Sloans & Kenyons’ Feb. 3-5 auction highlighted by Chippendale sidechair from George Washington’s headquarters
January 31, 2006
CHEVY CHASE, Md. – Sloans & Kenyon Auctioneers and Appraisers’ first auction of 2006 takes place on Feb. 3, 4 and 5, and features over 1,400 lots of American, European and Asian furniture, paintings and sculpture, decorative arts, silver, estate jewelry, rugs and carpets. The three-day sale, estimated to gross in excess of $1 million, will feature live Internet bidding through LiveAuctioneers.com.
Highlights include:
* Ships In Storm Near Rocky Coast, by internationally acclaimed Russian maritime painter Ivan K. Aivazovsky, whose works are included in the permanent collections of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Est. $25,000-35,000
* An American Chippendale sidechair, 18th century, Boston. This chair is purportedly one from an original set of six loaned by William Greenleaf, High Sheriff of Suffolk County, to General George Washington's Revolutionary War headquarters from July 1775 until March 1776. Est. $12,000-18,000
* An exceptionally rare Chinese Anhua decorated bluish-white glazed porcelain bowl, with Emperor Jiajing’s six-character mark and of the period 1522-1566. Est. $5,000-6,000
* Will’s Song, a walnut sculpture by Mark Lindquist (American, b. 1949). Since the late 1960s, Mark Lindquist has been a pioneering force in the American Studio Crafts Movement. Instrumental in the development of new techniques and aesthetic concepts, Lindquist facilitated the growth of woodturning and sculpture worldwide. Est.. $5,000-7,000
* A pair of highly desirable George III Irish silver cups by Matthew West, Dublin, circa 1770. Est. $1,500-2,000
Sloans & Kenyon Auctioneers and Appraisers has recently sold property at auction from the Phillips Collection, Blair House Restoration Fund, Victorian Society in America, and Tudor Place (all Washington DC); Capricorn Galleries, the collections of actress Jane Withers, former American Ambassador to Thailand William Itoh, Senator Edward William Brooke (R- Massachusetts); and the estates of Baroness Garnet Von Stackelberg, Countess Adelaide D’Eudeville, and painter Pierce Rice (all Washington DC), among many other international notables.
View the fully illustrated catalog and bid absentee or live online through www.LiveAuctioneers.com.
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