December 5

20th CENTURY FINE ART, FURNITURE AND DECORATION;
Asian Works of Art; Jewelry and Fine Art from the Collection of Patti Cadby Birch; Property from a Long Island Estate; Property from the Collection of Josephine and Walter Buhl Ford II and Property from the Estate of Von Sung Yang

October 24

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF HUNT SLONEM
From Historic Cordts Mansion, Kingston, NY. Including 19th and 20th Century Fine Art and a Large Collection of European and American Gothic Revival and Renaissance Revival Furniture and Decorations.This impressive array of 19th-century furnishings represents nearly a decade of collecting by a prominent contemporary New York artist with a passion for restoring and decorating historic houses.

September 12 and 13

A TWO-DAY AUCTION OF AMERICAN, ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL FURNITURE, decorations and fine art from the 17th through the 20th centuries, including property from the collections of a French Gentleman, the Wanamaker-de Heeren Family, Josephine and Walter Buhl Ford II, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, being sold for the benefit of the Acquisitions funds, and the Childs Family, removed from “Florham,” Madison, New Jersey, the 100-room mansion designed by McKim, Mead & White for Florence Vanderbilt Twombly and her husband, Hamilton Twombly.  Also sculptures and plaster maquettes from the estate of American artist Chester Beach (1881-1956). Among the sculptor’s property are several marble reliefs by Thomas Ball (1819-1911), acquired by Beach when he purchased Ball’s studio. Featured in the sale are rare books, prints and fine bindings, highlights of which are a manuscript antiphonal on vellum, two volumes of John Abbot’s “The Natural History of Rare Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia” (1797), and forty volumes of Washington Irving’s “Works.”

June 20, 2009

19th and 20th CENTURY FINE ART AND EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN JEWELRY, Including property from The Patti Cadby Birch Collection, a French Gentleman, Mrs. J. P. Morgan II, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Brooklyn Museum

May 23, 2009

FEATURED OVER 300 LOTS OF AMERICAN INDIAN WORKS OF ART, including objects discussed and illustrated in “Pleasing the Spirits: A Catalogue of a Collection of American Indian Art” by Douglas C. Ewing. Also offering an extensive angling library as well as other property from the collection of Herbert G. Wellington, in addition to items from several other consignors.

March 27, 28 and 29, 2009

AMERICAN, ENGLISH AND CONTINENTAL SILVER AND SILVER-PLATE; Paintings; over 100 lots of Rare Books, Prints and Fine Bindings.
American, English and Continental Furniture, Fine and Decorative Arts
American, English and Continental furniture and decorations, including property from the collections of Mrs. Gordon Getty, the Wanamaker-de Heeren family, a French gentleman, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, as well as property from the estates of   Fred  F. and Lois K. Rogers, Cynthia Phipps and Mrs. Douglas C. Dillon; also featuring English and American 19th and early 20th century fine and decorative arts from the collection of  Paul  F. Walter, formerly at 420 Ox Pasture Road, Southampton, New York.