Important Antique and Fine Art Auction - January 7, 2012

Auction Results Overview

For this important sale, we offered lots from collections from Hancock, Jaffrey, and Amherst, 2 from Massachusetts and special items from various consignors. Highlights for key categories are below.

American Antique Furniture ~ Levi Bartlett, NH Queen Anne slant front desk with good interior and Queen Anne drop leaf table; 3 part Sheraton glazed door secretary; Windsor settee, 4 step down, green painted rocking wing chair and carved ear fan back side chairs; Sheraton Mah Mass tester and tiger maple ball top beds; grain painted Edwards, Ashby tall clock and OG footed chest; 2 drawer blanket chest with scalloped apron; cherry 2 door low cupboard, corner cupboard and hanging cupboards; candle stands; 2 Shaker chairs; numerous 1 and 2 drawer stands; pine Canadian dough box; 2^nd period items: tiger maple Queen Anne high boy, William and Mary gate leg table, block front slant front desk and Queen Anne armchair.

English and Continental Furniture ~ Rare Franco/Flemish 17^th century spice/salt box with carvings; Carved middle Eastern fern stand; Sheraton ½ round breakfast table; 2 needlepoint 2^nd period armchairs.

Asian items ~ Chinese: export – paint decorated  pigskin/camphorwood trunk; lacquer ware game table and sewing box with ivory tools, interior domestic painting, tobacco leaf pair of porcelain plates, Rose medallion/ Canton & more; Domestic wares including needlework hangings, scrolls, Bronze and other Buddha's, ivory, glass and lacquer snuff bottles; large flambé vase; dragon decorated Guan Gxu vase; Famille Verte scenic jar and covered urn; large fish decorated cloisonné vase; celadon vase with raised design; ancient tomb figure and bronze pouring vessel; dream stone with trees; 2 large  blue and white covered boxes; carved jade covered vessel with rings, pink jade vessel as is and 3 ancient form items (probably newer); Japanese: collection of block prints including a Kawase Hasai original; large mixed metal bronze urn with floral relief; good lot of Satsuma; Cloisonné vases; painting of a Samurai; Netsuke rabbit; scrolls, textiles and lots more.

American Fine Art ~ Joseph R De Camp landscape; Gori Ivanov Rinov family; Edmund E Case landscape; William H Weisman NH mountain scene; School of Ed Hicks “Peaceable Kingdom”; Omer Thomas Lassonde “Ice Harvesting”; James King Bonnar landscape;  DuBois Fenelon Hasbrouk landscape; George Henry Bogert seascape; William Howard Taft signed portrait print plus other signed documents; Frederick Rhodes Sisson, NH & Providence, RI estate collection of 15 paintings: Self & Abbot Thayer portraits; still lives, snow scene, buildings, landscapes etc; large Illustration of doctor’s anatomy lesson; others by L J Lowgill, Revington Arthur, Richard G Parker, Frank Thurlo, B Whittaker (pair), Benjamin Schonzeit(letters); A Hayes, Joseph Sloman, Waldo Park Midley, Anthony Thieme, Max Wallenberger, EA Hayes, A Prinie, Wyatt Eaton, James Henry Dougherty, 2 Leonard Paul, S Paterson and more.

Other Fine Art-Important Amedeo Simonetti, Italy rug merchants interior with lady customer; 4 old master style paintings; Louis Guevara Moreno, Spanish “Toros” the bull, Jose Silbert French North African portrait; Joseph Bail French still life; E Delabrierre               French bronze birds with chicks others by Antonio Casanova Estorach, Paul Lambert, Carlos Vazquez, Pierre Comba, Salvadore Dali and Alfred Muller limited edition prints; Emil Pruess plus other religious art.

Native American- Anasazi school decorated bowl plus others; Inuit ivory miniature hunting boats; trade knife; beaded and leather knife sheaths and awl case; beaded moccasins and woman’s blouse with hammered metal broaches; Teepee and dispatch bags; Kachina dancing mask and buffalo horn head dress; 2 Important Bruce Nowlin paintings; squash blossom necklace and Albert Herman Schmidt limited edition print.

Accessories- Important Regina “Sublima Corona” coin –operated automatic 20 ¾” disk changer music box; Important signed limited edition cat book-“Foujita”;  “Wanamaker’s Deposit Vault” safe; green Hampshire pottery lamp with leaded glass shade; Sterling and coin silver: Tiffany bowl, “Hudson Boat Club” commemorative bowl, round tray, deep dish, tea strainer, and misc, Colonial silver fish server, pairs of serving spoons and ladle; Pottery & porcelain: Portobello ware tea set; large Paris urn with Scottish scenes, 2 large Royal Vienna covered urns and early Persian blue and white deep dish; 2 Queen Anne Chippendale mirrors; blue fish decorated stone ware jug plus others; fully rigged steam/sail ship model; large Chas Wilder thermometer; Civil War soldier tin type; Kingsbury toy fire truck & frog mechanical bank; Daniel Cragin, Wilton, NH set of measures; 3 microscopes; Kaleidoscope; Lalique amethyst vase; large Art Deco planter on stand; cast RR plaque; 2 Scheier pottery; collection of 15 pieces of pre-Columbian pottery artifacts; majolica; Meissen; sleigh bells; 3 cast bronze garden birds; large “Timberlake” Roseville vase; doll painted high wheel carriage; early baskets; boxes; lighting and more.

Oriental Rugs- room size: old Chinese, Bokhara, 3 Heriz, Baluchistan, large newer Persian; Malayer; Scatter size: 2 Early Sarouk & Ningshia Chinese, 2 Tekke Bokhara bag faces; Afshar, 3 Caucasians, Lillihan, Hamadan & others.