2025 Major Fall Chinese & Americana Auction

American Folk School (New England, 19th Century)
“Granite Camp on Pine Pond”
Depicting a New England granite quarry encampment, with a log cabin and canvas tents set among tree stumps at the forest edge. Groups of men and women are shown gathered around a campfire, engaged in work and social activity, painted in a naïve, documentary style characteristic of regional folk art.
Oil on canvas, H.Runels inscribed on frame
Titled lower left
18″ x 31″
Provenance: Property from a Essex, Connecticut estate

Estimate: $400 - $800

Two English Embroidered Slips
to include
18th century White Work Sampler in Hogarth Frame
10″ x 10″
Needlework embroidery samplers of bird, snail, figs
12″ x 20″

Estimate: $400 - $800

Warren & Gillet, with Additions by George Gillett “Map of Connecticut”
Hartford, Published by A. Willard, 1829
Connecticut from the Actual Surveys of Warren & Gillet, with the Addition of New Towns and Turnpike Roads by George Gillett Esq., 1829. The detailed map outlines towns, roads, rivers, and topographical features, with descriptive text blocks along the lower edge giving historical and geographical notes.
Map engraving
27″ x 23″
Provenance: Property from the Estate of Ross McKenzie long time 30 year employee of Clearing House Auction Galleries in Wethersfield, CT
Condition: Toned, darkened, with heavy overall creasing, cracking, stains, and losses; linen backed, mounted and framed.

Estimate: $200 - $400

Engraved Map by Thomas Jefferys and Maurille Antoine Moithe
Jefferys (English 1719-1771) and Moithe (French 1732-1810)
“Carte Nouvelle Des Possessions Angloises En Amérique Dressée pour l’Intelligence de la Guerre”, 1777
Engraved map with rococo cartouche, French text, outlining English possessions in North America, translated from Jeffreys’ original and corrected by Moithey, Géographe du Roi
21″ x 29″ sight size
Provenance:The Old Print Shop, New York City
Condition: Toning, light foxing, fold lines as issued; not examined out of frame.

Estimate: $800 - $1200

Penny-Farthing Bicycle Front Wheel
A large iron and wire-spoked front wheel from a penny-farthing bicycle, retaining remnants of its original rubber tire. Late 19th Century
Diameter approximately 50 inches
Condition: Surface rust and wear; tire perished; spokes with bends;

Estimate: $200 - $400

Child’s Surrey Tricycle Carriage, Signed Toledo, Late 19th / Early 20th Century
A Surrey-style tricycle carriage, with large spoked rear wheels, front tiller steering, and seat with backrest. Signed Toledo. Condition: no original paint remains, with surface rust and age wear throughout; one old repair; upholstery worn. height 31 inches, width 23 1/2 inches, wheel diameter 28 1/2 inches

Estimate: $400 - $600

Chinese Porcelain Cabinet Vase
19th/20th Century, A very small Chinese porcelain cabinet vase, decorated with scrolling green foliate designs on a black ground, with flaring rim and tapering body.
height 3 3/8 inches.
Condition: Very good overall with light surface wear.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Chinese Porcelain Brown Crackle Vase
underside having label “AD 959 1273”, Ming dynasty
height 5 1/2 inches
Provenance: Property of a Northeast Private Institution from the collection of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge

Estimate: $400 - $800

Chinese Porcelain Qianlong Grey Crackle Gallipot
having crackle glaze throughout, several collection stickers and number 8, Qianlong period
height 6 inches
Provenance: Property of a Northeast Private Institution from the collection of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge

Estimate: $300 - $500

20 Piece Group of Chinese Famille Rose Dinner Articles
19th century
pair of kidney-shaped plates, 11″
13 plates, 8″
5 sweet meat dishes, four matching mille fleur
Provenance: Property from a Upper East Side, New York City Apartment

Estimate: $400 - $800

Chinese Famille Rose Export Oval Footed Platter
Decorated in the famille rose palette with floral sprays and butterflies to the interior within a colorful border, the exterior with a unique continuous landscape of turquoise mountains, deer, and other animals
length 14 1/2 inches
Provenance: Property from a Upper East Side, New York City Apartment

Estimate: $300 - $500

Chinese Famille Rose “Ruby Back” Plate
Yongzheng style, featuring bird perched on a flowering peony branch against an unrolled scroll, framed by a hexagonal diaper border with floral medallions. The reverse entirely coated with aruby-pink enamel
diameter 9 inches

Estimate: $300 - $500

Three Famille Rose Porcelain Plates
to include finely enameled with central figures of mythic beasts, cow, dragons and butterflies, two shell plates, and kidney-shaped dish, 19th century
diameter 10 1/2 inches, 11 inches respectively
Provenance: Property from a Upper East Side, New York City Apartment

