ALAMEDA, Calif. – Michaan’s presents an exciting new addition to its auction lineup with an Oct. 11 Arts and Crafts Auction. The sale will encompass furniture, artwork, lighting, decorative objects, rugs and textiles in an over 400-lot sale. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.

Prominent manufacturer names represented in the auction include Stickley, Roycroft, Limbert, Arequipa, Shreve & Co., Tiffany Studios and Caledonia Studio will be included.

Collections of American art pottery are also handsomely represented, with over 30 available lots from Rookwood, over 50 from Roseville and over 10 from Weller. Multiple offerings will also be presented from Grueby, Newcomb and Fulper among a varied catalog of American pottery artists.

Perhaps the most iconic piece of the sale is a Forbes chair, to be offered as lot 3121 at an estimate of $3,000-$5,000. The chair is considered to be the first Arts and Crafts furniture piece made in the United States. It is also understood to have spawned the Arts and Crafts movement as we know it. The prototype for the Forbes chair was a collaboration of at least six artists including Joseph Worchester, A.J. Forbes, A.C. Schweinfurth and Bernard Maybeck. Commissioned for the Swedenborgian Church in San Francisco, the simple, handmade maple chairs showcase rush seats and flared feet. Manufacturer A.J. Forbes produced the first of the chairs in 1894 for the church. It would become a defining piece for all Mission-style furniture to follow, including the well-known designs of Gustav Stickley and many others.

The estate of Mr. Francis Marion Smith (1846-1931) brings an Arthur Mathews sheet music cabinet to auction (lot 3079, $180,000-$200,000). Smith was a California and Nevada entrepreneur who discovered borax, thus establishing the Pacific Coast Borax Co. Smith’s luxurious Oakland estate, known as Arbor Villa, was featured in The Art of Arthur and Lucia Mathews, where the music cabinet was documented in the drawing room. The cabinet features three hand-painted panels of ladies enjoying various leisure activities. The panels are flanked by a pair of carved front facing angels, further accented by scrollwork. The cabinet’s main compartment opens to reveal music sheet storage shelves, with a single pull out drawer directly below. Standing upon four raised feet each measuring approximately 10 1/2 inches in height, the entire cabinet measures approximately 39 1/2 inches in height. The piece remains in excellent condition along with its original patina.

Another exceptional furniture lot in the sale is found in a Maybeck Library table
 (lot 3106, $15,000-$18,000). Designed by architect Bernard Maybeck for Andrew Lawson in 1907, the table has descended through the family from the Andrew Lawson House in Berkeley, Calif. Maybeck designed very few furniture pieces in his career, making them rare and important as well as scarcely available to the public at large. This white oak table features signature Maybeck design elements such as a slot dovetail tabletop and tapered legs with Mackmurdo feet. The design is both simple and elegant, with arguably perfect proportions measuring approximately 66 x 42 x 30 inches. The top has been expertly repaired and refinished, seamlessly matching the piece’s original base and drawer.

A remarkable Dirk van Erp and Thomas Gotham copper table lamp highlights the offered lighting (lot 3123, $17,000-$20,000). The van Erp-designed copper accents feature repeating cutout oak tree motif decorations upon the approximate 19-inch-diameter mica shade. Yet another copper oak tree cutout is prominently displayed as the shade’s finial. The lamp’s porcelain body is a brown glazed Thomas Gotham creation, beautifully decorated by cascading, flowering pale pink crystals. The entire piece sits upon a hammered copper base, creating a standing height measurement of approximately 28 inches. The lamp was commissioned for renowned San Francisco architect Charles F. Strothoff in 1923, remaining by descent through the family to the present owner.

Bidding will commence at 10 a.m. For general information phone 510-740-0200 ext. 0 or e-mail info@michaans.com.

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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DEDHAM, Mass. – Grogan and Company has announced their fall auction will be a two-day affair held over Columbus Day weekend, Oct. 13 and 14. The auction is composed of a large selection of fine art, jewelry, silver, furniture, decorative works of art, and rugs from various collections and estates throughout New England.

LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.

The jewelry is set to take center stage with an impressive selection of rings, brooches and bracelets from several prominent collections.

“We are so pleased to have our daughter, Lucy, join us to expand the jewelry department, said Nancy Grogan, vice president. “I believe this is the largest assemblage of jewelry that Grogan and Company has put on the block in our 25 year history.”

One of the cornerstones of Sunday’s session is a collection of jewelry descended within the family of 19th century New York socialite, Adelaide Downey Hastings. Hastings was the daughter of John Downey, master builder for the Astors. Highlights include a platinum, diamond, and sapphire bracelet, bearing an $8,000-$12,000 estimate, and a Black Starr & Frost platinum, diamond and fancy yellow diamond ring, estimated to bring $10,000-15,000. An 18K yellow and white gold and diamond brooch from the collection of turn-of-the-century Chicago socialite Mrs. Everts Wrenn is expected to fetch $10,000-$15,000, while an Italian 18K rose gold and micromosaic bracelet, attributed to the Vatican school of mosaics from the latter part of the 19th century, is estimated at $2,000-$3,000.

The auction will begin with a selection of over 130 paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture. Highlights include a Venetian canal scene by American Impressionist and Massachusetts native, John Leslie Breck. Breck created the oil on canvas while in Venice in 1897, a decade after he was introduced to and painted with Claude Monet in Giverny. The painting, which bears a $20,000-$30,000 estimate, was originally acquired from the artist by a Massachusetts lady and has descended in the same family since the turn of the century.

Four recently discovered works by Alexander Calder from a Cambridge friend of the artist will be featured among the contemporary offerings. An untitled gouache of spirals and moons, created in 1949, bears a presale estimate of $20,000-$30,000.

An impressive site to behold is a set of five oil on canvas panels depicting Christ with the Four Evangelists, created in 1898 by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co. of New York. The set, which is estimated at $5,000-$10,000, stands at approximately 100 inches tall and once graced the former Mount Vernon Church in Boston. The panels were fortunately removed from the church in the mid-20th century before the church burned to the ground in the late 1970s. The Tiffany Glass Co. was reestablished as the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co. in 1892.

European highlights include a striking oil on canvas, View of Paris, by venerated French postcubist painter Claude Venard. Venard was a member of the Forces Nouvelles, an artistic movement born in 1936 that rejected Impressionism, Cubism and Surrealism. The colorful and graphic 38-by-51-inch oil is estimated at $15,000-$25,000.

Sunday’s session will end with a selection of fine silver, including a rare Georg Jensen silver swan bonbonniere designed by Johan Rohde, estimated at $1,500-$2,500; an S. Kirk & Son silver presentation ewer estimated at $3,000-$5,000; and an extensive assemblage of Gorham flatware in the Versaille pattern estimated at $6,000-$10,000.

Monday’s auction of furniture, decorative work of art, and Oriental rugs features a circa 1790 Aaron Willard mahogany tall-case clock with revolving moon phase dial and original fretwork. The clock hails from a prominent Nantucket family and once belonged to 19th century whaling ship captain Prince William Ewer. Ewer’s portrait, which will be sold on Sunday, as well as that of his son Albert, are attributed to James Hathaway, Nantucket’s preeminent portraitist from 1832-1852. A collection of fine furniture from a New York lady features a fine Regency carved rosewood and brass credenza, estimate $7,000-$10,000 and a Regency mahogany inlaid leather top center table, estimated at $5,000-$7,000. History buffs will delight in a 1794 shipping document bearing the original signature of President George Washington, as well as his secretary of state, Edmund Randolph.

The sale will be conducted in two sessions with the fine art, jewelry, and silver to be sold on Sunday, Oct. 13, and furniture, decorative works of art, and Oriental rugs to be sold on Monday, Oct. 14. Both sessions begin at 12 noon Eastern.

