ACES Gallery's October 18 Fall Estates Auction features more than 450 lots from prominent local estates and collections
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STAMFORD, Conn. - Hartok -- More than 450 lots of distinguished provenance, carefully curated from nearly 50 prominent local estates, will come up for bid in ACES Gallery's Fall Estates Auction on Sunday, October 18^th. Categories will include contemporary and fine art; Western art; decorative arts; Asian art; silver; watches and timepieces; jewelry; collectibles; and books.

The auction will begin promptly at 12 noon Eastern Time. Bidding will be available online, with telephone and absentee bidding also available. There will be no live in-person bidding, however. Internet bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Drouot.com.

Items of interest will include fine art, furniture and silver from a "time-capsule" mid-century waterfront home in Larchmont, N.Y.; sterling and collectibles from the estate of Phyllis Blackman Weisman of Greenwich, Conn.; finds from a Brooklyn Heights, NYC brownstone; bronzes and Western Art from a Greenwich, Conn. estate; and Americana and Asian art from a Bedford, N.Y. farm home.

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Speaking of the Bedford home, the Asian category will be highlighted by an important blue and white ovoid jar from the 18^th century Joseon Dynasty in Korea, discovered in the home with a potted plant inside. The jar, 13 ½ inches tall and 13 ½ inches in diameter, features divine tortoises and cranes arranged in alternating circular medallions. The estimate is $5,000-$10,000. Also, a 19^th/20^th century Korean School 'Chaekgeori' (books and things) four-panel screen, overall 32 ¼ inches by 64 ½ inches, made from ink and color on paper mounted to panels, carries an estimate of $800-$1,200.

The contemporary and fine art category will showcase selected pieces from the complete oeuvre of Letizia Pitigliani (1935-2012), a female artist who flourished in New York City in the 1970s and '80s. Her signed acrylic on canvas titled Grand Central Terminal (1995), 34 inches by 34 inches (sight, minus the frame), should fetch $500-$1,000. A tapestry produced in a collaboration between the artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and the Guatemalan company Bon Art, titled Floating Circles, 102 inches by 72 inches, dated and numbered ("58/100 CA 74"), has an estimate of $8,000-$12,000.

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ACES Gallery is always seeking quality merchandise for future sales. To inquire about consigning a single piece, an estate or a collection, please call (475) 500-7118; or, send an email to gallery@ACES.net. To learn more about ACES Gallery and the Fall Estates Auction set for Sunday, October 18, at 12 noon Eastern Time, please visit www.aces.net. Updates are posted often.