Andrew Jones Auctions – Design For the Home & Garden
Wednesday, March 27 at 10am
2221 S. Main St. Los Angeles, CA. 90007
www.andrewjonesauctions.com

LOS ANGELES – Andrew Jones Auctions’ first Design for the Home and Garden auction of the year, on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 26 and 27, will feature the collection of Fritz and Lucy Jewett of San Francisco — more than 550 lots of Asian works of art, American, English and European silver, porcelain and glass, English and Continental antiques, books, decorative and fine art, jewelry and luxury items.

Fritz and Lucy Jewett were married on July 11, 1953, and spent the first decade of their marriage in Idaho. They enjoyed art and travel and had a special affinity for Hawaii. Their time in Hawaii, as well as San Francisco and Los Angeles, introduced them to Asian art dealers and fostered their initial focus on collecting.

“I first visited the Jewetts in 2008 and remember being bowled over by the breadth and refinement of their collection,” said Andrew Jones, president of Andrew Jones Auctions. “It is an honor to have been selected to present the property of this amazing couple to a new generation of connoisseurs.” The auction will be conducted online as well as in the Andrew Jones Auctions gallery located at 2221 South Main Street.

In 1965, the Jewetts moved to San Francisco, where their interest in Asian art continued, to include works by regional artists as well as Impressionist paintings. Lucy had a great flair for entertaining and engaging in the cultural life of San Francisco. She joined the board of the San Francisco Ballet in 1969, a position she would hold for the rest of her life.

In 1986, the Jewetts completed their home at the end of Broadway in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights. They worked with designer Mark Hampton to create a home that became a San Francisco landmark for grand parties. They found treasures to grace the home in London, Paris and the United States, and amassed an academic reference library that will also be on offer.

The Jewett collection includes maritime works, highlighted by an America’s Cup racing scene of Puritan and the Genesta, 1886 ($10/15,000). Also included are renderings of the Intrepid. Two works by Ralph Eugene Cahoon Jr — “Municipal Railway” (Foggy Day in Frisco) ($15/25,000) and “Bacchanalia on the Waterfront” ($10/15,000) — capture the artist’s whimsy. The Jewetts enjoyed pieces by Edward Borein, Peter Ellenshaw, Emile Norman, Charles Marion Russell, including “Smoking Up,” 1959 ($3/5,000), Olaf Wieghorst and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “Rue Mouffetard, Paris,” 1954 ($15/25,000).

The varied offerings of Asian works of art are led by an unusual polychrome glazed naturalistic bowl (3/5,000). The Jewetts collected an array of blue and white porcelain, including a bowl on stand ($1/1,500) and a decorated five-toed dragon and phoenix vase ($500/700), as well as a selection of Chinese export porcelain. Japanese works include four lacquered inro and netsuke groups (each $800-$1,200), as well as other lacquer wares and porcelains.

With a passion for collecting silver, some inherited from family and some purchased in their travels, the Jewetts amassed an international collection, including a large Regency marine themed shell-form center bowl by Robert Garrard, 1812, after a design by Paul de Lamerie ($2/4,000), as well as a variety of serving wares, flatware by Paul Storr, decorative table wares (including a flock of ornamental birds) and modern touches, such as a pair of Georg Jensen wine bottle coasters ($3/5,000).

The selection of porcelain tableware is a testament to the Jewetts’ love of entertaining and includes Worcester services in the Blind Earl ($2/3,000) and Royal Lily ($1/1,500) patterns, part of the Sevres Hunting service designed by Jean-Charles Francois Leloy for the Chateau de Fontainebleau ($1,5/2,000) and a Hermes Nil pattern dinner service ($800-$1,200), among others.

The Jewetts’ impeccable taste necessarily extended to their home furnishings, which include a Louis XVI inlaid multi-game table by Louis Aubry, late Eighteenth Century ($5/7,000), a George III satinwood bonheur du jour ($1,5/2,000) and a William IV hardwood folio stand ($800-$1,200), both attributed to Gillows, as well as a pair of sinuous George III mahogany open armchairs, circa 1765 ($3/5,000).

The auction also boasts offerings from a private collection from Beverly Hills that features a bed and night table by Francois Linke; from a prominent Ohio collection a pair of North Italian chinoiserie settees in the manner of Giuseppe Levati ($15/20,000); and from a Chicago collector an Italian micromosaic table top attributed to the workshop of Cesare Roccheggiani ($20/30,000).

Jewelry from the Edmund W. and Carol Browning Dumke family trust includes a Cartier diamond and 18K white gold Tank bracelet wristwatch ($6/8,000), a French sapphire, turquoise, cultured pearl and 18K gold necklace ($5/7,000), and a Robert Procop sapphire, aquamarine and 18K white gold ring ($$3/5,000). Louis Vuitton luggage and Judith Leiber couture evening bags will also be on offer.

For additional information, www.andrewjonesauctions.com or 213-748-8008.

 A pair of George III mahogany open armchairs, circa 1770
A French sapphire, turquoise, cultured peal and 18kt gold necklace
A Regency mahogany mechanical architect’s partners’ desk, Probably Gillows, circa 1810
A Louis XVI parcel ebonized tulipwood and walnut games table, by Louis Aubry (1741-1814), late 18th century
William James Morley Clayton (British, b. 1934) Plenipotentiary, 1969 oil on canvas
A Belle Epoque style gilt bronze and clear glass ten light chandelier, Maison Bagues, second half 20th century
A fine Italian micromosaic table top, probably the workshop of Cesare Roccheggiani, Rome, fourth quarter, 19th century
A Chinese blue and white glazed porcelain dragon vase
A pair of North Italian polychrome Chinoiserie decorated settees, in the manner of Giuseppe Levati, Lombardy, late 18th century
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