Five Piece Decorative Grouping
to include marble urn, marble pillar, marble Geisha, along with two cement figures, one marked Henri Studio
tallest 24 1/2 inches
Large Decorative Grouping
to include Bombay silver plated hurricane montte vase, pair of Phillipe Chapin silver plated Adam and Eve figural stems, brass desk easel, four classical nude figures, bronze Buddha figure along with a set of six MacKenzies child caps
tallest 22 inches
Large Set of Noritake “Posay” Dinnerware
including dinner plates (diameter 10 1/2 inches), teacups, saucers, bowls, serving pieces, along with frosted hanging light
Two French Champleve Desk Articles to include
including a shaped enamel tray centered with allegorical scene depicting a reclining female figure attended by cherubs, within an elaborate scrolling border heightened with enamel and gilt; together with a rectangular inkwell tray, richly ornamented with blue and gilt champlevé panels and dragon figural handled inkwells
tray length 15 inches
Group of Nine Contemporary Planters to include
McCoy ceramics, Gold Imari baluster form green and gilt, pair of ivy motif planters, French jardiniere etc…
tallest height 9 inches
Provenance: Property from a Upper East Side, New York City Apartment
American Folk Art Cast-Metal Fox Weathervane
A leaping fox weathervane, cast body with detailed fur modeling, mounted on a later museum stand. Patinated surface with traces of old weathering, originally designed for rooftop display.
15″ x 32″ fox dimensions
Provenance: Property from a Essex, Connecticut estate
Condition: Wear, weathering, minor repairs to ears and legs; mounted on display stand
Five Box Lots of Miscellaneous Porcelain to include
Beatrix Potter figures, Lynne Chase cache pot with fish, pair ironstone Mason plates, Mason ironstone pitcher, Royal Crown Derby platters, Rosethenal cache pot, Spode teapot, etc…
tallest height 10 inches
Six Box Lots of Assorted Glassware
including examples by Tiffany & Co. and Waterford, Riedel, vases, pitchers, lidded jars, plates, stemware, and assorted tableware etc…
tallest height 12 inches
Provenance: Property from a Upper East Side, New York City Apartment
Three Box Lots of Porcelain Teacups and Saucers to include
Copeland Spode for Tiffany tea or coffee partial service, Royal Worcester “The Blind Earl” teacups and saucers along with Royal Bavarian
largest plate diameter 10 1/2 inches
Provenance: Property from a Upper East Side, New York City Apartment
Three Box Lots of Assorted Porcelain and Lusterware
including yellow lustreware cups and saucers, silver overlay pitcher (as is), lusterware pitchers, a covered porcelain centerpiece with jars, and milk glass, covered jars and egg cups
tallest height 8 1/2 inches
Provenance: Property from a Private Collection at 791 Park Avenue Designed by Cullman & Kravis, Inc
Four Box Lots of Partial Dinner Services to include
Franciscan “Desert Rose” teacups, saucers, bowls, dinner plates along with Minton floral pattern partial service
dinner plate diameter 10 1/2 inches
Provenance: Property from a Upper East Side, New York City Apartment
Six Box Lots of Haviland Limoges Assembled Dinner Service
in pink flower motif, to include, teacups, dinner plates, berry bowls, saucers, serving dishes etc…
longest platter 17 inches
Provenance: Property from a Upper East Side, New York City Apartment
Three Piece Furniture Lot
to include a pair of French style stools / benches, hall table
height 30 inches, hall table top 18″ x 60″, stools 16″ x 21″
Provenance: From a East Longmeadow, Massachusetts Estate
Andrew Watel (American 1955-2025)
“Caulk and Glue”, 1981
Pastel on paper
Signed and dated lower left AW’81
