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Lot 411	Lot 489

Furniture buyers can anticipate an exciting array of very decorative, classic and original dining tables, chairs, settees, consoles, desks, and upholstered pieces from a variety of styles, periods, and origins. Quality French furniture is a forte of Kamelot’s and highlighting the sale will be an oversized pair of giltwood carved Louis XV style arm chairs with shaped and carved crest rail over acanthus decorated open arms and shaped seat (lot 219, $2,000-$3,000), a pair of labeled Maison Forest nineteenth century Louis XVI style armchairs having a giltwood and needlepoint back and seat (lot 232, $1,000-$1,800), a variety of Napoleon III chairs, and several sets of Louis XV and XVI style dining chairs. A good selection of Maison Jansen furnishings will include a Louis XV style Jansen three part oak and marble console table circa 1920 (lot 343, $1,200-$1,800), a rare Louis XV style Jansen oak and lucite desk circa 1940 (lot 350, $1,000-$1,800), and a similar pair of Jansen eglomise mirrors having shaped tops over silvered gilt and foliate decorated frames circa 1940 (lot 339, $1,500-$2,500). Italian furniture lead by lot 40A, an elaborate and complete eight piece painted Italian queen sized bedroom set circa 1900. Estimated at $2,000-$3,000, the set is comprised of a queen sized bed, a pair of marble top nightstands, a marble top dresser with mirror, a vanity with mirror, and a three-door armoire. From the English category comes a very good nineteenth century English George III secretary having stepped cornice over inlaid Greek key and three mullioned front glass doors (lot 252, $1,000-$1,500) along with a pair of English leather club chairs with loose cushion seats circa 1920 (lot 267, $600-$900).

Lot 630	Lot 487

The auction will include a great variety of paintings and prints by well-recognized and widely collected artists. Highly anticipated is lot 588, an oil and acrylic on canvas painting titled “Miss Johnson (Angie)" by the prominent African American Artist Barkley Leonnard Hendricks, signed upper right 'B. Hendricks' and dated 1973, and comes with a strong provenance to uphold it’s $40,000-$60,000 estimate. The painting was consigned by the original purchasers, a living estate in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. Significant documentation accompanies the painting including a hand written note from the artist to the consignor as well as exhibition documentation from various art galleries and museums to which the consignor loaned this piece. According to one letter dated July 11, 1975 from the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, South Carolina, this work of art was the first exhibition of a living black artist in the state of South Carolina. The acclaimed painting is one among many others by revered artists featured in the sale, including an oil on canvas painting by New York/Austrian artist Joseph Floch titled "Mod Girl" and signed lower right, circa 1965 (lot 587, $5,000-$7,000), along with an oil on canvas story illustration by New York artist Elbert McGran signed lower right E.M. Jackson circa 1933 (lot 662, $1,000-$1,500). The illustration features a standing man in a tuxedo confronting a seated woman and accompanied a story by Pauline Partridge, Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1933. Other fine art highlights include an oil on masonite painting by Franklin Dullin Briscoe of figures picnicking along a coastline, dated 1883 (lot 593, $1,000-$1,500), a mixed media on paper work by Titian Ramsay Peale titled "Scardinius Erythrophthalmus", signed en verso Titian R. Peale, 1831 (lot 630, $2,000-$4,000), and a large twentieth century KPM painted porcelain plaque depicting a nude woman with angels, stamped "KPM" en verso (lot 591, $500-$1,000).

Lot 622	Lot 593

Leading the selection of decorative arts is lot 511, a full length bronze figure after Augustus Rodin's "The Bronze Age" signed A. Rodin in the base and foundry mark of "Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris" ($400-$600) and by the same artist, lot 511, a bronze figure of a man mounted on a marble plinth after Rodin's Adam with foundry mark of Alexis Rudier Paris (1902-1952) circa 1950 ($200-$400). A select group of clocks is lead by lot 543, an exquisite Cartier Art Deco day/date desk clock in nephrite with hexagonal jeweled decoration circa 1920, estimated at a conservative $500-$700. Lot 546, a very good French dore bronze mantle clock circa 1870 featuring a Classical seated huntress, along with lot 545, an elaborate onyx and bronze French mantle clock signed Amour Combattant Par Aug. Moreau circa 1880 featuring a female archer are perhaps the most striking of the selection, both bearing a presale estimate of $800-$1,200./font>