This six-piece early Tiffany & Company silver tea and coffee service polished off at $6,500, surpassing its $3/5,000 estimate to achieve the highest price of the sale.
GLEN COVE, N.Y. — At Roland Auctions’ August 2025 Estate Sale, conducted on August 23, a selection of silver, decorative arts and fine art joined the hundreds of other impressive items in all categories on offer, with a total of 683 lots crossing the block.
The top spot went to a six-piece Tiffany & Company silver tea and coffee service, which served up the win for $6,500. The service comprised a hot water kettle on stand, coffee pot, teapot, chocolate pot, creamer and covered sugar; each top and upper section were engraved with scrolling foliage and were monogrammed. Each piece was also marked “Tiffany & Co. quality 925-1000 M,” indicating that the current president of Tiffany at the time was Edward C. Moore. The Tiffany set was followed close behind by a 128-piece Gorham sterling silver flatware service in the Buttercup pattern which weighed a total of 135 troy ounces and set the table for $4,550.
Selling for more than 10 times its $200/300 estimate was this Chinese carved stone bowl on stand from the Nineteenth Century.
Standout lots in the decorative arts included a Nineteenth Century Chinese carved stone bowl with cherry blossoms on a wooden lotus-form stand ($3,575), a 1903 jardiniere by Frederick Hurten Rhead (British/American, 1880-1942) for Avon Faience consigned from the collection of Susan and Cliff Freeman ($3,250) and a lot of two circa 1975 hand-painted figural papier-mâché sculptures by William H. Stevens (American, b 1924) depicting circus performers, also from the Freeman collection ($2,080).
Made by Beurdeley A Paris in the Nineteenth Century, this Louis XV bronze doré mounted commode, 35 inches high by 58 inches wide by 23½ inches deep, sold for $1,170 ($800-$1,200).
A Beurdeley Louis XV bronze doré commode made in Paris in the Nineteenth Century drew bidders’ attention, finishing within its $100-$1,200 estimate at $1,170. The piece had a terrazzo marble top and a gilt bronze mounted and satinwood body and was marked “Beurdeley A Paris” to its escutcheon. It was previously property of the estate of Ronald Blatt, owner of Blatt Billiards in New York City.
Contemporary art was led by “Carnival In Venice,” an oil on panel by Russian artist Elena Flerova (1943-2019). Consigned from the collection of the former owner of CFM Gallery, Neil Zukerman, the painting celebrated with a $1,300 finish.
These three 1972 Munich Olympics serigraphs by Leroy Neiman (American, 1921-2012), 16 by 20 inches (paper), were all artist’s proofs and sold for $617 ($200/400).
A lot of three artist proof serigraphs from the 1972 Munich Olympics by Leroy Neiman ran to $617. One work, titled “XX Olympiad Munchen 1972” depicted seven-time gold medalist swimmer Mark Spitz, and another, “XX Olympiad Munchen Aug. 24, ’72,” showed a track and field warm-up on the oval.
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