Highlights from Important 2024 Fall Season Auctions

Highlights from Important 2024 Fall Season Auctions

Dear Clients and Friends, The team here at Brunk Auctions is very excited to share these highlights from our important September auction. It is an exceptional offering, with great works of art and objects across numerous categories and periods. We are particularly pleased to have a remarkable range of important patriotic and Revolutionary War era documents and objects in the auction. Leading the group is an extraordinary discovery, the only known privately held copy of the archetype of United States Constitution. These thin sheets of paper form the cornerstone of our modern democracy, as it is this copy that provided the link between the drafted constitution and the will of the people who ratified it. This copy, signed by Charles Thompson, was recently discovered hidden away in an old filing cabinet. Other exciting discoveries sourced from museums, estates, and private collections abound in this auction, and include remarkable furniture, ceramics, silver, maps, maritime art, and many other categories. New items are still being added to the auction as we go to print with this highlights catalog. Visit our website to explore the many offerings, and to see an updated version of this catalog that will include lot numbers. A future auctions schedule and highlights from upcoming auctions are also included here. We are still holding live auctions here in Asheville, please come and see us in person and discover more!

Sincerely yours, Andrew and Lauren Brunk

Lot 1508 - After Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze,

George Washington Crossing the Delaware Pictured on front cover: Lot 1509 - We The People: The Printed Archetype of the United States Constitution

September 26, 2024 British & Continental September 27 & 28, 2024 American & Southern Asheville, North Carolina

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1138 - Fine, Rare, and Important Initialed Lot Hingham Round Patriotic Pantry Box, War of 1812

Lot 1501 - Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union Between the Colonies...

1202 - Message from the President Lot of the United States... - 1803

Lot 1504 - The Journal of the Convention of North Carolina at Hillsborough 1506 - Letter from Samuel Johnston to George Washington with Lot Response, 1789

A Historic Edenton Family Collection

A splendid group of Early American documents relevant to the founding of our young nation will be offered in our September auction. These include the landmark discovery of a printed archetype Constitution, used for ratification by the States, prominently pictured on the cover. Also present are: an important example of the Articles of Confederation, an inscribed copy of the Journal of the Convention of North Carolina, printed correspondence from Presidents Washington and Jefferson, scarce uncut Colonial currency, and other rarities. Originating from a single family, many of these were unearthed for the first time in generations, having been recovered from a dusty old cabinet in Edenton, North Carolina.

1200 - The Pretensions of Thomas Jefferson Lot to the Presidency Examined

Lot 1207 - Exceedingly Rare Uncut Sheet Virginia Colonial Currency, 1781

Lot 1204 - Signed James Iredell Copy of Thomas Paine Trial Proceedings

Lot 648 - Sanford Robinson Gifford Scenery Near Lake George, 1849

Lot 535 - Lambeth Delft Polychrome Heron Charger

1113- An Important Philadelphia Lot Chippendale Mahogany Easy Chair

Attributed to the Garvan carver from the Godfrey Collection

1047 - An Exceptional Connecticut Chippendale Carved Cherry Lot Chest in Undisturbed Surface, from the Godfrey Collection

Lot 1163 - George Washington Letter to Joseph Webb

Lot 1508 - After Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, George Washington Crossing the Delaware

Lot 1156 - Mezzotint After Charles Willson Peale, General Washington

Lot 1150 - Marble Bust of George Washington, Derived from Houdon After Hiram Powers

Lot 1142 - Rare British Sergeant’s Halberd for Second Coldstream Guards

Lot 1149 - George Washington Associated Philadelphia Chippendale Mahogany Side Chair

1155 - Rare Aquatint After Lot Alexander Robertson, Mount

Revolutionary

Vernon in Virginia

The auction includes the most impressive array of patriotic, Revolutionary War related, George Washington associated, and other objects and documents relating to the Founding Fathers that we have ever offered. Two 18th century chairs with histories of ownership by Washington are included; rare prints, maps and documents connected to American Independence, including Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and others; paintings and sculpture after Leutze and Houdon; Naval warfare and John Paul Jones related; cannons and other armaments; and other rarities are featured.

