- A Porcelain Shaving Mug Depicting The
A Porcelain Shaving Mug Depicting The Brooklyn Bridge
with the name G.W. McGuigan in gilt lettering, and depicting the Brooklyn bridge, with sailing ships in the East River.
underside marked KPM and Made in Germany.
Height 3 5/8 inches.
Property from the Collection of James Carpenter, Montague, New Jersey
- MARY MIGHT AFTER WALTER CRANE PANDORAMary
MARY MIGHT AFTER WALTER CRANE PANDORAMary Might (19th century), after Walter Crane (British, 1845-1915). Watercolor and pencil on brown paper, after Crane's Pandora. Unsigned. Later ink notations on verso "Mary Might Pandora, 1885" and "The Brooklyn Art Association Catalogue of a Collection of Designs by Walter Crane". 9" x 13 1/4" (with frame 15 3/4" x 20"). Tears and losses to corners and edges of paper; chips and losses to frame.
- DORIS BARSKY KREINDLER AURORA BOREALIS
DORIS BARSKY KREINDLER AURORA BOREALIS OIL CANVAS Doris Barsky Kreindler (American, 1901-1974), "Aurora Borealis: Study", Oil on Canvas, signed "Kreindler" lower right. Image: 42" H x 46" W; frame: 43" H x 47" W. Note: Kreindler's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Brooklyn Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Keywords: Paintings, Scandinavian landscape, Northern lights
- EDMUND BLUNDEN, THE BROOK HANDWRITTEN
EDMUND BLUNDEN, THE BROOK HANDWRITTEN POEM Edmund Charles Blunden (1896-1974), a poem titled 'The Brook' written in his hand in three stanzas of eight lines each. Penned in neat calligraphic script, the poem was submitted for publication in The Nation and Athenaeum. Blunden is best known for his poetry and his work, 'Undertones of War' (1928), reflections on his World War I experiences. A notation on upper left says Poetry Nation, upper right has a 51b in pencil and lower right, in cursive, is E. Blunden in pencil.
- TIFFANY STERLING MILITARY PRESENTATION
TIFFANY STERLING MILITARY PRESENTATION PLATE United States,Silver plate marked on the face "FROM THE OFFICERS/OF THE/U.S.S. PC 1170", marked on the back "TIFFANY & CO/MAKERS/STERLING SILVER/22889" with "FEBRUARY 22, 1944" engraved below. Note: The U.S.S. PC-1170 was a submarine chaser that was launched on October 16, 1943, and commissioned on February 21, 1944, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It was decommissioned on August 5, 1955.
- SEYMOUR JOSEPH GUY GENTLEMAN PORTRAIT
SEYMOUR JOSEPH GUY GENTLEMAN PORTRAIT PAINTING New York, England,1824-1910Depicts a refined elderly gentleman wearing a high white collared shirt with black jacket and matching tie and vest. Guy became interested in art as a child and found that he enjoyed painting dogs. He possibly studied under Thomas Buttersworth or another marine painter of the same or similar surname, but later joined Ambrosini Jerome's studio. Guy's works are part of numerous museums including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian.
- MARIE WEGER (GERMAN-AMERICAN, 1882-1980)
MARIE WEGER (GERMAN-AMERICAN, 1882-1980) "PEACE & PLENTY" (AFTER GEORGE INNESS) Oil on canvas. Signed (lower right).
Catalogue Note: Marie Weger was born in Munich, Germany in 1882. She conducted her artistic training under the tutelage of her father, Max Weger, also a painter as well as Wilhelm von Dietz and Paul Nauren. She continued her studies in Paris.
She made her first public appearance in 1907 at the Munich Art Society, and continued to show at the Munich Glaspalast and The Major Exhibit of Berlin, as well as other exhibitions in Vienna and Paris until her emigration to the United States in 1930.
Throughout her career in the United States. she was actively involved with many prestigious galleries and museum organizations including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Allied Artists of America and the Kennedy Galleries in New York City. She was commissioned to do portraits of such important people as Eleanor Roosevelt, the young English princess Elizabeth and Margaret as well as Marian Anderson.
It is for her floral still-lifes, however, that Marie is best cherished and remembered.
- POTTERY BOTTLE VASE
SILLA DYNASTY ??
