Silver, Objets de Vertu, and Russian Works of Art

silver, objets de vertu & russian works of art october 17, 2017

silver objets de vertu & russian works of art

auction Sale 1586 Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at 10am 1808 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19103 Cover Image: Lot 9, Inside Front Cover: Lot 19, 20 & 21

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silver, objets de vertu & russian works of art department Nicholas B. A. Nicholson Senior Vice President | Division Head nnicholson@freemansauction.com 267.414.1212

Tessa Laney Associate Specialist tlaney@freemansauction.com 215.940.9826

exhibitions Thursday, October 12

10am-5pm

Friday, October 13

10am-5pm

Saturday, October 14

12pm-5pm

Sunday, October 15

12pm-5pm

Monday, October 16

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Melissa Arundel Post-Sale Administrator marundel@freemansauction.com 267.414.1226

Joslyn Moore Bidding Registration jmoore@freemansauction.com 267.414.1207

Lot 26 (detail)

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1 170704/30 A pair of hand-painted and parcel-gilt porcelain tazze decorated in the manner of the ‘Great Kremlin Service’ 20th century Executed after designs of Feodor Solntsev, the whole gilt and polychromed in pan-Slavic foliate designs, inscribed around the double-headed eagle in Cyrillic characters, “Nicholas, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias.” The undersides unmarked. (2).

H: 3 1/2, Dia: 8 3/4 in. note: The offered lot is decorated in the manner of the “golden dessert” series from the Great Kremlin Service by the Imperial Porcelain Factory. The service, commissioned by Nicholas I for the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, was based on the designs of Feodor Sol’ntsev. Intended for use only at coronations and other state events, the service was last used at the banquet organzied to commemorate 300 years of the Houseof Romanov in 1913. $300-500 2 Four English hand-colored engravings of St. Petersburg circa 1815 After Mormay and engraved by Clark & Dubourgh, London, the four prints originally from a calendar and depicting April, “View of the Parade & the Imperial Palace at St. Petersburgh;” July, “View of the Canal of the Moika, the Bridge & the Police Establishment at St. Petersburgh;” September, “View of the Champ de Mars & the Summer Garden at St. Petersburgh;” and October, “View of the Square of Kassan and the Cathedral at St. Petersburgh;” each in fine polychrome matte and giltwood frame.

H: 19 1/2, W: 23 in. (frames) provenance: Rare Old Prints, Royal Oak, Michigan.

Property of a Philadelphia gentleman. $700-900

3 170795/3 A Russian silver-gilt and niello tabatiere maker’s mark indistinct, moscow, circa 1800 Of circular form, the lid centering a depiction of a classical landscape with figures, the underside with a rustic landscape, the whole within engine-turned and niello foliate decorative banding.

Dia: 3 1/4 in. Weight: 3.18 oz. t. $2,000-3,000

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40702/4 A Russian silver portrait bust of Emperor Peter I Alexeievich “The Great” bearing marks of morozov, 20th century The bust of the Russian Emperor atop a reeded column, garlanded in laurel, and bearing a cartouche with the crowned Imperial cypher in cyrillic “P I.” H: 15 in. (incl. base) $4,000-6,000

5 170702/2 A Russian silver portrait bust of Emperor Nicholas II Alexandrovich bearing marks of morozov, 20th century The bust of the Russian Emperor atop a reeded column, garlanded in laurel, and bearing a cartouche with the crowned Imperial cypher in cyrillic “N II.” H: 15 in. (incl. base) $4,000-6,000

6 170702/3 A Russian silver portrait bust of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna bearing marks of morozov, 20th century The bust of the Russian Empress atop a reeded column, garlanded in laurel, and bearing a cartouche with the crowned Imperial cypher in cyrillic “AF.” H: 14 1/2 in. (incl. base) $4,000-6,000

7160691/38 A Russian silver-gilt and plique-à-jour enamel cigarette case pavel ovchinnikov, moscow, 1882-1899 Of square form, the front centering a Latin monogram “NS” beneath a noble coronet surrounded by scrolling foliate motifs in plique-à-jour enamel, the rear similarly enameled, all on a pounced gold ground, the sides in turquoise white, green, red, and blue cloisonné enamel.

H: 3 1/2 in. $2,000-4,000

7A OWNED/539 A Russian silver-gilt and shaded enamel leaf-shaped tobacco box konstantin skvortsov, moscow, 1908-1918 Of leaf-form, the hinged box boldly decorated in cream. pale blue, moss green, plum, and sepia shaded enamel.

L: 3 1/4 in. $2,500-3,500

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8 A Russian silver and cloissoné enamel box feodor ivanovich rückert, moscow, 1908-1917 Rectangular, the sides and hinged cover decorated in the pan-Slavic style in muted shades of blue, green, pink, purple, brown, and black with white enamel, the cover with a shaped oval en plein enameled scene from ‘The Tale of the Scarlet Flower’ by Aksakov; marked under base.

H: 1 1/8, W: 3 3/8, D: 2 3/8 in. provenance: Private collection, New York note: Feodor Ivanovich Rückert (b. 1840, Moscow) was one of the most important Russian silver and goldsmiths, particularly within the context of his enamel work in the pan-Slavic style. From 1887, Rückert was a workmaster of Fabergé, and pieces are found both from his independent Moscow workshop as well as retailed by Fabergé.

The en plein enamel plaque is likely by Semachko, who worked in the Rückert studios as an enameller, predominantly for miniature painitings en plein. The offered lot is closely related to another recently discovered work by Rückert (sold Bonham’s, London, 26 November, 2014, lot 103).

The Tale of the Scarlet Flower (Alen’kiy Tsvetovchik) is a popular Russian fairy tale known predominantly through the retelling by author Sergey Aksakov (1791-1859). First published in 1859 as an appendix in the famous Childhood Years of Grandson Bagrov (Detskie gody Bagrova-vnuka), the story is a variant of the Beauty and the Beast tale.

In Aksakov’s retelling, a merchant is on his way abroad and calls his three daughters to him to tell them. The first asks for a golden kokoshnik adorned with gems, the second for a crystal mirror that always shows the viewer as young and beautiful, and the youngest daughter asks for the most beautiful scarlet flower he can find. The offered lot represents the second daughter, gazing intently into her magical crystal mirror. $30,000-$50,000

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9 A Russian silver and champlevé-enamel cockerel-form covered presentation cup alexander nikolaevich sokolov, st. petersburg, 1882-1899 In the Slavic revival style, and modeled as a standing cockerel bearing an engraved and champlevé-enameled shield with the latin script monogram “VVSS,” for Vladimir & Vera Senutovitch, with a tail-shaped handle support with strapwork ornament, the interior gilded, marked on tail and crest, 84 standard, with the ‘dvoinik’ for St. Petersburg, as well as a French import mark for 1893-1970 on the rim.

H: 10 in. Weight: 31.24 oz. t. provenance: Wladimir Nikolaevich Senutovitch (1877-1957) Irina Wladimirovna Senutovitch (1915-2000) Thence by descent note: The design of this exceptional example of pan-slavic style silver by the silversmith Alexander Nikolaevich Sokolov has a subject and form likely derived from an illustration from the highly influential work of Feodor Sol’ntsev, “Drevnosti rossiiskago gosudarstva” (Antiquities of the Russian State).

While Sokolov had worked with rooster and cockerel models as early as the 1870’s, few examples of this later unusual model appear to exist, and the offered lot bears a unique and additional champlevé-enamel and engraved shield-shaped plaque, likely ordered concurrent with the item’s purchase.

The Latin script monogram ‘VVSS’ for Vladimir & Vera Senutovitch, indicates that the piece may have been a wedding gift.

A smaller but virtually identical model by Sokolov without the additional engraved and champleve enameled plaque was sold Sotheby’s New York, 16 April, 2015, Lot 76.

Wladimir Nikolaevich Senutovitch (1877-1957): Wladimir Nikolaevich Senutovitch was born in Tiflis (now Tblisi), Georgia, on April 23, 1877, the son of Nikolai Vasilievich Senutovitch and his wife, Princess Ketevan Grigorievna Abamelik.

Senutovitch was educated in Georgia, and arrived in Saint Petersburg at the turn of the century, becoming a director of Gustav Nobel’s Russian General Oil Company. By the time of the Revolution in 1917 he was also the director of “Petrograd-Grozny,” and twenty other companies including two of the largest cold storage companies in Russia, a coal mining company, a jute manufacturing company, a ship building company and a total of fourteen other oil companies including “The Sons of Lianozov“; the “Brothers Mirzoyev Co.”: “A.I. Montashev & Co.”; and the “Emba Caspian”.

With the arrival of the Revolution, Senutovitch saw his family to safety in Finland, and in 1918, he returned to Russia where he served as the Chief of the White General Nikolai Yudenich’s Supply Departments, responsible for distribution of food, clothing and munitions to the White Russian Army on the Northwestern front during the Civil War from 1918-1920.

In 1919, he made a trip to Paris to represent General Yudenich, and shortly afterwards, he emigrated to Paris with his wife Vera Petrovna where he was reunited with family and friends that included members of the Russian Imperial House in exile. He continued his philanthropy in France, and became President of “La Federation Mondiale des Invalides et Mutiles de Guerre Russes”, work for which he was subsequently awarded the French Legion of Honor.

In 1928, he was elected to the Council of the Church of Saint Alexander Nevsky in Paris and later became a member of the West-European Diocese of the Constantinople Patriarchate while he was living in Marrakech, Morocco, directing the oil company owned there by Gustav Nobel.

The Senutovitch family lived in Paris and at Luneray, Normandy, where they were close friends to the family of H.I.H. the Grand Duke Kirill Wladimirovich, head of the Russian Imperial House in-exile, and his children, H.I.H. Grand Duke Wladimir Kirillovich (later head of the Russian Imperial House) and H.I.H. Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna (later H.I.& R.H. Princess Kira of Prussia).

In 1949, W.N. Senutovitch moved to New York, and thence in 1950 to Santa Fe, New Mexico where his son Andre had settled after WWII. He died there on July 2, 1957.

Freeman’s is grateful to the descendants of W.N. Senutovitch for providing biographical information. $30,000-50,000

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10 170795/2 Twelve Russian parcel-gilt silver demitasse spoons marked k. fabergé with imperial warrant, moscow, dvoinik for 1908-1917 In the Louis XV taste, each engraved “AC,” the bowls gilt, and marked to back of each. (12).

L: 3 1/2 in. Weight: 5.3 oz. t. $1,500-2,000

11 170922/2 A Swiss gold skeleton pocketwatch for the Russian market on a Russian gold fob circa 1900 The manual wind pocket watch with hour, minute, and second hands, with sun and moon phase front and date and calendar hands on verso, with days of the week in Russian, the works apparently unsigned, the case with Swiss marks, the fob marked AK, St. Petersburg, before 1899. $6,000-8,000

12 A Russian diamond and gem-set gold rope-twist egg brooch unknown maker hm, st. petersburg, before 1899 In the form of a rope loop, the rose diamond-set bale suspending a ruby-set egg, in original fitted red leather presentation case.

Dia: 1 in. $2,500-3,500

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13 170922/1 A Russian silver and engraved carnelian mounted handseal fabergé, workmaster anders nevalainen. st. petersburg, 1898-1903 In the Louis XVI taste, the hemispheric top banded by a reeded ribbon-tied border above a concave shaft, ending in a beaded and leaftip-modeled base, the bottom set with a round carnelian matrix engraved in cyrillic script “GN” marked on shaft with assay master’s mark for Yakov Lyapunov.

H: 2 1/4 in. (approx.) $3,000-5,000

14 A Russian gold locket and handseal in the form of a pudik fabergé, workmaster august holmström, st. petersburg, circa 1865-1870 In the form of a weight, the hinged body marked in Cyrillic “VF”, and opening to reveal a locket section for photographs, the base inset with a lapis matrix engraved with noble arms (indistinct).

H: 7/8 in. Weight: 6.4 dwt. note: A “pudik” (or, a kettlebell-shaped weight in the smallest fraction of a “pood” or Russian pound) was a familiar form to Fabergé.

This gold locket and seal in the form of a “pudik” is virtually identical to another also by Holmström (sold Sotheby’s London, 24 November 2008, Lot 29) which was likely a gift for Princess Thyra of Denmark from King George I to commemorate his wedding to the Russian Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna in St. Petersburg in October 1867.

The “pud” (or pood) is a Russian Imperial unit of measurment roughly equivalent to 36.11 pounds (16.38 kilograms). It was used throughout the Russian empire, and the unit itself is first mentioned as in use in the chronicles of the 12th century.

Together with other units of the Russian Imperial weights and measures system, the USSR officially abolished the pood in 1924, but interestingly, the “pood” survives today in modern Russian in the specific case of sports weights, such as kettlebells, which are cast in traditional multiples and fractions of 16kg. literature: Géza von Habsburg, Fabergé Hofjuwelier de Zaren, Munich, 1986, p. 150 Géza von Habsburg, Fabergé-Cartier Rivalen am Zarenhof, Munich, 2003, p. 219 $3,000-5,000

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15 170922/9 A Russian diamond-set silver-mounted gold brooch fabergé, workmaster august-fredrik Hollming, St. Petersburg, 1898-1903 Circular form, set with 21 brilliants and 21 rose cuts, marked on pin and also on clasp with A*H for Hollming, and the left-facing kokoshnik mark with marks for assay master Yakov Lyapunov, 56 standard, also marked 56 on edge.

Dia: 1 3/8 in. $5,000-7,000

16 170922/10 A Russian emerald and diamond-set enameled gold brooch alexander adolfovich treiden, st. petersburg, before 1899 In the Mughal taste, allover enameled with dianthus in red, green, and gold against an ivory-enameled ground, separated with five rose-diamond set whorls converging upon a brilliant-cut emerald.

Dia: 1 in. note: Alexander Adolfovich Treiden (1858-?) was a Russian master goldsmith and jeweler known for his experimental enamel styles. While he worked most frequently in an original plique-a-jour technique, he was also known for producing elaborate effects in guilloche. Russian jewelers often explored exotic ornament, but this brooch in the Mughal style is unusual and perhaps unique.

Treiden and Karl Blank served as the two chief workmasters for the St. Peterbsurg firm of Hahn, one of Faberge’s main competitors. Trieden and Blank were largely responsible for most of the Hahn firm’s Imperial presentation cases. (Cf case with diamond-set cypher of Alexandra Feodorovna, sold Christie’s London, 8 June 2010, lot 160.) $5,000-7,000

17 170922/8 A Russian art nouveau gold, pink and blue sapphire bracelet unknown maker sp (in cyrillic), moscow, 1898-1914 In the form of ten foliate links, each set with a brilliant-cut pink or cabochon blue sapphire, each half of the clasp marked “SP” in cyrillic, one with the left facing kokoshnik for Moscow 1898-1914 and the mark of assaymaster Ivan Lebedkin, and with safety chain, sold together with a period box from M.F. Morozov.

L: 8 in. Weight: 10.3 dwt. $5,000-7,000

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18 170922/3 A Fabergé silver gilt imperial presentation kovsh fabergé with imperial warrant, moscow, 1895, inventory number 5939 Of traditional form, on a round foot, the sides of the body with reeded decoration, the kokoshnik-shaped handle cast and chased with scrolling pan-slavic strapwork decoration, marked under base K. Fabergé with imperial warrant together with Moscow assaymaster’s marks L.O. for Lev Friedrikhovich Olets and dated 1895, with inventory scratchmark 5939, and on foot, also with French import marks.

L: 15 1/8 in. Weight: 32.25 oz. t. $12,000-18,000

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imperial presentation rings lots 19-21

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ings bearing the cypher of the Sovereign had been given as personal gifts by Russian monarchs since the late eighteenth century, but their use became more frequent during the nineteenth,

when the circumstances surrounding their presentation became codified under the reign of Emperor Nicholas I. While a ring might be presented at any time by the Emperor for services rendered or as a sign of personal favor, extravagant rings of this type were only granted according to the meeting of stringent requirements due to honorable length of service in the Army, the Civil service, or at Court.

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19 170795/1 A Catherine II diamond-set and enameled Russian Imperial Presentation Ring maker unknown, st. petersburg, last quarter 18th century Of oval shield-shaped form, the cartouche enamelled in cobalt blue, centering an imperial crown and the rose-cut diamond-set cypher of the Empress Catherine II Alexeievna, “The Great,” encircled by a border of rose-cut diamonds. $7,000-9,000

20 170795/4 A Russian Imperial diamond-set gold presentation ring fabergé, workmaster erik kollin, st petersburg, 1908-1918 The heavy and hollow cast ring centering an imperial crown set with two large rose cut diamonds, the shoulders of the ring mounted with finely cast double-headed eagles, the inside with finely cut opening in the form of the Russian crown, set with two large and eight small rose-cut stones, and a red cabochon gemstone.

Ring Size: 13 Total weight: 12.2 dwt. (incl. stones) note: According to “The Russian Imperial Awards System Under Nicholas II”

by Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm, rings of this type were awarded as gifts to those achieving the VII level of the table of ranks, in which gentlemen were awarded a “jeweled ring with imperial symbol.” $7,000-9,000

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21 170702/1 A Russian Imperial two-color gold and diamond-set enamel presentation ring fabergé, workmaster michael perchin, st. petersburg, circa 1895 The ring centering a diamond-set crowned cypher of Emperor Nicholas II on a blue enamel ground surrounded by nine old european-cut diamonds, the cypher flanked by four brilliants (two at each side), above an openwork two-color gold and rose-cut diamond intertwined shoulder connecting to a reeded yellow gold shank, the interior engraved with a presentation inscription in Russian, “Vysochajshe pozhalovan’ Gen.-Maioru P.O. ShcherbovNefedovichu” (Awarded by the highest authority to Lieutenant-General P.O. Shcherbov-Nefedovich); estimated total diamond weight: 5.30 cts.

Ring size: 15 1/4 Total weight: 13.4 dwt. provenance: Presented to P.O. Shcherbov-Nefedovich by HIM Cabinet 20 December 1897, original cost 940 roubles Private collection, New York note: This ring, of prodigious size, was executed by Michael Perkhin for Fabergé, and is unique in its form and in the opulent diamond encrusted ornamentation of its design, with a skillfully executed openwork band also ornamented with diamonds, and the interior engraved with the presentation inscription, “Awarded by the highest authority to Lieutenant-General P.O. Shcherbov-Nefedovich.”

This work is a rare survival of the second highest rank of presentation rings, and perhaps the first of this class to be offered at auction. A similar ring, dating from the period of Alexander III, not by Faberge, was exhibited at Peterhof and is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue (cf. Bulanaya, N.B. ; Muzei “Osobaiakladovaia” v Petergofe : k 400-letiiu Doma Romanovykh, Gosarstvennyi khudozhestvenno-arkhitekturnyi dvortsovo-parkovyi muzeizapovednik v g. Petrodvortse,”Petergof”, 2011. fig 25). Another related ring mounted on chrysporase rather than enamel is in the collection of the Hermitage.

According to her book, The Russian Imperial Award System During the Reign of Nicholas II 1894-1917, Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm notes that rings of this type were presented to men who had reached level III on the Russian Imperial Table of Ranks. P.O. Shcherbov-Nefedovich earned the rank of Lieutenant-General on June 12, 1897 (thus attaining level III) and the ring is noted to have been issued by His Imperial Majesty’s Cabinet later that year.

The Recipient, Lieutenant -General Pavel Osipovich Shcherbov-Nefedovich (1847-1918) Born February 15, 1847, Pavel Osipovich Shcherbov-Nefedovich was from a noble family of the Smolensk region, and served faithfully in the Imperial Army for decades before the Russian Revolution.

Shcherbov-Nefedovich received a military education at the Second Moscow Cadet Corps (1863), the 3rd Alexandrovsky Military School (graduating in 1865, and where he was granted distinction and his name engraved on the school’s honorary marble plaques), finally finishing his education at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School in the 26th Artillery Brigade. He finished his education at the prestigious Nikolaevsky Academy of the General Staff in 1874, 1st Class.

His military service record was impressive. P.O. Shcherbov-Nefedovich joined the service on August 27, 1863, became a lieutenant in 1866, a second Lieutenant of the guard in 1869, a Lieutenant of the guard in 1870, a member of the general Staff in 1873, Captain of the General Staff in 1876, Lieutenant Colonel in 1876, Colonel in 1879, Major General in 1889, Lieutenant-General in 1897 (which the offered lot commemorates), and General of the Infantry in 1906.

Shcherbov-Nefedovich served with distinction in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, and filled a number of important staff positions during his 54-year career. He was also noted as an exceptional teacher, and was on staff as a professor at the Nikolaevsky Academy of the General Staff from 1879 until his final promotion to Honorary Member of the Senior Council of the Academy in 1885.

Highly decorated, Shcherbov-Nefedovich was a knight of the Russian Imperial Order of St. Stanislas (3rd class 1869, 2nd Class 1885, and 1st class 1894), the Order of St. Anna (2nd Class, 1888, 1st class 1896) and St. Vladimir (4th class 1884, 3rd class 1892, 2nd class 1901), the Order of the White Eagle (1903), and the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (1910).

His foreign awards included the Order of the Rising Star of Bokhara (1st class 1893), the Austrian Order of Franz-Josef (1st Class), the Royal Prussian Order of the Crown (1st Class), the Legion d’Honneur Croix du Commandre (1897), and the Order of the Rising Star of Bokhara with Diamonds (1900).

Shcherbov-Nefedovich served until the Russian Revolution. He died in Petrograd on January 9, 1918. $80,000-120,000

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22 An enameled gold and hardstone flower arrangement of a prunus flower german, likely idar-oberstein, 20th century In the manner of a Japanese ikebana, the prunus spray enamelled en plein in matte enamel over gold, the flower in a bowenite cylinder vase on a square footed plinth.

H: 7 1/4 in. note: The composition recalling several famous Faberge models, including ikebana style pieces from the collections of HM Queen Alexandra and Lady Sackville (cf. Swezey, M., Faberge Flowers, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2004) $2,000-3,000

23 A small panel painting together with two Russian icons 19th century The panel painting depicting a religious procession (apparently unsigned); offered together with a diminutive icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh, maker’s marks illegible, Moscow, before 1899, (84 zolotniki standard); and a circa 1800 Rostov enamel icon of Sts. Sergius and Gerasimos beneath an icon of the Transfiguration. (3).

H: 6, W: 4 in. (painting) $600-800

24 After Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy (Russian, 1866-1938) indian chief standing with staff Bronze with a rich brown patina, signed and dated in cast and inscribed with copyright stamp, on a square marble base.

H: 18 in. (overall) $4,000-6,000

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25 After Evgeny Lansere (Russian, 1875-1946) a voevoda (boyar morozov) Warm dark brown patina, on an oval base, cast as a bogatyr wearing a helmet and chain mail, holding a mace, his sword and axe at his side, seated on a horse with a chain from the bit to the saddle, signed in the base in Cyrillic ‘Modeled [by] E. Lansere’ and Cyrillic foundry mark ‘F. Shopen.’.

H: 15 1/2 in. $8,000-10,000

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the lintern archive 26 A photographic album of Russian Imperial interest, together with an historic letter 1912-1918 Comprising: a photographic album of 66 rare private images of the Russian Imperial Family dating from 1912-1918, with pencilled marginalia possibly in the hand of and likely having belonged to Pierre Gilliard, 9 loose photographic prints, an August 8th, 1918 letter by William Lintern containing information about life in Ekaterinburg and the recovery of the remains of the Imperial Family, together with photocopies of related personal family documents, including: W. Lintern’s passport, a record of W. Lintern’s appointment as Vice-consul at Ekaterinburg in 1918, extracts from the final report of the British Engineering Co.. summary, the passenger manifest of the S.S. Nanking departing Vladivistok, Lintern’s appointment letter from the British Foreign Office confirming W. Lintern’s meeting with British foreign Sec. Lord Curzon. (8 items, multiple pages).

