Antiques and Art Auction

THE FINE ART AND ANTIQUES AUCTION

THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2025  AT  10AM 

THIS IS A LIVE, IN-HOUSE AND ONLINE AUCTION 

THE ONLINE CATALOG STARTS AT 12 PM 

Today we have for you a truly unique and fantastic collection of art, antiques, and fine collectibles rarely seen. 

ARTWORKS: 

- Bronze animal sculptures from famed artist Lorenzi Ghiglieri, who's works are featured in private collections including The White House and The Vatican and Bronze animal sculptures by Joseph L Boulton, a listed Texas wildlife and Indian artist.  A rare bronze of Enrico Caruso by Ettore Ximenes (1855 - 1926).

- Antique and Old Master oil on canvas paintings featuring artists P.P. Ryder, Robert D. Wilkie, Edward W. Schnabel, Luwdig Muninger, Gortzius Geldorp, Petrus van Schendel, Guido Reni, and the DaVinci school.

- A fine collection of prominent African American artists including Charles Wilbert White, Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Clementine Hunter, and others.

- A rare abstract painting attributed to Lee Krasner, wife of Jackson Pollock initialed in her familiar LK.

-A number of other well known artists like Gustav Klimt, Michael Fioriglio, Wu Chi Yong, Oscar Saborio, Louis Icart, Henry Leopold Richter, Antonio Segui, Stuart Davis and others.

Famous modern artists:  Signed lithographs and serigraphs by Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Erte', Slava Brodinsky, Leroy Nieman, Guillaume Azoulay,  Leonardo Nierman and others.

One of the most substantial pieces is the oil on canvas of the "Gibson Girl", Evelyn Nesbit (1884/5 - 1967) by James Carroll Beckwith (1852 - 1917).  This museum piece depicts Ms Nesbitt in a flowing evening gown, her beautiful face catching your attention.  Her life involved in a series of horrible tragedies concluding in the murder of architect, Stanford White by her husband Harry Kendall Thaw at Madison Square Garden, "The Trial of the Century" in 1906.

A Bass Otis (1784 - 1861) oil on canvas on board of a Mother and Child signed and dated 1838 with multiple gallery and museum tags. 

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 Historic and Notable:

A striking hand carved ebonized hardwood Japanese furniture set from the Meiji period circa 1890 - 1910, (Lot 236).  The set features a magnificent desk and chair with Mt Fuji hand carved  and centered., a side chair and a throne chair all depicting Mt Fuji, sea dragons, phoenix and plum blossoms. This set was shown at the Panama Pacific Exposition (the World's Fair) in San Francisco in 1915.  The consignor's family puchased it directly from the Japanese exhibitors when the Expo closed.  We have written provenance dated 1969 from a family elder.

Next, a 19th c Federal secretary desk owned by President Abraham Lincoln.  Rich woods with a brass eagle topper.  Provenance comes from the estate of Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith. (Lot 249). 

(Lot 250) is an 18th century French tall case clock owned by First Lady, Mary Todd Lincoln.  The name of the maker, Mathieu Bow-a-Faige appears on the face.  Similar provenance to the previous secretary lot, Lot 249. 

Furniture and curated smalls at 10 am:

Pie safe. bucket bench, jelly cupboard, dry sink, blanket chest, tilt top tables, quilt racks, wrought iron patio furniture, a large antique oak ice box, modern bedroom set.

Several antique tall case clocks for parts with faces, works, weights and pendulums.

A lot of primitive and antique smalls, artworks, crocks, jugs, mantle and wall clocks, African arts, barometer, lamps, and pottery.

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 Many cast iron toys, tin toys, incomplete toys, toy parts.  Lead soldiers, toy guns. 

Large Studio Steiff Bears. Champion 610 pedal car,  Ludwig wood drum.

A Golden Nugget 25 cent slot machine with cabinet.

Wedgwood china sets, many pieces of blue decorated stoneware crocks and jugs.  Modern pottery, enamelwares, Laszlo Ispanky figures.

16 hand stitched quilts, tins, splint baskets, butter molds, long neck watering cans, cast iron skillets, antique axes, two Conestoga wagon jacks, early oil bottles.

A PRR coal shovel, turn of the century Scent bottles with sterling bands and stoppers, antique and vintage men's hats and ladies fur hats.  Antonio Vargas signed 1981 Pinup Girls.

Tiffany & Co set of 4 Zodiac blotter corners, a Heintz copper and silver trinket box.

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Preview:

Tuesday, July 15th  10- 5 pm

Wednesday, July 16th  10- 4 pm 

Doors open the day of sale at 9 am 

Pennsylvania  Auction License AY001987

Auctioneers:

Gabi Jaramillo Lic AU005728

Katelyn Callahan Lic AU005869

Brian Callahan Lic AU005870 

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