POTTERY BOTTLE VASE
SILLA DYNASTY ?? ????rising from a flat base to an ovoid body, slender long neck and everted dish-shaped mouth(1)26.8cm highProvenance: Frank Caro Co., 4 September 1969, with an original receipt.Dr. Kenneth P. Lawley's inventory number: Cer.41.Note: A comparable earthenware bottle with thin natural ash glaze, late Unified Silla period, is in the Brooklyn Museum, accession no. 2004.28.122; Also compare to a related long necked-jar densely decorated with stamped design, Unified Silla 7th-8th century, is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. L.2016.43.6a, b.Please note this lot will be offered with no reserve. ???????
- BRONZE KUNDIKA, CHONGBYONG
GORYEO DYNASTY
BRONZE KUNDIKA, CHONGBYONG
GORYEO DYNASTY OR LATER ??????? ???of ovoid form rising from a counter-sunk foot to a slender neck collared by a slightly domed small disk, the long neck continuing to a lipped rim, one side of the shoulder set with a tubular spout with an everted mouth and a hinged cover(1)35.6cm high; 929gProvenance: Han Collection, 17 August 2018, with a printed receipt.Dr. Kenneth P. Lawley's inventory number: M.57.Note: Distinctively shaped containers like this were traditionally used in Asia as water sprinklers for Buddhist purification rituals. They were used to offer clean water to the altar or carried by Buddhist monks travelling for cultivation. This kundika type was popular during the Tang Dynasty and continued to be used in the northern regions of China during the Northern Song and Liao dynasties. It travelled with Buddhism through China to reach Korea. In Goryeo, bronze kundika were especially popular. Similar examples were also made in ceramics and glazed in celadon. Several comparable examples cast in bronze and dated to the Goryeo dynasty are in museum collections, including two in the National Museum of Korea, accession nos. Sinsu 1973 and Sinsu 1364; one in the Brooklyn Museum, possession no. 74.27; one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. 23.115; and the other is in the British Museum, registration no. 1974,1031.1.Please note this lot will be offered with no reserve. ???????
- BRONZE BOTTLE VASE
GORYEO DYNASTY ????
BRONZE BOTTLE VASE
GORYEO DYNASTY ???? ???????of pear form, with a gently lipped rim and raised string band to the waisted neck, the raised and incised string bands repeating down the sloping shoulders and globular body (1)32cm high; 1462gProvenance: Han Collection, 10 May 2018, with an original receipt.Dr. Kenneth P. Lawley's inventory number: M.56.Note: Two comparable examples in similar form, size, raised ribs as decoration, heavy in malachite patination, dated to the Goryeo dynasty, can be found in the Brooklyn Museum, accession nos.74.159.2 and 2004.28.134; Several are also seen in the open market, including one sold at Bonham's San Francisco, 11 December 2015, lot 2475; and one at Christie's London, 11 December 2015, lot 2100.Please note this lot will be offered with no reserve. ???????
- PHILADELPHIA CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY CHEST
PHILADELPHIA CHIPPENDALE MAHOGANY CHEST ON CHESTmid to late 18th century, ogee molded cornice, five short drawer configuration over three long drawers, chamfered stop fluted stiles, lower case with two short drawers over two long drawers, conforming stiles, stepped plinth, tall ogee bracket feet, original brasses, white cedar and yellow poplar secondary woods, 81 x 44-1/2 x 23-1/2 in.
Provenance: The Cresson Family, Philadelphia; according to consignor notes, purchased by Mr. Radette, former curator of The Brooklyn Museum of Art, exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum of Art and later sold to Mrs. Eleanor Cannaday of New York; thence by descent; Leigh Keno Antiques; purchased through Clark Pearce (accompanied by receipt for $55,000); Estate of Steven Murphy, Fort Collins, Colorado
Condition:
small repairs to drawer lips, crack in return on proper right side at base of upper case, piece of lower molding missing on proper left front side of upper case, refinished, original brasses well cleaned, some minor board separation in returns of lower case, feet appear to be original with some minor repairs and reglued areas, feet brackets with some minor losses, other scattered wear from age and use
- ARISTIDE MAILLOL PORTRAIT OF AUGUSTE
ARISTIDE MAILLOL PORTRAIT OF AUGUSTE RENOIR BRONZE Aristide Maillol (French, 1861-1944) "Portrait of Auguste Renoir," bronze, circa 1906-07, bust sculpture of the French Impressionist wearing hat, artist's monogram "M" within a circle incised to proper left side of base, raised "M" to underside of base. 16" H x 8" W x 9" D. Note: Other examples held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (53.140.8) and the Brooklyn Museum (70.176.6). Removed from a West 87th Street estate.