Clarke Estate Auction - Larchmont NY - Monday March 9, 2009

    LARCHMONT, NY, March 05, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Clarke's Monday March 9th Auction features decorator and custom pieces from the Hotel Pierre suite of Lord Hanson, American Empire furniture from Larchmont; a period gilt-bronze French Empire clock with an Apollonian attributes from Bronxville and great period bronze and rock crystal lighting.

Midcentury Design
From the Hotel Pierre suite of Lord Hanson, Clarke features a coromandel desk signed Philip Daniel, a burl walnut and chrome desk, a pair of glass and tiger-striped lucite side tables, a burl and chrome console, and a suite of custom lacquer pieces.

Antiques
A 19th C. drop-leaf desk/side table, a 19th C. gilt copper horse-form weathervane, a 19th C. flip-top game table and a mahogany writing stand, each with hairy paw feet; a marquetry center table, an early - possibly 18th C. - wingback chair, a Louis XV-Style 19th C. bronze-mounted cabinet and a period Regency cabinet.

Lighting
A unusually fine collection of antique and midcentury chandeliers, torchieres, and lamps such as a 19th C. bronze chandelier with figural mounts rescued from a restaurant closed as a result of 9/11, a silver-gilt chandelier with rock crystals, a large and spectacular Victorian Cut Glass chandelier, and Murano chandeliers - over twenty chandeliers in all. Lamps include Hanson estate pieces such as pairs of Murano and Lucite; unusual column-form alabaster, clear and gold-flecked Murano, possibly Venini; a Victorian oil lamp, and midcentury torchieres from the Hanson estate.

Decorative Arts
Highlights include a pair of exceptional handmade stained glass panels from the 9/11 restaurant; a dozen Limoges bird plates; a pair of bronze figural and floral candelabra, Russian bisque polychrome ethnic figures, a bisque bust after Houdon of a boy on a variegated marble base, a Vienna bronze of black children, a set of Victorian parasols, a Blackamoor stand, a large Steuben aurene vase, a large Gorham sterling and porcelain vase, a 19th C. portrait of Napolean on porcelain in a great giltwood frame, a Steuben aurene vase, and a decorative Gorham sterling and porcelain vase.

Sterling and Russian
A collection of Russian silver including a ladle with an embedded 1798 ruble, Russian silver and enameled pieces; an antique gold cigarette case, a large collection of silver hollowware among 25 lots of silver.

Fine Art
19th C. British watercolors from Charles Green and George H Dodgson; a fine early 19th C. signed French pastoral genre scene; a signed Thomas Cartier bronze of a mounted warrior; a signed oil of a rabbi, a possibly old master crucifixion oil; a Lord Hanson estate lithograph, large signed marine paintings, a signed marsh ducks scene, a signed midcentury abstract, a Manuel Carbonell patinated sculpture, and a signed Nota Koslowsky oil.

Founder and owner Ronan Clarke notes that "Our February auction was good, but this auction promises to be bigger and better - deep in many categories of collecting - silver, oriental carpets, chandeliers and lighting, great decorator pieces, American empire."

Clarke, actively purchasing and accepting consignments for our monthly catalogued auctions.

Onsite Previews Sat-Sun-Mon, March 7-8-9, 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm

For further information or consignments, please call Clarke at 914-833-8336 or visit its website 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. For further information, please contact us at (914) 833-8336 or [email protected]

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