Showplace Live Estate Auction
July 10 at Noon
40 West 25th Street, NYC
www.nyshowplace.com
auctions@nyshowplace.com
212-633-6063 ext. 808

NEW YORK CITY — On July 10, Auctions at Showplace will present 280 lots of fine and decorative arts directly from New York City metropolitan area estates and collections.

Highlights begin with an Italian Regence-style 800 silver tea and coffee service comprising teapot, coffeepot, hinged hot water samovar urn with ebonized handle and heater, covered sugar, open milk pitcher and massive two-handled service tray, likely made between 1951 and 1971. The set is decorated with grotesque masques to handles and with scrolling acanthus and leaf-tip cast decoration throughout. Next is a 1970s post-modern mixed media collage by Jean-Michel Folon (Belgian, 1934-2005) with Biscuiterie de la Baie de Mont St Michel packaging mounted on paper with geometric watercolor painting. Also featured is a 1990 Cindy Sherman (American, b 1954) “Madame de Pompadour (nee Poisson) Tea Service” in green with images of Sherman as Mme. de Pompadour.

Silver seekers will also find 12 Italian Regence-style 800 silver chargers, Twentieth Century, each marked “800” and “531 MI” for an unknown Milanese maker (approximately 273.36 troy ounces). Next are 154 pieces of American sterling silver flatware by Whiting in the Mandarin pattern, circa 1918, each marked, together with a fitted wood box (approximately 196 troy ounces).

Fine art offerings include an oil on canvas titled “Le Falstaff” depicting an interior bar scene by Ludovic Rodo-Pissarro (French, 1878-1952). Next is a midcentury oil on Masonite of a torso by Robert Bliss (American, 1925-1981) and a 1964 abstraction on canvas by William Scharf (American, 1927-2018).

Traditional paintings include nautical works by Paul King (American, 1867-1947) and Giuseppe Carelli (Italian 1858-1921). The King painting is an impressionist rendering of fishing boats at harbor in Brittany, France, and the Carelli depicts a group of fishermen on three interconnected boats likely in the Bay of Naples. A Charles Levier (French, 1920-2003) post-impressionist oil on canvas painting depicts a nude woman with stylized flowers to her right shoulder, and is signed lower right and housed in a giltwood frame.

Also featured is a portrait of a woman with a personalized message by Moses Soyer and a large interior scene of the studio of artist George Sugarman by Lowell Nesbitt.

Notable prints and multiples include a lithograph by Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991) “Carnavalesca / Carnivalesque” signed and numbered 106 of 150, a modern drypoint etching of a nude by Milton Clark Avery (American, 1885-1965), a 1965 color screenprint and mixed media collage by Larry Rivers (American, 1923-2002) titled “Double French Money”; and lithograph titled “Jukebox” by Saul Steinberg (American, 1914-1999). The sale also includes works by Paul Augustin Aizpiri, Augusto Alberici, Charles Brady, Augusta Oelschig, Louis Mendez, Frederick Ronald Williams, George Gavin Zeigler, Ritta Boemm

Decorative arts highlights open with a 1930s Italian Art Deco Murano art glass fusiform vase by Dino Martens (1894-1970) for Vetreria Aureliano Toso, from the “A Rilievo Fenicio” series. Next is a Murano art glass tall bottle shaped vase by Fulvio Bianconi for Venini Vetri, made in 1984, a 1920s Italian Murano art glass “Veronese” baluster-shape vase by Vittorio Zecchin for Venini and a 1920s Italian Art Deco Murano art glass goblet by Napoleone Martinuzzi. Next is an Art Deco cinnabar, black and eggshell-lacquered vase in the manner of Jean Dunand (French, 1877-1942), inspired by the work of Japanese artist Seizo Sugawara who was in Paris at the time. Also of note is a collection of art glass sculptures by Jean-Claude Novaro (French, 1943-2013), a pair of Hungarian Herend porcelain vases in the Rothschild Bird Blue Fish Scale pattern, a pair of French Baccarat glass candelabra with three arms and a pair of Charles X French candlesticks in bronze with Neoclassical and Gothic Revival elements.

The sale continues with a diverse grouping of furnishings with styles that include Midcentury Modern, Art Deco, Louis XVI and more. Lighting highlights include a collection of vintage Christian Liaigre (French, 1946-2021) floor lamps. Lots include Liaigre’s “Valentin,” “Acier” and “Atlantide” models. Next is a Robert Sonneman (American, b 1943) “Orbiter” series floor lamp with an adjustable swing arm terminating in a spherical globe shade in chrome with a black enamel handle and a round base. It is followed by a Seguso Italian bullicante gold flecked Murano art glass table lamp on a Lucite base and a Christopher Spitzmiller silver lustre table lamp in a Chinese vase form.

Also of note is a black and white framed photograph of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin during a performance, each at a microphone holding cocktails, signed by both Martin and Sinatra.

The sale also includes jewelry and luxury goods. Highlights include a vintage Goyard metallic silver leather duffle, a collection of vintage Chanel handbags, a rare vintage Gucci sterling silver napkin ring set and a Hermes Paris horse dome-shaped magnifying glass. Also of interest is a vintage 1970s Rolex lady’s bracelet dress watch, a vintage Concord 14K gold Swiss quartz watch with diamond hour indicators, a platinum Bulgari diamond engagement ring and wedding band set and a vintage 1980s Barry Kieselstein-Cord 18K yellow gold crowned heart pin.

All auctions can be previewed at Showplace 40 West 25th Street in Manhattan ten days prior to each sale and are all immediately available for online preview and bidding at www.auctions.nyshowplace.com. For information, 212-633-6063.