New York City - Decorative Art

A circa 1940's Italian Carved wood silver-leafed shield. Measurements: Diameter: 36" Depth: 2"

An early 20th Century Persian Persian Bakhtiari Pictorial signed Prayer rug. Light enough to use as a wall piece as well Measures: 5'5'' x 8'2''.  

Antique Persian Meshed Oriental Rug, Room size An antique Persian Meshed oriental rug, size 12'8 x 10'2, circa 1920. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug features floral elements...

A fine antique Persian Senneh mini-size rug from the 1st quarter of the 20th century Measure: 1'11'' x 2'8'' circa 1920 Antique Senneh rugs are one of the most distinctive of all Persian rugs...

Accent size pictorial Turkish Sivas carpet from the first quarter of the 20th century. The gray field with a flurry of wild and exotic animals, accents in beige and crimson red. A co...

A Rare and Fine Quality Antique 19th Century KPM Painting on Porcelain Plaque after Gabriel Metsu’s ‘Lovers at Breakfast’ (Dated 1661), Metsu with his wife Isabella de Wolff in a Tav...

A mid-19th-century Caucasian Kuba rug hand-stitched onto a canvas like Linen Fabric. This item can be used preferably as a wall piece or floor covering, and it can be walked on if de...

Antique Persian Heriz Karaja Oriental rug, in small size An antique Persian Heriz Karaja oriental rug, size 6'0" x 4'10" , circa 1930. This han...

Antique Persian Sarouk Oriental Rug, circa 1920, Room size An antique Persian Sarouk oriental rug, size 11'4" x 8'9", circa 1920. This lovely hand-knotted wool rug features an intri...

A fine antique Persian Senneh scatter size rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century Measure: 3'6'' x 5' circa 1930 Antique Senneh rugs are one of the most distinctive of ...

Francis Grose entered the army early in life and served in the cavalry, infantry, and militia.He had a profound knowledge of antiquities and spent the greater part of his life collec...

Prudence Whittlesey signed watercolor painting in a gilt wood frame. Dimensions: 38.5” H x 32” W x 3” D Bio: Prudence Whittlesey is an American artist. A Pollock-Krasner Foundatio...

