Antique Associates At West Townsend

06/12/2026

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06/10/2026

Nootka Totem Pole in Fine Original Paint

Classic angular features featuring an eagle followed by a bear, and a frog at the base.

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Classic angular features featuring an eagle followed by a bear, and a frog at the base.

06/08/2026

Black Ball Liner, Clipper Ship in New York Harbor, Signed Lower Left: L.A. Brigg
Lucius A. Briggs (American, 1852–1931), known for marine watercolors

A ship of the Black Ball Line, shown leaving New York with the New Jersey shoreline in the background.

Lucius A. Briggs (1852-1931) Very little is known about this artist. He was born in Massachusetts and the family moved to Providence, Rhode Island shortly after. He is noted as listed in the Boston City Directories in 1894 – 1896 as an artist. He died of Pneumonia in 1931. Marine paintings appear to have been his focus; the artist displayed excellent handling and knowledge of the subject.

His work is in the Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, MA, the Mariners Museum, Newport News, VA, and the Peabody Museum, Salem, MA

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Lucius A. Briggs (American, 1852–1931), known for marine watercolors

06/01/2026

Ralph Simpson Staffordshire Royal Charger, Portrait of King William lll
Staffordshire, England

Boldly signed at bottom rim “Ralph Simpson”, cream ground decorated in dark and light brown slip decoration featuring trellis border and chain of linked ellipses centering portrait of a crowned King William III with royal accoutrements of orb and scepter.

Ralph Simpson (1651-1721) was one a family of the most prominent Burslem, Staffordshire potters of the late 17th century, known specifically for his masterful slipware chargers. His “King William III” chargers are highly prized museum-grade pieces that depict the monarch following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Simpson was a contemporary of the famous Thomas Toft, and his work followed the “Toft style” – large, lead-glazed earthenware dishes decorated with liquid clay (slip) trailed onto the surface.

Like this one, The King William III chargers typically feature a central portrait of the King, holding an orb and scepter. The rims are almost always decorated with a distinctive trellis border (a crosshatch pattern) and Simpson’s signature, “RALPH SIMPSON,” trailed in slip at the bottom. These were made as display pieces, not for dining.

There was probably two Ralph Simpsons, father and son, and it is thought that the one mentioned above who made these chargers is the son.

Related chargers by Ralph Simpson are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Staffordshire, England

05/29/2026

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05/27/2026

Fine and Rare Painted Étagère
New England

This stylish étagère may have been conceived as part of a bridal suite based on the rare use of a white painted background. As depicted, in original white paint featuring green trim, posts with beaded edges, shelves with molded edges and original brasses.

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New England

05/22/2026

Lemuel Eldred, Painting, Seascape, Signed and Dated – 1880
Lemuel D. Eldred (American, 1850-1921)

Marine painter and etcher Lemuel D. Eldred was born and raised in Fairhaven, Massachusetts near New Bedford’s whaling community. He studied for a short time at the Academie Julian in Paris (1880) and traveled throughout Europe (1883) but he claimed he was self-taught. He exhibited in Boston and at the National Academy in 1876. His work is represented in the Peabody Museum of Salem, MA, the Old Dartmouth Historical Society and the Kendall Whaling Museum. Little is known about Eldred’s life. In 1876 he moved to Boston where he established a studio and became a sought-after, popular marine painter.

Eldred painted realistic canvases in oil of Boston Harbor, the Maine Coast, New York and often in the seaport town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts where he painted outdoor scenes.

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Lemuel D. Eldred (American, 1850-1921)

05/20/2026

A Federal Chest Featuring Outstanding Book Matched Crotch Birch Veneers

A slightly overhanging molded top over a cockbeaded case containing four drawers on molded base raised on applied bracket feet. Wonderful brass pulls…oval plates featuring relief images of a recumbent Amphitrite, Goddess of the sea watching over a ship.

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A slightly overhanging molded top over a cockbeaded case containing four drawers on molded base raised on applied bracket feet. Wonderful brass pulls…oval plates featuring relief images of a recumbent Amphitrite, Goddess of the sea watching over a ship.

05/18/2026

Shaker, Large Oval Storage Box, New Lebanon

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05/15/2026

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