United States

We are often touched by tales of unexpected, pioneering art collectors and amazed at their expertise, refined tastes, and keen artistic senses. Not always the exclusive pursuit of the wealthy elite, art collecting is more widely appreciated, as our March auctions hope to demonstrate. In our March 27th Live sale, Asian Art: Selected from Lifetime Collections, we are thrilled to present the collection of Milton Drexel (Rex) Rutherford, a military veteran who worked on the Subway excavation in Chicago, later in his career, a customer of his business gave him a piece of Asian art, sparking a life dedicated to collecting, honing in on important examples of Japanese metalwork and lacquer, as well as exceptional Kangxi ceramics. Other collections include pieces belonging to an immigrant who focused on selecting rare ancient Chinese metalworks, Yixing wares from a collector who was inspired by and dedicated his life to the beauty of the clay teapot, unusual finds from a lifetime dealer of Japanese paintings and prints, and Chinese ceramics from a refined personal collection.Previews for the March 27th live auction in Boston will be held in our Boston Gallery on March 22nd, 23rd, and 24th.

Americas

Asian Art: Selected from Lifetime Collections | Bonhams Skinner

Skinner Boston

Asian Works of Art | Bonhams Skinner

Carpets, Rugs & Tapestries

We are excited to offer another Art Underfoot auction. You will see a wide array of antique rugs, ranging from beautiful Serapi carpets to finely woven tribal bags. Many excellent Caucasian rugs are featured as well as Persian and Anatolian pieces. You will find bold and unusual Kuba rugs, refined Marasali prayer rugs, and a delightfully playful Bakshaish garden carpet. Several fine and early textiles round out our offerings. Collectors, dealers, aficionados, and anyone else interested in rugs and textile art should find plenty of rare and exciting material in this auction. The auction will run online from March 19&#8211;29. Previews will be held in our Marlborough gallery on March 27&#8211;29.

Art Underfoot | Rugs & Carpets | Bonhams Skinner

Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

The March Native American & Tribal Art online auction features artefacts encompassing many of the world's tribal cultures, from the North American Indian tribes to objects from Africa, the South Pacific, and South-East Asia. The auction offers a trip around the globe, from its ritual figures from the Congo to shaman's masks from the Ivory Coast and the Himalayas to war clubs, bark cloth, and early stone tools from Melanesia and Polynesia. The sale has a wide range of North American artefacts such as Northwest Coast horn spoons and totems, California baskets, Navajo textiles and silver and turquoise jewellery, Hopi katsinas, and Southwest pottery. The auction also features an extensive collection of Plains Indian beadwork from the Dean Taylor collection of Denver, Colorado, as well as several collections of reference books and auction catalogues of world tribal art.

Native American & Tribal Art | Bonhams Skinner

Home and Interiors

Discovery – 20th Century & Modern Design | Bonhams Skinner

American Furniture & Decorative Arts

The Goddard family was one of the most prominent families of Providence, Rhode Island, who resided in one of Providence's finest neo-classical mansions for generations. For over two centuries, the family assembled a remarkable collection that Bonhams Skinner proudly presents at auction. Highlights in the collection include an extraordinary early walnut bombe burl musical tall case clock by Jan Christian Sauer, Amsterdam, with astrological dial playing twelve tunes, an exceptional c. 1765 Philadelphia Chippendale carved and figured mahogany dressing table, colonial American silver from Newport, Rhode Island, and Boston, Chinese export porcelain, antique oriental rugs, and related decorative art from America and Europe. Previews available at our Marlborough gallery, April 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM, or by appointment.

The Collections of the Historically Significant Goddard Family of Providence, Rhode Island | Bonhams Skinner

With roughly 150 lots of Wedgwood consigned from a Philadelphia collector and with select additions. Included are wares including jasper, black basalt and fairyland lustre, spanning the 260 years of production. Highlights include an 18th century black basalt library bust of Marcus Aurelius among several on offer, a pair of Emile Lessore decorated queen's ware vases with applied blue jasper medallions, a full-size black jasper Portland vase, and a pair of dark blue jasper dip canopic jars and covers. The 20th century is also well represented with several fairyland and other lustres featuring a punch bowl with Poplar Tree exterior with a black sky, Woodland Bridge interior to a daylit sky and with a Mermaid centre, a pair of Wedgwood Erling Olsen design green-glazed Pan bookends in the art nouveau style, a Norman Wilson glazed water nymph, and a black basalt Newton, Master of The Universe figure taken from an original bronze sculpture by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.With a strong focus on continental European silver. Select highlights are a pair of Georg Jensen Sterling Silver Candelabra designed by Harald Nielsen, a Mario Buccellati Sterling Silver Footed Bowl, and Cardeilhac .950 Silver Cream Jug and Sugar Bowl. Within that, there is a fine representation of Faberg&#233; wares including a .916 silver bellpush in the form of a sow, a kovsh-shaped Rococo. 875 silver bowl, silver kettle and stand, among other Russian pieces. American silver shines with a six-piece Art Nouveau Martel&#233; coffee and tea service, a George Shiebler sterling silver ice spoon, and a Cartier silver and enamel basket. Notably, English silver boasts a four-piece Hunt & Roskell coffee and tea set in its original fitted case.

