1900 LOTS TO LOVE AT RAGO’S UNRESERVED AUCTION MARATHON, APRIL 25-27.

Three days of modern design, fine art, jewelry, silver, furnishings and more.

Lambertville, NJ: The Rago Arts and AuctionCenter will hold a three-day Unreserved Auction marathon on April 25, 26 and 27.  The sale begins on Friday, April 25 with 525 lots of 18th, 19th and early 20th c. design and traditional furnishings, along with fine art, Asian, tribal arts and ephemera. It continues on Saturday, April 26 with 823 lots of modern and contemporary furnishings, art and design. It concludes on Sunday, April 27, with 549 lots of jewelry, silver, fashion and coins. 

“Rago Unreserved is the auction everyone can afford to love,” said Rago partner Miriam Tucker. “The prices are within reach and the high bid – no matter what it is – prevails. You can preview at the auction house or online. If you can’t attend, you can bid online, on the phone or leave a bid in advance. If you’ve never bid at an auction before, don’t worry. Our staff is ready to take you through the process. We like what we do and we’re glad to tell you anything you need to know.” 

Rago Unreserved Auction Dates/Times

Friday, April 25 at 10 a.m. 18th/19th and early 20th c. design and fine art, Asian, tribal arts and ephemeraSaturday, April 26 at 10 a.m. Modern and contemporary furnishings, art and designSunday, April 27 at 11 a.m. Jewelry, silver, fashion, coins and objets de vertu

Auction Exhibition/Preview

Saturday, April 19 – Wednesday, April 23, 12-5 p.m., Thursday, April 24, 12-7 p.m., and by appointment. Doors open at 8:30 a.m. on April 25, 26 and 27.Rago Open House: Tuesday, April 22, 6 p.m., featuring a talk by iconic American photographer George Tice, “Seldom Seen: Photographs, 1968-2011”. Please RSVP to raac@ragoarts.com or 609-397-9374 ext. 119. All are welcome.Rago’s is located midway between New York City and Philadelphia. Directions online at ragoarts.com.

Catalogues

Auction online at ragoarts.com as of April 4.Free catalogs (text only) available by calling 609.397.9374 or emailing a request to info@ragoarts.com.  

Auction Contact Information

609-397-9374 or info@ragoarts.com

Friday, April 25 at 10 a.m.: 18th, 19th and early 20th c. design and fine art, Asian, tribal arts and ephemera

Over 500 lots of early 20th c. furnishings and decorative arts, fine art, lighting, Asian goods, glass, traditional furnishings, rugs, ephemera and tribal items. American pottery by George Ohr, Rookwood, Grueby, Fulper, a collection of Pewabic, Ohio pottery such as Roseville and Weller, Charles Volkmar, Arthur Baggs, Clifton, Van Briggle and North Dakota School of Mines. European pottery such as Amphora by Riessner & Kessel, Ernst Wahliss. Lighting of all kinds and by makers including Handel and Jefferson. Early 20th c. furniture by L. & J.G. Stickley, Limbert, Stickley Brothers, J.M. Young (Attr.), Heywood Wakefield (Attr.), Josef Hoffman, J. & J. Kohn, contemporary Stickley by EJ Audi and Michaels Company. Period American, English and Continental furniture such as William and Mary chairs, drop leaf tables, a pie safe, chests of drawers, a painted blanket chest, Windsor chairs, a Chippendale style lowboy, a George III style Carlton House desk, a pair of Queen Anne style wing chairs, a Waltham Empire grandfather clock, several lots of Edward Ferrell furnishings and a Louis XVI style dressing table. Victorian furnishings include a bookcase cabinet, a marble top center table, a marble top washstand, a boardwalk chair, a Victorian buffet and a brass crib. Metalwork by Joseph Heinrichs, Roycroft, Albin Muller and Persian Damascene. Glass by Galle, Schneider, Lalique, Fry and Orrefors.  A nice run of Clocks includes a French figural mantel clock, a Waterbury shelf clock, and an Empire Portico clock.  European Porcelain includes KPM porcelain plaques, Royal Worcester, Sevres, European Faience, English Majolica, Villeroy and Boch and Royal Doulton. Asian items include a four-panel screen, jade items, snuff bottles, ink sticks, an incense burner, Asian artworks on paper, Chinese and Japanese cloisonné, Japanese studio pottery, and a Thai cast iron Buddha head.  Fine art includes portraits, landscapes and still lifes by Louis Icart, Erte, John R. Grabach, Henry Herman Cross, Ted (Theodor) Gillien, William Henry Irvine, Samuel Bough, William Staples Drown, Leopold Gould Seyffer, Sondra Lipton, Viggo Pedersen, Marjarie Arcuri, Luciano Guarnieri, Julius Viktor Carstens, Leonard Baskin, William James Glackens, Harry Walker, Marian Williams Steele, Charles Augustus Swanson, Andre Brasilier, Jean Daumier, C. Valois, Roscoe Clarence Magill, Frederick Rondel, Jr, Rudolph A. Voelcker, G. S. Vander Poel, and a bronze by Wilhelm Bormann. Among the Tribal items are African decorative items and carvings, Egyptian Ushabti, Indonesian armor, Native American baskets and blankets. Ephemera include a Lindbergh baby abduction reward poster, Chinese propaganda posters, and several books and leather bound volumes.  Interesting, miscellaneous items such as an Amos and Andy tin toy car, a phonograph and several Oriental rugs. 

