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September Gallery Auction Saturday, September 17th

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Lot# 28

Four Porcelain and Faience Hand Painted Plates

Comprising blue on white oval dish with ships in open frame, dish decorated with equestrian hunter and his dogs signed CMPELL in giltwood frame, dish decorated with trout signed C. Gresley in giltwood frame, dish decorated with river landscape signed M. Crawley in giltwood frame.
Approximate dimensions overall: 17 1/2 - 23 3/4 high x 17 1/4 - 19 inches wide..
Condition: Dishes with minimal wear, frames with light wear overall.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Lot# 29

Two French Enamel Plaques Including Limoges

Comprising framed Chantal de Burquet plaque depicting St. George, and framed plaque depicting Christ and the Virgin Mother with Pope.
St. George plaque signed Chantal de Burquet - Limoges.
Approximate dimensions: St. George plaque 8 inches diameter, frame 20 high x 22 inches wide Christ plaque 5 1/2 high x 4 1/4 inches wide, frame 18 high x 16 inches wide..
Condition: Potential loss to metal rings under Christ plaque. Hairline crack to piece surrounding St. George plaque. Minor wear to frames.

Estimate: $150 - $250

Two French Enamel Plaques Including Limoges

Lot# 29

Estimate: $150 - $250

Lot# 53

Chokwe Carved Painted Mask on Metal Stand

The red painted face with scarifications to forehead, near ears, and to left and right of mouth, on lower face, also between the eyebrows. Eye sockets deeply carved. All, under rigid, verticalized hair, painted black.
Approximate dimensions: 18 1/2 inches high, stand 22 1/2 high x 10 inch square base..
Condition: Scuffing to mask front, flaking to paint on upper lip some wear to paint throughout.

Estimate: $150 - $200

Chokwe Carved Painted Mask on Metal Stand

Lot# 53

Estimate: $150 - $200

Lot# 58

Bronze African Female Figure with Child

The seated female figure with child in her lap.
Approximate dimensions: 41 high x 22 inches wide..
Condition: Significant patina and wear throughout.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Bronze African Female Figure with Child

Lot# 58

Estimate: $200 - $300

Lot# 62

Kongo Ebonized Anthroposophic Standing Figure

The carved wood figure with metal mounts, leather loin cloth large shell necklace may be later.
Approximate dimensions: 51 1/2 inches high..
Condition: Significant wear and patina throughout. Some cracking and previous insect damage.

Estimate: $150 - $250

Kongo Ebonized Anthroposophic Standing Figure

Lot# 62

Estimate: $150 - $250

Lot# 66

African Baskets, Zimbabwe

Comprising globular form with low waist, monochrome geometric motif drop form with polychrome serrated banded motif.
Approximate dimensions: Monochrome basket 15 high x 17 inches diameter, polychrome basket 13 1/2 high x 12 inches diameter..
Condition: Light wear overall. Monochrome basket with unraveling to cover knop, somewhat lopsided.

Estimate: $150 - $200

African Baskets, Zimbabwe

Lot# 66

Estimate: $150 - $200

Lot# 67

Bakota People Brass Clad Decorative Mask

On a later wood and metal base.
Approximate dimensions not including base: 24 high x 16 inches wide..
Condition: Patina and wear throughout. Apparent metal loss towards the bottom. The nose is partially separated. One earring is loose.

Estimate: $150 - $250

Bakota People Brass Clad Decorative Mask

Lot# 67

Estimate: $150 - $250

Lot# 68

Native American Klamath Basket and African Hat

Comprising a tightly woven low round bowl, and conical polychrome hat with leather mounts and straps.
Approximate dimensions: Bowl 2 1/2 high x 12 inches diameter, hat 12 high x 15 inches diameter..
Condition: Some patina and minor wear throughout. The leather with some drying, wrinkling, and patina. The small central knot to the low bowl seems loose.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Lot# 69

Two Bakota Carved Wood Objects, Sculpture and Staff

Abstracted figural sculpture mounted with copper cladding and mounts the figural staff with metal earrings and leather grip.
Approximate dimensions: Sculpture 19 inches high, staff 29 3/4 inches long..
Condition: Wear throughout, patina to metal. The staff with cracking and minor loss including repair to head.

