ECFA Spring Auction Sun Apr 7 @ 1PM
Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay Sonny Liston 1964 Heavyweight Boxing Champion Sheppard
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: An amazing 24 x 30 original oil painting by well listed American artist Joseph Sheppard. It shows one of the most important moments in the history of sports. This is the ending of the world heavyweight championship boxing title fight held in 1964 between then champ Sonny Liston and challenger Cassius … View Full Entry
Namikawa Sosuke Japanese Meiji Vase 12″ Bird Tree Spider Web Wireless Wired EXC
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: An excellent 12 in tall Meiji era Japanese cloisonne vase attributed to Namikawa Sosuke. Done in wired and wireless techniques. It shows a bird, possibly a shrike, who has just landed abruptly on a tree branch. He is looking at a spider who has just come out to repair a broken … View Full Entry
19th C Robert Blum ? W/C Japanese Flower Merchants & Geisha Women Meiji Era
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: Incredible original watercolor showing a Japanese scene with flower sellers in a boat and girls on the deck of a waterside building. One of the best watercolors of this type I’ve ever seen. The details are amazing from the figures and their clothing, to the architecture, the flowers and pine boughs, … View Full Entry
19th C Boat Beach Crane Fish Lobster Crates Impressionist Hudson River School
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: Excellent late 19th or early 20th C original oil on canvas of a shoreline with a beached boat, red wooden crates, a man powered lifting derrick or crane, and a small fishing shack in the distance. Most likely from the architecture, this view is of New England or possibly the Southern … View Full Entry
LG 38×27 African American Black Harlem Renaissance Bowling Scene Washington DC
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: An excellent large original oil on artist board of an African American Harlem Renaissance style scene. It features two African American couples at what appears to be a bowling alley. Three of the figures are seated with a man flanked by two women. The second man is laying on his side … View Full Entry
Namikawa Yasuyuki Style Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Vase Ginbari Orange Floral
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: An excellent 7.5 inch tall early Meiji era Japanese cloisonne vase attributed to Namikawa Yasuyuki. It features a flower and leaf pattern in white, blue and green against a highly reflective ginbari orange background. This color is also used in the bottom border triangle patterns. Bottom third is a scroll pattern … View Full Entry
Seymour Joseph Guy 19th C American Genre Woman Veranda Ocean North Star LISTED
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: Excellent original oil painting by world renowned American artist Seymour Joseph Guy. Features a beautiful, well dressed woman on a carpeted outdoor balcony with the North Star shining over the water behind her. Most likely a ship captains wife waiting for his return. SJ Guy is one of the best American … View Full Entry
LG 24×40 Pencil Drawing American Western Native American War Party On Horse Back
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: An excellent large 24×40 inch original pencil drawing of a Native American Indian war party on horseback. The drawing is incredibly detailed and precise. Probably a full scale finished drawing for an oil painting. Similar to works by 20th C Western artists such as Howard Terpning and Frank McCarthy. … View Full Entry
Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne 18.25″ Vase Pheasant Bird Trees Cherry Flower
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: A fine and large 18.25 inch tall early Meiji era Japanese cloisonne vase. It features an overall design of flowering cherry blosson trees with a colorful pheasant on each side. Fancy archaic design borders. Interior of top rim is fully worked out with a five petal flower design. … View Full Entry
Daniel Sherrin England British UK Landscape Old Church Sunset 25×41.5 LISTED
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: A fine and large example of well listed British landscape painter Daniel Sherrin The Elder in the impressive original gilt frame. It shows an old fashioned Church at the edge of a small pond with a luminist sunset in the clouds overhead. Sherrin is a very well known artist who at … View Full Entry
Art Nouveau W/C Madonna & Child Iris Stained Glass Window Design LeFarge Style
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: An excellent original watercolor of a design for an Art Nouveau period stained glass window. It features a stylized version of a Madonna and Child set in a landscape against a tree. It has a pointed arch top museum mat and modern frame. Possibly by noted Rhode Island artist and stained … View Full Entry
