Fine antique Japanese carved ivory tusk, signed by artist. Hess image.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Hess Fine Auctions will present their Summer Online Fine & Decorative Arts and Estate Properties Auction on Thursday, July 19, 2012, with Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers.com. Most of the lots in this exciting event will be offered with low or no reserve at all. The start time for the sale is 6 p.m. Eastern.
Auction highlights start with a 4-piece Ball, Tompkins & Black coin silver teaset by silversmith J.C. Moore. The set was crafted during Moore’s pre-Tiffany & Co. years. Another special piece is the exceptionally rare Art Deco American Flag pin sold by Bailey, Banks & Biddle, featuring rubies, diamonds and sapphires set in platinum.
Other key lots include: an antique Japanese signed carved ivory tusk depicting warriors hunting, a Wm. J. Hays 1862 Civil War-era Western painting of a buffalo from the artist’s early and acclaimed Native American series, and a Noel Georges BouvardVenice canal Impressionist oil with local estate provenance.
Additionally, the sale includes the Pine Ridge Black Hills Kyle, S.D., Sioux beaded clothing, jewelry and vintage photographs from the Estate of Painted Horn Eagle, the adopted name of Indian ethnologist William Edwards. A native of Pittsburgh, Edwards resided on the South Dakota reservation twice in the 1920s as a guest of White Buffalo.
Also in the auction lineup are: a selection of Old Master paintings, an icon collection, additional Art & Crafts period items, art pottery featuring important signed Rookwood, art glass and stained glass; and 19th-century ceramics. The list continues with postwar graphics and photography, additional Native American works, Canadian paintings, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist oils, WPA-era art, WWII militaria, early Chinese ceramics and jade, and two historic 19th-century music boxes, including one coin-op Regina with Brooklyn saloon provenance.
Art Deco artworks are represented by designs from Oscar Bach and Wiener Werkstatte. Also, there will be works by Hawaiian, Haitian, Mexican and Cuban artists, plus Italian and French sculpture, California and American Impressionist art; Western and cowboy art; American, French and German clocks, a decoy collection and Judaica.
The art section is complete with the addition of Picasso, Erte & Neiman graphics, Peter Max mixed-media compositions, Japanese and Vietnamese prints, Dutch and Danish paintings, and estate discovery artworks signed Mane-Katz and E. Othon-Friesz. Dozens of late additions will make the catalog well worth perusing.
For additional information on any item in the sale, call 727-896-0622 or e-mail rvan@hessfineauctions.com.
View the fully illustrated catalog and sign up to bid absentee or live via the Internet at www.LiveAuctioneers.com.
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ADDITIONAL LOTS OF NOTE
Fine antique Japanese carved ivory tusk, signed by artist. Hess image. 4-pc. Ball Tompkins & Black coin silver teaset by silversmith J.C. Moore, pre Tiffany. Hess image. Rare Bailey Banks & Biddle diamond and platinum American Flag pin. Hess image. William Jacob Hays Sr., 1862 Western painting of buffalo. Hess image. Noel Georges Bouvard, Venice canal oil painting with estate provenance. Hess image. Black Hills Sioux Plains beaded moccasins from the Estate of Painted Horn Eagle. Hess image.