18″ x 26″
Provenance: Judith Christian Gallery, New York
Richard Haga (American 20th/21st Century)
“Figure VII”, 1988
Mixed media, aquatint etching
Signed and dated lower right Richard Haga 9/14/88
42″ x 30″ sheet size
Two: Robert Quijada (Mexican/American B.1935)
“Horizons I”, 1978
Aquatint etching, edition 24/40
Signed and dated lower right Robert Quijada 1978
34″ x 29 1/2″
“Horizons II”
Aquatint etching, artist proof edition
Signed and dated lower right Robert Quijada 1978
29 1/2″ x 34″
LeRoy Neiman (American 1921-2012)
“Celebrity Night at Spago’s,” 1993
Featuring Bob Hope, Billy Crystal, Sean Connery,Jeremy Irons, George Burns, Wolfgang Puck, Morgan Freeman, Michael Jackson, Gene Siskel, “Swifty” Lazar, Gregory Peck, Maggie Smith, Jack Nicholson, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, and Whoopi Goldberg
Serigraph, edition 267/600
Signed lower right LeRoy Neiman
27″ x 39″
Two: Reynard Milici (American B.1942)
“Sunday Sailing”, 1982
Pastel on paper
Signed and dated lower right R.Milici 82
17″ x 27″ sight
“Sailboats”, 1982
Pastel on paper
Signed and dated lower left R.Milici 82
12″ x 15″ sight
Approximately 26 Garden, Interior Design, and Decorative Arts Books
Including Orchids of Africa; Bentley Palmer, The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany; Stephen Calloway and Stephen Jones, Royal Style; English Country; Chris Giftos, A Bouquet from the Met; Assouline, Hamptons Gardens; The Country House Garden; Carolands; The Givenchy Style; The French Country House; The Finest Houses of Paris; Great Interiors; Frances Schultz, The Bee Cottage Story; Katya Galitzine, St. Petersburg: The Hidden Interiors; John Cornforth, The Inspiration of the Past; Picture Book of Britain; Diane von Furstenberg, The Table; Living in Amsterdam; California Country; Danielle Rollins, Soirée; Parish-Hadley: Sixty Years of American Design; For the King’s Pleasure; and Laura Ashley at Home.
Various authors and publishers, late 20th to early 21st century.
Group of Five Classic Novels / Books
to include Edgar Allan Poe “Tales of Mystery and Imagination” illustrated by Harry Clarke, Oliver Goldsmith’s “The Vicar of Wakefield” illustrated by Arthur Rackham, published by David McKay company, Philadelphia, Ernest Hemingway “Men at War” published by Crown Publishers, NY, 1942, A.J. Hanna’s “Flight into Oblivion” Johnson publishing company,1938, second edition, having signed front page by author, and Alfred Noyes’ “The Lord of Misrule and other Poems” published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, NY, 1915 along with letter signed by the author
Group of Leather Bound Backs
to include a 10 volume set of Pepys Diary and Correspondence, two copies of Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, and François Duhourcau L’enfant de la Victoire
Approximately 27 Interior Design, Garden, and Decorative Arts Books
Including David Hicks, On Decoration; American Elegance (Winterthur); Mac Griswold, Washington’s Gardens at Mount Vernon; The Royal Interiors of Regency England; Barons of Business; Alvise Zorzi, Venetian Palaces; House & Garden’s Best in Decoration; Celerie Kemble, Island Whimsy; Writers’ Houses; Slim Aarons, La Dolce Vita; An Irish House; Sixty Years of Interior Design; New York Apartments; The Finest Rooms in France; Christopher Petkanas, At Home in France; Châteaux en Europe; Private Paris; Vogue’s Book of Houses, Gardens & People; The Golden Age of Botanical Art; Irving Penn, Flowers; Bunny Williams, On Garden Style; Kenneth Turner, Flower Style; Collecting & Display; For the King’s Pleasure; and Laura Ashley at Home.
Various authors and publishers, mid- to late-20th century.
