Showplace Live Estate Auction
November 6 at Noon
40 West 25th Street, NYC
www.nyshowplace.com
auctions@nyshowplace.com
212-633-6063 ext. 808

NEW YORK CITY — On November 6, Auctions at Showplace presents 280 lots of fine and decorative arts directly from New York City metropolitan area estates and collections.

Highlights open with a rare Korean Joseon era (1392-1897) ceramic pottery jar vessel with a repeating underglaze copper-red grapevine pattern on a light celadon glazed ground, circa Eighteenth Century, with carved wood lid and jade finial. Asian highlights also include a grouping of four antique Chinese Qing dynasty (1644-1911) embroidered textile Kesi panels depicting landscape scenes with scholar figures painting, writing and playing musical instruments among foliage. Next are a 1965 oil on Masonite by Romeo Tabuena of a woman and child followed by a 1976 charcoal on paper by Francisco Zuniga depicting a recumbent nude woman.

Fine art also includes a graphite on paper depicting Snoopy in a World War I Flying Aces aviation cap, goggles and scarf atop his dog house by Charles Schulz. The piece bears a “Burlingame Art Gallery” label to verso. The sale continues with a collection of works by the Mexican painter and sculptor Leonardo Nierman. First on offer is Nierman’s 1964 abstract composition on board titled “Vertigo.” Next is an untitled abstract from 1963 in Nierman’s signature style. Finally is a carved cream onyx sculpture by Nierman from the 1970s. Abstraction on offer features work by Norman Carton, including his abstract expressionist painting “Comet,” a 1964 abstraction by William Scharf and a pair of mixed media compositions by Gavin Zeigler. Also on offer are works by Margeaux Walter, Cindy Sherman and Adja Yunkers.

The sale features an eclectic offering of traditional and modern home furnishings. Traditional pieces open with an antique Chinese lacquered wood coromandel eight-panel folding screen, hand-carved and painted with village landscape scenes to front and birds and flowers to reverse. Next is a set of eight Regency-style ebonized and parcel gilt arm chairs, each with scroll backs and horizontal stretchers with downswept arms on turned and parcel gilded supports above a canted rectangular seat. Two lots of antique mirrors include an Eighteenth Century Italian baroque wall mirror in carved giltwood with swags and volutes and centered tympanum urn flanked by fruit garlands, followed by a Napoleon III giltwood mirror, circa 1870, with a scrolling ribbon pediment and a floral motif, the plate beveled. Also on offer are a pair of Liberty and Company British Art Nouveau side chairs, each inlaid with multiple fruit woods, creating three tulip vignettes above three Arts and Crafts stylized stems, circa 1910.

Modern offerings open with a pair of Jean-Michel Frank manner Art Deco revival small dressers in cerused oak with three cream-lacquer faced drawers. Next is a 1980s Karl Springer “JMF” brass bench with concave brass supporting legs and cheetah printed hide and a Karl Springer Kyoto modern side table with tessellated inlay sides and top. Next is a pair of vintage Geoffrey Harcourt for Artifort swivel lounge chairs, model 504, with white enameled metal tulip bases. Seating on offer continues with a pair of Kazuhide Takahama for Knoll International “Suzanne” series emerald green upholstered lounge chairs and two lots of Antonio Citterio for B&B Italia “Charles” sofas. Next are an Eero Saarinen “Tulip” round dining table, designed 1957, with black and green marble circular top and a Saporiti Italian Postmodern lacquered burl wood round coffee table on an angled chrome base.

Lighting on offer opens with a monumental bronze Byzantine Revival chancel lamp, circa 1910s, with a scrolling tripartite chain mount. Next is a 1920s Assyrian Revival Art Deco period six-light flush ceiling mount, in cast and polychromed plaster. It is followed by a pair of Modern studio art glass table lamps by John Hutton and an Aldo Nasson for Mazzega Italian Modernist Murano glass and chrome standing floor lamp, with a tripartite columnar chrome pedestal supporting a blown glass Murano shade.

Jewelry and luxury goods open with a platinum ring featuring a 2.90-carats K color prong-set centered marquise brilliant diamond and a Victorian period Grohe Swiss-made pocket watch with an 18K yellow gold hunter case with engraved, chased and brightly polished finish. Next is a 1940s Hector Aguilar Mexican hand fabricated sterling silver cuff, designed as alternating rows of bars and bezel-set round turquoise cabochons. The sale also includes a collection of Montblanc Meisterstuck pens. Also of note is a Tiffany & Company sterling silver cuff bangle, designed by Frank Gehry.

Decorative arts highlights open with a pair Regency period Spode porcelain ice pails, circa 1820 or later, with covers and liners intact, in the Spode form No. 11, model 1926, of Campagna form with pulls and handles in romantic rustic twig form. Next is a Flavio Poli for Seguso Vetri d’Arteattributed Postmodern bottle, circa 1980, in the form of a round tall bottle with square stopper, the inside with aubergine flash, apparently unsigned. Finally on offer is a Tommaso Barbi golden helix-shaped glass centering a bronze frame with a mount to cover the glass joint. Silver seekers will find a mid-Twentieth Century Gorham sterling silver reticulated floral centerpiece bowl.

All auctions can be previewed at Showplace 40 West 25th Street in Manhattan 10 days prior to each sale and are all immediately available for online preview and bidding on its website at www.auctions.nyshowplace.com. Sales are online for bidding approximately 30 days prior to the auction date. Auctions at Showplace can be reached by telephone at 212-633-6063.