Browse Items (252 total)

  • Collection: Ware-Lyndon House Objects

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Portrait of Edward S. Lyndon. Original condition and gilded ornate frame. Signed lower left "Lucy May Stanton."

From Burke Hodgson:
"Portrait of Edward S. Lyndon by Lucy Stanton, the first Athenian artist to gain an international reputation (for…

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Octagonal pagoda-form, covered jar, with "Flow Blue" transfer printing on a white ground. The cover and jar sides with images of Chinese-style European scenes. The inner and outer rim, and the base, with rococo-styled flower and thistle bands. The…

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Small late American Empire styled case clock. This case has a blocked base and a door with flat molded veneer around the door. The clock face at the top of the case is slightly larger is one half of the height of the clock.The mirror is in the lower…

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A traditionally styled top hat of beaver on paper board frame with lower silk band above a wide brim. With the maker's label inside: Young Brothers, Brooklyn. Stored in a round paper board hat box made by Knox of New York, the exterior decorated with…

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Gothic Revival hall chair. Stylized trefoil decoration and Gothic strap work. Flat cut-out rather than dimensionally carved. Solid wood plank seat bottom. Simple angular legs.

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Empire secretary with bookcase; probably made in Clarke County, Georgia area; regional features include raised panels on drawer fronts, wooden mushroom knobs,; side scroll columns; feet are recessed scrolls; bookcase has double glazed doors with…

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Highly figured rosewood veneers and finely finished gloss period style finish. Molded raised lip on lid. Porcelain inserted bowl has marble veined coloring with wine colored Greek-key border on the upper edge of the bowl. Hole in the bottom of the…

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Mahogany dining table and four chairs c. 1940 Duncan Phyfe period style. Table has double pedestal and one extra leaf for the tabletop. The three reeded legs on each pedestal probably once had crossed lion paw feet. Chairs have sabre legs, slip seats…

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Five Rococo Walnut ca. 1860 Parlor Chairs in the mid-nineteenth century style typically used en suite with a sofa, and other pieces. These pieces consist of a Lady's medallion back chair and four balloon back side chairs.
The Lady's Chair has a…

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Two sets of matching Sheraton 1820 period chairs. These four chairs are typical of the high style cabinet makers of New York and Philadelphia and have elements of the French Empire style of the same period that was copied in America. Saber legs and…
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