Mallett Antiques - October 2011 Exhibitions

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October 2011 International fine art and antique fairs Hong Kong New York

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n the present market for fine art and antiques, the taste of new collectors is changing, as is the manner of doing business with the emergence of new global super powers. Mallett Antiques, who have fine antique galleries in both New Bond Street, London and Madison Avenue, New York are strengthening their bonds with the emerging markets and will be exhibiting in Hong Kong as well as New York in October 2011.

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allett will be exhibiting an exciting range of carefully selected pieces of Chinese and European furniture and works of art, at The Fine Art Asia Fair.

Fine Art Asia is now firmly established as Asia’s leading annual fine art fair presenting a unique combination of Art and Antiques.

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One of a pair of giltwood Louis XV fauteuils

his year the fair has grown in breadth and depth, providing an authoritative world-class platform for the most renowned galleries to exhibit in Asia. FINE ART ASIA 2011 will showcase an outstanding array of museumquality exhibits spanning 15,000 years. These range from ancient Chinese bronzes and stone wares, Himalayan bronzes, Chinese ceramics and works of art, furniture, textiles and jades, to exquisite fine art jewellery, rare antique silver and exceptional paintings, sculptures and objets d’art from Old Masters to Impressionism and Modern Art, and exciting contemporary artworks from both Asia and the West.

A panel of Chinese Export wall paper

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allett finish exhibiting in Hong Kong on the 8th October, and will then be re-focusing for the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers show in New York. This year the exhibition will take place from the 21st to the 27th October at The Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York. The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show, founded in 1989, was New York’s first vetted fair and remains one of the world’s most prestigious art and antique fairs.

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he glamorous, world-class showcase consistently attracts leading international dealers with an outstanding selection of superb works of art, featuring everything from antiquities to contemporary art. Categories represented include arms and armour, bronzes, rare books, carpets, ethnographica, furniture, garden furniture, glass, jewellery, maps, manuscripts, marine artefacts, pictures, porcelain, pottery and sculpture. All items are for sale under the strictest vetting conditions.

The Mallett Stand at Masterpiece 2011, London

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allett Antiques exhibit annually at the world’s most prestigious international fine art and antique fairs. Every February, Mallett start the year exhibiting in Palm Beach, Florida at the American International Fine Art Fair where the Mallett exhibition is curated by Henry Neville and João Magalhaes.

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n March, Mallett exhibit in Maastricht, Holland at the TEFAF ‘The European Fine Art Fair’, which has rapidly become the largest and most visited fair of all.

Its vast exhibition space encloses works of art from every fine art and antique faculty from pre-historic to the present day. Mallett is proud to be the only English antique furniture dealer exhibiting at the fair.

For the past two years, Mallett has also exhibited at the Masterpiece Fair in London. Taking place in June, Masterpiece sits perfectly in the ‘London Season’ and this year attracted almost 30,000 visitors. As founding members of the fair, Mallett is proud to support it and show the best of the best from their collections.

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ollectors visiting Mallett at one of the numerous international fine art fairs will be enthused by the Mallett house style, where one can expect the unexpected.

Eclectic combinations of rare antiques will be juxtaposed, to create dynamic and distinctive displays. Mallett look forward to welcoming you to the fairs.

“Expect the unexpected”

Selected Highlights A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE CHINESE PORCELAIN VASES Each of well potted baluster form, painted with a pair of cranes standing in elaborate rockwork formations amongst sprays of peony and beneath a flowering prunus tree contained in a walled garden, with very unusual lotus flower finials on the lids.

A similar pair of vases is found at the Blue Room in the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm Royal Palace near Stockholm (Ake Setterwall, The Chinese Pavilion, 1972, p.157). The Chinese Pavilion is an exquisite monument to the passion for Chinese taste in Europe and includes great examples of porcelain.

China, circa 1730 Height: 34 1/2 in (88 cm) Width: 18 1/2 in (47 cm) O3A0452 Exhibiting in Hong Kong

Selected Highlights

A PAIR OF WILLIAM AND MARY GILTWOOD TORCHERES Each with a circular dished top above a reeded, fluted and acanthus-carved shaft with satyr masks on a scrolled foliate tripod base with reeded feet.

Designed in the Louis XIV ‘Roman’ fashion, this style was introduced to Britain by William IIIs Paris-trained ‘architect’ Daniel Marot (d. 1752), and related stands introduced in the late 1690s to Hampton Court Palace, were executed by the Paris-trained sculptor-carver Jean Pelletier (see T. Murdoch, ‘Jean, René and Thomas Pelletier, Part I’, Burlington Magazine, November 1997, pp. 732-742). This pattern of satyr mask also features on a pier-table, bearing an Earl’s coronet-ensigned cipher at Chatsworth, Derbyshire (O.Brackett, An Encyclopaedia of English Furniture, 1927, p. 101).

A related pair of stands, formerly at Avebury Manor, Wiltshire, are now at Temple Newsam, Leeds (C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1978, p. 291, no. 351).

England, circa 1700 Height: 53 in (134 cm) Width: 19 in (49 cm) F2J0342 Exhibiting in New York

Exhibition Dates

Fine Art Asia 3 - 7 October 2011

International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show 21 - 27 October 2011

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong

The Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York, USA

OPENING HOURS

Date and Time:

Sunday, 2 Oct 2011 2 – 4 pm Press Preview

4 – 6 pm Private Preview (VIPs only)

6 – 9 pm Vernissage (By Invitation Only) Monday to Thursday , 3 to 6 Oct 2011

11 am – 7 pm Open to public Friday , 7 Oct 2011

11 am – 6 pm Open to public http://www.fineartasia.com

OPENING HOURS

Date and Time: Friday, 21st October:11am - 7.30pm Saturday, 22nd October: 11am - 7.30pm Sunday, 23rd October:11am - 6pm Monday, 24th October:11am - 7.30pm Tuesday, 25th October: 11am - 7.30pm Wednesday 26th October:11am - 7.30pm Thursday 27th October:11am - 6pm http://www.haughton.com