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Lot# 12
West Papua, Indonesia.
With reptile skin drum head the body with handle and incised decoration.
With Xanadu Tribal Arts retail tag.
Approximate dimensions: 16 3/4 high x 6 wide x 5 1/8 inches deep..
Condition: Some loss to the drum head. Two vertical cracks to the lower half of the body.
Estimate: $300 - $400
Lot# 16
West Africa.
Nude male and female figures.
With Xanadu Artifacts and Tribal Arts retail tag.
Approximate dimensions: Similar in size, 19 3/4 inches high..
Condition: Surface wear and patina. Feet with later metal lined holes to accommodate stands.
Estimate: $600 - $700
Lot# 18
Central Africa.
Depicts a standing nude male figure.
Xanadu Artifacts and Tribal Art retail tag.
Approximate dimensions: 25 high x 8 wide x 7 1/2 inches deep..
Condition: Surface wear and patina throughout. Vertical crack to the neck.
Estimate: $400 - $500
Lot# 20
West Africa.
Female torso on a cone form base.
With Xanadu Artifacrts and Tribal Art retail tag.
Approximate dimensions: 24 1/2 high x 8 5/8 wide x 7 5/8 inches deep..
Condition: Surface wear and patina throughout. Vertical crack to the chest.
Estimate: $350 - $450
Lot# 21
West Africa.
Carved wood handle with figural finial mounted with bronze the whisk portion appears to be warthog hair on a custom black metal stand.
With Xanadu Tribal Arts retail tag.
Approximate dimensions not including stand: 23 1/2 inches high..
Condition: Overall wear and patina consistent with tribal use.
Estimate: $300 - $400
Lot# 24
Rwanda, Central Africa.
Cane, reeds, and grass tall slightly curved form with zig-zag motif on a custom black stand.
Approximate dimensions not including stand: 59 1/4 high x 20 1/4 inches wide..
Condition: Some fraying and breaks to the edges.
Estimate: $700 - $800
Lot# 26
West Africa.
Depicts a male figure seated on a stool with leather cap and necklace with medallion on a black laminate wood base.
With Folk Art International retail tag.
Approximate dimensions not including base: 21 high x 7 1/4 wide x 7 inches deep..
Condition: Significant wear and loss to leather elements. Some vertical cracks to stool and figures body. Patina and surface wear throughout.
Estimate: $400 - $500
Lot# 29
Puka shell eyes accented with red and blue pigment with custom black metal stand.
With Xanadu Gallery retail tag.
Approximate dimensions not including stand: 9 3/4 high x 9 1/2 wide x 23 3/4 inches deep..
Condition: Significant surface wear throughout includes cracking near the nose. Minor chip losses to mouth. Fading to the pigment.
Estimate: $400 - $500
Lot# 30
West Africa.
Carved wood mask depicting human face vertical and horizontal crests to the head on a custom black metal stand.
Approximate dimensions not including stand: 12 high x 8 1/2 wide x 6 inches deep..
Condition: Surface scuffs and chips throughout reveals light wood beneath the dark patina. Holes drilled in ears, one ear with loss.
Estimate: $350 - $500
Lot# 32
East Africa.
On custom black metal stands.
Approximate dimensions not including stands: 63 - 65 1/4 high x 26 1/4 - 14 inches wide..
Condition: Sticks are polished and smooth from general use.
Estimate: $250 - $400
Lot# 86
Depicting The Virgin mother holding Christ in a carved architectural surround Christ with a silver oklad halo thinges to either side would indicate this was the center panel of a triptych.
Approximate dimensions: 13 high x 7 3/4 inches wide..
Condition: Previous insect damage throughout. Fading and paint loss. One hinge is missing.
Estimate: $400 - $600
Lot# 87
Depicts the Holy Mother holding Christ whos holding a globus cruciger, flanked by two saints, wit three saints below in a gilt frame.
Approximate dimensions not including the frame: 11 7/8 high x 8 1/4 inches wide..
Condition: Some surface wear and light paint loss. The piece has not been inspected outside of the frame.
