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18th & 19th C. Antiques & Decorative Arts
6:00 AM PT - Jan 4th, 2009

offered by
Brunk Auctions

PO Box 2135
Asheville, NC 28802
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Friday, January 2, 2009 from 1-8pm

413 Items

Lot Description Estimates
(USD)
765 Lot 765

Boulle marble-top cabinet,
single cabinet door and shelved interior, elaborate boulle d...

400
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800
766 Lot 766

Painted and gilt floor lamp,
tapered wooden shaft with acanthus leaves and petals at eith...

200
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400
767 Lot 767

19th century Victorian painting,
group of cherubs playing music on a cloud, unsigned, oil on ...

300
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600
768 Lot 768

Brass and copper jewelry cask,
architectural format with spiral columns supporting dentil-m...

500
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1,000
769 Lot 769

Boulle jewelry box,
brass inlaid tortoise with scrolled ormolu feet, empty brass...

300
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600
770 Lot 770

Boulle ink stand,
tortoise with brass inlay, two lidded ink wells, pen tray, b...

300
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600
771 Lot 771

Boulle inlaid center table,
elaborately inlaid brass and tortoise surface with bronze co...

300
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600
772 Lot 772

14 leather-bound books:
eleven full leather, three half leather, three with tree cal...

300
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600
773 Lot 773

14 leather-bound books:
includes four volumes [Don Quixote], 11 full leather, three ...

250
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500
774 Lot 774

24 leather-bound books:
detailed listing available. Provenance: Private Collection

250
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500
775 Lot 775

13 leather-bound books:
all with full leather bindings, several with ornate gilt dev...

200
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400
776 Lot 776

Andrew Kippis, Captain James Cook,
[The Life of Captain James Cook,] first edition, published b...

400
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800
777 Lot 777

Twelve leather-bound volumes:
[The Works of Henry Fielding], Scribners, New York, 1898, li...

250
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500
778 Lot 778

Charles Dickens, watercolors:
46 books, [The Works of Charles Dickens,] published by Dodd,...

1,000
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2,000
779 Lot 779

Thomas Carte, [Life of Ormonde,]
three volumes, London, 1736, probably original full leather ...

600
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1,200
780 Lot 780

English folding library ladder,
pine and other mixed woods, applied iron medallion "The Hath...

300
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600
781 Lot 781

16 leather-bound books:
four sets, mixed full and three-quarter leather, seven [Blev...

300
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600
782 Lot 782

Dresser, [Studies in Design],
Christopher Dresser, published by Cassell, Petter and Calpin...

300
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600
783 Lot 783

[The Writings of Bret Harte,]
20 volumes, blue/green morocco leather, raised spine labels,...

1,000
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1,500
784 Lot 784

12 leather-bound books:
in wooden book caddy, 9-3/4 x 13 x 7-3/4 in.; detailed listi...

300
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600
785 Lot 785

Campe's [Worterbucher Deutschen
Sprach] (dictionary of the German language), five of six vol...

150
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300
786 Lot 786

Charles W. Smith, [Old Charleston,]
The Dale Press, Richmond, Virginia, 1933, edition 1477/1550,...

150
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300
787 Lot 787

John T. Scopes autograph letter,
undated eleven-page typed manuscript entitled "Deep Roots" d...

300
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600
788 Lot 788

1783 Charleston slave document,
handwritten estate listing "Memorandum of the appraisement o...

300
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600
789 Lot 789

1863 Joseph Hooker autograph letter,
war-date ALS on "Headquarters, Army of the Potomac" letterhe...

400
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800
790 Lot 790

1862 South Carolina photograph,
albumen photograph of William Elliott's "Myrtle Bank" Planta...

200
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400
791 Lot 791

Italian Baroque style carved bracket,
fruitwood with tassel and foliate carving centering bust of ...

400
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800
792 Lot 792

Dutch Baroque style marquetry cabinet,
bombe form with serpentine drawer opening to six inlaid draw...

400
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800
793 Lot 793

Carlo Schwicker painting
(European, 19th century), man in a hat after Rembrandt, sign...

300
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600
794 Lot 794

Spanish baroque four-panel screen,
oak frame with leather panels, each panel with tooled and pa...

500
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1,000
795 Lot 795

German faience stein,
pewter top marked "JGS 1772", pewter thumbpiece, body with p...

250
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500
796 Lot 796

Dutch School miniature watercolor,
tavern scene with elegantly dressed couple, he with a flute ...

300
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600
797 Lot 797

Fine painted and carved miniature
chest, pine with dovetailed and pegged construction, early p...

1,000
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2,000
798 Lot 798

Dutch marquetry inlaid table,
double fold-over top with checkerboard playing surface and s...

1,000
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2,000
799 Lot 799

Pair fine Italian gouaches:
two views of the Bay of Naples, one with busy port and Vesuv...

2,000
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4,000
800 Lot 800

P. Lapira Italian gouache,
titled lower right [Napoli dal Carmine,] view of the Bay of ...

1,000
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2,000
801 Lot 801

Italian Provincial harvest table,
fruitwood, one end with single drawer, other end with pull-o...

500
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1,000
802 Lot 802

Pair French Provincial side chairs:
beech with basket, floral and drapery carved fruitwood back ...

200
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400
803 Lot 803

Italian Provincial inlaid side table,
walnut and other veneers, star-inlaid top, leather-lined wri...

300
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600
804 Lot 804

Pair toleware trees:
multi-colored daisies, chrysanthemums, lilies and other flow...

600
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1,200
805 Lot 805

Toleware chandelier,
central floral arrangement with multi-colored flowers and le...

300
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600
806 Lot 806

Italian Baroque style desk/bookcase,
burlwood veneers overall, upper section with mirrored door a...

1,500
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3,000
807 Lot 807

Venetian rococo style center table,
cartouche form top centering painted courting scene, flower ...

400
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800
808 Lot 808

Military portrait painting,
officer wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece, signed lower...

400
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800
809 Lot 809

Three porcelain apothecary jars:
pair lidded jars with urn finials and floral festoons, 9-1/2...

300
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600
810 Lot 810

Pair portrait medallion vases:
white glass with pale peach surface with gilt highlights, ea...

250
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500
811 Lot 811

Set of six Swedish Biedermeier style
dining chairs, comprising two arm and four sides, each with ...

2,000
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3,000
812 Lot 812

Set of four Biedermeier side chairs:
burlwood and ebonized, each with burlwood veneered tablet ba...

1,000
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2,000
813 Lot 813

H.D. Kruseman Van Elten painting
(Hendrik Dirk Kruseman Van Elten, Dutch, 1829-1904), signed ...

800
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1,500
814 Lot 814

Painting signed Dumoulin,
family with horse and dog near a cottage, distant windmill, ...

500
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1,000
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