H: 6, W: 9 in. (album) provenance: Pierre Gilliard William Lintern Thence by descent note: The Discovery On Sunday, April 9, 2017, the hit BBC series “Antiques Roadshow” aired the results of an open day held on the grounds of Pembroke Castle in Wales. The highlight was an important Russian Imperial photograph album and related family documents from the descendants of William Lintern, a British subject resident in Ekaterinburg, Siberia, during the height of the Russian Revolution and the early days of the Russian Civil War. Lintern worked for the British Engineering Co., in Russia when he found himself brought into contact with the entourage of the imprisoned Russian Imperial Family.

William Lintern was born in 1891 in Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. in 1891. He attended Dowlais Junior School and Cardiff High School. His father, Thomas Lintern, obtained the position of Chief Engineer and Superintendent in Hughsofka in Russia, a steel and mining town that had been created by another Welshma John Hughes. The whole Lintern family moved to Russia when William was 20 years old. William left Hughsofka in 1915 to take a position as a representative for the British Engineering Company of Siberia (BECOS) and moved to Ekaterinburg where was named British Vice-Consul at Ekaterinburg, and where he remained until 1919. It was at Ekaterinburg that he was presented with the offered lot.

On the Roadshow, the story presented was one that had been passed down within the Lintern family, stating that the photo album had been given to Lintern by “one of Empress Alexandra’s maids” who had pressed him to accept the photograph album for safekeeping. Anna Demidova (1878-1918) was the only maid with the Imperial Family when they were arrested after the Revolution and she followed them into exile, first at the Governor’s mansion at Tobolsk, and later in the “House of Special Purpose” [the Ipatiev House] at Ekaterinburg. Like the Imperial Family, Demidova was prohibited from leaving the Ipatiev house, and so it is unlikely that the album was smuggled out of the last residence of the Romanovs.

New scholarship and provenance revealed The album, recently examined by Freeman’s as well as by the noted Romanov scholar Dr. Helen Rappaport, has been determined to contain original photographs dating from 1912 through the imprisonment of the Imperial family at Tobolsk in 1918, and closer inspection reveals handwritten marginalia in the album and on the backs of some of the photographs.

The writing is now believed to be in the hand of Pierre Gilliard, tutor to the Imperial children. Some of the images are known to have been taken by Gilliard and have been previously published. A number, however, have not been published before, and are new to scholars. This new evidence suggests that the album was compiled by and belonged to Pierre Gilliard.

Pierre Gilliard (1879-1962) was a Swiss academic who was first hired in 1904 as a French tutor to the family of the Duke of Leuchtenberg, a cousin of the Emperor Nicholas II. He was recommended as a tutor to the daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra, and became part of the inner family circle. His role as tutor to the Tsesarevich Alexei meant that he was a guest at some of the family’s most private gatherings and privy to many of their private concerns including the heir’s hemophilia. In 1919, Gilliard married Alexandra “Shura” Tegleva who had been a nurserymaid to Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, and who had remained in the family’s service. Gilliard and Tegleva had been detained in the company of Charles Sydney Gibbes and Baroness Sophie Karlovna Buxhoeveden -- all at Ekaterinburg, but kept separate from the Imperial family as foreign nationals.

Gilliard chose to remain in Siberia after the execution of the Imperial Family, and assisted Nikolai Sokolov during his investigation of the murder of the Romanovs.

Present evidence suggests that this album, most likely compiled and annotated by Gilliard, was passed to Lintern by the former Imperial nurserymaid Alexandra Tegleva, rather than by the Empress’ lady’s maid, Anna Demidova.

The Letter The accompanying letter, written by Lintern to his family in England on 9 August, 1918 is an important document of the period of the late Revolution and the early days of the Russian Civil War. The Lintern letter makes it quite clear that the ultimate fate of the Romanovs was a mystery to no one. The letter also reveals that the communists began immediate class reprisals among the gentry of Ekaterinburg, as was typical in the days of the “red terror.” The letter notes in plain terms that there were mass executions by the local communists, and that “They are finding the bodies of the townspeople who were murdered by the Sovet [sic], and each day has its gastly [sic] toll of bodies, to be brought into the city and given a Christian burial. To see these funerals with anything from fifteen to sixty coffins in each, bearing the remains of the best townspeople, whose only crime was that they were of respectable families, having been put to death in the most brutal way, leaves an impression which one will never get rid of.”

Lintern even notes that the murder of the Imperial family, far from being in doubt or indeed, even in question, was well-known throughout the city as it was taken back under White control. “For the last two days, they have been pumping the water out of an old shaft in the forrest [sic], around which they found traces of the ex-Royal family, and I think there is no doubt that their bodies will be found at the bottom wieghted down with stones.”It was not until six months later, in February of 1919 that the investigator Nikolai Sokolov arrived in Ekaterinburg to begin his inquest to discover what this important document already notes; that less than one month after the murder of the Imperial family, their final fate was already known to the residents of Ekaterinburg.

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the storojev legacy

27 A group of Russian liturgical and personal objects belonging to Fr. Ivan Vladimirovich Storojev various makers and dates Comprising a Russian Orthodox bible, a missal, a miniature set of bound and cased gospels, a prayer book, and six additional theological works, a hand blessing cross, a priest’s silver pectoral cross on chain, a 3rd class medal of the Order of St. Stanislas, a 3rd class medal of the Order of St. Anna with swords, and a 2nd class neck badge of the Order of St. Stanislas, a silver cased pocket watch. (17). provenance: Property of Father Ivan Vladimirovich Storojev Thence by descent Please visit our website for extended cataloguing. $30,000-50,000

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note: Father Ivan Storojev was born on March 3, 1878, in the Arzamas in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, located on the Tyosha River (a tributary of the Oka), around 250 miles east of Moscow. Storojev attended the Alexandrovsky Institute for the local nobility in Nizhny Novgorod, and went on to study Law at St. Vladimir University at Kiev, from which he graduated in 1903. In 1906 he married Maria Dmitrievna Tikhon-Ravova. It appeared that Storojev would have a successful legal career ahead of him, however, at the peak of his professional life, Storojev felt the call to the priesthood, and at the age of 35 made a fateful decision. On August 30, 1912, he was ordained a deacon by Bishop Mitrophan (Athos) of Yekaterinburg and Irbit, and on September 2 he was named the rector of the Afanasyevsky Church at the Yekaterinburg Urals Mining School.

By the time of the Russian Revolution, Storojev was well-established as a local priest, known for his exceptional preaching abilities and his calm, pastoral manner. As a well-known local member of the clergy, Storojev was entrusted with spiritual ministration to the former Russian Imperial Family, who had arrived in Ekaterinburg as prisoners in two phases. The former Emperor, Nicholas II, his wife the Former Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, and their son and daughter Alexei and Maria arrived on April 30, 1918, and they were followed by their daughters Olga, Tatiana, and Anastasia later in May. Father Ivan Storojev was one of the very few people from the outside who were permitted to meet with the former Imperial family, and he served as the last confessor of the Romanovs. He served several services for the Romanovs, until the last, which was held on the 14th July, 1918, which made him among the last people from the outside to see the Imperial Family alive.

“It was Father Ivan Storozhev who was one of the last people from the outside to see the imperial family alive, at a service he conducted in the house at 10.30 a.m. on Sunday 14 July. Guards from the Ipatiev House had banged on his door early that morning. Father Storozhev thought they had come for him, but no, they wanted him to go next door to conduct a service for the family. ‘Just stick strictly to what the service is all about,’ they warned. ‘We don’t believe in God now, but we remember what the service, the funeral service, is all about. So, nothing but the service. Don’t try to communicate or anything or else we’ll shoot.’

Having climbed the stairs past young guards bristling with weapons, Storozhev found the family gathered in their sitting room, a table for the service specially prepared by Alexandra featuring their favourite icon of the Most Holy Mother of God. The girls were simply dressed in black skirts and white blouses; their hair, he noticed, had grown quite a lot since his previous visit on 2 June, and was now down to their shoulders.

During the service, the whole family had seemed to Storozhev to be greatly oppressed in spirit - there was a terrible weariness about them, quite markedly different from his previous visit, when they had all been animated and had prayed fervently. He came away shaken to the core by what he had seen. The Romanovs had, uncharacteristically, all fallen to their knees when his deacon, Buimirov, had sung rather than recited ‘At Rest with the Saints’ - the Russian Orthodox prayer for the departed.

It seemed to give them great spiritual comfort, he noted, though for once they had not joined in the responses to the liturgy, something they would normally have done. At the end of the service they had all come forward to kiss the cross and Nicholas and Alexandra had taken the sacrament. Covertly, as Storozhev passed them to leave, the girls softly whispered a thank-you. ‘I knew, from the way they conducted themselves,’ Father Storozhev later recalled, ‘that something fearful and menacing was almost upon the Imperial Family.’” (From Helen Rappaport, The Romanov Sisters, MacMillan: New York, 2016, Chapter 22.)”

Storojev and his family later fled the Urals into China, where they settled first in Harbin and later in Tsientsin where there were large Russian émigré communities.

Storojev kept the gospel, missal, blessing cross, and pectoral cross he used in the last service he served for the Imperial Family, and they have remained with his descendants ever since. The missal, in particular, bears autograph marginalia relating to the occasion of the last service attended by the Romanovs, who are now considered saints in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Storojev died in China on February 8, 1927, and was buried in the Russian cemetery in Harbin. In the 1930s his family was able to emigrate, first to Japan, and later to the United States after the end of the Second World War.

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objets de vertu

28 170704/31 A rose diamond and ruby set silver and two-color gold mounted tortoiseshell and ostrich feather lady’s fan likely french, circa 1900 The ribs decorated with diamond and ruby mounted spray of morning glories in silver, the fan with a (possibly later) two-color gold ribbed bale bearing spurious marks for Henrik Wigstrom and Fabergé.

H: 21, L: 33 in. (open) $1,500-2,000 29 170876/1 Two Wedgwood jasperware-mounted cut steel chatelaines last quarter 18th century The first with one double-sided jasperware cameo and with a seal of a ship; the second with two jasperware cameos, one replaced, and with a monogram seal. (2).

L: 8 in. (ea.) provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $1,000-1,500 30 170783/87 A Continental silver-gilt snuffbox apparently unmarked, likely dutch or french, circa 1740 Of cartouche form with fluted sides, the cover chased with a scene of a lady and gentleman attending to two dying warriors on textured ground, and a rural landscape with sheep to base, with shell and scroll border.

W: 2 7/8 in. provenance: Harewood; The Attic Sale, Christie’s South Kensington Property of a New York silver collector 24 $600-800

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31 170783/94 A Louis XV enamel and silver-gilt mounted snuffbox berlin, fromery workshop with paris discharge marks, circa 1750 Painted with flowers and with raised gilt rococo decoration, a purple crossed mark to underside, the interior with a card addressed to ‘Your Royal Highness, from Lord Lonsdale’.

W: 3 1/2 in. provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $600-800

34 A Louis XV silver snuff box marks indistinct, paris, circa 1750 L: 3 1/2 in. Weight: 2.55 oz. t. provenance: Property of a New York silver collector. $400-600 35 170783/95 A two-color gold engine turned snuffbox apparently unmarked, possibly english Rectangular, the engine turned tops and sides bordered within reeded and modeled framework.

W: 3 1/4 in. provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $1,500-2,500

32 170783/93 A Scottish George IV silver-gilt snuffbox in the Louis XV style mark of james mckay, edinburgh, 1823 Of cartouche form, the cover heavily chased with rococo scrolls and diaperwork surrounding a neo-classical scene of a temple and fountain, the base chased with a fisherman on the banks of a river beside a castle; marked to interior.

W: 2 7/8 in. provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $600-800

35A 170783/73 A group of silver-mounted onyx objects 20th century Comprising a sterling silver table box with a green onyx lid by W. Littlejohn & Son Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand; An English sterling silver mounted onyx inkwell with blue onyx inlay, retailed by J.C. Vickery & Co., London, 1934; an English sterling silver mounted onyx stampbox and a silver gilt mounted onyx ashtray retailed by Asprey & Co., G & B Sons London, 1921; together with a Victorian giltmetal mounted abalone sander. (5).

H: 2, W: 4 1/2, D: 4 in. (table box) provenance: Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood Harewood; The Attic Sale, Christie’s South Kensington, 9 December 2012 Property of a New York silver collector $300-500

33 170960/2 A Louis XVI style three-color 18k gold and enamel snuff box maker’s mark indistinct, geneva, first quarter 19th century Of oval form, the lid centering a rustic landscape en trois couleurs, surrounded by a rope-twist border, on an engine-turned ground with voided points enameled in translucent amber en champleve the divided into four panels divided by flowering urns, the panels and bottom similarly engraved and enameled.

L: 2 3/4 in. Weight: 47.1 dwt. $2,000-3,000

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british silver lots 36-71 36 170697/2 A Queen Anne Britannia standard silver twin-handled porringer nathaniel lock, london, 1709 With flared rim, mounted with two scrolled handles.

H: 4, W: 7, Dia: 4 1/4 in. Weight: 5.56 oz. t. provenance: Property from a private Philadelphia collection. $500-700

37 170704/20 An Irish George I sterling silver two-handled cup unknown maker, dublin, 1715 In the form of a banded urn on molded conforming foot, with two scrolling handles.

H: 7 1/4 in. Weight: 22.8 oz. t. provenance: Ex Collection Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ $1,500-2,000

38 170704/21 An Irish George I style sterling silver coffee pot. unknown maker, dublin, 1969 Of lighthouse form with hinged domed lid and hinged spout cover on molded base.

H: 11 3/4 in. Weight: 33.72 oz. t. $800-1,200

39 170697/4 A pair of Irish Georgian sterling silver footed salvers apparently unmarked, dublin, 18th century With foliate moulded edge, the center with faint traces of floral and foliate scroll work surrounding a crest, possibly later engraved, of two armoured arms holding a halberd; each raised on three volute feet; the undersides monogrammed “L.A.W.” and with personal inscriptions. (2).

Dia: 6 in. Total weight: 16.85 oz. t. provenance: Property from a private Philadelphia collection. $800-1,200

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40 170704/13 A George II sterling silver salver ebenezer coker, london, 1756 With gadrooned and foliate border centering engraved arms possibly that of Booth of Dunham impaled with Legh of High Legh; raised on three ball-and-claw feet.

Dia: 13 1/4 in. Weight: 34 oz. t. $1,800-2,200

41 170697/1 A George II sterling silver reticulated footed basket george methuen, london, 1750-51 With beaded edge and integral handles, the body decorated with rosette-headed swags; raised on four volute feet with laurel swags.

H: 4 1/4, L: 9 3/4 in. Weight: 12.7 oz. t. provenance: Property from a private Philadelphia collection. $800-1,200

42 170704/9 A George II sterling silver coffeepot griffith edwards, london, 1734 Of lighthouse form above a moulded base, the hinged lid with baluster finial, the sides engraved with lozenge-form shield with mantling.

H: 8 1/2 in. Weight: 17.7 oz. t. $2,500-3,500

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43 170704/19 A George II sterling silver swing handled reticulated basket ayme videau, london, 1747 Of shaped oval form, the rim cast with chased grapevines and rocailles above a deep bowl with decoratively pierced side, centering in the bottom unidentified heraldic arms suspended from roses, and garlanded with oak on palmette-cast scrolling rocaille feet, the base additionaly engraved 17*47 and with scratchmark “M.” H: 11, W: 13, D: 11 1/2 in. Weight: 60 oz. t. $7,000-9,000

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44 170697/10 A George II sterling silver footed salver john robinson, london, 1744-45 The moulded scalloped edge enhanced with shell motif, raised on three feet.

Dia: 6 1/2 in. Weight: 7.39 oz. t. provenance: Property from a private Philadelphia collection. $600-800

45 170697/5 A pair of George II sterling silver sauce boats dorothy mills & thomas sarbitt, london, 18th century Of typical form with shaped edge, engraved to body with a crest of a wyvern holding an arrow and harp, raised on four shell feet; each with personal inscription “EN-GN/from/CAMHSM/1943-1968.” (2).

H: 4, L: 6 5/8 in. Total weight: 11.34 provenance: Property from a private Philadelphia collection. $1,000-1,500

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William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale KG Unknown artist, circa 1770

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46 An important George II silver-gilt salver marks possibly of thomas heming, london, 1751 Circular on four scrolling shell, leaf, and lion’s mask feet, the cast and pierced border with four rocaille-framed cartouches chased with chinoiserie scenes, alternating with four masks representing the seasons, fruiting grape vines, and leopards, lizards or salamanders, and foliage, the field robustly chased with the arms of Lowther with viscount’s coronet and thusly mantled, marked on reverse, on rim, and with additional inventory scratch mark 1476.

Dia: 25 1/4 in. Weight: 211.42 oz. t. provenance: William, 1st Viscount Lonsdale (1757-1844) thence by descent to Lancelot, 6th Earl of Lonsdale (1867-1953) The Earl of Lonsdale, sold Christie’s, London, February 19, 1947, lot 122 (£180 to Platt) Property of the late Mrs. Julie Schoenfrucht, sold Christie’s, New York, July 10, 2002, Lot 22 Property of a New York silver collector note: William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale KG (English, 1757-1844) was a British nobleman, landowner, and Tory politician. In 1802, on the death of his third cousin once removed, Lowther inherited by special remainder the titles of Viscount Lowther and Baron Lowther. In 1807, having already inherited the estates of his distant relative, Lowther himself was granted the title of 1st Earl of Lonsdale in a second creation of the peerage, and appointed a Knight of the Garter.

The Earl, a coal magnate, spent great sums on the Lowther estates and erected a new Lowther Castle in Cumbria. Lowther Castle was greatly rebuilt and castellated by Robert Smirke (English, 1780-1867) for Lonsdale between 1806-1814. Lonsdale was known for his interest in the arts, and served as a patron to a number of artists and authors, including William Wordsworth.

It has been recorded that the first Earl received the offered lot as part of his 1802 inheritance, but the arms are later added and are those of his descendant, St. George Henry, 4th Earl of Lonsdale (1855-1888) who married Lady Constance Gladys, daughter of Sidney, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, and sister of George Robert Charles, 13th Earl of Pembroke in 1878.

At the time of his sudden and early death at the age of 26, the 4th Earl’s wife was traveling in the South of France. It is noted in Lord Rosebery’s diary that St. George had taken ill, not at his usual London address, but rather “in the house he took to give actresses supper in.” To maintain the appearance of a respectable demise, his body was quietly moved, positioned sitting up, in a cab from 30 Bryanston Street to Carlton House Terrace.

The family’s fortune was later depleted during the Edwardian era as a result of the extravagances of the 5th Earl of Lonsdale. The castle was closed in 1937, and the 6th Earl of Lonsdale was forced to auction the contents a decade later in 1947, in what would come to be regarded as one of the largest country house sales of all time. It was at this time this salver first appeared on the market.

Heming Since its first offering at auction in 1947, the salver has been attributed to master silversmith Thomas Heming due to the style, quality, and the slightly indistinct marks. Heming worked in London beginning in 1745, received appointment as Principal Goldsmith to the King in 1760, and died between 1795 and 1801. His pieces are often noted for their “French delicacy of taste inherited from his master Archambo.” His masterpiece is likely the Speaker’s wine cistern, dated 1770, at Belton House, Lincolnshire. A related salver by Heming with similar grapevine decoration is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, M.88-1935. $12,000-15,000

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47 170704/8 A pair of George III sterling silver candlesticks matthew boulton, birmingham, 1809 The gadrooned bobeche and candleholder above an entrelac band headed tapering stopfluted shaft surmounting a round gadrooned base engraved with an heraldic crest; sold together with a later pair of silver-plated three light branches with gadrooned borders with bobeches; marked to bases and weighted. (2).

H: 13 1/2 in. (candlesticks); H: 21 in. (candelabra) $5,000-7,000

48 170697/11 A George III sterling silver tea caddy thomas daniell, london, 1786-87 Of oval form, the hinged lid surmounted by urn finial, the body engraved with an armorial of a lion and turtle.

H: 5 1/2, L: 5 1/2 in. Weight: 11.4 oz. t. provenance: Property from a private Philadelphia collection. $500-700

49 170704/12 A pair of George III sterling silver covered sauce tureens eleison & sibley, london, 1804 Of urn form with beaded edge, the covers surmounted by a finial in the form of the crest of Holmes; the body engraved with the arms of Holmes-Worseley of Pidford and Newport, Hants., with the motto: “Vectis.” (2).

H: 6, L: 9 1/2 in. Total weight: 45 oz. t. note: ‘Vectis’ was the Latin name for the Isle of Wight, but is also a bar, a bolt, or a lever. $3,000-5,000

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50 A large George III silver two-handled cup and cover digby scott and benjamin smith, london, 1807 The vasiform cup decorated with garlands suspended from masques, surmounted by a cover crowned by a fruiting finial; the underside of cover engraved with presentation inscription; marked to lid and underside of base.

H: 18, W: 11 1/2, D: 7 in. Weight: 125 oz. t. note: The presentation inscription to the underside of the cover reads, “Astor Cup for Schooners/Presented by Vice Commodore Vincent Astor New/York Yacht Club/Won by “Vanitie” /Newport, August 18th 1927.”

The Astor Cup was an annual yachting regatta held in Newport, Rhode Island, founded in 1882

by John Jacob Astor III. In both 1927 and 1928, The schooner Vanitie won the Astor Cup for Schooners with little difficulty. Designed by William Gardner and built by George Lawley & Sons of Boston, she was intended for the America’s Cup but regrettably failed in both 1914 and 1920.

Vanitie was commissioned by Alexander Smith Cochran (American, 1874-1929), a dedicated yachtsman and antiquarian book collector made mostfamous by his brief marriage to the notorious opera singer Ganna Walska (Polish, 1887-1894).

Cochranwas a wealthy manufacturing magnate, having received both a $40 million inheritance and Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Mills, one of the largest carpet manufacturers in the world, just after 1900. He dedicated his vast fortune to both yachting and book collecting, donating important Tudor era manuscripts to the Elizabethan Club (which he founded) atYale, his alma mater, and endowing the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to which he donated his unrivaled collection of Persian illuminated manuscripts. $8,000-10,000

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51 170697/3 An assembled George III sterling silver tea and coffee service various makers and dates late 18th/early 19th century All of conforming decoration and engraved to body with a vacant laurel wreath, comprising a coffeepot, John Emers, London, 1798; a teapot, Peter, Ann, and William Bateman, London, 180102; a matched sugar and creamer, maker’s mark rubbed, London, 1801-02; and a later George V wastebowl, Crichton Bros., London, 1919-20; sold together with a pair of tongs, maker’s mark JG/ EP, London, 1811-12, and a second pair of silverplated tongs. (7).

H: 11 1/2 in. (coffeepot); Total weight: 67.1 oz. t. (incl. handles) provenance: Property from a private Philadelphia collection. $2,000-3,000

52 170704/10 A George III sterling silver four-piece tea service henry chawner, london, 1793 Comprising a teapot, stand, tea caddy, and creamer of shaped oval form with ribbed ornament and flowering pineapple finials, brightcut and engraved with heraldic arms. (4).

H: 7 1/4 in. (teapot on stand); Total weight 33.

7 oz. t. (approx.) $8,000-10,000

53 170783/71 A Victorian Sterling Silver gilt repoussé berry set various makers, london, various dates The spoons largely George III and later repoussed and gilt, in a fitted brass-inlaid pollard oak veneered presentation box engraved with the initials EAS and an heraldic crest. (18).

L: 9 in. (tablespoons); Total weight: 16.6 oz. t. provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $1,500-2,500

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55 A George III sterling silver swing-handled cake basket burwood & sibley, london, 1807 Of rounded rectangular form, the base centering engraved arms and crest being that of Baldwin of Stede Hill, County Kent, and the motto Fortes Semper Monstrant Misericordiam (The brave always show mercy) on conforming pedestal foot with gadrooned decoration, and reeded handle.