Estimate: $500 - $1000
Lot# 175
(French, b. 1953)
Port de Dieppe, Normandie,
oil on canvas,
canvas: 40 x 30 inches, framed: 41.5 x 31.5 inches
signed lower right, signed and titled verso,
Estimate: $500 - $700
Lot# 186
(American 20th century)
Untitled outdoor scene,
oil on masonite,
10.25 x 8 inches overall with frame: 18.375 x 16.25 inches,
signed lower right: Lesley Rich.
Estimate: $200 - $300
Lot# 191
(American 1924-1985)
Jockey in Action,
Oil on canvas
including thin frame: 72 3/4 x 60 5/8 inches
signed and dated verso: Julius Wasserstein 85
(small rip lower left quadrant)
Estimate: $200 - $300
Lot# 205
(French 1882-1963)
Feuillage Noir, 1956
etching on Arches paper,
sheet: 26.25 x 19.75 inches (unframed)
unsigned and unnumbered blind stamp to the sheet in the lower left from printer Crommelynck and Dutrou Paris Atelier Crommelynck Presses Dutrou Paris.
Provenance: From the estate of Flia Lal (the director of Les Bibliophiles de lUnion Francaise publishers), given to the family of the current owner by Lal upon her death and passed down through descent to the current owner
Literature: Vallier, 106
Estimate: $400 - $600
Lot# 213
(American, 1856 - 1937)
The Christian Science Mother Church, Boston, MA,
lithograph in colors
sight: 15 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches frame: 23 1/4 x 19 5/8 inches
plate signed lower right,
Gumps San Francisco label verso
Estimate: $200 - $300
Lot# 213
Estimate: $200 - $300
Lot# 215
(Japanese 1876-1950)
Chionin Temple Gate, 1935 (from Eight Scene of Cherry Blossom)
woodcut,
sheet: 11 x 16 inches overall with mat: 15.125 x 20 inches,
signed in pencil in the margin lower right: Hiroshi Yoshida and titled in pencil lower left: Chionin Temple Gate with self-printing stamp in the margin with artist seal in the lower right corner of the print.
Kabutoya Galleries Inc, San Francisco CA stamp lower right on the mat
Estimate: $300 - $400
Lot# 215
Estimate: $300 - $400
Lot# 227
(American b. 1938)
East Friesland, German 1993
gelatin silver print,
image: 19 x 19 inches sheet: 20 x 24 inches overall with frame: 29 x 28.5 inches,
signed on print verso with artists negative 6-93-38-1, edition 12/15, published poetics of Place, page 63,
Provenance: from the artist to Scheinbaum Russek LTD, purchased from the gallery by the current owner.
Estimate: $500 - $700
Lot# 233
(American 1928-1987) and (American 1960-1988)
Tony Shafrazi Bruno Bischofberger, New York
Magazine advertisement.
Sheet: 16 5/8 x 10 3/4 inches.
Signed in marker Andy Warhol above his image and by Jean- Michel Basquiat in his image.
Notes: Advertisement printed in 1985 for their joint art exhibition.
Estimate: $1000 - $1500
Lot# 339
Featuring one rectangular-cut aquamarine weighing approximately 5.95 cts., set in a 14k white gold open work mounting.
Size: 5, Gross Weight: 2.7 dwts
Estimate: $400 - $600
Lot# 365
Centering one square emerald-cut emerald weighing approximately 2.15 cts., surrounded by full-cut diamonds weighing a total of approximately 0.75 cttw., set in an 18k yellow and white gold mounting.
Size: 6 3/4, Gross Weight: 2.6 dwts
Estimate: $900 - $1200
Lot# 367
Featuring one emerald-cut emerald weighing approximately 0.95 ct., bezel set in an 18k yellow gold mounting, suspended from a blackened sterling silver chain, further suspending six full-cut diamonds weighing a total of approximately 0.50 cttw., forming a 19 inch necklace.
