NYE & Co – Estate Treasures Auction
September 13-15 at 10am
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BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — Nye & Company Auctioneers’ three-day, online-only Chic and Antique Estate Treasures auction planned for Wednesday through Friday, September 13-15, will feature American, English and Continental furniture, an extensive selection of silver and a broad selection of fine art. The event will begin promptly at 10 am Eastern time.
The catalog is packed with more than 1,000 lots — a curated mix of fine and decorative arts spanning from the Eighteenth Century to the present day. Included will be Part V of property from the Stanley Weiss collection, as well as private collections along the Eastern seaboard from Maine to Pennsylvania.
The largest single-owner section of property is being consigned by a private Princeton, N.J., collector. Highlights include an oil on silk of a mother and child from the French/Vietnamese artist Le Pho, dating from his Romanet period of 1946-1962 ($40/60,000).
The collection also includes three Severin Roesen oil paintings. Two are similar fruit-filled horizontal still lifes and the third is a floral still life in a vertical composition (between $20/40,000 each).
Another highlight is a special enameled silver singing bird box by the Swiss maker Charles Bruguier. The little automaton was made circa 1850 and is numbered 250. Bruguier only made about 10 of these rare boxes per year.
Continuing along with the silver theme, the collection has a wide variety of silver objects that include a Bulgari sterling silver domino set, a Tiffany & Co. enameled silver cigarette box and a rare set of three sterling silver Navette-form bowls with cobalt glass inserts by the English silversmith Matthew Boulton.
The collection also includes a selection of American and English furniture, including a Federal inlaid mahogany bowfront drop-panel chest of drawers made in Portsmouth, N.H., between 1800 and 1820.
Another group of property is coming from a prominent Philadelphia and UK family. Headlining the group is a life-size portrait of Queen Victoria. Painted by Charles Cohill in 1856, the painting is a copy of Thomas Sully’s portrait. The Cohill work is documented in Carrie Rebora Barratt’s book Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully ($20/40,000).
The family also has an oil on board depicting the Marquis de Lafayette, after Ary Scheffer. This well-executed copy is similar to Scheffer’s work, which is currently on display at the US House of Representatives in Washington DC. The painting depicts Lafayette and was brought to the United States during his return trip to the United States in 1824-25.
The family also has a small selection of furniture believed to have been ordered directly New York City cabinetmaker Duncan Phyfe. The family retains an 1835 journal from their descendent, Isaac Ogden, in which he has an entry that reads, “Phyfe Bill of Furniture…..$257.” Pieces include a pair of curule base tabourets, a worktable, a bookcase and a trick-leg card table.
The sale has property formerly in the collection of Ian and Carolina Irving, the famous and well-known textile designer and taste maker. Some pieces were featured in World of Interiors and various other shelter magazines.
Highlights include a George Smith ottoman upholstered in vibrant fabrics ($1/2,000); a Neoclassical iron and brass hobnail safe, Continental, Nineteenth Century and another upholstered George III black and gilt japanned settee ($2/3,000). There are also numerous smalls and objets d’art to pique bidder interest
The sale includes a private collection from Darien, Conn. This single-owner section contains a diverse mix of European and Continental furniture from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, as well as some designer furniture from the Twentieth Century. Specifically, there are a pair of Neoclassical marble top commodes and a stamped French Regence ormolu-mounted marble top commode.
The well-known and regarded Rhode Island collector Stanley Weiss has been collecting for more than 30 years. He developed an eye for the early American aesthetic with an emphasis on the Queen Anne through the Neoclassical periods. Highlights include a rare Classical labeled grand harmonicon by Francis Smith of Baltimore ($3/5,000). Of the approximately 30 surviving harmonicons, examples by Smith can be found in public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Chrysler Museum of Art.
Also included is a compact Classical settee with parcel-gilt claw and ball feet attributed to the Rawson shop of Providence, R.I. The Rawsons were brothers following in their father’s footsteps in the cabinetmaking trade and were active between 1826 and 1852 ($2/4,000).
Real-time Internet bidding and absentee bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, Bidsquare.com and www.nyeandcompany.com. Telephone bidding will also be available on a limited basis. For more information, 973-984-6900.

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Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987), Flowers, Offset Lithograph, 1964; Charles Bruguier, Silver Gilt Singing Bird Box, No. 250, c. 1850; Charles Cohill (1812- c.1860), After Thomas Sully, Queen Victoria, Monumental Oil on Canvas, c. 1840; Three Matthew Bolton Navette-Form Sterling Bowls with Cobalt Blue Bristol Glass Liners, c. 1790; After Ary Scheffer (English/French, 1795-1858), Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette, Oil on Board; Dale Chihuly (b. 1941), Parrot Green Persian Set; Severin Roesen (1815-1872), Still Life with Berries and Grapes, Oil on Canvas; Le Pho (French/Vietnamese, 1907-2001), Mother and Child with Flowers, Oil on Board; Classical Mahogany Harmonicon, Labeled Francis H. Smith, Baltimore, ca. 1830