San Francisco, 13 August 2012
Bonhams announces its third annual Arts and Artifacts of the Americas auction, which will take place 10 September in San Francisco.
A selection of 150 lots from the Robert “Trader Bob” Bayuk collection will include Native American art, with a focus on basketry from California, the Southwest and the Northwest. The highlight of this collection is a Tubatulabul polychrome bottleneck basket (estimate $1,500-$2,500). The collection will also include Southwest jewellery, Pueblo pottery and items from the Plains and Northwest Coast, valued from $500 to $2,500.
The Nancy Sue and Judson C. Ball collection will be represented by more than 40 lots consisting of mostly Hopi kachina dolls, estimated between $500 and $2,500. There will also be an emphasis on jewellery, with more than 50 pieces available, primarily from the Navajo and Zuni tribes of the Southwest, one in particular prices estimated at $600-$800.
Finally, there will be 50 lots of Pre-Columbian art and artifacts representing several private collections, valued from $500 to $4,000. A Jalisco seated couple from western Mexico which dates 100 BC-250 AD is estimated between $3,000-5,000.