Nancy Emery, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, c. 1834

Betsey Putnam, Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts, 1796

Wonderful 5-color, Two Sided Gameboard

Outstanding 5-Color, Two Sided Gameboard. 
Great Color and Surface

Portrait of a Young Child in Landscape Setting
Oil on panel
Circa 1830's -1840's

 
"The Coaching Season in Blackville - The Grand Start"
Edward West Merrill, Concord, New Hampshire (1841-1910)
Circa 1880
Birch Bark and Watercolor on Black Paper with Watercolor and Ink

 
"Grand Walking Match at Blackville - Terrific
 Struggle on The Home Stretch"
circa 1880
Edward West Merrill, Concord, New Hampshire 1841 - 1910
after Solomon Eytinge, Jr., American, 1833 - 1905
Birch Bark and Watercolor on Black Paper with Watercolor and Ink

*Watercolor Portrait of a Young Boy Holding a Whip

*Punched Tin Heart Shaped Cheese Strainer, Circa 1820-40, Pennsylvania
      Size: 15-1/2" x 15"

*Redware Cow Bank, 13"H x 16" L 

*Lollypop Crested Wall Box, c 1680-1720

*18th C. Blue/Green (?) Pantry Box (Buyer's Choice) with a now                   oxidized almost black colored surface. 10 1/2" in diameter. A real                   Beauty!

*Chalkware Cat Bank, Pennsylvania, c.1850's

*Rabbitware Tankard with Running Rabbits Border and Adam's Rose           Center. Circa 3rd quarter 19th Century.

*Miniature Painted Mortar & Pestle, a mere 1/34"high,

* Peaseware Paint Decorated Covered Sugar Bowl in Red and Green/Gold Paint

*Paint decorated Treen Footed Cup

*Miniature 3-Legged Cast Iron Lidded Pot

*Portrait Miniature of Caroline  T. Leeds (Slater) by Mrs. Moses B. Russell

*Boldly graphic 19th C. Double Sided Gameboard

*Small Turned Maple Bowl - a mere 4-1/2 to 5" in diameter

 *6" Windsor Green Work Bowl

Trencher in wonderful Marine Blue Paint

*Treen Work Bowl in the Best Robin's Egg Blue Paint
Great Size, Color and Condition

                 *Beehive Turned 12" Treen Work Bowl                        *Small 7"dia. Treen Eating or serving bowl                                                  in original Coffin Red Paint                                                                   in original Coffin Red Paint                                                                                          

 
Collection of Stone Fruit in a Blue Painted Bowl . . .
27 pieces in all . . .

*Pantry Boxes in fine Original Paint. 
       Sold Separately.  Click on color for details.

                                          Yellow            Red            Green

*Robins' Egg Blue Painted Basket. Lovely to look at and delightful to hold, but please very gently

*Oval Red Pantry Box with Elongated Left Facing Fingers.

*Vinegar Grained Covered Treenware Sugar Bowl

*Small Nantucket Baskets, Circa 1880's 
        Sold Separately

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*Oval Hersey Bentwood Boxes (Hingham, MA) Mid-19th Century
Described & Sold separately.
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*Exceptional Carved and Painted Treen Mortar and Pestle. 
           Wonderful Pennsylvania Folk Art

 *Swing Handled Taghkanic Basket
            H 4-1/4" D 7-1/2"

*Swing Handled Taghkanic Basket
      H 6" D 11"

 
*Sarah Rebecca Milligan, Kirkland, Belmont County Ohio, 1849

Folk Portraits on Panel, Daniel Griswold and His Daughter Louisa
Asahel Lynde Powers, (1813-1843), Oil on Panel, each is signed front & back, ages noted
Painted by Powers & Rice - August 1^st 1835 Daniel Griswold Tavern Owner W. Springfield  
Portrait of Louisa Griswold Field / painted in her wedding dress  (later script)
Exhibited: Asahel Powers-Painter of Vermont Faces, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum 1973
Published: Little, Nina Fletcher, Asahel Powers-Painter of Vermont Faces. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1973. 
                   Plates 37 & 38, pp. 38 & 39
Discussed in: Lipman, Jean, Armstrong, Tom, American Folk Painters of Three Centuries.
                       Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1980, page 156
Other references available including town histories and genealogical for both the Griswold and Field families.
(Minor restoration, original frames; Louisa's frame: 30 by 36 , sight-size: 27 by 33.5;
                                                              Daniel's frame: 29.5 by 36 , sight-size: 26.25 by 33 )  

 

*Pennsylvania Redware Stew Pot

*Ovoid Redware Jar - Bristol County, Massachusetts,
  C. 1780 - 1800
    Height 8 inches

*Rare Redware Porringer,
Likely Shenandoah Valley, Possibly Bell, c.1800

Exceedingly Rare Redware Rundlet, Barrel Form, 
Scarcely Encountered Large Size
Likely Western New York, Early to Mid-19^th Century

*Fine Redware Jar with Olive Green Glaze with Yellow/Green Drips. It stands 8-3/8" high and is in excellent condition.  Circa 1850.

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*Pair of outstanding Hollow Cut, Pen & Ink and Watercolor Silhouettes housed in an Eglomise Frame.  New England,        c.1820's

* Portrait Miniature of a very handsome gent, c. 1830

*Greater Yellowlegs Shorebird Decoy, George Boyd, Seabrook, NH, Circa 1910

*Red Painted Leather Covered Dome Top
Box with Floral Decoration

*RARE Hollow Cut and Watercolor Silhouette
    att: Puffy Sleeve Artist
       (active 1830 - 1831)
Sitter identified as Grandmother Holden, Mary Nutting, age 18

*Profile Portrait of a Young Lady in a Red Dress by Rufus Porter

*Pair of Portraits of a Handsome Young Couple
attributed to William Mathew Prior (1806-1873)
Oil on academy Board
Circa 1840's

*Chalkware Apricot

*Rare 19th century Barn Lantern remaining in splendid original Apple-Green Paint 

* 18th Century Wrought Iron Candlestand
      with Rush Nip Holder and Candle Socket

*RARE American Tin 6-Candle Chandelier

*Carved Book Box, Dated 1849 and initials LM