Lot 1143 - British Naval Cannon Dated 1760, Maine/New Hampshire Provenance

1157 - Rare Philadelphia Lot Windsor Chair With George Washington Association

1083 - After Benjamin Wilson, The Lot Repeal, or the Funeral Procession, of Miss Americ-Stamp

1122 - Very Fine and Rare Lot American Bed Warmer with Engraved Brass and Painted Maple Handle

1133 - Extremely Rare 1774 Engraving, Liberty Lot Triumphant or the Downfall of Oppression

Lot 1177 - Oath of Allegiance Broadside, New Hampshire

1126 - Rare and Important Lot Mezzotint After John Verelst, Eton Oh Koam

1123 - Rare Mezzotint After Lot Francis Parsons, Cunne Shote,

the Indian Chief, A great Warrior of the Cherokee Nation

Lot 1139 - Rare 18th Century Revolutionary

War Era Almanac Album, Charles Town Burnt Down

Lot 1164 - CAMP Musical Broadside, Early “Yankee Doodle Dandy” Tune

Lot 643 - William Rickarby Miller, Bay of New York from the Heights of Hoboken, 1860

Lot 1094 - A Rare New Hampshire Queen Anne Tiger Maple High Chest in Early Surface

Lot 1165 - The Declaration of Independence, 1818 Tyler Broadside

Lot 1128 - Fine Queen Anne Fan Carved Tiger Maple Bonnet Top High Chest of Drawers

1029 - Thomas Sully, Dr. Leonard Lot Koecker, M.D., D.D.S., 1818 Lot 1107 - Rare Philadelphia Queen Anne Carved Walnut Easy Chair

Lot 1182 - Exceptionally Rare Price-Strother Survey of North Carolina Map, c. 1808

1117 - Very Rare Sayer & Bennett Battle of Lot Bunker Hill Map

1205 - Mitchell’s Mexican-American War Folding Map

Lot 1120 - John Ogilby - Map of Maryland, 1671

Maps

Lot 1119 - Mitchell’s Mexican-American War Folding Map

Our September American & Southern auction offers important rarities including a landmark example of North Carolina cartography that seldom comes to auction– the Exceptionally Rare Price-Strother Survey of North Carolina Map, c. 1808. Other important maps include a dramatic depiction of the Siege of Boston, including the Battle of Bunker Hill, through the eyes of an American volunteer; a visually striking mid-18th century map by John Mitchell, …of the British and French Dominions in North America; and additional Southern, New England, and folding maps.

561 - Extremely Rare North Carolina Lot William and Mary Stretcher Based Table,

ex. Frank Horton

Lot 597 - A Fine and Rare North Carolina Federal Inlaid Walnut Cellaret

Lot 562 - Rare MESDA Documented North Carolina Tooled Leather Key Basket

Lot 573 - Rare Alice Ravenel Huger Smith Woodblock

Southern The auction includes important Charleston Renaissance fine art by Alfred Hutty, Alice Smith, Elizabeth Verner, and other notable artists; a highly important Kentucky silver horse racing trophy, and other Southern silver; early furniture including a North Carolina tavern table and a Wilmington lady’s desk; a rare Charleston Federal Pembroke table; Georgia and North Carolina documents and maps.

599 - North Carolina Coin Silver Tray, Lot Bernard Dupuy

Lot 560 - MESDA Documented Fine and Rare Diminutive North Carolina Federal Desk on Frame

Lot 571 - Elizabeth O’Neill Verner

Lot 569 - Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Fine and Rare Charleston Conch Shell Inlaid Mahogany Pembroke Table

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Lot 1125 - Rare Georgia Related Engraving After W. Verelst, Tomo Chachi Mico

564 - An Unusual Southern Queen Lot Anne Walnut Open Armchair

Lot 596 - Rare North Carolina Federal Bellflower and Light Wood Inlaid Walnut Sideboard

