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    Asian Art | October 30, 2024

    Start: Oct 30, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Featuring items from a family collection of objects acquired in China in the early 1900s from Dr. Stanley Burns. Dr. Burns provided much needed medical care to the local population and helped combat infectious disease. Other Chinese and Japanese items from private collections include Qing dynasty enamel porcelains, bronze and porcelain water droppers, a fine selection of snuff bottles, along with a group of jade figures, bronze Buddhas, furniture and jewelry.

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    Whitley Collection, Featuring Chinese Export, Furniture, and Fine Art | October 29, 2024

    Start: Oct 29, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    An impressive lifetime collection with over 400 pieces of Chinese Export porcelain including 50 armorials, a rare figure of a Jewish Lady with Christie’s provenance, 100+ blue & white pieces including Kangxi, Qianlong, Kraak, & Ming transitional pieces, purchased from reputable dealers in the UK & US; period furniture from North Carolina, Virginia, Philadelphia, & New England; over 40 tea caddies; Fine Art including 18th & 19th century British portraits; silver flatware; Tiffany kettle on stand; Oriental rugs

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    SCNA Convention Coin & Currency Auction | October 26, 2024

    Start: Oct 26, 2024 01:00PM EDT

    Brunk Auctions, partnered with the South Carolina Numismatic Association, is pleased to announce our inaugural coin auction taking place on Saturday, October 26th at the Greenville Convention Center. This is being held in conjunction with the 52nd annual SCNA coin convention taking place that same week. The bidding will be both live as well as via internet.

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    The United States Constitution and Related Documents | October 17, 2024

    Start: Oct 17, 2024 06:00PM EDT

    We are pleased to offer for auction the only located privately held Official Signed Ratification Copy of the United States Constitution. Among the most important documents ever offered at auction, this humble looking document is the very cornerstone of our democracy. This nine lot auction also includes an important 1776 first draft of the Articles of Confederation; a Charles Thomson Signed Congressional Ordinance Defining His Own Duties; a period copy of Emanuel Leutze’s iconic Washington Crossing the Delaware; and five other important early American documents.

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    Important Historic Americana | October 17, 2024

    Start: Oct 17, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Features a remarkable selection of historic Americana, including important 18th-century American furniture and Delft from the collection of Constance & Dudley Godfrey; an exceptionally rare North Carolina survey map; New England & Philadelphia furniture, including an exceptional Philadelphia easy chair & a rare Connecticut Chippendale carved cherry chest in undisturbed surface; from a Revolutionary & patriotic-focused New England collection are rare prints & documents, early brass, ceramics, furniture, & accessories; a group of early portraits features Sully, Stuart, & Sharples; & much more

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    American & Southern Auction | October 16, 2024

    Start: Oct 16, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Including fine art, furniture, silver, maritime art, Native American art, & decorative arts including early ceramics and folk art; a rare Angel Gabriel weathervane; important Kentucky and North Carolina silver; Southern fine art by Hutty, Verner, and a Tennessee scene by James Hope; Charleston and other Southern furniture; American art including works by Sanford Gifford, George de Forest Brush, Theodore Butler, Ernest Lawson, two works by Andrew Wyeth, and others from the collection of Barbara Novak; and important Native American art featuring a Blackfoot war shirt and a Santo Domingo shield.

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    Modern Art, Design + Craft | October 10, 2024

    Start: Oct 10, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Private and Institutional collections including property from the Birmingham Museum of Art. Everything for incoming trends in Organic Modern to the Postmodern environment. Featuring Native American, Southwestern and Latino Modernists, Quick-To-See Smith, Hammersley, Botello, Rivera | Modern works by Alice Baber, Rochelle Blumenfeld, Mary Bauermeister, Louise Nevelson, Gordon Onslow-Ford, Chagall, Picasso, Leger, Calder, Bolotowsky, Vasarely, Grooms | Glass artists, Preston Singletary, Rick Beck, Jon Kuhn, Dan Dailey, Dale Chihuly, Tim Tate | modern jewelry | Harry Partch Instruments, books.

