This month, on December 13, Sotheby’s Olympia rooms play host to a highly eclectic mix of furnishings from former Seeger residences including Sutton Place (once owned by J Paul Getty Junior) and the 1920s motor yacht Rosenkavalier.
Titled Out Takes from the collections of Stanley J Seeger, the 354-lot selection comprises a pot pourri of potential purchases that ranges from the aesthetic to the eccentric.
Choose from tribal art,
Isnik and Middle Eastern pottery or contemporary Venetian glass. There is also a mosaic inlaid table designed by Gothic revivalist William Burges for his own house, the Victorian copper bath formerly owned by Nureyev, a Victorian silver jug modelled as a penguin with a hinged head and, as our illustration right shows, much more.
Another fine mess : Stanley’s marvellous eclecticism
The name Stanley J. Seeger will be familiar to many art collectors and auction goers for there have already been no fewer than five auctions of his works of art and pictures since 1993, ranging from 88 works by Picasso sold in New York to Contemporary art in Milan and 18th-20th century British pictures in London.
