Top lot at $32,500 was this oil on canvas in the stye of Picasso from a southern Connecticut collection, signed upper right. It included a certificate and measured 26 by 38 inches.
Review by W.A. Demers; Photos Courtesy Kaminski Auctions
BEVERLY, MASS. — Kaminski Auctions, commissioned to sell the contents of several estates, presented its three-day annual New Year’s auction December 29, 30 and 31. Included were the contents of the estates of the late Kathleen Cavanaugh of Collinsville, Conn., and Robert Eigelberger of Palm Beach, Fla., along with rarities from a prominent West Palm Beach, Fla., home. The sale drew more than 2,150 registered bidders over three platforms, LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable and Kaminski Live.
From a southern Connecticut collection and in the style of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), an oil on canvas led the overall sale, bringing $32,500. Signed Picasso upper right, the work, which brings to mind the Spanish artist’s drawing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, “The Rape I,” 1932, included certificate and measured 26 by 38 inches.
On the sale’s first day, bidding action was led by a scene of beached sailboats and shipwrights working on the timber “bones” of sea vessels under construction. Signed Corot, the oil on canvas, 9 by 12 inches, elicited $10,200 and stemmed from a collection in Graz, Austria.
Another notable fine art lot was a scene of beached sailboats and shipwrights working on the timber “bones” of sea vessels under construction. The oil on canvas, signed Corot, elicited $10,200 and stemmed from a collection in Graz, Austria.
Antique lighting, specifically Tiffany and Duffner and Kimberly proved desirable. Selling for $13,200 was a signed Tiffany tulip bronze table lamp. From a New Hampshire collection, it was signed on shade and base, #534, stood 21½ inches high and had a 16½-inch diameter shade alive with red harbingers of spring amid foliage. From the same New Hampshire collection came two additional lighting examples of note. One was a leaded glass and bronze table lamp on a 23-inch-high bronze Roman base that went out at $5,938. Its base was signed Tiffany Studios; the 20-inch-diameter shade was not signed. A Duffner & Kimberly dogwood shade of leaded and stained glass, 26½ inches diameter and with original hardware and chain was bid to $5,000. And a Tiffany bronze table lamp, 26 inches high with a 16-inch-diameter shade, earned $4,688.
A silver baron from Oakland, Calif., once enjoyed looking up at his Arts & Crafts bronze chandelier replete with knight figureheads and green glass panels. In this sale, the 40-by-36-inch fixture took $2,760. Then there was the no-name antique leaded glass lamp shade, 12 inches in diameter, from a Wakefield, Mass., collection, which surprised by besting its $300/500 estimate to finish at $3,250.
Tiffany Studios that was not lighting came in the form of a signed stain glass window depicting Christ standing before a rustic doorway, staff in hand. The window from a southern Connecticut estate was 43 by 25 inches or 45 by 27 inches framed and left the gallery at $12,000.
Fetching $12,000 was a Tiffany Studios signed stained glass window depicting Christ standing before a rustic doorway, staff in hand. From a southern Connecticut estate, it was 45 by 27 inches framed.
Two consecutive lots were small in size but brought sizeable results. First was a northern Indian Jaipur solid 18K yellow gold enameled elephant, studded with diamonds. It was just 1½ inches high by 2¼ inches long and weighed 4 troy ounces. With minor blue enamel loss and provenance listing Dr Roger and Carole Stoll, New York and Boca Raton, Fla., it sold for $8,125. Second, a 14K yellow gold and enamel covered box from a Palm Beach, Fla., estate, 1-3/8 by 2½ by 1¾ inches, approximately 135 grams, made $5,938 despite a small dent on its bottom rim and a small area of enamel loss.
Smaller still was a 14K white and yellow gold diamond ring, size 7, that commanded $5,100. It featured a fancy yellow modified cushion diamond, 1.01 carat, 104 round brilliant cut diamonds, 2.60 carat weight and 70 round fancy yellow diamonds.
From a local Beverly estate, a 4K gold diamond engagement ring paired with a diamond band, approximately 1.5 carats, garnered $4,063.
All three days featured Asian items, including porcelains from a local Chinese collector. Two lots received identical $3,000 winning bids. A pair of Chinese famille rose porcelain plaques decorated with court figures, early Twentieth Century, 23½ inches high and 8½ inches wide, found a buyer on the first day.
Decorated with court figures, this early Twentieth Century pair of Chinese famille rose porcelain plaques, 23½ inches high and 8½ inches wide, found a buyer for $3,000.
Disgorged from a Gloucester, Mass., collection was a Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire engraved dagger with gold inlay and bone handle. The 14-inch-long weapon commanded $2,625. The same price was attained for a rare Falangcai-style porcelain bowl with steep rounded sides flaring out just barely at the rim. Decorated with four five-lobed azure-ground window panels the color of a fair morning sky, each revealed, respectively, narcissus with cinnamon rose, hibiscus, poppy with tuberose and gardenia with mallow. Each cluster showed its characteristic stem and leaf, the panels reserved on a radiant pink enamel ground studded at the rim with single chrysanthemum sprays overturned. It had a Kangxi mark on its base.
Also, earning $2,500 was a pair of painted blackamoor figures holding shells.
Prices given include the buyer’s premium as stated by the auction house. Kaminski’s next auction is January 27-28. For information, 978-927-2223 or www.kaminskiauctions.com.
