NEWTOWN, Conn. – Fairfield Auction will conduct its next estate auction on Saturday, July 17, starting at 6 p.m. Eastern Time and featuring Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers.com. The evening sale will include some 300 lots of American and European furniture, fine art, jewelry, silver, carpets and accessories, with a special highlight being a Tiffany Studios leaded-glass Dragonfly lamp screen.
A virtually identical example of the Tiffany design is pictured in Alistair Duncan’s reference titled Tiffany Lamps and Metalware. Lamp screens were among the fancy goods offered for sale with Tiffany lamps. They were attached to a large lamp’s finial by chain and suspended below the shade.
Other 20th-century items to be auctioned include an L. & J.G. Stickley oak Morris chair, a collection of Maxfield Parrish prints, including large-folio Stars; vintage travel posters and a silver and bronze desk Art Deco desk clock by Eterna. A Hans Olsen breakfast set and Oscar Bach telephone stand will also be sold.
A large group of jewelry includes items from abandoned safety deposit boxes consigned by The Bank of New York, Mellon. Additionally, a group of silver dollars includes the rare 1893-S Morgan, estimated at $3,000-$5,000.
Furnishings are led by an excellent George III mahogany chest on chest with ogee feet. Additionally, a Regency mahogany dumbwaiter and a pristine Victorian papier-mache tilt table and side chair will be sold. A Louis Phillipe Lit d’Alcove, an impressive cast-iron hall rack and a French rosewood marquetry cylinder desk will also cross the auction block.
Artworks to be sold include three works by Ben Benn, including a large oil titled Bathers. Works by Gerrit Hondius, William Walls, Helen Hyde, Lawrence Mazzanovich and Karel Heymans, as well as signed prints by Norman Rockwell and Fairfield Porter will be offered, as well. An original illustration of Elvis Presley by C. Michael Dudash for T.V. Guide includes a copy of the published cover.
Other items of interest include a Remington rolling block carbine, a group of contemporary Kachina dolls including one by Shona Hah, more than 20 lots of estate silver, a 15-inch carved Maori figure and a group of vintage baseballs with signatures of famous Dodgers Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax, Gil Hodges, Jim Gilliam and more.
For additional information on any lot in the sale, call Fairfield Auctions at 203-364-1555 or e-mail jack@fairfieldauction.com.
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