L: 13 1/2 in. Weight: 36.5 oz. t. $1,800-2,200

54 Four George III sterling silver candlesticks ebenezer coker, london, 1760 Each in the form of stop-fluted corinthian columns on modeled and stepped bases, the capitals numbered 1 through 4 and with two crests, the bobeches similarly engraved with two crests; weighted. (2).

H: 12 in. $4,000-6,000

56 An George III sterling silver three-piece tea service richard sibley, london, 1800-1802 Comprising a teapot on pedestal foot, open twohandled sugar, and creamer, the bodies engraved with the crest of the Dare family of Essex. (3).

H: 9 3/4 in. (teapot); Total weight: 42 oz. t. (approx.) $1,500-2,500

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57 An impressive George III silver-gilt epergne james young, london, 1787 The gadrooned body decorated with laurel swags suspending a central reticulated basket and issuing four foliate arms terminating in reticulated cups; raised on scrolled legs terminating in shell feet; marked at neck and the legs dot numbered.

H: 9 3/4, W: 14 1/4, D: 16 in. Weight: 42 oz. t. (approx.) $8,000-10,000

58 170704/23 A fine pair of George III sterling silver sauceboats hester bateman, london, 1781 With fluted bodies and dolphin-form handles, raised on pedestal feet; each marked to underside of spout. (2).

H: 5, L: 8, W: 3 7/8 in. Weight: 30 oz. t. $6,000-8,000

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60 170704/24 A set of George III silver-gilt decanter labels rawlins and summer, london, 1814 Each in the form of finely chased fruiting grape leaves with the wines’ names fully reticulated in block roman: “Bucellas,” Claret,” “Madeira,” and “Sherry,” and hanging from round link chain. (4).

W: 2 1/2 in. Total weight: 3.68 oz. t. $800-1,200

59 170867/2 A George III sterling silver coffee pot with the crest of MacRae hester bateman, london, last quarter 18th century The body chased with beribboned and tasseled floral swags and engraved with the crest of the MacRae clan of Scotland.

H: 12 in. Weight: 22.8 oz. t. (incl. handle) provenance: S. J. Shrubsole Corp., New York, 2001. $1,500-2,500

6183/16 A George III sterling silver two-handled covered hot water urn wakelin & taylor, london, 1779 Of typical form with conical cover bearing an acorn finial, the two-handled body with beaded rim removable from base with turn lock, the reeded and acanthus-cast spout (missing handle) on a conforming beaded socle upon a square base.

H: 20 1/4 in. Weight: 94.8 oz. t. provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $2,500-3,500

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62 170867/1 A pair of George III sterling silver covered vegetable dishes with Crest of Hamilton finials richard cooke, london, 1800-1801 Each of oval form with gadrooned edge; sold together with two Victorian silver-plated tureen bases, Padley, Parkin & Staniforth or William Padley & Son, Sheffield, second half 19th century. (4).

H: 7 1/2, L: 15 in. (with bases); Weighable silver: 98.6 oz. t. (approx.) $3,000-5,000

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63 178028/2 A George III sterling silver footed salver richard rugg, london, 1779-80 The center engraved with a crest possibly of the Hagley family, raised on three ball-and claw feet.

Dia: 12 1/4 in. Weight: 26.88 oz. t. $1,500-2,500

64 170704/14 An assembled George IV sterling silver four-piece tea and coffee service paul storr, london, 1820-1827 With lobed bodies, comprising a coffee pot, teapot, open sugar, and creamer; the teapot and sugar engraved with a crest of a recumbent lion to body and each stamped to underside with maker’s mark. (4).

H: 9 in. (coffeepot); Total weight: 79 oz. t. (incl. handles) $8,000-10,000

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65 A large and impressive Victorian sterling silver punch bowl francis boone thomas, london, 1878 Of typical form, the moulded rim with eight horned rams-head masques, suspending fruiting ribbontied laurel garlands, the bottom gadrooned and above a step-modeled conforming gadrooned base.

H: 8 1/4, Dia: 15 1/4 in. Weight: 140 oz. t. $6,000-8,000

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jubilee silver 66 An Elizabeth II silver-gilt serving tray asprey & co., london, 1977 Oval, with pierced gallery and bright-cut decoration, centering the engraved Royal Arms and the dates 1952 and 1977 and further inscribed “The Queen’s Silver Jubilee;” on four bun feet, marked at top face.

L: 17 3/4 in. Weight: 68.4 oz. t. provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $2,000-3,000

67 An American parcel-gilt sterling silver model of a coronation coach attributed to silver creations, circa 1973 Designed by Fisher Body Division of General Motors, and bearing an “F” in shields on each door, the whole realistically modeled, cast and designed in the form of a napoleonic coronation coach.

L: 16 in. Weight: 105.7 oz. t. note: An identical model sold Christie’s, New York: 19 May 2010, Lot 184 $4,000-6,000

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68 An Elizabeth II sterling and parcel gilt Jubilee set of ‘The Queen’s Beasts’ garrard & co. ltd., london, jubilee mark 1977 Comprising a ewer with flaring spout and neck issuing from a gadrooned band above a baluster-shaped body engraved with the Arms Royal, above a frieze depicting ‘the Queen’s Beasts’ which represent the genealogy of the Queen, above a turned socle engraved “1952 The Queen’s Silver Jubilee - 1977” together with three pairs of goblets, each engraved with the royal arms and the same text, the stems in the form of the lion and the unicorn bearing the shields of Great Britain; sold together with three original fitted Garrard presentation boxes. (7).

H: 14 1/2 in. (ewer); Total weight: 98 oz. t. (approx.) provenance: Property of a New York silver collector note: ‘The Queen’s Beasts’ was a limited series designed at Garrard in honor of the Queen’s Jubilee in 1977. The ewer and goblets are based in their design on the ten heraldic statues commissioned by the British Ministry of Works from sculptor James Woodford representing the genealogy of Queen Elizabeth II, which stood in front of the temporary western annex to Westminster Abbey for the Queen’s coronation in 1953.

Woodford based his designs upon a set of ten heraldic sculptures at Hampton Court Palace near London made 400 years ago for Henry VIII, now known as ‘the King’s Beasts.’ Because the ‘King’s Beasts’ represented the geneaolgies of Henry VIII and his wife Jane Seymour, they were deemed unsuitable for the Queen, and so, ‘The Queen’s Beasts’ were based upon her own genealogy.

‘The Queen’s Beasts’ are: The Lion of England, The Unicorn of Scotland, The White Greyhound of Richmond, The Yale of Beaufort, The Red Dragon of Wales, The White Horse of Hanover, The White Lion of Mortimer, The Griffin of Edward III, The Black Bull of Clarence, and The Falcon of the Plantagenets. $8,000-10,000

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69 170783/70 A George V sterling silver eight-piece tea and coffee service adie brothers ltd., london, 1923-24 In the George I style, and of octagonal lighthouse form, eight pieces by Adie Brothers and comprising a tea kettle and stand, teapot, coffeepot, milk pitcher, creamer, open sugar, and wastebowl; sold together with a large coffeepot, sugar caster, and pair of salt and pepper casters, all of the same George I form. (12).

H: 15 in. (kettle); Total weight: 208 oz. t. (approx.) $5,000-7,000

70 170783/10 An Elizabeth II Royal Warrant 150th Anniversary ‘Canopy Clock’ garrard, london, 1993 The silver-cased clock, limited edition No. 3/150, with twin fusee movement with platform lever escapement, the rectangular face with silver chapter ring and Roman numerals within pierced silver gilt decoration, inscribed “Garrard, Crown Jewellers 1843-1993” (Garrard & Co. Limited London 1993), in original Garrard tooled and gilt blue morocco leather case.

H: 7 1/2 in. provenance: Property of a New York silver collector note: The sterling silver ‘Canopy Clock’ was created by Garrard to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Garrard’s appointment as Crown Jewellers in 1993. Created in a limited edition of 150, the first of the series was presented to HM the Queen, and the offered lot is numbered 3 of the series. $2,000-3,000

71 170680/2 A collection of English and Continental silver miniature items various makes and dates 19th/20th centuries Comprising a tea service with tray, a tea and coffee service with tray, a tea and coffee service, three coffee pots, a serving tray with four serving dishes, a tankard, two chambersticks and a candle snuffer, two cooking implements, a dice cup with five dice, and an erotic lady. (28).

Total weight: 13.1 oz. t. (approx.) $1,000-1,500

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72 An American silver-gilt ‘Strawberry’ basket tiffany & co., new york, circa 1860 In the form of a wire or straw basket fully entwined with leafy fruiting strawberry foliage crisply modeled and carefully chased, above a similarly conceived socle and base with beaded and meander-patterned foot, the underside struck “Tiffany & C. Sterling” together with the pattern number 834 (with the 4 overstruck by a 3) and 8608 with the gothic lower case M for John C. Moore (1845-1868).

H: 4, Dia: 11in. Weight: 26 oz. t. provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $1,500-2,000

73 An assembled American sterling silver-gilt flatware service for twelve tiffany & co., new york, various dates In the ‘Richelieu’ pattern, designed in 1892 by Paulding Farnham, and comprising 32 luncheon/salad forks, 25 teaspoons, 21 dinner forks, 13 each cream soup spoons, tablespoons, and steel bladed hollow handled butter knives; twelve each fish forks, fish knives, meat/steak knives, and dinner knives; ten luncheon knives with gilt blades; six each seafood forks and seafood spoons; four gilt blade dinner knives; three gilt blade hollow handle butter knives; two pairs of vegetable/salad servers; one pair of fish servers; two meat serving forks; and one each cake slice, oyster server, sauce ladle, cheese slice, cheese knife, flat butter spread, and berry spoon; sold together with a Tiffany & Co. oak silver chest with brass fittings lined in scarlet felt. (approx. 208).

H: 10, W: 23, D: 16 in. (chest); Total weight: 277 oz. t. (excl. knives) provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $10,000-15,000

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74 170783/18 Ten American sterling silver-gilt oval bowls tiffany & co., new york, 1907-1947 Each of lobed oval form with pierced berried ivymodeled handles on four ball feet, one monogrammed “I.C. DeV”, together with another oval lobed bowl, also stamped Tiffany & Co. (11).

L: 10 in. Total weight: 87.5 oz. t. provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $4,000-6,000

75 170783/21 A pair of American sterling silver-gilt bamboo service plates tiffany & co., new york, 20th century Of octagonal form, the rims modeled as bamboo, marked on verso “Tiffany & Co. Makers/Sterling Silver,” and model number 23997. (2).

Dia: 10 3/4 in. Total weight: 50 oz. t. (approx.) provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $2,000-4,000

76 170783/3 A large American sterling silver vermeil punch service tiffany & co., new york, 20th century Comprising a large punch bowl (after 1965), together with eight cups and a ladle (dated 1956-1965), of typical form with molded rim and stepped foot. (10).

H: 6 1/2 in. x Dia. 14 in. Total weight: 113 oz. t. provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $8,000-10,000

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77 170697/9 An assembled American sterling silver tea and coffee service tiffany & co., new york, circa 1947-56 Comprising a coffeepot, creamer, and sugar, all monogrammed; sold together with an associated English sterling silver teapot monogrammed GNE, retailed

by Tiffany & Co., London, 1936. (4).

H: 8 3/4 in. (coffeepot); Total weight: 49 oz. t. provenance: Property from a private Philadelphia collection. $800-1,200

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78 170704/1 An American sterling silver four-piece demitasse set tiffany & co., new york, 1907-1947.

Comprising coffeepot, open sugar, creamer, and circular footed tray. (4).

H: 7 1/2 in. (coffeepot); Total weight: 53.32 oz. t. $2,500-3,500

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he ‘St. Dunstan’ pattern was designed for Tiffany & Co. in 1909 by Albert Angell Southwick (1872-1960). The design, a restrained variant of an English fiddle-back pattern features discreet trefoil ornamentation at the corners

of most of the flat and hollowware models. Sometimes erroneously referred to as “shamrocks,” the trefoils in fact evoke the architectural period of the 10th century, when Dunstan of Baltonsborough served as Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London, and finally Archbishop of Canterbury before his ultimate canonization as a saint. St. Dunstan was credited (without much documentation) as the creator of the beautiful Glastonbury Abbey (now a ruin and purported to be the burial place of King Arthur), and the the pattern was seen as a romantic evocation of a style compatible with the American taste for the Gothic in the period just before the First World War.

79 An American sterling silver six-piece tea and coffee service tiffany & co., new york, 1907-1947 In the ‘St. Dunstan’ pattern, designed in 1909 by Albert Angell Southwick (American, 18721960), comprising a kettle on stand with burner, coffeepot, teapot, covered sugar, sugar tongs, creamer, and a two handled rectangular tray. (7).

L: 29 in. (tray) H: 13 1/4 in. (kettle on stand); Total weight: 355 oz. t. (approx.) $12,000-15,000

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80 An American sterling silver flatware service for twelve tiffany & co., new york, 1907-1947 In the ‘St. Dunstan’ pattern, comprising twelve each dinner knives, luncheon knives, fish knives, butter knives, fruit knives, dinner forks, luncheon forks, pastry forks, fish forks, salad forks, oyster/cocktail forks, lobster forks, teaspoons, iced tea spoons, demitasse spoons, bouillon spoons, cream soup spoons, dessert spoons, and coffee spoons; fourteen fruit spoons; ten tablespoons; a five-piece carving set; five small cheese scoops; three small forks; two each vegetable spoons, salad servers, fish servers, master butter spreaders, and jelly spoons; and one each serving fork, gravy ladle, butter fork, cake server, ice cream slice, sugar tongs, sandwich tongs,sauce ladle, and child’s pea-push; monogrammed HMP, some serving pieces with various monograms. (approx. 283).

Weight: 368.2 oz. t. (excl. knives) $10,000-15,000

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81 170704/5 An American sterling silver dinner service for twelve gorham mfg. co., providence, ri, 20th century In the ‘Maintenon’ pattern and comprising twelve chargers. (12).

Dia: 11 1/4 in. Total weight: 248 oz. t. (approx.) $6,000-8,000

82 170894/5 An American sterling silver seven-piece flatware service for eight gorham mfg. co., providence, ri, 20th century In the ‘Francis I’ pattern, comprising eight each dinner forks, dinner knives, luncheon forks, salad forks, tea spoons, iced tea spoons, and butter knives; a salad set, two serving spoons, a sugar spoon, a preserve spoon, an olive fork, and a butter knife; monogrammed. (73).

L: 9 1/2 in. (knives); Total weight: 89.4 oz. t. (excl. knives) $2,000-3,000

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83 170697/8 Four American sterling silver reticulated footed candy dishes whiting manufacturing co., north attleboro, ma, 1911 In a Renaissance Revival style, the reticulated rim decorated with elaborate rocailles and floral sashes surrounding a gadrooned well; raised on three rocaille feet. (3).

H: 2 1/4, Dia: 7 1/4 in. Total weight: 27.6 oz. t. provenance: Property from a private Philadelphia collection. $700-900

84 170704/4 An American sterling silver and mixed metal five-piece tea and coffee service whiting mfg. co., north attleboro, ma, circa 1900 In the Japonesque taste, the hammered bodies with copper and silver applied ornament in the form of maple and fruiting oak boughs, comprising a coffeepot, teapot, covered sugar, creamer, and wastebowl; all marked on base with pattern number 412 P and all with varying scratchmarks. (5).

H: 7 3/4 in. (coffeepot); Total weight: 78.4 oz. t. (approx.) $5,000-7,000

85 160992/7 An American sterling silver set of sixteen chargers dominick & haff, new york, early 20th century Circular form with shell and scroll border centering monogram to recto; the verso engraved “Annie Fitler Howell, 1905.” (16).

Dia: 10 in. Total weight: 255 oz. t. $6,000-8,000

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86 170629/189 An American sterling silver flatware service for twelve j.e. caldwell & co., philadelphia, 20th century Comprising 16 butter knives; 14 dinner forks; twelve each dinner knives, luncheon knives, table spoons, tea spoons, place spoons, gilt-washed dessert forks, gilt-washed grapefruit spoons, and place spoons; eleven fruit forks; ten each luncheon forks, demitasse spoons, bouillon spoons; a serving spoon, a dessert server, and a sauce ladle; all monogrammed and sold together with associated mahogany silver chest. (approx. 158).

L: 9 1/2 in. (dinner knives); Total weight: 195.32 oz. t. (excl. knives) provenance: The Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen $3,000-5,000 87 170876/31 An American sterling silver six-piece monogrammed flatware service for twelve the schofield company, baltimore, md, second quarter 20th century In the ‘Elizabeth Tudor’ pattern, comprising eighteen tea spoons; twelve each dinner forks, dinner knives, bouillon spoons, dessert forks, and demitasse spoons; two serving spoons, and one serving fork. (approx. 69 pcs.).

Total weight: 86.59 oz. t. (approx., excl. knives) provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $1,500-2,500

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88 170228/3 A Mexican sterling silver and hardstone-mounted six-piece tea and coffee service emilia castillo, taxco, mexico, circa 1995 Comprising a teapot, coffeepot, honey pot with spoon, covered sugar with spoon,and creamer all with jasper, turquoise, lazurite, and malachite inlay together with a tray (with applied silvered bronze handles) en suite; each piece marked “EMILIA CASTILLO 925 MEXICO M.R. TO-85.” (8).

H: 9 1/2 in. (coffeepot); Total weight: 193.64 oz. t. (approx.) $2,000-3,000

89 170783/82 An American sterling silver hammered serving set alan adler, costa mesa, ca, 20th century Comprising two graduated twin-handled serving bowls and a serving spoon. (3).

Total weight: 37.9 oz. t. provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $1,500-2,000

90 170783/15 An American hammered sterling silver partial flatware service alan adler, costa mesa, ca, 20th century In the ‘Swedish Modern’ pattern, and comprising twelve steak knives; eleven dinner knives; nine teaspoons; five each dinner forks, luncheon forks, salad/ dessert forks, place spoons, cream soup spoons, bouillon spoons, butter knives, and demitasse spoons; four each tablespoons and seafood picks in two sizes; and one serving fork. (81).

L: 10 in. (serving fork); Weight: 38.5 oz. t. (excl. knives) provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $5,000-10,000

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european silver lots 91-125 91 170573/35 A Directoire silver two-handled covered serving dish and stand unknown french provincial maker, 1794-1797 Of simple round form, the tapering lid surmounted by a fruiting finial, the conforming stand with engine-turned rim; the lid, body and stand marked and engraved with a garlanded monogram “EP” upon a shield. (2).

W: 7 3/4 in. (bowl); Dia: 8 1/2 in. (stand); Total weight: 30 oz. t. (approx.) provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $800-1,200

92 170704/26 A pair of Empire diminutive vermeil ewers unknown maker, paris, circa 1820 Of amphora form, with beaded and anthemion-cast decorative banding above turned and gadrooned socles on round bases. (2).

H: 5 1/2 in. Total weight: 9.76 oz. t. $600-800

93 152647/600 A Wilhelm II Empire Revival continental silver solitaire weinranck & schmidt, hanau, germany, circa 1900 In the Empire taste, allover decorated with friezes of griffins, anthemia, wreaths and berried laurel, the four piece set each with a medallion depicting a Napoleonic scene; comprising a coffeepot, teapot, creamer, and sugar. (4).

H: 8 in. (coffeepot); Total weight: 40.9 oz. t. approx.) provenance: Malcolm Forbes Thence by descent $1,000-2,000

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94 178047/14 A pair of German silver Renaissance Revival three-light candelabra possibly j.d. schleissner & sohne, hanau, late 19th century The standards decorated with Bacchic putti and fruiting grape vines in the round; the candlearms removable to form two candlesticks; maker’s mark rubbed, stamped “Germany” and “800.” (2).

H: 17 1/4 in. Weight: 116 oz. t. $2,000-3,000

95 178047/13 A pair of German silver Renaissance Revival urn-form wine coolers unidentified maker’s mark b, probably hanau, after 1888 With twin scrolled arms, the drums decorated en relief with Bacchic putti; each stamped at base “Germany” and “800” with crown and crescent mark. (2).

H: 12 1/2 in. Total weight: 80.4 oz. t. (approx.) $3,000-6,000

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96 170884/1 A Continental silvered bronze centerpiece christofle, paris, circa 1885 With removable silver-plated insert, the openwork base with elaborate scrolled handles and centered by a ribboned and garlanded medallion with applied monogram; stamped to feet and underside of insert with maker’s mark and inventory number “425832.”

H: 8 3/4, W: 27, D: 14 in. $4,000-6,000

97 178047/6 A French sterling silver mirrored surtout-de-table boin-taburet, paris, late 19th century The lozenge-form mirror housed in a shaped and fluted sterling silver frame raised on six volute feet; the central feet imbricated and surmounted by a reserve decorated with watersplashes, bulrushes, and oak swags, engraved to center with heraldic arms, marked to edge.

L: 44, W: 25 1/2 in. $2,000-3,000

98 A pair of armorial vermeil service plates from a Comital Potocki service odiot à paris, 20th century Round with ribbon-tied laurel cast rims, engraved with the arms of one of the counts Potocki, most likely of the Silver Pilawa branch, and with the family motto Scutum opponebat scutis (Shield against shield); marked on verso “Odiot à Paris” and with the model number 8688.

Dia: 10 3/4 in. Total weight: 48 oz. t. provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $2,500-3,500

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99 170783/72 A Louis XV style Continental silver coffeepot and creamer marks indistinct, 20th century Of typical form and side handled, with turned whorled sides decorated with rocailles, and hinged lid.

H: 8 1/2 in. (the coffeepot) Total weight: 29.61 oz. t. provenance: By repute Mrs. Vincent Astor.

Property of a New York silver collector $800-1,200

100 170783/2 An assembled Italian sterling silver vermeil chocolate service buccellati, italy, 20th century In a rare side-handled form of the ‘Torchon’ pattern, and likely a special commission, comprising a chocolate/coffeepot, creamer, covered caddy, and three covered bowls. (6).

H: 10 1/2 in. (coffeepot); Total weight: 86.47 oz. t. (approx.) provenance: Property of a New York silver collector $10,000-15,000

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101 170704/25 A Danish sterling silver three-piece tea service georg jensen, copenhagen, 1925-1932 In the pattern ‘No. 4,’ comprising a teapot with original leather-wrapped handle, open sugar, and creamer. (3).

H: 8 1/4 in. (teapot);Total weight: 39.2 oz. t. (approx.) $3,000-5,000

102 170876/29 A Danish sterling silver compote georg jensen, copenhagen, 1930-1932 Model 624; sold together with two Danish sterling silver egg cups, Georg Jensen, Copenhagen, circa 1930, one model number 319, the other model number 585 and with English import marks for London, 1931; all designed by Harald Nielsen in 1930.

(2).

H: 3 1/2, Dia: 4 1/2 in. Total weight: 13.51 oz. t. (approx.) provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $1,200-1,800

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103 170876/27 A Danish sterling silver salver georg jensen, copenhagen, after 1945 In the ‘Acanthus’ pattern, model number 657B, designed by Johan Rohde in 1917.

L: 12 1/2 in. Weight: 19.36 oz. t. provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $700-900

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104/23 A fine and large Danish sterling silver compote georg jensen, copenhagen, 1925-1932 In the ‘Grape’ pattern, model number 265A, designed by Georg Jensen in 1918.

H: 10 3/4, Dia: 10 in. Weight: 38.2 oz. t. provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $5,000-7,000

106 170876/26 A rare pair of Danish silver fish servers georg jensen, copenhagen, 1915-1927 Model number 55, designed by Georg Jensen in 1914. (2).

L: 10 3/4 in. (longest); Total weight: 8.9 oz. t. (approx.) provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $1,000-1,500

105 A Danish sterling silver four-piece serving set georg jensen, copenhagen, after 1945 In the ‘Blossom’ pattern, model number 84, designed by Georg Jensen in 1905, and comprising a pair of pierced serving forks, a cake slice, and a rounded server (4).

