Postponed Kaminski Annual New Year’s Auction
Saturday & Sunday, January 8-9  at 10AM EST
Auction Gallery 117 Elliott Street
(route 62) Beverly, Massachusetts.
Preview: Monday-Friday, January 3-7, 10AM-5PM
Days of sale beginning at 8AM.
Preview is open while auction is live.

BEVERLY, MASS. — Kaminski’s annual New Year’s auction on January 8-9 features the estate of the late Dr Edward Francis Danielski of Cooperstown, N.Y., and the Meyzen family, owners of the French restaurant La Caravelle, Manhattan. La Caravelle was established by Robert Meyzen and Fred Decré, with Roger Fessaguet as their head chef in 1960. The sale includes furniture and furnishings from both estates and items from their iconic restaurant.
Danielski was a prominent radiologist who attended Deerfield Academy and Harvard College, graduating cum laude in 1953. After attending Columbia Medical School and completing his residency at the Columbia division of Bellevue Hospital, he served as a US Army captain and radiologist in a field hospital in Toul, France, where he met his wife, Anne Marie Philippot de Miniere. After graduate school at Cornell University, he and his wife settled in Cooperstown. They spent their time traveling between their homes in Cooperstown and Ste Maxine, France, collecting antiques for their Cooperstown home. The Saturday auction presents art, furniture and furnishings from their Cooperstown home. Sunday features a selection of Chinese porcelains curated by Kaminski Auctions’ Asian specialist.

The expected top lot on Saturday is a George Inness (1825-1894) landscape with trees and figure, oil on canvas, dated 1891 in the lower right ($20/60,000) from a private collector. Highlights of the Danielski estate include a portrait by Adriaen Brouwer (1605-1638), along with a French bronze featuring “Jeanne d’Arc a cheval,” signed “E. Fremiet.”
Furnishings from their Cooperstown home include a circa 1690 Aubusson tapestry measuring 76 inches high by 50 inches wide and a lot of two Yvonne Philippot reproductions of French Middle Ages tapestries. Furniture from the collection starts with a Nineteenth Century French marble top dresser, a mahogany sleigh bed, two Continental needlepoint chairs, along with a French country harvest table and a Victorian carved oak lift top drawing table.

Doll collectors will take note of a large Tete Jumeau doll, marked B. S.G.D.G. 8, 18, an antique Arman Masal doll, marked Am 2DE, 15, and a small doll with a bisque head numbered and signed Arman Masal, 8 inches, purchased for 12,000 Belgium francs and restored by Lopov. Lopov was a famous doll restorer who worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Other items of interest include a Hippolyte Moreau (French, 1832-1927) bisque sculpture depicting two angels, and a collection of Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century pewterware.
Jewelry highlights hail from a Marina Del Rey, Calif., consignor. They include a Russian 18K yellow gold and diamond bracelet, a sapphire, diamond and gold ring and a diamond necklace with an 18K gold chain.

Also featured in the Saturday auction are a Nineteenth Century English triple pedestal table and a set of 12 Queen Anne chairs from a Wenham, Mass., estate, and collections of china and glassware from a Medford estate.
The Robert Meyzen estate includes items from their Redding, Conn., home and restaurant La Caravelle in New York City. In its day, La Caravelle was considered one of the top restaurants in New York by New York Magazine and in 2004 received the James Beard Foundation award for Most Outstanding Restaurant in the United States. Frequent customers included Salvador Dali, John Lindsey, Walter Cronkite, President John F. Kennedy and Jackie Onassis.
Restaurant items include several French mammoth apothecary parfumiers filled with cassis and brandy or Curacao liqueur. The jars measure 37 inches high by 17 inches. Mari Felix Freres, France silverplate ice buckets, a Limoges dinner service with serving pieces, Baccarat glass and a Nineteenth Century antique diminutive carved server with a brass gallery also feature in the sale. Art from the ionic restaurant includes Theo Raucher, Richard Demache and others. There is also a group of 13 French “Dolls” by Santons d’Art Lise Berger, Roquevaire.

A selection of Asian items hails from the estate of Harry Hilbert, a prominent antiques dealer for more than 40 years in New Canaan, Conn. Hilbert is also known as a master Nantucket lightship basket maker. A fine woodworker, Hilbert became enamored with the art of basketmaking on a trip to visit friends on Nantucket Island. Hilbert worked with whalebone, ivory, baleen, silver and many rare and exotic kinds of wood. His baskets were collectible pieces sold through Wayne Pratt in Nantucket and exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Yale University.

Sunday features more than 300 lots of Asian porcelain, furniture and art. Highlights include a blue and white Chinese porcelain double gourd vase, a Chinese huanghuali folding chair, an Eighteenth Century Chinese giltwood Guanyin and many other lots of Chinese blue and white and famille rose porcelain.

Preview begins Monday, January 3, through Friday, January 7, from 10 am to 5 pm. Preview hours on the days of the auction start at 8 am, and the preview is open while the auction is live.
Kaminski Auctions is at 117 Elliott Street. For information, www.kaminskiauctions.com or 978-927-2223.Our Annual New Year’s Auction features the estate of the late Dr. Edward Francis Danielski of Cooperstown, New York, and the Meyzen family, owners of the legendary French restaurant La Caravelle, Manhattan, NYC. La Caravelle was established by Robert Meyzen and Fred Decré, with Roger Fessaguet as their head chef in 1960. The sale includes furniture and furnishings from both estates and items from the iconic restaurant whose visitors included President Kennedy and Jackie Onassis, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Marlene Dietrich.
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