Big Memorial Day auction at Flowery Branch Auction Over 400 lots of quality merchandise, consigned by local estates and prominent collections, will be sold at auction on Monday, May 31, by Flowery Branch Auction & Antiques in Flowery Branch, Georgia.
News-Antique.com - May 14,2010 - (FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga.) – Over 400 lots of quality merchandise, consigned by local estates and prominent collections, will be sold at auction on Monday, May 31, by Flowery Branch Auction & Antiques, located at 5540 Atlanta Highway. Flowery Branch is situated northeast of Atlanta, just off Interstate 985, about halfway between Buford and Gainesville. The auction will be followed by an antiques and collectibles show on June 4, 5 and 6.
The event will be held inside a 20,000-square-foot facility that the auction business shares with the monthly antiques show that currently boasts around 60 dealers.
There will be an auction preview on Sunday, May 30, from 2-5 p.m. Light hors d'oeuvres will be served. The auction will start promptly at 10 a.m. (EDT) on May 31. Parking and admission are both free. The venue is a smoke-free facility. The on-site restaurant will be open for breakfast and lunch.
“All of our auctions do well, but the Memorial Day auction is by far one of the best sales of the year,” said Tom Schulte of Flowery Branch Auction & Antiques. “We’ll have lots of gold and silver jewelry, artwork, crystal, bronze, pottery, china, porcelain, furniture, primitives, and whatever other surprises our consignors bring us to sell.” All items can be viewed online, at http://www.auctionzip.com/Listings/784966.html.
Decorative accessories will include a small Steuben crystal bird, a Baccarat ice bucket, a small Baccarat glass turtle, Old Paris porcelain (some of it figural), a set of Chantilly sterling flatware, a nice Royal Doulton Lambeth pottery vase (signed), a collection of 10-12 pieces of contemporary Korean pottery, and Indian and Mexican pottery.
Artwork will feature a wonderful piece of mid-century modern glass sculpture, large and heavy (open to interpretation, but probably a stylized animal), an Old Master painting dated 1889 or 1899 with metal stretchers, a pair of antique still life paintings of flowers, a Victorian hand-colored print in a criss-cross period frame, and a large oil on canvas of sheep (circa 1870-1880).
Other works of art will include an oil on canvas landscape rendering (circa 1920s), an Oriental reverse painting on glass, several period fashion prints (some from the late 19th century), several pieces of statuary (including one of a horse with a praying child and an adult), a mid-century Modern carved acrylic piece, and three paintings of Greek gods, all on identical frames.
Sterling silver jewelry crafted in Taxco, Mexico is sure to spark bidder interest and will include a 3-D snake necklace crafted by Margo de Taxco (circa 1940s-‘70s) and a matching earring-bracelet-necklace set. Other sterling will include a Continental hors d’oeuvres spoon and several flatware sets. A lovely necklace by American maker Miriam Haskell will also be offered.
Furniture lots will include several pieces by Heritage, a large Kittredge sofa, a Baker bowfront and butler’s tray (or side server), an oak side-by-side period step-back cupboard (circa 1900), and an Empire marble-top petticoat table with bronze ormolu.
Additional furniture pieces will include a pair of chestnut side chairs, a set of six