Estimate: $150 - $200

Lot# 77

American Folk Art Pictorial Wall Hanging

1930s - 1940s, some of the buttons late 19th Century and later.
Maroon cotton velvet fabric, with sewed - on buttons in pictorial designs, including basket, windmill, willow tree by fence, star, and two hearts. The buttons range from mother-of-pearl, to celluloid from American-eagle in gilt-brass, to ebonized.
Not signed.
Approximate dimensions: 50 x 38, the wall hanging the iron rod 67 L..
Condition: Overall, the color of the cotton velvet is vivid there are a few losses to buttons.
An unusual pictorial wall-hanging, using a willow tree and house, basket, and windmill, all known more typically as subjects of girls embroidered samplers.

Estimate: $150 - $250

American Folk Art Pictorial Wall Hanging

Lot# 77

Estimate: $150 - $250

Lot# 120

18 Light Mid-Century Style Murano Glass Chandelier

The cups with gilt trim.
Approximate dimensions: 32 high x 33 inches diameter..
Condition: Working order is not guaranteed. Light wear overall.

Estimate: $400 - $600

Lot# 126

Four Louis XV Style Giltwood Chairs

Comprising a side chair pair and bergere pair, with carved giltwood frames including floral carvings to crown rail, white upholstery.
Approximate dimensions: Bergeres 35 3/4 high x 30 1/2 wide x 29 inches deep, side chairs 37 1/4 high x 20 wide x 20 inches deep..
Condition: Frames with rubbing, patina, and wear to gilt. Some staining to upholstery.

Estimate: $200 - $350

Four Louis XV Style Giltwood Chairs

Lot# 126

Estimate: $200 - $350

Lot# 127

Louis XVI Style Parquetry Cabinet with Porcelain Mounts

White marble top, single door cabinet with porcelain plaque, the door flanked by porcelain vasiform standards, gilt bronze mounts throughout.
Approximate dimensions: 43 high x 43 1/2 wide x 17 3/4 inches deep..
Condition: Light chips to marble edges. Minor surface and finish wear throughout including minor lifting to veneer. Minor gilt loss to porcelain plaque. Patina to the bronze mounts.

Estimate: $2000 - $3000

Lot# 130

Napoleon III Ebonized Davenport Desk

Black lacquer finish with inlaid trim, brass gallery to top with brass beaded trim to edges throughout the slant front with inset red leather, opens to reveal two short drawers and storage space, cabinet to side with four drawers to interior interior sections with birdseye maple veneer additional gilt metal mounts, on casters.
Approximate dimensions: 33 3/4 high x 22 1/2 wide x 20 1/2 inches deep..
Condition: Small pull-out drawer to side lacking pull, seems to get stuck. Minor loss to brass beaded trim with some pieces available. Some wear and minor loss to the black lacquer finish, mainly to the top and feet.

Estimate: $150 - $250

Napoleon III Ebonized Davenport Desk

Lot# 130

Estimate: $150 - $250

Lot# 147

Modernist Design Cherry Wood Vitrine Cabinet

Overall trapezoidal form two glazed sections on lower cabinet section triangle cut pulls.
Approximate dimensions: 78 1/2 high x 48 1/2 wide x 18 inches deep..
Condition: Minor surface wear and fading to finish throughout.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Modernist Design Cherry Wood Vitrine Cabinet

Lot# 147

Estimate: $200 - $300

Lot# 148

Lalique Frosted Glass Mouflons Console Table

Two mouflon head supports, rectangular beveled glass top.
Lalique, France inscribed to both support pieces.
Approximate dimensions: 18 1/2 high x 51 1/4 wide x 12 inches deep..
Condition: Light scratches throughout. Missing metal wall mount for top, plates that attach to mouflon bases are included.

Estimate: $2000 - $3000

Lalique Frosted Glass Mouflons Console Table

Lot# 148

Estimate: $2000 - $3000

Lot# 152

Art Moderne Style Silver Tray on Chrome Table Base

The round silver tray with raised edge, on four leg chrome finish heavy bases.
The tray inscribed with Sterling.
Approximate weight of tray: 2,790 grams. Approximate dimensions: 22 1/2 high x 20 inches diameter..
Condition: Light surface scratches to the tray.
Note: The tray passed a chemical test for silver, and a scratch test did not reveal evidence of plating. However, due to the lack of traditional or conclusive silver markings we do not find it appropriate to claim the tray is sterling. Please take this into account when bidding.

