Sunday, May 22, 2011
Children’s knitted gloves, white, sailor applique, creamy white jacket, red collar, navy pants, legs are two middle fingers, made in Japan, 1950s, $25.
Tinsel picture, yellow basket of flowers and grapes, mahogany veneer frame, c. 1835, 17 x 21 inches, $260.
Bellhop candy container, composition head, felt cap, uniform with brass buttons, Germany, 1930s, 123/4 inches, $315.
American Brilliant Cut glass decanter, square, sterling spout and stopper, Hobstar and Prism design, stag horn handle, 91/2 inches, $325.
Ma-Le-Na skin medicine display sign, die-cut cardboard, embossed multicolor 3-fold of dancing can-can girls, “For Chapped Hands, Face & Lips,” 1890s, 13 x 12 inches, $330.
New England washstand, pine, shaped gallery, one drawer, original yellow ground, graining, fruit decoration, c. 1815, 36 x 17 x 13 inches, $470.
Ceil Chapman evening grown, acid-orange satin, draped, one shoulder strap, ankle length, 1950s, 26-inch waist, $895.
Queen Anne brass bedwarmer, round, hinged lid, tulips within sunflower, punched decorations, wrought-iron handle, hook, mid-1700s, 421/2 inches, $1,035.
Sevres gilt pitcher, Empire, baluster form, white ground with flaring neck, jasper classical bust below spout, scrolling handle, marked, c. 1804, 173/4 inches, $2,005.
Charles and Ray Eames chair, bright red rope-edge fiberglass shell, enameled steel and birch, Herman Miller and Zenith Plastics Co., 1950s, 263/4 inches, $6,250.