Gross Weight: 2.1 dwts
Estimate: $300 - $500
Lot# 475
With wide flaring sides, applied overall with a yellowish-gray glaze, suffused with a network of fine golden crackle.
Approximate diameter: 7 3/4 inches (19.5 cm) each.
Condition: Some original firing flaws to surface.
Estimate: $350 - $600
Lot# 487
The first a standing male figure holding a brush in the right hand and an illegibly inscribed tanzaku in the left, wearing an ori-eboshi and voluptuous robes decorated with floral roundels the second a standing figure of monkey, the face detailed with fine hair, the head covered with a momi-eboshi, attired in flowing robes painted with roundels of various motifs including pine sprig, fan, and uchide-no-kozuchi (magic mallet).
Height of the first: 11 1/4 inches (28.5 cm).
Condition: The first with a repair to the brush.
Estimate: $400 - $600
Lot# 488
With flared sides raised on a tapered foot, incised to the interior with a floral design, all covered in a rich creamy glaze suffused with a matrix of fine crackle, the rim bound in metal.
Diameter: 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm).
Condition: Original firing flaws to surfaces, some wear and corrosion to the metal-bound rim.
Estimate: $800 - $1200
Lot# 490
The bulbous jar with lobed sides decorated around the shoulder with ruyi pendants, covered with a rich blue glaze, the fitted cover with a teardrop-shaped finial together with a brown-glazed tripod incense burner, celadon-glazed vase, and a pale green crackled glazed dish.
Height of the jar: 8 1/2 inches (21.5 cm).
Condition: The jar and tripod incense burner with wear and tiny chips.
Estimate: $400 - $600
Lot# 494
Of baluster form, sweeping up from a splayed foot to a waisted neck and wide flared mouth, decorated around the body with a continuous landscape with the Eight Daoist Immortals, the Sanxing and young attendants below five immortals on clouds, the neck further painted with figures in an outdoor setting, the shoulder with a brocade frieze with four reserves of auspicious articles between horizontal bands of upright lappets and ruyi pendants interrupted by a six-character horizontal inscription in blue.
Height: 22 3/4 inches (57.5 cm).
Condition: Crack and hairline to the base.
Estimate: $500 - $700
Lot# 502
Decorated with two opposing five-clawed sinuous beasts, the recessed base with a six-character mark.
Height: 8 1/2 inches (21.5 cm).
Estimate: $2000 - $3000
Lot# 532
Of pear shape, each potted with a slightly splayed foot and flaring mouth rim, decorated with central roundels of various landscape designs.
Tallest: 10 3/4 inches (27.5 cm)
Formerly offered in Butterfield, Sale 71300, October 2000.
With Saga Hoi An Hoard Visal 6287 labels.
Estimate: $5000 - $7000
Lot# 538
Each bird inset with a pearl, the feathers finely executed in filigree, the rectrices edged with rope-twist wires.
Approximate length: 2 1/2 inches (6.5 cm) each.
Estimate: $600 - $800
Lot# 554
Constructed with lacquered wood, the flat elongated body with two waisted sections on both sides, painted with five polychrome writhing dragons, seven strings running over the top, underside bearing an elongated rectangular central aperture, inscribed Ming Feng with a sixteen-character poem.
Dimension: 48 long x 8 inches wide (122 x 21 cm).
Estimate: $800 - $1200
Lot# 558
Embroidered in polychrome silk floss against a copper-red ground with a courtly male figure atop a dragon emerging from swirling waves opposing a maiden holding a boy and a young attendant at her side holding a feathered fan, all within a grayish-green brocade border.
Size of the frame: 23 1/2 inches x 22 inches (59.5 x 56 cm).
Estimate: $300 - $500
Lot# 568
The rectangular single door cabinet with the front panels finely carved in high relief with eight writhing five-clawed dragons soaring amidst clouds above mountains and crashing waves, all above the apron carved in high relief with cloud motifs, supported on four square short feet.
Dimension: 63 high x 54 wide x 18 inches deep (160 x 137 x 45.7 cm).
Condition: Minor wood cracks and losses commensurate with age and use.