Lot 589 - Paul Sawyier

Lot 605 - George W. Stewart Kentucky Coin Silver Horse Trophy

546 - Scrimshaw Whalebone Lot Watch Holder and Waltham Pocket Watch

Lot 678 - John Steven Dews, First Race, International Schooner Race Lot 675 - Augsburg Equinoctial Sundial, Johann Nepomuk Schrettegger

Lot 694 - Two Engraved Brass Sundial Compasses

Maritime Our nation is intrinsically linked to its seafaring past, and a historic Americana auction would be incomplete without a strong maritime offering. Images of tall ships, naval warfare, and whaling vessels by Thomas and James Buttersworth, Joseph Heard, Gordon Grant, and others are offered alongside images of sea captains; furniture and decorative arts tied to our nautical past include a collection of handheld sundials and compasses.

Lot 673 - James Edward Buttersworth

Lot 686 - Joseph Heard, Ship “Horatio”

697 - Carved and Painted Lot in the Style of John Haley Bel

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Lot 689 - Gordon Grant

1171 - Bust of John Paul Lot Jones, Aubry Brothers Foundry

Lot 696 - Wick Ahrens, Carved and Painted ‘Humpback Whale’

Eagle Ships Plaque llamy

Lot 1028 - Thomas Jefferson Wright

Lot 550 - Small Scrimshaw Oval Horn Snuff Box

693 - Augsburg Equinoctial Lot Sundial, Johann Nepomuk Schrettegger Lot 670 - Attributed to Thomas Buttersworth, Jr., Battle of Trafalgar

Lot 1052 - Westerwald Salt Glazed Stoneware Jug with Pewter Lid

Lot 513 - Westerwald Salt Glazed “AR” Stoneware Jug

518 - Very Fine and Rare 18th Century Engraved Lot Brass and Copper Tobacco Box

542 - Finely Engraved Silver Lot Mounted English Horn Cup

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Dated 1768

Lot 506 - Rare and Large 17th Century Brass Candlestick

511 - 1742 Dated Dark Olive Lot Blown Glass Bottle

Lot 525 - A Rare and Large Bristol Delft Polychrome Punch Bowl

527 - Five Former MESDA English Delft Lot “Merry Man” Plates, with One Made To Match

503 - Rare Colbalt Decorated Lot Salt Glazed Bellarmine Jug Dated 1659

Lot 1016 - Exceptional Massachusetts William and Mary Figured Maple Veneered High Chest

1010 - An Early and Rare English Lot Slipware Piggin

Lot 1003 - Large English Pottery Loving Cup

501 - Westerwald Lot Armorial Stoneware Jug Dated 1687

0515 - Westerwald Lot Stoneware Royal Portrait Jug, King William III

1007 - Rare and Important Lot Staffordshire Slipware “IC” Bird Charger

Decorative Arts Sourced from several private collections, including the Godfrey collection and an important private New England collection, a large group of fine quality decorative arts will be included in the auction. Featuring an extensive collection of rare English, Dutch, and German ceramics, the auction includes 17th and 18th century examples across categories, with rare English slip decorated earthenwares, Dutch and English Delft rarities, and early Westerwald and Bellarmine examples. Rare brass boxes and candlesticks, finely decorated horn cups, early iron, and other objects will be featured.

1009 - English Slipware Decorated Lot Double Handled Posset Cup

Lot 1046 - A Rare, Important London Delft Blue and White Wine Bottle

Lot 1008 - Small English Slipware Bird Dish

Lot 1111 - Very Fine Philadelphia Chippendale Carved Mahogany Card Table

An exceptional group of furniture from the storied Godfrey collection will be offered in the auction. Important 18th century examples from Philadelphia, Boston, and Connecticut will be included. Among the many highlights are four 18th century easy chairs, including an example by the Garvan carver of Philadelphia, one of only three known. An impressive dressing table with carving by Martin Jugiez will also be included, as well as a number of exceptional side chairs and high chests, including an important Boston example with ball and claw feet. A Philadelphia piecrust tea table rounds out this very impressive group.