Estimate: $200 - $400

Famille Rose Jardiniere
with rounded inverted rim and well enameled with pink peony and drockery decoration, 19th century
height 13 inches, diameter 16 inches
Provenance: Property from a Upper East Side, New York City Apartment

Estimate: $800 - $1200

Group of Chinese Export Famille Rose Porcelain
18th Century

A group of Chinese export famille rose porcelain, including four plates, one bowl, and one octagonal platter, each decorated with floral sprays and polychrome enamel borders.

platter length 14 1/2 inches
Provenance: Property from The Estate of Sally G. Chubb of Bernardsville, New Jersey
Condition: Small rim chips and minor surface wear consistent with age and use.

Estimate: $300 - $500

Two Pink Peonie Decorated Bowls
to include one famille rose export punch bowl and one smaller bowl, both decorated with pink peonies, the punch bowl possibly painted in Europe, 18th century
diameter 13 1/2 inches and 8 1/2 inches respectively
Provenance: Property from a Upper East Side, New York City Apartment

Estimate: $300 - $500

Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain Models of Elephants
painted orange with well painted floral decorated saddle cloths on lime ground, red and blue saddles, carved wood stands, late 19th early 20th century
height 6 inches
Provenance: Estate of Nina Silberstein, former CEO of David Webb

Estimate: $1500 - $2500

Pair of Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Phoenix Figures
Each brightly enamelled in rose, turquoise, and yellow tones, modeled standing on rocky bases with applied lingzhi fungus mushrooms, their plumage finely detailed. Symbols of prosperity and virtue.
height 9 1/2 inches
Provenance: From a Park Avenue, New York Estate

Estimate: $300 - $500

Large Chinese Famille Rose Dragon Umbrella Stand
19th/20th Century
A large Chinese porcelain umbrella stand of cylindrical form, decorated in famille rose enamels with a three-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl amidst clouds on a yellow ground, the rim with a band of stylized lotus scrolls.
height 24 inches, diameter 9 3/4 inches
Condition: Very good overall with minor surface wear.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Two Pair of Chinese Porcelain Roosters
comprising four standing cockerels, two modeled in famille rose enamels with bold orange-red bodies and multicolored wings, the other two with pale celadon-glazed bodies and red combs, each perched on a naturalistic rocky base, 19th/20th century
white cockerels, 15.5″
famille rose cockerels, 14″
some chips and enamel loss to combs
Provenance: Property from a Upper East Side, New York City Apartment

Estimate: $400 - $800

Two Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Immortals Figures
A well-painted pair of porcelain figures, including a bearded figure of Shou Lao, god of longevity, depicted with long beard and turquoise-ground robe richly decorated in enamels, holding a child in red robe and a female figure likewise holding a child. Both richly enameled in the famille rose palette with turquoise grounds, floral motifs, and finely detailed robes highlighted with gilt, auspicious symbols of prosperity, fertility, and longevity
heights 25 inches, 21 inches

Estimate: $800 - $1200

Two Chinese Famille Rose Porcelain Immortals Figures
both female immortals, possibly He Xiangu, depicted carrying a basket of peaches, her robe richly decorated with multicolored floral and geometric patterns on a turquoise-ground along with figure holding a turquoise-glazed vase. Her hair is swept up into a high coiffure, adorned with a flower
height 24 inches, 22 inches

Estimate: $500 - $1000

Large Pair of Heavy Chinese Bronze/Brass Guardian Foo Dogs
having open mouths, pierced wings, and standing on claw paw feet
height 22 inches, length 20 inches
Provenance: Estate of Nina Silberstein, former CEO of David Webb

Estimate: $200 - $400

Pair of Chinese Table Screens with Reverse-Painted Panels
19th Century
A pair of Chinese table screens, each with reverse-painted panels depicting female figures in brightly colored robes holding scholarly objects, decorated on both sides. Set within carved hardwood stands with openwork aprons and scroll feet.
height 9 1/2 inches, screen size 5 3/8″ x 5 3/8″
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 paint losses to mirror surfaces; stands with minor age cracks and surface wear.

Estimate: $200 - $400

Japanese Satsuma Bowl
Meiji Period, Late 19th Century

A finely painted Japanese Satsuma bowl, the interior decorated with an elaborate figural scene of scholars and attendants in a pavilion and garden landscape, with gilt and polychrome detailing throughout. The exterior panels with alternating floral and figural reserves, all within gilt borders. Signed on the base in gold characters within a cartouche.

height 2 ½ inches, diameter 6 inches
Condition: Very clean condition with minimal wear.

Estimate: $500 - $1000