DALLAS, TX.- A diverse collection of decorative items, many with an Asian motif, led the way at Heritage Auctions’ $1.5 million dollar Fine and Decorative Arts including Estates Auction June 10-12. Nearly 1,500 bidders from around the world bid on the 1,293 lots via phone, internet and HALive!. 

An ornate and intricate Chinese Carved, Lacquered and Inlaid Table Cabinet sold for an impressive $45,000, leading the auction. Two other Asian-inspired pieces joined the table cabinet as high value lots: a Large Chinese Carved Coral Figural Group sold for $27,500 and a fine pair of Mintons Partial Gilt Pate-sur-Pate Porcelain Moon Flask Vases realized $25,000. 

Lot 61429. A Chinese Carved, Lacquered and Inlaid Table Cabinet, 36.8 x 36.8 x 29.2 cm. Sold for $27,500. 

The table cabinet having top inlaid with floral motif, cased framed in brass trim, front with articulated court scene, top opening to reveal upper compartment, doors opening to reveal five drawers. Errant losses and cracking to lacquer, minor losses to inlay, with wear commensurate with age and use. 

Lot 61418. A Large Chinese Carved Coral Figural Group, 28.6 x 37.5 x 7.0 cm. Sold for $27,500. 

Significant damage to base of coral to one end, break to midsection of dragon, coral glued to base. 

Lot 61418. A Fine Pair of Mintons Partial Gilt Pate-sur-Pate Porcelain Moon Flask Vases, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, circa 1873-1891. Marks to underside: (crown-over-globe), MINTONS, 1348. Marks to pate-sur-pate: ALB, 26.4 cm. Sold for $25,000. 

The pair of vases each in moon flask form with sage green glaze to bodies, pate-sur-pate decoration to front cartouches depicting bucolic scenery of putti playing instruments among doves, putti drawing in front of bust and easel, cartouches framed in laureate wreath decoration, gilt embellishments to spouts, handles, and footed bases, reverses with plain grounds; pate-sur-pate decoration signed with artist initials ALB, likely for Albion Birks.

Very minor rubbing to gilding, light wear to underside, presenting as well-preserved examples. 

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF BIRKS MUSEUM, MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY, DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

“We were pleased to see strong results in a wide range of categories from the Asian Art and clocks to English and French furniture,” said Karen Rigdon, Director of Silver and Decorative Arts at Heritage Auctions. “We received interest and bids from around the world for this sale and a number of nice pieces, including the Pate-sur-Pate vases and a beautiful late 19th-century German Polyphon Renaissances music cabinet impressed.” 

Two unique and dramatic paintings also exceeded expectations: Louisa McElwain’s dramatic oil on canvas, Silver Rain, hammered for $30,000, and Mihail Chemiakin’s Carnival at St. Peter's, 1979-1988, oil on canvas, sold for $20,000.  

A beautiful and creative bronze by Salvador Dalí, Le profil du Temps, 1984, sold for $18,750, while an intricate Chinese Carved Rosewood Horseshoe Chair from the Property of a Lady of Title collection garnered $17,500. 

Lot 61700. Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989), Le profil du Temps, 1984. Bronze with brown and greenish patina, 52.1 cm high. Ed. 166/350. Inscribed on base: Dali / 166/350. Sold for $18,750.

LITERATURE: R. & N. Descharnes, Dalí: le dur et le mou, sortilège et magie des formes: sculptures & objets, no. 589, p. 233.

Bruce Hochman OS has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this lot.

Lot 61035. A Chinese Carved Rosewood Horseshoe Chair, Property of a Lady of Title, 99.1 x 74.9 x 57.2 cm. Sold for $17,500. 

The chair having horseshoe-shaped crestrail and arms mounted with silvered metal floral plaques, armrests with scrolled and foliate reticulated carving, reticulated carving to backrest, caned seat, four bowed legs raised on squared stretcher terminating in scrolled feet. 

Other top lots included, but were not limited to: 

• Kyffin Williams, Sunset Over a Patagonian Valley, oil on canvas from a Texas estate: $18,750 

• A pair of Louis XV-Style Gilt Bronze-Mounted Mahogany Vitrines: $16,250 

• A Louis XV-Style Patinated and Gilt Bronze with White Marble Clock Garniture: $15,000 

Lot 61029. A Chinese Huanghuali Altar Table, Property of a Lady of Title, 87.0 x 144.8 x 47.0 cm. Sold for $15,000.

PROVENANCE: Teresa Coleman Fine Arts, Hong Kong;
Acquired from the above.

Some fading and water staining to top, minor errant age-related cracking, with wear commensurate with age and use.