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Mid-Century, Custom Mahogany, Antiques, Contemporary, Art, & Decorative Accessories
Important Asian antiques including Chinese porcelain, jade, bronze, snuff bottle, paintings, etc, and variety of jewelries. All items are sourced locally from estates and major collections.
Our August 19th sale features the magic collection of Jeff Busby. Highlights include extensive archives of correspondence and ephemera related to the great sleight-of-hand artists of the twentieth century: Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, Max Malini, Ross Bertram, Ed Marlo, Larry Jennings, Paul Fox, Michael Skinner, Faucett Ross, Cardini, and many more.
Saturday, August 19th at 11:00 am
Our Saturday auction is pleased to present a collection of fine arts, furnishings, sterling silver, and decorative porcelains from the Estate of Palmer T. Heenan of Grosse Pointe Park. Beginning the sale, we offer everything necessary for a properly appointed table, including Waterford ‘Alana’ and ‘Lismore’ crystal collections; English and American sterling silver tea and coffee services, and sterling flatware sets including: Wallace ‘Grand Colonial’, Easterling ‘Helene’, and Westmoreland ‘Lady Hilton’; fine porcelain services and serving pieces by Meissen in the ‘Swan’ motif, a gorgeously gilt painted fish serving set after S.A. Kilbourne, alongside other services by Herend, Limoges, and Wedgwood; the glass sculpture ‘Bel Fiore’ by Dale Chihuly; Lalique frosted glass ‘Bacchantes’ vase and the ‘Ganymede’ champagne cooler; Tiffany Favrile and iridescent art glass vases; fine estate jewelry including an Angelus foliate style 14kt yellow gold lady’s wrist watch, Kurt Wayne 18kt gold owl form cufflinks, Chanel gripoix brooches, and rings of sapphires, rubies, and other sparkling gems to accessorize; antique and modern handwoven Persian and Turkish carpets; furnishings in the English, French, and Revival tastes, featuring a beautifully carved Rococo Revival walnut dining suite, and a monumental gilt wood Italian mirror. Closing the sale we have a beautiful vintage navy quilted Chanel bag, lovely hand-painted porcelains, and sterling silver and plated serving articles to add to your home.
A third Antiques Room online auction features objects from a private collection, such as Russian icons, books, paintings, porcelaine, Midcentury, European and Asian antiques.
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Upcoming
Showplace Antique + Design Center Live Estate Auction
Sunday, August 20th, 11am EST
-All lots from estates
-No reserves
-Including silver, fine art, furniture, jewelry, Asian arts, decorative art and more
Sunday, August 20th at Noon
Our Sunday session features an exceptional collection of fine art including paintings, watercolors, drawings, graphics and sculptures. A partial list includes works by: Michel Delacroix, Harry Leith-Ross, Raphael Soyer, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jacques Villon, Maurice de Vlaminck, Pablo Picasso, Romero Britto, Peter Max, Ludwig Bemelmans, LeRoy Neiman, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, J. Dalbreus, Donald de Lue, Wojciech Kossak, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Jo Powell, Bradley Jones, Jerome Ferretti, T. Faed, Dave McGary and an attributed to Joseph Whiting Stock oil painting. Also of note: Inuit and native Canadian sculptures; a 19th c. Viennese tall case clock; 20th c. furniture; autographs by Muhammed Ali, George Tooker, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and a Calvin Coolidge authograped banjo; oriental rugs including several semi-antique Sarouks; Herend porcelain and fine jewelry.
Coins/Currency/Exounomia/Stamps to include many fresh to the market: Important numismatic rarities in the fields of U.S. and foreign coins, currency and tokens, and ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins.
Exhibition begins August 19, 2017
The August 24th auction features an impressive collection of 20th Century Design, showcasing fine examples of art glass, furniture, and metalwork. Highlights include pottery by Brother Thomas Bezanson, pieces from the collection of Nobel Prize-winning biochemist George Wald, Pablo Picasso ceramics, an original Jean-Michel Frank armchair, and a rare sculpture by Ursula von Rydingsvard.