Lot 1106 - Very Fine Philadelphia Chippendale Figured Mahogany Chest of Drawers

1113 - Rare Philadelphia Chippendale Lot Carved Mahogany Dressing Table Lot 1075 - Fine Massachusetts Chippendale Walnut Bonnet Top High Chest

Godfrey Collection

Lot 1015 - Exceptional Philadelphia Queen Anne Shell Carved Walnut Easy Chair

Lot 1110 - Richard Edwards Philadelphia Chippendale Carved Mahogany Side Chair

Lot 1105 - Rare and Important Philadelphia Chippendale Carved Tassel Back Side Chair

Lot 1074 - Fine Massachusetts Chippendale Shell Carved Mahogany Easy Chair

1108 - Fine Philadelphia Queen Anne Lot Compass Seat Walnut Side Chair

Lot 1109 - Fine Philadelphia Chippendale Carved Mahogany Pie Crust Table

Will be offered in a future auction.

Lot 1073 - Rare and Important Boston Chippendale Carved Mahogany Side Chair

Lot 660 - Large Whimsical Folk Art Needlework

Lot 650 - Folk Art Carved and Painted Wood Horse Weathervane

Folk Art

000 - 654 - Early American Stoneware Lot Jug with Incised Figural Decoration

A wide range of fine art and objects include weathervanes, hooked rugs and other textiles, trade signs and figures, painted furniture, figureheads and other carvings, rare decorated stoneware, stone figures and markers, sailor made objects, and other forms.

Lot 659 - Fine American Folk Art Floral Shirred Hearth Rug, Stephen score Provenance

Lot 651 - Pair New England Folk Portraits

Lot 544 - Sailor Made Inlaid Ladies Dresser Box

Lot 556 - Fine and Rare Pennsylvania Carved Wood Angel Gabriel Weathervane

Lot 649 - An Extremely Fine and Rare Full Bodied Copper Cotswold Ram Weathervane Lot 563 - Historic Virginia American Windsor Highchair In Early Surface

557 - Large Beaufort North Carolina Attributed Lot Carved and Painted Fish Trade Sign

Henry Trippe House Lot 1079 - Three period rooms from the Henry Trippe House, Secretary, Maryland 1724-1731. Deaccessioned from the Brooklyn Museum, this group consists of the renaissance faux cut stone wood paneling and architectural woodwork from the living room, stair hall, and bedroom of the home.

Lot 807 - Andrew Wyeth

© Wyeth Foundation for American Art/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

American Fine Art

Lot 710 - Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss Lot 713 - William Morris Hunt

American Painting rarities range from an important landscape by Albert Blakelock to two works by Andrew Wyeth–Wild Cherry and the doublesided Undercover. From the Collection of Barbara Novak come works

by William Morris Hunt, Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss, and William Stanley Haseltine; Impressionist works from other collectors include a Theodore Butler, an Ernest Lawson, and a panoramic New Hampshire triptych by William Kaula. Western art includes an important watercolor by George De Forest Brush, modernist landscapes by Howard Cook, and studies by Frederic Remington. Other names to look for include Gifford, Potthast, Eilshemius, A. Parton, S.L. Waldo, John Henry Hill, and Julian Onderdonk, among many others.

Lot 703 - William Stanley Haseltine

Lot 753 - Theodore Earl Butler

Lot 647 - Ralph Albert Blakelock

Lot 864 - Frederic Sackrider Remington

Lot 803 - William Jurian Kaula

Lot 751 - Ernest Lawson

Lot 863 - Howard Norton Cook

Lot 879 - Kiowa Beaded Hide Moccasins

Lot 747 - George de Forest Brush Lot 906 - Northwest Coast Painted Cedar Lidded Box

Native American and Ethnographic A stunning Blackfoot War Shirt headlines the September Native American selections. Also seen here are a Nuu-ChahNulth whaling hat, painted raven whistle, Haida box, and Kiowa moccasins. Also included are pictorial weavings, a Santo Domingo painted shield, and much more. Of ethnographic interest is a Dan Mask, collected by Dr. George Harley in the first half of the 20th century.

