The Cary Collection

Original design sketches for David Linley's exquisite, bespoke table furniture inspired by the Monte Carlo Casino which is priced at $100,000 Art Sz: 30 3/4"H x 19 1/2"W Frame Sz: ...

Classic c1930s artist's watercolour rendering drawn by P.D. Hepworth (signed (LL) for the motor showrooms at Purley designed by Nicholls & Hughes Art Sz: 14"H x 20 1/4"W Frame Sz: ...

Colourful hand-needlepoint c1960s panel depicting (48) shells surrounding a red & yellow Chinoiserie maze with a 15"W shell at centre, in a Chinese red laquer...

Elegant & fabulously rare, original Philippe Jullian (1919-1977) (ink signed LR) watercolour depicting a lavish Moorish opium salon interior with a reclining nude portrait on the wall and two monkeys with their turban clad handler. Sagittarius Gallery, NY label inscribed Jullian No. 18 on verso Art Sz: 8 3/4"H x 11 1/8"W Frame Sz: 16"H x 18"W w/ Hermes orange mat & antique bamboo frame Provenance: The estate of D. D. Ryan (1928-2007), noted fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar, an associate of Halston and a regular on best-dressed lists! Another widely appreciated achievement is her association with the creation of Eloise, the fictional little girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel. Eloise began as a character that Kay Thompson, a cabaret singer, portrayed to amuse her friends, of whom Ms. Ryan was one. Ms. Ryan urged her to write a book, put her together with Hilary Knight, the illustrator, and never stopped pushing her to finish the job. The result was “Eloise,” published in 1955 and a best seller the next year, and its popular sequels. “The book would never have existed without D. D. Never,” Mr. Knight said in an interview Thursday. “She would have just dropped it and gone on to something else.” Beyond her historic Eloise moment, Ms. Ryan thrived at the crossroads of New York’s fashion and artistic worlds, seeming to make a statement every time she dressed, almost always in clothes she made herself, always recognizable with her famous precisely stylized eyebrows. Her first job in Manhattan was as an assistant to the photographer Richard Avedon; she was photo editor at Harper’s Bazaar under the legendary editor Diana Vreeland, and she designed the costumes for Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 Broadway musical “Company.” Her social circle included Cole Porter, Andy Warhol, Mr. Sondheim and Truman Capote. When she recommended a new pair of sandals or a piece of costume jewelry — only “really good costume jewelry...

Classic horse racing watercolour & gouache by S.J. Anderton 1921 depicting Mr C.L. Appleton (jockey) in the salmon & black colours of Mrs Payne Whitney's Greentree Stables up on 'Web Carter' Art Sz: 14"H x 20 3/4"W Frame Sz: 21 1/2"H x 28"W Whitney was a major figure in thoroughbred horse racing and in 2018 he was voted one of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame's most prestigious honors as an Exemplar of Racing. Harry Whitney inherited a large stable from his father (including the great filly Artful and her sire Hamburg, and in 1915 established a horse breeding farm in Lexington, Kentucky where he developed the American polo pony by breeding American Quarter Horse stallions with his thoroughbred mares. He was thoroughbred racing's leading owner of the year in the United States on eight occasions and the breeder of almost two hundred stakes race winners. His leading sire was first Hamburg and then the great sire Broomstick, by Ben Brush. His Kentucky-bred horse Whisk Broom...

