2026 Major Spring Americana & Chinese Auction Featuring Items From the Rockefeller Estate

Primitive Portrait of a Gentleman
Oil on artist board, in period frame
Marked on verso New Haven, June 1857
8 1/2″ x 9 1/2″

Estimate: $250 - $450

Continental School (19th Century or Earlier)
Portrait of a Philosopher or Apostle
highly expressive study of an elderly man with furrowed brow and downcast gaze, his flowing grey beard and hair modeled with delicate tonal transitions. The somber palette of soft blues and earth tones heightens the introspective character of the sitter, rendered with sculptural depth and psychological intensity
Oil on paper
Signed lower right illegibly August _gginy?
20″ x 15 1/2″
Provenance: Property from a Prominent New York City Collector

Estimate: $200 - $400

Attributed to Paul Emile Colin (French 1867–1949)
“Restaurant Français”
Pastel on paper depicting a café interior scene with seated figures at table, rendered in an Impressionist manner
Signed lower right Colin, verso with gallery label
20″ x 16″ sight, 28″ x 25″ frame
Provenance: Galerías Iturbide, Mexico City

Estimate: $200 - $400

Pair of Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Covered Tea Cups
decorated with figural scenes and calligraphy, bearing Qianlong marks, one cover with small crack and glaze cracks, 19th century
height 3 1/2 inches

Estimate: $300 - $500

Pair of Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Covered Bowls
each of rounded form having domed cover, decorated in iron red, green, and polychrome enamels with stylized shou characters, bats, and hanging jewel motifs amidst scrolling elements, key fret border, raised on short circular foot
diameter 7 3/4 inches

Estimate: $300 - $500

Chinese Yellow and Green Glazed Porcelain Dragon Bowl
decorated with four- and five-clawed dragons, bearing Daoguang mark to underside, interior with spider hairline crack, 19th century
diameter 5 inches
Provenance: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Fine Chinese Ceramics And Works Of Art, 10/07/2006 Lot 3641

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Chinese Porcelain Qianlong Seal Footed Brush Pot
square form with calligraphy on all sides and iron-red seal marks, raised on short feet, 19th century or earlier
height 4 inches

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Four Pairs of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Teacups and Saucers
each decorated in underglaze blue having floral, foliate, and geometric motifs, including paneled and continuous designs, scalloped rims
18th century or later
saucer diameter 5 1/4 inches

Estimate: $200 - $400

Chinese Porcelain Wucai Dragon and Phoenix Bowl
the exterior enamelled in iron red and green featuring striding dragons and flaming pearls amidst floral sprays, divided by phoenixes, beneath a narrow band of bajixiang interspersed with ruyi heads, interior having central medallion depicting an iron red dragon and flaming pearl amid green flame bursts, underside with six-character Qianlong seal mark
diameter 6 inches, height 2 3/4 inches
Provenance: Christie’s Hong Kong, label on underside

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Chinese Export Porcelain Teacup and Saucer
featuring geishas and scholars in a courtyard landscape bordered by gilt diaper motif rim, cup centered by gilt floral medallion, circa 18th century
teacup height 2 inches, saucer diameter 5 3/4 inches

Estimate: $200 - $400

Nine Piece Group of Chinese Export Porcelain
including plates, teacups, and saucers, decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze iron red and gilt in the Imari palette, together with examples in famille rose doucai and wucai-style enamels, featuring floral and foliate motifs with gilt accents, 18th century and later
largest diameter 9 3/4 inches

Estimate: $200 - $400

Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain Saucers
decorated with figural geisha scenes and gilt borders, each with old “Chinese Porcelain Company” label to underside, one with crack, 19th century or earlier
diameter 5 1/2 inches

Estimate: $200 - $400

Pair of Chinese Carved Wood Stands
each of organic, root-form design having shaped supports and inset top recesses for display of four footed animals, raised on short feet
length 6 inches
Provenance: Property from a Upper East Side, New York City Apartment

Estimate: $100 - $300

Four Asian Bronze Vases
group of four bronze vases of varying bottle and trumpet forms, showing surface wear and patina consistent with age.
likely 18th–19th century
height to 10 inches

Estimate: $200 - $400

Native American Quillwork and Wool Case
embellished with stylized flowers, quills dye and stitched creating textured surface edged with stitched binding, probably from a woodland Native American group
height 3 1/4″ x 5 3/4″

Estimate: $200 - $400

Early Bronze Urn-Form Vessel
cast bronze vessel with flared rim and lobed body on a spreading foot, showing surface wear and patina consistent with age, possibly a small vase or incense burner.
likely 18th century or earlier
height 4 1/2 inches

Estimate: $200 - $400

Two Chinese Bronze Censers
group of two bronze incense burners, one of tripod form with applied handles, the other of rounded form with side handles, one example bearing an apocryphal Xuande mark to the base.
likely Qing dynasty or later
largest 5 1/2 inches across handles

Estimate: $200 - $400

Archaic Bronze Ritual Food Vessel (Gui)
early western Zhou dynasty
length with handles 5 3/4 inches

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

Pair of Chinese Bronze Buddhist Figural Plaques
two cast bronze figures of robed standing deities on lotus bases, the reverses with incised Chinese characters, likely votive or shrine elements.
likely China, 18th to early 19th century
height 7 inches each

Estimate: $300 - $500

Three Bronze Candlesticks
group of three cast bronze candlesticks with hexagonal bases and baluster stems.
likely 19th century
height 10 inches each

Estimate: $200 - $400

Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Ginger Jar
having four clawed dragon motif amongst clouds and flaming pearls, apocryphal Yongzheng mark to underside, now mounted and wired as table lamp
height of jar 9 inches
Provenance: Property from a Private Collection at 791 Park Avenue Designed by Cullman & Kravis, Inc
The Chinese Porcelain Gallery, 1/29/1990 ($875) copy of receipt available

Estimate: $400 - $800

Samson Porcelain Famille Noire Chinoiserie Square Vase
square form vase decorated in famille noir palette featuring polychrome floral and bird motif, reserved on a black ground, now mounted and wired as a lamp
total height 34 inches, vase height 20 inches
Provenance: Yale Burge Antiques, 305 East 63rd St., New York ($2,700)

Estimate: $300 - $500

Pair of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Lidded Vases
of baluster form having double foo dog mask handles, now mounted and wired as table lamps, early 19th century
vase height 13 inches
Provenance: Property from a Private Collection at 791 Park Avenue Designed by Cullman & Kravis, Inc
Kentshire Galleries, New York, 1990 ($6,000) (no receipt available, information came from family database)

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

Chinese Qing Blue and White Figural Story Sleeve Vase
The tapering cylindrical body rising to a wide waisted neck flaring at the rim, exterior showing figural story scene of warriors on horseback
height 18 1/2 inches

Estimate: $300 - $500

French Gothic Walnut Group of the Virgin, Christ Child, and Saint Anne
carved walnut figural group depicting the Virgin and Saint Anne seated with the Christ Child between them, retaining traces of original polychrome decoration, two hands and one arm missing Accompanied by an old Sotheby’s label numbered “49.”
likely French, late Gothic period
height 14 inches; width 14 inches
Provenance: Sotheby’s Sale, Lot 49 ($990) (per accompanying catalog reference and sticker label)

Estimate: $500 - $1000