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Asheville, NC, United States
Auction Details
March Premier Auction: Day 2
Brunk Auctions
Session I
Friday, March 24, Auction begins 5:00 pm - lots 001 - 248
Session II
Saturday, March 25, Auction begins 9:00 am - lots 249-910
Our March 2017 auction is represented by a two day offering of a broad selection of consignments.
Featuring: The Estate of Marjorie and Charles West
The late Marjorie and Charles West of Atlanta, Georgia, established the West Foundation as a conduit of philanthropy through which their generosity to Georgia Institutions benefitted the High Museum with more than one hundred works of 19th century American Art and over forty examples of Neoclassical sculptures. Through their gift, the High Museum has one of the most significant holdings of Neoclassical sculpture in the United States. Mrs. West was also a discerning collector of Meissen ceramics and was a founding member of the Ceramic Circle in Atlanta.
Brunk Auctions is pleased to offer over eighty watercolors and fifty plus examples of American ceramics from the West collection. The watercolor collection broadly encompasses 19th century Hudson River School works, 20th century works by Thomas Hart Benton as well as two fine watercolors by contemporary artist Stephen Scott Young, one of which graces the front cover of the catalog. While this collection is primarily represented by American artists, it does include a few exceptions notably an important watercolor by Thomas Faed titled Sir Walter Raleigh and His Literary Friends at Abbotsford.
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![Five Rookwood Pottery Articles: Cincinnati, Ohio, 1906-1942, including baluster form vase with red and blue glazes and pine cones incised on neck, artist signed but indecipherable, 1906, 5-1/2 in., [good condition]; vellum glaze](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/33/101024/51562744_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1488822199)







![Four American Art Pottery Articles: early to mid 20th century, blue jar with round blue stamp (partially obscured) for Alabama pottery company [a few nicks on foot]; two Ohio jardinieres unmarked one slip-painted with flower, one with](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/33/101024/51562752_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1488822199)
![Group of Five American Tiles: American, two square low molded tiles of old man (unsigned) and beautiful woman (signed on reverse), 6 in., [some mounting cement, otherwise good]; one square molded Rookwood tile with shield, helmet](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/33/101024/51562753_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1488822199)



![John James Audubon: (New York, 1785-1851)American Avocet, Plate CCCXVIII, from [The Birds of America], London, 1827-1838, Havell edition,handcolored engraving with etching and aquatint on on wove paper with watermark](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/33/101024/51562757_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1488822199)
![John James Audubon: (New York, 1785-1851)Scolopaceus Courlan, Plate CCCLXXVII, from [The Birds of America], London, 1827-1838, Havell edition, handcolored engraving with etching and aquatint on on wove paper with](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/33/101024/51562758_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1488822199)
![John James Audubon: (New York, 1785-1851)Townsend's Sandpiper, Plate CCCCXXVIII, from [The Birds of America], London, 1827-1838, Havell edition, handcolored engraving with etching and aquatint on on wove paper with](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/33/101024/51562759_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1488822199)
![John James Audubon: (New York, 1785-1851)White Ibis, Plate CCXXII, from [The Birds of America], London, 1827-1838, Havell edition, handcolored engraving with etching and aquatint on wove paper with watermark for "J.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/33/101024/51562760_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1488822199)
![John James Audubon: (New York, 1785-1851)Kittiwake Gull, Plate CCXXIV, from [The Birds of America], London, 1827-1838, Havell edition, handcolored engraving with etching and aquatint on wove paper, 12-1/4 x 19-3/4 in.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/33/101024/51562761_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1488822199)
![After John James Audubon: (New York, 1785-1851)Blue Jay, published by Artistic Picture Publishing Co., 1943, after a plate in [The Birds of America], lithograph with hand-coloring on paper, 30 x 23-7/8 in.; gilt wood frame,.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/33/101024/51562762_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1488822199)
![John James Audubon: (New York, 1785-1851)Golden-Eye Duck, Plate CCCXLII, from [The Birds of America], London, 1827-1838, Havell edition, handcolored engraving with etching and aquatint on wove paper with watermark for](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/33/101024/51562763_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1488822199)
