JSE & Associates Fall Fine & Decorative Arts Auction To Feature Top-Quality Offerings

The Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Fall Fine & Decorative Arts Auction contains a wide selection of material and will include everything from fine art and rare music boxes to miniature lighting and rare silver. The large auction will take place over two days, Friday, October 18, 2019 and Saturday, October 19, 2019, with absentee, phone, internet, and in-house bidding available. 

Friday’s session, beginning at 9:30 am, will start the weekend off with a bang and features part one of the miniature lighting collection of Yvonne and the late Pete Lynch, Lincoln, DE; part one of the Connie Scott collection, Bristol, CT; the John & late Evelyn Teague Collection, Bloomingdale, IN; a Florida private collection; and part three of the Marcia C. Shaffer collection, Medford, NJ; plus others. Highlights include a rare English cameo floral and leaf pattern miniature stand lamp, likely produced by Thomas Webb & Sons; a basket pattern miniature lamp in cased blue with satin finish; a Stars and Bars nickel-plated cigar lighter / miniature lamp; other fine miniature lighting and fairy lamps; Bohemian glass including cut-overlay examples; Victorian glass of all types; antique and modern paperweights, including examples by Baccarat, St. Louis, and a variety of studio artists; plus much more. variety of studio artists; plus much more.

Saturday’s session, beginning at 9:30 am, should prove to be equally exciting and features property from the estate of Commander Buryl and Nelwyn Kay, McLean, VA; property from the estate collection of Dan and Doris Chrisman, Roanoke, VA; property from the private collection of Dr. George A. and Mary Jane Haas, Alexandria, VA; material from the Fritz and Loretta Orebaugh estate, New Market, VA; property deaccessioned by the Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA to benefit collections care, preservation, and future acquisitions; material from the collection of the late Honorable Dennis F. Harrigan, Superior Court Judge, Greenwich, CT; selections from the Joe Cesarini estate collection, Ridgely, MD; the John & late Evelyn Teague Collection, Bloomingdale, IN; the private collection of J. Richard and Edith J. “Ditha” Grove, Mars Hall Farm, Gordonsville, VA; plus others. The day’s various offerings consist of British and Continental furniture and accessories; paintings, prints, and statuary; Asian material of all types; a fine collection of music boxes and rare phonographs; American and European art glass; studio glass; fine cut glass including a Russian cut punch bowl engraved with a depiction of the centerboard schooner Montauk, Dorflinger pieces, and a signed Hawkes umbrella stand; fine silver and jewelry; 18th & 19th century ceramics; fine American art pottery; &c. Highlights include an Edouard Leon Cortes Parisian street scene, a fine example of the artist’s work, totally fresh to the market; a rare Symphonium coin-op floor model music box with chimes; a Chinese Export Hung Chong silver repousse fruit bowl; an Ercole Barovier Tessere Policrome Murrine art glass vase with original paper label; a Tiffany Nasturtium paperweight art glass vase with original paper label; a rare South Pacific Malagan / Tatanua ceremonial mask; a fine Angel Botello abstract portrait of mother and child; plus much more.

The complete catalogue for both days will be posted on the firm’s website around October 4th and will be available for absentee and live bidding through the Jeffrey S. Evans LIVE platform, as well as Live Auctioneers and Invaluable. All lots will be on public preview at the firm’s gallery located at 2177 Green Valley Ln., Mt. Crawford, VA on October 16th and 17th from 10 am to 6 pm daily, and on October 18th and 19th from 8 am until the last lot is sold on each day. For additional information, please go to www.jeffreysevans.com, e-mail [email protected], or call 540.434.3939.