Preview Times
Tuesday, August 22, 12PM – 5PM
Wednesday, August 23, 12PM – 8PM
Thursday, August 24, 9AM – 11AM
Contact Us
508-970-3253
20thcentury@skinnerinc.com
Early 20th C. Fine Art. Estate goods.
In an unreserved auction, the high bid, whatever it might be, wins the day.
Scandinavian Design. Post War & Contemporary Art. Mid-Century Modern. Rock Ephemera. In an unreserved auction, the high bid, whatever it might be, wins the day.
20th/21st c. Design. Post War & Contemporary Art. In an unreserved auction, the high bid, whatever it might be, wins the day.
Decorative Arts, Asian Antiques, Fishing items, Prints, Art, Antiques, Carpets, Sterling, Glassware, Jewelry from local estates.
Fine Art, Antiques, and Estate Jewelry
Explore an exciting collection of diamond engagement rings, weddings bands and fine estate jewelry. Special preview available at the Baltimore Antique and Jewelry Show, Booth 1606 August 24-27.
The personal collection of Eric C. Caren, known as the The Caren Archive: How History Unfolds on Paper, is the single most significant private collection of historic documents in the United States. Cowan's September 8th auction is comprised of over 400 important historical lots from The Caren Archive, including newspapers, periodicals, broadsides, photographs, ephemera, and other items dating from the 17th century to the present and comprising an unsurpassed physical record of the history of the United States of America and beyond.
Auction
Friday, September 8, 2017 10:00 am ET
Preview
Thursday, September 7, 2017 from 12:00 to 5:00 pm
Friday, September 8, 2017 from 8:00 to 10:00 am
Contact
Katie Horstman
historic@cowans.com
513-871-1670 x236
Buyer's Premium
23% for bids placed on www.bidsquare.com
Our September auction features choice coin-operated machines, toys and vintage advertising. Over 250 vintage machines in a wide variety of categories will go on the block, including vending, slots & gambling, vintage arcade machines, and more. Vintage advertising items including posters, lithographs, and trade signs will also be going up for sale. The auction will be rounded out by a selection of quality vintage toys and general antiques,
Our Important Jewelry sale will be conducted September 10 – 12 and will include a number of important gems and designer items. The sale is comprised of a number of private collections that have been carefully curated by our specialists in the Fine Jewelry department. There are numerous highlights from the 20s and 30s with a range of consignments in the Art Deco style. A large selection of signed jewels will also be available with examples by Verdura, David Webb, Cartier and Tiffany.
This auction will be held in our Chicago office.
Preview:
Saturday, September 9 | 10am – 3pm
Sunday, September 10 | 12pm – 4pm
Monday, September 11 | 10am – 5pm
Tuesday, September 12 | 10am – 5pm
This sale features the second half of the Stephen Sachs Collection of cast iron toys: airplanes and farm toys; cars, trucks, busses and motorcycles; as well as
Arcade furniture and scarce pieces by Vindex. Rounding out the iron grouping is a selection of Kenton toys from the Bill & Stevie Weart collection, most of which are pictured in their book Cast Iron Automotive Toys (Schiffer publishing) as well as a
significant group of horse drawn pieces from a Pennsylvania collector.
A variety of other toys, European and American, include such rarities as a Marklin Yolanda yacht and a Carette 0 gauge 2350 passenger set. A group of marionettes and artist dolls feature a production original Howdy Doody and pieces by Van Craig. A collection of doll houses, room boxes and doll house miniatures adds another dimension to the sale. The sale concludes with a collection of Christmas toys and decorations.
Exhibition:
Monday, September 11 - 10am to 4pm
Tuesday, September 12 - 10am to 4pm
Wednesday, September 13 - 10am to 4pm
Thursday, September 14 - 10am to 4pm
Friday, September 15 - 8am to 10am
Buyer's Premium:
25% online
Session I of the eleventh annual Jackson Hole Art Auction will be held on Friday, September 15th (12:00 PM MDT) at the Center for the Arts in Jackson, Wyoming. Session I features lots 1-137. A smaller sale of well-curated lots, Session I features work by established Jackson-based artists, decorative contemporary pieces, and small works by western masters - all at a desirable price point, perfect for the emerging collector.