White Bunny Drawing by Oleg Cassini for Playboy October 1979, Signed. Illustration of a woman wearing a white body suit, choker, and hat. Signed by Oleg Cassini. Notice the body suit is in the shape of the head of a bunny with clever use of the 'whiskers'. Approximate Measurements: Length: 11" Width: 14" Property from the Collection of Steven Rosengard, Chicago, Illinois This original drawing was commissioned by Playboy and included in the October 1979 issue of Playboy Magazine (pages 225-227) in a feature that included works from designers such as Bill Blass, Oleg Cassini, Edith Head, Fernando Sanchez, and Monika Tilley, among others, who create their versions of the Playboy bunny costume. Candace Collins can be seen modeling some of the designs in the feature. Oleg Cassini is an icon of twentieth-century fashion. Though born to Russian aristocracy and raised in Italy, he built a fashion empire that was unmistakably American. Cassini is perhaps best known for the hundreds of designs he created for First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (see images 4-8), but his achievements as a collector, connoisseur, and quintessential twentieth-century man go far beyond Camelot. In 1913, Oleg Cassini was born in Paris to the Russian diplomat Count Alexander Loiewski and Countess Marguerite Cassini, a Russian aristocrat of Italian ancestry who also had an interesting link to America. The daughter of Count Arthur Cassini, Russian Ambassador to the United States during the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations, Marguerite dazzled turn-of-the-century Washington as her father’s official hostess and left her mark on the capital city. Stationed in Denmark when the Russian Revolution toppled the czar, Ambassador Cassini and family were exiled to Switzerland before settling in Florence, Italy, where young Oleg was raised. A true Renaissance man, he spoke Russian, French, and Danish before adding Italian and English; he studied medieval and modern European military history and costume and learned to draw; he learned horseback riding, fencing, and the art of chivalry; and, most importantly, he came to understand the struggles of the Russian titled class and other European aristocrats in the wake of the Russian Revolution and World War I. Countess Cassini started a successful fashion business in Florence, and soon the talented young Oleg was sent to Paris to sketch the latest collections for recreation in Italy. In Rome in his early 20s, Cassini created fashions for high society women and designed for a few films, which planted the seed for his move to Hollywood. The drive to reinvent himself brought Cassini to America in the 1930s; in his autobiography he describes arriving nearly penniless in mid-Depression New York City where his title as an exiled Russian Count meant even less than in war-devastated Europe. Down and out, Cassini struggled for employment, having sketching skills but no knowledge of the wholesale trade required for survival in Manhattan’s Seventh Avenue fashion district. However, he excelled at making connections, and Cassini slowly entered New York society. He was soon joined by younger brother Igor (who had studied in America and travelled with the young Emilio Pucci) and his parents, the once-dazzling Countess and his father, the displaced diplomat still loyal to Russia. The family settled in Washington, D.C., and Igor worked his way up the Hearst newspaper chain to become the famous society columnist Cholly Knickerbocker. In New York, Oleg Cassini married the troubled socialite Merry Fahrney (who would go on to marry eight times), but the marriage ended in scandal for Oleg, and he decided to follow his original intention and head for Hollywood. Despite initial difficulties, Cassini gained access to Hollywood’s elite (partially through his skills on the tennis court), and was soon hired as a designer at Paramount Pictures alongside the redoubtable Edith Head. In her 1941 film debut I Wanted Wings, Veronica Lake wore a memorable Cassini design. That same year, Cassini met and married the newest young Hollywood star on the scene, the beautiful 20th Century Fox–talent Gene Tierney. With the outbreak of World War II, Cassini enlisted in the Coast Guard but was transferred to the U.S. Army Cavalry which allowed officers of foreign birth. He attended basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the horsemanship he learned as a boy served him greatly. He attended Officer Candidate School and reached the rank of First Lieutenant (he also became an American citizen at this time, losing his title of Count). Cassini spent several years posted at Fort Riley, where Tierney joined him before he landed a convenient military post in Hollywood. As Tierney’s career thrived (she played the title role in Otto Preminger’s Laura in 1944), she was able to assert her influence over 20th Century Fox’s head Daryl Zanuck, who hired Cassini as designer for Tierney on her 1946 film The Razor’s Edge, which proved to be a brilliant showcase for his talents. The pair separated the same year and, again seeking reinvention, Cassini re-established himself in New York City as a fashion designer. By 1950, the Oleg Cassini label was born. Combining his knowledge of Old World and modern Europe, Hollywood, the tennis courts of Palm Beach and Newport, and of course, New York City, Oleg Cassini invented a new brand of fashion that was distinctly American and of its moment. For his first collection, Cassini took to the stage, narrating the looks and imbuing the scene with his personality, unusual in an industry where the designers typically remained backstage and the models were called by number over a PA. The first collection was a smash — the president of Lord & Taylor devoted all of their storefront windows to his designs — and by 1955 sales had reached $5,000,000. Oleg Cassini’s career had turned a very positive corner. Cassini spent the early 1950s traversing the country, personally selling his collections to department stores in the interior, something his predecessors had never done, and moving between the Hollywood and New York scenes. Cassini’s brother Igor coined the term “the Jet Set” for this generation that constantly flew from New York to Los Angeles (then a ten-hour flight), Las Vegas, Paris, Rome, and the Riviera. In 1954, Cassini set out to woo Grace Kelly and sent her roses every day. The two were briefly engaged before her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco. In December 1960, Cassini’s career-defining opportunity came when he was chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to design her fashions for the White House. Cassini had long known Joe Kennedy and his war-hero son John, and had first met Jacqueline Bouvier before her marriage in the early 1950s. Invited by President-Elect Kennedy to meet Jacqueline at Georgetown Hospital (she had just given birth to son John Jr.) to present to her drawings of potential dresses and First Lady looks, Cassini worked furiously to prepare a new line for the First Lady. Mrs. Kennedy had always had her clothes made by the top French couturiers of the day, but for the White House she wanted an American designer. Cassini wrote in his autobiography that he told the First Lady: “‘You have an opportunity here,’ I said, ‘for an American Versailles.’ She understood completely what I was trying to communicate; she began to talk excitedly about the need to create an entirely new atmosphere at the White House. She wanted it to become the social and intellectual capital of the nation” (Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion, 1987, p. 327). Mrs. Kennedy loved Cassini’s design for a gown to wear to the Inaugural Gala (she had already ordered a dress from Bergdorf’s for the Inaugural Ball), and Cassini was selected as the First Lady’s designer and was soon dubbed the “Secretary of Style.” From 1960 to 1963, Oleg Cassini would design over 300 items for Mrs. Kennedy, creating the “Jackie Look” that contributed not only to a fashion revolution but also the dawn of a new age. Cassini wrote that “Jackie played a very active role in the selection of her clothes. She loved brilliant colors — pistachio, hot pink, yellow, and white among others. Her sense of style was very precise; she would make editorial comments on the sketches I sent her. She always knew exactly what she wanted; her taste was excellent” (Oleg Cassini, In My Own Fashion, 1987, p. 334). After the Camelot years, Cassini’s business flourished and grew into a major industry; his name appeared on everything from couture to tennis-, sport-, and swimwear, car interiors, housewares, and perfume. He collected beautiful and rare artwork, arms and armor, and antique furniture, and lived the lifestyle projected by his image. From this period onward, Cassini also came to live in important homes. Of his Gothic Gramercy Park townhouse on Manhattan’s 19th Street he would write imaginatively, “I walked into the foyer and immediately fell in love. It was a place unlike any other in New York, a sixteenth-century Dutch house transported brick by brick from Europe by the Wells Fargo family in the early twentieth century. There was a vaulted, twenty-foot ceiling in the living room, leaded windows, elegantly carved wood paneling...

