Neal Auction Winter Estates January 2015

W denotes the lot is illustrated at www.nealauction.com 3 THE “SERVICE COLLECTION” OF GRANT A. OAKES Neal Auction Company is pleased to offer a very select group of important furniture, period lighting and decorative objects from the widely published and renowned “Service Collection” of Grant A. Oakes. Rarely has such an impressive single- owner collection been offered at auction. Grant Oakes’s collecting acumen, discerning vision, and extraordinary attention to detail are immediately evident in the superb quality of objects from “The Service Collection.” Objects from “The Service Collection” feature prominently in some of the most important publications on nineteenth century decorative arts, including Voorsanger and Howat’s Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861 , Gowitt’s 19th Century Elegant Lighting , the Dubrows’ American Furniture of the 19th Century and Schwartz and Stanek’s The Furniture of John Henry Belter and the Rococo Revival .