Ahlers & Ogletree – Spring Estates & Collections Auction
May 8th, 2025 at 10am et
1788 Ellsworth Industrial Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30318
www.AandOauctions.com

ATLANTA — A small, gilt-framed portrait by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard Dou (1613-1675) and a Chinese Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) ru ware brush washer are both expected to bring six figures in Ahlers & Ogletree’s Spring Estates & Collections auction scheduled for Thursday, May 8, online and live in the Ahlers & Ogletree showroom at 1788 Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard Northwest.

The 412-lot auction, starting at 10 am, will feature a selection of antiques, fine art and decorative arts consigned from prominent Southeastern estates and private collections. Other expected top performers include three bronzes from one of America’s premier early Modernists, Paul Manship (1885-1966); and a Tiffany Studios Linen Fold table lamp on a number 534 base.

The oil-on-wood portrait painting by Gerard Dou is a masterfully rendered painting by a student of Rembrandt. The circa 1650 work, 8½ by 6-3/8 inches (panel, minus frame), is titled “Alter Mann (Old Man) / Portrait of an Old Man with a Cap.” It is artist-signed and comes with a copy of a 1926 letter of expert opinion from Cornelis Hofstede de Groot ($200/300,000).

The Chinese Northern Song ru ware (thinly potted Chinese stoneware) lobed brush washer, in a finely crackled sky-blue glaze, 1¼ inches tall, was subjected to a thermoluminescence (TL) test by Artemis Testing Lab in Colorado, using the pre-dose method. The result indicated a firing date of around 1,000 years ago. The full TL report will accompany the lot ($100/200,000).

A bronze sculpture with brown patina and parcel gilding by Paul Manship, titled “Mother & Child” (1917), is signed “P. Manship” in mold to the top of the base and marked “Roman Bronze Works N-Y-” to the back side of the base. Overall, the sculpture, including the Porto Nero marble base, is 17¼ inches tall. A Christie’s label is fixed to the sculpture’s underside ($20/30,000).

Also from Paul Manship is a bronze Oriental Dancer Vase designed in 1913, having a brown patina, 14¾ inches in height and signed “Paul . Manship / (C) 1913” in mold to the back of the vase, and “Gorham Co. Founders” to the back side of the base ($15/20,000).

The early Twentieth Century Tiffany Studios (American, 1880-1930) green Linen Fold glass shade on a number 534 table lamp base stands 23¾ inches tall, with the shade 19½ inches in diameter. The shade is marked “Tiffany Studios. New York. Pat. Appld For 1927” and the base is impressed with the model number. The lamp is expected to illuminate the auction gallery for $10/15,000.

A late Twentieth Century sterling, parcel gilt and lapis lazuli menorah by Sved Masters Workshop (Yossi & Dudik / Israeli), having eight arms with lapis cabochons, a detachable servant light and two swiveling drawers to the base with gilt wick holders, 14¾ inches tall, comes with a removable ewer form oil server and dreidel. It has a total weight of 86.44 troy ounces. This menorah is the highlight of a 20-piece collection of silver Judaica up for bid. ($10/20,000).

An 1897 Renaissance Revival silver gilt (950-900) centerpiece by Eugenio Bellosio (Italian, 1847-1927), showing a figure of Aphrodite emerging from a seashell flanked by putti, signed to the back “Eug Bellosio fece Milano 1897,” is estimated to gavel for $8/12,000.

A circa 1880 unsigned pencil on paper drawing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901), titled “Dernier Adieu (Last Goodbye),” 7½ by 11½ inches (sheet size, minus the frame), is expected to bring $6/8,000. The lot is noted as “D.I. 816” in the artist’s catalogue raisonné, published in 1971.

An unsigned oil on rounded wood panel from the School of Frans Hals (Dutch, 1580-1666) is titled “Laughing Boy” and has a diameter of 8¾ inches. The frame is 16¼ inches square. The work comes with a copy of a 1978 letter of expertise from Paul Hofstatter, Vienna ($8/12,000).

A preview will be conducted on Monday, May 5, through Wednesday, May 7, from 10 am to 5 pm, in the Ahlers & Ogletree Atlanta gallery. No appointment is necessary. The public is invited. Internet bidding is available on www.bid.aandoauctions.com, Live Auctioneers and Invaluable.

For information, www.aandoauctions.com or 404-869-2478.

Alberto Savinio, Italian Shoreline with Boats, Oil on Canvas
Gerrit Dou, Alter Mann, Oil on Wood
19th Century School Scene, Oil on Canvas
Georges M. Pissarro, Oil on Canvas
Karl Kaufman, Venetian Canal, Oil on Canvas
George Cope, Leaping Trout Oil on Canvas
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