item name: Pair of Realist Still Life By Artist Eliot Candee Clarke [1883-1980]

item description: American born artist who was the son of impressionist landscape painter Walter Clark [1848-1917]. Studied at the Art Students League under John Twachtman (a family friend), under his father, and in Paris in 1904-1906. Eliot Candee Clark taught at the Art Student's League in New York City and New York City College. The pair of paintings are from his studies in Paris (both 1904). The paintings where sold by Clark's family directly and are not signed. the still life are typical period studies for students learning to newly paint (he was 21 when he painted these) and he kept them his whole life to remember his early Paris studies. Most of his later work was of landscape. both paintings have been completely restored, They were relined previously. The paintings have been claned and re-varnished as part of the new restoration.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions - unframed (each)
12" H X 8.5" W
30.5cm H X 21.6cm W

price: $5,600

item name: Lavender Farm in Provence

item description: Bright, mid-century view of a lavender farm in Provence. Watercolor over pencil. From a folio of views done in 1950 by a British artist traveling in southern France. the scene is shown from above and has a somewhat "orthogonal" perspective increasing the subtle modern feel of the image.

Dimensions: Image Dimensions
10" H X 14" W
25.4cm H X 35.6cm W

Outer Dimensions (mat)
14" H X 18" W
35.6cm H X 45.7cm W

price: $650

item name: English Delft Plate With Chinese Garden

item description: English Delft Plate with Peony, Pine, Prunus and Hollow Rock probably Bristol, circa 1760. 9” in diameter the garden in the center of this dish is derived, like much English Delft, from Chinese porcelain prototypes. The peony, the large flower on the left, is a symbol of spring.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions
9" W
22.9cm W

price: $1,100

item name: English Delft Plate With Gamers in a Chinese Garden

item description: 18th century English Delft plate, 9" in diameter. A man and a woman sit at a table in a Chinese garden, playing a game (the man holds a tossing cup and there are two groups of gaming pieces on the table). The central scene is contained in an octagonal reserve against the powder-blue ground. There are eight shaped reserves on the rim, four containing flying birds and four with artemisia leaves (both motifs are commonly found as marks on the bottom of 18th c. Chinese blue and white porcelain). Three sprigs decorate the back of the rim. The design of this plate is quite scarce.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions
9" W
22.9cm W

price: $2,600