L: 9 1/4 in. (longest); Total weight: 12.95 oz. t. (approx.) provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $800-1,200

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107 An assembled Danish sterling silver part luncheon service georg jensen, copenhagen, after 1945 In the ‘Acanthus’ pattern, designed by Johan Rohde in 1917, comprising eight bouillon spoons, six butter knives, six each fish knives and fish forks, five fruit forks, three each luncheon knives and place spoons, one pea scoop and pea push, one cake fork, one pair of salad servers, one pair of vegetable servers, one bottle opener, one demitasse spoon, and one mustard spoon. (approx. 47 pcs.).

Total weight: 60.91 oz. t. (approx.) provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $1,500-2,500

108 170876/19 A set of Danish sterling silver cobalt-enameled salts and pepper casters georg jensen, copenhagen, the salts 1925-1932, the casters after 1945 In the ‘Acorn’ pattern, comprising twelve salts, model number 62, together with 13 salt spoons, and ten pepper casters, model number 423B; all designed by Johan Rohde in 1915. (35).

L: 2 1/2 in. (salts); Total weight: 15.2 oz. t. provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $1,500-2,500

109 170876/18 Three Danish sterling silver serving sets georg jensen, copenhagen, after 1945 In the ‘Cactus’ pattern, comprising four pairs of salad servers, a cake or fish slice, and two letter openers, all stainless with sterling silver handles, and a large sterling silver vegetable server; in the ‘Pyramid’ pattern, comprising a salad server, a caviar knife, and a butter knife; and the ‘Caravel’ pattern, comprising two forks and a spoon. (19).

L: 10 1/2 in. (slice) provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $700-900

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110 170876/17 A rare Danish silver hardstone-mounted bobonniere and tongs georg jensen, copenhagen, circa 1908-1909 The circular bonbonniere with integral tray and raised on three ball feet, the cover leaf-chased and mounted with five large amber cabochons; the foliate openwork tongs mounted with carnelian cabochon; the set designed by Georg Jensen circa 1908. (2).

H: 4, Dia: 6 7/8 in. Total weight: 14 oz. t. (approx.) provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $5,000-7,000

111 170876/16 A Danish sterling silver part mocha service georg jensen, copenhagen, after 1945 Model number 34A, designed by Georg Jensen circa 1913, comprising a mocha pot and a covered sugar. (2).

H: 7 1/4 in. (pot); Total weight: 19.81 oz. t. (approx.) provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $1,000-1,500

112 170876/15 Four Danish sterling silver beakers georg jensen, copenhagen, 1933-1944 Model number 222A, designed by Georg Jensen in 1919; sold together with one cover, possibly of the model. (4).

H: 3 1/2, Dia: 2 1/2 in. Total weight: 20 oz. t. (approx.) provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $1,000-1,500

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113 170876/14 A Danish sterling silver sugar caster georg jensen, copenhagen, 1925-1932 In the ‘Grape’ pattern, model number 296 designed by Georg Jensen in 1919.

H: 6 3/4 in. Weight: 8.75 oz. t. provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $1,000-1,500

114 170876/13 A Danish sterling silver sauce boat georg jensen, copenhagen, 1933-1944 Model number 761, designed by Harald Nielsen in 1930, and with English import marks for London, 1938.

L: 7 in. Weight: 9.75 oz. t. provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $800-1,200

115 170876/12 A Danish sterling silver sauce boat georg jensen, copenhagen, 1925-1932 In the ‘Blossom’ pattern, model number 177 designed by Georg Jensen in 1905.

L: 8 1/4 in. Weight: 11.69 oz. t. provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $1,000-1,500

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116 An assembled Danish sterling silver part coffee service georg jensen, copenhagen, 20th century In the ‘Blossom’/’Magnolia’ pattern, comprising a coffee pot, model number 2B, date marked 1927, and a covered sugar, model number 2D, date marked after 1945, both designed by Georg Jensen in 1905. (2).

H: 7 1/4 in. (coffee pot); Total weight: 25.77 oz. t. (approx.) provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $1,500-2,500

117 170876/11 Three Danish sterling silver candlesticks sigvard bernadotte for georg jensen, copenhagen, 1933-1944 Model number 711 and 747A, designed by Prince Sigvard Bernadotte circa 1935. (3).

H 2 1/2 in. (tallest); Weight: 9.22 oz. t. (approx.) provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $800-1,200

118 170876/9 A Danish sterling silver three-piece tea service georg jensen, copenhagen, after 1945 Model number 926, designed by Prince Sigvard Bernadotte circa 1945, comprising teapot, covered sugar, and creamer.

(3).

H: 4 3/4 in. Total weight: 28.23 oz. t. (approx.) provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $2,000-3,000

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119 170876/8 A Danish sterling silver conical bowl on stand georg jensen, copenhagen, after 1945 Model number 259, designed by Gundorph Albertus circa 1918.

H: 4 1/4, Dia: 5 3/4 in. Weight: 9.19 oz. t. provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $800-1,200

120 170876/7 A Danish sterling silver pedestal bowl georg jensen, copenhagen, 1919-1927 Model number 197B, designed by Georg Jensen in 1916.

H: 4 1/2, Dia: 6 in. Weight: 9.2 oz. t. provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $1,200-1,800

121 170876/6 An assembled Danish sterling silver table garniture georg jensen, copenhagen, 1915-1932 The center coupe model 6, date marked 1925-32, and bearing scratched inventory number N2241/ 9557; second model 17, date marked 1915-25; the third model 17A, date marked 1925-32 and with English import marks for London, 1929; all designed by Johan Rohde in 1912. (3).

H: 5 1/4, Dia: 6 3/8 in. (larger); H: 4, D: 4 1/2 in. (smaller); Total weight: 22.42 oz. t. provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $3,000-5,000

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122 Three Danish sterling silver small oval footed dishes georg jensen, copenhagen, 1933-1944 Model number 42B, designed by Georg Jensen in 1915. (3).

H: 2 1/4, L: 4 7/8, W: 3 5/8 in. Total weight: 10.15 oz. t. provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $1,000-1,500

123 A Danish sterling silver footed bowl georg jensen, copenhagen, circa 1925-1932 Model number 468B, designed by Gundorph Albertus circa 1926.

H: 6, Dia: 10 1/4 in. Weight: 29.7 oz. t. provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $2,500-3,500

124 A fine Danish/French 1st standard silver footed bowl georg jensen, copenhagen/paris, circa 1930 Designed by Georg Jensen circa 1930.

H: 4 3/4, Dia: 6 in. Weight: 12.9 oz. t. provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $3,000-5,000

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125 An assembled Danish sterling silver part dinner service georg jensen, copenhagen, mid 20th century In the ‘Acorn’ pattern, designed by Johan Rohde in 1915, comprising 31 tea spoons of two sizes, 15 each dinner forks and butter knives, 14 cream soup spoons, 13 luncheon knives, twelve dinner knives, eleven fish forks, ten each vermeil dessert forks and dessert spoons, eight each fish knives and luncheon forks, seven grapefruit spoons, seven lobster picks, two lobster crackers, two serving spoons, and one each fish knife, fish server, cake slice, carving knife, carving fork, bread knife, gravy ladle, bottle opener, and caviar paddle. (approx. 174).

Total weight: 198 oz. t. (excl. stainless) provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $5,000-7,000

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british & european furniture & decorative arts private collections october 17, 2017

british & european furniture & decorative arts private collections

auction Sale 1587 Tuesday, October 17, 2017 at approximately 1pm 1808 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19103 Cover Image: Lot 300 (detail), Inside Front Cover: Lot 146 (detail)

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british & european furniture & decorative arts Nicholas B. A. Nicholson Senior Vice President | Division Head nnicholson@freemansauction.com 267.414.1212

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exhibitions Thursday, October 12

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130 178047/5 A Spanish polychrome painted gesso and giltwood votive panel likely 18th century, with later decoration The oval panel depicting God the father, Christ, and the virgin above two donors dated 1748 and inscribed “Gloria, Tibi, Trinitas;” housed in a crimson velvet and giltwood frame.

H: 24 3/4, W: 19 in. $800-1,200

131 178047/1 A Spanish polychrome painted gesso and giltwood votive panel likely 18th century, with later decoration The oval panel depicting the Trinity above a rainbow encircling Satan depicted as a winged serpent, dated 1748; housed in a crimson velvet and giltwood frame.

H: 15, W: 11 in. $800-1,200

132 170828/1 A Greek Baroque icon of Saint Dionisius the Areopagite possibly cyprus, 18th century Depicting the saint enthroned beneath the all-seeing eye, surrounded by cherubim and angels and flanked by saints Peter and Paul, the whole within gilt baroque scrollwork with scenes from the life of the saint in corner roundels, the verso painted with Golgotha, cross, sponge, and spear, inscribed ICXC, NIKA, and dated 1733; housed in giltwood frame.

H: 14, W: 10 3/4 in. $2,000-3,000

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133 170550/1 Three Continental carved wood religious figures 18th/19th centuries The figures representing: Mary Magdalene, Moses, and a bishop with crozier. (3).

H: 24 in. (largest) $600-800

134 171017/7 After Arnolfo di Cambio (Italian, c. 1240-1310) st. peter of rome, late 19th/early 20th century After 13th century original by Arnolfo di Cambio at the Vatican, the seated bronze figure with dark green-brown patina on moulded and stepped rectangular bronze base; raised on a carved oak plinth, the sides carved with monogram “ST.P.” H: 40 in. (bronze); H: 73 in. (overall) provenance: Collection of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, Bensalem, Pennsylvania. $1,000-2,000

135 170887/1 An impressive pair of Italian Baroque style patinated spelter torchères second half, 19th century H: 45 3/4 in. $2,500-3,500

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136 170687/3 An English carved and joined oak wainscot chair likely 17th century With shaped crestrail above straight paneled backrest carved with rosettes, volutes, and foliate scrolls, issuing two gently scrolling armrests; the paneled seat chip-carved to sides and raised on turned front legs and rear panel legs united by stretchers.

H: 42, W: 22, D: 16 1/4 in. $800-1,200

137 178047/4 A Continental Baroque fruitwood inlaid walnut side cabinet 18th century The rectangular plank top with egg-and-dart edge above two paneled cabinet doors with inlaid chequered banding, the paneled sides and back similarly inlaid and flanked by volutecarved supports; raised on paw feet.

H: 21 1/2, W: 27 1/2, D: 17 1/2 in. $800-1,200

138 170605/1 A Danish polychrome painted tallcase clock borgholm, denmark, circa 1846 With simple enamel dial, the case hand-painted in polychrome floral motifs and signed “SPS” and dated February 15, 1846.

H: 81, W: 26, D: 9 in. provenance: Property of a Swedish gentleman. $800-1,200

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139 170539/1 A pair of Continental carved giltwood urn stands likely french, 19th century With ribbon-tied laurel swags, raised on three paw feet. (2).

H: 18 1/2, Dia: 22 1/2 in. $800-1,200

140 170553/7 A pair of Continental green painted and carved giltwood Corinthian column pedestals likely 20th century The green-painted pillars garlanded with roses and terminating in Corinthian capitals supporting shaped rectangular moulded tops. (2).

H: 64 in. $3,000-5,000

141 170670/28 Two framed pairs of Mughal style miniature portraits 19th century Each pair depicting a mughal and his wife, the first pair housed in separate carved and ebonized wood frames, the second pair housed in a single giltwood frame. (4 portraits).

H: 6 1/8, W: 8 5/8 in. (largest frame) provenance: From the collection of a private Philadelphia lady. $500-700

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142 170894/7 A Heriz rug northwest persia, mid 20th century 9 ft. 3 in. x 6 ft. 2 1/2 in. $800-1,200

143 170343/12 A semi-antique Joshegan Persian carpet central persia, early 20th century 13 ft. 10 in. x 11 ft. 2 in. provenance: Property from an important Pennsylvania collection. $2,500-3,500

144 170879/9 A Victorian Renaissance Revival parquetry oak library table third quarter 19th century With rectangular parquetry top raised on boldly carved H-form stand and four lionform feet.

H: 29 1/2, W: 48, D: 34 in. $3,000-5,000

145 170670/29 Three Venetian parcel-gilt and painted glass vases ars cenedese murano, italy, circa 1920 The first red and painted after Guido Reni, L’Aurora; the second green and painted after Francesco Hayez, Il Bacio; the last blue and painted after Jean-Antoine Watteau, Serenata; all labeled on trompe l’oeil scrolls and decorated to verso with elaborate parcel-gilt scrolls and foliate motifs. (3).

H: 17, Dia: 11 1/2 in. (largest) provenance: From the collection of a private Philadelphia lady. $2,000-3,000

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146 A fine Italian tin glazed earthenware charger after the Magi Chapel ulisse cantagalli (italian, 1839-1901), second half 19th century Finely painted in polychrome and lustre glaze after Benozzo Gozzoli (Italian, c. 1421-1497), Procession of the Magi, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence; the verso with blue underglaze cockerel mark, stamped “Firenze/ITALY” and inscribed “Benozzo Gozzoli/Palazzo Riccardi-Firenze.”

Dia: 20 in. provenance: Private collection, North Carolina. note: Ulisse Cantagalli (Italian, 1839-1901) was a Florentine potter best known for his revival of Italian Renaissance maiolica and Ottoman Iznik pottery. The Cantagalli family established a ceramic manufactory in Florence in the mid 19th century, of which Ulisse took command in 1878. His tremendous skill as a painter, and the manufactory’s ability to produce rich and saturated glazes along with fine golden lustres, quickly brought his wares to prominence.

The re-ignited interest in majolica and other polychrome tin glazed earthenwares in the late 19th century, particularly in Britain, presented a verdant market for Cantagalli. He began a friendship with William de Morgan (English, 1839-1917), the English Arts & Crafts potter and Morris & Co. designer, which helped catapult Cantagalli’s creations into the pottery-crazed British market. International exhibitions brought further attention from American buyers, and by 1879 his works were readily collected in the United States. Indeed, a New York Times article of May 9, 1879 notes that Cantagalli’s extremely fine works, “so agreeably known in the diplomatic circles of Washington,” might be “readily sold, and possibly are where it is unknown, to amateurs as genuine Italian majolica...three and four centuries old” were it not for their notable cockerel mark.

After Ulisse’s death in 1901, his wife and daughter kept the factory in operation until it was sold to Amerigo Menegatti, the manufactory’s former artistic director, in 1934. The factory remained in production until 1985. Today, Ulisse Cantagalli‘s ceramics can be found in the collections of the Museo Nazionale del Bargello and the Museo Stibbert in Florence, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, among others.

This particular example is painted after the Magi Chapel in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence. One of the most famous of all Renaissance frescoes, the chapel was painted from 1459-1461 by the master Benozzo Gozzoli and depicts the Journey of the Magi to Bethlehem over the course of three walls. The specific scene on the charger is the Procession of the Magi, on the chapel’s east wall, which includes portraits of the Medici family and associates buried within the processional figures, including the Medici patriarch Cosimo seated atop a donkey.

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property from the cappellari estate, bucks county, pennsylvania lots 147-159

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ostanza and Ariomo “Ari” Cappellari were well-known interior designers in Rome from the 1960’s until the 1990’s, specialising in a rich, layered, and eclectic style very popular

in Italy. At the height of their careers, their firm, “Gosville of Rome” was commissioned to design and decorate several of the private apartments for a number of the Papal ambassadors and officials within the Palazzo Apostolico and other residences in the Vatican City.

The Cappellaris assembled a collection of pieces that they loved and from which they refused to part even when they returned to the United States, including a fine 17th century cassone (lot 147) and an impressive pair of 19th century Louis XIV style ormolu-mounted bibliotheques (Lot 156).

147 An Italian Renaissance walnut cassone 16th/17th century With hinged rectangular plank top, the case with elaborately carved volute corners flanking paneled front and sides carved with a fluted wave pattern encased in a rope-twist and pyramid double moulding.

H: 22 1/2, W: 64 1/4, D: 23 in. provenance: Property from the Cappellari Estate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $2,000-3,000

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148 171006/6 A fine Italian Baroque walnut refectory table 17th century The rectangular plank top raised on two turned balusterform supports, each raised on volute-form plinth and united by a single long stretcher.

H: 31, W: 107, D: 30 1/4 in. provenance: Property from the Cappellari Estate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $3,000-5,000

149 171006/3 A large Italian Baroque inlaid walnut secrétaire 18th century Of impressive proportions, the banded top with fall front opening to reveal a fitted interior with central pigeonhole flanked by four shelves, the serpentine case with three long drawers; the canted edges with vasiform inlays, the sides similarly inlaid and each enclosing a hidden paneled cupboard door; the whole raised on shaped bracket feet.

H: 41 1/2, W: 66, D: 22 in. provenance: Property from the Cappellari Estate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $3,000-5,000

150 171006/11 A large Italian Neoclassical walnut commode 18th century The rectangular top with moulded edge over four moulded figured walnut drawers, raised on tapering feet.

H: 41 1/2, W: 60, D: 25 in. provenance: Property from the Cappellari Estate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $2,000-3,000

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151 171006/9 A North Italian Baroque style walnut secretary bookcase 20th century In two sections, the upper surmounted by shaped scrolling pediment inset with a mirror over two banded and mirrored cabinet doors enclosing shelves; the serpentine lower section with fall front opening to a fitted interior with central cabinet flanked by four shelves, the whole over three long drawers raised on bracket feet.

H: 96, W: 51 1/2, D: 19 in. provenance: Property from the Cappellari Estate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $1,500-2,500

152 171006/1 A large and impressive Dutch Baroque style parcelebonized mahogany kas 19th century With beaded and moulded ebonized cornice mounted to corners and center with cartouches flanked by lions and putti, the two beaded and parcel-ebonized paneled doors separated by a central column which slides to reveal a lock; the interior with a set of shelves and narrow drawers; the sides similarly beaded and banded, the whole above a single paneled drawer and raised on six oversized bun feet.

H: 84, W: 84, D: 31 1/2 in. provenance: Property from the Cappellari Estate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $1,500-2,500

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153 171006/8 A South German Rococo style walnut veneered bureau plat first half 19th century The shaped and moulded top with banded edge and bookmatched walnut veneered surface centered by a figured walnut cartouche; the front and back each with single frieze drawer; raised on cabriole legs.

H: 30 3/4, W: 72, D: 39 1/2 in. provenance: Property from the Cappellari Estate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $2,000-3,000 154 171006/12 A George III painted and banded satinwood ladies desk late 18th century The galleried top with two frieze drawers and two cabinet doors painted with allegories of music, the bowfront case with green gilt-tooled leather writing surface over two frieze drawers; the whole raised on four tapering legs each painted with a paterae-headed trail of bellflowers.

H: 41, W: 33 1/2, D: 20 in. provenance: Property from the Cappellari Estate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $1,500-2,500

155 171006/10 A George III mahogany chest of drawers circa 1800 The rectangular top above two short drawers over three long drawers, raised on bracket feet.

H: 41, W: 37 1/4, D: 19 1/4 in. provenance: Property from the Cappellari Estate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $700-900

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156 A fine pair of Louis XIV style ormolu mounted kingwood bibliothèques 19th century Each with rectangular top over cavetto mounted with acanthus-cast frieze, the sides and doors with ormolu acanthus banding; the four corners mounted with putti and the center mounted with a finely cast grotesque clasp, the doors enclosing a series of adjustable shelves; the whole raised on acanthus banded base. (2).

H: 66 1/2, W: 41 1/4, D: 17 1/2 in. provenance: Property from the Cappellari Estate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $4,000-6,000

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157 171006/15 A pair of Louis XV style gilt-bronze four-light wall sconces late 19th/early 20th century H: 25 in. provenance: Property from the Cappellari Estate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $800-1,200

158 171006/2 A Louis XV/XVI Transitional style gilt-bronze mounted marquetry inlaid kingwood and tulipwood bureau de dame 19th century The brass galleried rectangular marble top with canted edge over three frieze drawers, the slanted surface with rolling lock mechanism opening to an interior with pen holder above three drawers over tooled-leather writing surface; the case with one further long drawer and raised on four cabriole legs terminating in paw sabots.

H: 41 1/2, W: 66, D: 22 in. provenance: Property from the Cappellari Estate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $1,500-2,500

159 171006/14 A pair of Louis XVI style brass-mounted kingwood and mahogany occasional tables 19th century Fine parquetry inlaid brass-galleried top over a frieze drawer, the four legs with brass circular banding united by a conforming shaped lower shelf and terminating in castors. (2).

H: 29 1/4, W: 23 1/4, D: 17 in. provenance: Property from the Cappellari Estate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $1,000-1,500

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the collection of harvey & helen wedeen lots 160-183 160 A Dutch Delft centerpiece bowl and stand late 17th century The bowl with scalloped paneled rim above painted floral swags; the stand with scalloped gilt edge and painted with floral sprays at the cardinal points. (2).

Dia: 16 in. (bowl) provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $2,000-3,000

161 A pair of Dutch Delft covered ginger jars de twee scheepjes, mark likely of antonius pennis, jr., 1756-1770 H: 7 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $500-700

162 A pair of Dutch Delft covered vases 18th century Of baluster form surmounted by domed covers terminating in fruiting finials; each unmarked. (2).

H: 12 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $600-800

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1639/43 A Dutch Delft tulipiere de pauw, 18th century Decorated with peacocks, with De Pauw marks to underside.

H: 8 in, W: 7 1/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $2,500-3,500

16470629/45 A Dutch Delft pilgrim flask mark probably for dirck van der does of de roos factory, 18th century or also possibly for Willem Van der Does, De Frie Kolkken, 1762.

H: 9, W: 6 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $1,000-1,500

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165 170629/50 Two pairs of Dutch Delft ‘Imari’ style polychrome decorated dishes 18th century Comprising two pancake plates and two chargers, each a fine earthenware decorated in polychrome tin glaze; marked to verso with maker’s mark “RK.” (4).

Dia: 8 1/2 in. (plates); Dia: 16 in. (chargers) provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $1,200-1,800

1660629/52 Two Dutch Delft doré chargers 18th century Each marked with artist cypher to verso. (2).

Dia: 16 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $2,000-3,000

167170629/54 Three Dutch Delft polychrome chargers 18th century The first marked “BP” for De Vergulde Bloempot; the remaining two unmarked. (3).

Dia: 9 1/4 in. (largest) provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $800-1,200

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168 170629/56 Three Dutch Delft chargers mid 18th century The first polychrome decorated in an ‘Imari’ style; the second blue and white decorated in an ‘Imari’ style; the third polychrome decorated in a Chinoiserie style; all unmarked.

(3).

Dia: 13 1/2 in. (largest) provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $800-1,200

16970629/55 A Dutch Delft famille rose style mug and bowl probably mid 18th century Both unmarked; sold together with a Dutch Delft polychrome decorated ginger jar with marks for De Drie Klokken, first half 19th century. (3).

H: 8 1/2 in. (tallest) provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $600-800

170 170629/35 A Dutch Delft posset pot second quarter 18th century H: 6, Dia: 7 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $800-1,200

172 170629/44 A Dutch Delft covered jar 18th/19th century Unmarked.

H: 4, Dia: 5 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $400-600

171 170629/51 A Dutch Delft jardinière 18th/19th century Sold together with a similar covered vase; each unmarked. (2).

H: 3, W: 9 in. (jardinière); H: 9 1/4 in. (vase) provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $600-800

173 170629/39 An English Delft blue and white puzzle jug probably liverpool, mid 18th century Unmarked.

H: 7 1/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $600-800

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174 170629/37 An English Delft blue and white plooischotel probably bristol, brislington, or london, last quarter 17th century Unmarked.

Dia: 8 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $400-600

175170629/36 An English Delft food warmer circa 1760-70 The underside with underglaze mark “16”.

H: 6 3/4, Dia: 4 1/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $500-700

176 170629/38 A set of four Dutch Delft knife rests late 18th/early 19th century Unmarked. (4).