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    British & Continental Auction | September 26, 2024

    Start: Sep 26, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Featuring furniture, decorative arts, and fine art, including an impressive Victorian English Silver Charles Hancock Presentation Urn among other silver; portraiture including an important Allan Ramsay portrait; other artworks by Rubens Santoro, Daniel Gardner, Raymond Thibesart, and others; a rare Joseph Charles de Blezer bronze bust of a free man; furniture including a fine Pietra Dura Inlaid Marble Top Table with Christie's Provenance; decorative pieces including a Sevres style gilt bronze mounted cobalt porcelain floor urn, a pair of Newton’s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes; and much more

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    Emporium Auction | September 12, 2024 | Online Only

    Start: Sep 12, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    We will be offering online and absentee bidding for this auction. The auction features over 350 lots of Decorative Arts, Silver, Furniture, Rugs, and Fine Art from private estates and collections. Highlights include over 40 lots of Arts & Crafts including Gustav Stickley, Rookwood, Teco Art Pottery, Weller, William Morris Studio, and modern Stickley; 40 pieces of Southern pottery, including works by Burlon Craig, Meaders, Kim Ellington, and more; Outsider and Self-Taught works of art; over 30 pieces of Dutch Delft; cut glass; 45 lots of jewelry; textiles; bronzes; baskets, and more.

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    Collection of Dee and Tommy Hilfiger Auction | July 31, 2024

    Start: Jul 31, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Including a collection of celebrity focused photography; a billiards table in the form of a classic 1960s Shelby; a pair of monumental Old Master landscape paintings with Christie’s provenance; music and pop-culture-related memorabilia, including Q-Tip magazine-worn custom Tommy Jeans and Taylor Swift-related art; furniture from iconic designers and styles of the 20th century: ranging from Wassily, Frankl, mid-century modern, and art deco to traditional pieces that exhibit Tommy Hilfiger’s brand aesthetic. From modern to timeless, bidders will find treasures to enhance any space or collection.

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    Lifetime Arts & Crafts Collection/Emporium | July 11, 2024 | ONLINE ONLY

    Start: Jul 11, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    We will be offering online and absentee bidding for this auction. Featuring over 200 lots of Decorative Arts, Silver, Furniture, Rugs, and fine art from private estates and collections, including The Collection of Charlotte and L. C. Beckerdite and The Collection of Rosemary and Ed Kostansek which includes over 50 lots of Arts & Crafts: Charles Rohlfs, Roycroft, Limbert, Newcomb College, Gustav Stickley, Rookwood; other highlights include: Michael Jordan Autographed UNC Tegata Lithograph; Baccarat Tableware; sterling hollowware and flatware; bronzes; samplers; pottery; baskets, and more.

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    The Great Outdoors | July 10, 2024

    Start: Jul 10, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    A cabinet of curiosities for collectors, sportsmen, and naturalists including a Browning Belgian Shotgun made for Abercrombie & Fitch, Native American artifacts and jewelry,19th-century daguerreotypes and tintypes, decoys, a large assortment of loose cut gemstones, and the lifetime mineral collection of Sarah Graham Peacock.

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    American & Southern Auction | June 27, 2024

    Start: Jun 27, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Featuring Southern works by Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, Stephen Scott Young, Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Lamar Dodd, and William Aiken Walker; modern American artworks by James MacDonald, Gandy Brodie, R. Nakian, R. Kulicke, Jim Dine, Larry Rivers, P.Pearlstein, E. Kerkam, R.Soyer, and A.Gisson; The Charlotte and L.C. Beckerdite Collection: early NC and VA furniture, pottery, and decorative items; Pilgrim century furniture; TN chest in political paint; Ornate Tiffany Studios bronze mirror; fine frames from Charles Prendergast and others; and more

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    British & Continental Auction | June 26, 2024

    Start: Jun 26, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Featuring an important 18k/22k gold dresser set by Norwegian goldsmith H. Moller; Empire style and Continental furniture and accessories from a Miami collection; silver including Buccellati flatware, sets of Christofle flatware and plates; early English Delft, including wine jugs and posset pots; a curated library of leather bound books; fine art including Albert Rieger, Mark Lijftogt, Solari, Old Master Portraits, John Riley, John Jackson, Wm. Daniell after George Dance, P. Sandby; sculptures by or after Rodin, Giambologna, Allouard, Charpentier Coysevox, Goujon, and others

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    Dr. Steve Stewart Collection: A Physician’s Passion | June 6, 2024

    Start: Jun 06, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Offered are choice selections from the doctor’s lifetime pursuit of beautiful objects, from the sublime to the fanciful. Just a sampling from this immense collection includes Meissen, Sevres, Derby, Fairyland Lustre, gilt bronze and silver bejeweled objects, Viennese and French enamels along with Continental and American paintings, sculpture and furniture.

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    The Collection of Clare and Jared Edwards | June 5, 2024

    Start: Jun 05, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Important forces in the art and architecture communities, the Edwards were passionate yet erudite collectors for over fifty years, actively involved in the conservation and preservation of New England’s artistic heritage, and generous benefactors in the Connecticut area and beyond. Their collection includes Important American paintings and works on paper by Paxton, Parrish, Anschutz, Macintosh and others; Aesthetic Movement, American and European furniture and decorative arts, by Godwin, Tiffany, Dresser, Majolica, more; over 400 bottles of wine; important jewelry, and many other treasures.