Estimate: $500 - $800

Lot# 153

Seeburg Model 148-ML Symphonola Jukebox, 1948

Labels to the backside.
Approximate dimensions: 59 high x 35 wide x 28 inches deep..
Condition: Loss to blue tiles on the front. Gaps in piping to the sides. Some surface wear throughout. Has not been tested.
With key.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Seeburg Model 148-ML Symphonola Jukebox, 1948

Lot# 153

Estimate: $200 - $300

Lot# 155

African Carved Baule Mask Mounted in Acrylic Case

Mask of a horned face, with scarification patterns in two diagonal lines from nose toward lower jaw. Painted with red outline to edge of forehead and under heavily lidded eyes. The acrylic case back lined with red canvas.
Approximate dimensions: Mask 15 inches high, case 21 3/4 high x 12 wide x 6 1/2 inches deep..
Condition: Mask appears to be in good condition, but has not been removed from the case. There is typical scratching and wear to the surface of the mask, with a looping hairline crack roughly 1 1/4 L. x 1 W. to forehead, below left horn.

Estimate: $150 - $250

Lot# 156

African Carved Wood Figure Cloaked in Braided Rope

Standing male figure with antelope carved stool between his legs, the carved figure covered in a rope mesh.
Approximate dimensions: 72 inches high..
Condition: Significant patina and surface wear throughout. Loss to dark encrusted material that was applied to carving on the face.

Estimate: $200 - $300

Lot# 161

Modern California Carved Burl Wood Sculpture

Circa 1980.
Bi-chambered, multi-lobed form, bisected by a top section treated as braided hair. On square oak stand.
The sculpture 16 H. x 14 W. x 11 D. on the 2 H. x 12 square base.
Condition: Typical fissures, uneven appearance. To the top of left chamber, a 1/2 scratch.

Estimate: $150 - $250

Modern California Carved Burl Wood Sculpture

Lot# 161

Estimate: $150 - $250

Lot# 162

Large Art Pottery Vase, Nude Female Figures

The tall vase decorated with cubist style nude female figures on a blue and black ground looks to have been fired in three pieces with horizontal lines to the body evident.
Approximate dimensions: 47 1/2 inches high..
Condition: Rust to seams. Crazing and minor surface wear throughout. Remnants of paper label with Maller legible.

Estimate: $250 - $450

Large Art Pottery Vase, Nude Female Figures

Lot# 162

Estimate: $250 - $450

Lot# 168

Mary DeNeale Morgan, Still Life with Indian Basket, oil

(American, 1868-1948),
Still Life with Indian Basket, c. 1920
oil on fabric,
(Approximate dimensions - fabric: 24 x 42.25 inches),
signed lower right,
with a copy of a FACL, Inc. Treatment Summary.


Condition Report from FACL, Inc.: When the painting arrived in our lab it had 2 dented tears, pinpoint flaking in dark colors at top left, top center and along top edge of painting. UV showed very uneven old discolored varnish layer. The signature appeared covered with ochre paint, under microscope the layers were clear.
First, the tears were repaired with cynoacrylate. The painting was removed from the stretcher bars, the verso of the canvas cleaned of debris, then infused with warm Beva 371 1:5 in naptha from the front and back then processed on the vacuum hot table for consolidation and remounted to original stretcher bars. The excess beva was removed from the face of the painting with naptha. The painting was cleaned/varnish and grime removal selectively with xylene, acetone, potassium methyhexyl oleate 25 in naptha and generously rinsed with naptha, fly specks and spatters were carefully scalpeled off under magnification.
Damar varnish was brush applied. Minimal inpainting was preformed with Golden msa acrylics and texture applied with liquitex gel medium. A final varnish of Soluvar was applied.

Estimate: $3000 - $5000

Lot# 198

Norbert Schlaus, Nude Woman with Easel, oil

(German/American, 1927-2009),
Nude Woman with Easel,
oil on canvas,
(Approximate dimensions - canvas unframed: 54 x 30 inches),
signed lower right.

Estimate: $500 - $700

Norbert Schlaus, Nude Woman with Easel, oil

Lot# 198

Estimate: $500 - $700

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