Date: Fri 06-Nov-1998

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Author: DONNAM

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English & Continental William Doyle

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NEW YORK CITY -- William Doyle Galleries' auction on October 21 featured

Important English Continental Furniture and Decorations from various estates

and private collections.

English furniture collectors favored Georgian furniture such as a George III

mahogany bureau bookcase with swan's neck and fretwork carved cornice for

$34,500 and a George III style mahogany three-pedestal dining table, $34,500.

Among the Nineteenth Century English furniture was a Charles X gilt-bronze

surtout de table with a pierced gallery surround depicting bacchanalian

figures at $34,500 and a set of early Victorian Gothic Revival mahogany

seating furniture, $21,850.

Among the Eighteenth Century Italian furniture was a pair of Rococo inlaid

walnut corner cabinets with glass panel-inset doors for $46,000 and a pair of

Neo-classical inlaid walnut side tables each with a pierced frieze, $14,950.

An Eighteenth Century Italian mother-of-pearl relief panel depicting Christ's

resurrection, fitted within a frame intricately carved with scrolling leafage

and angels, sold for five times pre-sale estimate at $25,300.

Eighteenth Century France was reflected in a set of four Louis XVI gray

painted and parcel-gilt pine wall panels decorated with flowering urn flanked

by female figures and scrolling leafage for $14,950.

A Nineteenth Century Continental gilt-silver mounted tankard with a carved

ivory cover depicting the bacchanal sold for $13,800, together with a

Continental gilt-silver mounted ostrich egg formed as a goblet.

Colonial and European carved ivory figures from the collection of Charles

Berolzheimer included $41,400 for a Seventeenth Century Continental figure of

a bearded man standing semi-nude and raised on clouds. The collection spanned

from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century, but the demand for

Seventeenth Century Sino-Portuguese ivory figures elevated bidding to $19,550

for one figure of the Good Shepherd wearing a textured coat and holding a

banner of Christ, and to $13,800 for another figure of Saint Sebastian bound

to a tree and pierced with the sounds of arrows.

Decorative arts included a pair of Empire style gilt-bronze eleven-light

candelabra each with a winged female figural finial, at $26,450 and a pair of

Regency table globes, the first terrestrial and the second celestial, for

$13,800. A group of sixteen large Italian terra-cotta creche figures, each

realistically modeled in traditional peasant garb, sold for $17,250, together

with a green grocer's shop.

$29,000 was paid for a North Persian Bidgar carpet with an allover vinery

pattern, $23,000 for a Central Persia Sultanbad carpet with floral decoration

in a russet rosette border, and $24,150 for a Northwest Antolian Hereke carpet

with an allover Mughal inspired lattice design. A French Aubusson tapestry

depicting people dining and dancing in a village setting within a fleur de lys

border yielded $21,850.

Old Master works included "Sleeping Child," attributed to the School of Guido

Reni, for $11,212.