Lark Mason/iGavel Auctions – Jewelry, Silver, and Works of Art from a Prominent Collector
June 18 – July 2, 2024
New York, NY
+1 212-289-5524
New York: Niki@Larkmasonassociates.com
www.iGavelAuctions.com

NEW YORK CITY and NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS — Lark Mason Associates heads into summer with two sales. The first, Exquisite Boxes, Furniture and Works of Art will open for bidding on June 12 and run through June 27 on iGavelauctions.com.

With more than 360 lots, the standouts include a monumental collection from a professional conservator of more than 200 Napoleon III-era and earlier exotic inlay and gilt bronze mounted jewelry and glove boxes. Together with lap desks and ink stands, the collection is estimated at approximately $90/150,000. Also included is a pair of Napoleon III gilt bronze rococo revival oil lamps, Gagneau, circa 1860-80 ($25/30,000).

Other notable items are “Petit Soleil,” a glazed ceramic tile, by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) ($4/6,000); a Seventeenth Century Aubusson landscape tapestry ($10/15,000); a group of four Sixteenth-Seventeenth Century Brussels tapestries, each estimated $7/10,000, two Eighteenth Century oil paintings of hunt scenes by George Morland: “Meet by the Farmhouse” and “Death in a Rocky Clearing,” Provenance Christie’s, December 6, 2000, ($5/8,000) and “Ceramique from Ceramiques de Miro et Artigas,” a lithograph by Joan Miró (1893-1983) ($3/5,000).

Furniture highlights include a Neoclassical marquetry commode by Giuseppe Maggiolini ($8/12,000) and a French Regence ebonized wood commode ($5/8,000).

Among the knockouts in the second sale, Jewelry, Silver and Works of Art from a Prominent Collector — which opens for bidding on June 18 and runs through July 2 — are a Tiffany & Co. sterling silver card box and cover, dated 1947, from the collection of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor ($2/4,000); a pair of sterling silver Art Nouveau five-light candelabra by Koch & Bergfeld, Bremen, circa 1900 ($1,5/2,000); a Roger Skeet Navajo Native American sterling silver and turquoise concho belt ($1/1,500); a Native American 14K gold, turquoise and claw necklace ($700-$1,000); and a Japanese Komai gold damascene iron barrel form box and cover, signed Komai Otojiro, Meiji period ($500/800).

Noted Lark Mason: “From a Tiffany sterling silver card box once owned by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to a collection of Napoleon III-era boxes, a charming Picasso ceramic tile or a Seventeenth Century Aubusson landscape tapestry, these sales offer a unique opportunity for collectors and enthusiasts alike.”

The lots from Exquisite Boxes, Furniture and Works of Art can be viewed by appointment in New York City at 229 East 120th Street and in New Braunfels, Texas, at 210 West Mill Street from June 12 to June 26, Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm.

For Jewelry, Silver and Works of Art from a Prominent Collector, the lots can be viewed by appointment in New York from June 18 to July 1, Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm.

To arrange an appointment in New York contact, niki@larkmasonassociates.com or in Texas, libby@larkmasonassociates.com. For more information, www.igavelauctions.com or 212-289-5524.