Sgd Ando Jubei Wireless Taisho Showa Japanese Cloisonne 12″ Vase Silver Mounts
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: An excellent 12 inch tall Taisho or Showa era Japanese cloisonne vase by Ando Jubei. It features an entirely wireless design of flowers set against a pale green background. 3.75″ across bottom. Signed on the base with the inlaid silver wire signature of Ando Jubei. Bottom rim is stamped with Japanese … View Full Entry
Modernist Style Women @ Beach Shore Scene Illegible Monogram Unknown Artist
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: An excellent early 20th C modernist oil painting on artist board showing woman on a beach. It is monogrammed by the artist at lower right, but I have not been able to decipher it. Excellent work in the figures, and brilliant colors, especially in the light reflection on the water. Painting … View Full Entry
William Jennys US 18th 19th C Folk Primitive Portrait Woman Gold Jewelry Book
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: An excellent late 18th C – early 19th C American Folf Art portrait. The painting can be reliably attributed to well known Massachusetts artist William Jennys. You should be able to find multiple works by Jennys showing subjects in a nearly identical pose, facing to the right holding a purse or … View Full Entry
Namikawa Sosuke Style Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Vase 9.5″ Pair Birds Flowers
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: A fine 9.5 inch tall mirror pair of Japanese cloisonne vases attributed to Namikawa Sosuke. They feature sparrows on flowering braches and colorful flowers below. The top and bottom have pale yellow stylized hoho birds set against a pale red background. Set against a pale speckled grey background. Very interesting shape … View Full Entry
After Francesco Francia Annunciation Virgin Mary Early 18th C Nazarene Style
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: An excellent original oil on canvas from the early 19th C after the central figure of Mary from Francesco Francia’s altarpiece in Pinacoteca Nazionale Bologna. The last picture included in this sale shows the original 15th C painting that features St Jerome, St John the Baptist, and the archangel Gabriel. Mary … View Full Entry
Jules Dupre French Barbizon Founder Landscape House Figure Lake Cows
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: An excellent original 7.5 x 9.5 oil on canvas by world renowned French Barbizon painter Jules Dupre. Signed at lower left by the artist, and also is monogrammed JD in a circle on reverse of canvas. In addition, on reverse there is also a stamped mark 2F. I’ve searched through all … View Full Entry
24″ Japanese Meiji Era Cloisonne Vase Dragon Hoho Bird Butterfly Honda Yosaburo?
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: An excellent and very large 24″ Meiji period Japanese cloisonne vase. Extremely elaborate design with precise wirework throughout. It features a series of three dragons around the shoulder of the vase, on of which has the pearl in his claw. Below that are shield shaped alternating vignettes of Hoho birds, butterflies, … View Full Entry
WPA era NYC Street Scene Figures Cars Buildings 1942 Fed Art Project John Bentz
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: A fine 1930s-40s NYC street scene at night by listed artist John Bentz. Great use of lighting in the streetlights and sundown sky. A figure of an older gentleman is in the foreground, with other figures, cars, and a double decker bus in the distance. I believe the very left edge … View Full Entry
William Baptiste Baird 19th C American Deer Stag Hudson River Landscape LISTED
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: An excellent original oil painting on panel by well listed American artist William Baptiste Baird. One of the best I have been able to find. An extremely precise and realistic portrayal of a mighty stag and a doe. Beautiful colors and details in the landscape and sky. Baird is more known … View Full Entry
Meiji Japanese Kyoto Cloisonne Covered Censer Dragon Shishi Hoho Bird Dragon
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: An excellent small 3.5″ Meiji era Japanese cloisonne covered censer or Koro with motifs of dragons, hoho birds, and shi shi dogs. Incredibly precise wirework throughout with excellent vivid colors. Fine chrysanthemum finial. … View Full Entry
19th C Pre Raphaellite Charles Gounod House Saint Raphael France Mediteranean
Nov 14 Auction Item Preview: Fine original 19th C Pre Raphaellite style coastal landscape. Original inscription in pencil on stretcher on verso Saint-Raphael [illegible] Mediterrean, House in which C [Charles] Gounod lived when he [composed?] Opera of Faust. The painting shows a woman on a path with a goat walking towards the house. The blue waters … View Full Entry