Chinese Set of The Eight Immortals, China, 19th century, carved standing figures, heights 8 1/4 – 8 1/2 inches.
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Provenance: A Private Collection from Fifth Avenue, New York
Group of Five Rams Horn Snuff Mulls, each in presentation box having silver mounted lids, one initialed “A.T” for Andrew Turner of Longridge Scotland; another having fish crest on cover and marked “From John to James Salmond, 1830); along with one having silver thistle hinge; larger marked David Duncan, largest length 4 inches
Two Chinese Export Porcelain Pieces, to include a large armorial handle mug marked “Insperata Floruit” with shield, height 7 1/4 inches; along with small tureen having boars head handles and cover, height 4 inches, width 7 inches.
Large Leonora Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Charger, having centralized coat of arms with enameled birds, iron red and gilt band border with stylized fruit and flowers, service made circa 1720 for Leonora daughter and heir of Charles Maresco and widow of Thomas Frederick of Westminster, in good condition with minor scratches and knife marks, height 2 1/4 inches, diameter 15 1/2 inches.
Provenance: A Private Collection from a Farmington Connecticut Estate
Large Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Charger, having centralized coat of arms with shield bearing lions, birds and crosses, arm with hand holding a dragon head, iron red and gilt band border having stylized fruit and flowers, in very good condition, height 2 1/4 inches, diameter 15 1/2 inches.
Provenance: The Weld Collection and P.B. Cooke Collection, A Private Collection from a Farmington Connecticut Estate
Leonora Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Pieces, circa 1720 shallow bowl and a plate having centralized coat of arms with enameled birds, iron red and gilt band border with stylized fruit and flowers, in good condition with minor surface chips on rim, service made circa 1720 for Leonora daughter and heir of Charles Marescoe and widow of Thomas Frederick of Westminster, height 1 1/2 inches, diameter 9 inches; height 1 1/4 inches, diameter 9″,
Provenance: The Weld Collection” Skinners and Ralph Chait New York Galleries, A Private Collection from a Farmington Connecticut Estate
Rose-Imari Armorial Soup Plate, enameled with Coat of Arms having cockerel crest above on the border with gilt iron-red bands of flowers, Cock Quartering Roach impaling Trevor Arms, the arms are similar to those on the bookplate in The Franks Collection for Johanna Cock, The Cock Family were in East Indian trade. The owners were possibly Joseph Cock impaling Edwards, Harvey impaling Trevor, this service belonged to the Clark-Jarvoise family for years and credited to this family (small rim flakes), height 1 1/2 inches, diameter 8 1/2 inches, circa 1724.
Provenance: The Bullivant Collection of Armorial porcelain Phillips Bond Street, March 1988; The Coats Collection, Bonhams, June 2006, Lot 16, Christie’s January 18, 2018, Lot 106 to present owner, A Private Collection from a Farmington Connecticut Estate
Chinese Export Armorial Deep Plate, having center Armorial with birds surrounded by iron red bands of flowers, bird and fish, with gilt decoration, height 1 1/2 inches, diameter 8 3/4 inches.
Provenance: A Private Collection from a Farmington Connecticut Estate
Talbot Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Plate, having centralized coat of arms of Talbot and of Talbot impaling Clopton, made for English market, decorated and detailed with an elaborate lion coat of arms, having iron red border with bouquets of fruits and flowers, in good condition, diameter 8 3/4 inches.
Provenance: A Private Collection from a Farmington Connecticut Estate
Haldane Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Shallow Bowl, made for English market, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), circa 1725, painted in colored enamels and gilt, center coat of arms of Haldane between eagle supports above motto “Suffer”, underglaze blue border with flowers, from The Weld Collection, having repaired rim and small crack, diameter 8 3/4 inches.
Sourced from Christie’s 2012: A soup plate from this handsome service was exhibited in A Tale of Three Cities: Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong, London 1997 (cat pg. 56), where D.S. Howard writes “the manner of painting the armorial from a bookplate is remarkable and confirms that an actual bookplate was coloured and taken to China – the earliest recorded example of this happening” Weld Collection sticker on reverse (small hairlines and old repair). English market blue and white Armorial bowl. The Arms of Haldane in colors and gilt center as it is on a bookplate the well trim with fine painted cobalt blue decorated centering the crest from same set previously sold at Christie’s from Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, Jr. collection, January 24, 2012.
