Showplace Live Estate Auction
Sunday, March 6 at 12pm
40 West 25th Street, NYC
www.nyshowplace.com
212.633.6063 ext. 808
auctions@nyshowplace.com

NEW YORK CITY — Showplace continues the winter 2022 auction season with a grouping of 280 lots from New York City Metropolitan area estates on March 6. The sale includes fine art, jewelry and silver from New York City estates along with a collection of objects from several Upper East Side townhouses.

Highlights begin with an untitled abstract ink and watercolor on paper by Wassily Kandinsky signed and dated 1923 in a silver painted wooden frame. Featured lots also include an oil painting on masonite by Romeo Tabuena titled “Men And Nets” depicting fishermen at sea. The piece is signed and dated 1965 and has a gallery label from Galeria San Miguel in Mexico. Also of note is a Nineteenth Century Persian Senneh silk rug with an elaborate border surrounding a field of pale green with red and pink floral and vegetal elements.
Fine art opens with an oil on canvas by British artist Ellen Gertrude Cohen titled “Playing Coachman” depicting a small child playing with a puppet.
Next is an impressionistic landscape on canvas by French artist Rene Seyssaud. French art continues with a Parisian scene by Charles Cobelle and two midcentury impressionist landscapes by Andre Planson. The sale also includes works by Buck McCain, Salvador Dali, Brian Sweetland and Joelle Shallon.

Furnishings include a selection of Brazilian Midcentury Modern pieces. The section opens with a pair of Joaquim Tenreiro Brazilian Midcentury Modern armchairs with ultra-suede style upholstery, jacaranda wood legs and high backs trimmed with brass nail heads. Next is a Liceu De Artes e Oficios Brazilian Midcentury Modern armchair and ottoman with a jacaranda wood frame and gray poly-suede upholstery. Also featured is a Karl Springer pair of modern table lamps with white faux snakeskin covered pedestal bases on chrome plinths. A French Art Deco games table in wood veneer has a hinged folding top and green felt games top surface and chrome legs. Lighting is highlighted by a Lightolier Italian Modernist chandelier in brass and a Gaetano Sciolari Italian Modernist chandelier in brass.

The sale includes two pieces of Walt Disney artwork. First is a Walt Disney Studios “Mickey’s Trailer” model sheet, showing Mickey Mouse holding a can of coffee and a coffee pot. Next is a Walt Disney Studios “Bashful” of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves gouache on partial celluloid applied to a Courvoisier wood veneer background from 1937.

Also of note are three groupings of folk art doll hangings made from American and European tin boxes, beads, charms and doll parts. Several are signed Finke and one piece in the second grouping has an original Bergdorf Goodman sticker. Offerings also include a guitar signed by members of The Beatles. The S101 model 41420 guitar is signed by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and record producer George Martin, with the Apple Records logo printed on the lower left side.
Decorative arts highlights include a Russell Sanchez San Ildefonso pueblo ceramic pottery blackware jar with turquoise and shell accents dated 1981. Next is a Maurice Bouval (French, 1863-1916) patinated bronze figure of a dancing woman adorned in a flowing floral dress and holding a tambourine above her head.

Jewelry and luxury goods will feature a collection of estate and costume jewelry. Highlights include a vintage Chinese 24K yellow gold ornate granulated bracelet, marked “99” with Chinese characters. Next is a pair of antique Victorian 14K yellow gold repose high relief rococo-inspired lorgnette folding reading glasses accompanied by a long vintage Figaro-style link chain necklace. It is followed by a vintage Judith Leiber 18K yellow gold and diamond Pisces fish motif bypass fashion ring, accented with four bezel-set round brilliant diamond eyes. The collection also includes several lots of Montblanc luxury pens, including “Marcel Proust,” “Agatha Christie” and “Friedrich Schiller.”

Costume jewelry includes an Iradj Moini gold-tone rose / sage / lemon citrine quartz and aquamarine necklace comprising three large tumbled, rough-cut, faceted rose quartz, four tumbled, rough-cut, faceted sage quartz, one rough-cut, faceted, lemon citrine quartz, 67 oval cabochon-cut rose quartz and 67 oval cabochon-cut aquamarine stones.

Silver seekers will find a German sterling silver automaton created by Vereinigte Silberwarenfabrik, Hanau, circa 1914. The bombe-form box is decorated with a repousse putti playing instruments among foliage. When activated, the bird-shaped key and switch open the oval lid to reveal a twittering bird fluttering its wings with polychrome feathers.

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