117 Tunnel Road
Asheville, NC 28805
United States
Important Maurice Prendergast watercolor, paintings by Kahn, Jacobsen, Redmond, Marin, Glackens and Koch; several Catesby bird prints; a Joseph Proctor folk art still life and a Fraktur collection; a Soap Hollow blanket chest, clocks by Samuel Mulliken and Anna Atkinson, the Kittredge Family high chest, a Dunlap family high chest, Hall Family chest on chest, Nathan Lombard sideboard, Seymour work table; a MESDA documented Petersburg VA Secretary and important VA paint decorated blanket chest. First editions including Mark Twain and a narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, and firearms.
Important prints by Rembrandt, Whistler, and Durer, rare watercolors by Annabella Telfair and Thomas Davies, portraits by Jürgen Ovens, a Frisian Master, other paintings by Wardle, Enchena, Kluge, Dyf, Manescau, Timmermans; Meissen porcelain from the Lake Lure, North Carolina, estate of Steve Stewart; English silver by Paul Storr; British and Continental furniture; a pair of Late Regency Cary’s 12-Inch New Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, lamps; carpets and more.
American & English furniture deaccessioned from the Virginia Museum of History & Culture and The Brooklyn Museum, Anglo-Indian and French furniture; pocket watches by Longines, Elgin & Waltham, a Rolex Datejust wrist watch; silver items; American, British and Continental paintings and prints; stamps; jewelry; Chinese export, British and European porcelain; a Marx Windup Gang Busters police car and a collection of lead toy soldiers; carpets; glass; property from the Thalheimer Family, Richmond, VA, the Tessa Ader Trust, Charlottesville, VA., and a Private Richmond, VA, collection
Brunk Auctions is honored to present an exceptional and historic piece of American cartography, the original manuscript map outlining the borders between Maryland and Pennsylvania. Drawn between 1767 and 1768 by Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (d.1777), the Mason-Dixon line is the symbolic boundary between Northern and Southern states. Originally owned by Benjamin Chew (1722-1810), the Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, it was subsequently owned by publishing magnate Malcolm Forbes. It will be offered alongside other maps and manuscripts critical in justifying the Mason-Dixon survey.
Dick & Shirley Roberts assembled a world-class collection of American furniture, paintings, maps, early Catesby prints, silver and porcelain, working with top dealers including Israel Sack, Liverant & Son, Deanne Levison, Arader, Shrubsole and others. Major centers of furniture making are represented: Boston, Portsmouth, Newport, Connecticut, Philadelphia and Charleston, with paintings by Jane Peterson, JC Beckwith, Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf & Edmund Tarbell, among others. Silver by John Ewan, John Carter, Robert Reading, extensive selection of Francis I pattern; and early Chinese export.