For details call 781-461-9500.

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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SANTA FE, N.M. – The Judgment of Paris, an extraordinary original oil on pounded copper by a colleague of Peter Paul Rubens, is one of the premier works in an auction Oct. 13 to be conducted by Art VIP Charity Auction House. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding for the auction of more than 425 works of art.

The Judgment of Paris, a story from Greek mythology, has been depicted by many artists. Rubens’ original Judgment of Paris is in the National Gallery Museum in London. The work to be sold by Art VIP Charity Auction House was painted in the 1600s in Antwerp. Experts don’t believe Rubens painted this version; rather it was done by a colleague or another notable artist, such as Willem van Herp, Victor Wolfvoet or Franz Wouters. It is likely this piece was painted for the export market in Spain in the 1600s. Documentation on this special piece comes from Sotheby’s and a Rubens expert. The painting is estimated at $35,0900-$40,000. The starting bid is $13,500.

Additional highlights include:

– Lot 674: Autumn Leaves by Michael Schofield (Florida, b. 1947), original oil on board, approximately 29 x 40 inches.

– Lot 679: Animaux Fabuleaux by Franz Marc (German, 1880-1916), limited edition giclee on archival heavy paper, approximately 20 x 24 inches.

– Lot 136: Iron Man by Alan Aldridge (British, b. 1943), artist proof, limited edition hand-signed and numbered giclee edition on paper. Aldridge currently resides in Los Angeles. During the 1960s and 1970s he was responsible for many Beatles and Elton John album covers. He helped create the graphic style of that era. His work is characterized by a flowing, cartoony style and soft airbrushing, very much in step with the psychedelic styles of the times.

– Lot 118: Tuscan Terrace by Arina, original oil on canvas, 28 x 32 inches. Arina was born in Russia and earned a master’s in fine arts from the prestigious St. Petersburg University. She resides in the U.S. is a full-time artist and occasional art teacher. Her works are in private collections throughout the world.

For more information contact Debbie at 505-453-6122 or email GreatDeals@gmail.com.

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.

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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OXFORD, Mich. – On Oct. 12, Midwest Auction Galleries will be offering a rare copy of an 1868 Absaraka Home of the Crows book signed by the author, “Mrs. Colonel (C)arrington, 18th Infantry U.S. Army.” The book recounts the experience of an officer’s wife on the Plains.

LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding.

Highlights of the sale also include a first edition of Mark Twain’s 1883 book Life on the Mississippi, a 1924 Washington Senators signed World Series champions baseball, a Babe Ruth signed letter with envelope, a nice collection of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia including a signed latter and movie posters including Some Like It Hot.

The auction of over 500 lots will start at 10 a.m. Eastern

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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NEW YORK – On Thursday, Oct. 10, Love at First Bid will conduct its fall auction of fine art, objects of vertu, fine and costume jewelry, a small but choice group of antiquities and Asian carvings, as well as vintage fashion, accessories and vintage designer clothing. LiveAuctioneers.com will provide Internet live bidding for the 352-lot auction, which begins at 11 a.m. Eastern.

Love at First Bid describes the auction as having “wonderful pieces from the estates of two great ladies:” Danna Lamberg, 880 Fifth Avenue, and Raleigh Chaffee Cox, 96th Street, New York.

Featured works of art include Calypso Pour Madame by Orville Bulman, which was purchased at Grand Central Gallery in New York, and Greenwich Village Scene by Peter Hayward. A dated 1996 work by Peter Max will also be offered.

Jewelry and accessories by Tiffany & Co., Gucci, Hermes Paris, Kieselstein-Cord, Miriam Haskell, Trifari, Kenneth Jay Lane and Yves Saint Laurent will be offered.

A rare ceramic vase by James Tower will also be sold.

Clients and customers will be welcomed at Love at First Bid’s new location, 3 Columbus Circle, 15th Floor, in New York City. For details phone 212-262-8001.

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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