bird plates; Weymss pottery pig; silk memorial; PJ Mene sporting bronze; lg collection of Amer, Eng & Cont pewter: flagons, chargers, tankards, tea pots, TD & SB porringer, I Trask castor set etc.; rare blue Grueby scarab; Native American: Sm NW dec totem pole, revival 3rd phase rug, dec bow & arrows etc; folk art ship diorama & cased ship model; gilded picture frames; 2 prs Classical bronze lamps; E brass candlesticks; sploch dec redware jar.

Bird carvings and Decoys: 15 Robert & Virginia Warfield carvings from a private collection, singles and groups (a full list with pictures will available on our web site); Min goose sgn WH Gilles; 4 shore birds "Greater yellowlegs Harwood, ’74"; Decoys: 2 Hutchinson goose decoys in the original pt dec, school of Ben Schmitt; mallard hen & drake copy of Charles Perdew, Henry Ill; Ken Harris unpainted duck, shore bird & crow decoy marked Randall plus numerous others.

Roger Tory Peterson Limited Edition Prints: Silver Eagle, Bald Eagle, Peregrine Falcon, Snowy Owl, Barn Owl, Ruffled Grouse, Bobwhite, Puffin, Road Runner, Blue Jay, plus numerous others.

 

   

Previews: Thursday January 6th 10am to 5pm ~ Friday January 7th 10am to 7pm ~ Saturday January 8th 9am to 11am  ~ Or by Appointment.
Buyers premium 18% discounted to 15% for cash or good check

 

 


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