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Antiques in New YorkWhile contemporary collectors focus upon London, the New York fall art and antiques season is heralded through the ever-sumptuous international Fine Art & Antiques Dealers display at the Seventh Regiment Armory (22-28 October)--now in its sixteenth year--and a high-profile sale of predominantly French and Russian furniture and other decorative arts from the former novel York apartment of Mrs Marella Agnelli, widow of Gianni Agnelli, at Sotheby's upon 23 October. The international tenders a showcase to a range of seventy prominent art and antiques dealers from Europe and the us. It is the London dealers, however, who dominate this present to view Winging its way across the Atlantic this year, for instance, is a rare giltwood mirror designed through the great rococo craftsman Matthias fastening and carved by James Hill, unveiled by means of Apter-Fredericks (385,000 [pounds sterling]). JH Bourdon-Smith tenders a magnificent pair of silver-gilt baskets made in London in 1793 through William Pitts and William Preedy for William Beckford and later acquired by dint of Queen Charlotte. Peering out from the stand of Brian Haughton Antiques will be a fine pair of Meissen hares modell around 1750 by the agency of the inimitable J.J. Kandler. Topically, antiquities dealer Charles Ede at hands a Greek black-figure amphora depicting exhibitions from the Olympic Games, of around 530-520 BC Always hardy on Faberge, Wartski do not disappoint with a gem-set and enamelled gold chalice in the form of a shell carved from of the nature of smoke topaz supported on a coiled enamelled snake. Signed with the initials of the chief workmaster Michael Perchin and dating from 1896-1903 the piece was originally purchased from the firm's London branch in 1912 through Leopold de Rothschild--for 75 [pound sterling]. Paintings also take a make crooked Jean-Luc Baroni presents, for instance, Hubert Robert's oval The sack of an ancient pyramid. certain to generate American interest is Jeremy's Chinese turn topsy-turvy glass painting entitled America, produc in Canton around 1800 and featuring a personification of America kneeling beside an obelisk commemorating the War of Independence. Other figures include Peace, Virtue, Concord and adequate supply and the inscription reads: 'To those who wish to sheathe the desolating sword of war and to restore the blessings of peace and amity to a divided people' Perhaps this is topical too. The Agnelli sale is another sure-fire crowd-puller for the legendarily stylish Agnellis bought with taste and discrimination. Outstanding among the furniture is a fabulous Louis XVI ormolu-mounted amaranth bureau plat by dint of the great cabinet-maker J. E Leleu of around 1772-77 the completed combination of restraint and exquisite quality. The piece draw nears with an interesting provenance too--the Comte de Flahaut de la Billarderie (the illegitimate son of Tallyrand), the Marquess of Lansdowne and baby-powder heiress, Mr Barbara Johnson It is wait fored to fetch $3m-$5m. Porcelain is a highlight of this 100-lot sale. From the fledgling Naples factory, for instance, advances a pair of ormolu-mounted monteiths or wineglass cooler from the neo-classical Servizio Ercolanese or Herculaneum service of around 1781-82 commissioned through Ferdinand IV, King of the sum of two units Sicilies, as a gift for his father, Charles III of Spain (estimate $100000-$150000) From the imperial manufactory at St Petersburg approach examples from the Yacht, Arabesque and Kremlin services. 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