Saturday, April 26 at 10 a.m.: Modern and contemporary furnishings, art and design

The sale of Modern/contemporary furnishings kicks off with selection by Milo Baughman, notably a pair of Angle Bar lounge chairs for Thayer Coggin. Other famous furniture makers in the sale include Vladimir Kagan, Edward Wormley for Dunbar, T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings for Widdicomb, Andree Putnam for Ecart Paris, Pierre Paulin for Artifort, Florence Knoll, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Donald Deskey, Gilbert Rohde, Warren MacArthur. Bidders can find an occasional table after Diego Giacometti/Ralph Pucci, a hand chair in the style of Pedro Friedeberg, Art Deco furnishings and several pieces in the style of Paul Frankl. Midcentury modern furnishings on the block include work by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller, and Adrian Pearsall for Kraft Assoc.  There’s studio furniture by George Nakashima, Mira Nakashima, Thomas Moser, Dana Robes and Raphael Teller and work in the style of Phil Powell.  Italian furniture makers include Cassina, Dassi, Cesare Lacca, Pace, Castelli, Antonio Citterio for B&B Italia and Gio Ponti for Fontana Arte. Scandinavian furnishings for sale are by Finn Juhl, Hans Wegner, Arne Jacobsen, Fritz Hansen and Selig. The vast selection of contemporary fine art in the sale includes famous post-war/contemporary art by Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Miro, Gene Davis, Andy Warhol, Anni Albers, Robert Motherwell, Jonmarc Edwards, Chuck Close, Neil Loeb, John Wesley, Keith Haring, James Rosenquist, Lowell Blair Nesbitt, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Romeo Britto Kent Floeter, Robert Kushner, Kenneth Price and Philip Pearlstein. Sculptures include the work of Isamu Noguchi, Silas Seandel, James Bearden, C. Jere, Donald Deskey, Raymond Granville Barger, Franz Hagenauer and Feliciano Bejar’s “Magiscope” sculptures. There is lighting by Oscar Bach, Lightolier, Max Bill (Attr.) and Robert Sonneman, Gae Aulenti/Martinelli Luce, Tom Greene and Harry Balmer for Laurel Lamp Co. and three adjustable table lamps in the style of Angelo Lelli.  Contemporary art glass by Richard Ritter, Steve Tobin, Giles Bettison, David Hopper and Glen Lukens, Italian glass attributed to Anzolo Fuga, and two banded glass bottles with stoppers by Fulvio Bianconi for Venini. There are contemporary rugs by Edward Fields, Sigvard Bernadotte and Odegard; and Scandinavian rugs by Marta Maas-Fjetterstrom and Sigvard Bernadotte; studio ceramics by Glen Lukens, Laura Andreson, Toshiko Takaezu, Beatrice Wood and Edwin and Mary Scheier, Gio Ponti/Richard Ginori, Jean Cocteau for Rosenthal and an umbrella stand by Piero Fornasetti. 

Sunday, April 27 at 11 a.m.: Jewelry, silver, fashion, coins and objets de vertu

The sale starts on Sunday with the first of some 400 lots of jewelry, including antique and period gold, silver or platinum, numerous precious and semiprecious gemstones and diamonds, mid-century studio craft, notable costume pieces and timepieces, signed pieces by makers including Cartier, Chanel, David Yurman, Frank Rebaje, Georg Jensen, Iradj Moini, Philippe Charriol, Tiffany & Co., William Spratling and more.  Rago will be selling some 100 lots of silver, including American and Continental sterling, holloware, coffee/tea services, tableware, wine goblets, hostess ware, candle stands, cigarette boxes, flatware services, Russian cloisonné, and modernist silver by makers such as Tiffany & Co., Buccellati, Christofle, Gorham, Durgin, Georg Jensen, Taxco, Reed & Barton, Wallace, Sheffield and more.  Fashionistas will find thirty-five lots, including clothing by Chanel and Emilio Pucci; Hermes scarves; designer handbags by Fendi, Gucci, Tiffany & Co., Judith Leiber and Christian Dior; Louis Vuitton luggage; vintage beaded handbags and fur coats. Twelve lots of U.S. and foreign coins and currency; several lots of fountain pens and mechanical pencils by Vacumatic, Parker, Waterman, Sheaffer's, Wahl, Eversharp, Skylines, etc.

Notes for the Editor

High-resolution images available.

Consignments Invited

Consignments are invited for the next Rago Unreserved Auction, to be held Sunday, September 14, 2014 and all of Rago’s fall auctions, including 20th C. Design, Fine Art, Silver and Jewelry.

About Rago Arts and AuctionCenter

Rago is a leading U.S. auction house with $30 million in sales in 2013. We serve thousands of sellers and buyers internationally with a singular blend of global reach and personal service. Rago holds auctions of 20th/21st c. design, fine art, decorative arts, furnishings, jewelry, militaria, coins and currency, Asian, historic ephemera, and ethnographic property.  A world-class venue through which to buy and sell, it offers valuations for personal property (from a single piece to collections and estates), appraisals, estate services, exhibitions and lectures in house and online. Rago is based in New Jersey, midway between Philadelphia and New York City.

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