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A Striking Late 18th Century Italian Louis XV Giltwood Console with breccia marble top, accented with Siena marble along the edge, the apron carved with rocaille, foliate and shell motifs, the whole resting on four cabriole legs connected by scrolling rocaille X-shaped stretcher with a stylized shell at its center

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A 19th Century French Bouillotte Lamp with a dark umber tole shade, with three lights emanating from scrolled candle arms, all resting in a circular dished base resting on claw feet and now electrified

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A Pair of 19th Century Italian Brass Wall Sconces, with three scrolling arms emanating from a sunburst medallion

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A 19th Century Anglo-Indian Ebonized Box on Stand, the top centered by mother-of-pearl and rocaille brass inlay, framed by a mother-of-pearl quatrefoil inlay and brass trim, continuing along the sides, with a mother-of-pearl escutcheon at the front and inner brass hinges engraved with foliate and geometric patterns, now fitted with a lined interior, and raised on a later stand with ebonized faux bamboo legs

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A 19th Century French Cherrywood Farm Table with a planked top above one drawer, with shaped apron, the whole raised on simple cabriole legs

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A 19th Century Italian Pietra Dura Table with floral and foliate motifs, the whole above a scrolling and foliate brass apron and resting on six feet

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A Pair of 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Bedside Commodinos, in the Maggiolini manner and in excellent condition, with one functioning drawer above a door opening for extra storage, the top, front and sides with marquetry scenes of villages and foliate motifs all raised on squared and tapering legs

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A Early 19th Century Federal Mahogany Chest of Drawers with six functioning drawers with brass handles, the front flanked by turned columns, the whole atop four legs terminating in ball feet

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A Fine 19th Century French Première-Partie Boulle Marquetry Jewel Box, imported, sold by and stamped Asprey London, with red tortoiseshell ground inlaid with brass rocaille veneers

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A 19th Century English Regency Chinese Export Hinged Wedding Box, lacquered in black and red with gilt motifs of flowers, butterflies, and men lounging in their temple gardens, the box standing on a conforming and later base with double faux bamboo base

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A 19th Century Diminutive Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy, the domed top embellished with pewter stringing and centered by a sterling silver medallion at the top above a rectangular form with a sterling escutcheon, and opening to reveal two lidded interior compartments with the whole all raised on silvered ball feet

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A Pair of Elaborate 19th Century Dutch Patinated Brass Ecclesiastical Candle Screens made in Baroque manner, featuring a large sunflower and leaves, and resting on a pyramidal faux marble base

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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An 1810 French Tortoiseshell Table Snuff Box with 18k Rose Gold Hinge and Mounts, accented with an exquisitely hand painted miniature portraiture on porcelain of a beauty, the portrait protected by a crystal cover; the box itself is solid shell, thick and in perfect condition. This piece is pristine, with no warping, damage or restorations

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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An Early 19th Century George III Pagoda-Top Pressed Tortoiseshell Double Tea Caddy, with architectural pressed panels and flute pressed canted corners, inlaid silver piping, escutcheon and cartouche titled, “Jane Thomas”

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A Late 18th Century Octagonal Ridged Bone Tented Top Tea Caddy, with tortoiseshell stringing, silver knob finial, escutcheon and oval monogrammed cartouche

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A Late 18th Century Octagonal Bone Tea Caddy, with tortoiseshell trim and silver knob handle, escutcheon and shield shaped cartouche, with floating lid and key

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A 19th Century Palmwood Snuff Box with tortoiseshell interior

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A Late 19th Century English Lund Tortoiseshell Box with fitted interior with bone trim

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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An Unusual Square 19th Century English Red Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy with bone stringing, a sterling silver pull, and exotic wood herringbone parquetry inlay embellishing the top and sides

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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An 18th Century English Green Tortoiseshell Double Tea Caddy with cut corners and inlaid fruitwood piping, silver escutcheon and monogrammed cartouche and matching interior lids

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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An Early 19th Century Continental Ebony and Bone-Inlaid Red Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy, of rectangular form with geometric mosaic bone inlay on the sides and top, the top centered with a sterling silver pull and accented with a sterling cartouche engraved “Green,” with matching interior lid

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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Early 19th Century Chinese Black Lacquer Tea Caddy, rectangular in shape with paneled sides and decorated in gold and red enameling

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A Late 18th-Early 19th Century English Bone-Inlaid Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy octagonal in shape with silver finial, escutcheon and pique framed oval cartouche

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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An 18th Century Italian Walnut Fireplace Mantel with a hand carved center shell motif

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A 19th Century English Anglo-Indian Bone Miniature Desk the slant front over a single drawer with original fitted interior

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A Pair of 18th Century Italian Walnut Bible Boxes, each with an unusually low profile, carved with a relating diamond pattern and raised on stylized animal paw feet

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A Charming 19th Century French Country Repoussé and Polychrome Tin Multipurpose Decor/Fireplace Screen, in the shape of a woven basket and “blooming” with abundant white hydrangeas

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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An 18th Century Italian Polychrome and Parcel-Gilt Tabernacle Box, crested with a neoclassical pediment, raised on flattened bun feet, embellished with faux marble, intricate stellate carvings and retaining its original key and lock with the door opening to reveal a storage/display area

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A 19th Century French Boullework Key Box, the ebonized and brass case centered by an inlaid brass red tortoiseshell and brass door, a keyed lock, the reverse fitted with wall mounts for hanging and the interior fitted with hooks for sets of keys

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A Massive 16th Century Tuscan Oak Bible Box, perfect for modern storage needs, with a guilloché motif encircling the box and the whole raised on prototypical Baroque lions’ paw feet. Provenance: from the 19th c. Arezzo gallery of Pietro Bruschi, stamped on the interior lid, later (1920) amongst the household furnishings of Castiglioni Fibbochi, and most likely a late 20th c. deaccessioned piece from
Casa Museo Ivan Bruschi

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A Rare and Unusually Large 18th Century Deep Green Tortoiseshell English Tea Caddy, raised on silvered ball feet and accented with pewter stringing and silvered bale handle and escutcheon, with two interior matching compartments retaining some of the original lead lining, one for green tea and one for black

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   


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A Pair of Palazzo Scaled 19th Century Solid Brass Andirons in an exaggerated baluster form

Height: 37″; Width: 55 1/4″; Depth: 27 1/2″
   

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