There aren’t many people who can pull off a bejeweled tie. It’s just not something we should all be doing. However, if that tie were to take the form of an Art Deco brooch with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires, you’ll set the room on fire without ever looking back. There’s that, a salt-glazed Anna Pottery pig, works by Thomas Hart Benton, Pablo Picasso, Keith Haring and more in this weeks picks.

SKINNER

Sale Date: December 6, 2016
Lot 69
Art Deco Platinum, Diamond, and Gem-set Brooch
Designed as a necktie, the carved onyx plaque with bezel-set step-cut emeralds suspending an articulate openwork band bead- and bezel-set with old European- and single-cut diamonds, approximate total weight 6.75 cts., further bezel-set with various cabochon gems including rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, millegrain accents.
Estimate: $10/15,000

DIRK SOULIS AUCTIONS

Sale Date: December 9, 2016
Lot 121
A Very Fine Champlevé Enamel Three Piece Clock Set
A circa 1900 French enameled gilt brass rococo style clock set retailed by Spaulding and Co, Chicago. The circular dial with Roman chapter enclosing twin key escapements within a glazed hinged door and parcel gilt domed shaped case with all over champlevé enameled designs, surmounted by a shaped arched bonnet centering a seated figure of Cupid with flaming torch. The time and strike movement signed Japy Freres. Together with a pair of urn-form two handled vases of matching champlevé enamel designs, the whole raised on scrolling acanthus cast feet.
Estimate: $1,800/2,500

COWAN’S AUCTIONS

Sale Date: December 9-10, 2016
Lot 1312
Salt-Glazed Anna Pottery Pig
American (Illinois), 1889. A salt-glazed and molded stoneware pig flask by Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick, Anna Pottery, having a hole at the rear, with incised hooves and facial details. One side incised and cobalt highlighted with “St Louis the Western New York / Rail Road and River Guide / By / Anna Pottery / 1889.” The remainder of the pig incised and cobalt highlighted with a map of landmarks.
Estimate: $8/10,000

MAIN AUCTION GALLERIES

Sale Date: December 11, 2016
Lot 295
Edward Wormley Constellation Tables
Pair, model 479, Dunbar 1963. Stained laminated ash, walnut, plastic.
Estimate: $4/6,000

BRIGGS AUCTION, INC.

Sale Date: December 9, 2016
Lot 367
Goldscheider Pottery Art Nouveau Plaque
Relief decorated with a female figure and tree. Signed on edge.
Estimate: $4/600

MICHAAN’S AUCTION

Sale Date: December 10, 2016
Lot 378
Thomas Hart Benton (American 1889-1975)
“Loading Corn,” lithograph. Sheet: 12 x 16 inches. Signed lower right and annotated lower left.
Estimate: $1,5/2,000

FINE ART AUCTIONS MIAMI

Sale Date: December 3, 2016
Lot 2
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
“Le déjeuner sur l’herbe, after Manet.” Mougins, July and November 1961, linoleum cut. Signed lower right and dated upper left. Published by Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, in 1963. Printed by Hidalgo Arnéra, Vallauris.
Estimate: $30/40,000

LOTUS INTERNATIONAL AUCTIONS, LLC

Sale Date: December 3, 2016
Lot 1024
Henry Ward Ranger (1858 – 1916)
“Clearing the Land,” dated 1914. Oil on canvas, signed lower left.
Estimate: $9/12,000

NYE & CO. AUCTIONEERS

Sale Date: December 13-14, 2016
Lot 490
Baroque Elaborately Inlaid Walnut Cabinet
German, circa 1750, attributed to Johann Georg Wahl, in three parts.
Estimate: $4/6,000

LITCHFIELD COUNTY AUCTIONS

Sale Date: December 30 – January 1, 2016
Lot 597
Attributed to Keith Haring Bowery Sign
“Bowery” enameled sign with graffiti, Twentieth Century
Estimate: $3/5,000