Provenance: A Private Collection from a Farmington Connecticut Estate
Chinese Export Armorial Soup Plate, Qing Yongzheng period, circa 1725, center painted white with the arms of Godfrey above the motto “Corde Fixam”, repair to the rim, diameter 11 1/2 inches.
Provenance: A Private Collection from a Farmington Connecticut Estate
Five Chinese Export Porcelain Armorial Pieces, having matching cup diameter 3 inches and saucer diameter 4 3/4 inches, coat of arms with centralized shield “Crescit Sub Ponder Virtus”, along with a saucer having dog on each side of the shield “Suivez Raison” and small cup, enameled shield with lion and a dog, Ralph Chait Galleries.
Provenance: A Private Collection from a Farmington Connecticut Estate
Six Piece Chinese Export Porcelain Lot, to include a large bowl, four small dishes, one small bowl, having slight dings, chips, and flakes, diameter 4 1/2 inches – 9 1/8 inches.
A Pair of Chinese Famille Rose Armorial Platters, 18th/19th century, the octagonal shape is delicately decorated with central flower and surrounded by a border of birds and flowers, the armorial crest or coat of arms featuring stars and deer, having no mark, length 11 1/4 inches.
Chinese Export Porcelain Mexican Market Armorial Plate, Qianlong bearing the arms of Solar de Tejada, having swag border along with motto: “Ecce Beatificamus Eos Qui Substinverrint”, diameter 10 inches.
Three Chinese Famille Rose Export Plates, 18th century, for the Islamic/European market, comprised of a pair of 8 inch plates and a matching 10 inch plate, all decorated with a central circle with a gilt Arabic script and surrounded by flowers, the intricate border in a French/European style.
Set of 11 Chinese Export Porcelain Plates, 19th century painted in a Mandarin palette in the center, with a rose border and panels of iron-red landscapes, diameter 9 3/4 inches. Provenance: John D. Rockefeller, Nelson A. Rockefeller.
Chinese Porcelain Bowl, having russet red and blue painted scene, height 4 1/4 inches, diameter 9 1/2 inches.
Provenance: Julius H Jacobson II a Fifth Avenue Estate.
Three Piece Group of Delft Group, to include bowl having various blue, red and yellow flowers on a white ground with small group of flowers inside bowl, repaired, height 6 inches, diameter 12 1/2 inches; a blue and white bowl, circa 1725, painted in the center with two birds on flowering branches, the exterior with cartouches containing fruits, on a circular foot (base restored); along with a stem cup marked Delft, diameter 12 inches.
Provenance: Marianne Clark Fine Antiques, Southwest Harbor, Maine; Herbert Schiffer.
Pre-Columbian Tripod Figural Pottery Vessel or Bowl, having three figural legs with flared rim bowl, tallest 14 3/4 inches, largest in diameter 9 1/2 inches.
A General Map of the World or Terraqueous Globe
London published by Laurie Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street 12K, May 1794
large two part map of world
paper size 42″ x 49″.
Aldo Rossi (1931 – 1997)
composite drawing of Teatro del Mondo & the Porta Biennale, 1979
ink on paper
signed lower right Aldo Rossi
old paper label on back
paper size 35″ x 38″
frame size 41″ x 44″ x 1 1/2″.
William Wellstood (1819 – 1900)
after Benjamin Franklin Smith (1830 – 1927) hand colored engraving
view of New York from Latting Observatory, 1855
sight size 31″ x 46″.
Smith’s Map of Hartford County, Connecticut
from actual surveys by E.M. Woodford, C.S. West Avon
published by H & C.T. Smith, 1855
engraved and printed by Wagner & Mc Guigan
printed on six plates, hand colored engraving
some water damage on the base
69″ x 48″.
Provenance: A Private Connecticut Shoreline Collection
Three Piece Grouping of Hand Colored Engravings of Italian Maps
to include, “Stato della Chiesa Dominium Ecclesasticum in Italia”, 1636
by Henricus Hondius II (1597 – 1651 Dutch)
16″ x 20 1/2″
Tabula Italiae Antiquae in regiones XI ab Augusto divisae” 1915
by Guilanne DeLisle (French 1675 – 1726)
19″ x 25″
Johann Baptist Homann, Regiae Celsitudinis Sabaudicae, status in quo ducatus Sabaudiae” 1710
by Johann Baptist Homann (German 1664 – 1724)
19 1/2″ x 22″.
