One of the highlights in the sale is this bronze statue of a nude figure, sculpted by Dutch artist Jean van Dongen (1883-1970). Jean is the brother of famous painter Kees van Dongen who was a part of Fauvism movement around 1900. This unusual piece is signed “Van Dongen” at the base and wears a gilt-bronze finish. The statue is estimated at $10,000-15,000 and available for bidding now. Click here to bid

Another decorative highlight from the sale is a pair of Meissen figures. Meissen porcelain was directly influenced by Chinese porcelain and was a very popular style during the first half of 18th Century. Most anyone who collects or deals in antiques knows that two crossed swords is the mark of Meissen Porcelain. These two figures represent female warriors from two different continents, one American, the other African. These figures are estimated at $6,000-$8,000 and available for bidding now. Click here to bid

Fine Art highlights include a circa 1890 Louis Contoit (Canadian, fl. 1883 - 1904) painting. Little is known about this painter except for the fact that his preferred subject matter was dog portraits. He exhibited several paintings at the National Academy of Design in New York City, including Little Pets in 1883, and Fetch in 1885. The painting is mounted on a period frame and placed in a glass and wood enclosure for preservation. It is estimated at $8,000-12,000 and available for bidding now. Click here to bid

Thai Bronze Buddha

Sold by: Elder’s Antiques

Price Realized
$ 16,800

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Asian photo album with approx (70) photographs

Sold by: Southbay Auctions

Price Realized
$ 7,801

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Chinese 20th C. Ink & Color on Paper Hanging scroll

Sold by: Elder’s Antiques

Price Realized
$ 6,120

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Al Hirschfeld Lithograph, The Beatles at Abbey Road, (American, 1903-2003)

Sold by: Nye & Company

Price Realized
$ 5,161

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Leica VIIIs Projector with 5cm f/2 Summar and POLAR Stereo Projection Accessory Equipment

Sold by: Everard & Company

Price Realized
$ 5,066

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Other notable lots include:

Chinese 20th C. Jadeite Bowl
$ 4,221

Chinese Qing Dynasty Circular Double D Form Hardwood Table
$ 3,960

Nippon-Kogaku 5cm f/2 Chrome
$ 3,720

Leica Tri-Lens Turret OROLF
$ 3,360

Rare Nippon Regno-Nikkor 5cm f/2 Chrome for Hansa Seiki/Canon
$ 3,300

The sale includes a photograph by Canadian-born American photographer Robert Polidori. Polidori (1951-) started his fine-art photographer career in the early 80s and won the World Press Award in 1998 and the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography in 1999 and 2000. The photograph is dubbed “Senora Faxas Bedroom Number 1″ and it’s from Polidori’s Havana series from 1997. It is estimated at $7,000 – 10,000 and available for bidding now. Click here to bid

Featuring in the sale is a photograph of Dr. Lothar Kalinowsky by the famous fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon (1923-2004). A New York native, Avedon started his career as a photographer for the Merchant Marines in 1942. Later, he was discovered by Alexey Brodovitch, the art director for the fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar, where he started doing fashion photography. This photograph is estimated at $4,000 – 6,000 and available for bidding now. Click here to bid

Another highlight from the sale is from a photographer that was featured in many previous Daniel Cooney’s auctions, Edward Weston. The vintage 1937 photograph depicts Eel River Ranch in California at a time before industrialization. On the reverse, there are annotations by Dody Weston Thompson concerning a project with E. Power Biggs. This photograph is estimated at $3,000 – 4,000 and available for bidding now. Click here to bid

Indian and Sri Lankan Ivory

Ivory was one of the favourite material of artisans in central Asia and India. Small ivory inlaid wooden articles and furniture were popular in Mughal India. At an earlier date ivory objects carved in India were traded throughout the Roman and Byzantine empires. In the eastern Indian city of Orissa from the 16th to the 19th centuries skilled carvers produced ivory decorative objects as well as large scale furniture. Other ivory centres in India, such as Vishakhapatnam, specialised in ivory inlaid or ivory veneered furniture made for the western market. Much of this furniture is decorated with foliate patterns with blackened details. The finest examples are well designed as furniture and as decorative objects incorporating incised designs.

The above excerpt was taken from “Asian Art” (2002) by Lark E. Mason

MUGHAL CARVED IVORY AND TORTOISESHELL VENEERED CABINET, 17TH CENTURY

Sold during iGavel’s Asian, Ancient and Ethnographic Works of Art Auction on May 1st, 2013 for $75,000 with Buyer’s Premium over 44 bids

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Chinese Grayish-White Jade Cup Stand, 20th Century

Sold by: Lark Mason Associates

Price Realized
$ 216,001

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Chinese ‘Three Friends’ Rhinoceros Horn Libation Cup, 17th/18th Century

Sold by: Lark Mason Associates

Price Realized
$ 162,000

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Chinese Huanghuali and Hongmu Cabinet with Carved Dragon Doors, 20th Century

Sold by: Lark Mason Associates

Price Realized
$ 144,133

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Chinese Enamel Decorated Porcelain Peach Vase, 18th Century

Sold by: Lark Mason Associates

Price Realized
$ 138,600

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Chinese Archaistic Rhinoceros Horn Cup, 17th/18th Century

Sold by: Lark Mason Associates

Price Realized
$ 120,000

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Other notable lots include:

Chinese Rhinoceros Horn Lotus Decorated Cup, 17th Century
$ 110,400

Chinese Gilt Bronze Standing Buddha on Lotus Base, 17th/18th Century
$ 108,136

Chinese Rhinoceros Horn Libation Cup with Magnolia and Prunus, Late 17th Century
$ 96,000

