Magnificient May Auction

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On May 15th, Wassily Kandinsky’s rare and complete “Kleine Welten” portfolio will go up for auction. It is the fourth time this rare portfolio has surfaced in its entirety since 1989 at public auction.

Also being represented in the Fine Art category is Tony Cragg’s bronze sculpture “The Knot”, an untitled oil painting by Richard Pettibone, Andy Warhol’s lithograph “Liz”, 1964, and Ansel Adams first published portfolio “Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras”. Rounding out the auction is a fine selection of furniture including modern by Tommi Parzinger and Arne Jacobsen, a selection of hammered copper by Dirk Van Erp, antiquarian books, sterling silver including a Sheffield punch bowl, fine jewelry and time pieces, and Chinese and Japanese ivories, porcelains and decorative items.
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Three Chinese Jade Seals6572 - Three Chinese Jade Seals
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Set of three Chinese spinach jade seals, 20th century, each of the seals with a square plinth incised with text in Chinese seal script and Manchu scri
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Start Price : 750.00 | Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
 
 
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Japanese Ivory Netsuke, Fish, Signed6573 - Japanese Ivory Netsuke, Fish, Signed
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Japanese contemporary ivory netsuke, mid-20th century, well carved and pierced as two carp swimming along eddies of a stream, the openings serving as
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Start Price : 50.00 | Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
 
 
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Chinese Circular Ivory Box6574 - Chinese Circular Ivory Box
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Chinese carved circular ivory box, late Qing/Republic period, the plain cylindrical container fitted with a domical lid carved with a medallion with a
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Start Price : 130.00 | Estimate : 250.00 - 450.00
 
 
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Japanese Mashiko Ceramic, Hamada Shoji6575 - Japanese Mashiko Ceramic, Hamada Shoji
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Japanese Mashiko studio ware stoneware plate, mid-20th century, the sloping interior with a cris-cross pattern of whitish-green and dark brown glaze,
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Start Price : 200.00 | Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Japanese Small Ivory Figure (Okimono)6576 - Japanese Small Ivory Figure (Okimono)
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Japanese small ivory figural carving (okimono), 1st half of the 20th century, portraying the Ebisu, one of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune holding a gi
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Start Price : 80.00 | Estimate : 150.00 - 250.00
 
 
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Japanese Ivory Seal-Form Netsuke, 19th C6577 - Japanese Ivory Seal-Form Netsuke, 19th C
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Japanese ivory seal-form netsuke, 19th century, of wedge shape surmounted by a karashishi playing with a large ball, the high relief figure with incis
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Start Price : 200.00 | Estimate : 400.00 - 600.00
 
 
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Japanese Samurai Sword/Katana, Dated 18476578 - Japanese Samurai Sword/Katana, Dated 1847
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Japanese katana, shinshin-to, blade nagasa 29'' (73cm), shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune, gunomei-midare, ko-maru boshi, the tang with gimei inscri...
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Start Price : 500.00 | Estimate : 1,000.00 - 1,500.00
 
 
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Japanese Ceramic Bowls, Natsume, Tokkuri6579 - Japanese Ceramic Bowls, Natsume, Tokkuri
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(Lot of 5) Selection of Japanese ceramics: a Kita-ware double-lozenge shaped mukozuke executed in the Oribe style with iron oxide and splashes of gree
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Start Price : 50.00 | Estimate : 100.00 - 200.00
 
 
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Two Japanese Ivory Figural Netsuke, Showa6580 - Two Japanese Ivory Figural Netsuke, Showa
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(Lot of 2) Japanese ivory figural netsuke, Showa period, the first of a humorous blind man attempting to remove a rock from his wooden geta, the incis
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Start Price : 150.00 | Estimate : 300.00 - 500.00
 
 
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Chinese Boxwood Guanyin Figure6581 - Chinese Boxwood Guanyin Figure
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Chinese boxwood figure of a celestial maiden, Republic period, probably depicting Guanyin, well carved and undercut standing in long flowing robes wit
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Start Price : 250.00 | Estimate : 500.00 - 700.00
 
 
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