Clarke Auction - Holiday Estates Sale - 6:00 pm Monday December 8, 2008.

    LARCHMONT, NY, December 04, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Clarke's final sale of 2008 is holiday-rich with a wide range of items attractive for investment and collecting, celebration and entertaining, or seasonal gift-giving.

Its Larchmont location is packed with antique and traditional furniture table for dining or hosting a party for this season's holidays and beyond. Antique highlights include an 18th Century Bonnet-top American Highboy and 19th C. Biedermeier pieces including tables and armchairs; an 18th Century paint-decorated corner cabinet; a 19th C. French Empire style bronze mounted bookcase; 18th C. Italian sidechairs and an19th C. marquetry Austrian game table. Traditional furniture includes dining pieces from Kittinger; Georgetown Galleries; Kindel; and others.

Midcentury Modern includes furniture from Johns Stuart and Widdicomb, Pace, RobsJohn- Gibbings, Pierre Paulin, Plycraft, Baker, Horon, Sciolari; pieces in the style of or possibly by Russell Wright, Samuel Marx, Milo Baughman; decorative arts such as a signed metal sculpture, possibly Italian, on matching pedestal; glass pieces by H St Lerche and Peter Bramhall, and Murano and Italian lighting.

Decorative arts include three carved blackamoors, an exceptional pink trunk from a Manhattan retail icon, a pink porcelain lidded box, Baccarat and Steuben pieces, a pair of Boehm mallards, Daum Nancy, Tiffany and Quezal glass among 150 lots.

Fine art includes a marine oil by Fernand Pinal, French Post-Impressionist, a vintage oil of Hamilton Bermuda by the American Denys Wortman; a pastel signed M Huse, possibly Marion; a rare signed ethnographical bronze of an Indochinese woman; a midcentury mixed media signed Infante; a bronze moose by Ludwig Vordemayer, and a 1938 watercolor signed J Duncan.

Ronan Clarke notes "Our sales have remained strong and both smart consignors and astute bidders can capitalize - the former with an opportunity to have quality items highlighted and discerning buyers getting exceptional pieces at competitive prices."

NOTE Previews Friday and Saturday December 5-6, noon to 6:00 pm and day-of-sale, Monday December 8, noon to auction start. Clarke's catalog can be found at www.ClarkeNY.com.

About Clarke Auction Gallery

Clarke Auction Gallery, Westchester's Premier Auction Gallery, conducts catalogued sales monthly featuring distinctive fine and decorative arts, antiques, exceptional furniture, oriental rugs, sterling silver and mid-century modern. Clarke actively seeks fine art, particularly African-American, and entire estates or individual items for puchase or consignment. For further information, please contact us at (914)833-8336 or [email protected].

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