Showplace Auctions Live Estate Auction
Sunday, August 8, 12 pm
40 West 25th Street
New York, NY
212-633-6063
auctions@nyshowplace.com
www.nyshowplace.com

NEW YORK, CITY — Auctions at Showplace will continue the summer season with a New York City estate auction on Sunday, August 8, featuring 280 lots from New York City and the metropolitan area. Highlights include jewelry and silver, a Pop art acrylic on paper by Tom Slaughter, important Chinese and Korean porcelain, fashion and accessories from private New York City collections.

Highlights of the sale include a Korean Joseon dynasty white glazed large ceramic moon jar with a milky white appearance and spherical form. Featured lots continue with a set of four Nineteenth Century Korean framed painted silk panels from the Joseon dynasty depicting a mountainous landscape, probably with Geumgangsan (Diamond Mountain) in the distance, with flowers and birds, including ducks, geese, magpies and Durumi Hak red-crowned white cranes, possibly originally part of a Irworobongdo folding screen.

Additional Asian arts highlights include a Nineteenth Century Korean Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) court official embroidered rank apron/badge (hyungbae), ornamented in manja symbols, cranes, clouds and flowers. Next is a pair of Chinese porcelain vases with double dragon handles and figural motif decoration, depicting scenes with elder and youth, signed underside. It is followed by a pair of Chinese sancai glazed ceramic ginger jars with decoration of the Eight Immortals and the cover has peony decoration in relief. The sale includes a number of additional pieces of Chinese and Korean porcelain.

Featured fine art includes a maritime oil on canvas from the circle of Thomas Luny (British, 1759-1837) or William John Huggins (British, 1781-1845). The likely early Nineteenth Century, portrait of an East Indiaman off Dover features full-rig sailing vessels, including two ships flying the British flag, one of which is named Rockingham and an additional ship with an English East India Company flag. The water and sky are rendered in moody shades of green and grey. There is a paper label remnant affixed to frame reverse with partial text reading: “Arthur Ackermann…London…”

Next is a Pop art acrylic on paper by Tom Slaughter (American, 1955-2014) depicting a man, house and water tower. The sale also includes a colorful midcentury abstract composition by Nam Kwan (Korean, 1911-1990). It is followed by an oil on canvas by William John Wainwright (British, 1855-1931) depicting a lute player, with gallery label “J.M. Stringer” affixed to reverse. Next is a 1962 encaustic with beeswax, oil and pigment on canvas by Sascha Tebo/Thebeaud (Haitian, 1934-2004) housed in a hand-carved wood frame. Sculpture highlights include a 1980 brass and copper sculpture titled “Lot’s Wife # 3,”depicting a Biblical figure by Juan Nickford (Cuban, 1925-2011).

Decorative arts highlights begin with a late Eighteenth/early Nineteenth Century classical carved giltwood and gesso portrait bust of a Roman emperor or senator on a faux marble base. Also featured are two classical-style gilt plaster bust sculptures of Hermes of Praxiteles and Diana the Huntress, after the antique, each figure mounted to round socle base with a gold painted finish.

Silver seekers will find a 69-piece Manchester Silver Co. (Providence, R.I.) sterling silver “American Beauty” pattern flatware service comprising 12 weighted handle dinner knives, 12 dinner forks, 12 salad forks, 11 cream soup spoons, eight teaspoons, 12 solid individual spreaders, one serving spoon, and one serving spork, bearing cross and crown maker’s marks. The set weighs approximately 72.77 ounces. Also featured is a Gorham Mfg. Co. sterling silver three-piece tea service comprising a teapot with an ebonized wood handle, a covered sugar bowl, and a cream pitcher, bearing stamped maker’s marks to the underside. The set weighs approximately 39.93 ounces.

The sale also includes an Italian Stilnovo chandelier with six-light bases in a brass and black metal structure, each arm supporting a torch-like body with a black socket and long brass bar extending downward and an Emil Stejnar for Rupert Nikoll “Snowball” Sputnik chandelier.

Jewelry highlights include a rare Bueche-Girod 18K yellow gold lady’s dress watch with an oval tiger eye stone tiled dial and a florentine textured bracelet. Also included are a pair of Etruscan Revival 22K yellow gold and ruby granulated clip earrings, bezel-set with 14 round cabochon rubies; and also a Russian Faberge-style egg charm necklace with 11 enamel and gemstone (tiger’s eye, jade, sodalite, rhinestone and ruby) Faberge-style eggs (one a is a locket) mounted on a 14K gold chain marked: “Balestra Italy. Finally, a vintage Piaget 18K yellow gold scroll motif oval lady’s wristwatch accented with a round cabochon blue sapphire crown accompanied by a black crocodile strap bracelet, marked on buckle: 750/Swiss, will be offered.

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DCA # 2055937-DCA – Auction conducted by Amy Papola (DCA # 1244348-DCA)

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