All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1970 item #951367 (stock #31B4 G21)
"Dove" an original painting by Ben Shahn (American, 1898-1969), watercolor and ink. Circa. 1960. Signed in ink. Sheet size: 9.75 inches x 12.75 inches. Excellent condition. Offered in a modern frame.
All Items : Archives : Estate Jewelry : Pre 1960 item #951324
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Fabulous vintage bracelet in dark goldtone metal with huge prong set glass cabochons simulating amethysts, framed in rope twist settings. Very weighty and substantial. Possibly French. Circa 1950. With a foldover clasp. The oblong stones are set in crown shaped prongs. 7 1/2 inches wearable length, 1 1/8 inches wide and 7/8 inch deep. The largest stones are 1 inch long. Excellent condition. Photos enlarged to show detail. Display form is life size.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1960 item #951293 (stock #31B4 A32)
Lewis Jean Liberte (American, 1896-1965), tempera on artist board painting titled "Night on the Docks". Size: 14" x 21" (sight). Jean Liberte, a New York City artist, is known for his atmospheric night scenes in moonlight. He studied at The Cooper Union, the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. Condition: excellent. Offered in a modern gilded frame.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Chinese : Pre 1492 item #951013 (stock #lot651)
Description:
A lovely Jizhou bowl was applied with rarely-seen agate-like glaze.
By the dark chocolate-brown glaze underneath, strings of bead-like mottles were decorated in the cavetto.
On the outer surface, whitish brown effects were randomly yielded.
For authentication:.

1,The body clay was in a characteristic loosening type by the also characteristic pale buff tint.

2, The flat foot ring was preserved in old-feel quality and bore the manually maneuvered moldi...
All Items : Archives : Pre 1492 item #950770 (stock #TR 1213)
A Song - Yuan dynasty longquan celadon large bowl, rounded side with deep center and glazed base, bowl decorated with raising lotus petal motif at exterior, covered with bluish green glaze.
Bowl is in good condition no chip, no crack, no restoration, porcelain with high ping sound with finger tip.
Size: 20.5 cm diameter.
All Items : Archives : Collectibles : Memorabilia : Pre 1930 item #950276 (stock #BA770)
Measuring 4 inches tall x 3 inches at its widest point (the head), this cast iron, Circa 1920's, English, still bank is labeled on its back, "The Young Nigg*r Bank".

In wonderful, all-original condition, the bank retains its original screw closure and the majority of its paint, with minor and insignificant paint loss as noted in photos.

A visually-appealing piece, a pleasing caricature! A fine addition to one's Black Memorabilia collection!

All Items : Archives : Collectibles : Memorabilia : Pre 1930 item #950251 (stock #BA908)
Measuring 10.25 inches wide x 4.50 inches high, this untouched, all-original, double-sided, solid, one half-inch-thick-wooden, circa 1920s sign is an extraordinarily RARE piece of Black American history-- an artifact of the "Jim Crow" era when segregation of the African American race was unfortunately, most commonplace.

The origin of this sign is unknown, but it once hung on either the interior of a bus or railroad car designating the section of the bus or rail car where African-Americans wer...

All Items : Archives : Collectibles : Memorabilia : Pre 1900 item #950236 (stock #BA767)
Once part of the Middle Passage Museum inventory, these authentic and extraordinarily RARE adult’s slave shackles have been de-accessioned. These plantation-made, iron, 19th century shackles were once used on a Georgia plantation. They remain all-original and untouched with over 170 years of patina. Superficial rust is present with structural integrity unaffected. These RARE shackles measure a total of 29 inches in length with fourteen, worn, chain links...
All Items : Archives : Collectibles : Memorabilia : Pre 1930 item #950232 (stock #BA768)
Measuring 10 1/2 inches high x 6 inches in diameter, this very visually appealing, very difficult to find, bright orange, 4 pound size, VINTAGE “MAMMY’S FAVORITE BRAND COFFEE” TIN is in near-excellent condition!

Some superficial scratches and rubs to the lithograph most notably on the back side of the tin above Mammy’s head. Structural integrity of the tin is quite sound with no holes, piercings, breaks, or dents, and only scarce, superficial rusting to base. See photos...

All Items : Archives : Collectibles : Pre 1950 item #950210 (stock #BA769)
Offered is a vintage, Occupied Japan, tin and celluloid, wind up toy depicting a dancing Black Man or Jigger with cane and hat.

This delightful toy dancer stands on the corner of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, the Gateway to Harlem, New York City!

The toy is complete and is in excellent working condition. Wind him up and his arms go round and his feet tap frantically! Retains original key. The dancer's head and hat are celluloid. His red felt jacket is age-stained as seen in photos...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #950063
A blue & white large dish, decorated to the center with a deer in landscape, found only on this Swatow family, the sides decorated with floral spray, prunus branch and encircling with key fret border. Exterior with floral pattern, adhere to the foot rim with sand grit as known as typically of Zhangzhou ware products, Ming dynasty late 16th to early 17th century. Condition is a hairlines, a small chip on the rim, firing fault ( as seen on pictures) and free from restoration. Diameter: 27.5cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #950060
Bowl decorated with two deer in landscape in the center and chrysantemum scroll on the inner wall. A chrysantemum and classic sroll on the outside and lotus petal to footrim. Late Ming H=15 cm D= 7 cm Condition : bowl is repainted and an unvisible very short hairline.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #950056
Bowl decorated with a lotus and classic scroll. A double vajra in the center inside, a lotus scroll on the inner wall and a classic scroll. Glazed base. Interregnum period D= 15.5 cm H = 7 cm Condition : no chips, cracks, profesiional restored on two short hairlines.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #949811
Dish decorated with six-pettaled flower head reserved in white a stemmed floret in each petal in the center against a hatched ground, repeated white floral units in the inner wall and and a zigzag border. A lotus scroll on the outside. Glazed base. Hongzhi D= 25,5 cm, H = 4.2 cm Condition : profesional restored on the hairline (hard to find).
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1700 item #949810
Charger decorated with a pheasant, peonis and rocks in the center and peony scroll on the inner wall. A lotus scroll on the outside. Glazed base. Hongzhi - Zhengde D = 31 cm H = 5.5 cm Condition : there are re attach broken part on the rim, no other damages.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Pre 1900 item #949422
Japanese tabako-ire (tobacco pouch) decorated with an embroidered dragon chasing a flaming pearl. The dragon's body extends around the front and back of the pouch. The fierce head with open jaw is located on the front above the silver alloy dragon-form kanemono (clasp). An ivory accent adorns one of the two interior compartments. A circular ivory and repousse metal dragon kagamibuta netsuke is attached by 10 strands of metal chains secured by a dragon decorated squared silver guard...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Pre 1900 item #949361 (stock #ZJ146)
This rare pair of antique Japanese Samurai stirrups date to the mid Edo Period. The are inlaid with bits of abalone shell. The cut-out below the buckle appears to be the a representation of the trifold Asarum leaves, which was the mon of the Tokugawa shoguns.

There is some loss of abalone shell and there is a crack in one of the foot pads. But they are a gorgeous example even with these condition issues.

All Items : Archives : Pre 1492 item #949338 (stock #TR 1208)
A Yuan dynasty qingbai phoenix ewer, ewer is decorated with bluish white qingbai glaze, curved handle, body with molded phoenix motif, and spout with phoenix head, excavated from east java.
Ewer is in good condition with rim and upper spout has been damage and restored.
Size: 24 cm height.