L: 2 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $600-800

177 170629/47 A group of Dutch Delft blue and white and polychrome toby jugs and figures various makers, 17th-19th centuries Comprising a pair of cows with marks probably for Adriaen Pynackder, De Twee Scheepjes; a polychrome decorated house-form pastille burner with unknown mark; a toby jug, unmarked; a figural candlestick with mark possibly of Augustyn Reygens, proprietor of the Golden Boot from 1663-1666; and a toby teapot marked and dated “JSL 1750”. (6).

H: 6 1/4, W: 11 in. (largest) provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $800-1,200

178 170629/46 Three Dutch Delft miniature objects various makers, late 18th/early 19th century Comprising a miniature table, mark possibly of J. Weemers Hoppesteing, De Oude Moriaans Hooft; a miniature music stand marked “AK 8” probably for Albrecht Cornelius de Keizer; and a miniature piano-form jewelry box, unmarked. (3).

H: 3 1/4, W: 6 in. (table); H: 8 1/8 in. (stand); H: 4 3/4, W: 9 in. (box) provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $800-1,200

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179 170629/42 A Dutch Delft fish strainer probably frisian, 19th century With integral handles, the bowl pierced and painted to recto with three fish and to verso with floral motifs; with three small tapering feet.

Dia: 13 3/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $600-800

180 170629/28 A pair of Chinese export carved giltwood and verre églomisé three-light wall brackets 19th century The moulded and reticulated carved giltwood frame housing six arcaded mirror plates, the three lower plates decorated with verre églomisé Chinoiserie scenes; the base with three applied candlearms. (2).

H: 36, W: 29 in. provenance: Frank S. Schwarz, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $1,500-2,500

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181 170629/106 A Kazvin carpet northwest persia, 20th century 14 ft. 6 in. x 10 ft. 5 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $700-900

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182 170629/33 A Palais Royal style fruitwood inlaid rosewood harpsichord-form musical sewing box 19th century The lid inlaid with rosette, bellflowers, and faux keyboard enclosing a velvet fitted sewing interior with beaded pincushion, scissors, needlecase with needles, thimble, scent bottle, pick, and two spools; raised on five tapering legs.

H: 6, L: 11 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $800-1,200

183 170629/26 A Napoleon III black lacquer tantalus set third quarter 19th century The interior fitted with three parcel-gilt decanters and sixteen conforming cordial glasses.

H: 11, W: 14 in. provenance: From the Collection of Harvey and Helen Wedeen. $600-800

184 170887/2 A small Napoleon III white marble and gilt bronze pedestal side table second half 19th century H: 17 3/4, Dia: 14 in. $1,000-1,500

185 170670/27 A Napoleon III brass and fruitwood inlaid mahogany tantalus set circa 1865 The top and front brass-banded and inlaid with elaborate brass, fruitwood, and mother-of-pearl lozenges, the top and sides opening to reveal a fitted interior with removable ormolu stand housing four stoppered decanters and sixteen cordial glasses, each decorated with a field of parcel-gilt stars; the whole raised on four gilt bun feet.

H: 10 1/2, W: 13, D: 10 in. provenance: Établissements Berman Frères, Paris.

From the collection of a private Philadelphia lady. $600-800

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186 A Régence style ormolu eight-light chandelier 19th century Of typical form, decorated with masques, scrolling foliate decoration, and applied mounts.

H: 33, Dia: 33 in. provenance: Christie’s, New York, September 24, 1997, lot 167. $3,000-5,000

187 An Aubusson verdure tapestry fragment early 18th century Depicting a crane alongside water’s edge, with a picturesque Chinese landscape in the background; with later outer selvage and linen lining.

H: 71 1/2, W: 61 in. $800-1,200

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189 160924/3 Two Louis XV style beechwood sofas en cabriolet early 20th century Each upholstered in citron silk and with shaped crestrail carved with rocailles and flowers with conforming arms, one with manchettes, the apron and feet similarly carved. (2).

H: 40, W: 65, D: 30 in.; H: 38, W: 48 1/2, D: 30 in. provenance: Private collection. $1,500-2,500

188 A Vincennes style ormolu mounted blanc de chine group late 19th /20th century In the form of two Chinese boys holding a basket containing a bouquet of porcelain flowers, on a conforming rectangular ormolu base cast with rocailles.

H: 16, W: 14 in. $2,500-3,500

190 160924/2 A Louis XV style ormolu mounted kingwood vitrine table circa 1890 The top and sides set with beveled glass, the interior lined in later beige velvet and fitted with a Chubb’s Detector lock, raised on slender cabriole legs terminating in sabots; the underside with stamped inventory number “3100.”

H: 33, W: 35, D: 23 3/4 in. provenance: Private collection. $1,500-2,500

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191 A Louis XV style encrier signed sormani, paris, late 19th century The base of of rocaille- and coquillage-form, supporting a split and fruiting pomegranate opening to reveal the inkwell, the underside of the lid signed “P. Sormani Paris.”

H: 4 1/2, W: 8 3/4 in. $1,500-2,500

192 170670/24 Two Louis-Philippe Sèvres hand-painted and parcel-gilt cobalt porcelain portrait plates second quarter 19th century The first depicting Madame Necker and signed “Vict B”, the verso hand-titled and stamped with Sèvres interlaced L-P 1844 mark and Chateau des Tuileries pastille; the second depicting Madame Elisabeth and indistinctly signed, the verso hand-titled and stamped with Sèvres interlaced L-P 1846 mark and Chateau de St. Cloud pastille. (2).

Dia: 9 1/2 in. provenance: From the collection of a private Philadelphia lady. $800-1,200

193 170884/4 A large Sèvres style hand-painted and parcel-gilt porcelain casket in the form of a snuff box late 19th century The interior painted with floral sprays, the underside with blue overglaze pseudo crossed-L mark.

H: 6, W: 14 1/4, D: 9 1/4 in. $800-1,200

194 170670/26 A large Sèvres style gilt-bronze mounted parcel-gilt and handpainted covered vase signed charles labarre, late 19th century The gilt-decorated cobalt gadrooned neck surmounted by bell-form foliate-decorated lid; the white body mounted to shoulders with foliate swag handles, painted to recto with a classical maiden attended by putti and to verso with an allegory of agriculture; the whole raised on gilt-decorated cobalt gadrooned socle on bronze base; the underside of lid with spurious crossed-L mark.

H: 40 in. provenance: From the collection of a private Philadelphia lady. $2,000-4,000

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195 170597/5 A Louis XV style porcelain mounted gilt-bronze sixlight chandelier 20th century Of birdcage form, hung with amber and amethyst glass fruit, the center mounted with a porcelain cockatoo.

H: 42, W: 18 in. $2,000-3,000

196 170704/28 A pair of Louis XV style ormolu and Chinese porcelainmounted three-light candelabra late 19th century, the porcelain qing dynasty Each mounted with turquoise glazed Chinese porcelain parrots and Vincennes-style porcelain flowers, raised on open rocaille base; later electrified. (2).

H: 22 3/4 in. $3,000-5,000

197 170879/13 A Neoclassical ormolu-mounted and brass inlaid two-tier serving table 19th century Double brass banded and mounted to sides with two handles, the tapering fluted legs brass inlaid and terminating in toupie sabots.

H: 34, W: 34, D: 25 in. $2,500-3,000

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198 170969/6 An Italian Neoclassical style white-painted and parcelgilt console table early 20th century Of rectangular breakfront form and with associated rectangular black marble top, the pierced frieze centered by cornucopia and raised on four tapering legs.

H: 35 3/4, W: 48 1/2, D: 17 1/4 in. provenance: From the collection of an Elkins Park family. $800-1,200

199 170969/1 A Louis XVI carved giltwood console table with fior di pesco marble top early 20th century Of demi-lune form, with fluted frieze draped with laurel garlands, raised on four volute legs united by stretcher surmounted by an urn en flambeau.

H: 35 1/4, W: 50 3/4, D: 17 1/4 in. provenance: From the collection of an Elkins Park family. $1,500-2,500

200 A Louis XV/XVI Transitional style ormolu mounted parquetry side table 19th century After the model by Jean-François Oeben (German/French, 1721-1763), the shaped, galleried parquetry top above a frieze drawer mounted with a berried laurel swag mount, the face parquetry and with a lower drawer, the legs headed by rams’ head masques and scrolling foliate mounts terminating in scrolling sabots.

H: 29 1/4, W: 22 3/4, D: 18 1/4 in. $2,000-3,000

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property from the estate of simone ziegler lots 201-230

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he collection of Simone Ziegler is notable for the discreet sensibility of her taste for French furniture. The pieces, largely from the end of the 18th century to

the beginning of the 19th have a restrained elegance, proportions, and high quality.

Of particular note is the fine Empire secretaire a abbatant with its mounts in the manner of Gallé (lot 217) and the chinoiserie vernis martin cups with mounts in the manner of Jean Claude Chambellan Duplessis (lot 219). The charming roll-locking bureau de pente (Lot 206) and small mechanical poudreuse (lot 208) with their unusual construction are also of note.

201 A pair of Louis XV giltwood side chairs stamped gourdin, mid 18th century Each with Aubusson tapestry upholstery. (2).

H: 35 1/2, W: 22 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $800-1,200

202 A pair of Louis XV gray-painted and velvet upholstered side chairs mid 18th century H: 37 1/2, W: 20 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $800-1,200

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203 A Louis XV carved walnut firescreen with needlepoint upholstery mid 18th century H: 42 1/2, W: 31 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $800-1,200

204 A Louis XV brass-mounted parquetry mahogany poudreuse mid 18th century With diagonal banded parquetry decoration, the hinged lid opening to an interior fitted with mirror and various compartments; raised on cabriole legs.

H: 40, W: 20, D: 13 1/2 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $600-800

205 A Louis XV carved and green-painted beechwood fauteuil stamped g. sené, circa 1760 Of typical form, stamped to the underside of front seat rail; upholstered in later green velvet brocade.

H: 35, W: 25 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $1,500-2,500

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206 170573/20 A Louis XV carved and stained beechwood bergère en cabriolet 18th century En suite with lot 205.

H: 38 1/2, W: 26 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $500-700

207 170573/14 A Continental Louis XV parquetry walnut bureau de pente mid 18th century With hinged lid secured with a rolling lock mechanism and opening to a red leather writing surface; raised on cabriole legs terminating in sabots.

H: 31, W: 27 1/2, D: 16 1/2 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $600-800

208 170573/37 A Louis XV inlaid fruitwood table à écrire mid 18th century With mechanically retracting paravent fitted with sander, inkwell, and swinging candlearms.

H: 28, W: 27, D: 17 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $600-800

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209 A Louis XVI parcel-gilt and parcel-ebonized carved wood barometer 18th century Of Lyre form and centered by a wheel barometer surmounted by a pair of dolphins above a thermometer, the whole with laurel wreath and swag decoration; apparently without maker’s mark.

H: 40, W: 17 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $1,500-2,500

210 170573/38 A Louis XVI parquetry veneered marble-top commode late 18th century H: 34 1/2, W: 39 1/2, D: 14 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $2,000-3,000

211 170573/42 Four Directoire carved fruitwood lyre-back side chairs late 18th century H: 34 1/2, W: 16 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $800-1,200

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212 A Louis XVI mahogany bibliothèque circa 1800 The shaped Carrara marble top supported by fluted columns flanking two curtained cabinet doors enclosing shelves.

H: 71, W: 54, D: 16 1/2 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $1,200-1,500

213 A Louis XVI ormolu and patinated bronze clock au vase robert osmond and joseph tavernier, paris, circa 1770 The case in the form of a truncated column surmounted by a garlanded urn en flambeau, designed by Robert Osmond (French, 1711-1789) and stamped to rear base “OSMOND;” the enamel dial and movement both signed “TAVERNIER A PARIS” (Joseph Tavernier, maître 1756), the dial and base wreathed with laurel.

H: 14 1/4 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. note: This design by Robert Osmond, made maître in 1746 and named head of fondeurs in 1756, was a popular one in the last quarter of the 18th century. His original sketch of the form is held in the archives of the Bibliothèque Doucet, Paris, and the model is also illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen-Âge au XXe siècle (1997), p. 185.

Osmond was one of the most important bronziers of the 18th century, along with his nephew, Jean-Baptiste Osmond (French, 1742-after 1790), who worked alongside his uncle once he was made maître in 1764, and then overtook the firm upon Robert’s retirement in the mid-1770s. Together they were among the first maîtres fondeurs to embrace the new goût à l’antique, or Neoclassical style, in the 1760s, when the Rococo was still the height of fashion. The taste of the French elite soon followed, and clocks of this and other similar models were produced in conjunction with important horlogers, including Tavernier, Lepaute, Hilgers, Frédéric Duval, and Berthoud. Though the Osmonds apparently created numerous bronze objects, including chenets, encriers, and sconces, it is their clocks which remain extant today.

For a recent sale of an identical gilt and patinated bronze model, see Sotheby’s, Paris, April 27, 2017, Lot 216. For recent sales of the same form entirely in ormolu, see Sotheby’s, London, May 2, 2017, lot 215; and Koller Auctions, Zurich, March 23, 2016, lot 1179. $6,000-8,000

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214 170573/29 A Louis XVI parquetry marble-top petit buffet 18th century The rectangular moulded gris de sainte anne marbled top above a frieze drawer over two cabinet doors enclosing shelves.

H: 34 1/4, W: 37 3/4, D: 15 3/4 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $800-1,200

215 170573/27 A Directoire fruitwood extending dining table early 19th century Oval form, with three extension leaves, raised on tapering legs terminating in castors.

H: 29 3/4, W: 63, D: 47 in.; W: 17 1/2 in. (each leaf) provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $1,200-1,800

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216 170573/28 Eight Directoire brass-inlaid cherry side chairs 19th century Sold together with two conforming fauteuils of 20th century manufacture, stamped A. Lucches.

(10).

H: 35 3/4, W: 17, D: 15 1/2 in. (side); H: 37, 2: 21 3/4, L: 18 1/2 in. (arm) provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $2,000-3,000

217 170573/39 A French Empire ormolu mounted bookmatched mahogany veneered marble top secrétaire à abattant early 19th century The rectangular gris de sainte anne marble top over torus drawer above fall front above three drawers, with mounts in the manner of Claude Gallé.

H: 56 1/4, W: 38 1/2, D: 16 3/4 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $800-1,200

218 170573/40 After Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757-1822) bust of napoleon, late 19th/early 20th century White marble, titled to base in carved and gilt lettering.

H: 22 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $2,000-4,000

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219 A pair of Louis XV ormolu-mounted red vernis martin bowls 18th/19th centuries The mounts very fine and likely mid-18th century; the red vernis martin gilt-decorated in the chinoiserie taste. (2).

H: 4 1/2, W: 7 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. note: The very fine mounts of this piece bear comparison to works attributed to the French master JeanClaude Chambellan Duplessis (1699-1774), called Duplessis père (to distinguish himself from his son, a goldsmith), who was active in Paris in the mid-18th century, and responsible for many works of ormolumounted Chinese porcelain in the rococo style. $2,000-3,000

220 A pair of Louis XV style ormolu mounted flambé-glazed porcelain vases late 19th century The aubergine flambé glazed bodies of irregular form with twin handles; the interiors lined with removable lead inserts. (2).

H: 14, W: 9 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $3,000-5,000

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221 170573/22 A French gilt-bronze mounted Chinese turquoiseglazed porcelain jardinière 19th century The sides etched with motifs of feathers and vases; the interior lead lined and with removable copper insert.

H: 4 1/2, W: 8 1/4, D: 6 3/4 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $600-800

222 170573/31 A French chinoiserie oil on canvas fourpanel floor screen 19th century H: 57, W: 19 in. (each panel); W: 76 in. (overall) provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $1,500-2,500

223 170573/8 A Louis XVI style ormolu cartel clock baguès & fils, paris, late 19th century In the form of a laurel wreath suspended from a ribbon, the white enamel dial marked “Baguès & Fils/ Fabts de Bronzes/Paris” and the movement stamped “L.F./41093.”

H: 18 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $800-1,200

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225 170573/26 A gilt brass tastevin 19th century With grapevine handle, the rim decorated with raised grapevine motif.

H: 2, W: 3 1/2, L: 5 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $400-600

224 A Louis XV style gilt bronze fireplace suite late 19th century Comprising two chenets and a fender. (3).

H: 12, W: 40 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $1,000-1,500

226 170573/25 A French gilt-brass mounted opaline glass vase late 19th century H: 9 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $800-1,200

227 170573/7 A Samson Chinese export style porcelain urn circa 1900 Campagna-form and decorated with pseudo-armorial bearings and floral sprays on white ground, and parcel gilt with two masque-form handles.

H: 13 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $400-600

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228 170573/6 A pair of French porcelain parrots achille bloch, paris, circa 1900 The male parrot with plumes aspray, together with a female parrot each perched atop floral-decorated stumps (2).

H: 11 1/2 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $800-1,200

229 170573/17 A pair of Derby ‘Imari’ style lozengeform dishes first half 19th century W: 11 in. provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $400-600

230 170573/34 A Herend porcelain ‘Rothschild Oiseaux’ dessert service for twelve 20th century Comprising twelve each cups and saucers, thirteen plates, one serving dish, and one two-handled serving tray. (39).

L: 14 1/4 in. (tray) provenance: Property from the Estate of Simone Ziegler. $2,000-3,000

231 A set of four Royal Copenhagen ‘Flora Danica’ cups and saucers date code for 1944 Comprising two teacups and saucers and two demitasse cups and saucers. (4).

H: 2 3/4, Dia: 5 1/4 in. (teacups and saucers) $800-1,200

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232 A pair of Neoclassical jasper urns possibly baltic or russian, 19th century Of baluster form, with fluting neck and socle above a conforming base. (2).

H: 14 1/2 in. $2,500-3,500

233 178042/19 An Empire ormolu figural mantel clock, ‘The Chariot of Telemachus’ le roy horloger du roi, palais royal, paris, circa 1810 The case after the model by Jean-André Reiche (French, 1752-1817), in the form of a biga driven by Telemachus under the protection of Athena, the chariot wheel forming the enamel chapter ring; all above a rectangular base with a frieze of Telemachus, Ulysses, Calypso, and Eucharis flanked by laurel wreaths, raised on four fasces pillars; the movement without pendulum stamped “732/P” and with various scratched and stamped inventory marks.

H: 18, W: 19 3/4, D: 5 in. note: This form is illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, La Pendule Française du Moyen Age au XXe Siècle, 1997, p. 417, plate D and Edouard Tardy, Les Plus Belles Pendules Françaises, 1994, p. 279, though these examples bear an eagle rather than Ulysses frieze. Identical models to the present lot can be found in the collections of the Musée François Duesberg, Mons, Belgium and Musée de Château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, France.

For other sales of this model, see Christie’s, Amsterdam, December 20, 2006, lot 104; and Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris, November 22, 2016, lot 275. $2,000-4,000

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234 An Empire parcel-gilt and bronze-painted mahogany lit en bateau circa 1810 The paneled headboard and footboard flanked by scrolled uprights, the front carved in relief with torches and olive branch rinceaux, the posts bronze-painted and carved as lion’s legs surmounted by gilt lion’s heads; sold together with a custom velvet bedspreads designed by Gianni Versace. (2).

H: 45, W: 91 1/2, D: 57 1/2 in. provenance: The Collection of Gianni Versace, Sotheby’s New York, April 5-7, 2001.

Private collection. $4,000-6,000

235 171008/4 After Jean-Pierre Cortot (French, 1787-1843) le soldat de marathon, 19th century Bronze, dark green patina, in the form of a fallen runner with arm raised; signed in cast “F. BARBEDIENNE, FONDEUR” and with “Réduction Mécanique A. Collas” pastille.

H: 40, L: 45 in. $10,000-15,000

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236 170762/1 After Emile Louis Picault (French, 1833-1915) le genie du travail, circa 1900 Bronze, gold patina, signed and titled in cast; sold together with jasper pedestal.

H: 30 1/2 in. (sculpture); H: 40 in. (pedestal) $1,000-1,500

237 After Émile Louis Picault (French, 1833-1915) the pharaoh’s gift, late 19th/early 20th century Bronze with brown, green, black and gold patina, signed in cast “Picault” and raised on square marble base.

H: 29 in. $3,000-5,000

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238 Georges Charles Coudray (French, 1862-1932) tahoser, circa 1883-1903 Bronze with red, black, and gold patina, signed in cast “Coudray” with “AP” mark, stamped with Société des Bronzes de Paris pastille and inventory number “3192.”

H: 28 in. $2,000-3,000

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239 An Empire figured mahogany console table with carrera marble top 19th century The rounded rectangular top over cavetto with frieze drawer, on volute-form front legs terminating in paw feet and rectangular rear legs all raised on shaped plinth base.

H: 33, W: 34 1/4 D: 18 3/4 in. $2,000-3,000

240 170997/1 A large pair of Sèvres style gilt-bronze mounted hand-painted and parcel-gilt porcelain Napoleonic urns late 19th century Baluster form with forest green ground, with removable covers surmounted by eagle-form finials; the first painted after Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771-1835), ‘Avant la Bataille! Matinée des Pyramides’ to recto and with a scene of Napoleon among the Pyramids to verso; the second depicting ‘Après le Combat! Soirée d’Austerlitz’ to recto, with a scene of soldiers marching to battle to verso; each indistinctly signed and with pseudo-Sèvres mark to underside of lids. (2).

H: 44 in. provenance: Private collection, New Jersey. $3,000-5,000

241 An Empire revival parcel-gilt and patinated bronze mantel clock vincenti et cie., last quarter 19th century The rectangular moulded top above spandrels decorated with pegasus appliques and the sides with anthemia and putti, all suspended by fluted pilasters; the gilt-bronze and white and green enamel dial with Breguet hands and Roman numerals further suspending a pair of trumpeting Victoires; the whole above rectangular base with applied gryphon frieze; the movement stamped with Vincenti ‘Medaille d’Or’ pastille.

H: 17 1/4, W: 9 1/2, D: 6 in. $2,000-3,000

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property of a new york lady lots 242-254

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his fine collection of German porcelain was acquired over decades by a New York lady and her husband, with a deep appreciation for the exquisite quality of the ceramics of their native Germany. Her passion was

formed as a young girl visiting the auction rooms of Wiesbaden with her father, and her love of collecting later extended to her husband. Together, in the United States, they were honored to serve as Presidential commissioners under President Ronald Reagan, and were as active in international affairs as they were in the rarifed collecting world of fine porcelain.

The collection contains highlights in the form of several pieces which are of particular interest to collectors in this category, in particular, Berlin-subject pieces. Lot 246, the exceptional 19th-century “Views of Berlin” solitaire by the Kaiserliches Porzellanmanufaktur (KPM) is of exceptional quality, as are the rare portrait cups of Frederick II and Frederick Wilhelm II, (lot 242).

242 170871/28 Two K.P.M. hand-painted and parcel-gilt portrait cups of Frederick II and Frederick Wilhelm II circa 1780-90 With parcel-gilt imbricated cobalt ground, the first cup with a classical portrait of Frederick II en grisaille, with conforming saucer decorated with a wreathed medallion and initials “FR” for “Fridericus Rex;” the second a cup and cover of similar design, with portrait of Frederick Wilhelm II, inscribed “Fred. Guillaume/Prince de Prusse,” to recto and with allegories of victory to verso, sold together with an associated saucer inscribed “Telémanque et Calypso;” all with blue underglaze scepter mark to underside. (4).

H: 3 1/4, Dia: 5 1/2 in. provenance: Property of a New York City lady. $2,000-3,000

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243 170871/24 Two K.P.M. parcel-gilt porcelain cameo cups and saucers the first circa 1830-40, the second late 19th/early 20th century The first with variegated and gilt-enriched lapis blue ground, the cup with beaded scrolled handle and raised cameo portrait possibly of Queen Frederika Louisa, the foot parcel-gilt with acanthus pattern, the saucer similarly decorated; the second with solid lapis blue ground and parcel-gilt anthemia edge, the cup with serpent handle and raised cameo portrait of Empress Augusta Victoria, the saucer similarly decorated; all with blue scepter and red imperial orb marks to underside. (4).

