UNRESERVED, HIDDEN CACHE OF ENGLISH ART AND ANTIQUES AUCTION AT RAGO’S ON AUGUST 7th AND 8th ESTATE OF ANTIQUES DEALER JOSEPH STANLEY TO BE SOLD UNRESERVED WITH 600 ADDITIONAL LOTS OF ENGLISH, CONTINENTAL AND AMERICAN ART, FURNITURE, JEWELRY, DECORATIVE ITEMS, ETHNOGRAPHIC ART AND COLLECTIBLE
(pre-sale estimate $2000-3000); a 19th C. English Regency mahogany breakfront (pre-sale estimate $3000-4000); a Welsh dresser base, ca. 1740-1760 (pre-sale estimate $1000-2000); an English high chest, ca. 1780-1800 (pre-sale estimate $800-1200); a 17th C. Continental blanket chest with painted panels (pre-sale estimate $1000-1500); and a Regency style pair of knife urns in mahogany, 20th C. (pre-sale estimate $1000-1500). Also among the finest furnishings, a pair of tortoiseshell chairs in the Regency style with horsehair upholstery, late 19th/early 20th C. (pre-sale estimate $10,000-15,000); and a ca. 1860 Victorian Rococo mahogany sideboard with marble top attributed to Alexander Roux (pre-sale estimate $6000-8000).
Fine Art: From the Stanley Estate come 18th and 19th C. portraiture, marine art, animal art, 19th c. landscapes, Chinese export paintings and works of art of the 20th C., including work from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts and the New Hope school. Oil paintings in the sale include: "The Charles Morgan Off Cape of Good Hope”, 19th C., (pre-sale estimate $5000-8000); Ethan Allen Greenwood’s "Sambo The Beggar Man", 1854, signed, titled and dated, with caricature on verso (pre-sale estimate $2000-3000); a signed, untitled painting of hunters and dogs by J. Bradley, (pre-sale estimate $1000-1500); a signed, untitled painting of two fox hounds by T. Palmer (pre-sale estimate $800-1200); “Summer”, by Cesare A. Ricciardi, 1934, signed, dated and titled (pre-sale estimate $600-800); an untitled early 19th C. painting of a horse drawn carriage (pre-sale estimate $1000-1500); "Durham Ox" by James Scraggs, signed and dated (pre-sale estimate $800-1200); an untitled painting of exotic fowl in landscape by John King, 1832, signed and dated (pre-sale estimate $1000-1500); a pair of 19th C. panels with mythological scenes (pre-sale estimate $1000-1500); a large 19th C. full-length portrait of a young boy with dog (pre-sale estimate $5000-8000); a large 18th C. portrait of a young girl with a rabbit (pre-sale estimate $2000-3000); and a 19th C. portrait of a gentleman (pre-sale estimate $500-700). Also "Unity of Cork, Denis Whelan, Master, January 1st, 1851", a nautical scene in gouache and pencil (pre-sale estimate $1200-1500); an Asian painting on wood depicting a scholar, ca. 18th C. (pre-sale estimate $600-800); a pair of Japanese portraits on silk, ca. 1900 (pre-sale $400-600); and a pair of 19th C. portraits by Raimundo de Madrazo y Garretta (pre-sale estimate $5000-8000).
English and Continental Decorative Arts and accessories highlights include 19th C. English tea caddies in tortoiseshell and fruitwood; a 19th C. English miniature desk (pre-sale estimate $600-800); an English Girandole mirror with candleholders and eagle finial (pre-sale estimate $2500-3500); a 19th C. English stick barometer inscribed Zambra (pre-sale estimate $600-800); a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk (pre-sale estimate $3000-5000); late 18th C. English figural dummyboards, including one depicting a man and a woman in period dress (pre-sale estimate $700-900); a pair of 18th/19th C. English gilded sconces with winged female figures (pre-sale estimate $1000-1500); a late 19th C., unsigned Italian marble statue “Susanna After the Bath” on green marble base (pre-sale estimate $12000-18000); a 20th C. sculpture of Hercules and Antaeus
