Bruneau’s Single Owner Couture Auction & Winter Fine & Decorative Art Auction
February 27 at 5 pm
February 27 at 7 pm
63 4th Ave. Cranston, RI
www.BruneauandCo.com
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Info@BruneauandCo.com
401-533-9980

CRANSTON, R.I. — An early Twentieth Century Duffner & Kimberly heraldic armorial table lamp and an Eighteenth Century Continental carved wood tavern wall panel are two of the expected highlights in a two-session couture, jewelry and fine and decorative art auction slated for Monday, February 27, by Bruneau & Co Auctioneers, online and live in the gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue.

Session 1, starting at 5 pm Eastern time, will be Part 4 of a single-owner couture and jewelry collection, featuring Chanel, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana handbags and shoes, David Yurman jewelry and additional pieces of jewelry. Session 2, beginning at about 7 pm, will include fine and decorative art pulled from estates and collections across the New England area.

The Duffner & Kimberly (N.Y.) table lamp, 39½ inches tall, boasts a 28½-inch diameter stained glass lamp shade decorated with raised fruit and acanthus leaves framing armorial cartouches and colorful lion heads over a six-light lamp with heart-shaped heat cap, original pulls and curled feet. The lamp should bring $6/9,000.

The Eighteenth Century Continental carved wood tavern wall panel depicts a group of men with exaggerated expressions, drinking, cheering and emptying their stomachs in a lively tavern scene. The unmarked wood wall panel measures 25½ inches by 42 inches and is from the collection of a Boston estate ($6/9,000).

A Nineteenth Century B.C. Gilman (Exeter, N.H.) Boston shelf clock with inlaid vine and leaf detailing, a brass clock face with Roman numeral numbering, a second timer and day counter over a sturdy column base is 34½ inches tall by 11 inches wide. Its face is marked “B.C. Gilman Exeter” ($1/2,000).

An Old Master oil on board painting of Christ by Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859) depicts an image of Jesus adorned with a crown of thorns glancing up towards the sky. The work is 24 by 17¼ inches (sight, less frame) andA is signed “C.H. Leslie” lower left ($2/3,000).

A late Nineteenth or early Twentieth Century Louis C. Tiffany New York pulled feather ribbed vase, 9 inches tall, boasts a yellow iridescent pulled feather design over matte yellow ground with iridescent sheen ($2/3,000).

A Nineteenth Century Tibetan Tara Buddha bronze sculpture, just shy of 7 inches tall, depicts a seated Buddha with ornate headdress and jewelry on a double lotus base, holding a vessel with remnants of aniline blue to her hair. It’s marked on the bottom ($1,5/2,500).

An 18K yellow gold and diamond flower and “x” design cuff bracelet with four flowers set with 15 1mm yellow diamonds and a single white 1mm diamond to each center totaling 64 diamonds is expected to fetch $1,5/2,000.

An oil on canvas Impressionist coastal beach fishing painting by Carlo Ferranti (Italian, 1840-1908), depicting a group of men and women on the Italian coast hoisting baskets of fish, 23½ by 39½ inches (canvas, less frame), signed, should hit $1/2,000.

A Chinese Qing dynasty porcelain sculpture of a guanyin holding a lotus flower seated on a double lotus base, 10¼ inches tall, is expected to finish at $1/2,000.

A Jose Reyes (1902-1980) Nantucket friendship basket, tightly woven with carved bone seagull detailing, closure and a carved wood handle is estimated to change hands for $1/2,000. The basket, made from wood and bone, is 5¼ inches tall and is marked to the bottom, “Made in Nantucket Jose Formoso Reyes.”

A preview will be conducted in the Cranston gallery on auction day, starting at 9 am Eastern time and leading up to the start of the sale at 5 pm, or by appointment. For information, 401-533-9980 or www.bruneauandco.com.