H: 5, Dia: 5 3/4 in. (larger) provenance: Property of a New York City lady. $1,500-2,500

244 170871/29 A K.P.M. hand-painted and parcel-gilt porcelain part solitaire circa 1800-1810 With gilt edge and allover decorated with blue floral sprays, comprising a coffeepot, covered sugar, two cups and saucers, and an oval tray; all with blue underglaze scepter mark to undersides. (7).

H: 5 1/4 in. (coffeepot); L: 11 3/4 in. (tray) provenance: Property of a New York City lady. $1,000-1,500

245 170871/23 A K.P.M. hand-painted and parcel-gilt porcelain chocolate cup and saucer with view of Potsdam 1844-1849 With solid lapis blue ground and parcel-gilt acanthus modeled edge, surmounted by domed cover with wreathform knop, the body with reserve finely painted with a view of the Sanssouci Palace, raised on three paw feet, the underside with blue eagle and scepter and red imperial orb marks; the saucer similarly decorated, the underside with blue eagle circular seal and red imperial orb marks. (2).

H: 5 3/4, Dia: 7 1/2 in. provenance: Property of a New York City lady. $800-1,200

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246 A K.P.M. hand-painted and parcel-gilt porcelain six-piece solitaire with views of Berlin circa 1870 With bleu celeste ground and parcel-gilt rusticated border, comprising a coffeepot, covered sugar, creamer, two tea cups and saucers, and tray; sold together with a similar but earlier saucer with views of Kavalierhaus, Salzburg and Charlottenhof Palace, Potsdam; all with blue scepter mark and red imperial orb marks to underside. (9).

H: 6 1/2 in. (coffeepot); L: 14 in. (tray) provenance: Property of a New York City lady. $6,000-8,000 247 A K.P.M. hand-painted and parcel gilt porcelain egg with view of Berlin 1883 The reserve to recto depicting the Königliches Schloss, now destroyed, and the reserve to verso depicting the black bear of Berlin and titled “Berlin 1883;” without original cap and now with resin ring stand.

H: 3 in. provenance: Property of a New York City lady. $800-1,200

248 170871/25 A collection of German parcel-gilt porcelain cups and saucers with views of Germany 19th/20th centuries Comprising a K.P.M. lobed cup and saucer with views of Camenz von der Albrectschibe, with blue eagle and scepter mark to undersides; the second a K.P.M. footed chocolate cup with a country house in Alpine landscape, with blue scepter mark to underside, sold with an associated, possibly French, saucer with a map of Europe, unmarked; a Meissen cup depicting Moritzburg Scholss, with blue crossed swords mark to underside; a commemorative Furstenburg cup and saucer depicting Biebricher Schloss, with blue underglaze marks and numbered 92/100; an unmarked cup and saucer depicting Bonn; and an unmarked cup and saucer depicting Wismar. (11).

H: 5 1/2 in. (tallest) provenance: Property of a New York City lady. $1,500-2,500

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249 170871/27 A collection of Meissen and German porcelain floral-decorated tea and coffee wares 18th/19th century Comprising a Meissen chocolate pot, 18th century; a Meissen spiral-fluted part tea and coffee service comprising teapot, coffeepot, and three cups and saucers, 19th century; a Meissen teapot, 19th century; a Höscht coffeepot painted with swans and insects, 18th century; two Royal Vienna style spiral-fluted cups, one with cover, 19th century; and a Nymphenburg basketmoulded plate, 19th century. (14).

H: 7 in. (chocolate pot) provenance: Property of a New York City lady. $1,000-1,500

250 A German hand-painted porcelain patch box possibly nymphenburg, 18th century The porcelain moulded with basket patter and with raised scroll and floral motifs, the flowers then hand-painted to top, sides, and underside; the underside of the lid finely painted with an amorous couple and the interior of the box gilt; apparently unmarked; sold together with a 19th century K.P.M. box of similar style. (2).

H: 1 3/4, W: 3 5/8, D: 2 5/8 in. provenance: Property of a New York City lady. $800-1,200

251 A German gold-mounted hand-painted porcelain patch box with views of Dresden 18th century The top and interior of the lid finely painted with views of Dresden, the sides painted with pastoral scenes, and the underside painted with a picturesque ruin; apparently unmarked.

H: 2, W: 3 1/2, D: 2 1/2 in. provenance: Property of a New York City lady. $2,000-3,000

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252 An unusual George III transfer-printed enamel patch box 18th century The top and underside decorated with raised rococo cartouches with diapered ground, the lid with portrait of King George III and the underside of the lid with portrait of Queen Charlotte; the sides decorated with allegories of England’s virtues; the underside with inscription “Let Him Love now Who never Lov’d before, Let Him who ever Lov’d Now Love the more.”

H: 1 1/2, W: 3 1/2, D: 2 3/4 in. provenance: Property of a New York City lady. $400-600

253 A collection of objects and desk articles 18th/19th centuries Comprising a gilt-bronze Prussian Chamberlain’s key monogrammed “TA” beneath a crown; a parcel-gilt bronze blotter with portrait of Maria Anna, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary; a gilt tortoiseshell cameo portrait of Anne, Queen of England; and a gilt lacquer box with view of Frankfurt. (4).

L: 6 3/4 in. (key) provenance: Property of a New York City lady. $400-600

254 Three Continental glass vessels 18th century The first an etched glass bottle commemorating the Treaty of Dresden, signed on December 25, 1745 between Austria, Saxony, and Prussia; the second a green glass beaker painted with the electorates of the Holy Roman Empire; the third a clear glass cup painted with the Royal Arms of the Saxon Kingdom of Poland. (3).

H: 10 1/4 in. (tallest) provenance: Property of a New York City lady. $500-800

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255 A large Bohemian glass wheel-engraved covered cup 20th century Of typical form the top with hexagonal faceted knop and tapering lid, above a cup engraved with stags and hunting scenes, the whole on a faceted octagonal stem and base.

H: 21 1/2 in. $800-1,200

256 170879/17 A Biedermeier parcel ebonized and mahogany sewing table circa 1840 The worksection of canted and shaped rectangular form with stringing, supported by a pair of interlocked serpents above an urn-shaped support on conforming base above splayed feet.

H: 30 1/2, W: 21, D: 16 1/4 in. $1,500-2,500

257 161264/11 A pair of Biedermeier walnut veneered cornucopia chairs likely austrian or south german, circa 1835 With shaped crestrails and cornucopia-form upholstered arms ending in penwork roundels, on square bases issuing scroll feet.

H: 31 1/2, W: 35 1/2, D: 26 in. provenance: Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C. $400-600

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from the collection of james a. mcgirr & dr. charles lothridge, bucks county, pennsylvania lots 258-268

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ames Sheridan Anthony McGirr and his partner of 53 years Dr. Charles Lothridge lived for many years on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where they began assembling their fine collection of pure

examples of Biedermeier-period furniture. The collection focused almost exclusively on the most restrained and classic iteration of the style, with delicate neo-classical forms shown to best advantage in fruitwoods (largely cherry and pear wood) with gilt and or ebonized detail.

The couple relocated to Bucks County, PA, where they continued to knit a rich fabric of friends, and in true Biedermeier style, were known for their generous entertaining and receptions at their homes in Lambertville as well as at their second residence, the “Blue Pig” in Cape May, New Jersey.

258 A Biedermeier marble topped fruitwood torchère early 19th century The circular nero antico marble top above a plain frieze, raised on angular S-form legs joined by a concave-sided triangular stretcher.

H: 34 1/2, Dia: 16 in. provenance: From the collection of James A. McGirr & Dr. Charles Lothridge, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $400-600

259 Four Biedermeier ebonized and inlaid walnut side chairs 19th century Each with slight rollover top crestrail with ebonized lozengeform stringing, above a low pierced arcaded backsplat, the angular seat on conforming seatrails with ebonized lower edges, on tapering square legs. (4).

H: 34 1/2, W: 18, D: 17 in. provenance: From the collection of James A. McGirr & Dr. Charles Lothridge, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $1,500-2,000

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260 170946/24 A Biedermeier fruitwood settee early 19th century The shaped crestrail with S-form arms incorporating horizontal pierced splats, the seat on square tapering legs.

H: 35 1/2, L: 54 1/2 in. provenance: From the collection of James A. McGirr & Dr. Charles Lothridge, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $800-1,200

261 170946/29 A Biedermeier inlaid fruitwood writing table 19th century The rectangular top with black leather-tooled panel, the kneehole front with five drawers flanked by serpentine foliate vines on an ebonized ground, raised on tapering square legs.

H: 30 3/8, W: 40 1/4, D: 22 1/4 in. provenance: From the collection of James A. McGirr & Dr. Charles Lothridge, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $1,500-2,000

262 170946/30 A Biedermeier walnut center table early 19th century With a circular segmented top above a plain frieze with ebonized lower edge and raised on four s-form legs joined by a domed X-form stretcher centered by an artichoke-form giltwood finial.

H: 30, Dia: 39 in. provenance: From the collection of James A. McGirr & Dr. Charles Lothridge, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $2,000-3,000

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263 170946/27 A Biedermeier inlaid birch side cabinet early 19th century The rectangular black nero antico marble top above a pediment frieze and a pair of doors with gilt metal key escutcheons, flanked by ebonized pilasters with etched gilt-metal capitals and bases.

H: 30 1/4, W: 37, D: 17 1/4 in. provenance: From the collection of James A. McGirr & Dr. Charles Lothridge, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $1,200-1,800

264 170946/34 A Biedermeier fruitwood and ebonized wood mirror 19th century The upright rectangular plate surmounted by pitched pediment above an ebonized panel applied with cherub and cornucopia gilt-metal mounts, the base also with an ebonized panel applied with a gilt-metal military trophy mount.

H: 47 1/2, W: 23 in. provenance: From the collection of James A. McGirr & Dr. Charles Lothridge, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $800-1,200

265 170946/33 A Biedermeier fruitwood commode early 19th century The rectangular top above a frieze drawer and two recessed long drawers, flanked by free-standing ebonized colonettes, on block feet with applied ebonized lower edges.

H: 33 3/4, W: 45, D: 21 1/2 in. provenance: From the collection of James A. McGirr & Dr. Charles Lothridge, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $1,200-1,800

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266 170946/25 A Biedermeier fruitwood commode 19th century The rectangular top with ebonized stringing, above three drawers with shield-shaped escutcheons above splayed s-form legs.

H: 32 1/2, L: 46 in. provenance: From the collection of James A. McGirr & Dr. Charles Lothridge, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $800-1,200

267 A Biedermeier inlaid fruitwood armoire 19th century The flat top cornice with ebonized moldings above a pair of doors inlaid with diamond stringing, flanked by angular ebonized pilasters, raised on tapering square legs.

H: 77, W: 50 in. provenance: From the collection of James A. McGirr & Dr. Charles Lothridge, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $1,500-2,000

268 A Biedermeier inlaid fruitwood bibliothèque 19th century The flat-top molded cornice above a pair of doors with glazed upper panels, the lower field-paneled doors inlaid with diamond shaped insets on tapering legs.

H: 81 1/2, W: 65 in. provenance: From the collection of James A. McGirr & Dr. Charles Lothridge, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. $1,500-2,000

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he following collection of Meissen porcelain, lots 269 through 288, was lovingly assembled by a Philadelphia couple over the course of their marriage from prominent dealers in

London and throughout the United States. Of particular note is the extensive ‘Blue Onion’ dinner service, which is largely 19th century and contains an astonishing 269 pieces divided into eight lots. Other unusual lots include a monumental pair of nodding magot figures, each over a foot tall, and an Art Nouveau figure of a kugelspielerin, or ball player, after the 1897 model by the German sculptor Walter Schott. Including figural groups from the Marcolini period through the 20th century, the examples in this collection represent some of Meissen’s most popular and beloved models by Johann Joachim Kändler, Friedrich Elias Meyer, and Michel Victor Acier.

269 An assembled Meissen ‘Blue Onion’ porcelain dinner service for twelve various dates 19th and 20th centuries Comprising 26 dinner plates, twelve each luncheon and salad plates, nine soup bowls, six each bread plates and reticulated bread plates, and ten dessert bowls in two sizes; all with blue underglaze crossed swords mark, occasional pieces with possibly spurious marks. (approx. 135).

Dia: 10 in. (dinner plates) provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $2,000-3,000

270 Three Meissen ‘Blue Onion’ porcelain tea and coffee services 20th century Comprising one four-piece tea service of teapot, covered sugar, creamer, and waste bowl; one four-piece coffee service of coffeepot, covered sugar, creamer, and waste bowl; one three-piece demitasse set of coffeepot, covered sugar, and creamer; 15 cups and 16 saucers; and six demitasse cups and nine saucers; all with blue underglaze crossed swords mark. (approx. 57).

H: 8 1/4 in. (coffeepot) provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $800-1,200

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271 A pair of Meissen ‘Blue Onion’ porcelain covered tureens 1815-1860 Each with integral handles and figural knop; with blue underglaze crossed swords mark and incised numbers to underside. (2).

H: 8, W: 13 in. provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $1,000-1,500

273 170779/1E An assembled group of Meissen ‘Blue Onion’ porcelain table implements and garnishes 20th century Comprising six placecard holders, four knife rests, three shoe-form spoon rests, two trivets, two ashtrays, an urn-form garniture vase, and a dinner bell; all with blue underglaze crossed swords mark. (19).

H: 5 1/4 in. (vase) provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $700-900

272 170779/1D An assembled group of Meissen ‘Blue Onion’ porcelain serving dishes 19th and 20th centuries Comprising a large meat platter, three graduated oval platters, a salmon platter and strainer, two graduated circular serving dishes, a square serving bowl, and a boat-form loaf dish; all with blue underglaze crossed swords mark and some with incised/impressed marks. (10).

L: 21 1/2 in. (meat platter) provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $2,000-3,000

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274 170779/1F An assembled group of Meissen ‘Blue Onion’ salts and condiment dishes 19th and 20th centuries Comprising two figural master salts and six open salts of various forms, three quail egg cups, three large egg cups, two vinaigrettes, two pickle dishes, one mustard pot with spoon, one pepper mill, one small stoppered bottle, one covered porringer, one pill box, and a condiment tray with two covered canisters; all with blue underglaze crossed swords mark and some with incised/impressed marks. (22).

H: 7 in. (vinaigrettes) provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $1,000-1,500

275 170779/1G An assembled set of Meissen ‘Blue Onion’ serving dishes 20th century Comprising two sauce boats with integral trays, two crescent-form sweetmeat dishes, one covered vegetable dish, one game pie dish, one reticulated cake stand, one reticulated footed basket, and one reticulated dish, all with blue underglaze crossed swords mark and some with impressed marks; sold together with a ‘Blue Onion’ style handled sweetmeat dish of another manufacture. (18).

H: 5, Dia: 8 1/4 in. (cake stand) provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $800-1,200

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276 A assembled group of Meissen ‘Blue Onion’ porcelain lighting implements 19th and 20th centuries Comprising two pairs of chamber sticks, a candle snuffer, and an oil lamp; all with blue underglaze crossed swords mark. (6).

H: 22 in. (lamp) provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $700-900

277 170779/2 A Meissen porcelain floral-decorated tea service early 20th century Comprising a teapot, covered sugar, creamer, lozenge-form serving dish, six cups and saucers, and six dessert plates; all with blue underglaze crossed swords mark and impressed model numbers to underside. (16).

H: 5 in. (teapot) provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $800-1,200

278 170779/6 A Meissen bottle vase and cover late 19th century With applied floral and fruiting garland, with blue underglaze crossed sword mark to underside.

H: 14 1/4 in. provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $800-1,200

279 170779/3 A pair of Meissen porcelain figural four-light candelabra circa 1924-34 The candlearms removable to form two candlesticks; each with blue underglaze crossed sword with dot mark to underside and various incised model numbers. (2).

H: 16 1/4 in. provenance: Royal Red Antiques, Dania, Florida, 2000.

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280 170779/7 A Meissen porcelain figural group of a courting couple circa 1774-1815 From the Marcolini period and after the model by Michel Victor Acier (French, 1736-1799), with blue underglaze crossed sword and star mark and impressed “G22” to underside.

H: 8 in. provenance: K&M Antiques, London, 2002.

From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $1,500-2,500

281 170779/21 A Meissen porcelain figure of a flower seller early 19th century With blue underglaze crossed swords mark to underside.

H: 7 3/4 in. provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $700-900

282 170779/10 A monumental pair of Meissen porcelain figures of a gallant and lady circa 1815-1860 Decorated in gilt-enriched blue and white, each with blue underglaze crossed sword mark and incised modeller’s initial and inventory numbers to underside. (2).

H: 19 1/2 in. provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $3,000-5,000

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283 170779/22 Three small Meissen porcelain figures second half 19th century Comprising a grape harvester, a goose seller, and a gardener; all with blue underglazed crossed swords mark and incised or impressed model numbers. (3).

H: 5 in. (tallest) provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $600-800

284 170779/23 A Meissen porcelain figural group of cherubs grinding arrows 1815-1860 With blue underglaze crossed swords mark and incised marks to underside; sold together with two additional Meissen figures of of infant Cupid and a triangle player. (3).

H: 8 1/2 in. provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $800-1,200

285 170779/8 An Old Paris porcelain figure of a blackamoor jacob petit (french, 1796-1886), circa 1820-30 Modeled as a merchant and possibly intended as a master salt, with original marks ground and obscured by a later pseudo-Meissen mark.

H: 9 3/4 in. provenance: King’s Antiques and Fine Art, San Francisco, California, 2000.

From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $800-1,200

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286 170779/5 A large Meissen porcelain figure of a Malabar lady circa 1815-1860 After the model by Friedrich Elias Meyer (German, 17231785), with blue underglaze crossed swords mark and incised model numbers to underside.

H: 13 in. provenance: Butterfield West, San Francisco, California, Sale 6245W, 1995.

From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $800-1,200

287 170779/11 A Meissen porcelain figure of a Kugelspielerin circa 1898 After the model by Walter Schott (German, 1861-1938), with blue underglaze crossed swords mark and incised model numbers to underside.

H: 12 in. provenance: K&M Antiques, London, 2002.

From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $1,500-2,500

288 170779/9 A monumental pair of Meissen porcelain nodding magot figures 20th century After the models by Johann Joachim Kändler (German, 1706-1775), the hands, head, and tongue all fully articulated; each with blue underglaze crossed sword mark to underside.

H: 12 1/2, W: 10 1/2 in. provenance: From the collection of a Philadelphia lady. $3,000-5,000

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289 170884/3 A pair of Meissen porcelain figural centerpiece baskets 1815-1860 Each in the form of two courting figures encircling a tree suspending a reticulated and floral-encrusted basket; with blue underglaze crossed swords mark to underside. (2).

H: 19 1/4, W: 13, D: 11 1/2 in. $3,000-5,000

290 170884/6 A Meissen porcelain parrot 1815-1860 In the form of a red macaw, with blue underglaze crossed swords mark and incised model number to underside.

H: 10 1/4 in. $600-800

291 178046/2 A pair of Meissen style porcelain parrots 20th century Each with spurious pseudocrossed sword mark to underside. (2).

H: 18 1/4 in. $600-800

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292 171021/2 A K.P.M. painted porcelain plaque, ‘Echo’ signed wagner, late 19th century Finely painted after Edouard Bisson (French, 1856-1939), signed “Wagner” to lower right corner; the verso with impressed “K.P.M.” beneath scepter mark, and with incised inventory numbers; housed in a gesso and giltwood frame.

H: 8 1/2, W: 5 3/4 in. (plaque) $1,000-1,500

293 170884/2 A pair of Royal Vienna style hand-painted and parcel-gilt covered urns 19th century Each depicting classical scenes, the first “Nimphe Sacrefysing,” the second “Zenlauer & Apollo” to recto and “Raub der Deianeira” to verso; each with blue underglaze bindenschild mark and iron red overglaze titles to underside. (2).

H: 11 1/2 in. $1,000-1,500

294 170670/23 A Royal Vienna style hand-painted and parcel-gilt porcelain plate, ‘Im Morgenland’ late 19th century Painted in cavetto with an Orientalist scene of a maiden feeding mourning doves, the rim parcel-gilt against a yellow ground with maroon reserves; the verso hand-titled and with blue underglaze bindenschild mark.

Dia: 9 1/2 in. provenance: From the collection of a private Philadelphia lady. $600-800

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295 170670/22 A Pirken-Hammer painted porcelain plate, ‘Daniello’ aloys eckardt (german, 1845-1906), late 19th century Painted to the edge with a portrait of Daniel, the verso inscribed “Daniello/ cop./A. L. Eckardt/Dresden.” and with impressed F&M mark.

Dia: 9 in. provenance: From the collection of a private Philadelphia lady. $500-700

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297 A pair of Derby style parcel-gilt and hand-painted porcelain pot-pourri urns probably samson, second half 19th century Each with maroon ground surmounted by pierced lid, with a reserve painted with seashells; raised on three dolphin-form supports on tripartite base; with a red pseudo-Derby mark to underside. (2).

H: 9 in. provenance: Property of a Philadelphia gentleman. $600-800

296 170670/21 A Continental soft-paste porcelain casket in the form of an armoire probably 19th century, possibly samson The two hinged doors opening to an interior with one shelf and painted with floral sprays; the underside with obscured fleur-de-lys impressed mark.

H: 15 1/2, W: 11, D: 5 1/2 in. provenance: From the collection of a private Philadelphia lady. $2,000-3,000

298 A Derby porcelain part dessert service late 18th/early 19th century Comprising a lozenge-form dish, a square dish, two shell-form dishes, and three cups and saucers; each with iron red overglaze Derby mark. (10).

L: 11 in. (largest) provenance: Property of a Philadelphia gentleman. $800-1,200

299 Two Derby hand-painted and parcel-gilt shellform dishes with views of Britain early 19th century Possibly painted by George Robertson, the first depicting Keswick Lake, Cumberland, the second depicting Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales; each with iron red overglaze title and Derby mark to verso. (2).

H: 9 3/4, W: 9 1/4 in. provenance: Property of a Philadelphia gentleman. $600-900

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300 A George I gilt gesso mirror in the manner of james moore & john gumley, first quarter 18th century The upright rectangular mirror with a twopiece plate, the sides and bottom with strips of glass split into seven sections by giltwood slips, the uprights at each side terminating in scrolling volutes, the shaped arched cresting of mirror glass within a carved foliate surround surmounted by a seashell emerging from seven ostrich plumes.

H: 82, W: 42 in. (approx.) note: John Gumley was a leading supplier of mirrors and pier glasses in London in the early eighteenth century. During the reigns of Queen Anne and George I, he worked for the monarchs and court in the furnishing of several of the Royal apartments. He occasionally worked in collaboration with the cabinet-maker James Moore, and it is in this partnership that we frequently see this particularly English interpretation of the French Régence vernacular.

The present mirror is related to three others supplied by John Gumley & James Moore in 1715 for the Prince of Wales at Hampton Court Palace, though the offered lot relies more heavily on French models of the period.

One of the Hampton Court mirrors is described in the Lord Chamberlain’s records as ‘a large glass in a glass frame and festoon finely done with carved and gilt work £149’. This record is believed to refer to the mirror currently in the Royal Collection (RCIN 1090) which was ordered for the bedchamber of the Prince of Wales. $10,000-15,000

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301 178042/15 A pair of George III inlaid mahogany knife boxes late 18th/early 19th century Each steeply canted box hinged with a conforming deep lid inlaid with shell and opening to a fitted and inlaid interior, with fruitwood chequered edges; raised on three bracket feet. (2).