Approximately 29 Interior Design, Architecture, and Decorative Arts Books
Including Diane von Furstenberg, Beds; Irish Houses & Castles; Jack Basehart, Italian Splendor; Normandy; Fulvio Roiter, Venice; German Castles and Palaces; Painted Gardens; L’Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Design in France 1789–1989; The Vatican Collections; The New Tiffany Table Settings; At Home with Carolyne Roehm; Great Houses of Italy; Venetian Villas; John Stefanidis, Rooms (two volumes); Chronicles of the Crusades; The Last Courts of Europe; Brian Moynahan, The Russian Century; The Villas of Tuscany; Where Muses Dwell; John Loring, Tiffany Taste; The Photograph Collector’s Guide; Painters of the Humble Truth; Tiffany Parties; Breaking Ground; and Contemporary Botanical Artists: The Shirley Sherwood Collection.
Various authors and publishers, mid- to late-20th century.
Currier & Ives’ America Folio
edited by Colin Simkin. Large-format illustrated volume presenting a panoramic survey of mid-nineteenth-century American life through eighty full-color Currier & Ives prints, including scenes of daily life, transportation, industry, leisure, and historic events. With introductory text and commentary providing historical context for the celebrated lithographic firm’s output and influence on American visual culture. Published by Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1952. Lithographed in the United States and bound by George McKibbin & Son.
Hardcover, quarto/folio format.
Henry Alken (British, 1785–1851) A Collection of Sporting Designs, comprising a Variety of Entertaining Subjects, Folio
Folio volume containing thirty hand-colored engraved plates depicting a wide range of early 19th-century sporting and leisure subjects, including hunting, racing, shooting, and social caricature scenes, rendered with Alken’s characteristic wit and lively observation. The plates are finely engraved and hand colored, capturing the period’s sporting culture and manners with animation and detail.
London: Collected and published by Thomas McLean, Repository of Wit and Humour, Haymarket.
Folio.
Two Important Art Books/ Folio
Including Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890–1918), Watercolours and Drawings, selected and introduced by Erwin Mitsch, with a preface by Walter Koschatzky. Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1969, in association with Thames and Hudson, London. English-language limited edition of four hundred copies, the present example numbered A 108. Plates printed in Austria, text printed in Switzerland, and bound in Germany. Original linen-covered binding; wear consistent with age and handling.
Together with The Besler Florilegium: Plants of the Four Seasons, a large-format facsimile volume reproducing botanical plates from Basilius Besler’s celebrated 17th-century florilegium. Published by Harry N. Abrams. Illustrated throughout; boards with printed decoration; moderate wear to covers and edges.
Two-Volume Limited Edition Sporting Books: The Sporting Repository
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1904.
Handsomely produced two-volume set, illustrated by Henry Alken, John Thomas Barenger, Benjamin Marshall, and Dighton, containing essays, anecdotes, and commentary on early 19th-century sporting life, including horse racing, hunting, coursing, shooting, archery, cocking, pedestrianism, pugilism, and related pursuits.
This example is a limited edition on hand-made paper, No. 34 of only 50 copies, a particularly desirable issue distinguished from the standard trade edition. Illustrated throughout with fine plates after leading British sporting artists of the Regency period.
Sister Corita Kent (American, 1918–1986) Folio
Group includes an original Sister Corita Kent screenprint portfolio, “Sister Corita”, published by Pilgrim Press, Philadelphia/Boston, featuring bold graphic compositions with hand-lettered text and Pop-inspired imagery, together with the illustrated artist’s book “The Besler Florilegium: Plants of the Four Seasons” (Abrams), reproducing early botanical imagery admired for its influence on Corita’s visual language.
The Corita volume includes text by Harvey Cox and Samuel A. Eisenstein and documents Corita’s influential role at the intersection of Pop Art, social activism, and graphic design. The group reflects Corita’s ignature use of commercial typography, saturated color fields, and spiritually driven messaging.
Hardcover and portfolio formats; condition consistent with age and use, including edge wear, soft creasing, and handling marks
Dante Alighieri (Italian, 1265–1321) “The Comedy of Dante Alighieri”
(Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso)
Three-volume fine press edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy, translated into English unrhymed hendecasyllabic verse by Mary Prentice Lillie, published by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1958. One of 300 copies produced for the English-language edition. Printed with classic Grabhorn typography on fine paper, each volume presented in uniform cloth bindings with gilt spine lettering. Widely regarded as one of the most successful American fine-press interpretations of Dante, admired for its restrained design, scholarly translation, and craftsmanship.
