Decorative & Fine Arts Featured At Turner Auctions + Appraisals On June 14

Diverse Sale Offers Over 210 Lots from California Collections & Estates

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA, June 4, 2026 – Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present Decorative & Fine Arts  on Sunday, June 14, 2026, at 10:30 am PDT. The sale features over 210 lots from collectors, estates, and SFO Museum. Offerings include artworks, a wide range of decorative items, silver and tableware, small furniture, Persian rugs and carpets, Asian items, vintage toys, and coins and currency.

Artworks include oil and watercolor paintings, prints, lithographs, a photograph, several French posters and bronze sculptures, and busts of marble or metal. Among the artists are Ira Yeager, Pablo Picasso, Raoul Dufy, William Wegman, Iain Baxter, Rebekka Chemanian, Gil Elvgren, Pavel Balod, Douglas Malone, Carl Von Perbandt, and Pierre-Marie Brisson.

There is a wide selection of housewares: sterling silver flatware, serving and table items, including Tiffany and Shreve; glassware from Baccarat, St. Louis, Lalique and Waterford; a Richard Ginori china service; several samovars; Porquier Beau faience plates; and more. A highlight is the Italian sterling tea service and solid silver tea tray. Decorative items include Louis XIV-style wall lights, a Jacots music box, Gustav Becker regulator clocks, models of the Eiffel Tower, shells and coral specimens, two Royal Vienna mythological plates, and extensive offerings of paperweights. There is also a wide selection of devotional items such as porcelain figures, wall plaques, figurines and putti. Asian items include from China, vases, figures, jardinières, vessels, and small furniture (tables and chairs); from Japan are paintings, porcelains, kettles, a hibachi, a doll display, and a bow and arrow case. To further enhance the home, there is a selection of chairs and stools (Eames, Selig, Lawson-Fenning Morro, and Jorgen Moller Askman “M”); fireplace items (screen and andirons); and Persian rugs and carpets. 

Among the currency and coins are Morgan and Peace silver dollars, and rolls of Franklin silver half-dollars. Items deaccessioned from the SFO Museum include toys (two child’s pedal cars, and vintage cars and trucks), British advertising signs, and two automobile hood ornaments. Completing the sale are a C. F. Martin guitar, World War II binoculars on a stand, and a Rudy Lechleither world plaque.

Turner Auctions + Appraisals begins its online auction on Sunday, June 14, 2026, at 10:30 am PDT; sale items are available for preview and bidding now. The auction will be featured live on four platforms: LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, Bidsquare, and Turner Auctions + Appraisals’ free mobile app, which can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Apps (“Turner Auctions”). Both are easily accessed through ‘Upcoming Auctions’ at the company’s website:  www.turnerauctionsonline.com/upcoming-auctions/.

Here below are some highlights of the upcoming online sale (please see lot details in the online catalog):

LOT 9: Italian Sterling Tea Service and Solid Silver Tea Tray. Probably Fratelli Cacchione, Milan, comprising a tea kettle on stand; a coffee pot, a tea pot, a sugar bowl, a creamer, a waste bowl and a solid silver tea tray. Total weighable 9525 grams. (7 Total). Estimate $25,000-$30,000.

LOT 121: Ira Yeager (1938-2022), Mixed Media Painting. Title: Roettiers de la Chauvinerie, Venezia, 1797. Signature: Ira Yeager l/r. Date: 2005 (artist’s studio label verso). Medium: mixed media on canvas; painted frame. Size: 16″ x 20″ (frame 20″ x 24″). Condition good; corner of one applied “manuscript” peeling up slightly. Estimate $3,000-$5,000. 

LOT 64: Massive Vintage Sutro Baths Lithograph. American School. Title: Interior of the Sutro Baths. Circa: Late 19th /early 20th century. Medium: color lithograph. Size frame: 75″ x 81″ (190.5 x 205.7 cm). Condition: image good; multiple vertical fold creases across poster, and some other lesser creasing; possible separation/ reinforcement at center (not examined out of frame). Estimate $3,000-$5,000.

LOT 36: St. Louis Thistle Stemware Suite. Comprising (8) water goblets 7.5″; (12) Continental water goblets 7″h; a Burgundy wine glass 6.375″h; (3) finger bowls 4.25″d and (3) underplates 6’d ensuite with a single Massenet-Clear water goblet, ten glasses with clear St. Louis tags. (Good condition, one of the twelve goblets is written on in black pen info on the base.) (28 Total). (Provenance: Estate of Joan A. Nitis, San Francisco.) Estimate $800-$1,200. 