A superb small antique Turkish rug. Predominantly seafoam green and burnt gold giving it a faded, sublimed look, circa 1880, measures: 4'4" x 5'10''

Fine antique Persian Senneh rug mat Measure: 1'9'' x 2'6'' Antique Senneh rugs are one of the most distinctive of all Persian rugs, even thoug...

One of a kind hand-knotted Turkish Anatolian rug with stand-alone deer on a blush color ground Measures: 3'3” x 3'11”.

Italian Renaissance style metal wall plaque of arms and armor displayed on a round shield back.

A vintage Turkish Kilim Oriental rug, in a runner size, circa 1930, size: 9'8" x 3'2". This handmade rug is flat-woven of wool, with no upward pile. The rug features a tribal design ...

This beautiful original Mid-Century Modern lithograph was created for the inauguration of the new Alhambra Theater, featuring Maurice Chevalier, circa 1948. It features the actor don...

A colorful formal fine quality connoisseur level Persian Malayer rug. Rugs this quality type can be used as great wall decor as well. Measures: 4'4'' x 5'8''.

One of a kind hand-knotted Turkish Anatolian Rug in pale peach, brown, and green accents depicting 3 deers and 2 birds, circa 1940. Square Shape too Measures: 4'6” x 4'8”.  

19th century Persian Tabriz Pictorial rug in predominant light blue. Light enough to use as a wall hanging as well Measures: 4'6" x 6'3".

A quirky Mid-century Central Turkish Anatolian rug woven horizontally. 3'9'' x 5'9''

Antique Persian Heriz oriental rug, room size An antique Persian Heriz oriental rug, size 12'7" x 10'1", circa 1920. This handsome hand-woven ge...

WWI model of a molded papier-mache brown horse head wearing a gas mask and goggles. (Can be mounted on back).        

Stellar mid-19th century Turkish Herekeh Rug. 2' x 4' The Middle East is historically known as a source of beautiful, elegant rugs, and Turkey is one of the most well-renowned sources of those rugs. Of particular interest are the Hereke rugs made in the small coastal town of Hereke, Turkey. Antique Hereke rugs...

Vintage Persian Heriz Oriental rug, room size A vintage Persian Heriz oriental rug, size 12'1" x 9'6", circa 1930. This handsome hand-woven geom...

A one of a kind small finely woven turkish rug. We can also see this piece be used as a wall covering. 4'3" x 5'10"

A pair of circa 1900s English silver plated wall plaques depicting deer. Measurements: Diameter 18" Depth 4"   

Vintage Persian Baktiari Oriental Rug, Square size A vintage Baktiari oriental rug, size 12'8" x 11'0", circa 1930. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug features a garden design ...

Antique Persian Baktiari Oriental rug, small size An antique Baktiari oriental rug, size 6'8" x 4'3", circa 1920. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug features a central medalli...

