item name: Portrait Miniature of a Prize Pig

item description: English, early 19th century. Oil on panel. A naive portrait miniature of a farmer's favorite pig. Provenance: Bermondsey Market, London

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions - Image
3.5" H X 4.75" W
8.89cm H X 12.1cm W

Overall Dimensions - Frame
4.5" H X 5.75" W
11.4cm H X 14.6cm W

item name: Portuguese Palissy Ware Plate, 19th Century

item description: Palissy style dish Portuguese, 19th century. Majolica.in the second half of the 19th century, Portuguese potters initated the work of Bernard Palissy, the 16th century French maker of ceramics adorned with fantastical fish, reptiles and sea creatures.provenance: Private Collection

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions
3.5" D X 9.5" Dia
8.89cm D X 24.1cm Dia

item name: Polynesian Tapa Cloth Folding Screen

item description:

Polynesian barkcloth or Tapa, hand made circa 1945 in the traditional technique with natural dyes and the inner bark of the paper-mulberry tree. Recently divided into four panels and mounted as a folding screen, the back finished with Curwen printed laid paper, stretched on lap-jointed poplar frame.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions
64" H X 52" W
163cm H X 132cm W

Each Panel:
64" H X 12.5" W
163cm H X 31.8cm W

item name: Castle On the Hudson River: A Sandpaper Painting

item description:

New York State, mid 19th century. Gouache on "sandpaper" ground. One of two pictures from the same hand in our collection, this idealized view expresses the Romantic sentiment found in views of the Rhine, which were quite popular in America at that time. The inclusion of a ruined castle, for atmosphere, and a small figure in a dinghy, for scale, show man and his works confronted with the effects of nature and time (an idea which informed much of the Hudson River school). The muted palette is typical of the popular "sandpaper" technique in which the painting is done on a panel prepared with marble powder mixed into the gesso. Some of these pictures were based on prints of the time, although no print source has yet been found for this picture. In original gilt frame and glass. Provenance: From a Schenectady estate.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions - image
8" H X 10.5" W
20.3cm H X 26.7cm W

Overall Dimensions - Frame
12" H X 14.5" W
30.5cm H X 36.8cm W