Commerce Club selling 5 decades of antiques
After five decades near Five Points downtown, the Commerce Club is moving to the One Ninety One Peachtree Tower, and many of its furnishings will go on public sale on Oct. 23-24.
18th and 19th century English and American antiques, Atlanta memorabilia, paintings and prints, holloware and flatware, Chinese and English ceramics and more will be available for purchase, with proceeds benefitting the community. Many of the items have a provenance of long-time Atlanta and Georgia families, including the Woodruffs and Alstons.
The sale is at 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, 34 Broad St. N.W. (at Marietta Street). Questions: e-mail hillside95@bellsouth.net.
Scroll down to see a partial list of items that will be available. The list is provided by Litchfield Carpenter and Shirley Wender, who are conducting the sale:
- English antique pub and tavern signs
- American southern walnut and yellow pine sideboard, circa 1810
- Welsh cupboard
- English 18th century inlaid mahogany secretary
- chinoiserie tall case clock
- upholstered club chairs
- English Regency 19th century mahogany sideboards
- English 19th century knife boxes and urn form knife boxes
- Waterford large chandelier
- Adam-style tables
- mahogany chests
- room-size Oriental rugs
- Windsor chairs
- lowboys
- period card tables
- English carved game tables
- 19th century English carved supper table
- camel-back sofas
- tea caddies
- Chippendale double back carved mahogany settee
- antique wall clocks and barometer
- mahogany pedestal dining tables
- 18th and 19th century Chinese export blue and white porcelains, rose medallion lamps, fishbowls, mantle vases
- English 18th and 19th century ceramics
- Christofle silver-plated trolleys and dessert carts
- old Sheffield Plate tea urns
- chandeliers, crystal sconces and mirrored back sconces
- hanging corner cabinets
- pair of English 19th century marine paintings by J. Murday
- numerous 19th century oil paintings (landscapes, cows, portraits) by listed artists
- fine lamps
- pair of English Regency terrestrial globes by T.M. Bardin
- portrait of George Washington after Gilbert Stuart
- mahogany breakfront
- sporting paintings and prints
- leather chairs
- Japanese bronze urns
- Bronze eagle statue
- Commerce Club silver and china – coffee pots, bowls, candelabras, floral containers, flatware, etc
- Lenox Monroe china
- Kittinger round dining table
- 32-foot mahogany board room table and 28 leather chairs
- pub tables
