The Magnificent 1958 “$100,000 Californian Stakes” Hollywood Park Horse Racing Trophy, created in solid sterling by Shreve and Co. San Francisco, and won by the great British thoroughbred Seaneen, under Hall of Fame jockey Johnny Longden, originally owned by Louis B. Mayer and racing under his colors of French Blue and Pink and then sold to Mayer’s associate Neil S. McCarthy, trained by W.S. Finnegan, the cup displayed on a custom silver presentation stand

A Pair of Modern Art Deco Style Faux Rosewood Pedestals

A Striking Pair of Early 19th Century English Regency Bird’s-Eye Maple Knife Boxes, with their interior fittings intact, and accented with mahogany and ebony inlaid banding

A Pair of 18th Century Flemish Chinoiserie Tapestry Fragment Cushions, woven in wool and silk, each with a reclining figure surrounded by scrolling foliate motifs and trimmed in a later silk rope

An 18th Century Franco Flemish Tapestry Cushion, depicting two female aristocrats seated in a formal garden surrounded by strap work and floral motifs, the whole trimmed in a later silk fringe

A Circular 19th Century Gros Point Continental Needlepoint Cushion, with strap work and floral motifs

An 18th Century Beauvais Tapestry Fragment Cushion depicting a hunting dog and a boar in a woodland setting and now trimmed in a later cut edge brush fringe

An 18th Century Aubusson Tapestry Cushion, made of wool and silk, and depicting a crane and a wolf drinking from a pond surrounded by flowers and now accented with a cut brush edge fringe

An 18th Century Continental Tapestry Fragment Cushion, depicting a male, possibly Bacchus, confronting an angel descending from Heaven amid a lush floral setting, the whole trimmed in a later cut brush fringe

A Pair of Large 19th Century Famille Rose Chinese Porcelain Pots fired with a colorful display of Chrysanthemums along with other foliate and floral motifs

A Pair of Graceful Tulip-Shaped Carrara Marble Urns, embellished with gadrooning and raised on a waisted, fluted and ringed socle on a squared plinth base

A 19th Century Italian Oil on Canvas of a young woman, carrying fresh cut wood from the forest surrounding her cottage

An 18th Century Aubusson Tapestry Cushion , woven in wool and silk, depicting a crouching lion in a woodland clearing

A Rare and Monumental Rock Crystal Globe, making it one of the largest outside a museum collection, with superb occlusions, color and clarity, raised on a later base, the rock crystal that makes up this piece was quarried from the relatively small but still productive quartz mines in Sassari Province, Sardegna, Italy

A Pair of Unusual 19th Century Italian Ecclesiastical Reliquaries, each carved in giltwood with diadem cresting above diaper and acanthus motifs surrounding a framed window in which the reliquaries would be displayed on embroidered pillows, one reliquary in this pair removed but the other intact in a locket, purportedly a small swatch of the wimple of St. Catherine of Siena, circa late 14th c., the whole raised on a tripartite acanthus baluster and base

A 19th Century Bronze of the Dying Gaul from the Greek bronze sculpture of 225 BC and the 19th Century bronze created by Benedetto Boschetti, this sculpture now mounted on a custom walnut base

A Pair of Imposing Early French Empire Recumbent Sphinxes, carved from solid variegated celadon marble and each a female with a human face and a lion’s body draped in an elaborate ceremonial mantel and with their long tresses in tightly rolled braids in the front and a chignon in back, raised on a simple rectangular plinth

A Pair of 19th Century Dutch Oil on Canvas Winterscapes signed by Danish Artist Nils Hans Christiansen (1850-1922), one entitled Midwinter in Ribe and the other Windmill on the Lake, Aarhus, both in their original carved giltwood frames. Available as a pair or individually.

A Mid 19th Century Belgian Oil on Panel by Eugene Joseph Verboeckhoven, 1798-1881, world renowned as the premier painter of sheep, this painting entitled Return of the Flock, Verboeckven’s other works in the collections of many world museums, including The
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, The Wallace Collection, London, as well as museums in the United States

A Late 18th Century English Sable Tortoiseshell Decagonal Tea Caddy, accented with pewter stringing and bone banding, the top accented with a shaped sterling handle and the front with a pique sterling ovoid medallion fitted with two interior lidded compartments, fully foiled and designed to raise and lower simultaneously with the tea level and with one compartment for green tea and the other for black, the whole raised on a bone veneered plinth

A Large Late 18th Century French Niello Valuables Box inscribed “D’Apres Saint Albin”, depicting the account of the Royal Court of Louis XV by the Comtesse de Genlis, Stephanie-Felicite Du Crest Saint-Aubin, the educator and memoir writer of the upper classes in the late 18th c. and early 19th c., most famous for her quote “Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts”. Niello is an etching used in decorating in black on silver and copper (and sometimes gold) that is somewhat related to champlevé work except that the effect is metallic rather than vitreous. Here the design of a court recital is engraved in exquisite detail into the fused copper and silver plates, the indented portions originally filled with a black matte alloy and became fused in the grooves creating the contrasting design

A Pair of 19th Century Imari Porcelain Covered Jars, in inverted pear shape with melon-ribbed body and dome covers with ball finials, the surface hand painted with floral motifs in tones of coral and blue

A 19th Century Bronze Neoclassical Roman Figure draped in Senate Robes and seated in a contemplative position, raised on a rouge royale base above a conforming bronze plinth

The 19th Century Oil on Panel, The Italian Boy by Hubert von Herkomer, the German born British Social Realist Painter who studied at Southampton School of Art, the Munich Academy and the South Kensington Art School. Although von Herkomer received large sums of money for his portraits, he continued to produce social realist paintings like this one and Pressing to the West (1884), Hard Times (1885) and On Strike (1891). Von Herkomer was knighted in 1907 and died in 1914. His work is represented in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

A Pair of Whimsical Oil on Canvas Paintings of Playful Putti, in a woodland setting

An 18th Century Chinese Sang de Boef Lacquer Screen, comprised of six-panels and decorated pictorially with intricately carved lacquer scenes of pavillions, streams, strolling individuals with parasols, and everyday life

A Rare 5th Century Burmese Temple Colossus of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, executed in solid granite and presented on a bronze and mahogany pedestal

A 19th Century French Empire Bronze Doré Sculpture of a neoclassical muse reclining on a klismos bench, holding a fan and embracing a putto mounted on a issori verde stepped marble plinth resting on a shaped mahogany and burl wood base raised on conforming flattened bun feet

A Very Rare 200-300 A.D. Carved Stone Head of a Syrian Youth from the ancient Roman province of Syria presented on a later stand

A 16th Century and Possibly Earlier Italian Carved Polychrome Madonna and Child, retaining the original finish and exhibiting remarkable facial expressions and fabric draping of a master carver

An Italian Leather Bound Book in Latin “Divi Arelii Augustini”

A 19th Century French Parcel Drip Glazed Terra Cotta Jardinière, the glazes in varying tones of green and sable on an urn shaped form raised on a circular waisted socle