Andrew Jones Auctions – A Private Collection, Pebble Beach California
Sunday, April 28 and Monday, April 29 at 10am
2221 S. Main St. Los Angeles, CA 90007
Inquiries: 213-212-6835
www.andrewjonesauctions.com
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LOS ANGELES — Andrew Jones Auctions is presenting the sale of a private collection out of Pebble Beach, Calif., on Sunday, April 28, and Monday, April 29, online and live in the gallery located at 2221 South Main Street. Online bidding will be available on AndrewJoesAuctions.com, LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com.

The collection will feature an international array of fine and decorative art, ranging from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. The catalog will include more than 450 lots of Chinese works of art, Old Master to modern paintings, English and European silver, porcelain and glass, English and Continental furniture, books, Russian icons, modern works, garden appointments and more.

An offering of Chinese works is led by a monumental blue and white porcelain dragon basin with partial Jiajing mark on a stand ($4/6,000); and a pale celadon porcelain bowl with Wanli marks and Frank Caro provenance ($20/30,000); as well as a variety of celadon pieces.

A selection of yellow-glazed porcelains featuring two dragon incised bowls (each $2/3,000) and dishes was a centerpiece of the residence drawing room. A coromandel lacquer floor screen with lengthy inscription panel ($4/6,000) made for a striking entrance into the home.

Jade and hardstone pieces include two jade plaques on hardwood boxes ($800-$1,200); a reticulated jade plaque on hardwood box ($1/1,500); a spinach jade box ($1,5/2,000); a variety of rock crystal works from a pair of models of phoenix ($1/1,500); and a jade mounted snuff bottle ($400/600). Also included are early ceramics, blue and white and wucai (Chinese for five colors) decorated porcelains and a selection of Chinese export porcelain serving wares.

Fine art offerings range from a well-exhibited portrait of King Edward VI formerly in the collection of Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire ($30/50,000); a monumental Italian School depiction of the first audience of Charles, earl of Manchester with the Doge and Senate of Venice, 1698 ($50/70,000); and a riotous Venetian School portrayal of Battaglia dei Pugni, Ponte San Barnaba, or battle on San Barnaba bridge ($30/50,000) to mixed media works by Graham Sutherland, including “Landscape with Setting Sun,” 1972 ($10/15,000) and “Thorn Tree with Sun,” 1972-73 ($10/15,000).

Other fine art highlights include a large-scale and colorful post cubist vista of Cetara, Italy, 1932 by Károly Patkó ($10/15,000); a “British Boar” by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer ($10/15,000); Raimonds Staprans’ Modernist still life “Lapis,” 1963 ($4/6,000); four works by aristocratic jeweler and miniaturist Fulco di Verdura, including “View of the Colosseum” ($600/800); and an abstract View of Venice, 1968, by Virgilio Guidi ($1/1,500).

Silver and objets de vertu offerings include a Fabergé bowenite model of an elephant ($5/7,000); a Cartier Art Deco chinoiserie 18K gold telescopic pencil ($1/1,500); a Continental varigold mounted hardstone box ($1/1,500); three British gold and silver mounted seals for the family Keith, Earl of Kintore and Keith Hall, Aberdeenshire ($1/1,500); and other finds.

A Seventeenth Century North European coin inset silver gilt peg tankard ($2/3,000) and a Seventeenth Century Nuremberg silver pineapple covered cup ($1/1,500) will lead the European selection. English silver is represented by a host of historic pieces, including a set of four George III candlesticks by William Cafe, 1761 ($1,5/2,000); a Regency kettle on stand by Robert Garrard I, 1806, and a Victorian five-piece tea and coffee service set ($2/3,000).

The home was appointed with European and English furniture, including a Louis XV/XVI transitional tulipwood and amaranth commode by Flemish master cabinet maker Daniel de Loose ($3/5,000); an imposing Italian Neoclassical walnut settee ($2/3,000); a pair of George III mahogany cockpen armchairs ($3/5,000); an intricately inlaid George III mahogany and parquetry sideboard ($800-$1,200); as well as an unusual, likely estate made George III mahogany bookcase secretaire chest ($1/1,500).

Also in the sale is a large collection of more than 100 Eastern Orthodox icons, including an Eighteenth Century Russian icon of the Virgin of Joy to Those Who Grieve ($600/800); as well as Venetian glassware, garden furniture and ceramic urns, marble and stone garden appointments, including a Nineteenth Century white marble font ($2/3,000), leather bindings and accessories.

Previews will be conducted in the Andrew Jones Auctions gallery on Friday, April 26, and Saturday, April 27, from 10 am to 5 pm Pacific time both days. No appointment is necessary.

For additional information, www.andrewjonesauctions.com.