Kaminski Annual Thanksgiving Auction
Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 27-28 at 10AM EST
Auction Gallery 117 Elliott Street (route 62)
Beverly, Massachusetts.
Preview: Monday-Friday, Nov. 22-26, 10AM-5PM
No preview on Thursday, November 25 for Thanksgiving Day.
Days of sale beginning at 8AM.
Preview is open while auction is live.
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BEVERLY, MASS. — Kaminski Auctions’ annual Thanksgiving auction will be conducted November 27-28 at the firm’s auction. Saturday features the estate of August Van Der Becq of Westport, Mass., as well as Part Two of the Anthony Athanas wine collection with more than 100 lots of wine on offer from his Pier 4 restaurant cellar. On Sunday, the auction will present an Aaron Willard tall clock with signed dial from the Cabot family of West Newbury, Mass., as well as a collection of American furniture.

Day One, the August Van Der Becq estate features more than 75 clocks and 100 lots of notable paintings, prints and sculpture. European mantel clocks include a Nineteenth Century Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris, figural clock, an Eighteenth Century boulle and gilt and bronze clock, which is signed Duru à Paris.

Clocks continue with a Nineteenth Century French ormolu bronze chariot clock, a Tiffany & Co. French marble figural clock with doré bronze putti, gilt bronze doves and porcelain dial, an early Nineteenth Century French figural clock, with a young girl, a dog and a porcelain dial signed Balthazard, Paris, as well as an early Nineteenth Century Egyptian Revival gilt bronze mantel clock by Pierre-Guillaume Bausse, marked Meridien Boulevard d’Antin, Paris.

Clock collectors will not want to miss this extraordinary collection of clocks as it features a complete watch repairman workshop, including tools, hundreds of clock parts, clock works, file cabinets with French clock movements, mahogany and tiger maple veneer, hardware and bolts. The clock repair workshop will be sold in one lot and will be available in its entirety for pick up at the estate, at 40 Piquot Trail, Westport, Conn.

Leading the fine art category is a Maurice Prendergast (American, 1858-1924) watercolor on paper titled “Trees against the Mountain,” #157, signed “Prendergast.” This work is pictured in the Maurice and Charles Prendergast catalogue raisoneé and is being offered with provenance from the August Van Der Becq collection.

Also featured is a painting by John George Brown, N.A., titled “Peeling Apples.” The oil on canvas is signed J.G. Brown. A romantic painting by Narcisse Virgilio de la Peña the French painter from the Barbizon school titled Lover’s Dream,” signed and labeled N. Diaz (de la Pena), is presented in its original carved gilt gesso and wood frame.
The Westport estate includes paintings by Felicex Sel, Emile van Marcke, Charles Emile Jacque, Carl Lasch, John Gilbert, Godfried Schalcke, Charles Daubigny, Rosa Bonheur, Jean-Baptiste Courant, J.J. Hughes, R.B.A. 1885, and Jules Dupre, among others. Many have gallery labels or their original Sotheby’s/Parke Bernet labels. There are additions from other estates, including a Raymond Dabb Yelland coastal scene and other artists, including Charles Edwin Lewis Green, Harry Aiken Vincent, Owen Cullen Yates and many others.

European furniture will be presented on the first day and features a set of four late Louis XV grey-painted voyeuses chairs by Claude Chevigny, circa 1770, with provenance from Christie’s, New York, sale 2775, October 22, 2013, a Nineteenth Century Louis XVI-style writing desk with parquetry inlay and ormolu mounts and a Louis XVI-style marquetry inlaid six-drawer chest with white marble top and serpentine front. There is an unusual early Twentieth Century French brass bedroom set that includes a chifferobe, double bed and a pair of night tables.

Saturday finishes with Part Two of the Anthony Athanas Pier Four wine collection. More than 100 lots of collectible wines that have been stored in the General Glover wine cellar in Swampscott, Mass., will be on offer.

Sunday highlights include a Tiffany Studios bronze Aladdin lamp stamped on the base and numbered #579. It stands 53 inches high and 16 inches wide with a 7½-inch shade. From the same collection comes a Tiffany Studios lamp with a turtleback shade, marked #6143, Tiffany Studios, New York; and a Tiffany eight-piece bronze desk set in the Zodiac pattern.

Another highlight of Sunday’s auction is an Aaron Willard tall case clock with signed dial from the Cabot family of West Newbury, Mass. ($8/12,000).

A variety of American furniture from the estate of Libby and Harvey Moore features in Sunday’s auction. American furniture highlights include a William and Mary two-part chest with three drawers, an Eighteenth Century American Chippendale mahogany slant-front desk, with the interior boasting three fan-carved drawers with block fronts over four drawers, and ball-and-claw feet; another Eighteenth Century tiger maple Chippendale slant front desk; and a circa 1795, Portsmouth, N.H., Federal bowfront mahogany and satinwood chest with 12 original panel drawers.

English furniture is also well represented with a pair of early Nineteenth Century English Hepplewhite card tables with satinwood banded inlay as the top lot in its category. The tables come with a Hammer Galleries, Fifth Avenue, New York document, which states, that these tables are “Part of the collection of works of art and antiques assembled by the late Clarence H. Mackay (trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1929-1932) supplemented by several celebrated collections, including art objects and antiques originally owned by the Duke of Portland, the Duke of Marlborough, Princess Marie Louise, the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Kinnoull, Baron Leopold de Rothschild and Lord Robert Cavendish.” English furniture continues with a Nineteenth Century English mahogany bibliothèque cabinet from a Palm Beach estate.

Other items of interest include a Franz Bergmann (Austrian/American, 1861-1936) Nineteenth Century sculptured bone figure of a young nude woman wearing a retractable mink coat and hat, and a 1920s life-size bronze sculpture of a flapper girl, signed D. Chiparus.

Preview hours are Monday to Friday, November 22-26, 10 am to 5 pm; no preview on Thursday, November 25, for Thanksgiving. Preview begins at 8 am the days of the sale and the preview is open while the auction is live. The auction will begin at 10 am EST each day at the Kaminski Auctions gallery at 117 Elliott Street (Route 62).
For additional information, www.kaminskiauctions.com, 978-927-2223 or 508-367-4311.

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Kaminski Auctions is pleased to present the estate of August Van Der Becq of Westport, Connecticut which includes an outstanding selection of fine art, furniture, and furnishings. There is also a collection of exceptional European mantel clocks and and an important Aaron Willard clock. Day two features an Americana collection.
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