By Greg Smith
This week’s picks scour upcoming auctions and our marketplace dealers to bring you works that would befit any distinguished collection. Whether you’re into Americana, antiquities, Twentieth Century, continental furniture or Art Deco, these pieces hail from some of the most distinguished makers and artists with fine detail that will be in favor for centuries to come.
THOMASTON PLACE AUCTION GALLERY
Sale Date: August 27, 2016
Lot 30
Nineteenth Century Cigar Store Indian
Trade figure of a Native American chief, in carved pine with an exceptional and original painted and varnished surface, attributed to Samuel Robb, New York City, circa 1880-1900, depicted with right hand to brow. On the original plinth, with later brass presentation plaque inscribed “To the National Association of Tobacco Distributors from the Cigar Institute of America, 1959”. Height 76″, Width 19.5″ square at base.
Estimate: $30/50,000
MACKLOWE GALLERY, LTD.
“Twelve-Light Lily” Tiffany Table Lamp
A Tiffany Studios New York “Twelve-Light Lily” patinated bronze and Favrile glass table lamp. The lamp features 12 iridescent gold Favrile glass shades suspended above a patinated bronze “Lily Pad” base.
Price Upon Request
AHLERS & OGLETREE
Sale Date: August 28, 2016
Lot 861
Fine English Regency Tortoiseshell Tea Caddy
English, early Nineteenth Century. An excellent sarcophagus form tea caddy, with tortoiseshell veneer panels between inlaid banding, with brass mounted paw feet and lion’s heads handles to either side. The hinged lid opens to reveal two fitted, lidded tortoiseshell compartments, each with original leaded interior, flanking a central cut glass cup. Lined in rose velvet. Apparently unmarked.
Estimate: $2/4,000
HOSTLER BURROWS
“Flora” Chest of Drawers by Josef Frank
Mahogany with applied botanical prints, Svenskt Tenn, Sweden circa 1950
Price Upon Request
JAMES D. JULIA
Sale Date: August 24-26, 2016
Lot 1378
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1926)
“Donkeys in a Desert, Morocco 1880”. Oil on wood panel housed in a fine carved & gilt wood frame. Unsigned, verso depicting a study of three Venetian gondolas.
Estimate: $80/120,000
JUST FOLK
Bill Traylor (1854-1947)
“Woman Pointing,” circa 1939-1942, poster paint and graphite on cardboard
Price Upon Request
ARTEMIS GALLERY
Sale Date: August 25, 2016
Lot 58
Rare Sassanian Silver Sword Handle
Central Asia, Sassanian (or Sasanian), Fifth to Sixth Century CE. Silver handle in the form of a feline. Tongue extended, floral decorations along the length of the handle, raised florettes as the mane, braided harness around the head. Remains of iron blade inside.
Estimate: $1,2/1,800
HYDE PARK ANTIQUES, LTD
George III Mahogany Serpentine Dressing Commodes
Two superb George III mahogany serpentine dressing commodes in the manner of William Vile, circa 1770, with foliate carved corbels set at the canted corners, flanking a partially fitted dressing drawer above three additional long drawers, set above a finely carved apron and bracket feet of conforming acanthus leaf design.
Price Upon Request
GREAT GATSBY’S
Sale Date: August 28, 2016
Lot 993
Pair of Monumental Art Deco Eagles
Pair of carved limestone eagles, after the originals mounted on the Federal Reserve Building, Chicago, Illinois, Height 96″
Estimate: $20/30,000
CARSWELL RUSH BERLIN, INC.
Marble, Burl and Rosewood Parcel-Gilt Cellaret
Important marble, burl and rosewood parcel-gilt cellaret, attributed to Duncan Phyfe (1770-1854), New York, circa 1815
Price Upon Request
