Chinese blue & white porcelain vase (c. 1680)Chinese provincial porcelain trumpet form vase on a flaring foot. This diminutively scaled vase is decorated fully in the round in cobalt under glaze blue with blooming peony bough and a magpie fluttering on a branch. This vignette bears auspicious symbols for beauty, wealth and joy. The peony is the queen of all flowers in China and it symbolizes wealth and beauty. The magpie is a harbinger of happiness, thus its name "bird of happiness." There is a

Set of six Pennsylvania plank seat side chairs painted gray with floral decorated back splat and crest rail

The surfaces have been cleaned and finished with shellac

which have been stabilized

Materials: Hand Forged Iron

Cotman (with coat of arms)"

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though widespread interest in his invention never took hold

Dimensions: 17-1/2" or 19-1/2" Long

depending on the size of the item

Dimensions: 8-1/4” W x 5-1/4” H x 3/4" D

Jay's Squirrel from the Audubon quarto edition of “Quadrupeds of North America”

Painted English Victorian cast iron lion doorstop with hollow back