Showplace Live Estate Auction
January 8 at 12 pm
40 West 25th Street, NYC
www.nyshowplace.com
auctions@nyshowplace.com
212-633-6063 ext. 808

NEW YORK CITY — On January 8, Auctions at Showplace will present 280 lots of fine and decorative arts directly from New York City Metropolitan Area estates and collections. These include fine and decorative arts, Rolex watches, a Baccarat 16-arm crystal chandelier and furniture by leading modern and contemporary makers. A wide array of fine silver, porcelain, glass, jewelry, lighting, sculptures, paintings and more complete the sale.

One sculpture highlight is a standing nude bronze by Doris Porter Caesar, followed by a 1970s patinated bronze sculpture titled “Petitions” by Mexican artist Victor Salmones. Three additional lots of Salmones’ sculptures are listed in the sale. Next is a free form abstract gilt-bronze by Leonardo Nierman titled “Figura Abstracta,” and an abstract polished gilt-bronze sculpture by Jose Luis Sanchez.

Paintings open with a 1940s oil on canvas depicting a bouquet of roses by Jean Dufy with a gallery label from Schoneman Galleries, Inc, and with additional Christie’s labels. Next is an Alaskan landscape oil on board titled “On the Tanana River” by American painter Eustace P. Ziegler, who was considered the foremost painter of Alaska. Other artists represented are Janis Price, Stephen Ellis, Henry McCarter, Janet Munro, Jean Beraud, Lawrence Glickman and Dominic Capobianco.

The sale features an exciting collection of Midcentury Modern furnishings such as an Eames for Herman Miller Midcentury Modern lounge chair and ottoman with black leather upholstery. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is represented with a Barcelona chair, with chromed split frame and black leather upholstery. Also of note is a patinated bronze coat rack depicting a tree shape with an owl by Diego Giacometti with “Excalibur NY” bronze foundry marks to the underside.

Traditional furnishings include a Sally Sirkin Lewis for J. Robert Scott & Associates set of eight Empire revival dining chairs in carved and parcel-gilt painted wood, each with armrests. There is also a large late Baroque giltwood architectural fragment, likely a central section of an altar tabernacle or part of a reredos, most elements are end of the Seventeenth Century or later, possibly Latin American, the shaped canopy is supported by four Corinthian columns beneath an elaborate gilded tracery on a conforming base. A Baccarat French monumental crystal chandelier in Neoclassical manner with 16 glass branches and a multitude of cut crystal droplets and prisms is the shining star of lighting in this sale.

The highlight of decorative arts is a European a enamel silver gilt tower form sector clock on a nephrite base, possibly Austrian, circa 1900, with provenance from Sotheby’s. The clock tower is beneath a waving Danish flag in plique-à-jour enamel and silver roof rises above a clock face with a cherub that holds a ribbon through which the rotating sector hours pass.

Auctions at Showplace is at 40 West 25th Street. Previews will occur 10 days prior to the sale, and lots are available for online bidding 30 days before the auction closes. For information, www.auctions.nyshowplace.com or 212-633-6063.