Chinese Imperial Ancestor Portrait, Color Inks on Silk, 19th Century
$ 90,000

Alexander Calder, American, 1898-1976, “Red Core,” 1966, Gouache
$ 81,000

 

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The painting highlights include a Jean-Pierre Cassigneul oil on canvas dubbed La Roseraie (The Rose Garden). The painting features a portrait of a female figure wearing an elegant dress and an oversized hat. It is a great example of the French artist’s favorite choice of subject matter. This painting is estimated at $35,000-50,000 and available for bidding now. Click here to bid

Another painting featured in the auction is an acrylic on canvas by the Italian artist Nicola Simbari. The following excerpt about the artist’s technique was taken from Wally Findlay Galleries website where his work was featured before being acquired by the current owner:

“Just as Simbari’s style in painting is his own, so his technique in painting is his own. He is meticulous and exacting in the choice of materials: he accepts only the finest canvas and prepares it with care; he has his colors ground by a family in northern Italy who have been engaged in this work for three hundred years; he mixes his own pigment. He is continuously developing new graduations of color or new colors, and exults when he has succeeded in adding a more brilliant one to the range of his palette, When he uses a brush, it is only to create the background of the painting, which is then completed with palette knives of which he has about twenty-five sizes ranging from very tiny ones to huge ones.”

 

The painting is estimated at $5,000-7,000 and available for bidding now. Click here to bid

The sale includes many fine pieces of silverware, including a MRR Mexico 4 piece Heavy Sterling Silver Tea Set. The set consists of two pots, a creamer and a sugar bowl with lid and is in excellent condition. It is estimated at $2,500-3,000 and available for bidding now. Click here to bid

Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959) Oil on Board, Tornado & Buffalo, American, 20th C.

Sold by: Nye & Company

Price Realized
$ 30,000

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Louis XV Ormolu-Mouted Marquetry Marble Top Commode, French, mid-18th C.

Sold by: Nye & Company

Price Realized
$ 16,800

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Pair of Charles X Gilt-Bronze Sixteen-Light Torcheres, French, 19th C.

Sold by: Nye & Company

Price Realized
$ 16,200

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Extremely Rare Walnut Cheese Dish With Steel Scimitar, English, 18th C.

Sold by: Nye & Company

Price Realized
$ 14,400

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Chinese Baluster Shaped Blue & White Porcelain Vase

Sold by: Litchfield County Auctions

Price Realized
$ 13,320

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Other notable lots include:

Oil on Canvas, “In His Father’s Footsteps,” Samuel Edmund Waller (English, 1850-1903)
$ 12,000

Comb-Back Black Painted Windsor Armchair, Pennsylvania, late 18th/19th C.
$ 10,320

Tiffany & Company 14K Yellow Gold Tourmaline and Enamel Brooch, 20th C.
$ 10,262

Pair of Chinese Porcelain Vases, 20th C.
$ 6,900

Oil on Canvas, “Noon Day Rest,” Edward Moran (American, 1829-1901)
$ 6,000

The sale includes a Western painting by Maynard Dixon, which was executed in 1922 while he was traveling in Arizona. The dramatic cloud formations that his trip inspired became a signature aspect of the artist’s later works. The painting has descended through multiple generations of a prominent Northern California family. This painting is now available for bidding and estimated at $30,000-50,000. Click here to bid

Another highlight from the sale is a stained glass “Daffodil” Tiffany Studios table lamp. It is one of three Tiffany lamps from a local collection offered in the sale. The lamp bears a bronze base with sculpted and applied organic forms supporting a leaded glass shade in the daffodil pattern. This lamp is estimated at $30,000-40,000 and available for bidding now. Click here to bid

The sale also features a 20th Century Men’s Gold Rolex President Watch. This day-date watch is made out of 18k yellow gold and decorated with aftermarket diamonds around its bezel with gold linen used to dress the face of the watch. This watch is estimated at $5,000-7,000 and available for bidding now. Click here to bid

Qualities is a part of our efforts to celebrate our Asian, Ancient and Ethnographic Works of Art auction. SOME OF The items highlighted in the posts will be available for bidding during the auction.

Chinese Jade

Carved stone cylinder seals were used extensively in the Mesopotamian area beginning
around 3500 BCE as a means of recording ownership of property or establishing authorship for documents on clay tablets. These seals would be decorated with mythological figures or other devices which would be unique to the owner. Carved from agate, rock crystal, lapis or other materials, the cylinder seal was the precursor to the signet ring and other types of carved small stone articles commonly found in many Asian cultures.

The most popular of these stones and that most often associated with Asia is jade. There are two types of stone which are commercially referred to as jade: nephrite and jadeite. Nephrite is the more often found material, usually in dark green, white, pale green, brown and occasionally yellow. It is an extremely hard stone, registering 5.5 to 6.5 on the Mohs hardness scale, and cannot be scratched by steel. Jadeite has a more granular texture and appears in bright emerald and other shades of green, lavender, black, brown and white. The most valuable stones are emerald green and very translucent. Jadeite was not used as a material for carving in China before the 18th century and most examples date from the late 19th or 20th centuries. Other stones and materials used in small carved articles ale coral, agate, amber and rock crystal.

The above excerpt was taken from “Asian Art” (2002) by Lark E. Mason

CHINESE DARK GREEN JADE SEAL WITH IMPERIAL BILINGUAL INSCRIPTION, 20TH CENTURY

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PAIR OF CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE MUGHAL STYLE CHRYSANTHEMUM DISHES, 20TH CENTURY

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