The design experts at Roland Antiques specialize in period antiques and traditional furnishings as well as fine art. Luxurious furniture and fixtures cover practically every square inch of their tiny auction house (80 E. 11th St., nr. Broadway; 212-260-2000; www.rolandsantiques.com). Their current featured auction boast pieces from the home of the legendary queen of Palm Beach Society, beloved philanthropist Dame Celia Lipton Farris. Dame Celia was a British film star of the forties who married Victor Farris, the American inventor of the milk carton and paper clip. Dame Celia and Farris’s Hollywood-decadent estate will be auctioned off on March 17. Here, Dame Celia at her Palm Beach home. Photo: Catie Keck
A Chinese deity of carved gilt wood. Photo: Catie Keck
An antique French Empire gilt-and-enameled-bronze lyre-form clock, likely from the early-nineteenth century. Photo: Catie Keck
One of a set of two antique porcelain Chinese ginger jars. Photo: Catie Keck
One of a set of two alabaster torchère lamps with a gilt-wood oval mirror. Photo: Catie Keck