Antique Persian Baktiari Oriental Rug, Small size An antique Baktiari oriental rug, size 6'10" x 5'0", circa 1920. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug features a garden design i...

Vintage Persian Kerman oriental carpet, size 9'0" H x 6'6" W, circa 1930. This vintage hand-knotted Persian rug features a striking ivory central field, with a central medallion s...

Finely enameled in shades of rose and cobalt with flowers with dark green tendrils, the border with iron red scroll pattern.

A circa 1960's Italian welded Brutalist style metal crowing rooster wall sculpture. Measurements: Height: 21" Width: 17" Dept: 7".

Antique Persian Sarouk Oriental rug, circa 1920, room size. An antique Persian Sarouk oriental rug, size 11'7" x 9'0", circa 1920. This lovely hand-knotted wool rug features an in...

American Art Moderne silver plate trophy with 2 handles on round bakelite base (20th Cent.)

Quatrefoil Stained Glass Window, 19th century, depicting Christ in blessing gesture, mounted between mat board. Image: 16" H x 16.5" W; mat: 20" H x 26.5" W. Provenance: From an Uppe...

Antique Chinese Art deco rug, room size, circa 1920. A one-of-a-kind antique Chinese Mandarin oriental carpet, hand-knotted with medium thi...

Horticulturalist Framed Herbs

A vintage Persian Kerman rug, circa 1930, size 7'8" x 4'0". This lovely handwoven wool rug features a small medallion at the center of an open soft green field, enclosed within an el...

Pair of English Victorian Stevengraph embroidered hunt scenes with fruitwood frames (Stevens).  

Midcentury large-scale brass wall plaque with a hand engraved pattern. Charger has a great aged patina which brings out the beauty of the engraving.

Vintage Persian Baktiari Oriental Rug, Room size A vintage Baktiari oriental rug, size 13'0" x 10'4", circa 1940. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug features a garden design in...

Old English hand painted Cote of Arms series with Provenance of each respective family, beautifully matted and elegantly framed. The crests are for the families listed below. Each's respective history and estate information affixed to back of each framed crest...

Maurice Max-Ingrand (French, 1908-1969) Angel Playing Harp Stained Glass Panel, on red ground with stars, signed and marked "Made in France" upper left. 30" H x 22.5" W. Provenance:...

Antique Persian Saraband rug, Gallery size, circa 1910 A one-of-a-kind antique Persian Saraband Oriental Carpet, hand-knotted with thick and lustrous wool pile. This classic carpet features a Paisley design allover a large soft red field, with an ivory outer border. In gallery size, size 10'0" x 5'0". A great value, and an excellent choice for hallway or a gallery space...

Antique Persian Heriz Karaja Oriental Rug, in small size. An antique Persian Heriz Karaja oriental rug, size 6'3" x 4'8", ...

PAIR of English Victorian Royal Devon porcelain round wall plaque plates with scene of 2 hunting dog, repair on one plate (signed R. HINTON) (PRICED AS PAI...

Geoff Hargadon American (b. 1954) Cash for Your Warhol, 2012 Serigraph Signed verso Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 18 in. (sheet), 15 1/4 x 21 1/4 in. (frame) Framed in custom wood frame with...

Pair of Italian Renaissance style (19th century) square black framed brass embossed wall plaques with scene of 17th Century men & women.  

Vintage Persian Heriz Oriental rug, Room size A vintage Persian Heriz oriental rug, size 11'2" x 9'0", circa 1950. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug features a central medall...

American Country style brass bed warmer with wrought iron handle (19/20th Cent.)

American Modern Abstract Silver & Copper Raindrop Wall Sculpture, Curtis Jeré

Antique Persian Sarouk Oriental Rug, circa 1910, Room size An antique Persian Sarouk oriental rug, size 13'9" x 10'6", circa 1910....

Antique Persian Heriz oriental rug, room size An antique Persian Heriz oriental rug, size 12'4" x 9'0", circa 1910. This handsome hand-woven geo...

Antique Persian Kerman oriental carpet, size 7'2" H x 4'0" W, circa 1910. This vintage hand-knotted Persian rug features a striking ivory central field, covered with floral elemen...

Antique Persian Heriz Karaja Oriental rug, size 5'7" x 4'9". An antique Persian Heriz Karaja oriental rug, size 5'7" x 4'9...