A fine pair of Chippendale mahogany side chairs, crafted in Philadelphia in the 1700s, sold for $33,210 in an online-only Fine Estates Collection auction held April 10 by Neue Auctions, based in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb outside Cleveland. The sale featured 432 lots of fine merchandise from the homes of several celebrated interior designers. It was an awesome sale from start to finish, said Cynthia Maciejewski of Neue Auctions. We offered personal collections of traditional furnishings and European antiques, and bidders took note. Sixty percent of participating bidders were first timers with us, and 90 percent of the items sold. A few lots did extremely well, and it seems like furniture is finally making a comeback. The Chippendale side chairs were the top lot of the auction. They were centered by a carved foliate form, over a scrolled and pierced backsplat, with reeded side rails, an upholstered slip seat, cabriole legs carved at the knees with foliate forms and claw and ball feet. Online bidding was facilitated by the popular platforms Liveauctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Bidsquare.com. Telephone and absentee bids were also accepted. All prices quoted include a 23-percent buyers premium. Two oval paintings, both nicely framed, were expected to attract keen bidder interest, and they did not disappoint. One was an 18th-century French School oil-on-canvas portrait of a gentleman, with a canvas size of 28.5-by-23 inches ($4,305). The other was a 19th-century Hudson River School oil painting of a mountainous river landscape with a river, fishermen and a sailboat, in good condition with some craquelure, 21-by-26 inches, selling for $7,380. A realistically modeled, life-size wood tack shop horse figure made in the early 20th century of wood and gesso, 82 inches tall, painted white, with natural horsehair tail, leather ears, glass eyes and a moveable mouth, knocked down for $5,842; another equestrian-themed item, a late 19th-century plaster sculpture, Lady of the Belle Epoque on a Dappled Gray Horse by Henri (Comte) Geoffrey de Ruille (French, 1842-1922), 21 inches tall, found a new owner for $3,321. Good things came in twos, with a pair of American gray painted pine columnar capitals carved in the Corinthian style, originally made around 1900 for a building in the state of Maine but never used, 21 inches tall each ($3,075), and a pair of matted and framed engravings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-78), both of Hadrians Villa, one of them signed in the plate lower left Cavalier Piranesi F and both housed in 31.25-by-38.5-inch frames, realized $4,920. Several pieces of 18th century American Queen Anne furniture came up for bid, so-named because they were made in the style of decorative arts and architecture dominant during the reign of Englands Queen Anne (1702-18), characterized by spare, limited and restrained decoration. Three of the top six lots in the auction were Queen Anne furniture pieces. A maple flat-top highboy, 62.75 inches tall, ca. 1740, Massachusetts, in two parts, the rectangular top over three graduated long drawers, the lower part with three short drawers over an a-shaped apron with two pendant drops, went for $7,995. A gateleg table, Massachusetts, ca. 1760, circular top with two drop leaves, raised on cabriole legs ending in pad feet, 25 inches tall, 30 inches wide, sold for $6,765. A pair of walnut side chairs made in the 1700s, the crest rail centered by a carved scallop shell over a vasiform backsplat and shaped upholstered slip seat, raised on cabriole legs joined by turned stretchers ending in upturned pad feet, sold for $6,150. English Wedgwood remains popular with collectors. A ca. 1978 Wedgwood black basalt canopic jar and cover, in black jasper with applied terra cotta hieroglyphics and symbols of the zodiac, the cover in the form of an Egyptian head, 10 inches tall, went for $1,353, and a 19th-century Wedgwood engine turned and caneware group consisting of a 9.5-inch-tall caneware crater urn and cover and a pair of 7.25-inch-tall engine turned candlesticks commanded $1,845. From Asia, a ca. 1800 Chinese wallpaper five-panel screen, hand-decorated with a flower and bamboo garden with birds and insects on a pale blue ground, each panel 87.5 inches tall and 18 inches wide, brought $6,150, while an early 20th century Chinese polychrome glaze porcelain bowl with gilt metal mounts by E. F. Caldwell & Co. (N.Y.), transforming it into an ash receiver, with handpainted flowers and the six-character seal mark for Daoguang (1821-50), hit $3,690. For additional info, visit www.neueauctions.com.