Two oil on artist board paintings, unframed. Helen Savier Dumond 1872 – 1968 SUNSET BY THE SEA JAMAICA YUNQUE MT. PORTO RICO one painting is signed lower left Helen Savier Dumond
Hart & Smith rare set of six silver cups, each with molded top over beaded band on molded base, having belonged to Naval Captain Anthony Walke and monogrammed ASW, Baltimore, MD circa 1815. Anthony Walke b. September 13, 1783 & d. March 19, 1865. Walke was the son of William and Mary Thoroughgood Calvert Walke. Anthony was married to Susan H. Carmichael, of Princess Anne County. Anthony was educated at Yale College with John C. Calhoun, James Fenimore Cooper the novelist, Judge William Jay son of Chief Justice John Jay, and with the scholarly poet, Hillhouse of New Haven. Walke was elected a member of the Virginia Legislature. While a member of the legislature, Walke was selected as the agent of the United States Government, to deliver to the Dey of Algiers the tribute for the privilege of trading in the Mediterranean ports. During the War of 1812 he was attached to a mounted patrol organized for the purpose of resisting the movements of the enemy, and on one occasion participated in the capture of a number of officers and sailors who had come ashore on a foraging expedition from the British fleet, then lying in Hampton Roads. It was said of him by the editor of the Ohio State Journal, he was in truth a gentleman of the old school, polite and respectful to all, and maintaining through life a character for the faithful discharge of all his duties, whether regarded as a public man, a private citizen, or a Christian.
Federal mahogany games table having D shaped top over conforming frieze all set on square tapered legs ending in double tapered feet, frieze and edges with line panel, various wood inlays, minor loses
Partial setting of famille rose including two covered vegetable dishes, platter, teapot, sauce dish, various plates, cups, saucers 90 total pieces, covers not original.
A large Worcester First Period cabbage-leaf mask jug: blue transfer printed with the Parrot Pecking Fruit pattern with a scroll handle, circa 1770-1780.
A Worcester cos lettuce sauceboat, molded with overlapping leaves, the stalk forming a curled handle issuing buds and further leaves, painted with sprays of flowers and scattered blossoms and leaves, the interior with a further flower, circa 1755.
A Worcester ovoid tea caddypainted with a version of the Lord Henry Thynne pattern of a landscape vignette of a house beside a lake within a quatrelobed turquoise husk cartouche, circa 1780-85.
A Worcester shell pickle stand modelled as three scallop shell dishes set on a triangular coral base applied with shells rising up in the center to a larger shell handle, the interior of the dishes painted in blue with the Sweetmeat Stand Rose pattern, comprising mixed sprays including central roses, circa 1760 – 1770.