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THREE PIECES OF FOLK ART SEWERTILE. Molded rabbit (glued split), 5 1/2h.; hand formed ashtray with a dog, 4 3/4h. and a hand formed advertising suitcase for Superior Clay Corp., Uhrichsville, Ohio, 2 1/2h. All are initialed either RLW or RL(W) for Ralph Wilson who worked at Superior & Evans Corp.

CARVED WOODEN FOLK ART DIORAMA. Various scenes of western Indian life consisting of training horses, camp fire, log cabins and gathering firewood. Reputedly Shawnee. Six pieces mounted on plywood, the largest is 26w. 12d. 10h.

OHIO FIGURAL SEWERTILE LAMP. Tree with a kneeling woman, all in polychrome glaze. Pictured in Jack Adamson's Illustrated Handbook of Ohio Sewer Pipe Folk Art and titled the Madonna Lamp. Stamped Fiersto's 1941 and inscribed on the base J.W. Moore Stark Brick Co. Canton, O. 1941. 11 1/2h. plus lamp parts.

FOLK ART WHIMSEY. Wooden articulated circle. 11 1/2d.

CATLIN, GEORGE. North American Indians. 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1926. 8vo., orig. red pictorial cloth gilt, d.ws. Maps and colour plates. With another volume (Frances Lichten. Folk Art of Rural Pennsylvania, New York, 1946). (3)

A rare ash ladderback 'Whalers' armchair North American probably New England late 18th century with turned supports and a rush seat each arm terminating in a stylised Sperm Whale heads losses and re-tipping h.131cm. w.56cm. For another American ladderback armchair without these whale motifs see Victor Chinnery Oak Furniture The British Tradition Woodbridge 1979 p. 522 fig. 4.253. Wallace Nutting Furniture of the Pilgrim Century Dover 1965 Vol. 1 p. 271 pl. 485 illustrates a similar chair which he writes originates from Connecticut. Broke Jobe and Myrna Kaye New England Furniture: The Colonial Era Boston 1984 p. 312 item. 79 illustrate and discuss another 'slat-back' armchair which originates from Eastern Massachusetts with similar scrolled arms and flattened bobbin mouldings to its stretcher rails. The eastern sea board of New England has a strong whaling tradition with centres such as Nantucket famously associated with this industry. The naively carved representations of a Sperm Whale to each arm of this chair are very unusual but relate closely to a folk art tradition associated with whaling and usually evidenced in scrimshaw work. W

A folk art model of a House with painted detail, 10in

Pine double door cupboard painted in the folk art manner with flowers on a red, black and ochre ground, 52" wide

Charles W. Stewart- 'Saint Demetrios from a wall painting in the Church of Ahioi Anargyroi Kastoria, Macedonia', original costume study; pencil and watercolour, inscribed extensively, and inscribed and dated 28th Sept 1075 on the reverse, 27x19.5cm: together with one other similar costume study titled: 'Sketch of a costume of the Thracian Sarakatsani, in the Museum of Folk Art at Thessaloniki', similarly inscribed and dated, (2)

A folk art carved wood cigar store Indian, wearing stylised native costume and a head dress of feathers, 56cm (22in)

A comical folk art wooden carved figure by Lynn Muir , modelled as bespectacled gentleman wearing slippers hand painted in colours 30cm high, signed Lynn Muir to underside.

American Folk Art Wooden Box

A Victorian Folk Art painted model of a three mast tall ship, mounted in a carved wooden frame, painted with other ships and panorama, 43ins and another similar, 25ins

Cave, C. J. P. Roof Bosses in Medieval Churches. An Aspect of Gothic Sculpture. Cambridge, 1948; Vallance, Aylmer. Old Crosses and Lychgates. N. d. [1920]. Cautley, H. Munro. Suffolk Churches and Their Treasures. Second Edition, 1928; Esdaile, Katharine. English Monumental Sculpture Since the Renaissance. 1927; Kendon, Frank H. Mural Paintings in English Churches During the Middle Ages. A Intrductory Essay on the Folk Influence in Religious Art. 1923. Together with 9 other books relating to mediaeval churches, architecture and art. Various formats and bindings. (14).

