Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present A Fine Mélange on Saturday, February 3, 2024. Offering over 200 lots, the sale features an eclectic array of items, including artworks, decorative arts, jewelry, furniture, Asian items, and more.
Among the artworks are paintings, watercolors, lithographs, and other works on paper, mostly from the 19th-20th centuries; noted artists include Roland Petersen, Joseph Antoine Bouvard, Emory Ladanyi, Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott, Alexandra Nechita, Alfred Schroff, and David Gilhooly. Several sculptures on offer are by Dan Corbin, Grant Speed, and Rollin Karg. Jewelry offerings feature rings, necklaces, earrings and bracelets of gold or silver, most adorned with precious or semi-precious stones. The diverse selection of furniture includes chairs, tables, chests, cupboards, desks and more in styles such as Queen Anne, Regency, Federal, and American, and Chippendale. Among the decorative arts are glass items, tole table articles, American baskets, snuff boxes, and more; highlights in this category include a 19th-century carousel horse, tall torchières, angel candelabra, and a Louis C. Tiffany vase. Rounding out the sale are sterling silver flatware and several pens.
There is also a large selection of items from Asia, including artworks; and silk panels, collars, and table runners. From China are paintings, vases, beakers, censers, lotus shoes and slippers, decorative objects, export tea items, immortal figures, snuff bottles, and horseshoe and high-back chairs. Several woodblock prints come from Japan; and a nat figure of Min Lay comes from Burma.
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