Leland Little plans huge cataloged auction, June 13-14 Over 800 lots of fresh-to-the-market merchandise in a broad array of categories will be sold at a Historic Hillsborough Auction slated for June 13-14 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd., N.C
(HILLSBOROUGH, N.C.) -More than 800 lots of fresh-to-the-market merchandise, in a broad array of categories, will be sold at a two-day Historic Hillsborough Auction the weekend of June 13-14 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. It is the grand opening event for the firm at its new, 10,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art gallery facility, located at 620 Cornerstone Court in Hillsborough.
“We spent ten very successful and productive years at our previous location on South Nash Street,” said Leland Little of Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd., “but this new gallery is a wonderful venue for showcasing fine and decorative arts. We are offering a professional and safe environment for buyers and sellers to view items from our regional collections that come to market.”
The June 13-14 sale will be preceded by a week-long preview, highlighted by an Opening Night Gala on Thursday, June 11, beginning at 6 p.m. Then, on Friday, June 12, at 3 p.m., a special lecture will be presented by Johanna M. Brown, Director of Collections and Curator of Moravian Decorative Arts (the topic of her lecture) at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (www.MESDA.org).
The Saturday, June 13 sale will begin promptly at 9:30 a.m., with a session dedicated to English and Continental silver. Included will be a beautiful Irish sterling silver tureen with an 1821 date letter. The day will conclude with another session of silver, only American, to include a 132-piece modern hammered flatware service by California artist Allan Adler. In all, 482 lots will change hands that day.
Sandwiched in between the silver sessions on Saturday will be hundreds of other lots, starting with European and Continental fine art. Included will be four original paintings by the British artist Christiane Klitgaard-May (1876-1954), and a watercolor by Giuseppe Aureli (It., 1858-1929). After that, a Staffordshire collection will be sold, to include historical blue and white Lafayette pieces.
A star of the American furniture category promises to be a Southern cherry sugar chest (circa 1830s). Local art will also be offered, to include etchings by Louis Orr (1879-1961). A collection of around ten garden and architectural items will cross the block, to include a Scottish architectural bench (circa 1850). Asian art will feature large (17-1/2”) Japanese Satsuma vases from the Meiji era (1860s).
English and Continental furniture will be sold both days. On Saturday, a star lot will be a nice 18th-century French walnut armoire. Decorative arts will include a terracotta bust of Benjamin Franklin, after the French sculptor Houdon (1741-1828). Also offered will be a fabulous selection of clocks and pocket watches, including a mid-19th-century Raingo Freres French figural mantle clock.
Lighting and chandeliers will illuminate the room, with lots like a signed Tiffany Studios counterbalance desk lamp, marked “Tiffany Studios, New York, 417” (16 inches tall). A nice selection of fine art by noted American artists will be headlined by an original oil on canvas painting by Louise Cox (1865-1945). The work was deaccessioned from the Granville County Historical Society Museum
