The September 24 Home & Decor featuring Rugs & Furniture auction at Alderfer Auction presents an expansive catalog of home furnishings, decorative arts, fine art prints, and specialized collectibles. Spanning a broad range of styles and historical eras, the sale features an extensive selection of room-size Oriental rugs, mid-century and traditional furniture, lighting, porcelain, antiquarian books, and ethnographic items.

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The furniture and lighting categories feature both traditional and modern design. Highlights in seating and accent furniture include a Louis XV style table with burl wood top and floral marquetry, a pair of Chippendale style side chairs paired with a Queen Anne style tilt-top tea table, an antique carved armchair in flame stitch upholstery, and a pair of contemporary blue velvet barrel chairs with chrome sled bases. Contemporary and modern statement pieces feature an Evergo Furniture orange leather modular sectional sofa and a resin wicker double hanging egg chair. Lighting offerings range from Neoclassical style torchiere floor lamps and a space age style floor lamp by Anthony California Inc. to a mid-century brass floor lamp and an antique 19th-century French ormolu and Capodimonte porcelain mantel clock by Bright Paris.

The carpet and rug selection incorporates a variety of hand-knotted and hand-woven Oriental textiles. Highlights include an early 20th-century Persian Sarouk runner with an all-over palmette design, a late 19th-century room-size Persian Kerman rug featuring a bold floral central medallion on a burgundy ground, a large luster wash Oriental carpet, mid-20th-century Turkmen style area rugs with repeating gul medallions, and an Oriental prayer rug featuring mosque panels.

Collectibles, porcelain, and books represent a significant portion of the sale. Asian decorative arts feature an extensive array of Japanese porcelain, including Hirado figures and censers, Fukagawa Seiji Arita porcelain, Kutani and Satsuma pottery, and Seto cobalt bottle vases, alongside 18th-century Chinese export Famille Verte porcelain.

Other collectible highlights include an extensive of Goebel M.I. Hummel porcelain figures (including the limited edition "Picture Perfect" figure and Century Collection pieces), USPS commemorative stamp collections and yearbooks, a 1900 Russian Imperial Nicholas II 5 Rubles gold coin, and antiquarian books including works illustrated by Gustave Doré and Tasha Tudor, first edition Winston Churchill books, and signed Franco Maria Ricci limited editions.

Also included in the Home & Decor sale is a assorted selection of Murano glass, stoneware crocks and jugs, garden sculptures, ladies' accessories and antique nautical collectibles.

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