NYE & COMPANY FINE and DECORATIVE ARTS ONLINE AUCTION

Nye and Company has an excellent auction to inaugurate the fall auction season.

Approximately 600 lots are be posted to www.igavelauctions.com from September 10th – 23rd. The sale includes a wide array of fine and decorative arts from the greater Metropolitan area, but certain rarities stand-out from the overall strong group and are worth mentioning in detail. The galleries will be beautifully set up and open for viewing from September 15th until the sale closes, including Sunday, the 21st from noon to 4pm. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend the exhibition.

Numerous pieces of Chinese hollowware and porcelain plaques from the 18th and 20th centuries include vases, lamps and fish bowls.

A Bedford, NY Georgian home is selling a Satinwood linen press, a partner’s desk and more. A group of New York furniture includes Chippendale side chairs, a marble top pier table and a Federal tall clock by Mitchell & Mott. There are faithful copies of some iconic pieces like Newport block-front knee-hole and block-front secretary and  a Chippendale style Boston bombe chest is priced to sell. Several lots of Stickley Arts and Crafts style pieces are included in the furniture offering.

A family with a long New Jersey history is selling lots and lots of sterling silver, pairs of vases and numerous volumes of antique books. Another person consigned a Japanese mixed-metals sterling silver cigarette case and match box.

There is too much Fine Art to mention specifically. Suffice it to say there is something for everyone. From Classic portraiture to contemporary works, bidders will have plenty from which to choose.