AN ANTIQUE FOLK ART PRIMITIVE TEA CADDY in the form of a cottage with hinged rising lid and painted decoration, on rectangular plinth, 7" wide.

A small collection of treen and folk art, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, the group includes a shell and painted panoramic harbour scene contained within a glazed box frame, 19th centurya lignum vitae and cocunt cup and cover, circa 1810three leather minature leather shoes, 19th centurya chip carved oak pocket watch container, 19th centurya wrought iron and oak candle holder, 17th centurya boldly carved snuff box, 19th century, together with a boxwood whistle and egg timer and an assortment of various lignum vitae, boxwood and oak vessels and containers (21) shell pictureh.22cm., w.35cm., cup and coverh.23cm."

A George Nakimishi style driftwood folk art coffee table the elaborate yew top of natural irregular form, upon tapered legs, 142cm l x 42cm h.

A Russian black lacquered painted oval tray, the centre decorated with a folk art scene of people dining and two similar trays decorated with paintings of horse drawn sleigh and cart, all with gilt patterned borders, 11.5ins 13ins

Folk Art. An unusual dated Victorian briarwood and penwork walking cane, decorated with the sun and moon, owls, a carpenter at his work bench, the soldier's farewell and other scenes all beneath the crown VR and date 1861, 86cm l Varnish lost near handle but in overall good condition

A late 19th/early 20th century moon flask by J Fischer, Budapest, the one side decorated with a folk girl in a field and folk musicians in the background, the other side profusely decorated with stylised flowers in the Art Nouveau manner and having twin pierced gilt handles, height 28cm

A 19TH CENTURY FOLK ART PAINTED LEATHER FOUR FOLD DRAUGHT SCREEN each fold set three panels 17th century figure subjects with animals and flowers in studded frame, 70 1/2" high and 76" wide.

FOLK ART; A cutwork Valentine picture, the centre with pierced heart inscribed 'W and R 1822' amongst script inscribed 'Learning is to be attained by study and not by idleness - fear God' and also cut with peacocks, further birds, flowers and churches in the spandrels, 7 1/4" x 9".

A late 19th/early 20th Century American folk art carved wood wall mounted stick rack, modelled as Caesar holding a snake, 61cm diameter, 32cm high.

A late 19th Century American 'Folk Art' wooden money box, formed as a tilting bird feeding a crocodile

A NINETEENTH CENTURY 'FOLK ART' WATCH CASE, in the form of a grandfather clock, with bone inlay and heart motifs, 11in high.

A 19th century American folk art carved wood figure of a lady, 2ft 6ins, together with a similar carved wood model of a running dog, 16ins (both a.f.)

Koyama (Fujio) editor, Japanese Ceramics, Oakland, California 1961 (dw); Miller (Roy Andrew), Japanese Ceramics; Mitsuoka (Tadanari), Ceramic Art of Japan; Yoshino (Tomio), Japanese Lacquer ware; Muraoka (Kageo) & Okamura (Kichiemon), Folk Arts and Crafts of Japan; Hayashi (Ryoichi), The Silk Road and the Shoso-in; Okamoto (Yoshitomo), The Namban Art of Japan; Bowie (H P), On the Laws of Japan Painting; Abbute (F), Japanese Art; Komatsu (Isao), The Japanese People; Blacker (J F), The ABC of Japanese Art; Gonse (Louis), L'Art Japonais and a Book of Namban Art

Boger (H Batterson), The Traditional Arts of Japan, London 1964 (dw); Smith, Harris and Clark, Japanese Art Masterpieces in the British Museum; Johnes (R), Japanese Art; Royal Academy of Arts, The Great Japanese Exhibition of Art of the Edo Period 1600-1868; Swann (P C), An Introduction to the Arts of Japan; Rhodes (D), Tamba Pottery; Hillier (J R), Japanese Drawings 17th century to the end of the 19th century; Munsterberg (Hugo), The Arts of Japan; Asia House 1963, Tea Taste in Japanese Art; Yanagi Soetsu, What is the folk-crafts?

English Folk Art: an unusual carved wooden head and neck of a man, stylised with flattened face and carved collar and zigzag decoration, with letters ISIH inscribed in reverse, 11cm high, holes in ears at sides, plus a tribal woven basket in brown and terracotta rush, 31cm diameter (2)