The first fine furniture and decorative arts auction of 2007 offers an incredible opportunity for beginning as well as advanced collectors. Americana features important 19th century pieces including an Aesthetic inlaid mahogany...
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The first fine furniture and decorative arts auction of 2007 offers an incredible opportunity for beginning as well as advanced collectors. Americana features important 19th century pieces including an Aesthetic inlaid mahogany dresser and side stand, Herter Brothers, originally from the Darius Ogden Mills House as well as a superb Aesthetic collectors cabinet with elaborate Turkish motifs, probably New York. A wonderful Chippendale tiger maple desk, provenance: Israel Sack is also being offered as well as carousel horses, scrimshaw, portrait miniatures and samplers. In anticipation of spring, this auction includes a significant selection of garden ornaments and statuary including two life size 19th century French terracotta figures of Summer and Spring, several architectural elements cast for the restoration of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco; a unique late 19th century bronze fountain figure of a boy riding a snail; a large private collection of French 19th Ducell cast iron garden ornaments; two fine life size 18th Italian marble figures depicting American and Europe; as well as garden gates, fencing and ironwork. English furniture is highlighted an impressive George III side table with its original portor marble top, several pedestal banquet tables, a charming pair of George III giltwood mirrors and two early Queen Anne mirrors, a George III breakfront cabinet and tortoiseshell tea caddies. French offerings include a fine Louis XIV style boullework cabinet from the collection of Harry and Margot de Wildt, San Francisco; a Louis XVI wall fountain; a rare Baccarat and Chaumet silver gilt mounted glass sculpture: Bagdad; an unsual pair of Charles X childrens bergeres, stamped J.J. Werner, a Louis XVI mahogany dining table; Sevres style urns, clock garnitures and suites of seat furniture. Italian, Spanish and Continental are highlighted by a magnificent early 18th Roman console table, a pair of Venetian rococo tables, a superb 19th century Italian giltwood and marble monumental console table; 17th century credenze, seat furniture and tables; a delicate pair of Italian neoclassical commodini; a collection of carved coconut cups and objects; a fine Berlin porcelain plaque; Meissen figures; Russian bronzes; early works of art; a fine pair of Italian Neoclassical architectural urns, from the de Wildt Collection; as well as Flemish tapestries, Peruvian Spanish Colonial furniture and a collection of Black Forest bear carved furniture and objects.
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