Provenance: A Private Connecticut Shoreline Collection
Map of Venice
1703 Map of second state
1739, “Iconografica Rappresentatiore della Inclita Città di Venezia: Construction al Reggio Serenissimo Domingo Veneto”
original cartography and engraving
by Lodovico Ughe (Italian, active 1700 – 1740)
published by Lodovico Furlanetto as a second edition (circa 1760 – 1780)
printed on twelve plates, surrounded by vignettes of Venetian buildings pasted separately
needs restoration
54″ x 80″.
Provenance: A Private Connecticut Shoreline Collection
Andre de Segonzac (1884 – 1974)
“Jeanne”
pen and black ink on paper
signed “A.P. de Segonzac”
inscribed with title and dated 1910 lower right
10 3/4″ x 4 3/4″.
Two French Drawings
to include Aristide Maillol (1861 – 1944)
“Dancing Girls”
pencil on paper
signed “Maillol” lower right
paper the drawing is mounted to bears watermark
4 3/4″ x 3 3/4″
along with Eugene Louis Boudin (1824 – 1898)
“Figures and Fishermen, Quai”
pencil and wash on paper
initialed “E.B.” lower right
having Galerie D’Art Contemporain label on verso with certificate of authentication
3 3/8″ x 5 1/4″.
Three French Drawings
to include Constantin Guys (1802 – 1892)
“Young Girl in Party Dress”
pencil on paper
unsigned
label on frame
7″ x 4 1/4″
along with Gertrude Stein
pencil on paper
initialed “T.C.”
lower right
6 1/2″ x 4 3/4″
along with Pierre Laprade (1875 – 1932)
“Lady with Fan”
pen and ink on paper
signed “Laprade” lower right
5 1/2″ x 7 1/2″.
Collection of Three Jean-Louis Forain (French Impressionist, 1852-1931)
Colored Pencil Studies
to include “Les Rayons (Arrivee Du Telemetre)
faded signature lower right
8 1/4″ x 6”
“Les Regrets sur L’Acropole”
7″ x 9″
“Apres L’Accord”
9 3/4″ x 7 1/2″
Two Artwork Studies by Albert Marquet
Faurist, 1875 – 1947)
to include “Female Nude”
pencil on paper
initialed “AM” lower right
6 1/2″ x 3 3/4″
along with “Two Sailboats”
pen and ink on paper
signed lower right “Marquet”
9 3/4″ x 9 3/4″.
Three French Drawings
to include Achille-Emile Othon Friesz (1879 – 1949)
“Buoy Along a Pier, Antwerp”
charcoal on paper
signed lower right
9 1/4″ x 12″
Jean Marchand (1883 – 1940)
“Landscape”
pen and ink on paper
signed lower right,14″ x 19 1/2″
Armand Guillaumin (1841 – 1927)
“Madeline en Barn”, (artist’s daughter)
charcoal on paper
initialed bottom center,10″ x 12 1/2″
Two Pen and Ink Drawings by Jules Pascin (French, 1885 – 1930)
to include “Woman in the Park and Head of Hermine David”
signed “Pascin” with artists stamp
7″ x 5″
“Pascin and Friends (Gestwicki and Galanis)”
12 1/4″ x 7 1/2″
signed by all three and dated 1906.
Chippendale Style Custom Mahogany Mirror, with gilt eagle top in broken pediment top, early to mid 20th century, 54″ x 27″ with frame, 27″ x 15 1/2″ mirror.
71 Pieces of Meissen Blue Onion Assembled Dinnerware Set, to include 16 large bowls, 12 bread dishes, 14 large plates, 6 platters, 9 cups, 8 saucers, 6 serving pieces, has chips and breaks, diameters of 2 1/2′-21″.
72 Piece English Porcelain Dinnerware Set, cobalt blue and white ground with tan and gold decoration, serving pieces include compotes, 17 dinner plates, 11 luncheon plates, 24 cups and saucers, along with a pair of large covered urns, etc.
Full Set of Limoges Porcelain Conde Pattern Dinner Service, retailed by L. Bernardaud, to include approximately 158 pieces; 19 dinner plates, diameter 11 inches, etc.
Provenance: Julius H Jacobson II a Fifth Avenue Estate.