The Session I auction preview will take place on Thursday Septemebr 14th from 10am to 7pm in the Black Box Theater at the Center for the Arts (265 S Cache St, Jackson WY 83001).
Since 2007, the Jackson Hole Art Auction has been recognized as one of the premier art events in the country, defined by the high standard of works offered in a variety of genres including wildlife, sporting, figurative, landscape and Western art by both renowned past masters and contemporary artists. The JHAA is a signature event of Jackson Hole’s annual Fall Arts Festival and attracts collectors from across the country as well as abroad. With locations in Scottsdale, AZ, Jackson Hole, WY, Santa Fe, NM and New York, the auction principals, Trailside Galleries and Gerald Peters Gallery, bring over 100 years of combined experience and expertise to the event.
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers is proud to announce our September Antiques, Fine Art, Firearms, and Asian Arts auction on Saturday, September 16th at noon. The auction will feature over 475 lots. The auction will open with 60 lots of American and European fine art highlighted by a southern genre oil on board painting of a female sharecropper by William Aiken Walker (1838-1921). Other fine art highlights include an illuminated Surrealist oil on canvas landscape painting by Karnig Nalbandian (1916-1989) and an Impressionist oil on canvas winter landscape painting by John Haapanen (1891-1968). The second portion of the catalog will offer over forty firearms highlighted by a C.1915 Westley Richards single trigger double barrel shotgun.
The third portion of the catalog will offer over 250 lots of antiques and decorative arts. Decorative art highlights include a Salem, Massachusetts Federal card table attributed to Samuel McIntire, a set of twelve Mintons for Tiffany & Co. porcelain duck plates, and a large French Art Nouveau Cognac Jacquet advertising poster by Camille Bouchet. Within the decorative arts section there will be 25 lots of antique and collectible fire fighter memorabilia and over 25 lots of antique Oriental and Persian carpets. The final portion of the catalog will offer over 190 lots of Asian Arts and Antiques highlighted by a Chinese Ming Dynasty Junyao purple splashed bowl. Other Asian highlights include an 18th century Indian gilt bronze copper alloy statue of Vishnu, a pair of 19th century glass eye pewter deer, and a fine Chinese Kangxi period baluster form vase. Within the Asian arts section there will be over 25 lots of snuff bottles and a fine selection of carved jade, jadeite, and hardstone.
Bruneau & Co Auctioneers are located at 63 Fourth Avenue, Cranston, R.I. Preview will be held the week of the auction on Thursday from 9:00 to 5:00 and Friday from 12:00 to 5:00 with a wine and cheese preview party from 5:00 to 9:00. Doors open at 8:00am on the day of sale. Bruneau & Co Auctioneers can be reached at 401-533-9980 or visit Bruneauandco.com.
Session II of the eleventh annual Jackson Hole Art Auction will be held on Saturday, September 16th (12:00 PM MDT) at the Center for the Arts in Jackson, Wyoming. Session II will feature lots 138-367.
The Session II auction previews will take place at the Center for the Arts in Jackson, Wyoming on Friday September 15th from 10am to 7pm and on Saturday September 16th from 9am to 12pm.
Since 2007, the Jackson Hole Art Auction has been recognized as one of the premier art events in the country, defined by the high standard of works offered in a variety of genres including wildlife, sporting, figurative, landscape and Western art by both renowned past masters and contemporary artists. The JHAA is a signature event of Jackson Hole’s annual Fall Arts Festival and attracts collectors from across the country as well as abroad. With locations in Scottsdale, AZ, Jackson Hole, WY, Santa Fe, NM and New York, the auction principals, Trailside Galleries and Gerald Peters Gallery, bring over 100 years of combined experience and expertise to the event.
