This is one of our very favorite sales ever! Our client is wonderfully knowledgeable in the area of aboriginal art and the home reflects a lifetime of travel and adventure! Our sale in this packed house is of course on Saturday and Sunday, but, we have a special treat for art lovers and anyone else with a desire to learn about the amazing creations by an ancient people.

The night before the sale, Dr. Joe Gerstein will deliver a talk on "Australian Aboriginal Art: Ancient and Modern Creations of a Stone-Age People" on Friday evening, April 27 at 7:30-8:30 PM at 410 Hayfield Lane, Wayland 01778. Hayfield Lane is off Curling Lane (GPS 138 Rice Road). Attendance limited to 20. Please call 508 733 6469 to reserve a seat. Australian Aboriginal Art ONLY will be available for purchase after the talk.

Great interest has developed in contemporary Australian Aboriginal Art in the last few years. There have been exhibitions at many major museums recently, including Harvard's Fogg Museum and Florida International University's Frost Museum last year. The Metropolitan Museum of Art accepted 10 donated paintings to its collection a couple of months ago. The University of Virginia has a museum dedicated totally to this category [Kluge-Ruhe Museum].  The Musee' du Quai Branly [Primitive Art] in Paris has a large permanent collection and had an Aboriginal artist paint a huge permanent mural on an archway. The million dollar mark for an aboriginal painting was passed about 10 years ago at a Sotheby sale. 45 years ago, Aboriginal paintings literally could not be given away!

Remember that attendance is limited to 20. Please call 774.922.2630 to reserve a seat. Australian Aboriginal Art ONLY will be available for purchase after the talk.

Highlights of the sale include: 

• Gorgeous contemporary furnishings
• 19th Century Hand Crafted Chinese Cane Top Daybed/Opium Bed
• Many beautiful hand-knotted vintage rugs
• Yamaha Baby Grand Nippon Gakki #749922 (5'7")
• Painting by G Hooper
• Glass top and bronze base coffee table
• Beautiful sectional, virtually new
• Diego Giacometti repro table
• Indigenous Masks and Statues from many aboriginal tribes from around the world - New Guinea
• Bose sound system
• Wrought Iron Queen Bed
• Linens, vintage and indigenous
• Vintage boomerangs and shield from Australia
• Vintage mohair blankets
• Twin bed set, MCM
• MCM side tables
• Leather sofa, love-seat and arm chair
• Leather office chairs
• Brown Jordan outdoor furnishings
• Ceramic Asian Lamp
• Pair of Thai Puppets
• Alvin Sterling Silver Set for 12
• Swords, ceremonial - Berber,  Taureg
• Minton China
• Heavy Pair of Sterling Candle Sticks!
• Gorham Sterling salts
• Georg Jensen sterling pin
• Antique Moroccan Judaica Oil Anointing  Rams Shofar 
• Many interesting pieces of silver including a ...
• Rare Gorham 3-piece butter dish
• Sculptural Totem, Westport, MA 10 feet 
• Royal Copenhagen Nils Thorssen Ceramic Tray 
• Limoges CeralineChina Anneau D'Or
• Many aboriginal Totem paintings from Australia including by Evelyn Pultara, deceased 2011
• Sheep skin choir book sheet
• Royal Worcester pair of vases
• Decorative Pot, Kenneth Standhardt Studio Oregon 
• Large collection of vintage copper pots, vessels
• Vintage and antique bronze figuines
• Vintage Italian Pharmacy Jars
• Authentic vintage didgeredoo
• Fossils!
• Antique Chinese Mahjong set
• Van Assche Pottery
• Hand carved African birthing chair
• Mid Century Egon Ostergaard Cylinder Rolltop Secretary Desk, Made in Sweden
• Lots and lots of books!
• Tile top nesting tables
• Waterford crystal
• Vintage Lalique bird on bell in original box
• Stunning outdoor sculptures
• Antique brass nesting apothecary measures
• Vintage Campaign Chest - one small one larger
• Vintage handmade clothing
• Unusual Towle Trays with antler handles
• Collections of antique English nautical compasses
• Ancient Persian glass vase
• Antique Chinese Ginger Jar
• Meissen footed tea cup, hand painted 
• Inuit carved serpentine 
• Cottreau sculpture, Man Rising
• Tiwi mortuary post - Torres Islands, Australia
• New Britain Shield - island off New Guinea 
• Indian printing blocks for textiles
• Ko characters, Japan
• Australian aboriginal Kadiche Man
• Copper Portuguese stills for making liquor
• Movable Chinese Type
• Aboriginal baskets
• Tlingit rattle from NW India
• Zulu baskets
• New Guinea Shield, Sepik River
• Dogon Granary Door
• Bronze Siva, Ganesha
• Jaipur India Wall hangings
• Kinte cloth
• San Rey Island Mola
• Haitian oil painting
• Australian aboriginal bark paintings
• Moroccan Tray Table
• Antique Fruit Prints
• Antique Netsuke
• Sepik River Skull Board
• Bali Burl Carving
• Bronze sculpture by Tom Walsh from Oregon
• Shadow Box Sculpture Donna Doersam
• Al Ladd inlaid wood cutting board 
• Wedgewood Midwinter Stonehenge Oven to Table
• Beautiful antique Davenport
• Rosewood Nesting Tables

Oh my goodness - I can't go on! So much to see - take advantage of this opportunity to own something unique and unusual - or peruse the vast collection of more traditional household items! Hope to see you there!