WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – On Monday, April 22, and Tuesday, April 23, Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches Inc. will conduct their Spring Estates Fine Art and Antiques Auction. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.

The two-session auction with over 500 lots of estate consigned property from the Palm Beaches and South Florida will feature a blooming selection of fine art and antiques. Featured in the auction is a collection of antiques from a North Palm Beach Estate with Sporting Paintings and Mexican Colonial Fire Gilded Bronze Candleholders; a European Porcelain and Meissen Collection from a Hallandale Beach Estate; a Polish Art Collection from a Hollywood, Florida Gentleman; and a Boynton Beach Estate with a Fine Art, Antiques, and a Collection of Antique Stereo Viewers.

Each auction session will begin at 6 p.m. EDT.

Highlights in the sale include Chinese and Japanese antiques to include jade, ivory, horn, porcelains, and coral carvings. Of note is Lot 448, a large pair of cloisonne vases decorated with white lotus flowers on branches, having four character marks with imperial inscriptions in reserves. Additionally, Lot 193, the Chinese Celadon jade ting, is extensively carved with fine piercing and a dragon finial and Lot 106, a large white coral carving of five quan-yin figures. Both are exemplary in quality and execution. Two Japanese okimono ivories, Lots 392 and 393, Meiji period, are noted for their fine detail and large in size with intricate carved details to the figures.

From the North Palm Beach Estate is Lots 338 and 405. Both are attributed to Manuel Tolsa, a Spaniard who went to Mexico in 1791 and was a neo-classical architect and sculptor. Tolsa is responsible for finishing the cupola and façade of the Cathedral of Mexico City in 1813 and for producing furniture and adornments for altars, including these two pairs of 19th century ormolu bronze candleholders. Each is illustrated and documented in the book, Los Artes Industriales en la Nueva Espana, 1928. The book will accompany the sale of the candleholders.

The auction has a wide and varied selection of antiques including Lot 114, a Rene Lalique “Salmonides” vase, circa 1932, 11 1/2 inches high; Lot 375, a 19th century Sebastian Erards, London classical harp; a collection of Meissen figures and groups with Lot 413, a group of six figures gardening will be featured. The auction will also include many bronzes by J.-P. Aube, After F. Botero (eight), After G. Coustou, V.D.F. de Brousse (two), E. Drouot, G. Guesnet, R. Joanny, E.A. Lanceray, R. Leight, J.E. Masson, after P.J. Mene and after F. Remington.

Most interesting, is Lot 201, a pair of French Empire-style 19th century twin beds. Each is stamped in numerous places on the rails by Jacob Jeanselme. The beds with scrolled headboard are ormolu mounted with finely cast anthemia, rinceaux, masks and chariots. Also, Lot 200, a pair of French Empire-style late 19th century mahogany commodes is embellished with ormolu mounts and is of fine quality.

The auction has a very special and unusual lot. Lot 469 is a large Italian marble sarcophagus, after the antique, of a bacchanal with Bacchus and followers dancing. The sarcophagus has an inscription celebrating Pope Urbanos 12 year jubilee in the year 1625 and an additional inscription in the 19th century. The sarcophagus has been repaired but is remarkably intact with robust sculpting to the large size figures. The estimate is $40,000-$60,000 and should bring considerable interest for its rarity and uniqueness.

There is a large selection of American, European, and Asian paintings and prints, including Lot 477, a Guy Wiggins painting of Fifth Avenue, New York City; Lot 476, a Karel Appel painting with Christie’s provenance; and Lot 442, a romantic painting by Italian artist Antonio Paoletti of Young Fruit Sellers in Venice.

For information, details, and condition reports contact the gallery.

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MT. Crawford, Va. – Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates will hold its first specialty auction of 18th and 19th century American, English, Continental, Asian pottery and porcelain on Wednesday, April 24, starting at 9 a.m. EDT. LiveAutioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.

The sale includes material of interest to a wide group of collectors, whether of English Imari; Vieux Paris (Old Paris) figural and vase forms; teawares or Chinese Export porcelain.

The sale includes a group of English and Continental puzzle jugs, from a New York private collection. Puzzle jugs are designed as playful ceramics, with a “secret” way to drink the beverage within the vessel without spilling its contents on the partaker. There are 18th, 19th and 20th century examples in the auction from Portugal, France, England and Wales. The largest example is from Ewenny in Wales, and sgrafitto-decorated to commemorate “Mary Morgans ounr [sic] Thomas Thyr meker [sic]; the lower body under the handle dated “june 19/1830.” The jug is estimated to $1,200-$1,800. The rarest is an English pearlware pottery jug with an applied winged figure of Fame, dated 1790, one of four known examples of this type. (estimate: $ 800-$1,000).

Among the fine Chinese Export wares is a Mandarin palette large bowl, decorated with finely enameled figures on a mosaic-patterned ground. Dating to the 18th century, the bowl is expected to realize $1,000-$1,500. It is one of many items being sold from the personal collection of Long Islander Lillian Galinsky. The Galinsky home was lined with glass cabinets loaded with porcelain and glass, virtually all of which is to be sold at Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates over a span of several months. The glass will be offered in sales in May and September, the 20th century ceramics in a sale in October. Mrs. Galinsky’s long history as a dealer is continuing, but at a slower pace than previously.

Among a large selection of English porcelain, there are several offerings of 18th century Liverpool, Worcester, Caughley, as well as large group of cobalt-blue ground 19th century wares from Coalport, Spode, Ridgway, etc. Continental wares from Nymphenburg, Paris, Vienna are also included in the auction.

Property from a distinguished Long Island collector, who amassed a wonderful collection of Imari-decorated 19th century dinnerware, will also be auctioned. Among the highlights of this part of the sale, a group of Mason’s Ironstone dinnerwares with a deep ground and bright enamels in Chinese-style, is expected to realize $800-$1,200. This is but one of many ironstone lots in the auction.

A pair of large Haviland and Co., Limoges porcelain vases from the Rudolph Evers Estate Collection is expected to realize $1,200-$1,800. The Rococo Revival vases are of a type of garniture vase made to display on a mantel. Haviland made such wares in France for the American market, and date to the late 1850s-1860s. The vases, each decorated with large, gilt foliate handles, are finely painted with views inspired by Old Master paintings of courtiers and princesses.

The sale also includes a collection of parian porcelain from the estate of Herbert Mitchell, former archivist of Columbia University’s Avery Library; ceramics de-accessioned from the Reeves Collection at Washington & Lee University and sold to benefit the acquisitions fund; American-interest Staffordshire transferware from a Callifornia collection; a selection of Japanese ceramics from the estate of Beate Sirota Gordon; and Chinese Export porcelain from the Veronica “Ronnie” Riefler Strathmann estate.

Jill Fenichell is the new ceramics specialist hired by Jeffrey S. & Beverley Evans. Surrounded by the nearly 400 lots in the ceramics sale, she said, “I’m excited about this auction which includes such a varied range of material. For the last 10 years, the market has been in a state of flux, dominated by generational shifts and the movement away from decorating with ceramics as compared to buying researchable archaeological finds. I hope to help collectors realize you can still buy gorgeous things; old things and rare things and utilize them as you see fit. This auction reaches out to appeal to collectors of all kind of porcelain, from the plainest to the richest; from the mid-18th century forward. All of the material being offered has been in private collections for years, and that always means there will be some surprises on auction day.”

For further information about this auction, please call 540-434-3939.

View the fully illustrated catalog and register to bid absentee or live via the Internet as the sale is taking place by logging on to www.LiveAuctioneers.com.

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