Large Ewenny (Wales) sgrafitto puzzle jug, dated 1830. Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates image.
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.
ADDITIONAL LOTS OF NOTE
Large Ewenny (Wales) sgrafitto puzzle jug, dated 1830. Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates image. Rare pearlware pottery puzzle jug dated 1790. Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates image. Attractive Chinese export porcelain 18th century ‘Mandarin’ palette bowl from the collection of Lilian Galinsky. Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates image. Mason’s Ironstone dinnerware service, Chinoiserie decoration. Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates image. Haviland Limoges large vases, from the Estate Collection of Rudolf Evers. Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates image.