Estimate: $2000 - $3000
Lot# 573
Circa 1840.
Ink and color on paper, each scroll with a four-character inscription on the back.
With a red David Howard Tribal Arts sticker.
Approximate size of each: 22 5/8 x 11 1/2 inches (57.5 x 29 cm).
Similar examples in The Yao The Mien and Mun in China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand by Jess Pourret, pages 225, 228 and 231.
Condition: Some tears, darkening, wrinkles, minor loss.
Estimate: $100 - $200
Lot# 580
Twenty-four leaves mounted in an album, ink on paper, the calligraphy in running script, the first leaf inscribed with a seal, the last leaf inscribed, dated, and signed Xishan Yishi with two seals.
Size of each leaf: 11 x 7 1/4 inches (28 x 18.5 cm).
Condition: Water marks.
Estimate: $250 - $350
Lot# 581
Ink and color on paper, signed upper right, with one seal of the artist.
Size of the image: 35 x 16 1/2 (89 x 42 cm).
Estimate: $400 - $600
Lot# 583
Ink and color on paper, inscribed and signed upper left, dated lower left, with three seals.
Size of the image: 50 1/2 x 24 inches (128 x 61 cm).
Condition: Creases.
Estimate: $400 - $600
Lot# 584
The first inscribed and dated upper left, with ten seals the second inscribed and dated upper right, with eleven seals.
Size of each image: 49 1/2 x 12 inches (126 x 30.5 cm).
Estimate: $400 - $600
Lot# 586
Ink and color on paper, inscribed and signed, with two seals of the artist.
Size of the image: 37 x 13 inches (94 x 33 cm).
Estimate: $200 - $300
Lot# 589
Watercolor on paper, signed in Chinese in lower left margin, framed and glazed.
Size of the image: 20 x 14 1/4 inches (51 x 36 cm).
Estimate: $150 - $250
Lot# 592
The first, ink and color on paper, inscribed the second, ink and color on silk, signed lower right, with one seal of the artist.
Size of the images: 42 1/2 x 15 inches (108 x 38 cm) 49 x 16 inches (124.5 x 40.5 cm).
Condition: The first with holes, creases, and tears to the paper mounting. The second with holes.
Estimate: $200 - $300
Lot# 1
Approximately 1/96 scale.
Plaque to base reads USS CONSTITUTION / 1797.
Approximate dimensions: 30 3/4 high x 37 long x 7 inches wide..
Condition: Minimal wear, no noticeable loss.
Estimate: $500 - $800
Lot# 2
Approximately 1/96 scale.
Plaque to base reads CUTTY SARK / 1869.
Approximate dimensions: 35 1/2 long x 27 1/2 high x 5 1/4 inches wide..
Condition: One sail to the main mast is loose. Very light wear overall.
Estimate: $500 - $800
Lot# 3
Approximately 1/93 scale.
Plaque to base reads HMS VICTORY 1765.
Approximate dimensions: 27 high x 29 long x 5 1/2 inches wide..
Condition: A few sails are slightly misaligned. Layer of dust to the surface.
Estimate: $600 - $800
Lot# 4
Five masts painted white with gilt trim.
French flag to the base, light spots beneath indicates a missing plaque.
Approximate dimensions: 25 1/2 high x 28 long x 6 inches wide..
Condition: Lots of dust, mainly to the ropes and sails. Missing plaque.
Estimate: $300 - $500
Lot# 5
Approximately 1/86 scale.
Plaque to base reads AMERIGO VESPUCCI.
Approximate dimensions: 27 high x 37 1/2 long x 7 inches wide..
Condition: Several loose pieces. Very light surface wear.
Estimate: $400 - $700
Lot# 6
Approximately 1/67 scale.
Plaque to base reads SOLEIL ROYAL.
Approximate dimensions: 36 long x 29 1/2 high x 7 1/2 inches wide..
Condition: The bronze crest to the back has come loose and damaged the wood in the process. The foremast and bowspirit are both loose. Loose anchor with chain hanging freely.
Estimate: $500 - $700
