| IMPORTANT ANTIQUE, CHINA & DECORATIVE ARTS AUCTION FROM THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY & DOUGLAS JOYCE Ladies & Gentlemen: We are back to our regular Sunday auctions in Pottageville, and we're kicking off our fall auction season with a bang! A wonderful offering of quality furnishings, china, books and decoratives from the Joyce’s Toronto home. See our website at atocauctions.com for extensive photos. This auction will be sold in catalogued order, plan to attend this event! Come discover the treasures with us, this is your one time only opportunity to buy some fabulous items – only at auction, where you set the price! Antique & Fine Furniture: A fine mahogany sideboard with serpentine front and line drawers with ionic column decoration, set of (6) balloon back mahogany dining chairs, mahogany oval dining table and (6) chairs, fine Victorian mahogany frame settee with button back upholstery and matching ladies side chair, camel back upholstered mahogany settee, elongated walnut corner what not with cupboard base, oval top Victorian parlour table, a lovely mahogany Canterbury, Windsor back rocking chair, Eastlake upholstered parlour chair, gentleman’s 3 drawer mahogany dresser with writing tablet, Arts & Crafts period oak glassed front large library cabinet, English mahogany pillar cabinet with marble square top, (2) 19th C oak gentlemen’s armchairs with carved finial and claw foot and needlepoint covered backs and seat, Victorian and 20th C side chairs, several small side tables including walnut double drop leaf with turned legs and mahogany with pie crust top, foot rest with carved mahogany legs, ornate Victorian bamboo shelf, traveling sewing machine, brass fire screen, ¾ spool bed, a refined turned 4 poster mahogany queen bed frame, Eastlake high back double bed frame, several early Persian area carpets of various sizes, and more. Books – Antiquarian/Historical/Collectible: In Various Conditions, including Hugh Murray “History of British America” (Canada Upper & Lower/2nd Ed. 1839), Abraham Gesner “New Brunswick with Notes for Emigrants (Comprehending the Early History, London, 1847), Alexander Munro “New Brunswick” (with a brief outline of Nova Scotia & PEI, Halifax, 1855), Charles Pedley “The History of Newfoundland” (London, 1863), various “Past and Present of PEI” Charlottetown (1906); Fashion: Godey’s Lady’s Book (and Magazine) 1857, Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly (3 Vols 1865, 1866, 1868) – all feature beautiful colour plates; Literary: Dante’s Inferno, Dante’s Purgatory & Paradise (both translated by Rev H.F.Cary, pub Cassell & Co.), Modern Eloquence (9 vols); Dictionaries: including 1912 English language and Webster’s; Curiosities & Art: A collection of “The Etude” 1940’s art magazines, Historic Montreal Past & Present (includes colour plates by Paul Caron & C. Gagnon), John L. Stoddard “Portfolio of Famous Scenes”, Thomas Moore “Lalla Rookh – An Oriental Romance”, “The Marie Burroughs Art Portfolio”, The Holy Bible circa 1870 with beautiful tooled and formed leather cover and large buckle clasps, includes several hundred engravings, maps and plans (Philadelphia), Art: A large assortment of world art books, and more. China & Crystal: An exquisite 16” diameter punch bowl with heavily cut design, various crystal decanters, Canadian pressed glass tableware including spooners, comports and more, a fine Royal Doulton “Rondo” 8 place setting china dish set, 64 pcs Noritake “Pheasant” dinner service for 10, 42 pcs Minton’s partial dish set includes 4 plc settings Carlton and 2 plc settings St. James pattern, Minton’s “Mirabeau” teaset, Gouda art pottery vase (firing crack), assorted miniature figurines including Herend, Royal Doulton, Hummel, Crown Staffordshire, 7 pc glass berry bowl set with saw tooth rim, various stemware including pinwheel, gold band, cross & olive and more, 20 various demitasse including Carltonware Rouge Royale, unsigned porcelain wall pocket 10” h with cherub decoration, 5 Wedgwood Ferrara plates, a pair of 7” Rosenthal vases, cornflower glass and Bavarian plates, and much more. Metalwares: Hallmarked London (RP) silver inkwell and pen in case, sterling flatware set, selection of sterling and silverplate tableware, sterling tableware includes gravy boats, ladles, flatware, berry spoons, sugar shaker, salt & peppers, and more, silverplate tableware includes baskets, flatware, trays, serving pieces, etc., brass trays, bookends, trivets, vases, Holland pewter teaset on tray, and more. Collectible & Decorative Arts: Desktop postal rate scale, a lovely heavily beaded French vintage handbag (Brevet, S.G.O.E.), 13” metal sculpture of child on chair, framed etchings and decorative art, Karl Lotze oil on board “Marburg, Germany” (1956) (provenance: Alan Coatsworth), wonderful selection of cut and embroidered tablecloths, napkins and linens, and much more.
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