By Greg Smith
Ahead of the Antique Garden Furniture Fair at the New York Botanical Gardens opening April 29, 2016 and continuing through the weekend to May 1, we have brought you a selection of pieces that are sure to ignite your inner naturalist. Offered up by auction houses and our marketplace dealers, these pieces aim to capture the natural beauty of life in man-made objects.
BRUNEAU & CO. AUCTIONEERS
Sale Date: May 7, 2016
Lot 161
Pittsburgh Lamp Company
Circa 1900, reverse and obverse painted lamp. The shade is beautifully decorated with bucks frolicking in a snowy forest. The shade sits on its original base.
Estimate: $700/1000
A BIRD IN HAND
Stone Doves Garden Post Top
Folky pair of carved stone doves resting in a ground of ivy leafs. First quarter of the Twentieth Century.
Price Upon Request
SLOANS & KENYON
Sale Date: May 1, 2016
Lot 1268
Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984)
“Mirror Lake,” signed in ink on mat. Gelatin silver print, later impression.
Estimate: $3/5000
BARBARA ISRAEL GARDEN ANTIQUES
Cast Iron Stag
English, circa 1880, height 31 by length 42 inches
Price Upon Request
THE COBBS AUCTIONEERS
Sale Date: April 30, 2016
Lot 199
Emanuel Sweert (1552-1612)
Hand-colored print, plate #20, from part II of his work titled “Florilegium”. The print features botanical illustrations of tomato and pepper plants: mala insana, poma amoris, solanum somniferum, solanum halicacabum.
Estimate: $3/400
CARL HAMMER GALLERY
John Bellamy (1836-1914)
Wolverine, carved and painted wood, circa late Nineteenth Century, height 10 by width 21 1/2 by depth 4 inches
Price Upon Request
STAIR GALLERIES
Sale Date: April 30, 2016
Lot 364
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905)
“Deer in a Landscape,” oil on canvas, signed ‘A.F. Tait’ lower right, lined, height 16 by width 25 inches
Estimate: $4/8000
MICHELE BEINY, INC.
Meissen
Pair of swans, porcelain, circa 1745-48
Price Upon Request
STANTON AUCTIONS
Sale Date: April 30, 2016
Circa 1870 Brass Birdcage Automaton
Featuring three feather birds, in excellent working condition, probably French, height 12 ¼ inches
Estimate: $700/1000
KELLY KINZLE
Needlework Picture by Susanna Hoch (1840-1909)
Wool on canvas, dated 1848, Berlin work embroidery from Oley Township, Berks County, Penn., height 29 by width 31 inches
Price Upon Request