899 - Nuu-chah-nulth Lot Whaling Basketry Hat

Lot 884 - Northern Plains Painted Hide War Shirt

900 - Northwest Coast Carved Lot Polychrome Raven Rattle

Lot 877 - Dr. George Harley African Mask

Lot 187 - Rubens Santoro, View of Capri

7 - Important Allan Ramsay Portrait, Mrs. Lot Anne Shairp of Houston

British & Continental Auction | September 26, 2024 Fine works of art headline the Fall season starting in September and featuring Allan Ramsay, George Lambert, historical mezzotints, Rubens Santoro, a rare portrait bust by Joseph Charles de Blezer, Art Nouveau period decorative arts; a group of fine tortoiseshell and ivory inlaid tea caddies; British needleworks; a Dimitri Omersa leather turtle form footstool; Baccarat and Lalique glassware; a monumental Victorian English silver presentation vase; and more.

Lot 5 - Daniel Gardner Pastel, The Senior Children

186 - Rare and Fine Joseph Lot Charles de Blezer Bronze Bust

Lot 37 - Fine Regency Brass Mounted Burr Elm Marquetry Inlaid Bookcase

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Polychrome Birdcage Plaque

Lot 28 - Impressive Victorian English Silver Charles Hancock Presentation Urn with Case

Lot 528 - Large Dutch Delft

Lot 26 - George III English Silver Tureen

The Tatti Family Collection October 9, 2024 The Tatti Family has been at the center of the art world for three generations, casting, conserving, creating, and collecting. Over 150 lots include works by Isamu Noguchi, Harry Bertoia, Joseph Stella, Anton Basky, Frederick MacMonnies, Richard Hayley Lever, and many others.

Whitley Collection, Featuring Chinese Export, Furniture, and Fine Art | October 16, 2024 Over 400 pieces of Chinese Export porcelain featuring 50 armorials, a rare export figure of a Jewish Lady with Christie’s provenance, blue and white examples including Ming & Qing dynasties, plus period furniture from North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New England, over 40 tea caddies, fine art, and Tiffany silver.

Modern Art, Design + Craft October 10, 2024 Fitting collections for incoming trends including hand-made craft and design including furniture, glass, decorative arts, and fine art for the Organic Modern to Postmodern environment.

Includes works of art by Juane Quick-To-See Smith, Frederick Hammersley, Alice Baber, Alexander Calder, glass artists Rick Beck, Jon Kuhn, P. Singletary, Dan Dailey, Dale Chihuly, Tim Tate, Penland School associates, photography, modern jewelry, rare Harry Partch Percussion Instruments, and a large collection of fine and rare art and photography books.

Asian Art | October 17, 2024 Chinese art from two collections acquired in China in the early 1900s and private collections including Qing dynasty enamel porcelains, bronze and porcelain water droppers, a fine selection of snuff bottles, along with a group of jade figures, bronze Buddhas, furniture, and jewelry.

November 2024 Auctions Wine & Spirits | November 12 British & Continental | November 13 American & Southern | November 14 Jewelry & Luxury Goods | November 20 Emporium | November 21

Detail from a major collection of 16th to 19th century tapestries deaccessioned from the Brooklyn Museum to be offered in our November 13, 2024 auction

Group of items belonging to the John A. Burrison Folklife Collection from the exhibit Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South on view at a Georgia Institution from 1996 to 2024 including a large collection of Southern stoneware, textiles, basketry, instruments, handmade tools, and various other folk art works will be offered in the November 14, 2024 auction

Fine Rare Federal Paint Decorated Pier Table Sold for $196,800

Portrait of Creole Lady Sold for $984,000

Rare Simon Willard Paint

Lighthouse Clock, Decorated sold for $282,900

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Important Early Dave Drake

Inscription Jar, Attributed Sold for $369,000

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Harry Winston Natural Blue

and Diamond Ring Sapphire Sold for $246,000

Important Boston Federal Pedimented Tambour Desk, sold for $258,300

Charles Willson Peale, Portrait Miniature of General George Washington, Sold for $442,800

Chinese Export Porcelain Shrimp Platter, Manigault Family, Sold for $41,820

Roy Lichtenstein, Setting Sun and Sea Sold for $479,700

1836 Gobrecht Silver Dollar Pattern Sold for $27,060

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