2025 Major Fall Chinese & Americana Auction

John James Audubon (American 1785-1851) and John Woodhouse Audubon (American 1812-1862)
“American Marsh Shrew”,1843
Hand-colored lithograph by John T. Bowen (American 1801-1865) plate XIV from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Imperial Bowen Edition.
20″ x 26″
Provenance: Property from The Estate of Sally G. Chubb of Bernardsville, New Jersey
Condition: Light staining and foxing

Estimate: $500 - $1000

John James Audubon (American 1785-1851) and John Woodhouse Audubon (American 1812-1862)
“Richardson’s Meadow Mouse”,1848
Hand-colored lithograph by John T. Bowen (American 1801-1865) plate CXXXV from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Imperial Bowen Edition.
20″ x 26″
Provenance: Property from The Estate of Sally G. Chubb of Bernardsville, New Jersey
Condition: Light staining and foxing

Estimate: $500 - $1000

John James Audubon (American 1785-1851)
“Common Flying Squirrel”, 1843
Hand-colored lithograph by John T. Bowen (American 1801-1865) plate XXVIII from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Imperial Bowen Edition
25 1/2″ x 19 3/4″
Provenance: Property from The Estate of Sally G. Chubb of Bernardsville, New Jersey
Condition: lightstain, some foxing,tear at bottom left sheet comer

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

John James Audubon (American 1785-1851)
“Wormwood Hare”,1846
Hand-colored lithograph by John T. Bowen (American 1801-1865) plate LXXXVIII from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Imperial Bowen Edition.
20 1/2″ x 26″
Provenance: Property from The Estate of Sally G. Chubb of Bernardsville, New Jersey
Condition: Light staining and foxing

Estimate: $500 - $1000

John James Audubon (American 1785-1851)
“Canadian Pouched Rat”, 1844
Hand-colored lithograph by John T. Bowen (American 1801-1865) plate XLIV from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Imperial Bowen Edition.
20″ x 26″
Provenance: Property from The Estate of Sally G. Chubb of Bernardsville, New Jersey
Condition: Light staining and foxing

Estimate: $300 - $500

John James Audubon (American 1785-1851)
“Iceland or Jer Falcon”, 1860
Chromolithograph, Plate 19, from the Julius Bien edition of Audubon’s Birds of America, 1858-1860
39″ x 26″
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York

Estimate: $1500 - $3000

James Edmund Allen (American 1894-1964)
“Spider Boy”, New York City Skyscraper, 1937
Etching, edition of 40
Signed lower right James Allen
10 3/4″ x 8″ plate size

Estimate: $1000 - $2000

Two: John James Audubon (American 1785-1851)
“White Weasel Stoat”, 1845
Hand-colored lithograph by John T. Bowen (American 1801-1865) plate LIX from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Imperial Bowen Edition.
21 1/2″ x 27″ sheet size
Provenance: Property from The Estate of Sally G. Chubb of Bernardsville, New Jersey
Condition: Light staining and foxing
“Little American Brown Weasel”, 1845
Hand-colored lithograph by John T. Bowen (American 1801-1865) plate LXIV from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Imperial Bowen Edition.
21 1/2″ x 27″ sheet size
Provenance: Property from The Estate of Sally G. Chubb of Bernardsville, New Jersey
Condition: Light staining and foxing

Estimate: $200 - $400

John James Audubon (American 1785-1851) and John Woodhouse Audubon (American 1812-1862)
“Yellow Bellied Marmot”,1848
Hand-colored lithograph by John T. Bowen (American 1801-1865) plate CXXXIV from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Imperial Bowen Edition.
21 1/2″ x 27″ sheet size
Provenance: Property from The Estate of Sally G. Chubb of Bernardsville, New Jersey
Condition: Light staining and foxing, tear to upper left corner

Estimate: $400 - $800

John James Audubon (American 1785-1851) and John Woodhouse Audubon (American 1812-1862)
“Caribou or American Reindeer”,1847
Hand-colored lithograph by John T. Bowen (American 1801-1865) plate CXXVI from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, Imperial Bowen Edition.
21 1/2″ x 27″ sheet size
Provenance: Property from The Estate of Sally G. Chubb of Bernardsville, New Jersey
Condition: Light staining and foxing, tear to upper left corner

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Farahan Sarouk Carpet
Early 20th Century

A Persian Farahan Sarouk carpet featuring a central medallion with pendants, surrounded by floral and scrolling vine motifs, in a palette of camel, navy, ivory, and pale blue. Multiple floral borders frame the field.
4′ 4″ x 6′
Condition: Wear and fading consistent with age and use; losses to fringe.

