JULY 22, 2008 DISCOVERY SALE

OVER 150 LOTS FRESH FROM LOCAL ESTATES AND OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE

Including property from the Knox Trust, Los Angeles; San Marino and Pasadena Estates; and property sold for the benefit of the Laguna Art Museum Collections Fund

Paintings and Sculpture:
Edward Borein cowboy roundup; Prescott Chaplin woodcut; Karl Albert oil landscape; several Helen Balfour watercolors; Paul Conner oil landscape; Emil Kosa Jr. watercolor; four Grace Libby Vollmer pastel landscapes; G. Barry Atwater ‘Navajoland’ oil; George Maxim gilt-metal figure group; Anton Gutknecht oil seascape; Ben Abril oil landscape; Milford Zornes cliff study and ‘Casita del Colena’ woodcut; Rodolpho Nieto portrait; Myron Chester Nutting oil; Continental School floral still life; Joseph D'Aste terracotta satyr and putto group; Oliver Glenn Barrett oil landscape; John W. Cotton High Sierras with riders; Isadore Ascheim (German Expressionist); 3 A. Gibson Hornby oils: still life, pepper tree, and poinsettia; Emerson Lewis poppies oil; Fred Chisnall oil landscape; Honoré Daumier etching; Marc Chagall lithograph; Marie Laurencin etching; Charles Bell Birch bisque nude; after August Moreau patinated metal figure group; Henri De Kruif watercolor; Katherine Merrill oil landscape; Parisian school view of Montmartre; after Émile Coriolan Hippolyte Guillemin terracotta figure group; Leonard Borman maritime oil; Nat Levy watercolor; J.C. Doemling oil landscape; Ernest Tonk watercolor; after Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse marble putto

Fine Furnishings:
Vintage Venetian colored glass chandelier; Regence style gilt-metal-mounted pedestal; Louis XV style gilt-bronze fire screen; pair gilt-brass and bronze flower ornaments; Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted kingwood marquetry gueridon; Monterey style iron-bound painted wood breakfast suite; pair of 19th c. Continental bronze and marble urns; Continental pierced urn decorated with soldiers; German Art Deco bronze-mounted urn; four Eames fiberglass chairs for Herman Miller; Louis XVI style parquetry side table; Louis XV style giltwood pedestal and bedside commode; pair Louis XV style bergeres; French ormolu-mounted porcelain center bowl; pair Continental patinated bronze candlesticks; Art Nouveau period oak stand; late Victorian tile-mounted hall stand; pair Gothic style wrought iron floor lamps; Aesthetic Movement giltwood stool; Louis-Philippe bronze candelabrum; pair Louis XVI style gilt-metal urn-form lamps

Pottery, Porcelain and Glass:
Meissen ‘Blue Onion’ tea service; pair 19th c. Paris porcelain vases/lamps; Sarreguemines French art Nouveau jardinière on stand; majolica jardinière on stand; Continental majolica dolphin-form stand; 19th c. majolica footed center bowl; Neoclassical majolica griffon vase; majolica floral-encrusted vase; Bohemian majolica stork vase; Wardle majolica jardinière on stand; Sevres style Venus and Cupid urn; Neoclassical style two-tier centerpiece; set of Rosenthal gilt-decorated plates; three assorted Sevres style table boxes; Sabino opalescent glass bowl, c. 1930s; Roseville pottery jardinière on stand; Art Nouveau pottery stand; two German porcelain portrait plaques; French faience stand; Amphora vase; Weller pottery umbrella stand; Minton plate with silver rim; large Italian ceramic oil jar

Silver and Pewter:
Tiffany pierced tray, Tiffany floral bowl, early 20th c.; Gorham ‘Grand Baroque’ flatware service for twelve; English, American, German and Mexican silver including many box lots of assorted flatware and holloware; vanity set with tray; tea set with tray; Art Nouveau pewter tray

Eclectic Estate Items:
Art Nouveau brass-inlaid jewelry casket; Tiffany ‘Pine Needle’ desk pot; Vizagapatam horn sewing box; Persian style gilt-metal desk blotter, 19th c.; extensive group of hand-painted Portuguese tiles; Victorian telescope; group lot of garden accoutrements; patinated bronze dog-form inkwell; Continental wax relief sculpture of the Ascension, 19th c.; Meiji period netsuke; pair Continental bronze blackamoor candlesticks; collection of gilt-metal-mounted glass table boxes; a Leica camera with accessories, c. 1930s; vintage eagle weathervane; patinated metal cornucopia centerpiece; group lot of Victorian earrings; miniature portrait with pearls; 18k gold and turquoise ear pendants; lady’s Movado watch; group lot of lady’s jewelry; a gentleman’s Elgin pocket watch; pair metal relief plaques of Classical figures; vintage oak Victrola; Victorian early electric fan; American folk art playing card jewelry box; assorted rugs; great group lots

An Art Nouveau oak inlaid table box
est: $300/500, pictured left.

An Anglo-Indian horn and ivory sewing box, Vizagapatam, 19th century
est: $400/600, pictured center.

A Folk Art playing card jewellery casket with mirror
est: $150/250, pictured right.

Louis XVI style polychromed secretaire a abattant
Late 19th c, painted mahogany and satinwood, the pierced ormolu three-quarter gallery over an inset eared variegated white marble top above a paneled frieze drawer decorated with floral garlands, paterae and cherubs, over fluted three-quarter columns flanking a double-paneled fall front decorated with scantily clad classical maidens, reversing to a gilt-tooled green leather writing surface and opening to an arrangement of drawers and pigeon holes, above a pair of paneled doors decorated with putti and enclosing a shelf and coffre fort, over toupie feet
est: $4,000/6,000. Click here for larger image