Original limited edition hand colored etching titled "Haggling" featuring Korean women in a marketplace by German artist Willy Seiler (born 1903) from his Korean series. Signed in pencil on the lower margin. Reverse with limited Korean edition seal marked Plate #68A/110, stamped in red "original hand colored," and with Seiler's address in Japan (see enlargements). Willy Seiler's etchings captured the essence of life in rural Japan...

This is a dramatic rendering of the Chinese character for stone 石 by the Japanese artist Haku Maki. It's a large print, a Big Green, in the words of Daniel Ttretiak, who called Maki's large red depictions of characters (kanji) Big Reds. Please contact ldtnbj@gmail.com

A fine pair of early 19th century  Italian Neo Classical recumbent male lions in conversation.these lions are hand hewn from Solid blocks of travertine, figures as well as bases from single blocks These sculptures were executed in Rome,early in tge 19th century and Purchased there by the family of August Vasaio. The family owned them throughout the 19th century and shipped them from their home in Pescara, Abruzzo to Washington DC in the 1940s L’ Enfant Gallery purchased them directly ...

Watercolor on heavy pebbled watercolor, 10 1/4" by 13 3/4" (17 1/2" by 20 1/2" in simple, worn frame), unsigned, the subject an impressive sailing craft in a small boat harbor. The painting has a nice impressionist touch, and, apparently, some age (at least 1960's or before). On the reverse someone did some math calculations, writing the numbers in a distinctive old hand that is of a previous generation. The clean mat with gold inner edging can be retained; a new frame would work wonders.

CARP STREAMER 3

Collage work made from big 5 meter-long ‘koinobori’ (carp streamer / ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koinobori) made of old‘washi’ (Japanese paper)...

A small gouache painting of what I believe to be New York's tony upper 5th Avenue area in winter, the view looking south, encompassing the entry to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, skyscrapers filling the distance, 7" by 10 3/4" (13 1/2" by 17" in gold metal frame with double mat). I think it also possible that the scene could be Chicago's Michigan Avenue and the Chicago Art Museum; more research needed. The work is signed at lower left by German-born artist FRANZ BACHELIN (1895-1980)...

A Very fine Puerto Rican 19th Century carved wood Santos sculpture, usually given as a wedding gift. A very finely carved piece measuring about 11” in heigh with fine polychrome and gilding

A 30" by 40 1/2" work on canvas, featuring a large barn in a tawny presumably California landscape, an early car housed interestingly in the structure, signed at lower right by noted Utah-born, western American artist DONAL JOLLEY (1933-). Jolley was born in Zion National Park, Utah, and settled in Rim Forest, California, high in the San Bernardino Mountains, in 1970. He remains there, creating watercolors and the occasional oil or acrylic work. Jolley showed a very early affinity for drawing...

This small green image of a child was produced in 1969. It is in good shape, considering its age. It is 12 of 201 and measures 6.75in x 8.75in (17cm x 22.5cm).

Original finely detailed gouache and watercolor on board painting (no glass) of two warring ships, the 38-gun frigate HMS Macedonian of the Royal Navy, and the 44-gun better protected USS United States, as they appeared in the epic battle of October 25, 1812. The Macedonian surrendered to the Americans, making her the second warship to surrender to the US during that war. The painting, signed at lower right by artist Gordon Bracher and dated 1965, might be after a Thomas Birch painting...

Elizabeth Fisher Washington “Resting”,Chartres,Fr. 9x10” Pastel on paper 1871-1953 Washington was the great-grandniece of President George Washington and a highly regarded miniaturist and portrait painter. She studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Hugh Breckenridge and Fred Wagner. There she won the Cresson Traveling Scholarship in 1912. Elizabeth also a member of the Plastic Club...

Gouache and pencil abstract drawing on paper, 7 1/4" by 11 1/4" (14" by 18" in metal frame of the period), signed on the reverse of the inner backing with what appears as "Richard Chinn(xxx)/gouache/pencil/fall '77". This is an elegant modern little work with attractive colors and composition. I at first thought it unsigned, and was ready to sell it as such, but decided to dig just a bit further, laboriously disassembling the framing, in search of any writing...

Very decorative truly antique, 1770's print of an elegant lady standing, in the sanguine color, crayon technique (also known as "chalk-manner") perfected by talented eighteenth century artist GILLES DEMARTEAU (1722-1776). The print, executed after a painting by the great French Rococo master Jean-Honore Fragonard, measures 15" by 10 5/8" inside the fine French matting, with gilt border and numerous outlines, that in turn housed in a gold leaf antique frame measuring 22" by 18"...

Mother & Child. English painting. Antebellum Charleston Family attributed to Thomas Sully. 19th century. Oil on Canvas. 36 x 29. Frame Size 44 x 37".

A Fine/Large Serigraph Print by Tetsuro Sawada (1935-1999): Japan, 93cm x 44.5cm image only, 124cm x 74cm inclu. frame, Dated 1990, Title; Glacier IV, Signed T...

A beautiful work measuring 38” x 27” on fine Chinese paper, mounted and matted in a wonderful Lacquer frame by Chinese American Artist G. Sol

A striking, complex drawing suggestive of three dimensionality, in rich teal blue and black, violet and gold, with strategic cut-outs revealing the white backing, 25" by 38' in the plastic enclosure box. The work does not appear to be signed but a fading label on backing gives the title as "Turquesa" ("Turquoise in Spanish) and the artist as JUNE SOBEL (1950-). Sobel was born in Queens, New York and grew up on Long Island...

This is a PARIS STREET SCENE OIL ON BOARD from a Virginia USA Estate, suburb of Washington, DC. Signed FORET? 17.5 X 24.5 Unframed. Paris Genre Painting ca. first 1/4 20th Century