Watercolor w/ gouache highlights Art Sz: 12"H x 18"W Frame Sz: 16"H x 22 1/2"W Inscribed LL: The Freshest thing to win a National in years- and he broke the record at that. Golden Miller wins in 9:20 2/5 1934 Golden Miller (1927–1957) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who is the most successful Cheltenham Gold Cup horse ever, winning the race in five consecutive years between 1932 and 1936. He also is the only horse to win both of the United Kingdom's premier steeplechase races - the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National - in the same year (1934). Golden Miller was trained by Basil Briscoe in Longstowe, Cambridgeshire and owned by Dorothy Paget, who was the British flat racing Champion Owner in 1943, and the leading National Hunt owner in 1933-34, 1940–41 and 1951-52. In 1931, Golden Miller made his steeplechasing debut at Newbury Racecourse where he finished first, only to be disqualified for carrying incorrect weight. On 30 December, he won the Reading Chase before winning the Sefton Steeplechase on 20 January 1932. In 1933, as a six-year-old and winner of two Cheltenham Gold Cups, he started as the 9/1 favourite in the Grand National but fell at the Canal Turn. In the 1934 Grand National win, he set a new course record of 9 min 20.4s for Aintree. This victory was the middle of five consecutive Gold Cup victories, a Gold Cup record.[2] He retired in 1939 with a record of 29 wins from 52 races. He is buried at Elsenham Stud, a working farm in Elsenham, West Essex. Artist Bio: Paul Desmond Brown (1893-1958) was born in Minnesota and soon moved to New York City with his family. A quote from his biography:"Paul Brown told his host on a radio interview held in September of 1956, 'One day in 1904, I got 50 cents someplace and went over to the National Horse Show at the old Madison Square Garden and saw 'fine leppers,' [a term used for jumpers] as we called them, and Thoroughbreds for the first time.' From then on he appeared to be hooked on drawing horses." At the age of 17, his family relocated again to Garden City on Long Island, where Brown had the opportunity to explore polo grounds...

Original trompe l'oeil signed Aaron Bohrod (LL) entitled Walnut Shells Provenance: The Milch Galleries #21 East 67th Street (label affixed to verso) in acrylic on masonite board Im...

Art Sz: 19"H x 27 1/4"W Frame Sz: 25 1/2"H x 34 1/4"W Classic circa 1902 polo match in watercolour & gouache by George H Harrington (1833-1911)

Original Cecil Beaton (signed LR) watercolour set design for the 2nd version of Beaton's play "The Gainsborough Girls" circa 1951 theatrical production entitled "Landscape with Figur...

Original 19th Century Victorian King Charles Spaniel with garland adornment needlepoint slipper hand-coloured screen Wool Canvas Sz: 14 1/2"H" x 22 1/4"W Frame Sz: 19 1/2"H x 27"W...

Original gouache advert depicting four raised sets of arms clutching "Opera Glasses" by Alexander Warren Montel (1921-2002) chief fashion illustrator for Lanvin of Paris c1950 Art S...

Classic c1950s watercolour by Allen Townsend Terrell (1897-1986) depicting an elegant salon interior from a Palm Beach estate Art Sz: 23 1/2"H x 18"W ...

Original watercolour for Town & Country magazine c1950 by Peruvian fashion illustrator, Reynaldo Luza (1893-1978) Art Sz: 6 1/2"H x 5"W Frame Sz: 13'H x...

Original fashion watercolour (signed J Pages & dated '38) by the French illustrator, Jean Pages (1903-1976) which appeared as a full color page in Vogue Mag...

Original gouache artwork for Town & Country magazine circa 1950 by Peruvian fashion illustrator, Reynaldo Luza (1893-1978), pre-eminent fashion artist, wa...

Classic watercolor of the Clarence Birdseye Estate in Gloucester, Mass designed by Thomas Hixon (architect) Art Sz: 13 5/8"H x 21 3/4"W Frame Sz: 21"H x 29"W Clarence Birdseye (December 9, 1886 – October 7, 1956) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist, considered the founder of the modern frozen food...

Original watercolour circa 1947 of a Palm Beach tropical pool oasis by the acclaimed German artist & architect Franz Bueb (1919-1982) who designed Town & Co...

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's "The Second Mrs Tanqueray" Act III, signed Beaton (MR) from the Haymarket Theatre, London 1950 stage production. Provenance: Palm Beach Galleries...

Original oil on canvas entitled: Petee Wrack thoroughbred winner of the 1928 Travers Stakes at Saratoga by Edward Herbert Miner (1882-1941) elegan...

Original cinema mod art poster for this now iconic Italian caper film starring John Phillip Law in front of his femme fatale's white Jaguar XK-E 1968 Poste...