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Lots 1-178: The Piero and Paola Ferro Collection: Antique Chinese Amber, Jade, Archeo Gold and Talismans

Lots 179-775: Asian, Ethnographic Arts, Antique Oriental Rugs & Textiles

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Sizzling Summer Estates — Hundreds of Low and No Reserve Items! Including Paintings, Sculpture, Textiles, Carpets, Antique Chinese Furniture, African Art and Artifacts, Vintage Finds, Group Lots Galore, Movie Props, Jewelry, Books, Pottery and Much Much More!

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Material Culture continues to bring a truly unique collection of traditional art to auction in its sale The Max Garb Collection II: Unreserved Ethnographic Arts Auction, on June 23, 2013. An outsider to the world of tribal art dealers, Max Garb made his living as an elevator operator on Chicago’s Golden Mile, but what he called his “magnificent obsession” with ethnographic arts spurred him to assemble an extraordinary collection. Started in the 1970s, Garb’s collection is the fruit of “half a lifetime”, by his own reckoning, and totals over 700 artifacts, largely from Africa, but also from Japan, Nepal, Tibet, Bali, New Guinea, Guatemala and Mexico. The auction will comprise the final 350+ lots of objects from Garb’s estate.

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Material Culture is celebrating the spirit, animation and theatricality of folk, self-taught and ethnographic arts in its May 26 auction, Folk Out Loud: AN IMPORTANT AUCTION OF FOLK, SELF-TAUGHT & ETHNOGRAPHIC ART. Featuring 450 lots, the sale will provide an exciting mix of art and artifacts from around the world, from paintings by important self-taught artists, to African tribal art, to American cigar store Indians. Objects at the auction nearly encompass the history of folk art, with pre-historic to 12th century to 21st century artifacts being presented for sale.

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May Estates Auction: Silver, Period Furnishings, Fine Art, Antiques, Asian Decorative Arts, Oriental Rugs, Art Glass, Much More. An Eclectic Estate Auction Filled With Many Unreserved Items. Highlights include: Joseph Csaky (French, 1888-1971) Bronze Sculpture; George William Mote (British, 1832-1909) Oil Painting; Dennis Abbe Art Deco Revival Glass Fire Screen; Margo De Mexico Sterling Silver Tea Service. Featuring Large Estate Collections of Asian Cloisonne and Ethnographic Arts.

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Material Culture brings a truly unique collection of traditional art to auction in its sale The Max Garb Collection of African and Ethnographic Arts, on April 28, 2013. An outsider to the world of tribal art dealers, Max Garb made his living as an elevator operator on Chicago’s Golden Mile, but what he called his magnificent obsession with ethnographic arts spurred him to assemble an extraordinary collection. Started in the 1970s, Garb’s collection is the fruit of “half a lifetime”, by his own reckoning. At one point, it totaled approximately 700 artifacts, largely from Africa, but also from Japan, Nepal, Tibet, Bali, New Guinea, Guatemala and Mexico. The auction will comprise 300+ lots of objects from Garb’s estate, several pieces from his collection having already sold in another auction at Material Culture.

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Material Culture Auction Department is proud to offer the GlaxoSmithKline LLC art collection at Auction on April 14th 2013. The global health care company’s Philadelphia branch is one of its two large corporate headquarters in the United States, and pieces from its substantial collection have already sold in previous auctions at Material Culture. The collection was amassed during the 1980s through the early 2000s. This sale features 350+ artworks, including works by Robert Natkin, Benton Spruance, Lance Richbourg, Katharine Steele Renninger, Douglas Dean Ohlson, Murray Dessner, Moe Brooker, Fernando de Jesus Oliveira (Ferjo), Diane Burko, William Nichols, John Andre Gundelfinger, Joseph DiGiorgio, Joseph Sweeney, David Robert Brumbach, Karel Appel, Stephen Woodburn, and many more. All of the pieces are sold without reserve, and provide opportunities for any budget and for a broad variety of collectors and connoisseurs.

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Selling property from local and national estates.  Highlights include a 19th C. Navajo Germantown blanket from the collection of GlaxoSmithKline; an outstanding 19th C. Kazak Lori Pambak rug from a Philadelphia estate; a 10th Century Seljuk bronze bowl formerly in the Arthur M. Sackler collection; rare Northwest Coast masks from the collection of Max Garb, Chicago; works from local estates by Walter Stuempfig, Dale Chihuly, Peter Max, and more.

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An important auction of fine art, antiques, carpets, and ethnographic arts titled “Collector’s Eye.” A portion of the 350+ lots up for sale come from the art collection of the international healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline LLC, which holds many museum-quality pieces.

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Our auction “Antique, Decorative & Tribal Carpets” showcases hundreds of collectible and decorative hand-woven carpets, including: Serapis, Kazaks, Ushaks, Shirvans, Sultanabads, Turkomans, Khotans, Tebrizes, Moroccans, Bidjars, Hamadans, and much, much more!

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The December Estates Auction showcases an array of fresh-to-the-market art and artifacts from Pennsylvania and regional estates. The auction features more than 90 lots of museum-quality modern, self-taught and animation art, over 200 lots of 20th century art glass, 100 lots of antique and vintage Navajo jewelry, and 40 lots of antique and decorative Oriental textiles and carpets contribute to the auction’s wealth of more than 600 lots. Additional highlights include selections of Lalique crystal sculptures, 19th century Sevres porcelain vases, 19th century Japanese ivory, and over 30 lots of 18th and 19th century Asian and continental snuff boxes.

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“The Spirits of my Reincarnation Brothers and Sisters,” the name of an exceptional painting by Prince Twins Seven-Seven, up for sale at this auction, lends a title to this selection of  art, antiquities, textiles, carpets, and other fine artifacts, including items from Bill Liske’s collection of antique Tibetan and Chinese textiles, and select works of fine, folk, outsider, self-taught, ethnographic and decorative art.

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The September Estates Auction features Asian Art Deco, 19th Century British and Dutch Colonial Antiques, collectibles, and decorative arts.

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Our inaugural fall auction, “Antique Decorative & Tribal Carpets” showcases over 400 fine Persian, Turkish, Caucasian and other carpets from local, regional and national estates and collections, including many outstanding examples of rare  and traditional carpets.

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Our Inaugural Specialty Catalogue Sale showcases the Bill Liske Collection of Antique Tibetan Textiles, Carpets and Artifacts, with items from the Yuan and Ming dynasties including a truly outstanding 14th century Yuan silk embroidered thangka. Other contributors’ lots include a group of 17th-18th century Ottoman textiles, an early 17th century Spanish Alcaraz carpet, and two exceptional mid-19th century west Anatolian village carpets.

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Inaugural Auction: “New World Orders” – Sat, May 5 (11 am) – Our Inaugural Catalogue Sale features a selection of art, antiques, collectables and decorative arts, including a Samuel Robb cigar store Indian, and pieces by renowned world artists, such as Chinese painters Fan Zeng and Gou Runwen, American self-taught artists James Castle and Felipe Jesus Consalvos, and Nigerian painter Prince Twins Seven-Seven.

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