Nye & Co Estate Treasure Auction Live Online
October 25-26 AT 10 am
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BLOOMFIELD, N.J. — Nye & Company Auctioneers will conduct a three-day sale, Wednesday through Friday, October 25-27, starting at 10 am Eastern time, featuring American, English and Continental furniture, a selection of silver, jewelry and a selection of fine art and prints. This will be an online-only auction, with no live gallery bidding.

The auction features a little more than 1,000 lots — a curated mix of fine and decorative arts spanning from the Eighteenth Century to present day, including a selection of items from the Stanley Weiss collection, property consigned by a Princeton, N.J., collector and items from private collections mainly in the tri-state area.

Highlights from the Princeton collector include a 1929 Steinway Model M piano ($4/6,000); rugs and carpets in a variety of styles and designs; and a pair of Irish Georgian part ebonized and parcel-gilt looking oval looking glasses ($1/2,000).

Another group of property is coming from the collection of the late Donald S. Morrison of Short Hills, N.J., now owned by his descendants. Headlining this group is a pair of Queen Anne walnut side chairs made in Philadelphia between 1740 and 1760 ($20/40,000).

There is also a Chippendale stop-fluted serpentine front card table made in Newport around 1780. This piece retains all of the hallmarks of classic Newport cabinetmaking design from the second-half Eighteenth Century. The collection also features a number of traditionally inspired items including a selection of both early American and Georgian silver and Chinese export porcelain. The silver includes pieces by makers such as Hester Bateman, Richard Bayley and Thomas Bradbury.

Another prominent Philadelphia and UK family is including a small selection of furniture believed to have been ordered directly from the New York City cabinetmaker Duncan Phyfe. The family retains an 1835 journal from their descendent, Isaac Ogden, in which he has an entry which reads “Phyfe Bill of Furniture…..$257.” Pieces include a pair of diminutive recamier with adjustable foot rests ($3/5,000) and drop-leaf Pembroke table with a rich, brown surface ($7/10,000). There is also a figured mahogany bedstead included in the group.

The sale will also include a continuation of pieces from the well-known Rhode Island collector, Stanley Weiss. Collecting for more than 30 years, Weiss developed an eye for the early American aesthetic with an emphasis on the Queen Anne through the Neoclassical periods. Highlights include a Classical cannonball base mahogany work table, made in the Boston/Salem area circa 1820 ($1/2,000); a chocolate brown Irish/English Queen Anne drop leaf dining table with trifid feet; and a George III inlaid amboyna work table ($400/600).

There is a pair of William and John Turner caneware bulb pots ($800-$1,200) and a terrific pair of Irish Georgian barrel-shaped decanters. There are also several pieces of Baccarat crystal and Joseph Simon for Val St Lambert.

A nice selection of Arts and Crafts pottery includes a 96-piece porcelain service designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1922 for the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan ($10/15,000). Clarice Cliff and Susie Cooper, the Twentieth Century English ceramists and designers, have several pieces included in the sale, estimated at $300/600 per lot.

In Modern design, one of the indisputable highlights of the auction is the second version of a cast bronze “Berceau” table designed by Diego Giacometti (Swiss, 1902-1985) and initialed “DG” and originally acquired at a French auction decades ago ($100/150,000).

Jewelry will feature a Cartier 18K white gold and onyx link bracelet ($4/6,000); and a Tiffany & Company pair of 18K yellow gold, cabochon sapphire and pearl earrings converted to a ring and a pin. From a Puerto Rican collection comes a Rolex gold and diamond oval link lady’s bracelet watch and four-strand 6mm cultured pearl and diamond bracelet.

Transitioning to fine art, the auction contains a mix of traditional through Modern and contemporary. One of the top lots in the sale is a work by Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva (Portuguese, 1908-1992). This abstract oil is a small, but stoic composition ($6/8,000). Robert Kelly’s black and white mixed media “Mimesis LXV” hails from a private Park Avenue, New York collection ($5/10,000).

Other art offerings from the same collection include a Howard Hodgkin original titled “Lace Curtain,” 2015-16 and an Elizabeth Payton direct gravure etching of a “Portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe.” A European collector is offering a Keith Haring marker on paper of “Dogs with UFOs” ($1/2,000).

An online preview is currently being conducted through October 25-27 at the Nye & Company website. For more information, www.nyeandcompany.com or 973-984-6900.

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Pair of Queen Anne Carved Walnut Side Chairs, Philadelphia, c. 1760; Robert Kelly (b.1956), “Nemesis LXV”, 2007, Oil, Mixed Media
on Panel; Isaac Ogden Classical Mahogany Pembroke Table, Atrributed to Duncan Phyfe, New York, c. 1835; Large Three Part Silver
Plated Plateau, 19th C.; Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva (Portuguese, 1908-1992), Abstract, Oil on Board; Vivian Akers (American,
1886-1966), Maine Landscape, 1913, Oil on Canvas; 1905 Oak Wedding Chest, Tiany Sterling Flatware, “Florentine” Pattern;
Lawrence Faulkner (American, 1924-1981), Floral Still Life, Oil on Board; Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Imperial Hotel, Tokyo,
Japan Dinnerware; Diego Giacometti (Swiss, 1902-1985), “Table Berceau”, Second Version, Low Table, Patinated Bronze and Glass,
Designed circa 1965, Stamped Monogram: “DG”