John Stewart (British, 20th century) “Ten Photographs of Venice”, Folio
1983, limited edition photographic portfolio comprising ten black-and-white views of Venice, photographed during the first week of March 1983 using Hasselblad cameras and Ilford film. Printed on Argenta Superbro m paper. This portfolio is set number 7, from an edition of fifty boxed sets produced in support of the UNESCO campaign for the Safeguard of Venice. Each photograph is signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Accompanied by the original marbled paper portfolio and printed title page, together with an autograph letter signed by John Stewart discussing the presentation and assembly of the set. Published by Spark S.A., Geneva.
Approximately15 Art, Design, and Collecting Reference Books
Comprising a varied group of illustrated art and design volumes, including titles on modern and contemporary art, museum and private collections, decorative arts, and artists’ monographs, to include works on Diana Vreeland, Françoise Gilot, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Tamara de Lempicka, Miguel Barceló, Japanese art and collections, French decoration, and private and institutional collections, among others. Hardcover volumes, various publishers, late 20th century, some in original cloth or boards.
Nine Art and Design Coffee/ Table Books
Group of illustrated art books, including Diana Vreeland: The Modern Woman, Reimagined: 45 Years of Jewish Art by Mark Podwal, Françoise Gilot: Monographie 1940–2000, Ingres, Puccini, La Leopolda, Décoration de France à la Campagne, and An Artist’s Safari by Ralph Thompson. Hardcover volumes, various publishers including Rizzoli, Actes Sud, and Abrams, late 20th century.
Group of Approximately 9 Photography, Film & Design Books
to including Slim Aarons, Poolside with Slim Aarons; Studios by the Sea: Artists of Long Island’s East End; Kelly Klein, Pools; Dennis Hopper, 1712 North Crescent Heights; Richard Avedon, Avedon / Capote; Shots of Style; George Tice, Urban Romantic; American Album; and Automobiles and Automobiling, various publishers, late 20th century
Group of Approximately 12 Photography & Fashion Reference Books
to including William A. Ewing, Hoyningen-Huene; François-Marie Banier, Past Present; Harry Benson, People; Yul Brynner: Photographer; Lucien Clergue, Naissances d’Aphrodite; Snowdon; Ungaro; Assouline, Luxury of Space; François Baudot, The Allure of Women; Mathematicians; Skrebneski; and François Nars, X-Ray, various publishers, late 20th–early 21st century
Group of Approximately 15 Fashion, Music & Cultural History Books
to including New York Giants: Yesterday & Today; Assouline, Weddings of Style; Cole (Kimball/Gill); The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter; The New York I Love; On the Edge: Images from 100 Years of Vogue; Jean Pigozzi, A Short Visit to Planet Earth; The Inventors of Rail; The Films of Merchant Ivory; Directed by Vincente Minnelli; The World in Vogue; and Maura 33a, John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (Museum of Modern Art); Patrick McMullan, So80s: A Photographic Diary of a Decade; and Harry Benson, Persons of Interest, various publishers, 20th century
Elizabeth Butterworth (British, active late 20th century) Amazon Parrots
London, 1983. Deluxe limited-edition folio of paintings by Elizabeth Butterworth, with text by Rosemary Low, devoted to detailed studies of Amazon parrots. Issued by Rodolphe d’Erlanger / The Basilisk Press, London, and presented in the original red leather-covered portfolio, gilt- and blind-stamped to the cover and spine.
The folio includes the title page and plates printed on heavy paper. Basilisk Press publications are known for their high production quality and limited distribution, intended for collectors of fine illustrated books and natural history subjects.
Group of Approximately Eight Jewelry & Luxury Design Books
to including Assouline, Queens’ Jewels; Tiffany in Fashion; The Jewels of Jean Schlumberger; Moussaieff; Rizzoli, Fabergé; Le Temps de Cartier; Verdura: The Life and Work of a Master Jeweler; and Untamed, late 20th to early 21st century