Entrepreneur Eric Albada Jelgersma’s furniture collection heads to auction

Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection Interior, © Christie’s Images Limited 2018

Dutch entrepreneur Eric Albada Jelgersma’s Old Masters art collection is expected to fetch over £26m when auctioned at Christie’s this week. But it’s his 350-lot furniture collection – assembled in collaboration with designer and legendary eye, Axel Vervoordt – that’s turning our head.

LOT 667: Valdivia stone figure, circa 2300-2000 BC. Acquired from Axel Vervoordt NV, Gravenwezel, Belgium, 1999. Estimate: £6,000 – £8,000.)

LOT 668: Valdivia stone figure, circa 2300-2000 BC. Acquired from Axel Vervoordt NV, Gravenwezel, Belgium, 1999. Estimate: £6,000 – £8,000.)

LOT 669: Valdivia stone figure, circa 2300-2000 BC. Acquired from Axel Vervoordt NV, Gravenwezel, Belgium, 1999. Estimate: £6,000 – £8,000.)

LOT 713: a marble octagonal table on pedestal base, 20th century. Acquired from Axel Vervoordt N. V., ‘S-Gravenwezel, Belgium, 1999. (Estimate
£1,000 – £2,000)

LOT 510: A pair of regency mahogany and caned library bergère, attributed to Gillows, circa 1815. (Estimate: £30,000 – £50,000.)

LOT 517: An Agra carpet from north India, circa 1880. Dimensions: 18 ft 7″ x 14 ft 5″. Estimate: (£25,000 – £35,000).

Objects from the Brussels and Amsterdam homes of Eric and Marie-Louise Albada Jelgersma will be auctioned during the two-day sale.

Highlights include a cache of ancient, minimalist stone figures acquired from the designer as well as a pair of Regency mahogany and caned library bergères (estimate: £30,000-50,000); and a late 18th-century Italian architectural model of a temple (estimate £50,000-80,000).