Nye & Co Estate Treasures Auction CHIC AND ANTIQUE
October 27th and 28th,10am. Online only.
www.nyeandcompany.com
Online Preview/Pre-Bid starting  Oct. 13.
Public Exhibition at 20 Beach Street,
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
Oct. 18-24 and Oct. 25-27, 10am to 4pm.

BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — Nye & Company Auctioneers’ two-day, online Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction on Wednesday and Thursday, October 27 and 28, will be headlined by property from Winston F.C. and C.Z. Guest, the estate of Mrs Mimi Adler, the NAMITS collection, the collection of Steve and Stephanie Alpert, items from he Millbrook School and property from the collection of Mr and Mrs Peter G. Terian. The sales start at 10 am Eastern time each day.

The sale will feature a broad selection of fine and decorative arts. One of the headliners of the auction is the collection of Winston F.C. and C.Z. Guest. Winston Frederick Churchill Guest was born in England in 1906 and was named after his godfather and his father’s best friend and cousin, Sir Winston Churchill. He was raised in the company of great men. His father, Captain the Right Honourable Frederick E. Guest, a grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, was a member of Parliament and held the post of Britain’s first secretary of state for air. His mother, Amy Phipps, daughter of Henry Phipps of Pittsburgh, was a philanthropist and partner at Carnegie Steel Corporation. She harnessed her considerable resources to fulfill her deep interest in aviation and to realize its value in the future of world transportation.

In 1947, Guest married the love of his life, Lucy Douglas Cochrane, of Boston, known to family and friends as C.Z., which stemmed from her young brother’s attempt to call her “sister.” Ernest Hemingway stood witness as best man at the ceremony in Havana, Cuba. As a style icon of New York high society, C.Z. Guest graced the covers of Time magazine and Town & Country, among many others. With their unbridled enthusiasm, high standards and unrivaled sense of style, C.Z. and Winston F.C. Guest became one of the most iconic taste-making couples of Twentieth Century America.
The couple collected a variety of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European wall brackets that displayed some of their Chinese porcelains. These brackets are exceptionally carved, with fluid lines of interlaced leafage, monograms, shells and figures.
There is also a carved oak marble top console table decorated with satyr faces and continuing to cloven feet. Also of note is the sporting art from the collection. John Frederick Herring Sr, Henry Alken Sr, Charles Towne, Harry Hall and Sawrey Gilpin are all represented, with classic English depictions of horses in the Nineteenth Century.
Complementing the Guest collection is property from the estate of Mimi Adler. Adler and her late husband, Max, also collected sporting art, silver, English and American furniture and Chinese export armorial porcelain. Of particular note is an oil painting, “Hare Coursing,” by the Eighteenth Century British sporting artist James Seymour (1702-1752). Also included in this collection is a portrait of a gentleman on horseback by John N. Sartorius.

The Adlers’ collection includes a Regency ebony-inlaid mahogany breakfront bookcase with delicately interlaced mullions, vibrant veneers and well-balanced proportions.

There is also an Eighteenth Century George III carved giltwood looking glass in the rococo aesthetic. Acquired from the New York firm Israel Sack, Inc., is a Liverpool “Success to America” cider jug emblazoned with the American flag and eagle. Sack also sold the Adlers a Federal writing desk that is signed by Providence, R.I., cabinetmaker William Clark. Another New York gallery, Hirschl and Adler, sold the couple Severin Roesen’s “Still Life of Fruit”

Continuing along the theme of fine art, the NAMITS collection features a diverse selection of contemporary art from around the globe. The Belgian artist Charlotte Culot manages to capture a bold, yet light and airy feeling from her work titled “Au Coeur de Blanc,” an abstract representation of light white and yellow colors.
European artists from different private collections include a small group of Pablo Picasso ceramics.

Complementing the Picasso ceramics is property from the collection of Mr and Mrs Peter G. Terian, including a pair of Percival Lafer green upholstered lounge chairs that features clean, rectilinear modern lines. The collection also boasts an Edward Wormely for Dunbar single drawer console table.

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John F. Herring, Sr. (1795-1865) Bay Horse in
Stall, Oil on Board, signed lower left
James Seymour (British, 1702-1752), Hare Coursing,
signed lower right, dated 1737
Severin Roesen (American, 1815-1872), Still life
of Fruit, signed lower right
Francis Sartorius (British, 1734-1804), Gentleman
on Horseback
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Rare Liverpool “Success to America”
transfer-decorated creamware cider pitcher,
English, dated 1802
A large selection of Chinese Export
Armorial-Decorated Porcelain