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    Emporium Auction | May 23, 2024

    Start: May 23, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Furniture including American, British, Continental, French Country, Chippendale and Hepplewhite style examples from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as some fine custom-made modern pieces from a private New York collection. A group of folk art paintings sold to benefit the American Folk Art Museum, NY. An extensive group of objects converted to table lamps. 150 Parian busts, Staffordshire, and Continental porcelains from Sewickley, PA, Raleigh, NC, and Richmond, VA estates.

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    Jewelry, Coins & Currency Auction | May 22, 2024

    Start: May 22, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Featuring an exquisite Custom 14kt. Gold Bracelet with over 11.00ctw. of diamonds, a Bespoke Cluster Diamond Ring, and designs from Tiffany & Co., Van Cleef & Arpels, Cartier, Rolex, and others. For the numismatist and philatelist, we offer precious metal coinage from around the world, including Australia and China, as well as a lifelong collection of stamps and covers. And to round out the auction, a collection of designer goods including handbags, clothing, and other accessories from luxury brands Hermes, Giorgio Armani, Charvet, and Chanel.

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    An American Panorama: North, South, East and West | May 9, 2024

    Start: May 09, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    A wide range of important fine art from every corner of our vast nation– Thomas Moran in East Hampton, Wolf Kahn in Vermont, Julian Onderdonk in Texas, and many others. Featuring works by William Trost Richards, Emanuel Leutze, Norton Bush, Granville Redmond, John F. Kensett, William Keith, Elihu Vedder, William Harnett, and more; Native American pottery, parfleches, katsinam, and baskets; Important Southern and New England furniture; decorative and folk arts.

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    British & Continental Auction | May 8, 2024

    Start: May 08, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Fine objects from private and institutional collections, including property deaccessioned by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia to benefit the Collections Acquisitions Fund. Five-piece bedroom suite signed François Linke, a fine collection of Old Master drawings including Hubert Robert, Servandoni, Chaix, Amand, a follower of Redouté, twelve botanical watercolors by Alexandre Descubes, fine art by or attributed to Pierre Mignard, Tobias Stranover, Jules Breton, and Julius Paulsen, as well as fine British and Continental silver.

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    Asian Art | April 25, 2024

    Start: Apr 25, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Our Spring Asian Art Auction contains Qing dynasty porcelains pulled from private homes including an early 20th century collection from Pittsburgh, PA. A pair of Famille Noire monumental temple jars and a pair of bamboo form Famille Rose floor vases are finely executed examples with Kangxi Emperor reign marks. A group of framed Chinese and Japanese art will be offered, featuring works by Nakahara Nantenbo and Murase Taiitsu.

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    Modern + Design Auction | April 11, 2024

    Start: Apr 11, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Early Modernism | Post-Impressionism | Post War | Mid Century | Abstract Expressionism | Colorists | Op Art | Pop Art | Craft | Art Glass Including important collections with paintings and multiples by Amadeo Modigliani, Gordon Onslow Ford, Herbert Baye, Maximillien Luce, Malvina Hoffmann, Marc Chagall, Milton Resnick, Hans Hofmann, Milton Avery, Leon Golub, Kees Van Dongen, Georges Noel, Wolf Kahn, Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely, Red Grooms, Edward Moulthrop, William Morris, Christopher Ries; plus mid-century modern and contemporary craft furniture

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    Collection of Ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter | April 10, 2024

    Start: Apr 10, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Brunk Auctions is pleased to present the collection of Ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter. US Ambassador, successful entrepreneur as founder of Pace Communications, philanthropist, collector, and first woman chair of the American Red Cross. Collaborating with her sister Tweed, renowned interior decorator, she meticulously selected the furniture and decorations offered here to grace her former homes in Washington D.C. and Greensboro NC. Selected from Christie's and Sotheby's among other fine sources, these works are a reflection of her graciously hosting others in her elegant homes.

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    Emporium Auction | March 21, 2024

    Start: Mar 21, 2024 10:00AM EDT

    Featuring over 150 lots of Decorative Arts, Silver, Furniture, Rugs, and Fine Art from private, estate, and prominent institutional collections. Highlights include a Dresden Porcelain Chocolate Service, a large selection of Blue and White Porcelain, and a Southern Federal Inlaid Cherry Chest of Drawers.

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