LOT 105: C.F. Martin Classical Guitar #018. Circa 1949, Serial #114086, Stamped “C.F. Martin & Co./Nazareth, PA/Made in USA ” and on top of the head stock in gilt “CF Martin & Co./Est. 1833″ with a vintage black hard case with orange faux fur lining. Dimensions: 4.25″h x 13.5″w x 38.5″l. Condition: Structurally sturdy. There is a 3.5″l horizontal crack running through the center of the top of the faux tortoise pick guard (a smaller budding crack starting at the side of the pick guard) as well as a 1.5″l horizontal crack about .125” from the top of the guitar case, possibly caused by a .25 inch length diagonal nick to the outside edge of the case. The center bridge pin has come off, and 3rd or 4th string has come undone. Some scratches to the top of the case from use. Estimate $1,000-$2,000.

LOT 187: French Source Brault Mermaids Advertising Poster. Artist: Philippe Henri Noyer (1917-1985). Source Brault. Circa 1938. Color poster. Dimensions 62.5″ x 46″ (Frame 63 1/2″ x 47 1/2″). Condition: Appears good (Not examined out of the frame). Estimate $3,000-$5,000. 

LOT 206: British Austin J40 Pedal Car. The child’s pedal car painted in tartan red, two position adjustable hand brake. Dimensions: 23″ x 60″l x 27″ (58.4 x 152.4 x 68.6 cm). Overall good condition. Rear tire flat. Some abrasions on back left fender and to the front license plate. A few scattered accretions and light scratches. Abrasion on front license plate. Provenance: Sotheby’s, Billinghurst. SFO Museum Deaccessioning Project. Estimate $1,500-$2,000. 

LOT 72: Pablo Picasso Print, Raphael and the Fornarina III. Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) Title: Raphael et la Fornarina III: Avec le Pape en Voyeur Cache. Signature: Ink signed lower right “Picasso”. Medium: Etching on paper. Size sight: H – 14.5″ W – 18.5″. Size frame: H – 20.5″ W – 32″. Created: 1968, Edition 40/50. Condition: Good. (Not examined out of frame.) Estimate $2,000-$4,000. 

LOT 103: German World War Il 10 x 80 Power Flak Artillery Binoculars on Stand. The African corps sand painted tooled alloy and steel constructed 45 degree angle pattern multi-purpose binoculars on tripod stand, the binoculars 7″h x 16.5″w x 8″d, overall 62″h (binoculars have losses to paint, rust and denting). Estimate $800-$1,200.

LOT 46: Pair Paul Millet for Sèvres Gilt Bronze Flambé Vases. Circa 1920, each ovoid form with a cylindrical neck, allover high gloss blue green flambé glaze on yellow ground, fitted with gilt bronze collar, auricular handle and acanthus leaf foot mounts, 11″h. [Overall good condition, one vase has several very faint and short vertical aged hairlines to rim.] Estimate $500-$700. 

LOT 106: Charles & Ray Eames for Herman Miller DCW Dining Chairs. Each chair with red ash stain, with black labels on base, 28.75″h x 19″w x 22″d (Overall very good condition). Estimate $600-$900. 

LOT 193: Vintage Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy Hood Ornament. Circa 1930, the finial based on Charles Sykes (English/ American 1875-1950) Spirit of Ecstasy sculpture. This radiator cap is suitable for Phantom or 20/25 hp models. Dimensions: 5.25″ x 3.25″ x 5″ (13.3 x 8.3 x 12.7 cm) Condition: Scattered scratches also the surface discolored with some abrasions. Provenance: Christie’s, London (sticker label on base). SFO Museum Deaccessioning Project. Estimate $500-$700. 

LOT 147: Persian Malayer Rug. Size approximately 5 feet 3 inches x 3 feet 8 inches. (Provenance: Estate of Joan A. Nitis, San Francisco.) Estimate $400-$600. 

LOT 134: Two Murano Aquarium Paperweights. The larger weight encasing five swimming fish, with a Murano Italy paper label 5.75″ x 5″; the smaller one with single fish 2.5″ x 2.5.” (Overall good condition.) Estimate $300-$500.

LOT 178: Chinese Famille Noire Fishbowl or Jardinière. Retailed by Gumps, the jardinière having two color black and gold enameled continuous landscape with a hut and large flowering plants, the interior painted with goldfish and lily pads in famille verte palette, 17″h x 20″d, ensuite with wood stand 10″h. Estimate $300-$500.