Collector's Choice: Wedgwood & Silver | Bonhams Skinner

This eclectic sale includes an extensive private collection of furniture and decorative arts from a South Shore, MA gentleman, and a large assemblage of Doulton stonewares highlighted by a large three-handled presentation loving cup titled Presented to A. Baldwin by colleagues at Royal Doulton Potteries on the occasion of his marriage 2nd Sept. 1925 and with inscribed signatures of the factory workers, as well as other Doulton Chang and Jade wares.Russian items are well represented and include Faberge and Faberge -type items, bronzes, purpurin and a number of icons.A furniture highlight is a Spanish bone Inlaid two-part Bargue&#241;o from a private Boston consignor. Fine art is also nicely represented with a Laura Coombs Hills (1859-1952) Rosa Hugonis.The decorative arts includes a number of bronze, of note Striding Tiger after Antoine-Louis Barye (French 1795-1875) and Femme au Levrier by Raymond Leon Rivoire (French, 1884-1966). Porcelains include a nice assortment with Royal Worcester hand painted vases by Stinton and Davis, as well as wares from Vienna, Paris and Meissen manufacturers.

European Décor & Design | Bonhams Skinner

We are delighted to offer another live auction of rugs from the Jim Dixon collection. Dixon was the most sophisticated of collectors. He elevated the artistry and historical significance of his rugs above the traditional considerations of size and condition. His resulting collection includes a vast number of rare, colourful, and aesthetically important rugs and carpets. Dixon explored the nooks and crannies of the rug world, and many of his pieces are truly unique examples of their types. The current Jim Dixon: Woven Gardens auction offers beautiful silk rugs from East Turkestan, many rare and early examples from the Caucasus, and extraordinary and early fragments ranging from Turkey to as far away as China. Many pieces date as far back as the 17th century, and everything has significant age. You won't want to miss this sale of spectacular woven art from the Jim Dixon collection. The auction will be held live in our Boston gallery on April 27th. Previews will be held on April 24th, 25th, and 26th in Boston.

Woven Gardens | The Jim Dixon Collection | Bonhams Skinner

Books & Manuscripts

Fine Books & Rare Manuscripts | Bonhams Skinner

Open Auction Viewings: Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts19 May 2023, 10:00 - 4:00 EST 22 May 2023, 10:00 - 4:00 EST 23 May 2023, 10:00 - 4:00 EST

Prints & Photographs | Bonhams Skinner

Australia

Australian Art

Important Notice This collection is previewed and sold offsite. Please note the following:Preview This auction can only be previewed for one day at an off-site location. Monday 27th March, from 10am to 4pm, at 3/1 Rosemont Ave, Woollahra, NSW, 2025.Collections Collections must take place from 3/1 Rosemont Ave, Woollahra, NSW, 2025. Access for collection will be from Thursday 30 &#8211; Friday 31st March BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. Please call 02 8412 2222 to arrange.For all items that have not been collected by Friday 31st March they will be sent to Pack and Send Pyrmont, they may choose to charge you storage fees.

Asia-Pacific

Elegant Interiors: A Distinguished Collection

Sydney

Prints & Multiples

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Jewellery

The Weekly Edit: Jewelry

Online, Los Angeles

France

Impressionist and Modern Art

Part I : Manuscripts at 10am (lots 1 to 78) Part II : Paintings, works on paper and sculptures at 2pm (lots 100 to 199)

Europe

La Révolution Surréaliste

Paris, Avenue Hoche

United Kingdom

Popular Culture

Designer Handbags & Fashion

Modern British & Irish Art

British. Cool.

London, New Bond Street

Scottish Art

Pictures and Prints Online

Edinburgh

Fine Books and Manuscripts

London, Knightsbridge

Russian Paintings and Works of Art

19th Century & Orientalist Paintings

We are delighted to present our forthcoming sale of 19th Century & British Impressionist Art, taking place on the 29th March. Among the sale highlights are masterpieces by John William Godward, Frederic, Lord Leighton and John Everett Millais. The sale also includes important works by Vasilii Polenov, Ivan Aivazovsky and Victor Gabriel Gilbert. The sale will be on view every day, from midday on Friday 24th March until the morning of the sale.

19th Century and British Impressionist Art

Sam Ringer : C'était un homme

Modern Decorative Art & Design

Modern Design | Art

Lapidary Works of Art

Natural History

Albert and Jacques Bellanger CollectionIncluding Amelia Mine, Boleo Dist., Santa Rosalia, Mulege Mun., Baja California Sur, Mexico as well as Tsumeb, Canadian and US Minerals.Albert Bellanger, a mining engineer and CEO of the Am&#233;lia Mine, Boleo, Baja California, Mexico from 1910 to 1937, hi-graded numerous fine examples of rare and sought-after Cumengeites and Boleites. His collection was formed between 1900-1940 and includes close to 200 Boleo items including rare floater, star-form Cumengeites, some of which are close in size to those displayed in the Sorbonne Museum. The collection contains many other minerals from Mexico, from mines no longer producing. His son, Jacques, also a Mining Civil Engineer, further expanded the collection from the 1960s to the 1980s to include specimens from Tsumeb, Namibia and old US and World Localities. This comprehensive collection of nearly 600 specimens presents a unique historic point of view and an overview of systematic specimens. The majority of the minerals bear painted Fischesser reference numbers applied by Jacques. The minerals from U.S. and World Localities form an excellent teaching collection of closed mining localities and examples of mineral systematics which range in size from thumbnail to mid-sized cabinet specimens. The collection is a unique testament to the mining adventures of this notable French mineralogist family and has remained intact for over 100 years.

The Bellanger Collection of Mexican, Namibian and U.S. Minerals

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