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NEW YORK – Three exceptional George II-period chairs lead the line in the Thursday, January 25 Old Masters, English & Continental Furniture auction at Doyle. They are among the English furnishings from the Manhattan Upper East Side apartment of Wall Street research analyst Gerard Manolovici (1937-2020). There are 23 lots from the estate in this sale, with paintings and Asian works of art to be included in subsequent auctions.

A circa-1735 armchair attributed to the London cabinetmaker Giles Grendey (1693-1780) is considered one of the great models of the period. It has a shell-carved crest rail, arms with lion head terminals, and cabriole legs with shell-carved knees and claw-and-ball feet. Several examples from a once large and impressive set are known, including the celebrated chair from the Percival Griffiths collection, now in the Bryan collection in Illinois. Doyle’s chair is stamped I, with the Bryan chair numbered XIII. It is estimated at $40,000-$60,000.

A single George II walnut side chair after a similar muscular Grendey model is estimated at $30,000-$50,000. It is one of two chairs in the Manolovici dispersal previously in the great English furniture collection formed by Samuel Messer. Heeding the advice of the authority Robert Wemyss Symonds, both were acquired by Messer in the 1950s and sold as part of Christie’s sale of his collection in 1991.

This period of English furniture also ushers in the age of mahogany and the English rococo. Also with a Messer provenance is a mahogany armchair dating to circa 1750 with an elegant ‘French’ serpentine frame, estimated at $40,000-$60,000. The maker is unknown, but the design is among those that feature in the eight Books of Ornament published annually in London from 1741 by William de la Cour (1700-1767). Again, the chair was once part of a larger set; other examples were sold at Christie’s in both New York and London in 2006, hammering for $150,000 and £72,000 (roughly $91,200) respectively.

Thirteen lots of French faïence from the estate of Sidney R. Knafel are being sold to benefit the Detroit Institute of Arts. Knafel collected for close to 50 years, assembling the collection of tin-glazed earthenware illustrated in the 2016 reference book French Faience: The Sidney R. Knafel Collection.

Particular high points are a charming pair of 18th-century Marseille duck-form tureens and covers naturalistically modeled, colored as a male and female, and estimated at $30,000-$50,000; and a massive Nevers wine cistern decorated with mythological scenes and estimated at $10,000-$15,000. It was fitted with a pewter mask-head spigot at a later date, probably because at 22in high it was simply too heavy to pour.

The sale is preceded on Wednesday, January 24 by a Doyle auction of Fabergé & Vertu and English & Continental Silver. Of particular note is a Fabergé hardstone carving of a donkey worked in agate with diamond-set eyes. The 2in (5cm) model is a copy of another made in chalcedony in the Royal Collection, ordered by King Edward VII from Fabergé’s London shop in 1907 as part of the renowned Sandringham Commission. At the turn of the century, an Italian donkey was kept at Sandringham, the royal residence in Norfolk, and used by the young princes and princesses to draw a carriage. Offered in the original fitted wood case, the Fabergé donkey figure is estimated at $10,000-$15,000.

A pair of William IV wine coolers dating to 1834, with marks for the royal goldsmith Benjamin Smith of London, has been consigned from ‘the collection of an international multi-generational family’ with an estimate of $20,000-$30,000. The campana-form model on the theme of wine includes grape clusters and handles modeled as vine branches, with this pair engraved with the arms of the Ald family.
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George II walnut armchair attributed to Giles Grendey, estimated at $40,000-$60,000 at Doyle New York.
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George II mahogany rococo armchair, estimated at $40,000-$60,000 at Doyle New York.
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George II walnut side chair attributed to Giles Grendey, estimated at $30,000-$50,000 at Doyle New York.
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Pair of Marseille tureens and covers modeled and colored as male and female ducks, estimated at $30,000-$50,000 at Doyle New York.
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Nevers wine cistern decorated with mythological scenes, estimated at $10,000-$15,000 at Doyle New York.
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Fabergé agate model of a donkey with diamond-set eyes, estimated at $10,000-$15,000 at Doyle New York.
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Pair of William IV silver wine coolers by Benjamin Smith, estimated at $20,000-$30,000 at Doyle New York.
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