Kaminski Important 3-Day Estate Auction
July 15, 16 & 17 at 10 am
117 Elliot Street, Beverly, MA
www.kaminskiauctions.com
978-927-2223/2228 fax

BEVERLY, MASS. — Kaminski Auctions will conduct a three-day estate auction Friday-Sunday, July 15-17, at 10 am ET.

Kaminski has been commissioned to sell the estate of Consul N. J. Haustrap of Palm Beach, Fla. The contents formerly from his castle in Scandinavia furnished his Palm Beach estate. The collection will be presented in a three-day auction featuring Old Master paintings, Persian rugs, continental furniture, bronzes, glass, porcelain, jewelry, Chinese porcelains and an extensive collection of continental silver.

The top furniture lot is an antique Italian baroque serpentine fruitwood drop-front secretary. The piece features graduated locking drawers with bail handles, a hinged writing surface and a center double arch crest door alcove surrounded by 29 small drawers. The under-shelf has eight arched columns surmounted by an arched scroll pediment and a cornice with a carved scroll and shell. An antique Baltic fruitwood serpentine drop-front desk has molded curved corners, a folding writing surface with a fitted interior and extensive, intricate bone inlay in Neoclassical motifs on all the surfaces.

French furniture features a French Louis XV-style fruitwood marquetry two-drawer bombe commode with ormolu mounts and beveled serpentine specimen marble top and a French antique fruitwood marquetry desk, an Eighteenth Century French paint-decorated two-drawer chest of drawers and a Nineteenth Century boule cabinet.

Swedish furniture in the auction includes a Nineteenth Century Swedish classical empire giltwood mirror having a carved eagle and an accompanying pier table with a marble top labeled “Fraktgod Till Jonkening.” Another antique parcel-gilt pier mirror features swags and pierced scroll pediment, and there is an antique Swedish locking carved wooden box on a turned-wood joint-style stand. The hinged lid is decorated with a gilt and carved foliate panel on the lid interior, and the top is carved with two hex signs and dated 1741.

Fine art begins with a Dutch still life titled “Still Life with Parrot on Balustrade, Draped Table with fruits, flowers, shells,” in the style of Edwaert Collier (Dutch, circa 1640-1707.) There is also a marine painting attributed to Edwaert Collier titled “Ships at Shore, Stormy Sea,” oil on canvas, in a molded, giltwood frame.

Italian paintings from the collection include a Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (il Guercino) (1591-1666), an Italian Renaissance painting, a prominent Eighteenth Century Italian landscape with animals, oil on canvas, measuring 55 by 75 inches, framed; and a Jules Didier (Italian, 1831-1892), oil on canvas, signed “J. Didier” in its original gilt frame with a Paris canvas stamp.

The collection includes other European artists, such as a portrait by Frans Oerder (Dutch, 1867-1944), a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller (British, 1646-1723), landscapes by Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721), Carl Henrik Bogh (Danish, 1827-1893) and 12 framed lithographs by Willem Wenckebach (Dutch, 1860-1937).

The estate offers an extensive collection of different European silver lots. A highlight is a set of 24 unique hand-chased silver fork and spoon sets with crests, created in honor of the coronation of Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf in 1973. There are sets of Danish flatware, assorted lots of fish and specialty knives, forks and spoons, an antique lobed silver tureen and an antique Russian .875 silver tureen, marked “A. Sper” and “84.” The silver category continues with a Nineteenth Century Frank Smith Silver Co. sterling fancy bride’s basket, a group of Tiffany & Co. sterling items to include a coffee pot, footed tray with gadrooned border, creamer and sugar bowl, and an antique English repoussé silver ewer with ear handle, hallmarked for London C&S Co, 2.

In the porcelain category, there is a Royal Copenhagen Blue Flowers pattern porcelain service for 48 with assorted serving pieces and a Royal Copenhagen Dagnan pattern grouping of 24 platinum banded chargers.

Chinese items of interest include a Nineteenth Century Chinese bulb vase having a five-claw dragon design, sitting on a Nineteenth Century French giltwood base. The piece stands 29 inches high by 17 inches in diameter. There are also several Chinese blue and white charger, and Chinese archaic bronzes.

A selection of various European and American clocks features in the auction. An early Nineteenth Century Thomas Turner, London, chiming long case clock is of particular interest. It features an Adam-style painted case, broken arch pediment and an engraved steel and brass signed face with applied gilt scroll decoration. It stands 100 inches high. There is an Aaron Willard tall clock, an antique Baltic long case clock and a painted case with a pendulum. Mantel clocks feature an antique French rococo clock with a pair of putti and a Louis XIV-style floral inlaid wood elaborate bracket clock with ormolu goddess finial and round repoussé dial with porcelain Roman numerals.

Preview hours are at the Kaminski Auctions gallery July 10-17, 9 am to 5 pm, at 117 Elliott Street, Route 62. For more information, www.kaminskiauctions.com or 978-927-2223.

We have been commissioned to sell the estate of Consul N. J. Haustrap of 1330 North Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, Florida. The contents formerly from his castle in Scandinavia which was moved to his Oceanfront Palm Beach estate will be presented for sale in a fantastic 3-day auction featuring his collection of Old Masters paintings, Persian rugs, Continental furniture, bronzes, glass, porcelain, fine jewelry, Chinese porcelains, and an extensive collection of Continental silver. The Auction will be fully uploaded by July 1st.