Estimate: $500 - $800

Lavar Kirman Throw Rug
4′ 2″ x 6′ 3″

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Kirman Throw Rug
4′ 4″ x 5′

Estimate: $300 - $500

Sivas Oriental Area Carpet
6′ 5″ x 9′ 8″

Estimate: $400 - $600

Northwest Persian Style Oriental Runner
A Persian-style wool carpet with an ivory ground and repeating floral motifs within a contrasting border. Traditional palette of rust-red, cream, and muted greens.
2’10” x 6′
Provenance: Property from a Prominent New York City Collector
Condition: Wear and toning consistent with age and use

Estimate: $200 - $400

Caucasian Rug
Late 19th – Early 20th Century
A Caucasian rug with geometric medallions and stylized floral motifs in shades of indigo, madder red, ivory, and pale blue. Multiple borders with latch-hook and diamond designs.
3’3″ x 5′
Provenance: Collection of Barbara Rothschild Michaels and Roger Michaels of New York City and Ossining, New York; many items passed through the family from the Estate of Herbert and Nannette Rothschild
Condition: Wear and fading consistent with age; areas of low pile and small losses to fringe.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Farahan Sarouk Carpet
Late 19th – Early 20th Century

A Persian Farahan Sarouk carpet with floral sprays on a blue field, framed by floral borders in camel, ivory, and indigo.
6′ 7″ x 10′ 3″
Condition: Considerable wear, fading, and areas of low pile; losses to fringe.

Estimate: $500 - $800

Agra Oriental Carpet
10′ x 16′
Condition: wear throughout, one side missing
Provenance: Collection of Barbara Rothschild Michaels and Roger Michaels of New York City and Ossining, New York; many items passed through the family from the Estate of Herbert and Nannette Rothschild

Estimate: $1500 - $2500

Persian Carpet
Size: 9 ft. 3 inches x 13 ft. 3 inches
Provenance: Property from a Prominent New York City Collector
Condition: Very good overall.

Estimate: $2000 - $4000

Handmade Wool Carpet
possibly Karabag kilim, with a cream ground decorated with a scrolling foliate border and an allover design of scattered rose and floral sprays in soft pinks, reds, greens, and golds. Framed with a Greek key outer border
8’5″ x 15′
Provenance: Property from a Upper East Side, New York City Apartment

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Persian Karaja Runner
Early 20th Century

A Persian Karaja runner, the gold ground with geometric medallions in rust, blue, and green, framed within multiple guard borders, the main border in blue with latch-hook motifs.

3′ x 11′
Provenance: Property from a Prominent New York City Collector
Condition: Even wear, scattered low pile, small losses to ends and selvedge.

Estimate: $250 - $450

Senneh Throw Rug
4′ 8″ x 6′

Estimate: $400 - $600

Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Teapot
Of globular form, painted in underglaze blue with children and attendants in a garden, mounted with a metal collar and overhead swing handle, raised on a carved hardwood stand. 18th century or later
height 3 3/4 inches, length 6 3/4 inches

Estimate: $200 - $400

Group of Chinese Porcelain and Snuff Bottles
Comprising a tall celadon-glazed vase with molded decoration, a copper-red glazed brush pot, a blue and white bowl, an iron-red glazed bowl, together with two porcelain snuff bottles—one painted with figural scene, the other with floral decoration.
height of vase 10 inches
Condition: Varying; celadon vase with minor firing imperfections, brush pot with interior staining, bowls with minor rim wear, snuff bottles in good overall condition

Estimate: $200 - $400

Chinese Porcelain Qianlong Brown Crackle Bowl
collection numbers 165 and 140 and written 9746
height 5 inches, diameter 6 3/4 inches
Provenance: Property of a Northeast Private Institution from the collection of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge

Estimate: $300 - $500