Bonhams Will Impress With ‘Elegant Home Auction’

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Bonhams will offer nearly 900 diverse antique pieces from estates and private collections across the country at The Elegant Home auction on November 13-14.

A GOOD QUALITY FRENCH GILT AND PATINATED BRONZE FIGURAL GROUP: GLORIA VICTUS. $15,000-20,000

The sale will be an opportunity for collectors and decorators to acquire quality curated pieces of European and American furniture, chandeliers, tapestries, paintings, mirrors, clocks, sconces, candelabra, bronze and marble sculpture, ceramics and glassware, silver, works of art, and Oriental rugs spanning the 16th through the 20th century.

A PAIR OF GOOD QUALITY LOUIS XVI STYLE GILT BRONZE MOUNTED PORPHYRY COVERED URNS
19TH CENTURY. $8,000-12,000

The European Decorative Arts, Furniture and Sculpture selection includes a breathtaking bronze figural group of Gloria Victus after the model by Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié (French, 1845-1916), F. Barbedienne Foundry Paris (estimate: $15,000-20,000) as well as a rare pair of Louis XVI style gilt-bronze-mounted porphyry covered urns from a New York Estate (estimate: $8,000-12,000).

A GOOD PAIR OF GEORGE III CARVED GILTWOOD MIRRORS
CIRCA 1760. $12,000-18,000

A lovely Louis XV marquetry secretaire with flap, late 18th century, from a New York Estate (estimate: $4,000-6,000) is a highlight of the Furniture section along with a good pair of George III giltwood mirrors, circa 1760 from the Monterey Museum of Art (estimate: $12,000-18,000) A vast collection of Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica pattern dinnerware, from the Robinson Family Trust, is the focus of the Porcelain section.

Pieter van Bloemen, called Standard (Antwerp 1657-1720) Driving the herd 1681, (estimate: $3,000 – 5,000)

 

The breadth of Fine Art offerings ranges from Continental Baroque Masters like the Flemish genre scene Driving the Herd by Pieter van Bloemen (estimate: 3,000-5,000) to more Modernist works like the Antoni Clavé L’enfant au Tambour from the Julian Silva Revocable Trust, San Francisco (estimate: $10,000-15,000), and American and International Maritime works like Joe Duncan Gleason’s Whaling Bark, Charles W. Morgan, Built in 1841 at New Bedford, Mass. (estimate: $3,000-5,000).

A PAIR OF IMPORTANT REGENCY STERLING SILVER COVERED ENTREE DISHES ON SHEFFIELD PLATED STANDS FROM THE FOLEY SERVICE by Benjamin Smith III, London, 1819. $20,000-30,000

Fine silver is led by an Important pair of Regency entrée dishes by Benjamin Smith III from the Foley Service, 1819 (estimate: $20,000-30,000). Another English silver highlight is a monumental Bacchic vase by Charles F. Hancock presented by the 3rd Marquess of Bute to Sir William Thomas Lewis from the Estate of Dorothy B. Warne, Santa Rosa, CA (estimate: $8,000-12,000). Modernist silver is also featured with a selection of Georg Jensen flatware and hollowware including a rare Bittersweet pattern service for twelve designed by Gundorph Albertus (estimate: $7,000-10,000).

A GEORGE II STERLING SILVER FIVE-BASKET EPERGNE
probably by (Charles I) Frederick Kandler, London, 1758

The works will preview to the public at Bonhams Los Angeles November 10-13 with the two-day auction.

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