H: 15, W: 10, D: 14 1/4 in. $1,000-1,500 302 171011/4 A George III figured mahogany cellarette on stand late 18th century The hinged lid opening to an interior with nine fitted compartments, the sides mounted with rose-modeled handles; raised on a banded stand with four block legs.

H: 21 3/4, W: 12 3/4, D: 12 3/4 in. provenance: Property of a Philadelphia gentleman. $700-900

303 170879/15 A George III mahogany gate-leg drop-leaf side table circa 1800 Of typical form and exceptional delicacy, the eight straight legs terminating in turned sections joined by turned stretchers.

H: 25 1/2, W: 28, D: 27 in. $2,000-3,000

304 170670/30 A George III mahogany and parcel-gilt glass decanter set circa 1790 The hinged cylindrical front enclosing a fitted interior lined in light blue floral-printed paper with six parcel-gilt stoppered decanters.

H: 10 1/4, W: 11 1/4, D: 8 3/4 in. provenance: Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, 1993.

From the collection of a private Philadelphia lady. $800-1,200

305 160996/5 A George III mahogany partner’s desk late 18th/early 19th century The rectangular top with black gilt-tooled leather writing surface, the front and back with two frieze drawers, the sides with two blind frieze drawers, raised on four tapering legs.

H: 31 1/2, W: 54, D: 35 1/4 in. provenance: Private collection, New York. $800-1,200

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306 170982/2 A lead-mounted plaster model of Spencer House, London timothy richards, london, may 1999 The base hand signed and numbered 9/300, stamped with maker’s pastille.

H: 10 1/4, W: 14 1/8, D: 4 1/8 in. provenance: Property of a New Jersey collector. note: Spencer House is the London residence of the Earl of Spencer, located at 27 St. James’s Place. It was commissioned in 1756 by John, 1st Earl Spencer (1734-1783) and designed by John Vardy (English, 1718-1765), a student of William Kent. The current owner is Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, (b. 1964) the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997).

For another of this limited edition model, number 34 of 300, see Property from the Collection of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman: The London Residence, Sotheby’s, New York, April 28, 2010, lot 328. $800-1,200

307 170982/5 Two pairs of plaster bookends after English buildings timothy richards, london, circa 1999 The first pair a model of Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, the second pair a model of Somerset House, London; both stamped with maker’s pastille. (4).

H: 11, W: 9, D: 5 1/2 in. (Radcliffe); H: 8, W: 13, D: 2 1/2 in. (Somerset) provenance: Property of a New Jersey collector. $600-800

308 170982/1 A polychrome plaster model of Harrod’s, London steve kenyon, farnham, england, 1996 Raised on faux-tourmaline resin stand with brass title plaque.

H: 8 1/2, W: 23 1/2, D: 5 in. (incl. base) provenance: Harrod’s, London, 2000.

Property of a New Jersey collector. $700-900

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309 171011/6 A Chinese export porcelain parcel-gilt and blue enamel twin-handled tureen on stand 18th century The tureen with cover, ladle, and stand all of conforming decoration, with diapered gilt edge and wide peach and blue border, the tureen and stand centered by a flower basket flanked by ribboned oak boughs; sold together with a Worcester porcelain tureen and stand of identical decoration. (2).

H: 6 in. (tureen); Dia: 7 1/2 in. (stand) provenance: Property of a Philadelphia gentleman. note: A Chinese export porcelain punchbowl of the same pattern was recently sold in Philadelphia Splendor: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Max R. Zaitz, Christie’s New York, January 22, 2016, lot 157. $2,500-3,500 310 170796/12 A Chinese export porcelain blue and white covered tureen late 18th century Octagonal form with two boar-head handles, the cover with pomegranate knop, allover decorated with Chinese figures and landscapes; sold together with later custom carved wood stand.

H: 9 1/2, W: 13 1/2, D: 9 in. (incl. stand) provenance: Property from a private collection, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. $1,000-1,500

311 170796/16 A group of Chinese export famille rose and rose mandarin porcelain wares late 18th century/early 19th century Comprising four mugs, a plate, and two sweetmeat dishes. (7).

H: 5 1/2 in. (tallest) provenance: Property from a private collection, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. $1,500-2,500

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312 170749/1 A Nanking Chinese export porcelain platter early 19th century Oval, with gilt-enriched Nanking pattern rim.

L: 12 3/4, W: 10 in. provenance: Matthew & Elisabeth Sharpe Antiques, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. $600-800

313 170969/7 A large Chinese export porcelain ‘Imari’ style charger early 19th century With scalloped edge, the gilt-enriched blue and iron red ground decorated with reserves in the famille verte palette.

Dia: 15 3/4 in. provenance: From the collection of an Elkins Park family. $700-900

314 170179/14 A pair of English blue and white hexagonal potpourri vases and covers possibly staffordshire, first half 19th century Each surmounted by pierced bell-form covers terminating in fu dog finials, the bodies decorated with gilt-enriched peonies and mounted to sides with stylized fu lion handles; the undersides unmarked. (2).

H: 18 1/2 in. provenance: Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge, Inc. Property from a private New York City collection. $2,000-3,000

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315 Three Wedgwood ‘feather-edge’ creamware serving dishes circa 1759-1769 Comprising a covered tureen and two oval platters, with impressed mark and worker’s marks. (3).

L: 13 in. (platter) $1,000-2,000

316 170844/2 Four Wedgwood ‘feather-edge’ creamware small serving dishes circa 1759-1769 Comprising two round bowls, a square dish, and a small round dish, with impressed mark and worker’s marks. (4).

Dia: 8 1/2 in. (largest) $800-1,200

317 170844/3 Eleven Wedgwood ‘featheredge’ creamware dinner plates circa 1759-1769 With impressed mark and worker’s marks. (11).

Dia: 10 in. $1,000-2,000

318 178046/4 A Regency blonde tortoiseshell tea caddy early 19th century Of bowfront form, the hinged lid opening to an interior lined in red velvet and foil.

H: 5 /2, W: 7 1/2, D: 4 3/4 in. $400-600

319 171011/9 A pair of Regency tôle peinte vases early 19th century Each painted with a scene of classical ruins, sold together with another yellow tôle peinte vase. (3).

H: 9 1/2 in. provenance: Property of a Philadelphia gentleman. $600-800

320 171011/2 A Regency rosewood breakfront credenza first quarter 19th century With central cabinet door flanked by two smaller cabinet doors all enclosing shelves, the doors lined in pleated yellow silk.

H: 36, W: 47, D: 13 1/2 in. provenance: Property of a Philadelphia gentleman. $1,000-1,500

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321 178042/14 An English 10-inch terrestrial globe j. & g. cary, london, circa 1827 With brass meridian ring and turned mahogany tripod stand with compass base, the globe with reserve printed “Cary’s New Terrestrial Globe delineated from the best Authorities extant; Exhibiting the late Discoveries towards the North Pole, and every improvement in Geography to the present Time./London/Made & Sold by G. & J. Cary, 86 St. James’s Street. Jan 4, 1827.”

H: 35, Dia: 17 in. (incl. stand) $3,000-5,000

322 170884/5 A Greek Attic style black figure twin-handled vase probably naples, late 18th century Unmarked.

H: 10 1/2 in. $800-1,200

323 171011/1 A Regency Egyptian Revival parcel-ebonized giltwood mirror first quarter 19th century The molded top above a frieze depicting the Shepherds following the Christ star, flanked by two Egyptian monopodia supports.

H: 39 3/4, W: 23 in. provenance: Property of a Philadelphia gentleman. $700-900

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324 170879/11 A fine Regency mahogany four-drawer sofa table early 19th century The rectangular drop-leaf top with reeded edge, each side with two frieze drawers, raised on two splayed legs terminating in brass castors.

H: 28, W: 54, D: 28 1/2 in. $4,000-6,000

325 170114/147 A Regency gilt-bronze two-light Argand lamp first quarter 19th century The well of compressed gadrooned campana urn form, the domed lid with gadrooned edge surmounted by flame finial; raised on a fluted socle with acanthus-cast base; the arms with applied bronze foliate strapwork terminating in anthemion; the whole raised on a later turned base and sold together with a conforming gilt and ebonized fluted pedestal. (2).

H: 19, W: 17 in. (lamp); H: 36 in. (pedestal) $1,000-2,000 326 A Regency rosewood inlaid birdseye maple library table circa 1820 The banded and inlaid rectangular top above two frieze drawers, the back with two blind frieze drawers; the splayed legs decorated with carved anthemia and scrolls terminating in volute feet.

H: 29, W: 51, D: 26 1/2 in. $1,000-1,500

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327 A Regency figured mahogany pedestal sideboard first quarter 19th century The breakfront top with beaded edge over three frieze drawers above two pedestals, each with beaded paneled cupboard doors enclosing a shelf; raised on gadrooned bun feet.

H: 37, 2: 61 1/2, D: 24 in. $600-800

328 170879/14 Six Regency mahogany dining chairs 19th century Well and deeply carved with shells and scrolling foliate crest and back rails, the tapering fluted front legs and sabre back legs terminating in castors.

H: 34, W: 19 1/2, D: 17 in. $4,000-6,000

329 170879/20 A fine Regency brass inlaid bookmatched rosewood center table 19th century The double brass banded circular top with gadrooned edge raised on square pedestal above four outswept legs terminating in brass paw castors.

H: 29, Dia: 53 in. $6,000-8,000

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330 A Regency figured mahogany double pedestal sideboard circa 1830 The rectangular top surmounted by a triangular pediment over three frieze drawers, the whole raised on two pedestals, each with cabinet door enclosing a shelf over drawer on bun feet.

H: 45 1/2, W: 69, D: 23 1/2 in. $3,000-5,000

331 170879/28 A fine Irish Regency rosewood writing table circa 1825-1830 The rectangular top with canted edge over a hidden frieze drawer, raised on two tapering cylindrical pedestals and four splayed volute feet.

H: 28 1/2, W: 46, D: 23 3/4 in. $3,000-5,000

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332 170879/2 A fine Regency giltmetal-mounted brassinlaid rosewood veneered desk second quarter 19th century Of rectangular form and with a galleried superstructure fitted with seven drawers upon a leather-inset writing surface, the whole above two frieze drawers, on two tapering straight legs and two deeply curved legs, mounted with scrolling foliate giltmetal mounts, all terminating in castors.

H: 39, 2: 45, D: 24 in. $5,000-7,000

333 170879/8 A pair of Victorian scagliola topped cast-iron conservatory tables late 19th century H: 18, Dia: 21 1/2 in. $2,000-3,000

334 170879/7 A Victorian oak marble topped side table circa 1880 With inset marble top, raised on H-form stand.

H: 24, W: 39 1/2, D: 29 1/2 in. $2,000-3,000

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335 170879/5 A Victorian upholstered mahogany club chair mid 19th century Finely upholstered in wool tweed, raised on turned bun front feet and block rear feet on brass castors.

H: 37, W: 33, D: 37 in. $800-1,200

336 170879/4 A William IV upholstered mahogany armchair second quarter 19th century Finely upholstered in tufted charcoal gray wool flannel, raised on turned front legs and outswept rear legs on brass castors.

H: 42, W: 30 1/2, D: 33 3/4 in. $800-1,200

337 170879/31 A Victorian upholstered mahogany tub chair second half 19th century Finely upholstered in pale blue peacock chenille, with tapering gadrooned front legs and outswept rear legs on castors.

H: 40 1/2, W: 30 1/2, D: 23 in. $800-1,200

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338 170879/1 A pair of Victorian inlaid rosewood demi-lune cabinets with fossilized marble tops mid 19th century The two demi-lune cabinets each with shaped pair of doors opening to reveal shelves, the doors marquetry inlaid (2).

H: 40, W: 48, D: 18 in. $6,000-8,000

339 170879/16 An unusual William IV carved mahogany granite topped table second quarter 19th century The rectangular top raised on a delicate arched stand supported by four ram monopodia.

H: 27, W: 36, D: 22 in. $2,500-3,500

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340 170879/19 A pair of Irish painted leather fire buckets circa 1850 Of typical form, each bearing the cypher and crest of Inchquin. (2).

H: 11 1/4, Dia: 10 1/2 in. provenance: Dromoland Castle, Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare, Ireland $2,500-3,500

341 A set of eight early Victorian carved mahogany chairs mid 19th century The waisted backrests with shaped and scrolled foliate-carved crestrail and similar pierced splat over padded seat with contemporary cherry blossom upholstery; the seatrails carved with pierced foliate scrolls, raised on four turned and fluted tapering legs. (8).

H: 32 1/2, W: 19, D: 18 in. $2,000-3,000

342 170423/1 A Victorian mahogany pedestal dining table mid 19th century The circular top raised on heavily carved quadripartite pedestal with four paw feet.

H: 30, Dia: 59 1/2 in. $2,000-3,000

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343 170879/21 A British Raj Padouk bookcase 19th century With three shelves suspended between two boldly foliatecarved supports united at base by an acanthus-carved stretcher.

H: 56 1/2, W: 36, D: 20 in. $3,000-5,000

344 An Aesthetic Minton tile-mounted tôle peinte jardinière on stand late 19th century Of typical form, the eight turquoise and midnight blueglazed tiles depicting kingfishers in a Chinese landscape, mounted within an ebonized and parcel-gilt tôle peinte rectangular cradle, the whole supported on straight legs with curule feet, supported by two heart-form stretchers similarly decorated in black and gold.

H: 39 1/2, W: 26, D: 10 1/2 in. $1,500-2,500

345 170879/24 A William IV parcel-gilt and japanned work table circa 1840 The hinged lid opening to an elaborate fitted interior, raised on two lyre-form legs united by stretcher and terminating in gilt paw feet.

H: 28 1/2,W; 24 3/4, D: 16 1/2 in. $2,000-3,000

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346 170956/77 A Victorian mother-of-pearl inlaid papier-mâché ladies desk late 19th century The mirror surmounted by shell-form crest and reticulated scrolls, the case with two cabinet doors enclosing a shelf over drawer above a folding writing surface lined with green baize; raised on an H-form stand with two lyre-form supports terminating in stepped plinth feet united by a stretcher.

H: 51, W: 22 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $1,500-2,500

347 170956/78 A group of twenty Victorian mother-of-pearl inlaid papiermâché desk articles late 19th century Comprising an inkwell, a tea caddy, two desk boxes, a small round box, a small square box, a lidded cannister, five fans, three dishes with metal handles, three book covers, a pen and card holder, and a change purse. (20).

L: 18 1/4 in. (largest fan) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $600-800

348 170956/89 Two carved wood hat moulds early 20th century With leather bands and brass buckles, raised on cylindrical stands. (2).

H: 18 in. (taller) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $500-700

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349 170956/83 An assembled Victorian gilt-decorated and mother-of-pear inlaid papier-mâché parlour suite late 19th century Comprising a side table, a tilt-top table, a fire screen, a music stand, and a side chair, possibly French. (5).

H: 53 in. (firescreen) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $2,000-3,000

350 170956/84 A Victorian green-painted papier-mâché games table late 19th century With folding top opening to a faux-baize playing surface supported by lappets.

H: 27, W: 29 3/4, D: 22 in. (open) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $300-500

351 170956/82 A Victorian papier-mâché gondola chair late 19th century Finely gilt decorated and shell inlaid with a scene of pheasants and butterflies at a fountain, with silk upholstered seat.

H: 25, W: 25, D: 18 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $800-1,200

352 170956/81 A pair of Italian Neoclassical parcel-gilt and green painted corner tables circa 1800 With trompe l’oeil painted marble tops above bowfront frieze with gilt gesso rosettes, each raised on two fluted tapering legs. (2).

H: 32 3/4, W: 25, D: 20 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $400-600

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the silby collection of majolica, potomac, maryland lots 353-413

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oward and Barbara Silby have been respected as art collectors in Washington, DC for decades, though they divided their time between Palm Beach, Nantucket, and Potomac, MD.

Dr. Silby is well-known as a principal neurologist while his late wife, Barbara Silby, worked as a political fundraiser, an activist, and served in the Carter and Clinton administrations. Aside from her passion for politics, Mrs. Silby’s love of contemporary art led her to develop a focused interest in the field, eventually developing a secondary career as a gallerist (nb: The Silby Collection of Contemporary Art will be offered in these rooms, 7 November, 2017).

Together, the Silbys were ardent collectors of British and European majolica. This exceptional collection, representing a wide range of forms and makers, served as an important study collection for several prominent decorative arts scholars. A number of works in this sale from the Silbys’ collection are illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes’ Majolica, published in 1990, as well as Dimitrios N. Bastas’ Etruscan Majolica: The Definitive Reference to the Majolica of Griffen, Smith & Company, published in 2015.

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353 170956/2 A pair of Royal Worcester majolica dolphin-footed compotes circa 1870s With impressed mark to undersides. (2).

H: 5 7/8 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $500-700

354 170956/125 A group of three English majolica shell-form vessels late 19th century Comprising a Wedgwood shell-form jug, with impressed “Wedgwood” mark, circa 1872; a small Minton lily pad and leaf-form jug, with impressed “Minton” mark and date code for 1869; and a Royal Worcester shell-form vase, with impressed label mark to underside. (3).

H: 10 in. (tallest) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: The Minton jug is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 36. $700-900

355 A pair of English majolica dolphin candlesticks Attributed to T.C. Brown-Westhead Moore & Co., circa 1865 Unmarked. (2).

H: 9 3/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $400-600

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356 170956/111 A group of six footed compotes and bowls last quarter 19th century Comprising a footed shell bowl with tripart dolphin base, marked “Holdcroft” to underside, circa 1875; a dolphin-footed bowl, probably Minton, marked with two Minton date codes, 1855 and 1860; a low footed bowl with wavy rim, marked “J. Holdcroft“ to underside; two shell-footed bowls of similar form, one marked “J. Holdcroft” to underside and the other unmarked, but possibly Holdcroft; and a Wedgwood majolica footed plate with four dolphin feet, marked “Wedgwood” to underside. (6).

H: 10 in. (tallest) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: A similar example to the Holdcroft tripart dolphin-footed bowl is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 127. . $1,200-1,800

357 170956/114 A large George Jones majolica jardinière late 19th century The surface decorated with swans, cattails, and water lilies; with impressed “GJ” mark to underside and illegible registry mark.

H: 13, Dia: 13 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $800-1,200

358 170956/95 An English majolica stork vase circa 1875 Depicting a stork fishing amongst aquatic grasses; unmarked, but probably Joseph Holdcroft.

H: 15 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $800-1,200

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359 170956/6 A pair of French majolica fish trophy plaques circa 1895 The first depicting two flounder and the second with three trout, both mounted to original willow reed baskets; the flounder unmarked and the trout the trout inscribed 1895 to verso. (2).

L: 20 1/2 in. (overall) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $1,200-1,600

360 170956/13 A Continental majolica sculptural platter late 19th century In the form of fish, eels, and lettuce leaves gathered in a net; with illegible marker’s mark and various register marks to verso.

Dia: 18 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $1,200-1,600

361 170956/61 An English majolica figural teapot Attributed to Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co., circa 1875 In the form of a three-legged sailor holding a coiled rope; unmarked.

H: 10 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: A similar model is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 50. $500-700

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362 170956/29 Two George Jones majolica pitchers late 19th century Both decorated with palm and sawgrass motifs; the smaller with impressed “GJ” mark to underside and the larger with worker’s mark to underside. (2).

H: 8 1/2 in. (tallest) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $500-700

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363 170956/97 A group of six English majolica oyster plates last quarter 19th century Comprising two George Jones plates with impressed mark to underside, circa 1874; one Minton plate with impressed mark to underside and date code for 1874; and three plates apparently unmarked. (6).

Dia: 10 1/4 in. (largest) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $400-600

364 170956/100 A Minton revolving oyster stand circa 1865 Comprising 27 shells in four tiers and an eel and fish finial; with impressed Minton mark and date cypher for 1865 to underside.

H: 10 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $1,200-1,800

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365 170956/68 A Minton majolica crab serving dish and cover circa 1859 Unmarked, with impressed date code for 1859.

L: 16 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $1,500-2,500

366 170956/50 A Wedgwood majolica salmon platter circa 1877 With impressed “Wedgwood” mark to underside.

L: 25 1/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: The same model of this platter is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 95. $700-900

367 170956/107 A George Jones majolica covered mackerel server circa 1870 With impressed “GJ” mark and registry mark to underside; together with a smaller majolica covered fish server, unmarked. (2).

L: 19 in. (largest) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: This mackerel server is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 49. $800-1,200

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368 170956/94 An English majolica centerpiece with two fisherman putti late 19th century The serving well in the form of a fishing net, supported by two putti, with overflowing fish below; unmarked.

H: 9 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $800-1,200

369 170956/58 A Minton majolica “Daisy & Trellis” centerpiece bowl circa 1872 Supported by three dove-form feet; with impressed “Minton” mark and date code for 1872.

H: 6 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $700-900

370 170956/5 Three English majolica vessels late 19th century Comprising a Minton jug of classical form, with masque spout and quatrefoil patterned body, with impressed “Minton” mark to underside and date code for 1872 or 1882; a Minton vase with subtly patterned body, with impressed “Minton” mark to underside; and an oenochoe-form jug with handle springing from Grecian masque and a mottled glaze surface, unmarked but possibly Wedgwood. (3).

H: 12 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $700-900

371 170956/32 A Minton majolica centerpiece circa 1868 The quatrefoil serving well supported by two putti holding laurel swags and guarding two courting doves; with impressed Minton mark and date code for 1868 to underside.

H: 6 3/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $800-1,200

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372 170956/93 A George Jones majolica fruit tray circa 1862 Each serving well decorated with a palm frond to the center and grapevines to the rim; a bacchanalian figure rests in the center with a bunch of grapes, serving as the tray handle; unmarked.

L: 13 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: This tray is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 119. . $800-1,200

373 170956/69 A set of four Royal Worcester majolica figural wall brackets late 19th century Depicting the four seasons; with impressed Royal Worcester label mark to reverse.

H: 9 in. (largest bracket) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $800-1,200

374 170956/92 A pair of Joseph Holdcroft majolica figural sweetmeat dishes circa 1865 In the form of women in full skirts; with impressed “JH” to the underside of one. (2).

H: 7 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: This pair is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 43. $1,000-1,500

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375 170956/21 A Minton majolica ‘Spring & Summer’ sweetmeat dish after the model by Albert Carrier-Belleuse circa 1889 The shell-form serving well supported by two bacchanalian putti; with impressed “Minton” mark and date code for 1889 to underside.

H: 10 3/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $800-1,200

376 170956/48 A Minton majolica figural sweetmeat server circa 1864 In the form of a putti with scholarly attributes standing above three shell-form dish wells; with impressed Minton mark and date code for 1864 to underside.

H: 12 1/8 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $800-1,200

377 170956/75 A Minton majolica cachepot circa 1864 Supported on all four corners by bacchanalian figures, each side painted with a roundel illustrating a bucolic farm or maritime scene; hand signed “Minton & Co./h.p. Edward Rischgitz,” with impressed “Minton” mark and date code for 1864.

H: 10 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: A near exact model is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 6.

This cachepot was originally designed around 1851, and Edward Rischgitz served as the artist credited for handpainting the roundel scenes on a number of examples thereafter. $1,500-2,500

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378 170956/98 A Minton majolica Crystal Palace Art Union plate 1860 In the Renaissance taste; with impressed Minton signature and date code for 1860 to underside.

Dia: 10 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: The same model for this plate is illustrated and discussed in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 81.

This plate was made for the Crystal Palace Art Union, a group dedicated to art and design reform in England. Ceramic production evolved as the broad mission, with majolica being a particular focus. $500-700

379 170956/12 A Minton majolica jug in the Anglo-French style circa 1864 The body decorated with modeled putti and mermaids, the handle in the form of an ivy branch with masque at the termination; with impressed “Minton” mark and date code for 1864 to underside.

