item name: English Delft Plate With "Apple Slice" Flowers

item description: Fine and rare plate made ca. 1780, with three sets of flowers, one each of "apple slice" and "clobbered red" design, set against finely drawn faux-fluted background. A similar plate is in the Longridge collection (see Longridge D.168). One small hairline crack, no restoration.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions
8.75" Dia
22.2cm Dia

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item name: English Delft Charger With Bird in a Tree

item description: Exceptional Delft charger from Liverpool, 1760 - 1770. An identical charger is in the Victoria & Albert Museum collection (see Archer, Delftware V & A number B.172). Small chips on the edge of the rim, as expected for a large tin-glazed ceramic of this age. No restoration.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions
14.25" Dia
36.2cm Dia

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item name: Folk Grain Painted Chest With Zinc Lining

item description: Folk grain painted wood chest from upstate New York with original fittings for cold storage: double wood lid and insulated zinc lining. Deep faux grain paint over beautifully aged wood. Turned wood knobs on outer and inner lid. Iron handles on sides. Said to be a ship’s locker. Late 19th century.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions
26" H X 42" W X 25" D
66cm H X 107cm W X 63.5cm D

price: $2,900

item name: Toys From Japan: Meiji Wood Block Prints

item description: Rare set of wood block prints illustrating Omocha, toys, from the Meiji period. These toys were more than playthings for children. Many were derived from amulets with symbolic content rooted in Japanese folklore.in 1887 Shimizu Seifu (1851-1913) founded the "Hobbyhorse Club" dedicated to "the merry and nostalgic enjoyment of children's toys". Seifu, who was an artist, a wealthy trader and a student of Japanese folklore, assembled a large collection of children's toys and published a series of books cataloging his collection. The series, Unai no tomo (The Child's Friends), numbered ten volumes, six by Seifu and four by the painter Nishizawa Tekiho (1889 - 1965). The prints shown here are from the first edition of volume 6, printed in Kyoto in 1891. Presented in museum mats and ebonized ash frames with non-reflective conservation glass.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions
13" H X 10" W
33cm H X 25.4cm W

Overall Dimensions
8" H X 5.75" W
20.3cm H X 14.6cm W

price: $475