H: 12 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: An exact model is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 25. $800-1,200

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380 170956/108 Two English majolica bacchanalian-themed urns late 19th century Comprising a larger urn, apparently unmarked, and smaller Minton urn, with impressed “Minton” mark and date code for 1865. (2).

H: 13 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $1,000-2,000

381 170956/110 Two English pewter-mounted majolica beer jugs circa 1872 Comprising a Minton ‘Tower’ jug in the medieval revival style, designed

by Hugues Protat, with impressed date code for 1872; and a George Jones hunting-themed jug, with impressed “GJ” and registry mark. (2).

H: 13 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: The Minton jug is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 52. $1,500-2,500

382 170956/16 A pair of Joseph Holdcroft majolica vases circa 1875 Of waisted form, decorated with birds and butterflies amongst flowering vines; with impressed “J. Holdcroft” mark to underside of one. (2).

H: 10 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: One of these vases is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 126. . $400-600

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383 170956/31 A Joseph Holdcroft majolica cigar box and cover circa 1875 Decorated with Japanese-inspired stork, cherry blossom, and overlapping textile motifs; with impressed “JH” mark to underside.

H: 6 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $500-700

384 170956/33 A Joseph Holdcroft majolica cigar box and cover circa 1875 In the form of a lidded domed trunk surmounted by a mouse finial, retaining its original cigar liner; unmarked, but probably Joseph Holdcroft. (2).

H: 8 1/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $800-1,200

385 170956/24 Two Minton majolica flower vases last half 19th century The dark blue vase of amphora form, marked with impressed “Mintons” and date code for 1875; the second with turquoise blue ground, marked with date code for 1851; both footed, with finely modeled floral motifs.

(2).

H: 7 in. (taller) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: The turquoise vase is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 5. $800-1,200

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386 170956/3 A George Jones stilton cheese stand and cover in the form of a haystack circa 1875 With impressed “GJ” mark to underside.

H: 14, L: 10 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: The design drawing for this cheese stand and cover is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 113. $700-900

387 170956/8 A George Jones majolica stilton cheese stand and cover circa 1875 The domed cover decorated with a fence surrounded by wheat stalks, daisies, blackberries, and flying insects surmounted by trellis-form handle; with impressed “GJ” mark to underside.

H: 13, Dia: 12 1/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: The design drawing for this cheese stand and cover is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 113. $500-700

388 170956/9 A George Jones majolica stilton cheese stand and cover circa 1875 The plate with lettuce leaf design and the cover decorated with flowering vines; unmarked.

H: 11, Dia: 12 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $500-700

390 170956/26 A George Jones majolica stilton cheese stand and cover with cow finial circa 1875 The body decorated with modeled fronds; unmarked but with worker’s mark to underside.

H: 12, Dia: 12 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: The design drawing for this cheese stand and cover is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 113. $500-700

392 170956/106 A George Jones majolica stilton cheese stand and cover circa 1875 In the form of barrel staves with flowering vine motifs; unmarked, but bears worker’s mark to underside.

H: 7 1/2, Dia: 10 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: The design drawing for this cheese stand and cover is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 113. $500-700

Original George Jones renderings Illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990)

389 170956/15 A George Jones majolica stilton cheese stand and cover in the form of an ivy-covered castle tower circa 1875 Unmarked, but bears worker’s mark to underside.

H: 13 1/2, Dia: 9 1/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: The design drawing for this cheese stand and cover is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 113. $700-900 391 170956/102 A George Jones majolica stilton cheese stand and cover circa 1875 The body boldly decorated with water lilies and dragonflies, surmounted by a water lily finial; with impressed “GJ” mark to underside.

H: 11, Dia: 11 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $700-900

393 170956/101 A Wedgwood majolica stilton cheese stand with cover late 19th century The surface decorated with acorn and oak leaf motif; with impressed “Wedgwood” mark to underside.

H: 8 1/2, Dia.: 11 1/2 in. (plate) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $500-700

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394 170956/44 An English majolica faux bois side table late 19th century In the romantic “rustic” taste in the form of a tripod with round top and conforming base.

H: 18 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $1,000-2,000

395 170956/71 A Joseph Holdcroft majolica strawberry server late 19th century Decorated with strawberry plant motifs to serving well, the handle with modeled bird perched between two nest-form condiment wells; marked with impressed “J. Holdcroft,” with accompanying serving spoon. (2).

H: 5 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $400-600

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396 170956/109 A Joseph Holdcroft majolica faux bois four-piece tea service circa 1877 Decorated with modeled flower and blackberry motifs; impressed “JH” and registry mark to underside of each; together with associated creamer, with impressed “J. Holdcroft” mark. (5).

L: 14 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $600-800

397 170956/117 A George Jones majolica dessert server circa 1874 The handle in the form of a moth, the body decorated with modeled white flowers and thorny branches; marked with “J. Holdcroft” and date registry impressions.

L: 11 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $500-700

398 170956/118 An English majolica strawberry server circa 1870 The central well with floral motifs, the nest-form condiment dishes flanking a modeled bird; with impressed registry mark to reverse.

H: 5 3/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $500-700

399 170956/119 A George Jones majolica dessert tray circa 1873 The surface decorated with modeled strawberry plants and flowers, the underside with signature tortoise-shell glaze; marked “GJ” to underside and accompanied by three serving spoons. (4).

L: 10 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: This tray is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 122. $400-600

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400 170956/128 A George Jones majolica table salt with accompanying salt and pepper shakers circa 1874 In the form of a bird perched between two acorns; marked with “GJ” and date registry impression for 1874.

W: 6 1/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $400-600

401 170956/27 A George Jones majolica bee skip honey pot circa 1870 With indistinct impressed mark to underside probably “GJ.” H: 7 3/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $1,000-2,000

402 170956/40 A George Jones majolica strawberry server circa 1875 The body in the form of a barrel-like trough, with two smaller barrels attached to a faux bois trellis, on which two birds perch and feast on strawberries; the entire surface decorated with strawberry branches, flowers, and fruit.

L: 15 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: This server is illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 118. . $400-600

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403 170956/41 Two English majolica nut dishes with modeled squirrels late 19th century The first a George Jones dish with turquoise blue ground, with impressed “GJ” mark and registry mark to underside, circa 1869; the second with dark blue ground, unmarked, but apparently modeled after George Jones’ design. (2).

H: 5 1/2 in. (largest) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $1,000-1,500

404 170956/115 A large George Jones majolica jardinière late 19th century The surface decorated with birds and cherry blossoms; with impressed “GJ” mark to underside.

H: 15 1/4, Dia: 16 3/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $800-1,200

405 170956/18 An English majolica game-pie tureen and cover late 19th century The body and lid in the form of a basket full of freshly-hunted game animals, including a rabbit, duck, and fowl; retaining its original warming dish insert; unmarked, but possibly Minton; appears to bear a Minton date code for 1856.

H: 7 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $800-1,200

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406 170956/122 Two French earthenware sculptural roof tiles late 19th century In the form of a cat stalking and a rat perched on roof tiles; the rat stamped “J. Filmont, Caen France.” (2).

L: 28 in. (cat) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $800-1,200

407 170956/123 A French earthenware sculptural roof tile late 19th century In the form of a man peaking out of the eave with a frog perched above, stamped “J. Filmont/Caen France.”

L: 17 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $700-900

408 170956/121 An English majolica spill vase T.C. Brown-Westhead Moore & Co., circa 1870 Animated with a modeled dog chasing a mouse against a fallen basket; signed Trodoux, unmarked to underside.

H: 13 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $800-1,200

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409 170956/99 A George Jones majolica dog trough in the ‘Laurel’ pattern circa 1865 With impressed “GJ/Stoke On Trent” mark to underside.

L: 10 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: This dog trough is illustrated and discussed in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), page 115.

Dawes describes it as the “only dog trough recorded in the range of majolica offered

by George Jones (or any other manufacturer) and was also available in plain whiteglazed earthenware...” (see page 115). $1,200-1,600

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410 170956/60 A Delphin Massier majolica spill vase late 19th century In the form of a donkey carrying a basket bundle on its back; hand signed “Delphin Massier/Vallauris (A.M.),” retaining a French export sticker to underside.

H: 13 3/4 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $700-900

411 170956/59 An English or Continental majolica spill vase late 19th century In the form of processional Indian elephant; unmarked.

H: 15 1/2 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $700-900

412 170956/53 Three English majolica teapots late 19th century Comprising a Minton majolica teapot in the form of a monkey holding a coconut, marked with impressed “Mintons” mark and transferprinted label, circa 1865; a teapot in the form of a fish swallowing another fish, unmarked but attributed to Royal Worcester, circa 1880; and a Staffordshire teapot of octagonal shape with modeled floral motifs, unmarked, circa 1870. (3).

H: 8 1/2 in. (tallest) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. note: The same teapot models are illustrated in Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica (Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1990), pages 37, 133, and 138. $1,000-2,000

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413 170956/1 An Italian faience stove 20th century In the late Baroque style, in the form of a monkey climbing a palm tree.

H: 84, W: 32, D: 17 in. (approx.) provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $1,500-2,000

414 170956/79 A pair of Baguès style parrot sconces circa 1940-1950 Each bracket in the form of a parrot issuing a single candlearm applied with crystal leaves and flowers. (2).

L: 13 in. provenance: From the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Silby, Potomac, MD. $1,200-1,600

415 A Lalique ‘Cactus’ crystal, glass, and chrome table marc lalique (french, 1900-1977), designed 1951, produced 1989 The circular glass top with beveled edge set on a chrome ring suspended on a base comprised of eight crystal legs in the form of outspreading cactus leaves, each piece numbered and dated “No. 24 le 23/8/89.”

H: 28, Dia: 56 in. $20,000-30,000

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416 An Art Nouveau gilt-bronze mounted figured mahogany bedstead louis majorelle (french, 1859-1926), circa 1910 Of the model ‘Pirouette’ no. 512.

H: 57, L: 81, W: 66 in. provenance: Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C. note: This design is illustrated in Alasdair Duncan, Louis Majorelle: Master of Art Nouveau (Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1991), fig. 83. $800-1,200

417 An Art Nouveau gilt-bronze mounted figured mahogany dressing suite louis majorelle (french, 1859-1926), circa 1910 Of the model ‘Pirouette’ no. 512, comprising a dresser and mirror, the mirror signed “Majorelle”. (2).

H: 39, W: 51 1/2, D: 16 in. (dresser); H: 64 1/2, W: 48, D: 7 in. (mirror) provenance: Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C. $1,500-2,500

418 An Art Nouveau gilt-bronze mounted figured mahogany armoire louis majorelle (french, 1859-1926), circa 1910 Of the model ‘Pirouette’ no. 512.

H: 90 1/4, W: 71, D: 19 in. provenance: Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C. $800-1,200

419 An Art Nouveau gilt-bronze mounted figured mahogany nightstand louis majorelle (french, 1859-1926), circa 1910 Of the model ‘Pirouette’ no. 512.

H: 35 1/2, W: 14 1/2, D: 13 1/2 in. provenance: Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Washington, D.C. $400-600

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420 170890/1 A fine Louis Vuitton monogrammed leather steamer trunk circa 1920 With two original impressed leather labels, the interior fitted to left side with shoe compartment over four drawers, one removable, and to right side with rails suspending five coat hangers; the outside painted with two red stripes and one red initial “R,” with occasional shipping labels.

H: 52, W: 30, D: 23 in. $8,000-12,000

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terms & conditions All property offered and sold (“property”) through Samuel T. Freeman & Co, (“Freeman’s”) shall be offered and sold on the terms and conditions set forth below which constitutes the complete statement of the terms and conditions on which all property is offered for sale. By bidding at the auction, whether present in person or by agent, by written bid, telephone, internet or other means, the buyer agrees to be bound by these terms and conditions.

1 Unless otherwise indicated, all Property will be offered by Freeman’s as agent for the Consignor.

2 Freeman’s reserves the right to vary the terms of sale and any such variance shall become part of these Conditions of Sale.

3 Buyer acknowledges that it had the right to make a full inspection of all Property prior to sale to determine the condition, size, repair or restoration of any Property. Therefore, all property is sold “AS-IS”.

Freeman’s is acting solely as an auction broker, and unless otherwise stated, does not own the Property offered for sale and has made no independent investigation of the Property. Freeman’s makes no warranty of title, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or any other warranty or representation regarding the description, genuineness, attribution, provenance or condition to the Property of any kind or nature with respect to the Property.

4 Freeman’s in its sole and exclusive discretion, reserves the right to withdraw any property, at any time, before the fall of the hammer.

5 Unless otherwise announced by the auctioneer at the time of sale, all bids are per lot as numbered in the printed catalogue. Freeman’s reserves the right to determine any and all matters regarding the order, precedence or appropriate increment of bids or the constitution of lots.

6 The highest bidder acknowledged by the auctioneer shall be the buyer. The auctioneer has the right to reject any bid, to advance the bidding at his absolute discretion and in the event of any dispute between bidders, the auctioneer shall have the sole and final discretion either to determine the successful bidder or to re- offer and resell the article in dispute. If any dispute arises after sale, the Freeman’s sale record shall be conclusive in all respects.

7 If the auctioneer determines that any opening or later bid or any advance bid is not commensurate with the value of the Property offered, he may reject the same and withdraw the Property from sale.

8 Upon the fall of the hammer, title to any offered lot or article will immediately pass to the highest bidder as determined in the exclusive discretion of the auctioneer, subject to compliance by the buyer with these Conditions of Sale. Buyer thereupon assumes full risk and responsibility of the property sold, agrees to sign any requested confirmation of purchase, and agrees to pay the full price, plus Buyer’s Premium, therefore or such part, upon such terms as Freeman’s may require.

9 No lot may be removed from Freeman’s premises until the buyer has paid in full the purchase price therefor including Buyer’s Premium or has satisfied such terms that Freeman’s, in its sole discretion, shall require. Subject to the foregoing, all Property shall be paid for and removed by the buyer at his/her expense within ten (10) days of sale and, if not so removed, may be sold by Freeman’s, or sent by Freeman’s to a public warehouse, at the sole risk and charge of the buyer(s), and Freeman’s may prohibit the buyer from participating, directly or indirectly, as a bidder or buyer in any future sale or sales. In addition to other remedies available to Freeman’s by law, Freeman’s reserves the right to impose a late charge of 1.5% per month of the total purchase price on any balance remaining ten (10) days after the day of sale. If Property is not removed by the buyer within ten (10) days, a handling charge of 1% of the total purchase price per month from the tenth day after the sale until removal by the buyer shall be payable to Freeman’s by the buyer; Freeman’s shall charge 1.5% of the total purchase price per month for any property not so removed

within 60 days after the sale. Freeman’s will not be responsible for any loss, damage, theft, or otherwise responsible for any goods left in Freeman’s possession after ten (10) days. If the foregoing conditions or any applicable provisions of law are not complied with, in addition to other remedies available to Freeman’s and the Consignor (including without limitation the right to hold the buyer(s) liable for the bid price) Freeman’s, at its option, may either cancel the sale, retaining as liquidated damages all payments made by the buyer(s), or resell the property. In such event, the buyer(s) shall remain liable for any deficiency in the original purchase price and will also be responsible for all costs, including warehousing, the expense of the ultimate sale, and Freeman’s commission at its regular rates together with all related and incidental charges, including legal fees. Payment is a precondition to removal. Payment shall be by cash, certified check or similar bank draft, or any other method approved by Freeman’s.

Checks will not be deemed to constitute payment until cleared. Any exceptions must be made upon Freeman’s written approval of credit prior to sale. In addition, a defaulting buyer will be deemed to have granted and assigned to Freeman’s, a continuing security interest of first priority in any property or money of, or owing to such buyer in Freeman’s possession, and Freeman’s may retain and apply such property or money as collateral security for the obligations due to Freeman’s. Freeman’s shall have all of the rights accorded a secured party under the Pennsylvania Uniform Commercial Code.

10 Unless the sale is advertised and announced as “without reserve”, each lot is offered subject to a reserve and Freeman’s may implement such reserves by bidding through its representatives on behalf of the Consignors. In certain instances, the Consignor may pay less than the standard commission rate where Freeman’s or its representative is a successful bidder on behalf of the Consignor. Where the Consignor is indebted to Freeman’s, Freeman’s may have an interest in the offered lots and the proceeds therefrom, other than the broker’s Commissions, and all sales are subject to any such interest.

11 No “buy” bids shall be accepted at any time for any purpose.

12 Any pre-sale bids must be submitted in writing to Freeman’s prior to commencement of the offer of the first lot of any sale. Freeman’s copy of any such bid shall conclusively be deemed to be the sole evidence of same, and while Freeman’s accepts these bids for the convenience of bidders not present at the auction, Freeman’s shall not be responsible for the failure to execute, or, to execute properly, any pre-sale bid.

13 A Buyer’s Premium will be added to the successful bid price and is payable by the buyer as part of the total purchase price. The Buyer’s Premium shall be: 25% on the first $200,000 of the hammer price of each lot, 20% on the portion from $200,001 through $3,000,000, and 12% thereafter.

14 Unless exempted by law from the payment thereof, the buyer will be required to pay any and all federal excise tax and any state and/or local sales taxes, including where deliveries are to be made outside the state where a sale is conducted, which may be subject to a corresponding or compensating tax in another state.

15 Freeman’s may, as a service to buyer, arrange to have purchased property posted and shipped at the buyer’s expense. Freeman’s is not responsible for any acts or omissions in packing or shipping of purchased lots whether or not such carrier is recommended by Freeman’s. Packing and handling of purchased lots is at the responsibility of the buyer and is at the entire risk of the buyer.

16 In no event shall any liability of Freeman’s to the buyer exceed the purchase price actually paid.

17 No claimed modification or amendment of this Agreement on the part of any party shall be deemed extant, enforceable or provable unless it is in writing that has been signed by the parties to this Agreement. No course of dealing and no delay or omission on the part of Freeman’s in exercising any right under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of such right or any other right and waiver on any one or more occasions shall not be construed as a bar to or waiver of any right or remedy of Freeman’s on any future occasion.

18 These Conditions of Sale and the buyer’s, the Consignor’s and Freeman’s rights under these Conditions of Sale shall be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Consignor and Buyer agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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important information for buyers Registration All potential buyers must register for the sale prior to placing a bid. Registration information may be submitted in person at our reception desk, by fax or through our website at www. freemansauction.com. We will require proof of identification and residence and may require a credit card and/or a bank reference.

By registering for the sale, the buyer acknowledges that he or she has read, understood and accepted Freeman’s Terms and Conditions of Sale.

Buyer’s Premium A Buyer’s Premium will be added to the successful bid price and is payable by the buyer as part of the total purchase price. The Buyer’s Premium shall be: 25% on the first $200,000 of the hammer price of each lot, 20% on the portion from $200,001 through $3,000,000, and 12% thereafter.

Sales Tax All items in the catalogue are subject to the 8% Pennsylvania and Philadelphia sales tax. Dealers purchasing for resale must register their tax numbers on current PA forms. Forms should be submitted to our Client Services office on the second floor.

Catalogue Descriptions All item descriptions, dimensions and estimates are provided for guidance only. It is the buyer’s responsibility to inspect all lots prior to bidding to ensure that the condition is to their satisfaction. If potential buyers are unable to inspect lots in person, our specialists will be happy to prepare detailed Condition Reports on individual lots as quickly as possible. These are for guidance only, and all lots will be sold “as is” as per our Terms and Conditions of Sale.

Bidding At the sale Registered bidders will be assigned a bidder number and given a paddle for use at the sale. Once the first bid has been placed, the auctioneer asks for higher bids in increments determined by the auctioneer. To place your bid, simply raise your paddle until the auctioneer acknowledges you. The auctioneer will not mistake a random gesture for a bid.

By phone A limited number of telephone lines are available for bidding by phone through a Freeman’s representative. Phone lines must be reserved in advance. Requests must be submitted no later than 24 hours prior to the scheduled start of the sale.

On the internet A fully-illustrated catalogue is available on-line at www.freemansauction.com. Registered bidders may leave absentee bids through the website and will receive email confirmation of their bid. Freeman’s is not responsible for errors or failure to execute bids.

Payment Payment is due within ten (10) working days of the sale. Lots purchased will not be released until we have received full payment. Payment may be made in cash, by check, money order, or debit card. Payments by check must clear the bank before goods will be released.

Removal of Purchases Deliveries will not be made during the time of the sale unless otherwise indicated by the auctioneer. All items must be paid for and removed within ten (10) working days of the sale. Purchases not so removed may be turned over to a licensed warehouse at the expense and risk of the purchaser.

Shipping and Packing Responsibility for packing, shipping and insurance shall be exclusively that of the purchaser. Upon request, Freeman’s will provide the purchaser with names of professional packers and shippers known to us.

Endangered Species Lots marked * are manufactured in whole or in part of restricted materials that may include tortoiseshell, ivory, mother-of-pearl, coral, rhinoceros horn, whalebone or marine ivory. Such materials may require specific licenses, certificates, or CITES documentation for import, export, moving between states in the U.S., or resale. Obtaining these documents may require scientific, laboratory or other expert analysis, in order to establish which species or genus the material came from. Freeman’s is unable to provide this information, and the obligation is on the purchaser of a lot containing any of these materials to ensure that they are able to obtain all the necessary or required documents should they need to, prior to bidding on the lot. If proper documentation or licenses etc. cannot be obtained for a purchased lot, the purchaser will still be required to make an on time payment for the lot as per our standard terms and conditions. Freeman’s cataloguing of the lots marked with this symbol * represents the best of our opinion, and the absence of this symbol from any lot description does not form a warranty that the lot will be free from any licensing or certification restrictions.

In writing Bid forms are available in the sale room and at the back of the catalogue. These should be submitted in person, by mail or by fax no later than one hour prior to the scheduled start of the sale. The auctioneer will bid on your behalf up to the limit.

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directory Officers Alasdair Nichol Chairman Margaret D. Freeman Director Emeritus Paul S. Roberts President Hanna Dougher Chief Operating Officer Samuel T. Freeman III Senior Vice President

Departments Appraisals Amy Parenti aparenti@freemansauction.com Business Development Thomas B. McCabe IV tmccabe@freemansauction.com Client Services Mary Maguire Carroll mmaguire@freemansauction.com Finance Whitney Long wlong@freemansauction.com Marketing & Communications Micah Dornfeld mdornfeld@freemansauction.com Museum Services Thomas B. McCabe IV tmccabe@freemansauction.com Photography Thomas Clark tclark@freemansauction.com Shipping & Receiving Stephanie Parker sparker@freemansauction.com Trust & Estates Amy Parenti aparenti@freemansauction.com

Specialist Departments

Representatives

20th Century Design Tim Andreadis

New England Kelly Wright

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American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists Alasdair Nichol anichol@freemansauction.com American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts Lynda Cain lcain@freemansauction.com Asian Arts Benjamin Farina bfarina@freemansauction.com Books, Maps & Manuscripts Benjamin Truesdale btruesdale@freemansauction.com British & European Furniture & Decorative Arts Nicholas B. A. Nicholson nnicholson@freemansauction.com European Art & Old Masters David M. Weiss dweiss@freemansauction.com Jewelry & Watches Virginia Salem, GIA GG vsalem@freemansauction.com Modern & Contemporary Art Dunham Townend dtownend@freemansauction.com Musical Instruments Frederick Oster foster@freemansauction.com Oriental Rugs & Carpets Andrew Taggart ataggart@freemansauction.com Prints Anne Henry ahenry@freemansauction.com Silver & Russian Works of Art Nicholas B. A. Nicholson nnicholson@freemansauction.com

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Mid-Atlantic Matthew Wilcox mwilcox@freemansauction.com Southeast Colin Clarke cclarke@freemansauction.com West Coast Michael Larsen mlarsen@freemansauction.com Main Line Thomas McCabe tmccabe@freemansauction.com

american furniture, folk & decorative arts including memento mori and mourning jewelry from the collection of irvin and anita schorsch Auction 11/15/17 Lynda Cain | 267.414.1237 | lcain@freemansauction.com

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